Chapter 21
When Ginny finally awoke she was in a place she did not recognize at all. She tried to move but realized that a weird resin like substance was holding her in place making it nearly impossible to move anything other than her upper body more than a few inches. Moving her body about best she could she glanced around that rather dark room, soon noticed Luna. She was only a few feet to Ginny's right and waking up as well. Ginny sighed feeling rather bad after what had happened as the past events of what had led up to them being caught came back to her mind quickly.
"Luna… you okay," Ginny asked quietly hoping no one was watching them, though, the chances of that was rather small.
Luna groaned a little shaking her head trying to clear her mind as she looked about as Ginny repeated her question again, "Luna you okay?"
"Ginny that you," Luna asked noticing she could not move at all.
"Yes, are you okay?" Ginny asked.
"Yes I think so, how about you," Luna answered looking about best she could. Luna noticed Ginny to her left was trapped in the same manner as herself.
"Could be better, where do you think we are?" Ginny asked looking about.
"Somewhere outside the normal passages in the school if we are lucky. If we are unlucky, maybe somewhere outside the school grounds," Luna said looking about.
"Great. This is your fault," Ginny said semi annoyed.
Luna blinked in surprised, she asked confused as to how this mess was her fault, "How is this, my fault?"
"Well if you had not chased me like that we would not be in that corridor and caught by those… creatures," Ginny said semi annoyed.
"Ginny you were the one hiding an object that could have been very dark. Remember what you dad taught us a long time ago, don't listen or reply to anything if you can see where it puts its brains," Luna said semi annoyed at her friend.
Ginny just rolled her eyes, "Well it does not matter either way. I don't have my dairy anymore and we are caught by who knows what."
"I think you do know," Luna said causing Ginny to blink as she realized that might be true.
Thinking back over what had happened last year and the summer she realized the creatures that had taken her were the same ones that her mom had told her about with the twins. They were part of an alien race that Harry worked with. Helping Harry was a girl name Hermione Granger and Aeria… his sister. Ginny would have smacked her head if she had realized just how stupid she had been not realizing that had been Harry's sister that had caught them. If she had known that then maybe she could have kept herself from being caught like they had. She looked down as her resin incased body and sighed, then again maybe not.
"Yes I do. Those creatures and the person that attacked us were controlled by Harry, I am sure of it." Ginny said looking semi annoyed at herself.
"Well it seems when you are not trying to fantasize about my brother you are rather smart like the twins said," A voice said the owner hidden by the darkness.
Ginny and Luna froze looking around for the person that spoke, but it was still to dark to make any shape clearly. Luna looked about, "You are Harry's sister?"
"Yes I am, Aeria Potter. Twin sister, to Harry Potter, daughter to Lily and James Potter, and the second in command of the Hogwarts Xenomorph hive," Aeria said staying out of sight.
"Okay. So why did you caught us," Ginny asked giving up trying to free herself for a few moments.
"Well simply you are the only two we thought about bring into the Hive like the others from last year, among other reasons," Aeria said chucking.
"And how do you know we will not be noticed missing very soon," Ginny said trying to think of a way out of this. Yes while she did want to be with Harry she wanted it to be on her own terms, not his sister's.
"Oh quite simple really, since Harry has already told Professor McGonagall about the Journal you held and was planning on taking it when he saw an opening. And he also said he would take you with it if need be, but I must say this worked out better than expected we got to take you both at the same time," Aeria said.
"You make it seem like you have this whole situation under control," Ginny said semi angry for being used as a puppet.
"Oh we don't have full control over it, but we do control a good chunk of what is going on when we want to. As it is we will be releasing you back into the school in a few hours once we have a nice long talk," Aeria said her voice still rather plain and level.
"What makes you think you can hold us for that long," Luna asked slightly confused, "You did not really explain that."
"Simply really; when Hermione originally vanished it took them two almost three days to realize she had been even vanished. And when the group of students vanished last year when we ransomed it was not till the end of the day, that did they figure out who had been taken," Aeria said chucking before continuing, "So we have at least five hours before they even begin to expect you are missing."
Luna nodded, "makes sense. So what is it you want to talk about?"
Aeria smiled stepping slowly into the light, "Well it is about you two joining the hive under Harry and myself."
It was three hours later when Luna awoke to find herself and Ginny lying on the same bench where she had first noticed the diary being strange. Luna looked around rapidly to see if anyone was about, but there was no one. No sign of the creatures that had attacked them, or Aeria. She was rather thankful for this. Groaning she sat up and helped Ginny wake up full.
"So… what do you think of what just happened," Luna asked.
Ginny sighed as she noticed her journal was still missing, "I am not sure. So much of what was said about my own family and Dumbledore I don't want to believe, but when I look at the facts they are still there and true."
"So what does that mean for you now," Luna asked standing up and stretching some to get the feeling back in her arms.
"Oh nothing much other than I will make sure that any plans are made are of my own design, I am still going to get Harry to be my Husband," Ginny said smirking.
"I wish you luck with that idea, though right now for me I think it is time to get some food. We missed Lunch completely and I don't want to miss dinner as well," Luna said running off towards the Great Hall.
Harry though in the mean time was flipping through the Dairy that they had removed from Ginny while she was out cold. There was nothing to be honest that seemed to set it apart from any other diary, book, or journal. It had a hard back cover and all the pages where blanket, the only thing that might have identified it was the name T.M. Riddle on the inside of the cover. Yet according to Dobby this book held a bit of Voldemort's soul within its pages. He handed the book over to Hermione to see what she thought of it as he turned to Jade.
"Should we destroy it," Harry asked.
'Yes if it is true what the elf says,' Jade said looking at the two of them then at the book.
At this point Aeria returned having been the one to drop Ginny and Luna off. Hermione handed her the book and asked, "How do you want to try and destroy it?"
'Either we set it on fire or just drown the thing in our acid blood,' Jade said
"Or we just have you destroy it with your tail," Aeria said tossing it into the air.
Jade smirked at the challenge and struck the book with the sharp edge of her tail blade. It went right through the book causing it to explode apart, then even a second later the book reformed and landed on the ground causing everyone to look at it in surprise. Harry then blinked and tossed it back up again as Jade struck at it again. She used her tail and put two large holes in it with quick jabs. But as Harry caught it the book had already repaired the damage that had been done to it.
"Well now that is unexpected," Hermione said looking at the journal with increased interest.
"Well that would explain why the book is still in such great shape even after all these year. It is impossible to destroy if what just happened is anything to go by," Aeria said looking at the book in Harry's hands.
"Somehow I don't think normal spells or fire will work any better either," Harry said turning the book over in his hand. Not one mark remained from it being cut in half then pierced twice.
'Then let us test the acid,' Jade said as one of Xenomorphs came out and cut its arm with one of its clawed hands. The spot where its blood landed on the floor glowed bright blue as the magic worked hard to keep the acid from affecting the building. Harry moved quickly and let some drops of the acid fall right onto the cover of the diary. He watched for a moment as the book seemed to resist the acid but then with a piercing scream the acid started melting right through the book. Harry dropped the book in shock from the scream as the acid ate away at the book till all that was left was the outer edge of the pages and the cover.
"That was… unexpected," Hermione said again looking at what remained of the book.
"I have to agree with you on that one Hermione," Harry said poking it with his tail to make sure nothing unexpected was going to happen before he picked it up again.
"Well at least it seems to have been destroyed," Aeria said as Jade curled up.
"Well if what Dobby said was true, that is one item down, and four more to go," Harry said before tossing the book aside.