Gods and Wizards

Chapter 1 The Seven Half-Bloods

Part 1: Percy

Percy wiped the sweat from his brow. He had been hard at work helping to repair Camp Half-Blood after the war against Gaea had totally wrecked it. Everywhere he looked, Greek and Roman demigods were working their butts off to rebuild cabins, place the roof back on the Big House, and trying to get the pegasi back into the newly rebuilt stables. His friends, the other six demigods of the Prophecy of Seven, were also working hard to restore the camp to its former glory. Annabeth Chase, Percy's girlfriend, was ordering some of her cabin mates to place the Athena Parthenos, a statue of their mother Athena; (obviously) that Annabeth and Percy literally fell down a bottomless pit for, in the center of camp as a symbol of friendship between Camps Half-Blood and Jupiter. Over by the Big House, everyone's friendly neighborhood pachyderm Frank Zhang was lowering the roof in elephant form. At the forges, Leo Valdez was building tools to make the cleanup and repair faster, Hazel Levesque was helping the Iris cabin corral the pegasi while riding Arion, her horse, while Piper Mclean and her boyfriend Jason Grace were helping the Apollo cabin patch up the wounded. Even though it had only been a few days since Octavian's attack, the camp was looking great. The cabins were at least inhabitable, and now that the Big House was livable again, the ones that weren't could crash there.

Suddenly Percy's best friend Grover ran up to him, gasping for breath. Being a satyr, from the waist up he looked like a normal teen, but from the waist down he had goat legs, including hooves.

"Hey, Grover," Percy said wondering what had made Grover come find him in such a hurry, "what's up?"

"Chiron, huh, huh, t-told, huh, huh," Grover started to say, pausing to gasp for breath like a fish out of water.

"Whoa, G-man, calm down and breathe, before you pass out." Percy said, trying not to laugh.

After about ten minutes, Grover finally had caught his breath enough to say full sentences. "Chiron told me to tell you to get Jason, Annabeth, Piper, Leo, Frank, and Hazel and get to the Big House, it's urgent.

Part 2: Annabeth

Annabeth had been on a cloud. She was alive, her boyfriend was alive, their friends were alive, and their camp had survived, somewhat. She was just finishing checking that her mother's statue, the Athena Parthenos, had survived its placement, when Percy walked up to her. As usual, Annabeth's heart did a tap dance when she saw him.

"Grover just told me that Chiron wants to see the seven of us." Percy said.

"Okay," Annabeth said "I'll get Jason, Piper, and Hazel."

"Cool, that leaves me with Elephant boy and Flaming Valdez." Percy replied, cracking a smile, Annabeth laughed, typical Seaweed Brain.

She told Malcom to take over the placement of the AP and went for Hazel, who was closest. Hazel was herding the last of the pegasi when she noticed Annabeth.

"Hey, Annabeth!" she said, hopping off her supersonic-running horse, Arion. As usual, Arion unnerved Annabeth. He was a beautiful tan stallion, but he was a bit… wild, he didn't even respect Percy, (which was unthinkable for most horses, being a son of Poseidon and all) he'd even threatened to hit Percy on the head with his hoof. After the incident with Blackjack, Piper, Jason, and some evil spirits, Percy decided he didn't want to get on this horse's bad side.

"Chiron wants to see the seven of us in the Big House." Annabeth said, trying to avoid staring at Arion.

"Okay, I'll head right over." Hazel said, beginning to head in its direction before stopping, obviously remembering something. "Oh, yeah, the fau… I mean satyrs, want to know what they should do with that." She pointed at a pile of ashes with a dented centurion's badge on it. Annabeth knew at once what Hazel was talking about.

Octavian had led an attack on Camp Half-Blood despite Reyna's orders not to and, in a fit of madness, tried to blow-up the now awake Gaea. Sadly (for him) he got caught on the fireball he launched and...well, the ashes and badge were all that was left. Leo had been killed by the explosion, but his trusty mechanical Dragon Festus had managed to inject him with the Physician's Cure, bringing him back to life and enabling him to rescue his-now-girlfriend Calypso. It was a grim subject, but Annabeth still had to stop herself from giggling as she imagined a screaming fireball.

"I don't know." Annabeth replied pondering the issue with the ashes. "Can you cover it up with the Mist?"

Hazel had learned how to manipulate the Mist over their quest to stop Gaea; she had gotten so good at it that she could make Hannibal the elephant look like a kitten.

"Sure, but someone will come across it eventually." Hazel said while pointing her hand toward the ashes. At once the ashes shimmered and slowly turned into a small pile of rocks.

"That should work for now," Annabeth said "I'm going to get Jason and Piper, Percy's getting Frank and Leo.

"Okay, but I'll get Frank" said Hazel and without waiting for a reply, she went toward the Big House.

Jason had just finished patching up a Roman kid whose name Annabeth didn't know when she approached.

"Chiron needs us, can you snag Piper?" she said while turning to head to the Big House.

"Okay," Jason said and then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted "HEY PIPES!"

Piper, who was patching up someone from the Aphrodite cabin with the help of Nancy, a daughter Apollo, looked over.

"CHIRON WANTS US!" Jason yelled.

Piper got up and walked over to her boyfriend, and gave Annabeth an exasperated look that clearly said, boys.

The three of them went to the Big House and entered the den where Percy, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Seymour (a stuffed leopard head), and Chiron were waiting.

"Ah, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, good, I have a mission for the seven you." Chiron said, beckoning them to sit down.

"An old friend of mine just Iris messaged me and told me he needs the best demigods we've got to do a very important mission; you're heading to a boarding school…"

"To get a demigod?" Percy interrupted

"No," Chiron said shooting Percy an annoyed look, "you're heading to a boarding school in England called Hogwarts to protect a student named Harry Potter."