Demigod Teachers
London Airport
Rachel Dare knew for certain now, she was getting herself a Pegesus and never flying by plane again. She would rather be stuck on the Argo III with Leo for a year than be stuck on a plane with a bunch of loud mouth bloody toddlers….maybe it was a good thing that she was eternally single without kids then.
At least this time the flight wasn't trying to kill to her, thankfully Percy nor Nico were with her this time so Zeus didn't want to kill any of them…not That Zeus would have been allowed to kill any of them as that would have caused a war with Zeus against his two brothers AND Apollo.
Rachel wasted no time in picking up her bags and making her way to the exit. Reaching the door, she was glad to see the mop of red hair that belonged to Charlie. Walking over to his cousin he said "Rachel! My god it's been too long! How have you been?!"
The grin on her cousin's face was infectious and Rachel broke out with a grin on her own face. "Hey Charles" She had stopped calling him Charlie out loud a while ago. She hadn't really known Charlie (Charles) Beckendorf. But She knew he died a hero and that she was one of the last people who saw him. She was reminded of it every time she pulled her knife out of her holster. One of the last things he made before he started to prepare for the war. A Request from Percy and Annabeth in case Luke tried anything.
It just made it difficult to call her cousin Charlie…Charlie, so she had been calling him Charles since she was 17 when Charles was 12. She couldn't believe how tall he was now. He must have been a good 2 inches higher than her now "I've been good; been doing a lot of painting recently. Like it's been non-stop. I actually have a perma-Hand cramp now."
Her Cousin winced and said "Oh, is there anything they can do about it?" he shook her head "not Really, we're at the point where I'm just stuck where I am." She could see Charles gears working overtime, trying to work out something for her so she quickly changed subject and asked "So how's Romania?"
Charles immediately brightened up and started talking about life over there. She knew from the way he was talking that he was avoiding talking about something in particular, most likely the fact that he and the entire Weasley family were Wizards and Witches and that Chalres worked with Dragons in Romania to keep people around the globe safe from being eaten. And keep the Dragons away from Dragon Hunters. She wondered if he had ever encountered a Drakon by mistake?
Charlie led her into a black cab and told the driver where to go before turning on the "Window" so the driver couldn't hear them. "So, I've got some great news. Mum is finally letting you in on the family secret. As soon as Ron and Ginny are back from school, we are going around to the family house to tell you everything."
Rachel grinned, she already knew what it was; a benefit from being the Oracle of Delphi she supposed. She pressed a hand against him "Hey that's great, I always knew you guys were hiding something from me. Especially Ron, no clue how he would have been able to keep his mouth shut" Suddenly a flash of green appeared in front of her eyes, before her eyes glazed over..
She saw Bill fighting some mysterious figure, a monster of some kind which was trying to kill him. Bill was dodging out of the way, left, right, left right. When suddenly Charles appeared, stabbing the monster through the chest with her knife.
Snapping out of the Vision, she saw Charles shaking her knee worriedly asking "Rachel, are you okay? What happened?" Clearing her head she said "Sorry, Just a really bad headache came on, it's already passing. Must have spent too much time drawing earlier. So how much longer until we arrive at your apartment."
Charles shook his head "Oh about 10 minutes."
Okay she had time to recover from her vision then. Her family was in danger. Which meant that Percy and Annabeth are also in danger. Oh Jackson's what have you gotten yourselves into this time.
Gaunt Shack ~ England
"Are you sure Nico? It feels very…run down to hide something so important."
Hazel's voice was full of confusion, Nico understood why. Why hide part of your soul in a run down dump that had ruined your parents lives? It didn't make sense. But then again, splitting your soul in the first place never made much sense to Nico. Everything needs to die eventually. It just means living life to its fullest.
He watched as Severus waved his wand around, the Shack was much larger than any of them had been expecting. It also smells terrible. Despite all of them being children of gods of the underworld. They never actually had to be near actual rotting corpses. It was either Spirits or Skeletons normally. Nico winced at the smell "I think Riddle placed a charm on his family's bodies…to keep them preserved. But the magic has clearly worn off."
Transforming his ring into a sword again, he moved over to one of the bodies, trying to not pass out from the smell. He used the Sword to move the dead bodies head and the head fell to the side, revealing a half eaten corpse with maggots wriggling around inside. Nico felt sick to his gut. He could feel the darkness radiating from both bodies but neither of them deserved to be preserved like this. He wouldn't be surprised if Riddle had trapped their souls to their bodies.
Stepping back, he imagined the ground splitting open and swallowing the two bodies, in the chairs that had been placed in. Riddle wouldn't be hard to deal with, not compared to the Pit. But he could see why the Pit had teamed up with Riddle. The Dark Wizard was a sociopath with the same kind of twisted mind that some monsters in the Pit had.
Without turning to look at them he said "Brace yourselves!". Hazel grabbed onto the table while Severus made a magical grabbing hood and attached it to the ceiling….probably easier way of doing it but his 'Nephew' had chosen the weird way."
Hazel had felt the ring's presence since the moment she got into the Shack. It was drawing her in but she knew what it was. A Cursed item that allowed its wielder to see the dead, before Riddle cursed it even more.
Unlike the popular story told to Wizards about the Peverells. The Items were not gifts. The truth was that Thanatos had given the items to the three brothers as a death sentence. You can not outrun or out smart death. Only the third Brother realised that and used his item to avoid death's looms until his original natural time. Where he impressed death so much, that he had made him his assistant. A rare honour; And one that he still served today.
Because of her unique connection to the God of death, she could feel the ring hidden under the floorboards, it's was a powerful charm but she wasn't just the daughter Pluto, she was the apprentice fo Hecate, the Goddess of Magic; AND SHE WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED BY DARK MAGIC.
The Air started to restrict as Hazel lifted up off the floor, mist forming around her hands and Feet "Boy's Stand back!" She Twisted her hands and started tearing apart the enchantments in the shack, each one causing a magic feedback that she absorbed into herself and released as the Mist. She pulled the Ring up by the magic surrounding it, the ring splitting and tearing open the wooden panels on the floor which Severus had to cast a charm to protect him and Nico from.
The Ring was now floating in front of her, if she was anyone else, she would have needed basilisk psion to destroy the piece of Soul. But she was the daughter of Pluto, she controlled gemstones of all kinds. And this Gem wouldn't harm anyone else. She imagined the magic within the gem gathering up, becoming a small sphere of magic; before bombarding it with more magic and mist from outside the ring.
The Black Ring started the glow purple and red as the magic within the ring became more and more unstable. Sweat poured down her face as maintained the unstable sphere as long as she could, which in turn made the sphere even more unstable. Once she was happy with the level of instability she let go, the magic wasted no time exploding within the ring. The Full tremendous force of the magic pushed against the inside of the gemstone.
Hazel could feel the cracks forming on the gemstone, She could feel the gem beginning to shatter under the immense pressure, the gem beginning to shoot off small parts of gem stone as the crack became too big to keep the stone together. Right before a piece of the gem stone could hit her brother in his face, she halted it with her hand in mid air, stopping it and all the other shattering pieces before opening a small crack in the ground and sending all the pieces flying straight into the underworld. Right into the fields of Punishment. One Soul Piece down.
She landed on the ground to two very impressed faces with Nico going "and to think you used to be only able to summon gemstones and Were barely able to control the mist. You've come a long way little Hazel."
Sticking her tongue out at her brother she said "I'm not that small anymore Nico!" They two of them laughed while Severus just sighed and said "Can we go now….I desperately need a drink"
No.12 Grimmauld Place ~ England
Sirius Black, couldn't sit still. Tomorrow he was going to be a free man. Tomorrow he could officially become Harry's Godfather, Save Narcissa and Draco from Lucius by becoming Lord Black, Bring the Tonks back into the family. And last but not least, walk around as a free man. Nothing could go wrong after all, he had both Annabeth Chase-Jackson AND his former partner Amelia Bones.
Right?!
Truth be told, he was terrified. Everything that could go wrong, may go wrong, and he was worried that he might be asked something and put his foot in it. There were a lot of Death Eaters who were willing to lie to keep the truth about Pettigrew quiet. They didn't want to let the now scared population know that Voldemort had actually died, and that Pettigrew, the true traitor, had been the one to revive him.
They had been using the fear of him being still alive the entire time since he killed Fudge after all, using it to make the Potter's sacrifice seem less important and Noble. He could feel his blood boil, No during the trial he would make it clear what Lily and James had done, He wouldn't not let their sacrifice be ruined by the very evil they helped to damage.
He was storming around the Kitchen, Molly watching him carefully; worried for him. It was nice to have a mother figure in the house for the kids to look up to. Especially seeing how messed up a lot of people's home lives were.
Suddenly the Kitchen door banged open much to everyone's shock. He Twisted around only to see Amelia Bones in the flesh, anger in her eyes staring at him. "Black, sit down. NOW!" He obeyed straight away, finding the first seat to sit in. He had only been on Amelia's bad side once before, and he never wanted to get on it ever again.
She stormed over to it and yelled "WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING HIDING IN THIS OLD PLACE! WE BOTH KNOW HOW MUCH YOU HATED THIS HOUSE AND YOUR STINKING BLOODY MOTHER! YOUR ALSO LUCKY I BLACKLISTED ALL OF YOUR PROPERTIES BEFORE YOU ESCAPED UNDER MY NAME! OTHERWISE MY ENTIRE AUROR FORCE WOULD HAVE TRACKED YOU DOWN IN WEEKS! WHY DIDN'T YOU COME TO ME! I COULD HAVE HIDDEN YOU!"
He winced as she yelled into his ear, she was right. The only reason he had been able to stay free for so long was because of Luck and pure determination to see Harry. "It's nice to see you, Amy."
She grabbed his ear by foce and pulled him around "Don't Amy me!" The Pain is what he felt first before he realised that she had slapped him "DON'T YOU REALISE HOW MUCH WORRY YOU PUT ME THROUGH?! HOW MUCH PAIN! JUST FOR YOU NOT TO COME TO ME WHEN YOU ESCAPED!"
The tears were rolling down her face and suddenly he realised, it wasn't just Harry and Draco he had hurt by going after Petigrew; He had also hurt Amy, in a way that he could never imagine. The War had been tough on everyone, but especially her. Losing her Brother and his wife, having to take in Baby susan. Still be an auror on top of that and being one of the most feared aurors at that. He had been the shoulder for her to lean on. And he had left her for so long "Am…Amelia…I'm…so, so sorry. I never meant to hurt you like that."
Tears were forming in his eyes, but through the blur he could see the room empting, everyone giving them some space. Suddenly she moved forwards and sat on his lap, legs on either side of his own, arms wrapped around his neck and she pressed her lips against him.
His eyes widened but he wrapped his arms back around her, and leant into the kiss, his first kiss since he was 21 and it was with the woman he knew he loved. After 12 years in Azkaban he knew that for certain. She was the only lady in his life bar Lily for obvious reasons that his mind raced back to everytime.
They were like that for a good few minutes, before Amelia finally backed off for a few seconds, placing a hand on his chest. We're picking off right where we left off. I've got all the paperwork ready, all the forms are filled in bar your signature."
Still trying to catch his breath, he managed to get out "What are you talking about Amy?" She pressed her head against his "During the war. During the Battle of Buchanan Street, you proposed to me during the heat of battle while the two of us were pinned against a corner. James was already knocked out and everything looked like it was the end. You proposed and I said yes. I had already adopted Susan and you said when you proposed that you would be a father to her. That I wouldn't be Aunt Amelia, it would just be mum. We would be a family."
His eyes widened "I completely forgot about it…Oh god Amy…I'm sorry. I completely forgot. But the Ministry took my wedding Bands when they arrested me. They won't still be there after all these years. We both know after a case is solved they throw them away."
She smiled, giving him a quick peck on the lips before standing up "Oh I wouldn't worry about that. When you were arrested and they were taken….I may have snatched them from the Auror who had them….and maybe knocked him out so he wouldn't know it was me. The Wedding bands are at Bones Manor. Before New Year, we are getting married."
Sirius pressed a hand against her arm "By the end of the year…Amy, that's less than a month away. How the hell could we even do that?"
Amy crouched so that the two of them were level "We were without each other for 14 years. I'm not letting another day gy by without you. We can start planning this weekend. Nothing big. Just us, a few friends from our time at school. Susan and Harry of Course."
"Then yeah, let's do it." His heart spoke before his brain, but he knew his brain agreed. He stood up and said "So….how are we going to tell Harry and Susan."
Amy scrunched her face up "I'l tell Susan, you tell Harry. Maybe it's best Susan talks to him through the adoption forms though….hearing it in person might be easier."
"Sounds like a plan! I'll get on writing that letter. Straight away"
Amy pushed him back into the chair, the force making him tip back into the table slightly. "Not quite yet Mr Black. We still have a trial tomorrow. And you need to look presentable." Before pulling out a pair of scissors and a Trimmer from her bag.
Medic's Guild - House of Life
"Let's move people! We need this place ready for tomorrow!" Will was going through the checklist, a major operation and a clinic for those who got injured moving the prisoners tomorrow. Why did they make this all happen at once?! He blamed Percy.
He was about to charge into the reception to find out why there was such a line when he felt something wrap their arms around his legs. He looked down to see his 6 year old daughter Anne-marie, holding onto his leg tightly. Crouching down, he ruffled her hair and said "Now what is this little trouble maker doing outside of my office."
She looked up and said "Was Scared, Dark shadow in your office"
Twisting his head he looked at Anne-Marie "A dark shadow you say, like the kind Daddy makes, or the scary kind?"
Taking a hand of his leg she raised it to his face and showed two. He stood up and peeled her hands away from his leg before hoisting her up into his arms "Should we go together and what it is then."
She nodded and he walked the two of them to his office, The door was slightly ajar and oddly in pitch darkness. He had the office lit up when he left Anne-Marie. Putting his daughter down, he summoned his bow into his hands, forming a light arrow within its grasps, pushing the door open with the heel of his boot, he saw the dark energy circling in the centre of the room.
Aiming his Bow straight ahead he heard a deep gravelly voice that he hadn't heard in a long time "It's been too long, Son of Apollo. But my sacrifices tell me you now go by Dr Solace; isn't that right?!"
Wil eyes wided, "Octavian?! You're behind the darkness I presume, despite the fact that you died. 10 years ago"
Octavian chuckled, his severely charred body coming through the darkness. As a matter of fact Will was surprised that Ottvian was still even able to move. Some parts of his body were completely burnt away revealing empty flesh that was being filled with Darkness. "Yes, but that is the power of Lord Tartarusafter all. He's brought me back just so I could get my revenge on you, and that son of Hades and that traitor Reyna."
WIll stepped back and whispered "Anne-Marie, run and hide in Dr Trina's office. DOn not let anyone come in." The young girl ran and he said "We tried to warn you that you were stuck to the catapult, but you didn't listen. You have nobody to blame but yourself."
"No, You killed me, I remember you trapping me to that catapult by using the light to make yourself invisible" Moving back slightly further, Will said "Octavian, The Pit is messing with your mind. What would Apollo say if he saw what you were doing"
Two growls appeared from either side of Octavian "Apollo lied to me, he told me I was going to lead the 12th legion to victory! Now he will get to see his prodigal sun burnt alive, before I kill his best friend Megan, then last but not least, force him into his Human form and kill him myself! But before any of that I will force him to watch as I kill his precious Granddaughter as you are forced to watch, bleeding out, unable to save her."
The room lit up in blinding light as Will eyes glowed orange with red "YOU WILL STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU BLOODY BASTARD" Releasing an arrow of light that struck Octavian in the chest, burning away the darkness that was spewing from him and keeping his body together.
The light didn't last long though before being absorbed back into the darkness that Octavian was giving off, and his body fully reformed. "Damn you are troublesome." The owners of the growls appeared and two large wolves with runes covering his body. "William, I would like to introduce you to Sköll and Hati. I'm sure you know enough about the Norse gods now to know who they are."
"F*** you!" Will screamed before slamming closed the door and running for the emergency alarm system, reaching it he slammed his hand on the alarm creating a red blaring alarm throughout the entire Guild, he then grabbed the microphone and said "THis is Head Doctor, Dr WIll Solace. The Medical Guilde is under attack by a being possessed by Tartarus and two Norse monsters Sköll and Hati! There may be more threats loose in the hospitals. All Patients and non-combat doctors please evacuate the guild in a calm order!"
Before he could finish his message, a dagger went through the line and into arm. WIll had to bite his tongue to stop the scream. He hadn't been in a battle where he was in any real danger in years. Why would he, Will had Nico protecting him and he was a Doctor. Will could see the twin norse wolves running down the hallway, Octavian at the end of it. How in the name of Hades did Octavian throw a knife that accurately and that far.
Will Kicked off the wall and started running again. WIll knew what Octavian was doing by aiming for his arm, with the blood loss from a dagger this size, He would be dead in 10 minutes, That's unless, WIll took the knife out, cleaned it and bandaged it. It would keep him alive but he would also be unable to use the bow making him vulnerable to Octavian's attacks.
Will thankfully had his bag with all his supplies slung over his shoulder. Still running as fast as he could, hoping to wrap around to the reception where some of the guards should have arrived by now. He Pulled the knife out of his lower arm with barely a started to pour from the open wound even quicker.
Putting the dagger into his bag, he searched around for some anti-bac healing wipes, he applied pressure to the wound and cleaned the edges, all the while, dodging more weapons being thrown at him. Once he was satisfied with the clean, he threw the wipe onto the floor, the wipe being transported into the bin by the magic that ran through the place.
At least the magic hadn't been destroyed, he could work with that. Next he grabbed a Dressing and placed it onto his arm awkwardly, With him having to put the injured arm against his face to keep the dressing in place while he fished out a Dressing. He wouldn't be able to apply the dressing while running, he needed to find somewhere to stop….Anubis office. The magic of agod's office would protect him for just long enough.
Left, Left, Right, left. He ran down the corridors, holding down the dressing against his wound, he wanted to scream in agony but he knew he couldn't. FInally he found the room and slid into it, slamming the door shut. He looked at the top of the door and found the egyptian heliograph that meant Locked.
Sitting down, he took a couple deep breaths before fishing out the bandages from his bag, he started to wrap them around his dressing. Biting into his mouthpiece that he had for situations like this, just to stop himself screaming. He could hear the Wolves trying to tear down the door and could feel the vibrations. He had about a minute left. Grabbing a pin, he made the bandage trapped against his arm and looked around for anything in Anubis's office that he could use.
Damn there wasn't much. Grabbing a heavy paper weight, he pulled the door and slammed it into one of the wolves faces, stunning it.
He Jumped past the other one who was confused and made his way down the hall, sliding through Octavian's legs who just tutted "You can't escape William. I will find and kill you." He made it to the end of the hallway where he would be able to get to the reception when the wolf he hadn't attacked pounded on him, sending him flying against the wall, shattering the bones in his right arm.
A Scream echoed throughout the corridor as he tried to fight off the wolf with his injured Arm. he could hear Octavina clapping in the background and he heard the evil prick say "I'm surprised at how well you have done, surviving this long against my forces, especially for someone who is retired William, but just like my master told me, you were still to slow. As we speak my forces are grabbing your daughter and having her brought to me. I will kill her quickly for you. Keep the poor girl's suffering short."
Will could feel his anger growing again but he couldn't do anything, he couldn't even reach his bag to grab the knife.
However when all hope seems lost that's when it also shines its brightest. A Sword slashed through the wolf with one clean swipe. The Sword hitting the ground on the other side with a Clunk . Through the pain he asked "Nico?"
"Note Quite." He looked up at the owner of the sword and saw a young man around 16 with his hair tied back into a ponytail. He sighed in relief "Magnus, I don't think I've ever been so grateful to see someone who meant to be dead before."
Magnus chased picking his sword up "Just thank Odin that my and Sam got here in time. Now run, Will, Run!" Will struggled to his feet and bolted towards The reception area.
Magnus knew the moment that he saw the walking corpse that he wouldn't be able to kill him, the corpse had dark magic surrounding it that felt even more powerful than that of Loki's. That didn't mean he couldn't still try and kill him however. Running forwards he lifted up Jack and slashed through the corpse's stomach. The Man chuckled "You will have to do better than that Child of Frey."
He groaned and swung Jack once more this time at the corpse's arm. The Arm fell off and the man didn't seem to care. Continuing to walk, A wave of dark energy connected the severed limb to the corpse, before reconnecting properly. He went in to strike once more but
The corpse said "I believe your friend still needs help with Sköll."
The corpse continued to walk but he turned back to find Sam struggling to fight Sköll, He turned heal and headed over to help out Sam, he bounced off the wall and swung into Sköll, the wolf was kicked back against the wall while Sam caught her breath "Thanks for that Mag…Behind you!"
Sköll had gotten back up much quicker than he had been expecting, He was sent crashing into the door of Anubis and groaned. Sam on the other hand started fending the wolf off again. He needed to end this here. He ran back down the courier before coming to a sliding halt, his sneakers burning but that didn't matter. Twisting to face Sköll again, he kicked off asking Jack "Are you ready for this?!" The Sword hummed and Magnus smiled. He leapt into the sky, Jack helping him fly through the air.
Then right as he was above the Wolf, he brought Jack striking down straight through the wolf's head and he screamed "Now This time stay dead!"
He sighed as Sam said "Ready for the rest of them?" he groaned a bit and helped his friend to her feet.
Will came to a halt in the Reception, the room was in chaos as heroes from across the mythological world fought off various threats. He could hear octavian's laughter and threat ringing in his ear. He hoped that Magnus could deal with the wolves.
Just as he was catching his breath, he felt something kick him in his back sending him flying to the ground. He wanted to scream but he doubted it would be heard over everything else anyway. Rolling over he found Octavian standing their smuggly "I'm actually disappointed now William. Having to get a child of the Norse, to help you survive. That just won't do. Not that it really matters anyway. I have your daughter." Trapped in the arms of a young Lygisterian was Anne-Marie, struggling against her foe.
This looked like the end but Will was proud of his daughter. Not that he was going to give up right until the end. "You don't need to do this Octavian, it's me that you want." The Man laughed, "Oh poor William, you think it's just you?! I want to kill you, Your Dad, That Damn Perseus and I will make you all suffer!"
A Young Daughter of Ares charged at Octavian. The Disgusting corpse didn't even flinch and grabbed the poor girl's sword and turned it against her, slitting her throat. Blood pouring from the cut. The poor girl fell to the ground. He looked on in shock at it and her name came to him Selina Clarisse Stull. "You're a monster Octavian."
"Are you just realising this now?"
The Lygusterian reached Octavian and handed Anne-Marie to him. All he could do was look on in shock as Will pulled out a new knife and held it against her neck "Now Will, how should I kill your precious daughter, the same way I killed that Girl, or stab your daughter in the stomach and let her bleed out. Or maybe in the Heart or Brain.
Will's eyes were glowing golden uncontrollably, he reached into his bag and found the dagger he had been stabbed with and with his injured arm, flung it at the thing that was once known as Octavian. Despite being severely injured in his arms, the gifts of Apollo kicked in and the knife headed straight for its target.
The Dagger embedded itself right in Octavian's right eye who actually screamed out in a mixture of rage and Pain, dropping Anne-Marie as he clutched his wound. Anne-Marie ran over to her and squealed in worry "Dada!"
He wrapped his semi-injured arm around his daughter and said "Oh my beautiful baby girl, you're unharmed." Kissing her forehead.
Octavian pulled the dagger out of his head, pulling the eye with it. "You bastard! Do you have any idea how long it takes to regenerate an eye?!" He crept towards the two of them. A Knife and a Dagger in a hand each, both aimed for the two Solaces/ he was ready to bring down the weapons on them when a Voice screamed out throughout the hospital
"Octavian!"
The look on Octavain's face paled. "Not yet, I was promised he wouldn't be here for a few hours!" Will smirked and Anne-Marie gleefully went "Daddy's here." Will sat up a bit more and said "It's over now Octavian."
"Get the hell away from my family!" The ground started to split open as Nico Di Angelo stormed through the entrance of the Guild, An air of death following him. His eyes as black as the night sky, His Stygian Steel sword ready to kill the man that had threatened his family.
Octavian sighed in frustration "This isn't over William. Your end is almost upon us. Till we meet again." Before fading into the darkness along with all the monsters that he had brought with him. Ending the battle.
Will could feel the ground stitching itself back up and heard Nico scream his name "WIll! Anne-Marie!" His Husband of 6 years came to a halting stop right next to him. "Will you're hurt!" Smiling Will pressed his hand against Nico's face, "Have I ever told you how much I love you." Before his body passed out from exhaustion.
Hogwarts castle ~ The Highlands - Scotland
"I really mean it Trace, I'm looking forward to meeting your Mum." Harry said to his girlfriend as they walked to their next class. His hand was holding hers tightly, he had been on edge since Fudge was killed and even the slight tensions breakers of learning of Ron's cousin and Tracey confirming that her mum was fine with him coming over for the holidays. It was just that constant worry that everything would now fall down around him.
Tracey came to a sudden jolt which stopped him right in his tracks, he always forgot how strong she was, but he liked it. Although he wished he could convince her to fly on a broom with him. "Harry, I'm not doubting you. But you're so stressed about everything right now. I think you just need to take a break. I could tell Professor Snape that I've already completed my work for today and that I need your help for something else.
"That won't be necessary Tracey."
Harry and Susan both turned on their heels, Harry looked curiously at the owner of the voice and said "Susan Bones, RIght?" The Strawberry blond nodded and Harry noticed that she clearly spent a lot of time in the sun seeing how she had more freckles than Tracey which was saying something as Tracey spent loads of time outside.
Tracey smiled at Susan and asked her "hey Susan, how can we help you." The Strawberry blond cracked her head "I'm here to talk about the forms mentioned in Sirius's letter." Harry immediately started to reach for his wand but Tracey stopped him.
Harry sighed and asked "A Letter from Sirius What are you talking about…" Her eyes widened "Oh….you've not read it yet…look it not really my place to say what's in the letter. At least not yet. But you really need to read it before tomorrow's trial…so maybe go up to the owlery and see if you have a letter from Snuffels yet."
Both Tracey's and Harry's eyes widened and Harry went "So….you know Snuffels how exactly." Susan looked a bit awkward and said "It's really not my place to say but my Aunt Amelia and Sirius may have had some history before Snuffles was arrested."
Harry started coughing "I'm sorry, you're saying that the head of DMLE was…" Tracey finished the sentence off "Knocking boots with Snuffles". Susan nodded…"So…should we go and get that letter…I kind of got the whole lesson off so I could go through the stuff in the letter with you."
The three of them awkwardly climbed to the owlery, Harry and Tracey together the entire time, watching as Susan mumbled to herself. They reached the top of the tower and Tracey shaked in cold, So Harry being the gentleman he was, gave her his jacket to put on top before looking around for any owl that could be Sirius.
That was when a Scrawny barn owl came crashing into Owlery and Harry could only sigh "That's Sirius's Owl all right." The Owl shaking its head started to glide over to him and landed on his arm, the talons digging into his arms. Welp he was going to need to clean those out.
He was about to start unwinding it when Susan said "Maybe read it somewhere a bit quieter, like an abandoned classroom." Tracey smiled at Susan, the cold getting to her "And somewhere a bit warmer too." Harry felt a laugh escape his lips but he would be lying if he said he wasn't worried about what the letter was going to say.
What if Sirius didn't want to take him in anymore. What if Sirius was running away from the trial and would always be a fugitive. What if Sirius didn't approve of his relationship with Tracey….wait that was ridiculous, Sirius was like the first person to approve.
He felt somebody clench his hand and he snapped out of his thoughts "Harry, we're here He shook his head to focus and pressed his hand against the door, pushing it open "You sure nobody comes in here Susan.""
The other girl nodded "Last time anyone was in here was like two years ago. I don't think we have to worry.
He sat down on a dusty desk and unrolled the letter
Dear Pup,
So as you know the court case is tomorrow (I really hope you're ready to testify), and I'm looking forward to being a free man. But I've got some big news that will change not only my life but yours too if you accept.
I'm Getting Married!
To be more specific, I'm getting married to Amelia Bones. She and I were a thing before the whole Azkabang stuff and we've decided that once she gets me free, we're picking up exactly where we are. And we were already engaged so the next step is marriage. The Date is the 24th of December or Christmas Eve. And I want you to be one of my best man's.
But this brings us onto the other thing. When we were originally going to marry, I agreed to adopt Susan. The two of us would have raised her together but obviously everything went wrong. But now you're my responsibility too…So me and Amelia/Amy were talking…we want to adopt you as well. Susan can go through it all with you, Amelia has been through it with her for years as they've brought it up. You would still be able to call yourself Potter if you wanted to but you could take the Bones-Black name on too. But it means nobody could separate us again and if something happens to me, you can still have a family. Hear Susan out and think about it.
Love you lots kiddo, Sirius Black/Snuffles.
Looking up, he looked at Susan and said "Awkwardly…So we could be Brother and Sister then…?" She laughed and started pulling forms out of her bag "Yeah, do you want to go through them right now. From my Au…Mum's letter they sound pretty excited."
Looking at Tracey, he made his mind up. He had been a Potter but Everyone saw him as the boy-Who-Lived other than Tracey, Hermione, Ron and some of the others, maybe it would be good to start over with a family. Leave the Potter name behind. "Let's get started, so what does the adoption involve?"
Ministry of Magic ~ England - The next day.
Are you ready for today Carter?" She asked her old friend who was rubbing his forehead, stressed as all hell over trying to organise a mass Prison transfer, a Court Case AND an Operation that would destroy a soul piece from the most dangerous wizard alive.
He sighed and turned to face her, "I think so? Honestly I'm stressed Annabeth. Lady Hecate knew how busy the House of Life was already when she dragged us into this and now I've got so much on my plate it feels like I'm being consumed. Especially after the Medic's Guild got attacked. We now have to perform that operation without our best medic, seeing how one of Will's arms was completely shattered and his other was severely injured by that Thing!"
Annabeth winced, She knew she shouldn't blame herself but just like Percy she felt slightly responsible for octavian. After all he was a Roman Legacy, that they had angered when Leo blew up New Rome, but even beneath that she knew that Octavian was evil to the core anyway and had just been waiting for a reason to fire at them and now he was teaming up with the Ultimate darkness.
Standing up she looked around the office, "I once had a friend who told me something very important, You can't ever let yourself get dragged down by the small things, think of the bigger picture and go from there. The Pig Picture this time is that we're fighting for our Kids's futures, so that they can live in a world where they don't have to worry about furious Titans, Primordials, Giant sun eating Snakes or anything like that."
His eyes glowed "Yeah, you know what your right Annaebth…not that it's a surprise, you're the daughter of a wisdom Goddess." Placing a hand on his shoulder, Annabeth just replied "No that's not Wisdom, especially not Wisdom from my bloody mother. It's the truth and it comes from the heart. The same thing that tells you that you love Zia and that we are going to get through this."
The african-american man looked at her with a small smile "I never congratulated you or Percy on your Pregnancy did I? So Congrats, I can't think of anyone who will be better parents than the two of you."
Bringing him into a hug she responded "Thanks Carter, what about you and Zia, any thoughts of the two of you having kids?" He shook his head and summoned his Khopesh "Nah, We've not discussed it but I think we're pretty happy where we are right now."
Annabeth understood that, her and Percy wanted kids but not everyone did, and that was fine. Everyone had their own understanding of what happiness meant to them. She looked at the watch that she had gotten from Piper recently and cursed "Carter, The trial begins in 10 Minutes!"
The main Atrium was filled up completely with Photographers, Journalists and just people who wanted to see the infamous Sirius Black in Person. When Ananbeth and Carter reached the Fountain, some turned to face them but most people kept their eyes focused on the Floo System in which Sirius was set to appear from. Amelia Bones was already at the one he was set to come out of, A Pair of magic Dampening handcuffs in her hands; Annabeth felt bad for her.
Amelia had to keep the ruse of just being the head of the DMLE after all and not the now-financé of Sirius Black. God they were both putting their hopes and dreams in her hands now. She could not screw this up for them.
The Fireplace lit up bright green and Sirius Black stepped out, in a Black Suit with royal red jacket/cape over him, his hair trimmed back and put up into a ponytail while his beard was shaved into a goatee. Amelia had really cleaned him up. The Minute he got out of the Floo properly, she watched as he put his hands out for Amelia in the cuffed position.
The cuffs were placed on his wrist and Two Auror appeared at either side of him to start marching him down the corridor. Roughly halfway down Annabeth heard a reporter yell "Mr Black, what do you think the outcome of this trial will be!"
She saw Sirius smile Proudly and confidently "I believe I will be a Free Man, Acquitted for the crimes that I was wrongly arrested for 14 years ago and start making up for the lost time with my Godson."
That gave all of the money hungry journalists regardless of what the actual verdict would actually be. As he reached her, she said professionally "Mr Black, ready to win back your freedom?" The older man smirked, "It can't come soon enough. I can taste freedom in the air."
She put a hand on his shoulder "And we will get it. Shall we." He nodded and they walked past them. She followed behind but just before she did, she caught the Floo Network activating again and Harry stepping through followed quickly by Ron and Hermione. Good she had her evidence here.
They arrived at the court room and she watched as they tied Sirius to the mediaeval chair, with robes binding them. The "Golden Trio" Entered along with Draco and Tracey and went into the witness stand; before quickly being followed by the press and the Jury.
Once everyone was in, the judge yelled "Order! Order! Today, we are here to find out weather or not Sirius Black, is Guilty or Innocent of murdering a dozen muggels and betraying James and Lily Potter to the Dark Wizard known as Vodemort. But first we must do some basic checks to make sure you are really who you say you are."
The Prosecutor came up to him and said "Open wide." Sirius opened his mouth and the Veritasium Serum was dropped down his throat, everyone waited for a few minutes for it to enter his system before the judge said "Can you please state your name for the court."
"Sirius Augustus Black, the Third."
"Your Date of Birth please."
"The third of November 1979"
"Can you please name 3 of your Cousins, Mr Black"
"Narcissa Malfoy neé Black, Andromeda Tonks Neé Black and Bellatrix Lestrange neé Black."
The Judge seemed satisfied and said "Mrs Chase, Mr Stun, you're free to begin." The two had flipped coins yesterday on who would begin and fortunately for her, she had won.
Standing up she walked to the centre of the room right in front of Sirius, "So Mr Black…can I call you Sirius, as you may know you were accused and arrested for the deaths of 13 muggles and revealing the location of the Potter's out. How do you plead to that?"
"Not guilty" That surprised nobody, he had already made that clear outside "So Sirius, can you please explain the events leading up to your arrest 14 years ago."
Sirius smiled and said "Of course, now I could go into my whole life story but we could be here all day just talking about my exploits during my Hogwarts days, especially with the ladies. But What you need to know for what you asked for Miss Chase is that there were 4 of us at Hogwarts. We called ourselves the Marauders, we were the best of friends and we would always be there for each other no matter what. The 4 of us were Remus Lupin, Myself, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter."
The room started to murmur but he didn't stop "During our 6th year at Hogwarts, The war broke out, and when it came our time to leave Hogwarts, myself and James, along with our fellow classmates Amelia Bones and Frank Longbottom joined the Auror Force under the direct teachings of Alasdair Moody who was impressed with our O.W.L and N.E.W.T scores. Remus partnered up with Albus Dumbledore to try and get more allies for us due to my friend's unfortunate ailment while Peter Pettigrew worked as a note passer due to his small and meek nature."
"The War was not going well to the point that myself, James, Peter and others were invited by Albus Dumbledore to join an organisation that would take the fight to the Death Eaters forces. This included James' new wife, and long time love Lily who was fed up just sitting around being a Nurse. With this new organisation we completed the death eaters multiple times on much fairer grounds and were able to lift the pressure on the Auror force as a whole."
"Shortly after this however Lily fell pregnant with their son Harry and I was named Godfather. Frank's wife had also fallen pregnant and the two of them had to go into hiding for the safety of their children. Shortly after their Birth Albus insisted that both families go into hiding. We never knew why but we didn't doubt him. I was named the Secret keeper of the Potter's due to my close nature to Sirius and how I held myself against the DE's."
The Prosecutor grinned but Annabeth knew they still had this in the bag.
"This was how it remained for the next year, Myself and James would still go on mission while Lily looked after Harry. However when Harry turned 1, the DE attacks on me started to double, then triple. It wasn't looking good so I made the decision with James, Lily, Albus and Peter to switch the Secret Keeper duties to someone else."
"We would have given it to Remus but nobody had truly seen him in almost 6 months and I'm ashamed to say it but there was the thought that he might have joined Voldemort's side. Especially seeing how high the werewolf hate was during this point in time as pushed by the Minister of Magic at the time."
"So we made the decision to give it to Peter Pettigrew…But that ended up being the fatal mistake that lost the Potter's lives. As 3 months later, Pettigrew ratted out the Potter's and the Longbottom's location to Voldemort. I never knew where the Longbotom's were staying at the time. Voldemort dealt with the Potters themselves while he sent some of his Lackies to deal with the Longbottoms."
"That entire day, I had a bad feeling. Was just finishing up a shift with Amelia Bones here at the Ministry when dread tore through my bones. Why you may ask? I could suddenly remember where the Potters were staying.
I rushed there and found the house in ruins. I found James at the stairs and LIly in the baby room. Harry thankfully unharmed apart from the scar on his head. I started to see red as I realised what happened but took Harry downstairs with me. My Plan was to search for Peter with an Auror force once I got Harry to Amelia. However when I got out I met Hagrid, the groundskeeper of Hogwarts. When Dumbledore remembered the Potter's address too he sent Hagrid to check while he and the Longbottom Matron went to where the Longbottom's were hiding."
Tears were starting to run down his face so Annabeth gave him a bottle of bottled water and some tissues and he sorted himself out "Dumbledore of course had no Idea what was going on and didn't know I would be there so he Instructed Hagrid to take Harry in the worst case scenario. My anger was getting worse so I gave him to Hagrid and gave Hagrid my bike"
"I did go after Pettigrew not because I was some blood thirsty Maniac who wanted to kill my friends, like several Blacks have been. But because I wanted to find out what had happened. Had he been captured and tortured for the information, or did he betray them. I was holding out hope that it was the former. That we could go back together and he would be safe and sound."
"But alas it was not to be when I found he told me the truth, how he had betrayed him because we always looked down on him. I saw red but before I could even do anything, the little rat sent an explosion at the local Petrol station in the Muggle town and killed all those muggles. Before the explosion could hit him however he turned himself into a rat and cut off his own finger. Escaping while I was knocked unconscious."
Annabeth finally interrupted him and asked "I'm sorry Sirius, you say he turned into a Rat?!"
Sirius nodded and repsoned "You all heard me correctly. Myself, the now deceased James Potter and Peter Pettigrew are all Animagius. I myself turned into a Dog, James was a Stag and Peter was a Rat. We learnt how to do it so our friend Remus wouldn't be alone in his transformations. We never reported it as we believed it could be useful in the war. As a matter of fact we had nicknames and when meeting each other in public during the war, we would use those nicknames. Mine was Padfoot while Peter's was Wormtail."
Annabeth could see Harry smirking proudly and she had to admit, she was Proud of Sirius too. He wasn't slipping up at all. "Thank you Sirius, now while we do still have more events to discuss such as your escape and the events that took place at hogwarts a few years ago, I believe I have a couple more questions to ask about your time before your arrest and I believe that the so called Prosecution to do."
He nodded and waited for her to ask her question "Why weren't the Potter's staying at Potter Manor?" Harry seemed a bit taken aback by the mentions of a Potter Manor but Sirius was calm "The Wards at Potter Manor were old, and with James dad's passing, the two of us decided that we needed to rework the wards from the ground up. The only problem was that it would interfere with Dumbledore's magic. So James and Lily hid away elsewhere."
She was satisfied with the answer and it was the one she was expecting too, she then asked "Why did you give Harry to Hagrid?" The Answer was short and simple "Hagrid might be the only person truly loyal to Albus, and he can't be controlled so I knew he wasn't lying. At the time it felt like the best plan."
Annabeth turned to face Mr Stun and said "Your turn." The Man scowled and said "Okay Mr Black, I only have one question for you. When you were arrested, you were yelling that you had Killed the Potters. I would say that's pretty damning evidence against you."
Sirius started to chuckle "Oh that's easy. When the Auror's found me I had just been knocked out from an explosion, I had what muggles call a concussion. A concussion is a minor brain injury. And in my meddled brain I did believe that I was responsible for killing the Potters. I was the one who suggested that they switch to Peter after all. On top of that Crouch, who had always hated me, was the one to find me and he was always so desperate for that next promotion."
That got people really talking, nice going Sirius, she thought. The Judge then got Hagrid up and they cleared through that, then Albus Dumbledore and finally Amelia Bones who even gave a visual memory from that day solidifying some of the things that Sirius had said.
After all of that they started on Sirus's more recent affairs, she asked a lot more questions this time. In fact this part they had rehearsed to a tee so that there wouldn't be any mistakes or slip ups. It was fluid, Sirius never answered too quickly nor too slowly as to provide doubt, He tripped over a few words and repeated what he said a few times to make it seem natural.
When it was the Prosecution's turn, he was unable to poke any holes in what Sirius was saying much to Annabeth's amusement. That old Prosecutor was getting on her nerves. Just like all the Old Architect that she's had to work with whose designs are so boring and bland without any flavour.
It then came to Harry's time to sit in the chair, thankfully he didn't have to wear any handcuffs and the Judge started off the same way with his name, his date of Birth and his connection to Sirius.
Straight away Annabeth started "So Mr Potter, You've just heard Mr Black's version of events regarding your third year. I must ask how much of it is true?" Harry breathed in and out a couple of times "It's also completely true; the part's I'm involved in anyway. I did see a black dog when I was leaving my muggle family's house that matches Sirius's Animagus form that I saw later in the year."
"When Sirius revealed himself to myself, Ron and Hermione, he did transform Scabbers back into Peter Pettigrew who was a snivelling scumbag who tried to beg for my forgiveness. He managed to Slip through all of our fingers, The three of us, sirius, Professor Lupin, Professor Snape and even managed to escape the Dementors by turning into his Rat from. I would also like to add that alongside Barty Crouch Jr, Peter Pettigrew was the other person working on reviving Voldemort. As a master of fact the sick bastard cut off his own hand to resurrect his master. Peter Pettigrew Is Alive!"
"Thank you Mr Potter, No further questions."
Harry's statement broke the prosecution entirely and everything just got better and better with every person who backed what he and Sirius had said, all of them adding their own extra parts to it, creating a large full picture. Before too long the Jury was sent off to make a verdict and Annabeth gathered everyone around her, including Sirius who was still cuffed.
All of them looked to have everything off their chests and it really made it clear to Annabeth how much everything had been building up in them. Harry said "So do you think that was enough." She grinned like a mad woman "Man I'm looking forward to teaching you kids, it wasn't just enough, it was enough to make the Prosecution look like he was having a melt down. There is no way in hell you aren't getting free Sirius."
He grinned, the first proper grin she had seen from him and he said "Thank you Mrs Jackson. We really couldn't do this without you."
She placed a hand on his shoulder to say "I didn't do much. You're the ones who blew them away" the Group separated but Sirius kept a hand on Harry's shoulder, while Tracey Davies held onto Harry's hand tightly. The Jury re-entered the room and the Judge asked calmly "Have you reached a decision?"
One member of the Jury stood and spoke "We have. We find Sirius Black Not-Guilty on all charges. However we do suggest a 1000 Gallon charge for not reporting to the Ministry that he was an Animagius. The one year prison sentence that normally comes from it feels a bit pointless after 14 years of being wrongly accused of a crime."
The Cuffs fell off of Sirius Wrists and he looked at them, the years of stress seemed to evaporate from his face in an instant, the wrinkles disappearing. Immediately he pulled Harry into a hug who hugged him back, tears filling both of their eyes, The Judge then spoke "I agree with the Jury's conclusion. I also put Harrison Potter into the care of Sirius Black as wished for by James and Lily Potter. The Gallons will automatically be taken from your account Mr Black and as the final true male Heir of the house of Black, you inherit the Black Family name. Congratulations Lord Black."
Suddenly Amelia Bones collided with Sirius and Harry and enveloped them in a hug. Susan Bones hopped down from the stand and fell into a roll with expert precision. Was she a demigod too? It didn't matter though as she ran into her Aunt's side. By the end of the year. The 4 of them would be family. Her work here was done.
Unknown- The Primordial Realm
"You won this small battle little Demi-Titan, but you won't win the War!" He wasn't worried about losing such a small battle in the grand scheme of things. His forces were more powerful than she could ever suspect. Especially with the fallen Demigods on his side. They were so easy to use and manipulate.
Zoé rolled her eyes "You know for a Primordial, you don't think big, Sure I may have won this small battle, but this small battle leads right into the big oncoming one. The one that may decide the future of the entire war. I've just turned that battle in my favour."
Tartarus stared right into the demi-titan's eyes then looked at the daughter of Hades who looked bored and realised that she was right, He gritted his 'Teeth' together but resisted the urge to pull out his sword. It hadn't ended all too well for him last time he had done that.
Bianca looked up at him and smirked "You're not looking too good there Tatry, are you sure you want to keep this up?"
Chaos, he wanted to kill them both so badly. Why did he ever agree to this?
Zoé while her opponent wasn't focusing moved the oracle piece forwards with a small smile. He never noticed when she tricked him into not paying attention. "You know, if you actually paid attention, Tartarus; you might pick up on these things."
He would kill them all. He really would.
Azkabang Island ~ The North Sea
Percy may be the son of Posiedon but he didn't like this sea by any means, it felt brash and uncontrollable. This was beyond his father's domain. It felt like the power of Lir. The old Celtic God of the Sea. There weren't many Celtic gods left. The damage Christianity had done to the Roman Gods was nothing compared to the damage they had done to the Celtic Gods. They had almost wiped them all out.
There were still a few Celtic Gods out there of course. He had met a daughter of Lir a few years ago. Lovely young girl. But they were rare. It's odd. He really didn't give a damn about any gods anymore but he felt bad for the forgotten Gods. Being forced to dissolve back into Chaos, the primordial energy that they had come from.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and he almost flipped the person over onto their back when he noticed it was Chris Rodriguez. He removed his hand from Chriis's arm and said "Oh hey Chris, Thanks for coming dude."
The Son of Hermes waved him off and said "Ah it was no problem man, When I saw your message to Clarisse I knew I had to come out and help. Especially with Clarrisse being sick at the moment." Percy hadn't seen the two 30 year olds for a few years, he couldn't blame anyone as well as they had been very busy setting up their demigod therapy in San Francisco and he was over in the East Coast, trying to live as normal of a life as possible.
"I was sorry to hear that Clarrisse was sick, She must hate being stuck in bed." he Shook his head and laughed "Oh you have no idea man, she gets so frustrated that she's ill that she gets up to do stuff and makes herself like 1000X worse. I wish she would take it easy for once."
Suddenly a screaming woman from one of the top floors who was being taken away started screaming "THE DARK LORD WILL HAVE YOUR BLOOD! HE WILL FIND ME"
Percy rolled his eyes at the woman and said "Sure thing crazy lady. Carter, get her the hell out of here!" The Pharaoh nodded and kicked her through his Ankh. Carter snickered and said "You know, Me and Clarisse have been thinking of hoping a school as part of our therapy place, for demigods to come and relax and get an actual education without being thrown down for ADHD and Dyslexia. We've heard through the pipeline how good of a teacher you've been. We would love for you to join."
A Small smile cracked Percy's face "IS that both of you asking, or just you." He laughed "No, I'm being serious Percy. We both want you to join us. Annabeth too but we know how busy she is. I wouldn't underestimate how much Clarisse misses you. As a friend and as a sparring partner." Percy scrunched up his face "I'll think about it."
"That's all I needed to hear."
One of the Aurors came running up to him and he said calmly "Progress report" The young Auror panted "The Crazies at the top are now all gone Bellatrix Lestrange being the final one. We're almost through the crazies. But the underwater sensors went off at the other side of the island!"
Percy and Chris looked between themselves and started running over to the other side of the Island, when they reached the other side they found Thalia and Reyna reaching the other side. As well, the two of them have been at the east side of the island. Percy looked up at the growing clouds above and yelled "I'm assuming that's not you Thals!"
She screamed back "Definitely not!" The Cloud continued to form and laughter could be heard from the sky. From the edges of the Island, the water started to shake, Chris screamed "Brace yourselves!" The entire Island shook as a tidal wave shot up from the depths, crashing into everyone. Percy was just able to keep his feeting and dry himself off.
The first thing to come over the edge took Percy by shock. It was a 21 year old man, with glowing golden eyes, and short messy blond hair. A Black/Silver blade in hand. And one long scar going up and across his eyes "Luke?!"
"Not quite Son of Posiedon"
The voice sent a chill down Percy's entire body and he saw one of the eyes switch to being swirling chaos, "Tartarus….it's not been long enough. HOW DARE YOU USE HIS FORM. LUKE DIED A HERO!"
Tartarus chuckled, which was a mix of Luke's, Kronos's and the Pit's himself which sent a chill down his spine "Do you really think I care about such a small thing. You are rather stupid little mortal."
Percy pulled out Akomulous, uncapping the pen lid and transforming the pen into a sword. "I will force you out of that body; Tartarus!"
"I'm sure you will try."
More and more monsters started rising through the ocean and above he saw the death eaters collide with the tower, fighting the members of the house of life and the Aurors who were helping with the transfer.
Turning to face his friend, he put a hand out and said "I need to fight The Pit, but a lot of these monsters hate my guts. Think you can keep them off me."
"I can certainly try!" He grabbed his hand and helped himself up. Staring at the horde of enemies, he pulled his sword out and pulled on his helmet, "It's been a while since I was in a fight like this."
Percy chuckled "Not too old for it are you." A light laugh came from Crhis who responded "Just watch me." Percy watched as he ran head first into the oncoming horde of monsters. Percy stared at the Pit who was slowly walking forwards approaching him. Percy tugged at his necklace and Celestial Bronze armour formed around him. With Riptide at his side he ran forwards towards the Pit.
Tartarus raised his sword as Percy struck at him, the two blades clashing for the first time in over a decade. Spark sprung off the two blades as a battle of strength and will bagan "You can't hold your physical form can you. That's why you're using Luke's body."
The two of them were pushed flying back by the other's strength and Tartatrus "Don't be foolish Mortal, I chose this form to hurt you personally" Percy scoffed as he darted around Tartatrus who tried to keep up with him "Thanks for confirming my theory." Before darting in, trying to hit tartarus in the leg. lu…Tartarus caught riptide in his hands and using Riptide, flicked Percy away.
Thunder and Lightning filled the sky as Thalia fought her on foes, Lightning striking the Death Eaters in the sky, frying them alive, while also striking the never ending horde of monsters that were coming after them. The Lightning illuminated Tartaurs before fading to darkness wouldn't let Annabeth see the pit using her 'Brother' body as a tool.
He didn't waste a second and charge forwards, his eyes glowing brightly, hje raised Riptide above his head and brought it down upon the pit, The Pit wasn't quick enough dodging and the sword dug right into Luke's corpse's head, The Pit twisted it's head "You thought you could kill me with that." He grabbed Riptide, which was still dug into this head and lifted it out and dropped it to the ground.
Percy clenched his fist in rage and Punched Tartarus in the gut, summoning the water molecules around him and solidifying the water into ice around his fist. The Primordial spat up black goo as he was pushed back.
"Monsters! Get your revenge against Perseus Jackson!" Every monster around turned to face Percy. Percy skirted back and went back to back with Chris, the two of them twirling and attacking, taking on any monster who dared attack them.
The two of them were huffing after a few minutes "How many do they have!" Chris yelled. Percy chuckled weakly "No clue dude. Just charge forward when I say." He looked around the sea of monsters and looked for any weaknesses. When he finally found them, he waited for them to circle around them again and screamed "Now!"
Pearcy leapt forward, swinging riptide around in a frenzy, tearing off claws, horns, faces and feet from the monsters in his way. He had almost made a clear route through when there was a scream of agony that made percy's face go pale.
He turned around to see Luke Holding Chris by the Throat from behind, Luke's sword through Chris's stomach. Blood was pouring from Chris's wound in the masses. Percy was red and the entire island started to shake, the ocean started to tremble, and crash against the Island. The Entire tower began to collapse around him as the earth shook more. He wouldn't let Chris die! He was the one who brought him out of retirement after all!
He charged forwards towards the Pit who looked unimpressed and shot into the sky, using the earth. He raised Riptide high above his head and brought it striking down. Tartarus brought his sword up to deflect the attack. Despite raising the sword in time, RIptide crashed through it, shattering it in one clean sweep.
"Hmph, Impressive. If you can keep that up you might be able to win the War"
Percy went to slash at him but Tartarus just started shifting back unnaturally "Hm seems like my time's running out even in this form. You know Jackson, you are weak but at least you're not as weak as your sister."
Percy stopped in his tracks "Sister?" The Pit chuckled "Oh don't tell me you didn't know about your sister. The Daughter of Neptune. Oh, had she not told you."
Despite the fact that he wasn't meant to listen to Monster he yelled "Who's my sister!" Tartarus smiled. "Oh I think you know. Until we meet again Perseus Jackson."
Before Luke/tartarus and his focus vanished into the ocean. Percy looked around trying to figure out who his sister was while observing the damage, The Entire Island had been split in two and Azkabang tower had collapsed into the hole in the middle. Bodies from both sides lay across the Island.
He felt like he was just figuring out who Tartarus was talking about when he heard groaning coming from Chris. He ran over to him, taking his T-shirt off and placing it on his wound, he lifted Chris up and rested his head in one arm "Come on Dude, stay with me. Clarisse will kill me if you don't come home."
The son of Hermes chuckled "Tell Clarisse that I loved her, you'll do that for me. Won't you Perce." Percy nodded "Yeah sure man" His breathing slowed "I'll wait for you Clarisse, I will." His breathing stopped and Percy could feel Chris's heart stopping.
He had brought Chris out of retirement for this fight, he was responsible for Chris dying. There was nothing anyone could convince him otherwise. Thalia placed a hand on his shoulder. He needed to go and see Clarrise. "Thalia gets the survivors to the Weasley house." Standing up, Chris in his arms "Where are you going Kelp Head"
He looked down at the Ocean "I need to tell Clarrisse".
Tartarus said he knew who his sister was, and unfortunately Percy he knew he was right "Tracey, why didn't you tell me"