Harry

Professor Belle-more had screamed her way to wherever crazy women that call themselves teachers go. We had to walk to Hagrid's hut where he'd be waiting for us. Yeah, we could've just skipped this detention but that'd leave Hagrid waiting.

We were wondering through the corridors of Hogwarts making our way to the front doors when the air shimmered black in front of us. Out of it, stepped a boy of maybe 14. He had black hair and brown eyes. His skin was an unnaturally pale colour and his clothes were all black.

Percy's and Thalia's eyes lit up at the sight of him.

"Nico!" Thalia cried joyously.

"Hey Thals. Hey Perce." The boy, Nico said.

"What brings you here, Death Breath?" Percy asked with a small smile.

"Leo wanted me to give you this parcel." Nico said handing over a parcel wrapped in brown paper to Percy.

"And you had to visit us in person to give it?" Thalia asked.

"Leo didn't want to wait until the owl reached you and thought it would be quicker if I came and delivered it to you myself." He explained.

"Uh...mind telling us who he is, Perce?" Ron asked.

"Oh." Percy said. "Nico, this is Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Harry. Guys, this is Nico Di Angelo, Son of Hades."

"They know about-" Nico started in surprise.

"Demigods? Yeah." Thalia answered. "We told them but they pretty much figured it out themselves."

"Hey, where's Annabeth?" Nico asked suddenly, as if he had just noticed her absence.

There was silence.

"Guy, what happened." Nico asked worriedly.

"She- she's..." Thalia stammered. "Annabeth- She's...petrified. Or dead." She added, so quietly that I almost didn't hear her.

"Petrified?" Nico asked.

"There's this snake that's around the school these days." Ginny explained. "It petrifies people. It kind of like turning them into stone but they aren't stone like. If you look the snake directly in the eye, you die. But if you, say looked it in a mirror, you inky get petrified."

"Wow." Nico muttered. "Is- umm... Is Annabeth...?"

"She's not dead." Thalia said confidently. "She's not dead."

All that time, Percy had his hands buried in his pocket, staring at the ground in front of him as if he was trying to burn a hole there.

Suddenly, a crackle of laughter that was all too familiar echoed through the empty corridor.

"Students out of bed!" It screamed. "Students out of-" Peeves stopped short, frozen in mid air with his mouth hanging open, staring at Nico.

(A/N Thanks goddess_of_annoying for the awesome idea.)

"M-master!" He stammered.

"Ah...Peeves. My father warned me about you." Nico said with a smirk.

"Master! No! Please! Don't! Don't tell your father! I beg you! Please!" Peeves wailed, floating down to Nico's feet.

"Well, you have cheated death." Nico said.

"No please! My Lord! I beg you!" Peeves said, bowing and worshiping Nico with his hands together.

"I'll consider it." Nico said.

"Thank you! Thank you, your majesty!" Peeves said.

"Now, float away before I change my mind." Nico said to which Peeves immediately went away quietly and obediently which happens in about a century.

It was quiet for a while, then we all burst out laughing; except for Percy who only cracked a smile.

****

"What took ya so long?" Hagrid asked.

"Peeves." Ron answered simply.

Nico had left, after promises of visiting again and something about asking the Apollo cabin for a possible cure for Annabeth to which Percy's face lot up considerably. He'd said goodbye and went back up the Gryffindor Tower to leave the package behind accompanied by Ron because of the prefect rule McGonagall had put up. The rest of us had waited for them to come back and so had wasted a couple more minutes.

"Alright then. Ya already wasted half an hour of ya detention." Hagrid said. "So come on. Let's get this thing over with. I got a great creature for ya all to see. Best be prepared 'cause that black beauty is a bit restless."

Hagrid led us behind his hut to where something was straining to break free from the rope that was used to tie it to the pole.

When we got closer to it, I saw that it was a black, winged horse. A Pegasus.

At the sight of us approaching it neighed in delight?

"'Ello there, Rarity." Hagrid said.

"Rarity?" I asked incredulously, thinking about Rarity from My Little Pony.

(A/N. Don't ask and no, I'm not a my little pony fan.)

"Wha about it?" Hagrid asked cluelessly.

"Nothing." I said.

"Blackjack?" Percy cried, running at the horse. The Pegasus neighed and nuzzled Percy's neck.

"Oh, of course." Percy said, suddenly. "Sorry, Blackjack."

If he's talking to the horse, I'd have to class him 'crazy'.

Percy knelt down and undid the rope that tied the horse to the fence. It spread out its wings as if bathing in its freedom.

"'Ey!" Hagrid shouted as he started to walk towards them. "'E's gonna fly away."

"Nah, he'll stay for a bit." Percy said smiling a smile that wasn't fake.

The horse neighed. "Sorry man, haven't got any donuts on me." Percy said.

The horse, Blackjack, neighed again. "Haven't I told you not to call me boss?" Percy said.

Blackjack neighed a reply to which Percy rolled his eyes.

Then he turned to us. "I can talk to horses." He explained. "It's a son of Poseidon thing."

And we spent the rest of our detention talking, joking, laughing and eating rock-cakes at Hagrid's hut.

Yep, one thing's for certain.

Best detention ever.

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