"It's not going to work." I muttered lamely and unhappily.
"It will if Joshua helps us out." Jaron said.
"I've tried just about everything, duh." I groaned.
"Everything but my idea and asking permission. This I know will work Aida and we aren't asking permission. I know it will. Trust me." Jaron said quickly.
"I'm not going to do it." I said turning my head away from him. Ginger and Whitney both had strips of cloth they had soaked in hot water and were putting them on the whip lasses now crisscrossing on my back.
I tried to ignore the stinging but it was pretty hard.
"Aida if we don't escape soon you'll die here. I feel it and so do you." Jaron said.
"But I've tried to escape and failed every time." I said.
"Listen I have an idea and Joshua may know where we can go." Joran continued.
"Like where?" I said.
"I don't know yet." Jaron said "We have to wait for Joshua to come then we can ask him if he knows where we can go."
Then the door opened and closed. "Hey everyone."
"Hey Josh." We all said.
"Josh do you know where we can go for safety? Aida isn't going to live much longer if we stay here." Jaron asked.
"Well, Hogwarts is to the east about fifty miles. I went there to get Harry." He said. "If you go straight east you will find it."
"How will they react to elves?" I asked suddenly curious.
"Well, Dumbledore will probably accept you right off. Most likely he will not hurt you. I heard about him arguing with the minister after he attacked your people and destroyed one of your cities. That was years ago though. The ministry and him argued over little things like that all the time"
"I know. We were there." I sighed "That was the first and only city of the elves. We built another one after Emerald was destroyed. That was Azara which your father destroyed."
"Well it's settled if Dumbledore is a friend then we are going to Hogwarts. Joshua can you buy us sometime so no one knows we are gone?" Jaron said.
"Sure thing." Joshua said "Hope you all get away okay. When you leaving?"
"Now if we can." He said.
"Now!" We all said.
"If Aida is up to it." Jaron looked at me.
"Wait until I stop bleeding at least." I groaned again.
After I stopped bleeding and my back was bandaged I was ready to do anything to get out of there. Joshua would distract his father and the Death Eaters and we would run.
We got out of the building, miracle! We ran in the direction Joshua had told us.
We ran most of the night and the suns started to rise when we finally slowed our run. My back ached bad but I was trying to ignore it.
"Your bleeding again." Ginger observed.
"I'll be okay." I assured her.
We continued walking then we heard someone in the forest.
"Hide!" Jaron grabbed me and we hide in a crevice of some rocks to our right. Then a giant man with a dog came walking by.
I sighed with relief and he stopped. He had heard me.
"Hello, who's there?" He said suddenly. We didn't dare answer "It's not safe out here so if you come out I'll take you to a place you'll be safe."
Jaron exited the crevice though I tried to grab his arm in protest.
"Hello my name is Jaron. Who are you?" Jaron smiled.
"My names Rubues Hagrid Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." He held out a hand to him and shook his entire arm.
"Pleasure to meet you." We all soon came out of hiding. He could lead us to Hogwarts
"How long have you been in the forest?" Hagrid looked us up and down.
"Not long." Jaron said.
"How long is not long?" Hagrid was looking at our clothes obviously.
"Only a few hours." Jaron explained.
The dog came right up to me and smiled me and whined.
"Are you hurt?" he asked me. "Fang only whines if someone's hurt and he smells of blood."
"I'm okay." I lied but the dog continued to whine.
"You're hurt I can tell." He said coming toward me I backed away. "Look I'm not going to hurt you."
"Leave her be." Jaron said "She's been through a lot lately. She doesn't trust a lot of people."
Hagrid took us out of the forest toward Hogwarts I stuck to Jaron's side like glue obviously scared not trusting this giant man.
"You're lucky I found you. The Forbidden Forest is off limits to everyone. Only teachers have gone and come out alive without a scratch. Students only go in when they have detention. I obviously go with them and keep them alive while there."
As we entered the front door a man with a white beard and hair stood waiting. "Hello Hagrid I see you found some friends."
"Out in the forest Dumbledore sir." He said to the man.
"Welcome to Hogwarts young friends. You are all welcome here." His eyes fell on me. "I know who you are Princess Aida. You are safe here. Someone informed me you would be coming here soon."
"Who?"
Suddenly Elonda and Aaron appeared behind him.
I nearly fainted recognizing them as my parents but that was impossible.
"Aida it's okay steady." Jaron grabbed me around the waist then saw who I was staring at and gasped. "It can't be. That's not possible."
"Aida!" Elonda came at me hugging me tightly. I hissed in pain as her arms hit my back. She released me. "Sorry I didn't mean to hurt you."
"My back is all ready in enough pain. Besides who are you?" I stepped away from her.
"You don't know us?" Aaron said.
"No should I?" I was asking an obvious question in his opinion.
"Yes." Elonda said.
"Who are you?" I was getting annoyed.
"Prince Aaron and Princess Elonda." Aaron said coming to stand by Elonda.
I nearly fainted. "But that's not possible."
"Oh, it's possible." Aaron said.
"But your both dead!" I shouted.
"No we were captured in the Fire Wars." Elonda explained. "We were released in the middle of no where and had to find our way home it took us forever but we found Emerald destroyed and the new city also destroyed. I found out about you and used my magic to reach you Aida."
Then I knew who they were and I flew at them hugging them both tightly. I wasn't the last of the royal family after all.