"This might be a pretty weird sensation, but just hold on to me."
"What are you doing doing?"
Draco placed Percy's hand on his shoulder and pulled out the portkey that he uses to get to camp on his hand and flipped it.
They were gone before anyone could blink.
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3rd Person POV
Draco patted Percy's back as he vomited stomach acid (his stomach didn't have any food even if he had finished some cookies) "I went through the same thing a couple of times, but you'll get used to it."
Percy just gagged again.
His cousin finished and looked at him straight in the eye as he said, "You have the worst breath ever—it smells every time you talk— and no offense but it smells worse than Smelly Gabe and that's saying something." He merely blinked and let out a small laugh when he fully processed the words that his cousin said. "Sorry—sorry lemme just..." he paused searching his pockets for something he ignored the mask that Luke have given him (he won't wear that anytime soon) and found a old medical mask that he had on his charmed pockets. He put it on with a sticking charm and hoped that it didn't let so much of his bad breath through. "...there that should do the trick...I hope."
Percy sniffed the air, "It does work! What was that anyway?"
"It's a long story that we don't have the time for, come on we're at camp," Draco lead the way to the camp and once they did they were surprised at the bunch of orange that they saw from their place on top of the hill. The campers were surrounded about seven wooden things that he couldn't quite tell what they were. The somber mood from down there could be felt from where the boys were. "Let's check it out," Percy said and Draco nodded and jumped off the hill and summoned a dagger to pierce the dirt with as he slid down. He looked up to see a gapping Percy, he just gestured for him to get his ass down there.
Draco and Percy made his way towards the crowd and pushed through it to see Annabeth talking, "We will miss him very dearly as he was a great friend. I just realized this but he—" she paused her speech as she looked their way, "—is right there!" The crowd gasped and Draco was left alone with Percy as the crowd parted from them and an angry Annabeth headed their way. He backed up as she stared at him and held his arms up as if she were a cop, she ignored him and proceeded to Judo flip Percy to the ground.
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Percy, Annabeth, and Rachel (the mortal that he remembered seeing a few summers ago), all accompanied him to the Labyrinth opening that was in Rachel's costume room. After explaining to Annabeth what had happened and how he was with Percy, he gave her a half-assed explanation on why he wanted to go with them to look for Nico and explain why Nico and him where in the labyrinth in the first place. He had to congratulate himself in his believable lying as no one questioned his response.
They ran through the tunnel as two dracaenae—snake women in Greek armor—leveled their javelins at our chests. Standing between them was an empousa cheerleader.
"Fuck..."
"Language" she hissed before going into a monologue of having met Percy before, he glanced behind them and doubled back as he saw the two dracaenae that accompanied Kelli (as Percy so carefully sneered when he saw her). They didn't notice his glance as they had their eyes set on Percy as if he was some kind of tasty snack, he supposed that with how things have been for years he probably was, he pulled out his dagger and hoped to the Gods that they didn't notice the glint that the dagger reflected as he threw it at one of the ladies's eyes. He pulled out another one and threw it to the other lady to blind her, but she was able to dodge and hissed at him angrily. The other woman writhed in pain as she was blinded, letting go of her spear, she slithered her way to the back and disappeared into the shadows. He stepped to the side as the other dracaenae came up to him with the intent to harm.
"Stop right now!" Kelli ordered, "He's entertainment, so don't kill him yet." The snake woman huffed and instead held her spear at Rachel's neck. Percy and Annabeth dropped their weapons at the sight of blood that the dracaenae caused as she saw their weapons and acted on instinct.
She narrowed her eyes into silts as she stared at him.
Percy was dragged off the her to somewhere as Kelli tied his hands behind his back. The position pulling on his muscles painfully as he flexed to test out the knot. Annabeth and Rachel were placed far from him as he was supposed to go next after Percy. He stared at the blonde that was sitting at Antaeus's side.
It was Luke.
Their eyes met—
—Luke was in front of him scolding some of his siblings for taking a joke to far. Draco was on the ground and he held his hand under his nose as it bled.
The young version of Luke came up to him, he didn't have a scar on his face, and held up his hand towards him. He reluctantly accepted the hand and was tugged to his feet. "Sorry for them, the kids can sometimes forget their own strength. Are you okay?" The young Luke asked as he glanced at him. Draco scoffed and looked away from him, "Don't talk to me like I'm some kid, I've been here longer than you, I know how the things work around here." Luke just smiled and nodded, "I'm still sorry for their actions, they shouldn't have done that to you." Luke wiped the blood from his face, it left him stunned to see someone still acting so nice towards him after expecting his attitude.
Luke continued to talk to him, he didn't understand why he did. He was confused on why Luke wanted to include him in things that he distanced himself of. Didn't know what to think about the son of Hermes.
He cornered Luke one day to ask what did he want from him, "Nothing, I just want everyone to enjoy their time here at camp. This is supposed to be a safe place for us, nothing should change that."
Draco's eyes widened, and he decided that day that next time Luke invited him to do something, he wouldn't decline.
—Luke had long looked away from him and was staring at the entertainment. He seemed to be stressed out about something, but he seemed a bit better from the pale figure that he was during winter break. Percy was hanging from some chains as Antaeus was trying (and failing miserably) to climb those chains to get close to Percy. A glint in Percy's eyes told Draco that he had an idea, taking that as inspiration he quickly stood up and kicked the monster behind him. Twisting his body to hit the monster's chin and gain some distance from his captures and him, at the same time Percy was swinging the chains around him to tangle Antaeus with them. The monsters attention was coughed and he jumped to the lower seats of the arena, trying to get closer to where Rachel and Annabeth were held. Jumping onto the head of a monster (he was sure he heard a crack) he jumped over the girls as Rachel told them where the exit was.
They ran as if their life's depended on it ignoring the shouts and orders of an angry Luke.
oOo
Running through the familiar tight space, Draco was next to Percy as Annabeth and Rachel were in the front. Rachel was leading them towards Daedalus' Workshop in hope that they were able to find Ariadne's string that could help navigate them through the Labyrinth and to, hopefully, be able to track down Nico. Percy had told him that they had crossed paths before the explosion and that the kid seemed fine. It brought him relief, but that was short as they arrived to Daedalus' Workshop. Rachel was quiet as Annabeth made snarky comments about what she saw, a metal door with the familiar Greek was activated by Annabeth's touch.
The modern looking place amazed Draco it was like he was looking in the future. "Where are we?" Percy asked. "Colorado Springs," A voice said behind them, "The Garden of the Gods." Behind them stood an old yet young looking man that Draco didn't recognize, but his companions apparently did as they hissed out his name, "Quintus.."
Annabeth proceeded to curse at the man, but Draco interrupted her as he saw Kelli enter the shop. "I think we should go," Rachel glanced at what he was looking at, some ghostly figure appeared behind Kelli, "Agreed." A black wall suddenly appeared covering the intruders from coming in the shop, "We have time to spare."
Draco looked back to see his brother, Nico, I'm all his shadowy glory. This was probably the first time that Nico saw him without his mask, but he doubted that the boy recognized him, he stayed silent as Quintus talked, it seemed that loneliness had done a number on him for him to talk to them so suddenly, "I am Daedalus."
He spaced out to look at Nico, he had bags u see his eyes and was very pale, but he didn't have the hollow cheeks as before. His hands were weirdly behind his back but it didn't matter. He was fine.
He was alive.
The mood was ruined as the back wall that Nico had summoned had fallen, Kelli and the now solid figure of Minos was blocking the entrance, "There you are, my old friend." Minos said looking at Daedalus whose jaw clenched. He looked at Kelli. "What is the meaning of this?"
"Luke sends his compliments," Kelli said. "He thought you might like to see your old employer Minos," she sneered. "This was not part of our agreement," Daedalus said.
"No indeed...but we already have what we want from you, and we have other agreements to honor. Minos required something else from us, in order to turn over that fine young demigod." She pointed at Nico who was looking at her in panic, "He'll be quite useful. And all Minos asked in return was your head, old man."
Daedalus paled. "Treachery."
"Get used to it," Kelli said.
With those words uttered all chaos came in, Percy and Annabeth who sprinted over towards the monsters, Rachel who was getting towards some wings that hanged in the wall, and him as he grabbed a sharp saw to break Nico out of his (now revealed) chains. Nico used his newfound freedom to summon his sword and force Minos back into the Underworld.
Even then, more monsters where heading their way, "We have to go!" Rachel said as she passes the wings to everyone to put on. Nico had the wings on and he looked back towards Draco, there weren't enough for everyone. "GO I'LL TELEPORT!" Nico just looked at him, frozen as a dazed Percy pulled on him to go. Once he heard the flapping of the wings he pulled off the gloves. The shadows cradled him, stuck to him like honey. He pulled out the saw that he had used earlier, turned it on a threw the saw towards the monster that was getting close to Daedalus, "You owe me, bastard!"
He shouted as he placed a hand in his hip, the throw had reopened his wound, he was about to shadow travel when one of the monsters growled and threw their spear at him.
It hit him at the same time that he vanished.
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Pain was all the he could feel as he panted, he was somewhere dark. Only a bit of sunlight could be seen from the cave(?) He panted in pain and hastily placed his gloved back into place, groaning when the half broken spear moved from where he crawled.
Ge laughed at his own idiocy, risking his life like he was some kind of Gryffindor look where that got him. Cold and alone in a stupid dark place where no one will find his body. He was destined to be alone wasn't he?
He shook his head, but regretted it as he grew lightheaded at the blood that he lost. Demigods blood was precious, something different from mortals and wizards. Golden Blood, they would call it something that made sure that demigods knew that they were not normal, that they were different. Rh-null, the healers and doctors alike would call it, the world's rarest blood type. Not so rare if they knew that all demigods had it. He pulled the spear that had pierce right through his back to a poke of his stomach. He pulled on the weapon and grunted at how it moved. He needed to do this fast, so he ripped it out like a bandaid.
Draco coughed up blood and used his jacket as a makeshift bandage. He placed his sweaty head towards the cold smooth rock, he saw a light, and Draco snapped his closing eyes opened.
LIGHT!
With desperate crawls he made his way inside what seemed to be an underground forest, there was sunlight somehow coming in and everything was so green that it hurt his eyes to look at the plants. In the middle he saw an old God that was sleeping on the middle of the forest-like-room. He slipped and fell into the Gods lair(?) his mind was slipping and soon he was unconscious.
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He thought that was his end as he gasped and leaned towards the dark figure at his side.
He was alive.
He heard shushing from who ever he leaned too and was placed on someone's big arms.
"-yson—"
"—injured—"
"—over—uch blood—"
"—needs he—
"—pan!—"
He was shivering slightly at how cold everything felt, he was taken roughly by someone before everything went black.
oOo
Draco worked up when it was dark. Someone was holding his hand as he had something connected to him. Glancing around he saw a blood bag that was connected to him, the figure that was holding his hand wasn't Nico.
It was Daedalus.
"We need to talk," the man said as he noticed that he was awake. (Draco did not whine when he took the warm robotic hand away from him.)
A/N: Why does Wattpad put adds while I'm trying to read MY OWN fanfic?? Unacceptable.
Anyways hoped you like this chapter as I put a head cannon of mine for the demigods. I plan to torture Draco so much for the future 3 My grandparents wifi sucks but at least it forced me to write for entertainment, hope ya enjoyed.
See ya next chapter!
-D.