Demigods at Hogwarts

Day One

Nico POV

They lead us up a bunch of moving stairs, which I grumble about a few times. It's a lot of stairs, which I could just shadow travel up. But Annabeth's words ring loud and clear in my head. "No shadow traveling, unless it's an emergency. You will walk like a normal person."

Yeah, whatever. She's not our mother, even if Chiron sort of put her in charge-ish. I slow down more, letting the group go a little farther. I make sure no one's watching, and my eyes follow a stair case moving above me. As soon as its shadow passes over me, I melt in and reappear somewhere else.

They'd pointed to the painting on a wall above where we were. That's where I appeared. Nobody noticed. Good.

I face the painting of a fat lady. What was the password, again?

"Hogsnot," I say. Who came up with that password? It's horrible.

The painting opens and I walk in, letting it close behind me. I walk through the common room to a door that says 'exchange students'. I wonder how they had this section added when we were sorted not too long ago. I wanted to ask, but I'm pretty sure someone would say "Magic!"

So I open the door and walk into another common room. I walk across this room down the hallway. There are twelve doors, six on each side. Mine is one of the two last doors. I hold my breath before walking in. I swear if it's decorated in Griffindore colors...

I let out my breath. It's all black. I'm not emo, I just like black. With some white accents, like the room has. It has a white sheet under the black sheet and black blanket. There's one pillow that's not black, it's white. The walls are all black. The dresser is a dark wood, and so is the bedframe.

Without hesitation, I flop onto the bed and take a nap.

Percy POV

Finally, we make it to the painting. Hermione says, "Hogsnot" and the painting opens. That could come in handy with the doors at camp... But everything is open at camp. No locks are ever locked. Well, Nico doesn't count. He always locks his doors.

"Enjoy!" The fat lady sings at us. The painting closes behind us. The room is large with couches and coffee tables and chairs and a cozy fireplace. There are three doors: Boys and Girls, and then Exchange Students.

"How did they get that ready and built? We were just sorted to this house..." I ask. I should've expected the answer.

"Magic, of course," Hermione answers.

Behind our door is our own common room similar to the previous. There's a hallway with doors, six on each side. The first two are mine and Annabeth's, across from each other. Next to Annabeth's is Clarisse, across from her is Thalia. Then Jason and Piper are across from each other. Then Connor and Travis. Frank and Hazel are across from each other. Finally, Nico's room is next to Hazel's, and Leo's is across the hall, next to Frank.
(Here's a visual)

Nico                        Leo

Hazel                      Frank

Connor                   Travis

Piper                       Jason

Clarisse                  Thalia

Annabeth              Percy

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We each check out our rooms. Mine is painted in shades of blue and green, and there are little waves and fishes along the bottom portion of the walls. Annabeth's is gray and white with a few owl and book drawings, Thalia's is electric blue and gray (storm clouds and lightning designs), Leo's is painted with fiery colors. Jason's is similar to Thalia's, but his has less design. And his designs have more to do with wind than lightning.

I don't even want to know what Clarisse's looks like. Piper's had white walls with a trim around the top of the wall that's a design of brown teepees. I didn't get to see Hazel's or Frank's, though I'd bet on gems and bows & arrows. Travis and Connor both had designs of winged shoes and pranks and thievery.

When we peek in Nico's room, we find him sleeping face down on his bed. None of us are surprised at that, or the fact that his room's black. Everyone moves on, except Leo, the Stolls, and me.

We gently move him so he's up by his pillows and he's laying on his back. Leo pulls out four markers and we get to work.

~~small time skip~~

Leo POV

I use red, Percy uses blue, Travis uses green and Connr uses black. We're all grinning like madmen as we doodle all over Nico. We know he shadow traveled up here, there's no way he could beat us here otherwise. But it did cause him to be deep in sleep, much to our delight.

We avoid the face for now. Save the best for last, right? Plus he'd probably wake up. We wrote things like 'Death Breath' 'Ghost King' 'Death Boy' and 'McDonald's'. I wrote McDonald's in red, Connor wrote "I'm lovin' it!" underneath that. We doodled skeletons, ghosts, and zombies all over his arms. I even drew two dancing skeletons below his neck, just above his collar bone.

We focus intensely as we do his face. We start with the usual, green glasses, black mustache, black goatee. I draw flames across his cheeks. Percy draws waves along his jaw. Travis and Connor draw a big skull on his forehead.

And it's smiling. With a princess tiara.

Nico stirs and we all leap back. We have our markers capped and are down the hallway before he can move an inch.

We run into the rest of the group. "Hurry! Sit down and act like we've all been talking for the past ten minutes!" I yell. I make us all sit in the couches and chairs and start fake conversations.

"Leo, what's going on?" Annabeth narrows her eyes at me, then the brothers, then Percy.

Percy, of course, gave in. "We, um, are trying not to die..."

"And why would you die?" Her voice is calm, with a tone of annoyance.

Percy pales and points behind me. Shist.

I turn slowly. Nico, in all his doodley glory is waking down the hallway. He rubs his eye, narrowly missing ink. He sits in an empty chair.

He then realizes everyone is staring. "What?" We all burst out laughing. He's taken aback, wondering what the heck is so funny.

"Hey, Nico, you got..."I laugh. "
..a little something...(laugh)...on your face!"

Annabeth is even laughing, and Nico gives up. "I'm going to bed for the night," he says and walks back to his room.

After we're done laughing, us four finish checking out the rooms. There's two bathrooms connected to the common room, one girls' one boys'.

At the end of the hallway is a large room with dummies and targets. A training room.

We all go to bed, and I lock my door in case Nico finds out what we did while I sleep.