CHAPTER 7: TRAPPED-PART 2
A/N: Hey guys!PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! My mother removed my computer rights! THAT'S WHY I COULDN'T WRITE! BUT! Ah yes, the but, I'm back! Well for now… Sooooo, Did you like the last chapter? I worked really hard on that, oh yeah, thank you to my amazing reviewers! You guys rock! So thank you Themysterioussiriushatta, Riss im boden, batmaninGrey, emotionlessgirl32, emmakate9885, nisha31b, interesting, xmissjasminex and insanity-candy, I love you guys! Oi don't blush! I'm serious here!
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And now, the goods…
It took Hermione five seconds to realize what was happening.
And when she did, she shoved pansy off her with such force that the Slytherin flew back and crashed against the rock walls.
Pansy shrieked but got up with fiery and wet eyes.
"Why is it that you always get what you want?"
"What?" Hermione shrieked as she held her bleeding head.
Pansy let her tears fall like rain.
Hermione tried her best to stay conscious but damn, that Pansy sure could punch.
"What are you talking about?"
And before she even got her answer, Pansy had her up against the wall.
Hermione brought her throbbing head forward and banged Pansy's head.
Pansy shrieked and held her head.
Hermione gained her footing and aimed a hard punch at Pansy's face.
The woman screamed and kicked Hermione in the gut.
Hermione doubled over and pansy stood next to her, ready to kick her once more.
Hermione hit Pansy behind the knee and Pansy fell.
Hermione jumped up as pansy growled.
"I am going to kill you, bitch!" Pansy shrieked.
"The feeling is mutual, whore!" Hermione spat as Pansy lunged at her.
Hermione dodged and grabbed the witch's hair.
"Aaaaahhh! Let go of me mudblood!" she screamed as Hermione spun around.
"Okay!" Hermione said and let go.
Pansy hurtled towards a wall and crashed.
Shaking her head she looked back at Hermione.
Snarling, she rammed Hermione into a wall as Hermione squeaked.
She punched Hermione five times on the side of her face before Hermione grabbed Pansy's fist and sunk her super sharp cat claws into that woman's hand.
"You stupid mudblood!"
"Pug faced arse!"
Pansy shoved Hermione up onto the wall and began to strangle her.
Hermione tried to get out of her iron grip but she wouldn't budge.
Hermione kneed Pansy in the gut and gasped for breath as the girl let go of her and stumbled back.
"You bitch! I hate you! I fucking hate you!" Pansy yelled as she stumbled.
"Well I hate you too!"
"How could you? You stole him!"
"I did not steal anyone!"
Pansy gritted her teeth, and fell to the floor, crying.
Hermione's knees wobbled as she began to lose consciousness.
Slowly she fell, but stayed conscious. Just barely conscious at that.
Pansy wiped her face.
"What's that smell?" she asked.
Hermione looked up with hazy eyes.
"Shit!" she yelled.
"What?!"
Hermione scrambled up and began to look for a way out.
Then she turned to pansy.
"I know this smell; it's the same thing that Madame Pomfrey gave me."
Pansy raised a brow.
"It's laughing gas."
Oh shit…
DMHG
Ginny paced around furiously.
"What are we going to do?" Astoria asked.
"I think we have to climb out of here and get help…"
The girls looked around and saw that the opening had closed.
Then they heard a low growl…
"Ginny?"
"Yes?"
"Don't you find it odd that there are tunnels underground that don't not allow us any magic and they also have booby traps?"
"Yes… and was I the only one who heard that?"
Astoria looked at Ginny
"No…"
"So… is it possible that we are in some underground burrow belonging to a certain animal?"
Someone's getting close to the answer…
"Gggrrrrr!"
Astoria squeaked and Ginny spun around.
And so, little red pretty head came face to face with the big bad wolf…
The werewolf moved closer and began to bark.
Astoria raised a shaking finger to the animal.
"Bad dog!"
The werewolf snapped and lunged forward.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Run for it!" Ginny yelled but the Slytherin was way ahead of her…
DMHG
After thoroughly searching every shop in Hogsmeade, he finally came to the conclusion that his mate was not there.
Bravo, twenty points to Slytherin!
"You really need to keep a tab on your mate Drake, I mean, how many times have you lost her this week?"
Draco snarled.
"What? It's the truth, you really need to pay more attention, I mean, your life I in her dainty little hands and you have no idea where she is?"
"Well I can't stalk her!"
"Who says?"
"You! Just yesterday you were all like 'if you watch her she'll go crazy' and now you're telling me to stalk her?"
"No, I'm just saying, be more like Potter, I mean, the guy always knows where Weaselette is!"
Just then Harry skidded in front of the group.
"Have any of you seen Ginny or Hermione?" he said in a rush.
"I stand corrected…" Blaise said.
"So you don't know where they are either?"
Harry groaned.
"Noooo! They were supposed to meet me at the three broomsticks but they never show! And I've got the whole of Gryffindor searching for them, but nothing!"
"Wow, your own girlfriend's hiding from you now potter!" Goyle laughed.
"Shut up Goyle!" Draco snarled.
Then he turned to harry.
"So nobody has seen them, at all?"
"No. nobody."
Draco sighed, aggravated.
"Alright, Theo, Crabbe, Goyle, go back to the castle and search for her there. Blaise, tell everyone from Slytherin to search, potter, just keep looking."
Harry raised a brow.
"Since when did I start taking orders from you?"
"Do you have a better idea Potter?"
Harry shook his head.
"Exactly."
And then Draco stalked to the three broomsticks, to use his slightly enhanced Veela senses to track her from there.
"I knew I should've locked her in that giant birdcage of mine!" he huffed.
DMHG
Their pupils began to dilate.
Hermione spun around and looked at Pansy with a goofy smile.
Pansy walked forward and poked Hermione's cheekbone.
"Wowww! They're real!"
Hermione plucked one of Pansy's eyelashes.
"It feels like a baby's bum!"
Pansy plucked Hermione's eyelash.
She put it on her palm and gaped at it.
"However did you get so long?" she asked it.
Hermione grabbed it and blew it into the air.
"Fly! Be free!"
"Noooo! Don't leave me! I don't even know your name! Okay wait, wait, wait! Just Owl me!"
Hermione turned to pansy.
"Did you know that without mucous, your stomach would digest itself?"
"Wow, but why would it want to eat itself, I mean I feed it every once in a while!"
They giggled like the lunatics they were.
"How are we gonna escape!"
"Let's fly!"
"I don't have wings!"
Weren't you a witch?"
"Oooooh! Am I really?"
"Yeah, I think so…"
"Oh Hermione! I've been such a bitch to you!"
"Yeah, you really hurt my feelings,"
"Would you forgive me?"
"Yeah!"
"Great! Let's get a Butterbeer! To our friendship!"
"Sure, hey madam Rosmerta!" Hermione turned.
"Oi! Where'd ya go?"
"Where are we?"
"I think we're in some kind of hole!"
Geniuses!
"Did I ever tell you that I love Draco Malfoy?"
"Oh pansy that's wonderful! Finding love so early!"
"I know!"
"I hear he's a Veela!"
And now they begin to lose a bit of their memory.
Brilliant.
"Do you want me to hook you up with him Pansy? I swear! I think the dude has a crush on me!"
"No, honestly, I just want his male anatomy!"
"Oh pansy! You dog, you!"
"But I'm serious! He's amazing!"
"I wonder how many girls he's bedded…"
"Probably a thousand!"
"Yeah, from what I've been hearing, he certainly must have a lot of experience!"
"Do you think if I rape him and pretend I was you, he'd notice?"
"Nah! Have a go at him anytime! But I wonder who his mate is,"
"Probably some prissy bitch,"
"Did you notice that Draco spells like baby shampoo?"
"Yeah, hey Hermione, you know, you're actually kinda pretty!"
Hermione turned scarlet and batted her eyelashes.
"Awww pansy, you shouldn't have,"
"But you are, will you be my friend?"
"Of course!"
Then the idiots hugged like five year olds.
Hermione pulled back
"We're gonna be best friends forever!" she proclaimed as they hugged again
Oh boy…
DMHG
Harry looked around the shop.
But not just any shop.
The shop that all men fear.
Yup, he was in the cosmetics shop, prowling the isles.
He was counting on knowledge now, if he knew his girlfriend like he thought he did, she would be here.
Finally, he saw a plump witch levitating a batch of nail polish.
"Excuse me ma'am, I was wondering, have you seen a red haired woman with freckles and blue eyes? She was in with another girl who had brown hair and cat eyes? They were matching today-"
"Oh dear! You're Harry Potter! Pleasure to meet you sir, and yes, you must be talking about Mia and Gin!"
"Yes! Have you seen them? Are they still here?"
"Oh no my dear boy! They left ages ago! Along with two other women, hmm… what were their names? Oh yes! Tori and Sisi!"
"Tori and Sisi?... Astoria and pansy!"
"Yes darling,"
"Well, did you see where they went?"
The women pointed to the dusty road, heading to the forest.
"They went there? With Slytherin's? Alone?"
The women nodded.
"Damn shit of oversized giant!"
The women turned green as Harry sprinted out of the shop.
DMHG
By now, he knew perfectly well how to catch her scent and track it.
"After if the cage doesn't work, I think I should just tie her up and lock her in my trunk." He mumbled, sniffing the air and following Hermione's scent.
"It's like she wants to kill you…" again he mumbled.
He was now entering the forest that the girls walked through.
He stepped over a fallen twig, oblivious to the deep hole that lay not so innocently four meters away.
"But you love her anyway."
He stopped.
"Draco, did you just say… oh freaking hell! You only kissed her once!" he yelled to himself.
Just then, Harry came tumbling into the clearing, he was sprinting so fast that he didn't see Draco...
"Malfoy get out of the-"
"What do you want Pot-"
Then they fell.
"You idiot!" Draco yelled as they fell down the hole.
"You were the one in front of a freaking hole!"
"Well I didn't expect to encounter a dickhead you great big arse!"
"Why you-"
And then they crashed at the bottom.
Both the boys groaned.
"My arse hurts." Draco said.
"Arse,"
"Alright potter, if you wanna die, then just say s-"
"Shh! Did you hear that?"
"Lumos,"
"Malfoy, did you break you wand?"
"No, lumos!"
"Godric Gryffindor! You can't do a simple spell?"
"Oi fuck off! You do it then bloody potter!"
"I will! Lumos…"
"Ha! Now who's the doofus?"
"Still you-"
"Did you hear that?"
"Malfoy, grow some-"
"Contrary to your beliefs, I have much, much more than you-did you hear that noise?"
The boys stopped their bickering.
Only then could they clearly hear the tinkling noise.
The two walked the same path that the girls took, which led them to the tunnels, but instead of splitting, or following Ginny's path, they walked down another tunnel, but the weird part was that the platform that Hermione and Pansy were on was there, not a hundred meters into earth with Hermione and Pansy…
They heard the tinkle again.
"Is that a… pixie?"
"Looks just like you potter!"
It was a pixie, or so they thought.
They walked closer to the shimmering object.
Suddenly it opened; it seemed to be a crystal.
They looked into it, but nothing seemed to be there.
Draco frowned, if Hermione was here, what would she say?
Suddenly, he became aware of his surroundings.
The crystal had opened up and let out light, and the light reflected on tiny crystals embossed on the walls.
He stood and walked to them,
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…" there were six crystals on the wall.
Draco frowned.
"That's not right…" he whispered
"Sorry?"
"There are 6, but the wizards number is seven, so where is the last one?"
In fact, without them knowing, the tunnel closed the path they walked to get there… they were surrounded with earth
Harry walked to each crystal and looked at them closely.
"Hey, I think we have to put blood on it Malfoy,"
Draco blinked.
"Well if it helps me get to Hermione," he pulled out a pocketknife,
"Malfoy? You keep those?"
"Obviously Potter, I keep it for annoying Gryffindor's"
He made a cut on his forearm, left side next to the dark mark, the arm was already ruined so what the heck…
Nonchalantly he smeared the blood on the crystals.
Just then, the blood he smeared flew off of the crystals and formed a large drop above the floating open crystal at the centre of the room, and then it dropped into the floating crystal which then closed, turned green, swallowed the blood as it opened and became clear.
And then one crystal from the walls floated back to the central crystal, settled inside, got swallowed and that was that.
"…if the wizard number is seven, then six is the werewolf, nymph or vampire number, oh well, never mind I think we need to put blood of different people on it…." Draco said.
"Oh! Thank goodness I beat some people up and stole their blood!" Harry said sarcastically.
"Did you?"
"No! But I do have Ginny's blood…"
"What?"
"In case something like this happened, she gave me some,"
"I'm not going to say anything because I have Hermione's blood with me right now,"
"What?"
"You have you hobbies, I have mine,"
"That's my sister!"
"Hell if I care, she's mine!" Draco growled, pulling his necklace out of his shirt, the charm was a transparent little bottle shaped like a dagger, made of crystal, filled with blood.
Carefully, he opened the little stopper on it and dropped only one drop on each crystal, and the same thing happened.
Harry followed with his and Ginny's blood, again it happened.
Now, they were down to 2 crystals,
"Now what?"
"What do you mean now what? It obvious!"
"Urm, Malfoy, some of us are lost…"
"We haven't any more blood you git, so we mix blood, mix yours with Weaselette's and I'll mix mine with Granger's, then pour it onto the crystals."
Harry curiously did as he was told, and Draco did the same.
And the second his and Hermione's blood touched the final crystal, three tunnels appeared.
They walked forwards and realized that they were in a sort of den.
Scattered all along the grounds of the tunnels were human hair, bone, snake skin, odd items like a slipper or teddy bear, and the list went on.
"Disgusting. Peasants." Draco scowled, jumping over a rather suspicious looking half eaten rat.
"Not everyone has it as good as you Malfoy." Has scowled.
"True, not everyone can be as gorgeous-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! GET OFF ME!"
Harry began to panic and he ran as fast as he could to the direction of his girlfriend's voice.
And then they saw Ginny with a werewolf over her and Astoria.
It had them both pinned to the ground, with its humungous paws on each side of their head.
Draco smirked and raised a brow, "I say we leave them,"
Harry swore and began to think about the easiest way to get Ginny, for he had no magic, and he knew that even though he was really built and strong, he was no match for the fully grown werewolf.
So he did the only thing he could think of…
He howled.
Honestly! Does he bloody want to die?
As soon as he did, the werewolf's paw snapped towards Draco and him.
And ever so slowly, Draco's smirk fell.
Ginny looked at harry and swore loudly.
"Harry James potter you imbecilic arsehole! Stop wasting time and run!" Ginny yelled, fearing for her boyfriend's life.
"Don't worry Weaselette, this is the boy-who-just-wouldn't-die, he won't get eaten…sadly." Draco mumbled and began to back away as the werewolf stood and began towards them.
"Potter."
"Yes?"
"We need to confuse it."
"I know, me and Hermione were in the exact same situation before."
"You run to Greengrass and weasel and I'll run the other way while you tell them,"
"I don't trust you, you could very well be saying this so you can run and save your ass."
"You forget Potter that Hermione is here if weasel is here so I can't run away."
"…fine… it looks like it's going to pounce, so at the count of three Malfoy, run."
Draco nodded quickly but curtly.
"One,"
The werewolf cocked its head and bared its teeth.
"Two,"
Draco's Veela instincts began to come up to protect Draco, and so his fangs and blades were out.
"Three!"
The wolf lunged at Harry who dodged and sprinted to Ginny; Draco spun around and began to track Hermione's scent as quick as he could with the wolf tailing him.
He ran all the way back to the tunnel him and Harry just got through and for the first time, noticed that the tunnel had closed.
"Shit!" he exclaimed seeing that he was trapped.
His sharp eyes flickered around before he realized that he could always just attack back.
And then the werewolf arrived.
"Well you're one ugly bugger aren't you?" Draco smirked
The werewolf looked a bit affronted.
"What? There's no use denying the facts, you're the ugliest thing I've set my eyes on, and I've seen muggle prostitutes!" Draco said
The werewolf jumped at him.
In that particular few seconds, something happened.
Draco was about to sink his blades into the animal but he kept hearing Hermione at the back of his mind.
She was going on about the werewolf being a human in a vulnerable form.
His eyes flicked to the werewolf's face, with his ears and sharp teeth, and he had a small envision of Hermione in her little cat form, so innocent and vulnerable to the world… and he dropped his hand.
But just when he was about to close his eyes and take the strike, time froze.
He blinked and saw that he could move, and the werewolf was still frozen in mid-air.
He smirked at the creature and began to walk forward when he heard a woman's voice next to him.
He spun around to see a sickly pale woman with cat ears, straight hair and brown eyes with a dark brown dress. She was very pretty, but she just couldn't be Hermione.
"What?" Draco asked confused.
"I said, what is your business down here?"
"That's my own business, what are you doing down here?" Draco asked arrogantly
"You are very rude Mr. Malfoy." She said, giving him a glare
"Whatever."
"Do you want to find Hermione or not?"
Draco stopped the insult that was about to erupt from his mouth.
"I take that as a yes,"
"Okay…"
"The thing is Mr. Malfoy, we're not sure if we can give her back."
"What?"
The woman stared at Draco for a few seconds.
"She is a cat, no?"
"She is…"
"And she bit the squid in the black lake at Hogwarts, yes?"
"Yes…"
"And her eyes are honey and cinnamon brown,"
"Yes…"
"So you do know what she is?"
"Urm,"
"She's a nymph,"
"And…?"
"Honestly Malfoy keep up!"
"I'm so confused."
"Idiot, do you even know where you are?"
Draco stopped and thought for a few seconds,
"Honestly, no."
The women sighed.
"Mr. Malfoy, do you have any knowledge whatsoever on nymph's?"
Draco snorted arrogantly.
Of course he knew about nymphs!
He was a bloody Malfoy!
He knew everything
Honestly, was the daft witch before him implying that he, Draco Lucius Malfoy was stupid?
Well… actually yeah she was, she called him an idiot, right?
"I know everything about them."
The witch snorted.
"Then you should know that cat blood mixed with the blood of squid is equal to nymph blood. Nymph blood is equal to a nymph."
Draco snorted.
"Lady, I don't know how long you've been down here, but you should know that that combination would only work if Hermione was a pureblood witch, which she is not."
The woman frowned.
"But that still means that there is a fifty percent chance that she can have nymph powers."
Draco rolled his eyes.
"And there's also a fifty percent chance that she won't, and so I would like to have her back."
"No."
"What do you mean 'no'?"
"Even if she isn't fully a nymph, she is a magnificent witch."
"Yeah so?"
"She can help us."
"How so?"
"We nymphs protect nature, and everything in it. We are responsible for werewolves as well, Hermione is just what we need here, she's gentle and loving and caring. She can help the werewolves-"
"She's not some kind of animal that you can just keep against her will-"
"She can do so much good- she can save the children who have been bitten by werewolves! She-"
"She's just a child herself! She turned herself into a cat! She's practically just a baby in the wizard world! And do you honestly think you can get away with this? Do you know who she is?"
"You should be the last one talking! You've claimed her as your mate!-"
"Correction, she is my unclaimed mate, who do you think I am? Some rapist?"
"How am I supposed to know?!"
"Exactly! You know nothing about us or Hermione for the matter-"
"Well it's not like you have known her all your life Malfoy! We've been watching her for years! We know she hates you! We know how she is when it comes to magical creatures and that's why we told the squid to get her for us!"
Draco froze.
Did she just admit to sending a squid after his mate?
"You sent the squid after her?"
"I didn't say-"
"You just did! You could've bloody killed her! And how did you get the squid to help you?"
She sighed.
"This burrow runs under the school. Alongside the lake and just under the forbidden forest. This is how we take care of the centaurs. And all the other elements of nature at Hogwarts."
Draco took a calming breath.
"So what you're telling me is that you sent a monster after a seventeen year old witch, just so you could get her to turn into a cat, then bite the squid to turn into a nymph."
"Precisely! But we just meant for her to get into a life threatening situation so she could turn into a cat, when she bit the squid it was a bonus. The squid was supposed to take her to the underwater labyrinth that lead here. From there we would make her drink squid blood. But it happened anyway. So you see, it's just fate. You can't argue with fate Malfoy. If it's meant to be, then it's meant to be, and we know that Hermione would want this."
They were both quiet for a moment.
"We should at least ask her what she wants." Draco said
The nymph was quiet.
And then she closed her eyes and suddenly, they were transported to the platform that Hermione and Pansy were on earlier.
Draco looked around wearily.
"Urm, where is she?" he asked
Again, the nymph was silent.
But then, at the center of the platform, a tiny hole began to form.
Draco's eyes widened as it continued to increase in size until the diameter of the hole was seven and a half meters.
Draco began to step back as the hole came closer to him.
Then it stopped.
Draco looked up at the nymph who was on the opposite side of the hole.
"Wait," she told him simply
There was a slight swishing noise.
"She has been down there for an adequate amount of time, it is possible that she might have transformed during that time,"
"And if she did transform?"
"Then we get to keep her."
"If she is a nymph, why can't she just live in the normal world?"
"I thought you knew everything about nymphs,"
Draco stayed silent.
"If she is a nymph, then she will feel the constant need to be surrounded by her element."
Then, at that moment, Hermione and pansy both popped up, floating just above the hole, in a tight embrace.
Draco made to move forward but stopped when he remembered the hole.
Hermione looked up and saw Draco.
"Oh my god Sisi! There he is!"
Pansy looked up and also saw Draco.
"Drakie! You've come to save me!" she said
Draco gagged.
Not bloody likely.
"Actually, no, I came to save her," Draco said pointing to Hermione.
"Awww Malfoy! Give her a chance!"
"What?"
"I love you Draco!"
"She's such a nice girl! Slytherin, your own house, how can you resist?"
"Granger-"
"She's right! And I'm pretty too!"
"She is! You won't be sorry that you're dating her!"
"Yeah! You won't!"
Draco looked from pansy to Hermione, utterly confused.
Then, quite unexpectedly at that, Pansy started floating away through the tunnels all the way up to Harry, Ginny and Astoria.
All the while, Draco and Hermione watched her with disbelieving eyes as she disappeared.
"Now that she's out of the picture, Hermione," the nymph began
Hermione turned to the nymph.
Slowly, the laughing gas began to wear off.
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh," she said as she looked around.
But then she looked down…
"OHHH MY GODDDDD!"
"Hermione, darling calm down-"
"Put me down! Put me down! PUT ME DOWN!"
"Sweetie, I just need you to answer a few questions-"
Hermione wasn't exactly in the greatest position to listen, or answer questions for that matter. You see, she had many bad experiences with being airborne, and at the moment, as she was suspended over a dark deep hole, all the voices around her sounded like beeeeeeeeeep, and the only thing going through her mind was:
'I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die…I'm gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiieee! Oh my god! Oh my gosh! Oh my god! Oh my gosh!... hey wait, weren't you a Gryffindor?*mental slap* GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF WOMAN! Gryffindor courage, Gryffindor courage…'
"Just bloody fucking put her down!"
"What so you can kidnap her-"
"KIDNAP?SAYS THE BLOODY BITCH WHO WON'T LET HER ESCAPE IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
"GASP! Why you condescending self-absorbed big pile of dragon sh-"
"*calm inhale* what would you like to know mam?"
The quarreling two looked towards the suspended petite figure.
The nymph cleared her throat and lifted her eyes to Hermione.
"Hermione, when you were down there," the nymph gestured the hole
"Did you feel yourself changing or kind of like morphing into something?"
Hermione looked contemplative for a few seconds
"No, not really, the place was kind of filled with laughing gas; I basically don't remember a thing that happened down there, well after Pansy and I got into that fight… but no."
"Do you feel like you're changing now? Do you feel like even a little bit stronger, a bit tingly? Lightheaded?"
"Lightheaded yeah, definitely that, and nauseous,"
The nymph sighed angrily.
Hermione, who was still determinedly not looking down, raised a brow at the nymph.
"What is this about?"
"That fucking lunatic over there wants to keep you down here so that you can slave away and look after animals that might very well possibly kill you!"
"Say what now?"
"Honey! Don't listen to that imbecile, he doesn't understand the concept of caring and nurturing,"
"Granger, don't listen to her, she's insane! She wants you to live down here forever!"
Hermione looked at the nymph.
"Forever?" she asked.
"I know that sounds bad, but every few months, we go up to surface,"
Draco gaped at Hermione, she looked like she was actually considering.
But… there was no freaking damn way in bloody damn hell that he would actually allow her to die.
So he very slowly got out his large black wings.
He had never used them before, so he honestly didn't know whether his –not-completely-thought-through-plan would work.
But you know that urge that guys get?
The one where no matter how dumb or stupid their plan is, they want to go through with it because they want to be the hero or the winner?
Yup, the idiot we know as the head boy of Hogwarts had that urge.
And so, without thinking, he stretched his wings, backed up to the walls of the tunnel and took a calming breath.
After ten seconds, he ran forward at an alarming speed, he was so fast that neither Hermione nor the nymph had seen him.
Hermione barely had time to blink before she felt Draco pick her up and do a 180 degree glide back to his original position.
He made it to the edge but lost his balance.
At the moment Hermione didn't know what came over her.
She just hopped out of his arms and looked at Draco as his wings almost brought him back to balance.
And then she felt something tingle within her and suddenly, she threw both her arms in the air like she was answering a question and then…
Solid ground came up under Draco's feet and he stood and stared disbelievingly at Hermione.
Uh oh, she's in trouble,
The nymph blood came along
And it burst her bubble!
Hermione dropped her hands now that Draco was on the solid ground next to her, and when she did that, the platform she brought up dropped.
The nymph looked at Hermione.
First she looked shocked.
But then she got that evil glint in her eye.
Okay, forget evil!
It looked freaking psycho!
"SISTERS! COME! WE HAVE FOUND ANOTHER ONE OF US! WE MUST BIND HER!"
"BIND ME?!" Hermione screamed bringing her hands to her head.
When she did that, unintentionally the tunnels behind her opened up.
Draco smirked.
That's his girl!
Hurriedly, he grabbed Hermione and threw her into 'their thing' position.
"Urgh! Draco your wings are in my face-oh my god! They're so soft! I mean-Draco there's a bunch of scary looking nymphs after us!"
"Okay! Just do random things with your hands!" he said as he broke into a run.
"Got it,"
She began waving her hands about and when she did, the walls and ground did many weird things, the ground began to swallow a few nymphs, and the walls began to smoosh them, it was actually really funny when they resurfaced.
Coz when they did, they were either gagging or falling unconscious.
And our Draco just wouldn't be our Draco if he didn't find that hilarious
"Wait! Malfoy! What about Ginny, pansy and Astoria?"Hermione shouted over the noises of nymphs moving the ground.
"We don't have time! We have to get you out of here first, besides, they have Potter!"
"Harry's here?! Oh my god! We have to save them!"
"We can't!"
Then he stopped running.
Hermione looked around and saw that they were surrounded by hundreds of nymphs.
The nymphs were now around them in a complicated circular pattern.
Draco took Hermione off of his shoulder and locked her in his arms.
"Hermione, join us! There's nothing left for you in the other world, except for heartbreak and pain! Join us and we can make sure none of that happens,"
"But I haven't even finished my education!" Hermione said, looking horrified.
Draco rolled his eyes
Was this woman serious?
There was a bunch of maniacs trying to bind her to the earth and all she could think about was her education?
"We'll teach you everything you need to know,"
Draco was now rapidly thinking of a way to get out of this.
"Alright, I'll come." Hermione said
Draco looked down at her horrified.
But that's when he realized that she wasn't fully there.
She had a dazed look in her eyes.
She looked… compelled.
Then she began to try and walk towards the other nymphs, but the clearly pissed of Draco refused to let her go and only held her tighter.
"Give her up Malfoy. You know you lost. She doesn't belong to you. She's ours now."
Draco's silver eyes turned to obsidian.
"Sorry, I don't share," as he said this, blue flames began to swirl around Hermione and him.
At first it was just a perfect, heated blue ring, until…
"So back off." He said in a deadly whisper
And that's when all hell broke loose.
When Draco said those words, his flame exploded therefore all the nymphs moved back.
But they still wanted what they came for so they began to try move through the unbreachable fire, momentarily forgetting about the burn.
Hermione looked up at Draco with hazy eyes and finally snapped out of whatever trance she was in.
She looked around and saw that nymphs were beginning to come through the fire.
"Oh my! Okay wait, Malfoy, can you get us to the wall by, well, burning them out of the way?"
"Honestly," he began,
"I have no idea how I just did that!"
"Well think! I have no idea how to make a tunnel but I'm trying here!"
Just then, a nymph came flying from above and Draco flicked his wrist and suddenly a large amount of blue flame came out, blasting her back to the other nymphs struggling to get through the flame.
"Okay I just figured that out," Draco said
"Okay then let's get out of here!" Hermione said as she began to run forward but Draco hauled her back.
"Seriously woman! Are you trying to kill us?"
"No! Stop being so slow!" she hissed back
Draco rolled his eyes, very annoyed, and picked Hermione up bridal style then dashed though the flame which most confusingly didn't burn him or Hermione.
When they were where Hermione wanted them to be, he carefully set her down.
Again, the ring of blue fire formed and held away all the nymphs.
Hermione whined.
"Can't they just give up?"
"Doesn't look like it," Draco said agitatedly as he stepped closer to Hermione.
Hermione sighed and looked at the wall.
"I have no idea what to do!" she huffed and slammed her hand against the wall.
Then she kept quiet.
"Hey! They're on the other side!" she said excitedly.
Draco frowned
"I'm not asking how you know that,"
Quiet suddenly, a young looking nymph got through the flame, looking very much burned.
Draco was about to blast her away disgustedly when unexpectedly she raised her hands in surrender.
"I just want to help!" she said.
"Yeah, and I'm an ugly Hufflepuff," Draco said sarcastically, and he raised his arm.
Hermione gave him a hard smack upside the head.
Obediently, he put his hand down
Go girl power!
"The nymphs are lying, you do not need to live underground, and the need to be with your element can be overcome by living near it. I can get you out of here,"
"Why are you helping us?" Hermione asked.
"Because they did the same thing so me, but I didn't have a Veela or enough power to protect me, and I really wanna get out of here"
Draco and Hermione were confused but they stayed silent.
The nymph pressed her ear to the wall.
Nodded to Hermione confirming that people were on the other side.
Then she punched the wall and it then moved to both sides to reveal Harry and the girls.
"Hermione!" they exclaimed
Draco was so shocked that he unconsciously let down the barrier.
The nymphs came pouring forth.
Hermione shrieked as one grabbed her hair.
Draco turned, picked up Hermione, blasted the nymph and began to run.
"Follow me!" the nymph said as she closed the path.
They were now in the middle of some kind of crossroad, only, this lead eight ways.
The nymph and Hermione suddenly looked conflicted.
"Urm…" the nymph began
"I think it's…" Hermione continued.
"Urm…"
"I have no idea…"
Pansy looked up at Hermione with a slightly dazed look.
Then everyone realized why she was looking her.
She was mumbling and sniffing the air.
She stopped, looked at the nymph and pointed at one of the tunnels.
The nymph began to sniff too.
Draco looked at Hermione and then cautiously asked:
"Love, what are you sniffing?"
"Fastest way out of here,"
"You can smell that?" Ginny and Astoria asked at the same time.
Draco raised a hand to Hermione's forehead.
"She's been down here for quite some time so I think that she might have possibly gone insane," Hermione swatted his hand away.
"Mione? You okay?" Harry asked
Suddenly, there was an alarming sound of banging and thrashing.
"Okay, we're going to have to rely on instinct here, let's go!" the nymph said to the group.
Draco grabbed Hermione's hand and began to pull her through the tunnel after the nymph.
Pansy was behind them along with Astoria, and Ginny and Harry were behind them.
They all began to run faster and faster until the nymph in front of them stopped.
Once they were all close together, she closed the tunnel behind Harry.
And now, they were all confused.
You see, in front of the nymph was a dead end, and the tunnel behind them was closed off.
"Okay, this tunnel could lead three way, all three ways, she won't like," the nymph said pointing to Hermione.
Hermione sniffed.
And then she looked horrified.
"It smells like the black lake at Hogwarts." Hermione whispered
"Okay, well, I thought it smelled like that so it must be that if you smell it too…"
Hermione gritted her teeth and began to shake her head and step back.
"I am not going there. No way." She said
Draco looked at Hermione, then the nymph.
"If she's a nymph and no longer a cat, why doesn't she want to go in there?" he asked.
"She isn't a pureblood, she is a muggleborn, because of that, she won't be a full nymph, but she'll have all the powers of a nymph along with all the characteristics, abilities and downfalls of a cat…"
The banging, thrashing and screaming of the other nymphs were getting louder.
"Hermione, I don't know what's going on but we need to get out of here!" harry said.
"No!"
"Okay, we're doing this the hard way," Draco said in a fake cheery voice.
And so, quickly so she couldn't get away, Draco grabbed Hermione's hand and twisted her until she was locked without escape under his arm.
"Let go of me!" she hissed.
"Not a chance kitten,"
The nymph looked at them.
"Hold your breath, and remember, once you're in the water, you can use your wand,"
"Don't put me in there!" Hermione began to whine.
The nymph opened the tunnel as everyone got out their wands, Hermione couldn't get hers for obvious reasons.
They all took deep breaths and Hermione realized that she had no other choice but to do the same.
But before she did, she gave Draco a death glare and said:
"When we get out of here, you are so sleeping in the Slytherin dorms!"
Then she held her breath and Draco couldn't help but smirk and take a breath.
Then the water came in as they swam out.
They didn't hear the threat that the leader of the nymphs gave.
"We will find you Hermione Granger; you will be one of us, because nobody escapes duty… Or crosses a nymph…"
Hermione looked like she was going to scream… and then claw everyone's eyes out.
But Draco really didn't want her to suffer long and so he used a spell to blast them to the surface.
By the time they were on the surface, Hermione was clinging to him like he was her life line.
AWWW!
… As if…
But hey, clinging is clinging!
When they got to shore and Hermione was still holding on to Draco, he began to smirk.
The Veela seemed to really enjoy this, and even though he didn't know it, he himself was also happy of the occurrence.
"What are y-you smirking f-for? St-stop being-g so happy! It's unfair!" Hermione said through chatters.
Their current position was Hermione with arms tightly around his neck while her head was on his chest and his hands were around her waist and under her knees.
Basically people, it was bridal style,
Harry and Ginny sat up and looked at Hermione, Draco and the nymph.
Astoria and pansy got up and mumbled apologies before making a mad dash towards the castle.
The nymph stood up and looked around.
"Wow," she said.
Then she turned to Draco and Hermione,
"I guess I'll see you at dawn tomorrow Hermione, oh yeah, my names Amicus" she said
"What?" Hermione chattered and Draco held her closer.
The nymph just smiled and then ran into the forbidden forest.
Creepy…
It seemed to be around half past six.
"We should get inside," Draco said to Hermione who was looking as if she'd just gone into hypothermia.
"Great observation Draco," she said sarcastically.
Quickly, so that she wouldn't catch a cold, he performed a drying and heating spell on her and himself, then he raced up to the castle with Hermione, leaving Ginny and Harry to walk up.
He's so strong…
When they got to the doors of the great hall, Hermione insisted that Draco should put her down.
She pulled out her wand and pointed it at her shoes.
"My poor little chucks," she said pouting
Draco smiled silently and pushed open the doors to the great hall.
As the duo stepped through the doors, Ginny and Harry caught up with them.
"Mione, we should really tell Dumbledore about what happened…and after you should tell us because we're more lost then children in Hogsmeade!"
"Okay,-"
Hermione's words were cut off as Dumbledore made an announcement.
It seemed that it was dinner time.
"As you all know, professor Snape has retired to go back to his former position as Hogwarts' potions master, because now, for the first time in a decade, he finally believes me when I say that the Defense Against the Dark Arts position is cursed, well finally! Anyways, this year, we have a new member on the staff, please welcome…"
Hermione and little group stopped walking to look up at the stage.
A tall, thin man with a classy suit and trademark smirk began to walk up to the platform…
"Holy shit." Ginny said
"Oh fuck." Draco said
"Oh my gosh." Hermione said.
The rest of the hall stilled and fell silent.
Hermione gulped and looked at the latest DADA professor face, which was co-incidentally looking straight at her with a killer smirk.
Any guesses who it is?
The professors blue eyes met Draco's now black eyes just as professor Dumbledore's lips began to form a name…
"Hydrus Malfoy,"
The cousins stared at each other maliciously, neither blinking, nor showing weakness…
But if looks could kill, they'd both be dead.
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