A/N Hey guys, I'm so sorry it's been forever. When I first started writing this, I had the whole story mapped out in my head and I never thought it would be important to write that plan down and it has come back to bite. During the past year I would come to write this story and then completely forget where I was going with it. So today I sat down and wrote down my plans, so writing will come a bit easier and I'll have something else to rely on besides my memory. Also as I was writing this chapter I was going back and reading previous chapters and found many spelling/grammatical errors, so I think I'm going to go back and fix those so the story will be easier to read. I also want to thank everyone who has reviewed/followed/favorited this story, it really means a lot and it is the main reason why I am still continuing this story. If you guys have any questions or comments about the story please review! It really makes my day. Well enough of the authors note, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Quidditch really did seem like an amusing and interesting sport to Percy, you know just took out all the flying.
Percy wasn't the sports type. Sure, his mom had signed him up for soccer when he was in kindergarten or something, but the second he stepped on the field, well let's just say the other kids didn't appreciate him trying to score a goal against his own team. The closest he could get to exceeding in a team sport was capture the flag.
"Do you plan on getting me killed?!" Percy hissed to Thalia as they made their way to the Quidditch pitch.
"Please Kelp Head, do you really think I plan on starting a war between the Gods by killing off the oh precious demigod who saved Mt. Olympus twice? No thank you," said Thalia, "plus technically Quidditch wouldn't be only under my father's domain. Since it requires magic I assume it's partially under Hecate's rule. And since she sent us, I don't think she would blast you out of the sky."
"I don't think the bloke's ever even looked at a broomstick before," commented Ron to Harry. Even though the comment wasn't meant to reach Percy's ears, it did.
Percy didn't care too much, he was more worried on the whole flying thing he was about to do. Otherwise known as the very thing that the King of Olympus banned him from doing. Really no big deal.
"We're gonna start the tryouts soon, so you might wanna start warming up," said Harry to Percy.
"Oh right," mumbled Percy in response. He looked at the broom he was holding in his hands and decided it was now or never. He attempted to copy what everyone else was doing with their broomsticks and pretty soon he was flying!
Well maybe flying was the wrong word. Levitating above the ground uncontrollably was probably a better description.
Just like flying on Blackjack he kept telling himself to try and calm his nerves. The cloudy skies and lighting in the distance didn't really help.
"Alright everyone," Harry announced to the group once everyone was in the air, "to start off tryouts we're going to begin with a scrimmage, er Percy are you doing fine over there?"
"Just fine!" Percy replied because surely hanging off a flying broom is something that equates to 'just fine'. "This is just how we do it in America."
Everyone gave him curious looks, but Percy wasn't paying attention to that, he was more focused on the storm.
Before he knew it the scrimmage had begun! He had absolutely no clue what position he was in and he still didn't understand all the rules. Percy could hardly comprehend what was happening when all of the sudden he heard people yelling his name and saw a dark object flying directly to his face.
"Kelp head, oh Kelp head, wakey wakey."
Percy slowly opened his eyes and looked around, immediately confused about his surroundings. He was laying down in a bed and next to it stood Thalia and Nico.
Where am I?" Percy managed to ask slowly.
"The hospital wing." Nico said and thrust a square of ambrosia into his hand. "Hurry eat this, the healing spells that the healing lady has been using aren't working that well."
He put the ambrosia in his mouth and the taste of his mom's freshly baked chocolate chip cookies filled his mouth. "Doesn't the staff know that we're wizards?"
"Yes, but don't you remember when Chiron said we weren't supposed to bring ambrosia since we are now in the wizarding world? And he said that wizards have their own healing spells and stuff?" Thalia reminded the injured boy. "Well one of the many things Lady Artemis has taught me is to never go anywhere without the stuff, so I smuggled it in of course."
Percy nodded slowly, "What even happened?"
"What do you remember?" asked Nico.
"Well I was on the broom, I can't say I was riding it too successfully and then something was coming towards me and then I woke up here. I knew you were trying to get me killed."
Thalia held her hands up defensively, "Hey, hey I'm not the one who hit the weird ball thing towards you. By the way there's something you should know before the others get here-"
Right as Thalia was about to finish her sentence, their favorite trio walked into the hospital wing. They rushed over quickly when they spotted them in the far corner.
"Are you alright?" Hermione asked, but before Percy could even make an effort to respond she continued talking. "I wanted to come with you here when I first saw what happened but Thalia and Nico assured me they could find their way here."
"It was the strangest thing, the bludger didn't even look like it was going in your direction and then all of the sudden it hits you and the next thing we know you're falling to the ground." Ron commented, again before Percy could get a word in.
"I was watching the whole time," added Harry, "and I've never seen something the like happen, but I mean that wasn't the only strange thing happening at the tryouts." He glanced at Hermione as he said the last part and she shook her head. It was slight, but Percy definitely noticed, Ron on the other hand seemed completely oblivious to the exchange between his two friends.
"Well I believe that we should go and visit Hagrid." Hermione said, probably to distract Ron from whatever was going on.
"That's probably a good idea," added Harry. "We're glad you're doing better Percy."
With that the Hogwart's famous trio walked out of the hospital wing leaving Thalia and Nico looking concerned and Percy just plain confused.
"What was that?" Percy asked. "They came to ask about me, and then didn't let me get a word in!"
Thalia lowered her voice, "That's what I was trying to tell you before, I'm pretty sure my father moved the 'bludger' in your direction. It was headed in the opposite direction."
"If they didn't before then they definitely suspect something is weird about us." Nico stated. "We need to be extra careful from now on."
Percy groaned. "I knew getting on the broom was a bad idea!"
The rest of the day went fairly quietly, Percy was told that he had to stay in the hospital wing overnight so that Madam Pomfrey could make sure the spells continued working, she was incredibly confused to why Percy was suddenly getting better after the numerous amount of healing spells she had cast didn't work.
Thalia and Nico stayed with him for most of the time. They mainly spoke of their task, but they also talked about their classes and such. Eventually it came time for dinner and Percy sent his the two away to go eat, well after making them promise they would bring him some food back.
About ten minutes of trying to fall asleep, quite unsuccessfully (Percy really didn't find the beds to be that comfortable), His favorite blonde haired witch showed up.
"Hello Percy." Luna Lovegood said happily and skipped over to him.
"Hey Luna," Percy replied excitedly, he could finally figure out what was going on with her!
She smiled sadly, "I'm sorry about you accident, Ron told me about it, I was sitting at the Gryffindor table because they quite frankly are much nicer to me than my house."
Percy didn't quite know how to respond to that statement, so instead he turned asked her a questions, "Do we know each other from somewhere?"
"Oh that's not why I'm here right now," Percy was beginning to become very frustrated with the Ravenclaw, "You see, I have a message from Professor Slughorn, he wanted me to tell you that he heard about what happened and is extremely sad that you won't be attending his 'Slug Club' meeting tonight, I'm not quite sure why you would join a club with that nameā¦ It's quite peculiar, I do seem to recall The Quibbler doing a story on slugs and their magical properties, is that what your club is about?"
Percy was suddenly very happy with his current predicament, anything to get him out of another one of those miserable meetings. "Nope, unfortunately that isn't what we talk about, I have a feeling I might like it more if that was the case. So back to my previous question-"
"I'm sorry Percy, but I must be getting back to the Great Hall, I really do want some more pudding." And with that the girl was skipping away before anything else could be said.
Percy wanted to scream! All he wanted was for her to answer one small question!
Luna was about to exit through the door when she abruptly stopped and turned back to Percy, "Also my mother wanted me to tell you something, not everything is what it seems." She then continued skipping out of the room.
Well it certainly had been nothing short of an interesting day for Percy!