The Blind Son of Lupa

Light It Up

This will probably be my longest and shortest chapter at the same time. You'll understand later. I'm gonna write about the Yule Ball, this might seem boring to some people, but I think it's a cool idea, and I've been planning it since I wrote chapter 5. There's also a lot of symbolism in this chapter, all in the music, let me know if you can find it.

Sometimes ill put the lyrics of the songs, but some of the songs need to be played in special ways or with different instruments, so ill just put a video in.

Harry

When the Yule Ball was announced, everyone in their group became nervous. Well, most of them. Hermione had known it was coming and immediately asked out Ron, who accepted with a furious blush on his face. Sirius was going with Remus, no surprise there, everyone knew they liked each other except them. When it came to feelings, those two were blinder than Percy.

Leo, being the third year, had to go to the ball, but couldn't bring a date, much to his dismay. He was quite the ladies' man. Next was Harry's idiot brother James, who had somehow gotten a date with Lily Evans. Peter had explained to the headmaster that he was an aromantic(which was true) and got out of bringing a date. In the end, Harry ended up going to the ball with Nico. As friends, of course.

Nico was going to ask Percy(obviously) but then this happened.

The whole school was sitting in the great hall eating lunch. Sometimes someone would look up, as it was Wednesday and the mail always came on Wednesday during lunch. When it finally everyone was surprised to see that Percy had a letter.

That was a shock, Percy never got letters. Mostly because he had no one to get them from. It was in braille, Percy ran his fingers along with the small dots on the paper, his eyes getting wider with every sentence. "what's it say?" Ron asked.

Percy took a deep breath and swallowed.

"Dear Perseus,

I hope this letter finds you in good health, it's been a while, hasn't it? heh. Things aren't looking good here. Two days ago, a forest fire started here in California. The Wolf House was nearly destroyed. How it started is still unclear, we suspect some muggle dropped a cigarette somewhere, but alas it started and we need your help.

Fortunately, human authorities were able to extinguish the fire before anyone was killed, but many of us, werewolf and animal alike, were severely wounded. We ask that you come home and help us. It's fine if you don't want to, but your help would be greatly appreciated.

Signed, Beats."

So yeah, Percy left early the day before the ball, and that was that.

Later, during the ball, Harry was sitting at the ball with Nico and Peter, watching everyone dance and making small talk about various topics, the fire in California, the tournament, and other various topics. As the song that people were ballroom dancing to ended, Professor McGonagall walked up to the stage.

"Greetings students!" she said, "and welcome to the Yule Ball!" Everyone cheered. "Originally, we were going to have a concert today, played by the Weird Sisters, but, they missed their portkey, which was supposed to arrive yesterday." Everyone booed, upset that they wouldn't be coming. "Now, now, settle down, fortunately, we had a backup plan." Just when the crowd was expecting her to tell them who it was, she just walked off the stage.

The lights in the hall dimmed and tuned off, someone walked out onto the stage. He was about 6 feet, but it was too dark to see anything beyond that.

"Don't tell me that's who I think it is," Nico mumbled, some old-sounding intro started up. 'WHOA!' a chorus sang.

"ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for." Percy Jackson sang as the lights turned back on.

"oh, gods," Nico face-palmed. Percy wasn't wearing dress robes like all of the other boys. He was wearing ripped black jeans and blue and white Adidas basketball shoes. His blue, wool-lined jean jacket was unbuttoned and revealing a black t-shirt that read, "ITS A BEAUTIFUL DAY, AND I CAN'T SEE IT." Harry wondered if it was figuratively or literally. Doogle was sitting on his shoulder as usual.

Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor (Woah)
And buried in your bones there's an ache that you can't ignore
Taking your breath, stealing your mind
And all that was real is left behind don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya
It's only this moment, don't care what comes after
Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer
Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over
It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open
It's a preacher in the pulpit and you'll find devotion
There's something breaking at the brick of every wall, it's holding
All that you know...

The crowd roared, Percy only gave a light smile and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "thanks," he said into his microphone. "So, I guess you've figured out that I'm the "backup plan"." Everyone chuckled, "I guess you're wondering 'oh my gods Percy, what about the fire?' well, the fire never happened. I just needed an excuse to plan this. Professor Dumbledore gave me a hand with that." he gestured to the side of the room, where the teachers were standing.

"Now, going back to this concert. Our organizer, Professor McGonagall says I need an intro song, that was the song you just heard, The Greatest Show, a Rock song, and I need something for y'all to dance to. So, throughout the night, I'm going to fill in that list." He placed his mic on the stand and picked up his guitar.

"This song is Called, Little Lion Man."

"Weep for yourself, my man

You'll never be what is in your heart
Weep, little lion man
You're not as brave as you were at the start Rate yourself and rake yourself
Take all the courage you have left
And waste it on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head
but it was not your fault but mine
And it was your heart on the line
I really fucked it up this time
Didn't I, my dear?

The whole school roared again. "that was Little Lion Man," he said, "the next song I'm going to play is very cool, I hope you like it. But, you need a violin, and, I don't know how to play the violin, and I didn't want to learn to play it, because I would never use that skill ever again, so I learned it with the piano instead." he put down his guitar and sat at the stool how the piano. he set his mic on the piano stand. "this song is called Secrets." (A/N: the video doesn't have the words to the song, but just know that Percy is still singing it.)

When he was finished with his song he stood from his seat. The crowd cheered, Percy got nervous at the praise he was getting, just like he did the last two times. Harry wondered why. "So yeah," he started, "that was Secrets." He ran his fingers down a piece of parchment. it probably had his list of songs he had to sing. "Oh! My next song is called This Is Home, and, it's probably my favourite of the songs that I put on the list. Mostly because I find the lyrics relatable. So, here it is. This Is Home."

Nico

Nico smiled. He knew why Percy liked that song so much now. He did too, after all. He honestly didn't think Percy would be able to top that song. Then again, he always seemed to surprise him.

And so it continued. Percy playing song after song, with the crowd getting louder each time. By the time midnight struck the students were making their way towards their dorms, too tired to talk anymore.

I know this probably isn't what you were hoping for but I hope you enjoyed regardless.