Eww, school tomorrow.

Chapter 7

Last Time:

After school that day, and after dinner, Alex, Ron, Harry, Justin, Hermione and Max are sitting in the library trying to figure out the egg.

"What are we going to do? The task is in January, directly after the Christmas holidays" Alex asks, slightly nervous.

"Alex" Hermione rests her hands on Alex's shoulders trying to calm her, "we will figure this out" Alex nods taking deep breaths.

They will solve this clue if it's the last thing they do.

Now:

January has arrived, and Alex hasn't figured out the egg. But she doesn't have to feel bad, because Justin hasn't either and neither has Harry. The task is in an hour and Hermione, Ron and Max had to follow Moody out of the library where the 6 of them were trying to figure out the egg.

"Maybe we have to find a spell to help us breathe underwater and have to save someone?" Alex offers. Justin and Harry looks at Alex like she grew an extra head.

"How would that work?" Harry snaps. Alex rolls her eyes and shrugs her shoulders.

"I dunno. You know this world, I don't" Alex snaps back and storms out of the library. She walks all the way to the dungeons and knocks on Snape's office door. Snape opens the door and is surprised to see Alex.

"Hello Ms. Russo" Snape greets stunned.

"Hi" Alex walks passed Snape and sits down on the couch, "can you help me figure out the task?"

"You dunno what it is?" Snape asks. Alex shakes her head, "you have to save someone from the Black Lake. There are mermaids in the lake and have taken someone you more care about" Alex nods.

"I was right" Alex whispers to herself as Snape goes through his potion storage and hands her a jar.

"This will help you breathe under the water. There are enough for you, your brother and Potter" Alex smiles at Snape, says thank you and walks out to find Justin and Harry.

~H&A~

Alex sees Harry and Justin standing on the dock in shorts and t-shirts. Alex hands them the jelly stuff in the jar, which made them wonder but eats it. The three of them starts to choke but hand no time, because the cannon goes off and Moody pushes the three of them into the freezing cold water below.

The three of them starts to struggle in the water feeling the change. They all look at each other and themselves to see that they all look like mermaids.

"Let's go" Alex tells them. Justin and Harry nods and the three of them stay together in search of what they lost.

A half hour later, they hear the music, and the song they know all too well. They start to swim fast and arrive to the clearing to see 6 people. Fleur's little sister, Hermione, Ron, Max, Cho and Stevie. Krum and Stevie are dating now and have been since November. Alex starts to free Hermione as Justin does the same for Max and Harry does for Ron. Justin and Harry start to swim to the surface as Alex watches as Krum's shark head bites the rope off of Stevie. Alex pushes Hermione to the surface as Cedric frees Cho.

"Where's Fleur?" Alex asks Cedric.

"She's not coming" Cedric answers. Alex nods and points her wand at the rope of Fleur's little sister.

"Incendio" Alex mutters. Fire spits out her wand and she frees the little girl. Alex pushes the girl to the surface and starts to swim after her. Just then, the gross stuff starts to backfire, turning Alex back to her normal self. Alex takes her final breath and starts to swim quickly to the surface. Alex breaks the surface and just as she takes a breath, she gets pulled under.

"You shall pay" a mermaid snapped at Alex pointing a trident at her throat. A few more swam over and does the same. Alex starts to lose oxygen and points her wand at them. They start to laugh at her and Alex says one last spell with her last breath, as water fills her lungs.

"Make me fly to the dock so I can beat the clock" Alex's eye close as she flies out of the lake and lands hard on the dock. By the time she landed the clock hits an hour. Alex doesn't hear a word anyone said as she blacks out after coughing up water.

I know, I know. It's really short, but I have to go to bed because I have school in the morning. I hope you at least understand what happened. Please review. Oh, and the next chapter will be the twice of the normal size to make up for this chapter. Oh, another thing. I am aiming for this story will be at the least of 10 chapters.