Hey everyone,
I am SUPER excited for this chapter. It will contain two incredible fights; one between Luke and the Demigods and one between Voldemort and Charon. Now there will be mixed results for both fights as Harry and Ethan won't be alone when they confront Luke, yet I won't go into the following confrontation in this chapter.
Furthermore, I won't tell you who will win in which fight and who will lose, but I will tell you this: One battle will be lost for one side, yet at the same time that side will end up winning the other fight in a very unexpected way – at least unexpected for them. Now I'm sure some of you already get what I mean so …
Let's get into this,

Venquine1990


Chapter 20
Chances Thwarted, Chances Gained

Mount Olympus
Luke's POV

"These gods are worse than I thought. Why would they even risk the chance for all of them being in one spot when they know there is an active threat? They know something dangerous might soon happen and still they all try this hard to just ignore that? They really think way too high of themselves, those bigoted idiots."
Goes through my head as I have easily snuck out of the new Hogwarts grounds and back to the Main Throne Room at the center top of the mountain that floats above the Empire State Building and once I manage to get through the huge doors that lead to the throne room do I get new evidence that the King of the Gods is a cocky bastard.

The Master Bolt; the most powerful weapon known to the Gods, the source of Zeus' power over thunder storms and the lightning that comes down from the sky is set in its holder next to the largest throne in the room, yet at the same time the entire room is empty and my sense as Hermes' son tells me there are no protections at all.
This both angers and amuses me and a frustrated grin grows on my face as I move over to the bolt and while doing so, do I put on two gloves that were, in my dreams, given to me by my Lord Kronos and that have his power over his Scythe and thus should give me the ability to grasp the Master Bolt without its power overwhelming me.

Yet just when I reach the throne, do I hear a furious voice snap: "You're wasting your time, Luke." And when I turn around, do my eyes widen as I see Black as well as Nakamura, Chase, Jackson, Grace, Underwood and even a few of the Gods that had been around the party to serve as supervisors including Zeus himself.
Yet Black himself seems calm instead of angered and his sister seems to feel the same while Jackson and Underwood seem shocked and angered, Ethan seems angered and Chase seems to look as if I just betrayed her trust in me.
This definitely hurts me a little, yet I feel confident that I can persuade her to see the error in the ways of the gods with time, yet currently my focus is mostly on how calm Grace and Black are and how the King of Gods isn't looking shocked or angered, yet confident as if he believes that he has set up a trap for me to fall in and that I did so.

This confuses and worries me and I ask: "Wasting my time? How?" To which the boy shrugs and says: "Ethan and I have been onto you since you tried using him to demonize me in front of camp. Then Lord Hades visited his kids and since then we have been onto your entire plan. And we already worked to thwart it."
This shocks and confuses me and then both the boy and his sister smirk at me as they suddenly pull out their new wands and start twirling them, yet instead of feeling like they are going to curse me, do I instantly get the hidden implication behind their move, making my eyes widen and turn to Zeus as I whisper: "You didn't."

Yet the man keeps smirking at me and says: "I can still strike you down. It might not hurt you up to the usual levels, but I still can." And while this shocks and frightens me, do I then suddenly sense something very familiar and very welcome as suddenly I feel the very air around me push out and turn so firm it almost turns into an iron cage.
Yet this sense of experience does not affect me, even though it used to when my Lord came to speak to me and instead of that does it seem to affect everyone else. This makes me feel relieved, before my Lord confuses me as he says: "Leave the Mount, my boy. We have gained ourselves a new source of power – in a new ally."
And while I wonder who the Lord of Time could have contacted from his deep, dark and ancient cell, do I not feel stupid enough not to take advantage of the gift my Lord and Master has given me to escape and with the usual speed that I – stupidly conveniently enough – inherited from my father, do I flee the scene.


At the same time
Los Angeles, America
Voldemort's POV

The place I fled from an hour ago definitely scares me, even if I prefer to ignore this fact and would rather die than ever admit it even to my own mirror image, yet the possibilities of using what is there for my plans to take over England – and later the rest of the world – are too delicious and great for me to ignore or turn my back to.
And so, after an hour of me calming down, making sure none of my followers has seen me in my scared, terrified state and gathering a few of those who have affirmed with me that they do not fear death and would die for my plans and cause, am I again back at the front door of DOA Recording Studios; the door to Death.

Yet while I had expected that I would only have to deal with that blasted ferry man, do I then get proven that he is determined to kill me as upon my approaching I suddenly feel the ground shaking with something that sounds like furious growling before a very, very annoyingly familiar monster dashes out of the front door.
Huge in size, black furred, with three heads and eyes filled with vengeful murderous intention; the three-headed dog that was one of the challenges used to protect the Philosopher's Stone stands before me yet again, yet the only difference I can tell from meeting him this time and last is that he now seems to exclude some kind of Aura.
Yet instead of casting the same little summoning spell as I did last time to conjure a harp, do I just nod at my men and they shower the huge beast with a sea of eerie bright green lights, yet then I discover what the aura the beast excludes as, instead of dying, the huge dog like creature just shakes off the effects of the spell shower.

"So, you are immortal now, are you? Highly interesting, yet I wonder if you still have your old weakness." I smirk and with that again conjure an instrument, this time it being a violin and I give it to Anton Nott, who I know is an expert in all forms of music and while the man looks confused, do I glare him into obeying.
And just in time too as the dog seems to have been slightly paralyzed by the power of my men, yet just when he has shaken it off and jumps at me, does the man start playing and his talent shows as the beast lands only inches in front of me, it's breath disgusting me as it snores in its fast asleep state and its three heads snoring loudly.
"Ugh, disgusting fiend." I mutter to myself and then snap: "Anton, you stay here and keep that beast under your control. Macnair, you work your magic and see if you can change the effect music has on it. See if you can see if it can be changed so that music will be like the Imperius instead of a Sleeping draught. Do not fail me."

The two of them bow, Anton still playing and while I can only hope that this will work, do I then motion my other followers to follow behind me as I move over to the entrance of the studio, yet as I open the door, do three flying avian looking fiends shock me into jumping back and pulling my wand at them as I do.
The three fiends then turn out to be the actual Furies from Ancient Greek mythology, yet at the same time do I feel like the mythological descriptions don't do justice to their actual horrifying looks or the vengeful furious rage that seem to spew from their eyes, their gazes making me feel as if they believe my existence to be a personal insult.

"You will not enter this place again, you plague to life." One of them screeches and the other continues: "Not alive, at least." And the third finishes: "Something we will gladly take the time to fix, let us assure you." And the grins that show on their horrid looking faces making me feel as if they already pushed me into my grave.
Yet being who I am, I do not allow for my fear for them coming true to their word to show on my face and instead do I calmly ask: "Let me guess, you are under the same aura as that sleeping mutt over there?" And while they curse at seeing the dog under the influence of my follower, do they glare at me and one of them snaps:
"We don't care for that beast. We care for the laws of life and you are breaking them. Lord Hades doesn't like that, yet he abides by the law himself, so he has given us very clear orders. Keep the cheat out of my domain until he can enter it the proper way. He has forbidden us from causing it ourselves – but not from helping it forward."

And while this actually makes me take a protective stance, my wand in hand and my glare at them proving that I am not planning to let them make true to their threat or that they even scare me as much as they secretly do, yet then I get prove that one of my followers is truly loyal as well as more stupid than I would want him to be.
Jugular Avery steps in front of me and snarls at the Furies: "You three are liars! Lord Voldemort is the future king of the Magical World and you are in his way. Now move before we make you move." And while I feel pleased with his loyalty, can I not help but think: "Oh Avery, you poor simple soul." As the Furies start to cackle.
This sound makes me strongly suppress a shudder as it makes me feel like I felt while Pettigrew was gathering the ingredients for my resurrection, not to mention how horrid I felt as my body began to form once Potter's blood had been taken from him and dropped into the cauldron and then the supposed leader says:

"You poor, poor mortal. The Lord of the Dead has ordered your Master's end to come when it does, yet while he swore us not to cause the man's death – he never denied us the pleasure in regards to your master's little followers; like you, you little fool." And instantly Avery turns from angrily deviant to utterly frantic and terrified.
And while I have grown used to it and have even learned to love the sight of death, torture and horrible acts of violence similar to it, do I still fail to fully suppress a cringe as the three of them suddenly seem to Apparate before they each take a slash at the man, their huge claws going through the man, cloths, mask, bones and flesh.
The man's leftover pieces fall to the ground, his bone made mask having been sliced apart like the rest of him and thus allowing us to see his shocked to death gaze as his eyes quickly lose their life and then something happens that both scares me to near death as well as makes me feel as if I just got to take a step forward in my plans.

A mystic form of vapor slowly seeps up from the leftover bits of the body and as they move up to float above it, do they also slowly change and take the shape of the man's actual soul and while the being looks shocked, does the door behind the Furies then slap open and a tornado of wind gushes out and at the ghost like being.
Instantly I use my connection to the man's Dark Mark as I had spotted it still being part of the man's left forearm and mentally whisper: "Gather souls. Win their trust and send them to me. Do not get caught by that Ferryman, Charon. Do not fail me, my loyal guard." And just before he gets sucked in, does the soul look at me.
And the look that he sends me yet again affirms my belief in his loyalty to my cause and this makes me smirk before the furies look back and one of them says: "We might as well pay the bastard's fee ourselves. We did cause his death and I'm sure Lord Hades would love to see him judged yesterday, wouldn't you agree my sisters?"

Yet while the supposed leader does nod, do I then again get a glimpse of that same Dark Energy that first tempted me to come here before it seems to take hold of the last of the three Furies and a look that is not unlike that of an Imperius victim takes hold of her before she suddenly vanishes similar to how she and her sisters attacked earlier.
This seems to shock both sisters and they share a shocked worried looks before the eyes of the supposed leader slightly glaze over, yet not with the same force as her now vanished sister, only for said sister to suddenly reappear – only she does not appear next to her sisters, she appears in front of Lucius Malfoy instead.
The man proves me he is more of a politician than a fighter as he squeaks like a teenage girl at seeing the beast, only for the fiend to push something into the man's arms before she speaks with a voice that sounds much too masculine and powerful to be her own and to the shock of us all, does she snarl: "Do not drop me, you mortal fool."

And this makes me look down at what the being gave to my loyal Death Eater and the sight of it shocks me and makes me hiss: "We are leaving." And while my Death Eaters look at me shocked, do I then send a victorious glare at the three Furies before Apparating back to my Mansion back in England, my Death Eaters following.
And as they do, do we all gather around Lucius, who looks highly uncomfortable with what he has in his arms, yet I smirk at him and say: "Careful now, Lucius my slippery friend. You are holding your new Lord of the Divine Arts, after all." And with that do we all look down at the heart that has a magical soul of evil surrounding it.


And that is that!
So maybe I should have done the whole thing between Harry and Annabeth into this chapter, yet I truly believed the chapter would take longer and I even elongated the chapter with the arrival of the Cerberus and the Furies. And even after adding that I still got only three pages worth of action out of all of this.
Now I am sure some of you are wondering: Kronos is in pieces back in Tartarus, so how can he be with the Death Eaters like he is? Well, he is actually only a heart as of this point, yet his magic soul is thanks to what happened at the end of chapter eighteen. Further explanations will follow in the next chapter, this I promise you.
Okay, enjoy,

Venquine1990
PS. For Rules, check chapter 01.