Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own Harry Potter, Twilight, Percy Jackson, or any characters you recognize from J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan, or Stephanie Meyer and any mistakes found in any of the chapters are my own.
A/N... Zane is about 10 years old in this chapter. Since she has a late birthday in October she gets her Hogwarts letter the summer before she turns 11. I'm picturing her as a young Kiana Ledè.
Zane smirked as Luke fell on his back, the older boy letting out a painful grunt. Sparing was one of her favorite things to do at Camp Half-blood; being a child of Ares has its advantages when it came to all things warfare and the like.
She has been here since she was 8 years old, after a run in with a chimera outside of her grandparents compound in Cairo, when they finally revealed the truth about her father. He was a god, the god of war to be exact.
After losing her mother when she was only a year old she accepted the fact that her grandparents were the only close family she had left and she was ok with that. To find out that her father was very much alive, and that she had multiple siblings was a shock. The fact that he was a god was almost too much for her young mind to handle, but she had never been one to show weakness so she took it in stride and allowed her grandparents to send her to this safe haven for kids like her so she would be able to train and learn how to defend herself.
Luke was one of the first friends she made here. The son of Hermes took one look at the young brown skinned girl and melted, taking her under his wing immediately. The next was a haughty younger girl named Annabeth; Zane instantly bonded with the daughter of Athena and made it her duty to watch over her. Over the years more demigods inserted themselves in Zane's life refusing to leave mainly her younger sister Clarisse, her brothers Sherman, Mark, & Ellis, Piper daughter of Aphrodite, Will son of Apollo, & an anxious centaur named Grover.
"You know I thought you were going to start taking it easy on me." Luke said with a smirk as he picked himself up off of the ground.
"Where would you get an idea like that? Friend or not I'm still going to kick your ass." Zane said smirking as the pair made their way to the group over to the side chanting and clapping.
"I can't believe you got your ass kicked by my little sister again." Mark said smirked clapping Luke's shoulder.
"She's small, but she's dangerous." He replied grinning looking down at Zane fondly.
Their attention turned toward the "mess hall" as they heard the call for lunch and the group split up to go to their respective tables. They sent their burnt offering to the gods before finally settling down to eat. The next few minutes were filled with laughter, before their attention was averted to an owl making its way to the Ares table settling in front of Zane.
She smiled detaching the letter attached to its ankle before giving it some bread and water. She glanced at the front of the letter and gave a small smirk at the words,
Ms. Z. Shafiq, Camp-Half-blood, Long Island, New York, Cabin 5
She ripped it open and read.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Ms. Shafiq, We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31.
Yours sincerely, Minerva McGonagall Deputy Headmistress
"What is it?" Clarisse said leaning over Zane's shoulder to read the letter.
"I'll tell you if you back up nosey." Zane said playfully shoving her younger sister making her glare before she gave Zane a small smirk. The others started to crowd around her as well wanting to know what the girl got.
"It's my Hogwarts letter." Zane said proudly causing Clarisse's face to fall.
"So you're leaving." She said with a frown starting to get visibly upset. Most people would be shocked to see the usually tough, stoic daughter of Ares show this much emotion; but her siblings understood immediately. Zane and Clarisse shared a special bond and had not spent more than a few days apart for the past 2 years.
Zane gave her younger sister a rare soft smile before slinging an arm around her shoulder.
"Come on Clari, it'll be ok. I'll still visit during Christmas and I'll be right back here in the summer. I'll IM every chance I get and I'll write. Besides with me gone, you'll be the only girl which means they have to listen to you." Zane said with a small smirk making her little sister smirk back looking at their brothers who gulped in fear.
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"Come on Zany I want to go to Zonko's! Papa Aasif said that if we finished your shopping early we'd go to Zonko's and I could find stuff to prank the boys with!" Clarisse sighed irritated pulling a smug Zane behind her as they made their way through Diagon Alley to get Zane's school supplies. Zane purposely slowed down taking tiny steps to further irritate her younger sister. Seeing as most of Ares' children didn't have family outside of the one at camp Zane's grandparents took it upon themselves to be the surrogate grandparents to all of her siblings.
The group consisting of Zane, her grandparents, Clarisse, and Piper made they're way through the crowd. They had already got her falcon that she named Ode, most of her books, and were on their way to get her fitted for her uniform.
"Now habibis, we're going to get the rest of Zany's books, just wait here for her fitting, and then we'll go get her wand." Maribel said kissing the girls on their foreheads pushing the girls into Madam Malkin's before she and Aasif walked away.
"I'll be with you in a second dears." A kind older woman said smiling as the girls walked in catching the end of a conversation between a skinny boy with unruly black hair and glasses and a familiar blonde haired boy with sharp features.
Zane scowled as she heard the nosey Malfoy boy question the stranger about his parents.
"They're dead," said the boy, bluntly.
"Oh, sorry," said Draco, too taken aback to remember to sound sincere.
"But they were our kind, weren't they?"
"They were a witch and wizard, if that's what you mean." The stranger replied.
"I really don't think they should let the other sort in, do you? They're just not the same; they've never been brought up to know our ways. Some of them have never even heard of Hogwarts until they get the letter, imagine," said Draco, barely taking a breath through his idiotic pureblood propaganda monologue, "I think they should keep it in the old wizarding families. What is your family name anyway?"
"I see your still spouting off your daddy's ridiculous tirades Malfoy." Zane stepped in cutting Draco off making him scowl at her.
"Oh look it's the bastard." He said sharply making Clarisse and Piper glare at him. His words no longer had an affect on Zane, she and the people who were most important to her knew the truth of her parentage; everyone else's opinions On the subject simply didn't matter.
"I'd rather be a bastard than a ferret." She smirked at him knowing how to get under his skin. She first encountered the Malfoys when she would visit the Ministry of Magic with her grandfather for Wizengemot sessions, it's safe to say they weren't fans of each other.
Before he could get another word in the old woman fitting the robes walked back in cutting him off.
"You're all done my dear." She said to Draco oblivious to the argument that was happening around her. Draco gave Zane one last scowl before marching out with a huff making her smirk.
"You're up next dearie," she spoke getting Zane attention, directing her to the stand, " first year at Hogwarts?" She asked making Zane nod politely.
Zane turned to the skinny boy with the unruly black hair next to her and smirked at his stunned expression having witnessed the banter between her and Malfoy.
"Just ignore him. He constantly spouts that useless nonsense that his daddy feeds him all the time." Zane said snapping him out of his stupor making him turn to her chuckling.
"Um I-I'm Harry." He spike smiling softly at her.
"Zane." She said giving him a firm handshake and smile.
Neither of them knowing that would be the start of a life long friendship.
