Chapter Three ~ The Meeting
Author's Note
Okay so let me just sort some things out, I have changed Chapter Three as I feel I gave the character Rose (now Amy-Rose) a serious injustice and want to put that right. So I have changed Chapter's Three and Four. Please vote, comment and/or Fan this story it means so much to me and I hope you like the new version.
I could feel a bed underneath me, and clean white sheets draping my dully aching body. Carefully putting my left hand to my head I winced quickly at the pain, and slowly opened my emerald green eyes. Blinking a few times to get my blurry vision focused, and then seeing there's no one here in the room with me is far from a disappointment. Looking to my left then my right all I can see are long empty beds, there crisp white sheets carefully tucked under the soft feather-stuffed mattresses. Glancing down, I discover my right arm has been lovingly bandaged and put in a blue sling, there is a foul smelling thick yellow paste on my left arm and what feels to be a bandage wrapped firmly around my head. 'Well it's a Hogwart's record, the quickest injury ever seen!' I joked to myself and them jumped up, because a feminine voice, coming from under my bed whispers 'Yes it does, and its your own fault for falling in the first place!'
'Hello?' I whispered cautiously and anxiously and the seemingly female voice replies 'Well hello there to!' and a sweet yet spiteful, rather cat-like laugh echoed through the empty Hospital Room. 'Has Madam Putnella gone?' the voice asked, this time in a serious voice so I turn my head left and right, inspecting the long room for any signs of life. However, all I can see are long rows of empty beds and miles of the white room that I am very familiar with, being on the Ravenclaw Quidditch Team. 'I believe so,' I whispered back and a shuffling motion begins to move the feather-stuffed mattress underneath me.
Gradually sitting up, I can now see a rather tall girl with long auburn wavy hair that reaches her elbows, pale milky white skin like mine and the brightest greenest eyes that I have ever seen. They are just like a cat's and her pink lips are turned up in a slight spiteful smile. She's wearing a short black skirt, white shirt and black jumper with two red and gold horizontal stripes on the bottom, a red and gold Gryffindor tie, long black robes with the Gryffindor crest and black school shoes. She's definitely not a First Year and looks too old to be a Second Year.
'I'm Amy-Rose Potter,'. She said shrilly folding her arms and raised an eyebrow. 'I had to miss my brother's sorting because of you, you snotty cow?' she snapped pointing under my bed and she starts counting dramatically on her fingers, but then shrugs, 'I was under that dusty old thing for at least an hour!,' she said and I raise my eyebrows, wondering why she would do such a thing and then say slowing start trying to take it all in, 'You took me here, all by yourself?' I asked, astounded and she nods then examines her nails.
'All your friends ran off scared, apart from one, it was the boy with the spiky black hair and he went to alert the Headmistress,' she said, thinking hard then continues, 'It was quite simple you bitch I just put a Hovering Charm on you and hovered you here, also I managed to get rid of your little friend, The Dark Child, but only temporarily, but I only did it because he asked and he insisted and said he'd hex me into oblivion if I didn't but I could've beaten him anyway,' and then she stops and my mouth hangs open in a 'Most unladylike fashion' as Grandma Scamander would say. 'Thank you, thank you so much,' I whispered to her and pull her quickly into a one armed hug. She pulls out almost immediately and folds her hands over her chest and stands in her hip, 'Oh no don't thank me, thank that stupid boy who wastes his time on YOU!' she says and I frowned.
'Wait, have you seen what's on your arm?' she asked with a bored expression then quickly takes off my sling and slips the bandages off my broken arm. As she uncovered it, an intricate sword hilt is visible, then part of the sword, then a scarlet red heart with a creamy coloured scroll with swirly black letters engraved on it, and finally the end of the silver coloured sword. Red droplets that look like blood, are dripping from the scarlet heart and the ugly tattoo like mark runs all the way from the inside of my wrist to the crook of my elbow, exactly where my scar was.
'Woopeedoo, well aren't you a little young to have a tattoo?' I feebly joke as Amy-Rose examines it. 'Quem diligis morieris,' she murmured running her fingers along the swirly font. 'I'm pretty sure thats in Latin,' Amy-Rose continued and I nodded. 'Hey Amy, we're meeting at the Library on Thursday, though I'm sure Gemma, James, Anna and Twilighta will have been summoned home so would you like to come, it would just be me, you and my friend Gray?' I asked her as she sat down on the end of my long bed and left the bandages in a muddled heap on my arm.
'Yeah that would great, two hours with the bitch and the cow!' she shouted sarcastically, 'But I may as well go as you're going to need all the help you can get,' then suddenly there was a loud 'POP' and I looked up at her. She now had big cat-like ears that were black on the outside and pink on the inside, a black tail with a hot-pink bow and bell and small pearly white kitty fangs! 'You're a Neko!' I gasped and she frowned, wondering whether I was going to laugh and call her freak, wondering whether to attack me and be done with it. 'Yeah I am, you got a problem,' she groweds and I reply 'No, no it's perfectly alright,' I muttered and then leaned in a little closer to her. 'Amy-Rose I am about to tell you a very important secret however you must promise to tell no one, got it?' I asked her cautiously and she nodded, the bell on her tail tinkling ever so quietly but rolled her eyes even so.
'I-I-I can, well I'm sort of like a wolf, I have wolf-like abilities so my sense of smell, stamina, hearing, strength and all the over things that are associated with wolves are far better than any normal human. And when I get really angry I transform into a wolf,' I whispered slowly and to my surprise she merely nodded and smiled. 'Well thank God, that's all sorted!' she said smiling a wide happy smile as her ears and tail disappeared, and her fangs turned back to normal teeth, 'You better not tell anyone, understand' she snarled her smile disappearing.
'Does anyone else know?' she asked retying my blue sling very tightly, whilst I shook my head. 'Apart from my parents and brothers no, which is why you have to keep it a secret and I'll keep yours as well,' I exclaimed shook her right hand with my left hand. Amy pressed her thumb and index finger-tips together, then made a zipping motion over her mouth. Doing the same, it clarified that we would keep each other's secrets a secret. 'Right well I'd better pop off before Madam Putnella finds me here, otherwise I'll be dead meat but I'll take your timetable for you tomorrow as you're probably too stupid to get it yourself,' she said and I just frowned and stuck my tongue out.
'See you later!' I said waving with my good arm as she turned on her heel, opened the great Hospital Wing doors and slipped out unnoticed. 'You get some rest my dear,' said Madam Putnella, who suddenly appeared out of her office. What a stroke of luck that she had stayed in there whilst me and my new found friend, well maybe a friend she was a bit spiteful. Well she felt like a friend to me anyway. Tutting, I closed my eyes and dreamed a dreamless sleep as Madam Putnella reapplied the thick paste to my wounds, checked my bandages then stepped into her office.