When Two Worlds Collide

Chapter 6: Breakfast And A Change of Heart

Nico's POV

"FOOOODDD," Leo yelled the moment he threw open the doors to the Great Hall and saw the golden plates piled with heaps of different kinds of food. The Latino plopped himself down into the seat next to Draco at the Slytherin table and piled as much food as possible onto his plate before shoveling them all into his face at the speed of light. 

Draco and Calypso eyed the wizards who looked at Leo strangely and the wizards quickly turned away. Smirking at each other over the top of Leo's head, the two of them high fived. 

Jason sat down on Draco's other side and took a simple bowl of cereal, but he looked troubled. Leo looked up from his large pile of food to frown at Jason. 

"Man, stop looking so glum, what's up?" 

Jason swatted away the fork that Leo was poking him with, "I'm just worried, we didn't burn any food for the gods last night and I don't even want to know how they're gonna react if we forgot today as well."

Leo nearly choked on his next bite of food and Piper, who had sat down on Jason's other side, stared at her plate of eggs and bacon with a nervous look. 

"Schist," she whispered, looking around to make sure no one was listening, "I totally forgot!"

"We should tell, Professor Dumbledore," reasoned Calypso, "he'll understand, he knows who we are."

I agreed. Based on our conversation last night with the headmaster, it was safe to say that he understood our needs perfectly. Our rooms were the prime example. I could just remember it right now...

"He said the Common Room was behind the picture of a dove, Percy," 

"Yeah, man, we passed the very painting we were supposed to go into like five times," Jason retorted, rubbing his eyes tiredly. 

"I thought it looked like a pigeon!" Percy protested, Annabeth smacked his arm while Piper facepalmed. 

"They're both the same thing!" Both of them shouted at the same time. 

Percy frowned as he processed the new information, "oh...really?"

"Well, let's just ignore Percy's blatant show of dumbness," Leo interrupted, Percy looked affronted and opened his mouth to respond but I beat him to it. 

"How do we open it again?"

Calypso shook her head at all of us, "were none of you paying attention to the headmaster when he told us the password?" 

We all shook our head no. 

She sighed, "it's Hera's Dove."

Leo nearly tumbled forward in laughter and Percy joined him. As the picture swung open, which didn't surprise anyone, the demigods staggered inside, still laughing. 

"Oh that's rich," gasped out Percy, "these wizards really don't know Greek culture."

"What did you expect?" I asked although I was smiling as well. It was pretty funny.

"Now where are our rooms?" Annabeth asked, looking around. The Common Room looked pretty cozy. There was a fireplace crackling merrily with armchairs and a large couch in front of it. The walls were streaked with banners of gold, silver, bronze, and black. There were smaller tables situated all around the rooms with comfy looking chairs for studying. On either side, there was a set of stairs going up to another hallway above. 

"My guess is that those must be the girls and boys dormitories," Calypso said. 

"Which means, according to Dumbledore, ours is right between them," Piper finished.