Discliamer" I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter.
Chapter 20: Harry gets blown away.
Leo's p.o.v.
We got half way across the lot when the ground decided it was hungry for demigods and wizards, and we started sinking ankle-deep into the ground. I mean we could barely move. And to top that the wind started blowing real heard, blowing dust and dirt all around, so it was kinda heard to tell where we were going, so I kept my eyes on the person in front of me, which happened to be Harry's friend Hermione. I tried, I really did, not to let my eyes wander down her body, but hey I'm a teenage boy, and Hermione happened to be wearing faded blues jeans that showed off her figure just fine, and a nice figure it was too, I don't know why she choose to hide it underneath those weird robs she usually wears, and she had her bushy hair pulled back into a braid, showing off how pretty her face was. She usually had her bushy hair down, which hide how pretty she was, sometimes I wonder if she doesn't hide it, so people will see her brains, not her looks. And I think she knew I was staring, because she keep looking back and glaring at me.
It took us twenty minutes just to walk across the field and to the road, Harry was the first to climb up on it, he than immediately turned around and grabbed hold of Piper's hand and helped her climb onto the road. Marauder jumped up next to him, than Jason was next who copied Harry and turned around grabbing hold of Ginny to help her onto the road, but before Hermione could get up on the road, she squealed and fell down face first in the mud, she raised herself up, only to be stuck waist deep. Harry took a step to help her, but being behind the bookworm beauty, I got to her first, I put my hands on either side of her waist and gave a tug, but she didn't budge.
"Come on, stupid dirt." I said, pulling her again."She's our bookworm, go get your own." Harry made his way over and put his arms around her waist and together we were able to pull her out, and Jason reached down and grabbed hold of Hermione's arms and pull her onto the road.
"You alright, Hermione?" Harry asked her. Hermione nodded, and when Harry walked back over to Piper, Hermione glared at me, while pulling out her wand, and using a spell to clean the mud off.
"I am not anyones bookworm." She told me, before sending a small spell my way, I yelped and grabbed my arm. It felt like a bee sting, and believe me I know what those feel like, I've been stung by plenty of bees. I gave her my best smile.
"You like me don't you?" I asked, Hermione narrowed her eyes and sent the hex at me again. I yelped and grabbed my arm again as she turned around and headed toward where Harry and Piper were standing, mumbled something about telling Harry to keep me away from her. (Yeah she wants me. )
After everyone rested a bit we walked on down the road, and toward where it was Harry was headed. We looked like some kinda weird gang, walking side by side, three of them with sticks sticking out of their back pockets. No scratch the gang thing, with all but one of us covered in mud, we looked like a bunch of kids that just escaped from a Juvenile Detention Center. I can't wait into we get to town and see everyone's reaction to us, that'll be fun. I hear the news report now: Be on the look out for these seven underage delinquents, they are up to no good and armed with a deadly bow, tool belt, and four weird sticks.
I started to get board, so I dug around in my tool belt for something to make. I found some tiny gold wire and started bending them and making something, I had in my mind what I wanted to make and who I would give it to, when Piper started talking.
"You know, I don't think Gaea has any control over the concrete." Piper said. "After all it's man-made and laid down by trucks, so technically it's not really apart of the earth, and she might have gotten a little stronger, but I don't think she's strong enough to bust through it yet."
"You might be right." Harry said. "Alright everyone, stay on the concrete if you can, don't go off the side off the road, and watch out for cars."
"What cars?" Ron demanded, "I haven't seen anyone else and we've been walking forever."
"We've been walking for like ten minutes." Hermione said. "But you know it is a bit weird, no cars have passed us."
I frowned as a big gust of wind blow. And then I looked up to see black clouds rolling in, and then lightning went across the sky, I put the little wire I now had bent into a square back in my belt and looked up to pay more attention to the sky, I've seen clouds like this once before, and believe me it didn't turn out good.
"It's been longer than any ten minutes." Ron complained. "My feet hurt, I'm hungry, and covered in mud."
"You're always hungry." Hermione said. "And we're all covered in mud, so deal with it."
"Don't tell me what to do." Ron said. "You're always telling me what to do."
"I do not." Hermione said.
"You do to." Ron said. "Ask Harry."
"Hey, don't bring me into your fight." Harry said.
"Well, she is, she's always trying to boss everyone around." Ron said. Then he took on this high pitch voice, that I guess was supposed to be Hermione. But sounded more like a strangled chicken. "Ron do your work, Ron you're never going to get good grades by clowning around and playing Quidditch. Ron pay attention to the teacher."
"I don't sound like that." Hermione said, and I could hear the hurt in her voice and that made me mad. So when Ron opened his mouth to say something else I cut across him.
"Hey, Carrot top." I said. "Put a sock in it for while, will you." Ron glared at me, and I could hear Jason snickering. I then looked at Hermione before Ron could reply. "Don't worry, Bookworm, you can boss me anytime." Hermione crossed her arms with a huff and out of the corner of my eye I saw Harry raise his eyebrow at me.
"Is it me or is it getting darker?" Ginny suddenly asked. She then looked up and gasped. We all looked up to see the clouds had gotten even darker and more lighten lit up the sky, and there was now thunder. "We're going to get a good storm."
"I don't like those clouds." Piper said. "It reminds me of the Grand Canyon." Just then there was a gust of wind and we all had to duck as a big beach umbrella flew from somewhere past our heads.
"Where the bloody hell did that come from?" Ron demanded, yelling over the wind and sound of thunder.
"The beach." I yelled back. Thunder rumbled as we all stood up straight.
"We need to get somewhere under cover." Hermione said. "Till the storm passes."
"And where would that be?" Harry demanded. "We can't go into the fields because we'll get sucked up into the ground."
"Down." Hermione said.
"What?" Harry demanded.
"It's down into the ground, Harry." Hermione said."Not up into the ground." Harry rolled his eyes.
"Dose it really matter at the moment, Hermione." Harry demanded. "Come on, lets just try to make it into town before the storm gets worse." He took Piper's hand and begin walking again. We followed.
"Worse?" Ron demanded. "How much worse can it get." As if to prove him right a big gust of wind blow again. We just walked on, as the sky got even darker, thunder roared and lighting went across the sky, and wind howled, blowing letter all over, paper, plastic bags, and candy wrappers, Ron curse when a No U-turn sign smacked him in the face. He knocked it a side and grabbed hold of his nose. And Ginny's waist length hair was a tangled mess. But we just kept walking on, I hoped Harry knew where he was going. I went over to walk by him.
"Hey, Uncle Harry, how much farther?" I asked.
"Shouldn't be too much farther." Harry answered. "And don't call me Uncle." Just then there was a big crack of thunder and lighting struck a tree over in the field off the side of the road, and it fall right across the road in front of us. It was a pretty big tree too. I had to grab Harry's arm and jerk him back to stop him from being hit by it.
"Umm, call me superstition, but I believe that is a bad omen." I said. Harry rolled his eye, is it just me or does he do that a lot.
"Thank you, Professor Trelawney." Harry said. To the others he said. "We'll just have to climb over it." Then he grabbed hold of it with both hands, put his foot up and tried to climb up, but couldn't, my uncle may be strong when it comes to powers and magic, but when it comes to strength, he's not all that strong for a demigod, I happen to know he always draws into his magic when he needs strength for a fight. I just think Harry needs to believe he can be strong without his powers, all those times being bullied and beat up by his cousin and his friends has Harry thinking his a wimp, I doubt a wimp could pull of the counter attacks I've seen Harry do when fighting with some Ares kid.
"Marauder, give me a hand." Harry ordered his favorite pet. Marauder stuck his head under Harry's foot and raised him up and helped Harry to get bounced so he could pull himself up, and on top of the fallen tree, he then turned around, bent down and held his hand out to Piper, but then suddenly Ginny screamed.
A big black funnel cloud had formed down the road from us, twirling around with lighten and thunder, then there was this sudden big gust of wind and Harry was blow off the fallen tree and up in the air, and away out of sight.
"HARRY!" Piper screamed and held her hand up as if she was reaching for him. "Oh gods, please no." Marauder jumped up in the air like he was trying to get to him, and then landed on his paws and let out a big roar up toward the sky.
"I'll get him." Jason said, then held up his hand and flew toward the detraction Harry was blown.
"You think he can catch him?" Ron asked, worry in his voice.
"Ron," Hermione snapped, motioning to Piper, she then put her arm around her in a comforting way. I looked at her.
"You know Harry is my favorite Uncle." I said. "I could use some comfort." Hermione just glared at me. Then the funnel was back swirling around, lighting flying from it.
"This isn't a normal storm is it?" Ginny demanded. The funnel stopped and standing there was a teen with dark hair cut superman style, a deep tan, and blinding white teeth, he still wore a Dallas Cowboys jersey, even though it now had a few small holes in it, western jeans, that now had a hole in one knee, and boots. He smiled and held his hands out.
"Piper, did you miss me, partner." He laughed, showing off those teeth again.
"Dylan," Piper said, in disbelief, then her shock turned to anger. "You, bastard, you blow Harry away." She took off running toward him, jumped on the fallen tree and went to tackle Dylan, but like at the Grand Canyon, he flicked his wist and Piper went flying back and landed down hard and the road behind us, where she moaned and barley moved. I could see blood running down the side of her head.
"PIPER!" Ginny and Hermione went running toward her to see if she was alright. I turned back to Dylan.
"Dude, you just made a big mistake." I said.
"Why's that, you going to make me pay for hurting your little friend?" Dylan demanded.
"No, but once Uncle Harry gets back down here and see what you did to Piper." I said. "He'll make you pay." Dylan laughed and flickered his wist and a blot of lighten came down and I had to jump out-of-the-way, or else I would have been fried.
Marauder let out a big roar and came running at Dylan, who flicked his wist and then Marauder went flying back, and landed hard onto the ground, but to my shock he just jumped right back up and let out a big roar, and just stood there growling at Dylan, showing off his very large fangs. I don't know if it was just me, but Marauder seems to have grown since he disappeared with Harry and Piper.
Ron pulled out his wand and pointed it at Dylan, and yelled a curse that was just lost in the wind. I reached in my tool belt pulled out a small hammer and through it at Dylan, it smacked him in the head and he fall to his knees, golden blood pouring out of his forehead.
"You'll have to do better than that." He laughed. Wind blow harder, lighten hit the ground one blot after another, creaking it, I pulled another hammer out of my belt and through it at him. But this time Dylan dodged, Ron cast another spell, but it too was lost in the wind, then Dylan pointed at Ron and a funnel cloud materialized around him, Ron flew up into the sky and out of sight. I could hear Hermione and Ginny scream his name. I pulled out another hammer, and leaped over the fallen tree and came down holding my hammer up, but Dylan flicked his wist and I went flying back and hit the tree and landed on the ground. I moaned, because it hurt.
Dylan advanced on me but then there was a roar of thunder, as the clouds burst and rain came pouring down lighten struck Dylan knocking him back. Then Jason landed next to me, with both Harry and Ron. Harry looked around frantically.
"Where's Piper?" He demanded, I pointed behind me, because I was still a little too daze to answer. I saw his eye widen when he saw her on the ground, then turn black, as he jumped over the tree and ran to see if she was okay. Jason made and wave motion with his hand and more lighting came down and struck Dylan as he was getting back up. I grabbed hold of the tree and pulled myself back up and looked toward the others to see Harry had helped Piper to her feet and was now hugging her, he asked her something I couldn't hear and she nodded her head.
I looked back toward Dylan and Jason to see Dylan had changed, his body had dissolved into smoke, he had the same face the same brilliant small, but his whole form was composed of swirling black vapor, his eyes like electrical sparks in a living storm cloud and he had spotted black smoky wings.
"Bloody hell." Ron said, staring at him with wide eyes. Jason took his coin out of his pocket flipped it in the air and it turned into a javelin, he smacked it down on the ground and a giant lighting blot came down hit the javelin and bounce off and toward Dylan, but he flew up and away from it, he then pointed at Jason and a large blot of lighten came down from the sky, and hit him right in the chest, Jason was thrown all the way back toward Harry and the others.
"Jason," Ginny cried, and I looked to see her running to him. I was just glad that he was moving.
Dylan then flicked his wist sending Ron flying back like he did Piper, and then turned to me with his blinding white teeth, and pointed, but before he could do anything shadows suddenly formed out of the clouds and wrapped around him, Dylan's smile faded and he began to struggle against the Shadow ropes, that was now bending him. Then my favorite uncle ever, came jumping over the fallen tree, glowing black, and when he glanced at me to make sure I was okay, his eyes was solid black, no white at all, he then looked back at Dylan who was still trying to get loose from the Shadows, Harry then pulled out his wand and twisted it into a staff.
Rain came down, wind howled, thunder roared, and lighten hit all around Harry, but couldn't hit him for the shadows swirling all around him, blocking the lighten. I looked toward Dylan with a smirk.
"I told you you'd be sorry." I said.
Harry took a step toward him and raised his staff, the shadows tightened around Dylan as he slammed it on the ground, the earth shook as a giant creak formed opening up, Marauder stood next to Harry growling up at Dylan, and Harry gave him a glare that even scared me.
"Go to Tartarus." Harry said, and then giant shadow hands came reaching up out of the big hole in the road, grabbed hold of Dylan that was still struggling against the shadows already wrapped around him, he flapped his wings keeping himself from being dragged down into the hole, Marauder jumped up, clenched his teeth around Dylan's ankle, and pulled, Dylan went falling into the hole. Then the ground shook and closed, leaving behind just a creak, and Marauder came running back over to Harry. He smiled as he reached down and patted him.
The storm stopped at once, and the clouds disappeared, and the sun came back out, and the glow around Harry vanished as he twisted his staff back into a wand and turned around, only to be tackled by Piper. He smiled as he hugged her back. I saw she still had blood on the side of her head.
"Harry, what did you do?" Hermione asked. I looked behind me to see Ron Hermione, Ginny, and Jason standing there, the three wizard with shock looks on there face.
"Got ride of it." Harry shrugged, Piper had pulled away and was now standing by Harry with her arm around his waist, and he had his arm around her shoulder.
"What was it?" Ron demanded.
"Dylan," Piper said. "He's a storm spirit, Leo and I fought him once before right before we came to camp, but he had left on his own then." I reached in my tool belt and pulled out a piece Ambrosia, and held it out to her.
"Here you go, Pipes." I said. Piper smiled and took it and popped it in her mouth, the cut healed at once and Harry laid his hand on the side of her head whispered a spell and the dry blood vanished.
Thanks, Leo." Harry told me, before kissing the now healed spot on Piper's head.
"Is it going to keep being like this?" Ron demanded. "That's the second thing we've been attacked by in less than an hour." Harry glared at him and Ron backed up.
"I told you it would be dangerous." Harry said. "You didn't listen to me, now deal with it." Harry suddenly narrowed his eyes. "What? you didn't think it was all fun and games for us did you?" Ron's ears turned red.
"Oh, Ron." Hermione said, rolling her beautiful brown eyes.
"Well, you go to a summer camp all year round," Ron said. "And your parents are gods, and...well you have no one to tell you what you can and can't do." Ron shrugged. "I thought besides this whole war thing you had it pretty easy. "And your parents being gods, you could have anything you want, they are bound to be lauded."
"Ron, we go to camp because it's safe and monster usually can't get in." Harry said, trying to keep his voice low and calm. "And it's not all fun there, sure we have bonfires at night and play capture the flag, but we mostly train, we learn how to protect ourselves and learn accent greek, and Chiron teaches us about the gods, and we have rules there, we have to do as Chiron says and lights out before nine and we have to get up at five or we don't get breakfast, before we start the day, and we have to keep our cabins clean."
"And what about the quest." I put in. "Most the time demigods never come back."
"And do you think we have it made or get to be rich because we have gods for a parent?" Harry asked, understanding suddenly flashed in his eyes. "It may seem like we should or like we have a good life handed to us on a silver platter, but our parents don't support us, look at Percy."
"Percy?" Ron asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Jackson." Harry said, a little frustration slipping in his voice. "His mum had to work two sometimes three jobs to support him and send him to good schools, Leo lived most his life on the streets taken care of himself, when he wasn't bouncing from one foster home to the next, as did Jason, Annabeth ran away from home when she was seven and lived on the streets before finding camp, with Thalia, Jason's older sister, who lived her life thinking Jason was dead into finding him on the streets and bringing him to camp, and speaking of Thalia she was once turned into a pine tree so Annabeth could make it across the camp border to safety, and do you think this is the first war they've been in, no, just a couple of years ago they fought against the titans. Now do you think we have an easy life?"
"But Piper?" Harry's eyes flashed dangerously, when Ron brought his girlfriend int to it.
"Hey, just because my dad's a big movie star doesn't mean I've had an easy life." Piper said. "I growed up being raised by one nanny after the other, my dad, though I know he loves me, has hardy ever been there, always off making some movie or at award shows, or talk shows. And when he does take time out to spend with me, it's always interrupted with one thing or the other, and how would you like growing up not knowing who your mom is, I never even knew her name, and now that I do know, I can't even tell my dad or he'll freak out."
"Besides, most of us never even meet our parents." Jason said. "Because of some stupid law, they aren't allow to have much to do with us. Thalia's only met our dad a few times, but I've never meet him, heck Harry's seen him more than I have. And he's the King of the Gods, he could change that law if he really wanted to."
Ron looked down, then back up at Harry. "Look I'm sorry, okay, I didn't realize how hard it would be on you, and well.."
"Was Jealous." Harry said, in a voice that said they've been through this before. "Ron, I've told you before I never wanted to be famous, I've never wanted a scar on my forehead, and I can't help if I was born into a rich wizard family, and I never asked to be a demigod, if you want my life you can have, but I most warn you its curse, and I do been it's really curse, as in one of the gods put a curse on my life when I was born, why do you think it's been so sucky?"
"What?" Hermione asked, wide-eyed.
"Yes, Clio, the muse of history told me in a dream." Harry said." Now on top of everything else I have to find out which god, and get him to take it off." Ron's eyes were big.
"Blimey, Harry, I didn't know." Ron said. "I'm sorry, really I am."
"I know, Ron, you seem to say that a lot." Harry said.
"I'll help you, Harry." Jason said. "Find who this god is, and I'll make him take the curse off you." Harry smiled at him. "Nobody curses my little brother." Harry frowned.
"Little? Jason, we were born in the same mouth." Harry said.
"Yeah, but I was born on the first of July." Jason said. "And you were born a the last day of July. So am older they you." Harry just rolled his eyes.
I looked toward Jason, he looked like someone who had put his finger in a light socket, with his hair sticking up on ends and smoke coming from his clothes, but other than that was just fine. My eyes dropped down to his feet.
"Your shoe is missing, man." I said, pointing at his foot. Jason rolled his eyes.
"Gee, thanks, I hadn't noticed." Jason said. He put his arm around Ginny's shoulder, and Ron glared at him.
"Oh come on, Ron." Ginny said. "You still can't believe he's on Voldemort's side, he save your life." Ron eyes narrowed. "And Harry's"
"It can be a trick." Ron said. "Wants us to let our guard down, then he'll turn on us when we lest expect it."
"Oh, Ronald, grow up." Hermione snapped. She then started walking and when we didn't move she turned around and said. "Well, are you coming, before something else comes along."
I smiled a little, Hermione was looking more and more like my kinda girl. We all started walking again and it took us more than an hour, but finally the mountain came into view, as my stomach began to rumble. Everyone seemed to be relived that we had made it, I was just glad there wasn't anything else that attacked us on the way here.
A.N. I think I'll let the next chapter show you what Nico is up to, and it'll have a little surprise, I'm brining someone into the story. And there was a reason I had Leo thinking about how Harry thinks he don't have any real strength unless he draws some from his magic, it has something to do with something he'll have to do in the last story. And Harry didn't mention Luke when he talked about Annabeth and Thalia getting to camp, because he doesn't know about it, I didn't think that would be something Annabeth would bring up, he's heard about Luke at camp, but doesn't know how close he had been to Annabeth and Percy.