The Hooded Man in the Nightmare
After the first Quidditch match, Percy had earned respect from everyone. People couldn't help themselves from noticing that he risked his hand to save a Gryffindor. He even had earned his little group of fangirls.
As he walked to his Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Ginny Weasley had bumped into him, but not even turning back to make contact. He thought that maybe she was in a rush, since she had dropped a notebook with a leather cover and she did not return to pick it up. He tried to reach her to hand the diary to back but lost her as soon as she took the stairs.
He ignored it, and placed the notebook on his shoulder bag. Percy walked to his class before arriving late. Today, as many thought, was going to be a very interesting class. Kristiann was planning to give a lesson on the water and fire spells.
When he reached his classroom, it was half full. He took a seat next to his best friends, Draco Malfoy. In the table, there were three things: a candle, a cup, and a metal teapot.
About a minute later, Kristiann walked in. He wore black trousers and a red shirt with the first three buttons undone, revealing his perfect chest. Many girls who noticed seemed to be losing it. When he saw Percy, he smiled, and the boy returned the smile his professor had given him.
Once he noticed that the entire class was ready, he began with his introduction, "Hello class, good afternoon." He smiles, "I'm sorry if I'm looking a little messy, it's just that I didn't have enough time this morning to get ready.
"Anyways, let's not concentrate on my appearance...Today, I will be teaching you how to handle two out of the four elements of the world, Water and Fire.
"As you all have noticed, infront of you there three objects, that after you have learned how to handle the spell, you will test them with them.
"With the water spell, you will fill in the cup. With the fire, you'll light the candle, and with both, you'll make tea...Is that understood?" The entire class nodded and he continued, "Now, with your wands repeat after me...For the water spell, you will say, Aguamenti..." And from his wand a bit of water came out flying from the tip and Kristiann caught it with a cup before it fell on the floor. The whole class repeated and only Hermione got it right the first time, "Well, you guys repeat while you're trying to fill up the cup...for the fire, the spell is Incendio." The class repeated. A small fire light up the scented candle, "Mmmm, strawberries." He put off the flame and he placed the candle next to the cup to take the teapot, "With the teapot you will do the following: Aguamenti," He says softly and the water that came from his wand filled up the container. "Incendio," He uses the fire spell to heat the teapot until steam comes out from the top. He puts a small bag of tea inside and after he is done, pours some of the liquid into the cup he had used as a demonstration. Kristiann looks at the liquid for a while before pouring two spoonfuls of sugar.
He walks over to Lavender Brown, and hands her the cup, "Come on, taste it, its cinnamon."
The girl blushes and with her hand shaking, she takes the cup from him. Timidly, she takes a sip and says, "T-this is good."
"Well, now that you all know what to do, try it yourself."
Draco went first; he tried to do the fire spell to light up the candle but failed. Then Percy tried to fill up the cup with the water spell but also failed. You'd think he'd be able to handle this spell with no effort, but he couldn't. Hermione, who was sitting behind them with Ron Weasley, sighed and walked over to their table.
"That's not how you do it."
"Demonstrate, then." Percy challenged.
"Aguamenti!" She says and the cup quickly fills with water. After she was done, she turns to the candle, "Incendio." And just as expected, there was a small fame on setting off a fruity scent.
She walked back to her table and Kristiann showed up. "Ah, you got the orange candle, my favorite." He patted Percy's head, "Keep up the good work, Perce."
After several tries, Percy and Draco finally managed to make a descent tea to drink. They got an A for the day. Kristiann was extremely satisfied with their teamwork.
When the class was dismissed, Percy went back to his room. There, he decided to sleep until dinner came, which was an hour away. But he had trouble in falling asleep the first fifteen minutes. But the tea he drank made him a bit sleepy. He looked out the window. November was over and December made it quite clear that it was here. The leaves had fallen off from most tress and snow had begun to fall.
He had been consumed by his thought so much he hadn't noticed he had fallen asleep.
He thought he'd never have another horrific nightmare until today.
The location was different from the last time; they were in an abandoned house. He didn't where he was heading, but he stopped at a large wooden door.
When he opened it, he saw the blood that splattered the wall like bright red paint as he drew his scissors across the dog's throat in a neat line.
Percy heard the gurgled barking the dog let out as it chocked on that which gave it life; the muffled thump as he dropped its lifeless body in the ground.
He smelled the coppery smell that filled the air like the fountain of red that spurted from its neck.
Frozen, Percy stood there, not knowing what to do. His eyes were wide after watching the hooded man that had haunted him even before he came to Hogwarts, killing a dog; however, his brain still couldn't process what was happening infront of him.
That was when the man raised his head.
Has he noticed me? Is he going to do something to me? Is this my end? Questions like that filled his mind repeatedly, but it looked like he was staring into blank space, not noticing the intruder who was at his door watching him in horror. The moonlight at the small window in the corner of the room allowed him to see vaguely. The blood on the walls and the floor seemed strangely bright. He posed his eyes again on the man, examining his moves, ready to run as fast as he could. From what he could see of him, his eyes were a bright blue, and they seemed to glow on the dark. The man's shoulders started shaking, and his lips curved up into a smile, and then a chuckle, then giggles, and now, he was laughing maniacally. He seemed unsatisfied with his work, but the laughter didn't stop. Percy felt chills running down his spine and cold sweat falling down his face. His throat was dry and his feet felt like they were glued on the floor, but somehow he managed to run out of that room. He ran like if there was no tomorrow as he heard the laughter stop suddenly. He kept running, looking for a safe place.
He reached a room with a black door. His shaking hands turn the doorknob but he doesn't have enough time to get in. Percy feels a strong hand holding his shoulder and an agonizing pain struck his back.
"You will never escape me, Percy Jackson, as I will haunt you until your corpse lies in front of me...Your nightmares, are just the beginning of what of what I am capable of...of what I can manipulate in you..." The man stabs him again before he can continue, "I want you dead, Percy Jackson, and I'm sure someday, someone will explain why, but until then, I will not appear in your life again but when you encounter me once more, maybe, just maybe, I'll reveal my identity."
And with a gasp, Percy woke up from his nightmare. It took him some time to go back to his normal heartbeat and breathing. Who can the hooded man be? He thought to himself.
Rubbing his eyes, he turned to the clock to check the time. Exactly eight o'clock. He stood up and lazily adjusted his tie before walking down to the common room of his house.
"Yo, Percy, where'd you find this diary?" He hears Drew Bazar's voice and turns to face him. His green eyes widened when he noticed that in his hands, was Ginny Weasley's journal. "And who in hell is Tom Riddle?"
"Where did you get that?"
After he was done laughing at something his friend had said, he answers, "I took it from your little friend, what was his name again?" He thought about it for a moment, "Drake Morgan?...No, that doesn't seem right..."
"Draco Malfoy." Percy was angry. Since Gilderoy Lockhart's appearance in Hogwarts, Drew Bazar had been a major bother to him. "Give it back."
Drew, with a lack of effort, stood up and stretched his arm to give him the journal but before Percy could touch it, "Take it from me, Jackson."
He pulled out his wand and pointed it at his neck, "With Pleasure." The small group of students surrounding them seemed to be enjoying this. Even though he was angry, Percy hoped that Drew wouldn't expect a duel because he didn't know many spells.
The fourth year student was about to bring out his wand but at that moment the prefect of Slytherin, McKenzie Meyers, showed up, "What's going on?"
With an arrogant smile growing on his face, Drew backed away, "I was just trying to give Percy his journal and he didn't seem to like that."
McKenzie turned to the thirteen year old, who was still looking at Fourth year boy, "Is that true?"
"No...He's lying." Percy was making an effort to hold back all of the bad words he wanted to tell the idiot of Drew Bazar.
She took the journal from Drew's hand and gave it back to Percy, "Well, whoever started, consider this a warning." And McKenzie walked away.
Percy, mad about the fact that Drew had gotten away with it, decided to leave the Slytherin house.
He wanted a place filled with peace, where he would be able to calm himself down. The cafeteria was a definite no because Pansy Parkinson was there and all she ever did when Percy was around, was flirt with Draco so that he'd pay attention to her. Kristiann was probably busy so he was marked out of the list. The only place remaining was the library, a place that had anything he'd be anxious to visit.
He opened the wide doors and walked in, only to face a thin woman who seemed to have a low tolerance level, bumped into him. Percy had heard of this woman and how strict she was when it came to being at the library. Everybody knew her as Madam Pince.
Slowly, he started to walk around the place, looking for an available seat in which he would have some privacy but most of the tables were taken by either a group of people studying and discussing some things or groups of girls trying to get information out of eachother about the latest gossip. He stopped when he saw a table with five vacant seats. On one of the chairs was sitting a girl from Ravenclaw. She looked up when she heard the sound of the chair in front of hers moving.
"Hi." She said put her sketching pencil down.
"Cecily West, right?"
She nodded and Percy couldn't help noticing, angry as he claimed to be, that she was extremely pretty, with her light brown hair in a messy bun that was held together by a pencil. "What is Slytherin's golden boy doing here?"
"Just trying to calm down." He sighed and continued, "You?"
Her pale cheeks filled with blush, "Cedric Diggory talked to me before dinner, and um, I came here to draw something he asked for."
"Is it you?"
"Oh, no...I don't really like him anymore..." She looked down to her sketch.
"Why not?"
"Let's just say that he's not the person I expected him to be." She picked up her book and showed Percy the drawing, "He asked me to make him a sketch of Cho Chang so that he could give it to her for Valentine's Day."
"Ouch, that must've hurt."
Cecily chuckled and Percy's thoughts were right...her smiled was just as pretty as she was. "I don't worry about it."
"I'm sure you'll find someone."
"Honestly," She leaned closer to him to whisper, "I don't look forward to that." Cecily backed away and stared at him. She could've gone an entire life without knowing who Percy Jackson was until this year began, and she was glad she didn't have to wait longer to meet someone like him. He was handsome compared to the other Slytherin boys. He was tall, slightly tanned, ocean green eyes that could make anyone get lost in them, and long black hair that stopped at the middle of his neck and messed around his cheeks and forehead.
Just as she looked back to her sketchbook, Percy gaze went up to look at her. Cecily noticed and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing."
She gathered up her stuff and placed them inside her shoulder bag. "I have to go, Percy." She gave him a sweet smile, enough to make Percy never forget it. "I'll see you later."
"Yeah, I'll see you soon." Cecily smiled once more before leaving the library and Percy Jackson was left with the thought of that girl on his head.
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**Author's Note: Hello everyone! It is me, Cadlg...Well, I must admit that writing this story has been, by far, the best thing I have ever done. I have to say, you guys make this happen. Um...There's this thing that I have to point out...Percy and Hermione will not happen...I do not plan to change anything that the amazing J.K. Rowling has already set out for you guys. All of the Harry Potter couples that you all know are staying the same and well, I'm still deciding if Percy will have a love interest or not. If he does, I already have the perfect OC, who has already come out twice in the story. Another thing is that, there is some OCs that I created for this story so that it'll go on the right flow. Last thing is...I'm holding a small contest...In the story I made a little cameo as a student...my name is my real life one just with a different last name (clue: I portrayed myself as an eleven year old even though I'm not eleven...I'm freaking older that...), whoever gets it right, I will give you a character in the story that will come out as whatever you want in whatever year you please. You can put the answer on the review...whoever wins, I will Inbox you telling you the information and the link of the chapter that your character came out at. Anyways, I am done...Please Read & Review.