Deception - PJO & HP Crossover

~ Chapter 3 ~

"Don't call it a dream, call it a plan."

~ Anonymous

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The night sky was dotted with more than a million vibrant stars which depicted numerous stories through their constellations and patterns. The moon, a tiny crescent, was hardly noticed among the captivating stars and surely it would have been amazing to just sit down and gaze at the magnificence and beauty of the world but that fantasy was beyond the reach of the demigods.

The reason would be their journey ahead and ofcourse the giant 10 foot tall monster standing a little ways in front of them amidst the wreckage that was known as their campsite just a little while ago but now seemed like an unlucky victim of mother nature's wrath.

For a minute everything seemed to stop. The demigods staring at the beast in horror and the monster was baring its teeth at them, ready to attack. It was silent and was what could be called the calm before a storm. Or before all hell broke loose as it did the moment the creature decided to lunge.

The demigods were immediately roused from their stupor and gripped their swords in an attacking stance. It shot at Percy causing him to jump out of the way trying to get in a hit at its side but not being able to. Nico and Jason ran in and tried to stab it in its stomach but the monster was too well guarded and moved away, instead lunging at Nico.

He saw it coming and leaped away. Piper and Annabeth then entered the fight, both with menacing looks in their eyes and took two sides of the monsters to run at and stab at the same time. Leo and Percy sprinted at the front and back so that it was taken from all four sides. That's when a lightning bolt, courtesy of Jason, struck the monster and the 4 demigods surrounding it seized their chance and attacked the beast, effectively striking it in four sides. It proceeded to turn into dust.

"What the hell was that?" Percy questioned, panting.

"Yeah it looked like some weird Centaur with an eagle's head!" Leo exclaimed.

"It was a hippogriff," Annabeth said, chuckling, "But never mind that, we have to get out of here and get to Hogwarts."

Jason yawned, "Can we take a train and sleep? I'm exhausted."

"Yeah, we'll do that." Nico answered.

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"Well we've spent hours trying to destroy this bloody locket and so far nothing's worked!" Harry huffed, "No magic seems to affect it... so I was thinking maybe we could try the muggle way, they have these chainsaws and all kind of other things that could help. I'm not sure it will help though."

"Hmm... I suppose it's worth a try, we have tried every spell we know but we cannot allow anyone finding out so we'll have to go to a remote village..." Hermione trailed off.

"Wait what?! Hermione you can't seriously be going along with this! If magic couldn't help then muggles can't help either!" Ron loudly declared.

"I've got it! My parents and I once went to this island, it's in the British territory and it's called Pitcairn island. I remember the place, there are barely any people people living there and we can easily apparate there!" The girl excitedly spoke, completely ignoring Ron.

"Well it's really late now so we should all get a bit of rest and set off tomorrow early morning-- actually it's today now." Harry said.

She silently nodded in answer and both Harry and Hermione, paying no attention to the ginger headed boy's incessant whining about not listening to him, lay down, falling asleep...

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CHOO! CHOO!

The train which the demigods had taken to get to Scotland was whizzing by. The trees and grass were starting to blend into one colour of green before their eyes due to the incredible speed. Inside the train, the six were all packed together, surrounding the map of Scotland which was situated in the middle of the table. They had finally got their wits together and a plan had emerged. A plan for their arrival at Hogwarts.