Title: The Slytherin Champion
Rating: T
Summary: What if a Slytherin, and not a Hufflepuff, had been chosen by the Goblet of Fire and joined Fleur, Victor, and later on; Harry in one deadly game for glory that would lead right up to the meeting with Voldemort. And what if this champion was a demigod? Crossover of Percy Jackson.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling or Riordan's characters and I'm making nothing from this.
Chapter 9: The Second Task
Everyone was talking about the article that Rita had punished and I had personally made Malfoy wish that he hadn't said anything. He was currently having the same nightmare of living as a muggle. If he tried anything like this again I was going to take away his ability to do magic. This is one ability that I don't like using, but I will use it if I need to.
"Don't listen to them," Harry had told me.
It was hard when people kept on reminding you. I shadow traveled to my mother's place just to get away from all this tournament nonsense.
"Did you see all the trouble that I was going to end up in," I asked her.
"Not really," she answered. "I'm sure Apollon did, though."
I sighed.
"Selene, what is happening isn't your fault," she said. "The only thing that you can do is get through this and move on."
"Is there going to be trouble?" I asked her.
She sighed. "You really don't want to know."
I want to know, but I probably wouldn't like it.
I don't know how long I stayed in my mother's place. She never told me that I had to leave and I enjoyed being able to be in bed and not have to worry about someone trying to hex me. When I finally got back to Hogwarts I ran into Neville.
"Selene, the second task is tomorrow," he told me.
I mentally cursed my desire to be away from all this nonsense.
That night I had a horrible nightmare about a man coming out of a cauldron. A man that I knew right away was Tom Riddle. He summoned his Death Eaters and I saw the dead body of Harry. I woke up, covered in sweat, and the feeling that the sun was coming up. I showered, dressed, and left my room. When I entered the Great Hall everyone turned and looked at me. I sat down at my table, gave an offering to Poseidon, and then started on my food.
"I hope that you drown, wolf," Pansy Parkinson hissed.
"And I hope someone sets your hair on fire," I shot back.
She hissed at me and thankfully left.
Time came for the second task and as I was about to leave an owl landed in-front of me with a small pouch. I took it and inside found a coin with a note. I opened it and read:
Selene,
I'm doing this as a favor for your mother. The coin needs to be tossed before you even think about entering my realm. It will cause your hostage to be brought out of the depths. Thanks, in advance, for saving my son, Percy, from death.
Poseidon
I pocketed the coin and headed down to the lake.
"Looking forward to seeing you drown," someone called out.
I ignored them.
The Headmaster spoke about the goal of the second task and I saw that all the other champions wasn't too happy about going down into the cold lake. The horn blasted and the champions dived in while I threw my coin into the lake. Everyone was laughing at me and then the lake churned and out came my hostage, my own father. Everyone gasped in shock and then Madam Pomfrey came around to give him something for his time down there.
"That's cheating."
I rolled my eyes and left with my father.
I knew that the Daily Prophet would spin this however they damn wanted. Once again I was in last place, but I really didn't care. My own father had been down there and I wasn't happy. I also noticed something really odd about Harry's score. Someone was giving him more points so that he would be in the lead.
The lead meant that he had a better chance of getting the end and the end was going to usually be his death. No, that wasn't going to happen. I would do anything to protect Harry, even if meant to really cheat and see where I ended up.
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Harry's POV
"She just tossed a coin," Hermione said. "Bet it had a dark curse on it."
"Dumbledore doesn't think so," I said.
"Who care what that idiot thinks."
Ever since Dumbledore had defended Selene in the second task most in Gryffindor hated him for it. She was in Slytherin and therefore she was an enemy.
"Let's hope that last task gets rid of her once and for all."
I glared at Ginny, who had said those words.
"Don't worry, it will."
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Dumbledore's POV
I sensed the Lady before I saw her. When she arrived she nodded at me and took her seat across from me.
"I must admit that your students really don't understand ancient magic."
"Or a student that gets help from the gods," I countered and Hecate smiled. "I must admit bribing the merfolk with that ancient coin so that Selene didn't have to go into the lake was something that I'm sure the Ministry wasn't expecting."
"Do they know?" Hecate asked.
I grinned at her and answered, "No."
"Then no harm done."
I then sighed and said, "Did you hear about Crouch's death?"
Harry had tried to talk to me, but Severus, being Severus, had denied him that right. I had a long talk with him about this and all he had done was sneer at me. When was he going to drop this loathing that he had for Harry. I had a feeling it was going to kill him one day.
"Hades says that he was killed by his son."
I stared at her. "What?"
"That's what Hades told me and Hermes verified it," she said. "The son is alive and I think that he had a hand in Harry being in this Tournament."
"But how did he get out of Azkaban?"
"That part is shadow to me," Hecate said. "However, I think that we all need to be paying this Tournament a closer look."
"I'm going to agree," I said.
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A/N: Sorry about the long wait. Thanks for reading and commenting.
