A/N, hey guys/gals! So this chapter got done a bit sooner then the others, but the next one may take a bit longer. DX

Seahero; thanx! When I read your review, I was surprised that even though I put detail in my story I had left out a very well not important scene, but one that should've been in there. I'm sorry that I left that part out, so I added the scene in this chapter. Sorry if its a bit confusing.

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Shadow fire-sonofposiedon; I do kinda ship thalico, I think their cute together, but I don't think thalia will be in this fanfic, but who knows.

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Neville noticed the strange exchange student was sleeping. He wasn't really sure, what to think of him. He'd heard all rumors of course, but he'd been observing him when they were in the same classes and Nico didn't seem to fit into them, he seemed more...more...Neville couldn't figure it out, he just didn't really think that the rumors were well thought out.

He saw Nico stiffen in his sleep and tense up. Suddenly Nico seemed to curl into himself, and a flash of horror flashed across his face. Neville wondered if he should wake him up, but he figured Nico wouldn't appreciate that.

Nico started shivering and mumbling in his sleep. Neville made out the words 'Bianca' and 'don't' but every thing else seemed to be in a different language. By now Nico had the whole classes attention, they were staring at him in confusion, wondering why he was curled up, shaking and mumbling like some one insane. Suddenly Nico's mumbling turned into whimpering which soon led to screams, as if he was watching some one die. Nico's hands hugged his knees tight to his chest. The lights dimmed and even the shadows seemed to darken, a layer of fear spread through the room. Making the student's shiver, grip each other, trying to find comfort.

Neville reached out cautiously, scared of even touching the screaming boy-in-black. Neville was about to shake Nico's shoulder when he saw Nico's eyes snap open. Neville jerked his hand back as if ha had been burned. The lights went back to normal, and Nico stood up so fast everybody flinched. Trelawney demanded to know Nico's dream, but Nico just left, leaving the rest of the class in a daze., not able to comprehend what had just occurred.

Nico entered the Great Hall. He was hungry for a cheese burger, but he doubted he'd get that in Hogwarts. He sat at the end of the table, listening to snatches of conversations here and there.

"Did you hear that di Angelo blew up a field!"

"I heard that he blew up half the forest!"

"I heard he blew up Hogsmeade!"

"no way?!" and so on. Nico rolled his eyes at the students' wild claims, each trying to outdo the other. Nico studied the choices set before him. As he had suspected, there were no cheeseburgers, hamburgers, or really any real American food in sight. He finally settled for a grilled hot-ham-and-cheese sandwich.

Nico watched as the 'Golden Trio' entered the room, each of them looking around until they spotted him. He groaned in annoyance as they headed over to him.

"Hello, Nico!" Hermoine said brightly. Nico grunted in reply, taking a big bite out of his sandwich so he could chew his food instead of answering weird questions.

Nico had never understood why people always wanted to ask about his personal life, such as his family or his lifestyle. He never bothered them unless it was unavoidable, yet mortals and wizards all seemed to be intent on figuring him out, even when Nico hadn't figured himself all the way out.

He also didn't get why people thought of him as 'mysterious.' Seriously, there was nothing really unique about him, except maybe the fact that he was the son of Hades, but he didn't really have a choice in that, and him not talking that much wasn't that weird- lots of people didn't talk much, and nobody pestered them.

"How's your day been going?" Hermoine inquired.

Nico just muttered something unintelligible. Hermoine thought a bit before deciding to just ask normal questions to see if he would open up.

"Soooooo, Nico. What's your favorite food?" she asked. Nico wasn't fooled, Hermione was just trying to make friends with him in order to learn his back round.

But Nico played along."McDonalds." he answered shortly.

Hermione looked confused for a moment then seemed to shrug it off. "That's cool. Do you like the color red?" she asked as Ron stuffed his face with chicken, and Harry ate slowly, listening intently to their conversation.

Nico just shrugged. Hermione pursed her lips, not liking the one sided conversation.

"What's something you do when you want to have some fun?" she asked, hoping he'd actually give her more than a one worded answer.

Nico looked at her as if she had lost it, wondering how Hermione, the one who was supposed to be the smart one, was asking such stupid questions! He sighed, figuring the more he cooperated, the sooner he could get the Golden Trio to stop being so nosy.

But he wasn't planning on giving away any vital information, and no one said he wasn't allowed to lie. Nico was an expert on the art of lying. "Play guitar, I guess." he said. Hermione smiled, (a really aggravating smile that made Nico want to knock out her teeth), glad that she gotten a full answer from him.

"Where were you born?"

"Italy."

"Why do you wear a cape?"

Nico considered this question for a moment before answering, "It's kinda difficult for me to work in robes," he finally said.

"Why do you wear black all the time?" Nico ignored the question, as a question had entered his mind.

"Harry. What happened to not knowing each other?" he asked. He had actually liked the idea when Harry had suggested it. Harry looked at him slightly confused but then nodded understanding what he meant.

"We met this morning. Don't you remember, Luna introduced us. I don't know how you met Hermione, but this red head here," he said, gesturing to Ron (who was still buried in his food.) "is Ronald Weasley. Ron, this is Nico di Angelo."

Ron looked up confusedly. "I know that!" he said bewildered.

Harry whispered something to him that Nico didn't bother trying to hear, and Ron nodded, apprehension dawning on him. Hermoine looked more annoyed by the second at being left out from the inner circle. Harry noticed this and leaned over the table to "secretly" tell her what was going on. While they were whispering, Nico took the opportunity to finish his food and slip out of the Great Hall.

Nico trudged along a corridor somewhere in Hogwarts, far away from any of the classes. He had had Defense Against the Dark Arts for his next class, but he had heard that all they did was read and write. Yuck! Nico was sick of the stinkin' quest. Just like he thought it was a big waste of time! Moldy court hadn't even shown up yet, wasn't that a bit weird for a bad guy? 'Cause like when Percy got to camp, it wasn't even two weeks before he was thrown into some dangerous adventure, and by the time he was fifteen, he had trouble coming at him left and right.

But Harry's bad guy had to be extremely slow. He didn't attack, or send some creepy message, or camp his army right outside the school's protection border. Speaking of the school's protection border, why hadn't it been keeping the monsters away? He guessed it was, for the most part, but still. He should talk to the headmaster about reinforcing it.

He wondered what the twins had been doing lately. He had seen some of their handy work here and there, but hadn't talked to them for a while now. He sighed as he came to a dead end, that was weird. There hadn't been a dead end here before. He was in the farthest north corner of Hogwarts. It was one of the places that had been closed off, all rooms above and below, though he hadn't been able to figure out why.

He walked to one of the doors and gave it a hard yank. The door didn't budge. He tried another door. Nothing. He checked around him, making sure no one was watching him, and he shadow traveled to the other side, only to be met with a handful of monsters searching an abandoned class room. They hadn't picked up on his scent yet, and Nico wanted to keep it that way.

Nico shadow traveled back to the other side of the wall. He was trying to think about how the monsters got there in Hogwarts, of all places. Most of the time, Nico didn't like being a demigod, but at times like these he really hated it. Out of no where, his mind flashed back to that morning, which for an A.D.H.D kid, was a long time ago.

The looks on Harry's and Draco's faces when they had seen him defeat those monsters. Nico knew that the incident would not be over looked. He was sure Harry would be able to put off questioning him for a bit, because unlike Draco, Harry actually had some sense.

But Draco was another matter entirely. As Nico considered the problem, he could see more and more resemblance between him and Octavian, as they both would do any thing to get what they wanted, which was usually revenge but it had been other things, including information. Except, facing him head on.

So Nico knew he had to watch out for signs of Draco's work, and of course there was the more pressing matter of the monsters on the other side of the wall. He decided to do a quick check around the closed off rooms by sneaking through the shadows. Then, he'd make a game plan.

Nico slipped smoothly through the shadows, looking more like the shadow of a shadow, than an actual person, checking out one room after another, getting more alarmed at each one. So far he had seen about thirty five different kinds of monsters, and he was only a quarter of the way through.

They were spread out and Nico had been able to go undetected quite easily. Nico glanced at the army watch on his wrist, and was surprised to see it had already been an hour and a half since he started. He muttered some words that young children shouldn't hear, as he realized he only had forty-five minutes till he had to meet Snape at detention.

Now normally, Nico would have blown off detention without a second thought, but he had been getting more and more curious about what Snape knew, and what Snape thought of him. Nico knew Snape kept getting more and more suspicious by the day, and Nico had to throw him off the trail. Nico kept searching the rooms, mainly just class rooms and hallways, the occasional closet, finding at least one monster in each one.

Nico had no idea how they got in, or who would be dumb enough to bring them in. These monsters were gonna make it a bit harder to protect Potter. Nico frowned at that thought, he should probably go check on Potter. He sighed. This quest sucked. He used the shadows to do a quick scan of the remaining rooms, not nearly as efficient as Nico checking for himself, but it would do.

There were roughly one hundred different kinds of monsters in all, he estimated. Nico shadow traveled outside of the class Potter was in, Transfiguration, or something like that, Nico couldn't really remember. He slipped inside and saw,-to his horror- that they were learning how to turn stuff into flowers, including but not limited to, each other.

He also noticed they were still paired with the Slytherins. Nico saw Harry get turned into a lily and shuddered. He hated being a plant. Plants did absolutely nothing, and Persephone did nothing to take away his ADHD. He dodged a weird looking spell and saw the spell hit Ron, who promptly turned into a bright orange geranium.

Nico strode over to the lily and turned it back into Harry, then going on impulse, he turned to the Slytherin's.

"Hey Draco!" He yelled. Draco turned, and his face paled as he saw who had yelled. "I got the power!" Nico said in a powerful voice while holding his wand above his head. Then he lowered the wand and sent a spell at Draco, which turned him into a pansy.

Nico turned back around and studied a shocked (as usual) Harry. He then nodded as he saw Harry was unharmed and quickly left the class room, eager to be away from all the plants. Persephone was one of the many people that Nico did not miss.

Voldemort turned to Lucius Malfoy.

"Is the diversion force in place?" he asked, grinning evilly, pleased at his own brilliant plan.
"Yes, my Lord. Everything is in place," Lucius Malfoy replied.

"Good. The diversion attack begins tomorrow at sundown.

A/N and there it 'tis hoped you like it! And sorry if it stank. I noticed some of the reviewers seemed a bit nervous that I would quit due to lack of reviews, but I'm here to tell you that even though the majority don't seem to like my story, there are over fifty people who do! And I'm going to finish this story for them!

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and the next chapter will have a bit of Nico/Luna, and some talking between well a lot of different people that I said Nico would talk with, plus some action!

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