Erika, Sarah and Jackie's Story Chapters: Thirteen-Fourteen
Author's Note Number One: Hi everybody! This is where the action begins! Yep! Just to tell ya I had to make this three days before Halloween!
~Chapter Thirteen: Tarot Cards and Dresses~
"I just love sneeking into Hogsmead!" Val said to us excitedly. We girls had snucked in through Honeydukes, in a passage that Nat had shown me.
"Well, don't forget, today we're here for a reason! We have to get dresses for the Halloween dance," Lily replied.
"Yup, I can't believe we waited until now – October 29th!" Candy said.
"Neither can I," Cassie agreed.
"You guys, it's only 5:45 ::pm::. We have a few hours. We should do something, maybe get a tarot card reading. I heard that there's this good fortune place that has a Madame Grandebas there," I said.
"Good idea," they agreed. And with that we set off for Madame Gandebas'.
Once we got there, we went inside a small shop that was decorated beautifuly in blue, red, copper, purple, green and yellow.
"Madame Grandebas? We'd like a tarot reading, please," Candy said to the lady behind the counter.
"Me, the great Madame Grandebas? I think not! I'm her assistant – Madame Trelawny. I'll get the Madame for you, though," Madame Trelawny said.
In a few minutes the real Madame Grandebas came out. She was a tall, beautiful lady with raven black hair and velvety purple eyes.
"Hello, my dears. I knew you'd be coming today. Well you want your futures read – here they are," Madame Grandebas said, holding out a deck of tarot cards.
"Sit down, and we shall do this properly," the Madame said, putting the cards on the table – still in deck form. "Now, pick a card, all of you." ::if I'm doing this wrong DON'T hurt me! I'm making up the whole tarot card thing!::
I picked a card that had a beautiflul lady on it. Loly picked a card with a crown, Lily picked a card with a sword on it, Val picked a card on it with a robin, Candy picked a card with a question mark on it, and Cassie picked a card with a lock.
"You, my dear," she said pointing to me, "are very fortunate. You picked the card called the Lovely. This describes you because you are loved by all. I see in this card that you have two special powers – one is the power over water, and the other allows you to change into a snow lepord, like an animagi but different. You will use these powers to triumph over an evil force. Your special color is blue and your special stone is the moonstone. I also see that you shall go on a quest for someone close to you. I see that for all of you as well, except for our little Keeper here," she said pointing to Cassie.
"As for you, child, you shall be involved in the quest, but differently than the rest. You shall guard something important. That is why you are called the Keeper. For you I also see two special powers – you have the power over wind, and you can change into an eagle. Your special color is copper and your special stone is amber."
"And as for you, Questioner," she said pointing now to Candy, "Your special color is yellow and your special stone is the yellow zeconium. The reason you are called the Questioner because in your quest you shall be the one who will makes sure things are in their true form."
"Now you, my Protectress," she said pointing to Lily. "That is you because you shat protect someone very important – if not now, then later in your life. Your special color is green and your special stone is the peridot."
"Ah, and the Queen," she said, this time pointing at Loly. "That is you because you can talk people into doing things for you just as many queens can. And I see two special powers for you. You have the power over fire and you can change into a horse. Use these well. Your special color is red and your special stone is the garnet."
"And finally, our little Speaker," she said, pointing at Val. "You are a Speaker because you can talk to animals. Your special color is purple and your special stone is the amethist."
"All of these powers will help you in your quest. And if you wear the stone on a ring it shall help you in magic and life. We have all the rings over there – I suggest that you buy one." Madame Gradebas said to us, finishing the fortune telling.
"That's a good idea. We'll take a moonstone, a garnet, a yellow zerconium, a peridot, an amber, and an amesthist." Loly said.
We bought and paid for our rings, and left the store, wondering if what had been said was true. We finally found the dress store called Hallie's Heap of Clothes for all Occasions.
We walked in and were immediately bombarded with sales clerks. But we finally found dresses. We tried them on and came out to model them for our friends.
"Chloe! That light blue dress looks great on you!" Lily said, stepping out of her dressing room, wearing an emerald green dress that set of her eyes.
"You should talk! You have to get that dress – it's beautiful." I said.
At that moment Loly, Candy, Lily, Val and Cassie came out, each wearing a dress in 'their colors'.
We bought the dresses and decided to go to Honeydukes for some candy.
"OMG! I forgot! I have to pick Sirius up a butterbeer. Meet me in the Three Bromsticks," Cassie said to us.
"Kay," we all agreed.
When we had finished buying our candy we went to the Three Bromsticks. Cassie was nowhere in sight.
~Chapter Fourteen: Lost and Not Found~
"Do you know where Cassie Saviera is, Madame Anistasia?" Loly asked.
"Oh, yes. She came in here a few minutes ago and bought a butterbeer. Then this man with glowing orange eyes came in and they left together. She looked kinda hipnotized now that you metion it. But the reason I didn't ask who he was because we have many strange people that come in here," was the reply.
"OMG!!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!!" Candy shrieked.
"What? What?" Lily asked.
"Nothing except that Cassie has been taken away by Sire Kingslond!" Candy said sarcasticaly.
"Who's he?" We asked.
"Well, ya know how my dad works at the Ministry? He told me that there's two dark Lords coming. One's Lord Voldemord and the other - the other is his grandfather, Sire Kingslond! Sire Kingslond is much, much worse than Lord Voldemort. I heard that he used to be a very kind and nice wizard until he started helping his grandson in the dark arts!" Candy told us.
"How do you know it was him?" I asked.
"Well, Sire Kingslond is identified only by his glowing orange eyes!" Candy said.
"We'd beter get back to the castle if he's in the area!" Loly said to us. And we all ran back to the castle.
When we got back to the castle ::and dropped Candy off at the Hufflepuff commonroom:: we found the boys in our commonroom.
"Hey, guys. Did you get your dresses?" Nat asked.
"Forget that, where's Cassie and my butterbeer?" Sirius interrupted.
"No, wait! What are those rings? I've never seen them before," Tod said.
"Yeah, and why do you look so frightened?" James asked.
"You know guys, maybe they should tell us what happened," responsible Remus said to them.
"Yeah, what happened?" Peter asked. "Is Candy all right?"
"Let us talk!" I yelped. "Okay, here's the deal. We had a few hours before we went for the dresses so we decided to get our fortunes read by Madame Grandebas. She did a good job. She said that I am the Lovely. Cassie is the Keeper. Loly is the Queen. Candy is the Questioner. Lily is the Protectress and Val is the Speaker. We also found out that I have a power over water and can change into a snow lepord, Cassie has a power over wind and can change into an eagle, and that Loly has the power over fire and can change into a horse." I recited.
"And these rings are our 'special stones' that are supposed to give us help in magic and life. Anyway, after that we got our dresses, see? But then we had some time left so we went to Honeydukes. But Cassie remembered Sirius' butterbeer so she went to the Three Bromsticks. We were gonna meet her there but…" Loly trailed off.
"But," Val repeated. "We found out that she was taken away by – by Sire Kingslond!"
"Oh, no!" Sirius whispered. ::his dad works with Candy's dad so he knows about the whole evil people thing::
"But that's not all. I was just thinking. Do you guys 'member when Madame Grandebas said that we'd go on a quest and that Cassie would be involved in a different way? Well, this could be it! It all fits. Candy even found the first clue! She knew it was Sire Kingslond from his eyes! This is what she was talking about! This is our quest – to find Sire Kingslond, defeat him, and bring Cassie back!" Lily proclaimed.
"Do you think that we can do it?" James asked.
"With these two – who couldn't?" Val demanded.
"I don't know? Snape? Malfoy?" Sirius joked. And we all laughed. It releaved the tension that we'd be carring on our shoulders for a while.
As I fell asleep ::for it was 10:00 pm:: I didn't even imagine how much would happen in the next two days.
Author's Note Number Two: How did you like it? I like this one the best I think. More action – less kissy junk. Do you like the plot? Sunrise – this is gonna get even more complicated than it already is! But please remember the prank on Lucius! MoonRose – thank you! I made them a special type of animagi. Thanks to you! I even have found a special use for it in the next parts!!!!!! And Moxie – was this better? Hope so. Yep, and Ameilius were the text things were fewer this time! Please don't be mad. This is the first story I've ever written for FFN! ::That's why the beginning was so bleeping slow!:: And as I say: in the next two chapters the plot shall thicken! Smiles from Jaxx! J