Hello! So, on with the next chapter. Oh yes, you know how I said it's highly impossible that I make characters up? Well, I just did. Introducing...Damesen and Screecher! They're owls, if you thought the names are weird. Review please!

Chapter 6

Hazel

One week later...

"Rise and shine, sleepyhead." said Frank. I opened my eyes and yawned. Frank was standing over me. We kissed quickly and then I glanced around.

"Start getting ready to go after breakfast!" Annabeth called from across the room.

Percy poked her, and Annabeth poked him back. I smiled. Good times...

After breakfast(cue Percy eating at the speed of light), we ran back upstairs and started packing. It was surprisingly hard considering how less we brought. Annabeth and Nico had gotten owls. Annabeth had a snowy white one much like Hedwig, and Nico had gotten a black screech owl. Annabeth had named her's Damesen to honor-duh-Damesen, and Nico had named his Screecher. Why? Because it's a screech owl. Annabeth had also discovered a new power of hers-that she could speak to owls.

Ron had thought that name was too close to Krecher, the house-elf in Grimmauld Place. Ah,well, too bad.

Unfortunately for him, both owls hated Percy quite a lot. Go figure.

We went downstairs after stuffing our books and black school clothes into our trunks. We didn't actually look at the clothes yet, but Harry told us there would be time on the train ride. A great, bearlike dog was strolling around Harry's feet.

Ron's mom groaned. "Oh, for heaven's sake, Sirius! Dumbledore said no!"

Sirius just wagged his tail. sighed, but she had to give in. The stupid nuns at would probably scold me for bringing a huge dog to school. Of course, they would scold me even more if a brought a known criminal to school.

Mad-eye grunted. "We would've needed a guard, but these demigods are enough."

Harry looked surprised. "We need a guard? Hey, it's not like Voldemort's going to jump out of a trash can to do me in, is he?"

Jason snorted. "Yeah, It'll dishonor his awesomeness."

"You need a guard, kid. Now, get going, you're going to be late."

We met up outside, where there were a couple of taxis waiting. I think there are three. Sirius wagged his tail and nipped at pigeons happily. I laughed. The dog was practically in dreamland after being cooped up for so long.

We were loaded into the cars. We saved a bit of space by letting(or possibly charmspeaking) Frank into turning into an iguana for a while. As of right now, he's stuffed in my pocket.

The drivers looked suspiciously at our belongings, especially the owls. Annabeth gave them rolls of London currency. Luckily, they decided not to argue. It's actually more luck for them, because Thalia would've pulverized them. She's just that type of nice person, really.

Moments later, we were standing next to a wall. Yes, another bloody wall. Frank was back in human form. Turns out he got bored and fell asleep. Mrs. Weasley told us what we were supposed to do with the solid-looking brick wall, but I still couldn't believe it.

"Look, Fred and George can demonstrate."

The twins grinned at each other, glanced to see if the coast was clear, and ran in. I winced, expecting-sort of-to see them crash and burn. Instead, they went straight through. Wow, the wall must've been made of mist or something. Maybe it doesn't let mortals(muggles, whatever) through.

Leo whistled in appreciation. I turned to Frank. "Us next?"

He smiled and put his strong arms around my waist. Together, pushing our carts, we ran closer, closer, and through. It didn't even feel like anything but air, which was pretty amazing. I opened my eyes and gasped. The Hogwarts express was the most magnificent thing I've seen since the Argo ll. I wasn't that amazed. I do live in New Rome, you know.

A bit later, the others joined us. We looked around for Fred and George, finding them next to a boy they called Lee.

"Nice dog, Harry!" he called. Sirius wagged his tail excitedly. "Oh, are you the American transfers? Hi!"

We grinned and waved back. If you guessed, Thalia and Nico didn't.

When we were about to go in, Sirius reared on his hind legs and put his front paws on Harry's shoulder. He was pulled away by , who was hissing, "oh, act more like a dog, Sirius!"

We went in the train. It started moving, and Sirius tried to run along. Several people laughed at his attempt.

Harry said rather uncertainly, "um, let's find a compartment, shall we?"

Ron and Hermione looked at each other. "Oh sorry, Harry, we can't," said Hermione. "Prefect duties...we have to go to the front."

Ginny shrugged. "Fine. Let's find a room. We'll save you seats, Hermione, Ron."

They nodded.

We finally found an almost-empty compartment. Inside were two people. A boy with a shining face, and a blond girl. The girl was rather strange. She had almost white eyebrows, and her wand was tucked over her ear. To top it off, she was reading a magazine upside down.

"Harry!" said the boy. "Are these the American Transfers?"

Percy nodded, taking a seat next to him. "Introductions?"

"I'm Annabeth,"Annabeth said. "This is Leo-" Leo grinned and flexed his flimsy limbs...sorry, muscles. I rolled my eyes. "This is Frank-" Frank saluted, which made Piper giggle. "Hazel-" I smiled warmly and waved. "Thalia-" she nodded curtly. "Jason and Piper-" they waved and flashed smiles. "Nico-" he nodded. "And finally...Perseus Jackson! Put you can should call him Percy, not Perseus."

"Wait!" he complained. "You only told them my last name, not the others!"

To make things fair, we all introduced our last names, except for Thalia, who gave everyone a call-me-by-my-last-name-and-get-shot-in-the-head glare. Nobody dared to ask her after that.

"Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood," Ginny told us.

Neville said happily, "look what I got for my birthday!"

I peered at his plant carefully.

Piper blinked. "Is that a cactus?"

"No, it's a Mimbulus Mimbletonia! Very rare. I can't wait to show it to Professor Sprout! My great uncle Algie got it for me from Assyria. I'm going to try breeding from it."

I was going to ask if the plant actually does anything, but Harry beat me to it.

"Does it, er, do anything?"

"Loads of stuff!" Neville said proudly. "Amazing defensive system. Here, hold Trevor for me."

He plopped a toad in my hands. I examined it carefully, wondering if Hogwarts was going to look like his back or something.

Luna peeked from over her magazine to watch as Neville took a pen out of his pocket, examined the plant carefully, and stabbed it in a carefully chosen spot. Thinking back, I'm not so sure it was a great idea.

A dark green liquid spurted out in all directions. That, unfortunately for him, included Harry's face. It hit Percy's also, but he just made it bounce back. Luckily, in the confusion that the liquid was causing, Neville and Luna didn't see. Luna was luck half of her face was already hidden, so she only had to move her magazine up a little to avoid being blinded.

"Don't worry, stinksap's not poisonous," said Neville as Harry spit some out of his mouth. The owls would've been hit if Ginny wasn't standing right in front of them.

The compartment door opened again. A pretty Asian girl looked in. "Um, hello, Harry. Bad time?"

Harry looked up and blushed. "Er...hi," he said awkwardly.

"Well...just coming to say hi...bye then." She closed the door. Harry fell back into his seat and groaned. From his reaction, I realized that he had to like this girl. Unfortunately, most people wouldn't want to meet his crush covered in stinksap and sitting with someone reading their magazine upside down.

"Don't worry, we can get rid of this easily." Ginny pulled out her wand and said, "scourgify!" The liquid vanished.

Piper got a goofy look on her face. "You like her, don't you?" she asked Harry. He nodded once.

"Cho Chang. You know that boy I told you died last year? Well...she was his girlfriend."

"Oh...I feel kinda bad for her," I said uncertainly.

"Yeah..."

"He achieved Elysium, I'm sure." Besides Luna, who was already completely consumed by her magazine again, everybody jumped. Seriously, Nico may be a wonderful brother, but it was still a little unnerving when he hid in shadows for a day and then suddenly popped up to say something.

Neville frowned. "What's that?"

"Oh!" said Annabeth. She probably forgot Neville was here. "Um, it's just from Greek Mythology. We learned a lot about them in our school in America."

The next hour passed, and by then the food trolley had come and gone. There were heaps of Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Beans, Pumpkin Pastries, and a number of other things. I had gotten a cricket-flavored bean, and obviously spit it out. Trevor licked it up and ate it. Eww, gross. We were trading these cards found in the Chocolate Frogs when Ron and Hermione finally came.

"I'm starving," Ron grumbled. He threw his stuff next to the owl cages and sat down hard next to Harry. He took a frog from Harry and opened it.

"Malfoy's a prefect," said Hermione, obviously disgusted. "And Pansy Parkinson. Seriously, she has to be thicker than a cow!"

"What about Ravenclaw?" asked Annabeth. I, personally, had no idea what Ravenclaw was. Every demigod who's name wasn't Annabeth looked confused, as well. Well, Hermione had probably told us, but we'd totally forgotten.

"Anthony Goldstein and Padma Patil," Hermione answered.

"And Hannah Abbott and Ernie Macmillan for Hufflepuff," Ron said, his eyes closed as he chewed the frog.

"Who's Malfoy?" asked Jason. "You seem to dislike him."

"We do dislike him," Harry said flatly.

"Yeah," Hermione continued, wrinkling her nose. "He hates muggle-borns and calls them mudbloods. That would include me. He's quite smug to all Gryffindors. His father works at the Ministry, and he's constantly bragging about that.

Percy frowned. I understood why. Most-if not all-demigods have had some level of experience with bullies. He might've known more because he went to mortal schools longer than us. I hated flathead Rufus in my first life.

"I dislike him already," Percy stated. "And I haven't even met him."

We all laughed. It was quite true. Thalia muttered under her breath, "try that on us, we'll give him a piece of our mind."

Ron grinned. "We're supposed to check the corridors sometimes...give out punishments. I can't wait to give Goyle lines for looking like a baboons' backside."

We all laughed again. It was hard to stop, as Luna had fallen to the ground laughing, and then we all laughed at that. When we finally stopped, Frank asked, "Who's Goyle?"

"One of Malfoy's so-called friends," Harry informed us. "The other one's Crabbe, their like his bodyguards."

"You know, if they come, let them do their stuff," Thalia grunted.

Piper nodded. "They'll be sorry they ever messed with us."

Right on cue, the door opened. "Now who are these newbies?" a voice drawled. "The Americans?"

We spun around. There could be no doubt. this was Malfoy.

Guys, sorry for having three days in between chapters. At least I'm covering 3 chapters per week! Reviews are greatly appreciated.

Hey, question. Give me answers. What series do you like better, Percy Jackson or Harry Potter?