Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Thirteen

Nico's POV

It had been two weeks since our talk with Apollo and Percy had mastered 'accio,' so he should have no problem getting the egg from the dragon.

Last week we had told Harry that we had wondered into the Forbidden Forest and saw eight dragons, one for each of the challengers. We hadn't said anything about an egg, but he was already freak out enough at the mention of a dragon.

Today was the day of the first task.

All eight challengers were in a tent getting ready for their task, which they were getting told about now.

Ron, Hermione and I were sitting towards the middle of the stands as Fred and George were walking around taking bets.

The challengers faced their dragons in the order that their names were called from the Goblet of Fire, and they defeated them different ways.

Hannah Abbott had said some spell and a rock dropped on the dragons head, knocking it unconscious.

Penelope Clearwater had used some sort of spell that seemed to temporarily blind the dragon and she grabbed the egg while it was confused.

Theodore Nott had used about fifteen different spells until the dragon had finally fallen asleep.

Harry had a very interesting time with his dragon. He had summoned his broom to help him steal the egg, but the dragon had broke it's chain and chased him out of the stadium. He was missing for about ten minutes, but then he flew back in with no dragon chasing him and flew over and grabbed the egg.

Cho Chang had made a duplicate of herself to distract her dragon as she snuck up to the egg and stole it.

Draco Malfoy had gotten a very tired dragon, and he no doubt had cheated and had someone drug it, so he practically was able to just walk up and take the egg.

Cedric Diggory had changed a rock into a dog and he grabbed the egg as the dragon chased after it.

When it came to be Percy's turn, I had gotten worried.

"Everybody has been using spells," I thought to myself. "Percy doesn't know that many. What if he can't get the sword?"

"He'll probably be fine," I heard Apollo say in my head, which didn't reassure me at all.

As Percy walked out, he waved his wand and said something, but as he was distracted, the dragon had blew a column of fire at Percy that he had barely missed, but his shirt had still caught on fire. He had screamed and pulled the clothing off over his head, and even from where I was sitting, you could see the scars on Percy's body.

Some people gasped and I saw Hermione's eyes widen as she leaned over to Ron and whispered something about a mark, which I didn't understand, because Percy's body was covered in marks.

Percy's POV

As soon as my shirt had been burned, I thought, 'this is it, I'm done for,' but when I pulled my shirt off, I realized that I didn't have any burns. That's when I remembered whole trait of my dads and where I can't get burned, even if lava is thrown at me.

Once I took my shirt off, people gasped. I wasn't sure why at first, but then I remembered all the dark scars on my body. I decided to ignore everyone, and I started running around the rocked area avoiding the dragon while I waiting for I sword to fly over to me.