Ch. 4

Nico

September 1st came around slowly, like a snail on a hill and going up the incline. Nico's days were filled will annoying questions from the other children, Order Meetings that Nico decided a long time ago he didn't need to be in, and being "spied" on by the apparent Golden Trio. Though saying being spied on wouldn't be considered the best word to use as it was primarily watching them from a distance with laser eyes and making not-so quiet comments to eachother. They didn't look that impressive enough to be called the 'Golden Trio': Harry was lanky, very skinny and had those glasses, Ron had red hair and was pretty tall and not with the most muscle, Hermione had bushy brown hair and buck teeth. It didn't really scream golden to Nico, more like awkward. They were all very different, but they had one thing in common.

They all annoyed Nico to no end.

He could handle Fred and George, they were like Travis and Connor. But the trio were super annoying.

"Lou, you don't get it." Nico pased in front of one of Grimwauld's bathroom mirrors. Recently, he had found out how to cope with them through the help of on of the Wizarding World's creator's daughter and head of the Hecate Cabin, Lou Ellen Glassey. Nico needed someone who understood his problems he was going through as all the Hecate children knew about the world their mother had made. He tried talking to others like Jason and Hazel and Percy and Will but no one understood the reality of his quest. Lou Ellen was very shocked once she first recieved these contacts from the son of Hades,

"This old guy, Dumbledore, is hiding something. I can't tell. He is just rubbing me the wrong way."

Lou's blonde hair shook along with her head, she looked down in concentration. After a moment, her head shot up and her eyes bugged out of her sockets, "Wait. Dumbledore? As in Albus Dumbledore?"

"Yes?"

Lou ran out of his eyesight and he heard thrashing of papers and other various objects. She soon came back with a newspaper, one of those magic ones he's seen around the house but this one was tattered and reddened with pen circling random articles.

Lou Ellen scanned a page and turned it around to face him,

"Look at this! Sorry this isn't fully about Dumbledore but its about him and Harry Potter. It was about his hearing the other day and they said something fishy about a murder-"

"Cedric Diggory's?"

"No, no, no. They mention that death in the article later. Check into that, Homie." She rolled the paper and placed it on a table next to her.

"Roger that."

"Everyone! We need to get to the train station! We don't need a repeat of Ron and Harry's second year." Molly screamed upstairs, her voice rang off the walls and sounded like it was being yelled at into his ears. Nico groaned, muffleing a goodbye to Lou Ellen and wiped the mirror. He trudged himself and his luggage down the stairs. Why couldn't Percy do it?! He is the the Savior of Olympus and one of the Great Seven! Nico mentally ranted. He still didn't want to do the quest, he is fine with normal quests but not ones where he has to go to school! He hasn't been to school since before he was put into the Lotus Casino!

King's Cross Station was full of people that were walking every which way which reminded him of when he took the Subway in New York or BART when traveling in the Bat Area. Along with Mad-Eye Moody mumbling about 'muggles' every five seconds, Nico had a migraine. He tried to drown everybody out by covering his ears with black headphones and blasting music through them, that only added to the headache but it was better than conversing with his party. Soon enough his shoulder was pushed in front of a brick pillar that held signs for the platforms nine and ten.

"Now, Ron you first!" Molly smiled. Ron ran through the pillar without hesitation. Nico blinked a few times, how could he just run through a pillar without hitting against it and breaking their face!

"Nico, sweetie. Your turn!" Molly smiled after all the children, hermione and Harry went. Nico was hesitant before he took a leap of faith and ran through the brick pillar. To his amazement, he didn't get his face smashed by the pillar, but did get his face smashed into his cart. Nico looked around, there was people in normal clothes along with robes (que the groans from him) and a beautiful, timeless scarlet steam train. He marveled at the train.

"Nico, come sit with us!" Fred and George called to Nico. He didn't answer and walked passed the twins an onto the train.

There were no empty compartments on the train, Nico was seriously considering sitting with the Weasley twins. To his dismay, Nico locked eyes with Hermione. She has an annoyingly happy look in her brown eyes with her arms hastily

motioning him inside.

"Nico wont you come sit with us?" She asked(forced) and pulled him inside. "Your lucky I found you, you cold have been suck up my Malfoy or another stupid Slytherin."

The name Malfoy made Nico's ears prick up like a dog when he hears the word "Squirrel" or "Walk". He knew that name from somewhere, he just couldn't remember. Nico let it slide and continued on the train ride with Hermione ranting about house elves and Nico giving an occasional grunt, totally zoned out.

Nico heard the compartment door slide open and a voice familiar, sneering and annoying spoke.

"Potter! Is it true Dumbledore had to talk your way out of your expulsion? I bet that's you he would do to his favorite student..." the voice trailed off.

"Bug off Malfoy." Ron said. There was that name again, Nico thought. Nico snapped his head towards the door to see Draco Malfoy.

"Malfoy! What you said, that wasn't very Roman of you. Was it?" Nico smirked at the blonde.

"Di Angelo? I haven't seen you since the thing with Gaea." the Roman son of Apollo leaned on the doorway. "Surprised to see you here, Death Breath!"

"Well, blame my father." Nico smirked. He reached his hand out and they did the 'Bro Code' handshake of a high-five into a knuckle punch.

"How's Will been?" Draco wiggled his eyebrows, Nico groaned. Ever since he heard about the relationship between his favorite Greek brother and the double-triple agent, Draco has become Soldangelo trash number four. Right behind Percy, Jason and Apollo himself.

"Another time we will talk about it. Just not now. But good, good." The pair rolled their eyes, and chuckled knowing that the other three in the compartment didn't know what they were talking about. Nico stole a glance at the trio, they looked like puppies when you don't give them a treat when you tempt them. Hermione was beat red with anger from not knowing. Nico had an idea to make her burst, cause you know, he loves pushing people's button.

Nico switched to Latin to communicate with Draco, "So, let's keep talking like this until she breaks."

"I like your thinking almighty Ghost King. Look at her right now, she doesn't understand!"

"Keep a straight face, or I will get Frank to turn into a tiger."

"And how do you believe he would do that? He couldn't hurt a fly." Draco scoffed, putting a hand on his hip.

"One, he is dating my sister. Two, he is somewhat afraid of me."

"Everyone is or is somewhat afraid of you!" Draco laughed.

"Yeah, she's about to explode. You better leave." Nico gestured his head towards the brunette. Draco nodded and left to find the Slytherin compartments.

"I can't believe you just did that! He is in SLYTHERIN! The evil house, the enemy!" Hermione screeched. Nico rolled his eyes. He was literally done with the muggle-born before he had spoken enough to her, this was the shortest amount of time it has taken for Nico to dislike someone. Silence filled the compartment after that, all the way until Hogwarts. Not that Nico minded.

"Have you ever head the term 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Nico asked when the train came to a stop.

"Yes, so we're your enemies?" Ron growled when they got off the train.

"No." He responded bluntly. He didn't trust them, so they weren't his friend. So whom ever he didn't trust, is his enemy. Nico is very particular about his friends, even before he was his sullen way. Loyalty is a big part of his life and he didn't know if they were loyal, yet.

The four and a boy named Neville made their way to a carriage pulled my a strange boney horse with wings. To Nico, the creature looked like a malnourished Blackjack. It looked so sad with his and neck hunched down and it shook under its own weight, or lack there of. He placed his hand down on the pegasus-like creature and it seemed to coo and nuzzle into his hand. Nico smiled at the beast.

"Harry, there is nothing there." Hermione said as Nico got on the carriage. It soon moved up and towards the destination.

"Don't worry I can see them too." A blonde girl told Harry who was looking at the horse. Everyone clambered into the carriage.

"Everyone this is Loony Love- Luna Lovegood." Hermione stammered.

"Hello." Luna replied to no one in particular. Nico zoned out at that point and looked towards the carriage. Only hearing the words "Quibler" and "Pudding". This made Nico extremely hungry. What he wouldn't give for a Happy Meal right now.

Hey lol hi guess what? I'm lightweight back and I AM SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T POStED ANYTHING IN OVER SIX MONTHS. It has been a stressful school year. So right now I'm thinking this will be like semi-hiatus-ish until hopefully summer comes. I'll be writing bits and things but editing and going back and fixing is a whole differnt thing and I'm still editing those other chapters. Thanks for being hecka homies :)

Ava ;)

Also I'm thinking about having like another demi-god come in during the middle of this story... I wanna bring in a character that you wouldn't think of usually. Like I'm thinking Leo, I have an idea for him but it still has him somewhat disappeared but if I use him, I'll need to have a good storyline for Calypso cos I love her and I hate how people use her as deadweight. Or I may just have a short, comedic cameo idk yet lol. Or I want someone like Lou Ellen because of all the freedom I could use and she would just be a little bugger to the wizards aha. Who do you guys think?