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WARNING RATED K+ T!!!
Harry Potter: A Romance
Chapter 29: The Final Task
(Katey's POV)
Well…today was the day. The very big day. Today was the day of the Final Task…
We were waiting in the Champions Tent.
Then we heard the music and we were told that we were to leave the tent.
Amos ran in front of Cedric. Amos looked really thrilled to be there.
Cedric walked out and he walked over to his father.
The next to walk out was Fleur and I heard wolf whistles and all her friends saying something in French. Like a cheer or something…I hate cheerleaders…
Then Krum came out…I heard tons of giggling and I knew that Ginnie, Mony and Bexxi were giggling too.
Last…was me. I walked out and I looked around the stadium. I spotted my friends immediately and I waved at them smiling hugely.
They had big signs saying, "POTTER WILL WIN AND IT WILL BE ALL IN YOUR FACES!"
I laughed out loud when I saw Mony's sign. It was biggest of all my friends. It said, "KATELYN POTTER WILL WIN AND IT WILL BE ALL IN YOUR FACES! WHAT NOW, BITCH?! WHAT NOW?!"
Dumbledore looked at the sign and chuckled lightly. "I see your friends are very enthusiastic for this."
I smiled. "Yeah. It's kind of embarrassing."
"But you're glad that you have their support?"
I smiled even more. "Absolutely!"
Dumbledore walked to the podium and held his wand to his neck. "Sonorus!"
Everyone stopped cheering and the music winded down and it sounded hilarious!
"Earlier today, Professor Moody placed the Triwizard Cup deep within the maze," Dumbledore spoke. "Only he knows its exact position. Now, as Mr. Diggory…"
There was a roar of the crowd as they cheered for Cedric and Amos lifted his son's arm into the air.
"…and Ms. Potter…"
All of my friends stood up, I frowned when I didn't see Harry, and they cheered louder than Cedric's friends. It was mostly mum and dad that were being the loudest.
I gulped a little and I started blushing. I put my hand over my mouth hoping it would cover my blushing.
"I made that baby!" mum shouted standing up.
"Yeah! And I helped!" dad shouted standing up.
I blushed even more and I hide my face in my hands. I groaned softly hiding my face even more in my hands.
There were a few laughs, chuckles, giggles…wolf whistles…
"…are tied for first position…" Dumbledore went on smiling slightly from the comment my parents made. "…they will be the first to enter the maze, followed by Mr. Krum…"
There was a deep loud roar of cheering from Krum's friends. Puberty…
I laughed a little to myself.
"…and Miss Delacour. The first person to touch the cup will be the winner!" Dumbledore paused as everyone started cheering again. "I've instructed the staff to patrol the perimeter. Should, at any point, a contestant wish to withdraw from the task…he or she only need to send up red sparks with their wands." Dumbledore turned around to us. "Contestants! Gather around, quickly!"
All four of us jogged over to Dumbledore to hear what he had to say to us privately.
"In the maze, you'll find no dragons, or creatures of the deep. Instead you'll face something even more challenging. You see, people change in the maze. Oh, find the cup in you can. But be very wary, you could just lose yourselves along the way," Dumbledore whispered to us.
I gulped. Okay…I thought that I was prepared for this…but I so wasn't! SOMEONE HELP ME FOR THE LOVE OF MERLIN!!!!My mind was screaming.
"Champions, prepare yourselves!" Dumbledore shouted as we all took our positions.
Amos hugged his son. "Good luck."
Cedric hugged him back and I saw that Cedric looked kind of sad but he composed himself when his dad pulled away.
"My boy."
"See you later, dad," Cedric said to his father.
I nodded to him smiling slightly.
He looked at me nodding.
"On the count of three," Dumbledore spoke. "One—"
BOOM!
Filch already set the cannon off. He shrugged when Dumbledore looked at him.
The music and the cheering started up.
I turned around and faced the opening of the maze. I gulped again and my hands started shaking. My breathing even got shaky.
Moody patted my shoulder in encouragement.
I took a deep breath and walked into the maze. I kept walking and when I heard rustling I turned around. My eyes widened in shock. The maze entrance was gone…
I shook my head and looked forward. I stood in my spot for about two minutes before I continued on.
The deeper I walked into the maze…the thicker the fog would get. I came out of one path and saw there were about twenty paths in front or to the side of me. I turned in circles to see if I could see a faint glowing light from the cup. But I didn't see one. I heard chirps, twigs snapping, and wind blowing…all kinds of those sounds. I started freaking out immediately.
I stopped walking and I stood in my spot trying to contain myself. I was breathing fast, heavy and shakily. I had trouble breathing. I was about to sit on the ground when I felt something wrap around my ankle.
I looked down and I saw a root wrapping around my other ankle. I bent down and started tearing the roots off and once I was a little free I jumped out their grasps and started running.
I stopped running and I started to catch my breath. I felt a chill run down my spine and I rubbed my arm.
I heard a hiss then I heard a scream. "Fleur," I whispered and I started running to where I heard the scream.
I started running closer to the shrubs or whatever the hell I could call them. I stopped running when I heard footsteps and I caught up on my breathing.
I saw Krum emerge from one end of the maze he turned his back to me. He seemed tense. Then…when my foot snapped a twig. He froze completely. He turned around pointing his lit wand at me and his face looked deadly.
I screamed. I started breathing heavy staring at him. Waiting to see what he was going to do next.
Then he lowered his wand and walked away.
I leaned away from the maze shrub and watched him walk away. I jogged down the maze path he came from and I saw Fleur on the ground.
"Fleur!?" I asked as I kneeled down to where her body was being pulled. "Fleur…" I stood up and I pointed my wand to the sky. "Periculum!" A red spark flew from my wand and exploded up in the sky.
Then this strong wind came and started blowing in my face. I squinted my eyes and started running away from the gust of wind. As I ran the maze walls started mashing together.
I saw an opening coming up and I jumped out of the path I was in and into that opening. I started crawling backwards. Then I stood up and brushed myself off. I saw something glowing out of the corner of my eye and I turned around and saw the cup.
I smiled. "Yes!"
But then the maze walls started mashing together and blocked my view of the cup.
"No…" I ran out of that path and I ran into a little battle that was going on between Krum and Cedric.
I heard Krum yell and some magic fly out of his wand.
"Get down!" Cedric yelled to me.
I watched him dodge the spell.
"Get down!" he yelled louder to me.
I gasped and laid down on the floor covering my head.
"Expelliarmus!" Cedric yelled and it hit Krum in the chest sending him backwards. Cedric ran past me and kicked Krum's wand out of his hand. He grunted and he pointed his wand at a knocked out Krum with venomous eyes.
I got up and pushed his arm away from Krum. "Don't! Stop! He's bewitched! Cedric! He's bewitched!!!"
"Get off me!" he shoved me off of him.
"He's bewitched! Stop!" I yelled at him.
He started running and I ran after him. Cedric kept running but I stopped and ran down a different path.
Cedric saw me and he changed his course and followed me. He grabbed me and threw me against a maze shrub.
I screamed in pain and wiped the blood away from my cheek angrily. I ran after him and I grabbed his shirt and I started tearing it.
He pushed me off of him again and I grabbed his shirt again and pulled him back to me. I pulled him hard and took him to the ground.
I stopped running and he stopped next to me a few seconds later.
The Triwizard Cup…
"Yes," I murmured.
We started running again pulling and pushing each other out of our own way. As we ran the ground started sprouting roots. The roots tried grabbing onto our feet but we ran faster. Then the maze walls started sprouting out of their shrubs hitting us.
"Oof!" I groaned when it hit me in the stomach but I didn't stop.
I heard Cedric groan and I heard him hit the ground.
I didn't stop. Why should I stop? I kept running. But then I heard the roots and Cedric groaning and I slowed to a stop. I turned around and I saw Cedric trying to reach to his wand. I looked at Cedric then I looked at the cup.
"Katelyn!" Cedric yelled to me pleading.
I turned my head slowly to look at him. I was breathing heavy.
"Katelyn!"
I stared at him struggling. I didn't know what to do.
"Katelyn! Please!"
I took a glance at the cup. I started staring at it wondering how wonderful it would be to leave him and grab that cup ending this madness.
"Katelyn!!!"
I looked back at him as he pulled me out of my thoughts. I started to feel sympathy for him…
I pointed my wand at him. "Reducto!" A light pinkish color shot out of my wand and it speared through the tough roots.
Cedric grabbed his wand and I ran over to him pulling the roots off of him. He stood up quickly making scared noises. He leaned against the maze wall breathing heavy.
I put my hand on his shoulder and patted it lightly trying to catch my breath.
"Thanks."
"No problem."
"You know…for a moment there…I thought…I thought you were going to let it get me," Cedric choked out.
"For a moment…so did I."
"Some game, huh?"
"Yeah…some game." I wiped some blood away from my cheek. It had stopped bleeding but I think one of the roots cut it open again.
He looked at me. "I'm sorry."
I looked at him confused. "For what?"
"For throwing you around like that. You're a girl…and…I was being too rough…"
I shook my head. "Forget about it. You gave me quite a challenge."
He nodded and ran his hand through his hair. "Yeah…you tackled me to the ground good."
I laughed lightly. "Yeah. I lived with Harry and my cousin both boys. My cousin was a jerk so I took him to the ground a few times." I smiled lightly. "I even punched one of his friends."
Cedric let out a low whistle. "Wow."
I nodded.
It became a little awkward…
He turned towards me. "Umm…forgive me," he whispered.
I looked at him confused. "What do you mean?"
He closed the gap between us kissing me. My eyes widened as he kissed me. I was about to push him away when he stopped kissing me.
"Oh," I said quietly.
We stood there awkwardly. Or at least…I did.
Then this big wind came and it blew towards us.
I squinted my eyes.
"Go!" Cedric shouted.
We took off running. This time there was no pushing or shoving. We were running at the same pace until we got to the cup.
"Go on, take it. You saved me, take it!" Cedric yelled to me.
"Together! One," I said.
"Two…" we said together. "Three!"
Then we both grabbed it and it felt like a Portkey...a Portkey that took us to…a graveyard…
We both hit the ground hard and Cedric flung the cup back when he hit the ground.
"You, okay?" Cedric asked me.
"Yeah. You?" I asked back getting up slowly.
He didn't answer me as he stood up. He turned his back to me. "Where are we?"
I was looking around this very familiar grave-yard.
"Katelyn?" I heard a familiar voice ask.
My heart jumped and I turned around. "Harry?"
"Katelyn," Harry said weakly behind a grave.
"Harry!" I yelled and ran over to him hugging him tightly. "Oh Harry! Are you okay? Are you hurt?!"
He shook his head. "No. I'm fine." He stood up carefully and leaned on me.
I looked around and walked over to a grave. "I've been here before."
"It's a Portkey," Cedric spoke to me. "Katelyn, the cup is a Portkey."
I made Harry lean against a grave. "I've been here before, in a dream." I stopped suddenly when I saw the Riddle grave. I put my fingers in the name carvings. "Cedric! We have to get back to the cup. Now!"
"What are you talking about?" Cedric asked walking over to me.
A door creaked open and two figures came out.
I started screaming and so did Harry.
"Harry!" Cedric rushed over to me. "Katelyn! What is it?"
"Get back to the cup!" I yelled at him angrily.
The two figures walked closer to us.
Cedric pointed his wand at the two. "Who are you? What do you want?"
"Kill the spare," came a hoarse voice.
"No! Cedric!" I stood in front of him.
"Avada Kedavra!" Pettigrew said pointing his wand at Cedric
"Katelyn!" Harry shouted running over to me and Cedric pushing both of us down.
I looked up. "No! Harry!" I screamed loudly.
Before I knew it…Harry was on the ground…lifeless…dead…
Tears poured out of my eyes…
I breathed loud and heavy. My stomach got tied into knots.
"Harry," I whispered.
Cedric tried pulling me back to hide behind a grave for safety.
I looked at you. "You hide. I'll stay here."
"But Katelyn…"
"Do it," I said through gritted teeth.
The second figure raised their wand at me and the grave behind me came to life. The grave statue grabbed me by his scythe and pinned me to him.
The second figure walked over to Pettigrew. "Hold out your arm, Wormtail."
"Thank-you Master…thank you," Pettigrew replied holding out his right arm.
"The other arm, Wormtail!"
Pettigrew looked at the second figure in a whimpering or cowering kind of way but he held out his left arm.
The second figure pressed his wand to Pettigrew's forearm and the Dark Mark clouded black.
Then a skeleton with a snake slithering out of its mouth clouded the night sky and a bunch of humans were being placed around.
The Dark Mark…
"It's the Dark Mark. It's his mark," Hermione whisper echoed in my head…
Voldemort…
Voldemort was back…?!
"Welcome my friends," Voldemort said looking at all his friends. "Thirteen years it's been, and yet…here you stand before means though it were only yesterday. I confess myself…disappointed. Not one of you tried to find me!" He went around pulling the masks off of the people he called out. "Crabbe! Macnair! Goyle!" He walked over to one figure. "Not even you…Lucius." He pulled his mask off and Lucius fell to his knees.
"My Lord, had I detected any sign, a whisper of your whereabouts--."
"There were signs, my slippery friend. And more than whispers."
"I assure you, my Lord, I have never renounced the old ways." Lucius pulled the hat, or whatever the hell the Death Eaters called it, off of his head and he stood up. "The face I have been obliged to present each day since your absence…that is my true mask." Lucius looked at me and then he looked away.
I gulped and I moved my neck a little.
His eyes widened and he turned back towards me. "What is that on your finger?"
My eyes widened and I gulped again. "Umm…what are you talking about?" I started to turn the ring around so he wouldn't see the Malfoy Family symbol on it.
Lucius went over to me and grabbed my right hand. He saw the ring and his eyes looked venomous. "Where did you get that?"
"Nowhere…I found it…"
Voldemort walked over to us. "What is it?" Voldemort saw the ring and stared at it. "Isn't that your family ring, Lucius?"
"Yes…I passed it down…" Lucius looked at Voldemort. "…to my son."
Voldemort's lips twitched up into a smirk. "This is…interesting…"
I gulped louder.
Voldemort waved his hand and the grave statue released me and I fell hard to the ground.
"Pick up your wand, Potter. Go on! Get up!" Voldemort yelled at me.
I scampered over to my wand and picked it up. I stood up quickly and turned towards Voldemort.
"You've been taught to duel, I presume, yes?"
I stared at him.
"First, we bow to each other." Voldemort bowed. "Come on, now, Katelyn. Dumbledore wouldn't want you to forget your manners, would he? I say, bow." He lifted his wand on me.
I grunted in pain and I was forced to bow.
"That's better. And now…" He ran over to me and he waved his hand over me as he passed by me.
"No." I fell to the ground.
"Crucio!" He aimed his wand at me.
I screamed loudly as pained was stabbed throughout my whole body.
"Crucio!" He lifted the curse. "Attagirl, Katelyn. Your parents would be proud. Especially your filthy Mudblood mother!"
"Expelliar—." I started to say but then Voldemort deflected the curse which sent me back about a foot.
Voldemort stalked over to me. "I'm going to kill, Katelyn Potter. I'm going to destroy you." He kneeled down next to me. "After tonight, no one will ever again question my powers. After tonight, if they speak of you…they'll only speak of how you…begged for death. And I, being a merciful Lord…obliged." He raised his hand over my face. "Get up!" He made me get up.
When he turned his back on me I ran over to where Cedric was hiding and I hid there.
"Don't you turn your back on me, Katelyn Potter!" Voldemort shouted as a spell flew towards the grave breaking some of it off. "I want you to look at me when I kill you! I want to see the lights leave your eyes!"
I bit my lip and huffed.
Cedric grabbed my wrist. "Katelyn don't."
I pulled away from him and stepped out behind the grave. "Fine…have it your way."
"Expelliarmus!" I yelled
"Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort yelled at the same time.
Then our spells connected…then it formed a barrier around him and I.
Then…souls started sprouting out.
"Katelyn…bring my body back," Harry said.
"Harry?" I asked weakly.
"Take my body back. Please."
I nodded.
"You're ready…"
The other three souls I didn't know but they were nodding.
"Break the connection."
I lifted my wand up and broke the connection.
Harry and the other souls flew at Voldemort hurriedly.
I ran over to Harry's body and Cedric ran over to me too. He wrapped an arm around me and "Accio" the Portkey came flying to us. I held tight onto Harry's body.
Cedric caught the Portkey and we were thrown back to the stadium.
(Stadium)
Cedric and I were on the ground in the stadium.
I looked under me at the lifeless body of my brother. Tears poured out of my eye instantly.
"Yeah!" James and Amos shouted clapping.
Everyone started clapping. And the music started up.
Bexxi stood up with a worried expression on her face.
Fleur pushed away from her friends.
Dumbledore stood up and walked out of his spot.
Fleur's scream echoed throughout the stadium.
I cried louder and Cedric was trying to pull me away from my brother.
I pulled away from him. "No! Leave me!" I cried.
Cedric stood up and backed away over to his father.
"Harry!!!" I screamed.
My brother…my only sibling…gone…lost…HARRY!!!!
AN: I am soo sorry but I had to stop it there since I am starting to cry. :(
