When Myths Meet Magic || 5

40|| Ginny

The following is an April Fool's prank but I wanted to keep it for the comments XD

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Guys, I'm sorry how bad this book is going, but I don't know how to say this — I'm quitting Wattpad. I just don't feel like it's working for me. I've got intense writer's block and I just don't feel it anymore. This series is up for adoption.

April Fools! The series is NOT up for adoption and I hope it never will be. I love writing and Wattpad. Sorry not sorry, I wanted to do this at least once and what better year than 2018? Unoriginal, I know. Kept it short because I do actually have a chapter. Here it is. Like the prank above, it's short, but I'm getting to the good stuff after this.

40|| Ginny

Thalia pounded angrily along the invisible wall. "This isn't right," she said. "Why can't we get in?"

"I'm going to quickly check the other rooms," said Neville.

"I'll come with," Thaila muttered angrily as she let her fists fall.

"I'll wait here for the others to get back," said Ginny with a sigh. The room spun as Neville and Thalia closed the door to their room as well, and as it stopped, Harry, Ron, and Hermione exited. Hermione marked the door with an X and a frown and after greeting Ginny with a nod, Harry pushed open another random door.

"This is it!" he gasped.

Ginny's head snapped around to face them. "You've found it?" she whispered breathlessly.

Harry's entranced walk into the room was her answer. Casting one last glance towards the unenterable room, she hurried after them.

"Guys, wait for me!"

Behind her, Neville was just about to peep his head out to ask if Ginny wanted to come with him and Thalia. Her fiery hair vanished into the doorway and before the door could swing shut, he darted forward and stopped it with his foot. Then he stumbled after Ginny and accidentally tripped, landing on her back and making a little domino tower with him, Ginny, and Ron.

"Eep!" Ron squealed as he fell.

Behind them, the unmarked door swung shut.

Ginny followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione through the maze of gleaming, dancing light. The impossible room could not have been more unlike the one she paced through. A large, crystal bell jar stood at the farthest end of the room.

"Oh, look!" she gasped as they approached the jar.

Swaying in a lazy circle as if it was being very slowly blended by air was a tiny, jewel-like egg. As it bobbed lazily in the invisible current, a hummingbird pierced the shell and was carried to the top of the jar, but as it fell with the tide it once more enclosed in the egg.

"Keep going!" Harry said rather crossly. "This is it. It's through here..."

Ginny anxiously looked behind her and saw Neville's grim face, which did not reassure her at all. She missed Annabeth, but Annabeth was in the dark room with Percy and Nico.

Harry pushed open a door that lay on the left of the jar.

The room was massive; the ceiling stretched higher than the Great Hall and shelves rose up like towers, so dense that there was barely enough room for all five of them to stand in without knocking over the orbs that stood in the shelves, for that was what they were covered in. Small, dusty glass orbs ranging in size from Quaffle to Bludger to Snitch.

"You said it was row ninety-seven," whispered Hermione, breaking the silence.

"Keep your wands out," said Harry as he peered down one particular row, although he needn't have said anything. Ginny's hands were white from clutching her wand so hard and she wasn't about to let it go.

"Hello," said a pleasant voice from behind them.

There was a shriek and the crunch of bones.

"Oh my gods, Luna!" Hermione whispered frantically. "I'm so sorry!"

"Oh, it's quite alright," said Luna dreamily as she pinched her nose. "Blood keeps the bubbals away. Where are the others?"

"Weren't Piper and Jason with you?" Ron asked acidly.

"Oh, they were," said Luna with no hint of explanation. "Shall we be going, then?"

Harry looked like there was nothing more that he wanted to do than keep going, so that was exactly what they did.

"Row ninety-seven, here we come."

>>>•Annabeth•<<<

Annabeth, Percy, and Nico hurried out of the room. She didn't tell the boys, but her heart had dropped in fear the entire time she was in that room. There was something powerful about it, but she couldn't say — it wasn't so much as power as it was energy. And it had nearly trapped her and Percy forever.

"There can't be that many doors left," she said as they pushed through. "We've just got to find the others and..."

She trailed off.

"Where'd they go?" Nico asked. "Ginny and Neville and Thalia were just here."

"Maybe they went to find another room?" Percy suggested, rubbing his temples.

Annabeth shivered, and it had nothing to do with the heat-draining torches of blue fire that hung around the room. "C'mon," she insisted. "We've got to find them."

Thalia was in the first room they peeked in, but the blue-eyed huntress was not the first thing they saw.

"Hoooly crap," Percy said.

"I'm blind!" Nico shrieked.

"Shut up," said Annabeth, the only one not entranced by the mountains and mountains of glittering, gleaming treasure. "Thalia, c'mon."

Thalia turned and for a moment, her eyes gleamed gold, then she blinked, growled, and seized Percy by his shirt. "Yeah, Kelp head, c'mon."

They exited, the room spun, then it came to a stop.

"Quickly," Annabeth urged anxiously. A sense of foreboding hung in the air. The others felt it too, she could tell, and she wished Piper was there to say everything was alright, but Piper was with Jason and Luna in the maze of the corridors.

She was so distracted she didn't even notice the massive crystal bell jar in the end of the room until Percy had to spin her away from crashing head-on into it.

"Careful, Wise Girl," he said grimly.

Annabeth could feel a retort rising in her but she forced her pride down. It wasn't the time for epic comebacks. They were running out of time.