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Chapter 11

Nico

Nothing like waking up, registering a huge mass of blond hair right in front of you, and screaming.

"Gods, Nico," grumbled Will Solace, the second boy I had grown a crush for. "That has to be shriller than my whistle."

I gaped. Will was here? How?

"Nothing's more shrill than your taxicab whistle. What are you doing here?" I asked.

"The quest," he said simply. "Chiron suddenly realized that he sent the most adventurous people-the most likely people to get hurt-without a healer. Think about it, Leo died, Annabeth and Percy jumped into Tartarus, Frank bested 200 monsters on his own, and-"

"Okay!" I said impatiently. "We get it."

"And you almost dissolved yourself into a puddle of shadow!" he shouted. "So he came to his senses and sent me. Happy now?"

I stared at him. "Are you kidding? I'll never be able to die in peace with you here!"

Percy smirked. "Oh, Fred and George are going to love you...or hate you. See, they made these snackbox things that make you throw up or something, but then you can restore yourself back to health quickly."

Will grinned. "A bit of chaos is always welcomed. I can help with the restoring part."

Leo chuckled. "So that's where the "loves you" part came from."

Will shrugged. "I don't know who Fred and George are. I don't know anybody. I just came here in the morning, talked to the headmaster, and was sent here. Introduce me to Harry and his friends?"

"Sure," I said. "But did you get your schedule and stuff?"

He pointed to a new bed and table, ones I haven't noticed before. Just like before, there was a piece of paper on the table.

"They're the same as yours," he said. "So I can keep an eye on you."

"Kay, yeah. You got your wand ad stuff? Robes?"

"Nicholas Di Angelo!" he shrieked. "What am I wearing right now?"

I fumed. How come he was able to call me Nicholas? And, oh yeah, he was wearing his school robes.

"I was sorted to Gryffindor, as well. And my wand is holly, lyre strings, and dragon heartstrings."

I smirked. "No doubt to show your fiery attitude."

"I don't deny it. Nico, are you going to change or what?"

I murmured a quick apology, then pulled my robes on. Annabeth helped Percy-or rather, stuffed her boyfriend in the robes.

When we were finished, we met in the common room, where Harry, Ron, and Hermione were already waiting for us.

"Who're you?" asked Ron studying Will.

"Will Solace, son of Apollo," he said. "You?"

"Ron Weasley."

Harry nodded at him. "Harry Potter."

Hermione smiled. "Hermione Granger."

Will shrugged. "Hey, where's Fred and George? The snackbox makers?"

At this, Hermione turned and marched away with her head held high. Leo snorted.

Just on time, the Weasley twins came down the stairs.

"Hey," greeted Fred. "We heard you with the extendable ears."

He turned to Will. "Fred and George Weasley. And don't bother trying to find out which one's which. I'm Fred or George."

Besides him, George nodded. "And I'm Fred or George. Weasley. So, you wanted skiving snackboxes?"

Will shrugged. "What's up with Hermione?"

George wore a disgusted expression on his face. "Won't let us give samples to first years. Also, we need help for the fever fudge."

Will smiled. They walked away, talking about sweets.

"As soon as we were out of eyeshot, I stuck my tongue out in his direction."

"Well, at least we don't get Snape today," said Jason. "That would've been a nightmare.

Harry looked around, confused. "Hermione's hat's are gone. Do you think the house-elves actually want freedom?"

Ron snorted. "No, they probably thought the hats were rubbish. They look more like it than hats. Plus, elves won't get freed by getting a woolly bladder."

Hermione hadn't left the common room yet. "I heard that!" she called from across the room. Piper smirked at no one in particular.

After breakfast, we checked our schedules, figuring out that we were supposed to go to charms for a double period, then transfiguration for a double period.

Percy asked Harry anxiously, "is charms all right?"

Harry smiled. "One of the bests, I think. Flitwick is tiny, you'll see what I mean later."

Indeed, when we entered the classroom, I couldn't see any teacher until he wobbled to the top of a couple of stacked books.

"Welcome, American transfers!" he said. His voice was squeaky, but quite a bit better than Umbridge's terrible, sweet voice. "You must know that the O.W.L.s are coming this year! As O.W.L.s are of upmost importance to your future life, we will be studying extra hard to insure your exams to pass well!"

We spent most of the class reviewing summoning charms, in which mastered without problem. We just had to go like, "Accio!" and the stuff would come towards us. Even though we were perfectly fine with them, Professor Flitwick still gave us tons of homework.

Transfiguration was probably even worse for the wizards, just about the same for us.

"Serious application, studying, and practicing will be needed to pass your transfiguration O.W.L. I believe that everybody-yes, even you, Longbottom- should be able to pass if they put in the work. We will be starting the vanishing spells. This is one of the hardest spells you will come across in the examinations this year."

Though she said that, we demigods still found this terribly easy. In fact, we had vanished our snails so many times that the other students were beginning to stare. The only wizard who'd done it was Hermione.

I don't know why it was so easy, but I guess it helped thar we were actually related to the goddess who had created wizards. Even Harry and Ron didn't accomplish anything. Ron had said that his snail looked a little more pale, but I spotted no difference. Maybe the snail was going pale because it was jabbed by Ron's wand so much and would be stabbed by the end of class.

Professor McGonagall finally ended the class and told everybody else to practice the Vanishing spell. We were just asked silently not to reveal our cover, so we had to try less hard in our next lesson.

Of course, our speed in transfiguration earned us two points each, so we got 20 points on our second day.

Also, this was probably the first time a teacher told a student to try less hard, a fact that Harry and Ron found amusing.

Since next was lunch time, we ate lunch( duh), but Ron and Harry had so much homework that they used the lunch hour to find out more about moonstones. Too bad Annabeth was busy kissing Percy, she could've helped them quite a lot.

After lunch was care of magical creatures. Harry had told us that Hagrid was supposed to teach this class, but Professor Grubbly-Plank was substituting. We liked the class, in which we studied about these wood-creature things. As always, Hermione's knowledge earned Gryffindor some points.

Finally was Herbology, in which Neville was definitely the best in. We also spent a good amount of time hearing Professor Spout talk( yes, again) about the O.W.L.s.

We finally got to dinner, in which Harry's Quidditch captain, Angelia Johnson, attacked him about getting into detention while she wants them to have Keeper tryouts. I feel sincerely bad for him. Finally, Leo and Harry had to sprint to Umbridge's office for detention.

We had planned for Leo to drop a grenade( with extra-soft cover so it won't make noise) in Umbridge's office when she wasn't looking.

Good stuff, the grenade was supposed to turn everything the colors that we chose, so it was like spray-painting the office. We had all figured out that her room was made pink, so obviously we chose every color but pink. Will had also suggested that the sphere-thingy also erupted with rock music. It was also made somehow invisible by Annabeth's awesome magic, so Umbridge would never find the source.

Of course, it would explode well after their detention, so they won't be blasted with a paint bomb. Luckily, Will somehow muted it with some awesome music powers to everyone but Professor Umbridge herself, which means no one can hear it except for her.

Everyone will think she's gone crazy when she's screaming, "THERE'S WEIRD SOUNDS COMING FROM MY OFFICE! ARGGGGH!"

Will had also bewitched it so that we could hear the explosion that meant the fun had started. Man, I've never learned to appreciate the power of Apollo...until now.

In other words, it was a plan worthy of Athena.

Harry and Leo had come back later, when we were all trying to do homework. For some reason, Ron kept looking at the raining sky and groaning.

Leo looked happy, but Harry's eyes were full of rage. He'd told us that Professor Umbridge was just making him do lines, but none of us had believed it.

Leo? Well, he had Hazel manipulate the mist so that Leo looked like he was still there, but instead be dropping the grenade in an awesome spot...hints, the chair that Umbridge was going to sit on. The bomb was timed so it was going to break out after Umbridge went to bed, so she'll get a great surprise in the morning.

Hazel had shaken her head sadly when Harry asked her to do it for him the next day, because Hecate wasn't going to give her power just for getting Harry out of detention.

We left them outside, trying to do homework.

We headed for bed, none of us able to fall asleep in the excitement of hearing the sudden explosion about to come...

Indeed, at about midnight, there was a sudden BOOM. Hopefully, Ron, Harry, and Hermione had also heard it. Harry would finally be looking forward to detention tomorrow.

Finally, after satisfying ourselves that Umbridge would go to her office to find that it is no longer pink, but a variety of other colors, we let happiness guide us to dreamland. Of course, we dreamt quite a bit about screaming mini-Umbridges running about, covered in our multi-colored paint...

I wonder what would happen tomorrow.

Not really that bad a cliffhanger, thought I have to admit Umbridge sucks. A lot. You might have noticed I've published two chapters in a day? In your face, Kelly! Ah, sorry, didn't notice other people were reading this.

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