Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Thirty Four

Ron's POV

Dear lord, Percy and Nico's fight was terrifying. I honestly thought that they were going to kill each other. Nico almost beheaded Percy and Percy almost stabbed Nico straight through the skull. When they each lost their sword, I was happy because I thought the fight was over, but I was wrong.

They raised their fists and started punching each other. I'd seen them slap and shove each other before, but it was nothing like this.

After five terrifying minutes, Professor Apollo stopped the fight.

"Okay you two, I'm calling it a tie!" He called and almost instantly Percy and Nico stopped fighting. "Shake hands." They shook hands and Apollo handed them each a vile of what was probably a healing potion and gave them a pat on the back.

"Nice fighting, Neeks. You're getting better."

"Thanks, I was taught by the best." Percy smiled at what Nico said, but then he finished his sentence. "To bad Jason isn't here for me to thank him."

That seemed to annoy Percy, so he grabbed Nico's arm and pulled him towards the lake, asking Apollo to unfreeze it, which he did.

"No, Percy, please don't!" Nico begged but Percy ignored him and they both fell into the lake fully clothed.

We stared in silence, still in shock with the fight we saw. My sister broke the quite.

"How could you allow them to fight like that?" She yelled, staring at Professor Apollo. "They could have killed each other!" Apollo chuckled and shook his head.

"Percy and Nico are both very skilled fighters. They knew what they were doing."

"Aren't they going to freeze in the lake?" Hermione asked and Apollo thought about that for a second before he shrugged.

"They'll probably be fine," he said and he turned around, walking back towards the castle. I looked at Harry and he had the same thought as me.

The lake water might've been unfrozen, but our friends were still in freezing cold water. We ran over to where they had jumped into the lake, and just as we got there, they heads came above the water.

"Jackson! Let go of me right now!" Nico yelled, but Percy kept his arms wrapped around the other boy.

"Nope! You're staying in here with me," he sang, obviously happy to be in freezing cold water that could kill him. Percy was a weird guy.

"Percy, let go of Nico!" Hermione told him sternly. "You both need to get out before you get hypothermia!" Percy thought about that for a second before releasing his friend.

Nico swam towards the edge where Harry and I were waiting to pull him out. As soon as his hand touched mine, I almost let him go. He skin was ice cold from the resently unfroze water.

By the time we got Nico out, Percy had pulled himself onto dry land. Hermione pulled out her wand and said some spell that caused hot air to blow out of her wand, drying off the two wet boys.

"Thanks," Nico said, still shivering.

"No problem. Now let's get you in the castle before you get sick."

Harry's POV

Hermione, Neville, the Weasley's and I waited in the Common Room as Percy and Nico went to the room to get changed. Their clothes weren't wet since Hermione had dried them when they had gotten out of the lake, but they were covered in blood from the fight.