The welcome hope reunion was large and great, even better when Amelia informed everyone that she was renting the house across from Severus', which the Potions professor was grateful for as they were running out of room for her, Sirius and Remus. They had been back for a week when Alex and Hermione brought up a subject that had been bugging them, "Severus, why can't we learn to apparate?"

Unfortunately for the man, he had just take a sip of tea and it was sprayed over his paper. As he cleaned it off, he answered, "You need to be 17 for a licence."

"Is that a fact or is it that you need to be a legal adult to have one?"

That stumped him, "Go ask Amelia, she'll know."

And they did, racing across the street to the house, they walked right in, and groaned as they spotted the newly engaged couple making out, "Urgh, please do that in your room."

"Alex, Hermione," the couple jumped apart, "What are you doing here so early?"

"We can to ask a question, actually Severus sent us over because he didn't know the answer," Hermione said, "Do you need to be 17 to have an apparition license or simply be a legal adult?"

"Adult, though if under 17, all applicants must take a course on how to apparate, the same one you would in 6th year. Would you like me to sign you both up?" Amelia was certain that the instructor would sign their licenses instantly, she had the feeling that the teens already knew everything written about the travel.

The demigods nodded quickly, "Please."

"Right, well I think the next class starts in a week, so read up," as soon as the pair were gone, the witch was back on her love.

And the class was in a week, at the Ministry, and despite already reading up on it intensely, the teens read even more on it and the instructor had needed to sit down when they both began easily silently popping over the room. They last 2 hours in the class, and had their licenses all signed. When they returned home, Amelia was raking in the galleons from 3 lightly scowling men, "2 hours, I knew Pinkerton would break early."

"You bet on us?"

"No, on your instructor," Remus verified, counting out the coins needed, "I had 4 hours, Sirius 6, and Severus was wishful thinking at 4 weeks."

That had the teens laughing hard, knowing that their guardian really didn't want them to be able to vanish at will, without the licenses he at least had a semblance of control over their movements. Regardless, he hugged both, "I'm proud of you."

And they were off, every day, be it just from one house to another, they'd apparate all over, not being lazy about it as they increased their running distances to compensate, it was simply because they could. They visit their friends, and Nye, go into London for lunch, or to see Bogrod at Gringotts, simply having great fun at it.

What they didn't realise was that they were frustrating the hell out of the satyr who was tracking them all over. They'd been on holidays now for 3 weeks, during the previous getting 3 tickets to the Quidditch World Cup, which would happen the 22nd of August, from Arthur, and were happily relaxing at home. Wade and Kelly were at work, and they were swimming in the pool, when the front door was beat on heavily.

Wands at the ready, the demigods cautiously opened it to reveal a teenage girl with a large scowl on her face, and when she spoke it was with an American accent, "Do you have any bloody idea how hard it has been to find you both? One second I think I have you then the next, you're in bloody SCOTLAND! Next demigods I deal with better not be touched by magic or I swear, I'll tell the gods to shove it."

"Umm, hello?"

"Hello to you to, are you going to let me in or shall I stand here until my hooves decay?"

Opening the door all of the way, the demigods watched as the satyr removed plastic covered from her legs, revealing goat legs. Closing the door, they showed her to the living room and summoned some drinks, "You're the satyr that our fathers sent?"

"Yes and I am sorry about the attitude but I've been in the country for 2 weeks now, started in Greece, got attacked by an injured Harpy with a bad bloody attitude, tracked you through Italy, France, Spain, then all over this island. My hooves are not meant for this travel," the girl then blushed lightly, "Oh, my name is Penny Hill."

Taking in the satyr, the teens were intrigued. Her human half was a white girl, about 16 years old, with copper hair and sea blue eyes. Her goat half was, well, goat hooves and legs the same colour as her hair, "Well we're Alexander Olympius and Hermione Hippia, but if our adoptive parents are around, it's Harry and Hermione, we aren't going to tell them what we are. Ooh, come on, you should come and meet our family, the ones who do know."

Grabbing a hand of hers, Hermione apparated the satyr into the living room of Severus' house, the girl gasping lightly, "Warn me next time okay? Bloody magicals."

"Right. SEVERUS!" Alex called out.

The running feet from the garage brought a worried wizard, "Are you okay? Who's this?"

"We're fine Severus, and this is Penny Hill, the satyr we've been waiting for," Hermione explained, smiling brightly.

"Sent me all over the freaking island before I cornered them. A pleasure to meet you," Penny extended a hand.

"And you, we were thinking that you'd gotten lost somewhere along the way," glaring over her head at the demigods, the man said, "I will kill you the next time you go and scare me like that."

They just shook their heads, "No, you love us too much. Come on Penny, let's go see the last three who can see your true self around here."

Another apparition, and they were in another living room, and it was Hermione who called out, "FIRE!"

The reaction was different now, all three adults walked down calmly, "Why don't you put it out yourself Hippia? Moony and Paddy heard your scream for Severus before. Who's your friend?"

Blushing in frustration, the couple introduced their friend, "Penny Hill; Penny these three unimpressed people are Remus 'Moony' Lupin, Amelia 'Paz' Bones, and Sirius 'Padfoot' Black. Sirius is Alex's godfather, and Amelia is his fiancée."

"Nice to meet you," the satyr said, pleased to see that after the initial look at her legs, they were looking at her face.

"And you. So where are you going to be staying?" Remus asked, flopping into a chair.

That sent red over Penny's face, "Well, I've been on the move since arriving in Greece, and haven't exactly thought about anything except tracking this pair…"

"You can stay here if you like dear, we've got an extra room and it's just across the road from Severus'," Amelia offered.

"Thank you"

"Aren't your parents worried about where you are Penny?" Sirius questioned.

Despite her not being magical in the traditional sense, the room's temperature dropped a few degrees, "My mother kicked me to the curb after finding a normal family. I joined a small band of demigods in Chicago and we slowly made our way to Camp Half-Blood, I'd only been there a week when Chiron gave me this quest. The only people who will miss me are now surrounded by their demigod family, and I'm set on being a protector as all satyrs are, I received my horns for bringing in the 5 demigods."

That was when everyone noticed the growing nubs on her head and the demigods congratulated her, "That's brilliant. Penny, when you were in Scotland, did you see a large castle around where you tracked us?"

"That huge thing with winged boars on the gates? Yeah, the power there tussled my fur."

"Excellent!" The couple cheered, "That means you can come to Hogwarts with us."

"Whoa, whoa, no, I'm to get you both back to Camp Half-Blood, not attend school with you"

That stopped the celebrations, "No that's what our fathers want, despite our implicit instructions they not mess with the Fates. We've got a set time for when we will be leaving the UK, and that is after this coming term, not a second beforehand. The stars are not to be messed with, and we aren't going to either, so you have two choices, come with us to Hogwarts or don't, it's that simple."

For the first time, Penny was seeing that these demigods weren't simply teenagers, and also knew that she wouldn't stand a chance at changing their minds, so sighed heavily, "And how pray-tell are you going to explain the fact I'm a satyr?"

"Easy, you're an American exchange student we met whilst in Greece. Everyone knows there are two schools in Greece, one for humans and magic, and the other one for demigods, satyrs, centaurs, those who have an instinctual magic with the elements and nature, and most of whom are from across the globe. The only people you need to be human for are our adoptive parents, like we said, they don't know and aren't going to be told."

"Alright, so what do you two do at school?"

The adults chuckled at hearing that and the answer, "We're assistant professors, though we also attend 3 classes a week, and train with Grunhot, Thurhot, Firenze and Nye every Sunday. There's also our tutoring sessions that we hold for the other students, and that's about it."

"Don't forget your morning torture sessions," Remus groaned just thinking about it.

"And your chaperone trips into Hogsmeade," the other man put in.

"Or the fact you spend Saturday nights with Firenze and Nye in the forest, reading the stars," Amelia finished.

Penny waved her hands quickly, "Whoa, who are these people?"

"Oh, well, they're our family. Firenze is a centaur, he was the one who told us who our fathers were, and then trained us; Mia's strengthened her Sight greatly and we both were trained at first just by him with weapons. Nye is our familiar, a Golden Pegasus who we rescued after his mother was slaughtered by the evil force we were prophesized to defeat, he's a real sweetie. Then there are Brothers Grunhot and Thurhot, who are father and son, and our battle trainers, they became our brothers after we were accepted into the goblin family," the teens raised their shirts to reveal their tattoos, "Freaked everyone out when they saw that, Mum and Dad still have suspicions that we got them ourselves."

"And then you have Severus, who's like another father to us, he was the one who rescued us from Voldemort's clutches after he ordered our kidnappings. Sirius is Alex's godfather and like my uncle, he's also an unjustified fugitive so we don't talk about him in public or else he could get found out. Amelia's like an aunt, more so now that she's engaged to the mutt she's sitting on. While Remus is both an uncle and wolf Alpha," they now pulled out the pendants from around their necks, "He made us cubs in his pack. Then we have our friends at Hogwarts, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Faye Dunbar and Draco Malfoy, only Luna knows that we're demigods, she's the daughter of a Celtic demigod, and all 4 are like our brother and sisters. That should be about it for the main people but if you want a complete list, you'll have to give us a few hours of your life."

Penny flopped into a seat, "Never again, no more magicals ever again."

Everyone laughed, "You'll get the hang of it Penny, everyone does eventually. Just wait until everyone learns that they're demigods, think about that headache."

The teen simply groaned again, her hands over her face, "I'm not ready for this. Curse Chiron."

Hermione looked at her friend's pants and then her bag, "Where are all of your things Penny?"

"I didn't bring much, you know, being on the move all the time, and I didn't expect to be sticking around after finding you…" that was all she got out before the other two women clapped loudly.

"Yay! We can go shopping then," Amelia wrapped an arm around her shoulders, "And no complaints when Hermione buys, she's got a wicked punch."

"We'll, uhh, just stick about here then," the men said uncertainly.

Hermione raced back and kissed her love before following her friends, talking a mile a minute, and each of the three wizards breathed heavy sighs of relief at not being dragged along.