The Otherwordly Cousins

Percy

I jumped up, grabbed Riptide, my pen-that-turns-into-a-sword and ran out the door, purposely pounding my steps and slamming the door so that Mom would know I left. I also grabbed the ambrosia that we always kept by the door. I ran towards a park that was nearby and saw old Beef-Head. Yay! The minotaur! I wish that thing would leave me alone.

I thought quickly, feinted left, going right, jumping on him, ripping off his horn and stabbing him with it. He turned into a burst of golden dust. Oops. Guess I forgot about that. I fell with a thud. I walked back home, twirling Riptide, in pen form, of course.

I went to bed, curling up under the blue blanket, for once hoping for a dreamless night. I MMed (mind-messaged) Harry in my sleep about where to meet. We would have to work on the 'twin' bond because the only time we can communicate in our sleep. Then I kept having weird visions about something which looked like a house-elf, telling me not to go to Hogwarts, which I completely ignored. Hey, I was going no matter what! I was SO excited!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Next Morning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mom woke me up at 8:30. Normally I wake up at six o'clock because of nightmares. I am SO happy because Mom told me that whenever she was at Hogwarts, she never got nightmares and the stuff there wasn't affected by people with dyslexia! We used Floo Powder to get to Hogwarts because I was using most of Mom's old supplies. Mom had the rest of the supplies delivered by owl. I'm so glad Athena made sure the owls didn't attack me! Oh great, now I miss Annabeth. Oh, yeah! I need to pack some drachmas! "Mom!" I yelled from the fire place. "You're taking forever! Can you get me some drachmas?"

"Sure!" She yelled back.

"Thanks!"

After a lot of yelling and blue cookies, we were finally at Platform 9 and 3/4. "HARRY!" I yelled. He jumped visibly and turned away from a ginger, who I assumed was Ron Weasley. 

"PERCY!"

We barreled towards each other, not caring what everyone else thought. Okay, normally I'm not much of a hugger,  but this is literally the first time we're seeing each other physically! My mom, seeing this and knowing I would have a guide, left. He looked super happy, but unlike me, his eyes looked slightly worried. "Is everything okay?"

"Normally, I would be able to walk through the wall," he said and jerked his thumb towards it. I tried going through it with no avail. I kept trying, while Harry looked lost in thought. "Hey, have you met a house-elf named Dobby?"

I froze. "Uhh... Sort of..." I said carefully. His expression told me he understood what I meant.

Ron seemed to watch this exchange carefully. "Umm...Hi?"

I did my best to give him a lop-sided smile. "HI! I'm Percy Jackson!" Harry grinned for a second and elbowed me. I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Fine. But only for you, Harry. Only for you. Perseus Jackson, but call me that and I will," I paused for dramatic effect. "hurt you." I finished. Ron's eyes widened, but I had already turned away to look at the wall. "So, Harry told me about your flying car. Do you think we can use that?" I held back a shudder at the word 'flying'.

Ron cocked his head to the side questioningly. "He did?"

"Yeah. We're special like that. Anyways, so you have it?"

"Yeah."

Harry cut in. "Then what're we waiting for?" 

Ron looked slightly worried. "I don't know how to drive."

"I'll f-f-fly."

Harry looked at me, concerned. He knew about the whole Zeus-is-a-drama-queen-thing. "Are you sure?"

"Y-Yeah?" I honestly was really scared. I sent a silent prayer to Zeus, hoping he would at least calm the winds a little bit. Wait a minute! My ADHD hasn't acted up at all so far! YAAASS! Maybe I can actually be calm! Maybe- Oh wait, never mind.

"Hey, can I see your scar?" That was Ron. I refrained from rolling my eyes and lifted up my bangs for a moment. "Cool!"

"Well, that w-was random." I managed to calm down my stuttering.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A few hours of praying to Zeus later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, Zeus was obviously not feeling generous today. A greasy-haired idiotic-looking guy deducted a bunch of points from out house for being late and I hated him already. From Mom and Harry, I knew this was Snape. But Mom had said he was really nice, which confused me. For a minute, my scar burned and I flinched.

Harry, Ron, and I started to finally head towards the Gryffindor table, but a lady stopped us. I turned around and saw that it was Minnie! "Mr. Weasley, you go ahead. Mr. Potter and Mr. Jackson, come with me." What do you think we should do?  That's so cool! I'm able to MM Harry at Hogwarts! Maybe it's because of all the magic here! He twitched, but didn't do anything else. Just go with her, I guess. She's not like Quirrell.

If you say so. We followed her without making a sound. she led us to her office. Once all three of us were seated, she said, "Mr. Jackson, as I believe you know, we are...related on your father's side." 

I rolled my eyes and whined, "Minnie! Harry is my cousin- and my twin! Do you seriously think I wouldn't tell him!" I knew that everybody knew that we were cousins, but few know about us being twins and the teachers in Hogwarts are some of those people. Harry's eyes widened when I called his professor Minnie. "So, Harry, you are looking at Minnie McGonagall, grand-daughter of Hecate and daughter of Apollo. She- wait! Oh my gods! That-that means that you're my mom's half-sister! Or quarter-sister...never mind." Minnie looked at me weird when I said quarter-sister because I forgot that Apollo on her side was Greek and on my side he was Roman. Riiiight.... Probably should keep that in mind. "Anywaayyyys...." I started, to cover up the awkward moment. "Uh, Minnie, I know I missed a year because of-you know- you won't really need to worry about me learning that stuff. I'm actually an animagus, so..." I trailed off and turned into a jet-black Pegasus with a sea-green trident on my forehead. "I can also do everything till fourth year, and some stuff from fifth year," I continued once I had changed back. "Oh-wandless and wordless, by the way. Probably comes with the whole demigod deal, since I'm a son of Poseidon." Her mouth hung open.

Finally, she said, "I'm going to have to talk to Sally about letting you do these things."

I grinned sheepishly. "Actually, I kinda-sorta mighta' done it without Mom's permission and without her knowing and then mighta showed her?"

"Perseus Jackson!" I flinched. "Sorry, but Percy, that's very dangerous!"

Harry sniggered. "Harry!" I whirled around to mock glare at him.

"Anyways..." Minnie mimicked me. I looked back at her. "We will still need to sort you!"

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A/N: Hey guys! I'm gonna try and update more often. Do you like it so far?

Published: 2/6/17