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Father Mine
Chapter 21: Tension in the air
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"Hey! Watch it!" Usagi growled, as a guy from the ministry hurriedly passed beside her and almost knocked her out of the way. The guy didn't even turn around or say sorry, which made the rabbit madder.
She had just gotten back from the forest and there were so many people scurrying around! The children were looking at the ministry members curiously, fright written in their eyes. Usagi rolled her eyes. 'Those guys aren't even trying to reassure the children! What a bunch of morons!' She thought.
"And here's the Moron King…" She muttered silently when she saw Cornelius Fudge rounding a corner, a mad Dumbledore in his tow. They were heading to his office, surely. She shrugged. She would have to speak with the headmaster later.
"Hey Harry! Guys!" She waved to the Gryffindors.
"Serena! Where were you? You missed the entire DADA class! Sirius didn't seem too scared, though." Hermione said, recalling the class in her memory.
Usagi raised an eyebrow. "So, how was it? Did father give you a bad time or did he make a complete fool out of himself?" Usagi asked, smirking. Harry wound an arm around her shoulders and they headed towards the dining hall.
"It was weird! Sirius kept fidgeting at first, and he traumatized nearly all the class by talking about Death Eaters and dementors!" Ron burst out, and he admitted; "But it was wicked!"
Usagi grinned with Harry. "That's great, Ron!"
Harry nodded. "It was bizarre to see Sirius teaching like nothing had ever happened, though. Days ago, I wouldn't have ever dreamed about seeing Sirius again, so having him with me, us, teaching and laughing again…" Harry let his phrase trail off and shuddered a little.
Usagi pecked him softly on the cheek. "It's okay. I know some things can be too much for you…" Harry smiled back. The small group sat down after saying hello to Dean, Neville and Seamus, who were talking about what was going on.
There were many aurors present at another table at the left of the head table, and another one full of other ministry members at the right. Ron raised his eyebrows when he saw his father sitting there. The Great Hall had actually been widened to accommodate everyone inside, and the ministry people were taking as much, if not a lot more place than the students at their own table.
Ron and Ginny groaned and buried their head in their arms when Mr. Weasley waved happily to them. They all laughed out loud, though, when Sirius made his apparition to the staff table. They could see Arthur running up to Sirius like a lost puppy and shaking his hands like crazy. Harry turned to Ron, still laughing. "Looks like your father didn't know that Sirius was back with us!"
The red headed boy snorted. "Nobody bothers to tell him anything, bunch of lousy, no good-" He got whacked in the head by Hermione.
"Watch your language! One of them could hear you! You don't want your dad to be in trouble don't you?" She hissed back at him. Ron gulped but managed to mutter; "She sounds like my mum!" Which made Neville giggle.
Dumbledore rasped his throat and asked everyone to calm and sit down. And of course, stupid Fudge had to sit beside him at the head table. Minerva scowled and was trying to scoot over furtively to get away from him. And for once, nobody commented on the fact that both Sirius and Snape were sitting on the same side of the table. Neither of them looked too pleased about having the minister with them, a thing to which Fudge looked totally oblivious to.
"Now everyone" Dumbledore started, "you all saw that the people from the ministry are going to stay here for a couple of days, and there's no point by lying to you. The ministry has been under attack a couple of days ago and it is clear that Hogwarts is next in line."
He paused to let everything sink in, and it surely did. The kids began to panic and some of them were actually beginning to cry, the youngest, mostly. Using the sonorous charm on himself, he made everyone quiet again with an imposing "SILENCE!"
He paused to gather his thoughts and continued. "We are trying to gather people to join us but it is clear that everyone who wants to go home will have this choice. The ones who will want to stay are most welcome, but I don't want anyone to feel forced about this. Hagrid has finally been able to make the giants side with us, with a few minor scrapes…"
He paused when there was light clapping for Hagrid, who blushed in return, unused to the attention. Before he could continue, the door of the Great Hall opened and Firenze came in. "I'm sorry I'm late, Albus. There was something I had to do."
Albus nodded. "It's ok, Firenze, you're not so late."
The centaur bowed a little and advanced in the middle aisle. Passing beside Usagi, he gave her something that looked like a medium sized leaf, rolled on itself and attached with a string of bark. "Bane told me to give this to you." Was the only thing he said, before going beside Snape and waiting for Albus to continue.
The minister was grimacing at the view of the centaur but refrained from opening his big trap. On her side, Usagi gazed at the parchment-like leaf and opened it. She raised an eyebrow when she saw it wasn't written in common English, but in…what could she call it? Centaur writing?
She concentrated on her powers to be able to read the stuff, while Harry, peaking over her shoulder, looked at the writing with wide eyes. "What the heck are those drawings for?" He whispered to her. She waved him off and he humphed playfully, turning his gaze back in the front.
Dumbledore looked grave and serious. "There will be a slight problem, though. Hagrid may have been able to get the giants on our side; but Professor Lupin hasn't been able to convince the werewolf community. Voldemort-" gasps and cries at the name "has them completely on his side. He probably has the intention of attacking when the moon will be full. So he'll have an army of angry werewolves on his side."
He stopped again and took his breath. Why did he always look like the bearer of bad news? He was about to talk again when Sirius interrupted him. "Wait! What about the Forbidden Forest's inhabitants?"
Dumbledore's eyes widened and he moved his gaze towards Usagi hopefully. Every eye in the room was now looking at her, but she was still reading the letter, oblivious to their gaze. Fudge recognized her and scowled darkly.
"Miss Black?" Dumbledore called out tentatively, while Ron snickered silently when his father made the impression of a fish, with some other members beside him.
Usagi sighed, but winked afterwards. "The forest team is on!" She giggled when they gave her questioning looks. She smirked when Dumbledore opened his mouth, cutting him before he could rant on. "Chill headmaster! The forest creatures are on my side. The centaurs, the Thestrals, the Unicorns, and Bane asked Aragog the giant spider and he too accepted to help with his children."
Hagrid got up swiftly, nearly making his overly big chair fall down. "Aragog is alive?!" He said happily.
Usagi laughed and nodded. "It's not all, Hagrid! Grawp told me he wanted to help too!" Hagrid gaped while Ron, Hermione and Harry gazed at each other uncertainly.
Snape sneered. "Who or *what* is Grawp?"
Hagrid turned to him happily. "He's my half-brother, yes he is!"
Snape looked at him in a 'You're kidding me' look while Remus looked at Hagrid weirdly. "Half-brother as in?..."
Hagrid finished the phrase; "Full giant!"
Some of the aurors gasped and whispered amongst themselves; "A full giant in the Forbidden Forest?! This is dangerous! How could the headmaster permit this!?" Amongst other things. The half-giant merely ignored them.
Usagi used this moment of silence to finish; "And we have the dragons on our side."
It was Dumbledore's time to gape. "Did you really convince the dragons?! But how?!"
Usagi smiled. "I'm not the one who convinced them, headmaster. We have Bane to thank for that. He was nice enough to propose this." Sirius smirked when Albus sat back in his chair in a huff, completely surprised.
"My dear Albus, you will learn that with my daughter, nothing is impossible." The dog animagus said, grinning at the old man's face. "Plus, and this is the most important part, we have Serenity on our side." He finished triumphantly.
Fudge had enough when everyone turned once again to the rabbit questioningly. This brat was taking all the attention! A mere kid! He growled and fisted the table, getting up madly. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH!" He got the attention he wanted.
"How can you trust a kid! A girl at that, who's a Black, if you've forgotten that already! She was even supposed to get arrested when she *killed* Bellatrix Lestrange! Killing someone means being sentenced to death by dementor's kiss! And how can you ever believe a kid like her, who has never seen a true war, can help us with the upcoming one?!" He finished with a livid expression written in his eyes.
Sirius was about to get up when a wild and rough wind hurled towards Fudge and didn't let him the time to get his wand out, projecting him on the wall behind. Minerva and Albus had been spared, though they both had a hand on their heart, trying to calm down their fright.
Retracing the path of the wind, their gaze fell on Usagi. She had one hand outstretched in the direction of the minister and everyone around her had gotten away in fright when she reacted purely out of instinct. She got up, and nobody moved. She glared threateningly at Fudge, eyes turning a shade darker. Her hair whipped around her and her aura came forth, glowing an angry dark violet. Her hair began to turn black like the other time with Bellatrix, while she slowly advanced to the miserable excuse for a minister.
Since it was total silence, mostly out of fear, her voice seemed amplified and boomed in the Hall. "How dare you. You pathetic human!" She sneered on the word human.
The aurors got up and got their wand at the ready but in no time, she had the Time staff appearing in her hands. "TIME STOP!" She yelled, and then growled. "You stay there; I'm talking with this idiot."
She continued her walk and let the aurors as they were. Dumbledore reeled back. "What did she do to them?! It's not the Stupefy spell!" True, the aurors were completely frozen on the spot, and everything in their vicinity looked abnormal, almost hazy.
Everyone watched with dread as her aura darkened even more. Sirius made his way slowly to his daughter, trying to calm her. "Serenity-"
"STAY OUTTA THIS!" Sirius backed away wide eyed as she screamed at him, fists tightly clenched beside her. She was breathing heavily, as if she was trying to keep something inside her.
Fudge got up shakily, leaning on the wall. "You can't hurt me! I'm the minister! You're nothing, just a spoiled little brat!"
Usagi growled darkly, no, it wasn't darkly anymore, but deadly. Her body stiffened and she hollered; "I'LL SHOW YOU HOW NICE I REALLY AM!" Her head got up and then back down, like a reflex, and her hair turned pure silver just for a second.
Her power was building up, so the stone floor where she stood began to crack and blow away. The dent in the floor got bigger by the second and the teachers ran away from the head table. One of the members of the ministry, Mad-Eye Moody (who had decided not to sit with the aurors- lucky him…-_-;), raised his wand in a desperate attempt to stop the flow of power from coming over to them. "EXPELLIARMUS!"
The spell worked perfectly fined, until it simply got absorbed by the mad girl's body. She didn't even flinch.
Her head got up again, and her hair turned from pure black to shocking silver. Her eyes took the same color and Sirius knew there was nothing he could do anymore. She was too far gone. He wanted to know what her true power was, but he didn't want to see it and be in the middle of it!
The power flow stopped and her hair flowed down her back like a silver blanket. The olive-green staff she was previously holding was gone, replaced by a much higher one, completely silver, with a glowing orb on the top (the cosmos staff).
"This war, I can win it with no efforts. I lost my life many times to save this planet, and it's not a worthless human like you who's going to show me how it's done." Her voice was now emotionless, and her eyes devoiced of all feelings.
Fudge shivered at the sensation he got when he looked in her eyes. It was even more frightening than when her eyes were black. She gripped the staff and lifted it, and he whimpered, afraid she was going to hit him with it. She didn't do what he thought she was going to do.
Lifting the staff higher, she then let it hit the ground with a sharp move. The orb glowed brightly and enveloped everything in its path.
When the light disappeared, they lifted their own gaze upwards and gaped. Up there, replacing the blue sky that was previously charmed on the ceiling, there was a surreal image… of a gigantic kingdom with Earth as the background.
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AHHH! Cliffyyyyyy! SORRY! ~.~
I'm really tired and- Don't look at me like that! *author wags her finger at reader* At least I updated!
You wanted action! You wanted Fudge to get told off! Well, you got it! I'm just exhausted right now. I wanted to post something fast. My nights have almost all been taken with something!
Monday; I went to play badminton with a friend from work until 9pm
Tuesday; I bought 'Finding Nemo' and I watched the movie with my mom. It's so COOL! You just HAVE to see it! ^_^ PLUS, I bought the movie Utena. It was great! We can find so much more animation in Canada now! ^_~
Wednesday; What do you think I'm doing right now?! O_o;;; My butt is sore from sitting for nearly 2 hours straight in the same position. ^_^;
Well anyway! I DON'T WANT ANY FLAMES CONCERNING THE CLIFFHANGER. I'm serious. I wrote everything I could. Consider yourselves lucky I even updated. I just want to update at least 2 times a week.
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