Percy Jackson Meets Harry Potter

Chapter 1

The war was finally over. All was good; the satyrs and nymphs would play happily in the strawberry fields, the campers did their daily duties and activities, and the Olympian gods reclined in their mighty thrones. It seemed to be everyday life at Camp Half-Blood. Or so everybody thought…

"Percy, I swear, if you're still sleeping- " Annabeth Chase's voice cut through the crisp morning air.

Percy stumbled out of bed, pulling on a worn-out orange Camp Half-Blood

T-shirt and ripped jeans. He dragged his feet over to the door and was reaching for the door when it flew open, revealing Annabeth standing with her hands on her hips, the look in her eye saying, "Perseus Jackson, how many times do I have to tell you to SET AN ALARM CLOCK?"

"Good morning, sunshine," Percy mumbled through a yawn. Annabeth eyed his bedhead hair and sighed.

"Come on. Chiron wants us." Percy opened his mouth, but before he said anything, Annabeth continued, "No, I don't know why."

"You know everything, Wise Girl."

"Unlike you, Seaweed Brain."

The two demigods walked up to the steps to the Big House and strode inside. There already were Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, Frank Zhang, Hazel Levesque, and Thalia Grace.

"What took you guys so long?" Thalia grumbled.

"Come on guys, lay off. The guy's clearly sleep deprived." Leo turned to Percy and asked mockingly, "Were the bedbugs biting?"

Percy didn't answer and instead plopped onto the couch and started snoring. Thalia picked up a book and threw it at him, hitting her mark squarely in the face. Percy jolted awake with a snort.

"What's been up with you lately? You never sleep in this late, yet you have for the past three days!" Annabeth fussed.

"I'm sorry, I've been- I've been having nightmares."

The demigods nodded seriously. An average trait for a demigod.

"What happens in them?" Jason questioned.

"There's this giant. A dangerous giant. He's always surrounded by fog, so I never get a good look at him. But there's always a majestic, lit up castle in the background, with lake and a huge arena with these circles on sticks. Then the scene shifts, and the giant is talking to someone, I don't know who. He says, 'My journey takes me far, to the land of the wizards. A certain place in fact. You might have heard of it, very famous. It has to do with pigs.' And- "

"Wait wait wait, hold up. PIGS?" Leo asked, snorting (like a pig). "Why would a super baddie be interested in PIGS?"

"Hold on, in gets crazier. Then he- he. Don't judge me, but I dreamt he flew away on a broom."

"Not judging, man, not judging." Leo can't hold it in anymore. He falls on the floor laughing, finding it hard to breathe.

A long, tall shadow casts along the doorway, and Chiron the centaur walks (or trots) inside.

"Yes, my boy, it may sound funny, but it is no laughing matter. What Percy is saying is true. A giant has come back; or perhaps we missed him in the war. Anyway, it has settled itself in London, England for reasons we do not know. Lord Zeus has requested a group of demigods to scout the area for a while, on watch. That group is you," Chiron says.

"Sir," Hazel interrupts politely, "What are we supposed to say as a coverup? Are we supposedly on a two-month sight-seeing trip?"

"Excellent question, my dear. The answer to it is, you are students." Chiron answers.

"At what school?" Frank fires back.

"Yes, um," Chiron mutters. It is Zeus's request that you go to the school of his late son's."

"And what school would that be?" Piper queries, always up for new ideas.

"Um, I believe it is called," Chiron pulls out a sticky note and squints hard. "Pig- pig pimples. Yes, pig pimples."

Leo is about to explode with laughter, but he pinched himself, exhibiting self-control for a rare moment in his life. He thought to himself, "Breath, one, two, three, four, five…" Leo was good. At that very moment a gust of wind swirled up the papers in the room, and an elderly lady with glasses and a robe magically appeared on the table. She adjusted the pointed hat positioned on her head and said without missing a beat, "I believe you mean Hogwarts."

Leo fell apart all over again.