Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Twenty Five

Nico's POV

I was guarding the flag without Percy for about three minutes when the Hermes and Nemesis cabin ran into the clearing. I had about fifty dead soldiers with me, so we outnumbered them almost two-to-one. Every time one of my soldiers went down, I raised two more. I joined the fighting, knocking out the campers. Not long after, the Apollo cabin joined, but my soldiers held them off easy enough.

Leo's POV

Once the river exploded, we knew we were done for. Percy might look younger than he normally was, but he was as powerful as ever. All he had to do was send a wave towards us, pushing us all out of his way, holding us in place.

"I thought you said you didn't need water?" I yelled.

"I don't, but using it is a lot easier and makes less of a mess." Then he ran off to the flag.

"You said this would work," Clarisse said from next to me, as we were stuck in a wave, not moving.

"I said that I didn't have time to test it. It was only a prototype."

No less than five minutes later, we saw a group of people running from the opposite side of the creek, chased by an army of the undead, and an angry looking Nico.

We all started cheering, but it was short lived. Right before Will was about to jump over the creek, a wave shoved him back down, and Percy came running up, jumping over the creek, winning the game.

The red flag changed to blue with a skull and crossbones, and the horn blew, ending the game.

As we groaned, Nico and Percy cheered. Nico jumped on Percy's back and gave him a celebratary kiss on the cheek. The way they were acting was adorable. Ever since Jason told me about Nico's crush on Percy (I tricked him into telling me) I started shipping Percico more than Percabeth.

Chiron cleared his throat. "Percy."

"Yes?" he looked at us campers, stuck in a wave. "Oh." The wave disappeared, sending all of us falling to the ground.

Percy's POV

The flames were tall and bright yellow at the bond fire that night, and everyone was having a blast. Even though they had been beaten by Nico and I, everyone had fun, and no one was mad at me for drenching everyone in water. After the game I had dried everyone off. We were all singing along to the songs, eating s'mores and talking.

"Nico, how did they get passed you?" I asked him and he shrugged.

"Will sent a punching arrow at me when my back was turned and it knocked me out for a few moments, which was enough time for them to climb the rock, steal the flag and run."

"Are you okay?"

He nodded. "Yeah, my head hurts a little, but I'm fine. I heard what Leo did with the river."

"I wasn't expecting that. I didn't even know that they could do that!"

"You know better than to underestimate Leo."

"I know, but seriously? Covering the river? How did they even do that? The worst part is, it worked. Well, it worked for the most part."

"You'll need to be prepared for that again next week. I over heard Leo talking and apparently he put that together in a day. With another week, it'll probably work perfectly."

"Well, then I guess I'll be siding with the Cabin Nine from now on."

Nico chuckled. "I wonder what Harry and all of them are doing. They're probably confused with our sudden disappearence."

"I wouldn't worry about it. Apollo probably came up with a good excuse."