Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Sixteen

Percy's POV

Thanksgiving came around a lot sooner than I thought, and everyone was standing on giant platforms as the eight competers were getting ready to jump in.

Apollo walked up to me.

"You know what you're missing, right?" he asked and I nodded.

"Nico."

"Yep. Now, there are going to be seven other people down there, but only get Nico for now, okay?" he asked and I nodded.

"Okay."

As soon as the canon went off, I dived into the water and willed myself to get wet.

It took me about ten minutes to find all the people that were tied up. All I had to do was ask a fish to take me there and he did.

The place was surrounded by mermaids that looked nothing like the merpeople I had seen while visiting my dad. They were kind of scary looking, but I did nothing about it since they were avoiding me while screaming, "Son of the Sea God, don't hurt us!"

Since I knew that this was supposed to take an hour, I decided to swim around aimlessly for about thirty minutes, just enjoying being in the water for the first time in months.

I hadn't gone swimming since I was at the Weasley house and Nico threw me in the lake to heal me.

Once I felt to presence of another human getting close, I decided that I didn't want to lose this challenge, so I swam up to Nico and broke the vine that was holding him down.

As I swam up to the surface, I looked down at Ron and the six others, and I saw Draco Malfoy in the distance.

As we broke the surface, Nico gasped for air and grabbed me and clung to me for dear life.

"What the fuck happened? And why the fuck am I in a lake?" Nico looked horrified.

"You're the thing that was taken," I told him as I swam to keep his head above water.

"Thanks for finding me," he said with a blush and I chuckled.

"You're welcome, but why are you hugging me?" I asked and he blushed harder. "Nico, can you swim?"

"Of course I can, I'm just terrified."

"Okay, well, let's head over to the people who are cheering for me."

Nico chuckled and let go of me and we swam towards all the people who were yelling.

When we got to the platforms, I pushed myself up and then I pulled Nico out of the water as people patting me on the back, congratulating me.

After the other seven people were out, Nico pulled me aside.

"Penelope Clearwater and Theodore Nott were disqualified."

"And?" I asked and he glared at me.

"And that means that there are two people left down there."

"Oh shit," I said as I headed back to the edge of the platform as people were yelling at me, asking what I was doing. I ignored everyone and I dove into the water.

After a minute, I reached the two bodies floating in the water.

"Son of the Sea God, you can't take them," a mermaid said as she about ten others pointed their tridents at me.

"Try and stop me," I said and glared at them, causing them to swim away in a panic. I chuckled to myself as I broke the vines attached to the boy and girls' legs and I swam up to the surface, pulling them up with me.

As I broke the surface again, everyone cheered. The three of us swam over and I pulled myself out of the water and Nico jumped on my back, hugging me.

"You're awesome," he said and kissed me cheek, causing me to chuckle and blush slightly.

"No, you're awesome for letting me know that they were still down there."

"A fish would've told you if I didn't."

"But you did," I said and I turned my head and I pecked his cheek, causing him to hide his face in my neck.

I walked over to Harry, Ron and Hermione, carrying Nico on my back. They were looking at me, shocked.

"That was amazing," Hermione said and I just smiled.

"I can't believe that you went back and got those other two. They weren't even yours to save," Ron said and I shrugged.

"I tried to bring a first year up with me and Ron, but the merpeople wouldn't let me. How did you do that?" Harry asked and I shrugged again.

"I don't know," I lied. "I must've gotten lucky."