"Well, shit. I think were officially lost.." Samantha said to Breanna. The two had bee walking for more then two days and they had finally admitted they were lost. Bre and Sam were both running from the Ministry of Magic because they were on a hunt for Mudbloods. Desperate and confused, they had run away, hoping to spare their family's. Finally, coming upon a crowded city, they had though they were safe, until the crushing reality that they had next to no money, and nothing to eat came and fell upon them. Scanning the city for anywhere cheap to stay, they found the main street. Sitting on a bus bench, they though hard about their situation. Two seventeen year girls, dressed in muggle clothes, running away from their seventh year at Hogwarts, and the Ministry, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and a wand in their pocket.
"Wanna go to DQ?" asked Bre after several minutes of silence. Sam looked over at her friend questioningly. Bre grinned, "Not like we have enough for a hotel room, and if we do it would only be one night, and then what? I say we go and get some good old fashion DQ fries and a Blizzard. Sound good?"
Sam thought hard, "Yeah.. do they still have the Cookie Dough Blizzards?"
Laughing like idiots, they searched for the nearest Dairy Queen and had their first real meal in days. Sitting in the warm booth, they didn't notice anything suspicious going on around them. Telling lame jokes, they stayed there until the manager came and said they were closing. Going out into the cold fall air, they went and sat inside of a bus stop shelter. They fell asleep there, and when morning came they sett off again. Evergreen forest towered over then as they walked along the side of the highway.
"I Spy with my little eye, something that is... green." Breanna said loudly.
"A tree?" Sam guessed. Bre nodded, "But which one?" Sam stopped to turn and stare at her, "What."
Bre smirked, "Whatever, your turn." Sam looked around, and spotted something.
"I Spy, something that is white."
Bre stared at her, "Uhh, the lines on the side of the road?" Sam laughed, "Nope I was thinking about Voldemort's pale and pasty legs.. hah." Breanna stared at her. Samantha suddenly realized what she did. "Oh fuck.." she muttered. They stood back to back staring around the forest. Suddenly, a big gust of wind shook the surrounding trees, and it seemed that there was a sudden absence of cars on the road. "Shit, shit, shit." Bre said over and over under her breath.
"I think we should go hind in the trees.. don't you think?" Sam said, turning to face her friend. Nodding they went into the thickest part of the forest. Ducking behind a particularly large tree, they stared out at the peacefully quiet highway.
"I don't think they heard us..?" Bre said in a quiet whisper. Sam nodded, "You think were safe from my big mouth?" Bre looked at her then burst out laughing.
"Shut up! Shut up! They will hear us!" Sam said, barely containing her own chuckles. Suddenly Sam couldn't help it.
"Hey Bre. Knock Knock."
"Who's there?"
"You Know"
"You Know Who?"
"That's right! CRUCIO! HAHA!" she screamed. Breanna fell on the earthy ground laughing. Sam soon joined her, and the both broke the stillness with their booming laughs.
"Okay, I think were good, lets go back on the road." Sam said. Bre nodded, ad staggered to her feet. They walked twenty feet to the road, but as soon as they set foot on the hard black asphalt, all hell broke lose. Shouts of Stupefy were heard all over, but they ducked before the flash of red hit them.
"What the heck! AGHH! SNATCHERS!" Breanna screamed at the top of her lungs. Sam instinctively covered her ears from her high pitched shriek.
"You two filthy Mudbloods didn't think you could hid from us, now could you?" said a deep, raspy voice to their left. Breanna peered up through her hair at a tall man staring down at them. "Who the hell are you?" she asked quietly. The man smiled, and motioned for the two wizards on his right to grab them. Not wanting to have to go to a trial, and then maybe worse, Sam jumped up grabbing Bre and took flight in the opposite direction. They could hear his shout from behind, but didn't dare turn around in case they fell on their faces.
A loud inhuman growl was heard from behind them, hot on their heals. But still they didn't turn around.
"Wait, why don't we apparate?" Bre said.
"I cant run and apparate, we will end up in two or somewhere in the middle of the desert probably." Sam answered. Breanna laughed, "Well I have always wanted to see the Egyptian Pyramids."
"Okay then... NOW!" Sam yelled, she grabbed Bre's arm and turned quickly on her heel. From the brief second she could see behind her, that villainous man grabbed a handful of Breanna's hair, that was flying out behind her. Bre lat out a scream, and it felt as if they were being shoved through a tube. Then they landed hard on the ground. Sam stood up and turned to look at the dirty man on the ground. Raising her wand, he let go of Breanna's hair and she got up quickly, also raising her wand.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" she all but shouted in his face, rubbing the back of her head. The man grinned, showing pointed yellow teeth.
"If I told you, to wouldn't be fun now would it?" he barked. Sam bent down and picked up his wand, which had fallen out of his pocket from the impact. Smiling, she flipped him off and turned to walk away, trying to figure you where they were. "Its Fenrir Greyback, got a problem?" he said from behind her. Sam ignored him.
From what she could see, they seemed to be in a large field, to her left she could see the top of a large black castle.
"Do you know where we are?" she said sharply to the man lying defenseless on the grassy ground. He turned his head to look at the small stream next to them that ran into a grate placed in a gray brick wall. He chuckled. Breanna raised her wand again. He stared up at her.
"You know, for such a small person, you have a lot of guts, girlie."
"Did you just call me short?" she yelled. Sam laughed, "Last thing you want to do is call her short."
Breanna turned her head to look at Samantha. "Do you want to go over to that castle over there?" she asked. Sam nodded her head. "We can just leave him here. I'm sure nobody will care." Bre added as an after thought. With a shout, she shot a stunning spell at him. He froze, only his eyes able to move and glare at them. They left him lying there in the grass, and walked off over to the castle.
"Haha.. drawbridge is broken." Breanna laughed. Sam smiled, "Well, I guess the British came."
"The British are coming! The British are coming!" Bre laughed. They hopped over the water leaking onto the bride from the surrounding moat.
"This place don't look to great.." Sam muttered. Bre nodded and looked around at the broken town The entire place was cold and dark. Nothing lived there, except for a small mouse that scampered through the debris. Sam suggested they didn't go over where they saw the mouse. They stood next to a big empty fountain in the middle of the square.
"What do you think happened to this place? Do you think You-Know-Who did it?" Sam asked. Bre shrugged, "I don't know. Heck, I don't even know where the hell we are.. WHAT THE – " She screamed. A human shaped thing grabbed her from behind and jumped on her back. Breanna freaked out, running and jumping, trying to throw the thing off of her. " Zombie! Sam help! ZOMBIE!" Sam had no idea what to do, so she did the only think she could do. Picking up an old plank of wood, she swung it like a bat and hit the thing square in the face. It let go of her friend, and let out a shriek, staring at her with its empty eyes. Sam stood there staring back at it, paralyzed. Bre had jumped back and fell into the dirty fountain.
"What the hell is that! Samantha, MOVE! Jesus!" she screamed. Sam just moved her eyes to stare over at her, still paralyzed. Suddenly her arms finally reacted to he holding up the wooden board and dropped down to her sides. She gave the board a good chuck at the thing, and turned to run the way they came, Breanna right beside her. When they stumbled over the broken drawbridge, they continued to run. Then somebody yelled, "WHOA!" and Sam yelled back, "Horse!" She jumped out of the way just in time, missing the horse's hoof by inches.
"Damn! You okay?" Breanna asked, staring down at her friend lying spread eagle on the ground.
Sam looked up at her, "Ehh, I've been better.." she blinked her eyes a couple of times and sat up. "Ow.."
"What?" Bre asked. Sam laughed like an idiot, "I think I hit my head when I fell. I'm might be insane now." Breanna looked sown at her, "Nahh, Insane? That's normal for you." Sam flipped her off with a smile, and turned to see who had nearly run her over. What she saw was a strange sight. A young man was waking towards them, carrying one of the biggest swords Sam had ever seen in her life.
"Are you okay? I didn't hit you, right?" he asked anxious. Sam shrugged, "I'm all good. You missed me."
"Good." He sighed. "I thought my horse, Epona, ran you over. She has been freaking out, because some weird scruffy looking man tried to bite her.. I have no idea why but he seemed to not want an arrow in the face, so he backed off." Sam looked up at Bre, and could tell she was thinking the same thing.
"Weird.." She answered simply, getting up off the ground, shaking her head.
"Sorry." the man apologized. Breanna looked at him, "Who are you, anyway? I thought it was illegal to walk around with weapons?"
"Uhh... not that I know of.." he said thoughtfully. "And my name is Link."
"Breanna." Bre said. "And this drunken idiot is Sam."
"Ha. Ha." Sam said back.
"Nice to meet you.. sorry about Epona again.." Link said.
"Were sorry about the man who tried to bite her.. we think we may know who he is.." Sam said guilty. Link looked at her. "Really? Who?"
"Well, were not one hundred percent sure, but we thin it might be.. what is his name again? " Sam asked. "Fenrir." Breanna said simply.
"Yeah! Fenrir – " Sam began, but was cut of by an angry voice behind them.
"Greyback." it growled.
