Chapter 6

Nico

I shadow travelled back into the common room. I threw off my hoodie and pants, shoving them into the bottom of my trunk and I jumped into my bed in my shirt and shorts. My left forearm was wrapped in a bandage. As if I had injured it before coming into the train. It covers the tattoo…and frankly it's just fun to play with the bandage from time to time.

The other boys entered the common room to change before dinner.

"How you doing mate?" Blaise announced as they entered the room.

"Better" I said "I really hate this. I hate being stuck in bed."

"That would be the problem with hyperactivity." Draco said. "So you think you're well enough to go to supper?"

"Yeah I think so." I said climbing off the bed. I threw on a new shirt and a pair of jeans.

"What happened to your arm?" Draco asked slightly concerned. I only wore short sleeved when I sleep; I have to make sure that they don't see the tattoo. Only now did they see the 'injured' arm.

"Sword fighting accident" I said. "I forgot to put on my armor and I got a big slash on my arm. I can't remove it for the next two months."

"Ouch." Blaise said. "Doesn't it hurt? Can't it be cured by magic?"

"Magical sword." I explained "It cannot be healed with spells without making it worse. It has to heal on itself."

"That's too bad." Draco said "Come on let's go up to the Great Hall."

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The next two months I managed to find some of my old friends. Luna was the easiest and the most convenient. For one, Draco and the other Slytherins don't have much of a problem. They called her the one with 'the sight' very rare. She could see creatures that were lost in old pureblood myths. But they too agreed that she was a bit Looney.

Justin posed a problem. Since he was a Muggleborn, they were very stereotypal on the whole 'purebloods and Muggleborns don't mix'. But I managed to talk to him in my trips to the library.

"So how was the year without me here."

"It was great!" Justin said in his usual cheerful tone. "Hagrid is a teacher now. Care of Magical Creatures. The old one had just an arm and a leg left. We have so many new classes, I can't believe you missed it."

"I'm sure I can manage" I said with a chuckle. "I heard there was a class with an oracle of some sort?"

"Yeah. Divination. Professor Trelawney is a fraud. But it's the only class where you don't have to study. You just make some wacky stuff up in the assignment and you automatically have an A"

"So I hear" I said

"You should come to class. While you're still here."

"What?"

"You're a demigod right?"

I looked around if anyone was watching.

"What do you know?"

"You know being petrified doesn't automatically mean we were deaf." Justin said "It was like being stiff. You can't move. Your brain still moves. At least that is what you managed to help us with. Our senses come back every now and then. Thankfully, it wasn't the sight I don't think I don't have to watch the ceiling all day."

"How long have you known?"

"Since you helped Nick." Justin said. "That was you wasn't it. The necromancer that Moody brought to class?"

"Yeah." I said still slightly fazed. "Who else knows?"

"Pretty much just those who were petrified." Justin said. "Don't worry, we won't judge you for it. I figured if you were back here, it must be for the tournament right?"

"Yeah." I said. "The others are coming along with Beauxbaton and Durmstrang."

"Great!" Justin said. "So I guess you did a lot of training for the past year. You look bigger now than that scrawny kid two years ago."

"Was I really that scrawny?" I asked "Seriously you're the fifth one that commented on that. Draco, Ron, Mrs. Weasley, Luna, and you."

"Well, you weren't that tall." Justin said "Now you're taller than me. and even gained some muscle. Why do you keep hiding in a jacket? You're not malnourished thin anyway, why hide?"

"It's a habit, I guess" I shrugged. "I have been travelling for years."

"What about the bandage?"

"I'll let you know when I can remove it." I said "I can't remove it now someone might see. And you know how bad Hogwarts gossip is."

"Sure." Justin said.

We said our goodbyes and headed towards lunch. I sat with Draco and the others who were doing Divination homework.

"What is that?"

"Homework." Draco said "It's utterly useless. But it's better than Muggle Studies."

"We have Divination next."Blaise said. "Are you going with us?"

"Yeah, I want to see this teacher that you are all complaining about."

"She's a fake" Draco said "An absolute fraud."

"Well we'll see about that."

We ate our lunch quickly and headed to the seventh floor. We stopped at the north tower. They were looking at the window.

"What are we…"

Then there was a ladder. A heavy rope ladder that fell from the small window near the ceiling.

"We are going to class."

"We climb this to go to the classroom?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "What about the girls? Aren't they wearing skirts?"

"Well it's a sight to see then." Blaise said "Come on, we shall use our inner eyes to see the future."

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"Hello class." The teacher said in a dreaming tone. "Welcome back to Divination. Today we shall read deeper into our tea leaves. I want you to look into the cup of the one opposite you"

Sadly, Draco and Blaise had paired up for this activity. So I looked at another table and I was paired with Justin.

"Hello again."

"So how do we do this?"

"First you drink from the cup." Justin instructed. I drank from the cup. The tea tasted fine. Just like tea they had served in China, without the cream or sugar. I can almost taste the wilderness from it. "Not all of it. Then place it upside down on the plate.

I did what he said and saw him do the same. He gave me his cup and I gave him mine.

"Look at the cup what do you see?"

"I see a sun." I said then looked into the book. I squinted my eyes as the words tried to come back together. "It means…happiness?"

"Yes." Justin said "What else?"

"Well that's all I can see." I said looking into the muck in the bottom of the cup. "So you're going to be happy."

"Alright." Justin said with a smile. He looked into my cup. "I see...okay I'm not sure what I'm seeing."

"Let me see…" Professor Trelawney said suddenly making us jump. She took the cup from Justin then hastily threw it back.

"The Reaper!" she exclaimed. "You have death in your soul. You have been cursed."

"The Reaper?" I asked looking at Justin. "What's that supposed to mean."

Justin looked into his book. Then found the page. There was a picture of a Grim reaper form the cartoons. Where there was a man in a really big coat. It was holding a scythe of some sort and was looking at you without it's eyes almost like a dementor.

"It's an omen of death himself." Justin read. "The curse of Death lies with the person. His death shall be a painful and it shall be close."

I just shrugged at him. I haven't heard of anything different. But I have to admit. Looking at everyone who looked at me with either interest or pity, this is a very interesting class.

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The hardest to meet with in Hogwarts was the Golden Trio. At some point we just decided to meet in Myrtle's old bathroom.

"So how is your month return to Hogwarts."

"I'm glad it's almost over." I said "By the end of October I will no longer be Nicholas Di Angelo the Half blood Slytherin, but Nico di Angelo the Son of Hades."

"Why did you have to change your name?"

"I think my dad liked the name Nicholas." I said "but when my mom disagreed instead I was named Nico. It's not a nickname for anything. Just Nico."

"I'm guessing you were the one in Moody's demo." Hermione said.

"Yep."

"Bloody hell," Ron muttered "You're bloody scary you know that?"

"Well I was just doing a favor for Professor Moody."

"You are really that far into Necromancy?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah." I said "Though back when we were in second year I wasn't that good yet. The most dangerous I tried…well it was actually here in this bathroom."

"You mean when…"

"Yeah." I said "that was like raising the dead. but once someone dies, you can't bring them back totally. You either bring back their spirit. Or their bones. Bones are easy you have something to work on, spirits are more…wild I guess. I can talk to them, but for them to show themselves that is their call. And for me to make them solid enough I need to use my own power for that."

"Thank you." Harry said "I never thought…"

"It was no problem" I said "You saved my life."

"How are the other demigods coming to Hogwarts?" Ron asked suddenly.

"I'm not spoiling it." I said with a smirk "You just have to wait and see then."

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The day of the arrival finally arrived. It was already four in the afternoon the other students were about to be released from their classes. I looked into the sky in anticipation. I wore my new camp shirt. Since the demigods were now united, they decided to make a new shirt. It said Camp Demigod in the front. And had names at the back. It had different colours depending on the immortal parent. Mine was black and it had two bands on the sleeve. In the right it was Orange and on the left it was Purple. At the back, in Capital bold letters, was my name in white and a skull in the middle of the letter O.

I looked into the sky, excited for everyone to come. I reached into my pocket and drew a drachma. I created a mist and threw it into the rainbow.

"O Iris goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Argo II" the image shifted into a ship's deck. Percy and Jason were both on the deck looking out and making sure the ship stays upright in the air with over a hundred campers on board.

"Guys!" I called and they looked into the iris Message.

"Hey, Death Boy!" Percy exclaimed "Why aren't you here? Threatened to be killed by our great Uncle Z?"

"I don't think Uncle Z will kill you Perce" I said "Not with Jason and Thalia on the ship. Besides you know I don't do well on ships…or air…or water."

"Yeah," Jason said "But Hazel is really worried about you."

"I was sent ahead." I said simply. "Where is Thalia? I thought the hunters were joining you in the ship?"

"She's here."

"Let me guess." I said thinking "She's somewhere there. Bossing you around instead of helping so she wouldn't fall off the boat."

The two boys laughed. And Thalia's voice was heard from the other side "I heard that!"

"Don't worry Thals." Percy said "We love you anyways."

"Shut it, Seaweed Brain." Thalia said suddenly in the picture. She was looking a bit pale but it looked deadly especially when she's glaring at you. "If you want to keep on living, Death Boy I suggest you keep your trap shut."

"Yes ma'am" I said in mock salute. Getting more chuckles from the other side. She slapped both boys upside the head.

"Don't worry Death boy." Jason said "We are close. I think I can almost see the castle. Leo said it will be around a few more minutes before we hit land."

"Yeah, so if you see two Pegasus and a ship, don't shoot." Percy said looking off the screen. "NO! Blackjack don't eat that I have your sugar cubes in my room."

Jason just laughed as he was left on the screen. "See you later Death boy."

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