over 100,000 words.
Wow.
I'm shocked, I never thought I would get even near this.
I'm not shocked enough to not update though. I've had more inspartation for plot points so this will definatly be a long story.
For translations look at the bottom of this page.
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Max was not happy, she was back at Hogwarts. It was still a month and a half until the final task. Max wasn't exactly acting like the champion she was portrayed as. She wasn't surprised to hear that the odds for her to win were very low.
A few days before the task Laura had asked Max to help her with a spell.
It didn't go so well.
Flashback
Max and Laura were in the room of requirement attempting a new spell they had found; it was supposed to give the target an atomic wedgie. There was a dummy they were using as a target.
For some reason they couldn't get it to even spark. Laura sighed and tried one more time, in her impatience she pronounced it wrong and it bounced of the wall hitting Max straight in the face. Max was catapulted into the wall behind them.
"You'd think the room would have given me a soft landing" Max complained as she got up. Laura walked over to see if there was any damage. There weren't any bruises but as Max blinked under the scrutiny Laura noticed something.
"You're left eye's turned red, just the iris not the entire eye but it looks creepy with your grey eye."
"That's the last time I stay in the room when you're testing a new spell," muttered Max as she transfigured a quill into a mirror to inspect the new colour.
End flashback
The amount of people she managed to creep out with the now mismatched eye was funny. Seriously, Max had sent several first years to the hospital wing with nightmares. She blamed Dumbledore but never elaborated.
The day before the third task was nerve wracking for everyone. Except Max of course, many people wondered if that girl was ever fazed by even the worse conditions. She was being more paranoid than usual though, this made the school even more on edge.
The day of the final task started out normally. That's until Max stumbled into the great hall for breakfast. She had dark bags around her eyes and was slurring her words as she staggered over to the Slytherin table and slouched face down onto her empty plate.
It took mere seconds for the entire hall to realise Max was completely drunk. The bottle of amber liquid in her hand was a give away. That and the strange humming she could hear was Max humming the Mission Impossible theme tune.
"Max, stop with the humming or I will spork you to death," said Laura glaring.
"Promishes, 'romishes, you couldn't even lan' a foon on me" Max slurred. Itachi walked into the hall just then and saw the state that Max was in. He sat next to her and dumped cold water over to try to sober Max up.
It only got Max annoyed.
"Don' make me get my foon" Max threatened wielding a toasting fork.
"Foon?" questioned one of the random students.
"Fork spoon, kinda the same as a spork" explained and older kid next to him.
"You do know it's the third task today," said Itachi to the damp Max.
"Yup, why else would I 'ave finished my secret supply of alcohomahozle?" grinned Max goofily, catching herself just before she slid of the table.
"But wasn't your supply big enough to get everyone in this school drunk"
"It was, i'sh all gone now, would deine believe it took mich over se'en thirds of it to get pished," said Max sadly mourning the loss of her drink, Laura could tell she was more then drunk, other languages were starting to bleed into her sentences. Max ignored the fact that there was another bottle in her pouch and she had a half empty bottle in her hand. She took a swig from the aforementioned bottle and sighed contently.
Dumbledore stood up to make his announcement. Max had to restrain from throwing something at him. The restraint didn't last as a lump of potassium landed in his goblet and exploded the area of the table. It was a large lump of the metal.
"If every one would please make you way over to the Quiddich stand to observe the third tasks, any champions should head to the changing rooms," said Dumbledore clearing up the mess with a wave of his wand. Max groaned and disappeared from her seat.
She normally wouldn't use a jutsu when intoxicated but even with the amount she had consumed she had mastered shushin while drunk. It had taken loads of practice, loads of booze and loads of dented walls.
She was given the brief lowdown of the task and then they were led onto the pitch with the maze the sunlight shining down as if they were in a spot light.
"In first place so far is Viktor Krum, so he will be let into the maze on my first whistle, then Cedric Diggory on the second then finally Maxine Hakie last," announced the person who announced these things. Max had reacted on the word Maxine and had her wand pointed under the announcers chin.
"My mistake, Max Hakie will go on the third whistle" was the strained amendment. Max retuned to her place to await her signal.
The first whistle blew and Krum entered the maze. Max was straining to stay awake. In the stands Laura was wondering how to sober Max up from her seat, nothing came to mind.
The second whistle blew and Diggory entered the maze. The ninjas in the stand were on edge, something was going to happen during this, Dumbledore never missed a chance to influence Max.
The third and final whistle blew and Max entered the maze staggering slightly. Itachi sat on the top of one of the tower stands his Sharingan watching the crowd and the maze looking out. He figured Max was going to do something stupid so was prepared to move at a moments notice.
Max came to the first fork and had to make a decision, so she used the scientific way.
"eenie meenie minie moozilses" Max chanted and picked the left fork despite the rhyme landing on the right fork. In the distance, she noticed a black hairy blob, but then again most things were blobs to her at the moment. As she got closer, she noticed its eight legs.
"Whoa that'sh one huge assh spider, did they give it shteroids?" Max wondered. She didn't know that everything said in the maze was magically made louder so people in the stands could hear.
"Oh look it's a puny human, did they feed it growth inhibiting drugs?" answered the spider sarcastically.
"Come on, I'm not that schmall, just because I'm not the firsht to know when it be raining, and nor do I need an warning if ich revershe does nicht mean I'm punicle" retorted Max, the spider was mortally offended and frozen in shock, no one talked to her like that.
"I'll have you know as a mother of five hundred I just haven't gotten my figure back," said the spider indignantly.
"What figure? You have a damn exoshelliton, the only way for you to have a figure is if you shed"
"How dare you insult me?"
"Easily, I drink a ton of alcohomohozle then open my mouth" said Max walking past while the spider gaped. Max was well out of sight by the time the spider had recovered. The crowd were stunned, the girl had defeated the spider without using a spell or even magic.
Max carried on in her path blasting a hole when she couldn't be bothered to back track. It felt like a good half an hour before she bumped into another champion. It was Krum.
"You wan' shome?" Max offered her bottle of booze to him. Krum raise an eyebrow and moved on past her. Max looked in the direction he had come from and the direction her was going and turned so one of the sides and blasted a hole.
The other side of the hole in all its glory was the triwizard cup. Max wasn't the only one who had found it though. Diggory was to her left fighting off the huge spider. The same one Max had pissed off earlier. Max stumbled through the hole gathering the attention of both boy and spider. Both wanted to stop her for one reason or another.
Max was frozen thinking 'oh crap' like a deer in the headlights. She dashed towards the cup. Diggory and the spider following her not wanting her to reach the cup before them. The spider was doing this out of spite. Max and Diggory reached the cup at the same second and touched it in unison.
Max's bottle of alcohol flew through the air as the two champions disappeared. The bottle shattering brought the crowds attention to what had happened. Itachi and Laura were already there inspecting the scene.
"Portkey" Laura denounced from the scene. The bottle must have slipped through Max's fingers when the portkey whisked the champions away. Laura was confused; Harry wasn't a champion, why would the cup be a portkey?
Itachi wasn't sure what to feel, his partner was in an unknown place completely drunk out of her skull. This was bad who knew what was going to happen. The deep sense of foreboding was back in full force and the space where the cup was looked at them ominously.
Max flew a few feet from the cup as it landed, she shakily got up and checked herself over and the place she was in. Stereotypical creepy graveyard. She checked over Diggory as he groaned. Her movements were jerky and unpredictable; she was surprised she could sit on the floor without holding on let alone stand and walk.
"We need the girl. Kill the boy" Max heard through her hazy hearing. Acting on instinct Max pushed Diggory at the up transporting both cup and boy back to Hogwarts.
"Foolish move girl" the voice was a bit clearer, it was defiantly a female voice. Max reached for her alcohol only to find it gone, she scrambled around to look for it.
"My booze ish gone" Max mourned. The alcohol had made her forget about the bottle in her pouch.
"You look too young to be drinking"
"You look too old to be living," retorted Max automatically. She ducked to try to see if she missed the bottle when looking; the spell sent at her flew harmlessly over her head.
"Such insolence, you will be hard to break"
"Think impishible, not hard," said Max in a mock wise voice.
"Nothing is impossible for my master"
"How many time' have I heard dat before" Max said snarkily.
"No one has defied my master and lived"
"coughHarrycough" Max choked out, then started choking anyway.
"Ah, young Harry, he was a great help in resurrecting the dark lord, unfortunately he got away. He learnt some interesting things from young Harry's mind some about you and your powers"
"You're lying, diene lippen ist rücken" accused Max pointing at the woman, then falling over as the arm she pointed with had been holding her up.
"How else would he know that you and 'Ookami' are the same person? The dark lord will find you a great addition to his followers"
"Man, did you know he's the second shnake obsessed freak to fragen me dat. The other ones pretty pisshed off with me though"
"You will not turn down this offer when my lord gets here," threatened the woman.
"As long as I have my booze I can do anything," proclaimed Max taking out her last bottle of alcohol.
"Is that so?" asked a lower more snake like voice.
"Ok, pointsh for not sounding like ein paedophile but not points for the cliché" said Max unscrewing the cap of her green bottle and taking a swig.
"Bind her hands, it's how she does her spells" Max staggered out of the way of the spell and put her hands in a quick seal.
"Kai" she muttered focusing so it would work, then she let the alcohol take her again.
"Ha, it didn't work," gloated Bella.
"You don't even know what I did, I could have turned you hair Gelb and you wouldn't think to check" Max laughed as the woman frantically checked.
"Calm yourself Bella," ordered the snake voice. Max wished her vision wasn't so blurry. The she could use more insult based of looks.
"Wait Bella assh in Bellatrix Lestrange" slurred Max, she was feeling the impending doom. She dodged another few spell when Lestrange realised Max had tricked her.
"So Max, I wish for you to join me, you could be powerful, if only you would sit by my right hand"
"Heyll no, so you right hand can touch me up you paedophile, no way, beshides I don' need to join some shnake freak to be powerful"
"You will regret that decision"
"Well it was nishe meeting you guys but I must dash, I have a tournamenticle to muck up" said Max brightly before turning to where the cup had been then remembering she had sent the cup back with Diggory. Cursing her memory Max sent a few spells at the two.
"I'm sho screwed" Max said and shushined as far as she could in her current inebriated state. At least she would hear them coming, she had charmed them with music. Quite fittingly Voldemort had 'I'm a Barbie girl' where as Lestrange had 'Masochism tango'.
Back at Hogwarts Laura noticed an owl approaching, her. Hedwig. the bird held out a letter ladened leg. Laura took the letter that was offered and quickly read it.
Voldemort caught up with me and Draco in Kanto, no one hurt but he wants Max, He know of her power and wants it on his side. Don't let her take part in the third task it's a trap the cups a port key.
Laura grimaced, the warning was too late, Max was still gone, she just hoped Max would make it out alive. Itachi read the letter over her shoulder and smirked Max would never let some one use her like that. But then again what lengths had Orochimaru gone to try to get it.
Back with Max. She was running for her life. Last time she had shushined she had run into a tree, she was in no state to be using chakra or magic now. She probably had concussion and was quite frankly amazed she was awake, it was a mix of adrenaline and determination driving her on.
Each place she stopped she left a marker and a few traps before moving on and a random direction. Even in her current state, her ANBU training showed through. The chase went on day and night, Max stayed just ahead of them she knew she wouldn't last long she hadn't slept in who knows how long.
Max reached into her pouch for a soldier pill only to find none left. Her bottle was empty and the sun was looking to rise for a new day. The last thing she saw was the sun peaking through the treetops.
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Translations - German to English
Ich – I
Nicht - not
Deine – your
Meine – my
Fragen – ask
Gelb – yellow
Diene lippen ist rücken – your lips are moving
The rest is slurred English
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