Chapter 11

Percy

Hunting down shadows wasn't that bad. Hunting down dark creatures that look human with strange powers is a different story. A few hours before sundown we started to notice that some of the shades were starting to take shape of their person.

Annabeth and I chased a crazy group of teens across the halls. Shadow Harry kept throwing these weird jinxes towards us. One turned Annabeth's hair blue. Another gave me rabbit ears.

"I'm getting sick of this." Annabeth grumbled. She threw her knife towards one of the shadows and it shot through two.

As soon as Annabeth 'killed' one the shadow that casted a spell on her, the spell faded away.

"That's great Annabeth, we found the counter curse" I said while I slashed a shadow in half.

After a few more minutes of finding shadows, we managed to get most of the shadows back to normal. Except for one with an unusually long beard. After something that looks like a smirk danced in his face he disappeared.

Annabeth and I heard a bell like sound that probably signals supper. Which means…

"We don't have much time." Annabeth said. "We have to go meet the others."

Annabeth and I went to the door of the Great Hall. Thankfully everyone was there…including Nico.

"Anyways so a total of one hundred and ninety nine shadows where caught and back into their bodies." Reyna said. "We just need one more. The thing is this one is tricky and we don't have much time."

"Whose?"

"Dumbledore." I said. "We don't have much time."

As if on cue, there was a scream from inside the Great Hall. We all stormed into the hall to meet chaos. The Shadow Dumbles started to call his own back up. Shadows, not as solid looking as the ones Nico summoned, started to attack the students and everyone in the Great Hall.

There were older students who had their wands out for attack, but none of them seem to affect the shadows.

"We have to do something" Reyna said then turned to everyone. "Attack as many of the shadows as you can. We have to find the source of these shadows."

"Kill the Head shadow." Nico suddenly said. "If you kill the head, the others will just disappear."

"Nico, Percy, Jason. You three look for the head." Reyna said. "He's somewhere in this mess. Find and conquer."

"Yes, Ma'am"

"Alright, Disperse and Kill."

Looking for the shadow is harder than it looks. I glanced at Nico beside me. He looked sick. The shadows around must be getting to his head. Confusing him.

"You okay?"

"Fine." He said. "There are too many of them for me to find the Head. We have to do it manually."

"Let's do it in another approach" Jason said beheading another shadow. "What is the difference of a magically summoned Shadow and that summoned by a Necromancer?"

"The ones summoned by the shadow are more translucent." Nico said.

"Got it." I said then pointed at the far corner of the Hall where a tall shadow stood. "There he is."

"Let's go." Jason said

The three of us Charged at the shadow, but it was as slippery as smoke. It kept phasing through everything and avoiding the sword.

"Nico." Jason said "We have to take it by surprise. Can you shadow travel fast enough to get it from behind?"

"Yeah." Nico said. "Keep it occupied."

Jason and I managed to keep it on us instead of it summoning more help. The students are still panicking as the shadows wrecked more havoc around the Hall. Even the teachers couldn't keep them occupied long enough.

"Where is Di Angelo?" Leo asked while beheading another shadow.

"He's here somewhere." Jason reassured.

The lights around the Hall started to flicker making everyone, including the shadows stop. The Head shadow was suddenly in attack mode. It started to summon more shadows and the teachers started to throw spells at the Head.

. At the wall behind the teacher's table was Nico. He was stuck on the wall like a weird version of Spiderman. A sudden battle cry caught everyone's attention He jumped off the wall and landed right on top of the Head Shadow. Nico was practically radiating power. The Great Hall started to fell cold all of the sudden.

"The Ghost King commands you all to return to your souls." He said simply then stabbed through the 'heart' of the head shadow. An ear splitting cry was heard from the Shadow then it soon dissolved through the ground.

Nico stood looking tired and about to fall over in exhaustion. We looked around and noticed the mess that was caused.

"What is it you are trying to do Dumbledore?" The minister said from behind. "I told you this was a bad idea. Inviting a Necromancer into the school. Aurors, arrest that boy!" The Aurors started to approach the Nico until I stepped in. I stepped in front of Nico blocking him from the Aurors.

"No." I said with authority "You might be the Minister of Magic, but Nico Di Angelo is with us."

"The boy holds a wand." The Minister contradicts. "He is a wizard, hence it he is to be punished for a crime."

"What crime?" Annabeth asked. "For being a Necromancer?"

"For practicing Dark Magic."

"Which is false" Annabeth said. "It is said in your laws it is wrong to practice the art. Yet the art you banned is Black Magic."

"There is no difference."

"There is a big difference." Lou Ellen interceded being the Magical Expert within the Demigods. "Black Magic is manifested by monsters, and demons, where as Black Magic is everywhere it resides in everyone."

"Rubbish."

"Then why are you able to create these curses that cause pain?" Lou countered. "This is part of Black Magic no matter what you say. Nico's powers are there since birth. It is inborn just like being a wizard."

"It is a curse."

"It is a gift." Lou said. "It is like speaking in Parseltongue. It is unusual and you would chalk it off as being evil. We demigods know Nico di Angelo. He has his moments, but he is just as powerful and just as good as Percy and Jason."

"This doesn't make a difference." The Minister said. "That boy possesses Dark Magic, and belongs in Azkaban. For practicing Dark Magic."

"He is not." A woman's voice suddenly said. She wore a long Silver robe with Alchemist symbols tattooed in her arms; she held a twin torch and was accompanied by a she-dog and a polecat. She had this aura that radiates Magic and had a face so young and ageless.

All of us Demigods bowed at the goddess while the wizards only looked at her in confusion.

"Lady Hecate."

The wizards were still confused other than the teachers and the Minister. Who bowed as well. The students unsure what to do, followed their teacher's example.

"Rise, my children." She said with a slight glare towards the minister who cringed. "What is all the commotion about?"

"Nico was about to be charged for Practicing Dark Magic." Lou Ellen said. "They say he is to be punished as a wizard for he holds a wand."

"Of course he holds a wand." Hecate said. "I gave that to him. He has my blessing due to my favor to Hades."

"So what is he?" The Minister said. "As a wizard, he has to be charged of the use of Dark Magic, just look at the havoc he had caused."

"You will do no such thing." Hecate said with a slight scold in her voice. "It is not wrong to practice an inborn talent. Whatever gave you such an idea?"

"But…"

"But nothing." Hecate said. "The Demigods of Camp Half Blood and Camp Jupiter were also charged with similar cases for being a witch or wizard. These are my children. They are part of the Camps like they are part of the Wizarding World. They molded your world, yet you act as if they cursed. Enough of this or before you know it your world will fall."

She looked around and frowned. And with a wave her hand, the plates started to return to its places, fallen candles mended and was again lit and floating in the air, table cloths were stitched back together and everything was back to normal.

"The Demigods here are guests. We could leave you to your war if we wanted to. One more step out of line, and you will regret it." Hecate said then disappeared in a bright light.

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