Dungeons and Drakons.
In which Meg and Nico go to the dungeons to discuss the rock.
Last chapter was extremely long the longest. So far.
I will try to make this long.
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It was mid November and they still didn't know what the plant was. Not gilly weed. Not mandrake.
They needed a new sample and Nico could not get it. It would deteriorate.
Meg mulled the questions over her waffles and sausages.
Harry Potter probably knew more the stone than Meg did. They had been studying. Nico had told her.
On the topic of Harry there was a sports game today. Meg never bothered with the name of it but Harry just happened to have a position on the team.
This brought with it a new question. Keep Harry safe and be killed by Zeus, it ignore a problem that was unlikely to happen and help Lord Hades.
Lord Hades. Definitely.
Meg and Nico had decided to meet in the dungeons. Few people went there unless they were Slytheren. Fewer people went further down in to the dungeons.
Meg finished off her breakfast with no mercy. Nico was waiting at the door. She walked out of the great hall and to a dark dungeon in the bowels of the castle.
Meg sniggered. Bowels.
Nico looked at her with the the hades? face. She shrugged it off.
Once they made certain they were alone she turned and faced Nico. "What's so special about this rock."
Nico responded with, "It's called the philosopher's stone. It can change any metal to gold and produce the elixir of life."
Oh. That explained it. This was Hecate's pet world and Hades couldn't interfere directly. So he sent Nico to do it for him. Made sense.
Then Meg heard something.
Meg looked at Nico and he nodded. He heard it too.
It sounded like metal on stone.
The duo turned towards the sound. That was most definitely a Drakon.
It's poison dripped from its mouth foamed and disintegrated the hard stone floor.
It looked like a huge serpent with large yellow fangs that dripped poison. It had a strange mixture of purple, green, and black scales and twisted blood red horns. It's eyes were the same yellow color as it's fangs.
Obviously it did not visit the dentist often enough.
Nico pulled his Stygian Iron sword from the shadows. Meg pulled out her weapon.
Meg's weapon was a spell book written for her magical affinity by Hecate. Meg's affinity was creation. She made things move and exist. she made weapons and helped the Hephaestus cabin to enchant their weapons. Creation was a very difficult magic if you didn't have an affinity for it. It was also rare to have that affinity.
Meg quickly a brick from the worn walls and tossed it at Nico. It turned into a helmet and a shield.
Nico commanded the shadows to hold the Drakon in place and Meg pulled a gum wrapper chain from here bag and threw it at the Drakon. The chain turned into iron chains.
Meg was actually switching objects. She had a room in her cabin of available items. She had simply switched the objects and she would put them back at the end. Switching objects was so much easier than creating new objects.
Nico released the shadows and rushed the Drakon. Meg switched a needle with a sword. She then lunged forward and attacked with Nico.
The Drakon strained against the chains but failed to brake them.
Meg's sword hit its jugular but failed to open a deep enough would. Nico's deepened the cut. Meg and Nico kept slashing for another five minutes or so until the Drakon finally turned to dust.
Meg then switched the objects back.
The duo was tuckered out and proceeded to their seperate common rooms and then to they're rooms and slept for the rest of the hour.
After their nice long nap the duo found the trio and asked about the game.
"You mean you weren't there?" asked Ron. Meg shook her head.
"Me and Nico are scared of heights."Meg 'explained'.
"Well Harry was chasing the snitch when Snape jinxed Harry's broom." Ron said.
Snape jinxing brooms? That didn't sound like a Snape thing.
Hagrid then walked up to the group.
Harry looked at the duo. "Can we have a privet conversation with Hagrid?" he asked. Meg and Nico nodded and walked away...
But Nico's shadow stayed with them. The shadow hid in Hagrid's huge one.
Nico told Meg that he had his shadow spying on them. It would tell him their conversation.
The group was talking about Fluffy, the Cerberus pup. Hagrid had gotten him at a pub in Hogsmeade.
Who would have a Cerberus pup?
(some where in Greece a Greek who liked cats sneezed sleepily.)
The topic switched to the Philosopher's stone. They knew something was down there and they think that Snape was after it.
They explained his leg wound from Halloween.
Great someone wanted what they needed to destroy.
Hagrid was now defending Snape and his interests.
Hagrid closed the conversation saying that the topic was only needed to be known by Dumbledore and Nickolis Flamel.
Nico drew back his shadow he needed to sleep.
Later Meg learned that all the trio did in their free time was look up Flamel. Nico reported that they thought it was in the restricted area of the library.
Only the teachers, and the duo knew of the Philosopher's stone.
The mail came the next day. Meg got a parcel from camp. It was a wizarding photograph of the camp with every one but her and Nico. It must have been from her cabin. The other parcel was a picture of her cabin. She caught Nico looking at it longingly. She put both in her nightstand.
Okay it took a long time to find a good picture of a Greek Drakon and it was still horrible. So I made one up and didn't specify it.
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