A/N: Thanks go out to all of those that reviewed. Now after some weeks I cleared out the cobwebs and finished this.
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. I just own what my crazy mind thinks up.
Chapter 8
Halloween and the Cerberus
When the trio woke up the next morning they met in the common room so that they could head down to the dryad's room together. Along the way they almost fell for Peeves trick put jumped over it at the last second. They were almost to the room when it happened.
The twins flew out from behind some armor and tackled Yoda. "Come on Yoda. You're letting yourself get a little lax in watching your surroundings. We could have been anyone trying to kill you and we could have succeeded." Lira complained
"Well I wasn't expecting you to be up early this morning." He snarled while dusting himself off.
"You know us-" Sera started.
"-we can't-" Lira continued.
"-leave until we-"
"-test you in the-"
"-ways of the dryads." Sera finished
Yoda shook his head in pain. "Will you to stop that it gives me a headache keeping up with you."
"Well then lets keep moving. Your mom wants to see you. We were going to pick you three up, but when we heard you coming we just had to test you." Sera explained.
Harry and Hermione were laughing at this knowing that he just got his but kicked by two girls.
"Harry I'd be quiet these two can only catch me by surprise, but I know that they can do way much worse to you. Can't you girls?" Yoda smirked.
"We sure can."
With that out of the way they all headed out to go to the queen's room. When they got there they sat with her and had breakfast. Seeing as it was a Saturday morning students could get up when ever they wanted.
"So, Yoda, I was thinking that I would stay here until after Halloween to see how you've been doing." Mira told them.
"Well today's Saturday and we really haven't come up with any plans for the day." Yoda explained.
"Well, I was hoping that you would show us around and maybe show us a few of your friends." Mira suggested.
"Let's head outside then. Most of my friends are outside now." Yoda explained.
They all headed outside and headed towards the Black Lake. Once there Yoda headed down to the shore and called, "Walaka, friend of the water, come up and see some of my friends."
Walaka popped out of the water and splashed the whole group then started laughing and diving in and out of the water. Hermione walked to the waters edge and put her hands on her hips. "Walaka stop acting like a child and come up here."
Yes Ma'am. I'm sorry I didn't mean to be so playful I just want to have fun.
"That's okay. I just want to stay dry for a while. I'm sorry that I yelled at you." She padded his nose.
Then Yoda went away from the shore and called, "Ealaka, friend of the earth, come forth and see my friends and family."
Ealaka came out of the woods and trotted over to them. Once he got there he bet on bowed his head. Hello kind ladies. My name is Ealaka the protector of the earth.
"Hello Ealaka I'm Queen Mira. Queen of the dryads and Yoda and Hermione's mom."
My lady. I thank you for letting me be with you today. If ever you need me just call my name and I will be there in a matter of minutes.
"Why thank you young sir I will take that into account." She thanked him.
Now that they all have been introduced they sat down for a bit and talked about the good days. The days where Yoda was growing up in the dryad village and then they talked about how Hermione grew up. The twins embarrassed Yoda so bad that he looked as bad as a sun burnt tomato.
"By the way mom where are your two other guards?" Yoda asked.
"They are searching the perimeter and keeping me safe from a distance, and also so they don't attract attention from the male student body."
Soon it was time for them to go in for lunch. When they arrived inside the teachers were already setting up for the Halloween celebration. Then all of a sudden a tall figure came out from behind a door and grabbed Yoda's shoulder.
Yoda freaked by flipping over the cloaked figure and then did a spinning kick and caught it in the side. And when he landed he swept the bottom of the cloak out from under it. That's when the hood fell down to show a boy with blond hair.
"Now what happened here?" Snape asked.
"He attacked me sir." Draco said.
"Not. Professor Draco scared Yoda." Harry said.
"Mr. Potter 10 points from Gryffindor." Snape snarled.
"I was just in the holiday spirit and just wanted to scare someone."
"Well you should have known not to scare Yoda. He's been edgy since he got here. Now he's been thrown into an area that's as hostile as the world outside." Hermione explained.
"Well I was just having some holiday fun."
"Yoda has never been around to celebrate the holidays. So when you grabbed his shoulder he thought that he was under attack." Lira explained.
"How do you know?" Harry asked.
"We always sent him an invitation to holiday celebrations but he always sent them back to tell us that he was still running and he was busy." Sera explained.
Then they ate and headed back outside to where Walaka and Ealaka waited for them and they spent the rest of the day playing with them. Walaka coaxed Yoda, Sera, and Lira into the lake to play. Meanwhile Harry, Hermione, and Queen Mira were sitting with Ealaka talking about what was going to happen to Hermione.
"If you don't mind I would like to stay with the Grangers for now."
"That's fine."
After the sun set they all headed back inside to the party and after about an hour the doors burst open. Professor Quirrell opened the doors screaming, "T..troll in the dungeon! T..T..Troll in the dungeon. Thought you'd want to know." Then he fainted. Then it went into chaos. Kids were running everywhere.
"SILENCE!!!" Dumbledore yelled. "If everyone will please not panic. Now prefects will lead their houses back to the dormitory while the teachers will come with me to the dungeon."
Harry, Hermione, and Yoda went with the rest until they saw Snape going the opposite direction. They all decided to follow him and find out what he was up to. They found out that he was headed up to the third floor corridor that had been dubbed out-of-bounds at the beginning of the year.
Snape slipped inside one of the doors and then heard a terrible scream. They ran to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. So Hermione took out her wand and said Alohomora and the door opened. When they got inside they found Snape cowering against the wall and a big three headed dog walking towards him.
"That's a Cerberus." Harry exclaimed. "We need to make some music."
"But how?" Yoda asked.
Suddenly they heard a beautiful sound and the dog's heads started drooping. Then they found the source to the music, and it was being played by Hermione. She held a leaf in her hands and was playing what sounded like a lullaby. While she played Harry and Yoda pulled Snape out of the door. When Hermione backed out of the room Yoda locked the door and they left to find a teacher.
It just so happened that they teacher they found was Madame Pomfrey. They took her to Professor Snape so that she could take care of them. Then the rest of the teachers showed up and just stared at the three. Then McGonagall showed up and looked down upon them.
"Well…explain yourselves you three." She commanded.
"They followed me and then saved me from death." Snape answered.
"Well be thankful you weren't killed. 5 points to each of you for saving Professor Snape."
The trio headed back to the common room to find that the party had continued there. Hermione pulled the other two into a corner. "Why do you think Snape was there? He's juggling with his life messing with a creature like that."
"A Cerberus. A three headed dog. In Greek legend known to be the pet of Hades that protects his realm of the underworld." Harry corrected her.
"How do you know all this?" Hermione asked.
"I was co-top-of-the-class at my old school." He stated.
"Okay can we get this over with? Hermione what do you want?" Yoda asked.
"Well when we were in that room, I saw a trapdoor under that dog's feet and I think that was what he was after."
"Well we can't do anything without any proof." Yoda chimed in.
"Well we're just going to have to find proof." Hermione told then. She wished them good night and kissed Harry and went upstairs.
Yoda looked at Harry. "Isn't weird how she just included us in this mess?"
"Yeah." Harry agreed. They skipped the party and went upstairs to bed.
A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. Please review.
Preview: The Queen meets up with Ron. What going to happen to him….well you're going to need to read and find out.
