Percy Jackson and the Order of the Phoenix (SEQUEL)

Chapter 2: The Meeting

"Hey, di Angelo!"

"What!?"

Conner and Travis grinned wildly, as the shorter one shouted from across the ping-pong table, "Heard you're a criminal now."

"Yeah," Nico said in a monotone voice, not even bothering to look up from his hand of Mythomagic cards. He sarcastically drawled out, using Snape's voice as an inspiration, "I just had to cross it off the bucket list. I'm a naughty, naughty boy..."

Lou Ellen swung the Rec Room door open, "Got it!" In her arms were as many packs of soda she could carry, and with great pleasure, slammed them onto the table.

"Nice," Piper smirked, reaching for one of the soda cans.

"Hey!" Annabeth just walked through the door, "Where in Zeus' name did you get these?"

Leo practically flung himself onto the table, defensively scooping up as many soda cans as he could before Annabeth could say anymore, "Mine!"

Butch, from the Iris Cabin, replied, "Oh, come on! We're allowed to fight wars, but not sneak off to the store for Coke? I even saw Blackjack with a Pepsi the other day! Who even gives a pegasus a Pepsi!?"

"Percy," Travis, Conner, Piper, Nico, Will, Annabeth, and the other majority of campers all practically said in unison.

Nico slumped deeper into the bean bag in the far corner of the room. He seemed extremely comfortable over there.

Annabeth clenched her jaw, then begrudgingly giving in, she reached for one of the sodas herself, "Chiron won't like this..."

But the smirk on Travis' and Conner's face seemed to show that they didn't really care.

"Alright, who's not here yet? Katie? Anyone see Katie?" Will began, prepping for the meeting to begin.

"Here!" A hand rose up into the air from one side of the ping-pong table, farthest from the door. Katie slowly made her way to the nacho-cheese machine, half-paying attention.

"Okay, let's see..." he murmured, "Annabeth's here... Lou... Nico... the Stolls..."

"And Percy?" Piper frowned, noticing him missing in the crowd, "Where's he?"

Annabeth bit her lip, "He's-

"I'm here!" Percy walked through the door, grabbing one of the sodas on his way in, "Did I miss anything?"

"Nope!" Leo had so far gone through 3 cans of soda, and quickly resumed to consuming as much sugar as he possibly could.

And at that very moment, Chiron walked into the room (out of his wheelchair form),

"Now... it seems we have a lot to discuss..."

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"Let's start with this..." Annabeth tossed her copy of the Daily Prophet onto the table, "I got this just this morning..."

"Hey, that's Nico's face!" Lou shouted, pointing at the paper, "And, by the gods, it's moving! The picture's are moving-"

"It's a wizard newspaper from Great Britain," Annabeth began, leaning onto the ping-pong table, "Basically it is blaming a bunch of stuff on Nico which he didn't do."

"Wizards?" Butch rose an eyebrow, "You're joking..."

"Nah, it's true," Percy replied, "That's what our quest was last year. That's what this whole meeting is about."

Leo looked up, no longer cutting plastic, orange ping-pong balls in half for a reason nobody seemed to know, "Woah, woah! Let's back it up... You guys have been living with wizards all last year?"