Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or Harry Potter.
A.N. Sorry it's been a while since I updated. But I kind of got a little writers block, I knew what I wanted to happen, but couldn't get the chapter right.
Chapter 4: I get my own quest
Ginny's P.O.V.
I was standing on the deck of the ship, watching the snow come down, the ship was like camp Half-blood, and the weather didn't affect it. And I didn't even need a coat on. Jason and I had stayed on the ship as look outs, I was a little disappointed I wasn't able to go help look for the stuff we needed, but I was still with Jason so I was fine. Nothing happen on the ship though, we just talked as we kept watch. After Piper had disappeared off the ship, Percy gave a loud whistle and his black wing horse flew down, and him and Annabeth flew off. Hermione and Leo disappeared into the stables and we didn't see them again in till they came flying back on the ship on the back of a black hippogriff. Not long after they had left Ron disappeared down blow deck to stay with Hazel and Nico and Luna left the ship to do who knows what. Luna is still a good friend of mine, but her tast in guys is questionable.
From the moment I first met him Nico he has crept me out. Always In nothing but black, down to his sword. He keeps to himself too much. Plus he's the son of the god of the Underworld. And he spend most his time talking to dead people. And the way he was acting now a days. I've seen him talking to himself, I think maybe since he's a child of Hades (I think was the god's name,) since he was a child Hades maybe he can see dead people when no one else can. He's keeping something from the rest of us. I can tell. And I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the wing he was wearing. I think it's the ring from the prophecy. Whatever it is he's hiding it from everybody. I don't know what he left the ship to do, but he came back in an even more grumpy mood than usual, like he had argued with someone. And is wasn't Luna, considering he went to his cabin and shut his self up and only allowed Luna in there with him.
He wasn't the only one of Harry's new friends I didn't care much for. Annabeth was another one. I didn't really like. She was too bossy, and too big of a know-it-all, even worse than Hermione. I try not to show I don't like her, because for some reason Harry growed close to her when we were all in Grimmauld Place the very first summer. I don't know way and everyone else seemed to like her too. She can be okay at times, but I didn't really like her. I like Percy though. He was pretty cool and good-looking too. Leo was funny he almost reminded me somewhat of Charlie. He joked around and was carefree like him and he got attached to his creations like Charlie does with his dragons. I liked Hazel too she seemed like a nice girl and pretty sweet too. Even if she hardly talked. Piper and I were pretty close. She was cool. Almost like a best friend.
"You alright?" Jason asked, from my side.
"Yeah, Just thinking." I said. "Wonder if Piper's okay." It's been a little while since Piper's screams had stopped. Percy had come out of the room, and was standing not to far from us, but Annabeth had yet to come out.
"Hey, Percy." Jason called over to him. He looked our way. "How was Piper?"
"Annabeth got the arrow out, and she poured some nectar into the wound." Percy said. "She'll be alright once she gets some rest. I came out so Annabeth could wrap her wound."
"Good." I said. "I would hate if something happens to her." Jason smiled at me and put his arm around my shoulder. When I first met Piper I was a little jealous, she had Harry, the guy I grow up having a crush on. Plus she looked like some model. Perfect face, perfect figure. I thought she would be stuck up. But as I got to know her, I grow to like her. She was really down to earth and didn't seem to realize how pretty she was and tried to hide it and look normal. Plus as I got to know Jason. I started getting over my crush on Harry and started caring about him. I finally realize the feelings I had for her was nothing more than a childhood crush on a hero she grow up hearing about. Yeah Harry is a sweet guy, and kind. Any girl will be lucky to have a boyfriend like him. Piper was really a lucky girl. But my feelings toward Harry now was nothing but friendship. I have Jason, and I know it wasn't just some silly childhood crush on him. I'm really in love with him.
"What a way to start a quest." Jason said. "Ship gets racked, Piper gets shot. Did you see Hermione and Leo when they came back on the ship. What the heck happen to them. And You Percy and Annabeth all covered in tar." Percy shrugged with a cocky grin.
"Oh, just some tar monsters and Death Eaters." He said, sounding as if it was no big deal. "You know the usual." I snorted and Jason rolled his eyes. Suddenly the ship shook and we started hearing this hum of the engine. Then the ship started lifting into the air.
"I guess Leo got the ship fix." Jason said. Just then Leo appeared on deck.
"I done what I could for now." He said. He was covered in tar, grease and oil. "But there is still things that need fixed, before we head to Greece. So we'll need to make another stop."
"Piper's not going to like that." I said.
"Like what?" A voice asked. We looked to see, Nico, Luna, Ron, and Hazel standing there.
"Ships not completely fixed." I said. "We'll have to make another stop."
"Just great." Nico mumbled. Luna patted his arm. I guess he hadn't got over his grumpy mood. Annabeth now appeared behind them. She had Hermione with her. Who had changed out of her sand covered clothes but still had some sand stuck in her hair, which was starting to get a little bushy. I guess the Aphrodite thing was wearing off.
"Piper is asleep." She said. "But we need to go set somewhere and talk. She told me a few things that isn't good." I rolled my eyes here we go again. Being the boss.
Half-hour later we were sitting at the table in the dinning hall Leo made on the ship, Annabeth told us everything Piper told her. Some god or titan or whatever he was, was free from his punishment of holding up the sky. (How anyone could hold up the sky I did not know) and Harry's sister Enyo was now trapped under it and even though Harry apparently doesn't like her, he'll still have to save her. and Atlas was now on Voldemort side. And we now know Hercules is the one that cursed Harry, and Voldemort is going to try everything he can to stop us reaching him.
"That's why we had the run in with the Death Eaters." Percy said. He was eating a blue pie. I mean the whole thing was blue, pie crust filling, all of it. Which didn't look too tasty to me. The plates and cups were like the ones from camp, they would magically fill with food. Something Hermione said should be impossible, something about someone's law of transfiguration.
"He can just give up, because he's not going to stop us." Jason said, laying down the pizza he had been eating. "We'll reach Harry, heck Piper will see to that."
"Speaking of Piper, shouldn't we be having this conversion with her here." I asked. Annabeth frowned at me.
"She knows it all already." She said. "Piper needs her rest now. If we make any big decision I'll tell her about it." It was now my turn to frown. It didn't seem right to me. I know Piper needs her rest but if there is any big decision making she should be apart of it, it was her boyfriend we were saving.
"What happen to her anyway." Percy asked. Annabeth shook her head.
"I'm not really sure." She said. "After you left the room, Piper started crying, I guess it all finally got to her. She started mumbling things, something about Nymphs with I-phones beating her up over taking Narcissus' bronze and burst into tears, saying something about losing her favorite picture of Harry. When she stopped crying she..." Annabeth licked her lips and her face blushed. "Said something about Nymphs gossiping about Percy and I."
Percy's face also turned red and Leo burst out laughing. Which stopped the moment Percy glared at him.
"Poor Piper." Hazel said. "I feel so bad for her. I didn't really get to know Harry, I had just met him the day he was taken, but I can tell Piper really loves him. if we don't make it in time she's going to be so crushed."
"That's not going to happen." Nico said, speaking for the first time. "I'm not letting Harry die, if we don't make it in time, I'll just go to the Underworld myself and bring him back." He looked right at Hazel. "You know I will." Hazel nodded her head, which sent shivers down my spin, I don't know if it was just me or what, but something told me Nico did that before, and Hazel knew about it.
Hazel begun to twirl her now empty plate around in circles, for some reason it was now covered in sapphires I was pretty sure hadn't been there before. I noticed Ron who was sitting on the left side of Hazel, while Nico sat to her right. I notice Ron glance down at the jewels as if they were a snake about to bite him. And he seemed to be very careful not to lay his hand or arm anywhere near Hazel's plate. If Hazel noticed she didn't show it, but Nico was now sending Ron a glare that even sent shivers down my back.
Later that night I had went to bed, hoping to get a little sleep, I was almost asleep, when Jason came in my room waking me up.
"Ginny," He said. I opened my eyes and looked up at him. "Sorry to wake you, but Leo says he needs us all on deck, something has happened or something." I nodded and threw the covers off, I was wearing pajama pants and a t-shirt, I took Jason's hand and he led me out of the room and up on deck where everyone else, but Piper was already at.
"What's going on?" Jason asked, keeping hold of my hand and I saw him bring his coin out of his pocket, but he didn't flip it.
"We're going the wrong way." Leo said. "I don't know what happen, but I when I went to the hull to cheek to see if everything was working fine, I noticed somehow we have turned around and is now headed the opposite detraction then we were before."
"How in Poseidon's name did that happen?" Percy demanded. He ran a hand through his black hair. He had no shirt on, just jeans and looked as if he had been awoken from a deep sleep, he even gave a yawn after his question. Annabeth was standing next to him, still fully dressed and looking like she hadn't been to bed yet. Which surprise me, her and Percy shared a room, if he was asleep you would think she would be, unless he was such a deep sleeper, she could stay up doing whatever a daughter of Athena did without waken him. Then it came to me, she was probably fooling around on that laptop of hers, so she wouldn't of needed a light on in Percy's eyes.
"I don't know." Leo said.
"It doesn't matter how it happen." A voice said, we all turned to see Piper standing there, she looked a little pale but was other wise okay, she had changed her clothes to skinny black jeans and a plain black t-shirt. She even had her boots on. "Just turn the damn ship back around the right way."
"Piper you should be in bed resting." Jason told her. "You were shot with an arrow just a few hours ago." Piper rolled her eyes.
"I'll rest when I have Harry laying next to me again." Piper said. Jason opened his mouth to say something else, but I caught his eyes and shook my head slightly, I agreed Piper needs all the rest she can get, but right now we needed to figure out what is going on with the ship. Jason listened and closed his mouth back.
"I tried, Beauty Queen." Leo said, Piper glared at the name and crossed her arms. "Something else is controlling the ship. I can't get it to turn, and Festus won't talk to me, it's almost like he has an on off switch and someone has switched him to off."
"Great, just bloody great." Piper said. She uncrossed her arms and ran her hands through her hair. (which at the moment looked like a blonde and brunette stripped tiger) she ran her hands through it so hard, for one wild moment I thought she was going to start pulling her hair out.
Leo cracked a grin. "Bloody great?' He asked, smirking a bit. "You've been hanging around Harry too long." His smiled dropped the moment those words were out of his mouth and his eye got big. Realizing too late, that wasn't the right thing to say at the moment, everyone seem to agree and looked between him and Piper as if waiting for an attack.
Piper had narrowed her eyes so far I was surprised she was able to see. She looked like someone with very bad eyesight who lost their glasses. She just stood there not moving for a moment, before suddenly running at Leo, Percy reached out his arm and caught her around the waist and lifted Piper up, and away from Leo, who stepped back looking scared and held his hands up. She started pounding and pouching on Percy. Who of course didn't feel a thing.
"Put me down now, Fish Brain." Piper screamed. "I'm going to punch Leo out."
"Fish Brain." Percy smirked, still holding Piper up. "That's a new one."
"Beauty Queen, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Leo said. "It just slipped out, I guess I forgot."
"Forgot what?" Piper demanded, Percy sat her back down, and let go of her since she wasn't trying to get at Leo anymore. Though he did keep his arm out as if he was being ready to stop her. "That Harry is kidnapped and not with me." She wiped her eyes.
"Lets get back to this ship thing." Percy said, finally dropping his arm. "What do you mean you can't get it to turn around?"
"Just what I said." Leo said. "It's like someone else is controlling it."
"Sounds like a god." Annabeth said. "But why?"
Piper growled like an angry bear and looked up at the sky. "WHY?" She yelled. "CAN"T YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE!" She took a breath and looked down. "Leave Harry alone." She turned around and kicked a crate, then kicked it again, over and over, before finally she sat on it and cried into her hands. I let go of Jason's hand and walked over to her and put my hand on her back.
"Maybe a god or goddess needs to talk to one of us." Hazel said, she bounced from foot to foot.
Suddenly the ship jerked, then it went falling down, Hermione, Hazel, and I screamed out as the ship went falling, I stumbled but Piper grabbed hold of my arm to stop me from falling, then the ship hit the water with a gigantic splash, soaking all of us, except for Percy. The ship jerked again and went sailing across the water.
"Okay, what the Hades is going on?" Percy demanded, he took his arm from around Annabeth and walked over to the edge of the ship and looked out over the water, but it was too dark to really see anything.
"Look!" Hermione suddenly cried, pointing out in the distance. I looked to see a big entrance-way, with two burning torches hanging over it. In fact the torches was the only reason we could see it.
"Hecate." Annabeth said. "Her symbol is torches, and she's known for entrance-ways."
"What could see want?" Percy asked. "We never had anything to do with her."
"Who's Hecate?" I asked. Percy snorted.
"You're a witch and you don't know who Hecate is?" He asked. Jason glared at him.
"Lay off her." He told Percy. "She just found out the gods are real, she's not going to know each one right away." Percy snickered and held up is hands.
"Okay... Okay." Percy said. "Don't get all worked up. It's just funny a witch no knowing who Hecate is."
"Why is that so funny?" Ron asked.
"Hecate is the goddess of magic." Hermione said. We all looked at her. "You and Ron should know that, she has a lot of kids at camp, plus she is that Lue Ellen girl's mum, remember how she could do magic, and Harry." Hermione glanced at Piper when saying Harry's name. "Harry once told me about her, he said Chiron told him all Muggle-borns are is kids that Hecate saw worthy enough to bless with magic. And that was why a lot of them seem to be better with it then a lot of Pure-blood, because they are blesses with magic right from the goddess herself and not passed down to them from a long bloodline of magic."
"But you're not muggle-born." Ron said. "You're a demigod, how come you are so gifted in magic."
"Because, Ron, more than likely my birth father, wasn't a wizard." Hermione said. "So, Hecate would have had to bless me with the magic too, I'm still a muggle-born."
"Very good, Daughter of Aphrodite." A voice said. We all looked, we had come up on the entrance-way now, and the ship had stopped right in front of a small island where the entrance-way was, and standing on it was fourteen foot tall women, with long pitch black hair, dark brown eyes, a slender face, very thin, and was wearing a Greek style tunic.
"Lady Hecate?" Annabeth asked. The goddess' eyes flickered to Annabeth, but other than that she didn't give her a second thought, as the goddess looked around at everyone on the ship, before her giant brown eyes fall on me.
"Ginevra Weasley." She said. Everyone turned to look at me. "You are fifteen now I believe." I was barley able to give a tiny nod, too shocked that this goddess knew my name. Ron was looking at me with wide eyes. "I believe you are old enough now to have your own quest." I took a step back.
"My own quest?" I asked. Hecate smiled.
"I am your patron." She said. "I have big plans for you, Ginevra."
"What?" I asked, backing up again. Hecate got down on her knees, and leaned forward so she could look at me better.
"Yes," Hecate said. "I have a little task for you. And you may take two others with you if you like, but when picking the two, I would keep the prophecy in mind, My favorite little witch."
"What task?" I demanded. "I can't go anywhere now, we're on our way to save Harry."
"Oh, yes the son of Hera." Hecate said. "I have heard a great deal about him. Do you still have that little crush on him?" I glanced at Jason with my face red as a tomato. Great now Jason knows of the crush I use to have on Harry.
"What crush?" Piper demanded. Everyone was staring at me. Percy with his eyebrows raised, he's sea-green eyes glanced from me to Piper to Jason as if he thought a big fight would break out.
"Leave her alone." Ron spoke up. "Like the people you all are with, if your with someone, are the very first crush you ever had."
Piper suddenly started laughing, something that shocked us all, she's barely even cracked a smile this past two mouths. "It's kind of funny, considering my first crush was Jason." My eyes got big at that. And Jason's face went red. "We even went out for about a week, then realized we made better friends." She took on this sad smile. "Harry came to camp not too long after that, and we became friends, went on that quest to save Hera and Harry and I fall in love with each other." Piper wiped a lone tear that fell down her face. "I miss him so much." Her face suddenly took on this angry look and she glared up at the goddess.
"How dare you take us all coarse." Piper said. "Harry now only has five days left, we have to save him." Hecate looked at Piper with almost pity in her eyes.
"Yes, it would be a shame if he died." She said. "Never before have I seen a wizard blessed with so much magic and I wasn't the one that gave it to him."
"But, Harry told me that Pure-blood wizards are just descendants of your demigod children." Hermione said.
"Most are." Hecate said. "But not all." She looked back at me. "Now to the little task I have for you." Suddenly I was no longer on the ship, I was on the island, I didn't see the ship anywhere and the goddess was now normal size and sitting down on what looked almost like a throne.
"What is it you want?" I asked. Hecate smiled.
"You'll have to separate from your little group for a bit, I doubt Piper McLean will let all you take a little detour." I frowned. "But you see if this little task isn't fulfilled then these war is going to get a lot worse, even if Harry is saved in time to save Enyo." The goddess made a face at the mention of Harry's sister. "She's not the only one that controls how bad fighting gets." The goddess paused to stick a few grapes in her mouth. "And she also isn't the only whose been captured, and that is where you fit in, Ginevra dear." She stock more in her mouth. "And this one really needs saved, if not then a lot of fighting is going to happen, without her spreading harmony, strangers will attack strangers, friends will turn on friends. The gods don't seem to be too worried. I have decided to step in, because my world has gotten affected by it. With the thought and panic of Voldemort and his Death Eaters out in the open now, wizards are not very trusting of one another right now, they're pulling out their wands and cursing peopl if they just look at them funny. I want it to stop, before they end up destroying each other."
Hecate popped more grapes into her mouth. "Did you know neighbors are reporting each other as Death Eaters, even if their not, they think the wizard who lives next door are Death Eaters, just because thier acting funny. Heck the other day a wizard got made at his neighbor because his owl keeps flying in his yard and went to the Ministry swearing he saw a Dark mark on his arm. You see without harmony there is nothing, but mistrust and carnage, it's already starting to spill over into the mortal world. Crime rate has gone up, siblings are fighting, strangers are attacking strangers for no reason, you see if you do not go on this quest, then your friends will be next, they'll start fighting among each other and then the poor son of Hera will never get saved, he will die, the queen of gods will never return to Mount Olympus, and she'll destroy camp half-blood, and the demigods in it, without them or the seven of the prophecy, Gaea will rise again, the gods will be destroyed and the whole world will be doomed."
I stumbled back. "All because of one goddess being kidnapped?" I demanded.
"It is apart of Voldemort and Gaea's plan to stop you guys from reaching Harry." Hecate said. "If you guys are fighting with each other, you'll never make it and Harry, the one demigod that can stop Voldemort will die. He's fading away even as we speak, he just has five more days of air left. You all have lost one day. So are you up for this quest."
"Yes," I said. "And for your earlier question, no I no longer have a crush on Harry, but he is still my friend and he saved my life once, I owe him. The lest I can do is free some goddess to stop all my friends from fighting with each other. So they can get to Harry."
"Good," Hecate said. "It's good to see you're willing." The goddess was suddenly cut off when the island begun to shake. And then about six earth-born surrounded me, grew right out of the ground. I wanted to panic, but knew I couldn't, I was alone here, besides for Hecate and I doubted very much she would help me, so I had to help myself.
One raised its rock fist and tried to come down on my head, but I ducked and then took the little sword from my neckless and pressed the eagle's beak, it grow into a full size sword and I brought it up and stabbed the earth-born that had tried to hit me in the gut, it burst to dust, and I ducked another swing at me, this time the Earth-born hit one of the others knocking it's head off. I pulled my wand from the waist band of my pajama pants. (I didn't have pockets) I pointed it at the one behind me.
"Confrigo," I cried and the thing blow to pieces. I then brought my sword around and sliced off the head of another one, while pointing my wand at one and blasting it apart. They seem to keep coming, I killed that six and more grow in its place. I would use a combination of fighting and magic to fight two at a time, before moving on to the next ones. At one time I ducked two of its rocky arms and while I was down on the ground, I spun around and sliced both its legs off with my sword. The thing fall down, before busting into dust. Thankfully after the last six no more grow in its place. I looked to Hecate, breathing hard and sweating, she gave me a big grin.
"Yes, I believe you are ready." She said. "You have to be very careful, it seems Gaea knows about your quest, and she'll send all kinds of nasty things to stop you, but I believe you can do it. I choose the right witch." I fault something appear in my hand and I looked down to see it was an old rusty key. "Do not lose that, that is the key to freeing harmony. Just go to the crossroads."
"What?" I asked, confused, but suddenly the island was gone and I was now standing on the ship, everyone had stopped what they were doing to stare, some looked like they were searching for something, (probably me) and some had been yelling at each other. Great it was already starting.
"Thank Zeus." Jason said, I had appeared right next to him and he grabbed me and hugged me tightly, I saw Ron glare at him.
"What happen?" Piper asked, she too looked relived. "Where did you go?" I took a breath and explained to them what Hecate told me.
"We can't split up." Percy said. "It could be dangerous."
"No, Percy, Ginny's right." Piper said. "If she dosen't save this goddess and we all start fight among each other, then Harry is doomed."
"What goddess was she talking about?" Leo asked.
"I don't know, she said something about freeing harmony." I said.
"Harmonia, she's the goddess of harmony." Annabeth said. "She's not mention munch, in some myths she's a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, and in others she's a daughter of Zeus and Electra. "I'm not sure which is true. But she does need saving, or what Hecate said will happen all of it." My grip tighten around the key in my hand as I looked in Jason's blue eyes.
"Would...would you come with me?" I asked.
"Of course." Jason said, and he pulled me into another hug. "They will still have Percy and Leo, so they should get along without me."
"If he's going then I am too." Ron said.
"No, Ron." I said. "Hecate said to think of the prophecy when picking the two that will go with me. Ever since Hermione was claimed, me and you are tactically the only witch and wizard on this quest, so if demigods and wizards have to work together to save Harry, then you have to stay with them."
Ron opened his mouth to argue, but Hazel laid her hand on his arm and gave it a gentle squeeze.
"I'll go." Hazel said. "Hecate said look for Harmonia at the crossroads, I don't thinks she meant actual roads." Hazel let go of Ron's arm and she looked nervous. "In a lot of fork lore and some mythology crossroads are a location between two worlds, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted, where paranormal events take place, symbolically it can mean a locality where two realms touch, it's literally neither here or there. A in between."
"You seem to know a lot about that." Leo commented. Hazel who had turned pale explaining, it now blushed and had a guilty look about her face.
"She is a daughter of Hades." Nico said. Glaring at Leo.
"Yes, and I believe I would be of some help in a place like that." Hazel said. "Nico...he will have to say with the others, because he's the one the prophecy said will defeat the giants and if Percy and them reach Harry before we catch back up to them he'll be needed. And as a daughter of Hades I can help find a place like that and.. if Ginny and Jason have to go underground for any reason I can help with that too."
"So, me Hazel and Jason." I said. "Sounds good to me." I didn't have anything against Hazel. I liked her in fact. She was just a little too quite, and kept mostly to herself or Nico. But ever since Ron had stayed on the ship to keep her company, she's seem to gotten close to him too. Heck maybe going on a quest with her will help me get to know her.
"Okay, now that, that been decided, maybe we should all try to go back to bed and get some sleep." Percy said, yawning. "We'll have to find a place to drop them off. And Leo maybe while we are there you should go ahead and fix what else needs fixing on the ship so we can be on our way to Olympus."
"There is still stuff to be fixed." Piper asked. Leo nodded with a frighten look on his face. Piper growled and ran her hand through her hair again. "Just be quick about it." She snapped then stumped off toward her cabin.
"Ginny, maybe you should get some sleep too." Jason said. "This quest isn't going to be easy."
I shook my head. "I won't be able to fall asleep, I'm just going to pack what I think I'll need." I said. I kissed Jason's cheek then walked toward my cabin, gripping the key in my hand. I hope I get there in time. Harry saved my life when I was in dragged down in the chamber of Secrats maybe now is my chance to finally repay him.
A.N, there we go another chapter hope it was good, I'm not sure yet how long it will take them to meet back up with each other, but they all will be there to save Harry. I haven't decided yet though, if they'll be together or if both groups just happen to get to Harry at the same time. And I will show what each group is doing after they split up, I won't forces on just one group. So one chapter might show Piper's group and one will show Ginny's. Hope it doesn't get confusing, but I did this for two reasons, one there was to many together and it was hard to come up with something for them all to do and second I wanted to give one of the wizards something to do, the demigods were getting all the task and stuff, I want to start forcing on the wizards too, they apart of this story too, and I picked Ginny because, will she's is one my favorite witches on Harry Potter and I don't really care too much for Ron. Though some of the stuff he says is funny.