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This is part one of a four-part series. Each part is a seperate work. I'll add a chapter at the end of this one when I finish writing the first part of Part 2.
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Frank's P.O.V.
"I'm really starting to hate this whole idea. Why do we have to protect a whole school with just boys as well? Why can't we just protect the girls and the mixed group?" Thalia muttered, carefully adjusting herself on the back of her Pegasus without opening her eyes. I glanced over at her, not too surprised by her remark. The Huntress wasn't exactly trying to find a date-Hunters of Artemis swore off all boys and romance.
To my left, Percy just grinned. "Oh c'mon, Thalia, it's just a one-year thing. For the majority of us, anyways-I think you get to go back in December. We go there, we do whatever we need to do, we get out, we take a trip to McDonalds to celebrate our impending victory. Or to pacify Nico."
"Hey!" Nico complained. "You said that on purpose!"
"Maybe I did. Maybe i didn't."
"I think I just remembered why I wanted to strangle you."
"Actually, it's me that wants to strangle you. At least once a year or so."
"Ok, ok, enough you two! Let's just get moving, Chi-I mean, Professor Brunner-is already going to be almost at the other side." Annabeth interrupted, urging her pegasus to fly a little faster. I followed, as did the other demigods with us.
I should probably explain what was happening at this point. (Man that sounds way too much like Percy ...ah well)
Basically, the idea was that 13 of us-my friends Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Piper McLean, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Thalia Grace, Reyna Amirez-Allerano, Calypso (who was taking the last name Valiant so as not to seem so out of place), Will Solace, Lou Ellen (the only person who could actually do magic and was doubling as a Hogwarts student), Nico di Angelo, my girlfriend Hazel Levesque, and I-were supposed to pose as students from an American school of magic called the New World Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Yeah. Pretty lame. But at least it was better then the name of the place we were headed to-someplace called Hogwarts School of WItchcraft and Wizardry. Of course the first time Leo heard it, he immediately changed the name to Pigfarts. Then Percy changed it to Pigzits. Then Jason, who was supposed to be the mature one in the group, finished by changing it to Pigpimples. The girlfriends of all three boys had all facepalmed in sync while the guys rolled around laughing...which I admit I did too.
But that's besides the point. Anyways, the reason we could come as a visiting school was because of some thing called the "Triwizard Tournament". Chiron, the centaur teacher of the Greek camp, had said his old friend, Albus Dumbledore, was headmaster of Hogwarts and after some Mist manipulating, had managed to convince the other two headmasters of the other two schools that were participating that we should be allowed to enter as a fourth school. In addition, even though there was an age limit, we were "allowed to enter regardless of age due to our vast knowledge of combat skills and the fact that we might not live to see another tournament".
At least half of that was probably true. Particularly the "not living" part. How we hadn't already died (well, Leo and Jason and maybe Percy already had...).
I mean, we're demigods. Or in Calypso's case, a former Titaness. An average day for us is fighting off some monsters, maybe getting killed by a giant or a rogue Earth goddess (or both-yeah that ended really well but that's another story), and definitely getting impaled in some random area. Crushed skulls? Normal. Falling off a lava wall? Normal. Getting turned into plant and animals? Normal.
So in short, 13 random teenagers that apparently, according to the gods, had too much time on their hands and that had just gotten out of two major wars, was summoned to a school across the ocean to protect three schools of magical teenagers from getting attacked by not just their own enemies but from our enemies as well. Lovely.
Well, at least that's what we were supposed to do.
But prophecies can go more then one way, as everyone knows. And before we'd left, we'd received a pretty unnerving one.
Before we'd left from Camp Half-Blood, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, hostess of the Oracle of Delphi, had spewed out a prophecy for us. And frankly (no pun intended!), I was less then thrilled about it.
But anyways, here we were, riding (or barely hanging onto) pegasi, towards a giant castle, which of course was being oogled by one Annabeth Chase. Crossing what was either a really big moat or a giant lake, we could see Chiron steping out onto the grassy banks from the boat he'd taken. Apparently we were supposed to make a perfectly coordinated grand entrance, as we were the "special" fourth school with the magical wizards and witches who were voted Most Likely to Die Before Age 18.
And of course, because the Fates hate us, we ended up totally blotching the "grand entrance". The moment we landed, we were supposed to dismount, as one, and yell out something in Greek and Latin that was supposed to be our "school logo" while raising our newly-obtained wands into the air and shooting sparks in a certain color.
Instead we ended up landing at totally different times, Nico and his pegasi got as far away from each other as possible, which ended with the Son of Hades falling into the lake, Calypso tripped over a rock while dismounting too quickly, and Thalia found herself draped across Chiron's back due to her pegasi ditching her. Needless to say, all three schools watching us were not impressed, as was Chiron.
Probably the only people who aced the landing were Percy, Reyna, Jason, Hazel, and Piper (Percy was the son of the god of horses, plus he , Jason, nd Reyna were riding their own mounts, Jason was the son of the Sky God and was used to riding airborne horses, Hazel had experience in riding her feisty horse Arion, and PIper just charmspoke her mount).
The only part of the whole thing we managed to get right was the raising-wands-and-chanting-in-Greek thing. Which kind of fell flat. Especially when Nico's shot out a gust of water and hit Leo in the face.
Chiron shook his head at us and sighed. "Apologies, everyone. I see that coming by pegasi might have been a bit much for some of my students, as some don't necessarily...hmm, how to put this...find flying comes naturally." Nico, Calypso, and Thalia quickly blushed and got back into position.
leo whispered to Calypso, "You alright, babe?"
"Pegasi are not metal dragons." Calypso muttered back, smoothign out her uniform.
Jason, Reyna, Thalia, and Annabeth then formed a semicircle around Chiron while the rest of us got into a somewhat straight line. Percy came back with the runaway Pegasi and took a spot next to Jason.
A man with a long silver beard and half-moon glasses stepped forward. He was wearing freakishly long robes that draped to the ground, making the tunics, cloaks, and leggings we'd been given look basic next to his own. His eyes never stopped twinkling. He approached Chiron and greeted him warmly. Chiron did likewise. They chatted for a few minutes before they realized pretty much everyone was staring at them. That and those of us with ADHD were staring to get antsy. Percy was fiddling with his ballpoint pen, Leo was bouncing up and down on his feet without leaving the ground, Thalia was darting her eyes around everywhere ...etc. etc.
Dumbledore finally smiled-no, beamed-at us. "Ah yes. Come along all of your. Professor Brunner, I take it that you told your students where they will be staying?"
"As of yet, unfortunately no. My brethren were supposed to inform me if they were able to accommodate-" He was cut off by a single arrow flying right past him and into the ground by his hoof. "AH yes, they are. Students of New World Academy," he address us, "You will be staying in the Forbidden Forest. A path has been cleared for you. Thalia, you know where the location is. Please lead your classmates to that location." Thalia nodded, and beckoned us to lead our pegasi and follow, amidst gasps from the crowd. I guessed the forbidden forest was forbidden for a good reason.
Dumbledore addressed the rest of the schools. "New World Academy does not lie in a castle, as many of you are used to. Instead, they train in their natural environment. I advise you all to not go near their campsite unless you wished to be impaled by arrows, attacked by pegasi hooves, or jinxed, hexed, or cursed in various ways." There were still murmurs, but I shut them out and followed the rest of my friends.
Thalia led us to a large clearing in the woods, which didn't seem very "foresty". There were separate tents for each of us, and it was pretty easy to figure out whose was whose. Percy got the tent next to the river, Nico got the tent that was colored all black, I got the one with random animals painted all over it (the irony…), and so on.
Chiron caught up to us later and gave us some tips, such as how Hogwarts was divided into four Houses and that the Beauxbatons students would sit at the Ravenclaw table and the Durmstrung students would sit at the Slytherin table, and that because we technically had two groups, Greeks and Romans (differentiated by the fact we Romans had purple tunic and the Greeks had orange), we would divide between the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables. The Romans would sit with the Gryffindors and the Greeks with the Hufflepuffs but we could switch around if we really wanted to. Which basically just meant we could sit wherever we wanted. As for burning food to the Gods...well, we'd have to depend on Leo remembering to bring a small container with him or we'd just have to go hungry.
Or we could also just have Leo burst into flame or something. Although it might freak everyone out...
Hopefully that wouldn't happen. Because that would really suck.
Chiron gave us an hour to relax and prepare ourselves before he wanted us to meet at the entrance to the school. I entered my tent and immediately crashed on the small cot inside.
The Prophecy
Two different world, hidden from view
Mixed group from both, tried and true
Five follow the Path of Death, though only four survive
Enemies of the prophecy child once again rise