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Chapter Ten

Unknowing

"WHAT!" Elyon shouted, dropping all of her things with a thud. "But the oracle is guarding him! How could he have escaped!"

"I don't know, all I know is we need to be careful." Will said, trying to keep her voice calm. "And Phobos is working with someone, some guy who looks like a snake."

"A snake?" Elyon questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Don't ask." Will said.

"Are you sure you saw him? Maybe you were only imaging it." Elyon said, trying to make up any excuse to explain this besides Phobos' really being here.

"Yes! I saw him! The Heart wouldn't have reacted if it had been my imagination." Will replied.

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head or something?" Elyon asked, desperately.

"Elyon! I know what I saw!" Will yelled, not meaning to be so harsh.

"Okay! I believe you!" Elyon replied. "So what do we do?"

"We tell Yan Lin, Caleb, and the others. Send a message to Vathek later telling him what's happened. We have to be as ready as possible to fight him." Will said.

"Our only problem is we don't know what he wants. We don't know what to be ready for." Elyon pointed out. "Although it's a fair bet he probably wants me."

"We also don't know who he's working with." Will added. "But Elyon, I promise we will stop Phobos. I mean, we beat him once, didn't we?"

"I know, but he's working with someone we don't know anything about." Elyon replied, folding her hands in front of her. "I have a feeling this will be a much harder fight than last time."

"Well, come on. The lessons should be over soon and we need to head to the castle and get to the next lesson before everyone else so it looks like we really did go to the hospital wing." Will said.

The two girls walked up to the castle at a fast pace so they would get to their next lesson before everyone else.

"When do we tell Yan Lin?" Elyon asked, as they walked down the steps leading to the dungeon.

"At break." Will answered.

"But that's an hour away!" Elyon said. "Caleb and Yan Lin need to know now!"

"Elyon, I want to tell them too, but do you want to miss a lesson on the first day of school?" Will replied.

Elyon was silent, understanding Will's point. "I certainly don't want to be on anyone's bad side."

"Everyone's on Snape's bad side, except the Slytherins." A voice said. "There's just no getting around it."

Will and Elyon stopped and turned.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, with Cornelia tagging along, were heading toward them.

"Are you feeling better, Will?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, thanks." Will replied with a small smile.

"What do you mean everyone's on Snape's bad side?" Cornelia asked Ron, as they walked over to join Will and Elyon.

"He hates Gryffindors, everyone of us." Ron replied bitterly. "Why is anybody's guess."

"Just because we're Gryffindors?" Cornelia asked.

"Bingo." Ron said.

"Well, that's just stupid." Cornelia stated with a snort.

"Quiet! You want him to hear you? I swear he has ears in the walls." Ron whispered harshly as he set off again.

Hermione jogged to catch up with him. "Ron! That was very rude!" She hissed in his ear.

"I for one didn't want Gryffindor to lose a hundred points and get my rear thrown in detention." Ron replied stubbornly.

"Cornelia is new! She doesn't know anything about Snape!" Hermione snapped.

Elyon, Cornelia, Harry, and Will stared after the arguing friends for a moment, and then followed them.

Cornelia and Elyon began chatting away, completely unconcerned.

"Are Hermione and Ron always like that?" Will asked Harry.

"Not all the time, just most of the time." Harry answered with a shrug.

"How do you put up with that?" Will asked.

Harry shrugged again. "I dunno. I guess you can just put up with a lot from your friends. You what I mean?"

Will glanced over at Cornelia and then nodded. "Yeah. I know what you mean."

"I've known Ron and Hermione six years now, we've all had our arguments." Harry replied.

They arrived outside the classroom, where the Gryffindor and Slytherin sixth years were waiting.

"Hey, Draco's not here." Elyon said, looking through the crowd.

"Good, then he's not here to bug us about anything." Cornelia replied coolly.

"Yeah." Elyon agreed, rather absent-mindedly.

The classroom doors opened by themselves and the students walked into the room.

Will looked around the dark classroom and shivered. 'This reminds me of Phobos' castle.'

Elyon and Cornelia were thinking along the same lines. "This place gives me the creeps." Elyon said.

Cornelia nodded. "What kind of guy is this Snape person? Ron obviously doesn't like him."

Cornelia and Elyon sat down at a desk that was next to a large cauldron, but didn't start talking like they usually did, both nervous.

Harry and Ron sat a row above Elyon and Cornelia, opened their books and talked in hushed voices.

Hermione and Will sat down at the same desk, across from the desk Harry and Ron sat at.

Will looked around nervously.

"Don't worry. Professor Snape's not all bad." Hermione whispered with a friendly smile.

"Come on, Hermione. Don't get her hopes up." Ron said with a yawn. "We all know Snape's an old bat."

Will couldn't help but giggle.

"Snape is a teacher! Do you know what he would do if he heard you!" Hermione said harshly.

"Please don't start fighting again." Will begged.

"Yeah. Save some of it for tonight when Ron's trying to copy your homework, Hermione." Harry said dully.

Will giggled again.

Ron and Hermione glared at each other then turned their attention to their books.

Will rolled her eyes. 'They're just as bad as me and Cornelia are most of the time.' She thought.

There was a bang and Will turned to see a door at the front of the room had flown open, and two people and walked into the room.

One of them was Malfoy, who looked around the room with frightened eyes before walking to the back of the room and sitting by himself.

Elyon's eyes followed him to the desk where he sat down, but snapped to the front of the room when he turned his head toward her.

The other was a tall pale man with greasy black hair and was wearing all black. "I know that there are three new students here. Please stand."

Elyon, Cornelia and Will all stood up.

"Pity. All Gryffindors." The man, who must have been Snape, said.

'So Ron was right.' Will thought, feeling her hopes disappear.

"Which on of you is Elyon Brown?" Snape asked.

"I am, sir." Elyon said.

Snape looked at Elyon for a long tense filled minute. "Sit down, miss Brown."

Elyon sat down quickly. She may have been a queen, but she knew a person who she should obey when she saw one.

"Which one of you two is Cornelia Hale?" Snape asked.

"That's me, sir." Cornelia said.

He looked over at her and Cornelia shivered in that greasy glare. "All right, now sit."

Cornelia was only too glad to obey and get his dark eyes off of her.

"Then you must be Wilhelmina Vandom." Snape said coldly, his dark eyes falling on Will now.

Will didn't have the courage to say anything under that cold gaze.

"You can sit down now, miss Vandom." He said, turning away to write on the black board behind him.

"Yes, sir." Will said, sitting down.

"Now today, we will be making a freezing potion. A person doesn't need to drink a freezing potion to be affected by it. One small touch will freeze a person for a few moments, while if a person where to be covered in it, they would be frozen for a day or two. The ingredients are on your desks and the instructions are on the blackboard. You have an hour. Begin."

Will and Hermione cut and sliced the ingredients (most of which Will didn't know what they where and was sure she didn't really want to know) and added them to the potion one at a time.

Halfway through the lesson, Snape said: "Your potion should now be a clear blue color."

Will looked down at the potion, from the star roots she was cutting, and was relived to see it was clear blue, probably only because Hermione was her partner.

Cornelia and Elyon's potion was clear blue as well, and Harry and Ron's potion was milky green, over which Ron seemed to be panicking slightly but Harry didn't seem surprised.

The room smelled really horrible because of Neville's purple smoking potion.

And so the lesson continued, with Harry and Ron trying everything to fix their potion, and Neville's potion making the whole room smokey and smelly while Dean, who was working with him, frantically read the text book.

At the end of the lesson, Snape walked from cauldron to cauldron, giving comments to each of the students.

He looked at Cornelia and Elyon's potion for a minute before he said: "Acceptable. Barely"

Elyon and Cornelia sighed as he walked away. "I don't like him." Cornelia whispered.

Elyon nodded in agreement.

He came to Harry and Ron's cauldron, in which the potion was a dull grey, when it should have been silver. "Now, now, looks like I shall have to give you extra homework on the theory of this potion." He said, coldly.

Harry and Ron didn't seem to be surprised, even though their potion wasn't that far off.

He came to Will and Hermione's cauldron, and peered into the steaming silver potion, which was just how it was supposed to be, and frowned. "Acceptable."

When they were dismissed from class they walked up toward the entrance hall.

"Thank god that's it for lessons." Ron sighed, running a hand through his already messing hair. "We still have a mess of homework though."

"I'll help you two, that was completely unfair of Snape." Hermione said, frowning herself.

"That reminds me, Will. We're partners in Divination, so we have to do our homework together." Harry said.

"Oh right, let's do it around seven, I have things to do before then." Will replied.

"Okay." Harry agreed with a nod. "That's fine with me."

"We have to go talk to Professor Lin now. We'll see you at dinner." Cornelia said, glancing at Will with a look that said 'NOW'.

"Yeah, we'll see you later." Will said, following Elyon and Cornelia up the marble stairs.

After they were sure no one was around, they started running up to Yan Lin's office.

"I hate wearing skirts!" Will said, as they ran up the second floor hallway towards the stairs. "It's so hard to run in them!"

"Better get used to it." Elyon panted. "It's part of the uniform."

They reached the classroom and burst inside.

Yan Lin looked up from her books, and Caleb nearly dropped the glass vase he was carrying with a single lily in it as the girls skidded to a halt.

"Watch it!" Caleb said, setting down the vase and frowning at the girls.

"Girls, what is the matter?" Yan Lin asked calmly.

"Phobos!" Cornelia and Elyon cried in unison.

"He's back! He's here on Earth!" Will said urgently.

'What!" Caleb exclaimed. "That's impossible! The oracle is guarding him!"

"But I saw him! I had a vision!" Will replied. "The Heart reacted to the vision so it was real."

"I believe Will. The keeper of the Heart can see many things that happen. We must warn Meridian and the other guardians if we are to be ready for him." Yan Lin said, standing up.

"There's a problem there. He's working with someone from Earth, someone we don't know anything about. And on top of that, we don't know what he wants." Cornelia replied.

"I think I know what he wants." Elyon said. "Revenge. He wants revenge against the guardians of the veil and the Queen of Metamoor who ruined his plans."

"One thing's for sure, you girls will have to be very careful." Caleb said, concerned.

After an hour-long talk with Yan Lin and Caleb, Cornelia, Will, and Elyon, walked down to dinner.

They were mostly quiet and only talked among themselves in whispers.

When they were leaving the great hall, they saw Taranee, Hay Lin, and Irma following Yan Lin and Caleb out up the marble stairs with puzzled looks on their faces.

"We'll have to talk to them about tomorrow, we can't risk it in the open." Cornelia whispered to Will, who nodded.

After dinner, they walked up to the seventh floor solemnly and up to the Fat Lady.

"Loin Sphinx." Elyon said.

"Well said, my dear." The Fat Lady replied, swinging forward.

The girls climbed into the common room.

"Will!"

Will looked up to see Harry sitting by the fire with a mess of papers around him. 'That's right. We're supposed to do our homework together.' She walked over to him and sat down. "I'm sorry, Harry. My friends and I had something to discuss with Professor Lin."

"No problem." Harry replied. "Let's just get to work so it'll be over with."

Will smiled and picked up a star chart, and began to read the different stars off to Harry, while he made predictions.

Will had good time the rest of the night, working with Harry on their homework, however they spent more time joking around then working.

When Will went to bed that night, she felt as though she had made a new friend.

End Chapter Ten

A/N: Basically all I did to this chapter was add more detail. Hope you enjoyed it.