Magicians, Half-Bloods and Wizards

CH.5

A.N. So I came back from my school trip and checked my account to see if anything had changed. To my great surprise, 72 reads and 7 star thingies. Where did you all come from!? Anyways, thanks!

-Angie

ANNABETH'S P.O.V.

**Dream**                                                                                                                                                                    Percy and I are falling. It can't seem to end. It just goes on forever. The walls are rushing past us. I know where this nightmare is going. I don't want to, we can't go back there! We can't go back to the Pit! All around us, Gaea's voice echoes. "Good night little heroes. Pleasant dreams!" She cackles like a mad woman and we hit the water. I scream.                                                                       **End of Dream**

I awaken, clutching on to Percy for dear life. I'm screaming at the top of my lungs. I half hear his voice as he wraps his arms around me. Soothed by his presence, my cries turn to sobs and I burry my face is his chest. These nightmares have been getting more and more frequent. We both have them. The only one able to calm me down afterwards is Percy and for him it's me. I'm so glad that we don't have to sleep separately because I would not want to have to explain to a bunch of strangers why they can't wake up Seaweed Brain while he's screaming his head off in his sleep.

 We laid there like that for what seemed like an eternity. Snuggled up in his arms, I felt complete. Like a puzzle that was missing just a few pieces so it was still a good puzzle to look at and it still made sense but once you find the place where the pieces were hidden it can only get better. Percy was that place to my metaphorical puzzle. I truly love him and I know he will never cheat on me since his fatal flaw is personal loyalty and cheating is like betrayal. 

HARRY POTTER'S P.O.V

It was around midnight when I woke up to the sound of distant screeches. My first thought went to an attack so I jumped out of bed, woke Ron up and grabbed the invisibility cloak. We sprinted out onto the school grounds and headed toward the screaming. It came from the visitor's camp. 

Once there, I saw it was composed of two tents; one the size of a small cabin and the other, just big enough for one person comfortably or two people just slightly cramped. The source of the screaming was inside the smaller one. A light was switched on inside so their shadows were outlined on the tent's fabric. We could see a woman's silhouette and a man's. The guy was muscular and looked an though he was shirtless while the girl was in an oversized shirt. She was the source of the screams. She sounded so anguished it broke your heart to see her this way. The guy seemed to be trying to comfort her and drew her to his chest. Her screams died down to muffled sobs and I could hear him speaking in a soothing voice.

"Shhhhhh. Annabeth calm down. We're not down there anymore. It's over. We're out of Tartarus. We're still together. Remember, as long as we're together Wise Girl. As long as we're together."

He kept whispering the last sentence over and over again and their joined figures lied down. Feeling as though we had witnessed something much too private, we headed back to the castle. 

When we were out of earshot of the camp, Ron started talking about what we had just seen. 

"What the bloody Hell is Tartarus? And were those the Percy bloke and the scary blonde back there? Why was she screaming?"

"Calm down Ron!" I said "And not so loud. For all we know they might still be able to hear us! We should tell Hermione about this. Maybe she knows something about this Tartarus place."

HERMIONE'S P.O.V.

The boys told me what they had witnessed and Harry asked me if I knew anything about this place called Tartarus. I dug through my memory, trying to recall anything about such a place. I searched to no avail. Disappointed, I decided to go to the library first thing in the morning.

----Time skip to breakfast----

I ate as fast as I could and headed to the library. I had to find out more about this Tartarus. If Annabeth was having nightmares about it (and she seemed like a pretty tough person) then it can't be good. I looked through the geography section looking through pretty much every atlas I could find. Nothing. I then turned to old history books, maybe it would be in that section. Nothing.

 I then remembered something I had stumbled upon while doing some extra credit in ancient runes. I was originally looking for Ancient Greek runes and I stumbled upon a book on mythology. Maybe it would be there. The creatures the camers rode in on were Pegasi, a type of creature from that time frame included in the previously mentionned subject. I couldn't help but wonder if Tartarus would be in that book. I chastised myself. That train of thought wasn't even logical! Still, all my other leads were dead ends. So I decided that I would look into it.

I headed towards the mythology section of the library and found the ancient volume.