Disclaimer: I don't Own Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.

A.N this is is what Nico was doing when Harry was fighting in Hogsmead, and then when her was at Grimmauld place later that night.

Chapter 21: We fight the Dead

Nico P.O.V.

The moment I found out Harry was missing, I grabbed Luna and we went searching for him, I knew if he was in some kinda of trouble he wouldn't tell anybody, Harry was like that, he didn't want to involve too many people in his problems, he's too afraid of people getting hurt or killed over him, and thinks he has to do everything on his own, and I can see why he took Piper with him, I doubt after her being kidnapped he would let her out of his sight anytime soon.

I sighed and sat up, I looked at the bag sitting next to me, Harry's bag, Luna and I found it when I thought I was getting close to him, we came across his camp, or what use to be it, we found his and Piper's ripped up bloody clothes, their tent still up, empty fisk of nectar, Harry's bag and the watch Leo had gave him for his birthday. I brought his bag and watch with me, and left everything else behind. I was worried about him, I know he wasn't dead, but if they are hurt or kidnapped he needs help, my help, he needs nectar; I looked and looked and couldn't find him, or Piper, so I was led to believe maybe Voldemort or someone on Voldemort's orders took them, so I decided to go Horcrux hunting, since I couldn't find Harry, I would destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes, that way if he does have Harry, I would make it so Harry can kill him to get away, that was my plan anyway, but so far I haven't found any. It was really getting frustrating.

I grabbed Harry's bag and begin to look through it, not for the first time since I found it, I pulled out the photo he kept in the front pocket, the one of Lily, and James Potter, along with Hera, holding baby Harry at Eileithyia's birthing center. I've met the Potters down in the Underworld, James is a good man or was depending on how you look at it, and Lily, well, Hera made a good chose when she choice Lily as the surrogate mother of her demigod child doing so did not only give Harry her eyes, but also her kindness, she might not be Harry's biological mother, but she did give birth to him and I see a lot of Harry in her, she likes to mother me whenever I come across her in the Underworld; which is almost every time I go down there, since the Potters and Ignotus Peverell work for my dad now, they were all granted Elysium when they died, but ever since all this chaos started happening in the Underworld, my dad had given them jobs to do, James and Ignotus' job is to keep the dead where they belong, not only was all this stuff with Gaea letting the dead escape the Underworld, but also had them escaping where they were suppose to be, like people in the Fields of Punishment were trying to escape their punishment, the people in the fields of Asphodel, were trying to sneak into Elysium, it was nothing but chaos, but James and Ignotus was helping a lot.

People escaping wasn't the only chaos down there either, with a big war going on, and Voldemort and his people killing people left and right, Charon was complaing about having too much to do, so Lily said she would help him, and thanks to her, a lot more spirits then use to now get on the ferry and travel down the river, and make it to the Underworld.

I stock the picture back in Harry's bag and ran my hand through my hair. Luna had talked me into cutting it some, so it wasn't hanging in my eyes. It was more messy like Harry's now, then shaggy; Luna found it funny how much she claims, I look like Harry with my hair like this. And to top it off I was wearing his clothes. I had lost my bag somewhere and since I had Harry's bag, I borrowed an outfit out of it, a pair of dark blue jeans, and a dark grey shirt with a picture of the Nemean lion on the front. I had cursed Harry for not having any black clothes in his bag, I know he sometimes wears all black, so I had been hopeful, but no, this is the first time I haven't worn all black since Bianca's death, and hated it, but at least they were dark clothes. The most embarrassing thing about them were, I had to roll the bottoms of the jeans up because there were a little too long. This from jeans belonging to a guy whose nickname was Shorty. Well to Annabeth and Percy it was anyway.

I looked over toward the side of the tent where the girls was sleeping and only saw a mop of curly brown hair sticking out of a brown sleeping bag, and from the empty sleeping bag next to it, I realized Luna was already up and out of the tent. So I stood, grabbed my sword and hooked to my side, looked over at the sleeping bags again to see the head of brown curls roll over. I smiled slightly and went out of the tent.

The sun was coming up over the horrizon, casting a golden glow on the ground and on Luna, making her look even prettier then she was, her long blonde hair hanging down past her waist and onto the ground, she had her wand stuck behind her ear, and was reading one of her dad's weird magazines. She had on a camp shirt, pink jeans, and a dark blue windbreaker with the Ravenclaw crest on the back, her bag sat next to her and she had the magazine turned upside down. I just stood there a while watching her as she turned the magazine around, as if looking for something.

"Good Morning, Nico." Luna said, without even looking up, I smirked as I went over and sat next to her.

"Hows the magazine?" I asked.

"Oh, it's quite good." Luna said. "Someone spotted a Crumple-horned Snorkack."

"Umm, That's nice." I said. I've decided long ago not to tell Luna there was no such things as those weird creatures her and her father believed in, what did it hurt to let someone believe in something anyway, no one believes in the gods either, I mean if I was to stop a stranger on the street and say: hey, my father is Hades Lord of the Dead, they would think I was crazy.

"So, what are we going to do today?" Luna asked, closing her magazine.

"We should reach Little Hangleton by sunset." I said. Since I was unable to find the other Horcrux, I decided to go to Little Hangleton and get that one, plus my dad has been bugging me to find the Deathly Hollows, not Harry's cloak, but the other two, he decided to let Harry keep that one, since it was not dangerous, and he knows where it is and won't be used for something bad, no he wanted me to find the Elder wand and the Resurrection stone, since I knew the stone in the ring at Little Hangleton was the Resurrection stone and it was also a Horcrux, I decided to go destroy it.

"You are brooding again." Luna said. I looked over at her, with raised eyebrows. "You have that brooding look on your face." I ran my hand through my hair making it even messier then it was.

"I can't help it." I said. "I have a lot of things on my mind."

"Harry will be okay, Nico." Luna said. "You know he can take care of himself, and you'd know if dies." I nodded, but said nothing, she saw that camp site, just like I did. She knows there is a good chance someone or something took Harry and Piper, with the bloody clothes and everything, and the fact that his watch as a crack in the face now. I pulled said watch out of my pocket, I looked at the hand that read : Harry Potter, with a frown it had moved off Quest on to School, so was Piper McLean along with Jason Grace, and Leo Valdez, and Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson was now on Quest, my name was on Traveling. I slammed the stupid thing closed, it was probably broke, Harry should be on kidnapped. Not on school, none of them even go to school. I dropped the thing back in the pocket of my jacket and scowled.

Harry was the first person I could truly trust, the first I've met since finding out who I am, that hasn't looked down upon me and trusted me, the first one to ever smile and shake my hand and say nice to meet you, even after I was introduced as Nico di'Angelo the son of Hades; though he did make that joke about being glad to meet someone shorter than him, he's also the only one I know that would give his life to save me if he had to, he would for all his friends, hell he would for a damn stranger.

Since I meet Harry I probably have went to the underworld to see Bianca maybe three times, and the best thing about Harry was he understands me, he was the only other person who knew what it was like to have to carry these dark powers of Hades, how it was a struggle not to let them take control over you, it gets easier each time you use them, but there will always be that one risk that something will tick you off so bad you go down into the darkness and never return. That's one of the reason I choose to mostly be on my own, these powers were more of a curse then they were a gift. I can banish people to the Underworld, and just one wrong thing spoken out of anger could be a persons end, like if I got mad and say in anger, go to hell, they would actually go.

"You are still brooding." Luna said. "Are you sure you haven't been infected by Wrackpurt?" Luna started batting the air with her hands.

"No, Luna." I said. "I'm fine, just thinking."

"We'll get the Horcrux, don't worry." Luna said, she smiled up at me and without even realizing what I was doing, I bent my head down and touched my lips to hers, I was more than a little surprise when she started kissing me back. Then she suddenly pulled back, and I was going to ask her if something was wrong, but she just smiled real big and said.

"Good morning, Hazel." I turned and looked behind me to see my new sister Hazel standing there.

"Good morning, Luna." Hazel said, walking over and sat across from us by the fire, she had borrowed something from Luna to wear, so she had on purple jeans and a light blue sweat shirt with: The Quibbler written across it. She had shoulder length brown hair, and gold eyes, she was also short for her age, and a little on the skinny side, with cocoa-colored skin. Hazel yawned and rubbed her eyes, then shivered as if she was cold.

Hazel Levesque is a fourteen year old daughter of Hades, who had died in 1942, her mother had been using Hazel's powers (she was able to summons jewels and precious metals) to help Gaea rise Alcyoneus, but her Mother changed her mind and Hazel had killed them both by calling up all the riches in the earth to stop Alcyoneus from rising, when she had went to the Underworld; Hazel gave up Elysium to save her Mother from punishment, and they both went to Asphodel. A couple of days ago I was summoned to the Underworld by my father, and when I was leaving James Potter came up to me and said there was something I had to see, so I followed him, and to my surprise he led me to the Fields of Asphodel, where Ignotus stood talking to Hazel, they explained, that one day when they were taking someone back to Asphodel, who had got caught trying to sneak into Elysium, they saw Hazel wandering along looking for her Mother, and when they noticed the silver skull ring on the neckless around her neck, they knew she was a child of Hades and had went over to talk to her, they heard her sad story and believed she deserved a second chance and asked me to take her with me out of the Underworld. I agreed and now she's helping me and Luna hunt for Horcrux, I didn't really want to take her to camp right now, not into Harry was back and could help look after her. Hazel had grown up in New Orléans, her Mother had been a witch, and a greedy one at that, they had been frowned up on and Hazel was made fun of at school because her Mother would use her witch powers to earn money, people would pay her to curse their enemies, tell their future or make them rich in which she needed Hazel's ability to do. And that never ended up good. I wondered if Hazel was a witch, and I planed to see if Harry wouldn't help her find out or maybe teach her some spells.

Not long after Hazel got up and we all had a little to eat we packed up camp and went on, I wanted to make it to Little Hangleton by today. And I didn't want to have to shadow travel there, because it wears you out and I need all my strength if I was going to fight a village full of monsters. So we walked; we weren't that far from Little Hangleton anyways, just the next town over, we've been heading this way for a few days now, and after stopping for a few minutes to rest and eat, we finally made it to the outside of town, just as the sun was going down.

Little Hangleton was a small village at the bottom of a bunch of hills, where we came out at, we were standing at the top of a very large hill overlooking the village, there was no lights on, no one lived here anymore, the monsters had driven them all away, and the monsters looked to be gone too, the only thing I could see down there were Inferi, dozens and dozens of inferi, walking around and bumping into each other, I guess the monsters had been needed else where and Voldemort went back to his old why of protecting the piece of his soul, it was down there I could feel it.

"Okay, how are we going to do this?" Hazel asked. I looked over at her she looked nervous, her hand tighten around her spear, as I watched Hazel bent down and picked up a ruby that had suddenly popped up out of the ground. If she had left it laying there someone could have come along and picked it up, and that would be bad, Hazel's jewels are cursed, they bring misfortune or even death to anyone that owns one. Sometimes I wonder who got it worse Hazel or me.

"There is not really a plan I can come up with." I said. "So I guess we just pull a Harry and go in and attack." Hazel looked at me with eyebrows raised.

"Pull a Harry?" She asked, I shrugged, and she chuckled a little. Hazel knew all about Harry, I told her about him, and she wants to meet him almost as much as I want to introduce her to him. After all he is someone else with Hades' blood, we were all family. Hazel, Harry and I are the only ones left living that still have a powerful amount of Hades' blood running through our vines. The way the Peverell bloodline has been blessed; Harry had almost as much of Hades' blood as a child of Hades, that's why his powers were so strong, Hazel and I had more blood and his is a little lesser than James would have been, because of the Hera blood in him and there was also Lily's blood where she had carried him, but he still had a lot.

"I think it's a good idea." Luna said, pulling her wand from behind her ear and getting ready, she refused to carry a weapon of any kind, just a wand, something I hoped never got her killed.

"I guess." Hazel said, sounding doubtful, and gripped her spear tighter. "We better go now, we wait any long we might lose our nerve."

"Okay, then I guess we run and start attacking." I said.

"I feel like am filming a sence in a horror movie." Hazel said.

"Ready?" I asked. They nodded and I pulled out my sword. "Lets go then." We took off walking down the road, we didn't see any use in running we would get there soon enough.

The inferi didn't notice three living people among them into I stabbed the first one I came too, then they all turned and headed straight for us, I watched as Hazel knocked the feet out from under one with the end of her spear, then dropped down and put the spear through its head, then another came and she kicked it back and then put her spear through its head. She then turned around and put a spear through another. I've trained her to fight the last few days she's been with us, and she had learned pretty quick.

Luna hit one with a spell sending it in flames, than turned another one to stone, but then one was coming up from behind her, and I ran over shoved her to the ground and sliced its head off, it burst into black dust, I then jumped over and went to the next one, I knocked the inferi's feet out from under him, then stuck him in the head with my sword and it burst into black dust. I heard Luna scream and looked to see her surrounded, I sliced the head of the one I was now fighting and ran to her, with one go I took two of their heads off and then stabbed another through the chest, then knocked the other to the ground and stabbed it in the head, all of them turned to dust.

"You alright?" I asked, as I helped Luna to her feet. She nodded with a smile and kissed my cheek. I then hit the ground with my sword and formed a dozen skeleton warriors. "Stay with her and keep her safe." I told them before running back into the fight. Slicing, stabbing and slashing any I got near.

"Hey, guys." I called to them, "Lets try to make it over to the shack now." They agreed and together we fought through the inferi, killing them, I stabbed one in the cest and it burst into dust, and then I sliced one's head off, and finally we made it to the shack, and before opening the door and going in, I noticed an old nasty snake-skin hanging from the door. I made a face at it then opened the door, I let the two girls go in first, before going in and shutting the door behind us. The moment the door was closed, we were all suddenly hanging from the air upside down, Harry's watch fell out of my pocket and hit the floor with a thump.

Then Luna said a spell and we hit the floor hard, I heard Hazel groan as she sat up, the room was dark and I could hardly see, then Luna whispered something else and the tip of her wand lit up. I picked up the watch, it had opened when it hit the ground, and Harry's name was now on Home, and Jason, Leo, and Piper had moved to traveling. I frowned, this thing had to be broken.

"They were more of them then it looked like." Hazel said. Panting and trying to caught her breath, we all stood up and I put the watch in my pocket.

"Yeah it does seem that way." I said. "You girls alright?"

"We're fine, Nico." Luna said, and gave me a smile.

"Good," I said. And then looked around, furniture was still in here, old moody and dusty, broken in some places. The room it's self had dust past ankle-deep, and when we walked it stirred making us sneeze. I let my senses take over and gude me to a floorboard right in the middle of the room, I got down on one knee and knocked the dust away, then popped up the floorboard. Lune stood over me holding out her want so I could see. I was a little surprise that after everything we went through at the cave to get to the fake Horcrux, that it seem this one didn't any enchantments; the ring was gold with a designs around it, the ends almost looked like a snake's mouth, with a diamond shape stone, I reached my hand in slowly to pick it up, but the moment my fingers touched it, it burned me, and I jerked my hand back with a yelp, as the ring begin to multiply, about a dozen of the same ring was down there in the floor now, but thankfully I knew which one was it, because I could sense a living soul inside.

"Gemino curse," Luna said. I looked up at her. "It's a charm that makes stuff multiply when touched." I nodded even though I had figured that out and took my jacket off and sat it aside. Then reached in and grabbed the real ring and held onto it even though it burned again and more begin to multiply, flying out of my hand, I ignored the burning best I could, then couldn't stand it anymore and dropped it on the floor next to me, I shook my hand and looked at it, I had a burn shape of the ring in my hand, but it wasn't too bad and was already disappearing. I reached over to try to pick it up again and suddenly ropes shot up out of the floor and wrapped around me. I screamed as they started burning through my clothes and to my skin, the clothes was even smoking.

"Luna, do something." Hazel cried, I heard her running over to me. "Don't you know a counter spell or something?" She reached out to try to pull the ropes off, but then more shot up out of the floor and wrapped around her. She let out a scream as she was being burned. Luna pointed her wand at Hazel .

"Finite Incateum." She cried, but nothing happen, she then tried a few other things, and nothing. She then tucked her wand behind her ear and picked up my sword.

"Luna...don't.. my sword can..hurt you." I said, through the pain, but Luna ignored me, and being careful not to touch the blade she sliced through the ropes; they fall off immediately along with the ropes around Hazel. I took my sword from Luna and she gave me a grin.

"I know, don't ever touch your sword, but it was the only thing that could work." She said. I had to admit she was right, and she didn't touch the blade so just this once I let it go and went over to Hazel and helped her up. When suddenly Luna yelled.

"Nico, look out, and then pushed me out-of-the-way as a large spike the size of a person came flying down from the ceiling, then the whole shack begun to shake, and more spikes begin to fall.

"Come on guys time to go." I said, I dodged to avoid another spike as I went over grabbed the ring and my jacket, than dodged two more as I went back to Luna and Hazel grabbed their hands then shadow traveled out of the shack, since I didn't think of a target to come out at, we ended up in a cemetery, right in front of a tombstone that reads : Tom Riddle. I thought this would be the perfect place to destroy this little part of Voldemort's soul. Even though Tom RIddle wasn't Voldemort's real dad, but here was where he came back. I walked up to it and sat the ring onto it. And pulled out my sword.

"Hazel, come here." I said, and she came walking over. "Here hold this ring up straight, where the stone is facing up, yeah, like that. Now don't be nervous, but I'm going to stab the ring, don't move." Hazel nodded and held the ring up, and I lifted my sword over my head with the blade pointed down and went to stab it, but then suddenly this voice came out of it.

"I have seen your heart, Nico di' Angelo And it is mine." I lowered my sword and backed away. "You are nothing, Nico di' Angelo, your father doesn't want you, he wished it had been you not Bianca that dead, no one at camp wants you there, nobody wants you around, not even Harry, he ran away to get away from you, Bianca dead to get away from you."

"Nico, don't listen to it." Luna said. "It's playing with your head." I could barely hear Luna over the voice.

"No one will ever love you, the girl you like doesn't like you back," the voice went on. "Hazel doesn't like you, she used you to escaped the Underworld..."

"Nico, don't listen to it." Hazel said. "Stab it." I blinked and reached over and grabbed my sword, and went right up to it and stabbed right in the middle of the stone, I heard a scream, then nothing, Hazel had let go of the ring and it fell to the ground.

I took a deep breath and exhaled, Hazel was looking at me in concern and Luna came walking up to me, she put her hand on my cheek, and look right into my black eyes with her sliver-grey ones.

"I like you, Nico." She said, before reaching up and kissing me, it was short and sweet, barely a kiss, but still a kiss, and when she pulled away she gave me a big smile. I hesitated for just a moment before I put my arm around her shoulder and gave her a hug, the first time I ever hugged anyone in my life.

Hazel letting out a scream brought us back to our surroundings, we looked over at her to see her being attacked by two inferi, I picked up the ring put it in my pocket, before grabbing my sword and running to her, I sliced the head off one, and put the sword through the others chest, then when I looked back over at Luna, I saw one coming up behind her, and took off running toward her, I jumped up on a tombstone and over Luna's head and put my sword right through its neck.

Soon the cemetery was full of them, Luna had summoned Hazel's spear from somewhere and gave it to her, and she begin to fight them too, again we sliced and slashed, killing the things, but it was no use, they were just too many of them. I jumped up on the headstones and ran across them cutting off their heads, as Hazel stabbed one after the other right in the brain. I jumped down off the headstones. And over to the edge of the cemetery.

"Girls, stay back behind me." I said, there was only one thing I could do, we had the ring, I had stabbed the Horcrux, nobody lived in this town anymore, and it wouldn't be safe for someone to come up on it, it was over runned with dead guys. So, I took a deep breath, then gathered all my powers and stabbed the grown with my sword.

The ground shook as I large crack formed and ran down to the town, as everything shook, a big hole formed sucking everything up in it, houses fell apart, stones fell and crumbled, trees fell over, one right through a large mansion that looked over the town, I watched as the ground opened up and the Mansion was sucked right in, but soon the ground begin to open up where we were and I figured it was time to leave, I grabbed Luna and Hazel's hands and before I shadow traveled away, I saw the tombstone of Tom Riddle sucked into the grown, soon the there would be no more Little Hangleton, the town will be sucked up into the ground with all the inferi.

A.N. Before anyone says anything I know Hazel is only 13, but I needed her to be older, because I already have in mind who I'm going to put her with, and 13 would have been too young for him. And like Jason I've made her greek, because that Rome/Greek thing doesn't fit into my story, and I made her mom a witch, with the way she was talked about in the book, I thought being a witch fit her, but I haven't decided yet if Hazel's going to be able to do magic or not. Harry watch saying they were at school was showing them at Hogwarts, and the home was Grimmauld place, as long as Sirius owns it nd if Harry's there the watch will show Harry as being home, like I said at the top, this chapter took place the same day Harry and the others fled Hogwarts and went to Grimmauld place.

And I got a question for anyone who would like to answer it, I got a review saying I have made Piper too weak, and too overly dependent on Harry, does anyone else think I have, I didn't mean too, I thought I had made Piper tough, she did kill the mighty Python, she spit on Voldemort, she cut his face in the last story, so now he has a scar, she beat up Bellatrix Lastrange, and she held it together while being locked up in Azkaban. I was also told I don't have enough side stories, will that changes in the next story, it'll go from one person's POV to another, and Piper will be more independent, you'll see why at the end of this story, but Harry won't be around most of the next story for her to depend on.

And one last thing, It'll be a a little while before the next chapter gets put up, because the next few days, I'm going to be fixing the Order of the Phoenix kidnaps Annabeth Chase, I have decided to fix the miss spelling.