Hey guys here is the next installment of Half-breeds at Hogwarts. The explanation of storm-travel took longer than I thought and them meeting the trio and getting supplies will have to be next chapter I might do it from one of the golden Trio's POV, if there is one you prefer let me know. If you have any suggestions for wands, or familiars please let me know.
Now on with the chapter.
Chapter three: Storm-travel
Percy POV.
I woke up in our room in the big house, it was just four walls that were painted a mixture of sea-green and gray. The bed seemed out of place it was a four posted bed, with what seemed to be red curtain that we can draw back. (A/N wonder why)
I got up and wandered down to the meeting room, on the Ping-Pong table was two plates of blue pancakes and a note which read:
Thalia and Nico will be the next to join you, followed by Jason and Piper, then Frank and Hazel, and lastly Leo. We will start your storm-travel training after breakfast after Thalia arrives.
-Chiron
P.S. You can use the fire place to sacrifice.
I took my plate over to the fireplace and scrapped some of my pancakes into the fire saying a silent prayer to my father. I then plopped down at the Ping-Pong table and started to eat, less than a minute later Annabeth was down stairs, scrapped some of her food into the fire and then sat next to me to eat.
After we ate Chiron, came into the meeting room and turned to us with a sad look in his eyes. We knew that he didn't want to send us on this quest but our parents agreed and we had no choice in the matter. So here we were waiting for him to say something, after a few more moments of silenced he said "Today we will start your training for Storm-travel, I have cleared the sword fighting arena for practice, also you two will be learning to manipulate the mist, not as strong as Hazel can but more powerful than most Demigods. So let's head out."
As he turned tail (hehehe) and left I said "How are we supposed to get their without anyone noticing?"
He said "That is your first lesson, the mist in itself is like a living organism," My face twisted into an expression of pure confusion. Annabeth said "it is alive Seaweed Brain"
"Oh, so do I have to ask it nicely to hide my image?"
"Not necessarily, it's like riding a Pegasus, it has a mind of its own and will want to go one way, but you must steer it another. The hardest part is trying to grab hold of it. Each person does their own thing, Thalia snaps, Hazel places her hands out in front of her, when I trained Achilles he would clap. You have to do something to draw everyone's attention, while also distracting them."
"So how would I do that?"
"Really Seaweed brain, how much kelp is in between your ears? I mean really you already have something that works, how obtuse can you be?"
"Obtuse? What does that mean?"
"Oblivious, Seaweed brain, Obtuse means Oblivious, seriously what do I see in you."
With that I gave her my biggest lopsided grin, "I know you love me." Then all of sudden I felt a weird tingle run up my spine and imagined how stupid I looked. Annabeth gasped and as I looked down it was hard to see myself. I looked almost like I used to but my image would shimmer back to the green scaled skin, then back to my normal beach tanned skin.
"See seaweed brain, your stupid lopsided grin draws attention while distracts everyone, its perfect, I mean seriously why do I even try, you have enough power to topple Olympus, but I bet you wouldn't even be able to complete any quest without my help."
As she continued to rant her image began to shimmer, between her sphinx mix form, and her normal form. I gave her a lopsided grin and said "I know what you do to manipulate the mist, you start giving lectures." Annabeth blushed at my words, and became quiet.
We heard a cough from the door, we forgot that Chiron was there, he had a knowing grin then said "once you feel your control of the mist just imagine what you want the mortals to see then rest is done by the mist. Let's head to the arena to start the storm-travel training."
We stood in the deserted arena, Chiron beckoned me forward "Storm-travel is like shadow-travel, you just have to imagine were you want to go. You travel along the water vapor in the air, but unlike shadows, water vapor isn't as in high concentration so you have to bring them together, as such a storm forms. You must then step into the storm, and imagine where you want to go. We'll start with creating the storm."
I gave him a lopsided grin, and used the same power that I used to douse Hyperion, and summoned a hurricane. Annabeth, rolled her eyes, and Chiron seemed to remember that I could do this. I felt the storm start to get out of my control so I let it go. Exhausted I stumbled over to the bleachers, I laid down on the bench and looked over to Chiron, who has rubbing his eyes like this was going to take a while.
He walked over and said "Ok, next time try and use less power and concentrate it into a cyclone, step into the cyclone and imagine where you want to go."
After a couple minutes I got up and imagined a cyclone appearing in the middle of the arena, after a few minutes the wind whipped. I opened my eyes and looked up a funnel of clouds formed into a twister and touch down in the center of the arena. Unlike the hurricane I didn't feel this sapping all my strength at once, I nervously inched forward and stepped into the twister. I closed my eyes and imagined myself at my mom's and Paul's apartment I felt a tug in my gut then I felt myself launch into the air. Now I know how Dorothy felt when her house was picked up by the tornado. I felt that I was spinning faster than a top. I felt myself be launched forward and collapsed onto the floor, I looked around and saw that I was in my mom's and Paul's living room, I also noticed that it looked like a storm blew through the room (oops). My mom came into the room and dropped the plate she had in her hands. I gave her my lopsided grin and imagined the room back to normal, the look of shock on her face turned to anger. "Perseus Jackson, I may not be able to see through the mist as easy as I used to, but it doesn't mean that you can use to hide the mess you made. Now tell me what's going on."
I gave her a quick explanation on what was going on, before she could even ask I also explained storm-travel and how I got here and caused the mess. She said that I was lucky because she just finished a batch of blue cookies, ran into the kitchen and came out with a Tupperware bin filled with her famous blue cookies and handed them to me. I told her to step back and imagined a smaller twister in the center of the room. Quickly it formed and I stepped into it and then imagined myself back at camp in the training arena. I felt myself thrown into the air and spun faster than I could even comprehend and again thrown forward and landed on the ground at the arena. Lucky I still had the blue cookies, almost instantly I opened them and began shoving them into my mouth.
A few seconds later a hand reached in and pulled out a blue cookie, I look up and see Annabeth slowly eating one of the cookies with a grin on her face. She turned to Chiron smiled and said "Told you he'd go to his mom's."
I gave her a lopsided grin, and manipulated the mist around us so we could head back to the big house, when we walk in I see Thalia and Nico sitting at the Ping-Pong table. Nico if at all possible seems paler than normal, I mean he looks like he doesn't even have any blood at all. His features seem sharper and he has two sharp teeth sticking out of his mouth. He looked more dead than normal if possible, I stifled a laugh at how stupid looked. Then I looked over to Thalia she also looked pale, but not deathly pale like Nico, she looked like she was radiating moonlight. She also had softer features, she still had the ageless look to her and was looking miffed. She kept grumbling about not being with her hunters, going on a quest with a kelp brain. We coughed and they looked at us, then Thalia fell on the floor laughing.
In gasping breath she said "I knew Kelp head was obsessed with fish… but I never thought he would turn into one."
Annabeth quickly tackled her in a hug, and then told her everything that Chiron told us the other day, she paled at the mention of planes. But started laughing when Annabeth told her what we were turning into.
Chiron came in and explained that Thalia's room had a bow notched with arrow on it, and Nico's had a skull. He also said that everyone should be ready in a couple of days and that we would be heading to England on Friday before capture the flag, until then I would practice storm-traveling, Thalia, Nico and Annabeth were welcome to watch and join me so I can practice taking other people with me.
That is the end of Chapter 3, hopefully I can get the rest of the people's transformations and trip to Gringots and getting the Familiars and their wands. If not just the Familiars, all suggestions all welcome.
So the standings are:
Percy-Merperson
Annabeth-Sphinx
Piper-Veela
Jason-Hippogriff
Hazel-Dark elf
Frank-Leshy (a forest spirit that can shapeshift into different animals and plants)
Leo-Imp
Nico-Vampire
Thalia-Lunar Elf
To those who are curious what Chiron told Annabeth and Percy it won't be revealed until much later so you can keep guessing. Till next time
The King of Hades
