Warning: Violence. Cussing.
Chapter 14: My life's story. Oh joy.
Nico's POV.
"No Percy. I am never going back. I have a new life now. Friends, something I never had at Camp. And the plus? No one here knows who my father is! They don't care that I'm a freaking demon! They like me for who I am, and not just as a tool or a means to an end. So, you can take your metal dragon, and leave my ex. Or all of you can die. Make your decision." I stated.
No one moved. I growled.
"Fine. I'll make the decision for you." I sprang into the air on my wings. Percy hefted his sword. Why did he continue to fight for that traitor?! Damn him and his loyalty! I swooped towards Where Leo, Annabeth, and Will were. I landed next to Leo, and looked him in the eye.
"Step aside." I told him. Leo took a deep breath, and stood up to his full height.
"No." he said, in what I'm sure he hoped was a brave voice. I sighed.
"Then you leave me no choice." I announced. I hit him with Petrificus Totalis. He fell to the ground immobilized. Annabeth ran in front of Will too.
"Nico, please, consider what you're doing. If you kill him here now, in front of all these people, what will they think?" she asked. I growled menacingly at her.
"I don't really care what they think. I'm the prince of Tartarus, and I'll do what I want." I told her defiantly.
"Nico, the teachers won't let you get away with it. you'll go to jail Nico." She reasoned. Damn her and her reasoning. I stopped flaring my wings, and grabbed my hair. What the Hera was I supposed to do then?! Argh! This was stupid!
"Shut up." I told her.
"But, Nico." She said.
"Just shut up!" I screamed. She was quiet. I pulled on my hair. Hades! What was I supposed to do?! I couldn't kill him, or I'd lose whatever stability I'd had in my life. I couldn't take Draco to Tartarus with me, so that wasn't a conceivable escape plan.
"Fine." I got out. "If you leave now, nothing will happen. don't press your luck. Go. before I change my mind." I growled, and turned away.
I stalked over to where the teachers were standing. My wings were gently dragging in the dirt behind me. I looked back out across the grounds of Hogwarts. The ground was pretty much ruined. I'd have to fix that. I closed my eyes, and raised my hands into the air. I started chanting in ancient Greek under my breath. The ground moved and shifted until it was much more even, and looked mostly the same as it did before my fight.
"Nico," Draco greeting, walking away from the crowd of people.
"Draco." I said likewise, and went back to glaring at my cousins who were getting the unconscious demigods onto Festus. I wanted nothing more than to murder the little pest that was hiding mostly behind Percy. I growled deep in my chest, and buried my head into Draco's soft blond hair.
"It's okay. You're okay." He whispered condolingly into my ear. I sighed, and released the tension in my back. The breeze felt nice in my wings. I heard the dragon click, and the sound of them taking off. I sighed, and pulled my face out of Draco's hair. The teachers were walking over following the headmaster. I sighed, and placed myself protectively in front of Draco.
"Headmaster." I greeted when he was about 10 feet away.
"Mr. di Angelo." he greeted back. I stared into his eyes. For once, they were not twinkling.
"Did you have something to say?" I asked.
"I would prefer to have this conversation in private." He said. I leaned my head to the side as an animal would do, then turned to Draco.
"What do you think love?" I asked.
"Private is probably a good idea." He stated, with a head jerk at the student population. I nodded.
"Good point." I rolled my shoulder blades, and pulled my wings back into my shirt. I grabbed my cloak from the shadows, and put it back on. I looked up at Dumbledore's slightly puzzled expression. "Lead the way." I clarified. He turned heel, and the students parted like water in front of us. He led Draco and I to a stone Gargoyle.
"Peppermint patties." He stated. The gargoyle moved out of the way revealing a staircase. The stairs started moving up of their own accord.
"Nice. You have an escalator to your office." I stated. Dumbledore, and McGonagall gave me weird looks while Draco just smirked. I went up the staircase followed by professor Snape, and Professor McGonagall. When we got there, a man in green robes was pacing the office.
"Albus! You're here! We've been getting reports of a fight on Hogwarts grounds, and I had to come to check it out. What is all this fuss about?!" he demanded. I stepped forward.
"That would be my fault. If you'd all take a seat, I will explain everything." I stated. Dumbledore conjured a few extra chairs, and the man sat down impatiently. I waited until all four of the adults were seated to begin. I leaned up against Draco.
"Well, for those of you who don't already know, my name is Nico di Angelo. I'm a transfer student from Italy here to do my NEWT years. But, that's not the part of the story we need to dive into. The part you want to know is not my future, but my past. I am not a normal wizard. I'm not even a normal half-blood. My biological mother was an Italian woman who had a witch or wizard a few generations ago in her family tree. She was not magical. My father is a demon." I stated. The man in green robes jumped to his feet.
"You're a half breed?!" he demanded. I turned my cold gaze on him.
"It would be wise to stay silent." Draco advised, smirking over my shoulder.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, my father is a demon. Hades, king of the demons to be more precise. A few months or so ago, I was at the training camp for half breeds like me. No. I can't tell you where it is; I'm under the fidelis. Well, one of the new campers thought it was a grand idea to mess with the gay goth kid. I gave an accidental reminder to the entire camp of just powerful I really am. People started avoiding me after that; More than they already did. That I could deal with. My boyfriend treating me like a piece of garbage; I couldn't. I left camp, and went to my father's palace in the underworld. There, life didn't get better, so I jumped into Tartarus." I sighed, and ran a hand down my face.
"To give you an idea of the horror that is Tartarus, think of the Cruciatus curse. Now, picture in your mind a place that makes you feel like that. The very air is poison, and there is no water or food. that doesn't even come close to Tartarus. There, Nyx primordial of night found me." I smiled at their expressions. They knew of the Primordials, but the only god/goddess they believed in was Hecate.
"N-Nyx?" The man in green robes asked. I smirked.
"The wings didn't give it away?" I asked. my audience gasped. I smiled softly, and leaned back against Draco.
"Continue please." Dumbledore said. I sighed.
"Nyx adopted me as her son. She wanted a son but was unable to have one. I lived in the house of night for a while before Nyx asked if I would like to come to Hogwarts to make some friends. She thought that it wasn't good for me to be alone all the time. So, I crammed 5 years of studying into about 2 months, and passed my OWL's. I think that's it. any questions?" I asked.
"Who were those people you were fighting?" Minerva asked.
"Those were my cousins. They are element users like me, but not half demon. Their parents are the immortal elves." I half lied. I mean, that was as close as 'gods' the wizarding world had. "A few weeks ago, I majorly pissed off their leader, and he wants me in for questioning. There wouldn't have been a fight if they hadn't been so dumb as to bring my ex."
"Wait, your cousins?" The man in green asked.
"Yes. Hades used to be an immortal elf. They kicked him out of the council because they feared his dark powers. He then became the king of the demons." I said. I only bent the truth a little.
"So, does that make you the prince of demons?" Snape asked, sitting forward in his chair. I shrugged.
"Technically, yes. But, because Nyx adopted me, I'm prince of Tartarus. So, I don't know if my demon status stays or not. I also stabbed my father through both his shoulders so there's that." I said nonchalant.
"Wait, what?!" green robes said, jumping to his feet. I lazily locked eyes with him.
"What? He's a world class A-hole, and I'm more powerful than he can ever hope to be." I flashed my sharper than normal canines in a feral smirk. I then blinked, and instantly the room went pitch black. The air grew at least 20 degrees colder, and I released my aura. I put my cloak back into the shadows, and wrapped Draco in my wings to keep him from feeling my aura. I let them stew for about 30 seconds, before blocking it back up, and turning the lights back on.
The man in green robes looked shocked to his core, and was sitting in the corner as if hiding. Dumbledore looked shaken. Snape and McGonagall didn't look too good either. I smirked.
"There you go. A free taste of my power." I said, and let my wings hang. Draco looked so confused at the teachers' statuses.
"Nico, what did you do?" he asked.
"Nothing. I just released my aura. It is kind of annoying to keep it pent up all the time. Sometimes a guy just needs a break." I told them, and gave Draco a wink. He rolled his eyes, and went back to being my lean-against.
"You did that?!" Green robes asked.
"Yeah. by the way, what in the world is your name?" I asked.
"I'm Cornelius Fudge, I used to be minister of magic." He replied, looking slightly offended.
"Oh, ok then." I said, and closed my eyes. The floor in front of me started to swirl with shadows, and they rose up in the shape of a figure. I opened my eyes, and made the figure split apart into two smaller figures. Then, those two smaller ones split, and so on and so forth until there were 64 small figures. They linked hands forming a circle, and started dancing.
"Is that you?" Snape asked. he snapped my concentration, and the figures disappeared back into the corners of the room.
"Yeah. it was." I said, slightly put off. I was having fun with that dang it! I stopped leaning on Draco, and shook my wings out. I started walking towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Dumbledore asked.
"Back to my dorm. I was of the opinion that we were done here." I stated, turning around. My wings scraped across the door frame.
"What?! Albus, you can't let this demon in with the other children!" Cornelius cried turning to the headmaster. I growled, and lit my hands up with hellfire. The lights in the room all went green like Greek fire, and my eyes started glowing.
"You want to say that again?" I challenged him. the little man shut up really quick. I extinguished my hands, and the lights went back to normal.
"Let's go before you burn something." Draco said, and grabbed me by the arm. I let him lead me from the study, and down the now descending stairs. As soon as we stepped foot outside the study, I was bombarded with questions from waiting students. Almost the entire population of Hogwarts was there. I sighed. I really hated social interaction.
"Draco love, hold on tight." I said. Draco grabbed onto my waist. I held my hands up, and made a podium out of shadows under our feet. We were now about 10 feet above all of their heads.
"Okay! Everyone listen up, and listen well because I'm only going to say this once!" I called out with a magically enhanced voice. "Those were my cousins, they are not coming back, and I don't want to elaborate. Please go about your day." I dismantled the shadow podium, and then shadow traveled us to my bed in the Slytherin common room. I landed with an 'oomph' because Malfoy landed on top of me.
"You alright?" I asked. I looked down at me and grinned.
"Am now." He told me.
End of chapter.