I m so sorry for not updating sooner but I had difficulty writing this chapter... This is what I could think of. Hope you enjoy it!
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Previously on No Choice...
Severus applied a bit more pressure and found...
Hermione holding a Deatheaters blade and slowly carving some words in her stomach. Soon enough the words caught on fire making the windows shatter around her.
Not wanting to see more Severus pulled out from her mind and...
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... stared at her in disbelief. No! There is no way that she would have completed the ritual yet. There has to be some way that he could save her. He looked at Hermione to see that she did not even show any regret or any emotions at all.
"What the hell were you thinking?" snarled Severus and grabbed her by the collar of her uniform.
"Severus!" shouted Headmaster in alarm. Through out his entire life he has never seen Severus this furious.
"Albus! Do you have ANY idea that she has done?" bellowed Severus and his whole body was vibrating with anger.
"Severus?"
"Remember Sybill Trelawney's prediction at the beginning of this year? It appears that she has yet again made another correct prediction..."
Albus recalled the prediction...
"Cum incipit annus,
Et innocentem et purus flos numquam esse eadem
Tenebris erit perpetuo circuibunt eam
Nisi quis qui iam circumdederunt per tenebras liberaret eam ante suus 'sero
Si non mundum morietur periculum
Pro an motam malum natum habet
Fusce a malo revocare: ne effundatur sanguis
Rituali brevi futurum esse close completionis
Atque salvator foret mox interefere
Scientia et ars ope
Ille, tentandum est prohibere
Hoc esset utrosque salvare ex eis
Levitatem, docebit eos ad successus
Non ea vis et muneris vincit omnia
Sed ..
Si suus 'sero
Nostra ruina est close super nos
Spes perit pereat mundus"
"Very well then. You must do what is necessary." Albus stated simply.
"ME? Are you completely mad? Just go and find the savior that prophecy speaks of and let me stay out of this!" roared Severus.
"Oh I have found the savior and he seemed to be standing right in front of me..."
"You are joking right?"
"No I am not!"
"Ya right!"
"I'm serious Severus!"
"Oh come on! Haven't you burdened me enough already? I have done everything you asked me to do. Have you never ever thought that you ask too much? I refuse to be responsible for her fate!"
"Do you want Tom to get another alliance? Tell me! What is the sole purpose of your life?"
"Damn you Albus!" With that Severus hit the wall with his hand and instantly broken his wrist. Albus seemed unfazed about his outburst and slowly whispered episky and Severus's broken wrist was as good as new. Severus kept on breathing heavily. How dare Albus use her to get everything he wants done. This is it. No more. I refuse to do this. With that Severus glared at Albus and said:
"FINE! This is the last thing I would do for YOU!"
"Thank you Severus. Now I believe researching needs to be done. Feel free to use the library and Miss Granger, you are to be with him all time." Albus added sternly.
"With all due respect Sir, I do not need a babysitter" replied Hermione.
"You are not going to be babysitted. You are going to be helping Professor Snape. Now off to the library you two."
"Oh! We are not going to the library. I think it's time we visit Miss Granger's room. Don't you agree Miss Granger." sneered Severus.
"No!"
"Oh yes we are!"
With that Severus started hurling Hermione towards the Head's dorm. Upon reaching a painting with a blonde women he let Hermione go.
"Give the damn password Miss Granger!" commanded Severus.
Hermione simply stared at the portrait. With a sigh Severus took out his wand and
"Imprio. Give the password."
"Peidiwch byth ofni" Hermione said.
"How very Gryffindor!" Severus replied in a mocking tone and released the curse.
Hermione blinked and realization quickly droned on her as she saw the portrait open.
"You...you! You used an unforgivable curse!" Hermione was nearly in tears.
"Compared to what you have been doing it is an acceptable one!"
With that Severus pushed Hermione inside and shut the portrait door behind him and warded the door glanced at the room and saw books scattered everywhere. This is going to be harder than he expected. Looking around he spotted a piece of parchment lying on the table. Looking at it he saw that it was a list of books she used for the ritual in the order that she did it.
"Why thank you Miss Granger! I never thought I would say this but for once I am glad that you are such a planner."
Severus started throwing book after book until he came across the one he was looking for.
"Ah! Here it is." Severus waved the book in front of her eyes and said "If you decide to indulge yourself in Dark magic books in future please stick to the English versions not any other language. Also for future reference I do not enjoy translating Latin and Welsh. It's rather time consuming. Which is why I have a spell invented to translated things to English. However, it can only be done five times a day so keep it noted in that brain of yours!"
With that Severus turned and settled on the couch leaving a stunned Hermione behind.
"Close your mouth before a fly goes in!" With that Severus whispered "Tranlate textu" and soon enough the Latin book was translated to English. Severus started to read about the Dark Ritual.
The Sorun can be used to protect yourself form any kind of spell fired towards one by a wizard or witch who is an enemy to you. Not only it protects yourself but, it also transfer a bit of magic from the enemies body to your body. The enemies soul is damaged and the magic level is weakened to a great extent. There is only one way to give back the bit of magic yanked from a wizard or witch and it includes the sacrifice of a unicorn. Different people classify the word 'enemy' in different ways so this works differently for everyone. However, the one who wishes to complete this ritual has to sacrifice an innocent thing that that one has tainting the participator in Darkness.
Severus stopped there and looked at Hermione who hasn't even moved an he asked
"Is Poppy an enemy of you?"
"What no!" Hermione was insulted that he think of her in such a horrible way.
"Then why was she not able to heal you before?" Severus inquired.
"Won't you figure it out eventually?" replied Hermione.
"Oh yes I will! ANd when I do YOU will face the consequences and it won't be a mystery anymore." Severus was highly annoyed with that girl. After a while Severus asked:
"What did you sacrifice?"
"I won't tell you! Seriously what is the big deal? I did all that to protect myself! It saved me when I was in front of you-know-who!"
"There are several ways that you could protect yourself in front of the Dark Lord and those are certainly not part of Dark Magic!"
"There is no way that one could protect one's self from Dark Magic without the help of Dark Magic!" shouted Hermione.
"No there is! Was Potter protected from the Dark Lord by Dark Magic when he was only about a year? Did you think Lily would have allowed it?" Severus shouted back loudly.
Hermione stood petrified on her spot. Why didn't she think of that before?
"I...I..." stammered Hermione.
"..Didn't think of it." Severus completed the sentence of her.
"Yes." Hermione admitted softly.
Severus observed Hermione and decided that she would still be able to be saved. It's not at all late.
"Is there a way to do it? Protect yourself without Dark Magic?" Hermione asked.
"Yes."
"Would you teach me?"
Severus simply looked at her for a while and replied "Yes I would if we make it through. Would you contribute to undo this mess?"
"Deal." with that Hermione slowly walked over to the couch and took a seat beside him.
"That part is in the 3rd last page of the book." Hermione whispered after a minute.
Severus simply nodded to her and turned to that page and read.
If you wish to un do The Sorun there would be severe consequences. Only few would be able to even last through the entire process. Most would simply die a painful death. The reverse process include a potion, a spell and a sacrifice. The potion would need several rare ingredients but would only take 15 minutes to complete. Only a highly skilled brewer would be able to to brew it perfectly fine. The potion is known as 'Converte iniuriam'.
'Converte iniuriam'
-three drops of phoenix tears
-four drops of unicorn blood
-one drop of maiden blood
-piece of flesh from another Dark one
-5 nevbergine weed
-1 centaur horn
-a drop of mermaid tear
-the yolk of a dragon egg
-an eye of a blast-ended skewt
-20 drops of giant tears
Severus stopped reading here and turned to Hermione.
"This is going to be a difficult and foul potion. I'm glad that I'm not the one to take it." Severus told to Hermione.
"Did you just... Never mind... mmm... Do you have all those ingredients?" Hermione asked timidly.
"Except an eye of a blast-ended skwet, yes?" Severus replied smudgy.
"Where do we find one? How did you get hold of the others?" Hermione started asking questions.
"I am a Potion's Master." Severus stated simply and started heading out.
"Wait! Where are you going? Wait for me!" Hermione dashed after him.
"Oh you are coming with me! Don't worry. You would be the one taking out the eye."
With that Severus started walking briskly towards the Dark Forest.
"We are not going in there are we?" Hermione asked hesitantly.
"I don't see why not? You have been there before. Why the hesitation now?" Severus replied cooly.
The Forbidden Forest was much more creepy during night time and movement could be heard from everywhere around her. Severus didn't seem to notice her discomfort and made his way deeper and deeper inside the Forbidden Forest carefully not to trip over anything. Finally after reaching his destination he stopped halt and Hermione who was not at all aware that he did so walked right into Severus making both of them fall down to the ground.
Hermione couldn't even glance at Severus for she knew that he is about to explode. Suddenly she came aware of her position. One of her hand was lying on his chest and the other was on his very privet region. Her leg very entangled with his and her head was tucked into the crook of his neck.
Meanwhile Severus was too busy trying to suppress a very unpleasant feeling which was slowly traveling down his stomach and felt his starting to harden under her small hand. Her whole body was pressed against his body and he was fighting with his instincts to not to groan in pleasure. After taking a deep breath Severus said hoarsely "Miss Granger! Get up now before I toss you aside like a piece of garbage!"
Hermione hurried to get up and in this process accidentally pressed hard on his privet area earning a loud groan from Severus. Upon coming to realize what just happened Hermione was mortified beyond anything.
"I'm so..." started Hermione when she was rudely interrupted by Severus "Just don't! It will save us both from embarrassing ourselves."
With that Severus rose to his feet in a very graceful manner and quickly muttered a spell and was relieved of the tiny trouble he was facing with.
"Sir, now what?" Hermione asked after a while. She couldn't handle the quietness which was really starting to creep her. However, Severus simply ignored her and just kept shooting glances here and there. After a while he conjured up rotting eggs and placed them on the ground. He must have cast a spell to magnify the odor. Hermione found it extremely hard not to throw up. "Breathe through your mouth!" snapped Severus as he was sure that Hermione would start to vomit soon. Hermione felt like retorting back at him but found it unable to do so. Thinking that she would do what he just said she started taking deep breaths through her mouth. Soon enough the nausea subsided. Unable to hold back her questions any longer she started firing question by question at Severus. "Professor why are we here? Why did you conjure rotting eggs? The smell is magnified right? I thought that the magnifying spell only works with sound? Sir..." Hermione kept on rambling and didn't notice a dark figure approaching them and neither did she even notice Severus signalling her to be quite.
Severus knew that the blast-ended skwet is nearby so there is no way that he could tell her to shut up. Damn Hermione Granger and her none stop mouth. Knowing that there was little to do he rushed over her and pressed his hand over her mouth and drew her closer to his body and used his other hand to hold her still. He heard a small protest coming from her so he hissed "quiet!" near her ears. Hermione found it extremely hard to breathe. This was the second time that he stayed this close to her and now his breath was slowly blowing on her neck. Pleasure shot through her entire body and she could not help but relax and lean against his body. Severus froze as he felt Hermione getting comfortable against him. What is wrong with this girl? His thoughts were disturbed as the blast-ended skwet came and fell into his trap. Severus drew away from Hermione's body instantly and rushed over to the creature. Hermione watched in amazement as Severus slowly pulled out a knife from his robe and held it out to her. No! She can't do it! The creature looked so horrible and it smelled like rotting eggs. Severus merely rose his eyebrows indicating that there is no way that she would escape from this. Shaking she walked toward Severus and took the knife from his hand and turned to the creature. As she drew closer to it the nausea hit herself so hard that she immediately turned herself and vomited. Hermione was so busy heaving out all the contents in her stomach that she did not even notice Severus taking the knife from her hand and picking out it's eyes. After emptying all her stomach contents she rose up to her feet and vanished her mess. Suddenly she became aware that the Professor was staring at her and could not help feeling mortified. He must be thinking that I am weak. Hermione felt close to tears.
Severus simply looked at her and said without thinking much " Now I would know how much you will vomit through out your pregnancy and after giving birth." Hermione snapped her glance towards him. How could she forget about the fact that she is about to marry him soon. Have sex with him and even be pregnant in merely a few months. Severus seemed to come to his senses and mentally slapped himself. Well, anyways the conversation is started now. Hermione was panicking in inside now. Out of a sudden Hermione said "I am not going to give birth!" Severus looked at her as thought she has gone completely mad. "Oh yes you will unless you plan on keeping the baby inside you forever." Hermione huffed and said "What makes you think that I will get pregnant anytime soon?" Severus looked at her as thought she had all of a sudden grown two horns. Surely this girl is not that stupid. "As per the Ministry's rules you would be!" Severus stated simply. "No! My parents were married for 10 years before they got me!" Hermione replied happily. Severus could not help but snort out. "Miss Granger this is wizard world. You are about to marry a wizard coming from a well-known wizard family. Wizard's body is different from muggles. We are much more stronger then them in every way." Severus stated proudly. "So that doesn't prove anything!" sneered Hermione. Realization finally drowned to Severus that Hermione Granger, know-it-all, Princess of Gryffindor, the brightest witch of her age is not at all accustomed with some of the wizard culture well, at least about wizard marriage and wizard pregnancy. Just to be sure Severus hesitantly...
Ok First of all I know that there are several parts to be translated in this chapter...
sooooooo...
-Here is the translation of the latin prediction :
When the year begins
The innocent and pure flower would never be the same
Darkness will forever surround her
Unless one who is already surrounded by darkness save her before it's too late
If not the world shall peril
For an unbalanced evil has been born
Blood would be shed from the evil to summon the Dark
The ritual would soon be close to completion
And the saviour would soon interefere
With the help of his knowledge and skill
He must try to stop this
This would save both of them
The lightness will guide them to success
And gift them with a power that cannot be beaten by anything
But..
If it's too late
Our doom is close upon us
Hope will be lost and the world would be lost
-Here is the translation of the Welsh password:
Never fear
-Here is the translation of the potion:
Reverse the wrong
I need all of your help... Well actually some ideas... First of all what kind of question Severus should ask Hermione to check her knowledge about wizard marriage and pregnancy? oh and for the future chapters should Hermione have a tough pregnancy or not? Btw... you are all welcome to suggest the sex of the baby they both are going to have with the name... I am seriously having major issue writing this story now...
Also...
I tried my best to be a little nicer when it comes to the cliffhanger as lilianagrey suggested. I hope this one's bit better though I am warning before hand the next one might not be :D Thanks for the reviews. It's really motivating.
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