Here is the nest chapter that I promised.
As always I do not own HP, PJO, or HOO.
So let's just get on with the story.
Percy POV
I really don't care what is happening, all that I care about at this moment is Annabeth. She is my world, my everything, I hold on to her even tight than when we were hanging off that ledge. I just don't want to let go, this was one of the worst nightmares, and I know it will only get worse. If they don't let us stay together soon there will be nothing left of the school at all.
I am shocked out of my daze when I hear Dumbledore ask me to go with Snape to help clean-up one of the dorms or something. I give him a slight nod yes, that I will, I just don't want to go back to sleep, I don't want to go back and have another nightmare.
Before I get up the pale blonde boy, who I am now understanding why Ron called him a git, shouted "What, why are you allowing this… Half-breed into a common room he doesn't belong to. I am pretty sure that the Slytherins and Professor Snape can handle the clean-up themselves. They don't need help from some American."
I just look at him, how stupid and self-centered can this one idiot be, but before I say something Dumbledore replies "Mr. Malfoy, as regards to why I am sending Mr. Jackson, he is part Merman, so he has no need to do a charm to breath and underwater and help Professor Snape if there is any emergency. He will not be told the password and will just follow Professor Snape to the Slytherin common room. Also, he is fluent in Merperson and will be able to get them to get out of the common room if they showed up. And now for that outburst ten points from Slytherin." I still had no idea what points were, but all the Slytherins look deflated when he said the last bit.
I turn to Annabeth, and before I can say anything she gives me a quick kiss and says "I am going to talk to Dumbledore and see if there is truly nothing he can do. Worse come to worse, we can pray to Hecate, I am pretty sure she wouldn't want you to destroy her pet world." With that she gets up and runs up to speak to Dumbledore.
Next thing I know, someone who seems to have the same style of clothing as Nico walks up. He is also pale but his hair seems to have more grease in it than Leo did, when the Stolls and I poured an oil on his head.
The grown greasy Nico says "I am Professor Snape, you shall follow me to the Slytherin common room, while the students and I head to repair the window, while you shall swim around and see if you can wrangle any sea-creatures out of the castle. Also if a student looks like they are about to drown, pull them to safety."
I follow him down to the dungeons, where he tells me to put on a blindfold, too tired to fight I put it on. When he tells me to take it off I find myself at the top of what seemed to use to be a stairwell, but was completely underwater.
I won't bore you with what happened, simply I swam around shooing fish back into the lake, while Snape and the other Slytherins fixed the window, and dried everything. Afterwards Snape blindfolds me again and when he tells me to take it off I am back in the great hall. The only ones that were still in the hall were the Slytherins, and the rest of my friends.
Snape says "You can all go back to the dorm now, classes will resume as normal tomorrow, and you will receive your schedules from me." And with that he turned coat and left, followed by the kids in green and silver.
That left me Leo, Thalia, Nico, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Hazel and Frank alone in the great hall. Jason stepped forward and asked "How you feeling?"
"Fine"
Annabeth cut in "I tried to convince Dumbledore to get us a room together but he says unless the wizamgot approve, or if he can prove it is a danger to the other students that we don't he can't really do anything."
I look at her, I am literally am about to just give up on this quest and go back to camp, screw the gods, screw the wizards, screw everything, I just want a peaceful life with Annabeth. As I say that thought thunder can be heard in the distance, without even thinking I turn towards the sky and say "I DON'T CARE ZEUS, YOU PROMISED US!" Thunder boomed even louder this time, I was about yell even more when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I turned and say that Annabeth had a pleading look in her eyes for me to calm down, my anger just dissolved away. I remember something Poseidon said "The Sea doesn't like to be restrained." But Annabeth was the only thing that could restrain me, or even calm me down when I started to get mad.
Annabeth said "There has to be something we can to about this, tomorrow we will sacrifice to our parents and ask them to help. Until then let's just try and deal with this." She turned to Nico "When everyone is asleep shadow travel to get me and bring me to your dorm, and I'll sneak out before everyone wakes up."
Nico just nodded his head in confirmation, with that Jason, Piper, Hazel, and Frank headed back to their dorms. While Nico, Thalia, Leo, Annabeth and I headed back to the Gryffindor tower. This is going to be a LONG quest, favor whatever this is.
THE NEXT MORNING
Percy POV
I awoke to blonde hair in my face, I look out the window and see that the sun is about to rise. I pull Annabeth closer to me and place chaste kiss on her neck to wake her up. When she wakes up, she turns to me and kisses me on the lips. She giggles and I give her a questioning look, with that she tries harder to stifle her laughter but is able to choke out "Before we first kissed I wondered if you would taste like fish, I wasn't wrong for that long."
And with that she untangled herself from me, and ran out of the room back to her dorm before anyone woke up. This is a good idea, but we don't know how long it will last. I may not be the smartest Demigod but I am smart enough to know this won't work the entire time. Eventual one of us will mess up or somehow someone will find out.
Not moments after Annabeth is out of the room, the skinny non-mer me, Harry, wakes up. This just reinforces the idea that this plan won't work forever. He turns to me with sleep still caked in his eyes and says "Ready to receive our schedules?"
With a small chuckle I say "Not really, I was never that good in school, and I don't feel like it will be any different here."
"I understand that a little bit, but Hogwarts isn't like other schools, you never know what will happen next, for example Ron could get up without me waking him."
As he says that Ron sits up and says "Morin' Harry, Percy what were you talking about."
Harry and I start laughing so hard that my gills fly open and I can't breathe for a little, Harry only seems to laugh harder. Our ruckus wakes up everyone else up, and they are almost as confused as Ron is when they this situation.
Once Harry and I calm down we head down, to the common room to meet the girls and head to breakfast. We only had to wait a few minutes, for Ron to actually come down, then we headed down to the great hall.
As we entered we saw a bunch of students sitting down eating breakfast, all them looked like they could use another couple of hours of sleep. Sorry.
Annabeth sits to my right and leans her head on my shoulder Nico to my left. To the right of Annabeth sat Thalia glaring at us for the PDA, but whatever. Across from me was Harry to his right Ron, and to his left Hermione, and the right of Ron is Leo. When we sit food appears on our plates, I look to the head table and notice Dumbledore isn't there. So I just reach up and pull down a couple of candles and hold the flamey bits together to create a bigger fire.
Annabeth looked at me with mock surprise on her face and says "Wow Sea-weed brain actually had a good idea, and put multiple wicks together to make a bigger fire." I look at her and just roll my eyes, at first I throw some of the fruit into the fire and just say Poseidon. Next I take what looks like the best part of my breakfast and throw that into the fire and pray to Athena "Please Athena, help Dumbledore get it approved so that Annabeth and I can stay together. You are the only one smart enough to make sure it happens, don't do it for me do it for Annabeth." Nothing happens to say that she received my pray or even acknowledges that I said anything.
We continue to eat until the stern looking witch who put the sorting hat on our heads walks over. She has several rolled up scrolls following her, she stops right near us and waves her wand and the scrolls all fly towards certain people. One with a wax seal of a trident lands in front of me. One with an owl seal lands in front of Annabeth, Bow and Arrow in front of Thalia, and Fire in front of Leo. I open it and am somewhat relieved when it was written in ancient Greek. I just tell you what it says in English:
PERSEUS JACKSON
YEAR: 5th
MONDAY
1st Period: Charms with Slytherins
2nd Period: Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins
3rd Period: Break
4th Period: History of Magic with Slytherins
5th Period: Lunch
6th Period: Potions with Slytherins
7th Period: Potions with Slytherins
8th Period: Break
9th Period: Herbology with Slytherins
TUESDAY
1st Period: Transfiguration with Slytherins
2nd Period: Transfiguration with Slytherins
3rd Period: Break
4th Period: Ancient Runes with Hufflepuff
5th Period: Lunch
6th Period: Divination with Hufflepuff
7th Period: Break
8th Period: Astronomy with Ravenclaw
9th Period: Astronomy with Ravenclaw
WEDNESDAY
1st Period: Charms with Slytherins
2nd Period: Charms with Slytherins
3rd Period: Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins
4th Period: History of Magic with Slytherins
5th Period: Lunch
6th Period: Herbology with Slytherins
7th Period: Break
8th Period: DADA with Slytherins
9th Period: DADA with Slytherins
THURSDAY
1st Period: Transfiguration with Slytherins
2nd Period: Break
3rd Period: Ancient Runes with Hufflepuff
4th Period: Ancient Runes with Hufflepuff
5th Period: Lunch
6th Period: Divination with Hufflepuff
7th Period: Divination with Hufflepuff
8th Period: Break
9th Period: Astronomy with Ravenclaw
FRIDAY
1st Period: Charms with Slytherins
2nd Period: Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins
3rd Period: Care of Magical Creatures with Slytherins
4th Period: History of Magic with Slytherins
5th Period: Lunch
6th Period: Herbology with Slytherins
7th Period: Herbology with Slytherins
8th Period: Potions with Slytherins
9th Period: Potions with Slytherins
I had no idea what any of that meant, but after looking at each other's schedules we saw that we all had the same schedule except Hermione was taking something called Arithomancy instead of Divination, whatever the hades that was, so we got up to head to our first class.
I know this is rather short chapter but since I don't know which day to start with I created a poll and you will be able to vote which day I will start with. I know it won't make sense since it is supposed to be Monday I think. But I am willing to allow you to choose.
So Next chapter I will do whatever day you guys choose, so vote.
As always reviews are appreciated, and any ideas are welcome.
Until next time
The King Of Hades