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Harry's P.O.V

We were standing just outside the woods, waiting for Chiron to give the instructions. Percy had explained a bit of it to us. The point of the game was simple: defend the flag on your side, while a select few go over and try to get the flag on the opponent's side. It sounded simple enough.

We decided, after talking with Neville and Fred and George that we would stay on the teams we were in. It might be a nice duel opportunity. The rules were no maiming and no killing. Fred and George were the most excited ones.

"We're going to make this the best game of capture the flag they've ever had!" George told us. "We've got a few tricks up our sleeves." They smirked at each other and went to their side of the woods with Neville. Annabeth turned to us, she was the team captain.

"All right, team, listen up! Percy and I are going with Harry, Ron and Hermione to try and capture the flag. I assume Clarisse will place Fred, George and Neville to defend the flags, to warn off incomers. The rest of you will stay behind and defend our own flag…" then she started naming who would defend what part of the woods which I wasn't paying any attention too.

Finally it was time to play and Chiron announced the rules.

…You may begin!" He shouted for the whole camp to hear.

Ron went with Percy, and I went with Annabeth and Hermione.

"All right you guys, wands up. You never know what those teams could pull out of their sleeves or what we could run into," she said quietly. She pulled out a knife and put it up. We walked through the woods for about 5 minutes, searching for a sign of a red flag before hearing a noise closer to us than the rest of the fighting. Annabeth stopped, we did too. I pulled my wand out a little further and Hermione followed lead. Something, or someone, was coming. Wand at the ready, I pointed it toward the noise.

I saw something silver poke through the bushes and a second later someone came so fast that I could barely see who it was. But soon after I made it out to be someone that I know was in the Hepateus cabin, but I didn't know their name. They dropped something. It set there for a minute and Annabeth screamed for us to run and no sooner did green fire spring up and we heard an explosion. Hermione and I screamed "Agumenti!" as loud and powerful as we could, even though we knew we would give away our position. The fire reluctantly died and we quickly ran away.

"What was that?" Hermione asked.

"That was Greek Fire. A very powerful bomb that could injure someone very badly if it set off on anyone closer than we were. We were very lucky your spell worked or we would've been in deep trouble."

"Is that even allowed?"

"More or less." She left it at that. We wandered and searched, very well aware that we were going to be discovered sooner or later because of that stupid explosion.

"I have an idea!" Hermione pointed her wand forward. "Accio red flag!" she said quietly. We waited a moment and when nothing appeared, we figured that the other team got Fred and George to put up protective spells. Great.

"Are there any way around protective spells?" Annabeth asked.

"Yes, but it depends on the spells they used so we'll see when we get there."

We heard something else. We all got our weapons to the ready and I heard either Fred or George scream "Tantallegra!" from behind us. I turned around just in time to see Annabeth get hit and start rapidly moving her legs. I pointed my wand at the laughing George and said, "Expelliarmus!" Georges hand went flying out of his hand. He turned to his brother and said, "I feel a duel coming on!" He ran to get his wand and Fred came into sight. "Locomotor mortis!" he yelled, pointing his wand at Hermione. Her legs froze up and she couldn't move, while on the other hand, Annabeth was moving very fast and cursing in what seemed Ancient Greek. We had to get out of there before more of their teammates came.

"Sorry Fred and George! Can't duel now, we've got a flag to find. "Stupefy!" I stunned them both, gave them an apology, and turned toward Hermione. "Do you know a spell that'll stop the effects?"

"Yes. It's deletrius."

I un-did both of the spells, and Annabeth said thanks. We continued our quest for the flag and finally saw it with no one guarding it! We stopped behind a tree and made a plan.

"Even though it looks like no one's guarding it, there could be a ton of people. They could have been put on an invisibility spell." Hermione said.

Annabeth smiled. "Well two can play at that game." She took out a Yankees ball cap and put it on. She turned invisible. She spoke to us. "Alright here's the plan. I go get the flag while you two distract them. It might turn into sword and shield against wand, so that's a warning. Ok, go make a distraction and lead them away from the flag and I'll get it, when you hear cheering, that's when you can stop and run, ok? Go!"

Hermione and I snuck around to each side of the area, staying behind the bushes. I shook the bushes a bit. Then Hermione did a few minutes after. I felt stupid doing it, because it was very possible that no one was there at all. I had no idea where Annabeth was, so that made it all the harder to make sure I wasn't aiming the spell at her. "Apperecium!" I shouted. 3 people appeared, each with a sword, not yet aware they were invisible. The swords were pointed at the bush where Hermione hid. I checked the place where the flag was hidden; it was gone so Annabeth must be on her way to the other side. If I could just keep their attention…

"Perfectus Totalus!" Hermione screamed, before I had a chance to get my wand up. They looked around and saw Hermione, just as the spell hit one of them. The other two looked surprised for a moment, and then charged the place where the spell came from fully aware that they were now unveiled. One of them stroked their sword right where Hermione would've been, but she had moved elsewhere.

She showed herself. "I'm over here!"

The both turned and looked at her then ran at her with their swords again. She put her wand up and pointed it at them. "I've got a wand, and I'm not afraid to use it, so put the swords down now." I smiled to myself. That was actually pretty convincing. Just as they were about to put their swords down, we heard a roar of cheering and we all ran to see who had won, stopping on the way to un-stun Fred and George.

We won! It turns out it was close; Neville was running with our flag but before he could pass, Ron hit him with a leg binding jinx and Annabeth passed the line first. The whole team got in a group and held Ron and Annabeth up.

I patted him on the back. "Good job, Ron!"

"Thanks." He smiled.

"And I'm glad you made it there ok, Annabeth."

"Well, I couldnt've done it without you guys so thanks."

Ron turned to his brothers. "You lost."

Fred and George didn't mind though, they just thought that it was the best game ever invented and that next time we go to Hogwarts we should get Dumbledore to let us play it in the Forbidden Forest.

The celebration had ended and everyone was heading away when I noticed something. "Has anyone seen Neville since after the game?" Everybody shook their heads and I decided to go look for him in the forest. He was probably still leg-bound and in the excitement of the win, forgotten.

It was now pretty dark. "Lumos." I searched for about 10 minutes, getting a little worried. I'm sure he's around here somewhere, I reassured myself. After I was beginning to think he might've gotten carried away by some creature, I heard a familiar man's voice and a pleading Neville's.

"… I—we're here to—to prepare for the war against Y-You-Know-Who and—and Krono's! Pease, I'm begging you! Stop!" Neville pleaded, sounding close to tears.

Lucius Malfoy looked at him with disgust and hatred. "Make the unbreakable bond. Say that you'll bring the two boys, Percy Jackson and Harry Potter to me and then I'll stop."

Neville looked up at him. I was just about to scream at him not to do it, but before I could, he put on a defiant look. "No, no I won't. And with the whole camp behind them, you won't be able to get them." I looked at Neville, astonished and feeling a rush of affection toward him.

Malfoy glared at him. "CRUCIO!" he whispered violently. Neville squirmed and then Malfoy said, "I told you if you made the bond, I would stop, but you were foolish enough to defy me my wish and now you will pay." He paused for a moment, watching him with a cold stare. "I'll give you 3 days to capture them and bring them to me, if you don't, I'll come here and make sure you die a nasty death Longbottom." He said the name with such hatred, I wanted to lash out at him but I knew I couldn't give my position away so I waited till he apparated and rushed to Neville's side. I needed to get him to the Apollo kids, and quick. He couldn't walk because he was so shaken. We didn't talk at all.

When we got to the Apollo cabin, they nursed him to health while I went and told Hermione and Ron what I saw.

Hermione cupped her hands around her mouth and said, "That's terrible! What did you do?"

"I couldn't really do anything and I didn't dare try to duel him, so I just let him go. But next time I will do something."

Neville was fully healed and walked over to me and Percy, whom I was telling the story too.

"Don't worry, even though I was threatened with death, I won't bring you to him."

I looked at him. Though he was fully recovered, he still looked tired. "Thank you. I know how hard it is to resist wishes at the hands of the Cruciatus Curse, and you still defied his wish."

"Well, it was hard, but I don't think I could ever do that to you, or Percy."

I smiled at him. Then it faltered. "What are you going to do when 3 days is up?"

"I don't know, I don't know…"

A/N: Ok I know this wasn't the best chapter, but I still hope you enjoy it and sorry for all the spells I spelled wrong. :P Well I would write more, but I have school tomorrow so yea…