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Leo's POV

I woke up to someone screaming bloody spider.

"GET IT AWAY GET IT AWAY!!"

I leaped out of bed like an elegant disoriented pegasus and stared open-mouthed at the scene in front of me.

Annabeth was screaming her head off and had climbed onto the bunk on top of her's, which was Percy's. She was hugging Percy and pointing at something on the floor.

Frank and I shot over and spotted a tarantula the size of a CD.

I grabbed a hammer from my belt and whacked it around twenty times.

Frank poked it, "Okay, it's dead."

Percy managed to untangle himself from Annabeth and went down.

"I don't see any more," Percy looked under the beds.

"Check again!" Annabeth was peeking through her hands.

I took out my wand, "Wait lemme try something, Accio spiders." Another tarantula flew out from under Clarisse's bed and slapped me in the face. Then it fell off and tried to scuttle away.

I crushed it under my shoes and looked at is, "Ugh, spider guts." I dragged it around the floor, trying to get it off. I ended up spreading it everywhere.

"Ewww," Annabeth groaned, "clean it up!"

"Scourgify," it disappeared.

"Accio spiders," no more appeared.

Annabeth sighed in relief, "Is there...some kind of spell that prevents sp-spiders from getting in?"

"I don't know, but we can ask Lou later."

"Okay," she went back down.

"Thank the gods for the soundproof charm," I laughed.

Her face burned, "Shut up, Valdez."

"I didn't know you were afraid of spiders," I said grinning. "It's like when I found out Katie was afraid of bugs."

"She said shut up Valdez," Katie snapped.

I just smiled and looked at the time, 7:38, "We should go down soon."

"Let's wake everyone up."

I went over to Nico and grinned creepily.

He was on the top bunk, so I could do this with no problem.

I jumped and fell on top him.

"AHHH!!" he shot up, which unfortunately made me fall off the edge and slam onto the floor.

"What? What's happening?" Nico asked. I got up groggily, Nico had his sword drawn and pointed at me.

"Relax Nick, it was me."

He frowned, "You...you sat on me? Just to wake me up?"

"Maybe."

Finally everyone was up.

At breakfast, I grabbed some bread and smeared on some butter. Yes, they actually have normal food here. I took a bite and looked at the torches on the wall. Hmm...I feel like we're forgetting something. Fire, food, fire, food. Hmmm...

"OH MY GODS," I yelled.

People here seemed used to me randomly shouting, so they barely noticed.

"What's wrong?" Annabeth asked, unconcerned.

"We forgot to burn our food!" I whispered.

Percy spat out his cookies, "Oops."

"How do we do it?" Jason panicked.

"Under the table? Leo can do his fire thing," Annabeth suggested.

"Greek fire would be better," Thalia said.

"Anyone have Greek Fire?" I asked.

"I have a big jar of it in our dorm," Frank said, "in my trunk. But people could see it when we come back with it."

"You keep Greek Fire in your trunk?" Percy asked. "Okay, go outside, and you can turn into an elephant and snort it out."

When everybody simply stared at him in silence, he rolled his eyes, "People, I'm joking. I know you mean your suitcase-thing. So do we just go up there and get it? It's kind of dangerous to handle and it glows a lot."

"I think I have a solution, I've been practicing. So hold on, don't freak Leo," Nico said.

He concentrated, and an flat black circle appeared under the table, Nico put his hand in.

"Cooool," I said.

"Where is it Frank?"

"I think it's at the bottom right."

"Got it!" he pulled out a jar with something that looks like green lava inside.

Breakfast passed peacefully after that.

• • •

"Welcome to Defense Against the Dark Arts, I am your professor, Remus Lupin."

I hope this teacher is good.

"We are going to practice nonverbal spells on these creatures, Ticklers. They are harmless, but when they get close to you, they will tickle you. Anyone who can get a nonverbal on the first try earns 5 points for their house. There enough Ticklers for everyone. If you...eliminate one, you can get another one." He opened a door and about 50 pink, fuzzy things came out. They definitely looked harmless. They didn't have claws, teeth, or horns, and soft punk fur covered it's whole body. But their eyes were wild and evil, like they wanted to tickle you to death and have no mercy.

"Remember, nonverbal spells!"

All of us demigods got it on the first try. A few Gryffindors too, and even 4 or 5 Slytherins.

Gryffindor got more than 70 points in 10 seconds. The professor was stunned. I guess he wasn't told that we are demigods, "Amazing! And I've never seen such powerful spells, you students are talented!

Are all the students in your school like this?"

"Uh...it's more of a camp, but yeah, they're all like that."

"Amazing!" and he kept repeating it over and over to himself.

When Lupin came to Thalia, she tensed. "You're a werewolf."

He blinked in surprise, "How did you know?"

Her eyes narrowed, "I can always tell."

"Yes...but I've never harmed anyone! Honest!"

"You sure?"

"Yes yes!"

"Hmm..." she went back to torturing her Tickler, setting it on fire, drowning it, zapping it with lightning, ripping it, body binding it, and tickling it (which was kind of ironic), while Lupin watched nervously. Then he edged away to help others. I looked around the room, and noticed a Slytherin girl who was getting kind of frustrated and just punched the Tickler whenever it went near her. I was thinking this girl would get along great with Clarisse, then she turned, and I nearly got a heart attack. Her black hair had grown from a pixie cut to a bit longer than her shoulders, with bright green highlights, so she actually looked like a girl from the back. It was Drew Getaway, one of my friends from 5th grade. She looked like she was having one too when she saw me.

"Leo?" she gasped.

"Hi," I waved like we were just meeting for lunch or something.

"Who's that?" Nico asked me.

"Um, a friend."

"She looks more like an enemy than a friend," Nico noted.

"Maybe she is one."

Drew marched over and punched me in the face, "LEO WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU JUST RAN AWAY WITHOUT EVEN TELLING US WHERE YOU WENT DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED DAVID AND...AND SOME PEOPLE WERE??" Sigh...she's still the same. Just won't admit she missed the awesome Leo Valdez.

"Um..." Thank the gods that the room was already loud, or else everybody would be staring. All the demigods and a few people were staring though.

"WHY DID YOU LEAVE?" Drew yelled.

"Well af-"

"WHY?!"

"Can you let me explain?"

"Fine, this better be good."
"Well right after you called me to come over 'cause you wanted to tell us something, I just...disappeared, like literally disappeared, and I appeared in Ohio, and the police caught me blah blah blah. I lost my memory of those two years. I was sent to another foster home, and then I ran away. I got sent to the Wilderness School and I got my memory back. But I still don't remember your numbers, address, the school name, or even the city we lived in. Sorry."
Drew was still standing there with her arms crossed, "And I'm supposed to believe that?"

"It's the truth!"

"Fine I believe you, but we didn't know what happened to you for like, FOUR FREAKING YEARS. I'm not gonna forgive you that easily."

"Okay."

She punched me again.

After torturing the Ticklers a bit more, finally something interesting happened.

Nico was suddenly lifted off his feet and was being held in the air by one ankle, "GAH! Get me down!"

"Liberacorpus!" Harry pointed his wand at Nico. For some reason, nothing happened.

Thalia snickered, "Your shirts falling down."

"Gah!" he pulled it down, then pointed his wand at her and she was lifted in the air too, "AHH!! PUT ME DOWN NICO!!" I was surprised Nico knew the spell, he usually doesn't listen to teachers and Annabeth.

"You let me down first!"

"No YOU!"

"YOU!"

"YOU!"

"YOU!"

"JUST PUT ME DOWN DEATH BREATH OR I SWEAR TO THE GODS YOU WILL DIE A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH!!"

"Why are you so anxious to get down?"

"Because...well why are you?"

"Well I just wanna get down, I'm not scared of heights!"

"Alright enough!" Lupin shouted, "Both of you let each other down!"

"Him first!" Thalia said.

"Yeah! Let me down first!"

"NO! That's not what I meant idiot! PUT ME DOWN!!!"

Then they both fell down, rolled and pointed their wands at each other.

"Okay guys, you have got to stop trying to kill each other every 10 minutes okay?" I realised it was Annabeth who had said the counter-jinx to let them both down.

 "You're scared of heights?" Nico asked Thalia.

"Of course not! Why would I be! I'm the last person on Earth who would be afraid of heights! Besides Jason!"

"You? Scared of heights! I can't believe it! HAHAHHAHA!!"

"SHUT. UP! I'm not the one who's scared of their own father!"

"Like you aren't!"

"At least he's proud of me!"

"How do you know?"

"He told me! Did he ever tell you?"

"Yes he did! Didn't he send that lightning bolt after you?"

"That wasn't him! And your dad didn't like you at first! He prefered your sister didn't he?"

"How do you know that your father doesn't prefer Jason?"

"Guys, guys, you should stop," Percy said.

"Shut up!" they both said.

"You're the lucky one! You have the only dad that's nice!" Thalia glared at him.

"Well Leo and the Stolls—"

"I DON'T CARE!" Thalia yelled.

I was nudging Piper now, hoping she'd like do something before something explodes. Maybe she was kind of scared that the charmspeak won't work or something.

"How can you be Princess of the Skies and be afraid of heights?!"

"I AM NOT A PRINCESS!"

"Well duh, course you are, you're dad's the king."

"SHUSH! Well you're like the prince of the underground-"

"OKAY STOP IT!!" Lupin shouted. Whew, finally someone took action, "Both of you! Detention! 6 o'clock at my office. 20 points from Gryffindor!"

"It's all your fault," Nico grumbled at Thalia.

"No it was yours!"

 "You lifted me in the air first!"

"You didn't have to react like that!"

"You would have too!"

"Okay shut up," Piper said. Finally Beauty Queen does something.

The only thing interesting after that was when I "accidentally" teased Thalia about her phobia and she had blasted me with lightning, threatened me, and yelled a lot.

Next was History of Magic.

Professor Binns read off the names list like normal, completely not noticing Nico glaring at him. He read 'Hazel Levesque', gasped a little, then did a weird wave at Hazel, who waved back, bewildered.

Then he read 'Nico di Angelo', and he choked, looked over at Nico, and mouthed something wordlessly. Then he choked again, checked the list, and looked at Nico, "Master Nico! Ho-How's your father?"

"Oh he's fine, Cuthbert Binns, but I'd like to have a talk with you after class, just go on with the lesson please."

Binns looked like he was sweating now, "Y-Yes of course my Lord! I-I'll just er...yes! The Spider War from the 1600s..." he kept talking about the war, occassionally glancing at Nico nervously. Even though Nico was sleeping. And so was half the class. Drew beside me was also sleeping.

I was half awake when I saw a crumpled piece of parchment hover a metre above Thalia's head. I couldn't see who was doing it, their wand must have been under the table, or it was Jason using his powers. But I doubt he would pass notes in the middle of class.

A lot of people were watching the it now.

Then the paper dropped down on her cheek.

Thalia shot up and snatched it out of the air. She read it, and turned red with rage. I bet it was about her phobia.

She looked around, angrily, sparks practically shooting out of her ears, and I pretended to be asleep in case she thought it was me. Nico was passed out behind her, Percy was drooling in his sleep onto his parchment, and the Stolls both yawned at the same time and gazed straight ahead, looking like they didn't want to move a muscle. I was pretending to sleep, Clarisse was sitting back in her chair with her boots on the table and smiling in her sleep, like she was dreaming of killing Percy or something. The Weasley Twins were also sleeping.

Thalia scowled, then examined the paper closely. Then she smiled a bit, set the paper on fire, and gently placed it on Nico's aviator jacket as if it were a flower.

When he'd realized his jacket was on fire, he shot up to his seat. Now it was obvious he hadn't really been sleeping. "AHH!! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!" He frantically shook off his jacket and threw it at Thalia, who ducked, and it hit Clarisse in front of her.

The daughter of Ares nearly fell backwards out of her chair, immediatetly thought it was Percy, and threw it across the room to him. He continued to snore even though part of his hair was burning. Annabeth was horrified and tossed the jacket behind her and spewed water from her wand onto Percy's hair, who kept snoring away.

It was now a full-fledged throw-a-burning-aviator-jacket war.

When I caught it, I made it burn even harder and I threw it up in the air. Nico was wailing, "My jacket!!" Now every inch of it was completely on fire. A Gryffindor girl said Aguamenti, and a jet of water shot the jacket with such force, the jacket flew across the room and landed on the Professors desk.

Everyone looked at each other like, Oh schist.

One side of it was soaked, and one side was burning. And the burning side landed on the desk. And his desk is kind of old. So yeah, his desk was in flames now.

The girl covered her mouth, "Oops."

In Physical Combat class.

I looked around the room. There were no weapons yet, that was for after we finished weaponless fighting. Most of the Gryffindors looked really nervous and were probably wondering why we were learning this. The Slytherins looked kind of happy, maybe because they could beat people up. Drew looked overjoyed and was jumping up and down a little and clapping her hands together silently.

"You look like a little girl who just got candy," I told her.

"Shut up, I can't wait to learn this stuff!" Drew looked soo excited it was scary. Before class, we had talked. And she didn't know I was in Hogwarts until Defense Against the Dark Arts because she wasn't at the Sorting. She had been arguing with another Slytherin at the train station for a solid 20 minutes, but she still got to eat breakfast. She had heard about the new students, but nobody ever talked about me, because somehow, I wasn't really worth talking about. It was all Percy, Jason, Will, Nico, Piper, Annabeth, Thalia, Katie, blah blah blah.

"Hi," Percy said. He and Annabeth went to the front of the room.

Everyone stared at them like Oooh you're gonna get in troouubleeee.

"We're you're professors for Physical Combat class," Annabeth said primly.

"Yeah," Percy said, "I'm Percy."

Annabeth rolled her eyes, "I think they know that Seaweed Brain."

"Wait," someone said, "you're our teachers?"

The class erupted into protests and questions.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Thalia yelled, "They're obviously the teachers. They know fighting. So get over it."

"Yeah!" Nico said, "I don't like teaching, but I'm way better than those two at fighting!"

"No you aren't!" Thalia said, "I'm way better than you'll ever be!"

"Pfff, yeah right, you fight like a girl!"

"You fight like a baby girl!"

"You fight like an old lady!"

"You fight like an old lady in high heels!"

"You fight like a drunk Lady Gaga!"

"You fight like Drew Tanaka!"

"You fight like a ant!"

"You fight like a pillow!"

"You look like an ant with all that black!"

"You do too! You look like a squashed, half-decayed, deformed beetle!"

"You look like-"

"Guys," Annabeth slapped her forehead and slid her hand down, "that is the stupidest arguement ever. Just stop, there's a class here."

They stopped.

Annabeth waited a few seconds, they started, "I know you guys think that your wand is your advantage, but you'll have a better advantage if you can fight well physically as well, because Death Eaters also rely on their wands. If you are disarmed, or your wand snaps, the Death Eater won't expect you to still be able to fight physically too. If you manage to disarm the Death Eater, you'll get an advantage."

"We're only going to teach you to punch and kick correctly today," Percy, "and the other exchange students are also going to help around."

"Okay," Annabeth started explaining how to punch and block correctly then he said, "Okay let's have two volunteers who will ONLY punch and block. No kicking or wands. Okay who wants to go?"

A bunch of people raised their hands. Then Drew's hand shot up and was waving it in the air and jumping up and down and shouting, "PICK ME PICK ME!!" like she was Hermione.

Instantly everyone else's hand went down, she must have been known to be very violent.

"The first volunteer is uh, what's your name?" Percy questioned.

"Drew."

"Okay, anyone else?"

A bunch of people shook their heads vigorously.

"Okay Drew you can pick someone," Annabeth said.

Everyone looked horrified, especially Malfoy.

And she did pick on him. Malfoy looked like he was going to faint. With wobbling legs, he walked towards Drew, and nearly tripped halfway over.

"Ready?" Percy shouted, "3, 2, 1 GO!!"

Immediately Drew lunged towards him. Malfoy screamed, "Not the face!" But he didn't even give her a chance to punch his face, because he ran all the way to the back of the room and hid behind Goyle.

"Anyone else?" Percy said. When no one else volunteered, he scratched his head, "Okay then, moving on."

Harry's POV

In Divination.

Professor Trelawney stepped into the room, and immediately she shrieked and dropped the crystal ball she was holding. It shattered on the floor at her feet. She paid it no attention and pointed at Percy.

Percy looked scared, he looked behind him like she might be pointing to someone else, but he was sitting at the back, so nobody was behind him, "Um...did I do something wrong?"

"You..." something about her voice had changed, "A half-blood of the eldest *choking noise*, shall reach sixteen against all odds, seven halfbloods shall answer the call, you shall find what was stolen and—" she blinked, then she took a step forward and stepped on the glass, "Oh goodness! Reparo," the crystal ball repaired itself, and she scooped it up. She showed no sign that she had just said some creepy things. I exchanged a look at Ron. Ron started quickly writing down what she had said.

"Today we are going to be reading tea leaves again, since you all don't seem to get it right."

"I don't like tea," I heard Nico mutter at the table behind me.

 "I hear you man," Leo said, "can't we just get some cold water and dump some lettuce in?"

I drank the tea and passed it to Ron, who passed his to me (Hermione had quit Divination). I examined it, it really just looked like a clump of tea leaves. Maybe it's a plant then. I flipped through the book, "Yours looks like a plant, so you're going to get lost in a forest."

"Wizards don't get lost! You can just Apparate out! Everyone's looks like a plant!" Ron threw his hands up in the air, exasperated.

"Yours looks like a ball with a lot of pointy spikes Leo," Nico said, "maybe it's a durian."

Leo snatched his cup back, "Nono, it looks like a fireball!"

"Sooo," he flipped through the pages, "you're going to die in a house fire."

Leo blinked, "I guess it's not a fireball then."

"Maybe the roof collasped on top of you, or the smoke suffocated you."

"Huh, maybe. Yours looks like a tree with a really thick trunk with two apples in it."

"A tree? Isn't that supposed to be Thalia?" he took his cup and rolled his eyes, "it doesn't look anything like a tree, I think it's a skull."

"Ohhh," Leo's mouth made a big 'O', "that makes more sense."

"Mine looks like a knife," Thalia said.

Nico turned around and took it, "It looks like a corn plant."

"Nico, that's you," she snapped.

"Maybe it's a tree," Leo offered.

"It looks nothing like a tree! What do you like about trees so much that makes you think so much of them Leo?"

"Um...I don't know, maybe it's a tree with no branches."

"Shut up, I think it's a knife."

"No it's a corn plant!"

"Why would it be a corn plant?"

"Well it looks like one!"

"It looks more like a knife!"

"No, see here, it's curved, like a corn plant!"

"It's not that curved!"

"The handle there is too thick to be a knife!"

"It is not! What do you know about knives? You don't even know how to spell it!"

"You don't either!"

"And how would you know that?"

"Then how do you spell it?"

Thalia blinked, "Uh...N-I-F-E!" How does she not know how to spell it? Then I remembered their dyslexia. Wow it must be horrible to be dyslexic.

"I think it's like K-N-I-F!"

"Why would there be a K? There's no k sound!"

"Why's there an E? There's no e sound either!"

"I think there's a K!"

"I'm sure that there's an E!"

"PROVE IT!" they shouted at each other

"Leo how do you spell knife?"

"Um...I don't know."

Then Thalia asked her table, Katie, Clarisse, and Lou weren't sure either. But Clarisse thought that there might be a k.

"Hey Will do you—" Nico started.

"Yes, it's K-N-I-F-E," he responded.

"AHA!! There is a K!" Nico shouted.

"I told you there's an E!"

Then they started arguing about who was more right.

Professor Trelawney went to Percy's table, "Ah Percy!" Percy flinched and edged away from her like she was a creepy monster. I don't blame him. She took his cup and dropped it, shattering it on the floor. What's with all the shattering? 

"Waves! Your tea leaves are waves! This is first time this has happened!" she clutched her heart, and Lavender and Parvati gasped. "You! You will drown in a shipwreck!"

Percy blinked, "Really? Um...okaaay..."

Annabeth snorted and most of the Americans started to laugh.

"I'd love to see him try!" Thalia laughed. I frowned, anyone could drown! Sure you could use a spell or gillyweed. But still.

"Maybe the water is poisonous," Piper suggested.

"Oh," Nico said, "that's possible."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "What are the chances you're gonna get shipwrecked in poisonous water?"

"You know..." Nico made a triangle with his hands. He switched to Greek, The Sea of Monsters, or the Bermuda Triangle as the mortals call it.

"The water's not poisonous there."

"It could be. Some monsters could make it poisonous."

"Huh."

Professor Trelawney went over to Nico and picked up his cup, "GAH!" she dropped it. It fell on the table, "You...it is a skull!"

"See?" Nico said smugly to Leo.

"It really did look like an apple tree!" Leo protested.

"Yeah right," Thalia said.

"You...Nico di Angelo will," she used that strange voice again, "The dead, the traitor, the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, twins snuff out the angel's breah, who holds the key to endless death," her voice changed back to normal, "die in darkness, overwhelmed by your own undead warriors!" I wondered why she didn't just say Inferi, oh well, whatever.

"Uh, Professor, are you sure about that?" what was he talking about? Well I guess Trelawney's prediction sounded pretty far fetched, but still.

"Yes I am! You don't have long! I would stay in the light if I were you!"

Nico looked freaked, but I had a feeling it was because of the weird things she said about the angel's breath. Then I noticed that Nico's last name was di Angelo. It was probably just a coincedence though. Possibly.

"Hey Professor! Is mine a knife or a corn plant?!" Thalia asked.

"Or is it a tree?" Leo added.

"Leo, it is not, a tree," Thalia glared at him, "I repeat, it is not a tree!"

"Yeah!" Nico nodded, "It's a corn plant!"

"No it's a knife!"

"I still think it looks like a tree!" Leo shrieked.

Trelawney started staring at Leo.

"It's a tree right?" Leo asked her.

"Seven halfbloods shall answer the call, an oath to keep with a final breath," she blinked, "No I'm sure it is certainly not a tree," she stared at Thalia's cup intently, "it is a knife! You will have a tragedy that is caused by a knife! Be careful dear Thalia five shall go west to the *cough* in chains, Campers and Hunters—"

"Oh will you stop sprouting out our prophecies? We know them already! Like seriously, it's freaking us out!"

I blinked. There was no way. Just no way, that those were their prophecies. Maybe she just meant a prophecy, not their prophecies.

"Prophecies? I have not said anything about prophecies! What are you talking about Thalia?"

"You totally did! You said like parts of like 5 different prophecies we were in!" then she stopped for a moment, "Ohh I see, you don't remember you saying them."

"I said a prophecy?" she said excitedly.

"No, you said parts of like 5 prophecies, and they've all already come true." 

"What? That's not possible!"

"Well it is and you'd better stop it because it's freaking us out!"

"Oh...well alright," Trelawney shuffled away from her.

 Thalia turned to Nico, "HA! I told you it was a knife!"

"That doesn't mean that it doesn't look like one!"

They started arguing about whether it looks more like a knife or a corn plant, with Leo chiming in once in a while saying it looks like a tree. Then they got into a heated arguement on how to spell tree. When Ron said that it was spelled, T-R-E-E, Thalia yelled, "Who's side are you on?"

Poor Ron just said, "Um...my side."

"Then why did you say he was right?" Thalia shouted.

"Er..."

"He's on my side! I'm was right! I told you it's spelled like that!"

Then they started arguing about who's side Ron was on.

It was kind of hard to ignore them because they were shouting and yelling right behind me. And Trelawney didn't seem anxious to tell Thalia off.

Finally Annabeth shouted, "WILL YOU GUYS JUST STOP?!"

"He/She started it!" they pointed at each other.

Annabeth gave them a death glare.

They turned around and continued reading tea leaves.