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Nico POV:

Rushing through the corridors, I soon met up with Percy who had just encountered Annabeth. "How fitting," I said. "A werewolf attack on Hallowe'en,"

"I was going on a stroll with Harry, Ron, and Hermione when we ran into Lycaon. He brought his pack to attack Hogwarts," Percy said before lowering his voice and whispering. "I got Mrs. O'Leary to try getting help, but I don't know when they'll come. Right now, our magic doesn't work at all. Although other weapons that aren't made of gold, bronze, and steel won't harm them, other weapons will work on them."

"Weapons which we do not have, our weapons will most likely not work on them. Although I do not know if Stygian iron will be effective, I don't want to take that chance that it isn't, allowing a lot of the magical community to see us with a random sword we happened to have." I clarified. "Hogwarts mainly relies on magic, a poor idea really when scenarios like this keep on appearing. Silver is the most effective metal against werewolves, however, we don't have any of that either, unless you count the wizarding currency sickles,"

"We'll find something else other than silver wizarding currency," Annabeth said. "If we have enough sickles I suppose we can fire them out like a person would do when having a slingshot, but I don't have any of them either, and without an item like a slingshot, there won't be enough power when firing a round item like a sickle to cause damage."

"Maybe we can find silverware?" Percy suggested.

"Silverware isn't necessarily made of silver," Annabeth responded. "And I don't think stabbing them with a butter knife or whatnot is going to help. Perhaps we can see if Dumbledore has anything useful, he always has so many weird things in his office," We headed towards Dumbledore's office which was completely deserted. Although it had several oddities, we couldn't determine with certainty which ones were made out of silver, and the ones we could determine didn't seem to have particular uses. Percy sighed putting down an item that had somewhat of a corkscrew top. "It seems that Dumbledore hid all the good things. Where is he anyway? I think he should have an idea on how to deal with the werewolves,"

We went back out into the corridors soon encountering Professors Trelawney. Her hands were constantly shaking as she held on to her wand, her eyes looking back and forth from behind the large glasses she wore. "Students," She managed. "You should be back in your common rooms,"

"Professor Trelawney," Percy said. "We're looking for Dumbledore, can you tell us if you've seen him?"

"Dumbledore? Why are you looking for Dumbledore?" She asked, tilting her head slightly to the side.

"We just remembered something that could help him,"

"He's a great wizard I don't think he'll need it, you should head back," She continued to shuffle down the corridors, her lips slightly pursuing as she contemplated out loud. "Why did he go see that horse? My divination skills are much greater. With Jupiter's moons coming into view, I mentioned the disaster of Hogwarts and the deaths of students. Why won't anyone believe in my ability? I am obviously accurate,"

"He's probably going to see the centaurs living in the forest," Annabeth said, as we rushed past Professor Trelawney who gave an anxious shout, but then returned to her brooding. "Probably for help,"

"Do you think Chiron knows the centaurs in the forest?" Percy wondered.

"Maybe," I responded. "If he does, perhaps they would be more willing to help,"

Heading into the forbidden forest, our paces were hurried as we ran. Hogwarts was in chaos, and the attacks and magic immunity didn't seem to have weakened in the slightest. Heading deeper into the forest we saw a familiar figure of Dumbledore, his half-moon glasses resting on his twinkling eyes that didn't seem to have any worry as he spoke with a few centaurs. "Professor Dumbledore!" We cried, arriving. "Hogwarts is under the attack of Lycaon and his pack!"

"I'm aware," He said, smiling. "Come, introduce yourselves to our friends, it's proper courtesy,"

"My name is Annabeth Chase," Annabeth started.

"I'm Percy Jackson," Percy went after.

"Nico Di Angelo," I said. A centaur walked slightly closer to us, his hooves going clip-clop on the ground. "Demigods," He said. "Chiron spoke of you,"

"You know Chiron," Percy said with a grin. "He's a good friend of ours,"

"He's an exception. A centaur, but not a centaur. Honourable, but at the same time not."

"Uhh, is that good or bad?"

"For now, neither, yet at the same time both." The centaur turned to Dumbledore. "You have been requesting our assistance more and more frequently Dumbledore. Us centaurs are not your slaves."

"And as you said, these are only requests," Dumbledore replied calmly. "These past few years, we have only had frequent common foes. This time I fear something great is happening, do you have any words of advice. If you were to help us, it would be most appreciative,"

"It's those primitive wolves and that revolting lycanthrope, isn't it? Never have I seen anything so uncivilized." The centaur asked, giving a wrinkle of his nose. "They came in earlier, rampaging through the forest, but left quickly. If those in our herd wish to assist you, then they are free to do so and then return to our herd, however, we will not be your servants. You ask for words of advice and wisdom. Let me tell you, you will inevitably fail. This is a fact. However, how you choose to fail is up to you, as well as how and whether you can return is also up to you. Due to this, after the current attack Hogwarts is experiencing, our centaur herd will not come any closer to your school." With that, the group of centaur walked away, only a few remaining, deciding to stay and help.

I furrowed my brows slightly. What sort of advice was this? It was basically as if someone was asking you how to be eaten - choose between fried, boiled, and stewed or another option if you pleased!

Hearing the words of the previous centaur, a flash of concern came upon Dumbledore's face, though it left as quickly as it came, once again being replaced by that unperturbed expression as if all was going to be all right. I found Dumbledore's bearings to be like a clear pond, if you threw something at it, the best you'd get was a few ripples while most of the time whatever you threw would disappear from sight. Dumbledore turned to the centaurs who stayed behind, there were only 3 of them. "Thank you for the assistance,"

"Do not thank us so soon," A centaur at the side said. The horse part of his body was of a palomino's while the top was relatively good-looking with long blond hair, blue eyes, and a well-developed physique. Seeing such an appearance reminding me of another who had shining blond hair, and charming blue eyes. A small ache in my heart appeared, rising along with a feeling of longing. "Dumbledore, although after the war I managed to return to my herd, you and I still have a relatively good friendship. However, in the future even I will have to remain somewhat distanced from you. The stars and planets have been giving me readings, they are not very clear, and I cannot see the specifics, but the advice you received is not false at all. Even if I tried to help, it wouldn't be much use. This new enemy can only be mainly faced with the joined forces of the ones from the magical community and the ones from their world,"


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