Chapter 5

Percy sighed as he sipped his coke from his extra large cup. He walked out of the movies once again disappointed by the movie he just saw. To everyone else here the movie was new and interesting, but for Percy it was ancient history. Well maybe not ancient, but definitely old.

It was the end of May, a little over three months had passed by since Percy came back to 1994. He had spent most of that time being trained into the dirt by a slave driving goddess of magic, but he didn't mind. After all it was magic! Who didn't want to learn magic!?

Although to be honest Percy did feel like simply snapping his wand and running away just to get rid of it all. It was interesting, but God's, one can only learn the same stupid thing over and over until they almost lose their mind!

And that was why days like this was there. Days when Hecate allowed Percy to move about freely in Surrey and allow him to experience a mortal life. He got a day off every other week, and mostly Percy ued that time to see a movie or walk around in the park.

Today Percy saw a movie called 'When a Man Loves a Woman,' a sappy romantic drama. He didn't really see these kinds of films, but that was the point. The movies he did already see would bore the hell out of him, so if he ever wanted to see something new and interesting he would need to improve his choice in movies.

To be honest though Percy didn't mind the film, though he would never admit this to anyone. The film was about a woman who was an alcoholic that is helped to sober up by her husband. It was sad, it was sappy and honestly had a lot of heart. Though if you saw Percy tear up in the end he would swear up and down it was because the theater was dusty.

Percy looked up and saw the sun setting in the distance, he didn't have to go home just yet, he still had some time for himself. He walked down the street when he saw a pair of boys and a pair of girls walk in front of him.

The woman looked around Percy's age, maybe a bit younger. The boys though...Percy narrowed his eyes, the boys looked familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it. One of the boys looked like a little rat, with large front teeth and a skinny frame, while the other was fat, like the size of a small whale fat. The small puff of hair on the top his head honestly looked like a toupee, and it's bowl cut hair style wasn't gaining him any favours.

"So did you like the movie Cassy?" the fat boy asked in a tone Percy recognized, the kid was head over heels in love.

"It was really good," the girl, Classy maybe, replied. She had black hair that came down to her shoulders. Her friend and her both wore a white shirt and black and green checked skirt, it looked like a school uniform.

"Yeah, thanks for the tickets fat ass," the other girl smirked. This one had brown hair with blonde streaks running through it. "Still don't understand how your parents let you spend so much money."

"Oh that's because little Dudely here is rich as fuck! All he has to do is put on an innocent face and mommy and daddy will come running to him!" The thin boy said with a snort.

"Shut up Piers! That's very rude!" Cassie yelled out.

"Bite me bitch."

"Is that anyway to talk to your sister?!"

"Only when she acts like a stuck up brat!"

"Apologize right now Piers! Or I swear to God I'll tell mom you skipped school today to come with us to the theater!"

"So what? You and Jenny will get in trouble too!"

"No, I won't, today was a half day for us, so we won't."

"Gr...fine, I'm sorry," Pier looked away grumbling under his breath while Casey and Jenny looked happy at the younger boy's suffering.

Percy chuckled, he couldn't help it, the way they acted reminded him so much of himself and Annabeth. The group heard Percy chuckled and turned around. The demigod ignored their stares and walked passed them, his head filled with nostalgic memories of his past, or future, life.

"Hey Dudley, isn't that the guy who beat you up?" Piers asked frowning in recollection.

"Piers!" Dudley hissed as he quickly put his hand over his mouth.

"What was that?" Cassy perked up, "who did what?"

"Nothing!" Dudley cried out, "he didn't say anything." Piers looked like he wanted to say something but one glare from Dudley shut the boy up.

"Dudley," Cassy narrowed her eyes, "what did that boy do to you?"

"Nothing Cassy I swear-"

"-Dudley," Cassy cut into his rambling, "tell me. Please."

Dudley looked at Piers and sighed. He removed his hand from the boy's mouth and hung his head in shame, "a few days ago that guy beat me up and took my money. He then...he then broke my wrist."

"That's why your are was in a sling for a week?" Jenny asked turning to glare at Percy's retreating form, "I thought you said you sprained when cleaning your room?"

Dudley looked up guiltily, "yeah, I know. I lied. I …..didn't want you to think less of me," shooting Cassy a pleading look.

The older girl's heart broke at Dudley's defeated look. He was the kindest sweetest boy she knew, and didn't deserve to be treated like this. She turned to Percy and glared taking off in a pint of rage.

"Cassy no stop!" Dudley called out as they chased after the girl.

"Hey you!" Cassy called out.

Percy looked up at the stars and smiled, 'Zoe isn't up there yet, she's alive. I wonder if I could see here again?' He was lost in his own mind, not paying attention to the girl charging at him.

"Hey!" Cassy called out pulled Percy back by the shoulder. The demigod turned around in surprise and saw Cassy glare down at him.

Percy raised an eyebrow, "can I help you?"

Cassy growled, "yeah, my friend, you broke his wrist, I want you to apologize."

Dudley and the others had caught up by now, and Dudley called out, "please Cassy, don't-"

"-No Dudley! This guy deserves it! He bullied you!" Cassy snapped to Percy, "you hurt my friend, apologize right now and I won't call the coppers on you."

Percy raised an eyebrow, "okay….I'm sorry but what?"

Cassy growled, "don't act like you don't know! You broke Dudley's wrist!" Cassy pointed at the fat boy who smirked in triumph.

Percy looked between the fat boy and the girl currently glaring him down and sighed. 'One evening, can't I just have one evening alone?'. "Look lady I don't who you are and I don't care. So please leave me alone."

Cassy looked pissed, "not until you apologize to my friend you Yancky!"

"There's that word again, Yanky, I don't know why but I feel so dirty every time I hear it. It's like a slur, did you mean it like a slur?"

"What? Well...yes!"

"Well….then you are a racist."

"What?!" their eyes shot open.

"What? Just because I'm from a different country I deserve to be called by a slur? Screw you lady, and you, fat boy," Percy glared at Dudley and glared, "I didn't lift a finger on you last time, and you still ended up with a broken hand. What do you think I can do if you really piss me off?"

Dudley gulped as he quickly went to Cassy, "come on Cassie, we need to go."

"No Dudely," Cassy pulled away from the boy glaring at Percy, "we can't let him get away with this."

Percy sighed, "look lady I don't even know what you don't want me to get away with!"

"You bullied Dudley and broke his hand!"

"Okay, first off, I didn't bully the fat boy," Percy glared again at Dudley causing him to flinch once more, "if anything I stopped him from bullying someone."

"What?" Cassy turned around and looked to Dudely only for the boy to be unable to meet her eyes.

"Yeah, he was chasing some brat for cash, and I got in his way. And then he got angry and tried to hit me. As far as I'm concerned he got what he got, now kindly fuck off," Percy turned around and walked away.

Cassy growled and chased after him, "where do you think you're going?! You think I'll just believe such a lie?! Dudley is the sweetest boy in the world! He would never do something like that!"

"Then you don't know the fat ass as well as you think," Percy shot back.

"ARGH! Where do you get off calling someone that?!"

"Where do you get odd accusing someone without proof?" Percy began walking back to the residential area of Surrey with the little gang of teenagers following him. He saw the entrance to the park and decided to go through it, it was shorter through it than around.

"I have proof!"

"The word of a bully isn't enough."

"He isn't a bully!"

"Yes he is!"

"No he isn't! I've known him since birth! He would never do something like that!"

"Obviously not," Percy rolled his eyes, "why would he show you that? He's obviously not going to advertise that he's an asshole."

"I'm not an asshole!" Dudley called back.

"Yes you are, you are a giant one," Percy shot back a glare, "now stop following me twerps!"

"We can do whatever we want!" Cassy jumped in front of Percy stopping him in his track. She crossed her arms and glared up at him, "apologize to Dudley right now."

"Or what? You'll beat me up?" Percy chuckled.

"No...or I'll tell your parents."

Percy couldn't help snorting, "yeah good luck with that."

Cassy looked taken back, "what? W-why is that?" She looked like she was afraid of the answer.

Percy couldn't help laughing, "no no, they aren't dead. It's just...complicated. Anyway step off, I get one free day a week and I don't want to spend it getting insulted by a little girl who has no idea what she's talking about."

Cassy gaped as Percy stepped around her and walked further into the park. The sun was nearly gone now, the park had gotten really dark. The trees became dark as the shadows took over the grounds. The street lights came on, but Percy still didn't feel safe. He wanted to get out of this place, now.

Cassy finally snapped out of her daze and turned around, "get back here you bloody yanky!"

"Fuck off you racist Brit!"

"Not until you apologize for hurting my friend!"

Percy stopped and turned around. He growled and Cassy backed up startled by his actions. He walked over her as Cassy backed up into Dudley and the rest who were cuddled together. Percy towered over the group with his impressive height and stared them down.

"Listen carefully because I won't repeat myself. I didn't hit the fat shit. He punched me and he broke his hand because he obviously didn't know how to punch. It was an accident he caused. So for the last time as you Brits would say, bugger off, stop following me and for the love of the Gods, don't call me a Yankee! Got it?!"

The group nodded as one. Percy smiled as he backed away, "good. Now run along, I have more important things to-"

Crack!

Percy startled as he whipped his head towards the sound. It sounded like a branch breaking, expect what broke it sounded big and very heavy. Percy felt the hair on his neck rise up, his gut told him to be weary, something was coming, something bad.

Percy threw away his soda and grabbed Riptide out. He had his wand strapped to his hand, but he couldn't' use that, the Mist would protect him if he used Riptide, but it offered so such protection when dealing with magic. Stupid thing, so bloody fickle.

Percy turned to the teens, "leave. Now."

"What?" Jenny asked.

"I told you leave," Percy said as he looked around. He could see something moving in the shadows just behind the trees. It was big, it was hairy. And something told Percy it was coming for him. And that mean he needed to get the mortals away from him.

Cassy growled, "look brat I don't know who you think are, but we don't' have to listen to you!"

Percy looked at her and narrowed his eyes, "do you wish to live?"

"What?" Casey asked taken back.

"I asked you if you wished to live?" Percy repeated.

"Y-yeah, why?"

"Then leave, now," Percy looked around, 'there!' He saw something moving by the pond, it ran around the edge, but Percy could still catch up if he wished. "Listen, there is something in here with us, a wild animal maybe. So turn around and walk out the way you came in."

"An animal?!" Piers shrieked, "here?!"

"Yes, and shut up!" Percy hissed, "do you want it know where we are?" Piers gulped and shut his mouth. Percy turned to Cassy, "take them all and leave. Don't look back."

"W-what about you?" Casey asked.

"Don't worry, I can take care of myself," Percy then turned and ran towards the pond, "get out of here!"

Percy didn't bother to check if they listened to his warnings, he instead focused on the monster in front of him. He ran to the lake and looked around, he saw a footprint in the muddy area around the water, it was just here.

Percy flicked the cap off Riptide turning it into the bronze sword that saved his life many times over. Percy lowered his center of gravity and looked around, 'where are you?'

Crack!

Percy turned and swung his sword. "AW!" Cassie yelled, as Percy stopped himself inches from her neck.

Percy gasped as he quickly drew back his sword, "what are you doing here?! I told you to leave!"

"W-we didn't want to leave you here with an animal," Cassie said as she eyed Riptide, "where did you get a cricket bat?"

Percy raised an eyebrow as he looked at the sword, 'oh right, the Mist. To her Riptide must look like a bat.'

"Trade secret," Percy grumbled as he looked over her shoulder and found the rest of Cassy's friends standing behind her huddled together. Percy sighed, "look it's sweet that you care, but I can handle myself. The best thing right now would be for you four to leave and never come-"

"GRAA!"

Percy turned just in time to see a blur of black jump out of the tall grass and charge at him.

'Hellhound!' Percy realised as he shoved Cassy away and swung at the monster's head. The hellhound ducked under the swing and head butted Percy in the gut. Percy was sent flying back as the hellhound turned to Cassie and the rest.

"B-bear!" Dudley cried out as he ran behind Jenny shaking in fear.

"How is that a bear?! There are no bears in little Surrey!" Pier cried out. The Mist had changed their perception, instead of a hellhound they saw a large bear, that was currently looking at them like they were his next meal.

Cassy was on the ground as she crawled back. She shock in fear as she started at the monster in horror. The thing sniffed the air and looked down at the girl. Cassy flinched as the bear growled at her, slowly walking towards her.

'No! No! Not like this!' Cassie cried to herself as her life flashed before her eyes. She didn't want to die, she didn't want to be shredded into pieces by some animal!

The bear charged at her, "GRRR!"

Cassy put her arms up and yelled, "someone help!"

Percy shot forward, passed the mortal teenagers and into the hellhound. He hit the thing like a lead cannon ball sending the monster and himself flying into the lake. The Hellhound tried to swim up to the surface but Percy caught it by its paw and pulled it into the pond's murky bed.

The hellhound scratched and clawed Percy tearing into his clothes, but it's claws didn't break Percy's skin, thank you curse of Achilles. The hound roared, but it's voice was was muffled by the water around.

Percy grinned, he controlled the water in here, here no one could beat him. He pushed the water to grab the hellhound and hold it steady. The hound tried to move but found the very water around it pushing back. Percy then swung Riptide and in a flash of bronze the battle was over.

The hellhounds body slowly turned into golden dust, as Percy sighed in relief. He quickly turned Riptide back into a pen and swam up to the surface. He broke the water surface and walked to back to land.

'Where the Hades did that thing come from?' Percy wondered spitting out some of the mud that got into his mouth, 'did...did it follow my scent all the way to England? Am I really that powerful?'

"You're okay!" Percy looked up and found Casy and the others looking at him in wonder.

Percy rolled his eyes, 'right forgot about these guys,' Percy realised he needed to keep up his cover, can't risk them finding out about him. Usually Percy would dry himself off when coming out of a water body, but now he had to will himself to let the water remain, if he walked out of a pond dry as a whistle there would definitely be questions asked.

"I'm fine," Percy sighed as he looked down, "though I might need a change of clothes."

Cassy and Jenny looked at Percy's ripped clothes and blushed. They could see his toned body underneath, they were just lucky it was dark or else everyone could see the red in their cheeks.

"Where's the bear?!" Piers asked as Percy walked on shore.

"Down in the bottom on the lake," Percy motioned behind him to the water.

"What?! How?!" Cassie asked.

"It drowned," Percy shrugged.

"It drowned?!" Jenny asked unbelievingly, "you drowned a bear?!"

"Well, not me, I just swam away until it drowned itself."

"You out swam a bear?!" Jenny asked in awe, "how?!"

"I'm the state swimming champion in America, no big deal," Percy shrugged, which was only half true. He probably could be the champion, he just never tried to be.

"Are you okay?" Callie asked in concern as she pushed aside Percy's torn shirt, "how did it not get you?"

"I have thick skin," Percy shrugged.

Cassy looked Percy up and down, "look we need to get you to a hospital immediately."

"Oh relax I'll be fine," Percy said waving her away, "I just need a bath and a change of clothes and I'll be peachy."

"You were just attacked by a bear!" Casey shoot back, "there's no way you are just fine!"

"And yet I am," Percy chuckled.

"You're a freak!" Dudley shouted out as everyone turned to him.

Percy raised an eyebrow, "what do you mean?"

"Y-you're a freak! There's no way a normal person can do all that! You are freak! Just like Harry!"

"Harry? Harry who?" Percy asked.

"Harry Potter, a troublemaker and Dudley's cousin," Jenny explained as he spat out the name.

Percy rummaged his head and remember something about this Harry Potter they were talking about. He recalled something Hecate said about him, he was a wizard and he was the reason Percy lived here in the first place.

"Right...okay, well it's been fun gang, let's not do this again," Percy said as he walked away from them intent of reaching hom as fast as he could. He needed to talk to Hecate about what just happened, something didn't sit right with him.

Percy walked out of the park and walked to privet drive. He looked back and found the mortal teenagers following him. He stopped and turned around, "I told you four to fuck off."

"We aren't following you freak!" Dudley yelled with bravery that wasn't there before, it was like the very word freak gave Dudley a reason to be angry, "we are just going home."

Percy was surprised, "wait, so you all live in Privet drive as well?"

They looked surprised. "What do you mean as well? Do you live there too?" Jenny asked.

"Yes, I'm in number 7," Percy turned around and walked away.

"Hey wait!" Cassy said as they caught up to him. She walked besides him, "when did you move in?"

"At the end of February," Percy explained.

"But we haven't seen you!" Piers called out, "everytime I go there the windows are drawn."

"That's because my aunt is a little shy," Percy shrugged, "no big deal."

"No it's because he's a freak and he's too embarrassed to talk to us normal people," Dudley growled as he glared daggers into Percy's back.

"Dudley!" Cassie gasped, "why are you acting like this! Apologize at once!"

"Why should I? He's a no good freak! Like Harry!"

"He isn't a freak Dudley!"

"He just drowned a bear and came back without a scratch! And you don't think he's a freak?!"

Percy had enough. He turned around and walked up to Dudley so quickly the fat boy tripped and fell as he tried to get away. Percy looked down at the boy and growled "listen very closely fat boy, I don't like being called a freak. I don't care what your problem is with this Harry guy, whether you secretly want to fuck him and have his children is your business, just don't involve me. And yeah you're right, I just took down a bear and drowned it, so what do you think I can do to you?"

Dudley kept quiet whimpering at Percy's snarl. Percy turned around and walked away. "Don't follow me," he told the others as he quickly walked away.

He reached home without incident, the other four didn't bother following him again. He entered the house and immediately dried himself, though by now he was half way dry already. "Hecate! We need to talk!"

The goddess walked down the stairs with a cup of tea and a book in hand. She looked at Percy in surprise, "you're home early, did something happen?"

"Yeah, something did."

They sat down at the table Percy used to study and quickly the demigod told her off his evening. At the end of the tale Hecate was surprised and very silent.

"So what do you think is going on?" Percy asked once he was done.

"Your scent...you are one of the most powerful demigods in the world, and your scent can only be that much more attractive to monsters. This one must have accidentally wandered off until it smelt you."

"How can a monster accidently wander into another country? Especially one that is separated from America by a freaking ocean."

"Tell me Percy have you heard about the labyrinth?"

"Well yeah, but it got destroyed last…..summer..." Percy remembered his adventure in the labyrinth, in the end it was destroyed. But here, in the past, it still existed, meaning monsters could still use it. "Shit."

"Indeed. We need to do something to stop your scent."

"Okay, makes sense. Do you have a spell or something for me to use?"

"No, no you don't understand. Your scent is a part of your demigod heritage. You can't really stop it by any mortal means, especially not something as mundane as a spell. No, for that you will need the help of a God. Or more specifically, your dad."

Percy's eyes shot open, "I'm sorry, what now?"

"Your father. We need his help, I have a way to stop the scent, but for that we need a single strand of your father's hair."

"So we need to find my dad? But I thought the Fates didn't want us to see any of the divines?"

"They didn't...but this is an emergency. I'll talk to them about it, maybe they can help. For now stay here, the wards Harry provides will be enough to keep the monsters away from this house. Unfortunately that means you can't leave Percy. I'm sorry."

Percy sighed, "no, no it's fine. Anyway about Harry, tell me, who exactly is this guy?"

"Huh? Why? What brought this on?"

"Well I had the pleasure of meeting his cousin today," Percy growled at the memory of Dudley, "he called Harry a freak. Figured the guy was probably freaked out by Harry's magic or something."

"Well you see...it's a long story."

"We have nothing but time."

"Well….I supposed we do. Well then to tell the story of Harry Potter I'm going to have to first tell you about a man named Tom Riddle."

That night Percy learnt all about the blood war and who Voldemort was. The man sounded like a fucked up version of Kronos, expect Voldemort sounded even more evil, if that was even possible. Percy grew to respect the Potter kid, growing up alone would be hard on anyone. And him being called the saviour of the wizarding world struck a familiar chord with him, after all Percy was called the saviour of Olympus.

The next day Percy found himself sitting alone at home. He twirled his wand between his fingers as he brushed up on his notes on the various spells he had learnt over the past two months.

Percy's skills in potions had only improved in time. According to Hecate he was at least a beginner NEWT level, whatever that meant. Whenever he could Percy would have these little side projects making whatever potion that interested him.

He made a couple of basic antidote potions, a Baroffio Brain Elixir which improved one's brain power. A grand pepperup potion, and the most complex potion he had made to date, an invisibility potion. And many more that he makes on a whim. Percy kept all of them and more inside a locked strong box, just in case he needed them.

Astrology was also going well as Percy had quickly found a liking to star gazing. He wasn't a prodigy or anything like that, he didn't really take to the subject. But he knew enough to pass his exams and liked to look at the stars, apparently for Hecate that was enough.

Percy had also become OWL ready in the various other fields of magic. Transfiguration was a snap, he was able to do it easily once he realised he had to visualise what he wanted the object to turn into. Percy was actually quite good at it.

The demigod remember how his training started. Hecate had given him a slab of wood and told him to turn it into a sword. Percy had tried over and over again, he begged to start with something simple first, but the goddess refused saying that needed to struggle first and that his magic could handle it.

It took him so long, but finally it hit him. He said the spell and waved the wand, but he never really imagined what the sword should look like. And so with a clear image in mind he tried the spell out again, and this time the wooden slab turned into a steel version of Riptide.

Soon the trials became more and more ridiculous. He transformed elements, turned animals into objects and vice-versa. There was even a time when Hecate made him transform his own feet, though he botched it up and the goddess was forced to help him turn him back to normal.

But eventually he became good at it and Hecate allowed him to start reading up on becoming an animagus, she told him it would be a great thing if he could learn to do it before his OWLs. But unfortunately he didn't really make much progress there, the subject was still too hard for him, though he was making progress.

Charms was not Percy's favorite subject, he had a problem at first in making the charms stick to the objects he applied it too. It was similar to him learning the levitation charm, he just needed to focus and push his magic out without doubt.

Hecate trained him by making him charm all the appliance in the house. She broke everything down, and made Percy fix it all using magic.

Once when he was taking a dump he realised that the flush was broken. He tried to charm the water to flush down, but failed. Luckily by then Percy had learnt the vanishing spell and simply sent the feces away or else he was going to have a very bad time.

Percy had to charm the pipes together, make the roof stop breaking apart and even stop a pumpkin from chasing him and barking it's insides all over his face. No, it literally grew legs and started chasing Percy. Hecate has a sick sense of humor.

And then came care of magical creatures. Percy had read up on all the theory easily, it was similar to his categorizing his potions ingredient. And when he was done with a particular creature Hecate would take him to meet them.

She took him to ranch to meet a gnarl, the woods to find unicorns and even to a lake to show him the various underwater magical creatures.

Percy had obviously took to the underwater creatures quickly, learning about them was easy in his book, maybe because he was a demigod of the sea. Either way Percy had gotten a lot of experience to magical creatures because of this.

He remembered one time when Hecate brought him towards a herd of unicorns and told him to touch them.

"But Hecate I can't. I'm a boy, don't unicorns prefer virgins girls?"

Hecate shock her head, "well you see your father is the lord of all horses, and unicorns are considered horses. So you are their prince in a way. I'm sure they wouldn't mind."

Percy turned to the unicorns and gulped, "if they ram their horns up my ass it's your fault."

He approached them carefully. The unicorns looked up and noticed him. At once they bowed, "lord Perseus."

Percy blinked in surprise. And just like that he became the first and probably last man to ever touch a unicorn's snot. It felt like heaven touching those creatures, so pure and full of joy. Percy could honestly say he had never felt like that before.

Percy had also taken up a new hobby, creating spells. He learnt upto OWL level for both Runes and Arithmancy and was exceedingly good at it. Using them as a bases Percy started creating spells left and right.

He would calculate the wand movements needed using arithmetic formulas and then reverse engineer runes to words to find out what he would need to say. Percy was proud to state that he had a 89% success rate at this point, the only spell that he failed to create was one that would conjure a large pepperoni pizza. Apparently it went against one of the laws of magic or something.

This hobby of his became useful later when he started to learn about 'Defence Against the Dark Arts'. He learnt and dissected spells, learning everything there was too know about them. What made a spell work, how did they target an opponent, and most importantly, how to make them better.

Percy took to DADA as well as he took to potions. He broke down and created new spells practically overnight. And while he did become good enough to take his OWLs he didn't stop there. He learnt everything he could, and eventually Hecate left him to his own devises content that he could take care of himself.

Herbology was a relatively easy subject for him. Since it mainly dealt with harvesting potion ingredients and Percy had already learnt about all of them already it was more of a brush up than anything else. He just had to learn how to get the ingredient, he already knew about the plants magical properties.

And then there was history of magic, it was fully theory. Percy didn't have to do much, just read a couple of book, the blood band helped him remember everything he learnt allowing him to become OWL ready in a week's time.

Percy shut his notes and put it too the side. He sighed, 'I can't believe I did so much in so little time. Damn, if only Annabeth could see me now,'

Knock knock!

Percy raised an eyebrow, 'we have a visitor?...but we never have visitors.' Percy walked up to the window. He pushed the shades to the side and saw a thin woman with the neck of a swan glaring at his door.

'What new hell is this?' Percy groaned. She was trouble, obviously, and Percy didn't really want to deal with her right now. He went back to his seat and ignored her until she knocked again.

Knock knock!

This time it was louder. Percy groaned. He took out his wand and flicked it sending a silencing spell at the door. Percy smiled as the constant knocking stopped, 'Gods I love magic.'

After that unwanted intrusion left Percy quickly went back to studying. He still had a lot to do, mostly just revising what he had already covered and then covering what he didn't. He was sure he would pass in his charms and transfiguration, but rather not risk it. He didn't want to be stuck with a bunch of 15 year old just because he couldn't make an egg dance.

That night Hecate came back and sat down with Percy. She pulled out two long boxes that looked like they were meant for wands, but when she opened it Percy found two strands of hair.

"So you got it?" Percy asked as he saw what he assumed was his father's hair.

"Yes, I did," Hecate nodded, "I talked to the Fates' and they talked to Poseidon. He gladly gave his hair when they told him it was to help save the world."

"You told him it was to save the world?"

"Well it is in a way. You are his son, and Poseidon is known to be very protective of his kids, even if they are assholes. So to him protecting you is just the same as saving the world."

Percy shrugged, he could understand her logic. "Okay, so we need one strand for blocking my scent, but what about the other?"

"That one is for your wand," Hecate said grinning.

"I'm sorry what?!"

"Your wand Percy," Hecate snapped her fingers summoning it.

"Stop right there goddess," Percy snatched his wand back, "what exactly are you planning to do with my wand?"

"I'm planning on fusing your father's hair into your phoenix core," Hecate explained.

"What? Why? My wand is perfect as it is!"

"Exactly, it's perfect as it is, but it can become better. Right now you are channeling just your mortal magic, by adding the hair of a God, your father, we can make it one of the most powerful wands in existence."

"But what if someone finds out?! Wizards can detect the core of a wand you know!"

"I know, that's why I'll hide it from them. This way no mortal will ever be able to tell that I added a little something more."

"B-but-"

"-Oh stop being a baby!" Hecate snatched the wand back and took out a strand of Poseidon's hair. Percy sat on the edge of his seat as Hecate pushed the hair strand up against the stop of the wand. For a second nothing happened, but then the wand started to glow gold at the tip and the hair strand was sucked inside.

Hecate smiled giving the wand back to Percy, "there, no mess, no fuss."

"Really? Just like that?" Percy asked as he took the wand. Suddenly a wave of warmth filled him up yet again. This time Percy felt his very core react to the wand as he felt his divine side slowly reach out and bond with the wand.

Percy stammered, "woah."

"Indeed. Now you should be able to channel more magic into your wand. Also, I got you this," Hecate brought out a blue book covered with sea shells, "the guy at the Twilight book store came through. With that new wand of yours you should be able to learn Atlantean water magic!"

Percy grinned, "damn! This is awesome! Thanks Hecate!"

"No problem kid. Now, come on, we need to create a protection ward for your scent."

"A protection ward? I thought we were going to use a spell?"

"Not quite," Hecate and Percy walked to the living room and Percy pushed back all the furniture and books to the side clearing up the room for them.

"I want you to create these runes for me," Hecate passed Percy a list as she summoned a piece of chalk and began drawing a giant circle on the floor.

Percy went to work immediately craving said runes into rocks in a few minutes. He handed the runes back to Hecate who arranged them on the complex ward scheme she had drawn. There was a twelve point star with the symbol of the great three, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades written near the center.

"Can you guess what this is for?" Hecate asked.

Percy looked at the runes and forced, "it looks like an enchanting ritual. Except you aren't using the normal runes or symbols. From what I can gather you are….you're trying to create something that can block out magic. Or in this case a very specific type of magic."

"Excellent Percy," Hecate tossed him a book, "here, look up the ritual in the bookmarked page. I think you might like this."

Percy read the ritual up and nodded, "I see.. Why haven't you taught me all this?"

"I was more focused on getting you to pass your OWLs first before anything else. Don't worry, after your exams I'll teach you whatever you want to know. Ritual magic, becoming an animagus, battle magic, anything. But for now, focus."

Percy nodded, "right. Okay according to the book we need an object for a focus. Do you have one?"

"Yup," Hecate pulled out a necklace of a green trident, "a gift from Atlantis." she then took out the remaining strand of Poseidon and wrapped it around the green trident before placing it in the center of the circle.

Percy then walked up to the trident and sighed, "okay, now I have to bleed on it. But my skin is basically indestructible due to the curse of Achilles, so what do I do?"

"Well then simply cut your mouth," Hecate said with a shrug.

"Hm..okay," Percy took out Riptide and turned it into its sword form. He then brought the blade to his gums and slide it across cutting and drawing blood. Percy spat out the blood onto the trident and then quickly healed himself with magic.

"That didn't look pleasant," Hecate winced.

"It wasn't, but after taking a swim in the Styx my pain tolerance level has increased."

"Alright, now let's begin." Hecate closed her eyes and began to chant in a language Percy didn't recognize. The goddess opened her eyes which started to glow gold. She thrust her hands forwards sending a blast of magic into the ritual circle.

The lines started glowing from the outside, slowly traveling inwards. The moment the gold glow touched the necklace the trident levitated into the air and started to glow sea green. The lines then began to glow brighter and brighter, Percy had to shut his eyes to avoid getting blinded, but he saw the line suddenly lift off the ground and then get sucked into the trident itself.

Hecate slowly stopped glowing as she brought her hands down. Percy walked up to the glowing green trident and picked it out of the air. He looked it over and felt raw magic slowly seep into it before the trident became cold in his grasp.

Percy could feel his father's precess coming from inside the pendant, he smiled and quickly wore it around himself. He felt a second skin of magic surround him before slowly the sensation disappeared. "I think it worked."

Hecate nodded, "yes, it did. Now come on, we still have a loot of work to do before you can take your OWLs. I want you to re learn your charms and begin your transfiguration training once more. Remember those transfigurations doesn't last, so don't try to eat anything you change."

"Oh come on! I change a table top into a giant pizza one time and you hold that against me for the rest of my life!"