Centaur2

A Traitor, a Warning, and a Message Written in Blood.

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Here is the second part to mine and Maria's story, and also included, (hopefully) today is a poll on an issue that me and Maria have not been able to figure out. So we are going to let you figure it out for us. Remember, each opinion counts. And as for this story, COMMENT!!!!!!! Iven if you only say good or bad, leave something!

I do not claim to own Harry Potter and all of it's characters, if you sue me the only things you'll get it an old computer and this months college tuition. Oh, and Astrid belongs to me, and The Girl is Maria's. Please don't take them without permission!

Draco yawned; did McGonagall have to be so boring? She was lecturing them about stealing; occasionally sending looks at Malfoy to make sure he was listening. But he wasn't, he was staring out the window that looked down at the Forbidden Forest. How he wished he could trap Potter in the Forbidden Forest maybe in a pit or what was that he just so in the window?

Were his eyes deceiving him or was there a girl running from the Forbidden Forest to the Gryffindor Tower? He rubbed his eyes and looked out again, he was now leaning on his chair to see well. He heard McGonagall call his name and he snapped back to reality and forgetting to hold on to the table fell back with the chair.

The class echoed with laughter followed by McGonagall tacking off an unfair amount of points for him disrupting the class. When the class was over and it was lunch Draco was going to tell Crabbe and Goyle all about the mysterious girl, but they were stuffing their faces with pie so he decided better of it. But he was going to find out who the girl was or he was not Draco Malfoy, the only child

***

Harry was terribly excited; he didn't want one thing to go wrong. He was waiting for Ginny in a small area screened by trees. He had set up a picnic and arranged for music by means of lute.

This was the first time he had done anything for Ginny and he wanted it to be perfect. She arrived seconds later and was delighted by his romantic surprise. It was the afternoon and everybody had gone to Hogsmeade and only Harry and Ginny remained. The sun shone and there were tons of fluffy white clouds in the forget-me-not blue sky, Harry and Ginny lay on their backs and told each other what they saw each cloud as they giggled and ate the scrumptious food that Harry, supposedly, made himself.

They talked about life and the time when he saved her from Tom Riddle, what a fool she had been.

They were now sitting close together and Harry pulled out a single crimson rose and Ginny leaned over and kissed him.

It was a beautiful moment, but for one thing they were not the only ones present. There in the opening between the trees stood the girl with the sapphire eyes one single tear sled across her face, and she ran.

And later you could hear an anguished, enraged cry coming from the Forbidden Forest.

When Harry and Ginny left, the girl returned. There on the grass lay the crimson rose, as the girl picked it up one of the thorns pierced her skin, she did not take it out but snapped the head of the rose in to and let her own crimson blood stain the roses pretty petals. If one breaks a heart of a centaur girl they will pay the ultimate price

She let the stem drop but clutched the rose bud tightly in her hand. "The girl with the hair as the rising sun, will die at dawn," said the girl with the sapphire eyes and took out a small dagger and placed the rose bud on the ground and dug the dagger into the ground, right into the center of the rose bud.

Draco Malfoy stood awed as he saw the girl disappear into the forest

***

The Girl, for she had no other name walked into the forest. How could he! She had saved his life! And what does he do? Kiss another girl. She would soon be out of the picture though. For good.

The Girl drew her knife and slid the blade against her thumb. What is it about this boy that draws me to him? I always hid from everyone else who came to the forest. She didn't even think that Hagrid knew she was there.

She sighed. She knew all about magic. One didn't grow up among centaurs and know nothing. No indeed.

As The Girl walked towards her home with her foster father, Bane, she wondered whether or not to tell him what was going on. She also decided, in that long walk, not to tell him.

Bane watched the Girl carefully. Something was bothering her. She hadn't eaten much of anything and her usually chipper attitude was cloudy, and the stars had told him she was up to something. He didn't think she'd ever even talked to a human before, much less do what the stars said she would.

***

Rowan walked out of the woods to where the dark figure was waiting.

"What have the stars said?" he asked, voice low, and threatening.

" They say that the one you least want to hear of, has a daughter, and she is alive and well. Near here, in fact." Rowan paused, "She is with Bane the centaur now. No human knows she is here."

"You may go. You will receive your reward when my business is done." The figure said.

Rowan walked back into the forest. He had done his part. He just hoped his accomplice would do his. Lucius Malfoy dropped his hood, took out his wand, and fired a killing curse into Rowan. No risks. No witnesses.

And that means you, daughter. That means you...

***

Harry was let out a big yawn as he dragged himself up the stairs after the exhausting Quidditch practice. Everybody had already returned to the common room. Harry was late because he was searching for the Golden Snitch after it flew off, again.

Then, there before him stood the last person he wanted to see.

Draco Malfoy. He had a huge grin on his face and he stood his ground as Harry tried to walk around him. "Move out of the way, Draco," Harry said his eyes flashing with anger, this was not a great time to a have a fight with Malfoy.

"Oh, I will," Draco said smiling mischievously, "But I need to tell you something first," he had an I-know-something-you-don't-look on his pale face. " You're girlfriend is getting killed at sunrise, beware Potter of the girl with the sapphire eyes," he said this to Harry's ear in an arresting whisper and let out a ghostly wail before proceeding down the hall.

Harry just stood there dumbfounded. Was Draco saying the truth? No, he couldn't possibly, yet he knew about the girl that haunted him in his sleep. He shook the nervous feeling that was gnawing at the back of his head. This was just probably Draco's idea of a funny joke. When he went to bed he completely forgot about the Draco's mysterious warning

***

Ginny shivered as the wind blew in through the open window; it was dawn. She didn't remember opening it; she shrugged it off. Ginny rose from her bed to close the window. She stood there for a while and let the wind ruffle her hair then she closed the window with a screech. Yet she still felt cold, as if somebody besides the three other peaceful girls who where still sleeping where in the room. She shivered and sat in her bed; she pulled her legs up to her chest. As the sun crept into the room, lighting each corner of the room. Then she heard it, feet hitting the floor. She took deep breaths trying not to panic but surveyed the room like an eagle. In a matter of seconds she felt somebody clutch her around the neck, she let out a blood-curling scream.

"Quiet, foolish girl or this is going to hurt you more then I intend it to," the girl with the sapphire eyes whispered into Ginny's ear. She slowly pierced Ginny's supple skin. Ginny let out an anguished cry for help, and not a moment too late. By now all the third year girls were awake and cowering in their beds. Not one dared to help the whimpering Ginny.

Finally, the door banged as it opened and Hermione rushed in. She was not prepared to see Ron's little sister being held down by a strange yet beautiful girl, while blood ran down her nightgown. Hermione's brain was calculating a million possibilities of what to do; she then took the stupidest route.

She sprang at the stranger knocking her against the wall. The dagger rolled on the floor and lay a couple of feet away from the girl with the sapphire eyes. Hermione lunged for the dagger and seized it in her hand. By the time she turned around the attacker was gone. Ginny was shaking in the corner; she was bleeding and was ghostly pale. Hermione hugged the poor girl as she sobbed hysterically into her shoulder. As Hermione eyed the cut she gasped, there on Ginny's neck was written, "The toll has been paid, my love."