A Prophecy of Two Boys

Chapter 50

I suddenly felt the living world tugging at my spirit, pulling me away from Annabeth and Luna. I fought it as hard as possible, but as was the case with these things, the faster I fought, the faster I woke.

Leo was peering at us worriedly when I opened our eyes. He breathed a sigh of relief as I gained consciousness.

"Thank the Olympians! Are you ok Harry? You were thrashing something horrible."

Suddenly the reality of what I had just seen flooded over me and I grabbed Leo into a hug, tears bubbling up in our eyes. Leo reflexively brought his hands up around me, letting out a small comforting noise as my tears soaked into his night-shirt.

Percy woke up slowly, his thoughts muggy and still coloured with the bright colours of sleep. After a few minutes he woke enough to start receiving my emotions and immediately started to question me.

'Harry! What's wrong? And don't tell me nothing. You're crying and I can feel your emotions.'

'I wouldn't do that.' I whispered back. 'I do know when I can actually get away with lying, you know?'

I sent Percy the memory of my dream, and tried to voice its contents to Leo. By the end, Percy was fuming, ready to declare war on the girl that forced Alyssa to attack the students of the school. It wasn't that we didn't care before, it was that now it was more personal. Tracking her down had become a serious priority now.

"You... you never told me there was a basilisk threatening the students at Hogwarts." Leo said, his voice shaky and his eyes glinting with anger. "But worse, you let Annabeth and Luna stay in a school with a basilisk over the holidays when you could have taken her home."

We sighed regretfully, and rubbed our eyes. "It's no excuse, but there had been no attacks in over a month. We had though they had stopped. And Annabeth and Luna... we thought they were going to camp. The holidays just never came up in conversation until it was too late to put their names on the list of students leaving school for the duration of Yuletide."

Leo simply glared at us.

"And Alyssa isn't attacking the students! She is deliberately making sure not to make direct eye contact with any of the students! Hence why Annabeth and Luna are simply petrified – while it may not be pleasant it's definitely a step up from dead!"

Suddenly a new wave of tears threatened to break, but we tried our best to push them back. But that didn't mean Leo couldn't see them. Guilt crossed Leo's face, and he sighed.

"Sorry. I know that it's ridiculous to blame you but..."

"But she's hurt and we sort of knew what was going on." Percy finished. Leo nodded. We pulled him in for a hug.

We sighed. "We should tell Chiron. Maybe he could tell us what to do."

"Apart from finding that daughter of a Fury that set the basilisk – Alyssa did you call her? – on the school?" Leo remarked dryly.

Leo and Percy and I all burst out laughing, somehow finding hilarity in the situation. I mean, what else was there to do? Clearly the teachers weren't doing anything to help the matter. Oh yes we had curfews and escorts, encouraged to move round in pairs or groups. But what good was that against an unknown non-human threat?

Having no solid evidence of the attack on Annabeth and Luna and the other Ravenclaw Leo and we had to wait impatiently for the news to arrive by owl. James and Lily had noticed our quiet moods, and so shot us slightly suspicious looks. Our parents knew about demigod dreams, but they were unwilling to put too much stock in them really. But they understood when one of them came true.