Do You Hear the People Sing? Part 5/?
A/N: Um...I don't really have any thing to put in here. Oh! Special thanks to Merlyn for beta-reading this! :o)
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize isn't mine most likely. Some things are mine, Professor Bright, and...Is Artemis in this story? If he is, he's mine. Nothing else is mine. =)
"Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!"
-Do You Hear The People Sing, Les Miserbles
"There is a castle on a cloud
I like to go there in my sleep..."
-Castle On A Cloud, Les Miserables
Remus lay silently on the ground, trying to relieve some of the pain. He felt much worse when he saw out the tiny window. The full moon. He could feel himself beginning to change. Minerva had fallen asleep. Not a very good time to. This was going to be a long night. He nudged Minerva in his mutant wolf form. Good thing it was dark.
"Did I fall asleep-oh, thank God, Remus, it's only you."
Trying and deciding it was impossible to talk, Remus pointed towards the window.
"The moon?" She suddenly realized, then groaned. There was a slight pop; Minerva turned into a tabby cat. She curled up and went back to sleep.
The door creaked opened again and in walked Hollie. Hollie walked in, followed by Sirius who stumbled as they walked in through the door
Remus, still in his half-formed werewolf, nudged Sirius and pointed towards the window, where the moon glistened brightly he saw the moon.
Sirius changed into his dog form; though it was obvious that he was in to great pain as he sarcastically said, "Does that mean you can eat Hollie? Where's Minerva? Or have you already eaten her?
"No, he did not," said Minerva, waking up suddenly when she heard her name. "Now can I go back to sleep or do I have to worry about you two talking about me?"
"Go back to sleep," Remus gently said, in his werewolf form. "Sirius, Minerva, just help me with one thing." "Get Hollie out of here!" he commanded.
"All right." reassured Sirius. "Just try to keep your wolf under control and stay over here. Minerva, change back to human as fast as you can and tell Hollie to get out, as in right now!" ordered Sirius. "Remus stay here, but not for long!"
Quickly Minerva ran as fast as she could to warn Hollie.
"I can't leave. The Dark One wishes me to stay here, and I can not act against his orders! Fool, you expect me to believe there actually is a werewolf in here? Just you and that murderer's form of a dog. Don't try to make me believe he's a werewolf!"
"Hollie, you've got to leave!" Minerva told her, but Hollie looked at her, still not believing.
Sirius barked, a signal to change, he couldn't hold Remus any longer.
"Hollie! Leave!" said Minerva, then quickly changed into a cat.
"Like there's actually a werewolf in here, I'm supposed to believe one who was stupid enough to refuse the Dark Lord! Oh, no." Hollie gasped as she saw a huge dark shadow of werewolf fall across the floor. She gave a shrill screech and ran.
"Does that mean the door's open?" asked Remus. He looked carefully at the door. "Are they that stupid?"
"Let me see." Minerva stepped forward and gingerly touched the door. As soon as her paw made contact, she pulled it back. "Ow, it burns!"
"Some kind of Dark magic, maybe? Or do we want to know what's doing that? I heard they take people's magic after they're dead, maybe..." All three of them looked at the door. Was someone's magic fuelling the door?
~
A crash of thunder woke Minerva up early. She was still a cat. Thankfully, she noted, Remus was a human. (This is definitely going to be a long day)
Outside the door, there was deafening shouting going on.
"You left them in there alone? That one with the cat, she could escape!"
(I could escape?)
"I'm sorry, milord, but..."
"BUT what? You aren't willing to give your life to give the students of
Hogwarts escape from tyranny?"
(Tyranny?)
"If any of them escapes, there will be hell to pay! You will pay, understand?"
The door opened, and Hollie walked in cautiously. Trembling, she sat on the ground.
"Oh no! Minerva, are you awake?"
She changed back to her human form and replied, "Yes, and I heard every word of your little conversation." (Liar. I woke up at the end.)
"So you know what I told him."
"Yes." Minerva lied through her teeth.
"Great. So now you're going to tell Sirius that I told the battle plans, and the password to Dumbledore's office."
"You what? Hollie, how could you?" Minerva gaped at her in surprise.
"You didn't hear any of my conversation, did you? How could you lie to me? Now you'll tell Sirius and Remus, and I'll be tortured."
"I won't tell on you."
"You won't?"
"On one condition."
"Shoot."
"I heard the end. Tell me how to get out."
Hollie hesitated. "But-but He will kill me!"
Minerva stared at her hopefully.
"Are you crazy? Me, risk my life, so that the enemy will win?"
"Hollie, you took the Oath."
"Oh my Lord. I did, didn't I?"
"And you broke it. Do you know what that means?"
"Actually, no."
"Anything done with your magic during the war is invisible to anyone but you." (Will she swallow this pack of lies?)
"So you mean if I used my magic to get you out, no one will notice?"
"Uh-huh." (Does this make me a traitor?)
"All right. Here goes nothing." With a wave of her wand, the window was wide open. "I opened the window. Go! Now! But you can't have your wand back."
Minerva instantly changed to cat form. She quickly jumped through the window. (Now the question is, where am I? I'm not on the battlefield, but Voldemort wouldn't be so far away from his troops?)
She looked up and saw hundreds of trees. (Great. Stuck in the middle of the Forbidden Forest. Better stay as a cat) As a cat, all of her senses were sharper, plus she was more alert. (All right. Hey! A centaur!)
"Over here! Bane!"
The creature did not respond. Minerva took a closer look at it.
(That's not Bane.)
The eight-legged stallion, Starsnuffer, reared up and kicked at her.
(Ow!)
With one last kick, the skull horse cantered choppily out of the forest away from the makeshift prison.
(Better follow him)
After about ten minutes of trying to keep up with the stallion, Minerva stopped. (Better just go in the same direction) "Firenze! Oh, thank God!" If a cat could smile, that was what she did. Finally, someone who could help!
The centaur turned around. "Minerva! Hogwarts thought you were dead! Where are you going?"
"Hogwarts."
"This is the absolute furthest you can get from Hogwarts without leaving the forest."
Minerva collapsed at the base of a tree. "You can't be serious."
"How long have you been travelling?"
"Minutes, hours I can't remember."
"Here. Come." Minerva nimbly leapt onto his back.
~
Starsnuffer snorted. (Stupid cat stopped following me! Oh well, that's at least a three hour delay, Master will be pleased and the one who let her free...She is going to pay.)
Starsnuffer was a creation of purely evil, Voldemort had killed some of his henchmen for their magic to create him. He was, as Voldemort, his master said, the first creation made out of magic, hatred, and treachery.
Starsnuffer even had evil plans of his own, when Voldemort rose, he hoped he could create a master race of animals to overthrow the master. It wouldn't be hard to kill the men, the master always encouraged this, and corpses had always been a toy for him, but digging through the brain, getting the evil, that would be the hard part.
~
"This is where I leave you."
"Where are Bane, and Ronan, and-"
"Gone." Firenze immediately interrupted her.
"You don't mean!" Minerva gasped.
"I don't know what I mean, they're just gone, now go!"
"But-"
"GO!"
Minerva dashed quickly out of the forest.
(Oh no.) The Dark soldiers surrounded her. (Not good.)
"Well, we have an escapee. Let's see what the Darkness Himself has to say about this."
(You can't do this. What power do I have to stop them! The Oath. The Oath, the magic of others! Will it work? Can I take the chance? Or am I going to die either way?) Looking at her captors, she decided to take the chance.
Pop. She was human. Would it work?
~
"Thanks be to Merlyn! The Ministry has arrived!" Finally, a turn in the war in Hogwarts' favor. Albus Dumbledore was relieved to step down from playing 'general' in the war.
"List of those captured, sir?" asked Commander Friquer.
"Let me think..."
"I'm sorry, sir, but we need to know quickly."
"Um...Professors Hollie Bright and Minerva McGonagall."
"Who can I notify?"
"For Professor Bright, her family. For Minerva, no one."
"Thank you sir."
"Sir, could you tell me..."
~
by oreo the insane cookie who had way too much sugar last night and was up too late...
"The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!"
-DYHTPS, Les Miserables
No, the quote isn't in the wrong place...
A/N: Um...I don't really have any thing to put in here. Oh! Special thanks to Merlyn for beta-reading this! :o)
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize isn't mine most likely. Some things are mine, Professor Bright, and...Is Artemis in this story? If he is, he's mine. Nothing else is mine. =)
"Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!"
-Do You Hear The People Sing, Les Miserbles
"There is a castle on a cloud
I like to go there in my sleep..."
-Castle On A Cloud, Les Miserables
Remus lay silently on the ground, trying to relieve some of the pain. He felt much worse when he saw out the tiny window. The full moon. He could feel himself beginning to change. Minerva had fallen asleep. Not a very good time to. This was going to be a long night. He nudged Minerva in his mutant wolf form. Good thing it was dark.
"Did I fall asleep-oh, thank God, Remus, it's only you."
Trying and deciding it was impossible to talk, Remus pointed towards the window.
"The moon?" She suddenly realized, then groaned. There was a slight pop; Minerva turned into a tabby cat. She curled up and went back to sleep.
The door creaked opened again and in walked Hollie. Hollie walked in, followed by Sirius who stumbled as they walked in through the door
Remus, still in his half-formed werewolf, nudged Sirius and pointed towards the window, where the moon glistened brightly he saw the moon.
Sirius changed into his dog form; though it was obvious that he was in to great pain as he sarcastically said, "Does that mean you can eat Hollie? Where's Minerva? Or have you already eaten her?
"No, he did not," said Minerva, waking up suddenly when she heard her name. "Now can I go back to sleep or do I have to worry about you two talking about me?"
"Go back to sleep," Remus gently said, in his werewolf form. "Sirius, Minerva, just help me with one thing." "Get Hollie out of here!" he commanded.
"All right." reassured Sirius. "Just try to keep your wolf under control and stay over here. Minerva, change back to human as fast as you can and tell Hollie to get out, as in right now!" ordered Sirius. "Remus stay here, but not for long!"
Quickly Minerva ran as fast as she could to warn Hollie.
"I can't leave. The Dark One wishes me to stay here, and I can not act against his orders! Fool, you expect me to believe there actually is a werewolf in here? Just you and that murderer's form of a dog. Don't try to make me believe he's a werewolf!"
"Hollie, you've got to leave!" Minerva told her, but Hollie looked at her, still not believing.
Sirius barked, a signal to change, he couldn't hold Remus any longer.
"Hollie! Leave!" said Minerva, then quickly changed into a cat.
"Like there's actually a werewolf in here, I'm supposed to believe one who was stupid enough to refuse the Dark Lord! Oh, no." Hollie gasped as she saw a huge dark shadow of werewolf fall across the floor. She gave a shrill screech and ran.
"Does that mean the door's open?" asked Remus. He looked carefully at the door. "Are they that stupid?"
"Let me see." Minerva stepped forward and gingerly touched the door. As soon as her paw made contact, she pulled it back. "Ow, it burns!"
"Some kind of Dark magic, maybe? Or do we want to know what's doing that? I heard they take people's magic after they're dead, maybe..." All three of them looked at the door. Was someone's magic fuelling the door?
~
A crash of thunder woke Minerva up early. She was still a cat. Thankfully, she noted, Remus was a human. (This is definitely going to be a long day)
Outside the door, there was deafening shouting going on.
"You left them in there alone? That one with the cat, she could escape!"
(I could escape?)
"I'm sorry, milord, but..."
"BUT what? You aren't willing to give your life to give the students of
Hogwarts escape from tyranny?"
(Tyranny?)
"If any of them escapes, there will be hell to pay! You will pay, understand?"
The door opened, and Hollie walked in cautiously. Trembling, she sat on the ground.
"Oh no! Minerva, are you awake?"
She changed back to her human form and replied, "Yes, and I heard every word of your little conversation." (Liar. I woke up at the end.)
"So you know what I told him."
"Yes." Minerva lied through her teeth.
"Great. So now you're going to tell Sirius that I told the battle plans, and the password to Dumbledore's office."
"You what? Hollie, how could you?" Minerva gaped at her in surprise.
"You didn't hear any of my conversation, did you? How could you lie to me? Now you'll tell Sirius and Remus, and I'll be tortured."
"I won't tell on you."
"You won't?"
"On one condition."
"Shoot."
"I heard the end. Tell me how to get out."
Hollie hesitated. "But-but He will kill me!"
Minerva stared at her hopefully.
"Are you crazy? Me, risk my life, so that the enemy will win?"
"Hollie, you took the Oath."
"Oh my Lord. I did, didn't I?"
"And you broke it. Do you know what that means?"
"Actually, no."
"Anything done with your magic during the war is invisible to anyone but you." (Will she swallow this pack of lies?)
"So you mean if I used my magic to get you out, no one will notice?"
"Uh-huh." (Does this make me a traitor?)
"All right. Here goes nothing." With a wave of her wand, the window was wide open. "I opened the window. Go! Now! But you can't have your wand back."
Minerva instantly changed to cat form. She quickly jumped through the window. (Now the question is, where am I? I'm not on the battlefield, but Voldemort wouldn't be so far away from his troops?)
She looked up and saw hundreds of trees. (Great. Stuck in the middle of the Forbidden Forest. Better stay as a cat) As a cat, all of her senses were sharper, plus she was more alert. (All right. Hey! A centaur!)
"Over here! Bane!"
The creature did not respond. Minerva took a closer look at it.
(That's not Bane.)
The eight-legged stallion, Starsnuffer, reared up and kicked at her.
(Ow!)
With one last kick, the skull horse cantered choppily out of the forest away from the makeshift prison.
(Better follow him)
After about ten minutes of trying to keep up with the stallion, Minerva stopped. (Better just go in the same direction) "Firenze! Oh, thank God!" If a cat could smile, that was what she did. Finally, someone who could help!
The centaur turned around. "Minerva! Hogwarts thought you were dead! Where are you going?"
"Hogwarts."
"This is the absolute furthest you can get from Hogwarts without leaving the forest."
Minerva collapsed at the base of a tree. "You can't be serious."
"How long have you been travelling?"
"Minutes, hours I can't remember."
"Here. Come." Minerva nimbly leapt onto his back.
~
Starsnuffer snorted. (Stupid cat stopped following me! Oh well, that's at least a three hour delay, Master will be pleased and the one who let her free...She is going to pay.)
Starsnuffer was a creation of purely evil, Voldemort had killed some of his henchmen for their magic to create him. He was, as Voldemort, his master said, the first creation made out of magic, hatred, and treachery.
Starsnuffer even had evil plans of his own, when Voldemort rose, he hoped he could create a master race of animals to overthrow the master. It wouldn't be hard to kill the men, the master always encouraged this, and corpses had always been a toy for him, but digging through the brain, getting the evil, that would be the hard part.
~
"This is where I leave you."
"Where are Bane, and Ronan, and-"
"Gone." Firenze immediately interrupted her.
"You don't mean!" Minerva gasped.
"I don't know what I mean, they're just gone, now go!"
"But-"
"GO!"
Minerva dashed quickly out of the forest.
(Oh no.) The Dark soldiers surrounded her. (Not good.)
"Well, we have an escapee. Let's see what the Darkness Himself has to say about this."
(You can't do this. What power do I have to stop them! The Oath. The Oath, the magic of others! Will it work? Can I take the chance? Or am I going to die either way?) Looking at her captors, she decided to take the chance.
Pop. She was human. Would it work?
~
"Thanks be to Merlyn! The Ministry has arrived!" Finally, a turn in the war in Hogwarts' favor. Albus Dumbledore was relieved to step down from playing 'general' in the war.
"List of those captured, sir?" asked Commander Friquer.
"Let me think..."
"I'm sorry, sir, but we need to know quickly."
"Um...Professors Hollie Bright and Minerva McGonagall."
"Who can I notify?"
"For Professor Bright, her family. For Minerva, no one."
"Thank you sir."
"Sir, could you tell me..."
~
by oreo the insane cookie who had way too much sugar last night and was up too late...
"The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!"
-DYHTPS, Les Miserables
No, the quote isn't in the wrong place...