Leo

"I still don't understand why we didn't just use the portals," Leo muttered from his pegasi.

"Because we don't want to go straight into Hogwarts an accidently walk into an ambush or something," Piper explained for the fifth time.

I sighed starting to get bored, who knew travelling across a continent could be boring. It shouldn't be. Not for us. Something isn't right, Reyna almost died trying to fly across to Europe, yet our journey has been uneventful, they may as well be some teenager wasting their life away on Tik Tok with the amount of action we've had.

"Why haven't we run into any monsters?" I raised my question to the others.

"I don't know," Will replied as if just realising it for himself.

"Let's just be grateful that nothing is standing in our way," Piper didn't want to think too hard into it. Why would she? It probably means something bad was going down and no one likes to ponder on negative thoughts.

I seems like I didn't have time to ponder on them anyway as a large building started to draw in my attention. A castle, dark and gloomy it looked as if it had been abandoned. Not a soul could be seen from their view above and the freaked me out even more. What was going on?

"This doesn't feel right," Piper stated my own thoughts. "Perhaps we should land in the forest." The forbidden forest is now considered safer than Hogwarts, what has this world come to?

We guide the pegasi down to an opening in the forest, praying that nothing had seen us. We did not want unwelcomed company.

I fell not so graciously from my horse, cursing silently as my feet hit the ground. Why do they have to be so tall?

"Where should we keep them?" Will gestured to the pegasi. If we leave them here, it does not matter if they never see us. If they see them they'll know we are here, they'll come up with a plan to stop us. I cannot let that happen.

"Let them go home," I responded.

"But what if we need them?" Piper said in rebuttal.

"Were screwed," I reply honestly.

"Hopefully, it won't come to that," another voice came from behind us we all immediately whip our heads around. I drew my hammer from my tool belt, and I saw the others draw their weapons in the corner of my eye.

Our guards immediately went down as the group of teenagers approached us. Their familiar faces sending a flood of happiness through my veins. They were alive.

"Piper," one of them cry out in relief and runs towards her, hugging her in a tight embrace.

The male who once had been so jealous of me in what seemed like a lifetime ago, walked over and stuck his hand out. I grabbed it and wrapped my arms around him.

"I'm so glad you're alive," I say as we separate.

"And we'll like to keep it that way," Hermione replied, but she wasn't looking at us. Her glance went sideways towards Harry. I smiled towards Frank, the group was slowly getting back together.

"What do we do now?" Luna asked.

"We start getting a plan together," Hazel responded, "I'd hold back on letting those pegasi lose."

"What do you have in mind?" Nico said curiously.

"Something big, hopefully something that will kill that Titan bastard and the no nose man that he's inhabited," she said with a deviant smile on her face.

"Would you mind sharing?" Piper asked her.

"So far what we know, the entire Hogwarts has been compromised so we have to assume everyone inside is either dead or on their side," she started explaining her mind. "Therefore, we can't just waltz in there, there is too much of a risk they would see us then the game would be over. They would know immediately that we are the enemy and take us down and any element of surprise we had is gone. But we know something that he does not know," her eyes glanced towards Harry. My eyebrows knit together in confusion.

"What is that?" Will asked.

"Doesn't matter," she replied. Well obviously, it does if it can change our plans of action. I decided to keep that comment to myself and listen to her plan. "What matters is that we have an advantage. We still need to get close to him and kill the remaining Horcrux, but we don't even know if he is in there."

"What?" Will asked.

"Conversation for another time. So going in might not actually be beneficial," Hazel stated.

"Ok, so what do we do?" Luna asked.

"Voldemort's goal is to kill Harry, in order to take over the world. Kronos's goal is just to take over the world. That means Hogwarts is not that important to them, it's just a steppingstone to his master plan. The wizards, witches and demigods are really the only thing standing in his way. No mortal or muggle will really be able to defy him, so he won't concern himself with them. In his mind, he has already taken down Hogwarts. So, then his target would have moved on. How many wizarding schools are there?"

"Eleven," Hermione was quick to reply, "A few others that come and go, but there are eleven main ones."

"And I'm guessing they are all very spread out across the globe?" Hazel asked.

"Yes, but all the schools are hidden from each other. Only the headmasters and high-ranking minsters know where they all are to avoid intrusions," Hermione stated.

"And as the ministry is basically already corrupted Voldemort or Kronos probably knows where they are too. But that is eleven more schools he has to capture. Spread out far away from each other and I know that wizards can aparate but at a certain distance splinching becomes a serious problem and Voldemort would not want half his army dead by the time he has gotten to the correct location so he'd want something close. We know due to the Triwizard tournament that both Durmstrang and Beauxbatons are close to Hogwarts, or else the risk of transport would be too high with such a large number of students. Now Durmstang is known for having kept a close relationship with the dark arts. Voldemort or Kronos probably has a large number of people already inside working for him so taking that castle should not be too easy for him, therefore his focus would be on Beauxbatons.

Hazel took a deep breath, "I bet you that, that is his next target and that is where we are going to meet him. As far as he knows, we are out of the way, so he only has to fight the students of Beauxbatons academy. If we attack him there, we will have the element of surprise this time. We will get in, using these pegasi and Ron's sister-in-law. After all, the students of Beauxbatons know where their school is and pegasi is the most common way of transport for the students. We will blend right in and once we are in, warn the academy headmaster of the upcoming attack. We will set up defences against him and then we will have the demigods surround his forces from behind, getting in contact with them using Leo's monster proof phones that both Reyna and Chiron has."

"Giving him nowhere to run and retreat back to. He'll be in our pocket and he won't even realise what had happened," Hermione said realising the end of her plan.

"Exactly," Hazel confirmed.

"Damn," Piper said taking in all the information. "That would explain why we haven't been coming across many monsters. He has moved most of them to a different location."

"Annabeth would be proud," Frank said to Hazel. A smiled spread itself upon her face as she remembered the genius that was her friend. If only she was here to help them, perhaps she could have thought of an even better plan.

"When did you think of this?" Hermione asked her. "Is this why you were asking me so many questions on the way here?"

"Yeah, we had a lot of time walking through the forest so I started to think," she responded.

"No time to waste then, we've got a family reunion to get to," Ron announced.