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"You're not giving me a choice are you, father?" Nico spat at Hades.
"No, not at all," He replied calmly. "Besides, I thought you would want to lead your own quest for once." Gods! He doesn't get it does he? Nico thought.
"I meant a real quest! Not some school!" He yelled.
"What's so bad about school?" The god asked, obviously not caring in the least.
"Because the last time I went to school I had Bianca!" He shouted, a sob building up in his throat. He bit the inside of his mouth. Don't be an idiot! He scolded himself. This subject with him and his father had already been on a thin, thin, string, and Nico didn't want to be there when it finally snapped. Hades regarded him cautiously, as if plotting his next move on a chessboard.
Hades said, "I picked one other person to go along with you on this quest, so you won't be completely lost." Nico decided to ignore the second part of what he said. Is this supposed to be good news? He tried to look calm.
"WHAT?" He yelled. The quest alone was bad enough, now he had to do it with someone he didn't even know? Take that back, he didn't even want to go on this quest with someone he did know.
"Holy, idiot brother!"(Holy, Zeus!) Hades exclaimed. "Calm down boy, she's….. she's very easy to get along with….. I think."
"Oh, yea. Supper reassuring." Nico muttered under his breath. Either Hades didn't hear him, or he chose to ignore it.
"Έλα εδώ Μέγαρα!" Hades called. (Come here Megra.) She appeared at his side in a swoosh of darkness… shadow travel. The only people I know of that can shadow travel are… oh gods. The girl was around Nico's height, with mid back long, wavy brown hair. Her eyes were sky blue and full of life, or maybe they just seemed that way because she was in the underworld. She was wearing a gold and red tie, and a shirt that said I'm a genius your arguments are invalid.
"You called, Lord Hades?" She asked casually.
"Yes. It's time to bring Nico to Hogwarts," He said, like they'd talked about it for weeks beforehand. (Which they most likely had.) And knowing how most demigods are like with Nico, Hades probably had to beg her to come on this quest with him. So when she got an excited glimmer in her eyes, he was in complete and utter shock. She jumped up and down, noticed she didn't look very professional, and quickly stopped. The girl cleared her throat and stuck out her hand for Nico to shake it.
"Megra daughter of-"
"Hades?" Nico suggested.
"No. Daughter of Nemesis and…." She looked at Hades, who looked at her nicely, as if saying: Go on, It's fine. He never gave me that look before. "Daughter of Nemesis and… Sirius Black." She fliched. Nico shook her hand.
"Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, and who's Sirius Black?" He asked.
"He's a wanted criminal in the other half of my life."
"Other half? You mean you're mortal family?"
"No. My wizarding family." Nico decided not to ask more about that.
"He's a wanted criminal?" He asked.
"Unfortunately, yes. But he's innocent," She said, her voice cracking. "Maybe we shouldn't talk about this right now."
"Yea," Said Nico feeling uncomfortably that she was telling him all of this. There was silence for about 20 seconds before Hades spoke up.
"You need to get started on this quest tomorrow if you want to get to the platform by the first of september." He said shooing us away.
"Fine. Grab my arm Nico." She demanded.
"Umm…"
"Just do it!" She said more forcefully. He did as he was told and in no time he was back at camp half-blood.
"Weird," He said to himself. That experience definitely wasn't shadow travel. It was… magic.
"Meet me by the fire pit tomorrow at 6, we wouldn't want to miss the Hogwarts express."
"Umm… yea, wouldn't want to miss… that." He said awkwardly and quickly went off in opposite directions. Ok, lets try not to get killed by either of this girl's parents.
