"Speak"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter 21: Revealed

"What on earth is she?" Pansy asked as they walked away from the Hospital Wing.

"What is she?" Hermione asked curiously.

They all went silent, expressionless mask falling into place. Hermione looked at them all and realized that she wasn't going to get anything out of any of them. She scowled lightly before turning and walking away quickly, if Kieran wasn't mistaken, in the direction of the library. Kieran wanted to smack his forehead and groan. Instead he looked at the group still expressionless and started walking; they followed as they knew they were supposed to. They reached the seventh floor and Kieran walked in front of a stretch of wall three times. As soon as a door appeared he opened it and let the others walk in before him.

The room was pretty dark and empty. There was a fire going in the grate directly across from the door on the other wall. In the middle of the room was a round table with enough chairs going around. Kieran turned to them and they went to take a seat. Except Pansy, who fell to her knee in front of him and bowed her head.

"I'm sorry Master." She said quickly and in a low voice. "I didn't think about her presence. I didn't mean to endanger her."

Kieran walked forward until he stood at her side. She didn't dare look up as he placed his hand on her head though she did calm a bit at the simply non-harmful gesture. Then he gripped her hair and pulled her head back. She winced but didn't dare make a sound as tears appeared in her eyes.

"Do you realize who you just slipped up in front of? Hermione Granger! She is said to be the smartest witch of our generations for a reason. She was already researching something for me though she didn't know who I thought it could be related to or why I wanted her to do it. With your help she just figured it out, of that I have no doubt. Now we, no I, have to work harder to make sure she is firmly on our side before she finds what I want to know. My deadline had been when we changed, now it depends on how fast Hermione can research. This is extremely fast in case you never knew." Kieran seethed.

"I'm so sorry." Pansy apologized again not knowing what else to say or do.

Kieran let go of her hair and walked to the table. "I want to know about your progress with the people I said and your own chooses." He demanded.

Pansy walked over and sat down in the only seat, next to Kieran, holding her head. Kieran unconsciously brought his hand to her head and began to massage her head in a soothing gesture. Pansy's eyes widened in shock but she didn't say anything. They sat in the room for the rest of lunch talking about their plans.

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"Oh yes she's a friend of mine I just want to see how she's doing?"

The voice floated through Ashlynn's foggy mind. She opened her eyes to find herself staring at a white ceiling.

Ashlynn sighed. "Hospital then?"

"Yup that's what happens when you fall unconscious for no apparent reason," The voice from before said right next to her.

Ashlynn sat up and looked over at Hermione with a smile. "We isn't this a pleasant little surprise."

Hermione arched and eyebrow. "Being in the hospital wing is a pleasant thing?"

Ashlynn chuckled. "It is when you wake up to find a beautiful girl at your bedside."

Hermione blushed a little and didn't comment. Ashlynn opened her mouth to say something else when Madam Pomfrey came bustling by.

"Ah dear, I see you're awake but I don't know why you're sitting up already. You still need to be laying down resting." Madam Pomfrey said as she came to the bed.

Ashlynn's smile left in an instant and her face was a blank expressionless mask. "I'm fine ma'am no need to rest any further."

"Oh no dear I still don't know what caused this little…episode, so I'll have to keep you over night to observe you." The med witch said.

Ashlynn sighed before looking at her full on with a small little smile. "I'm really fine it won't happen again anytime soon. So can I please leave?" Ashlynn said her voice soft with a melody like quality.

Madam Pomfrey looked dazed for a moment before shaking her head. "Well ok dear if you're sure your fine."

"I am," Ashlynn said as she turned to the side to get up. Ashlynn looked down at the ugly hospital outfit that she wore in disgust.

"Well you can leave when you're ready. Your clothes are behind Miss. Granger." Pomfrey said before leaving.

Ashlynn simply picked up her wand from the side table and swished it at the clothes Hermione was leaning on. Suddenly she was dressed in her clothes and the hospital clothes were behind Hermione.

"How on earth?" Hermione asked as Ashlynn fixed her clothes.

"A neat little trick I learned long ago. Saves time," she said then stood up. "So what time of day is it?"

"Well its right before dinner."

"Aww you came to see me rather than go to dinner that's really sweet." Ashlynn said and hugged Hermione briefly before heading toward the door. "Come on lets head down there."

Hermione shook her head before following the other girl.

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The group sat at the Great Hall table that evening for dinner, heads together as they planned to sneak into the Hospital Wing to see Ashlynn when the Hall doors opened and said girl walked in with Hermione Granger shortly after her. They looked at her curiously and small whispers broke out as she walked past.

"How did you escape?" Kieran asked when she sat down.

"She let me leave." Ashlynn said as she began putting food on her plate.

Kieran blinked. "What did you do to her?"

"Why did I have to do anything to her?" Ashlynn asked.

"Because she had no real idea of what happened to you and should have kept you at least overnight to observe you. Trust me I know the procedures I've been in there often enough to know." Kieran said in disgust.

"Well maybe that was special treatment for you since you were the Golden Boy-Who-Lived." She suggested and began to eat. "She said that I should be ok and could leave when I felt like it. So I decided to come on down."

Kieran watched her suspiciously but let it drop knowing she wasn't going to tell him anything that she hadn't just said. He looked toward the other tables to see that Hermione was eating while reading a book and Ron sat next to her looking kind of pale. He felt his anger flare at the sight of the other teen.

"What are you going to do about Ron?" Kieran asked.

Her lips slowly quirked into a smirk. "Oh you shall see." They all shivered and knew that the Dark Princess had a plan for revenge.

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After dinner Kieran headed to the library where he knew Hermione would be. He made his way back to a comfortable corner to find her among a huge, even for Hermione, pile of books. He sat down across from her. She didn't look up from what she was reading to look at him for a good while.

"What Kieran?" She asked blandly.

"I just wanted to see what you know." He answered quietly.

She raised an eyebrow at him. "Really? You won't tell me anything but you expect me to tell you everything. I like the sense of Kieran but I kind of miss Harry." She said.

Kieran sighed. He was at a fork in the road, he had to tell her something to get something or let her go as a friend and an ally. "I'm looking up Isabella that's why I asked you to do this."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "I figured that out thanks to Pansy."

Kieran sat quietly before sighing. "Over the summer after my birthday I started hanging with the Slytherin you see me with most of the time. Isabella was among them. We all agreed that she was cool but strange and hiding something from us and we wanted to know exactly what it was. So we did research based off of the things she did. We didn't find much because not much happened. Recently, for reasons I will not give, I have begun to believe that she knows things about demon magic and I want to know how she knows it, because it's yet another strange thing I don't know about her. Please Hermione, like I said I know your smart and we're not getting anywhere with this. You know how to do this kind of thing that's why I need your help." Kieran said and gave her the full force of his green eyes in a persuading manner.

Hermione sighed. "Ok I'll help you. But I haven't really found anything that you probably don't already know." She said as she pulled out a page of notes. "Demons were the first to ever use magic and therefore they ruled the world. They had a monarch to rule over them so that they didn't get to out of hand with their control. The ruling family was said to be descended from a demonic goddess. The demons began losing their control and power when their monarch refused to lead them. They basically destroyed themselves fighting amongst themselves trying to kill the existing ruler and fighting to be the next ruler. Though according to records nobody knows what happened to the ruler. Her name was Ariyanna Veata Isana, the clever ruler."

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Ashlynn sneezed. She lay in her room, Pansy was out and she had decided to spend some time in here.

"You okay, you're not getting sick on me?" a husky voice asked from beside her.

Ashlynn turned on her side to look at the person that spoke. She twirled his silver hair around her finger and looked into his golden eyes. "I'm fine hun, just a little sneeze." She said with a smile.

"Hmm…or maybe you're cold." He said with a smirk as he moved toward her.

"Mmm maybe." She said with a smile and wrapped her arms around his neck.

A/N: Okay done with this chapter. Some may be wondering 'what the heck was the point of that last part?' Well I assure you it had a purpose. I wonder if anyone knows who the guy is or what the other point was of that part.