Chapter Seven: Bye-Bye Forest

Harry POV

Obviously, the skip-thingy attacking Aelita was a bad thing. The question was, how do we get it away from her while being attacked by two tarantulas? The obvious answer was to destroy the monsters and the skip-thingy. That's easier said than done.

"Harry, you get to Aelita!" Odd shouted at me. "I'll hold them off."

I immediately ran to the octopus only to be stopped by something hitting my leg. I couldn't move. Two Bloks came out from behind the trees and started firing at me! (So what if I've done a little bit of research in the tower. It's been a little helpful so far. My life also depends on it.)

I shouted, "Protego!" and another green shield erupted before me. I knew I couldn't just stand here blocking lasers while Aelita was being attacked. I lowered my shield and shouted, "Reducto!" at the ice. It completely broke into a million pieces, letting me run off.

I was thinking about the Bloks. They made mechanical sounds like robots, which they most likely were. They probably hate water! I decided to try out my water ability. I ran over to the edge and did and upward motion with my hands. Amazingly, the water came straight up to me. I moved my hands towards the Bloks, making the water move there. It hit the Bloks, and they fizzed and blew up.

I ran to the octopus, charging up an energy field. Before I could throw it, it dropped Aelita! I heard Odd gasp and Jeremie say, "I don't get it. She's still alive, but why isn't she waking up?"

Odd ran over to her and started shaking her. "Come on, Aelita. We have a tower to deactivate. Yoo-hoo! Anybody home?" Aelita finally got up with her back to us.

"Come on, Aelita. W- AAAAGGGHHHH!!!" Odd shouted while flying through the air. What was going on? Aelita might not do that while we had a tower to deactivate. Would she? Aelita walked towards Odd and me. I noticed that her eyes were different.

"Can you hear me, Aelita? Come on! Wake up!" Jeremie shouted.

Aelita fired up an energy field and threw it at Odd. He was thrown back and disappeared. Now it was just Aelita and I. Instead of trying to get rid of me, she walked over to the remaining tarantula. It lowered its nose, and she got on its head. They started off away from the red tower.

"It looks like they're headed for the Way Tower," Jeremie said. "The Way Tower is the main tower of every sector. Harry, find the overboard and follow Aelita."

I found the overboard, which wasn't exactly hard, and flew off after them.

"Hermione, Jeremie, what do I do when I catch up?" I asked. "She is the only one that can deactivate towers, right?"

"Yes. Um, I honestly don't know what to do," Jeremie said. "Hermione, do you have any ideas?"

"No, I don't. Nothing I've ever read ties into something like this. I really need to read some science fiction when I get home."

We got to the tower, which had a white aura around it. Aelita got off the tarantula's nose and ran into the tower. I had my wand hand up, about to stun it. Before I could do that, though, it kind of turned into yellow dust that vanished. The tower disappeared with Aelita falling. I got off the overboard and ran to her.

"What happened to me?" Aelita asked.

I looked up because I thought I heard something. Was it just me, or was the ground disappearing? "Now's not the time. Run!"

We hopped pm the overboard and took off to where the edge of the sector was.

"What's going on over there?" Jeremie asked.

"The sector's disappearing!" Aelita shouted back.

We got to the edge of the Forest, and the white orb came and opened up. Before I knew, it we were standing in the middle of Sector 5.

"Get to the Sector 5 tower. The countdown has started," Jeremie said.

The wall opened up, and we ran through to the big room. It looked different than where we came through before. The button was nowhere in sight.

"Does this room always change?" I asked.

"Yup. It gets annoying sometimes," Aelita said with a grimace.

"Hey guys, I found the key," Jeremie said. "It's right above you."

We looked up, and sure enough, there it was. I heard Aelita murmur, "Energy field," and saw a pink orb fly up to hit the button. Right on target. A door opened up and several creepers slithered out. I fired so many spells that the room was lit with red, purple and yellow light. The creepers fired at us. I felt something hit my arm, but I dodged all of the other lasers. Aelita fired energy fields at the last two. They were destroyed, and we were alone again.

We ran through the door, took several turns that would never matter again. We finally found the tower in a corner in some room.

"Harry, devirtualize Aelita," Jeremie said. "It's the only way to get her to Hogwarts. Hermione doesn't know how to materialize people yet."

I had no idea what he said. "Er- could you repeat that?" I asked.

"He wants you to hit me with something so that I can go back to Hogwarts," Aelita said. "Hermione doesn't know the code to bring people home yet."

I shouted, "Stupefy!" at her and saw her disappear once more in a thousand bright blue squares. I turned around and ran into the tower.

A.N. Yay! Two chapters in one day! I know that this chapter is kind of longer than normal, but that might just be me. Hope you all liked it!