Disclamer: Don't own Harry Potter or Percy Jackson
A.N. I got done with this chapter so I thought I would go ahead and post it since it's been a while since I posted anything. Hope you like it.
Chapter 14: I learn just how curel my mother can be.
Piper's POV.
It started raining almost immediately after we started walking down the street, Harry put his hood over his head, just as I put my jacket back on. I didn't know about Harry, but I was cold, my hands where freezing so much I Iet go of Harry's hand and put mine in my coat pockets.
Harry was chatting about something, I wasn't really paying attention, I had my mind on something else. I knew the story of Lamia. I have read it a few times. Lamia was once a beautful queen of Libya, and also once a lover of Zeus, Hera had gotten jealous and turned Lamia into a half-serpent and half-human, child eaten daemon, and forced her to devour her own childern, and was cursed with the inability to close her eyes, so she would obsess over the images of her dead childern, then Zeus granted her the ability to remove her eyes so she could get sleep. And Lamia begin to attack and snatch up people's childern and devour them. I think it is the worse thing Hera ever did to a lover of Zeus, curel for even Hera.
I didn't want to tell Harry, becaues I knew it would crush him, he has gotten so close to Hera since finding out she was his mother, and it was all so long, very long ago, why bring it up and hurt him . I saw how Harry took the story of Hercules, mainly the part where Hera made Hercules go crazy and kill his wife and kids, he was depressed for a week after reading about it. Harry was such a good guy, he's never done anything to anyone, well, besides Voldemort's death eaters, but knowing his mother could do such alful things really got to him. I couldn't blame him, I have gotten upset by some of the things my mom did in the old myths. But Harry really took it bad, family meant so much to him. I knew I would sooner or later have to tell Harry the story, but not right now. later maybe.
"Piper, did you hear me." Harry said. I looked up to noticed he had stopped right infront of me I even almost walked into him. "You alright, you seem miles away."
"I'm fine," I answered. "So, what was it you said." Harry looked my face over with his green orbs, I could tell he didn't believe me, but didn't push it.
"I just pointed out, we don't know where to look or go." Harry said. He ran his hand through his soaken wet hair, I hadn't realized he had took his hood off.
I frowned, I hadn't realized that we didn't know where to look. "I suggest we find somewhere to get out of the rain." I said. "Then find a town and poke around see if there is any missing person's poster or talk about kids disappearing and go from there." I reached up and put Harry's hood back on his head, last thing we needed was for him to get sick.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Harry nodded his head, then looked around and took the hood back off his head. "But I don't know where we could go to get out of the rain." I frowned and looked around myself, he was right, there was nowhere. Just the road and the woods.
"I guess we walk to town now." I shrugged, not looking forward to that long walk in the rain. I really hope nither of us get sick from this. Sometimes I think the gods give us bad weather when we're on a quest just to make it that much harder.
Before Harry turned back around I reached up and put his hood back on his head, then we started walking again, silently. I had no idea at all how we were going to find Lamia, this was going to be hard. Why can't it ever be easy.
"Are you still mad at me?" Harry suddenly asked very quietly, I almost didn't hear him.
"What?" I asked. I didn't rememeber being mad at him, well besides this morning when he chased me out of bed before the sun had even came up.
"Are you still mad from when I snapped at you, back at the mall." Harry asked. "Is that why you're not talking." I sighed, that's what he was talking about, I wasn't really mad at him back there, yeah it hurt a little when he snapped at me like he did, but I only walked away becaues I didn't really know what to say to him. I knew I wasn't going to tell him about Lamia, but I couldn't come up with a reason I could give him, so I walked off.
"No, I wasn't really mad at you anyways." I said. "I just...I have no idea how to kill Lamia, or even find her, why can't any of this ever be easy."
Harry smiled, pulled, and pulled me to him. "I wondered that samething myself." He rubbed my back. "I left my mirror behind, so I wouldn't give in and call Annabeth and ask her for help, or Percy to come fight some monster with me. I don't know why we couldn't bring anyone else with us. It would be easier if we could of." He shook his head knocking his hood back off.
"I know," I said. "I kinda of wish we did anyway." Harry nodded then pulled away and looked ahead, where Marauder was standing, I don't know what he thought to Harry, but it made him roll his eyes.
"Come on, before Marauder melts." Harry said, and we started on our way again. But not before I put his hood back on his head.
It took a good hour-hour and a half to finaly reach a town, it was small and almost old timey like, but at least we made it, but of course the moment the town came into view it stopped raining, and Harry and I where soaked to the bone. I was even colder then before, even though it wasn't really cold out, a little chillie maybe, but not cold.
It was one of those little towns where most people knew each other, so we were getting a lot of stares, but at least it was for being strangers, not becaues I was Tristen McLean's daughter or that Harry was the-boy-who-lived.
I glanced at my watch, then frowned. "What time would it be, my watch would have New York time." I asked. "Here would have a differnt time wouldn' t it?" Harry nodded.
"Yeah," Harry said. "But I'm not sure what time it would be here. What time dose your watch have.?"
I looked back at my watch. "It's nine in New York." I told him.
"Maybe we can find a clock or ask someone what time it is." Harry said.
"No, thats okay." I said. "It dosn't really matter."
We found a little diner and went in, we walked straight to the bathrooms, where after Harry handed me a change of clothes from our bag, I went into the women's bathroom and he went into the man's. I changed out of my wet clothes into the dry ones Harry had gave me which were: black skinny jeans and a red t-shirt .He even gave me dry socks to put on and after doing so I went out and stood waiting for Harry, he came out of the guy's bathroom just a mintue after me. He had changed into jeans and a long sleeve green shirt. I handed him my wet clothes, he did a dry spell on them then shoved them in his bag. He even dryed my jacket for me. Then I put my bow in the bag so no one could see it, but I left my dagger on myside.
We walked back to the front and found a table, we ordered some food, then decussed what we were going to do about Lamia. We couldn't really come up with much more then attacking her when she had her eyes out, but we had no idea when that would be. So in the end we decided to trick her into coming after us, after all she was davouring kids, being only sixteen, we still count as kids.
After we ate, Harry paid using british money I didn't know he had, and we left. We hung around town, going in and out of shops actting like we were tourist doing a little window shopping, listening to the town's people talking and reading noitces and posters hung up on the shop walls. We found we were in the right place, sadley a few kids have gone missing from here. After a little more listening we realized they were all last saw walking down the very road we walked here from, so after a few hours and it begin to get dark and shops begin to close, we bought a few sandwiches from the diner and headed back down the road. We had decided to find somewhere there in the woods off from the road and come up with a plan, and tomorrow we would shearch for Lamia.
When we got to the edge of town we met back up with Marauder where Harry had told him to stay and wait. We turned off the road and went far into the woods, where we found a clearing and Harry used magic to put up a tent he had brought with him, and got out our sleeping bags. All of us got in the tent and Harry handed out the sandwiches. Mine was a coby cheese sandwich, no meat, Harry had ham and cheese.
"So, come up with any plan to what we are going to do?" Harry asked. Then took a bit out of his sandwich.
"I guees we either search for her or try to drew her out to us somehow." I said. Harry frowned.
"How about we search for her first, then if we can't find her we try to lull her out." He looked down at Marauder, "Shut up, I don't see you coming up with anything." Marauder just went on eatting the large ham Harry and bought from a butcher for him.
After we ate I laid down and put my head in Harry's lap. Marauder had already gotten done eaten and Harry was going to take first watch, he ran his hand through my hair and before I knew it I was alseep.
The next morning we got up and packed up camp and begin our search. We didn't talk much as we looked all over the woods and in caves for any sign of anything proving Lamia was learking around, we searched all day, stopping only to eat and then look more, we didn't find her anywhere nor could we lull her out, but we did come across a few places that looked as if she or at least something had been living there, and by the small bones that was laying around we figured it was her. By the time night came we had to find another spot in the woods to set up camp.
The next day I suggest not to go out and look into it had gotten real late, Harry agreed, so when night came we went out and searched again. We were real deep in the woods when suddenly we heard a tree branch snap, Harry stopped and threw his arm out infront of me and I stopped. Marauder did too, we waited a few mintues, and then this monster that was women from the waist up and serpent from the waist down jumped out at us. We had found Lamia or more like she had found us.
"Childern shouldn't wander in the woods so late at night." Lamia said. She had somewhat of a hiss to her voice mostly when she said something with a S or C sounding S in it.
"Lamia?" Harry asked, twisting his wand into a sword. Lamia's eyes fell to the sword then to my dagger I had pulled out.
"Demigods." Lamia hissed showing long blood stained fangs, then licked her lips.
"That's right," Harry said."We've been sent here to stop you." He stepped forword and swung his sword, but Lamia moved too quickly and dodged, then came up with a claw and slashed Harry's arm, Harry cried out, but still was able to move out of the way from her other claw and came up with his sword and got Lamia across the face, she cried out and grabed her cheek. She then reached out and tried to slash at Harry again, I ran forwad and stabbed her in the side, she cried out and back handed me in the face, I fall to the ground and Lamia came at me, and slashed my shoulder with her claws. I screamed out in pain. Marauder roared and jumped forword and knocked Lamia to the ground, he then snapped at her throat, but Lamia just batted him away with her claws and Marauder was knocked away.
Harry ran forward and got Lamia in her other side with his sword, she screeched out in pain turned around and grabed him by the shirt and lifted him up and slammed him into a tree. Harry fell down on to the ground hard. She came at him, with her fangs barred, like she was going to rip his thoart out with them, I jumped up to stop her when she suddenly paused and sniffed Harry, her eyes widen.
"You belong to her." She hissed. "You are a child of hers, of Hera." I graabbed Harry's bag up off the ground and got out my bow and arrows.
"Yeah, so," Harry said, looking up at her confussed. "What's my mother got to do with anything?"
"What's she got to do with anything?" Lamia hissed. She picked up Harry and slamed him into the tree again this time she didn't let him fall to the ground, but held him up. "She did this to me, turned me into this-this thing, all becaues Zeus loved me, I was once a beautful queen, I may look like a monster, but Hera is the real monster, she made me eat my own kids." She let go of Harry and let him drop to the ground. "So, I'm going to devour hers."
Harry stared at her with shock on his face, damn I should of told him. But I didn't figure on Lamia blaming her mouth or finding her so soon.
"Y-you're lieing." Harry stumbled out, but I could tell by the tone in his voice that he believed her. "Not even my mother could be that curel." Lamia just laughed, and before I knew it she went at Harry with her claws, slashing his chest, back, arms anywhere she could, but Harry fought her off, just as much as she got him. I was so shocked I couldn't move, so I just watched as she bent down and took a big chunk out of his leg and he screamed pain, I've never heard Harry scream out like that, no matter how much pain he was in. She then picked him up and slammed him into the tree again, this time she tightened her hand around his thoart choking him. Marauder roared and tried to jump on her again, but she just knocked him away like a toy.
"Stop, please." I cried, "Harry." I watched as Harry tried to pull her hands off his thoart and his legs were kicking, and when I saw his face turning blue I jumped into action, I dropped my bow and ran at Lamia and jumped on her back and held onto her neck. Lamia dropped Harry to the ground, and started swinging me around. I reached up and grabbed her eyes and pulled them out. Yes gross I know, but it was the only thing I could think of. Lamia cried out and knocked me off her, I fell hard to the ground right next to my bow, and her eyes fell from my hands.
"My eyes." Lamia cried. "Give them back."
I picked up my bow and pointed it right at her chest, and let loose an arrow, it got Lamia in the chest, she cried out, and took a step toward me, so I pointed another arrow at her, but never got the chance to let go of it, Harry had got to his feet, came up from behind her, raised his sword and sliced off Lamia's head with one go. It fell to the ground with a thump, then after a second her body fell next to it then turned to dust. I looked at Harry, his eyes was a dark forst green, he was covered in his own blood, he stumbled a little on his hurt leg, as he stood there looking at Lamia's eyes, which was the only part of her that hadn't turned to dust.
Without a word, Harry knelt down and took out a few napkins and picked up Lamia's eyes with them, he then dropped them down in a paper bag and then put them in his pocket and stood there all without saying a word to me. He then looked right in my eyes and asked.
"Is it true?" I didn't answer, but just stared back at him, "Is it true?" Harry demanded again. I saw the desperation in his eyes, the hope that I would say no, along with pain from both his wounds and the fact his mother could do such a thing. But I couldn't lie, I should of already told him the truth, it would of been a lot easier coming from me then the monster it's self.
"Piper, just tell me." Harry said.
"Yes," I whispered.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Harry demanded, almost yelling. I looked down to the ground, then back up at him.
"Becaues I knew it would hurt you." I said.
Harry said nothing he just turned around and walked away limping becaues of his leg. Marauder jumped up from where he had been laying and followed after him. And after a mintue I sighed, picked up Harry's bag and followed them.
A.N. No Harry isn't mad at Piper if you're worried about that, he's upset that Hera could be that curel. Sorry they found her so soon, but there will be more to finding the sword then just her, and in a couple chapters they'll have to take an unexpected detour. And yes they most likely will end up having a battle there. I'll have the next chapter up in the net few days. Sorry if it was kinda of short, but it's the best I could do. Hope the fight was good.