Harry Potter FF-
Once again: Chapter 8. LOOK AT IT!
Chapter 10-
It was way past one a.m. when Draco and I finally went back inside and by then most everyone had gone back to his or her common rooms and the tables had been replaced. I stared around,
"Wow, they do clean up fast." Draco nodded and we walked down to the dungeons. I groaned,
"I can't wait to get out of this dress!" he blushed and looked away awkwardly. I blinked, confused and replayed what I just said in my head. When it clicked I blushed and waved my hands frantically,
"Bloody hell! I didn't mean that!" he smirked, the cockiness returning as he got over his shock, and ignored my previous statement
"I couldn't agree more, would you like me to help?" He purred, earning a blush out of me, my face heating up to the extreme. I looked away,
"Perv."
He laughed and we turned the corner, meeting with the familiar dead end and said the password. The wall dissipated and we walked down the corridor awkwardly. I don't know, nor care, what was going on in his disturbing 15 year-old male brain but I knew I didn't want him voicing those thoughts out loud.
As we reached the end of the hall we both stopped. I smiled at him,
"Thanks for everything." He nodded,
"I'm glad you decided to come with me." I smirked,
"Of course, and tomorrow you'll be back to your normal attitude?" he smirked lazily, already going back to himself,
"Of course, I can't be a love struck idiot all the time." I raised an eyebrow,
"Love struck?" he blinked and stared at me like he had no clue what he just said,
"Ha! I've rubbed off on you!" he regained some composure and looked confused,
"What do you mean?" I smirked,
"You don't think before you speak anymore!" he scoffed and shook his head,
"Does that mean I've rubbed off on you and you think now?" I shrugged,
"We'll see later. Well, Night." I waved and walked to the girl's dorm. He nodded in return and turned to the boy's dorm.
As soon as I got in I hurried to my bed, pulling the curtain and shaking out of the dress. I sighed in joy and changed into my muggle relaxation clothing, picked up the egg and walked back out the common room.
Over the past few days I had come up with the idea that maybe there was some pattern in the screaming that I had to decipher so I was going to find something to muffle the sound and try to figure it out. As soon as I got in I created a muffling spell and sat down in one of the usually occupied chairs by the fire and stared at the egg, thinking.
"Well…water usually muffles sound." I said to myself and focused on one of my new living elements spells,
"Vivus Aguamenti." A burst of water sprang forth from my wand and I swirled my wand, creating an orb and floating it in the air.
With my left hand I reached into the orb and pried it open. Two strange things happened, one was that when I pulled my hand out it was completely dry and the other was that the egg didn't scream or screech, it just made a strange gurgling noise. I furrowed my brow and twirled my wand again, making the orb grow larger, and stuck my head in, once again surprised I could breathe easily.
The golden egg wasn't screaming at me but singing. There were a chorus of beautiful, yet eerie voices coming from it. I smiled in victory and listened to what they were saying,
Come and seek us where we sound We cannot sing above the groundAnd while you're searching ponder this:
We've taken what you sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour—the prospect's black
Too later, it's gone, it won't come back.
Something pulled me backwards and I gasped, my spell canceling and the Golden Egg started screaming again. I screamed and jumped on the egg again, snapping it shut and turning on my attacker,
"Hey! What's the big- oh, hi Draco, NOW WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR? !" I snapped, he growled at me,
"You can try to figure out the egg all you want just don't drown yourself to do it!" I blinked in shock, the anger ebbing away,
"What are you talking about? I could breath just fine." Now it was his turn to look confused,
"You're head was in a water orb, how could you breath?" I shrugged,
"It's the living water spell, apparently I don't get wet and I can breathe while using it. So don't freak out!" he glared at me,
"Excuse me for being worried!" he snapped. I shook my head,
"You're excused, now anyway I figured out the Golden Egg!" he sat down next to me, waiting for an explanation, "Well partially, but I know where I need to go next. The Egg sang when I put it under water."
"What did it say?" I closed my eyes and recited the song, unfortunately for me I can't recite lyrics without singing them, so that's what I ended up doing: singing.
When I had finished I opened my eyes and blushed, glancing away awkwardly,
"So what do you think it means?" he looked confused for a second then nodded, composing himself,
"I think it means that some creature with take the one that the champion cares most about and holds them hostage and the champion has to find that person in a single hour, if you don't the person will be killed, or something along the sort." I frowned and opened my mouth then, for the first time in my life, thought about what I was going to say and shut my mouth, glancing away and blushing.
"Okay then we just need to figure out what the kind of creature is." My head snapped around to look at him,
"We?" he nodded,
"Yah, we, now will you go to sleep? It's to late for this." I blinked and glanced at the clock, revealing it to be about 3:45.
"Oh! I thought it was still 2!" he shook his head,
"No. Now go to sleep." I smiled at him and (Forgetting the accomplishment of actually thinking) leaned closer to him, giving him a small peck on the cheek,
"Good Night, for real this time." I grabbed my golden egg and walked off, leaving him behind staring after me.
I slept in much later the next day, not getting up until around noon.
I pulled on my robes and walked out, heading to the library. As I walked I passed Potter and wondered if he had figured it out yet, but judging by the fact he wasn't going to the library I kinda doubted it. I slowed my steps, debating if I should tell him. I settled on a obnoxious vague hint,
"Hey! Potter!" I called. He looked up quizzically. I waved him over, he waved his friends off and came over,
"Ya?" I smiled,
"I was just wondering if you had figured anything out about the egg yet." He scowled and shook his head. I shrugged,
"Well I think that the screams are much better tolerated through water, it sounds much better then." He frowned,
"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind." I nodded and waved,
"Well see ya." I walked away, snapping at some first years just for the fun of it, maybe Draco was wearing off on me. I shook my head and walked into the library.
I wandered around the shelves for a while, looking for anything helpful, I just started grabbing random creature books and then sat down, taking out a spare piece of parchment and wrote down everything I knew:
*can only sing under water
And that was kinda it… but actually DUH! I'm going to have to find the person who I care about most under water! I can't believe it took me that long to figure it out, I had been staring at this piece of parchment for the past three hours and I only now got this? !
Wow.
Now…TO THE SPELL BOOKS!
I quickly replaced all the creature books (Which were no help at all) and went to the spell books as well as some potions, I took way more potion books though.
For the next two weeks I barely left the library, I didn't eat and I definitely didn't sleep, the second task felt to close, only a month and a half away and damn time could fly!
I studied potion after potion, trying to find just the right one. I hid in the back corner and no one ever found me, if they were looking for me, so I was left undisturbed.
I only left because I would about to die of starvation if I didn't, so I always ran down, grabbed food and ran away. But today I decided to take a ten minute break so I ran down to the Great Hall, sat down next to a person and ate as fast as I could, finished and stood back up. Someone grabbed my arm and I blinked, focusing on the person I had subconsciously sat next to,
"Oh Hi Draco, can you let me go? I need to get back to my work." I pulled at my hand, he ignored me and held up a finger to silence me and turned to Nott, Zabini, Crabbe and Goyle,
"Well I finally found her so I guess I'll be going." I pulled harder on my arm, pouting.
He finally stood up and, figuring out that he wouldn't let go of my arm, grabbed his arm and dragged him away, running as fast as I could without getting yelled at,
"Morgan!" I heard dimly but I didn't respond. It sounded that my name was repeated quite a few times but I couldn't be sure, my mind was solely on the potion I had almost found,
"VULPES!" someone yelled and I skidded to a halt, looking around in alarm,
"Huh?" Draco glared at me, out of breath,
"Will you slow down? ! The Library isn't going to explode in the next five minutes!" he got out between gasps,
"But the next task is to close! I need to figure out the potion I'm going to make and then make it!"
I was finally able to shake off his grasp and I sprinted away, shooting into the library and weaving through the now familiar racks and thumping down into my seat, going back to staring at my book like I never left.
I continued to read and read until I noticed something strange between two pages, it was slightly thicker than normal. I frowned at the book and pulled out my wand,
"Diffindo." The page ripped apart neatly just as I heard someone walk into my little area.
"How long have you been here?" a familiar voice asked. I didn't look up,
"What day is today, date too."
"Uh Thursday… January 15th." My eyes grew wide,
"REALLY? !" I yelped, he nodded slowly,
"I THOUGHT IT WAS STILL DECEMBER!" he sighed and shook his head,
"No, now let me help you with this." I nodded,
"I think I just found the potion I was looking for, see." I pointed in the center of left page that I had freed, "The Draught of Breath. It allows the take to breathe underwater." He looked at me in confusion,
"Why do you need to breathe underwater?" I sighed an recited two of the lines,
"We cannot sing above the ground, come seek us where we're found. It just fits." He nodded,
"Okay then we need to copy this down and go visit Snape." He said, stealing my favorite quill. I whined in annoyance but instead he just reached into his robes and pulled out a handful of letters,
"Your Raven could never find you so she gave them to me." I took them and glanced between the seals and Draco critically. He shook his head without looking up from his writing,
"I didn't read them."
I smiled and looked through them, they were all from my 'Parents', they got thicker and thicker as time went on, never a good sign. I groaned and opened the oldest one, skimmed through the threats and burned it, I did the same to every one until I got to the last one, which made me freeze in horror,
If you don't get back here over the next break we are pulling you out of you're satanistic school.
I shuddered and burned the letter,
"Draco when's the next holiday?" he glanced up and scowled at me,
"Why do you need to know?" I shrugged, faking uncaring,
"Curious." He studied me for a few seconds,
"Summer Break, there's nothing in between." I nodded, well, at least I'd be able to finish fourth year. I looked away, hoping to avoid any more questioning and grabbed an extra piece of parchment and looking for a quill. Draco was still writing and I couldn't disturb him so I looked for another one. I noticed the tip of a feather sticking out of his robes. I smiled and reached out to grab it. He jumped slightly as I reached into his pocket then looked at me in confusion. I waved the eagle feather in his face,
"Thanks for the quill." He rolled his eyes and went back to copying down the potion. I scratched out a quick letter,
I'll be coming back for Summer Break.
I paused and looked at Draco critically and thought of all my other friends then decided to add a little something to my letter,
And I think I may bring a friend home with me.
I snickered to myself and folded up the letter and placed it in my pocket,
"Ready yet?" he stood up, holding the parchment.
I closed the book and ran through the shelves, putting the books back and trotting back to Draco,
"Let's go down to the dungeons, I have a potion to make." I hooked my arm around his and pulled him out the library again.
"You're good at potions right?" I asked, looking at him from over my shoulder he glared at me,
"Your in my class!" I shrugged,
"So, Professor Snape could just like you and say you're good." His lip curled in annoyance,
"I guess I could ask you the same thing!" I spun around, mad that someone would question my skills,
"MY ANTIDOTE WORKED JUST FINE, DIDN'T IT? !" His face became covered in a light pink at the memory,
"Oh…yah…that." I huffed and walked away snobbishly; my nose in the air, I just gave him the antidote, nothing more.
We made it down to the dungeon and walked in, ignoring the class of first years. To anyone else Snape would've snapped but he just gave us a look of slight annoyance from where he was tormenting some child,
"Yes Ms. Vuples, Mr. Malfoy?" I walked over to him, not changing my course to the little kids had to scurry out of my way,
"If it's no trouble I need some ingredients for a potion I'm going to be making." He nodded,
"Where's the list?" I turned to Draco,
"Draco has it." Snape turned to him and held out his hand, Draco placed the parchment in his pale hand,
"Hm…the Draught of Breath, a very complex potion… I'll show you what you need." He handed me the parchment and turned to the group of first years, I looked closer to find they were Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, "Complete your Anti-boil potion and bring it up to my desk by the time I get back." He said slowly and turned around, walking towards the student store,
"Unfortunately I am not allowed to directly help you but I can give you access to everything in the store."
He started grabbing an assortment of jars and plants, giving them to Draco who gave them to me. I noticed for one item I never thought we'd be able to get, Seiren's tongue, he went into his own private store and gave it to me. I smiled up at him and he turned to us,
"That should be all. You may set up a cauldron in the back corner and I will tell the children to avoid you." We both thanked him and walked to the back corner,
"There should be eighteen vials on my desk, why do I only see thirteen?" he sneered as he walked by the students. I looked through and saw five of them go pale in fear and start shaking. I laughed,
"I'd forgotten how scary Snape could be when he tries to." Draco smirked,
"Remember when Longbottom was forced to feed his potion to that toad of his?" I laughed, earning some glances from the eleven year olds,
"What are you looking at?" I snapped at them and they turned around. I grinned evilly and looked at out ingredients,
"Okay, on to this, we need to put three cups of water in." I muttered, taking out my wand and waving it so the perfect amount came out and dropped into the cauldron, "Then add two sliced toad hearts, cut into perfect squares." I blinked, "What does the shape of the pieces have to do with anything?" Draco shrugged,
"It's a very picky potion." I frowned at him,
"I had no idea potions could be picky."
"Well obviously they can." He said with a shrug then glared up over the cauldron, "What do you want brat?" he sneered. I followed his gaze to see two little Ravenclaws watching us and flinched at the brat comment.
"What are you doing?" the brown haired boy asked.
"Making a potion." I responded with a sneer,
"What's it for?" the red haired girl asked, damn these Ravenclaws constant search for knowlage is annoying,
"What's it to you?" Draco and I asked at the same time, in the same annoyed drawl, scaring the little kids,
"W-we were just curious." I glared at him,
"Well go be curious somewhere else." But they didn't,
"What year are you in?" I groaned in annoyance,
"Fourth."
"What house are you in?" Draco answered,
"Slytherin." The turned to me,
"Slytherin." They nodded slowly,
"Why aren't you in class?" that actually stopped my up short, why wasn't Draco in class, I could say I was working on the task and I could get off with a tsk, tsk but he had no excuse.
"You know, that's a good question, Draco why aren't you in class?" he shrugged,
"Because I'm helping you." I shook my head,
"That's never going to work, oh and by the way…" these kids were getting on my nerves, "Shoo." I hissed and pointed my wand towards them.
They were smart enough to know that I couldn't actually jinx them (Not that that would stop me) so I smirked, "Vivus Flammarium." And pictured a green snake in my mind. Green Flames formed from my wand and snapped at the first years. They screamed and ran away. I left the snake where it was to ward off unwanted company and went back to the potion with Draco.