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The Castle and The City

Christmas was now over and New Year's had come and gone. The weather was still very cold, it had snowed during the night, and now Corynne and Melanie were going to return to the castle, but only under Dumbledore's permission. The Headmaster had sent every student home and told them to stay home until the castle was back up and running and the only way to do that was to bring Melanie back. Melanie and Corynne packed their things, ate pancakes, bacon, eggs, and sausage for breakfast, said goodbye to Corynne's mother, and apparated to the grounds.

"I always have to land in snow to water," Corynne said as her feet became wet. They trekked through the snow over to a large tent that housed all the teachers.

"Professor? Are we interrupting anything?" Melanie asked Dumbledore. All the teacers looked at Melanie with grim faces, all except Snape. He wanted her to fail at her attempt just because she was a Potter.

"Welcome back," Dumbledore said ushering them in, "Are you ready?"

"Yes," Melanie answered her hands shaking. Dumbledore opened the tent and stepped outside with Melanie and Corynne who was so scared for Melanie she started to hypervenalate.

"Are you sure about this?" Dumbledore asked trying to calm down Corynne who was now taking short breths.

"Yes," Melanie said taking a deep breath and closig her eyes. She stood there for a few minutes and gathered her engery; she put out her arms and started to raise them. While this was going on, Corynne could see the broken castle being rebuilt. Stone after stone, minutes past as the castle was almost finished.

About ten minutes later, the castle was up; the thing that was missing were the towers which Melanie added seconds later. It was fixed; it looked like the castle had never been destroyed.

"You did it," Corynne said turning Melanie around to find her looking distorted; her eyes were black, her face was pale, she looked very skeletal like someone was sucking the life out of her. Corynne could see her cheek bones, her entire skull, and it wasn't just her face. Her hands, arms, legs, shoulders were skeletal; it looked like she had not eaten in years.

Corynne weas ready to hurl; she had never seen anyone look no malnurished. Then Corynne came to realize that not only was Melanie using her magic she was also using her life. Melanie disappeared in the blink of an eye as Corynne ran to Dumbledore.

"She's using her life force and her magic," Corynne explained, "If she's going to resurrect London she'll die. We have to do something."

"Get Kyle and restore her life force," Dumbledore explained.

"How?" Corynne asked, but Dumbledore just wished her away. Corynne apparated to London where she found Melanie half way down resurrecting the city and kyle was there holding her skeletal hand.

"Hurry grab her other hand!" Kyle yelled over the earthquake like sounds. Corynne quickly grabbed Melanie's right hand and projected magic into her body. Now Corynne knew what they were doing; since Melanie was her own life force for enregy, Kyle and Corynne had to put life back into her. Melanie's eyes changed back to their normal state and her body began to fill out with muscle and fat; her face filled out, her arms and legs gained muscle and she was finally back to her normal state.

"Are you alright?" Kyle asked, but before Melanie could answer she collapsed to the ground and lost all sense of consciousness.

Corynne felt her nonexistent pulse and Kyle started to shake her, but it was no use. Melanie was not strong enough. She was dead.


Melanie felt like she was floating upward into a cloudy abyss. She felt scared; she had no idea where she was and she had no idea why she was floating.

Suddenly a figure appeared in front of Melanie.

"What are you doing here?" Hary asked her, "You're not supposed to be up here. Well not yet anyway."

"Am I dead?" Melanie asked as she saw all her family members appear in front of her, "Alright I'm dead. Can you send me back down?"

"We can't until you make a choice," Krystal siad, "You can either stay up here with us or you can return to earth and be with your friends. What do you want?" How could Melanie choose? She loved her family, but she loved her friends. She loved Corynne and kyle, but she did not want to go through all the heartbreak she went through over the years.

"Have you decided?" Harry asked.

"Yes," Melanie said closing her eyes.


"Where should we bury her?" Kyle asked still holding Melanie's body.

"We don't have to," Corynne said looking at Melanie who was waking up. Her eyes were opeing and she started to breathe.

"How?" Kyle asked.

"They gave me a choice," Melanie explained, "either stay with them or come abck down here. I can live without them, I can't live without you two." Kyle and Corynne both hugged her, but stopped when someone called Corynne's name. Everyone looked up and saw Will standing there with her arms open and smiling. Corynne got up, looked up into Will's eyes, and hugged him.

"I also told them that if I didn't have to suffer, you didn't have to," Melanie said as Corynne looked at her surprised.

"You did this?" Kyle asked helping Melanie to her feet.

"I had a little power left over," Melanie said smiling, "So I brought him back."

"What now?" Corynne asked worried, "Will you ever gain your power back?"

"Eventually," Melanie said as Kyle put his right arm over her shoulder, "It might take a few months, but I will be fully regenerated. Don't worry."

"Now that London is restored," Kyle said, "What about Jared? Who's going to kill him? Melanie's too weak."

Everyone looked at Melanie.

"I don't know," Melanie said hugging Kyle tightly, "I really don't know."