Hello! The next chapter here! I tried to make it somewhat more lighthearted this time. It's still somewhat shorter than normal, which is because the guidechapters for this chapter are mostly AU in this story.

This might also be the fastest update I have ever done.

Enjoy!

The Demigods

The rest of the vacation, Ouranos spent researching on fading. Discreetly of course. There was, however, nothing he could find about preventing it, mostly he found passages saying that it was irreversible and imminent. This saddened him quite a bit, and after four days, he stopped researching. He would stick to Aether's plan for now.

Of course, his stopping was also caused by the Demigod Watch, as he started calling it. They had spread out, and followed him everywhere. Some of them did a good job, but some of them…

The embarrassment…

Godric had quickly caught on to what was happening, and Ouranos couldn't get that Tartarus-damned grin of Godric's face.

"How do they keep doing it?"

"What?"

"How can they keep knowing where I'm going next?! I can't even turn a corner or I see another one of them! Makes me contemplating actually destroying the world just to get rid of them!"

He fell down to his knees while gripping his head. "It's driving me insane! Insane, Godric!"

Godric laughed, and said: "Well, it's a good thing I basically held pranking tournaments back in the days!"

This caught the ears of two peculiar redheads who were 'just passing by' (or what else you would call shamelessly following the duo to see the situation unfold).

"My, my Ronniekins!"

"Have you finally given in –"

"—and deciding to return to the fine art of pranking."

"He pranks?" Ouranos, surprised, asked the twins.

"Oh yes!" One of them answered.

"He taught us all he knew!" The other supplied.

"We were good before –"

"—But since he taught us –"

"—we are unstoppable!" They chorused.

"He stopped, however, when our dearest mother found out about his pranking antics."

"Must've been the first time we saw him white as a sheet! He never pranked at home ever again!" Ouranos stared at Godric with wide eyes.

Godric laughed bombastically. "Yes, she is a fierce woman! Well then, my pupils! You up for some pranking?"

"Of course!" They chorused. "Gred! Get the Marauder's Map!"

'Gred' saluted and took a blank piece of parchment out of his pocket.

It was then that Ouranos cogs started turning. An evil grin formed on his face.

It was early in the morning (a few days later) that the Demigod, named as Faye Dunbar by the Map, left the seat at Ouranos' bed. Ouranos quickly signalled Franz, who was dispersed into tiny air particles next to his bed, rendering him invisible, to signal Godric and the twins, who were at the top of the slide also known as the staircase to the girl's dormitory. They knew, after hours of Fred and George studying the Map, that Faye would not return to the girl's dormitory to catch some shut-eye, but would go to the seventh floor and disappear from the map for some reason.

When Faye was out of the Common Room, Ouranos made the sound of an owl, and the twins and Godric came sliding down the stairs.

"Why did you have to be up there again?" Ouranos asked them, a bit grumpily so, as the slide was claimed as his. His, Styx it!

"Well, it was fun." One twin said, and Godric laughed. Silently of course. Tartarus would freeze over if Ouranos had heard all of Godric's possible laughs.

"Let's move." The other twin said.

Ouranos threw the twins the invisibility cloak, and made himself invisible.

"Wow, Harry! How did you do that! You've got to learn us!" One of the twin's voice sounded from nowhere. Godric raised an eyebrow, and Ouranos face-palmed. That was careless.

"I can't really, it's some kind of natural gift. Sorry."

A groan was heard from the position of a snoring cat at a windowsill. The cat immediately woke up and began looking left and right franticly.

Ouranos made a clacking sound with his tongue, Godric turned himself invisible, and they started to move towards the spot they had seen Faye disappear at on the map.

They made it almost unnoticed, and if someone had noticed the statue of Baldric the Dung-Gatherer move almost a meter to the right, no-one had commented on it.

Or the randomly opening doors, or that one painting that suddenly grew a door handle, or that stairway that suddenly disappeared and then returned.

Anyway, what mattered most is that they arrived at the spot earlier than Faye, hindered by Ouranos manipulating the magic stairs.

"Really," Ouranos whispered, "why was that last secret pathway necessary? We cut exactly one full corner with it."

"So you would choose a corner instead of a statue that bows before you and then moves aside? How dull!" One twin whispered.

Ouranos sweat-dropped, but quickly stiffened. Faye was coming.

She stopped at the portrait of the dancing trolls, tried some pirouettes herself, horribly failed, and began to walk up and down the hallway.

Suddenly a door appeared. Ouranos heard a gasp from Godric, but Faye hadn't noticed it, and entered the room.

Ouranos signalled them to follow him, until he realized that he was invisible. A clacking of his tongue quickly rectified that.

As they entered the room, the first thing they saw were demigods. Magical demigods. The room was full of sparring, laughing, joking, make-up doing (Ouranos was surprised), butterbeer drinking demigods. It was, in all senses of the word, some kind of rowdy pub. Godric, of course, felt right at home. Ouranos gulped and became visible, to mingle and join conversations. It didn't take long before he found Faye. She was talking with a seventh year Hufflepuff.

"Have you been able to find anything, Faye?"

"No. But I know he is up to something! I just know it."

"That's what our Lady said too. We just have to keep on observing him."

"Will do." Faye said. "Have you found anything about the dreams?"

"No. There are a few possibilities though. He could be a dream god or something, or maybe involved in fate…"

"Or," Ouranos said, deciding to reveal himself. "I could not be planning anything. Hello Faye. You drool in your sleep."

Faye was too shocked too reply, but the Hufflepuff drew his sword.

"Is that even allowed here?" Ouranos wondered aloud. Noticing the commotion, the conversations, the jokes and the laughs had stopped. From the crowd, Godric's voice piped up:

"It is, actually!" Ouranos nodded towards the crowd. "Thank you, friend."

It was time to implement the plan.

"Minions!" He called. Fred and George went to stand on the two sides of the table, and announced:

"Ladies!"

"Gents!"

"I –"

"—we—"

"—are pleased to announce to you—"

"—Harry Potter! Quake as he fills your stomachs with fear!"

"Your heads with questions!"

"Your boots with frogs!"

"And here he is!" Ouranos walked towards them, amused (the speech was 100% Weasley twins), and gave them the thumbs up for phase two. Then he climbed up the table.

"Hello there! I'm Harry Potter! You may know me from things like the Harry Potter children's books series, which I never authorized, or the Harry Potter head ointment branch, with which I don't want anything to do with..." Ouranos grimaced.

"Yeah, right!" One demigod called out.

"No, I really want nothing to do with the head ointment." Ouranos answered him.

"No, I mean about you being Harry Potter!" The demigod called back.

"Then who do you think I am?"

"Evil!" The not so bright demigod shouted.

"So I am Evil?"

"Yes! …No, but…" The demigod's arguments dissolved into incoherent mumbles. A demigoddess tried to defend him.

"It's not that you are the god of evil, but more that you have evil plans!"

"Really?" Ouranos said. "How do you know?"

"Our Lady told us so!" Some other demigod shouted.

"And who is 'your Lady'?"

"Please, were not that stupid!" The demigoddess from before shouted.

"Well, it was worth a try. But how would she know my plans?" Ouranos asked. Silence enveloped the room. Ouranos saw Godric signal him to buy more time, so he tried another approach.

"Fine then. What are my plans?"

"Oh, that's easy! You want to overthrow Olympus and destroy and/or rule the world!" The demigods murmured in agreement.

"Then why am I in England?"

"Uh, to gather followers to do your nefarious deeds for you?"

Ouranos sighed. Totally indoctrinated, these demigods were. Just because he wasn't openly allied with Olympus, he was trying to overthrow them. Another reason to stay away from that place.

"Well no. If I told you I don't have evil plans, and was just enjoying my freedom, would you believe me?" Ouranos asked (almost rhetorically).

"NO!" The demigods roared as one.

"Fine. You want to know my evil plans?" Silence. The demigods were murmuring with each other in debate. Finally, one demigod spoke up.

"Uh, sure?"

"Okay then. I'm going to destroy all the socks of this world!" Ouranos let loose his practiced evil laugh, before stopping suddenly. "There. Happy now?" From the door of the room, Godric signalled that they were done, and exited with Fred and George. Time to wrap things up.

"You'll never get my socks!" One demigoddess shouted out. The others looked at her in disbelief. Ouranos noted that it was the same demigoddess from the bedside encounter he once had. He sighed.

"As you may know, that was a lie." Ouranos started, adopting a serious image. The demigods tensed immediately. "And as you all may know too, stalking is a crime. But as I don't think reporting you will have much effect, if you continue stalking me, I will smite you or turn you into some animal. Leave me in peace or I will leave you in pieces. Is that understood?" Ouranos let some divine power flow into the room, and saw the demigods begin sweating.

"I'll take that as a yes. Goodbye." Ouranos hopped of the table and walked out the door. Outside, he smirked. Mission success!

Next day at breakfast, Fred, George, Godric and the majority of the people present howled in laughter as a multitude of multi-coloured fluffy teddy bears assaulted Ouranos and began slapping him. It took all of the staff to pry every single one of them of him. Of course, he denied everything.

Ouranos was ecstatic. No more stalking! Godric was ecstatic too, as he had sadly forgotten the exact location of the Room of Requirement after his rebirth, and he had left some important things there, which he, for some reason, wouldn't reveal to Ouranos.

They were walking through the garden one morning when fire streamed through the window of Hagrid's Hut. Godric's eyes grew thrice their original size, and began sparkling, greatly surprising Ouranos. Bellowing a laugh, Godric ran towards Hagrid's Hut, past some elder-years, who knew better than to give him strange looks by now.

He burst down the door, Ouranos following behind him.

"A dragon, Hagrid?!" He said, eyes whizzing left and right.

"How'd ye know?" Hagrid, pants on fire, answered.

"Dragons are too awesome to not know about them. It is that simple." Godric said. "Now, where is the beastie?"

"Jus' over there." Hagrid pointed towards a small dragon, who was playing with the resident dog Fang, and let it be clear that Fang didn't like it.

"Com'ere ye little doggie!"

True, there were no dragons when he was beaten by Kronos, but it made sense that he was their lord and master. Hagrid poured three cups of tea.

"He's a little rascal, he is." Hagrid said lovingly, doting on the small salamander.

"Oi!" The dragon set Hagrid's beard on fire.

"It's a she, Hagrid." Ouranos informed Hagrid. Godric looked at him curiously, but understanding.

"Ah, dat clears a lot up!" Hagrid said laughing, trying to get the fire on his beard put out.

"Hey Hagrid," Godric said. "You do realize that I want to help you raise it, do you?"

"Huh, 'f course, 'f course." Godric inched closer, and tried to pet the dragon, who loved the attention, and began rubbing against Godric. Let it be said that Godric's pants were quickly ripped below the knees because of the sharp scales of the dragon.

"What's her name, Hagrid?" Ouranos asked him.

"Oh, eh, Norbert… -a, I suppose." Hagrid said.

"What kind is it, Hagrid?" Godric managed to ask Hagrid while trying to dodge Norberta's firebreaths of affection.

"Ah, uh—"

"It's a Norwegian Ridgeback." Ouranos supplied.

"Thanks, Harry. Well, what he said."

"Hagrid, you do realize you can't keep her here? You have a wooden hut."

"But, but I've always wanted to raise a dragon!" Hagrid exclaimed.

"Do you want to be homeless, Hagrid? Do you want to be imprisoned?"

"As much as I like dragons, it is true, Hagrid." Godric said. "Raising dragons is illegal in this day and age. We could give my brother Charlie a call to collect her for the dragon reserve."

Hagrid sat down, and began stirring his tea. Eventually, he spoke.

"But she's still so young, ye know? How'd dat go, if all those big and mean dragons want teh hurt her?"

Norberta looked up with puppy-dog eyes at Ouranos. "Do I have to leave daddy Hagrid, lord?" Her voice sounded sad.

Ouranos sat down too. "I have a better idea. As you can see, dragons answer to me. With Godric's knowledge of the Forbidden Forest, and me being here if anything goes wrong, I'm sure that we could find some place to raise her in secret."

Godric looked up. "I like that idea!" He chuckled. "It has been a long time since Hogwarts had a protector, although maybe Salazar's Snakey is still alive…"

Hagrid smiled, eyes teary. "If yeh could do dat for me…?"

"Oh, sure Hagrid!" Godric said. "As long as I get to help you raise her, of course!"

"No problem. I'm quite interested in dragons." Ouranos answered. As he commanded dragons, it would always be nice to have one nearby.

"Then it's a deal!" Godric said jubilantly. "do you have some rock cakes, Hagrid?"

"'f course, 'f course. Here yeh go!" Hagrid handed Godric a rock cake, but before he could take a bite, Norberta had stolen it from him and eaten it, leading Ouranos to laugh at him.

And so began the excursions in the Forbidden Forest, searching for a place for the young dragon to reside. They had a run-in with some centaurs (who all either ran, the rude ones, or stumbled over each other to pay Ouranos their respect, which led Ouranos to clear the night sky for them for a few days), beat some werewolves (no match for Godric), saw some ridiculously big spiders (only the tick above Godric's eye betrayed that he wasn't quite comfortable with them), and had one very nasty run in with some cat named Mrs. Norris. In the end, though, it was Franz who found the clearing that they had eventually brought Norberta to.

Only to see her stand before the door of Hagrid's Hut the next day. They, of course, brought her back.

After promising Ouranos that she would stay there, if only because her lord commanded it, Hagrid and Godric went to make schedules. Much squabbling and a pissed off Ouranos later, it was decided that they would just go when they could.

Next day, Ouranos had to remind Godric to keep that strange grin (A dragon! A real dragon!) off his face. It would probably raise questions. Sadly, he failed, and Godric kept grinning like a maniac for at least a week.

So, tell me what you think, guys. This is probably my biggest venture into the AU until now. Next chapters, Year I will be wrapping itself up.

Reviews and favorites are appriciated.

Update:

I have an apology to make. I had totally forgotten about the owls. Sorry. I have changed it so that he had told them to ignore him unless called on or when having something for him. So sorry! My thanks to Joe Lawyer.

Also to answer "chibi" review (can't pm, chibi is a guest): Thanks!:) And, sorry to disappoint you then. To start with: If you say the chapter is bland, and Ouranos is lacking, please say why and what. Then I can learn from it and change it when I deem it necessary. And yes, nobody gives a shit. Wizards are quite eccentric. Albus acts like a nutter, but nobody cares. At the start of the school year, the students are notified of a new, potentially deadly hallway in their school; nobody cares. The only ones who went there and tried to do something about it were three first years. Even McGonnagal didn't care enough to go when there was an intruder! In the second year, attacks happen all through the school, but the only ones actively trying to do something about it are the Trio. So apart from some panic: Nobody cares. The school even stays open long enough for at least 10 attacks.

About the parody thing: Well yes. It has humor standing above it, which means that I will add jokes here and there and my humor is of a parodying kind. It's my story.

Thanks to Harbringerlady, who thought up the 'Leave me in peace, or I'll leave you in pieces'.