HELLO MY FAITHFUL READERS. HERE IS CHAPTER 7 OF 'THE WIZARD SON OF HADES'. I REALLY HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!
I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER OR PERCY JACKSON, OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS AND I AM WRITING THIS FOR PURE ENJOYMENT NOT TO MAKE MONEY.
(WRITING LIKE THIS IS ONE OF MY COMMENTS)
THIS IS A SIGN OR A MESSAGE LEFT TO A CHARACTER
This is what a character is thinking
And this is something in Ancient Greek or Latin
~CHAPTER 7~
THE CURSE
[SIRIUS]
I went straight to bed after tea. Prongs thought it was a bit strange to go to bed at 7:15pm, but for once I really couldn't care less about what he thought, I really couldn't care less about what he thought, my best friend or not.
I walked up the staircase to the door that said BOYS and walked in. Taking the familiar route up the four flights of stairs to the 4th year dormitories. I paused for a moment outside the door, I had only just realised how tired I really was, must be from the stunner earlier today. I sighed and walked in.
Because of how tired I was I didn't notice the destruction around my bed until I opened the curtains around it. My eyes widened in complete and utter shock as I looked down at the bombsite that used to be my bed.
Now I was looking properly I saw that the hangings had been slashed open, one of them had fallen off when I opened them. One of the posts was in complete ruin as if it was been hit by a blunt axe. My school books were soaked in some red substance that appeared to be blood and those that had survived were burnt. My duvet had been ripped and was covered in a black, sticky, liquid and what was left of my pillow was in tatters all over the bed, feathers stuck to the liquids spilt all over my stuff.
Worse still was the headboard, who or whatever had done this, it appeared, had tried to cleave it in half leaving a gap between the two halves of what used to be my headboard. Each side had what looked like claw marks all over it, the kind of thing that Remus leaves all over the furniture of the Shrieking Shack.
Also on the headboard was a message, it was written on some kind of yellowing old parchment that too had been burnt. The piece of parchment was kept on with a dagger made of the same materials as the ring; the dagger was just above half way up in the centre and was covered in the blood like substance. In the same liquid a message was written on the parchment:
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I pulled it out and the mess on my bed slid off and the pillow and duvet mended themselves, but all my school books were now ruined, the teachers would love that. Also to my horror the ring returned to my bedside table.
Time skip!Skip time
Ever since the bed incident my luck had been rotten, I had lost 5 of my homework's just before giving them in (and got detentions), the homework's I had been able to give in all got D's and T's (and I had got more homework) and every time I opened my mouth in a lesson when I wasn't supposed to I had got even more detention. And that wasn't the half of it. Yesterday Prongs had been gone so I was bored and was just about to hex Snape with 'eat slugs' when it backfired right in my face giving me the worst few hours of my life as I brought up a slug every few minutes and I got a stern talking to by Professors McGonagall and Slughorn. I don't know why they suddenly thought it was wrong to intimidate Snape; they had been fine with it for the past three and a bit years.
It had been a week now since the stunner in the corridor incident and I didn't think my luck could get any worse, I was wrong, oh boy I was wrong. I had been walking to History of Magic and the ghosts were watching me strangely and talking amongst themselves as I walked past. As soon as I walked in and professor Binns told us to sit down I could tell I was in for a bad lesson. The ghost gave back the homework; I got a T as had become the usual during the past week. On the top was a note that said something in Greek. I somehow had the ability to read what it said and translate, which shocked me. See me after the lesson Mr Blue Black; I understood it all, even my incorrect name crossed out.
"Stop gawping Mr Blue" came the dreary voice of the ghost
"Black" I corrected him, he just went back to his teaching as if he couldn't care less what my second name was.
I managed to stay awake (just about) during the lesson. When the bell went I somehow was last out of the class even though I had been forced to sit at the front. I tried to sneak out to avoid my meeting with Binns. I walked towards the door, some ghosts from outside closed me in forcing me back into the classroom, I can't explain why but I was terrified. Then a voice came in my head not so fast mortal, I was even more terrified.
Some invisible force pushed me over; I looked up and saw a ring of ghosts (including Binns) around me, some of them I recognised, others I didn't. They were chanting something in Ancient Greek; again I mysteriously managed to recognise it:
You were warned and warned again, Lord Hades sends his fury
You were warned and warned again, Lord Hades sends his fury
Warned, mortal, you were warned, warned, warned, and warned
The fury of Lord Hades to be set upon you, warned mortal, warned
That was the second time I had heard that name I thought as I finally was let leave the classroom, I made a note to myself to find out as much as I could about this lord Hades and his fury. I wanted to be prepared for whatever was in stall if this wasn't just a stupid prank to scare me. If it was it was working, that's for sure.
Another time skipppppppppppppppp
The day after that a strange woman appeared at the school, no-one seemed to be able to see her except me. This freaked me out a little so I made sure I was always in the company of others so I could never be alone with her.
The woman was wearing a pinstriped suit (a woman's suit, she wasn't a cross dresser), a white blouse and high heeled shoes, muggle clothes. She had dirty blond hair pulled up into a smart bun. She looked like a muggle solicitor or a very strict teacher. She was also following me around a school where, it appeared, only I could see her.
She followed me around for around two days before I saw her make contact with another student. All the way through those days I kept asking Prongs, Moony and Wormtail if they could see her and they would reply "who? where?" I was starting to believe them. I had also asked Lily Evans, that girl Prongs fancied and she just said "bugger off Black, there is no-one there". I was seriously freaked out. I was beginning to think it was a figment of my imagination until I saw Snape talking to her.
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I was walking to History of Magic with Moony as usual after Divination as James always had a meeting with Professor McGonagall and the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain (Will Chase) as that was the only time they were all free to meet (James had been made deputy Captain). We were just turning out of the Divination tower when I saw the woman. I was just about to ask Moony if he could see her when I saw Snape approach her and begin a conversation.
The world seemed to slow down, it was not my imagination, it couldn't be. Snape could see her too, and talk to her.
"Padfoot, are we going to History of Magic or are you going to stare at the wall all day" came Moony's voice which snapped me out of the trance,
"Moony, you see there, where Snape is, he's talking to someone, a woman. Moony tell me you see her!" I said, how could he not see this?!
"Padfoot all I see is Severus pretending to talk to someone, come on or we'll be late" he replied sounding confused.
I didn't know what had happened just then but I knew one thing, all this had something to do with Severus Snape. This 'Lord Hades' and his 'fury', the ring, that woman and Severus Snape all had something to do with it.
Final time skip of the chapterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Two days after seeing Snape talk to the woman I was sat in the common room. I hadn't seen her since I saw her with Snape, good riddance. I was sat with Prongs and Moony right by the fire eating last night's stash of food from the kitchens while Wormtail was getting more. Right now life was good. Ever since I had last saw the woman my luck had gone back to normal. Everything had gone back to normal. Everything except one thing, we hadn't been able to catch Snape for ages. No-one really saw him anymore, he was only there for classes and he was occasionally talking to Lily Evans in a dark corner at break or just after lessons.
I sighed, getting up I announced that I would be going to bed early, I wasn't sure why I suddenly wanted to go to bed early but I had a sudden urge to. I climbed the stairs to our dormitory and walked straight to me bed. I turned to see the woman standing over me with none other than Severus Snape stood at her shoulder. Except he wasn't in his normal Slytherin robes, no, he was in Greek battle armour made of the same metal as the ring, he also had a black sword hanging by his side, he was smiling, a cruel and evil smile.
The woman also was laughing, she put her arms out, and that was when things really went wrong. Her arms became black leather wings; her suit became black leathery skin which covered her body. She raised a foot of so off the floor and laughed as I shrank back into the corner; then Snape spoke.
"Feel the Fury of Lord Hades Sirius Black!" Merlin how I hated that guy. He pointed his sword at me and the black thing that was that freaky woman dived at me.
She dragged me onto the floor so I was half under the bed, Snape kicked the bed to one side like it weighed nothing more than an empty trunk, that guy was stronger than he looked. The fury began to attack shouting "WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT?" over and over. Somehow I knew she was looking for the ring, and I somehow wanted to protect the evil bit of metal.
I wondered how no-one had heard me shout, Snape seemed to know what I was thinking
"no-one can hear you Black, and no-one with come up until you give up the ring" he smiled that evil smile again, he was scary when he wanted to be, "unless they want to help us get it of course, then they will come up and get it for me".
Right on cue Lily Evans appeared in the doorway: "you should go, young Lord" said the woman turned wired black thing and Severus Snape melted into the shadows. Evans ran to the ring, grabbed it and ran back downstairs, and then the thing looked at me.
"You were lucky she came to your rescue this time, mortal, do not steal from my master again", and she vanished. I lay on the floor and fell unconscious. The next thing I knew I was laid on a bed in the hospital wing.
[LILY]
I felt a sudden urge to try and get Sev's ring back, I don't know why I just did. I told my best friend Jasmine I needed something from upstairs.
I got to the fourth year boys dormitory and opened the door. As soon as I got there someone with a raspy voice said "you should go, young Lord". All the shadows in the room rushed to one corner and a figure disappeared. This only confused me for a moment as I saw the ring.
Then I saw a strange Black figure attacking Sirius, it looked at me and carried on, clearly it meant me no harm. I grabbed the ring and ran for it, half expecting the thing to follow me. I left the common room through the portrait hole and ran for the dungeons. I wanted to get this back to Sev before that thing came after me.
HOW DID YOU ENJOY CHAPTER 7?
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