Chapter 14
Percy’s POV:
Striding back into the classroom, I check the clock seeing that it had only been mere minutes since I had left. Glancing back to the class I gaze out onto the sea of confused faces. Poor things have no clue what’s coming for them. Cue evil laughter here, but you know in my head because that would be creepy otherwise.
“Oh Mischief darling, come in here would you?” At that I see the comprehension hit Hermione’s face, as a red and purple Weasley skips into the room. Skipping Wiz? Seriously?
“Yes, oh fearless leader?” He’ll never let me forget that one will he.
“Why do you look like a kid’s art project?” Looking down he realized that he hadn’t rinsed the powder off yet. “Go into my office and get clean up before you get… whatever that is everywhere.”
“Ma’am yes ma’am.” Smartass.
Saluting he marches into the small back room of an office, closing the door behind him. Right when one door closes, the one from the hallway opens, showing a pink and blue Weasley. This, of course, causes the confused murmurs to start.
“Baby shower is no better a look that failed finger painting you know.” I sass, pointing to my office. Now for the true fun to start.
After some thumping, screeching, bright flashes, and mild explosions, the door to my office opens to show two Weasleys standing there looking guilty. Glancing at me, the class, each other, and then me again, they simultaneously yell “He did it!” while pointing at the other. With their wands. Turning each other into chimpanzees. At this point the muttering has turned into mild mayhem cause isn’t one of the twins, you know, dead. Luckily the trio from this summer have caught on.
“Oh my lord what did you do!” Hermione yells, standing up and pointing at the two monkeying around on the floor. Hehehe monkeying around. Get it, cause they’re chimps. Never mind.
Rolling my eyes, I turn the twins back into humans before crossing my arms. Looking down on them I have a ‘are you kidding me’ look on my face, before breaking into an impish grin. Of course, the boys follow suit and soon we’re choking out bursts of laughter at the poor confused, and mildly terrified, students.
“All right, all right. That’s enough. Class I’m sure you know Fred and George. They are going to be my test dummies for how to fight magic without magic. Or at least Fred is. George just wanted to mess with you. And no, neither of them are zombies. Now come on Wiz, it’s time to get your butt kicked by a girl again.”
The pained groan that leaves him at that statement makes me grin, before taking a few steps back and drawing my sword. Glancing around, I see that everyone has settled back and is watching with rapt attention. They haven’t actually seen me fight since that first day against the demigods.
As my back is turned Fred tries to stun me but I swing my sword up, blocking the spell and sending it flying back towards him. With a faint meep he dives out of the way, casing offensive and defensive spells and hexes in fast succession. Defending myself using my sword in my left hand, I grab my wand with my right and put up a shield between our duel and the students so that I don’t have to worry about them as much. Grinning, no it wasn’t manically that just how it always looks, I put my wand away before advancing on Fred. Within seconds I have his wand in my hand and my sword at his throat.
“I win!” I shout cheerfully, tossing him his wand and turning around to see the looks of awe on the faces of most of the others in the room. The demigods only look slightly stunned since they had watched all of the seven training together before. “Now do you see why you need to be able to defend yourself with something other than magic?”
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The rest of class everyone seemed to go at their studies with a renewed vigor, which was a relief to me. When the class ended, I grabbed Wiz’s hand to stop him from leaving yet.
“Freddy-boy can I ask you something?”
“Sure thing, Little Mermaid, what do you need?”
“I, um, I have a bad feeling that the thing that I was sent here to protect the wizards from will be here soon and I just, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to stay after the battle. I want you to- will you just- please promise me that you’ll finish out the year for me afterwards. Make sure that they can protect themselves. Please Wiz.”
“Of course, I’ll look after them for you Perce. But you’ll be fine, I know you will.”
“I know I just, I can’t help but to worry. The way that Hecate said it, she made it sound like the enemy is someone I’ve fought before but that can’t be possible, can it? I mean it’s too soon for any of the big-bads I faced during my life to have reformed… right?”
I mean there’s no way it can be Gaia, we put her back to sleep. And Kronos is scattered to the four winds in teeny tiny pieces. So, who could it be? The Doors of Death are closed, Atlas is still holding the sky, and everyone else is peaceful, right?