To GemOfOlympus : Look, you got a special place! He-he. Am I surprised? Not really. P.S. You better write up more "Gem Of Olympus" Chapters! ^_^

Disclaimer: I do not own PJO or HP.

~Snake Spawn~

000 Alisa 000

"Shit!" I yell as I trip over a loose stone on the floor.

I put my hand over my knee, inspecting the scrape. Nothing serious. Barely broke the skin.

Ever since last night, my Ghost Sight has really dulled. I can barely see anything.

I open a door randomly just in time to hear a rough, familiar voice, "Hello? Person in the room."

I squeak an apology unwillingly and dash through the open door, "Wait, Alisa!"

I'm half-way down the hall (I think) when I trip over a slightly elevated step. "Damn it!"

"Here, let me help." His voice calls from the darkness. I stretch out my arm and he grabs it with his... I never realized how tough and callused his finger were and how...

I stop myself as he helps me sit upright in the step, his fingers brush my knee and unexpected pain shoots through me, causing me to flinch, "Sorry."

"Not your fault," I mutter, heat slowly going through my face.

"Damn, it's bleeding pretty badly..." he mutters, "Here."

I feel myself rising off the ground, a strong muscled arm behind my knees and on my back. What did people call this? Oh right, bridal style.

"H-h-hey!" I shout indignantly, "Let go! Put me down!"

"Not happening." I could hear a grin in his voice. Don't ask how, I just heard it.

I struggle more, "Damn it, Nico!"

"Fine, fine." He says, and he just drops me. Just. Like That.

I expected to find my spine hitting stone, but instead a mattress greeted me.

I feel callused fingers wrapping a bandage around my wound. (Which, I could feel, is bleeding rather profusely after getting hit by unpolished stone twice in a span of five minutes) Fingers, I might add, are way too big to be Nico's, yet they're somewhat familiar.

"Kale?" I ask tentatively.

"Hey, Ali," he says, "This is somewhat nostalgic."

I grin at the darkness ('Cause my Ghost Sight is seriously malfunctioning.) "Yeah..." my grin falters, "Sorry for, you know, forgetting..."

I could sense his gentle smile, directed at me, "Ah, I don't blame you..."

"So, why are you here anyway?" I ask him, trying to steer the conversation somewhere else.

He was glad to comply, "Well, after the first Quidditch match, a lot of kids were pretty banged up."

"Oh, I remember that," I say, a faint memory coming to me, "it was the one with Slytherin and Ravenclaw, right?"

"Yeah," he answered, sitting at the edge of the bed, "Well, I went up here and helped the Nurse, since I was pretty good at it, she let me help now and then."

"Hmmm..." Suddenly, I reach out for his face until I felt it between my fingers, "I finally get to meet you without forgetting, and I can't see you."

He puts a forge-toughened hand on my right hand and replies, "I finally see you, and you've changed so much..."

I feel tears starting to soak my blindfolded eyes when a huge crash echoes and my instincts go into hyper drive.

"Alisa, duck!" Nico's voice shouts out, me instinctively obeying. I feel a rush of air hit the wall behind me and I'm showered with rubble.

"You. Will. Obey. Me!" an unfamiliar voice screeches, "PEREMO!"

"Alisa!" Nico's and Kale's voice screams in harmony, and I have no time to do anything as a spell hits my blindfold.

The blindfold disintegrates and for a second, I can see Nico and Kale's horrified faces so clearly with another person, a blond-haired male with eyes glowing a sickly, menacing green.

Then, everything disappears.

000 Nico 000

I've been fighting this ass-hat for five minutes already.

"I. Am. The. Dark. Lord!" He screeches at me, firing spell after spell.

At first, I only went out of the infirmary to check on the crash, when I felt the dead-but-alive body. I ran to the boy crouching in some kind of pain. Suddenly, his body froze, and his eyes turned bright green.

That's when all Hades broke loose.

The ass-hat just started screaming and fired off a spell that disintegrated a few windows.

I duck another spell, only to have it hit the infirmary door.

"Damn it!" I let loose a few more choice swear words as I chase the ass-hat into the room, yelling, "Alisa, duck!" when he fired off a spell at her.

"You. Will. Obey. Me!" he screeches, and screams a spell, directed right at her "PEREMO!"

Me and Kale scream her name helplessly as the black spell hits her face directly, causing her blindfold to disintegrate. For a second, all I can see are her eyes. Her eyes haven't really changed, except for that toughened, somewhat damaged look to them. And then, an inky black starts swallowing her eyes.

I look on, horrified as she slumps and falls to the mattress. Anger overrides my system and I raise a skeleton troupe before I know it.

I mutter a word under my breath. Calm. Cold. Almost lifeless. "Attack."

The skeletons start to attack the small boy. I should feel pity. I really should. Pity for the small boy trying to hold back the ever growing army of the undead.

But right now, all I could feel is anger and helplessness as I pick up Alisa's body.

Lifeless.

Her starry eyes, completely black.

I glare at the small boy.

Slightly happy as the army starts to overcome him.

An then. Just as the army is about to destroy the damned hell-spawn.

He disappears in green, snake-smelling smoke.

A/N: So, this is to make up for all the late chapters. Enjoy the earliness while you can, 'cause my school days are about to start. I'm considering drawing Alisa & Nico since FF added the Image Manager, how about you guys, are you making a story cover for your stories? ~Nyx

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