A/N I have finally decided to update this story with the version from AO3 for all of those who have waited a very long time for a new chapter. As I mentioned before I was not going to continue this story because I wanted to post on another site and try to make this story one I would like to post again. I have finally come to like the version that I will be posting from now on and maybe down the line, I will actually fix the previous 6 chapters up. Please tell me what you think of this as I like to know what you would like to see continuing from here on out.
I have gone over what I have already and I believe that this chapter flows onwards so i hope you enjoy it
Months Later
It was finally time for the second task in the Twi-Wizard tournament and everyone was excited to see what was going to happen even Hermione herself who had heard all about the first task from Viktor and Fleur, which had involved getting a golden egg from a nesting mother dragon and every moment that they spoke about it the more it became interesting to speculate what was install for the champions.
Hermione was in the library trying to fit in some extra studying of advanced spells and charms or whatever she could fit in before the task started in less than 4 hours not wanting to rely on the time turner that McGonagall let her borrow from time to time. She often spent time in there often to avoid the masses and those who she did not like or if she wanted to be left alone without any interruptions if she was not hanging out with Fleur Viktor or Neville, however this time she was interrupted by a tap on her shoulder not having realized someone was nearby because she was to absorbed in reading. Turning around she saw her Potions Professor standing there looking very sorry, his wand raised and before she could react she was hit with a spell causing her to fall forward blacking out as the man caught her.
A Little Time Skip To The Task
Hermione could feel herself floating like being suspended by something, her body felt freezing and warm at the same time but she knew something was wrong and if only she could open her eyes she would be able to see what situation she found herself in, however, at the moment her eyes would not comply with her mind so doing the only thing she could she gathered some of her strength and magic into her eyes allowing whatever spell that Snape had put her in would dissolve. It took a few seconds before her eyes to finally open only that when they did she was met with a gush of water against them and rushing down her throat causing her to choke, quickly casting a 'bubble head charm' around her she vomited up most of the water that she swallowed willing her magic to clean the mess up. Finally, when her body stopped trying to dispel the water Hermione slowly looked around seeing that she was in some type of body of water but not only that, there were 3 others also in the same situation and a very ugly looking creature staring right at her its sharp teeth bared in some time of warning.
She could hear the creature speaking but could not make out what type of language it was until she remembered seeing the ugly thing in a book of magical creatures hidden within the black lake, it was a Merperson yet Hermione could not bring herself to care about it
" student awake "
" not allowed"
"Task not finished"
Shaking her head slowly because of the water Hermione allowed herself to look up seeing a sliver of light coming from above signaling that it was the surface above her, she looked back at the creature in front of her bringing one of her hands to the front of her giving it the rude finger smirking as she saw a figure with a shark head approach at a good speed "I swear I'm going to get back at the bastard who put me here" she thought to herself as the Merperson reared its spear back ready to attack her for her action but before the thing could do anything the shark figure dived under her, its mouth opening and ripping whatever held her in place before shooting off towards the surface. The action of the rough jerk caused the bubble around Hermione's head to burst to allow yet another stream of water to enter her mouth, nose, and eyes again choking her but it did not last long as it stopped just a few seconds later no doubt from hitting the surface of the water.
"Mione are you okay"
Hermione looked at the person who spoke and saw Viktor idly bobbing in the water next to him laughing and looking at her worriedly. She wanted to get back at the boy for not bothering to check if she was even sleeping like the others down on the bottom of the lake, smirking she grabbed Viktor's head and dunked him underwater holding him under for a few seconds before letting go of him allowing him to surface looking shocked but before he could say anything she begun hitting him the best that she could
"Viktor Krum you stupid boy I could have drowned, do you know how much water I swallowed the first time only to be doing it a second time, I swear when we get on dry land your ass is mine" Hermione yelled at her friend smiling all throughout
Once both students had arrived on the platform safely Hermione couldn't help but notice a crying Fleur who was wrapped in many towels drenched from head to toe looking out towards the water as Cedric popped up with a pale looking Cho Chang in his arms, walking towards Fleur both Viktor and Hermione wrapped their arms around the girl ignoring the stares they got
"Gabby is still down there" Fleur turned to cry into Viktor's shoulder
Hermione stood back up quickly placing a quick kiss on Fleur's head ignoring the many protests she got once she started stripping off her drenched school robes, woolly jumper, shoes, socks leaving her in only in a see-through white button-up blouse and her skirt, she transfigured what was left into black two-piece bikini suited for swimming as she stood at the edge of the platform. She knew Harry was still down there and that he would not be surfacing anytime soon as the time was allocated for the task was nearly over, which meant that either he was in trouble or about to be. Hermione did not like Harry to a point where he could be called a friend but she liked him enough to deem him worthy of her help, ripping her arm away from the grip that held her back she dived back into the water.
taking a deep breath underwater she allowed her magic to swirl around in her blood allowing her to adjust to the change of environment allowing her to breathe underwater
"Damn old fuckers" she said to herself before diving down deeper into the water holding her wand out in front of her casting a nonverbal 'lumos' so she could see in the darker parts of the lake as she kept swimming in the direction
After what seemed like forever of swimming she came across a group of Merpeople gathered around something in the middle of them poking their staff's at the thing only it wasn't a thing but a human boy by the name of Harry who had trouble fighting them off, one moment he was wide awake and the next there was an electric shock and he went limp floating in the middle of the creatures. Thinking quickly she shoots towards the ugly creatures casting a bubblehead charm over the boy not knowing whether or not he had something to help him breathe underwater but it was good to be safe rather than sorry, as she reached the group so threw out a rather nasty stinging hex towards the group followed through with other spells, she was angry at a lot of MerFolk at having attacked a student but the gesture made them angry as they raced towards her teeth bared ready for a fight.
A fight broke out between Hermione and the Merfolk and blood was spilled between the both of them and after a few minutes, the group dispersed with half of them either dead or sporting injuries, and the ones who had neither were scared of her. Swimming towards harry grabbing him gently ignoring the pain in her body as she checked to see if he was alright, she let out a sigh knowing that harry was indeed fine however she had another problem at hand and that was not only getting harry out safely but the two others. letting go of Harry Hermione swam towards the boy first noticing it was Ron before allowing her magic to slice at the rope freeing the boy leaving only enough rope to tie to herself before going over to the small girl, she did not need to see who it was to know that the girl was Fleur's sister. Hermione did the same with Gabby except she tied the end of the rope to harry and held the girl in her arms bridal style and once she knew that all three people were secured she turned her head up towards the surface before taking off towards it at great speed allowing her magic to do most of the work.
Breaking the surface of the water Hermione let out a frustrated growl seeing blood pour around her and she was further away from the platform than she expected
"Why the fuck could we not be closer" she yelled causing 3 gasps for air to be heard
"What the heck " harry spoke spitting up some water holding himself the best he could above water
"Where are we" Ron was the next to speak up
Hermione turned around once she heard the second voice and growled at the boy not wanting anything to do with him
"If you look around you for once in your life you will see we are not where we are meant to be so all of you shut up and let me figure out how to get there" Hermione spoke
Both boys shut up not wanting to piss the girl off any more than what she seemed to be
"You both need to block your nose and keep your mouth shut unless you want to vomit up water for a few minutes" Hermione turned around readjusting gabby to hold in one arm while turning slightly so gabby was to the front in her left hand and her wand behind her pointed out
Both boys were about to say something but one glare from the girl told them they should do what she wanted and within a second of them blocking their nose they shot off with great speed forwards causing Ron and Harry to shut their eyes struggling to keep their mouths shut seeing ass all they wanted to do was scream. Opening his eyes Harry saw that the platform was enclosing on them faster and faster and if they did not stop they would crash right into the very large beam holding it up.
"Hermione do something" harry shouted barely keeping himself calm
"I know stop fucking shouting it hurts" Hermione held tight to gabby who hid her face in her chest shaking
She canceled the spell she had and allowed for the residue of her magic to continue propelling her forward at a slightly slower pace and within seconds of hitting the beam, she cast a quick 'Ascendio' lifting herself and her passengers into the air barely missing the edge of the platform she dived from and crash rolled on along it holding gabby tight so she would not get hurt from the impact and as they came to a stop everyone went quiet.
They all lay there for a few minutes before Hermione broke out into joyous and painful laughter followed by harry
"Mate that was one heck of a ride " Harry turned to look at Hermione smiling as she laughed
"Fuck yeah harry fun, unexpected, and very troubling we shouldn't do it again it the landing hurt my already injured body" she spoke between breaths of laughter cradling the young girl to her chest like she was protecting her
"I had to come up with something looks like it turned out well enough, no one dead I hope " Hermione slowly came down from laughing still laying there with blood slowly dripping from her body
"I think I need madam Pomfrey considering I did nearly drown to death" Harry smiled and looked up enjoying the next level of platform enjoying hearing the girl laugh
"You nearly drowned to death geese and here I lay injured from fighting off your attacker's Potter" Hermione let out a deep sigh running a hand through gabby's wet hair as a voice broke her happiness
"What do you think you were doing insolent child you completely intervened in the second task" Moody spoke looking down at Hermione with such hate and judgment
"You can shut your mouth sire because the way I see it if you lot had not kidnapped student's from each school putting their life's in danger for some sick entertainment then we would not be here" Slowly Hermione sat up wincing slightly allowing the girl in her arms to adjust
"You dare talk to me like that Miss Granger you foolish dumb girl, the student's were all in safe hands and had powerful spells in place to keep them safe" Moody spoke slamming his cane down on the metal platform as his eye rolled in its socket but as he stepped closer Hermione caught a damp rotten like smell from the man before a slight hit of pumpkin and something from Polejuice potion
"Safe my ass, you call getting attacked by MerPeople and waking up underwater safe well I think it's the opposite. What would have happened if any of the other students woke up in the position they were they all would have drowned and don't get me fucking started safety you old bastard, I saved 3 potential students from dying from drowning, and let me tell you this I am not afraid of you or anyone else." Hermione stood wobbling slightly as she still held gabby waving her wand to slice the rope that held all three together
Moody whipped out his wand before anyone knew what was happening and cast a transfiguration spell towards Hermione much like he had done with Malfoy not too long ago only except this time he was met with a wand at his throat before he could even fire off the spell
"I suggest you stand down Professor because next time you dare raise a wand in my direction while my back is turned to you i will not be nice" Hermione spoke lowly growling out every word in the man's ear before turning around heading towards Fleur
"Fleur" the girl spoke softly shivering
Hermione cast a warming charm over the girl smiling softly as gabby spoke
" you are Fleur's little sister Gabby aren't you"
"Yes"
Hermione ignored all the yelling and grabbing everyone was doing and placed Gabby in Fleur's awaiting arms, stepping back when the young girl was secure in her sister's arms, she went to turn around and head back to harry only to be stopped by a gentle hand wrapping around her hand pulling her back and as her eyes met the one responsible for pulling her she was met with a soft silky feeling of lips against her's in a soft kiss which only lasted a few seconds before the person pulled back looking at her with so much emotion and thankfulness. Hermione stood shocked not knowing what had happened it was like she was imagining things like Fleur had just taken her first kiss but looking at the older girl she knew that was in fact what happened but it was not a kiss a lover would give but someone who really wanted to show gratitude so she just smiled
"Thank you so much I do not know what I would do without my sister"Fleur wrapped her arms tightly around her sister not wanting to let go as she spoke
"No problem Fleur, she has your eyes by the way " Hermione smiled bending down slightly to pat Fleur's sister's head before standing back but before she could even make it all the way up he vision went black as her body began wobbling back and forth before falling forward.
Viktor was the first one to react when he saw Hermione wobble when she went to stand back up and caught her just before she hit the floor. He looked at the state of his mione noticing scars some new, some old but what was most noticeable was the few stab wounds no doubt from those nasty Merpeople, summoning his wand in his hand he transfigured her clothes into something more comfortable as she whispered all the healing spells he knew hoping that Hogwarts Mediwitch would hurry up and look at the girl in his arms. When he felt two sets of hands-on his shoulders Viktor let out a sigh slumping back in exhaustion, at some point Fleur had helped him with mione but all that they could do was limited, looking at the two newcomers he saw Madam Pomfrey and Professor Snape and he let them take over.