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These characters do not belong to me nor do I make any money off this story. I am merely writing Fan Fiction. The characters belong to their respective author. I hope you enjoy Joining Forces.

Hello! I hope you're all doing well! This post will be the last one of the summer and I'm switching into once every two months per new chapter. I'm starting school again and I don't think I will be able to update as frequently as I have been doing this past while. Wishing everyone a wonderful day!

Annabeth POV:

Our classes were progressing quite well. Percy and I had a lot off our shoulders with the assistance and could do both our schoolwork and teaching with a more manageable schedule. We still participated in other events such as Quidditch, but our attention was still mainly focused on learning magic and teaching the wizards and witches at Hogwarts. Though, since the first part of the school year was full of several dangers, there was also a clump of students that chose not to return to Hogwarts after the break. Some already had finished their education and just came back to make up for it while others were worried about all the attacks and likely chose an alternative education route instead.

There wasn't much discord between the students and the demigods either. They had soon begun warming up to the wizards and witches, several even becoming good friends. Although the relation between Greek and Roman Demigods still wasn't the best due to the past disharmony, things have gone on a better pathway since the war with Gaea and at Hogwarts, most were friendly to each other to the point of becoming good friends as well.

Despite this peacefulness that happened, we still kept an eye out for other occurrences. Dumbledore seemed to be doing fine with the occasional cough that didn't seem to go away, but others who had died like Colin Creevy or Professor Snape didn't seem to be in any sort of suffering. There wasn't too much trouble at either Camps and calls to them were usually short. Nico was also doing fine, he had been receiving talks with Mr.D to help him recover and being with someone like Will also helped. However, the dreams he had been receiving had been becoming more and more infrequent and vague, although causing him to worry, but also helping his sleep.

Soon, the new year had passed, and so had other holidays, the next time something more particular occurred was in the middle of February, sometime after Valentine's Day which Percy and I spent gleefully together. It was already several hours after noon but at the same time, long before curfew would reach. Hazel and I were on a spacious part of Hogwart's grounds that was one of the places we often used for our lessons. Since battles wouldn't always take place on a flat ground like where we started teaching students, from time to time we'd switch up the location. However, at that moment, besides Hazel and I there were only a few other demigods and a couple dozen or so students.

Some wizards and witches had more difficulty than others with battling as you'd expect certain students to have over certain subjects thus we had created a tutoring session for those who need more assistance. Thrice a week at the same time, each evening, students would gather in the place that the classes had been held that week and receive pointers and guidance from the demigods that would come as well. Usually, it'd be whichever demigod was free that night to do the tutoring, but we always ensured that there were at least a few that were coming. That time, I had already finished most of my assignments and chosen to come. Percy was still working on a few so had stayed inside to get some help from Hermione on a subject he wasn't so good at.

"Annabeth, is this right?" One of the students there, Mandy Brocklehurst, a Ravenclaw 8th year who had some trouble with holding certain short weapons, but was really improving at the longer-ranged ones, had asked. Similar to most of the students, she also preferred to use our names than calling us Professor like they would for their other teachers. Walking over, I adjusted her positioning slightly before letting her try the stance again a few times then nodding my head in acknowledgement. "You're doing well, just try not to tense up too much I can tell you're slightly shaking,"

There was still a number of students who felt strange using weapons like swords or daggers. Even though a lot of time had passed, it was still something weird for some of them. A young Gryffindor boy that I had assisted the other day mentioned to me how he wasn't sure how his parents would react when he told them he was also learning sword fighting and archery at Hogwarts. "Especially Mum!" He had added, giving another thrust with a sword. "She was alright with this magic stuff since Dad's a wizard and all, but having a piece of wood around is not the same as keeping a sword with you. Speaking of which, do you think I could buy one of these somewhere?"

I patted Mandy Brocklehurst on the shoulder encouragingly to which she gave a nod of her head and repeated the stance again, doing better than she had at the start of the tutoring session. We continued on for at least another half-an-hour or so before that day's session had ended. The students waved goodbye after helping tidy up the weapons then returned back to the school. Each holding a bunch of weapons, Hazel and I began heading back to the castle as well. Others had gone before while we spent some extra time organizing ideas for a next lesson that we'd be doing together.

"I think it'll honestly be a blast!" Hazel said enthusiastically, giving a slight shake of her arms to stop the spears she had to stop sliding down more. "We've thought it well too, that'll be a fun unit to teach,"

"We've been doing a lot of sword stuff and weaponry in order to enforce their muscles before we try something like close combat, but I think archery's something that we should do as a unit on it's own. Since we've already started teaching them how to use weapons in groups of similar weapons, I feel like this one would be really good for something more long-ranged which we're sliding into."

"I only wish that Frank was here. With his skill in it, I bet that he'd be great at teaching it,"

"We have some Cabin 7 people that are good at it as well, I think we should go over the material we discussed with those skilled in archery the most." Hazel was already familiar with the cabins and which gods they honoured at Camp Half-Blood, but even if she didn't, guessing was easy enough. "Agreed," She nodded her head. "Marcus is probably the most exceptional at archery out of the people I brought, but I'm honestly not sure when he's going to be free. He's been really comfortable at Hogwarts to the point where I can't tell what's he's doing or where he's going. Though he's not the only one. I guess that's a good thing, we shouldn't be too strict with them, but everyone's warming up nicely,"