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Chapter 10

Nico's Pov.

I sighed. This place is really getting on my nerves. First the ghosts, now the dementors? Dumbledore explained to me what those things were, and I had realized I knew what they were, except I called them something different.

I could see the terrified looks on the three wizard's faces. These " dementors" must be a big problem in the wizarding world. Lou Ellen, Percy and Annabeth didn't look to scared. In fact, Percy was chuckling.

" Hey Nico,I found your long-lost cousins!" He said in Greek, still giggling like a little girl. Lou snorted.

I ignored them, and focused on the dementors.

"What are you doing here? Dad is going to kill me for letting you guys escape!" I said. I was speaking in Greek because if Hermione, Ron and Harry found out what I was saying, there would be more questions.

Apparently the dementors understood what I had said, and they nervously backed away.

I looked at the closest one and asked,

"Well?"

It was kinda funny seeing how they acted. I mean, afraid of them? Sure, they looked pretty scary, but I've faced worse. Pretty much all demigods have faced much worse. I realized everyone was staring at me, and remembered that the dementor still hadn't answered my question.

I glared at it.

"My prince, we just wanted to.." It hissed.

"Enough" I cut it off.

i really wasn't in the mood for excuses.

"Just go away" I said, and made a shooing motion with my hands.

If dementors could groan, they would have. I'm pretty sure I heard one whining to another about how they would all be sent back to the underworld. I knew how that felt, having had to spend a year with my father, Persephone, and Demeter had joined us for the last two months of my stay.

If I ever see another box of cereal, I will be sick. Persephone wasn't that bad, as she was the only person who could talk back to my dad and not be killed. unfortunately, she had an annoying habit of turning me into a plant. I swear, I takes at least a week before the greenish color fades away. It's kinda hard to appear all "I am the mighty Ghost King! " when you're the color of a turtle.

The wizards were staring at us in shock. Lou , Percy, and I all looked over at Annabeth. Hermione managed ro get a few questions out before Annabeth stepped forward, snapped her fingers and said

"Nico never spoke to any dementors. Harry did a spell and the dementors all flew away. If anyone asks, that is what happened."

I saw the familiar glazed look in their eyes, and turned to Annabeth.

"Where on earth did you learn how to use the mist that well?"

She smiled and said,

"Chiron taught me, and I've had to use it a lot to cover up the messes that Seaweed Brain over here makes."

I laughed, and Percy looked mildly insulted. I noticed that Lou Ellen had walked up to the wizards, and was poking them with her finger.

" They don't seem to be moving, do you think we should-"

She never got to finish her sentence because Harry, Ron and Hermione had seemingly unfrozen. Harry jumped a little, Ron looked sleepy, and Hermione looked curious, like she always does.

"Why are we just standing here?" She asked "And why were you about to poke me? She said, addressing Lou, who answered calmly

"There were a few dementors. I think you guys might be a bit shocked from their appearance."

"Good job, Harry!" Ron said, apparently "remembering" the fact that Harry had done a spell and saved them all from the oh-so-scary dementors.

Harry blushed. He is actually a pretty good guy. Bit nosy though.

"Come on guys, we should get to Honeydukes, its freezing out here." Annabeth said.

All of us started walking again, and after five minutes we reached the warmth of the chocolate shop. Percy and I went a bit crazy buying stuff, but hey, the gods are paying for it. Annabeth just rolled her eyes and allowed Percy to drag her around the shop.

After Honeydukes we went to this place that sold something called butterbeer. We all tried it, and it was way too warm. Percy was massaging his throat after taking a large gulp. If that is butterbeer, then I never want to try firewhiskey.

We spent a little over an hour at that place, just talking with Harry, Ron and Hermione. It was a bit of a squeeze for all of us to sit at one table, but there were no other open tables. We decided to head back to the castle. Lou Ellen did some sort of magic that surrounded us in an imaginary warm blanket. Lou was nice, so she did it for Ron, Harry and Hermione too, and she was forced to enure endless questions the whole walk back. Hey, at least we were warm, right?

We were all pretty tired after that, but I had a lot of homework left to do. Annabeth and Lou both went to sleep early, while percy and I had to stay up till eleven doing Snape's unreasonable assignment. That guy has a weird grudge against Harry, and he was so mad that Harry had managed to make a decent potion for once, that he assigned us all a long essay to be done by tomorrow.