Chapter 20: Just Some Research

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters

It was sunday. Usually that means you can sleep in. Not when you share a room with Will Solace, son of Apollo, god of the sun. Will woke at about six in the morning, and was already shaking me awake when I would have been sleeping on any normal day.

"Wake up, Nico," he whispered.

"No," I grumbled.

"Come on, I need food."

"Then get food."

"But you need to come with me."

"Let me sleep."

I heard a sigh. "Fine."

I heard his footsteps retreat out the door, and I was left in silence.

I must've fallen asleep because the next thing I knew Will was shaking me awake again. "Come on, Nico. I brought you some food."

My eyes snapped open at that. "Food?"

I turned over to look at him, he was giving me that smile could light up any dark room. To be fair it probably did seeing as he basically glowed like a lightbulb any time he was happy.

I sat up and took the plate. "Thanks, Will."

"No problem," he said. "Now, what are we going to do about the Triwizard Tournament?"

I swallowed my mouthful of food. "Couldn't you let me eat in peace before asking me questions that I don't even know the answer to?"

"Right, sorry. Eat."

When I had finished eating I asked, "Did you see Harry?"

He shook his head, "No. But I did see Hermione take food with her, so maybe she brought some for him so he wouldn't have to see everyone."

"Maybe."

"What do you think the challenges will be?" Will got a far off look, like he was imagining the endless possibilities. "What if they make them, like, fight each other. Or, maybe, like Dumbledore said, fight a dragon."

"I really hope not." I responded. "But, yeah I don't know."

"Anyways, get dressed. I want to go see if they have any books about the tournament in the library," Will said, ending the conversation.

"Alright, turn around."

Will pouted and stood up, walking to me. He bent down and kissed me. "But why?"

Heat rushed to my face and I stuttered out, "Because I'm telling you, now turn around."

He chuckled and turned, walking back to his side of the room to fix the sheets on his bed.

I quickly changed and made the bed. Then we walked out of the room and to the library.

"Where even is the library?" I said after a while of walking around.

"I think it's this way," Will siad, turning a corner.

We got there after a while and started looking around. We didn't find much, but in one book, Hogwarts: A History, we found the reason it was discontinued.

"'The Triwizard Tournament was held in 1792," Will read aloud, "and one of the tasks involved catching a cockatrice—'"

"What the hell is a cockatrice?" I asked.

"No idea. Anyways, 'However, the beast went on a rampage and injured three judges, the heads of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang.' Well yeah, what did they expect was going to happen?" he said with a sigh. "'The Tournament was cancelled after this incident, but several unsuccessful attempts were made to resurrect it.'"

"Well, I guess they finally got it back," I said. "Now, what the heck is a cockatrice?"

We found a page about it in our care of magical creatures book. As it turns out, it's some kind of two legged dragon with a rooster head, and, instead of normal dragon legs, they're chicken talons. (A/N: Literally couldn't give you a better description. Look it up if you don't get my terrible description.)

"Why the hell would they make kids try to catch that?" Will said, incredulously. "Actually, why did they think it was a good idea to even bring them to a school?"

"I really don't know," I said in just as much disbelief. "Wait, that means they might actually let a dragon loose."

Will put his head in his hands, "Oh gods."

"These wizards are so stupid."

"Right?"

A/N: Ok, I think this chapter was ok. It was basically just a filler because I didn't really know how to jump to the rest of the story. I'll figure something out.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed. Stay tuned for the next chapter. :)