Hermione
"You called them?" I asked Thalia.
"Yeah, Leo said to send a blue light in the air as a signal once we're ready. He will come with Reyna and the rest of them," Thalia discussed. "So get your wand ready."
"Kronos/Voldemort gave us the entire day, but the gods made their choice quickly so he could advance at any minute," I told the others. We looked down towards the open cage on the field. The gods had left, taken Artemis with them.
Kronos/Voldemort had retreated towards the back of his army and out of sight, we had no idea what he was planning. I could feel the suffocating tension as we waited for someone to make the first move. A large proportion of the senior students had gathered as well as the teachers, yet we still seemed insignificant compared to the mass of the enemy army.
"What is he doing?" Thalia asked the same question that was going through my head.
"He's stalling," Nico replied, "or at least he is waiting for something."
"He should know that we won't attack first," Ron replied.
"Keep your-" I get cut off by a piercing scream that banged against my eardrums. We turned swiftly around and saw a girl screaming, blood pooling at her feet. It took me a moment to realise it wasn't her blood. A headless body laid next to her feet. The girl's high pitch voice was soon cut off, along with her own head. A male in Beauxbaton's uniform stood behind the two girl's fallen bodies, in his hands was the hair of the screaming girl as he held her head up like a trophy. I felt the sudden urge to throw up, but his war cry distracted me.
Thalia wasted no time silencing him with an arrow, but it was too late. The cry was made, the battle had begun. The enemy army now came running with ferocious speed towards us. Shadows started to move around in the air as the Death Eaters travelled from one place to another.
I raised my wand and started to flick it in every direction that I could, not knowing what was happening. Everything started to blur. A blue light was flashed into the air, by who I did not know, but the signal was sent. We just had to hold the line until the others arrived, if we didn't...
Percy wasted no time to charge right into the heart of the army, acting as if he had a layer of armour to cover his bare skin. The others slowly separated from me, until Ron was the only person I could see amongst the falling array of bodies.
I noticed some Death Eaters trying to get around the back, gaining straight entrance to the castle. If they attack us from behind before the others get here we were doomed.
"Ron!" I called out to him through the shouts and pleas of dying wizards and witches. He glanced at me in recognition. "We need to go to the back, stop them from flanking us!" I shouted to him. He nodded his head and grabbed my hand.
I tried not to pay attention to the body that my foot fell into as I almost tripped, I would think about it later. Now we fight.
Suddenly the enemy stopped attacking us or at least paid their attention elsewhere. To the back of their army, where I knew the demigods had arrived. The surprise offered us an advantage, just as Athena said. The demigods cut through the hordes of misguided souls before they knew what was happening. The tide of the battle started to sway in our favour.
I ducked behind a crumbling stone almost making it into the castle, firing a spell at a distant Death Eater. Turning my head I saw some monster charge towards me, what one I had no idea. "Go!" I shouted to Ron, telling him we needed to move.
Running we turned a corner entering the castle, out of the monster's view and straight towards where the Death Eaters that were trying to flank us were. Immediately we fired all matter of spells towards them, anything we could think of until the small group was no more.
The ground beneath us was shaking, the building above our heads started to crack, we needed to get out of here.
"We need to go back to the battlefield," I told Ron who did not try to protest my warning. We stumbled back out of the castle and what I saw was no battlefield, but a graveyard.
The element of surprise was no longer there, and just as Athena said, we were losing.