The Forest of Rowling was an ancient one. According to Priscilla, who is a half blood on her mother's side, that her great grandparents met here, just like their grandparents. Plus, the forest did look ancient, the trees were mossy and covered in decaying branches. But, still, the forest was somewhat serenely beautiful. For five days, nothing happened, no corpse feaster attacked us, and we were perfectly concealed, thanks to Priscilla's knowledge of protective spells. On the sixth day however…
"The forest is so… peaceful." said Trisha sitting on a branch, "Very scenic too…"
"It looks old and rotten." said Nga dully, "I'm… really bored."
Pricilla was playing with her peacock patronus nearby the camp site. She walked over to the river, which was right at the edge of the protective shield, and sent her peacock to fly off. The bird flew unnaturally, leaving its silver blue mist behind to dissolve into the forest floor.
"What was that for?" asked Nga, now petting her translucent tiger.
"I don't know…" said Priscilla, "Maybe… it will find its own way…"
"Dramatic much…" Nga mumbled to herself.
Trisha came over to me with a book in her hand.
"I found out about the Le'Riddle witch." she said holding up the book.
"What's that?" I asked taking the book.
"It's a book about dark wizards and witches." she said sitting down next to me, "Magic makes everything simpler… all you do is say the name of the dark wizards or witch you want to know about, and there it is…"
I looked at the book ad saw the headline at the top of the page with the name of the witch. The paragraph read itself…
Rebecella Harkressa Le'Riddle.
One of today's darkest witches…
Rebecella Harkressa Le'Riddle was a student at Hogwarts School and was sorted into Slytherin House… After her seventh year at Hogwarts school, She left and vanished from the face of the Earth. After three years, she returned with an army of followers called Corpse Feasters. She is a prodigious witch in the dark arts, and she-
"Hold on…" I said, stopping the paragraph from reading itself, "Isabellatrix Swanstrange."
The pages flipped and flipped until it landed on a page with Isabellatrix's picture. The picture however, showed her without rotten teeth, decayed nails, nor her skull like face. Instead, it showed what was most likely a picture of her before her time in prison.
Isabellatrix Swanstrange
The vicious vixen of dark arts…
Isabellatrix was born to Amicus and Padrella Iota. She attended Hogwarts, where, in her sixth year, she set fire to the all the common rooms and ran away from the school. She was later convicted as a corpse feaster and was sentenced to life prison. She was also convicted of torture of a muggle-born witch by carving the derogatory word "mudblood" into the poor witch's arm… Approach with extreme caution. The only living family member of this dangerous corpse feaster is her estranged daughter Apus Andromeda Swanstrange… Recently, she has escaped-
"I knew Apus was her relative…" I said quietly.
"Hey, at least she was disowned from Isabellatrix." said Trisha shrugging…
Katie came up to the both of us with a bag of gummy basilisks and offered us some. We each took one, and then she said, "It's not safe to say Rebecella's name out loud."
"Why?" asked Priscilla, who now joined in.
"Well, not the name Rebecella, but the other name…" she answered back.
"What other name?" Trisha asked confused.
"Go back to Rebecella Harkressa Le'Riddle."
Once again the pages flipped. They went back to Rebecella's page and continued to read where it left off. I had to stop it first so that Katie could point to the word. She pointed to the name Oldwart.
"Don't say it out loud…" she said calmly, "It's kind of like a tracker…"
"Meaning?" asked Priscilla standing up.
"If someone says it, the corpse feaster apparate to wherever the word was said." she said.
"So if I say Oldwart-" said Nga, but cut off at the name, "Oh Shiz…"
We heard a rumbling sound coming from the sky and it tuned a depressing gray. The skull formation was once again in the clouds, and the black smoke began to fly out of it's toothless grin. Priscilla and Katie immediately got their wands and began strengthening the shield charm. Nga got her wand and joined in. As the smoke trails passed the shield, they shot spells at it, causing it to damage. Priscilla, Katie, and Nga were now dodging spells that would get in through small burning holes in the shield caused by the corpse feasters. One trail of smoke Trisha immediately recognized as Isabellatrix, and that same trail of smoke shot a shatter curse at the shield, which caused it to explode all together.
"Salvio Hexia-" Priscilla began to say, until Isabellatrix shot out a pyrotechnic curse at her, "Oh hell! Just run!" yelled Priscilla.
We all began to run as the corpse feaster began to chase us. All of us were now running across the trees and hills, the corpse feasters shooting spells behind us. Some missed by inches, and some missed by long shots.
"Get them! Let us see their faces!" yelled Isabellatrix, and she shot a rope casting spell which got the tree instead of me. Nga, as I predicted, was shooting spells as she went…
"Stupefy! Stupefy!" she yelled at the corpse feaster, and one of them was hit. I could see her smiling as she ran.
Priscilla had three behind her, each shooting a different spell. She ran across a hill, and then waved her wand and sent a combustive spell back at them. The ground below them exploded into flames, and they were done. Isabellatrix, however, was chasing me and Trisha at the same time while Katie shot spells at her.
"Use the elderly wand!" panted Trisha as she ran.
"Uh… Okay…" I said through unsteady breaths. I took the elderly wand and made sure to conceal it before using it, then I shot a spell at Isabellatrix, not even knowing what spell it was, simply waving my wand… Isabellatrix blocked it, but was momentarily thrown in the air. After her shock wore off, she began to fly with her wings. Nga shot a binding curse at her wings, and ropes wrapped around them while she wasn't looking. She fell to the ground with a hard thud.
"Yes!" Nga yelled happily. But her happiness seemed to quickly turn to surprise when she looked back forward, she stopped in her tracks. So I look forward…
In the trees, on the hills, everywhere were humongous spiders. Some were the size of humans, but some were as big as elephants! They crawled down from their giant webs high in the branches and looked at us with their pinchers watering. The corpse feasters behind us also stopped. Then Nga pointed her wand at the biggest one and yelled at me, "Shout, Arania Exumai, at the same time I do it!"
I nodded and pointed the elderly wand at the spider and yelled the spell just as Nga did. A jet of blue blinding light shot from both our wands, and the spider was thrown into the air, and landed in a tree, destroying the plethora of connected webs. There were more spiders, but the corpse feasters began to chase us again. We flung the spells on the spiders as we went by.
"I think…" said Nga breathlessly as we ran, "those are acromantulas!"
"They are!" yelled Trisha as we ran.
Nga gained speed, passing Priscilla and Katie, who were ahead of us. I looked back and saw the corpse feaster, but they weren't as close as before. Still, if we slowed down for a second, they would gain on us. Nga was now ahead of Priscilla, she ran and ran, and then…
She hit a tree while looking back…
She stood up, disoriented for a second, she was far ahead of us. But, that didn't matter, we all saw Isabellatrix's black trail of smoke fly passed us with great speed, and then it landed about ten yards away from us, and then she was there. The sky was getting darker and darker, so it was hard to see where she was, but I could hear her. However, my attention was distracted from her when I saw Nga. She had her wand pointed… at Priscilla. Priscilla kept on running when I saw Nga shoot a bright flashing light towards Priscilla, and she fell over… I, of course, immediately ran to her…
"Priscilla are you okay-" I began to say, but, "Ah!" I gasped… Her face looked exactly like Kristen Stewart. From the black eighties hairdo to the dark eyeliner… Nga came running over to kneel down next to Priscilla.
"What the HELL!" she yelled at Nga, "Why did you do that!"
"Sorry, I didn't want Isabellatrix to recognize you…" said Nga shrugging, "Now you look like Kristen Stewart… I shot you with De Moribus Terribilis…"
"Well… what have we here?" said Isabellatrix menacingly, she was now feet away from us. Katie and Trisha were huddled next to the "Kristen Stewart" Priscilla… "Take them!" she said to the other corpse feaster, "Lenox… You take those two-" she pointed at Trisha and me, "and I will take these three…"
Another corpse feaster wearing a mask, picked me and Trisha up violently. She took my wand and Isabellatrix's wand, but luckily didn't find the elderly wand…
"This yours?" asked Lenox to Isabellatrix, "Looks like your second wand…"
"Yes…" said Isabellatrix taking the wand, "But, since I have a third wand… I'm not sure what to do with it… But why would these ones have my wand?"
"Hey!" called another corpse feaster who took our bags, "This looks like your first wand…" He held up the bent and gun-like wand up in the air…
"Now what are you guys doing with my first and second wand?" she asked sneeringly, "Plus, why did you say the dark witch's name?"
"Because it's a funny one…" said Nga rudely.
"Insolent little bi-" she cut herself off, restraining herself, "Take these ones to the boathouse mansion…"
She went to Priscilla next.
"You look a hell of a lot like Kristen Stewart…" she said confused, "What the hell… Perhaps we will find out why later."
Lenox and the other one soared off with us. They flew across the forest, and we saw a colony of the great spiders as we flew by… When we finally landed, we were at a strange lakeside mansion, it was huge and had Victorian style architecture. Right next to the mansion was a boathouse, and that's where we were taken…
Lenox held all of us against a wall in the boathouse while Isabellatrix looked through our belongings. She confiscated Trisha's wand, Priscilla's wand, Katie's wand, and my wand. Nga's was hidden in her boots, and the elderly wand was in my jacket sleeves.
"I know you guys are Hogwarts students…" said Isabellatrix.
"Aren't you bright?" said Nga sarcastically. Isabellatrix glared at her with rage.
"Now… why, girlie… do you look like that?" she asked Priscilla, "I'm curious-" She cut off, and I could see why. The Kristen Stewart features were wearing off. Isabellatrix watched in confusion, then smiled menacingly…
"Well, well, well…" she laughed, "If it isn't the shield girl… So, who cast, I'm guessing, De Moribus Terribilis on you?"
"N-no one." said Priscilla shaking, "I-I did it to myself."
"Right…" said Isabellatrix, "Avada Keda-" she stopped and gasped, looking at me. Then said, "What's that you got there?" she asked me shocked. I knew already that she was looking at the elderly wand, and I was shivering violently.
"N-n-nothing…" I said through my chattering teeth.
"How d-did y-you g-get it?" she asked angrily, almost looking scared, also shivering. Her wand was in her hand, which scared me, "HOW DID YOU GET IT?"
"I-I g-got it-" I said frightened, but I was cut off by a blinding light. Isabellatrix had her hand clutched on an unconscious Priscilla. Lenox was holding Trisha, Nga, and Katie. I looked back, and another corpse feaster was holding onto me.
"Take these to the BASEMENT!" she yelled angrily, pointing at all of us, "Aristorix, make sure they don't escape!" The corpse feaster behind me nodded, and we were thrown into a dungeon beneath the first floor.
"You just had to say it." Katie said to Nga.
"Oh shut up…" said Nga blandly. The argument was cut off when we heard a scream come from the top of the dungeons, a deafening one…
"What are they doing to her!" yelled Trisha shocked. Through a hole in the wall, we could hear the goings on upstairs.
"How did you get this wand?" Isabellatrix asked angrily, "ANSWER ME!" Priscilla was screaming as Isabellatrix questioned her.
"She doesn't know where we got it!" yelled Nga angrily, "Dammit! If I had my wand!"
"TELL ME!" yelled Isabellatrix, "Tell me, or I kill you and your friends!"
"How the hell should I know!" yelled Priscilla pleadingly, "I don't know where we got that wand… Please, I never even knew we had It-" but her sentence never finished, as she began screaming again.
"That's it!" yelled Nga. She walked up to Lenox who was guarding us. She grabbed the bars and yelled at her, "Get us out of here!"
"Step back!" ordered Lenox, "Or I will crucio all of-" She was cut off. Nga had punched her in the face through the bars. She stepped back a little and then angrily pointed her wand at Nga. Nga took this as her chance, and grabbed the wand and pulled tightly. Due to Lenox not anticipating it, it flew out quickly. Nga was now pointing the wand at Lenox, who now looked livid.
"Stupefy!" yelled Nga, and Lenox was thrown back into the stairs that led to the dungeon. We heard another scream come from up above, and Nga quickly used the wand to summon the keys of the iron bar door.
"Lets go!" she said as she unlocked the doors, "We have to help Priscilla!"
We all ran up the stairs, and Nga signaled us to be quieter. We tiptoed up the stairs now until we saw Isabellatrix over Priscilla. The werewolf Silverback was watching them, and so was Aristorix. Nga pointed her wand at Silverback and said quietly, "Petrificus Totalus." and Silverback froze. She did the same to Aristorix, and she froze up.
Priscilla screamed again, and this time, we could see Isabellatrix. But, we couldn't see what she was doing. Nga took this as her chance, and ran up to Isabellatrix and yelled, "Repello Scortum!" and Isabellatrix immediately flew of Priscilla. Trisha and Katie helped her up, and her arm was bleeding from deep cuts, but that was about it.
"Come on!" Nga said while Isabellatrix was standing up. We saw Lenox running up the stairs, and Nga grabbed all of our hands. Priscilla was half unconscious, but managed to stay with us. Isabellatrix was now fully on her feet with a knife in her hand. We apparate just as I saw Isabellatrix throw it at us, and just as Lenox grabbed my leg…