Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson

Albus Severus Potter

I don't know what happened. One second, Silena and Zoe were climbing down peacefully, then Zoe screamed, instinctively, everybody ran to the window side. Silena had reached the bottom and was looking up at Zoe, and Zoe was hanging onto the rope with one hand. She tried pulling herself up, to no avail. Finally, Silena had to climb up again. She slowly climbed up and brought Zoe down. The poor girl was shaking from her near-death encounter.  I looked at James and he visibly gulped. Well, there was no turning back now.

Climbing down the rope was the scariest thing I had ever done. Wait, what? I had survived Rose's death glare. Okay, so the top ten of the scariest thing I had ever done, but that didn't make climbing down any easier. My feet finally touched the ground and I sighed. I motioned James to start climbing down. I turned around and saw Zoe quietly sobbing and Silena comforting her. Finally, she stopped crying and James had reached the bottom. Lily was looking out of the window at us, with sad eyes. I felt guilty about that.

"Lily, you can fall if you keep leaning over like that!" Silena yelled up, realization struck Lily's face and she went back inside. James and I stared at her,

"What?" She asked, "safety first, which reminds me. Put on your seatbelts people" She said and whirled around, with an ear-piercing whistle. A car appeared in front of us. 

"Where did you get that from?" I asked her. She gave us a nervous smile and looked guilty of murder, and realization struck Zoe's face,

"Silena!" She said, "Did Ap-"

"Hop in everyone!" Silena said, pushing us inside. Whatever Zoe was about to say, was abruptly forgotten.

"Shotgun!" Zoe called, and Silena got into the driver's seat.

"Should we ask aunt Thalia?" Silena asked Zoe, turning the car on.

"No, you know what Apollo said, she-" Zoe replied,

"yeah, you're right. Wait a second" Silena said, she opened a compartment above her head and a piece of paper fell out,

"Who drives this?" James said, "you're the only one who's sixteen and I'm pretty sure-"

"Who said anything about driving?" Silena said, not even turning around. 

"Drive to Wayward place" She told the car, it rumbled, but Silena yelled,

"Stop!" The car stopped immediately, "Zoe get in the back" She told her sister again. Zoe started to protest, but Silena gave her a death glare,

"Now! I do not want you to be injured if the  car crashes" She said, more forcefully. Zoe grumbled, but got in the back, stepping over consoles and levers,

"Move" She told me and James. James was still a little afraid of Zoe since the 'prank shop' incident, even if he wouldn't admit it. So, he moved almost immediately, then me. 

"That's better" Silena said, her voice taking on a different tone. She adjusted the mirror on the front in a way she could see Zoe and said, "Come on! I'll let you take shotgun on the way to the airport. Deal?"

Zoe face brightened a little, "Deal, I would shake on it, but you're driving"

"Good! Now let's find Luke" James interrupted, I thought it was a bit rude of him, but he wouldn't listen to me anyway. Silena grumbled and said,

"Drive to Wayward place" The car obeyed her command as she put her foot down on some pedal. The car lurched forward and started moving. Cue the screams from the rest of us as the car sped forward and came to a sudden halt as Silena yelled,

"Halt!" The gap between the front seats and the back seats was quite huge, so when the car stopped, Zoe fell down. 

"Ow" She complained, Silena turned her head,

"everybody okay?"

"Yeah, if you count the fact that I could've hurt myself pretty badly by this sharp thing behind the shotgun seat" Zoe said, pointing to the reclining lever on the seat. Silena took a deep breath to compose herself. 

"Aphrodite gave me charmspeak for an hour, not a manual instructions guide to the car" She told Zoe. 

"Car drive to Wayward Place at the speed of..." She paused for a second, counting something on her fingers, "forty miles an hour" She said, the car started moving, this time slower,

"Any idea where Luke is?" James asked us,

"He can't be far, and I'm driving this car around the town, so if he's anywhere, we'll find him." Silena said, you could see the doubt in her voice, but she put on a brave face. I also had another question,

"What's charmspeak?" I asked Zoe, not wanting to distract Zoe from driving. She looked at me, her eyes were streaked with tears for some reason. For the first time, it occurred to me that Luke meant ten times more to her than the rest of us. She must've noticed me, because she wiped her eyes, quickly. If there was any photo of the moment, it would be the only proof she was crying. All the water had disappeared as she wiped her sleeve on her eye and her eyes returned to a normal shade. 

"It's like a speaking thing" Zoe said, "Aunt Piper has it, but she hasn't used it since" She stopped herself, "a long time" She said, "Whatever, the point in that it will let you have control over people, if I have charmspeak and tell you to give me a gun, you will obey immediately, it works better on boys, since they're dumber" Zoe explained. I found the last part rude, but didn't say anything. She turned her attention back to the passing trees, but froze immediately,

"Silena stop the car!" She yelled to her sister, Silena obeyed and yelled,

"Halt!" The car stopped, she turned around, an annoyed expression on her face,

"What?" She asked, she asked it calmly, but anybody could tell that she was struggling to keep it even,

"There are people here" Zoe said, pointing outside, I noticed movement too. Silena's eyes widened and she pulled out a map, trying to read it.

"There aren't any living spaces here, are they?" She asked her sister, "gah! forget this, a good time for my dyslexia to kick in" She said, shoving the map to us. 

There was a dripping sound and everybody looked out of the window to see a gas leak in the car.