Chapter 15

It was the weekend, finally. The sixth year Hufflepuff wanted to wake up late. They wanted to sleep in their warm beds and fluffy pillows. Miguel dreamt about winning the a first class order of Merlin. Gordon dreamt about living in a city made out of chocolate. Michael dreamt about….dreaming. And Juan dreamt about living on an island filled with exocitc women.

And all those dreams were about to come crashing down in 3….2….1….

"WAKE UP! RISE AND SHINE BOYS!" Percy yelled at the top his lungs.

"AH! What?!" Gordan and the others jumped out off bed as they looked around.

Percy stood in the middle of their dorm fully dressed in a muggle hoodie and jeans with a backpack and a big full smile. "Wake up lazy boys! You are supposed to be part of the house of hard workers, not hard sleepers!"

"Percy! What the fuck mate?!" Michael groaned as he and the others rubbed their eyes awake, "it's a Saturday!"

"Yeah! A Saturday! And it's already 8 o'clock! We shouldn't waste away our weekends! Come on Michael! Where's your spirit of adventure?!"

"I left it during the weekdays," Michael growled as his eyes filled with pure hate.

"Percy, it's a Saturday, we don't get up on Saturdays. Do you understand?" Gordan grumbled through his sleepy voice.

"Oh come on Gordon! It's a bright and sunny day!" Percy walked up to their window and grabbed their drawn curtains, "why just look at the sun shine!"

"No no no no no!" Juan shouted but before they could do anything Percy threw the curtains open letting the sun come in and hit them hard. They all hissed like the sun had visibly hurt them.

"I hate you so much right now," Miguel growled.

"That's it, I say we tie him up and throw him into the black lake," Michael suggested looking positively murderous.

"Oh come on you guys! This world is an amazing and beautiful place! Why do you want to waste away your week end here in this small room when we can be out exploring a magical fucking castle?!" Percy pleaded.

"Percy, you are new here, so I'll let you off the hook. But for future note, I do not like being woken up," Michael growled, "least off all on the weekends!"

"So you are just going to laze around all day?!"

"Yes!" they all shouted drapping their blankets over them trying to go back to sleep.

Percy groaned, "lazy shits," he drew back the curtains and walked out off his drom. He would have liked it if they had come with him, but Percy knew he couldn't force them to do anything they didn't want to do.

Percy walked out of Hogwarts castle and walked down the small hill that lead up to the school. The area around it was large open and flat. A few students were outside walking around with their friends or playing frisbee in the field. Some sat near the lake side enjoying the peaceful morning.

Percy reached into his backpack and pulled out his hover board. He placed it on the ground and stepped on it. Kelly poked her head out off Percy's hoodie and looked down cheering in joy. Percy turned to her, "that's right Kelly, we are going to fly. Hang on!" Kelly cheered as she grabbed his clothes with both hands and tucked herself into his hoodie.

Percy leaned forward and felt the board rise up. Slowly the board started to float higher and higher in the air as it slowly moved forward. Percy pressed his front foot forward causing the board to move forward faster. He glided through the air before slowly he brought the board back down on the ground.

He tested it a few more times, remembering all the commands he placed on them due to simple shifts in the rider's weight. And to insure he wouldn't fall off Percy also placed a rune to stick his shoes on said board.

Finally he was ready. He looked around and noticed a few people looking at him curiously, wondering what he was doing. Percy grinned, he looked at Kelly, "time to put on a show."

Percy leaned forward and the board rose up into the air. He kicked the back of the board kick starting the thrusters sending him blasting forward at an angle.

"WAH HOO!" Percy cried out in joy as Kelly cried for her life. Percy tore across the sky, twisting his body to change the board's direction. He lowered his center of gravity and the board reacted accordingly speeding up, ripping through the air current.

Percy's face was blasted with the cold morning air as they began to tear up. Percy however ignored that as he smiled enjoying the feeling of once again flying through the sky. It wasn't like flying as a pegasus, but it was close enough.

Percy twisted sideways causing the board to spin around in a corkscrew motion, Percy yelled in joy as he then jerked upwards flying upwards in a near 90 degree angle. He then bent backwards performing a giant loop in the sky, before eh twisted back straight flying horizontally.

"Ah!" Kelly cried out as her fingers started to loosen. Percy realised what was happening and immediately leaned backward brining the board to a screeching halt. Kelly flew forward but Percy managed to catch her before she fell down.

"I'm sorry Kelly, I sometime forget you are there," Percy sighed. The veela looked pissed as she yelled at him in incoherent screams, Percy simply hung his head as he slowly brought the board back down toward the castle grounds.

Percy looked down and saw several students looking up at him in awe. Percy blinked, 'huh, I never guessed so many people would be that interested.' Percy landed down softly on the ground and immediately people surrounded him.

"Wow! What is that?!"

"Did you just do a corkscrew turn?!"

"Where did you get that thing?!"

"Can have a go?"

Percy put up his hands, "one at a time people! I have two ears and one brain!"

"What is that?!" an older looking Gryffindor boy asked.

"I call it a hoverboard," Percy grinned.

"Wait?! Are you serious? That's a hover board?! Like the kind in Back to the future?" a young Ravenclaw girl asked.

Percy nodded, "yup! You saw that movie huh?"

"Yeah," the girl nodded.

"Selina, what is a hoverboard?" asked another Ravenclaw girl.

"It's like a broom, but instead of a flying broom you use a broad," Selina explained while gazing at the board. She looked up at Percy, "where did you get it?"

"I made it," Percy grinned.

"What?! You made this?" a Gryffindor asked.

"Yeah. I didn't really like the idea of flying on a broom, so I figured, 'hey why not make a hoverboard?' so I did," Percy grinned.

"Can I have a go?" a little Hufflepuff boy by the mane of Zack asked.

"Sure little Badger, give it a whirl," Percy tossed him the board and began instructing him on how to use the thing.

The boy took it slow at first, managing to make it hover for a moment. But when he tried to go faster Percy called him down, "sorry kid, but I'm not going to risk your life. If you want I'll let you practise on it later, but for now just stick to hovering."

"Jackson you have got to make me one of those," the Gryffindor boy whistled in amazement.

"Yeah, sure, let me just patent it and then I'll make you one," Percy chuckled, 'although that doesn't sound like too bad an idea.'

Soon the younger kids started to take turns trying the board out. Zack taught them what Percy taught him and soon it became quite a spectacle to try out Percy's board.

"What did you use to make it levitate?" asked an older Ravenclaw girl. Percy looked at her and he realised she was in his runes class. She was the one that kept glaring at him like he was beneath her.

"Runes," Percy replied with a shrug.

The girl's eyes went wide, "that's impossible!"

Percy shrugged, "believe what you want."

"No one can do that with just ruins," the girl glared, "at least no one at OWL level."

Percy glared at the girl, "you know I don't like you."

The girl blinked in surprise, "w-what?"

"I said I don't like you. I don't care for you. So fuck off lady."

The Claw gapped with her jaw dropped, "why you little shit! Who the hell are you to tell me to fuck off?"

"Percy Jackson," Percy waved, "haven't we meet?"

The girl gaped at his attitude. She grumbled and turned away walking back to the castle. Percy couldn't help chuckling at her leave, "don't forget! We badgers don't give a damn! Spread the news around, that's our new slogan!"

"Wait, what's our new slogan?" Zack asked as few of the younger students looked confused.

"Well you see me and a few of the older Badgers realised that we didn't have a slogan. So we made one up!" Percy grinned. "So from now on we aren't Puff's! We are badgers! And we don't give a damn!"

The Hufflepuff looked surprised and the others just started at Percy like he was crazy. The older Gryffindor boy blinked, "wait...so we are supposed to call you the Badgers? Why? Badgers are so lame."

"No they aren't, they are cool. They kill snakes and eat bees for breakfast, literally. Honey Badger don't give a damn," Percy grinned.

"How are you going to get people to call you that?" A younger Ravenclaw boy asked.

"No idea!" Percy chuckled with the grin still in place.

The rest of the morning the kids took turns riding Percy's board while Percy watched and smiled. He was looking forward to flying for the rest of the day, but he was content with just watching the kids enjoy what he made.

After some time they all went back in for breakfast. All the kids wished Percy goodbye, Percy didn't know all their names yet, but at least they knew him.

As Percy ate breakfast the morning mail came in and one of the school owls swooped down and landed in front of Percy. The owl had a letter and a folder attached to it's leg, Percy quickly untied them and feed the owl a piece of bacon. The letter was addressed to him written in ancient greek, it was obviously from Hecate;

[Heyo Percy!

Oh it's that sweet, it hasn't even been a week and you're still asking me for help! Haha! No but seriously, I'm glad you wrote. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't even the little bit worried about you. I'm glad you got sorted into Hufflepuff, that house has been in the dumps since the foundation of the school, maybe it needs a spunky young demigod with a heart of gold to raise the people's spirit!

Anyway I hope you are settling in okay. I'm sorry to hear about how boring your classes are…..not. HAHAHAHA! Suffer! At least now I hope you have learnt to appreciate me and my awesomeness! I managed to get you ready for OWLs in three months! I'm the best teacher you will ever have, good luck managing to learn anything from those idiots!

But onto a more serious note. You want to patent the quick quill thing right? Well it's actually quite easy you know, I attached a skeleton patent format folder with this letter. Look it over and do it yourself. Don't expect me to baby feed you Jackson. Side note: I'm so proud of you! Making a business venture all on your on! And you said you didn't have a Slytherin bone in your body!

Anyway keep me updated on everything you do and say, I'm most interested. Right now I'm spending a lot of time in Olympus, since I no longer have a pupil to train, brat, so if you want to send me a letter address it to our old house, I'll eventually get it.

Also one more thing, I heard about the triwizard tournament….I hope you are planning to join it. Because if I find out you didn't even bother trying I will banish you to Antarctica to live out the rest of your days until the year 2009! You are a Greek demigod Percy! Show these stupid mortal British idiots who's boss! Join in and win this thing! Or I swear to the Gods that...wait, I already threatened you, never mind!

Lots of love!

Hecate!

Goddess of Magic

Your loveable aunt!

P.S. Say hi to Harry for me! And if you can give his cute bottom a pinch! Don't worry, I won't think you're gay if you do.]

Percy chuckled, 'guess that solves my dilemma of whether I should join the tournament or not.' Percy put away the letter and picked up the folder. He enlarged it and read the inside containing a mock patent request form with a patent for a broom design.

From what Percy read it was pretty simple, sort of like him submitting a school project, only instead of giving it to a teacher he gave it to the government. He Would need to attach a new notes about how his quill worked, but it looked simple enough.

Percy put the folder away and quickly ate the rest of breakfast. Once he was done he decided to go out for a walk, the castle still needed exploring!

Percy set out on his adventure when he realised that there was a lot of ground to cover, and he didn't really want to walk for so long. If only there was a way for Percy to move without walking. Sigh…...oh wait.

Percy grinned as he reached back and pulled out his hover board. He placed it on the ground and stepped on it. Kelly hissed at the board and Percy chuckled, "I promise, I won't go overboard this time. I'm just going to use it to move around that's all."

Kelly nodded but still kept a close eye on the offending piece of wood. Percy leaned forward activating the board and slowly told it to move forward while still hovering only a few centimeters above the ground.

Percy glided across the floor quickly, the Hufflepuff grinned, "this is so cool!" Percy leaned forward and started his little quest.

He glided across the corridor on his board as he started exploring the place. He twisted and turned around the corridors. When there was a student in his path Percy simply circled around them, or in some cases went over their heads.

"Hey watch it!" A Slytherin hissed.

"Sorry!" Percy called back as he and Kelly chuckled.

"Percy Jackson! What are you doing?!" a familiar voice hissed at him.

Percy stopped and found Hermione, Harry and Ron staring at him. "Hey guys!" Percy waved as he quickly brought the board down, "glad to see you all up and about! Don't want to waste away a perfectly good Saturday now do we?"

"Wow Percy, I didn't realise you could move like that," Harry said as he looked at the board, "I still can't believe you actually made it!"

"So are you finally willing to admit that boards are better than brooms?" Percy asked.

Harry rolled his eyes, "I admitted nothing. I just said I'm surprised a piece of wood like that could actually move."

"One day Potter, one day you are going to say with your own mouth that hoverboards are better than brooms. Just you wait."

"That will never happen," Harry grinned.

"Percy!" Hermione hissed, "what were you doing?! You could have gotten hurt!"

Percy raised an eyebrow, "ah, no, not going to happen."

"Yes! What if you had fallen off the board?!"

"Not possible, I made runes to keep my feet glued to the board while it is in motion," Percy pointed at said runes and allowed Hermione to looked them over.

The bushy haired girl blushed, "I-I see… well then….it's still dangerous!"

Percy chuckled, "relax control freak, I have it covered. Anyway, I would love to stay and allow Hermione to shout at me some more but I'm having too much fun!" Percy activated the board and speed off, "see you guys later!"

"Bye Percy!" Harry waved along with Ron.

Hermione however huffed. She looked at her friends, "you don't think I'm a control freak do you?"

Harry and Ron flinched, they looked at each other. "Let's go eat Ron."

"Yup! I wonder what they'll have for us today," Ron asked as he and Harry walked towards the Great Hall.

"Probably the same as everyday," Harry shrugged.

"Hey! Answer me!" Hermione yelled back as she ran to catch up with her friends.

Percy glided through the corridors one floor at a time getting a mental map of the place. However when he was on the fifth floor, the groundskeeper nearly caught him.

Percy had almost crashed right into the man, but luckily his instinct guided him away from the wreckage and he bolted away as fast as he could before Filch even noticed he was there. The demigod had heard stories about the man, if Filch got one look at Percy's board he could kiss it goodbye!

Percy glided across the floor, twisting and turning until he was sure he lost the man. Just to be sure he even glided to the roof to hide. No one ever looks up, never. But as he waited for any sign that Filch even saw him Percy noticed something, a small door near the top of the wall.

Percy couldn't believe his eyes. There it was, a red wooden door similar to the many he passed by before. It was around 20 feet off the ground but sure enough there it was just carved into the wall. Percy took out his wand and unlocked the door with an unlocking charm. The door swung open and Percy saw a platform inside with a set of stairs leading inside and up.

'Okay…..option 1 I enter said room and explore, possibly walking into a cursed room or something. Option 2 I lock the door and walk away. ….Okay, Option 1 it is.'

Percy glided his hoverboard into the doorway and closed the door behind him. Percy got off the board and put it away before he walked up the set of stairs before him.

The stairs went on for about half a story before opening up to a floor door. Percy casted another unlocking charm and pushed the trap door open. He stepped up and his jaw dropped, "holy-shit," Percy exclaimed as he looked around.

He stood in the middle of beautiful room that was at least 40 feet tall with giant marble pillars lining the walls. There was a giant dome with a circular glass skylight in the center. The grill on the sky light was in the shape of a triangle with a circle inside it and a straight line piecing them both down the center.

In Between the pillars were glass windows with moving paintings of several different magical creatures running around a painted forest. It had unicorns, pegasus, dragons, mermaids, moles, garden gnomes and even a pixie flying around making a nuisance of himself.

The room was barren, completely void of anything, furniture, books, nothing. But Percy did notice a parchment nailed on the pillar in front of him. Percy was curious, but not stupid. He casted several curse detection spells around him to detect any possible danger. But they all came back negative.

Now sure that he wasn't going to die or something the moment he stepped into the room Percy carefully walked towards the note and read it;

To whosoever finds this place,

My name is not important. I am but a small witch whose name will probably not be even mentioned in the annals of History. However I do have a message for whoever finds this place. This room was my salvation. My fortress of peace. My chamber of secrets. The place where I could come and be spared from the cruel fate that is life. I have dubbed this chamber 'The Forest', I deemed it appropriate given the glass paintings. But if I am no longer here then that means this room belongs to you, the person who discovered it. You may name it whatever you wish and use it however you wish, my only request is that you treat this place with the respect it deserves.

This room has many secrets, and I spent my years at Hogwarts discovering them all. I wish for you to have the same adventures and realisations I did while here, and I hope this room comes to serve you well for all your years here.

Take care,

A Girl from Gryffindor.

On the bottom of the note was a small drawing of a flower. Percy didn't know much about flowers, but he recognized this one, it was a lilly flower, his mother's favorite.

Someone else had used this room before him, but now they didn't need it. Percy had no clue who this woman was or what she did in this room, but now it was his.

'The Forest huh? Not a bad name,' Percy smiled, 'well I could use this room for a lot of diffrent things. I mean I'm always creating new things, I need a workspace and the Hufflepuff common room is certainly not it. Maybe I can borrow a couple of tables and chairs from one of the abandoned classrooms I found, spice up the place.'

Percy turned to Kelly, "what do you think Kelly? Think this place will be our new home?" Kelly grinned as she nodded giving Percy a thumbs up. "Great, I think so too," Percy smiled.

He quickly set up some alert spells around the room, his own creations. The spell acted similar to a mortal alarm system. Anyone steps into the room that wasn't him and Percy would know about it. After that he placed a strong locking charm on the trap door and quickly walked back to the fifth floor corridor door.

Percy opened the door slightly and looked around, finding no one there he jumped out off the door and landed softly on the corridor. He shut the door using his wand and placed another locking charm and a notice-me-not charm on it, just in case.

The demigod then spent the better part of his morning searching through empty unused classrooms for usable furniture. He grabbed a large table from an old charms class and a set of comfortable cushioned chairs from a unused lecture hall.

Percy also snatched a broken cupboard from the transfiguration junk pile, McGonagall wasn't going to miss this anytime soon. And while he was there he also grabbed a small chalk board slate and a few pieces of chalk.

Percy quickly set up all of this in The Forest. He left the note from the previous owner where it was, he did this out of respect, this room obviously meant a lot to her, it would be rude if he just removed the last traces of her memory from it.

He put the chairs and table in front of the trap door opening, that way if anyone was coming up them who wasn't him Percy would be able to seem them first. He also fixed the cupboard with a few well placed reparo charms and put it next to his workstation.

The chalkboard Percy enlarged and stuck on the wall. He carved a substance rune into the back of the board, this way the enlargement charm he used won't run out off power and shrink back. When he was done Percy stepped back and smiled, "I'm so good."

The demigod then took out the file Hecate sent over and looked over the patent process. He started to look it over and quickly wrote them down he himself had to do on the board. When he was done he realised he didn't actually have any parchment to begin writing out his patent request form, and more importantly if he didn't leave now he was going to miss lunch!

Percy locked The Forest behind him and used his hover board to fly out off the fifth floor window toward the main gate. He got off his board and quickly walked into the Great Hall where everyone was already busy eating.

Percy found Heather and the rest and sat down with them, "hey guys!"

"Hey Percy," they replied.

"Hey Percy, I heard a rumour that you had a flying board," Cedric asked from further down the table, "is that true?"

"Yeah, I call it my hoverboard," Percy pointed at his board sticking out off his back pack, "I made it myself. I'll give you ride later if you want."

"Really?! Thanks man!" Cedric cried out as more and more students started to talk about Percy's board.

"Where were you this morning?" Heather asked bringing Percy's attention back to her, "we looked for you everywhere, but all the guys did when we ask about you was grumble and then talk about how annoying you were in the morning."

"That's because he was!" Michael yelled out, "he ruined lazy Saturday morning for us!"

Percy rolled his eyes, "relax Michael, you can sleep whenever you want. I tried to wake them up, but they insisted on remaining in bed. So I spent some time out flying around on my board and then went exploring around the castle. You guys missed out by the way, people loved flying on my board."

"Yes we heard about that," Kristien snickered, "apparently you are very popular with the younger kids now Percy. They were all talking about you and your board, be careful though some of these brats might become attached."

Percy chuckled as they began to talk about different things, mostly homework and classes. After lunch Percy went back to the common room with the others and quickly packed up all the things he would need while using the Forest as his work room. He packed in various texts and even his potion equipments.

The other Hufflepuff decided to stay inside and finish off their homework, Percy gave his own to them to copy off of and excused himself saying that he wanted to explore the castle more.

Percy flew to the fifth floor corridor and made sure that no one saw him enter the Forest door. He quickly unpacked all the stuff he was carrying and began to write up two patent request. One for the quick quill and one for his hover board. Might as well get both of his inventions registered and make some money of off them.

By dinner Percy was done with the patent files and even got an owl order form for more potion ingredients from the apothecary in Diagon alley from Gordon, apparently the guy has tons of these shoved away into his trunk, he's somewhat of a hoarder.

Percy walked to the owlery and was surprised to find Harry already there. "Harry!" Percy called out.

Harry flinched as he quickly turned around with a look of surprise and fear on his face. The moment he noticed it was Percy though he sighed in relief, "oh it's just you Percy."

"Yeah, duh. Why? Were you expecting someone else?"

"No….I was just," Harry squirmed looking everywhere but Percy's eye's. Percy looked round and saw a letter in Harry's hands. He couldn't see the receiver's name clearly, but it clearly started with the letter 'S'.

"Sending a letter?" Percy asked.

Harry looked up, "ah, yes. Yes I am."

"I see…to Susan? Because she is in the same castle you know," Percy teased knowing full well it wasn't to Susan.

"What? Susan? Why...oh, right. Well I just….I just thought a letter would be less awkward."

Percy almost snorted, that lie was so bad, "right….you know she is in my house. If you want I can talk to her, tell her you like her and want to take her out."

Harry blushed red as he shook his head, "no! No! Please don't!"

"Why not? You like this girl right? She sent you a letter on your birthday, obviously she cares about you," Percy teased.

"I-I know," Harry rubbed his head blushing red, "it's just that...I don't feel comfortable with it Percy. Please don't ask her."

Percy chuckled, "ah, young love. Fine Harry, I won't ask Susan Bones to ask you out, but only if you do it yourself!"

"What?!" Harry yelled.

"Yeah. You have to own up to your feelings Harry, you can't just hide behind letters any more. So here's what's going to happen. I'll give you one month's time. In the time you better ask Susan Bones out to Hogsmeade or I'll do it for you. And what's more I'll be loud, annoying and embarrass the shit out off you. Got it?"

Harry's face was red by now, "that's not fair Percy!"

"Love's not fair Harry," Percy gave him a thumbs up, "I'll be rooting for you!"

Harry groaned, "by Magic….fine. I'll do it."

"Haha! There's that Gryffindor courage I heard so much about!" Percy cheered as he looked around and spotted Hoothoot scrutinising him, "get down here Hoothoot, I have a job for you."

"Hoot!" the elf owl hooted as he glided down and landed in front of Percy.

"Is that your owl?" Harry asked.

"Yeah. Harry meet Hoothoot, Hoothoot meet Harry," Percy introduced them.

"Hoothoot?" Harry blinked, "you named your owl Hoot Hoot? Seriously? That's the best name you could come up with?"

Percy shrugged, "hey don't give me that look. Hecate named him," he then shrunk his folders and put them inside an envelop. He looked over to Harry, "aren't you going to send your letter Harry?"

Harry blinked, "what? Oh, right," Harry turned around and quickly looked across the owls and finally whistled one down.

A beautiful snowy white owl flew down gracefully and landed next to Hoot Hoot, "hoot," she gave a gentle hoot as she looked at Percy bowing.

"She's beautiful Harry," Percy smiled, "I'm guessing that's Hedwig?"

Harry nodded, "yeah. Hedwig this is Percy." The owl nodded in acknowledgment giving off a soft hoot in hello.

"Wow, she doesn't hate me," Percy said in surprise.

"Why do you sound so surprised?"

"Well when I got Hoothoot the stupid thing hated me instantly. Hecate said something about all owls hating my dad, so I figured the curse must have passed on or something. But seeing as Hedwig isn't currently shiting on me I'm guess Hoothoot hates me not because of some curse but because he's an asshole."

"Hoot!" Hoot Hoot hooted as it flapped it's wings threateningly at Percy.

"Hoot!" Hedwig said as she smacked her wing across Hoot Hoot's head. The Elf owl turned around furious and threw open its wings threateningly. Hedwig however was unfazed as she simply glared at him until the elf owl drew into himself looking very very scared.

"Hoot," Hoothoot squeaked as it bowed its head at Hedwig in shame.

"Hoot! Hoot! Hoot!" Hedwig hooted pointing a wing at Percy.

Hoothoot turned toward Percy and bowed again, "hoot. Hoot."

Percy blinked as he turned to Harry, "did...did you owl just scold my owl into apologizing to me?"

Harry nodded dumbly, "I think so."

Percy looked at Hedwig, "you what Hedwig, I like you," he scratched Hedwig's plumage as the owl purred in content.

Harry and Percy quickly attached their letters to their respective owls and sent them off into the night. Hoothoot kept making lovey dovey eyes at Hedwig as they flew away, much to Hedwig's irritation.

"So who did you send the letter to Percy?" Harry asked as he and Percy walked towards the Great Hall for dinner.

"Oh me? That letter was for the ministry, I was applying for a patent for my hoverboard and quick quill. I figure if I can do that then I can start selling them for some extra cash."

"Oh that's nice," Harry nodded, "can I pre-order one quick quill for myself?"

Percy chuckled, "sure. I'll get it to you as fast as I can. So….you gonna ask Susan out any time soon?"

Harry blushed red, but said nothing.

The next day Percy didn't even bother trying to wake his dorm mates up. Around 7 in the morning he walked outside Hogwarts with his hoverboard and walked along the ground outside the castle. Percy took off his hoodie and carefully wrapped it around Kelly placing her on the ground, he didn't want to risk anything happening to her.

Percy started his board and kicked off. He lifted into the slowly at first before he started to gain more and more speed. He spun across the air like a leaf in the wind, twisting and turning, testing the limits of his board's ability.

He slowly let himself go, allowing the wind current's and his instincts guide his actions. He remembered the times he flew as a pegasus, the way the sky and him were one. For a hour Percy was in the air, by the time he came down he had gathered a small crowd around the entrance of the castle.

Percy came down slowly and landed, he picked up his board and walked over to Kelly. The mini veela gave him as smile as he put on his hoodie and approached the gathered crowd.

Zack, the young Hufflepuff kid Percy meet the other day, came up to him along with a couple other younger kids. Percy gave them the board as they quickly started taking turns playing with it.

Percy spent an hour simply watching the kids play with his board, after which he took it back and told them all to go inside for breakfast. Percy himself wasn't really feeling hungry, maybe it was because of his morning fly, but he felt energized.

Percy walked around and sat down by the banks of the Black Lake with Kelly on his shoulder. He leaned back and sighed, the fresh wind hitting his face made his feel fresh as a daisy. The way the sun hit the lake made the water shine.

'You know what….I'm going for a swim,' Percy told himself, 'I'm a son of Poseidon, but I've spent more time in the air than in the water…..that's it, I'm going for a swim.'

Percy got up and looked around, people warned him not to swim in the lake, bad things have happened to those who did. But Percy wasn't people, he could handle anything and everything the Lake could throw at him. But he didn't want people asking questions, so that meant he needed to hide before he went in for a swim.

Percy got up and walked around towards the rocky slope under the castle. He walked along the jagged shoreline until he was away from the people's line of sight. He was right under the castle now, walking down a narrow strip of land between the flat slope of the castle base and the cold waters of the lake.

Percy turned to the slope and took out his wand, 'this should be far enough,' he closed his eyes and recalled the spells he would need. He needed the bombarda spell and the vanishing charm in order to create an enclave in the mountain of solid rock before him. Doing a few quick mental calculations and mixing up the wand moments in the proper manner Percy figured out the spell he would need.

Percy first cast a silencing charm around him and the area, this was going to be loud. He then flipped and twisted his wand in a vertical angle before bringing it down hard like a whip and thrusting it forward.

The rock surface before him heated up for a second before it violently exploded.

BOOM!

Percy used his arm to cover himself and Kelly, but luckily the explosion was contained immediately as all the bidders were vanished as they came flying out. Percy smiled, he looked around, no one was coming over to look, the silencing spell must have held.

Percy looked at the clearing he made, it looked big enough for five people to sit in comfortably, the walls were a bit rough, but okay for his immediate needs.

Percy put his backpack in the cave along with his board and Kelly. He then stripped off his hoodie, shirt and shoes placing them inside the small enclave with Kelly sitting comfortably in the center.

She looked up curiously at Percy, tilting her head sideways in questioning. "I'm going for a swim Kelly," Percy told her as he stretched his arms and shoulder. The cold morning wind hit him hard, but he was used to the cold. Plus the excitement he felt of swimming pushed back the dread of the frigid water.

Kelly whined loudly, she looked panicked as she pointed at water. Percy chuckled, "relax Kelly, I'll do fine. Don't forget, I'm basically a fish," Percy casted a notice-me-not charm on his enclosure and Kelly and turned to the lake. He took as deep breath and rushed forward, running into the water.

The lake was cold, and when the water reached Percy's knees, he jumped in and began swimming inwards like a bullet out of a gun.

The roar of water running past his ears was thunderous. The bubbles were warm as they rolled of his body. The water was murky green, but Percy could see everything clearly.

Percy swam like a fish, up, down, sideways. He traveled along the lake bed, seeing all the amazing plants growing there. He even recognized a few of them for having magical properties. The longer Percy spent underwater the deeper and deeper the lake became, until eventually Percy could barely see the surface anymore.

Just then something moved, Percy turned just in time to see a tentacle come right for him. Percy rolled his eyes, he drew back his arm and just as the tentacle was about to wrap itself around him pushed it downwards and kicked up.

Percy then grabbed the tentacle and jerked it towards himself, pulling his would be attacked towards himself. Percy's eyes widened as he saw the tentacle attached to the a giant squid, presumably the squid everyone talks about living in the lake.

"Alright buddy, you have one chance to explain why you tried to hit me," Percy growled, bubbles came out of his mouth, but his words could be heard clearly. Side effect of being a son of Poseidon.

The squid blinked it's giant eyes, "you can speak?!"

"Of course I can speak, why wouldn't I?" Percy frowned crossing his arms.

"You can understand me?! How?!" The squid waved its arms in a panic.

Percy blinked, 'wait why...oh right, ' "Well it's a long story, kind of a family power passed down from father to son. I can breath underwater and talk to aquatic life, pretty cool right?"

The squid blinked, "amazing, I have never heard of such a power! The only thing that would even come close would be….AH! You're a son of Neptune aren't you?!"

"Shush!" Percy hushed looking around, paranoid that someone heard that, but being so deep in the middle of the lake made him realise he was being silly. He sighed, "how do you know about that?"

"All children of the sea know about it. Wait...but that means," the squid turned a darker shade of it's natural pink hue as it bowed its head and wrapped it's tentacles in surrender, "I'm sorry my lord! Please forgive me for attacking you! I didn't mean it! I was just doing my job! Please don't destroy me! Please! I don't want to die!"

"Woah, woah, relax there, who said anything about killing?" Percy asked motioning the squid to look up, "relax man, I'm not going to harm you. It's not your fault."

The squid looked up in awe, "so kind, truly you are the son of the sea God!"

"Shh! Keep it down!" Percy hissed, "I don't want people finding out! So do me a favour and don't tell anyone okay?"

The squid nodded frantically, "of course my lord, anything you wish."

"Thanks, and please call me Percy, I'm not really one for titles, make me feel old," Percy shivered.

"Understood Lord Percy," the squid nodded.

"No, just Percy, no lord or anything."

"Are you sure my lord? I don't want to seem too familiar."

"Oh relax it's fine, I prefer it if people acted my like my friend than my servant," Percy shrugged, "wanting servants are more off the Gods department anyway."

"Y-you consider me a friend?" the squid asked, "you are so kind," it cheered loudly as it used its tentacles to grab Percy in a strong hug holding him tightly.

"Hugger are you?" Percy chuckled as he hugged the squid back, "so what's your name buddy?"

"How rude of me, forgive me my lord-" Percy shot him a glare, "I mean, Percy. Sorry. I'm Nick, I'm the squid protector of this lake!"

Perc smiled, "nice to meet you Nick! I'm Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon!"

The squid bowed, "pleasure to meet you Percy."

"Same Nicky," Percy grinned back. They spent a few minutes chatting, mostly Percy asking Nick about the lake and so on. Percy eventually had to leave, but he promised Nick he would come back and visit him again, after all one can't keep a son of Poseidon away from water for long.

Later Percy found himself in The Forest looking through his potion texts and several other notes looking up the Felix Felicis potion. He fully intended to make said potion, especially now that he had a place to actually do that.

Sighing, he quickly put the books back and started to figure out a way to create a map of Hogwarts. If he could just find a way to create a map that used magic to trace out the area around Percy then he would be able to create a device that automatically mapped out Percy's present location.

There were several charms Percy could use, like humano revlo and other types of location tracking charms. But for what Percy was planning to do, he would need to make up his own spells and incantations. Obviously this was going to be a very long project.

Percy worked into the night, working out what he needed, which spells he could use to get that and what spells he would have to create if they didn't already exist. It was hard work, very hard. Percy had lost track of time. Eventually he got hungry enough to realise he had missed dinner, it was already 11 in the night!

'Oh shit!' Percy cursed, he was out past curfew. He had never been out past curfew! This was both exciting and nerve racking for the young demigod. He needed to get to his common room without anyone seeing him, but the prefects and the teachers would be going through the hall, and Percy wasn't exactly a stealthy person.

'Wait a minute, if they are going to be walking around the halls...then the skies will be free!' Percy ran to the window and unlocked them letting in the cool September air. It hit him like a bulldozer, but that just served to excite him even more.

The Forest was a pseudo tower of sorts, with the roof tiles of the fifth floor corridor in front of Percy. He quickly grabbed his bag and Kelly and walked out off the room closing the window behind him. He stepped on the tiles and made to remove his board to fly out on it. But he stopped, Percy realised something, right now was a golden opportunity for him to spread his wings. Literally.

The demigod grinned, he turned to Kelly and picked her out off his pocket, "hey Kelly, hand on tight okay?" Kelly nodded as Percy put her into his bag and slung it off off him.

He then focused and leaned forward transforming into a four limbed pegasus with midnight black skin and large soft wings. Percy sighed proudly as he stretched his wings, it's been so long since he did this, he had also forgotten how good it felt.

Percy picked up his bag carefully with his mouth and held it tight. He then trotted forward and spread his wings, jumping off the tiled roof. Kelly screamed in joy as Percy dived down faster and faster, he then threw open his wings and the updraft picked him up sending him soaring across the sky like a black comet.

"WEEE!" Kelly screamed as Percy wiped around Hogwarts with his giant black wings. He circled the many towers of the castle neighing in joy as he swooped down towards the castle mains gates. He landed a good few feet away from the main entrance and transformed back into his human form slipping on his duffle bag.

Percy then managed to sneak back to the Hufflepuff common room, a few seniors saw him enter late in the night, but none of them said anything, it seems sneaking out was not uncommon.

The next day was Monday, and obviously Percy wasn't happy about another week of class. He sat in the Great Hall with his friends eating breakfast when Gordon asked him something, "so where were you Percy? You weren't in bed last night."

Percy gulped down his eggs, "I was out late last night exploring the place. I kind of lost track off time."

"Damn, that must have been some adventure," Juan chuckled, "I'm surprised you didn't get caught." Percy nodded but said nothing.

Just then Heather sat down at the table grabbing a plate for herself, "hello all, have you heard the latest?"

"What do you mean?" Gordon asked.

"The news about the flying horse of course!" Heather shouted. Percy started choking as he spat out a mouth full of orange juice. "Are you alright Percy?"

Percy nodded as he wiped his mouth clean, "ah yeah, yeah, just went up the wrong pipe," Kelly giggled, Percy glared at her but that just served to make her laugh even more.

"Wait what this about a flying horse thing?" Miguel asked.

"Well you see last night the a few Ravenclaw and Gryffindor were up late last night in their common rooms when they swore they saw a flying horse pass by their window!"

"Serious?!" Gordon said in awe, "that must have been amazing!"

"But wait, what is a flying horse doing here anyway? Aren't they like endangered or something?" Kristien asked.

"I don't know, but I personally know five people who saw it last night! They swore it was the most beautiful thing they have ever seen! Black coat with giant black wings," Heather sighed, "so beautiful."

"H-Heather, the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor common rooms, they wouldn't happen to be by the towers would they?" Percy asked dreading the answer.

"Yeah, they are, didn't you know that?"

"No, no I did not. But now I do," Percy said as his sulked drinking his glass of juice. Kelly however was having the time of her life, laughing so hard she threw her ball under the table and didn't even notice.

"Percy, is Kelly okay?" Juan asked, "she looks a little….excited."

"Yeah yeah she's fine, she's just temporarily gone mad," Percy growled, but Kelly still didn't stop laughing.

Percy swore he would never fly like that again, thought he found that he couldn't keep that promise as every weekend he would sneak out to The Forest and fly around as a pegasus. He made extra careful not to be spotted, and avoided the towers like the plague. This however didn't stop the rumours of the flying horse, no, if anything they became stronger and stronger.

Slowly a month passed by. Percy spent every moment ether in class studying, hanging out with his ever growing circle of friends or in The Forest working on the potion or the map.

Percy had gotten all the ingredient he needed from the potion via owl order, though it did cost him a pretty penny. It really took a hit to the money the Fates gave him, but hopefully when his patent came through he would get a steady enough income.

The map also was coming along well, though Percy was forced to create a huge range of spells whose only use was for the creation of said map. Luckily it seemed the gains far outweighed the work needed.

As the weather got colder Percy found he felt more and more at home. New York always started to get cold at this time of the year, and since the curse of Achilles numbed him to the cold he found the weather quite pleasant. One could only guess how winter would treat him.

The classes were long and boring most of the times, but sometimes they became worth it. Percy had learnt new spells to try out, and thanks to Flitwick's careful tutelage Percy managed to finally get the hang of charms. He wasn't an expert, but at least now his charms don't stop halfway through.

The experience he got from the classes helped him better understand how magic worked in the community. Like when people used spells to clean or adjust their make up. It was the little things that seemed to stand out the most for him.

Percy was also involved with an ongoing prank war with Fred and George, and it was brutal. They got him back to what he did during the welcoming feast by spiking Percy's morning orange juice with a potion that made Percy chirp like a bird for the whole day.

Percy of course got his revenge by pouring itching powder down the twin's shirt, Percy figured they had no idea about muggle pranking tools so he constantly used this lack of knowledge to pull one over on them.

Of course McGonagall did not like this one bit, but she could never prove it was Percy, and Sprout always defended him. It was because he had got her house an early lead in the house cup lead and Percy was glad he finally had a teacher on his side, Paul didn't count, he was dating his mom.

The month was one of Percy's best, everyday Percy thanked the Gods that he found this place. He took the day and used every second off it, he refused to waste the time he was given. Here he could finally be himself, though the demigod side still had to be kept under wraps. But for Percy, he had finally found a place that was somewhat similar to camp, and he was happy.