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Chapter 3: the First Lesson

[Percy POV]

After dinner I collapsed on the bed in my quarters. Man I was tired. As I was walking toward Hogwarts at least 15 monsters came out of the forest and started to attack me. There were a few Hellhounds, a couple empousa, and a bunch of telkhines. I sliced riptide, my celestial bronze sword, through them, turning them to dust two or three at a time. I just barely won, there were cuts shallow and deep all over my body but I always have a sash of ambrosia and nectar on me. The cuts turned to just some of the many scars on my body as I poured the nectar on me. By the time I was done only half the canister was left. I had more in my trunk.

As I fell asleep I was brought into another demigod dream. I was in a dark clearing in the forest, looking over hundreds of monsters, talking about a plan. I couldn't hear all of it, but I could understand some of the important parts. I overheard the words, "Kill… Harry Potter… Percy Jackson… Hermione Granger… Ron Weasley"

I awoke with a fright. I don't think I could ever get used to these dreams, no matter how often they at least it wasn't that nightmare. I finally understood what Hecate was so worried about, there's going to be a huge monster attack on Hogwarts. I have to train these kids immediately, all they know is magic and I don't believe that spells would work so well on monsters. Thankfully I was 6:00 am, although I was tired I could get a head start on my lesson plan and still have enough time to eat breakfast. Oh no I sound like Annabeth. I decided I would start training with weapons with 5th years and above right away while 4th year and below would start with hand to hand combat for at least the first term, I don't think they could handle swords and daggers just yet. I thought I could bring in Annabeth for daggers training, and Thalia or Frank to help with archery, the gods know I suck at it. I should IM Annabeth and ask her to help today. By the time I finished writing my hand was sore and my legs had fallen asleep. It was already 8:00. I would only have an hour to eat and hand out the schedules. I dragged myself out of the chair in my quarters and headed to the great hall, my stomach growling.

~~This line break is happy that Uncle Rick is inclusive in his books~~

[Hermione POV]

I was munching on my toast and talking with Ron, Nevielle, and Harry about class, whilst every so often looking at Professor Jackson . I refuse to call him Percy, he's still a professor even if he's younger than me. I couldn't not look at him. He's just so perfect, buff, tan, and those swirling sea green eyes, not that I have a crush on him or anything, I love Ron, but I imagine some of the other girls did. I imagine at least half of the girls, and maybe a few of the boys, would fancy snogging him. Even Ginny was watching him with those eyes you get when you see your crush. Percy seemed unaware of all the looks he was getting from the girls, and was focused on his breakfast, an egg (the other one went into something red behind his chair) and a piece of toast, which was, for some strange reason blue.

Once he was done, Professor Jackson walked towards the Gryffindor table to hand out schedules. As he got closer, I swear I could hear Ginny's heart beating like crazy. "Here, here, here, here, and here you go guys," Our new Defense against the Dark arts teacher handed us our schedules. There was no History of Magic for today but the Gryffindors did have double DADA with the Ravenclaws first. I wondered what he would be like. Would he teach us about spells or creatures? Would we be reading from a textbook or doing magic in his class?

~~This line break is very lonely and wants a hug~~

I walked into class with my friends. There was no one sitting in the chair but there was a Professor Jackson sitting on his desk, twirling a ballpoint pen in his hand. I haven't used one of those since I started Hogwarts. Once everyone was settled in their seats. Professor Jackson stood up and started talking. " Wands away," he started. Everyone groaned. Hermione didn't think Professor Jackson would be like this, he seemed more fun. "I would first like to talk to you guys. I would like to start by asking everyone to call me Percy instead of Professor Jackson, it makes me feel old. Now can anyone tell me what dark arts are? Just shout it out,"

People said things like, "The unforgivable curses," "hexes," and for some reason, "death eaters", I, for one didn't know what to respond with, there were just so many correct answers, so I just didn't say anything at all.

"Neville what do you think dark arts are? "Percy silenced everyone. I really hoped he wasn't tried to bully Neville

"Dark arts are things used for evil or bad purposes," Neville said it like more of a question.

"Good job Neville, 5 ponts to Gryffindor. What are known as bad spells can be used in good ways. For instance if someone really wanted to die and you used the killing curse on them, is it really super bad in that example, no. Isn't Obliviate a charm. When you erase someone's memory it isn't always for good, right"

"I also understand that you've recently experienced a war. I understand how hard it must have been for some of you…"

"No, I don't think you understand," a gryffindor called out. I wanted to say something but Professor Jackson seemed to be able to take care of it himself," Where were you while we were fighting, struggling to survive, watching so much death. Probably back in America doing nothing, because if you were helping in the war someone would have noticed you. So no you don't know."

"Before you jump to conclusions, I would like you to know this. Back in America I was fighting in my own war, the second one I've been a part of. The first one I was the center of. One of my friends betrayed me and started the war so in the end I had to kill him. I bet you all feel so much sorrow, so much loss, cried so many tears and some of you felt like you could have and should have done more. Trust me, I know what it feels like. But I promise you this, you can make it through this, if you allow yourself to remember it and those you lost and move on from it with them in your heart."

"Okay, on that note we will be taking a little trip to what is known as the Room of Requirement. Some of you already know it."

We all walked up to the seventh floor. Percy walked past a wall three times, when an average sized door appeared. Percy pushed it open revealing a giant room with weapons, dummies, and a different room that I couldn't see that well. Everyone's mouth was open. I examined the room again, that's when I saw another person. She had curly blonde hair, intense gray eyes and a dagger strapped to her leg. Percy gave her a kiss on the cheek and introduced her," This is Annabeth, my girlfriend. She will be helping us today. Give her all your respect."

" Okay, I have noticed a problem with you guys. You only rely on wands. Watch how easily I can avoid getting hit without my wand. Harry, come up here and start shooting spells at me, just no lethal ones." Harry started shooting spells and Percy dodged every single one of them until Percy had Harry's wand in his hand.

"Hey," Harry said surprised.

"It's almost too easy to avoid spells, especially if you have quick reflexes like me. So this year you will be learning daggers, swords, and bows and arrows instead of wands. This term will be swords, next will be daggers, and the third term will be bows and arrows. After you have trained with all three you choose the one that fits you best and I'll, with some help from some friends, help you practice and get better. Today, since you have a double period me and Annabeth will help you get the weapons that you feel fit best. But first we will demonstrate"

Annabeth came up to the front and drew her dagger. Professor Jackson on the other hand took out the pen he was fiddling with earlier. What is he going to do with a pen? Our Professor uncapped it revealing a bronze sword about 1 meter long (it's 0.0.9144 meters/ 3 feet) They started fighting, darting around the classroom as fast as you could blink. It went on for a while until finally Percy had his sword tip lightly pressed against Annabeth's throat. He helped Annabeth up but this clearly wasn't over. Annabeth flipped Professor Jackson over onto his back , she had won. Once Professor Jackson got up he was clearly annoyed, "I let you win," he said, his sword turning back into a pen.

"Yeah, right," Annabeth jokes.

I glanced over at Harry and he didn't look great, it was like something made him uneasy. I focus my attention back on the professor. "Now I don't expect you to be able to do that by the end of the year but it's always good to know this if you can't use or have lost your wand. Now Gryffindors, make a line in front of me and Ravenclaws the same but with Annabeth, we'll help find the right weapons and teach you how to correctly put on your armor. I am warning you now, if I receive word that someone is fooling around with their weapons in any way they will receive two weeks worth of detention and lose at least 25 points for their house. I am usually pretty fun and lenient but this is something I do not mess around with."

After that talk we started. He did a demonstration of how to strap on and adjust your armor, then went around correcting everyone, except Neville. Neville did everything perfectly, like he's done it before. Then it was time for weapons. Professor Jackson was kind of like Ollivander. He could tell if your sword was unbalanced or if you dagger didn't feel right. It was amazing. The sword and bow and arrows felt okay but the dagger fit best. It was ten inches long and made of imperial gold. My sword and arrows on the other hand were made of Celeste bronze, I wonder what it is. Meanwhile Harry and Ron were comparing swords. Ron's was definitely better. Although his was shorter than Harry's his was half imperial gold half steel (I know Luke had a similar sword but don't worry Ron isn't going to turn evil) while Harry's was just Celeste bronze. That took up the rest of class. We were leaving so we could head to herbology, but Neville hadn't packed up yet. That's weird, Herbology is his favorite.

"Come'on Neville, we have Herbology," I told him as I left the room

"I'll be out in a second, don't wait up for me."

I went outside the classroom but instead of going to one of the greenhouses. I'm not one to eavesdrop by myself, but something seemed off about Professor Jackson and I needed to know what Neville had to do with it.

"So this is where you go during the year, weird" Annabeth said

"Yeah, it's pretty nice, I got some good friends." Neville responded. I smiled

"Well, I'm glad you have friends that aren't aren't from the camps. I remember how hard it was to make friends your first few years," Percy added on. Neville never mentioned any camp, and I don't think he's ever been to America either.

"Yeah," Neville laughed," I couldn't even really talk to my half sibling," This just made even more questions," I've been meaning ask you, how did the Giant war go without me there," There was a war in America?!

"We won, of course, but just barely,"They seemed choked up just talking about it," Leo died killing Gaia."(No one knows that Leo is alive in this but he is. Also sorry if I spelled Gaia wrong, I'm pretty sure there are multiple ways) Did one of Neville's friends, who none of us knew about KILL someone. What does he do with these people

"That's too bad," Neville was obviously deeply saddened by this,"He was really nice and super funny," Annabeth and Professor Jackson murmured 'yeah'. " I have to head to Herbology now or I'll be late. It was really great seeing you guys. Hope to see you soon Annabeth," Neville started walking towards the door so I quickly put a disillusionment charm on myself. I had so many questions but I can't go up to Neville and tell him that I eavesdropped on his conversation. I better talk to Harry and Ron about this tonight.

~~This line break agrees with me that my sister is an idiot and should be slaughtered~~

I asked Harry and Ron to meet me in the common room after dinner, all alone. I gobbled up dinner at the speed of light and dashed toward Gryffindor tower. They came up about 10 minutes later.

"Guys I found some weird stuff out. First of all Neville and Professor Jackson are friends, like they knew each other before yesterday," I started.

"You know you can call him Percy right," Harry said, "But yeah. Remember on the train, Neville Percy, and Luna all seem to know each other."

"Well I eavesdropped on a conversation between Annabeth, Neville, and Professor Jackson. They said something about a camp, Neville having half siblings, a Giant war, and a guy named Leo who killed someone named Gaia," I had a sudden realization.

"First of all YOU eavesdropped on someone all by yourself," Ron yelled," and second of all why did Neville never say anything, I mean we're his friend. You would tell your friends about having half-siblings, wouldn't you."

"Um guys.." Harry interrupted, "I say something during the fight between Percy and Annabeth that you'd want to know. There was something pitch black on Percy's arm right where a dark mark would be. I looked burned in rather than drawn on or a tattoo. Do you think he could have been involved with Voldemort," Ron still filched at the name

"I don't know," Ron said,"He seems too cool to be a death eater but he could be tricking us, we haven't known him for that long."

"I have to do something," said Harry," I'll say something about it next DADA class."

I reasoned, "I'm not sure. That would be a serious accusation, especially if you're wrong."

"It's better to say something about it and be wrong than to not ask and it turns out he is a death eater."

"I guess," I shrugged

We left the common room and I went up to the girls' dormitories questions racking my brain. I needed to go to the library in the morning

Thanks for reading. If you haven't figured it out yet, Luna and Neville are demigods. Neville is the son of Demeter and Luna is a daughter of Iris. I'm also thinking about adding some LunaxGinny. Please comment and tell me what you think. Everything, except hate, is appreciated. Thanks again

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