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Nico

The next day, a pillow was thrown on my head to wake me up (as always), a mass of blond hair was hovering above me when I opened my eyes sleepily (as always), and Will Solace had almost deafened me with his whistle (as always).

"Gee, thanks," I muttered under my breath. "Seriously, do you have to do that every single day?"

Solace shrugged. "Yep. Unless you don't go to sleep every single day, but unfortunately for you, Nico di Angelo, those are your doctor's orders."

I sighed, but tis son of Apollo was about as stubborn as an undead soldier. No matter how many times you stab it, it always comes back fully assembled. Unless, of course, I'm the one stabbing it. Or Bianca. The memory of Bianca jolted through me like lightning, but I had learned a long time ago to forget her death and get on with my life.

But this was not how I imagined my life would be like. Seriously? Another quest? Okay fine, this quest was really hard, but I really wanted to spend some more time with my new boyf-ahem, friend.

"Okay," Will said. "go wake your watery cousin up." He pointed at Percy and Annabeth's bed, where Percy was still snoring. His sheets were a mess, just like his hair. Annabeth was looking at me pointedly.

"Well?" she asked. "It's your turn."

I groaned. Since Percy liked sleep so much, we had to take turns to wake him. Annabeth usually did it, but when she didn't feel like it, she made us do it. Jason had tone it two days ago, so it was my turn now. I stumbled over to Percy's sleeping form.

"uh...wake up?" I tried the old-fashioned way. Annabeth rolled her eyes.

"Nico, it's not like you haven't done it before," she said. "You know better than that."

"Okay, fine," I said in defeat. I grabbed a bucket from the side of his bed. We used it so often that we didn't even bother taking it back to the shelves. I went to one of our bathrooms and filled the bucked with cold water. Walking back, I dumped it's contents on Percy's head. Just like we expected, the water bounced off, but Percy was awake. He opened his eyes sleepily.

"Ugh, do you have to do that every single day?"

Will smirked. "Nico, you just said that about a minute ago."

I nodded. "I don't know which is worse. A pillow, or a bucket of water that you can easily deflect."

Percy shrugged. "Whatever."

Leo glanced at us. "Uh...I gotta warn you guys about something..."

"Hey, Americans!" Harry poked his head in. "Come out! Let's talk before we go to breakf-"

"PUT YOUR SHIRT ON!"

Harry jumped. "Bloody hell! What was that?"

Leo winced. "Uh...you know how I brought mini-Hedge along?"

Piper and Jason nodded just as everybody shook their heads. Hazel frowned. "Okay fine, you brought mini-Hedge along. But can't you turn it off so it doesn't shout random things all the time?"

Leo winced again. "Well-"

"GET'EM!"

Leo ignored it. "I tried to, but I forgot how to turn it off, so..."

"Roll it in a sock and stuff it in your drawer," Harry advised. "That's what I did with the sneakscope Ron gave me. It was so old it just went off at random times."

Annabeth nodded. Clearly, she'd already read about these sneakscope things. I, for one, haven't.

Fred came in. "Come out, people. Let's talk."

Thalia stared at him. "About what?"

"I don't know," Harry said. "But I figured since we were friends-" He glanced at us hopefully. We nodded, and he beamed. "I figured that we should talk. You know...don't you do that sometimes?"

I shrugged. "Yes, but I usually stay out and hide in a corner."

"Enough chit-chat!" Annabeth hollered. "Let's go do the chatting!"

"Er..." Percy cleared his throat. "Isn't that the same thing?"

Annabeth blinked. "Oh...shut up."

We went out into the common room and attacked the comfy sofas. Harry turned to Hermione, who was rolling her Galleon/meeting alert in her fingers.

"You know what those remind me of?" Harry asked, pointing at the coin.

Hermione shrugged. "Thanatos eater dark marks?" she asked, smiling. Ron put his hands on his chest and gasped in mock-shock as all the demigods but me collapsed into laughing fits. I chuckled.

"Hermione?" asked Ron. "Making a joke? Cover your heads, the world is ending! When's the last time you did-ow!"

Hermione had slapped him on the arm. She chuckled. "Wow, Annabeth's moves are really good. She taught me how to deal with annoying boys at D.A. Apparently she has the same kind of problem sometimes." At this, she glanced at Percy. Percy blinked. "Hey, why is everybody looking at me? Wait a sec..."

He looked at Annabeth and finally realized what was going on. "Hey!" he protested.

"Well anyway," Harry said, breaking Percy's moment of awkwardness. "Yeah, that's what thought of."

Hermione nodded. "Yeah, that's where I got the inspiration. But the thing is, the coin is burning, not people's skin."

Percy grunted. "Yeah, I prefer it that way." He gave a glare to his arm, where the Roman tattoo was hidden in his sleeve. "Unlike this," he muttered.

Ron laughed. "You know, mate? If you haven't told me otherwise, I might've thought that was a dark mark!"

"Yeah, that would've been bad," Frank said."If we were protecting you, but you thought we were the people that we're trying to protect you from...ugh, so confusing."

"Wait..." Harry said slowly. "You lot were sent to protect me?"

Frank gulped. He might've looked bigger and stronger-and trust me, he did- but inside he was still the clumsy Chinese-Canadian baby man. At least, that's what Arion would still call him. "Uh...yeah. Did I just say that out loud?"

Hazel smiled. "Yes, you did. But since we trust each other now-hopefully-, I guess it's all right."

Harry sighed. "Yeah, whatever. It just feels strange...having 10 people sent to Hogwarts just to protect me..."

Annabeth nodded. "Yeah. But apparently you're the only one who has a chance in defeating Voldemort, so you're really important."

At Voldemort's name, Ron flinched. Hermione rolled her eyes at him.

"So..." said Leo, breaking the silence. "Say, what if we accidentally spend them?" he asked, holding up his Galleon thing.

Ron sighed longingly. "You? Sure. Me? Well, I only hope I had some real coins to confuse it with."

Guys, I know, this is seriously short. Like, only a thousand words! But I was busy. And my dad took my ipod away, so this is a lot slower now.