Into The Wild
Chapter Three


Authors Note

Hi everyone. See I'm updating on schedule! Who's proud of me? Haha. Anyways, I have a job interview on Tuesday! Yay! I'm being a big girl about my life. I think its weird that I'm looking forward to hopefully getting this job. I really want to because I need a job, and I want a normal job. Gah, enough rambling about my life, here's the next chapter! Enjoy!

Kaley


The wolf's ears went back and he went into a defensive stance as Hermione's shriek frightened him. He started to growl and lunge for the girl when he absentmindedly started to shrink, and shrink, and shrink. He whined worriedly. He was a wolf, of course, just a regular wolf, and had no idea just what the bloody hell was going on. He just wanted some food, and that's what he was looking for when that bushy thing screamed.

Hurt his ears good too, mind you.

To top it off he was picked up by the scruff of the neck and tossed aside like a rag doll.

The wolf's mind screamed with indignity.

You there, boy! I dare you to return me to normal size and try that. The wolf's mind screamed, however, he was small and now unable to defend himself, so he scurried away.

"Granger, why is it always you or Potter, or Weasley that are consistently getting yourselves into trouble?" Malfoy ranted after hearing her scream bloody murder, right as he was getting to the good part of the dream where the peacock turned into a Firebolt and he was whisked off by his favourite member of the Holyhead Harpies. "Honestly, only you would attract and bloody wolf to our campsite. Luckily, I was there to save you."

Hermione just stared at him, her eye twitching minutely. Of course she was nearly eaten by a beast, and he is scolding her for attracting a wild animal, because it was totally her fault, you know, for breathing and such.

When she finally found her voice, it was angry. "For Merlin's sake, Malfoy, it was probably your fault to begin with. Ferrets would be considered prey to the wolf. And for your information, it was obviously part of the challenge, the only wolves that are in Britain are werewolves, and that was not a werewolf. Quit being bloody stupid and go back to sleep. Oh and thank you so much for saving me from a fake creature, you're my hero."

Draco's voice was angry as well, when he responded. "You're the most ungrateful little chit, Granger. It doesn't matter if the wolf was real or not, it could have seriously harmed you. A match transfigured to a pin, can still stick you can't it? Quit acting like you're all high and mighty just because you go gallivanting with the bastard-who-should've-died and save the world every year. Sorry that we all can't live exciting lives defeating dark wizards. Really? You're going to bring up something that a death eater did while we were in fourth year? Grow up, Granger!"

"Don't you dare tell me to grow up you bloody wanker!" Hermione was furious. Hannah and Michael were now awake, they'd heard most of the argument. A look was shared and they buried their heads in their hands. They were going to be in the desert part of this challenge forever. "You're the one that needs to grow up. You run and tell your father everything like a child! I've seen children in muggle primary school act more grown up than you! You bring up my blood consistently, which I have no control over, and I'm more talented than you at magic anyways. And yes, I go gallivanting, as you call it, with Harry and Ron every year to save the Wizarding World from people like your father!"

Hannah's head popped up and her eyes were wide. She did not just say that. She did not just say that. She did not just say that.

We're never going to get out of here. Michael thought as he heard the words leave Hermione's lips.

Draco went silent, and his face looked a dangerous amount of calm.

"Don't you ever talk about my family, you filthy, insignificant, bushy-haired, know-it-all, bitch of a mudblood."

Hermione was getting ready to retort again, when everything froze. The fire, the small amount of a breeze, the water stopped moving, and a piece of parchment appeared in the air.

It read.

Fighting with those who you are with while in hiding, can get you caught and could take away valuable resources that the other person could provide. For this reason, Michael and Hannah will be moved to another part of the desert challenge, where a mirror camp has been placed, and Draco and Hermione will remain here, until they learn to get along. Other than that congratulations on completing the challenge.

Notice 154: Use of the word mudblood.

Notice 27: Insulting of someone's parents.

Notice 1: Completion of Challenge One.

Hermione looked up from the paper just in time to see Hannah and Michael disappear, She did feel slightly bad for insulting Malfoy's father. The man was in Azkaban, after all, and just because his father was a death eater, didn't make it alright for her to openly say it in an argument. Her mind was scolding her for doing so, you don't insult someone's parents in an argument.

Draco probably would have felt some remorse, or even something for the notice they got. Yes they got the notice that they completed the challenge. No, they weren't able to leave because of his and Hermione's fighting. He felt completely justified in insulting her, she had just screamed at the top of her lungs that his father was a death eater. So, yes, maybe everyone already knew that, but maybe Hannah and Michael didn't. Maybe he could have known two people that weren't afraid of him, because of his father. Maybe she should realize that just because his father was a death eater, that didn't make Draco himself one. She didn't know why Lucius became a death eater, she didn't know anything about his family. She did, however, have the nerve to insult them. So he merely retaliated.

He glared at her as they stood their in front of the fire for a long time. She returned the glares.

Getting out of here might take a while.


Blaise was sitting by the water the next morning, attempting to wash his face in the cool liquid. They had yet to find a food source, but they were going to go look for that today. Their camp wasn't that safe either, so two of them would stay behind to do that. Lavender had finally left him alone, well she was asleep so she did not really have a choice. One's eyes do tend to close while unconscious.

He finished cleaning up and quietly went and woke the other bloke in their group up.

"Oi! Let's go before the harpie wakes up!" The boy, who's name Blaise still didn't know, woke up slowly.

"There's a harpie here?"

Blaise pointed at Lavender's sleeping form and the boy chuckled before getting ready and following Blaise off into the desert to find something to eat.

Albus shook his head at the glass and sighed. That was not the way that he had expected Miss Granger to Mister Malfoy's saving her. He should have thought of this, honestly, they weren't very friendly in school. Putting them in a stressful situation where they had to rely on each other probably wasn't the best idea.

However, they did complete the challenge and the only thing that they had left to do was to get along.

That couldn't be too hard, could it?

Harry and Pansy were cooking some fungi in their cauldron over the fire that they made. Pansy had pointed out that the mushrooms growing near the water were edible, and suggested the idea. She was showing him how to do it properly. He'd noticed that she actually was a very nice girl, contrary to popular belief.

"Pansy, you're quite a nice girl, you know. I figured you would be like Malfoy and his cronies." Harry mentioned as he stirred the soup.

She gave him a small smile. "I only act that way to keep people away, I don't like most people very much. There are very few people that actually get to know me, as a person. The less people know, the less they can hurt you."

Harry was quiet as he pondered this for a few minutes. She was right. Everyone knew pretty much everything about him, and for that more people were able to hurt him. The few things he managed to keep secret from death eaters, the daily prophet, and that bloody Skeeter woman, were the only good things in his like.

"You're right, Pansy, you're exactly right."


Hope you all enjoyed. I'll be making the chapters longer soon, but in the next chapter they move to the next part of the challenge, eventually, so it's going to be a lot longer than this. Also, when that happens, I'll be leaving lists at the bottom of the page (down here) of which group is in which part of the challenge. Not everyone moves at the same pace, and this way, you know who's winning. Anyways REVIEWS ARE LOVELY. I'll change the to-be-updated-by date on my profile page.

Kaley