disclaimer: I don't own Percy or Harry

A.N. Sorry this chapter took so long, but I couldn't get it right and got stuck on it. But finaly I got it done.

Chapter 8: Finaly we make it to Azkaban.

Harry POV

We spent the night at my sister's center, I slept in the room I had woke up in. I had showered and changed my clothes. I put on a pair of dark blue jeans and a dark green t-shirt. (I had brought extra clothes with me) And now it was early morning and as far as I knew I was the only one up right now. I was sitting in a cafeteria eatting a bowl of cereal, and going over the blue prints of Azkaban. The sun was just rising casting a yellowsh-orange glow over the tree tops outside.

"At least you're up." Someone said and I looked up to see Clarisse tossing a bag into the seat infront of me, and then she sat down. (So maybe I wasn't the only one up.) She too had showered and changed, her brown hair was wet, and she now wore a blood red t-shirt with Ares Cabin written across the top. And a pair of blue jeans.

"Hey," I said. She glared at me.

"I just wroke di' Angelo." Clarisse said. "He wasn't to happy about it."

I snorted and went back to looking at the blue prints and took a bit of my cereal.

"Tyson, won't get up either." Clarisse went on.

"Did you try to wake my dad?" I asked, and Clarisse's face turned red, and mumbled something about leaving it up to me to do.

I looked up at her as I was about to put another spoon full of cereal in my mouth, and rised my eyebrow.

"What," she demanded as a naiad sat a bowl of cereal in front of her. I shook my head and smirked as I stuck the spoon in my mouth. If I didn't know any better I would say Clarisse has a little crush on Sirius. She ignored my smirk and turned to the naiad.

"I didn't say I wanted any cereal." She said, looking down at the weat cereal in degust. "I'm not even hungry."

"Sorry, but Eileithyia said you all had to eat something. before you leave." She said.

"Whatever." Clarisse said, waving her away. The naiad looked offened but kept her mouth shut and stormed off flapping her long seaweed looking hair behind her.

"You didn't have to be rude." I told her. "She's just doing her job."

"I don't care, I just want to go." Clarisse said. "We have a quest to finsh."

"I know that." I snapped. "And I also have a girlfriend to save."

Clarisse studied me for a moment before lowing her eyes to the bowl of cereal infront of her and pushed it away.

"What happen to your dog?" She asked. I looked up at her confussed for a moment then burst out laughing. Clarisse still didn't know Padfoot was Sirius. Clarisse just stared at me like I was crazy. But before I could tell her anything Nico came walking in and pulled a chair over from another table and sat down in it. He had what looked like a hand print on his face; he too had showered and changed. Now wearing black jeans, and a black t-shirt with a sliver skull and cross bone.

"What happen to you?" I asked, dropping my spoon in my bowl as the naiad came over and sat a bowl of cereal infront of him.

"Clarisse's wake up call." Nico explained. Then looked down at the cereal and turned green like he was going to be sick and pushed it away mumbling something about hating cereal and Demeter.

"Are you okay?" I asked. "You look like you might be sick."

Nico didn't answer but instead picked up the bowl of cereal and sat it on another table and turned back around.

"I'm fine now." He said. I just gave him a weird look and looked back at the blue prints.

"We should make it to Azkaban today," Nico said. "So we really need to come up with a plan."

"We don't need a plan." Clarisse said. "All we have to do is go in and attack."

"And get killed." Nico said. Rolling his eyes. Clarisse opened her mouth to say something, but I cut across her.

"Maybe Clarisse is right." I said. Making both Nico and Clarisse stare at me in surprise. "But even if we did just run in and attack we still need some kind of plan. But maybe an attack is what we should do. It will take them by surprise."

"I think you have been hanging around Clarisse too long." Nico said.

"No, it's a good idea." I argued. "My plans never work out anyway."

"But we just can't run in and attack, they out number us." Nico said.

"But they don't have a draken with them." I said. "And I'm pretty sure I can get her to help."

"Why didn't you tell me you spoke parsletounge?" Nico demanded suddenly. "We talked about parsletoungs once before and you never once said you were one."

I sighed dropped my spoon in the bowl and pushed the rest of my cereal away. "Way, do you think?" I asked. "You know what wizards think of people who can speak to snakes."

Nico nodded but still didn't look happy about me keeping it from him.

"Come on I'm sure there is things you never told me." I said. "I was just afaird I would loss my friends. It's happen before, when I was in my second year at Hogwarts the whole school, but Ron and Hermione thought I was the one attacking the other students becaues they found out I was parslemouth."

Clarisse snorted. "You're stupid if you think, Prissy would turn on you just becaues you can talk to snakes." I ignored her. Instead I watched Nico taking in what I said.

"I guess I can see your point." He finaly said. "But Harry I have no room to talk about anyone my father is Hades."

"I know I should of tursted you guys, but I'm just use to people turning on me for the stupidest things. You think last winter is the first time Ron has ever turned on me?" Nico shook his head. "Look, if it makes you feel any better you're the first one to find out, none of the others know."

"What about, Piper?" Nico asked. I shook my head.

"Never told her." I said. Looking down. Thats the only thing I've ever kept from Piper. I've always been too afaird that she would be degusted with me and dump me.

"You know Piper wouldn't dump you over that." Nico said. As if reading my mind "Your demigod friends won't care. Not all parslemouths are evil. It's just becaues a few were, the wizards suddeny think all parslemouths are."

"Forget all those wimps." Clarisse said. "Being a demigod is a lot better then some wizard."

I glared at her and went back to the blue prints. "I think we should just run in and attack, we have to plan a way that Piper dosen't get hurt in the cross fire, and I think we would take them all by surprise if a draken was to go crashing through the front of Azkaban."

Clarisse suddenly grined. "I like how you're thinking."

Nico glares at her then turned back to me. "Harry, think about it. We need to plan.

I looked up at him and smiled. "I think you're hanging around Annabeth to much." Nico rolled his eyes at me. As Sirius now came into the room.

"There you kids are." He said walking over and sittting down across from me next to Clairsse. Her face immdently turned red. And the naiad sat a bowl of cereal infront of him. He had showered and changed like the rest of us had, and was wearing black jeans, and a black Harley-Davidson t-shirt. Unlike the rest of us his hair wasn't wet. Leaving me to believe he used a dry charm on it.

"Thank you little lady." Sirius said and winked at her. The naiad's face turned red and she giggled. And I noticed Clarisse glare at her.

"Excuse me ma'am." I said to her. "May I get something to drink?"

The naiad giggled at my manners. "Sure, anyone else want anything." They all said they did and she hurried away.

"I see you looking over the blue prints there, are you guys planing?" Sirius asked. I nodded and told him what I came up with.

"Just wing it then." Sirius said nodding. "That's my favorite kind of plan."

"Am I the only one that thinks we need an actual plan." Nico demanded.

"I think I should get out my mirror and see if Annabeth is still at camp, and hasn't died." I said. "I think you're challenging her spirit." Nico rolled his eyes at me again. He seems to do that a lot. "We'll have a plan. We'll come up with an attack plan don't worry, I'm not that stupid."

Nico snorted at that as the naiad now sat glasses of soda pop in front of us.

"Oh, by the way. I saw Tyson." Sirius said. "He's in the nusrey and won't come out."

Nico rolled his eyes took one long drink of his soda; emtying half the glass and then sat it back down. "I'll go get him." He said and got up and left.

We sat in silance for a while as I drunk my pop and looked over the blue prints. I was trying to learn the lay out by heart so I would know right were to go to get Piper. Which is the first thing I was going to do once I got there.

"I'll be right back kiddo." Sirius said standing. "I'm going to go find the restroom." I nooded and Sirius got up and left.

"How is he your dad?" Clarisse asked. "He looks nothing like you, besides you both having black hair, and you're both wizards and are.." She suddenly stopped and turned red. "Anyways he looks nothing like you."

I looked at her over my glass and rised my eyebrow. "Both of us are what?"

"Nothing, just answer my damn question." Clarisse demanded. Her face turning even redder.

I rised my eyebrow even higher. "What no please Uncle Harry?" I teased her.

"What?" Clarisse yelled. "You're not my uncle, I'm not Valdez, I won't start going around calling you uncle. The gods don't have DNA so you don't count as an uncle.

I snickered it was so easy to get Clarisse all worked up. "Calm down I was just kidding." I took another drink of my pop. "I'm adopted."

"What?" Clarisse demanded.

"That's way I don't look like Sirius." I said. "He's not my birth father. He was my real dad's best mate. He just adopted me this past winter, before that I lived with my surrogate mum's sister and her family. Which we hated each other."

"Oh," Clarisse nodded and took a drink of her pop. "But what about your real dad."

"Dead," I said. "Both him and my surrogate mother was killed by Voldemort when I was one." We both fall silant for a while "Thats how I got this." I pulled my bangs back and showed her my scar. "It's from him trying to kill me." Clarisse looked at my sacr then look down at the table. I covered it back with my bangs.

"Who is Quirrell?" Clarisse suddenly asked after a long moment.

I stared at her for a moment, and I could tell by the look on her face she wasn't going to drop it, so I sighed and sat down my pop.

I took a deep breath then told her all about my first year at Hogwarts, from the time Hagrid came and got me from the hut on the lake, to meeting Ron and Hermione on the trian, to Halloween where we fought a troll, to finaly my fight with Quirrell. And how he just turned to dust after touching me. When I was done I looked down refussing to look at her, ashamed of what I did. Now that I knew I had killed Qurrell it bothered me made fell like somekind of killer. We both where quite for a long moment.

"Harry," Clarisse said, for the first time ever useing my name. It made me look up at her. "If you really did kill him, it's not your fault it's his. You had ever right to portect yourself at any cost. You fought him becaues he was trying to hurt you. Do you feel bad about the spiders we killed last night?" I shook my head. "Then don't feel bad about Quirrell's death, if he hadn't been doing what he was, he wouldn't of died, just remember that. You couldn't contral what you were doing anyway, you hadn't known then what you could do, so don't feel bad."

I looked down at my now emity glass and was silent for a while, Clarsse too turned away. I think she was just as shocked as I was for her trying to comfort me.

"I wish they all would hurry." I said, changing the subject. "I would like to leave already."

"Yeah," Clarisse ageered. "Today is the last day we have if we want to make it back to camp in time to help with the monster attack."

I nodded in agreement. "Yeah, plus I don't think Piper is going to last much longer at Azkaban."

"You know snakes is one of my father's animals." Clarisse said. "Venomes snakes anyway."

"Just one more reason to hate being parslemouth." I said. And Clarisse actully laughed. Then stopped when she realized what she was doing.

I gave a little smile at that. And folded up the blue prints and put them into my bag. As they all started coming back in.

"Everone ready." Sirius asked.

"Been ready." Clarisse grumbled and got up and grabed her bag.

I stood also and grabed hold of mine. I just wanted Piper back and hopfuly in time to go help camp with their attack.

"I will miss the babies." Tyson pouted I smiled and patted him on the back. I saw Clarisse roll her eyes. Me and her were not friends now, nor did I think we'll ever be, but as we looked at each other at that moment. I knew she didn't think of me as her enmey anymore. She didn't like me and I was far from ever likeing her, but I didn't hate her anymore, we were not friends, nor enmies. I guess you can say we were just two people on the same side of the war.

"Hang on," I said. Just as an idea poped in my head. Everone stopped and looked at me. And I smiled. "What if we do it bother ways." I asked. "What if we have a plan and run in and attack." I then explained my plan to them. They all agreed.

We all headed out and I thanked the naiad and I laid a few coins on the table. Before following the others out. We walked down the long hall, Nico and Clarisse arguing the whole way down. Intill we got to the door leading to the waiting room and walked through. I noticed Eileithyia was standing by the counter chatting with Maple. She looked up when the door gently shut togather.

"Harry," She smiled."I was hoping to see you before you left." She came over, and put her arm around my shoulder. "May I have a moment alone with my brother?" She asked the others.

"Umm..sure." Sirius said. "Come on kids, lets go wait outside." He told Nico and Clarisse, who both glared at him for being called a kid. But followed him out anyway, both knowing not to refuse a goddess.

Eileithyia led me over to one of the chairs and sat me down she then pulled another chair infront of me and sat down in it. She was silent for a moment.

"You were born here, did you know that?" She asked. I looked at her surprised and shook my head. "Yes, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a real slow night only a couple other mothers was here, and there was this huge storm going on outside. I was standing over by the counter talking to Laurel, the dyaid that worked behind the counter back then. When the door bursted open and Hera came in with a man and women. The women, who was Lily was having trouble giving birth to her baby, which later I found; she was carring Hera's child, and was just the surrogate mother." Eileithyia paused. " Both you and Lily nearly dead that night. Mother was frantic, she thought she had lost you, but both you and Lily pulled through. When I held you I couldn't help but adore you. You were such cute baby, with a head fall of messy black hair, and those bright green eyes. The whole center had to hold you, even some of the other mothers stopped by to take a look. I knew then you had Hades blood in you. I wondered what mother was thinking. What she had planed" Eileithyia pulled something out of her pockett. It looked to be some kind of picture.

"When I held you I didn't realize the pain you would go through in your life. I knew demigods didn't have good lives, but your life was way beyond curel. I don't think mother even realized how your life was going to be. You have a right to be happy for once. Which is way I'm going to tell you somthing to help you out later when the time comes, so you won't be heart broken." She paushed again and handed me the picture she pulled out of her pocket.

I looked down at it a little surprised. It was a muggle picture. Of Lily laying in a hospital bed. In what appaered to be the same room I slept in last night. Standing on the right side of the bed was James. Both him and Lily was smiling from ear to ear. Looking as if that was the happiest day of their life. What was the most shocking part of the picture was, Hera standing on the left side of the bed, and in her arms was a baby with a head full of messy black hair and wrapped in a blue blanket. She too was smiling real big as she looked not at the camera but at the baby in her arms.

"I took that picture the day after you were born." Eilethyia said. I looked up at her and went to hand it back but she shook her head. "It's yours keep it. After all they are are parents." She reached out and gently took a hold of my wrist. "Heracletius, listen to me very closely. I can only tell you this once, so remember Hades owes you a favor."

"What?" I demanded. "How dose Hades owe me a favor."

"You'll understand when the time is right." Eilethyia said. "I can't interfere directly; I can only tell you this. When the time is right...not now.. and not soon...but not too long away. But when the time is right you'll know when that time is. Believe me..but when the time comes ask your friend Nico about a soul for a soul and rememeber what I said about Hades oweing you a favor."

"I don't understand what you mean." I said. Eilethyia stood grabed my arms gently and pulled me to my feet. She then put her hands on my cheeks.

"You will when the time is right." Eileithyia said. "I'm no seer, but I do sometimes talk with Apollo. And he showed up here last night when he learned you were here. He knew this would be the only chance he had to get someone to warn you. A lot of the other gods thinks Apollo is an idoit, jokes around to much and cares about no one but himself. But that is not true. I for one knows he cares deeply for his childern and those that he thinks of as friends. And can be smarter then he lets on." Eileithyia took a breath. " You are my brother, and I care deeply for you and do not wish for you to suffer that kind of pain, it's not fair. Your life has been painful enough. Apollo has taken a liken to you and sees you as a friend, so he told me of what is to come. I do not want to scare you." She added noticing the fear in my eyes. "But just remember when the time is right ask Nico about a soul for a soul."

"But how will I know when it is the right time?" I asked.

"Believe me little brother you'll know." Eilethyia said. "Do not worry, it's not anytime during this quest, but it.. it is not yet set in stone. It can be changed and after this war you can be happy, Just remember that."

I nodded and sliped the picture into my bag, and she let me go and led me to the door.

Eileithyia suddenly smiled. "And if it all works out the way I hope. I could be be visiting you and Piper in about three years."

I opened my mouth to ask what she meant, but the door opened and Nico came back in.

"Are you two about through?" He asked. "Clarisse is driving me crazy."

Eileithyia and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. "Childern of Ares can be so impatient." She mumbled and I smiled. I put what she had said to me out of my head as I followed Nico out the door; I did wonder about the soul for a soul and what Nico knew. I had this feeling when I asked him he wasn't going to be to happy about it.

"About time, Brit." Clarisse said. I rolled my eyes. And passed her to walk over to Draca who had been watching us.

"Are you ready to take us now?" I asked her in parsletounge.

"Yes," She said, "But dose the daughter of Ares really have to come with us?"

"Afraid so buddy." I told her. "It's kinda her quest."

"Fine, just make sure none of them get any mud on me while climbing on."

I snorted then turned to the others. "She's ready to take us now, just don't get any mud on her."

Draca laid down on her belly so it would be easier for us to climb on and we did so. Me being the one sitting behind her head.

"Draca, if you don't mind there is one more favor I need to ask you." I told her.

"Of coures," Draca said standing. "Anything for my new friend."

"Thank you." I said. "I don't know how I could ever repay you for all your help."

"There is no need, little talker." Draca said. "You saved my life, I have no dought those spiders would of killed me if you hadn't come back out."

"It was the right thing to do." I told her.

"And you gained a life long friend." Draca said. "Hold on tight now, little talker." I held on to her neck best I could as she walked down toward the ocean. Then she got in it. She swum like a snake across the water. On the way there I explained to her what I wanted and she quikly agreed anything for her little talker, she had said.

After that we didn't talk anymore. As we made our way to Azkaban. It took all day, but just as the sun was sitting over the herizon casting a redsh-orange glow over a rocky island. The feared prison came into view.

When we got closer I leaned forward and talked to Draca

"Nico and I will be jumping off soon." I told her.

"Are you sure, Little talker?" She asked. And I'm pretty sure I heard concern in her voice. I couldn't help but smile a little.

"Yeah, someone will have to take care of them." I pointed up a head where there was dozens of dementors flying all around. Along with about seven death eaters; the whole island was light up from the death eaters castinh their patronus, trying to keep the dementors away from thim.

"All right, but you tell that friend of yours that if anything happens to you I will hold him responsible." Draca warned.

"Draca, you will not hurt Nico if anything happens to me." I said. "It won't be his fault."

"Whatever." Draca said.

"You know to be a giant snake." I said. "You're such a drama queen."

"I'm not a giant snake." She argued. "I'm a draken, and I'm not a drama queen either."

After that we all sat there in silance into we came up on the the island. I leaned forward and wispered to Draca.

"Draca, remember what I said." I told her. "Once me and Nico jump off give us ten mintues before crashing through the bulding. The others well jump of a few mintues after we do"

"Nico and I." Draca said.

"What?" I asked.

"You are suppose to say Nico and I." Draca said. "Not me and Nico."

I rolled me eyes. "Whatever." I couldn't believe I was getting lectured on grammar by a giant snake.

Finaly we reached the island and I looked behind me at Nico we both nodded and stood. Then at the same time we jumped into the water. Then swum to sore.

We snuck up over to a large wall all the death eater and dementors was on the other side. We stood on either side of the gate. Nico and I both looked at each other then nodded.

I pulled out my wand twisted it to the left, it grow into a staff. Nico drew his sword and togather we slammed the ground. It started shaken as more then a dozen skeletons formed. I then waved my hand and wizard robs appeared on five of them. We then sent them marching though the open gates.

"POTTER," a death eater yelled. "I see Potter and his friends are here." I smiled it seemed my little plan was working

"Is that skeletons." Someone yelled. Then spells begin to fly as the death eater tried to curse the skeletons thinking it was us. But as they were doing other spells it went dark as their patronus fadded away. Just what I wanted. They were now being attack by both skeletons and dementors. Now we could take them by surprise and hopefuly take care of all the death eaters out here before going inside.

"NOW," I yelled. And Sirius, Clarisse and Tyson came out from their hiding place. We all ran through the gate our weapons held up.

I put my sword through the first dementor I saw, then use my patronus to blast another one away. I also stuned a few death eaters, but I mainly fighting the dementors. That was me and Nico's job, keep them away from the others so they can fight the deather eaters.

Just a few feet away Clarisse was doing an easy job off fighting off death eaters without needed magic. She was good at avoiding whatever spell they through at her or blocking it with a sheld she had brought with her. She rolled and dodged out of the way of spells. And would bash death eaters in the head. Sometimes their own spell would bounce off her sheld and right back at them.

Not far from her I saw Tyson knocking dementors left and right with his big stick like you would a baseball. And any spell a death eater through at him would just bounce back off his tough skin.

Sirius was laughing as he fought death eater, after death eater winning ever duel that came at him. He looked as if he was having fun. He even chased off a few dementors with a large silver dog patronus.

Nico wasn't even paying any attention to the death eaters, he was taking out dementor after dementor with his sword. Rolling and sometimes jumping over rocks to get to them at one time he used the back off a falling death eater, that was just getting back up, as a spring broad to jump in the air and put his sword right though one. He had this wild look in his black eyes.

Me, I would put my sword through a dementor with one hand and blast a death eater with magic out of my other hand. I jumped, dodged, jumped over or rolled under them. We were really kicking their buts, and it was just five of us to their ten death eaters and dozens of dementors.

Then just as we took care of the last demetors and the death eater had run to take off inside Azkaban, the ground started to shake we all got out of the way and found something to hold on to as Draca went running by and didn't stop as she ran right through the front of the prison.

The whole front of the prison was no more and old stones laid everwhere. I glanced at everone to make sure we were all right. Clarisse actully had a smile on her face, she was really injoying this battle. So was Sirius, sometime I wonder if Azkaban didn't make him a little crazy or if he just liked acting like he was.

"Everone ready?" I asked they all nodded. I pulled out the knife Sirius gave me a couple years ago, the one I used to kill Lycaon with and handed it to Clarisse. She would use it to unlock Thanatos chains after fighting her way to him. We all stood side by side. Held our weapons up. I could hear screams coming from inside as Draca was destoring the place. I smiled I had told Draca to find Piper's cell rip the door off and get her. With Piper in Draca's hand, Voldemort would't have anything over me, and I can make him pay for kidnapping Piper. I may not be able to kill him yet, but I was going to hurt him.

"Remember." Sirius said. "If Wormtail is here, he is mine."

"And Voldemort mine." I said. With that we all begin to walk toward Azkaban. Where screams and shouts was being heard. Bangs and sounds of the bulding being destoried. After I had Piper back and Clarisse set Thanatos free. I had deicded to give Sirius a late father's day gift, by making sure this prison was no longer standing by the time we left.

A.N. I just wanted to let you know nothing is going to come with Clarisse little "Crush" on Sirius. J.k. put a lot into the fact he was suppose to of been very handsome before Azkaban and since I have gave Sirius his looks back, I thought it would be kind of funny if even someone like Clarisse fell for him and blushed ever time he was near her. And in case you were wondering after he saves Piper and helps with the attack at camp it will not be the end of the story. Harry will be sent on one more quest before it ends. That way the story won't be too short. And I should have the next chapter up in the next few days.