Sirius chuckled and nodded, "I would like that... grandpa." Draco flipped him off but sat down close to him anyways, it's time for deals to be made and plans to be thought.
He just hopes he doesn't regret opening up so quickly, Sirius isn't like Luke, right?
3rd Person P.O.V.
Draco made his way through the woods. He was back in America looking for Nico, they were able to IM and decided where to look for each other, but it was quite difficult to be able to find such a tiny person that wears all black, in a dark misty forest that belongs to your average horror film.
Draco stopped as he saw some light against tree branches from afar, was Nico there or was it something else? He approached quietly, watching his every step to make sure he didn't step on any of the discarded branches in the ground. Quickly making his way towards the light he began to see more clearly.
There Nico stood talking to a —what he could see— ghostly being. Nico was talking to them in a hushed tone. At the side of Nico, there he had boxes of happy meals all stacked up evenly. That made Draco wonder if Nico was going to use them for something that didn't require feeding thy self. He purposely stepped on a branch next to him a loud CRUNCH alerted Nico.
Nico looked back at Draco and relaxed a bit when he recognized him, Draco just waved and happily made his way towards his brother. Looking more closely to the ghost he could tell he was an old soul from many centuries ago, the clothes and old aura made that clear, was this the ghost that Nico told him about through IM?
Nevertheless, he sat next to Nico and looked up towards the ghost in question, 'Who are you?' He asked in glowing floating letters, the ghost looked at the written Greek words and looked at him, then at Nico. "Does the boy not speak?" The ghost asked unimpressed, Nico looked at Draco with hidden concern in his eyes, "He... does...?"
Draco shrugged and signed, 'Just practicing some of the stuff I told you about. I'm trying to become an Animagus since I've recently found out how to do it. So far, it requires me to have a weird tasting leaf in my mouth for a whole month, and if I open my mouth it smells absolutely disgusting. 0/10 wouldn't recommend.' Nico nodded in understanding as he told him stories of some teachers that he low-key respected from his school. Nico knows about Professor McGonagall's ability to transform into a cat. Draco let him believe that it was because of a godly heritage and not anything supernatural like wizards and witches. Lady Hecate doesn't want any other gods from knowing of her little side experiments.
"Right... now that the boy is here we may begin with our sacrifice." So that's why Nico had all the food, Draco hoped that Nico will at least eat one happy meal, the boy was practically skin and bones. He looked tired as well.. maybe he could gift him one of those suitcases that were an actual living space. As well as his own credit card! He could forge Lucius and Narcissa's signatures to make Nico share his vault with him. He should have Nico have access to everything he owned as well, yes he should do that since he's family...
"We should start by digging the whole up to summon one of the souls that will come. With my sword we may be able to do a soul exchange and gain information."
'I'll raise the beings that will help us dig the grave, can you do the enchantment?' Draco singed towards Nico. Nico nodded and stepped away from Draco as he pulled off his gloves, immediately some of the well kept grass wilted around Draco's feet. He stepped around uncomfortable and raised his hand in front of him. He noticed Nico sparing glances at his hands. Draco couldn't blame him looking at them, his hands without the gloves looked like the Symbiote from Spider-Man 3 crawled and stayed at his hands, he would be scared too. He made himself relax as he felt a pull in his gut and some of the graves rumbled as skeletal hands pierced through the dirty, slowly making their way up until the skeletons stood. Spines hunched over and teared clothing covering their skeletal bodies, fashion that Draco could recognize from the early 1900s. "Grab the shovels and dig a deep whole for us, please," Nico said once he notice the skeletons looking at Draco in question.
They nodded and got into work. While the skeletons were working, Draco stood awkwardly as he stayed a good distance away from Nico. Shuffling from foot-to-foot, he played with the hem of his camp necklace as he counted the beads and twirled them to entertain himself with something. Nico broke the silence by getting up from the tombstone he was laying on.
"I'll go start a fire, I'll be back." Nico went into the woods, Draco kept his gaze until he could no longer see Nico. He turned around towards the ghost, 'Who are you?' He wrote into the ground with his blade, he then cleared his throat to gain the ghost's attention. The ghost turned around a raised and eyebrow, Draco points at the words written in the ground. The ghost sights but reads the question.
"Don't worry about that kid, I'm just here to guide your brother."
Draco stares at the ghost and writes again, 'You do realize that because I'm a child of Hades, I could order you to tell me who you are right?' He ghost reads that and stares back at him.
"..."
"You're a very bothersome little brat. I hope you now that."
He shrugged, 'Heard worse but okay.'
Draco cleared his throat again and covered his mouth a bit, "I, as a child of Hades, demand you to state your name." Draco contained a gag towards the rancid smell that came out as he opened his mouth. He was determined to know this ghost's intentions towards his brother. He didn't know why, but the ghost gave him bad vibes, and he didn't like it. The ghost shut his mouth tightly, even as a spirit you could see his muscles tensing as he tried to disobey the order given to him. Finally the ghost spoke, "I'm The Ghost King, Minos. I'm here to...guide your brother." Draco took note of the slight pause when Minos spoke, calculated words as if he was under Veritaserum.
Yes, he was suspicious as fuck thanks for asking. He knew that the ghost would try to keep him from knowing the whole truth, so he let it go. 'Alright then.'
On cue Nico came with a stack of sticks on his arms, Draco helped him set them in place and lit the makeshift fire place with a snap of his fingers. As Nico said the enchantment Draco fiddled with the straps of his dark hoodie, he pulled one strand up and down to keep him occupied. He stared at Nico and then at the ghost he summoned, Theseus, he heard legends of the guy, Chiron used to tell the old campers stories about him during the campfire. He only remembers bits and pieces of that since if happened when he recently arrived at the camp. Theseus gave Nico some words of advice before vanishing, Draco saw that Nico was upset with what he was told and offered to invite him to eat somewhere he liked.
"I want to try Burger King but I want McDonald's chicken nuggets," Nico said but was unsure if Draco wanted to go to both places and would just make him choose one place. Draco nodded, 'Let's go then, I have no idea when they close, and I'm too fucking hungry to not eat anything today.' With a small smile Nico followed Draco through the woods, halfway out the woods Draco looked at Minos and signed, 'I ain't buying shit for you, you can starve for all I care, rat.' The ghost flipped him off and flew to Nico's side. Nico gave him a raised brow where he shrugged innocently and asked him more about his favorite card game.
Draco went through the crowded streets of Manhattan, holding Nico's shoulder as he pushed him towards the hidden Wizard Bank in America. Once he pushed Nico into an alley way grabbed Nico and placed him on his shoulder then ran straight to a brick wall. Nico yelled in alarm as he was grabbed and placed down again like nothing. Going to yell at Draco he stopped, Draco grinned behind his mask and placed it to his side so that Nico still couldn't see his face. Placing on a glamour, he placed his mask on his hoodies pocket and ruffled his now black hair. 'Come on, I still have to buy you some stuff from here before we go eat.'
They continued towards their destination and soon they were here, The Wizards Bank of The United States of America. He entered and breathed in the fresh air of mint, people were silent as the bank tellers helped them with their needs or brought them to their cubicles to talk about plans and options they had. Draco made his way towards a line and told Nico to stay seated on the red sofas as he did the paper work for him, he even passed him a random rubix cube for him to try to keep him occupied. Walking towards a line and staying there until it was his turn, 'Good evening, I'm here to open another vault for a relative under my family name.' The women, Jessica, he read smiled at him and asked for his name. 'Draconis Felicis Black.' She swinger her wand and wordlessly explained to him where he had to sign and under whose name he would open a vault for. He wrote Nico Di Angelo and write his brothers birthday, January 28, 2000, and signed the other necessary forms under his name.
He had previously opened a vault here some few years ago, Draco was able to link it to his personal account back in Scotland without having to alert Lucius and Narcissa about it. How he did it, easy he forged their signatures and got away with it, they won't know about that till this day and years to come. Jessica told him to wait in the waiting room as they got his credit card ready. Going back to Nico he could see that he had already solved the rubix cube puzzle and was now looking down at his shoes. He touched his shoulder as he sat down, 'It's almost done, we just need to wait for them to finish making the card and we're good to go. I'll go buy some stuff I think you'll need stay here, I'll be back before you know it!' He signed and he passed another wood puzzle to Nico before he could say anything.
Draco jogged his way to the nearby store that seller magical suitcases, going through the aisles as he found the perfect one. A suitcase that had both a protection charm and was bewitched by an Undetectable Extension Charm. Grabbing the suitcase he went upfront the store and placed the case down, 'I would like to buy this one please.' The cashier looked at him with a stink eye but smiled a smiled so fake, he almost winced. Passing his own credit card he grabbed from his wallet he gave it to the old man and placed in the pin needed for payment. Once it was done he grabbed the suitcase and placed a temporary charm that made it smaller. He fast paced back towards the bank and went back towards Nico, "Done?" Nico asked grumpily at being alone at such an unknown place.
Draco nodded, both stood up and went back to their quest of controlling their hunger.
Annnnnnnnddd done! I'm glad I was finally able to finish this. Now that I'm back let me apologize for being so slow to update, many things came up in my life that made me discouraged to write in my free time, but now things controlled a little bit. So, I'll try to go back to a decent schedule after I'm able to move to a new house (yeah I'm moving at a time like this ,))
Hope everyone is doing great cause now I have important things to address, right now in America shit is going down and it was not pretty, I understand that many people started to go back to Wattpad to get away from the real wild but this is just a reminder that there's still injustice in the system and that, we as generation z, should continue to fight and demand justice for those who where murdered cold blooded by dirty cops.
Here are links to petitions you can sign:
http/chng.it/Cn2Ps4Kk
http/chng.it/MGXn2Kdn
http/chng.it/J5WZWYyf
http/chng.it/4Vc4chgy
YouTube videos that are used as fundings:
https/youtu.be/8yaB1gHJnGc
https/youtu.be/Ixwshn_Ix-g
https/youtu.be/H230RUNzfk8
https/youtu.be/DAZgTNBLSLA
Small gentle reminder that Brianna Taylor's and Elijah Mclain's murders haven't been arrested yet. If your more interested in information,please try to keep yourselves informed of the matter, that's probably all for now.
Oh, right this is how Draco's hand kinda look when he uses his demigod powers: https/pin.it/3v7OGrJ
Also since JKR is being a transphobic bitch, which character do y'all wish or head canon to be transgender? Just to spite her hehe.
Now I want everyone to stay safe, keep wearing masks, and have a great rest of the year. I know you can all do wonderful things even with this conditions, I love and appreciate all the comments and reads you gave this book. Thank you! (And no I'm not giving up on this, I will finish it so don't worry about that :P)
See you in the next chapter bye!
-D.
