Title: Harry In a Whole Different World

Rating: T

Summary: When Harry's friends turn their backs on him, he feels all hope vanishing. Getting a mental message from voices that claim to be his parents, he leaves it all behind and heads to the States, to Camp Half-Blood. He finds true friends and unexpected surprises. Based on the Twice Blessed Challenge and a crossover with Harry Potter/Percy Jackson!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling or Riordan's characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter 9: Don't Eat the Food

Harry's POV

Percy thought it would be a good idea to stay at the Lotus Hotel and Casino. Next time, I'm going to hit Percy for that suggestion. Everything about the city looked fun, but after all the bad luck that I had lately I'm not about to take anything that has 'fun' in the sentence at face value. I don't know if it's my mum or dad talking, but I don't trust anything that looks innocent. The first thing that really made me suspicious of the place was the free Lotus card that the man at the door was handing out.

No one hands out a card that has unlimited spending to people that walk through the door.

"We're not staying," Severus told him.

"Come on, I for one could use a hot shower," Percy told him.

"There something off about this place," Severus told him, "I can sense it."

"Well you can take your senses and go somewhere," he said, "I'm checking in."

"Damn fool," Severus snarled.

"There's something off about this place," I told Severus and Sirius, "I for one have no intention of staying."

We ended up staying.

We were all given rooms with double beds and I saw Percy dumping the backpack in a trash can that was in the room. I decided that, while Percy and his friends went looking for some fun, I would sleep in. I was dead tired and the only thing that seemed safe about the place was the rooms. Thankfully I had no dreams about Dumbledore, but I had one with that creepy voice.

"The Summer Solstice is coming. Too bad your to asleep to realize it. Enjoy your time with the Lotus Eaters."

I woke up with a start and bolted out of the room. I found Severus drinking a coke at the bar.

"We need to get out of here, right now," I told him.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"This is the lair of the Lotus Eaters," I told him, "That creepy voice told me so. He said I hope that you enjoy your time with the Lotus Eaters. We have to get Sirius and the others."

He nodded and we went to get them.

It turned out that the morons had eaten some of the food that the hotel provided. They were totally drugged. I sent several shocks of electricity and that seem to wake them up. I told them where they were and they all bolted for the door. That's when Moody appeared.

"Damn, not alone," he said, "Well looks like I'm going to have to knock you all out to get to Potter."

I grabbed some of the food that they had eaten and came at Moody. Before he could do anything I shoved the food down his throat and we bolted out of the door.

"Hopefully that will keep him drugged long enough to get us to the Underworld," Sirius said, "Gods, why did I eat that food?"

"Because you're an idiot," Severus said.

"There's a place next door that has food," I told them, "We'll eat there and then continue on our way."

"We better hurry, the Summer Solstice is tomorrow," Annabeth said.

"Then it's to go," I said and I'm going to tell you, we were pretty fast.

We had no idea how we were going to get to the Underworld in such a short time. We were too many to fit into a cab and that's when Sirius told us that Severus had been to LA. I swore I could hear a grumbling.

"But will it be safe for you to travel that far?" Annabeth asked him.

"I'm sure that I can manage," he said, "Take a hand and I can get you as far as a street before the Underworld, but that's it."

"That's good enough for me," I said and we grabbed each other's hands and shadowed out.

Shadow traveling has to be the weirdest experience that I've ever been through, and I had been through a lot of them. When we finally appeared Sirius at once gave Severus some of the medicine that Percy had gotten for his own quest. Severus then told us that we would have to leave him behind.

"Why?" I asked.

"I'm going to need to rest," he said, "Going that far, with others, drains me."

"We can go the rest of the way," Percy told him.

"With us," I added.

"Fine," Percy said.

"Don't mind him," Grover said, "He's still mad that your father accused him of stealing the bolt."

"So he's naturally mad at me," I said and Grover nodded. "Great, just great!"

"Will he be fine?" Annabeth asked.

"If you're talking about Severus, he'll be fine," Sirius said. "When we all, minus James, found out that Severus was a demigod we were shocked. He drained himself during one of our quests, but he managed to survive. It was hard going back to hating him when we got back to Hogwarts."

"He's right, I'll be fine," Severus said. "I'm not important on the scale to be attacked by monsters."

"What will you do once you rest?" I asked him.

"Head back to Camp," he answered, "I need to make sure that all out war hasn't broken out between the cabins."

"Good luck," I said and we hurried off.

Deep down, even though we had never gotten alone, I really hoped that he made it back alright. I also wondered how long it would take that moron, Dumbledore, to find out that Alister might not be coming back. I really had to laugh at that.