Chapter 2 There's a Bit of Weather on the Plane
Will
I never had much problems with my dyslexia as much as the others. But I was having troubles reading the books that Chiron gave us. I don't know if it was the weird phrasing that these people use I mean come on Gillyweed, who names these plants? But before I got to finish the book I thought that it would be best to start packing. The reason I took this quest was because I know Nico would do something stupid to his body and then he would say that he wouldn't need medical attention or attention period. But I am secretly excited about going on a quest with him too, just me and him….and Reyna. I mean I don't have anything against her but I thought when I was the first one to sign up then that meant that it would just be me. But of course things had to be done in threes.
I grab my trunk and start packing all the things I needed: clothing, a cantin of nectar, the books, my wand, a dagger, the robes and some quills. After I closed the trunk and grab my first aid bag then I rushed outside to meet the others at Thalia's tree. Chiron gave us our tickets and wished us luck. We took a taxi to the airport without causing destruction to the city, that must be a new record! After we got passed security I gave nico a cookie praying to the gods that he will eat it before we got on the plane. Right when we passed the gift shop Nico collapsed on my shoulder snoring. Rayna looked at me puzzled " What happened to Nico?" I gave her a smile and pointed at the half eaten cookie in his hand. " I put a sleeping pill in the cookie so Nico would sleep on the plane." I explained.
I sat on the chair closest to me and set Nico down. Reyna went to the gift shop to get a couple of magazines for the plane ride. Once she came back to the seats and gave me some coco. 'Hey what time does our plane leave?" I asked. Reyna went through the bag and pulled out the tickets. "The plane will be leaving in twenty minutes at gate four." I looked at the tickets and gave her a puzzled look. " Um Reyna we are supposed to be at gate one not four so that means." I scanned through the guild and found our plane. " Our plane leaves in five minutes!" So with that we looked like idiots running through the airport dragging a sleepy Nico along.
Once we found our seats I started to get frazzled. One because of my ADHD it was hard to sit still in such a tight space, and two I kept wondering what would happen if a monster found its way on the plane. I mean sure we would be in danger but so would the mortals on the plane. And as if on cue I spotted a harpy outside my window. Now the next thing that happened I take full responsibility for. I jumped out of my seat hitting the flight attendant who was putting up the volume for Reyna's movie. I'm guessing she hit the louder setting or something because Reyna then skyrocketed out of her seat, then pushing the cart lady who spilled all of the beverages on Nico and I. Then I was stupid enough to lean on the open cable near my seat and got myself electrocuted.
The whole chain reaction looked like something you would see in a movie or maybe read in a book. Once we started to descend Nico woke up with a confused look on his face but when he looked at me he started to laugh. I guess it was kind of funny that I had soda and other strong drinks but once I gave him a mirror he just smirked at me then went back to sleep. Sometimes I just want to punch Nico in the face.
Chapter 3 Platform 9 3/4
Reyna
Once I could hear I decided to chime in to the argument. We never noticed before that the tickets that Chiron gave told us to go to a platform 9 3/4. Now I haven't gone to a train station in a while but I'm pretty sure that they don't have any platforms called that. We tried to ask one of the workers but he didn't know what we were talking about. Will tried to give the man wizard money thinking that it was like Mount Olympus, but he looked even more puzzled than before. I scanned the crowd of people surrounding us and one peculiar family caught my eye. It looked like a mother with red hair and her kids walking to a platform, so I decided to follow them. Now I know what you are thinking. What are you doing following strangers? Stay with Nico and Will! Now the only reason I was following them was because they were wizards. Now it wasn't that hard to figure out. They had the same trunks as us and even one of the kids around my age had a snowy white owl! Also the crazy lady was screeching " Come on come on everyone to platform 9 3/4!"
I dodged passed people running fast but also making sure that I wasn't far from my friends. They stopped between platform nine and ten. Once all the kids were lined up you could tell that they were all related by their red hair except for a boy with brown hair and a girl with a dirty blond color. Then the kids started to run into the wall a then they disappeared! Once all the kids were gone I trudged towards crazy. " Um.. excuse me miss um how do you?" "Get on the platform sweetheart? Yes yes let me see your ticket." I reluctantly handed my ticket over. No one and I mean no one calls me sweetheart. She then gave me my ticket back. " Now what you want to do is walk directly between the two platforms if you don't then it won't work, try!" She then started to usher me to the front. "Wait I need to get my friends!" And with that I dashed down the train station.I was back to playing frogger with the people around me, I wanted to hurry and get my friends before crazy left.
I found Nico and Will still fighting when I huffed out. " I know where to go." I then lead them to crazy to only find a man companing her. I guessed that it was crazy's husband by the way he held her. He walked over to us and greeted with a smile " It is nice to meet you kids! Are you transfers or..? "Yes!" Will squeaked. "Nice to meet you, we are Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and we hope you love it at Hogwarts. Now our kids Ron, George, Fred and Ginny will be more than happy to show you around. Oh and their friends Hermione Granger and Harry Potter." He seemed to hold out on that last one like we were supposed to be impressed or something. It kind of felt awkward for what felt like forever until Will broke the silence.
"Thank you so much, so how do you go through?" Then crazy explained it again to my friends. And then one by one we walked through the border and it looked like we just walked in and out of the wall as we landed in the train station. But instead it was full of magic and kids in robes. We walked farther into the station, I could even smell the candy and other sweets in the train. There were so many things to see that my eyes were going 90 mph. I turned to see Nico reading the child book hades gave him. It was a book about something to do with Beetles and Beards and I wondered why it would be called that but i'm not one to judge.
When I turned to the train I saw a blonde girl and a brunet boy who I recognized from the platform staring at us. I waved at them but they just turned away whispering like they were talking about use. I decided to push the idea to the back of my head and boarded the train with my friends. This was going to be an interesting mission. It was a pain finding seats, the compartments were so small and we were all getting squeamish by the tight space. Stupid ADHD.
I know I put two chapters in one but they were so short that I thought that it would be easier for me to write. I promise that they will get longer!
