As 6th year Kera Rosewood began to walk back to the school building from the Point Alikan Quidditch field, she gazed out to the sea, which was literally next door to them. Point Alikan . . . Lehua Island . . . everything had held a great place in her heart. After all, this was the place where she had spent the last five years of her life - she had 4 great friends, good grades, and she was keeper for her house Quidditch team. What could be better?
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Dinnertime in the Dining Hall was drawing nearer for the entire school. As Aubrey McPhearson headed down the stairs from her House Common Room, she saw several figures approaching the island from the direction of Niihau Island that was a few miles south of the school. This was extremely unusual - no one had ever approached the school by sea. The students and faculty had an underground tunnel system that connected to the mainland - that's how they got to the school in the first place. No Muggle knew it was there; no Muggle outside of the school had set foot in the place. These figures looked suspicious . . .
She hurried to the Dining Hall as quickly as she could. Locating her friends Kera, Elisabeth, Kahvi, and Trilby she set down her bag and sat down, looking for the Headmaster. "What's wrong," Trilby asked. When she didn't answer, the four looked at each other. Something was definitely wrong - she wasn't acting like herself.
When she saw the Headmaster walk by the Dining Hall, Aubrey jumped up and took off running. The Headmaster was a fairly young man, maybe about 40 or so. He was a graduate himself of Point Alikan - he knew most of the current student's parents. He had always wanted the students to call him by his first name - some weird philosophy about them thinking of him as a friend. The only time when people didn't use his first name was when something serious was going on.
"Headmaster!" He turned around, the only light from his lamp illuminating his features which showed a slight concern. "Aubrey? What is it?" He noticed that her four friends came running out of the Hall behind their friend. "Headmaster, I saw several figures approaching the island by sea about fifteen minutes ago." "What?!?" "I don't know who it was, but they were coming from the direction of Niihau." "Okay," he said as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "I'll go get the teachers and investigate . . ." He was cut off, however, as something shot into the air behind him. It took the form of a snake and a skull . . .
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Kera's face must have paled several shades when she saw the Dark Lord's mark. It was impossible, but the figures must've been He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and his servants. "Get out of here!" She saw the Headmaster pull out his wand and simultaneously heard screams coming from the Dining Hall. The teachers came running out followed by scattering students. Within the main entrance appeared the Dark Lord himself.
"Come on," Kahvi said. "This way!" The five girls took off running out of the courtyard. They found a set of doors leading outside. "The teachers were going to board this up - this is a set of service doors put in by the previous headmaster about 30 or so years ago." As they got out of the school, they could hear screams behind them. "We've got to get out of here! Come on, everyone," they could hear Elisabeth calling out, "don't look back! Get to the shore!" With that, everyone took off running.
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One by one Elisabeth, Trilby, Kahvi, and Aubrey found each other on the shore next to the boats that the intruders used. "Where's Kera?" "I thought she was with you!" The four girls started to call out for their lost comrade. As if out of nowhere, she appeared - visibly shaken. "Kera, where were you?" She hesitated before saying, "I got separated . . . " By the look on her face, her friends decided not to push the subject matter further. "Come on, let's take one of these and get off the island!" Each girl helped to push one of the long canoe-like boats out into the water. By the very little moonlight they had, they climbed in it one-by-one. Each girl was given an oar but before they began to row off, they heard two voices calling to them from the shore. Looking back, they saw two more girls trying to get their attention. "Come on," Elisabeth yelled. "Quickly!"
The two girls swam out and were helped into the boat by Kahvi and Trilby. "Thanks," they said. One of them, a girl named Christy (as recognized by Trilby from their Astronomy class) continued on saying the Dark Lord and his minions were winning the battle up on the school grounds and that students were dying all around them. Kera looked like she wanted to get extremely far away and, for some strange reason, kept on looking over to the two girls. They began to row away from the island, all the while hearing the screams of their fallen friends. Kera looked behind them and could almost see a supernatural glow coming from the school. *Go! Go!* She could hear the girls calling out to each other, in a way urging each other on. The truth bothered her, however. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named had won that battle.
There might be lots of questions after reading this, yes? Keep in mind that this is the prologue - they all should be answered in future chapters. So . . . please R & R!!