𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃-𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒; 𝐇𝐏 𝐱 𝐏𝐉𝐎

𝟎𝟎𝟕; ᴅɪᴀɢᴏɴ ᴀʟʟᴇʏ

HE GRINNED AT HYACINTH'S AMAZEMENT.

They stepped through the archway. Hyacinth looked quickly over her shoulder and saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall. The sun shone brightly on a stack of cauldrons outside the nearest shop. Cauldrons - All Sizes - Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver, Self-Stirring, Collapsible, said a sign hanging over them. "Yeah, you'll be needin' one," said Hagrid, "but we gotta get yer money first."

Hyacinth wished she had about eight more eyes. She turned her head in every
direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once: the shops, the things outside them, the people doing their shopping. A plump woman outside an Apothecary was shaking her head as they passed, saying, "Dragon liver, seventeen Sickles an ounce, they're mad...."

"I always felt some kind of sympathy for short people." Teases Connor and Travis.

Astor raises a brow somewhat offend, considering he was shorter than the twin.

A low, soft hooting came from a dark shop with a sign saying Eeylops Owl
Emporium - Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy. Several boys of
about Hyacinth's age had their noses pressed against a window with
broomsticks in it.

"Look," Hyacinth heard one of them say, "the new Nimbus Two Thousand- fastest ever-" There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Hyacinth had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes,
tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon....

"Can we go there at least once in out pitiful, dangerous, boring, chaotic life?" Percy sighs
looking at his girlfriend with his beautiful sea green fish eyes.

"You can tell your bestfriend to take you." Says Annabeth, refering to Astro who was eating gummies given by Thanatos.

He turns to his bestfriend. "Bestie?" Astro raises a brow, quiet amuse. "Yes, little sea spawn?" Replies Astro with a familiar grin.

"Gotta take me there, please?"

"Of course." Percy grins. Annabeth asks herself if Percy was dating her or Astro.
Not that she mind, they were hot together and both love her and eachother. And Percy deserves all the love in the world and a big break from Olympus and those Gods.

"Gringotts," said Hagrid.

"What is Gringotts?" Piper asks Lily gently, she was smiling. Lily chuckles, "She really is a daughter of Aphrodite." She thinks before answering the young girl. "It's a bank." She nods. "Thank you." Says Piper.

"No problem."

They had reached a snowy white building that towered over the other little shops. Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was - "Yeah, that's a goblin," said Hagrid quietly as they walked up the white stone steps toward her. The goblin was about a head shorter than Hyacinth. He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Hyacinth noticed, very long fingers and feet.

She bowed as they walked inside. Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them:

"She bows to Goblins?" Says Lucius in disgust. Tsk.

"GOBLINS EXIST?!"

"God, you can be to loud Travis." Complains Clarisse. "Want me to show you how loud I can be?" Chrus narrows his eyes.

"Stay. Fifteen. Meters. Away. From. My. Girl. Dear brothers." Travis smirks at his half brother' protectiveness toward his fabulous girlfriend.

"I was just joking." He pouts.