So, this is the place where I apologize for the long wait.

*Crickets*

Um, I don't know what to say. I had some severe writers block on this story, and as soon as I started writing chapter 13, I ended up watching Avengers. so, that kind of became a crossover. so, that will be posted as a side fic separately sometime. any who, here's chapter 13. also, I apologize for the cliffie in advance.

Chapter 13: The Battle

Nico's POV

Winter break was over. Draco and I were back at Hogwarts. I admit, being in his house was fun. But Hogwarts was my home. It had all my new friends in it, and they accepted me for who I was. I loved it here.

It was the first Saturday after break, and Draco and I were cuddled out on the grounds 'doing homework'. Really, we were just reveling in being so close to each other.

"So, Nico. What are you doing tonight?" Draco asked me. I smirked at him.

"Nothing. You want to change that?" I gave him a small kiss on his neck. He purred.

"Mm. That sounds good." I smiled at him. He was so darn cute!

Suddenly, a commotion happed near the quidditch pitch. Something was coming from the sky. I pulled Draco to his feet, and we went to investigate. When we arrived, I wished we hadn't. the commotion was a metal dragon with people on it.

My cousins were here.

"Nico!" Percy jumped off the dragon, and ran up to me. "hey bro! it's good to see you again!"

"Really? You didn't feel that way when camp turned their back on me. You didn't help, no one did. And yet, you have the gall to act like nothing happened. No, Percy. We are not friends anymore." Percy looked stunned. Did he think I was going to be overjoyed? He was stuck in a delusion.

"Nico, Zeus wants you on Olympus for trial." Jason told me. I smirked.

"Too bad. I don't have to obey him. I'm not a demigod." Everyone but Percy, and Annabeth gasped.

"What do you mean you're not a demigod?!" Thalia exclaimed.

"Exactly what I said. I am not a demigod anymore." No one moved.

"Nico?" came a small voice from behind everyone. They moved and there HE was. Why they brought HIM of all people I couldn't understand. My vision turned red.

"Will." I spat out. I turned my glare on the others. "Anyone want to explain why you thought it was a good idea to bring my ex?" no one spoke up. I lunged for Will, and caught his shirt in my left hand.

"Do you know what you did to me?" I asked him in a deadly whisper.

"N-No." he replied.

"You took my last shred of sanity." I lit my right hand on fire. "Does anyone know what this is?" I asked them. Annabeth nodded fearfully.

"That's Tartarus fire. No one has ever even seen it."

"That make you the first! Congratulations!" I growled.

"N- Nico?" came a small voice from behind me. I looked. Oh, Draco was still here.

"Yes love?" I asked

"Um, why are you trying to kill him?"

"This piece of schist is Will." Draco's face changed in an instant. It went form fear to anger.

"Carry on then." He stated, unfazed. The others gawked at him.

"Nico, he's not in our power range. This is slaughter." Jason told me.

"This," I spat "is no more than he deserves." I pulled my hand closer, Jason stopped me.

"Nico. I have to stop you. This, this is, evil."

"What, did you think I was a good person?" I snarked. "Alright, I have a proposition for you. If any of you can beat me in single combat, I'll leave Will alone. What do you think?"

"Deal." Jason said.

Ooh. Some action! Good thing, I was getting a little bored.

"Draco love, get all the student away. this is going to be destructive." I watched him run off to help with crowd control. I cracked my knuckles, and looked at my once friends.

"Who wants to go first?" I asked.

"I will." Jason supplied. Well, no surprise there.

"Ok. What guidelines?"

"First to unconscious or surrender. All powers allowed." He was going to regret saying that.

"Take your stance." I told him. He readied himself. "I'm feeling generous, you can have a minute in which I won't attack. Go!"

He sprang into action. Using the wind current, he sped upwards, and aimed a strike at my head. I dodged, and rolled easily. He struck again, I dodged again. He growled and changed up his tactic. He sent a gust of wind at me trying to off balance me. I made him believe he'd done it, and 'stumbled'. Jason charged, and aimed for my head with the flat of his sword. I smirked, and grabbed it stopping him in his tracks.

"Your minute is up." I told him softly. Then, I struck. I kicked him in the knee; he crumbled instantly. I followed it up with a whack to the back of his head he fell to the ground. With a resounding 'oof'.

I let him get back up. He wiped a drop of blood from his lip, and snarled at me.

"Ready for round 2?" I asked. He charged, and then ducked. We sparred for a while, before I smelled ozone in the air.

"Oh? Are we finally using our powers?" I quipped, and ducked around his blow.

He raised his hands, and the lightning missed me by mere centimeters. Although, it did singe my robes quite badly.

"Bro, do you know how much this cost?" I asked him in fake horror. He just called down another lightning bolt. This one hit my back, and I went sprawling. It had hit my wings, and I was relatively unharmed.

"Nico! Do you surrender?" I started laughing.

"Did you really think that would beat me?!" I stood, and charged. I flipped him onto his back, and knocked him out with the hilt of his own sword. I never even drew mine. I got up.

"So, who's next?" I asked. Thalia ran towards me

"How could you?! How could you do that to my brother?!" oh, someone was mad. I did the 'come at me bro' sign. She screamed, and charged. I waited for her to get close before moving so fast I was a blur. I tripped her, and knocked her out with a well-placed elbow to the back of her skull.

"So, who's next?" I asked again, as she fell unconscious to the ground. Lou Ellen stepped forward.

"I am. Magic only."

"Very well then." I pulled my wand out of the shadows where I'd stored it. "Let's put on a show for the children."

We circled each other for a few moments before she attacked. She sent a low powered stunner at me. I ducked it, and sent the cutting curse at her. It hit her hastily erected shield. She sent a jet of purple light at me, I threw up a shield, and ducked in case it went through. Good thing I did, because it did indeed go right through my shield. I rolled to the side, and started using darker curses and spells. She went on the defensive blocking most of them, and dodging the rest.

"Is that all you've got?" she taunted.

"Nope." I sent a charm into the earth for later use, and started a ritual. It was technically magic. I started chanting in Latin, and moving in a circle. She saw what I was doing, and tried to stop me. She failed. The ritual finished, and smoke covered the entire field. She stumbled around blindly, while trying to dispel my illusion smoke. She couldn't. then, she tripped across the spell I'd placed earlier. She was instantly knocked out. I dispelled the smoke.

"How did you do that?" Annabeth asked. "You just beat a daughter of magic; in a magic duel!"

"Yes. Yes, I did. Thanks for stating the obvious. Oh, great daughter of wisdom." I spat. She flushed bright red. Percy sighed.

"I guess it's my turn." He said.

"Well, you could always just hand him over. No need for the rest of you to get hurt."

"No can do, Nico. It's not right. I can't just let you kill someone." Percy said, ever the Hero.

"Fine by me."

Third Person POV

The two demigods took their respective stances. They circled each other looking for weaknesses. Percy struck. It was slow, and Nico dodged it, while delivering a right hook to his face with a resounding crack. Percy staggered, and almost balked at the look of pure hatred on his once friend's face.

"Nico," he tried, only to be blasted with a wall of shadows.

"Don't you 'Nico,' me!" the goth spat at him. they circled each other some more before Nico struck. He rushed Percy making him lose his balance before sending his sword in an arc towards his left. Percy turned with equally inhuman speed, and met Nico's sword. The resounding crash reverberated through the whole school. Nico spun away, and then back again. The two teens were locked in this intricate dance for what seemed like hours, and yet was only a few minutes. Percy dodged, and faked to the left, Nico defaulted, and Percy hit him in the back with the hilt of riptide.

Nico fell to the ground.

"Do you surrender?" Percy asked. Maniacal laughter was his response.

"Surrender?" Nico asked. Before standing, seemingly unhurt. "Now why would I do that?" he asked. He unclasped his robes, and pulled them off. A tremor went down the pale teen's spine, and two magnificent wings burst forth from his shirt. He took off into the air.

"Catch me if you can!" he told Percy, before flying in some loop-de-loops. The entire population of Hogwarts except for a few Slytherins gasped as Nico displayed his wings. Percy's face hardened, and he hefted his sword in a vain attempt to stop Nico. The teen in the air laughed, and charged him from directly above. Percy rolled to dodge. This continued for ten minutes with Percy constantly on the defense.

Nico had got a few good hits in, and Percy was starting to bleed from a rather deep gash on his left arm. His movements were slowing, and he was tiring. Then, Percy sprinted to the lake. Nico dived to stop him, but the water reached out, and enclosed Percy in it. The son of Poseidon stayed underwater for a good minute before bursting forth on a huge tidal wave. This waved was almost as tall as the castle itself.

"Give it up Nico!" Percy called. Nico laughed.

"Never!" he cried. Then, the shadows on the ground started swirling, and Nico was encased in Shadows like a tornado. "Thanks for this trick by the way. It is very helpful." The Demi-Primordial told his once friend.

A class of tornados began. It looked like two triangles, one black the other blue violently clashing with one another. The two teens in control of the elements were causing quite some property damage. The grounds of the school were scorched, and mushy. Icicles from the trees flew to life, and attacked the black tornado. They swirled in and out of it, before being ejected. They flew at the Hogwarts population. It didn't look like that was on purpose. The teachers who had just now got outside erected a large shield to protect the students. Almost all the students were at the front gates watching this battle of the element users.

"Stay back!" the teachers yelled at the students, trying to keep them away from the destructive battle.

"Is that all you've got?!" Nico taunted, as the water tornado started to slow. It picked its pace back up, and attacked the shadows with renewed vigor. The shadow faltered, and then dropped. Nico glided gently to the ground. The water tornado also cut off, and a completely dry teenager stepped out of the lake.

"You can still stop this. Come back to camp with us. Appease Zeus." Percy tried. Nico growled.

"No. I can't. You all made sure of that when even after the giant war, you all treated me like trash! I nearly killed myself traveling a giant statue half was around the world, and the thanks I get for it is to be treated worse than Pegasus poop! No. I'm not stopping this. And I will have my revenge on Will. He lied to me, and told me that he loved me. but, as soon as it wasn't in his best interests to be with me, he turned his back on me like the rest of camp. And don't go into some spiel about how the Roman camp will let me in. they've hated me since I first showed up. they didn't want an ambassador of Pluto. In fact, they didn't want anything to do with me. the only reason they never killed me, was because they feared my father's wrath." Nico took a deep breath, hatred prominent on every feature of his countenance.

"No Percy. I am never going back. I have a new life now. Friends, something I never had at Camp. And the plus? No one here knows who my father is! They don't care that I'm a freaking demon! They like me for who I am, and not just as a tool or a means to an end. So, you can take your metal dragon, and leave my ex. Or all of you can die. Make your decision."

End of chapter 13.

Okie, to my lovely reviewers!

When-Fangirling-Is-Life-UwU: thank you for the review. I am glad you like the chapter :)

Dawning of the day: I feel you. I am homeschooled, and I don't get summer break so yeah.

Random person: unfortunately; no. Zeus is a god, and as such he has healing powers. if only though.

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You still dere: yes. I am. I have not died (yet) and I have updated. yeah, it's been a while, but hey. who's counting?