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Gus POV

We soon fill Leo in on the whole Shadow thing. He tilts his head to one side consideringly, and holds up his hands as though measuring something in front of him. I glance sideways at Newt, who shrugs.

"I think..." Leo says slowly "That I might be able to build a trap."

"Excellent." We all spin around to see Fred with Will and Gabriel. The British Trio. (Well, I could add Newt into it, but apparently he's from the future, so it doesn't work so well.) "We could do with capturing one of them." Gabriel says. "It would give us the chance to..examine it."

"Give me a while." Leo says. "I can build something, but I'll have to get help shadow-travelling it down, I'll never get it through the metal detectors."

"Nico will help you." Prim says, waving a hand in his direction. Her mind seems to be elsewhere. "We can meet up again once the trap is set."

"Okay." I say with a half-hearted smile, thinking of Hazel and how she'd have loved it. If she was here, she wouldn't still have cancer. She could climb. Will and Gabriel disappear off somewhere, muttering about a weapons room. Weird.

Leo punches me lightly on the shoulder and gestures towards the side of the room. I follow him and see him grabs Fred and Newt too.

"Okay, so I know I'm meant to be making this trap, but I have something else that I'm working on." Leo pulls a couple of bits and pieces from his tool-belt. "It'll be done soon."

"Okay. And...?" Newt gives him an odd look.

"And." Leo's face splits into a grin. "I hear that you lot like playing tricks."


Rue POV

Leo and the other guys are huddled in the corner plotting something. I don't trust them...Max takes my arm and leads me outside. I follow him quietly as he points to the wall from where we are on the ground.

"Look. We can't see anything."

"We have to be on eye level." I say quietly. "I already knew that."

"Yeah, but that makes it all the more suspicious." He squints upwards, then takes a step back. His eyes widen and he beckons me. "Look up there." I stand next to him and crane my neck to look at where he's pointing. Then I see it.

A small chink of light in the very corner of the cave. Almost like someone took a couple of huge rocks and placed them together, but didn't line them up quite right. Every couple of seconds, it is blocked out by something. "That's how they're getting in." Max whispers. "But what are they doing?"

I stare for a few more seconds. Then I see the tell-tale sparks.

"So we know how they're getting in. That's something at least." I sigh. "What are they doing though?"


A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER

Leo POV

Nico stares at my trap like I'm mental.

"How the hell are you planning on getting that-" He gestures to it "Into the underworld?"

"See that's where you come in." I cross my fingers behind my back, hoping he'll get the hint. He does and his face clouds over. The glare that comes my way is one of the worst ones I've seen.

"Fine." He hisses the word, then grabs hold of my machine. I only just manage to grab hold of it before he disappears.

Shadow-travel is awesome. The wind hits you in the face and it's just...ahhh.

"We're here." I look around and see that we are on the front porch of the Library. Pretty cool thing to call it. Nico reaches towards the doorbell, then stops and frowns. "Leo. Did you really make a doorbell?"

"The place needed one. How did you know it was me?"

"The symbol." Nico points to the tiny hammer wreathed in flames at the bottom. The symbol I like to put on my work. I hadn't realised that he knew it was mine. The door opens and Prim pokes her head out.

"Take it round the back." She says, before shutting the door. I shrug, and lift the machine. Nico follows me round the back of the building. I trip over a stray twig and me and the trap start to fall. Then I hit a barrier. It pushes me back upright.

Nico grins and flicks his hand. The shadows that caught me disappear.

"Now, let's see what's going on."


Fred POV

He's made a trap.

Awesome.

How the hell are we going to get it up the side of a building.


Okay guys, I'm sorry that this was such a short chapter. (I know you're thinking 'but all of them are pretty short', and yeah I know.)

Updates will not be frequent. Just putting that out there. I'm sorry :(