What's Happening? - Ron's POV
Hermione might be the most beautiful, stunning, cleverest, most resourceful, best witch of her age. The girl who completely stole my heart the moment I started to lose her to Krum, but bloody hell is she a complete bitch sometimes!
Harry had given up on our argument about half an hour ago and had started playing with Ginny's hair, which was completely disgusting, and then fell asleep, about ten minutes after that Hermione had started stumbling on her words and I told her to get some sleep and we could continue our argument in the morning she agreed and fell asleep immediately.
Leaving me awake with that strange blond, I swear that her lot are stranger than Loony Lovegood, who was sitting with a weird muggle machine that Harry had said was a portable computer or something and where becoming quite popular, so in her time must be everywhere. Would have expected something a little more spectacular for a daughter of a wisdom goddess than a common muggle or as they call them mortal thing.
Anyway it was on her lap and she was looking at something on the screen I think it's called. Why do muggles have such obscure names for their weird things? Magic's so much simpler even if it is spoken in Latin which apparently the two guy demigods know while the girls know Greek, something about Greece and Rome? But yeah the girls friend had fallen asleep and as breathing softly and every now and then Annabelle or something would glance over at her and smile then around at the rest of us and Peeta and Katniss (the future must be weird who has names like that?) lying asleep together in their arms.
She caught me looking at her and her eyes narrowed.
"Yes?" she asked with an air of holding all the cards yet grappling at straws
"What's that?" I asked nodding towards the thing on her lap even though Harry had told me.
"It's Daedalus' laptop." she replied her eyes lighting up at being asked a question, I see why Percy likes her smart like Hermione only worse,
"It's cutting edge ancient Greek engineering that's still fifty years ahead of its time." I stared at her blankly.
"It's a laptop, tablet, smart phone and can change and do absolutely everything except tie shoelaces, which it might do I just haven't found the app yet."
"Well." I said "tying shoelaces is a difficult business you can't do it by magic either. Ask Harry." she starred at me blankly. Me.
"How exactly are you a wizard? Is there lots of you and you have your own hidden world shadow world just like us where you get into trouble if it slips and the mortals, muggles notice. And are your whole family wizards so the magic is passed on so a muggles family can't have wizard kids...?" I held up my hand to silence her, which worked. I love doing that.
"Ask Hermione. But yeah our world is a shadow world with a ministry and all that shit and we get into big trouble there was a lot of unrest in Britain because this dark wizard came back and things started getting destroyed look it up. I your that kind of person and I'm pure blood so yeah all my family is wizards. Weasley is the biggest blood traitor family there is. Harry's Half-blood so his dad was a pure blood like me and Ginny while his mum was muggle born like Hermione and a muggle born means your family has no magical blood but you do. And if you have any more questions ask Hermione she knows everything or her mobile library does if she doesn't." I got up and walked away from the fire stopping to see if Ginny and Hermione were alright before continuing after about three minutes walking I ran across Percy and Jason with their heads together talking in low voices in a language I didn't understand. Probably Latin.
Hopefully.
I opened my mouth to say hi when I saw a shape move in the distance, I pulled out my wand and froze staring at it after a second I recognized it as human and then as that weird guy, Ju. I hesitated and then followed. Completely forgetting about the demigods behind me, still in whispered conversation. Great lookouts.
Ju was slipping down a hill to the right of the fire which was a beacon in the darkness; I followed him for about a minute before we ran across a river. Ju stopped dead and started at it like it was the bloody crown jewels. Then he slowly stepped over it getting the bottom of his trousers wet and continued walking, I followed but dipped my hand in the water and brought it up to my face. Salt. It was salt water or sea water. I suddenly understood why the demigods could relax. I kind of doubted that the ocean had appeared of its own free will and form a perfect circle round us.
I followed Ju for around another ten minutes until he reach a cliff face and stopped staring at it and then said a single word something like "slopiuma" or something and the cliff moved so I was looking at and open door. Ju stepped forwards and vanished into the darkness I hurried after him but just before I reached the cliff it closed and I stood staring at a solid wall. I hesitated then tried my awesome coping skills and said clearing and confidently.
"Slopiuma!"
Nothing happened.
"Slopiuma!"
Dead as a Dodo.
I shrugged and pointed my wand at the door. It was worth a try.
"Alohomora!"
I dare you to guess what happened.
Yep.
Nothing.
I raised my wand and pointed at the centre of the wall right where the middle of the door had been and said.
"Reducto!"
A jet of red light shot out of my wand and hit the wall exactly where I had been aiming. Dust filled the air and I coughed they probably saw that by the fire.
I could hear falling stones and then silence.
The dust started to settle and I saw behind it and what I had done.
No prizes for guessing.
"Shit! How is that possible? What FUCKING IDIOT MADE THIS! THAT SON OF A BITCH. THE PRICK!" I continued to swear for quite a bit more to calm my nerves, staring the whole time at the tiny whole in the wall I had made. Just big enough to put my hand though and went all the way through.
When I had calmed down I put my hand through the whole and found a latch.
Which I lifted. And...
The door opened.
I screamed in frustration and kicked it. Which did nothing except injure my foot.
"You fucking thing." I told the wall before stomping in and creeping up the one hall I could go along. After ten minutes I reached a corner and heard voices. Stopping I pointed my wand at myself and whispered the Disillusionment charm. Immediately I vanished and straightened up and walked around the corner.
It looked like a waiting room. Ju was sitting on a bench there was a desk like thing with a woman behind it. She had bubble-gum pink hair and pale lifeless skin like she spent a lot of time inside.
A lot a lot. Not just a bit.
The rest of her face was in shadow but she was talking for England. I ignored her before realising that she was yapping in English. This was probably one of those magic hot spots Isis mentioned which explained why I couldn't open the door using magic. Suddenly I remembered that I had left the hole in the wall for anyone to see. I inwardly swore some more but didn't dare say anything out loud with two people in the room. One who I was following and the other a perfect stranger. Then a door opened and she nodded to Ju. Or at least I caught a glimpse of white as she moved.
"The doctor will see you now." he nodded and stood up just about to leave the room, which did I mention was completely stone, when the woman pulled a rope and the roof opened slightly just enough to let in some air.
And sound.
A scream flew in and thundered in my ears.
It was a feminine scream.
A girls scream.
About five minutes away or just outside.
But sound travels better at night and when there's no other sound it could easily be twenty minutes away.
Right where I left the others.
Ginny!
Hermione!
Annabeth! Or Piper! Or Katniss!
Their names came back to me in the prospect of losing them.
Deaths reign! What had the Prophecy said?
Five missing couples divided shall meet,
In a world with an enemy they cannot beat.
Time and magic brought together will prevail,
While trust is the key through rain, sleet and hail.
There they are trapped till comes the time,
Where the reign of death will take its place,
And a hero will conquer with all passing grace.
Oh my God! Oh MY FUCKING GOD! That line had been completely pissing me off and now...
"Did you bring anyone with you or see anyone around here?" the woman asked and I could hear fear in her voice after a second Ju shook his head.
"No." she sighed in relief
"Go on in the doctor will see you now." Ju hesitated again and then nodded and walked in.
The door was still wide open I could walk in and see what he was up to and why he was seeing a doctor. Who'd want to see those nutters?
Or with the woman distracted I could leave and go see what's happening and if the girls are all right I stood frozen to the spot.
What's happening? What should I do?
