Disclaimer: I do not own any Percy Jackson storylines, nor any Harry Potter storylines and characters. The only thing I own is this story plot. Everything else belongs to Rick Riordan and J. K. Rowling.

A/N: I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting a lot of positive reception for this story. I am pleasantly surprised. You guys are awesome! I hope I do this chapter justice.


"Finally," Ron exclaimed as he closed the book and pushed it away from him. "That was tiring."

"Well, Ronnie, for someone like you to read that much…"

"Of course it'd be exhausting."

Ron glared over at the sniggering twins. "Shut up."

Molly cleared her throat and glared at her sons. "That's enough, boys."

They immediately cowered at the look in their mother's eyes. "Yes, ma'am."

Remus coughed to get everyone's attention. "Uh, well, I'm glad Percy knows about the Greek Gods now," he said.

"Yes," Luna nodded. "Maybe now more things could be explained."

"True," Neville agreed. "I want to know more about the monsters and creatures."

"Speaking of," Ginny said as she turned to Harry and Hermione, "you guys know something about Mr. Bru...uh, I mean Chiron, don't you?"

"Maybe," Hermione said with a small smile. Harry snorted at her answer as everyone gave them deadpanned looks. (Even Snape). "But we won't say anything. I'm pretty sure that'll ruin part of the story."

"Jerks," Ron muttered.

They ignored him.

Dumbledore opened his mouth, bringing attention to him. "Who would like to read next?"

Luna held a hand out. "I can read next, Headmaster," she said shyly.

With a bit of wandless magic, Dumbledore pushed the book, which was in the middle of the table, towards the Ravenclaw student.

She picked it up and opened it to where Ron left off. She cleared her throat before she began to read. "I Become Supreme Lord Of The Bathroom."

The twins immediately began laughing. "All hail the supreme lord of the bathroom!" they chorused through their laughter.

The other teens all laughed at their antics.

And while Remus was smiling faintly at their actions, Molly and Snape were not amused. "I hate to think what this chapter shall be about," Molly groaned.

Snape silently agreed with her.

Once I got over...to walk behind him.

Ron looked confused. "Why?"

Harry, Hermione, and Luna all had an idea and tried to hide their grins.

I'd done pooper-scooper patrol...way I trusted his front.

All the teens guffawed at Percy's thoughts while Remus was chuckling and Molly was giggling.

Even Snape had a smirk on his face. Dumbledore was merely indifferent.

We passed the...said, "That's him."

"Huh," Neville pondered. "So him defeating the Minotaur has everyone looking at him in awe, respect, or shock."

"Well, I'm pretty sure the Minotaur was a pretty infamous monster," Hermione said thoughtfully. "And Percy's relatively new to being a Demigod, right? So, I guess they were surprised that someone like him was able to defeat him."

"Here's something I don't get," Harry said as he closed his eyes in thought. "I just remembered something; the Minotaur was alive, like, thousands of years ago, right?" He looked at Hermione.

She nodded. "Right."

"Wasn't he already defeated by someone?" he continued questioning.

Hermione frowned as her brow furrowed in thought. "Yes, he was," she said slowly. "I can't quite remember who, though."

"So then, how was he able to attack them if he was already defeated?" Luna asked, picking up on Harry's train of thought

Hermione looked between them. "I...I don't know."

"That's a first," Ron teased, but shut up when she threw a glare his way.

"Please continue reading Miss Lovegood," Dumbledore interjected.

'That was actually a valid question,' Snape admitted to himself grudgingly.

Most of the campers...their bare shaggy hindquarters.

I wasn't normally shy...a flip or something.

"I know how he feels," Harry admitted. "I felt the same way at the beginning of my first year."

"I admit I was expecting you to do something too," Neville said sheepishly.

Harry turned red as everyone laughed/smirked at him.

I looked back...upscale seaside resort.

I was checking...the attic gable.

Something had moved the...I was being watched.

Harry shivered involuntarily. Knowing you were being watched but not knowing where the gaze was coming from...well, he knew that feeling all too well.

"I wonder what's up there," Hermione wondered.

"What's up...asked Chiron.

"He looked where…"Just the attic."

"Somebody lives there?"

"No," he said…single living thing."

Luna stopped reading and frowned. "Percy thought he saw someone moving the curtain though, right?"

Ron shrugged. "Could've just imagined it."

I got the feeling…had moved that curtain.

Ron's cheeks reddened. "Nevermind."

Remus nodded. It was obvious that Percy had good instincts despite his young age.

"Come along Percy,"…"Lots to see."

"Seriously, who taught this guy how to be sly?" Fred complained.

"I know right?" George chimed in. "He seems so...unSlytherin."

Snape himself looked disgusted at Chiron's lack of subtlety.

We walked through...a reed pipe.

Chiron told me...almost no effort."

Molly hummed in approval. "Nice," she said thoughtfully.

He said Mr. D had...they grew strawberries instead.

"Makes sense about Mr. D," Neville nodded, "being the wine god and all, he would have those effects on the plants.

"I suppose," Ginny shrugged.

I watched the satyr...getting chewed out by Mr. D.

"Do we have any charms that get rid of bugs from plants like that?" Luna wondered.

Hermione frowned. "I'm not sure."

Harry gasped dramatically. "What happened to you?!" he questioned. "What have they done to the know-it-all I used to know?!"

Hermione shoved the messy-haired teen hard while the others laughed at their exchange.

All except Snape, Ginny, and Ron. Snape, because he just wanted to keep reading to find out more about these Demigods while Ron and Ginny were feeling a little jealous at how close Harry and Hermione seemed to be.

"I hope Grover will be okay," Molly muttered.

"Grover won't get...good protector. Really."

Remus winced. "I hope Percy ditching Grover at the bus station won't make things worse."

"Aww man," Ron sighed. "I totally forgot about that."

Fred's eyes flashed. "That reminds me," he said with a wicked smile, "you guys still owe us five sickles from our bet."

George scowled at his twin, along with the others who bet against him and the others. "We get it," he said. "No need to rub it in."

Chiron sighed...a saddle.

"Grover has big dreams...to Half-Blood Hill."

"But he did that!" Harry protested.

"But he did that!"

Harry scowled as the twins laughed. "Okay, this is starting to get old."

Hermione privately agreed with him.

Some of the others...not so much.

"Nah," Ron grinned. "This is payback for all the times you laughed at me."

The twins laughed once more as Harry glowered.

"Can we please keep reading?" Snape glowered. "We don't have all night."

"I might agree...on Grover's part."

Neville winced. "They're going to flay him alive," he said with sympathy.

Harry nodded. "Good luck, dude," he said solemnly.

"I hope he won't get into a lot of trouble," Luna declared uncertainly before she continued reading.

I wanted to protest...have gotten in trouble.

"Wow," Hermione commented. "His guilt complex is almost like Harry's."

"I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted."

"He'll get...won't he?"

Chiron winced. "I'm...for his age…"

"How old is he?"

"Oh, twenty-eight."

"What?" Ron gasped in horror. "He's twenty-eight but still in school?!"

"It's blasphemy!" the twins screeched, their faces pale.

Hermione glanced at Harry and frowned. "Are you okay, Harry?"

Said teen nodded his head, his face pale. "Just thinking of the hell he must've gone through."

Neville nodded sadly. "Poor guy."

Snape rolled his eyes at their antics.

"What! And...sixth grade?"

"See!" Ron pointed out. "Percy agrees with us!"

"Satyrs mature half...past six years."

"That's horrible."

"We agree!"

"Quite," Chiron agreed...some other career."

"I wonder what dream of Grover's Chiron was talking about," Ginny wondered thoughtfully.

"Yes, it seems like a big deal," Remus commented.

"That's not fair...really so bad?"

Chiron looked away...along, shall we?"

"Okay, now he's got me interested," Neville said as he leaned forward.

"I know, right?" Harry said.

The twins were muttering to themselves. "We seriously need to teach this guy the art of subtlety. The way he changes the subject is absolutely terrible."

'They're not wrong,' Snape thought to himself.

But I wasn't quite...avoiding the word death.

The beginnings of an...forming in my mind.

"Uh oh," Ron said. "What is he thinking about?"

Ginny snorted. "Well, if he's anything like Harry, it'll be something stupid but with noble intentions."

Harry felt his eyebrow twitch.

"Chiron," I said...that are real…"

"Yes, child?"

"Does that mean...is real too?"

Hermione groaned. "Ginny was right."

"Wait," Neville said, realization showing on his face. "Is Percy trying to bring his mother back?"

"Seems like it," Remus replied, shock thick in his voice.

Chiron's face darkened.

"I'm guessing from his reaction that he realized what Percy was aiming for," Molly commented.

"Yes, child." He paused...out of your mind."

"What do you...we know more'?"

"I'd like to know that as well," Hermione leaned forward.

"Come, Percy...the woods."

Hermione slumped back in disappointment as the twins groaned.

"This is getting ridiculous," George said darkly.

"I concur with you there," Fred agreed.

They both turned to Snape. "Say, Professor, would you mind helping us kidnap Chiron to teach him subtlety?"

The scary thing is that Snape actually seemed to consider it.

Luna cut in before the Potions Master could respond. "There's a page break here," she said before continuing to read.

As we got closer...since the Native Americans.

"Who are the Native Americans?" Ginny asked.

"Explanations later," Harry and Hermione replied in unison.

Chiron said...go armed."

"Stocked with what?" Fred asked, a gleam in his eyes.

"Armed with what?" George added, an unholy grin lifting his lips.

"Here we go," Ginny groaned.

"Stocked with...with what?"

The twins blinked. "But that's what we said!"

"Yes, yes, boys, but we're not focusing on you," their mother said.

The resulting pouting made almost everyone grin.

"You'll see. Capture...sword and shield?"

"My own-?"

"No," Chiron said...the armory later."

Remus sighed. "He's just confusing Percy even more."

"He's confusing us, too," Ron whined. "Why can't we all just get straight answers?"

"Ah," Dumbledore said, shocking most of them since he hadn't spoken in a while, "but that is what makes it even more exciting, Mister Weasley. Is it not fun to guess what's going to see if we can solve the riddle first?"

Ron didn't think so but didn't feel like disagreeing with the Headmaster, so he kept quiet.

I wanted to ask...so the tour continued.

We saw the archery...to like very much),

"Not surprising that Chiron doesn't like the stables," Nevile said wryly.

the javelin range...and spear fights.

"I think learning to fight with a sword would be cool," Harry admitted with slightly starry eyes.

"True," Hermione nodded, already imagining herself dual-wielding with both a wand and a short sword.

"Sword and...I asked.

"Cabin challenges and...the mess hall."

Chiron pointed to a...No roof. No walls.

"Well, that's a very...interesting way to build a mess hall," Molly said, perplexed.

"I think it's nice," Luna said with a smile before she continued reading.

"What do you...rains?" I asked.

Chiron looked at me...gone a little weird.

"We still have...drop the subject.

"He shouldn't have," Ginny frowned. "If he'd spoken up, then that situation would've been cleared up."

"Yeah," Ron interjected. "Percy's not the only person confused by that."

Finally, he showed...by the lake.

'Twelve?' Harry and Hermione narrowed their eyes in thought.

They were arranged in a U...collection of buildings I'd ever seen.

'Now we can see what is so special about these cabins,'Snape thought to himself as he leaned forward slightly.

Everyone else (sans Dumbledore) leaned forward as well, though they were more obvious about it.

Except for the fact...looked absolutely nothing alike.

Number nine...tiny factory.

Number four...real grass

Seven seemed...look at.

They all faced a commons area...hoops (which were more my speed).

Ron interrupted Luna before she could continue. "Wait, what is 'basket ball'?" he asked.

"Umm," Hermione floundered for a way to explain it to him, but Harry beat her to it.

"It's like Quidditch, except there is only one hoop at each end, one ball, and you play on foot without broomsticks."

"Really?" Ron asked, his face shocked. The twins, Ginny, Neville, Molly, and even Remus, were all shocked. "Weird!"

In the center...the hearth smoldered.

A girl about...with a stick.

"There are kids that young at the camp?" Molly asked sadly. "Poor dear."

The pair of cabins...columns in front.

Cabin one was...streak across them.

Cabin two was...images of peacocks.

"I think I understand the cabins, now," Harry spoke slowly.

Hermione nodded. "Yes, me too."

Neville leaned forward. "What's this about the cabins?" he asked.

"Yes, Mister Potter, Miss Granger," Dumbledore spoke up. "Please explain what you mean."

Everyone eyes them with curiosity, especially Snape, who had been wondering if there was something special about them.

Harry and Hermione exchanged looks. "Uh, okay," Harry said. "Well, you know how Percy described seeing twelve cabins?"

"Yeah…?"

"Well," Harry added, "they could represent The Olympian Gods."

"'The Olympian Gods'?" Remus repeated. "Who are they?"

"They're the major gods, the most powerful," Hermione said. "Zeus, who is the King of the Gods, is among them."

"Remember when we mentioned the sun god Apollo and the moon goddess Artemis?" Harry jumped in. At their nods, he continued. "They're members of the Olympian Gods."

"How many Olympians are there?" Luna asked.

"Twelve," Hermione answered.

"'Twelve'?" Neville repeated. "As in the twelve cabins that Percy just described?"

"Exactly."

"But what does that mean?" Molly questioned.

"Before, we mentioned that we think that Percy could be the son of one of the gods," Harry explained. "But, what if there were a whole lot of kids just like him, and not just, like, a couple dozen or something? There could be lots of kids out there who have an Olympian God or Goddess for a parent and sent to Camp Half-Blood for protection."

"Which is why there are twelve cabins," Ginny said in realization. "Each cabin represents a god or goddess, and a camper stays in the cabin that belongs to their parent."

Dumbledore smiled. "An excellent observation," he complimented.

"Do you know any more members of the Olympian Gods?" Remus interjected hurriedly.

"Umm," Harry said as he racked his brain. "Well, like we already said, Zeus is a member, as well as Apollo and Artemis. Also, I'm pretty sure that Zeus has a brother that's an Olympian."

"The goddess that we mentioned earlier, Aphrodite, is also a part of the Olympians," Hermione added.

"Anyone else?" Ron asked.

"Uhh, maybe Dionysius?" Hermione said hesitantly. "But I'm not completely sure."

"Me neither," Harry admitted.

"That's alright," Remus soothed. "We now know more than we did five minutes ago."

Luna took that as her cue to begin reading again.

"Zeus...I guessed.

"Hera?" Neville asked.

"I believe she's Zeus' wife," Hermione spoke up.

"Does that mean she's a part of the Olympians too?" Ginny asked.

"Huh, I guess so."

"Correct...said.

"Their...empty.

"Several of the...one or two."

Harry frowned. "Why wouldn't Zeus or Hera have any kids?"

"Also," Luna added. "Why would Zeus and Hera have different cabins? Shouldn't they have a shared one since they're married?"

"Oh," Hermione turned pink. Harry looked down at the table, avoiding everyone's eyes. "Well, uh, according to the myths, Zeus cheated on his wife a lot. And, uh, actually, a lot of the gods cheat on their spouses and have kids with 'mortals'."

Molly's eyes narrowed threateningly. "They cheat on their spouses? More than once?"

Harry and Hermione remained quiet.

"I think," Remus said hurriedly as Molly opened her mouth again, "that Harry raises an excellent point. Why would Zeus and Hera's cabins be empty?"

No one had an answer.

Okay. So each...like a mascot.

Twelve cabins for...some be empty?

The twins sighed. "We literally covered this, like, two minutes ago," Fred complained.

"Both the cabins and the question of why they're empty," George shook his head.

I stopped in...left, cabin three.

Snape narrowed his eyes in thought.

It wasn't high and mighty…"Oh, I wouldn't do that!"

"Why not?" Neville frowned in confusion.

Luna grimaced down at the book. "I'm not sure."

Before he could...shore at Montauk.

The interior walls glowed...had ever slept there.

"Huh," Remus commented. "I guess cabins one and two aren't the only ones that haven't been stayed in."

"But why?" Ginny questioned.

"Let us keep reading, Miss Weasley," Dumbledore interjected smoothly.

Everyone felt their eye twitch as he said those words again.

The place felt…"Come along, Percy."

Most of the...crowded with campers.

Fred snickered. "Guess Hermione was right about the gods having a bunch of kids."

"Yeah, Percy was saying that the cabins were 'crowded' with campers," George said while wagging his eyebrows.

Molly's face gained a dark look as she glared at the book in Luna's hands.

Surprisingly, Remus was also staring at the book with a dark expression.

Number five was...buckets and fists.

The roof was...to follow me.

Ginny scrunched up her nose. "That cabin sounds horrid," she said. "I wonder whose kids stay there."

Inside I could see...while rock music blared.

The loudest was a girl...T-shirt under a camouflage jacket.

She zeroed in on me...and brown instead of red.

Molly frowned. "I do not like the looks of that girl," the older woman commented. "She seems a little like a bully."

"So are all of those kids siblings?" Neville asked.

Hermione hummed. "Well, since they all have to stay in the cabin of their parent, I guess so. They're all half-siblings at least."

"And I thought our family had the most children," Molly muttered under her breath. "But this is ridiculous. How do they even have time to have all those kids?"

I kept walking...of Chiron's hooves.

"We haven't...centaurs," I observed.

"No," said Chiron sadly...barbaric folk, I'm afraid.

"Wild and barbaric?" Remus repeated in confusion. "I know they can be territorial and proud of their species, but I don't think they're barbaric."

"Perhaps centaurs from Greek Mythology are different?" Luna suggested.

"I suppose…"

You might encounter...see any here."

"You said your...Are you really…"

He smiled down...Percy, I am."

"'Trainer of Hercules'" Ginny repeated. "Is this why you two know about Chiron? Is he famous?"

Hermione leaned forward. "Chiron was described as the Legendary Trainer of Heroes," she explained excitedly. "All the Demigods that were described in length in the Myths - almost all of them were trained by Chiron."

"Wow," Neville said into the silence after. "Now I understand why you and Harry wanted to wait for us to find out on our own. That's amazing."

Harry nodded with a grin. "Think of it like this: Chiron is like a centaur version of Remus when he was teaching us."

"Oh!" all the teens except Hermione chorused, understanding in their eyes.

Remus couldn't stop the blush rising to his face.

Snape scowled.

"But, shouldn't you be dead?"

"Wow, that was asked bluntly," George said with Fred nodding in agreement.

Chiron paused, as if...assume I'm still needed."

Everyone blinked in shock, especially Snape. "He asked the gods to be immortal so he could continue to teach demigods how to survive?" Molly asked, a hand over her mouth in shock.

"That's dedication," Ron said, a deeply impressed look upon his face.

I thought about being a teacher...Ten Things to Wish For list.

"Mine neither," Harry shook his head.

"Hear hear!" the twins chimed in enthusiastically.

"Doesn't it...get boring?"

"No, no," he said...times, but never boring."

"Why depressing?"

"I imagine watching them be killed by Greek Monsters must be painful," Luna mused thoughtfully. "Or watch them grow old and die while he remains the same."

Chiron seemed...hearing again.

"Oh, look," he...waiting for us."

The twins began muttering darkly under their breath. Luna looked at them oddly before shrugging lightly and continuing reading.

The blond girl I'd met...on the left, number eleven.

When we reached her...how much I drooled.

I tried to see what she was reading...of column, like those in an architecture book.

"Annabeth," Chiron said...Percy from here?"

Molly frowned. "Wait, he's letting Annabeth show him around and explain things?" she asked. "Wouldn't it be easier for him to do it?"

"Maybe not," Remus shook his head. "Since Annabeth seems to be the same age as Percy, and Grover had said that she's been there longer than most campers, she might have an easier way of explaining things to him than Chiron."

"Oh, well, when you put it that way…"

"Yes, sir."

"Cabin eleven," Chiron told…"Make yourself at home."

"I wonder whose cabin that is," Snape murmured to himself.

"Out of all the cabins...they call it…? A caduceus.

"A caduceus…" Hermione thought aloud to herself. "Isn't there a Greek God that carries one of those around.

Harry, who was next to her, frowned in thought as well.

Inside, it was packed with people...had set up an evacuation center.

"Whoever god or goddess that cabin belongs to had so many kids that they ran out of bunk beds?" Molly questioned, her tone horrified.

"Damn," the twins muttered to themselves.

"That's a lot of kids," Neville said with wide eyes.

"How do they have time for having that many kids?" Ron wondered. "Is it a god or goddess thing."

There were shrugs.

"Oh, thanks. That clears things up."

Chiron didn't go in...stood and bowed respectfully.

"Well, then," Chiron said...see you at dinner."

He galloped...archery range.

I stood in the doorway...through it at enough schools.

"Sizing up the new guy," Fred started.

"To see what he's made of," George finished.

Harry nodded. He's been through that routine before when he had to switch classes to get away from Dudley.

"Well?" Annabeth…"Go on."

So naturally, I tripped coming in...but none of them said anything.

"Yes," Ginny laughed. "Naturally. Poor guy."

The other teens snickered along with her.

Annabeth announced...cabin eleven."

"Regular or undetermined?" somebody asked.

I didn't know...Annabeth said, "Undetermined."

Everybody groaned.

"Hm," Hermione said. "I wonder what that question means."

"And why it prompted such a negative reaction when Annabeth answered undetermined," Neville finished the thought.

Ron crossed his arms. "I want to know why Percy is put in Cabin Eleven when they don't know who his father is," he said. "Didn't we all just talk about how each camper must stay in their parent's cabin? So why did they put him there?"

There was a moment of silence as they all mulled over Ron's question.

"That was a well thought out question, Ron," Remus said. "If I were still you're professor, I'd give you points for that."

Ron flushed red to his ears at the praise.

'It actually was an excellent question,' Snape thought.

A guy who...right over there."

The guy was about nineteen...like an old knife slash.

Harry winced in sympathy. "I wonder what happened for him to get that," he questioned.

Molly frowned. "I don't think I want to know what sort of dangers these kids get into," she said. "I worry enough about the rest of you."

"This is Luke...counselor for now."

"For now?" I asked.

"You're undetermined," Luke explained patiently...is the god of travelers."

"Oh!" Luna exclaimed as she paused in her reading. "That's what being undetermined means."

Hermione nodded. "I knew the caduceus sounded familiar; it was carried around by Hermes, who was also the god of medicines."

"And since he's also the god of travelers like Luke said," Harry added. "It'd make sense that all newcomers would stay in his cabin until they're 'determined'."

Molly sighed in relief. "Well at least not all of those kids are his," she said. "A single person having that many kids is just ludicrous."

"But mum, he's not a regular person…"

"...He's a god."

Molly glared at the twins as they grinned at her.

"I wonder how the gods and goddesses claim their children," Remus wondered. "And I wonder if some kids come to camp knowing who their godly parent is."

"Please continue reading Miss Lovegood," Albus interjected calmly.

I looked at the tiny section of floor they'd given me...then I remembered that Hermes was also the god of thieves.

"He's the god of thieves too?" Ron asked in bewilderment. "How many titles does he have?"

"I can't remember," Harry shrugged.

"Maybe there's a book in here that names all the Olympian Gods," Ginny suggested.

"Wouldn't that count as cheating?" Neville asked nervously. "Aren't we supposed to figure that out as we read?"

"Oh, right," Ginny said before slumping in her seat. She then perked up. "Wait, I have an idea."

She bent over and started rummaging around her bag before pulling out a sheet of parchment and a self-inking quill.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked her.

"I'm going to write down the Olympians as we hear about them," the youngest female Weasley answered as she began to write. "That way we can keep track of who has been introduced."

Remus nodded. "Not a bad idea Ginny," he praised.

"So who do you have down?" Ron questioned.

"Well," she began even as her hand never paused from writing, "Zeus is obviously on here, being the King God and all."

"True."

"There's also Hera, his wife, Dionysius, who is his son, and we just learned about Hermes," Ginny said.

"Don't forget Apollo and Artemis," Hermione added. "Or Aphrodite either."

Ginny nodded. "I got them," she said. After a moment she finished writing. "Right, we have seven names on here, which means we still have five more to gods and/or goddesses to learn about."

Neville nodded. "Good to know."

I looked around...pick my pockets.

The twins snorted in unison. "I'm guessing the ones looking to pick his pockets are sons and daughters of Hermes…"

"While the ones looking sad and suspicious are the undetermined ones."

"So," Ron said with an exaggerated thinking face. "The kids of Hermes are like...a bunch of Freds and Georges."

There was a beat of silence.

Then Molly groaned in despair and buried her head in her hands.

"Merlin help those poor bastards," Harry, Hermione, Neville, and Ginny deadpanned at the same time.

Luna giggled as both Remus and Snape closed their eyes with longsuffering looks on their faces.

Fred and George glanced at each other. "I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted."

"Me neither."

"How long...I asked.

"Good question...you're determined."

"How long...that take?"

The campers all laughed.

Remus grimaced. "I think their laughter is the self-deprecating kind," he commented. "It makes you wonder how many times the gods and goddesses actually claim their kids."

Molly pursed her lips in displeasure while Harry, Neville, and, surprisingly, Luna all narrowed their eyes towards the book.

"Come on...volleyball court."

"I've already seen it."

"Come on."

She grabbed my...laughing behind me.

"There's a page break here," Luna announced.

When we were..better than that."

"What?"

She rolled her eyes...you were the one."

"What is she talking about?" Neville asked blankly.

"Don't ask me, mate," Ron shook his head.

"What's your problem?...some bull guy-

"Ooh," the twins cooed. "Someone's getting mad."

"Can you blame him?" Ginny asked her brothers. "He's getting thrust into a whole new world and he hasn't got any straight answers yet."

"Meh."

"Meh?!"

"Luna!" Neville hissed as he watched Ginny swell with anger. "Read!"

"Don't talk like that!"...they'd had your chance?"

"To get killed?"

"To fight the...we train for?"

Snape scowled heavily. "Even I know you train to defend yourself and to survive, not go out and fight like some foolhardy Gryffindor," he sneered.

The Gryffindor students in the room looked angry or offended but Molly and Remus were actually nodding in agreement.

"He's right," Molly said when her children gave her betrayed looks. "Being able to live your life is paramount above all else."

Snape smirked at their sullen expressions.

I shook my head...in the stories…"

"Yes."

"Then there's only one."

"Yes."

And he died...the labyrinth. So…"

"Huh?" Ron interrupted. "Who was Theseus?"

"A famous demigod that lived a long time ago," Harry answered. "But I don't remember who his godly parent was."

"Let's let Luna keep reading," Hermione spoke up. "I think Annabeth is about to explain why the Minotaur was still alive."

Everyone quieted real quick.

Monsters don't die...they don't die."

"Huh?!"

Everyone was confused.

(Well, all except Dumbledore.)

"How can they kill a monster but it doesn't die?" Luna asked, a frown on her face. "That doesn't make any sense."

"I'm with Luna on that one," Hermione frowned. "That sentence made absolutely no sense."

Remus shook his head, his expression confused. "She said 'they can be killed but they don't die.' The sentence contradicts itself in so many ways it's giving me a headache."

"Are we sure this Annabeth is mentally competent?" Snape muttered sardonically.

Molly shook her head. "All of us speaking like this is getting us nowhere," she said wearily. "Please keep reading, Luna dear."

"Oh, thanks...it up."

Despite being incredibly confused, Harry, Ron, the twins, and Neville couldn't keep themselves from chuckling. "Percy is just as confused as we are," Harry said in good humor.

"They don't have souls...if you're lucky.

But they are...Eventually, they re-form."

I thought about...with a sword-"

"The Fur...I mean...her very, very mad."

"Oh," Hermione breathed out. "That's what she meant when she said that they don't die."

Remus nodded. "Yes," he agreed. "When you 'kill' one, they dispel for a while before they re-form. And, according to Annabeth, it varies on how long it takes."

"So," Neville began, "that's why when they die, they turn into golden dust? Because they're not dead but are re-forming?"

"I guess so," Ginny nodded.

Ron groaned. "This stuff is complicated," he complained. "Their world is complicated."

Harry snorted. "I'm pretty sure demigods would say the same about the wizarding world when they're exposed to it too, Ron."

The twins grinned at Ron who flushed in embarrassment.

"How did...Mrs. Dodds?"

"You talk...your sleep."

"You almost called her...They're Hades' torturers, right?"

Molly looked horrified. "He has torturers?"

"Mum, he's the god of the undead."

She threw a glare at the twins who immediately silenced themselves.

Annabeth glanced nervously...and swallow her.

"You shouldn't call them by name...to speak of them at all."

"So," Ginny said as Luna paused, "calling a monster by their name is like activating a beacon that helps them track you?"

"I guess we now know what Mrs. Jackson meant when she said names have power," Remus said.

Neville nodded. "Mr. D said the same thing about the gods and goddesses," he added. "Although, since they're not monsters I guess that reasoning is probably about respect."

Hermione nodded. "True."

"Look, is there anything...then I didn't care.

"Poor dear, he's getting overwhelmed," Molly sympathized.

"Why do I have to stay...of empty bunks right over there."

I pointed to...Annabeth turned pale.

"I guess Annabeth is about to tell him why they can't stay in other cabins," Harry theorized.

Neville frowned. "But why did she have such a bad reaction to his question?" He asked. "Luna read that she turned pale."

Ron shrugged.

"You don't just choose...Or...your parent."

She stared...for me to get it.

"It seems we were correct in our assumptions," Remus said.

"My mom is Sally Jackson...At least, she used to."

Harry and Neville frowned a bit in sadness.

"I'm sorry about your mom...your other parent. Your dad."

"He's dead...knew him."

Annabeth sighed…"Not dead, Percy."

"How can you...You know him."

"Well, since he's a Greek god," George began.

"She might know of him," Fred finished.

"No, of course not."

"Does she realize that she's contradicting herself here?" Luna interrupted herself to ask, rare annoyance shining through.

Hermione, Remus, and Snape had their faces scrunched up in irritation.

"Then...you say-"

"Because I know you...weren't one of us."

"You don't...anything about me."

"No?" She raised an eyebrow...kicked out of a lot of them."

"How-"

"Diagnosed with...ADHD, too."

Harry shook his head in faint amusement before turning to look at his best friend. "You know, Annabeth right now is reminding me of you when you came to our compartment on the Hogwarts Express," he told the blushing brunette.

Ron laughed aloud. "Wow, she does!"

"Shut up!"

I tried to swallow...to do with anything?"

Taken together, it's almost a sure sign...your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek.

And the ADHD-...in the classroom.

That's your battle reflexes...they'd keep you alive.

As for the attention problems...them for what they are.

"Wow," Neville breathed as Luna finished that particular paragraph. "So Percy isn't the only one with...uh, what's it called again?"

"Dyslexia and Attention deficit disorder. Or ADHD," Hermione answered.

"So all Demigods have them because they're really battle reflexes and because they're brains are supposed to be reading Ancient Greek," Ginny summed up, nodding to herself. "Sounds pretty cool."

"And useful," Harry couldn't help but add. "Imagine having already ingrained battle instincts and reflexes since being born. It would've made my life a whole lot easier."

Neville nodded in agreement, along with Remus. Snape, while didn't verbally voice his opinion, agreed with Harry, even though he hated to admit it, even to himself. Even the twins were thinking about how they could've avoided the Professors after doing one of their pranks if they had ingrained instincts from the getgo.

"You sound like...the same thing?"

"Most of the kids...the ambrosia and nectar."

"Ambrosia and nectar."

"The food and drink we were giving you...you'd be dead. Face it. You're a half-blood."

"Well," Molly said after Luna finished reading the sentence. "I guess we now know what that strange drink Percy had when he first woke up."

Remus nodded. "They must be some kind of food that the gods eat. Since Annabeth mentioned that it would've killed a normal kid, I'm guessing Percy and others like him can have it because they're half-bloods. Well, their kind of half-blood."

"I guess we know why Grover was so cautious with it," Hermione added. "If that stuff would make a regular human's blood turn to fire and their bones to sand, I shudder to think what it would've done to him since he's a Satyr."

Ginny hummed. "True."

A half-blood.

I was reeling...where to start.

Harry nodded in understanding. He felt the same when he first found out he was a wizard.

Then a husky…"Well! A newbie!"

I looked over...sauntering towards us.

She had three other girls...all wearing camo jackets.

"Oh, no," the twins groaned.

"I knew she was going to start something," Molly muttered to herself.

"Clarisse," Annabeth sighed...polish your spear or something?"

"Sure, Miss Princess...through with it Friday night."

"This is like listening to a tamer argument between Harry and Malfoy," Hermione sighed. "But with less male posturing."

Harry shot her a Look.

"Don't look at me like that, you know I'm right!"

"Erre es korakas," Annabeth said…"You don't stand a chance."

"Huh," Ron said, "I guess they have swear words in Greek, too."

"We'll pulverize you...Who's this little runt?"

"Percy Jackson," Annabeth said...Daughter of Ares."

I blinked...the war god?"

"They have a war god?!" Ron, Neville, and the twins exclaimed.

"Make sure to write his name down, Ginny," Harry mentioned to the redhead.

"Already on it, Harry."

Clarisse sneered...problem with that?"

"No," I said...explains the bad smell."

The twins, Neville, and Ron all groaned while Remus and Molly covered their faces with exasperation.

Harry sighed. "Open mouth, insert foot."

"Big time," Hermione muttered.

Clarisse growled...for newbies, Prissy."

"Percy."

"Whatever...I'll show you."

"Clarisse-...tried to say.

"Stay out...wise girl."

Annabeth looked pained...earn my own rep.

Remus nodded reluctantly. "He's right," he said. "If you don't prove yourself, no one will think you're worth anything."

Snape scowled heavily. He knew exactly what the werewolf was talking about. After all, a lot of Gryffindor students 'proved' themselves to The Marauders by pranking Severus himself when he was still a student.

I handed Annabeth my Minotaur horn...I knew immediately was the bathroom.

Snape, Remus, Harry, and Hermione narrowed their eyes as they remembered the title of the chapter.

Luna frowned. "Why would they take him to the bathroom?"

Hermione sighed. "In the muggle world, it is common for bullies to push someone's head down a toilet."

Ginny, Luna, and Molly wrinkled their noses in disgust whilst Snape, Harry, and Neville glared at the book in Luna's hands.

"That's disgusting," the twins said in unison, their faces scrunched up revulsion.

No one disagreed.

I was kicking and punching...Clarisse had hands like iron.

She dragged me...down the other.

It smelled just like any other public bathroom...they should've been able to afford classier johns.

There were a few snickers at that. "Is that really all he could think of in the moment?" Neville asked as he chuckled.

Clarisse's friends

"I think they're her sisters," Luna interrupted herself to say before resuming.

were all laughing, and I...but it just wasn't there.

"Like he's 'Big Three' material...he was so stupid looking."

Remus, Snape, Hermione, Harry, and Luna all narrowed their eyes in thought at the 'Big Three Material' comment.

Something was niggling at the back of Harry's brain, but whenever he tried to grasp it, it slipped away swiftly.

Annabeth stood in...through her fingers.

Clarisse bent me over...toward the toilet bowl.

It reeked liked...goes into toilets.

I strained to keep...into that. I won't.

Ron nodded. "Good, keep fighting."

Then something happened...pit of my stomach.

I heard the plumbing...my hair loosened.

Water shot out...Clarisse screaming behind me.

I turned just as...down onto her butt.

The water stayed...into a shower stall.

Luna paused and glanced around. Everyone - besides Dumbledore that is - was staring at the book in her hands with expressions of shock, bewilderment, or, in the twins' cases, awe and glee.

She struggled, gasping...water blasted them back.

The showers acted up...garbage being washed away.

As soon as they were out the door...shut off as quickly as it had started.

"Wait," Ron said before Luna could read any more, "did Percy do all that?"

"I guess it's likely," Hermione frowned. "The book did say that he felt a tug in his gut before the water sprayed them and that it lessened before it shut off."

"Which god or goddess can control water?" Molly asked her.

Hermione's frown deepened. "I'm not…" her voice trailed off. "I can't remember."

"Well, what about you Harry?" Neville turned to face him. "Harry?"

The green-eyed teen was staring at the book in Luna's hands with wide eyes and his jaw unhinged.

"Harry?" Ginny repeated. "Do you know which god or goddess that can control water?"

"Yes," he answered, his tone distant.

"And?" Ron said impatiently. "C'mon mate, don't keep us in suspense!"

Harry shook his head. "I don't think I should," he said. "It'll ruin the book. Plus, I think you're supposed to either figure it out yourself or wait until the book reveals it to you."

"Bollocks!" Fred and George exclaimed in disappointment.

"Boys!" Molly stated sharply.

"Not even a little hint?" Neville begged.

Harry laughed. "Sorry, Nev."

"Damn!"

Seeing Molly cast a glare towards him, Luna began reading again.

The entire bathroom was flooded...hadn't been pushed out the door.

She was standing...staring at me in shock.

"I don't blame her," Fred said.

George nodded. "Yeah, I'd be shocked enough not to care about being splashed with toilet water after seeing that."

I looked down and realized...water on my clothes. Nothing.

I stood...legs shakey.

Annabeth...did you…"

"I don't know."

We walked to the door...had gathered around to gawk.

Clarisse's hair was flattened...she smelled like sewage.

She gave me...are totally dead."

I probably should have let it go...toilet water again, Clarisse? Close your mouth."

"Ooh," all the teens cooed.

Remus sighed. "He should have just kept his mouth shut."

"Nah," Ron grinned. "That was awesome!"

Her friends

"Sisters," Luna corrected almost absentmindedly before continuing.

had to hold her back...to avoid her flailing feet.

Annabeth stared at me...angry at me for dousing her.

"What...are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking," she said...for capture the flag."

"That's the end," Luna stated as she closed the book and pushed it away from her.

"Well I guess we now know," Geroge announced.

"Know what?" Molly asked suspiciously.

Fred grinned. "How Percy became 'Supreme Lord of the Bathroom'."

All the teens burst out laughing while both Molly and Remus sighed and Snape rolled his eyes in irritation.

Dumbledore merely smiled as he waited for everyone to calm down.


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