"Percy, could you come with me?" Percy was at the beach with Piper and Hazel when Chiron came to get him. Percy looked up and smiled at his mentor. "Sure! See you guys later!" Percy jumped up and followed Chiron to the big house. He didn't ask what it was, he knew by the look in the centaurs eyes it was serious, but nothing to be afraid of just yet.
"Mom?" Percy was officially confused. Why would his mom be in the big house with tear tracks down her face and talking to Lady Hecate. His mother turned towards him and smiled a sad smile. "What's wrong?" His eyes flashed from his mom to Hecate to Chiron and back. "We should talk about your mother's side of the family." Percy raised an eyebrow, but sat down anyway.
"Do you believe in wizards?" Asked Hecate. Percy opened his mouth to say, no he didn't, but changed his mind. He studied the adults and thought for a minute. He seemed to startle the others by not saying something, but he had to think about this. "You mean, mortals with pointy wooden sticks and hats?" Hecate nodded and Percy sighed. "Why not. Empousai are practically vampires, so why can't wizards exist? What does this have to do with my mom?"
He already thought he knew the answer, but that couldn't be it right. If his mom was a witch, would that mean he was a wizard? "Your mom is the oldest child of the Black family. This is an ancient line of pure-bloods. They are very proud of their status and don't like to mix with other kinds of wizards." Percy was confused, what were pure-bloods? And what kind of different wizards?
"You have three kinds of wizards. Muggleborn, half-bloods and pure-bloods." Explained Hecate. "Pure-bloods are ancient families that you can track to the first blessed mortals. Half-bloods are wizard from one wizard and one normal parent or children from muggleborns. Muggleborns are wizards that I blessed by birth, not that they now that. They could be great wizards so I blessed them, but the pure-bloods look down on them, because they don't have wizards in the family." Percy raised an eyebrow.
"You sure that's my mom's family?" Sally smiled at her son. "Yes, we are sure. I was put up for adoption when I was a week old." Percy's eyes flashed dangerously and he clenched his fist. "The family I told you about, was the family I considered my family. The people who took me in died when I was one and I lived with my uncle after that. When I was seventeen I stopped school half way through the year, so I didn't get my diploma and I started to care for my uncle. I had two little brothers, Sirius and Regulus. I was close to Sirius, but didn't tell him he was my brother. Regulus hated me because I was friends with Sirius. Sirius was a rebel and Regulus was like our parents." Sally looked very sad so Hecate took over and explained everything to the stunned boy.
"So this Voldemort want to purify the magical world by killing everyone who isn't a pure-blood. Is he a pure-blood or not?" Hecate sighed. "We aren't sure, we think he is a half-blood but we don't have any official records of his parents." Percy nodded. "And you want me to go to that school Hogwarts?" A small smile played on his lips. Sally looked worried, normally Percy would have laughed at least about the name. "So I have to take two others with me don't I?" Chiron nodded.
"Well, not the Stolls. I don't think a school, how magical it is could survive the two of them with magic." Hecate nodded. "There already are two twin boys there who prank, they don't need two more." Percy seemed interested in those twins, but didn't ask further questions about it.
"Clarrisse and Chris is no good either. And Grover is as magical as a tea spoon so not him either." Percy's eyes suddenly lit up. "What about Piper and Hazel? Hazel already learns to use the Mist, that is a kind of magic right?" Hecate nodded again. "And Piper's charmspeak is magiclike to so that would fit right?" Hecate thought about it for a few seconds. "That is correct. I will give Piper my blessing so she can learn magic to. You have two days to get ready before we start training on Olympus. You will meet Sirius Black, Molly Weasley, Arthur Weasley and Remus Lupin in a few weeks. We will explain your father. The headmaster of Hogwarts already knows about demigods and Minerva McGonagall is a demi-wizard herself. And remember, this quest is a secret, no one can know about the wizards accept you three. Nico already know about them by talking to the dead wizards, but you can't tell him you are going to Hogwarts." Percy nodded.
"I understand. Can I tell Hazel and Piper?" Hecate agreed and Percy went to look for his two friends, after giving his mother a hug.
Percy found Piper and Hazel in the training arena. He hasn't picked up Riptide in a while, it remembers him to much of his time in Tartarus and about how he dropped it when he saw Tartarus body, so he has been training with a spear and is even trying archery, but only under supervision of Will and if there is no one else near.
"HAZEL! PIPER!" Percy run towards them and they lowered their weapons. "Percy? Why did it take so long? It has been four hours!" Said Piper. "Sorry lot to discuss, come on." Percy turned around and began to walk towards his cabin. "There is a new quest and I think you two are the best choice to go with me." Piper narrowed her eyes. "What about Annabeth?"
Percy clenched his fist but remained calm. "She is busy restoring Olympus. She already dropped her work to come and look for me when I was in Camp Jupiter so she needs to finish it. The quest is long to. It is at least a year." Piper and Hazel exchanged a look. "Why is it so long?" By this time they had arrived by Percy's cabin. "Get in, it's very secret." The girls followed him and sat down on some empty bunks.
Percy took a deep breath and explained everything.
"Okay. So you are a wizard." Piper was trying to wrap her mind around the idea of wizards. "Yes, I am. Well that is what Hecate and my mom told me." Answered Percy. They already had this conversation around four times, but Piper couldn't believe it.
"You do know that empousai are basically half donkey half vampire right." Piper looked at him like he was crazy, before realizing it was true. "Yeah."
"So why can't some mortals be blessed by Hecate and because of that being able to do some little magic?"
"What do you mean little magic?" Asked Hazel. She believed Percy after his second time of explaining, she already controlled the mist and it wasn't that hard for her but if you had Hecate's blessing it would be easier.
"What I understand from all of this is that they are by far less powerful than the Hecate campers like Lou Ellen." The girls nodded, those campers had directly inherited the magic controlling ability from their mother, not obtained it by a blessing. "If we would get a blessing from Hecate we would be less powerful than the campers, but more powerful than the wizards, because we are demigods and our godly blood accepts the blessing better. We would be able to control the mist and do wand less magic. The mortals with the blessing can't do either of those. They can do magic as in making things fly, but that's it. And they have to learn how to control it longer than we would have to."
Piper nodded. She began to understand how it was possible. She had thought that those mortals would be just as powerful as the Hecate cabin. "So we basically go there and follow the lessons for a year maybe longer?" Percy nodded.
"That's the plan. It's a secret mission so we can't tell anyone where we are going or who gave us the quest, we should tell them it was Chiron who gave us a quest and that we don't know how long the quest is going to take." The girls looked thoughtful.
"We have today and tomorrow to tell the others we are going on a quest." Piper nodded. "Who is going to tell who? I will tell Jason and Reyna." "I will do Frank and Nico."
"Grover and the rest of the campers here." Said Percy. "What about Annabeth?" Percy's eyes darkened for a second, before he sighed.
"I don't think it is a good idea. She would want to know more and more and she won't stop before she gets her answers." Piper knew there was more to it than that. She couldn't sense who was in love with who, but she could sense how strong a relationship is. Percy's relationship with Annabeth was very strong when they went into Tartarus and when they came out it was just as strong, maybe even stronger. But after a few days their relationship became less and less.
"Just tell her what you can. She will respect it." Hazel hoped her words were true. She had caught that there were problems with Percy and Annabeth, but wasn't sure what to do about it and what the problems were.
Percy sighed. "Fine I'll tell her, but if we get problems from it it's your fault!" His tone was playful and the girls grinned. "Sure, but I'm off. I have to Iris-Message Camp Jupiter!" Piper jumped up and walked out of the Poseidon cabin.
"I should go to." "Tell them I said hi!" "I will!" Hazel grinned at Percy and walked after Piper.
