As The Dark Rises
Chapter One
Rowena's story
On a dark rainy day, the people of Terryon were running around trying to finish some last minute chores, so they could get indoors.
To Godric it was funny thing; all those Muggles trying not to get wet. Because a wizard like him could cast a simple charm and they wouldn't get a single drop on them.
Of course Godric couldn't do the charm right now, because he didn't want to get burned again. It didn't hurt to get burned, he could just cast a simple charm, it's just that he didn't want to.
As he rode his horse, he looked up in the sky, it was beautiful, all those clouds slowly going by, dropping bits of water, and every once in awhile a lightning bolt would flash across the sky.
He looked down at some children jumping around in the mud, shouting and laughing. Even as he was watching a shadow shot like an arrow over Godric.
Godric quickly looked up to see some type of reptile flying above him. He only wondered about it a minute before the reptile landed no more than twenty feet in front of him. It was a dragon, just a little smaller than his horse, but he knew it was three times as strong. Its blue scales were shining magnificently in the rain, one ear flopping to the side at an awkward angle, and what looked like to be a broken arm, but it was eyes that caught his attention, its orange eyes were shining maliciously, or was it fright?
Godric barely noticed what was on the dragon; it was Rowena Ravenclaw the smartest witch in over thousand years, she was wearing a long blue cloak like usual but it looked like it had been through a lot and hadn't been cleaned in a long time.
"What happened to you Rowena, and where'd your get that dragon?"
"I found Salazar and he's…I'm not sure," she said "but he tried to kill this dragon, and I heard him yelling at her because she didn't meet his standards. But the way he said it…" she shivered "Godric, I think he's going strike war against you."
"Well that's nothing new," he said in a relieved voice "We've been guessing he would do that ever since he left Hogwarts. In fact we thought he's strike sooner than this"
"Godric, how can you be so stupid!" She yelled, "he's attempting to breed dragons to attack you, and I was leaving from where he was, I felt cold, I felt as though I'd never be happy again." She said that last bit as if she would never really be happy again.
"Dementors," he said with extreme distaste, "Where is he now? Did you see anything else? Did you get Helga? I need details!" Godric just noticed that all the muggles were staring at them "How many can that dragon hold?" he asked.
"It could probably hold two of us for a short distance." She answered
"Get Helga and meet me at the cave in an hour." He said quickly. He pulled the horse's reins back hard, turned the horse around and rode off at a not-so-normal speed.
The rain pelted his face, and blinded his eyes as he rode his 'trusty steed' to selentis cave, or the cave as it was more known by. Of course only three people knew of it, and it was the most wonderful place they knew. They could hold all there meeting there and no one would ever find them.
About an hour later godric stopped in front of a boulder, "Godric Gryffindor commands you to open!" he yelled and then the boulder faded away into nothing, revealing a pathway into the ground. The horse walked into selentis cave, every footfall echoing off the walls.
As he got deeper into the cave it started to get darker, and darker, until it was pitch black. He pulled out his sword and whispered "lumos." And his sword glowed with a faint blue light. The whole cave lit up with a blazing light, shining of the diamond walls. Selentis Cave was a crystal cave, so even the smallest light would shine through the whole cave showing even the darkest corners.
"vadum table," He said with a flick of his sword "Vadum Chairs." He said with another flick.
He put his sword on the table and started to pace back forth for lack of anything else to do. What is he thinking, godric thought I cant figure out why he would team up with the dementors, those vile creatures, I know he practices some dark arts, but DEMENTORS!
Godric heard heavy footsteps behind him. He watched as Rowena, Helga and a dragon come through the tunnel. Rowena still looked scared, while Helga looked confused and frightened at the same time. All three of them took their seats quietly, while Rowena started her story.
"When you told me to find Salazar a year ago, I went under cover with some dark wizards that I had known to be in league with him in Egypt. After a couple of months the wizards finally started to trust me, and they brought me to a…" she shivered "raid, I had to kill some muggles and some muggleborns. I made images of a whole bunch of people, I killed the images, and then dissaperated them to Helga with a short note."
Godric gasped "Your Diasaperated somebody else, muggles even! How?"
"With a peace of thread." She pulled out a thread out of her long blue cloak. "Portus." She said she handed it to godric
"What am I to do…" he stopped talking, he had just apperated to the other side of the room. "Amazing!" he yelled "Rowena you're the most intelligent witch I know!" he yelled
She smirked "Now let me finish my story."
Godric went to the table and sat down, still amazed by her brilliance.
"After they saw me kill all of them they were amazed, and sent me immediately to Salazar. They brought me to a forest in Africa, I told him I wanted to meet him alone, and that I would find him by myself. They were too scared to protest.
I found him almost immediately he was just a couple miles into the forest. I followed him for a couple of hours in which for the most part he was sleeping. But when he woke up he dissaperated somewhere else. It took me a couple of minutes to find him, and when I did he was examining this dragon. He was saying that the dragon wasn't good enough to somebody I couldn't see." She pointed to the dragon, "He was about to kill her, when I yelled at him to stop, I blew my cover. He was so surprised that I just disaperated on to the dragon and then flew away."
"Are you sure that he didn't know you were there, and purposely let you get this dragon? For all we know the dragon is only here to attack us."
Rowena almost looked angry at that "Flammigena wouldn't hurt a fly, he eats grass."
"A dragon that eats grass!" he laughed
"Yes, now stop interrupting! After I was up in the air I didn't know where to go so I found a cave in the mountains near by. I lodged there for the night with the dragon, mostly I was trying to calm her, but when I did she kept me warm the whole night. I woke up to hear a faint pop, I also felt the dementors presence, I heard Salazar say to find me because I was a threat to him, the mission and the war. I jumped on the dragon and flew out of a back entrance before Salazar could find me. We flew for a month over the ocean trying to find land, only through my powers could we live. As I was about to faint form lack of water and food, we found a large island with some primitive people. They gave me shelter and food, I was there a week before me and flammigena had enough energy to go off again, but we still didn't know where to go, I still didn't have enough energy to apperate to England, and I don't know the limits of my 'portus' spell. I flew around the island for a couple of days, it was a lot larger than Britain, but it was still an island. I found many different animals there, some looked so different I thought they were magical. After another month I found ice at a point of the island, I knew I must be north, but I had traveled north before and never saw such an this, so I took my chances and went the other way. As it turns out I was right. I flew for another two months landing on various islands, and be attacked on almost every one by the creatures, before I found Africa and the forest again. I avoided the forest and kept flying before I found a village. At first I was going to stop for food and water but I found godric instead. The rest you know. "
They sat there staring at Rowena. It was amazing what she went through.
"Rowena…That's…Amazing, to say the least…I mean…you have to write a book or something about that."
Rowena just sat there, not even showing that she heard him.
"So," Helga spoke up "what do we do now?"
"School starts in a week. We can't plan a war and teach the students." Helga continued.
"We'll have to find some replacements then." Godrc almost whispered, "We all knew that we would leave the school eventually anyways."
"Yes, but not this early, I was planning at least another hundred years."
"The students probably would've driven you insane before you could teach that long. What do you say we do now Rowena, you haven't said anything yet?"
"I say we find the replacements, find some wizards to help us fight, team up with all the magical creatures we can. Then we strike before Salazar can."
Godric sighed "I didn't want to leave the school this early either."
"There's no other way Godric."
"I know Rowena." He sighed again "I just wish that Salazar didn't believe in all of this nonsense about blood."
"Well he does and you can't stop it, no matter what you think godric." Helga spoke up
"Alright, but who will we chose to replace us."
"We need replacements for Potions, Magical Creatures and Herbology, and we might want to teach the students how to defend themselves. We also need to find a headmaster of some sort, and a way to split the students in to the different houses." Rowena responded.
"It would be hard enough to find those, but a way to split the students into houses? That's near impossible."
"Yea what are we going to about that, pull names out of a hat?" Helga said jokingly there was a long pause then…
"Maybe…" Godric said, Rowena and Helga looked very confused. "Just go find the replacements, ill find the headmaster and the way to sort. You find the others stay together though, we don't want Salazar to find you."
Godric jumped back on his horse and rode through the tunnel back into the daylight.
He didn't know he was going to get for the headmaster, but the way to sort. I'm going to be praised for generations
Five minutes later, godric was racing up the stairs of hogwarts castle. As he finally reached his door to his room, it opened up without him even touching it. He went in slowly and found his hat on the dresser.
Generations he thought. "Vitalis, condico, Conversio Scio Legilimens" he said doing intricate motions with his sword.
The hat started to move. "ohhhhh…" it said "what happened."
Godric smiled many generations.
For the next two hours Godric talked to the hat, telling him what was happening in the world, then telling what he was suppose to do, and every once in awhile he would do another charm to improve the hat, until it was perfect.
"Know I've just to show you to Rowena and helga." Godric picked up his hat and put it on his head, and then went downstairs with an extra bounce in his step. He got on his horse, and started to ride at a slow gallop, and asked "So Sorting Hat, who should I get for the position of headmaster."
"Why are you asking me? I've only met you, and only heard of what's out here."
"I don't know, I was just talking to myself."
"But you…"
"Oh, be quiet."
Hmm he thought to himself whom do I know that would be a good headmaster. "Merlin this is hard!" he yelled at himself, after a half hour of riding in a circle.
"I do not mean to interfere, but…" somebody said to the left of him.
He was so surprised he almost fell of his horse. He looked up to see a man riding a brown horse, he looked young maybe around thirty-five he looked like he was a muggle knight, of course it was hard to tell these days, he had silver armor and was holding his helmet under his left arm. He was clean-shaven and had black hair that looked no more than two inches long.
"Who are you?" Godric asked
"My name is of no importance, but I am a knight in these lands that is owned by the kingdom of Filius." He said in a slightly odd voice that still had a commanding tone to it.
"I am very sorry sir, if I had known that this land belonged to…what was it…oh yes Filius, I would not have wondered here."
The knight smirked "No, that's not what I meant…we wanted to some to invite you to our castle. We need the help of a great wizard like you, we have had some small problems."
Godric was surprised to say the least, "How do you know my name?"
"The kings son…" he said like that should make Godric understand "The kings son attends hogwarts, his name is Ron Surdus."
"Amazing," Godric said, "I did not know that young Ronald came from such noble heritage."
The knight's mouth moved into something that resembled a smile, "Ron is like that, he wouldn't want anybody to know that he is the prince of Filius."
"I don't know why though, if I were in Ronald's position I would probably be telling half truths about how I owned a kingdom. Well let's go, I would like to help you in any way I can, and I also have some problems and maybe Ronald would have a suggestion for me." He said in a hopeful but doubtful voice.
"I highly doubt that this Ronald you speak of can help your problem, godric"
The knight looked at the hat on godrics head amazed, "It talks!"
Godric laughed "Yes, I made it today, it will be my new way of sorting students, for I am leaving hogwarts."
"You're leaving? Ron will be so disappointed, he always said you were his favorite teacher."
"Yes, sadly I must. We believe that a wizarding war is coming."
"A war?" he said "I did not know that there were any problems in your world, or enough magical people to have a war."
"Yes, but I will tell you about it later, for I still need time to think about it."
They rode for ten minutes not saying anything, both lost in their thoughts, before a sense that somebody was watching came over them.
godric noticed the knight's back straighten, "Speed." Godric whispered. Godric leaned into his horse, as did the knight.
"NO!" Godric heard somewhere from behind "Stupefy" it yelled over and over
Godric wasn't in a position to pull out his sword, and even if he were, he wouldn't have enough time. Godric felt heat radiate off a spell as it whizzed by his ear. That was to close, He thought to himself while trying to come up with a plan.
As soon as he came up with one, it was putting it to action; he took a quick glance behind him to see where his attacker was. He immediately apperated behind him (he could tell by his voice that it was a man) and shot spells so fast that it looked like it was just one beam of red, blue, and purple light.
The horse kept running even after his rider had been stunned. He watched the horse for a couple of seconds before the rider fell of. He quickly apperated by his side, he didn't know what spell he had been hit with, and didn't know how long he'd be unconscious. The attacker was wearing a brown cloak, and was carrying a very intriquite silver sword. He speedily hit him with a couple of other spells before taking off his hood. It was a man probably around 80, not that old in wizarding years; his face had crinkles all over, he had gray hair, blue eyes, and a particularly pointy and hooked nose. Godric picked up the attackers sword looking for a family crest. There was none.
Godric noticed the knight walk up out of the corner of his eye, "Do you now him?" he asked
"No." Godric replied, "But maybe Rowena or Helga knows, they always seem to know everybody and everything."
The knight put his finger to his mouth to silence him, and drew out his sword, looking somewhere in the distance. With a swift move, the knight pointed his sword at Gordric and yelled "Stupefy!" He didn't even have enough time to be surprised, before he was unconscious.