A/n: I Own Nothing.
Ch-4
Once Piper and Jason had received the news from Annabeth about Leo returning they had immediately left for Camp Halfblood. The travel had been of a day, to say the least. They travelled via air(Jason's dad being the sky god himself and piper's mom had nothing against Zeus and vice-versa, at least for the time being, so travel was safe as Zeus would not blast them off the sky unlike some other demigods(cough, Percy, cough))
Leo was greeted with a hug from Piper which nearly squeezed the air out of his lungs and he was sure that he would have cracked a few bones if he hadn't been saved by Calypso (really, who knew Beauty Queen would have so much strength in her fragile frame, mused Leo) which was followed by her pecking him on the cheek and threatening that she will kill him by cutting off his air supply by drowning him in a heap of food from her 'weapon', Cornucopia. Leo, knowing better than to underestimate the strength of that food-producing horn, gulped heavily and gave her a weak smile, which he thought was reassuring. Jason greeted him with a punch on his arm (hard, may I add) and gave him a manly hug.
Hazel and Frank couldn't make it since there was no one to look after the legion, but were ecstatic when they heard the news. Reyna was not there in camp as she had some business to attend to with the Amazons, and hence hadn't received the news. As for Nico, he had to run some urgent errands for his daddy dearest, but had been happy to hear the news.
Draco had been silent all the while. And by silent, Leo meant totally as in, he hadn't even uttered a word since their arrival. Who could blame him, thought Leo; he himself did not know how Draco was able to keep his calm. The guy had discovered that the Gods existed, that they (The Gods) played hanky-panky with a few gifted mortals and had left them with disabled offsprings to look after and these offsprings possessed special traits of their godly parent and he was one among many if them in one week. Leo, for one knew that if he would have been in his place right now, he will be running around flailing his arms and screaming "I hate inventing!" OK, he exaggerated a bit there. But his point is the he would not have been able to cope with all this extra information and his brain would have shut down permanently with overload. Sure, he had discovered that there was a whole, another, separate world of magic and that a guy could live without a nose (referred to the voldie dude), but he had Calypso to share all this absurdity with and hence he did not suffer from brain overload. But this guy somewhat scared him. He acted indifferent to all the news, his face void of any emotion. His stormy grey eyes cold. The only time he saw him show any emotion was when he was with his girlfriend- the Granger girl. That couple never ceased to amuse him, the girl was so full of life that she was particularly radiating energy and happiness and the guy was so empty of emotion that you would shiver with just looking into his eyes. To put it short, they were totally opposite like the poles.
And once again, unlike poles attract and it was the same with the couple. How they ever worked was a mystery for him to solve.
They all were assembled in the Rec Room. Chiron sat at the head of the table, had his gaze fixed on the table. He seemed to be deep in his thoughts.
Next to him sat Percy. He too seemed to be concentrating on building a tower of blue Oreo's (don't even ask). His face screwed up in concentration with his tongue out. On his left sat Annabeth who seemed to be in a serious talk with Piper who was seated on her left and Calypso who was seated opposite to them. Jason who was seated to Pipers other side was playing with his gold Drachma, which on flipping turned into a sword.
On Chiron's left sat Leo himself, not doing anything in particular and on his other side sat Draco, looking at Seymor's snoring head with an expression close to amusement on his face
Wow. That guy knew to express.
Next to Draco sat Calypso. Leo decided that it was time to talk business. More the time wasted, more the lives wasted. He stood up and cleared his throat. No one seemed to notice his attempt. He sighed and tapped Chiron on his shoulder, bringing the centaur out of his reverie and said"Can you please draw everyone's attention?" Chiron nodded and tapped his hoof on the table causing Percy's blue Oreo tower to collapse.
"Hey! I was almost done with that!" whined Percy
Annabeth rolled her eyes and said "Honestly Seaweed Brain, is building a blue Oreo tower more important to you than, I don't know, saving the world from certain danger? Wait….where in the world did you get blue Oreo from?" Percy winked at her and ate an Oreo and looked at me.
He cleared my throat again and this time it seemed to have the desired effect. Everyone looked at him and he started his speech.
"Hello everyone" he started nervously "Nice to see you again and I would really like to spend time catching up on what all I missed but honestly I don't have time to do so. We know that there are many worlds on earth, for instance- the mortal world, the greek world, the roman world, the Egyptian world" he shared knowing looks with Percy and Annabeth "my point is, one among these many worlds is the wizarding community. The way I found it is another complicated, and by complicated I mean really complicated story. If you ask me whom I blame to get us all involved into this mess, would be the guy up there." He looked up to the ceiling "well my point is, there is a different world of wizards and witches from a different time period, who are in real trouble. There is guy called Voldort, voldetort-"
"Lord Voldemort" a voice interrupted. All of the people present turned with similar looks of surprise to look at Draco Malfoy. He had spoken for the first time since their arrival. "His name is Lord Voldemort" repeated Draco.
"Right" Leo continued uneasily "So this Voldie guy has a whole bunch of followers called the death eaters who hate witches or wizards with mortal parents and the mortals themselves, they call them the muggles, meaning non-magic people. So the Death Eaters along with their leader Voldie, are keen on wiping all the muggles and their magic-blooded children from the world, so that people only with a pure blood line like Malfoy here, could rule over the world. They kill millions of people, women and children alike, in the cruellest way you can think of. So there is another bunch of people called The Order of Phoenix known in short as The Order under the leadership of Albus Dumbledore, who happens to also be the headmaster of the magic school called Hogwarts. So the order fights against the death eaters. Now, how are we all involved in this? Well, a war is going on ten years past now and we have to go to help since there is this prophecy which I have not memorized, but I am pretty sure it includes us. And I am not making a wild guess. I am cent per cent sure it involves us and I hope you understand how grave the situation is for I am really serious. We" he gestured to Draco, Calypso and Festus "Have come from about ten years past via this object" He took out a small sling bag from his backpack and stuck his hand deep into us. Leo once again managed to surprise everyone with this bag of his. He took out a large crystal ball that clearly could not fit in the small bag and held it out for everyone to see. "This is how we travelled back to this time. It is called a Portclock*, I know, funny name, it is a time travelling object, can carry three people max and can travel to the past or future up to fifty years."
"Then how did you, Draco and calypso travel along with Festus? That makes four, right?" asked Annabeth.
"Ah, Draco here used magic to shrink and cast a feather-light charm on our Festus before travelling." Leo answered.
Annabeth looked impressed. She looked at Draco and was a tad bit surprised to see his expression. He looked at Annabeth amusedly. "May I ask what you find so amusing?" inquired Annabeth with one eyebrow raised.
"Oh, you just remind me of someone I know" replied Draco in a thick English accent.
"Hermione" said Calypso. Draco smiled slightly at the mention of the name and nodded. I smiled and continued "Anyways, We've gotta make two more of this with the help of Draco and the Hecate children and travel at the latest. I will tell you all the important points of the wizarding world. We will have to ask Hecate for temporary magical abilities and learn from Draco vital magical spells, charms and stuff at the earliest. We have three days for everything we have to do. Any Questions"
Everyone stared at Leo excluding Calypso, Draco and Chiron with a mixed expression of amusement and awe. "What?" Leo asked indignantly
"Who are you and what have you done with Leo Valdez?" Jason muttered.
Piper nudged him playfully and said "That was rude but I have got to agree with him, Leo, what happened to you? I mean, you have changed, in a good way. Not that you were bad before" She added quickly.
Leo smiled sheepishly and said "People change, you know"
Annabeth rolled her eyes and asked "Leo, we have a time machine, or object or whatever you call that and we can travel at any time we want. So why the dead line?"
"Good point, Owl Head, I think you should ask Draco here to explain, after all he is magic boy and he can give you a better answer than mine" Leo said. Everyone turned their heads to look at the blond. "Well, the thing is, there is a time limit to how many days this object can hold its magical properties, with each passing day, the strength weakens by ten years and this object was charmed two days ago and we have to travel ten years ago so we would have to travel on the last day before 3:15 PM because precisely at the aforementioned time, the magical qualities will fade away." Draco explained in an even tone.
Annabeth and Piper nodded while Percy and Jason had identical blank expressions on their faces.
Annabeth rolled her eyes and Piper muttered "Boys"
"The thing is," Annabeth explained "This thing was given its power two days ago at 3:15 PM and can last for five days. With each passing day, ten days gets subtracted and hence we have to travel three days from now. Correct?" the last part was a question to Draco. He nodded and said "Precisely."
"Understood?" Piper asked the two.
"Yup" they said and Percy beamed at Annabeth.
Leo then asked Chiron "What do you say, Chiron?"
Chiron had stayed quite all this while. He gave Draco a contemplating look and nodded slowly.
"Since you have already made all the plans, whom am I to deny all this, though I would like to hear to this prophecy beforehand. And Draco, does all this by any chance include Harry potter?" Chiron asked Draco.
Draco looked shocked. He was sure Leo had left out all parts of the boy who lived in his story. He nodded slowly and asked "how do you know?"
"Oh Harry is a dear friend of mine and is the present headmaster of Hogwarts School of withcraft and wizardry"
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A/n: Phew! That was a long chapter. So how did you like it? I am free for suggestions. Thank you for reading. Please Review
*Portclock: I created this word. And yeah; Ha ha I myself laugh at the absurdity of the sound of it. But come on, just visualize three adults with that chain around their this thing is a mix of the portus charm and a simple clock(duh).
