"Mr Diggory and Mr Potter achieved first place in the Second Task, so they will enter the maze first, followed by Mr Krum, Miss Potter and Miss Kagayaki." I gulped as my brother took a step towards the entrance of the maze. It was shrouded in mist, and looked way more dangerous than expected.
I ran over to Harry and Cedric hesitantly.
"You'll be careful, right?" I asked nervously.
"You'll be coming in right after us, it's fine. I'll wait for you on the inside, alright?" Harry whispered to me and I smiled. Harry knew how afraid of things like this I was, but I couldn't help but feel his offer was mostly for his sake. Once Filch shot the cannon a few seconds early, Cedric and my brother slowly walked into the Maze's entrance.
What kind of things would be waiting in this maze? The voice in my head had said he would be there waiting for me, which wasn't exactly encouraging.
"Krum, Potter, you may now enter the maze." Dumbledore told us and I glanced at the dark-haired tall guy. My knees shook as I walked towards the maze, and when we both entered, a cold gust of wind chilled me to the bone.
The hedges seemed to tower over our heads, and of course Viktor Krum ditched me ahead.
My thin green and black champion shirt didn't help at all. I whispered Lumos, and a small light appeared at the end of my wand.
"Harry?" I called out into the darkness nervously.
"Expelliarmus!" A voice behind me flipped my wand out of my hand and a ways in front of me. As I spun around I saw my brother pointing his wand at my neck. When he realized I wasn't an enemy he sighed in relief and dropped his wand, handing me mine. We started walking in the cold mist, through the narrow shrubbery.
Suddenly a shriek filled our eardrums and we froze.
"Don't move." Harry ran off in the opposite direction and I whimpered. The maze seemed to go on forever, and I wondered if I would die in here. Dumbledore wouldn't let that happen, would he? I pushed the thought out of my mind and scuffled my feet along the maze. My lips were turning blue. Where was Draco and his endless closet of Winter clothing when you needed him? As I paced farther into the maze I started to cry. Softly and quietly, but I couldn't help it. Harry had been gone a long time, surely an hour by now. Another scream filled me with terror and I ran for it, Down the narrow passageways. Aiming my wand at anything and everything, I cried in intense fear.
No need to be afraid. You really are nothing compared to your brave brother.
"Shut up. Shut UP!" I yelled at the voice in my head and covered my ears, dropped my wand on the cold ground.
I could have sworn I heard something to the right. Honestly, at that very moment, I could have shriveled up and died. My skin was cold as death, my head dizzy, my eyesight terrible.
"There you are! I thought I told you to stay put!" Harry came up behind me and scolded, but stopped when he saw tears.
"Don't you ever leave me like that again! I hate you!"
I ran in the other direction, away from Harry, and ran smack dab into Cedric.
"It's gunna be ok, Alice, everythings fine..."
But I didn't hear a word Cedric said.
Just ten yards behind Cedric was a blue glowing trophy.
The TriWizard cup.
Cedric seemed to notice my absence and looked behind him cautiously.
For a moment that seemed like forever, Cedric, Harry and I stared at the key out of here.
"Well, go on, Harry, take it!" I nudged him, not taking my eyes off the cup.
"What? No, Cedric helped me, he gets it."
"But even I had help on that from Alice!" Cedric argued.
"Look, can someone just take the damn cup before we die out here?" I asked and we nodded.
"Three way tie?" Harry pondered the thought and we breathed in relief.
"On three." Harry muttered.
"One."
"Two."
"Three!" I shouted and we all grasped our hands around the handle of the blue cup. Suddenly the world started spinning, and we plopped down on hard, cold ground.