Chapter 4

***EDITED***

Percy's POV

"7, 8, 9, 10, no 9 and 3/4" I said, frustrated. Sila leaned on a pillar.

"Maybe-" she fell through it. It took me a moment to process what had just happened.

"SILA!" Annabeth finally shouted and jumped through- hoping that the mist would cover for us. "Wow," I breathed when I tumbled of the other side after Annabeth. I was standing in what was probably the most magnificent train station that I had ever seen.

"Oh my gods," Sila said. "If this is just the train station, then what will the actual school be like?"

"Annabeth is probably..." I was cut off by Annabeth raving about the architecture.

"Oh my gods Percy, look at the curve of the arches and the indent of the supportive cylindrical pillars..." and she went on and on until I finally shut her up.

"We should get on the train..." I interrupted her.

"Fine..." Annabeth said grudgingly as we loaded our things onto the train, and then climbed aboard, just as the train was pulling out of the station.

"Okay," Sila said, leaning against a compartment door. "Chiron said that we needed to find-" Hushed voices came from the compartment across from the one that Sila was leaning on. The door opened, and the bushy haired girl from the robes shop was standing in the doorway.

"Hullo!" she said brightly. "Would you like to sit with us?" she asked.

"Sure!" Sila said, and then walked into the compartment. I followed her in.

"Hi!" Annabeth said once we had taken our seats. I studied the group. There was the the bushy haired girl who had invited us in, two BRIGHT red haired people, a girl and a boy, and then the boy who looked exactly like me; except for glasses, and a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead.

"Hullo!" the red haired girl said.

"Hi!" Sila said. "My name is Sila Estrella,"

"Annabeth Chase," Annabeth said.

"Percy Jackson," I said.

"I'm Hermione Granger," Hermione said. "This is Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Ginny Weasley" she said, pointing to each of the different people as she said their names. So we were with the right people! 

"Nice to meet you!" I said. Harry looked very cautious.

"You've got something on your arm Percy," He said quietly, and then lunged for my arm. I instinctively pulled it away.

"Geez!" I exclaimed. "You could've just asked to see it!" I said, and then held out my left arm for him. I had asked Hecate to cover it, along with my other scars, with the mist, so now the SPQR tattoo looked like it only had a trident on it. Annabeth did the same for him.

"Oh......" he said when he saw it, and turned the same color as Ron and Ginny's hair. "I'm... I-I'm sorry" he mumbled, very embarrassed. "I-I guess I'm just over cautious from the last war,"

"It's fine," I said. "It was good for you to be cautious!"

"Right, so now that that's cleared up," Ginny said, obviously flustered about Harry's reaction.

"Could you please tell us about the whole 'exchange students' deal? I've never heard of this happening before!" Hermione said.

"Well," Sila said. "We're from Long Island, New York; Hecate's school of magic. We're here for the year; along with 9 more of us. Next will come Thalia, Reyna and Nico, then Calypso, Frank and Hazel, and lastly Leo, Jason, and Piper. We're here to make peace with your school!"

"Why would you need to make peace with us?" Ron asked. "Hecate's school of magic? Never heard of it. But I'm sure you've heard of Harry," he said jokingly.

"Um... No actually," Sila said.

"He won the war! How could you not have heard of him!" Ginny demanded.

"I guess we have problems of our own in America," I joked. Sila and Annabeth gave pained smiles.

"So what year will you be in?" Harry asked.

"7th for all three of us," Annabeth said.

"We should change into our robes," Hermione said. When I came out of the changing room Annabeth was holding back laughter.

"Your wearing a dress!" she whispered to me.

"Ha ha, very funny," I whispered back as the train skidded to a halt. "Wow....." I breathed as I stepped off the train.



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