I'm just going to say for the sake of the story that all ten of the demigods are in fifth year, even though they may be older or younger than that, it just makes it easier. I honestly don't know how it took me this long to update, But school just got out today, so I'll ether start updating more often, or less often (if that's possible).
And to the guest Charli: I would like to put Percy and Annabeth in the same house, but I was thinking Percy for either Gryffindor or hufflepuff, and Annabeth for Ravenclaw, so it might not work out.
As we head over to a big store called Flourish and Blotts to get all of the books on the very long, long list that came with our 'completely authentic' letters inviting us to their 'exchange program', Leo suddenly yelped and ran off.
"Leo! Leo! Come back here!" clearly Piper's charmspeak was muffled by her lack of sleep, as Leo did nothing of the sort. I looked at where he had run off to, and I immediately rethought my life. For directly in front of me was the most beautiful thing in the world.
"ICE CREAM!" I hurriedly made to catch up with Valdez, and was rapidly followed by the other eight demigods. Even Reyna had an excited look on her face, as we could all see the colorful display of every flavor of the scrumptious substance in the window.
We got a deal of dirty looks from the passer-bys as we stampeded our way to the shop, Leo in the front, continuously yelling 'I SCREAM! YOU SCREAM! WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!'. Looking over, I noticed Annabeth had a conflicted look on her face.
"What's wrong, wise girl?"
"Well, on one hand, we really should get going. We only have today to shop, and the wand buying took forever, but on the other, it's icecream."
"And of course ice cream always wins."
Annabeth agreed with me as we ran through the doors, but I could still see the look in her eyes. Frowning, I looked around and immediately switched back to a grin, because there was so many different blues to choose from. I decided to just close my eyes and point, landing on bubble gum as Leo orders black raspberry.
"Um, hello mr. sir, I'll take some bubble gum ice cream." As the man goes to scoop some out, I notice all of my ADHD friends bouncing in their places.
"Here you go, lad."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I thanked him, as I gave him the weird little coins in exchange for the cone.
When all ten of us got our ice cream, we left the shop and continued on our way. Annabeth still looked hung up at the fact that we had only gone to one shop and it was already 12 o'clock in the afternoon.
"Don't worry, we'll get what we need. If not, well... We will."
"Uh-huh, let's just buy all these books. It looks like we have to buy all of them for the past years too. For all ten of us. Gosh this is going to be a lot of books, how do we carry them all along with all of the other stuff?" Annabeth continued to ramble on while we finished the ice cream and walked through the doors of this so-called 'flourish and blotts'. But as soon as we walked through the doors her extensive chatter came to an abrupt halt, and was soon replaced with quiet murmurs of awe, as she took in the scene in front of us.
I thought that I had come to terms with the magic, after all I had some friends in the Hecate cabin, but this was to a whole new level. The whole shop was in semi-organized chaos, with books flying all over and landing amongst the hectic shelves. There were wizards in cloaks and robes all around, and I swear that if Leo were to have been laughing any harder, he would've died of suffocation.
"Woah," we all said in sync with one another as we started to walk through the isles. Confused by the filing system, we just kinda walked aimlessly until we ran into a nice lady, which reminded me of my own mother.
"Hello Dears, you must be the exchange students? My husband's told me about you, and I can see you seem to be a bit lost, why don't I help you, where're your lists?"
"Here you go, ma'am," Annabeth responds in a slightly relieved tone, "Thank you."
"Oh, it's my pleasure. Right this way." As we follow her my already high opinion of her only rises. "I'm Molly Weasley, but you can call me Molly, now where are those lists?"
Molly weaved in and out of the shelves, picking up books and handing them to us, occasionally muttering stuff like 'Oh, you don't need those, rather foolish to purchase such fraud.' and 'You can get away without these. Only need grade 5, just a waste of money for anything less.' Eventually we were all stacked sky high with books that had titles I couldn't even read. "Dear me, do you need help carrying all that?"
"No, ma'am, it's ok, we've got bags. But thanks anyway, and thank you again for helping us find what we needed"
"Oh, anytime miss, anytime."
"You can call me Annabeth. And thanks again, really, it means alot to all of us, But we really gotta go. We still have a lot of shopping to do, and not enough time to do it."
"I told you not to procrastinate, Annie," I say in what I like to think of as a superior tone. I noticed that as I drew attention to myself, Mrs. Molly got a sort of confused look on her face, and she quickly looked around her then back to me, like she had no clue how I could be there.
"No you didn't, Percy," At the name 'Percy' Molly's face got even more confused looking, But then she seemed to have a 'eureka' moment, and went back to her previous facial expression. "You made it quite clear that if it was just you, you would do all your shopping tomorrow morning."
"Whatever. Mrs. Weasley, have you seen me before?"
"Oh, no dear, you just look uncannily like somebody I know."
"Who?"
"My son's friend, Harry Potter." She said 'Harry Potter' like I should know who he was, of course I did, but not for any reason she would know of.
"Oh, well, then he must be good-looking," Molly laughed at my antics, while Annabeth scolded me. "What?"
"You know what. Thanks again, Molly," Annabeth started ushering us up to what I suppose could've been a cash register. "But we've got to pay, then get the robes, and Oh gosh, we don't have enough time." She began shooing us to 'walk faster' because apparently 'we don't have all day'.
Apparently the Diagon alley trip is going to be split in thirds. The last bit won't be in Percy's point of view though. I probably made mistakes in the chapter. So let me know and I'll try to fix them.