Annabeth POV

The first thing I remember from after my flashback was Percy holding me in his arms.

"Wha-" I said, before Percy shushed me.

"We'll talk about it when we get back to the castle," he said.

What had just happened? I know I had a flashback about... Arachne, that horrible creature. I thought I had seen her... but no, that was impossible, I just saw a spider and freaked.

"Oh my gods, Annabeth!" someone said behind Percy.

I couldn't see who it was because Percy was in my way. He looked behind him, and it seemed he was about to voice a question when the person said, "Back at the castle. I want to get back as soon as possible. We have a lot to talk about."

Thinking about it, it sounded a lot like my half-sister, Luna.

Percy helped me up, and we started walking back. Someone came up to us, and pulled me into a hug. All I could see was a mass of white-blonde hair. When they finally pulled away, I saw...

"Luna!" I screamed, pulling her into another hug.

"Annie! Oh my gods, I have missed you so much!" Normally, I would punch anyone who called me Annie, but Luna and Thalia were my two acceptions to that rule.

"Wait, why are you here?" I asked.

"Seriously, you haven't figured it out yet?" Percy intervened. "Even I got it!"

"Congratulations, Seaweed Brain. Now, I'm guessing you were on that quest with Neville?" I asked. She nodded.

So who might be the third demigod? It was impossible to tell.

After much catching up, we ended back in the demigods' common room.

Percy and I stood in front of everyone, and I was about to begin when I noticed Harry, Ron and Hermoine were still standing in the corner. Harry and Hermoine looked confused but determined, and Ron looked scared out of his mind.

I decided to let them stay, since they were the main reason we were here.

"So, let's just start out blunt," I said. Everyone nodded. "We were attacked by a giant spider-"

"Annabeth," Percy said. "I know you'll think this impossible, but it wasn't just any spider. It was..." He hesitated, clearly not wanting to send me into a nightmare-frenzy. However, I did get his point.

"No, that's not possible. She was killed-I saw you do it! We closed the doors, she couldn't get out! She couldn't..." I trailed off, seeing everyone start eyeing the floor.

Leo, being unable to sit still, said, "She said some pretty crazy stuff as she was leaving. Stuff like 'The dark lord has brought me back to life' and stuff. What do you think it means?"

I looked at Leo, who eyed the door nervously.

I went over to him, and he shrunk into the couch.

I hugged him, and he made a sound like a cat being stepped on.

When I pulled away, I said, "Repair Boy, I'm glad you're not dead. Now, what you were saying, about the whole 'dark lord brought me back to life' thing: Anyone have any clue about it?"

"Well, clearly someone has control over life and death," Will said. Wait, Will?

"Will?" I asked.

"Yeah, I came earlier today, just before... y'know. I needed to keep an eye on Nico," he said.

I nodded, then continued to speak, saying, "Any thoughts to whom this dark lord may be?"

Luna spoke up, saying, "Yeah, it may be the dark wizard that Neville and I came here to defend the school against."

Suddenly, the three wizards in the room (excluding the demigod ones) gasped.

"Y-y-" Hermoine started to say.

"Awkward," Leo muttered under his breath, and then ran out of the room being chased by Thalia again.

"I-I guess you had no choice to tell us, like Neville," Harry said. Luna turned to him, a silent thank you hidden in her grey eyes.

"Yeah, okay. It's the thought that counts, after all," Hermoine said, but she still looked confused, surprised, and betrayed.

Ron, on the other hand, was sitting on the floor in a fetal position, shaking. He must have arachnophobia.

"Anyways, what do we know about this guy?" I said, trying to get back on topic.

"He isn't technically living," Nico said. "This is one of the people my dad has reserved a special spot for in the Fields of Punishment. He divided his soul into different parts, so you can't kill him straight-on. But, as far as I know, he doesn't have any power over the dead."

"Okay, this is enough to work with," I said. "So, this guy-wait, what's his name?"

"He-he's called..." Luna trailed off, eyeing the boys nervously. "He's called Voldemort."

Coincidentally, Leo happened to walk back into the room at that moment, on fire.

Leo, Will, Thalia, Percy, Frank and Jason cracked into hysterical laughter, Piper, Hazel and I laughed a little bit (I mean, Voldemort is pretty funny), Harry said, "FIRE!", and Hermoine and Ron screamed and gasped at the same time. How they did that, I didn't know.

Eventually, the laughter ceased, but everyone started laughing even more when Hermoine used the aguamenti charm on Leo, soaking him but not putting out his fire.

The wizards screamed more, we laughed, and Nico even cracked a smile.

Eventually, Piper charmspeaked Leo into extinguishing his fire, the laughter stopped, and I continued.

"Three things: One, we know this Voldemort guy (Leo, stop laughing) either has the ability to bring monsters back from... well, either he can do that, or he is teamed up with someone who can. Two, why did you guys gasp whenever we say Voldemort?" I said, addressing the last part towards Ron and Hermoine.

Harry answered, saying, "Well, most wizards think that name is taboo. It isn't really bad, but most people just think it is."

Hermoine nodded, and Ron just looked more terrified then before.

"Three, why were you," I continued, addressing Ron, "screaming when we saw... the spider?"

"Sp-spiders are really creepy!" Ron said, eyeing me nervously.

I simply nodded, and was about to continue speaking when Hermoine voiced a question.

"What is it that you guys keep not saying? You'll be saying something about a place, but you won't say the name. What is it?"

Before I could help it, visions of Tartarus flashed before my eyes.

No! I'm not going to succumb to visions of that place twice in one night!

As quickly as I could, I ran up to my room, Percy right behind me.

Sorry that neither this nor the last chapter have been much good. I'm kind of doing fillers for now, because I don't have any solid ideas yet, but I don't want to completely ditch this story.

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