Here's a nice long chapter since I've been missing for what, two days? :O It was partially because I liked the concept of this chapter and I wanted it to be a good one that it took so long. I did lots of contemplating on it, and it's finally copmlete! I hope you like it! ^^ I know I sure do!

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They'd been swimming for several minutes when Hermione found that, even though they could talk and breathe under water, the seaweed did absolutely nothing for how easily they tired while swimming. She soon found that she needed to go to the surface to rest.

"I don't know if I'll be able to make it," Hermione said, spitting out salt water. She wiped at her eyes.

"Hermione, you can't say that now," Harry said softly. "We've come this far."

She shook her head, feeling herself begin to start to cry as she rested herself against a big rock. It was an oddly coloured rock, and kind of slippery, but she was too tired to really care at the moment.

"Is there any way that we can get there without swimming?" she asked, resting her head against the rock.

"I don't think so," Remus replied softly. "Hermione, we could just go."

She shook her head. "They want me."

Suddenly, something next to her moved, and she felt herself to slowly begin rising in the air.

"Erm, guys?" She said. "Guys!"

She was suddenly thrown into the air and tossed sideways, soaring through the air before landing in the water about twenty feet away. She struggled to make it back to the surface, still good on air but wanting to get back to the others.

"I don't believe it..." Snape murmured. "It's the Kraken..."

"The Kraken?" Hermione panted. "But isn't that just the giant squid?"

Snape shook his head, wet hair sticking to his face. "The Kraken is much worse, and a lot bigger. No one but three men have ever seen the Kraken and lived to tell the tale."

Hermione gulped. This wasn't good news at all.

"How did they see the Kraken in an ocean he didn't know existed?"

"This ocean is known of," Snape replied. "It's called Atlantis. Muggles got it all wrong, saying that the ancient ocean city of Atlantis went missing. It was really an entire ocean called Atlantis that went missing. And the Kraken lived in it. Atlantis is actually the Atlantic ocean-Atlantis is unable to be found because it's essentially a portkey."

Hermione's jaw dropped, but she didn't have time to ask the questions nawing at her mind, as they now saw the head of the Kraken. And it was angry.

They quickly swam away, all of them just barely dodging one of the huge, strong tentacles that it possessed as he thrashed them wildly before diving beneath the surface to attack from under them.

Harry spotted something in the distance that might help them-a ship.

"There!" Harry exclaimed. "Help!"

Everyone joined in, screaming for help as they swam away from the enormous squid, quickly propelling itself after them.

It seemed like forever before they reached the ship, and miraculously, the Kraken didn't catch them. But something else almost did.

Hermione ducked under the water at the sudden crack, a sharp sound like thunder. She shivered and nearly burst into tears at the loud noise, wishing Sirius was there to comfort her, as he did during every storm. But he wasn't, so she stayed strong for him.

It was a cannon, a medival cannon from the side of the old, wood paneled ship they found themselves relying on for safety.

"Help!" Harry yelled once more. A curious head peeked over the side of the ship. Harry caught his attention. "Please!" He cried again. "Help us!"

The man turned around, and they heard frantic yelling. "Cap'n!" presumably the man they'd just seen yelled out. "Cap'n, there be witches and wizards overboard!"

"Wot?" He peaked over the edge of the ship, and his kohl-lined eyes met their frightened ones. "Oh my Godric, they're only children! Well," his voice was very slurred. "Some of them. Come now, get them aboard! We can't have them in with the Kraken, now, can we?"

The man threw over a rope. Harry and Ron helped Hermione on, and she inched up, using every last drop of her strength and adreneline to pull herself up the the ship. The man helped her over the edge, then returned quickly for Ginny, who had come next. Hermione crouched in an area not any of the men were crossing through, and the Captain came back with a towel.

"What were you doing in the middle of the Atlantic, might I ask?" He slurred, dropping his stack of dirty towels in front of Hermione and Ginny, who took them thankfully, not minding that they were covered in grime and salt water.

"We were looking for my husband," Hermione panted. "Is it safe to say you're a wizard, too?"

The Captain winked at her. "If you can call me a wizard, yes." He motioned to his ship. "This is what happens to wizards unable to afford training who live by the sea. Pirates."

"Pirate?" Hermione's eyes widened. "Then you know about the Castle of the Dead."

"I do," he said. "Never met a pirate who doesn't. Is that where your man be?"

Hermione nodded. "He was kidnapped as bait."

"Bait for whom?" He asked, just before another crack sounded, and he jumped to his feet. "You can tell me all about it after we slay the Kraken!" He shouted over his shoulder. "That is, if we survive!"

Hermione wasn't hearing any of that. She would survive this, and if she had anything to say about it, so would all of these men.

"Hermione, where are you going?" Harry asked, kneeling down by Ginny.

"I'm not dying now," she shouted before running towards the side of the ship, wand at the ready. As soon as she saw a tentacle, every bit of information she'd ever read about the Kraken began swimming through her mind, scrolling as if her whole brain was a computer, and she pinpointed just the spells she needed to defeat it.

She shot her first spell at it, and it was completely successfully, lopping off an entire tentacle and sending it soaring through the air, only to splash several feet away. The beast let out a gut-wrenching, blood curling shriek. Hermione was patted on the back by one of the men. "Blimey, you've got skills!"

"If it's the only way to stay alive, I've got skills," Hermione replied over the sound of the Kraken. She turned quickly to the man, who was lean and muscular. He wore a bandana and a very stereotypical eyepatch, and had a short, stubbly beard. "Can you help me get up higher?"

"Of course, mate," he said. "Anything for you!"

She followed him to the ratlines, and immediately began to climb with two feet and one hand out so she could continue firing spells at the demon beginning to wrap it's long tentacles around the ship. The man laughed. "Look at 'er, Cap'n! She's a natural!"

Hermione ignored the sudden praise and moved on to her next spell, casted perfectly, but the monster moved only a little, and it wasn't nearly as effective as it should have been; but this tentacle was still rendered useless, as it turned to ash and disintegrated into the water. Now it only had six working tentacles and Hermione was quickly working on the others.

One had clamped over a cannon, and the ship rocked with the force of the ball flying through the arm of the great monster. It shrieked again, sounding frustrated, probably at being beaten.

Without warning, Hermione felt one of the tentacles wrapping around her waist and pulling her from the yard arm, shaking her visciously. Soon, when she felt she was going to be sick, and was seriously fearing for her life for the first time since she felt herself growing weary of swimming, the arm was spliced from the rest of the body, and she fell towards the ship. She landed, hitting just her arm on the deck, the rest of her fall being cushioned by the rubbery arm of the Kraken. She pulled herself loose, and, after much struggle, Harry, Ron and Snape helped her to her feet.

"Are you alright, Mione?" Harry panted.

She nodded breathlessly, intent on destroying either the remaining four tentacles, or striking at the head itself. She was propelled on by a fury she'd never felt in herself before, fueled by the anger at this creature preventing her from saving Sirius.

Completely undaunted by her first fall, Hermione climbed back up to the crows nest and watched as the great head of the Kraken rose up from the water. It revealed it's rows of razor sharp teeth as it screeched at her, and Hermione took aim. She fired.

The shrill howl that came from the mouth that was spilling blood onto the deck was deafening and enough to throw Hermione to the floor. Her fall was broken by the Captain of the ship, who caught her in a bride hold. She struggled a bit, and he let her down, allowing her to shoot once more through his head, and all of the tentacles fell, slamming onto the deck, striking several crew members, before finally, all the noise stopped, and the beast sunk to the bottom of the sea.

But the pull rocked the ship, and Hermione held onto the nearest thing in sight for dear life as the ship swirled off course, before finally stopping.

Hermione took a deep breath and pulled herself away from the captain.

Suddenly, he laughed. "Look at us, the bloody crew of the Onyx Bane, and we be the killers of the legendary Kraken!"

Laughter rang out, even from the injured.

"And we owe it all to this talented lassie right here!" He grabbed Hermione's wrist and pulled it into the air, wand pointed to the sky.

"I think it right to give her half of my position as Lord of the Pirate's Council, and the granting of any wish she might have!" He lowered her hand. "What be your wish, lassie?"

"Help us get to the Castle of the Dead," she said firmly. "To find my husband."

"I think that be fair!" He announced. "Smithy!"

The man who had found them and helped Hermione onto the rat lines ran from the crowd to his captain. "Aye!"

"Set our course due North!" He announced. "We're taking a journey with these fine people, and we be taking them to the Castle of the Dead, to find our saviour's husband!" He turned to Hermione. "And what be the name of our saviour?"

"My name is Hermione Black," Hermione replied. "And I think I need to lie down."

He barked out a laugh similar to Sirius', and she choked up. "I'd be honoured to have you take a breather in my quarters. And your friends can come, too. Come along!"

The Order followed after the Captain and Hermione.

"What's your name?" Hermione finally asked.

"I be Captain Seth Frehley, and this is my ship, the Onyx Bane," he slurred. "Pirate ship, to be precise. Ever heard of it?"

"I have," Hermione breathed. "They say that if you attack two more settlements, you'll be even more fearsome than Blackbeard."

He laughed. "Well, that don't mean nothing to me. Well..." he looked her in the eye. "Maybe just a little. Now. I have a question for you."

"What is it?" Hermione asked as he led them into his quarters. Hermione's knees went weak at the mere sight of a bed.

He turned to her and offered the bed. "Why are you all nude?"

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Hope you liked it! I had to throw pirates in to make this officially the favourite of all of my fanfictions. I mean, it hurts me to say it, but it is. It's got Sirius and romance and pirates! Plus, the title is from the song of my favourite band...

Anyways, reviews are appreciated! About fifty more and I get 300 reviews, and I'll probably explode!

Alright, bye now!