Hi again. I'm running out of things to say.
INeedADamSnack: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PERCY! Also sure.
TunderNad24: I watch Gloom, LaurenZside, RoomieOfficial, Good Mythical Morning, AzzyLand, Michelle Khare, Sofie Dossi, areadersworld, book latte, and technically Faouzia and Little Mix even though they are musical artists. What about you? Also, my school doesn't start for a few more weeks, I'm actually kind of excited.
PlipplopPlipplop: Hehe...My cliffhangers will be the end of the world…
Disclaimer: This is going to be the last time I write this because I keep forgetting and I've already written it a lot. I do not own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter.
Trust
Leo's POV
Oh gods… Leo thought. Calypso and Annabeth. Calypso. What is going on?
He was so distracted by his thoughts he didn't even notice his arms were on fire.
"Oh! You're awake," Calypso's voice.
Since they already knew he was awake he burned away the rest of the ropes tying him to the chair and the sack on his head. He left the chair intact because it was comfortable and he didn't feel like getting up just yet.
Calypso and Annabeth were wearing dark clothing and Annabeth was carrying a Celestial Bronze knife.
"Look, Leo," Calypso started. "This isn't what you think it is. Hecate has been telling us to do things. We'll explain more when Reyna gets here. I didn't even know these guys planned to kidnap you."
"Oh well that makes it so much better," Leo said sarcastically. "How about we all sit down and do a group therapy session."
"Reyna should be here any minute,"
"Really? Thalia too?" Leo asked. "What I'm I gonna find out that the rest of the Demigods, Magicians, and Enjeeree are involved too?"
"Well…" Annabeth said. "Reyna, Alex, and Sam are helping too."
Leo glared at her.
A bright flash distracted Leo. He turned toward it, hand already on fire.
"Reyna!" Annabeth called and ran over to greet Reyna. Thalia and Calypso followed her and Alex and Sam walked over from where they had been standing to say hi.
"Um, hi?" Leo said. "Slightly confused, betrayed, and shocked demigod over here. Where am I? And why did you kidnap me?"
"We owe you an explanation," Sam said.
Leo grunted. "You sure do."
Will's POV
The demigods were stressed. The wizards were stressed. The whole school was stressed. People were pointing fingers left and right. Annabeth was being more secretive than usual. Percy was glaring at anyone who even dared to look at him or Annabeth funny. Jason almost electrocuted Piper thinking she was a monster. Piper had to charmspeak Jason into going to bed after he apologized for the billionth time. Hazel kept summoning precious gems and then had to cover them up. Frank kept walking into the walls. Leo was missing. And that was just the seven.
To sum it up, it was not Will's favorite week.
Nico was becoming more and more distant and while half the school was convinced he was behind the missing students, Will knew Nico and kidnapping wasn't his style. Scaring? Yes. But kidnapping? No, someone else was behind it, and it seemed like each of the demigods, magicians, and wizards were determined to find out who but wouldn't tell anyone else their suspicions or ideas.
This resulted in Will spending most of his time in The Infirmary. Since the demigods had never technically done magic before, Dumbledore had told the students that they were just staying for a year to observe.
Madam Pomfrey, the witch who ran The Infirmary, was nice and she even taught Will some things about healing with potions but it was hard healing without using any demigod or 'muggle' supplies.
The Students seemed to get hurt or sick a lot so Will helped with some of the minorly hurt ones while Madam Pomfrey dealt with the seriously injured or sick students.
Because of his dad, Will could sense things about people when he healed them and after a few days, he concluded that at least half of Hogwarts had some ties to the demigod world. (I have no idea if Will could actually do this but I need it for my story) Either they were descended from demigods, had run into demigods and knew about them, or had just been blessed by different gods.
Like that Neville kid, legacy of Persephone and blessed by Demeter.
This made Will question the information they had been giving, seeing as they had been specifically told by Chiron that Neville was a son of Demeter.
Will didn't have much time to think about it though, because whenever he wasn't in The Infirmary, he was trying to learn how to do simple spells or hanging out with Nico.
After a long day of treating sick and hurt people and trying to get Nico to open up, Will didn't have enough self-control to force himself to investigate the missing students.
More went missing every day, some days only one person and others up to 7 people.
Even with the extensive security measures the teachers had put in place, people still went missing, as if disappearing into thin air.
Of course, this should have given Will yet another reason to suspect Nico, because of his ability to Shadow Travel, but he couldn't shake the feeling that someone else, possibly multiple people, were behind this.
He just had to figure out who.
Percy's POV
Percy hadn't been this stressed since The Battle of Manhattan. He could barely stay awake in the day time and hardly ever fall asleep at night.
He wished Leo was here to lighten the mood but…
Along with worrying about Leo and the other missing students, Percy was constantly looking over his shoulder to see if he or one of his friends was about to be kidnapped.
He knew that Annabeth could protect herself but that didn't stop him from staying with her as much as he could.
It was like the days after the Giant War all over again. Everyone was hoping Leo would ride up on Festus and tell them where the missing students were, who the kidnapper was, and why they had kidnapped everyone.
Things only got worse when the Argo III went missing, Festus and all. The demigods had already been staying in the Gryffindor Common Room so no one was on the ship when it went missing but it took away any hope they had managed to hold on to.
Percy kept catching Jason or Piper looking at the sky as if expecting Festus to come flying out but as the weeks passed more and more students went missing, until they didn't.
Percy woke up one morning and could immediately tell something was different. It was as if the whole castle was holding its breath like it knew something bad had happened and more bad things would come. Like the calm before a storm.
He walked out to the Gryffindor Common Room in a daze.
"No one went missing yesterday," Piper was saying. "And no one went missing last night."
Jason nodded.
"Wait, have you guys been here all night?" Percy asked.
"Neither of us could fall asleep so we decided to stay up talking," Piper said.
"We ran through about a billion possibilities for who the kidnapper is and why they kidnapped people," Jason said. "Only two of them could make sense."
"What are they?" Percy asked.
"Either a really smart and determined duck decided it didn't like Hogwarts, or-" Jason started.
"We were betrayed." Piper finished.
So, I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that this fanfic will probably only be about 5 to 7 more chapters. Maybe more if I add an epilogue. The good news is that I have a few fanfics planned, some of them are going to be pretty long, some of them are going to be only a few chapters long. I might do a sequel to this where the characters from The Kane Chronicles and Magnus Chase go visit Camp Half-Blood.
