Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter.
A.N. Not much happens in his chapter so I went a head and posted the next chapter too.
Chapter Two: We got the wrong locket.
Harry's POV
I don't remember how I made it home or how I didn't fall off Buckbeak. The last thing I remember was taking off right after Percy helped me up on Buckbeak. I then blacked out. And the next thing I knew I was waking up in my living room on our red leather couch with Sirius standing over me glaring down. He looked both worried and mad. And my pet lion Marauder was licking my face.
"Water." I choked ou,t pushing Marauder away. "I need some water." My head was killing me and my throat felt as if it was on fire.
"Are you sure you don't want a potion instead." Sirius asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Dad," I groaned. I knew he was going to be mad that I didn't tell him where I was going.
"I thought I was." Sirius said. "But you don't seem to think I have a right to know where my son is going. And you lie to me about it. What if you had got yourself killed."
"Sirius," Someone that was standing off to the side said. "You have every right to be mad at him. I'm just as mad at Percy, but wait into he's not sick to yell at him."
Sirius sighed and ran his hand through his hair. I looked over to the side to see who it was, and saw Sally Jackson, Percy's mum standing there. I turned back to Sirius.
"Would you please get me some water." I asked. "My head is killing me and my throat burns."
"You wouldn't feel that way if you didn't go around drinking unknown potions." Sirius said. But his glare had soften and he went over to the small kitchen area to get me a glass of water.
The living room in our apartment wasn't too big. But it wasn't what you would call small. We had enough room for a couch. And matching chair and love seat. There was also a small wooden coffee table. We had a fireplace. Next to the fireplace sat a book shelf. Not much hung on our walls: over the love seat hung a Gryffindore banner. Over the fireplace hung a tapestry with the Potter family crest. On either side of the big window behind me hung two pictures. One was of Sirius, my dad and Lupin. When they were in their seventh year at Hogwarts. (Taken by Wormtail so thankfully he's not in it) The other was of Ron, Hermione and I. Taken in second year.
On the mantel sat three picture: My parent's wedding photo sat in the middle. The one on the left of that picture was of me, Piper, Annabeth, Percy, Jason, Nico, and Leo. Taken at camp. And the one on the right was a picture of Me and Sirius right when we first moved in here.
On the book shelf was a few magic books. On the very top of the shelf was glass figures of: a stag, a doe, a dog, and a wolf. On the second shelf sat a picture of me and Piper. On either side of the picture sat glass figures of a dove and a hawk. On the third shelf was glass figures of an eagle, an owl, a skull, a horse, and a hammer. They were Sirius's idea. He said we would add one for everyone that becomes close to us.
There was a little kitchen area connected to the livingroom it was like one big room. Separated only by a few cabinets, and a counter. No walls or anything.
While Sirius was getting my water. I looked around. The only other person here besides Sirius and Ms. Jackson was Nico. He sat in Sirius's leather chair that matched the couch watching me silently.
"Where's Percy?" I asked.
"He went to camp to get you some nectar." Ms. Jackson answered. "None of you had any."
"Sit up, pup." Sirius said. As he came back over and I sat up and he handed me my water. I drunk it all down in one drink. It felt smoothing on my throat, but it still burned and my head was still hurting.
"How long was I out?" I asked.
"You've been here an hour, and was already out cold when Percy carried you in here." Sirius said. Sitting down next to me. "Before that I don't know." He ruffled my hair. "You really scared the hell out of me."
"Sorry," I said. Sirius gave me a one arm hug as the door opened and Percy came walking in. followed by a worried looking Annabeth. She walked right over to me and hit my arm as hard as she could.
"Och," I said, rubbing my arm. "Why did you hit me?"
"Because, Piper isn't here to do it." Annabeth said. "How stupid can you get. Going around drinking potions when you don't even know what they are."
I looked to Percy for help and he just smirk as he handed me a flisk of nectar.
"Don't look at me." He said. "She already laid into me for not letting her know. It's your turn." I glared at him as I took a drink of the nectar. My throat stopped burning at once and my headache started fading away.
"You can't keep things like this from your girlfriend." Annabeth said, now glaring at Percy.
"Or your parents." Sirius and Ms. Jackson said at the sametime. Sirius turned to Ms. Jackson and winked. She blushed right down to her roots.
Sirius has changed a lot since we moved here. He cut his hair up to his shoulders, he shaved his beard off. And the haunting look in his eyes was gone. He looked almost like he did in the picture of the Potter wedding. Just a little older. But he had his handsome looks back. His dark gray eyes was once again dancing with mischief. A smile hardly ever leaves his face. And he dressed like a muggle biker. Always wearing jeans and t-shirts. Mostly Harley-Davidson t-shirts. And black leather motorcycle boots. He had this leather wallet that had a small chain hanging from it that went up and hooked to the belt hoop on his jeans. And he wore a black leather Harley-Davidson jacket wherever he went.
"Did you say you had the Horcrux?" Annabeth asked Percy. He nodded.
"Let me see it." Annabeth said. Holding out her hand.
Percy pulled it out of his jacket pocket and drooped it in her palm. She looked it over frowning.
"It seems so normal." She said. "Like there isn't a piece of Voldemort soul in it."
"I still can't believe someone that's suppose to be such a big bad Dark Lord can be such a sissy." Percy said.
Percy and Leo thought it was funny. That Voldemort kept a diary, and made Horcruxes out of a locket, a ring, and a diadam. (Girly crown is what Percy and Leo called it.) We hadn't found any of the other things yet. But Nico was digging around trying to find out where they are. Voldemort has also used a goblet and his snake Nagini to make two more Horcuxes.
"Percy," Ms. Jackson said. He just grinned at her. And I laughed a little at what Percy said.
Annabeth sat down next to Percy and was still looking at the locket and frowning.
"Something Wrong, Beth?" I asked her. She looked up at me then back down at the locket.
"It's just you would think you would feel it." Annabeth said.
"Feel what?" Percy asked her.
"I don't know. Magic, his soul or something." Annabeth said."Or at least it should make you feel all eerie when you hold it."
"Beth," Percy said. "Maybe its becaues you're not a child of Hades."
"Here, Nico, see if you feel anything." Annabeth tossed the neckless to Nico he caught it and immdently frowned.
"This isn't the Horcrux." Nico said. "Percy, are you sure didn't hand Annabeth the wrong locket."
"Yeah, because I carry around girly lockets." Percy said, rolling his eyes. "That was the locket that was in the basin. It has to be the right one."
"It's not." Nico said. "I sense no soul in it." Nico turned to me. "Harry, do you." Nico tossed the locket to me and I caught it.
Before I looked at it I said. "You're the son of Hades. Not me. I'm just his great-great-great-grandson. If you can't feel a soul in it. I'm not going to."
I might have a "gift" from Hades through the Potter bloodline. I could banished people, monsters, and giants to any part of the underworld. I could also make skeleton appear out of the ground like Nico. But he was much better at sensing death and souls and things like that.
I looked down at the locket and I didn't need to not sense a soul to know it wasn't the right one.
"Nico's right." I said. "This isn't the right one." I held it up "There isn't a snake S on the front." I stood up suddenly mad. "Damn it" I threw the lock across the room. "All of that was for nothing. I drunk the potion for nothing. I feel like hell and it was all for nothing."
"Calm down, kiddo." Sirius said.
"Calm down," I yelled. "How the bloody hell can I calm down." I walked around the coffee table and to the other side of the room. I begin to walk back and forth. I was just so mad. We went to the cave and I had to drink the potion and it was all for nothing.
"I agree with Harry," Percy said. He too looked mad. "How can we stay calm. We went to the cave. Harry drunk the potion, and it was for noting. He suffered for nothing. We were attacked by Zombies for crying out loud. And it wasn't even the real locket all a long. This is bullshit."
"Percy, watch your mouth." Ms. Jackson said.
I kept walking back and forth. Trying to keep my temper down. I walked past the locket then picked it up. Thinking I might throw it again. But it popped open and a note fell out. I picked it up to read. But couldn't make it out. The handwriting was too fancy.
I handed it to Sirius. "Whats that say it was in the locket."
Sirius took the note, and frowned. "It says someone found out about the Horcrux and they took it to destroy it. Hoping when Voldemort meets his match he will be mortal again. And it's signed RAB."
"R.A.B." Annabeth said. "Who's RAB?"
"Don't know any RAB." I said. Trying to think.
"I do," Sirius said. "My brother Regulus.
"The one that was a Death Eater?" I asked.
"That,s the only brother I had." Sirius said."This is his handwriting, and he always signed his letters R.A.B. instead of using his full name."
"But what did he do with the Horcrux." I asked. "Did he destroy it."
"And how do we find out." Percy said. Frowning then his eyes widened. "Sirius, did your brother look like you?"
"Yeah, somewhat. Had the same eyes and the same hair." Sirius said. "Why?"
"Because, when I was down in the lake." Percy said. "There was this one dead dude that grabbed my ankle and he looked somewhat like you."
"So, if Regulus is in the bottom of the lake then the real Horcrux is down there." I said. "He wouldn't have made it off the island. So we have to go back." I didn't like that idea one bit.
"No, maybe not." Ms. Jackson said. "It took all three of you to get that locket. So he might have had help from somebody, and that somebody might of took the Horcrux."
"But who could that have been." I asked, sitting back down. "And did they destroy it? If not where is it?"
"Good question." Percy said. I glared at him.
"We're no closer than destroying Voldemort then we were months ago." I said. "I thought if we got to destroy the locket it would be at leat one Horcrux down. But now it's not the right locket. Now we don't only have to find the other Horcruxes, and we find a way to get to the snake and now find out what happened to the real locket Horcrux."
"Maybe we should find the others first then come back to this one." Percy said.
"It'll still take too long maybe even bloody years." I said. "And by then Gaea will be full awake and then we would have worse things to worry about then finding parts of Voldemort's soul."
Annabeth's eyes suddenly widen and she jumped up real fast making Percy look at her like she had lost her mind. And Marauder took her spot and laid his head in Percy's lap.
"It was there." Annabeth said.
"What was where?" Percy asked. Petting Marauder on the head.
"At Grimmauld place." Annabeth said. "I touched it. We all touched it."
"Touched what." Percy demanded. "Wise Girl, you're not making any sense." Marauder moved off him and curled up in ball to go to sleep.
Annabeth ignored him came over and sat down on the coffee table in front of me.
"Remember last summer when we were at Grimmauld place." She said. "We were cleaning out this old wardrobe and I found a gold locket. It wouldn't open. Remember everybody tried to open it."
"I remember that." Sirius said. "It had a snake on the front I believe."
"Bloody hell." I cried, remembering it. "We threw that away. Along with everything else."
"Now, how are we going to find it?" Percy demanded.
"Hang on." Sirius said. "Kreature kept a lot of that stuff. Maybe he kept the locket. I'll talk to him the next order meeting I go to."
"I hope so," I said. "If it was even the right locket."
"One way to find out." Nico said. "I could go to the underworld and see if I can find him and ask."
Next to me Sirius shivered. And I smiled a little. Whenever Nico talked about talking to the dead it crept him out.
"That would be a good idea." I said. "If you can find him try to get the whole story."
"I'll go now." Nico said. Then he disappeared into the shadows.
"That boy is creepy." Sirius said. "I like him. But he's creepy."
"You just have to get use to him." Percy said. Shrugging.
"It's getting pretty late so I think Percy and I should go on home." Ms. Jackson said. Percy turned to Annabeth.
"Would you like to spend the night, Wise Girl." Percy asked. "So, you won't have to travel back to camp so late. You can take Blackjack back to camp in the morning. Harry and I won't be coming to camp for a couple more days."
"Right when Piper will be coming back from her dad's." I said. Smiling. I missed her so much right now. Sure we talked a lot through the magic mirror I had Leo make her. Being demigods it wasn't a smart idea to use phones, and her dad being a muggle wasn't a good idea to owl her. Besides Hedwig was at camp being used by Jason to send Ginny Weasley letters.
"You're welcome to spend the night." Ms. Jackson said. "But if you do. Percy, that means you sleep on the couch. And no sneaking off to your room once you think I'm a sleep. I don't want to wake up tomorrow morning to find you not on the couch like last time Annabeth spent the night."
"Yes, ma'am." Percy said. But he had this mischievous look in his eyes and he was smirking.
All three of them said goodnight then left. I went on to bed not long after that. I wasn't feeling very good. But it was hard to fall asleep. I tossed and turned. I couldn't shake this weird feeling I had got all of a sudden. A feeling that something was wrong. Something to do with Piper.
A.N. Hope the chapter was all right. Sorry it was short, but I had to get them finding out the locket was fake out-of-the-way. The Next chapter starts it going toward the main plot of the story. And you find out way Harry will be willing to go on a quest with someone he can't stand.
