Chapter three

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ANNABETH POV:

I woke up to Percy sweating, shaking and screaming. I knew he was having a nightmare about being tortured. During our time in Tartarus we were once captured by Gaea's army. We were both supposed to be tortured but Percy took all of my torture. Then they were going to make me watch, but Percy took forty extra whips so that I didn't have to. I stroked his sheek and talked to him and slowly he started to wake up.

"You know you should have let me take some of it" I said to him after he sat up. "I made the right choice, and I would do it again" he said. I kissed him and started to get ready. His brain really is full of seaweed. But I loved him for that. His dumbness balances out my smartness. When we were ready, we met everyone in the common room.

"What was that screaming coming from your room?" Draco asked me.

"How did you hear? The walls are sound proof," I was surprised to say the least.

"My dad gave me extra gifts so as well as super speed I have super hearing. Now about that screaming..." he said.

"Percy and I have PTSD from you know where and he was reliving one of the worst times while he was sleeping." I answered him. Piper looked at me and mouthed 'torture' and I gave a slight nod.

"Ok let's go before we are late to breakfast".

PERCY POV:

I hated the nightmares. It was horrible to relive those moments. To feel the pain all over again, and to feel weak and helpless. I did not like feeling helpless, it was the worst thing for a leader to feel. We walked to the great hall for breakfast. We sat down at our table. Hermione went to sit with her old friends.

"Oh Hades!" Annabeth said looking horrified. I looked around for a monster but nothing looked suspicious.

"We forgot to sacrifice to the gods last night!" she whisper/yelled. Oh no.

"Ok everyone sacrifice extra today and I'll ask for a brazier". I went up to Mogonigal and asked her. She, being a demigod herself, immediately understood and summoned a sacrificial flame near our table. One by one we put in our best part of our meal and said a prayer. The rest of the meal, Annabeth and I planned out a schedule for learning with the wizards and keeping up with demigod training.

The first class we had was potions. I think Hermione call the professor slugporn, or something like that. It was pretty fun. We had to pick a random potion and try to complete it in the amount of time the class was. I chose to do a potion that looked pretty easy. It was called Amormantia or something. When it was done I waved the teacher over.

"Can I have everyones attention for a moment. Mr. Jackson has made a very complex love potion. For anyone who hasn't smelled it before come and take a sniff." Annabeth and I went first.

"I smell the sea, books and strawberries" we said at the same time. Everyone awwwwed and then people took turns sniffing it I took a little container and filled it with the potion when no one was looking. We also had a class called divination and it was hilarious. Rachel nearly blew a casket when professor Trelawny said she didn't have a gift of prophecy. When Rachel challenged her, she told me I should stay away from water because I would be in danger. She also told Jason that he would die by being struck with lightning. All of us burst out laughing. After classes it was time to meet Hermione's friends.

HARRY POV:

It was after school and Hermione wanted us to meet her family. It really hurt when she called them her family. I always thought we were her family but all along she had been hanging out with them. Anyway here Ron and I were ,sitting on the front steps waiting for them to show up. I heard laughing and screaming and saw that the blonde girl was getting a piggy back ride from that Percy guy. Draco had Hermione on his back and they were racing. Even with people on they're back they were faster than all the others. I understood that Draco had super speed and even then Percy was beating him. He was in such good shape it was insane. It was obvious they were going to win. When they got to the steps the girl vaulted off his shoulders and into roll. Then got to her feet and kissed Percy. He didn't even look out of breath. He walked over to me and stuck his hand out.

"Hey I'm Percy Jackson" he said.

"Harry Potter" I told him, shaking his hand. I waited for him to realize who I was and do the whole 'so cool to meet you' thing. It never came. Just then a girl with spiked hair and punk clothes jogged up beside us. The weird thing is that she had a tiara on her head.

"Hades, Percy! How do you run like that" she asked.

"You of all people should know, Pinecone face. Running from monsters does that to you." he said. The rest of the demigods gathered around. Hermione spoke.

"Okay, guys this is Ron and Harry. Ron and Harry this is Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Thalia, Nico, Rachel, Travis, Conner and Clarisse." she introduced pointing at everyone when their name was said. Draco came up to me.

"Can I talk to you over there for a second?" he asked pointing away from the group.

"I wanted to say that I'm sorry for messing with you and Ron all the time, and most of of all, Hermione. She knew it was part of the plan, and that I had to act like a pure blood, but it still hurt to do that to her, she is like my little sister, even though she is my cousin." he said, and I could tell he meant it.

"I understand, but I won't be becoming your best friend anytime soon." I told him.

We walked over to where the others were sitting. Everyone was sitting around Percy, who had Annabeth on his lap.

"-so then I picked up this hippy, bag lady and sprinted across the highway. I meet these two weirdos, and we start running through a tunnel and the bigger one starts to shoot arrows at the snake haired ladies. Then the girl collapsed the tunnel behind us. We enter a valley and cross a river. Then, BOOM! The bag lady turns into a goddess and starts talking about a feast for tuna. The two guards turned out to be Hazel and Frank, who I now consider to be some of my best friends. And we started one of the biggest quests any demigod has ever had." he finished his story. Frank and Hazel were smiling, and laughing. Ron looked amazed, but I have no idea why, we have done way cooler and important. I was the boy who lived and this guy walked around acting like he owned the place. I bet he never did any of the stuff he said he did.

"Ron how come you look so amazed? We have done more then this guy will ever do. And when we were fighting our war, where were they then? Probably relaxing and having fun." I said with complete confidence. The light attitude had completely disappeared, and all the demigods growled. Clearly they did not like people disrespecting their leader. They all had their weapons out in two seconds. Percy raised a hand and they all backed off. Thunder boomed through the air. Suddenly I was on the ground with Percy's foot on my chest and his sword at my throat.

"You have no idea what I have been through, and you never will! My life has been hell but I make the most of it. And I don't throw fits just because I'm not the center of attention. And we weren't there to help with your war because we were fighting our own war and we had our hands full with trying to not let the world be destroyed. Oh and a little hint, demigods are all very protective of their leaders and I'm the preater of the twelth legion. In English that means run." he said. And grabbed Annabeth's hand. As they walked off he called behind him

"No killing him, only maiming! I don't think Minerva would be very happy if that were to happen!"

Hermione came up to me and slapped me.

"You have no idea what he has been through! It was at least a hundred times worse than what you went through! He is one of the nicest people I know and you just had to be a jerk! He is my family and you couldn't make an effort for me! One of your best friends!" she stormed off.

"Not cool, mate, not cool" Ron said and walked off, leaving me to deal with a pack of angry demigods.

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