The swampy memory
"Mommy! I don't want to play anymore! I give up! I give up!" Blondy screams, lying on the ground miserably.
"fifty…zeeeeero! What the heck? Blondy are you even concentrating? Losing to a girl?" Blacky yells with bored.
"Bla bla bla." Blondy mutters back, with his whole face in the grass.
"she kicks, she shoots, and she scores! Awesome! High five to myself!" I yell.
"wait until my daddy hears about zis…" Blondy groans.
"your dad will never be here!" I shout, "liar liar pants on fire!"
Blacky does nothing but laugh, he loves to see fights between me and Blondy, excluding magic using, we are not going to use magic in the world anyway…
"get up! Cryin' boy!" I said, giving Blondy a kick.
"ouch! Stop! Don't you know how fatal your kick is?"
"just a small kick! Stop being so girlish! hahahahaha"
"just leave him alone…" Blacky mutters boringly.
"we can't, we need to keep on walking, the journey is still on!" I shout.
"well…you did get a point" Blacky agrees.
"get up Blondy! Hurry up! Or we are ending up staying here forever!"
"what's the big deal about it then?" he asks.
"your family, friends! You are risking them!" I yell
Blondy climbs up, but for some reason, he failed to stand with both of his feet.
"Ouch!" he yells; it sounds like he is undergoing some kind of pain.
"Blondy, what happens?" I bend down with concern.
"my ankle…it…I think I twist…I twist it…" he squeezes the words out of his teeth.
"oh great! This is ours third day, and good! Some kind of trouble maker breaks his freaking ankle! What are we going to do if we keep on the paste like this! We don't even have an aim yet!" Blacky shouts to the empty plain, and let his voice echoes.
"Blacky, don't blame him, he did nothing wrong! I am the one who create troubles." I said, defending Blondy.
"great then, we still got a long way, I have no idea why we spend all those time on this stupid game, we can't waste a single day! Now Blondy can't walk! What are we going to do!" Blacky keeps on complaining.
I have no idea why I get my friends and I into a situation like this, but whatever what consequences it brings, I know it's all my fault.
"Blondy, let me help, come on."
"my foot, oh my…" he signs.
"listen…Blondy, it's going to be fine…it's nothing." I mutter to him, even though I know I'm telling lies.
"Rosie, I can't walk…help…" he whispers softly.
"I'll help you, here, put your arm on my shoulder…you can do it…"
I try to pull him up, but I feel like he is out of energy, it's impossible for him to walk, even with my help.
"Blacky, what should we do? we can't wait for three more days! It's too late by then!" I sign, waiting for him to answer, but he didn't, he sits down, and buries his head deeply down his lap.
I'm on this mission, I'm the one who take my friends here, so I have my responsibility on them, as my friend, they have total faith on me, so I shouldn't let them down, this is not the end of the world, I know I can do it.
"Blondy, climb on my back, I will carry you." I said, after deciding that Blondy might not be so heavy.
"but…I don't…"
"Blondy, it's okay, aren't that what friends are made for? Don't worry about me, I'm stronger than Blacky."
"Freckles, are you sure you can carry him for the whole day? Walking?" Blacky asks suspiciously.
"I can, and I must." I simply reply.
…
I start to regret about my firm decision after half an hour, the sun, the heat, the shouting of Blacky and the weight of Blondy is freaking me out. "you can do it, Freckles, you can do it, you must do it…" I warn myself breathlessly.
"Freckles, I think we should rest." Blacky talks to me over his shoulder.
"holy, my feet are aching!" with Blacky's help, I help Blondy to get off my back, actually, Blondy did none of the work, I have no idea what happened to him, but l found him fell asleep a few minutes ago, which is pretty frustrating to Blacky.
"get up! Blondy!" whispers.
"no wait, Blacky, let him sleep, poor Blondy... first the mine, then this…" I sit next to the sleeping Blondy, putting his head on my lab.
"you like him, Freckles, don't you?" Blacky asks me suddenly, and I flinched.
"of course! Aren't we friends?" I answer, ignoring the topic.
"no, I mean…well you know." He teases.
"OMG are you insane? Blacky? What else will it mean apart from 'friends'?" I keep ignoring the topic.
"he likes you." Blacky adds slyly, and I suddenly feel my face is boiling, so I stand up and burry my face in the cold water of the river.
"Blacky, of course he does! He is my friend!" I keep myself calm.
"Freckles, it's not that way…"
"and bla bla bla…" I interrupt
"Freckles, he said that he will invite you to Hogsmade trips in the future."
"that will be cool, then the two of us will fool around and trolling and fooling and be hilarious and use magic the scare people and laugh and it is going to be awesome trolling with Blondy! He got creative ideas and…"
"no! it's not the point!" Blacky interrupts.
"oh Blacky, don't you know me and Blondy? We used to be the most awesome trolling partners!"
"he said that…fine, you won't be able to understand it…you are far too childish to know…" Blacky gives up on me.
"hey Blacky, why you never troll with us? We've got special powers! We can do whatever we like without a wand!"
"no…thanks." Blacky mutters quietly.
"let's move on." He adds, "got miles to go."
I take Blondy's arm and pull him on my back again, he is still in a mood of 'unconsciousness', which brings me a 'tremendous' trouble, my feet are as weak as mud already, but I'm sure it can still support me for a few more miles.
"Blacky, do you know how long do we still need to walk to reach that town?" I ask.
"maybe…a few more days, like four to five days?"
"four to five days! That is insane! I'm getting enough of today; I don't want to go for five days!" I protest.
"what can we do about it then? We can set up tent earlier today, and then we can take some measures on Blondy's injury, just hang on for two more hours, we will set out tent up at about five."
"okay, I hope these two hours won't be so torturing…"
…
It was torturing! These two hours were hell, afternoon is even hotter than noon, Blondy is behaving quite well, it's so fortunate for him to fell asleep, I don't want him to talk me to death right next to my ear.
However, things are not going well with Blacky, he is being extremely troublesome, he was keep shouting about the direction, and force me to read the map for him for no reason, it seems like I'm doing all the jobs, oh geeeeez.
"okay! Guys, we are here, campsite!" Blacky shout excitedly.
I drag Blondy under a tree, then I realized that my whole body froze because of the over pushing,
"phew…this is freaking tired…" I exclaim, and take a seat next to Blondy.
"Freckles, can you call Blondy up? I think I need help with this tree…" Blacky asks, dragging his sound.
"I can help…" I interrupt.
"you have been carried him for a whole day!"
"and do you have a problem with that?"
"silent." He mutters, but I didn't listen.
"look Blacky, don't you ever dare to think that I'm weaker than you just because I'm don't have the same gender as you, haven't I told you that everybody is equal…"
"I said silent!" he snarls, and I stop talking immediately.
"where are we?" he said softly.
I was bewildered, I had never been to this place before, the grasses are not as green as before, but a yellowish color, and the river is not clear anymore, it reveals a greyish color, a muddy color, the sun is gone, and we are surrounded by mist, in a sudden, the heat envelopes us is gone…this place is creepy.
"it must be a swamp, Blacky, how can we never notice it a few minutes before?"
"maybe we are both too concentrate on our work…" he guesses.
"oh nice! How can we even get to see things clearly in a situation like this? Especially night!" I complain.
"well, you better face the reality, Freckles" Blacky signs, "and you know what? We are going sleep in a tree house tonight."
"why tree house?" I ask
"it's too dangerous to stay on the floor, there are a lot of monsters in this area, I heard that there is a kind of dangerous monster called the slime, when you hit it, it will avatar itself into two, then into four, it has strong attacks…"
"well…I think there is such thing like you said, so I guess you are right, but I guess it will take more than the two of us to build it!"
"call Blondy then, we need his ideas, and we also need your special ability of climbing trees, well, I mean Blondy can climb trees too, but we need an easier way to go up and down, I can see some tall trees here, so it's not easy to climb up or climb down, isn't it?"
"fine, you get the materials, I'm going to call Blondy up." I agree.
I make my way back to the tree, where Blondy is lying, holy, he is still sleeping, I bet he didn't even sleep last night…maybe fascinated by his brand new powers…who knows.
"Blondy, get up, you gonna pay me back now! how can you sleep on my back without even asking me so!" I joke, but he does nothing, he turns around and keep dreaming.
I have no choice but to use my final weapon, the one none of us dare to use: water spraying, this is a trolling method with a danger of level ten, usually, the person who does it needs an invisibility cloak, well, James is the only one dares to do it in Hogwarts, I'm his helper, and so does Blondy, it's the funniest weapon to troll bullies.
I take a basket of 'muddy' water and pour it on Blondy, actually, it's not muddy at all, it's all due to the fact of the greyish shy or mist or something I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Blondy won't wake up finding himself sweating with mud, but if it's mud, it will be better…
"Bloody hell! What the heck have you done to me! Rosie! say the fact!" right to my expectation, he wakes up screaming uncontrollably, which is a really nice thing for me, because he looks hilarious when he is all wet.
"hey dude! You have to thank me! you just took a free shower!" I laugh, and he groans.
"serious, I just dreamed of swimming in a swimming pool! And then…" he stops, looking around bewildered, "hey…where are we?"
"we are in a swamp!" I pull him up excitedly, "we are building a tree house to prevent hostile mobs attack us, cause we are in a swamp, it's foggy, as you see, well…sight is pretty nice on a tree..."
"we have hostile mobs around?" Blondy asks me, I feel the terror in his voice, I know how much he hated mobs.
"yeah, and we are designing our tree house! You gonna help!" I keep my exciting tone.
"but…aren't we gonna fall off?"
"what are you afraid of? This is a brilliant idea! Blondy! Come on!"
"fine, but remember, I'm doing this for you, okay?"
"seriously? You are the one who afraid of all those mobs!"
"for us" he says firmly.
…
Crafting is frustrating, every time I got a branch, or a block of wood, and then I make four wood planks, and ready to make some ladder, but then, I run out of it, so I need to run for at least one hundred meters, and get another, and get all materials of the doors, the roof, the walls, the glass and bla bla bla, meanwhile, Blondy does nothing but look at me.
"Blondy! I swear I'm gonna kill you after all these for not helping your poor friend doing all these stuff! You just wait and see!" I scream.
"but…but my foot, I can't climb, or do nothing with it…" he said innocently.
Oh suck, I forget about the fact that he got that injured feet, how can I didn't manage to realize it? I was so stupid.
"Blacky! Can you come for a quick second?" I shout, as I place a wooden block on the roof.
"what's up?" he yells back, climbing up the clinching ladder.
"Blacky, can you reconsider about this plan? I believed somebody won't be able to climb on a tree like this!"
"what are you afraid of? We have the ladders!"
"then how about Blondy then? He got an injured leg!"
"Rosie! it's easy! I used to climb stairs using one leg!" Blondy jeers.
"that sounds impossible to me, how you managed to do that then?" I ask.
"well, all thanks to my dad, he trained us to climb ladders with one leg, plus two arms, I had never expected that I can use this ability here!" he stares at me proudly, and I was shocked, who knows what kind of family the Malfoys are, they must be one of the weirdest family I had ever seen.
"how did your dad invented something like this?" Blacky laughs
"dunno…" he mutters, "he said…he said that it's a family tradition for everybody in the Malfoy family…"
Family tradition, I laugh at these words immediately, I read a lot of books about the Malfoys, even though I'm not such a book worm, I still want to know everything about the Malfoys, and I had never, ever knew that the Malfoys, the family who everybody knows by heart, the name who makes everybody flinches, has a tradition of climbing ladders with one leg…
"by the way, he said it's a tradition for every Malfoy who has Hyperion as a middle name… well, who has that name as a middle one."
"err…you?" I ask tentatively.
"I MEAN EXCEPT ME!" he snarls irritably.
"your uncle…" Blacky tries.
"my gosh, Blacky, my dad doesn't have siblings!"
"poor Blondy, you are the only person in the Malfoy family climb ladders using one leg…"
"don't pity me, it can be quite fun sometimes, haha" Blondy gives a laugh.
"guys, I'm going to explore the area, oh! I'm getting food too! Wanna come guys?" Blacky said, but I feel he is more like acting.
"I can't! my feet are twists!" Blondy shouts briskly.
"and mine's dead!" I twist my sound trying to make Blacky feel the real pain, which sounds really weird, which led to Blondy howling with laughter again, and that's my favorite part for some reason.
"Blacky, if you want to be dramatic, do it by yourself!" Blondy shouts at him, I and Rosie are having some awesome time alone, don't disturb okay?"
"kkk!" Blacky signs, "this is gonna be troublesome…"
We wait until his blackish hair disappear in the mist, then I sign, why I have to get ourselves in a situation like this?
Staring at Blondy's hair, I start to daydream about the Malfoy family once again, why would Blondy's dad want Blondy to climb ladders? Especially in such a weird way? Is that really a traditional? Or just a punishment? It's obvious to me that it's Draco himself invented the tradition, what caused him to made his son do something like this?
According to my mom, Draco Malfoy, the dad of Blondy used to be one of the biggest threat to uncle Harry, dad and mom, but then he ends up being a good guy, he told his son and daughters to be devoted to the world, but how can that explain his dark past? His dark past of his family? Everything is so confusing about the Malfoys, they are considered as one of the darkest and the most mysterious family, it was said that the interior of their house is carved with strange ancient runes, and pictures with their ancestors, Blondy's dad was one of the death eaters that's well known in the magical world, the people considered him as the cursed one; the double sider; the anti-Potter and stuff, but some tolerate people often called him as the boy with a distorted mind, an angel with dark wings, there are tales in my neighborhood about him, the elder ones can only tear about his name, I don't know what caused them to be so emotional, but the things in the past are too dark and pain for a thirteen year old to know, but I heard some of them said he is an innocent boy, but why, doesn't he born to be a criminal? To be a death eater? If he used to be kind, what caused him to turn into a death eater?
"Draco was a bully, during his years at Hogwarts, he hurt a lot of people's feelings and even try to break their heart, he even attacked your uncle Harry before, in everybody's eyes, he is a emotionless, heartless boy… everybody thought that this is Draco, and forever will he be, however, the appearance of Astoria changed all of these, Astoria Greengrass, a kind, gentle Slytherin girl who had never really enjoyed her life managed to used her kindness and love to warm Draco's ice cold heart, they started as 'enemies', Draco destroy, and she heals, for a time, Draco Malfoy gradually discovered that Astoria has been doing things for him, and soon, he started to talk to her, through her words, the dark boy discovered his true self, and he regretted about what he did for the past years, he decided to change, during this period, Astoria guided him, then, the impossible happened, they fell in love, after a few years they leave Hogwarts, they get married, and Draco was not the mean, cold boy he used to be at Hogwarts anymore. Astoria, who has been lonely is no longer a gloomy girl anymore, with Draco by her side, she turns brave and strong, Draco, on the other hand, is no longer a heart breaker anymore, instead, he turns to be warm and tolerate. Even the meanest boy and the weakest girl can be together for some reason, why can't love be considered as the most important thing in the world?"
"Love…" I whisper quietly to myself, somehow, my memory started to flash again, these words are the words I overheard from my mom to my aunt Ginny, but that's a memory really long ago, when I was five, I can't understand any of them back then, but I understand them now, any single word, but I was still bewildered by the origin of Blondy father's evilness, and his mother's loneliness, I don't know why I will start to think about the Malfoys, but the fact of his father's tradition really confuses me, there's only one way to find out about the trueness of Blondy's family, and that way is still not available right now.
"Rosie…my feet…it's still hurting…" Blondy interrupts.
Oh idiot! Of course it's still hurting! I haven't take any measurement on it so far! I must do something!"
"Blondy, we need ice! Where is ice?"
"what do we need ice for?"
"your foot!"
"Ask Blacky for some then!"
"hey Blondy, I'm doin' this for you'k?"
"sorry…" he grins awkwardly.
"now, all we need is some peace, waitin' for Blacky to come back, to tell the truth, I suffered the worst things today in my long life of thirteen years ever."
Freaking world…
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