Chapter Thirty-eight
Well since I'd been traumatized for life when it came to airplanes, I was aparrated back to England with Dean on the day before we had classes again. This also wasn't exactly my favorite method of traveling but it would have to do. The first person I saw when I got back was Jamie.
"I am so glad you're alright!" She hugged me. "What happened?"
I told her the story of the plane the apparition, and New York. Then I told her about Dean, and how he'd been there.
"Oh, that's so romantic!" she swooned.
"I also got a whole bunch of free stuff from Zonkos."
I saved some leprechauns!"
"Cool!"
Next Saturday night I sat in my room reading some comic books I'd bought back from America. I'd just gotten through the new issue of Spidergirl when Jamie came in.
"It's the full moon!" she said gleefully,
"Point?" I said tiredly. "We've gone with them so many times now, It gets boring."
"Fine." Jamie sighed and sat down next to me. "What's that?" she pointed to my comic.
"Spidergirl," I said. "I bought it back from America."
She looked at it queerly. "What's the point?"
I gave her a look. "Make your self comfortable."
Jamie looked at me in mock horror as if to say here we go again, but she sat down as I explained the whole plots of Spiderman, Spidergirl, The X-men, and the Fantastic Four. It took about two hours.
"Aphi I think we missed dinner." Said Jamie yawning.
"All in the name of Marvel comics." I answered clipping a coupon.
"Shut up." she rolled off my bed and went over to hers.
I flipped under my bed and pulled out five white boxes.
"What in heavens name!" Hermione had just walked in.
"My collection." I said proudly. I pulled the cover off of one box, and took out a cover slip for the comic I'd just finished reading. I carefully put it back in the box. Then I took the covers off of all the other boxes, so they could see exactly how addicted I was.
"There must be thousands of them." Said Jamie gawking.
"I have the first issue of Spiderman." I told them. "And of X-men."
"This is so sick," said Hermione shaking her head. "I thought your TV problem was bad, this is just deadly."
I smiled and put some more protection spells on the boxes, and then I put the tops on them, and pushed them back under my bed.
"They were there all that time?" asked Jamie.
"Yep. And I'm sending this away so I can get the new issues when ever they come out."
"How'll the get them here?"
"There're still a few wizards at Marvel they'll get them to me." I said confidently. "And of course if I get the wizarding versions too, they'll move."
"You've got problems Aphi, big ones."
Voldemort attacked three more people in one night. I had the strangest feeling our showdown was coming soon.
(Ooo creepy!)
-Kendra Black (aka- Aphi Black, aka-Rouge, aka-Jean Grey, aka-Shadowcat.)
Chapter Thirty-nine: The Showdown
It was one month later and Jamie and I happened to be out in the forest. We were looking for anything intresting because we were both bored out of our minds. I still new that Voldemort was coming, I could just feel it. The forest soothed me; I found it peaceful and calm during the day, and just the kind of challenge I needed during the night. With my foxes nose I smelled something diferent up ahead. I signaled to Jamie for her to follow me. we walked up a slope and down onto more rocky path. There was something slippery on the ground and we followed it. It led us to a big black motorcycle.
Jamie and I transformed and began to look it over.
"It's a '64 Harley." I said in awe. (A/N- IF THERE IS NO SUCH THING I REALLY COULD CARE LESS)
"It's almost perfect." Commented Jamie.
I climbed on and sat down.
"They're no keys." I reported.
"Well duh, why would there be?" Jamie asked.
I looked at a little red switch. "I wonder what this does." I flicked it. Big mistake!
I shot up into the air, at like 200 mph. I was going almost straight up, and it was definaltly not like a broom.
"Jamie!" I yelled.
Suddenly my head whipped forward as the bike went level. I wanted to rub my neck but I kept my hands gripped to the handles. I zoomed over the forest leaving Jamie far behind. It was almost impossible to steer.
"Help!" I screamed.
I could see the castle in the distance; I used all my strength to keep the bike going that way. I got closer and closer, and the bike started going down, down, down, down, and then I blacked out.
Somehow I was flying. I looked down. Cool! I was Spidergirl. I had a backpack on, and I knew that I had to get to school. I jumped off one building and on to another shooting web as I went. I realized someone was chasing me. I looked behind me. It was the green goblin, but it wasn't. It was someone else, and he was gaining. I jumped off the building and down onto a wall. The thing kept following.
"Soon Aphrodite Black, I'll have you dead!" The figure reached and grabbed a pumpkin grenade, and threw it at me. Spider sense told me it was coming but I stood there and stared. Finally it reached me and exploded. I screamed!
"Stay still." I heard someone say. I didn't know they were saying it to me.
"Aphrodite wake up!" said someone.
My eyes flew open. I breathed heavily. I saw the familiar sceene of the hospital
Wing at Hogwarts. My vision was blured though, and I thought there were about forty people standing over me.
"I'm dead," I gasped. "The Green Goblin killed me."
"She's talking nonsence" said a voice.
"No," said Jamie's voice. "She thinks she's in a comic book."
"I'm not here." I shook my head. "The Goblin killed me."
"Aphi, snap out of it."
"That must have been one hell of a fall." A person said.
"It was, she had a broken arm and leg."
"He said he'd kill me and he did!" I gasped again.
"I'm sedating her." A needle came towards my arm, and I fell still.
This time I was on a battlefield. I had my army on both sides of me, and my sidekick Gabriel next to me. The gods wanted my daughter, and they wouldn't get her. I wouldn't let them. I patted Argo my horse for good luck. I raised my sword about to charge into battle, when Aries apeared next to me. I sighed not wanting to debate his deal again. Only it wasn't Aries. He wore Aries' clothes, but it wasn't him. This man had snake scales and two blood red eyes.
"I'm coming Aphrodite, I'm coming."
"But I'm Xena, Aphrodite is your sister."
He laughed and shook his head. Then he dissepeared.
Again I awoke still not knowing exactly who I was. I only knew that the man with the snake scales was coming.
"Aphi are you there?" some asked.
"He's coming for me, Aries is coming."
"She's never met her uncle, what could she mean?"
A blurred vission of a girl stood over me. "Aphi, who are you?"
"She just needs rest."
A gentle hand with a cloth was placed over my nose.
I walked down the hallways of Kennedy high, cool and confident. Hell, I was Nicole Julian, I was a popular. Who would dare mess with me? People parted as I walked, just as it should be. Mary Cherry joined me at my side, and we walked into biology together.
"Torture Bobby Glass?" Mary asked me.
"Check." I applied lipstick.
We sat down at desks. I shot looks at Lily, Harrison (A/N-Shut up. I know he's in the hospital for lukemia), and Sam letting them know that I could ruin their lives. Bobby Glass walked up the isles giving back tests. She handed me mine.
'I'm here!" it said in red ink. It wasn't red ink though, it was blood!
I woke up screaming. This time I knew exactly who I was and where I was.
I sat up straight in my bed, and people came rushing into see me.
"You were out for a week." Said mom, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Voldemort is in the school." I choked out.
People backed away.
"He's here. I've had clues all week. I remember being Spidergirl and he killed me, then I was Xena and he warned me, and now he's here!"
Madam Pomfrey walked forward shaking her head. I saw she held a sedative.
"I don't want to be sedated!" I yelled franticly. I looked for a way out. Finally I transformed and ran out of the hospital wing. Harry, Jamie, Ron, and Hermione were right on my tail. Jamie transformed to keep up with me. I ran then stopped unsure of where to go. I decided to go left. I ran and ran until I came to a wall. My friends were right behind me. They couldn't stop in time and crashed into the wall! The wall turned pushing us into another room. My little fox heart beat quickly, as I tried to get used to my surroundings.
"Glad you decided to join me." said a slithery voice. "I see you got my messages."
I transformed back so I could talk.
"You make a really bad Aries, more like a cupid I think."
"Laughing before you die. Is this a custom with you Americans?"
"We like to keep the humor flowing." I said dryly.
A purple mist appeared in front of us, and started to take shape. As soon as it had an arm it reached out and grabbed me by the neck.
I gagged trying to breath. Suddenly Voldemort cursed. I looked down. A little rabbit had put its teeth to good use. I rubbed my neck.
"Here!" Harry pulled a wand out of his pocket. "We fixed this for you." He tossed it to me. Voldemort looked at us amused.
"Going to duel?" he laughed.
"Sonora!" I yelled.
He laughed again and nothing happened.
"Sonora." He yelled at me. A sudden pain shot up my wand arm and I dropped my wand and fell to the floor.
"Aphi get up!" Ron yelled, he was also shooting curses but none of them were working. But I couldn't get up, I sat frozen with fear. Jamie kept biting him, but he somehow had become immune. He came closer and closed towards me. He finally picked me up by my robes.
"In the words of the Green Goblin," he said slowly. "You've spun your last web Spiderman." He pointed his wand at me chest. The pain in my arm started to spread to the rest of my body. I started shaking, and I could feel is breath on my face, (mind you now, it wasn't good breath) he lifted me up so I could look him in the eye.
"Avada Kedrav…" I was ready to die, but Hermione had plowed into him from be hind knocking him over. I hit the floor hard, but scrambled up. Transforming I went to help Jamie try to distract him. I bit his ear hard, but it didn't seem to hurt him. He got back up and retrieved his wand. He started after Harry now. Jamie and I ran after him. We transformed back and got our wands.
"Avada Kedavra!" we yelled at him. Nothing happened of course but we had to try.
"What are you doing?" Hermione looked horrified.
"Crucius!" we yelled again. Nothing. He now had Harry in his grasp. Hermione tried another spell but it wasn't working.
"We can't use spells against him." Said Jamie.
"Physical abuse ought to do it." I ran over and kicked Voldemort in the back. It worked. I used ten years of Karate against him while Jamie, Ron and Hermione used their combined power to try to beat him.
I kicked Voldemort hard enough so he let go of Harry.
"Go help them." I yelled. "I'll take care of this."
Voldemort started shooting curses at me, but I found with transforiming and a few swift kicks I could dodge them. I finally went to my last resort. I kicked Voldemort up the ass. To my surprise he didn't even wince.
"Damn." I said slowly. "That should have hurt him.
"In case you haven't figured out, he's not human!" Harry called out. "Watch out!" he pointed to Voldemort behind me.
"Let's see how you do against these." Chains shot out of Voldemort's wand, and around my hands. He grabbed the ends of the chains and pulled me.
"Easy," I said viciously. "Ever seen Charlie's Angels?" I swung him around like Lucy Lui had done to the guys in the movie. "I mean you seem to like movies so much. That airplane thing was so MI:2."
I round housed him in the neck. He was down on the ground and he dropped his wand.
"Now!!" I yelled to my friends. "Do what ever you are going to do now!"
I ran over to them to get away from Voldemort.
"Stupefy!" they all yelled.
Voldemort went limp.
"I just went through all hell and all you could think of was stupefy!"
"Doesn't he need a trial?" said Hermione.
I sighed. "Fine. What are we gonna do now?"
"We should get him out of here."
I conjured up a stretcher, and lifted his body onto it.
"This is so freaky." Murmured Ron keeping as far away from the body as possible, I put chains and binds all over Voldemort, until I was content.
"Let's go."
We took Voldemort up to the hospital wing. A lot of good that did. Madam Pomfrey fainted when she saw him. Dumbledore knew what to do though. He called the minister to come up to the school.
"This must be some sort of joke." Said the minister through the fire.
"Does it look like I'm joking?" asked Dumbledore.
The minister agreed to come up to the school, and he to fainted when he saw Voldemort on a stretcher. When he was revived he wanted to know how this had happened.
"Ten years of karate, a lot of pop culture, and stupefy." I'd answered from my bed. It was the truth though.
"You'll all be sure to get the Honor of Merlin for this." He babbled.
"Cool." I said agreeably from my bed.
"Rest," said Madam Pomfrey, and I was sedated once more.
I was fighting the Borg; the cube came closer and closer.
"Prepare to be assimilated." The robotic drone voices said. "Resistance is futile."
"Evasive maneuvers Mr. Paris." I said from my captain's seat. "Tuvok fire at will."
The ship dodged the Borg cubes beams expertly, Voyager always did; we were only hit once or twice.
"B'elona is the warp core steady?" I said through my com badge.
"Almost perfect." She answered.
" Good." I looked around, "Go into warp Tom."
"You have won this time." Said the drone voices. "You might not the next time."
Then I woke up.
(A/N- I liked that part! The next part is *sniff, sniff* the last part!
*Bawls like a baby*)
-Kendra Black (aka- Aphi Black, aka-Rouge, aka-Jean Grey, aka-Shadowcat.)