So here is the next chapter,
To answer a few questions that have been piling up:
1) Veelas are usually blonde
2) I have something planned for the ghost of Hogwarts and Nico
3) There is no set update day, I have a very erratic schedule so I try and update whenever I can
Also as a reminder on houses
Gryffindor: Nico, Thalia, Leo, Annabeth, Percy.
Hufflepuff: Jason, Frank, Piper, Hazel
For now I am doing the best that I can.
Disclaimer: I do not own or have the rights to PJO, HOO, and HP. Even if I do blood sacrifices.
Now on with the chapter.
Jason POV:
After Dumbledore dismissed us the great halls' doors open, and standing there was the Hufflepuff prefect and the Gryffindor prefects, Ron and Hermione I believe. The Ravenclaw, and Slytherin prefects probably didn't come because none of us were in their houses, so they saw no need. I head to the boy with the yellow and purple tie, he seems a little short, pale, fat, and very athletic. The girl, was taller than the boy, had reddish hair, was lanky, and looked athletic, she must play quidditch that Ron and Harry always talk about. I decide to introduce my self
"Hi I am Jason, as you can probably see I am part hippogriff."
He responds "hi, I'm Dennis McGee, welcome to Hufflepuff."
The girl spoke next "Hi I'm Laura Miles, the other Hufflepuff prefect."
"Hi I am Frank, part Leshy," anticipating what he was going to say "Leshys are forest spirits that can transform into any animal or plant. Being only part Leshy I can only do animals."
"Hi I am Piper, part Veela." After she said this the boy started to eye her, so I wrapped an arm around her, he looked deflated I wonder why?
"Hi I am Hazel, part Dark elf" after she said this she gave Frank a kiss on the cheek, after noticing the boy was giving her the look also.
I feel bad for these wizards, they don't about Thalia's vow of maidenhood, and if they try flirting with her, well, what did Dumbledore call it the infirmary? The hospital area, wing whatever, will fill up faster than Percy devours his mother's blue cookies.
After a few moments of awkward silence, I say "Soo where are these dorms where we are supposed to stay?"
The boy pipes up "ohh right this way not too far actually."
He heads out the Great Hall, and we follow, we decided to fill the silence with small talk and we learn this:
Professor Sprout is the current head of Hufflepuff, it used be somebody named Quirrel, who was actually working for Voldemort.
Snape hates all Gryffindors.
Be careful of the stairs they like to move. Whatever that means.
Laura plays Quidditch.
The dorms are right by the kitchen.
We are in what I guess is the same hallway as the kitchen. The girl speaks up and says "The entrance to the common room is located "in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor", concealed behind a stack of barrels. In order to reveal the entrance, no password is required. Instead, one must tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff', which will make the lid swing open, exposing a passageway that will lead to the basement when crawled through. However, if the wrong lid is tapped or the wrong rhythm is used, the intruder will be doused in vinegar and barred access*"
I seem to understand what she is saying, but I feel I will need help getting in for the first couple of days.
The boy steps up to a pile of barrels and take out his wand and taps the middle barrel of the second to last row, in what seems like a specific pattern. The top of barrel swings open and shows that it leads down a hidden passage.
After crawling down the hidden passage, with much annoyance, it's a little snug, Frank just turned into a mouse and ran ahead. Lucky son of mars, he doesn't have to deal with the tight spaces, luckily it was relatively short path.
We find ourselves in a round and earthy and low-ceilinged room, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions. There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills. Copper lamps cast a warm light over our four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts, and copper bed warmers hang on the walls*
There are more round doors which the girl explains leads to the actual dorm rooms, I head through the door to the right of the fireplace. And find myself in another earthy room, the beds have patched quilts on them. I look out one of the circular window and see all the stars in the sky, at this time I notice how late it is.
I lay down in one of the unoccupied beds, Frank takes the other. Before I fall asleep I send a prayer to Morpheus and his father Hypnosis that Annabeth and Percy get a night without nightmares. Hopefully if one does happen it will be Annabeth, I don't think that the castle will be able withstand nightmare Percy's powers.
I go to sleep not knowing how wrong I was.
Thalia POV:
Ron and Hermione leads up several staircases, and starts telling us about Hogwarts. I zone in and out for most of it so all I learn is:
Professor McGonagall is head of Gryffindor
The staircases like to move on you.
Snape hates all Gryffindors.
And Harry is the Quidditch captain.
We reach a portrait of a fat lady, she turns to us and asks "Password?"
Hermione replies "Zeus, Hades, Poseidon."
We all visibly smile at the password, Hermione turns to us as the portrait swings open and says "The password changes, the new one is usually found either on your bed, or on the table over there." Pointing to a small table pushed up against the wall by a big window.
We step in through the port hole, and find ourselves in a cozy tower, the room is decorated in red and gold. There is a couple of overstuffed chairs and a sofa by the fire place. The fire is now just glowing embers, but it is still warm around the room. In the back of the room there is a two different stair wells.
Hermione says "The stairs on the right lead to the girls' dormitory, while the stairs on the left lead to the boys' dormitory." (A/N don't know if this is right)
Ron releasing a huge yawn says "Be careful the stairs to the girls' dorms are enchanted so if you" Looking towards Percy, Nico and Leo who was doing a whistle like he is trying not to act guilty "try to go up it turns into a slide. And according to what we heard on the train the same is said for the boys' stairs this year" And finishing he heads up the left stair case and disappears.
Now I know why Dumbledore wanted to know what plans we had if Percy or Annabeth have a nightmare.
Hermione speaks next "well we better head off bed, we have to get up early tomorrow to get our schedules and get to class on time, and allow for Ron to eat his fill."
And Hermione heads towards the girls' dorms, I look to everyone else, Nico is heading up to the boys' dorms looking worried. I know even though he doesn't Love Percy anymore, he still loves him like an older brother. Leo is following close behind, the sugar seems to finally wearing off him. I was a couple of minutes from tying him up and throwing him into the lake.
Percy is whispering something to Annabeth, I try not to listen in but I catch a few words, "love you," which I internally gag at and "as long as we're together," which I want to gag at, but can't because I know how much they mean to each other.
I hook arms with Annabeth and ask "How you holding up?"
"Ok, just don't want to be away from Percy right now, I am worried. What if one of us gets a nightmare?"
I respond trying to calm her down "Don't worry, if anything happens to Percy Nico will get us and if anything happens to you I will get Percy. And you know Chiron and every demigod that knows prays to Hypnosis and Morpheus to give you two a night off." I notice I am reassuring myself also.
We head into our room, there are two unclaimed beds, I let Annabeth take the one closer to the door while I take the one next to it. After we change into our PJs, I lay down and look over to Annabeth and see she is laying down but eyes wide open with worry. I close my eyes and send prayers to Hypnosis and Morpheus hoping more than anything that they at least get a dreamless night.
Several Hours later
I literally fall out of bed, not because I rolled out, but because the entire room is shaking. The beds are actually moving around the room. It's an earthquake and I can bet what the cause of it is, not even two seconds after I wake up Nico appears in the room and runs to the bed with a blonde ruff sticking out. He says two words "Percy" and "nightmare."
Not even a split second later all I see is a tail exit the room before the door shuts, I run out next, followed by Nico. As soon as his foot hits the first step the stairs turn into a slide, thanks to our training none of us fall, and we all slide down on our feet.
The common room is filled with students, I mean packed, as if every student but Percy was in here. I hear loud banging and look to where it is coming from. I see there is a hurricane outside, rain beating down on the window, it looks like the winds are picking up and might actually pick up a tree soon. The room starts to shake again, more violently than before, I can tell his nightmare is getting worse.
Annabeth tries to run up the stairs leading to the boys which turn into stairs, she slides down. As she gets up someone pushes her out of the way, almost throwing her to the ground to see what happened. That's when things go from bad to worse.
The window blasts inwards, glass flying everywhere, the tower starts to shake so violently that the walls start to crack. The wind whips in, and a cyclone forms around Annabeth trying to protect her. The tower continue to shake violently, I run towards the cyclone, before I reach it a stupid wizard takes out his wand and tries a spell on the cyclone. As soon as the light hits the cyclone, it flies around and hits the wizard who sent it. He seems to be stunned, as stiff as a board.
If that wasn't bad enough water instantly formed in the air, and turned into ice spears all pointing towards that student. Another student tried a different spell, he said something that sounded like "Reducto" then a blue light flew towards the cyclone blasting it away. What happened next made me feel bad for the kid, the wind picked up more and a giant cyclone flew in from the window picking the kid up and flinging him out the window.
At that moment the old witch I think her name was McGonagall, came in through the port hole, she ran to the window pulled out her wand and screamed "Arresto Momentum" (this is the spell Dumbledore used on harry in his third year after being attacked by dementors during a Quidttich match) The boy's fall slowed to where it looked like he was slowly sinking through water, when he reached the ground he ran straight towards the doors to the school.
McGonagall turned to the students and said "everyone will report to the great hall, so that we may assess the damage and see to the injured" As she continued to speak, the hurricane seemed to dissipate, and the tower stopped shaking. When the students started filing out Nico ran in and grabbed my arm and pulled me aside.
"I shadow traveled Annabeth to Percy when everyone was distracted by the kid flung out the window. She is with him now comforting him. I don't think it is a good idea to take this gamble again, we know the longer we keep them apart the more out of control his powers get. And this is almost as bad as the night before the gods finally decided to let them stay in the Poseidon cabin."
No one will forget that night for a while, there was at least four cyclones no matter where you looked, tidal after tidal wave was coming in from the sound. The earth wasn't only shaking it was cracking and water was shooting out the cracks like no tomorrow.
Nico shadow travels us into the boys' dorm to check on Annabeth and Percy, Leo is standing by the door to make sure no one heads back up. When we get there we see Annabeth slowly caressing Percy's back as he holds on to her as if he let go they would fall again. Annabeth kept whispering things like "We're out," "we're together," "everyone's safe." Percy sounds like he is crying, after a couple of moments his sobbing slows and he pulls back from Annabeth before wrapping her back in an even tighter hug.
Nico coughs to get their attention, which it does, and he says "I know this is a really bad moment for both of you, but we need to get down to the great hall before anyone notices we aren't there." He reaches out his hand which Percy takes, Annabeth puts a hand on his shoulder, still holding hands with Percy and I put mine on his head Leo grabs the back of his shirt. Then he shadow travels us just outside the great hall and we slip in with some other Gryffindors before anyone notices we weren't there.
As we sit at the Gryffindor table, Annabeth looks towards Percy with sad eyes, pulling him into a hug and continued to whisper in his ear. Probably to calm him down, I look towards the other tables, houses whatever to see how they fared. The Hufflepuffs look like they were buried and dug their way out, the Slytherins looked like they all jumped in the lake before coming in the hall. While the Ravenclaws and Gryffindors looked mostly unharmed.
(At the same time)
Jason POV
I woke up when I heard a loud bang, and saw a part of the ceiling on the floor. Instantly I run out to the common room to see if Piper and Hazel are ok. I get to the common room, and the entire room shakes, as more pieces of the ceiling fall to the ground.
Seconds later Hazel and Piper come from the door that leads to the girls' dorms, followed by more girls. The entire room shakes more violently then before and huge clumps of dirt fall on several students, Frank runs in next to me and as we all make eye contact we are all thinking the same thing "Percy."
The room starts to shake so violently that the walls floor and ceiling start to crack and crumble, Hazel shows strain on her face, understand that she is trying to use her powers to keep the earthquake Percy is causing from killing us all I yell "EVERYONE OUT NOW!"
No one seems to argue as everyone rushes to the exit of the common room to the corridor, as soon as everyone is out Piper and I run out followed by Frank carrying out Hazel, whose nose started to bleed from the strain from keeping everything collapsing. As soon as we leave she lets out a huge sigh, letting go not trying to hold the room up anymore. I look back and the entire room collapses, if anyone was inside there is no way on Olympus they would've survived. I finally understand what Annabeth says Percy is the possibly the strongest Demigod ever, he didn't just inherit water powers from his dad. He inherited power over everything his dad rules over, water, horses, earthquakes, storms, ice, boats, he can even control lighting and winds to a certain extent. Annabeth said he can also control poisons, which he did in Tartarus, this just proves the point to never, NEVER cross Percy, or threaten to hurt Annabeth EVER.
I am pulled out of my thoughts when I hear a short woman who says "Everyone to the Great Hall now!" Everyone was covered head to toe in dirt. Hazel turned towards to me and said "I couldn't hold it back anymore, the more I held it back the harder it pushed. It felt like I was holding up the entire castle."
Frank hands her a small square of ambrosia, which she eats gratefully and color returns to her face, as her nose stops bleeding. We head straight to the Great Hall, we are the first ones there next is the green house, Slytherins I think, and they looked soaked. Next came in the blue colored house, Ravenclaw, at the same time as the red one. I search through the kids who seemed to be from the red house to look for Annabeth and Percy, I see them slipped unnoticed into the crowd of people. How they can be so sneaking while looking like a sore thumb I have no idea. They sit at the Gryffindor table, Percy hugs Annabeth tightly as she strokes his hair.
Nico, Thalia, and Leo sends death glares to anyone that stares, scaring them to look away, I don't know which one is scarier, Thalia's or Nico's. Leo is wait out of his league if he is trying to compete with them.
Dumbledore steps up to the podium and says "SILENCE" his voice booms across the hall, probably enhanced by magic.
That is it for this chapter, longer than normal wow.
*Taken from Pottermore
For the next chapter I am probably do a Slytherin's and Ravenclaw's. Should I do an actual character or OC. Please let me know.
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Until next time
The King of Hades
