Sorry I haven't updated for so long :/ I've been kind of busy with school and such. And to awesome, not I don't have a posting schedule. I'm kind of spontaneous :) And also to Glittering Moonlight, I'm just guessing she had heard about him. She lives in the mortal world in the summer, and that's usually around when Percy's blows up schools and stuff, and she's also really smart. Though I'm just making a guess. Also, sorry if I'm a little formal. I've been reading Les Miserables and now I'm talking all 1800s-y. It's kind of affecting my writing too. I'm also going to change the writing style. I'm going to do 3rd person in the wizards' POVs and 1st person in the demigods' POVs, just like in the books. Anyways, back to the story!
Harry's POV
Harry still couldn't believe it. Demigods? That was just a load of crap! He just decided to go along with it, thinking the muggles were just insane or something.
As Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Nico led the wizards to Percy's apartment, Harry whispered to Ron, "You actually believe them?!"
Ron scoffed. "Of course not! They're insane!"
Hermione joined the conversation. "It's the Greeks that were insane. Worshipping gods instead of understanding nature and science?"
"Of course that's the part that confuses you, Hermione. Not that part that these muggles think that they are related to immortal beings!" Ron exclaimed quietly.
Ginny added into the conversation, "They seem pretty confident about being...what were they called?"
"Demigods." Hermione informed her.
"Yeah, demigods." Ginny nodded. "And how they quickly came up with those titles...do you think they're...you know, mentally insane?"
"Yes." Harry nodded and Ron agreed with him. Hermione was hesitant.
"This is my building." Percy interrupted their conversation. Everyone followed him into the building and to his apartment.
"Mom, we're home!" Percy called as they entered his apartment.
"Good, I was getting worried!" A woman rushed in. "I was going to call Annabeth's cell, but I wasn't sure if I should because that's dangerous and all..." She stopped, looking at the wizards. "Who are they?"
"British wizards." Percy said briefly.
"Wizards?" The woman seemed a little surprised. "You know, Poseidon actually said something about that once. Something about Hecate and her descendants..." She trailed off. Harry was surprised and almost amazed at how she took the news that wizards exist.
"Aunt Sally!" Thalia and Nico shrieked in delight at the same time. So was this Percy's mom?
"Nico! Thalia! I haven't seen you two for such a long time!" The woman, Sally, hugged Nico and Thalia. Were they related to Percy or something?
"So did you get the food coloring?" Sally interrupted Harry's thoughts.
"No." Percy glared at Annabeth. "We left it at Starbucks and Annabeth wouldn't let me get it." He pounded his fist on the table and shouted, "We have to go back!"
Nico laughed. "Really, Percy? Back to the Future?" Isn't that a muggle movie? Yes, Harry remembered Dudley watching that quite a few years ago. It was a movie about going to the past and then to the future, or something like that.
Thalia seemed surprised. "Nico, you know what Back to the Future is? I know it's an older movie, but you were born way before it!"
That can't be true. That movie was made in the in the 80s. Nico couldn't be older than fifteen. He couldn't have been born before the movie was made!
"Yeah, but the Stolls have been showing me all the new technology and movies." Nico shrugged. Then he turned to the wizards and grimaced. "You're probably confused, right? Well, I was born in the forties, but then I was stuck in a hotel that stops aging, long story. I was in there for seventy years and just got out a few years ago."
Ron looked at Harry with an expression that read: Wow, these muggles sure have put in a lot of thought into this hoax.
"You're hurt!" Sally suddenly realized, looking at Percy's shoulder.
"We're fine, Mom." Percy shrugged it off. "The nectar and ambrosia should kick in soon."
"Okay, just give it up." Hermione finally said.
"Give what up?" Annabeth asked her cautiously.
"This act! We're not stupid, you know!" Hermione said furiously.
"What act?" Percy was obviously confused.
"Pretending the Greek and Roman myths are true!"
Percy blinked. "You don't believe us?"
"Well, you don't have much proof." Harry pointed out. "We had proof, our wands."
"What about our swords? IMing? Or maybe the fact that we killed a freaking dragon?" Percy argued.
"Are you sure you're not wizards?" Ron asked the Americans.
"Pretty sure." Annabeth rolled her eyes.
"And we're not lying." Thalia glared. "We're really demigods."
"But it's the worst thing that could possibly happen." Percy mumbled.
"We can show you proof if you want." Annabeth offered. "It might be dangerous, though."
"Fine, show us." Hermione commanded.
"I'll go first." Thalia sighed. "I just hope I don't hit anybody."
She took out a Mace can and opened it, but instead of spraying or something it turned into a bronze spear. Thalia closed her eyes and after a few seconds, lightning struck down and hit the spear. Unfortunately, it traveled through the bronze and hit Nico. Nico yelled in pain and his hair was singed.
"Oops." Thalia shrugged but didn't look like she was sorry.
"My turn. Yay." Percy said sarcastically. He grabbed a water bottle and threw the water in the air. But instead of hitting the ground, the water stayed suspended in the air. Percy was lifting his hands and moving them around, and as he did so the water changed into different shapes: a circle, a triangle, a box, etc.
"Nico, can you do whatever you do in a apartment?" Thalia asked Nico after Percy put the water back into the water bottle.
"I'll try. We're on the ground floor, right?" Nico directed his question to Percy, who nodded. He held out his hands and said in a low and dark voice, "Serviant mihi." The ground began to rumble a little and then, as if the floor was made of a liquid, skeletons climbed out of the ground. They were actual skeletons, but they were scarier than Harry thought they would ever be.
"Hades is the god of the Underworld, so I have control over the dead. Sort of." Nico told the wizards.
"I can't really do anything." Annabeth admitted. "Athena is the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, so I'm very intelligent and good at forming strategies and fighting. But I can't show you that. Unless, you know, you have an IQ test."
Harry had to admit it: he was beginning to believe them. But it was still hard to believe.
"I have a question." Ron raised his hand as if they were still in school. "How did you accept the fact that wizards exist so...easily?"
The demigods looked at each other and shrugged simultaneously.
"When you live in a world of Greek gods and mythology, you learn to get used to new stuff quickly." Annabeth told them.
"Octavian sure isn't." Percy laughed. "I so have to see his reaction! It'll be priceless!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Ginny interrupted him. "You're not going to tell anyone else about us!"
"Why can't we? We're a lot alike. And I want to talk to Chiron about this." Annabeth said.
"Chiron? As in the Chiron? The trainer of heroes?" Hermione exclaimed.
"Seriously, how do you know so much about mythology and my life?" Percy asked her incredulously.
"Hermione is really smart." Ron said proudly, obviously prideful of his girlfriend.
All while this was happening, Sally was watching silently. Then she gasped and said, "Percy! I forgot! While you were gone, Chiron IMed. All of the cabins were rebuilt and you can go back to camp now."
"Yes!" Percy shouted happily.
"What happened to the cabins?" Ginny asked him.
"They were destroyed in the Giant War." Percy told her and then turned to the other Americans. "Do you guys want to head back now or later?"
"Now, of course!" Annabeth sounded pretty excited. "I missed camp so much! And I want to talk to Chiron about the wizards. He might've known. He knew about the Roman gods, after all. He might know about Hecate's descendants."
"Who?" Harry whispered to Hermione.
"Hecate is the goddess of magic. They must think we're her descendants or something." Hermione whispered back.
"Nico, are you up to shadow travelling?" Thalia asked Nico.
Nico winced. "No. I'm surprised I had the energy to even shadow travel us to that alley. I have to start practicing again."
"We'll call the Gray Sisters again." Annabeth summed up.
Thalia turned and grinned at the wizards, though Harry couldn't help but notice the mischievous glint in her eyes. "Ready for an adventure?"
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