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Will

I felt so bad about what happened to Nico, I know it was my fault. I kept pestering him to accept Harry's and Ron's offer on the flying lessons. I know I shouldn't have pressured him to do it but I thought that it was an experience that we could share. Now I was sitting outside of the hospital wing waiting for my burnt friend. The nurse kept telling me that I couldn't see Nico and that she had to care for him. That really ticked me off, like she knew how to take care of Nico better than me. I sat outside for what felt like hours when the headmaster walked up to me. He was wearing these big heavy cloaks and had his glasses at an angle. The way he walked looked like he was just gliding over water, he would be really good at marching band. He halted and turned his attention to me " Having a nice night. You look like you've had a long day, you should be heading to bed." he said. I looked down and saw that I really was a wreck. My shirt was untucked and my pants had grass stains from when I was rushing over to Nico. I had dirt all over my clothes and my hair was more of a brown than a blond color. "I think I'm fine thank you." I turned away because I couldn't stand to look at his sparkle in his eye's, they reminded me of Jason and Thalia too much. But when I turned back he was already walking into Nico's room. I found myself more ticked off than earlier. This old man could go in but I couldn't! I waited for him to come out but he never did, so I started to walk back to my dorm and see if Reyna was still up so I would have someone to talk to.

I got lost three times that night,the stairs kept changing and I kept walking into dead ends. This castle should have signs up or something. I found myself in the prefect's bathroom, how I got there I have no clue. But one thing was for sure that it was way better than the other school's bathrooms. It had gold and white everywhere and little soaps near the sinks along with white fluffy towels. The bath was as big as a swimming pool and had a mermaid statue at the end of it. I started to walk out when I heard a giggle. I turned and found myself face to face with a ghost girl. Now when you hang around Nico you see scarier ghosts so I wasn't that shocked about it but it did take me by surprise. When I turned to her I slipped on the shiny marble floor and fell on my butt. Well so much for first impressions. " Whoa now we don't want you to get hurt do we." She said. Once I got up I was able to get a full look of her. She was wearing a Hogwarts uniform, her hair was in pigtails and she had big round glasses. "My name is Myrtle and I'm guessing you don't know who I am but no one does anymore!" She started to cry. Nico told me before that some ghost are emotionally unstable but I didn't have the time to play therapy today because I had to get back to my room before I was caught and it was already 2 am. "Well it was nice meeting you Myrtle but I have to go to bed now so.." I started to shuffle away. " Oh of course how silly of me to keep a demigod like you up for so late. Well fine then just leave like everyone else does eventually!'' I stopped in my tracks. "How do you know?" I asked before she floated away. "It's quite simple really. All ghost know that Nico is the ghost king or the son of hades and you are his friend so you must be a demigod." My stomach fell to tartarus. "Does..does anyone else know?" I asked again in a quivering tone. If someone knew well then, shit our cover would be blown along with the demigod community.

" No, no ghost is to give away young master's secret, but as you must know I am not that keen on rules." she giggled. "Please.. please don't tell anyone." I found it sad that I had to beg to a ghost. " Now now I am forbidden to tell anyone else so your secret is safe with me." She did the zipper mouth gesture and started to float away. " Wait! Anyone else? Who did you tell!" I chased after her but without looking where I was going I tripped in the swimming pool tub. " All in time young demigod!" She laughed as she disappeared. I really hate that ghost.

The next morning I was so tired, I didn't find my way back till 2:30 am. But once I remembered my conversation with Myrtle I suddenly was awake and on alert. I found Reyna at breakfast and explained everything to her. "Will, if someone really does know or secret then we're screwed." She told me with a scared voice. I sighed " That means we have to seriously start looking for you know what tonight. But first we have to talk to Nico and maybe he could get that ghost to talk.

The nurse let us in that morning with no hesitation and left us alone with Nico. Which I found quite odd and very irresponsible. When we entered the room Nico was already awake. Reyna and I explained everything to him about what happened yesterday. " I'll ask that ghost latter what she meant but I have something to tell you guys too." He pulled out a wand and a scrap of paper. "This is the elder wand, one of the three that we are looking for." We both looked at him stunned. "How did you find it?" I asked. "That's the thing, I didn't. I found it in my pocket this morning along with this." He handed us the piece of paper that had only two words on it "Chocolate Frog". It took us all morning to try and figure out what it meant but we had to go to class. Nico was allowed to leave with us, so we were on our way to our next class, DADA. The one thing that we got from that morning was that who ever left the wand and the note knew who we really are and that didn't sit well with me.

It was just another day of school and we did learn some cool things but I wasn't really paying attention in Herdology. I was still trying to remember who went to Nico's room when I was there last night but it was all just a blur till I remembered. I jumped out of my trance and accidentally hit Reyna when she was measuring her plant. She turned to me all pissed "What was that for Solace!" I tried to explain but it was kind of hard to do with all the students around. "Um I'll tell you and Nico at lunch."

When lunch came I explained to them about the headmaster going into Nico's room late that night. Then all the pieces started to fit together. "One of the kids in DADA told me that in order to get into the headmaster's room was a secret password. Nico the password is chocolate frog!" Reyna added. "That means that the headmaster is on our side and he gave us a that must mean that one of the items is in his room. Okay okay we will go there last because I know were the other item is already." Nico said. " I gave a puzzling look " How?" Nico turned to me. "You know how I could tell where items that death created are. Well one is in our dorm Will I could just feel it." We all gave each other a look and a nod "Well I guess that settles it! We are going after one of the Hallows tonight."