[A/n: First of all, I changed the title. Hope that didn't confuse too many people. Also, I got kinda lazy with Diagon Alley and just skipped to King Cross train station. Sue me. Oh, and Seth's in there, but only because he's my favorite OC. Probably won't be in other chapters.]

They had barely taken one step inside camp before someone was claimed.

"Cole, there's a plant or something floating above your head."

Jason turned around and looked at the holographic ear of wheat above his head. "Demeter? I guess he has her eyes, but..."

"And there's a hammer over both of their heads."

"Hephaestus. See, that one makes sense, though I thought Leo was his only fire-user son."

"I thought I got my power because I was descended from the Spinjitsu Master of Fire."

"Spinjitsu Master of Fire? What the Hades is Spinjitsu?"

"This." Kai muttered, "Ninja go," under his breath and was soon spinning, surrounded by a fiery red tornado.

"You don't have to be such a show-off, Kai."

"Learn all you can, Mikey!" They tried to make it seem like they were normal sisters wishing their little brother off at King's Cross. "You better at least be able to Disarm and Stun at Christmas break, got it?" the other twin continued in a whisper.

"So I have to run into a flipping wall?!" Lloyd exclaimed at his uncle.

"That was my understanding of it."

The golden ninja trusted his sensei, so he closed his eyes and dashed straight ahead... And he was standing on a platform surrounded by other kids. (While in Diagon Alley a woman had sold them enough De-Aging Potion to make him 11, a normal age for a first-year.)

"Holy freakin' Spinjitsu!"

From the corner of his eye, Lloyd saw the happy and amazed face of a blonde he knew.

"I haven't seen you in, like, 2 years!" Seth exclaimed.

Just keep walking, Lloyd thought, you can lose him in the crowd.

"Garmadon, Lloyd."

Some of the Muggle-borns who previously hadn't been paying much attention suddenly looked up.

"How do you not know who the ninja are?" a third-year over at the Hufflepuff table asked her friend.

"Same reason you barely know who the Weird Sisters are."

Lloyd stepped forward and sat on the stool. Even walking felt awkward; he just wasn't used to being this young again. His legs were shorter, his voice was higher, and other little things you wouldn't think would bother you annoyed him. When the Sorting Hat was placed on his head, it fell over his eyes. He didn't know much about the Houses (Lloyd couldn't even name them all), so he had no clue what to expect. He hardly registered what the Hat was saying to him with his own thoughts swirling around in his head.

"Gryffindor!"

The whole table cheered, just like they had for all the other first-years. Lloyd didn't know where to sit -did it matter?- until a black-haired boy waved him over. He recognized him from the Hogwarts Express, where he'd sat in the same compartment as him, as well as his brother and cousin. They hadn't really clicked, and Lloyd talked more with his first-year relatives.

"Are you really the Golden ninja?" James Potter asked as soon as Lloyd sat down across from him.

Lloyd nodded, realizing that was the only reason James let him sit with him.

"And you never mentioned this because...?"

"It never came up."

"Hey, how come you're so young? I mean, I heard you took Aging Potion or something so you could defeat your dad, so why're you little again? If it were me I'd skip school altogether."

Lloyd was thinking Tomorrow's Tea and the Aging Potion James mentioned were probably pretty close to the same thing, so he didn't correct him. "It wasn't really planned. Dad turned the others into kids and... We'll talk later, okay?"

Albus, James's little brother, had been called. He looked nervous as he shuffled to the stool and sat down. It seemed to take a little longer for the Sorting Hat to decide before it finally shouted, "Gryffindor!" Al let out the breath he'd been holding, relieved. He spotted them and started to make his way over there, and James stood up and found another seat next to some boys in his year.

"You didn't tell us you were one of the ninja," Albus said calmly, sliding into the now-empty chair across from Lloyd.

"I already had this conversation with your brother."

"Can I ask you something? Me and James were arguing over it: Do you think the Overlord's worse than Voldemort?"

"Who's Voldemort?"

"Are you Muggle-born or just Muggle-raised? My aunt never thought the ninja were that special 'cause she said they were just wizards."

"If Jay was a wizard we'd all be doomed... Though that weird boy did say Kai, Cole, and Nya were half-bloods. Didn't someone around here use that word?"

"I'm a half-blood. All it means is that only one of your parents is a pure-blood wizard."

"He meant it as something different that time."

"Weasley, Rose!"

Al glanced over at his cousin's name. "Nearly through."

"Gryffindor!"

The redhead grinned as big as if she'd won an award as she sat down somewhere else.

[a/n: Another reason Seth is in there: he was 8 in Illusions, so that would mean 2 years have passed, making it 2017. I know my timeline-thingy's kinda off, but I don't have any OC's (besides Seth) that Lloyd could meet at Hogwarts.]