Into
The
Light.
Author's Note: July 1 2000: Hi people! It's finally up! The sixth part of "Into the Light"! Sorry it's taken so long but I've had a lot of schoolwork and assignments and stuff. I don't know how long this story will go on for. At least two or three after this one but don't quote me. I would also like to say that I don't do sex scenes! Maybe I will when I'm older, but until then, absolutely not! Send all feedback to hermione_harry_shipper@hotmail.com . Thanks!
Into The Light
Chapter Fourteen.
Minerva woke up in incredible pain.
"Unh…" she groaned. She rolled over and used a fallen table as support to get to her feet. She pushed her hands to the small of her back and stretched. Against her flesh, her hands felt wet. She pulled them up towards her eyes and saw that they were covered in blood, but there were no cuts or gashes on her hands.
"Ohhhhh…" she gasped as she craned her neck to see her back. There was a deep gash and there was blood everywhere. "How long have I been out for?" she asked herself aloud.
"About twenty-one hours."
Minerva spun around to see Lupin standing behind her.
"Twenty-one hours?" she asked, bewildered. "Oh, Remus…" she said.
"It's okay, Minny, it's okay." Remus said as he drew her into a tight embrace.
"Ouch!" Minerva cried as Remus squeezed her too tightly around her back.
Remus drew his hands away to see that they were covered in blood from Minerva's back.
"Oh, sorry, Minny. I didn't realise that you were hurt."
Minerva turned around to show him the wound.
"Oh, Minny!" Remus cried. "What happened?"
"I was hit in the back by one of Voldemort's blasts." She explained. "Straight in the back."
Lupin looked troubled.
"Remus, what's wrong?" Minerva asked, a little worried. Remus was not an emotional man at the best of times.
"Dumbledore, he…" he started to say, but stopped.
Fear washed over Minerva. "What about Dumbledore?" she asked shakily. "What has happened to him, Remus?"
Lupin sighed heavily. "He was…he was killed by Voldemort. He's dead, Minny. He's dead."
Chapter Fifteen.
Hermione awoke on the ground to find that Harry was not lying beside her.
He's probably just getting a drink. she said to herself. Making love can make you thirsty. she laughed to herself.
She smiled and grabbed her clothes and robes and pulled them on.
"Harry?" Hermione called.
Silence.
Hermione frowned. "Harry?" she called again.
Silence.
Hermione was frightened now. "Harry?" she whispered fearfully.
Outside she heard a muffled thud and a slight yelp of pain.
"Harry!" Hermione yelled. Full of fear for her boyfriend she ran through the wall of water and fell into the deep water underneath the waterfall.
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Hermione came to on a strip of sand on the riverbank. She was further upstream than she had been before. She looked down at the water current has calm and gentle. And it looked as if it had been that way for more than a couple of hours.
I don't get it. Hermione muttered to herself. How could this weak current possibly have carried me upstream…? she paused and looked upstream.But exactly how far upstream did it carry me?
She got shakily to her feet. "Harry?" she squeaked.
"GRRRRRRRRRR……" the was a low growl from behind her and a low hum.
Hermione gasped and spun around, all tiredness forgotten.
WHACK!
Hermione was down on her stomach, the wind knocked out of her. She felt hot breath on her neck.
"Having fun, Hermione?" said a voice in a low drawl. "AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
Hermione spun around and jumped to her feet. She saw that she was no longer by the stream, but in a dark, dungeon-like place of some sort.
"Where am I?!" Hermione demanded. "And where's Harry?!"
"This is simply a dream, Hermione. You could call it a warning." Said the voice.
"A warning? A warning for what?" Hermione demanded, scared.
"A warning of danger ahead, Hermione." The voice said. "You must be careful. There is something ahead that you must be alive for."
"What 'important event' would that be?" Hermione asked, aggravated at the voice's cryptic nature.
"You can't know too much at this stage, Hermione." The voice told her. "It would ruin what is to come. Just trust your instincts and lay low for a while. It is up to you and Harry to save the Wizarding world."
Back in the cave, Hermione woke with a start.
TO BE CONTINUED…