here is the next chapter !NOT COMPLETLY BETA-ed!

This is probably the best chapters so far, because honestly I never read anything over to make sure it's good. (I will from now on!) I only did this time because someone suggested i add more details. so i guess you have them to thank.

my other chapters must have sucked. Sorry :(

Neville's Pov

This trip might be a little harder than I expected, Neville thought to himself. After convincing his gran, who was utterly shocked that he had made new friends (let alone two girls) and packing all of his normal clothes, they had all boarded the Hogwarts Express. Annabeth bounced on the seat next to him in joy.

"Isn't this going to be fun?" she shouted. "First we have to show you the Statue Of Liberty, then Times Square, and Broadway! There are so many beautiful old buildings in New York; you'll love it!"

"Don't forget that we have to meet someone at the airport." Mia reminded her.

Annabeth barely acknowledged her sister's response before beginning to ramble on about architecture. One train ride and one death-defying aerial adventure in a flying hunk of Muggle metal across the ocean later, Mia, Annabeth, and Neville had just landed in New York. Even though he had been terrified that the only thing between him and the ground would be about 7 kilometers of air and a giant hunk of metal, the worst part was that Mia conveniently forgot to mention that Draco was going as well.

At first he didn't even know it was Malfoy. Neville had never seen him in Muggle clothes before. His hair wasn't slicked back like it normally was, but instead was shaggy*. His green shirt, faded jeans, and black denim jacket made him look like any normal Muggle teen.

I wonder who's waving at us. Perhaps the person they said that we were meeting up with, Neville pondered.

"See! I told you that you'd look better that way!"Mia shouted to the stranger.

"Yeah, maybe now that you look like a normal person, you could use that "Cute" British accent of yours to find yourself a girlfriend" Annabeth teased.

The three of them, Annabeth, Mia, and who ever the new guy was started laughing as Neville just stood there awkwardly. He was trying to figure out who this guy was, he look so familiar. he started to put the pieces together in his head.

Who do I know that's blonde, and British... no, it can't be!

He pulled Mia aside "Why didn't you tell me that Malfoy was coming!?" Neville panicked.

"What's wrong with Draco?" Mia asked concerned.

"We... kind of have a history," he hesitated, memories of ruthless teasing and remberals flowed back into his head . "We just don't really get along."

Mia nodded in understanding. "Okay I'll talk to him"

After having the luggage sent to the right address and hailing a taxi, they all decided to go sightseeing. A boat ride later they arrived at Liberty Island. Annabeth was overly excited; she started to spew facts about the monument.

"Did you know that from the bottom to the top the statue is 305 feet, 6 inches?" she nearly squealed.

"Umm how long is a foot again?" Neville asked trying to convert in his head.

" Exactly 93.1164 meters" Mia answered for him. "You get used to conversions When you've been here long enough"

Neville smiled at Mia. Liberty Island had a rail going around the perimeter. Malfoy leaned over to get a better view of the water. Annabeth joined him.

"I wonder how deep the water is here." SHe wondered out loud.

"Hey do you guys see that over there?" Malfoy asked pointing to a disturbance in the water.

Annabeth and Mia squinted taking a closer look. Mia gasped.

"No, this can't be happening not now." Annabeth muttered to herself, then her eyes got wide. "Mia it's coming closer! "She yelled.

Mia swore in a different language and Neville could see why. It had looked like a boat at first, as it came closer it seemed to grow larger and larger.

What is that thing!? It's going to slam into the island!

"TAKE COVER!" Mia screamed

Annabeth barley pulled Neville out-of-the-way in time. Water sprayed the side of the island. The impact sent chunks of dirt, grass, and railing flying in every direction, like shrapnel. Other tourist started to panick and scream.

Annabeth pulled out her dagger and Mia, a sword.

"How are we going to do this without fire!?" Mia yelled to Annabeth as she dodged one of the heads.

"Try stabbing it!"

Mia rolled out-of-the-way of another attack, Annabeth stabbed the beast's neck. The monster caught Mia's arm with its claw. The sleeve clean off. In a swift movement she sliced off the offending hand. Leaveing nothing left but a stump. Annabeth had dodged the tail multiple times befor landing gracefully on the monsters back. She was smart about her movements. Locating the spine she plunged her short dagger, deep into the flesh, threw, muscle, and bone, paralizing the monster form the waist down. Covered in slime and dirt Mia and Annabeth were starting to slow down. Their breath was quickening and they were both bleeding in various places. The beast took advantage of their moment of weakness. The creature closed in on Annabeth. She prepared to defend herself, her eyes were closed braceing herself for impact... Seconds passed, and nothing had happened.

"Never thought I'd be the one saving you, huh wise girl?"

Her eyes flashed open.

"PERCY!" She yelled. She threw her arms around his neck.

"ANNABETH, PERCY! LOOK!" Shouted Mia. Annabeth saw what her twin

Percy started to stab and slash at the monster body. The three of them worked as a team. They fought with renewed energy Percy had been cornnered by one of the two heads.

"It' no use!" Annabeth eventually yelled dodging yet another attack. "We need fire! We need to burn the stumps before they grow back! It's the only way!

Did she just say fire? Neville remembered that there was a survivor shop nearby. They must have lighters or something.

He took off running. He heard someone yell after him but he had no time to explain. The shop had thankfully been evacuated. He looked around through various I 3 NY apparel, shot glasses, mugs, snow globes then he found what he was looking for. he pulled out some random money from his pocket and placed it on the counter for good measure and ran out again as fast as he could. He saw his friends still fighting the monster and realized they were going to need something bigger than a lighter. There were plenty of trees around him he found a good size stick and set it aflame. He got as close as he could to the fighting without getting himself killed. Somehow the heads had multiplied, there were four of them. His friend's clothes were sizzling in what seemed to be acid. Percy saw him with the torch and ran over to him narrowly missing a set of angry jaws. Neville handed him the branch and quickly ducked out-of-the-way before he got hit by the tail. He saw the battle continue. One by one they cut and burned the stumps. When they were done they didn't seem to notice the corpse had disintegrated or the fact that there clothes and hair had been burned in various places and that they were in need of medical attention. Percy laughed, and hugged the two girls.

"Thank the gods you two are okay!"

"What were you doing here Seaweed brain? Break hasn't started yet for you." Annabeth asked.

"You know, the usual monster showing up during lunch and destroying the cafeteria thing."

"But how did you know we were here?!" Mia shouted vigorously shaking her friend.

"The principle doesn't really care if it wasn't you, or if you did it to save the students, apparently arson, is arson." Percy looked around and assessed the damage that the monster had created.

"I wonder what the mortals saw." He said looking around.

Mia nodded and looked around before she came to realize that they were missing someone.

"Where's Draco?" she asked worryingly. "Draco?" She called, there was no response. The four of them looked around the wreckage.

"DRACOOOOOO"

"DRACO!"Annabeth called

"Malfoy?" Neville helped checking under the larger pieces of debris.

"I think I found him!" Annabeth called to the others. She had found him about 10 meters to where he had first spotted the monster. There was a long gash on his forehead that was bleeding pretty badly.

"Guys we need to get out of here." Percy insisted. " Destroying a national landmark can get you in a lot of trouble, remember."

"You did what?" Neville questioned

"We need to get him to a hospital. NOW!" Mia insisted.

"It would be to suspicious if we showed up at a hospital like this, the police are going to be looking for us." Percy pointed out.

"Then do you have any better ideas, seaweed brain." Annabeth retorted.

A sly grin spread over Percy's face. He turned to the water and whistled. Soon after, several horses emerged from the water.

"W-What are those things!?" Neville stammered.

"Hippocampi" Percy told him. "Half fish half horse."

Percy helped Annabeth set Malfoy on one of the horse-fish, as Mia mounted another. Hesitantly Neville got on one of them.

"Where exactly are we going?" Neville questioned.

"To Camp Half-blood."

Next Chapter Percy's POV

* I suck with descriptions but think 3rd or 4th movie Malfoy in muggle clothes

I hope I didn't confuse any of my American readers with the metric system so here are some of the conversions that were used in the story

10 meters = about 33ft

7 kilometers = about 23000ft

& the contest is still in motion go back 2 chapter 7 for the rules