RPG from the Harry Potter World Club
Anne and the Headmistress were not far from the hospital wing.
They suddenly heard a cry from the direction where they had been.
Both turned around and immediately ran that way.
They found Crono alone in the passage, unconscious.
Anne knelt down beside Crono and tried to shake him awake.
After about five minutes, she succeeded.
CC woke up in the hospital wing (A/N- sorry to interrupt, but I have no idea why she's there, so don't ask about it. OK?) and the yelling coming from the outside corridor. She noticed that Anne and the headmistress had left. But Crono was gone too!! She ran down to where the cries were coming from and saw Crono lying on the ground unconscious and Anne shaking him until he finally woke up.
'Oh my gosh, Crono!' said CC. 'I fell asleep in the hospital wing and when I woke up Anne, the headmistress, and you were all gone! I was starting to get worried that Crono had gone to find him and I actually thought that he might be dead!! I'm really glad that you're still alive!! But wait, where's he?'
"I told you to stay in there Crono," said the Headmistress. "What were you thinking trying to find him all by yourself? You're going back into the hospital wing and staying there. And I'm locking the door with a spell this time. And telling madam Pomfrey to have to stay in bed. CC, Anne, come with me and I think we will be able to find him. But when we do, I think it would be best if you would stay out of the way unless I say so. Do you all understand?"
A tall auburn haired girl walked up to the small group of people standing next to the Hospital Wing.
She stuck out his hand and said, "Hello, my name is Terisa Morgan but you can call me Tris." She blushed and turned her face away. That's just great Tris, make these people think you are the most insane person in the world! She thought to herself...
'Yes Headmistress,' said Crono. 'I understand. I will do nothing to him, until you tell me to do something. But I will be ready to help at your word. Hopefully we'll finally be able to find him and stop his evil ways.'
Anne smiled weakly at the new girl.
'Hello,' she said. 'Tris, did you say? I'm sorry, I have a really bad memory for names.'
Suddenly a cold wave of that same irresistible power went through her again. She had to lean on the near-by wall for support.
She closed her eyes. She could see him talking to someone. She thought she knew where he stood.
Anne opened her eyes and realized there were tears on her checks.
She looked at the Headmistress.
'I know where he is,' she said shortly.
"No you don't Anne." Crono said smiling evilly. "HE'S RIGHT HERE!!" Crono yelled and grabbed Anne's throat choking her. Crono was trying to get control of his own body but couldn't.
And in the Slytherin common room Marsea looked up, shook herself, and smiled. She turned to Draco.
"He has taken control of Crono." she laughed.
Draco looked up, "Is it time then?"
"Yes." She grinned again. "He is strong. We will gather the others now."
An owl fluttered into the open window. A storm was raging outside. Marsea untied the letter around the owl's leg and read it.
"The headmistress is seeking the help of the other houses in apprehending him. Silly fool, thinking she can win."
Draco smiled as well. "Let's go." he said.
Marsea raised her wand and spun it in the air, causing a tornado to swirl around her head, she then pointed to the door and blasted it open, Wind howled through the corridors as Marsea stepped out of the doorway. Candles flickered and died. Wind continued to howl through the castle as Marsea and Draco walked toward the hospital wing.
Anne lifted her hands to where Crono was choking her. They were on fire.
It burned his fingers and he had to let go.
'He's not himself,' she said to the Headmistress. 'Tom took over.'
She sensed the power of Wind wake.
Without any hesitations she drew a circle of fire around the people standing in the corridor. And not a moment too soon. A wind not like the others passed through the castle, but Anne's fire was able to protect everyone within.
'That is the power of Wind,' Anne said and collapsed. A fire that strong was hard to assemble, it drained all of her power.
Crono finally got control of his body again. "Anne I'm so sorry!" He said.
CC slowly got up after the wind was knocked out of her, wiped off the dust that came with all of the wind and said,
"That was lucky that Anne conjured up the fire circle to protect everyone out here in the corridor. I think someone should take Anne and Crono up to the hospital wing, they've been through a lot today. Don't you think so headmistress??"
She knelt down on the dirty, dusty floor where Anne lay and shook her, "Please get up, get up, we can't afford to lose you now! We need your expertise on this horrible situation. We need to find out where Tom is!!"
The girl that had walked up to them slowly brushed herself off, "What in the world happened? Do you mean Tom RIDDLE??" She looked in confusion to the other people there. suddenly she started to mumble under her breath and a large, full-length mirror popped out of thin air. Then she stroked the cherrywood frame and all around her people gasped. "AN IMAGER!! Oh my GOD! she's gonna kill us all!" Someone whispered loudly. Tris looked toward that direction; "Not ALL Imagers are followers of Voldemort! My god! Why would I follow the person who is responsible for my family's death?" As Tris stroked her mirror, a thirteen-year-old royal elf looked straight at the mirror. The elf's face changed to one full of anger and everyone saw in her mouth the words: THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO DO THIS VAGEL! Tris closed her eyes and counted to ten. When she looked around her there were many people gathered around her mirror. with a faint pop and a wave of her arms the mirror disappeared from sight. Tris looked around her and said in a calm voice "Trust me and I will trust you. That elf you saw was the Queen of Elves, Molly Ferchelli, and my best friend. If the Queen of Elves trusts an Imager, then don't you think that you can?
"We must take a little while to go to the hospital wing," said the Headmistress. "We know he is in the castle, and I do not think he will be able to get out. Even though those two students got out of their common room. The only reason they could, is because the spell was wearing off. And one of them had the power of wind. And Tris, we are not talking of Tom Riddle. Anne may explain who he is later, but he is in the castle and we need to find him. CC and Crono, please carry Anne to the hospital wing. And Tris, you may help me look for this Tom, or go with them to the hospital wing. Take your pick, but I assure you that the hospital wing will be the safer route."
Anne cam around to hear the Headmistress' last words.
'I don't think that's so true,' she said shakily. 'Tom. He's after me after all. No one will be safe if he's with me.'
She looked around.
'Tom and I grew up together,' she started to explain to all who didn't hear her explanation before.
'We lived in Russia. He worships Voldemort, which's where the 'Tom' came from. He has the power of Ice, therefore the power of Water. I think he is trying to - er - unite all the elements together. If he succeeds he will be unstoppable. He has Wind on his side. I am Fire, and there is no knowledge of Earth and Metal yet.'
She had talked too much. Her powers left her again. She fainted straight into Crono's arms.
CC started pacing back and forth, back and forth.
"Crono we should take Anne to the hospital wing now. She looks like she needs a good nights sleep. I think you maybe should take a little nap too."
CC conjured up a stretcher for Anne and they were on their way, when they heard a high pitched laugh and stopped straight in their tracks.
She looked back at Crono's face where there was unmistakable fear written all over it and she was sure her face looked the same way,
"Oh no, it's him!!"
"What the...?" said Mistikal, a Hufflepuff student.
'What just happened headmistress? I know a wind like a tornado just went by...but what was that about???'
Tris looked at the two with understanding dawning on her face. Then Tris turned after person that they called Tom... his expression, black with hate. He must be stopped! she thought to herself, his hate is too strong to be quenched... and that lust for power and the power that he has is in the wrong hands altogether. As the two carrying Anne started running, Tris tried to get his attention, to make a decoy of herself...
Anne could feel her body toss and turn, wherever it was. She was still unconscious.
She was dreaming about Tom. Again.
It was a time since she last dreamed about him. He looked taller than she remembered: same dark hair, same green eyes. Same power.
'Why won't you give up?' he asked her in a sweet like voice.
'I won't. There's nothing you can do about it.'
They were in a rather small room. Anne and Tom were standing face to face.
'But, dear,' he said. 'You know you can't fight me, you know I'll win. You must remember that I always get what I want.'
'You won't get me,' she said.
'Oh,' he said and smiled. 'But yes I will.'
'No, no, no!' she yelled at him. 'NO!!!!!'
Crono tried to shake Anne awake. "Anne!" He said. She still wouldn't wake up. "Take her to the hospital wing, NOW!" Crono said. The girl took her there. He went to find Tom. He searched High and Low until he finally found him. "YOU AND ME!" Crono yelled and blasted him. He froze the beam. Crono concentrated all his energy into one point. He blasted it, knocking Tom back.
'NO!!!!!!!!!!!!' Anne sat up in a bed in the Hospital Wing.
She couldn't see straight, she saw someone standing next to her but apart from the fact it was a woman or a girl, she couldn't recognize her.
Suddenly, she could feel Tom. He was fighting someone.
If she could concentrate just a bit.
But it was hard, it was draining her. She held onto the hand of the girl next to her to stable herself.
Then she saw who Tom was fighting.
'We have to stop him!' she cried out trying to get out of bed. 'He'll kill him! Please we have to get to Crono!'
Crono dodged an ice beam. He blasted Tom again. He than pulled out his wand. "Crucio!" He said, torturing Tom.
CC took Anne's hands off of her shoulder and made her lay back down on her bed.
"Anne stay here, I'm going to go get Tris and the headmistress. We need all the help we can get. But you need to stay here, you're weak, tired, and need some sleep. I'll get Madam Pomfrey to watch you while I'm gone. Now where is Tom and Crono at?"
Anne told her and CC ran as fast as she could down to find Madam Pomfrey and tell her to go watch Anne. Madam Pomfrey immediately left to sit by Anne. CC quickly looked around the room and then she ran again to go get Tris and the headmistress. She finally found them looking for Tom on the 3rd floor corridor.
Out of breath she said, "I know where Tom is. He's trying to kill Crono!!"
Crono was still holding his own against Tom, Casting spell after spell.
Mistikal saw them taking Anne to the hospital wing. he followed them. But when he caught up to them, people just ran right out and past him. figuring that someone should stay with Anne, he walked in. there, sitting up in bed was Anne, and she looked like she was in pain. "are you okay?" he asked.
Marsea and Draco swept down the halls, candles flickering as they went. Suddenly Marsea stopped and looked at Draco.
"Someone's fighting him." she said.
"Who?" asked Draco, frowning.
Marsea smiled again. "Crono." She said, and continued walking, till they could hear screams from a hallway nearby. They slowly rounded the corner.
Crono was yelling, and apparently had Tom under the spell of the Cruciatus Curse.
"You'll pay for that!" Marsea yelled, before shooting a gust of wind that knocked Crono against a stone wall.
"Crucio!" she yelled, and Crono screamed in pain. "That's what you deserve!"
Draco started laughing. "If you were in Gryffindor, Crono, this would be so much more fun."
Marsea broke her hold on Crono for a second.
"Imperio!" she yelled. Crono sat motionless. He was now under her control.
"You will lie there until your friends come to fetch you. You will say that Tom is dead."
Marsea smiled, as the storm within the castle raged on.
Crono smiled. "Your imperius curse sucks." He said and blasted her with a huge beam. "LIFE BLAST!!" He yelled smashing Tom and Draco with an enormous beam.
Mistikal heard people battling in the corridor. "Who could that be?" He asked himself as he ran in the direction of the sounds.
He got a little farther down the corridor when he saw Crono, Tom, Marsea, and Draco battling.
"Well I might help the odds of winning this battle" he said as he stood by Crono.
"Hey, thanks for helping me." Crono said as he looked over to the boy next to him. "Crucio!" Crono yelled, torturing Tom again.
"Yeah, your welcome" Mistikal said as he raised his wand....and "CRUCIO!!" he yelled aiming his wand at Draco. Mistikal repeated it "CRUCIO!!" he yelled again this time aiming it at Marsea.
By that time the Headmistress got to where they were all fighting, she put Tom under her control and said "All right! Everyone stop conjuring spells while I talk! Crono, Didn't I tell you to help take Anne to the hospital wing? Please go check that she is all right. And I will meet you down there in a few minutes. Draco I will lead you and Marsea back to the Slytherin common room and then Mistikal, Tom, and I will go check on Anne and Crono in the hospital wing. Lets go"
Crono stared at the headmistress. "I know I'm gonna get a bad grade for this but, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING???" Crono asked. "TOM IS RIGHT THERE AND COULD KILL US ALL!!! MALFOY AND HIS PET MARSEA JUST TRIED TO KILL ME!! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???" Crono yelled.
Anne was sitting in her bed. She could vaguely see people going out and coming in. Someone was holding her so that she wouldn't get up.
Suddenly she heard Tom speak to her. 'So this is what you got to protect you?' he laughed.
'I can kill them all only by thinking. I won't, just now. Don't worry. I might be able to find out how to use what they have.'
'Where are you?' she heard herself say.
'But dear, you know me well enough to know I won't tell you.'
'I can see where you are when I want to,' she answered.
'You can? Interesting,' he said. 'I'll have to explore that.'
There was silence. Anne couldn't see the room anymore, it was all black.
'You're weak,' Tom said finally. 'I can make you strong. I can make you queen, and you know that. Why do you say no?'
'Yes, I know that. But unlike you, I can still remember what queen was like. Do you remember our talks, Tom?'
'O, yes of course. The princess who ran away. You won't have to run for long now.' he said.
'I'll see you soon,' he added in a sweet voice as an afterthought.
Anne turned around. She was in the Hospital wing. She was crying. Then she noticed someone standing right beside her.
Her sight was still very poor.
'Tom?' she said quietly.
"Crono, if you hadn't noticed, I just put him under my control,' said the Headmistress. "He might be able to fight it off soon, So I am calling some of my good powerful friends to the castle to help me keep him under control. One moment"
She quickly wrote a few notes and some owls took them out the window.
"They should be arriving shortly. But Crono, you really need to go check on Anne, And Draco and Marsea will be punished. And yes, you two. I can see which spells you last performed. Now, we must wait here for my friends to come. Except you, Crono, you must go see Anne right now to make sure she is OK."
"Yes, headmistress." Crono said and snickered at Marsea and Draco. He went to the hospital wing to see Anne. "Anne? What's wrong?" Crono asked.
Marsea scowled at Crono. "Draco's PET? You must be joking."
She looked at the headmistress. "I'm sooo scared, you know." She said. "Especially since you can't punish me or Draco for any spells we did, considering that Crono did them on us."
Malfoy smiled. "Yeah, you'll have to punish him too. He used one of the unforgivable curses on TWO students."
Just then a cold wind swept by.
Marsea looked shocked. "But, I didn't.."
They looked over and Tom had returned from his imperious curse.
"Thank you Marsea, Draco. I will no longer need you two. I have your powers now, Marsea." He lifted his wand.
"Avada Kadavra!"he at Marsea. She crumpled to the ground. He did the same to Draco.
Tom turned to the shocked group of people around him.
"I only needed to have her on my side in order to get her powers. She is no longer needed."
Marsea opened her eyes and realized she was lying on the floor. "What happened?" she thought. "All I remember is Tom and.. Avada Kedavra. Shouldn't I be dead?"
She stood up quickly and looked down. Her body was lying on the floor at her feet.
"OGod.. I'm dead." She turned to see Draco lying on the floor next to her. His ghost was standing above him, as well.
He was shaking. "Are we... DEAD?" he asked.
"I think so. That a**hole killed us!" said Marsea. She looked at the people gathered around. The headmistress had once again re-controlled Tom, and had rushed to Marsea's body.
Marsea looked at Draco and smiled. "It's okay, this could be fun.."
Draco stopped shaking and smiled too. "Yeah. We can do WHATEVER we want, and they won't see us unless we want them to."
Marsea grinned. This COULD be fun.
In the meantime, Mistikal was talking with the Headmistress.
"Even though I don't want to admit it, Marsea is wrong. I am the one who did the crucio curse on herself and Draco. but it was so that none of us would die......just to keep us not dead until you got here headmistress. besides, Crono was outnumbered." "Well, I'm pretty sure that all of you used some spells that you shouldn't have,' said the Headmistress. "So I will punish you all."
Just then Headmistress Stone noticed what Tom did.
"Oh no.... Marsea? Draco?! We need to take them to the hospital wing right away.. Just to make sure.... Let's go. Quick! Mistikal, You bring Marsea, I'll bring Draco and Tom."
Just then Hagrid came up the stairs.
"Hello, Hagrid! We are in a big mess here. Could you carry Draco and Marsea down to the hospital wing and tell madam Pomfrey that they might have been killed but just have her make sure?"
He nodded and went down to the hospital wing carrying Marsea and Draco, Glancing at Tom but not saying anything about it.
"Mistikal, lets go down with Hagrid to the hospital wing. And don't worry about Tom. I will NOT forget about him this time. And soon some one will arrive who can help me control him, and take him to Azkaban"
CC shrugged not knowing what to do, so she just went up to the Ravenclaw common room where all the other Ravenclaws bombarded her with questions. Yawning she told them all what had happened and that the headmistress had sent for someone to take Tom to Azkaban. Then she went up to her dormitory, collapsed into her soft 4-poster bed and fell asleep.
Marsea and Malfoy continued watching the events in the hallway with smiles on their faces. They watched as the headmistress ignored their tragic deaths, and as Hagrid carried their lifeless bodies away to the hospital wing.
"Should we follow?" asked Malfoy.
"Why not? This could be interesting." she answered.
Marsea and Malfoy followed Hagrid as we walked down the empty corridors. Well, they were empty until they turned a corridor and came face with none other than Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.
"Hello, Hagrid." Said Harry. "What have you got there?"
Hagrid shifted uneasily. "Nothin' Harry, I don' have time ter talk jus' now, maybe you can come over fer tea later?"
"Sure thing, Hagrid." said Ron. But Harry was frozen.
"That's Malfoy there, Hagrid. What's wrong with Malfoy, Hagrid?" asked Harry.
"Er.." Hagrid thought quickly. "He and this young lady here were, er, doin' somthin' they shouldn't and we had ter stun 'em." He walked away. "See yeh around, Harry, Ron!"
Hagrid disappeared down the corridor, but Marsea and Malfoy's ghosts stayed with Ron and Harry.
Ron sniggered. "Caught doing something they shouldn't.. I can only imagine!"
Malfoy smiled.
Marsea scowled. "I don't like this."
"Oh come on, Marsea. It's ok. Let them think."
Marsea continued scowling. She walked up behind Ron and pulled his hood over his head.
"Let's go." she said to Malfoy, and they continued toward the hospital wing.
"Alright I'm coming Headmistress" Mistikal said, following Headmistress Stone to the hospital wing.
Anne looked at Crono who just came in.
'C- Crono?' her voice shook. 'Is everything all right? Where is Tom? Was anyone killed? Please, you have to tell me!'
She took his hand.
'Please, you have to tell me!'
The next morning CC woke up and thought that she had had a good sleep. 'I wonder if it's really true that Marsea and Draco are really dead. They appeared that way to me. Even though they're Slytherins, I hope they're not dead.'
She stood up, stretched, yawned again, and looked at her watch, it's 6:00, hmm not quite time for breakfast yet maybe I'll go for a little walk until 7:00. She silently changed into new clothes and her black robe and walked out of the common room.
She walked through an apparently empty corridor when she ran into a tall guy, with spiky black hair and caring green eyes.
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you new here? You look lost. Do you want me to show you the way to Headmistress Stone's office?"
Marsea and Malfoy continued down the halls toward the Hospital Wing. They had lost sight of Hagrid, but they knew where he was headed. When they arrived at the hospital wing and walked inside they saw Madam Pomfrey examining their corpses.
"Hmmm.." she sighed. "Dead all right. Why can't you people take better care of your students? I got one girl in here tonight carrying on about some lunatic trying to take over the school." she eyed the man drooped over Hagrid's shoulder. "Good Heavens! What kind of learning environment is this?"
Hagrid sighed "I don't know what ter say. They were killed all righ'. I've got ter take this man to the authorities." Hagrid shifted his load.
"Is he crazy?" Marsea shouted. "Tom could overcome his imperius curse any minute!"
"And that would be a bad thing?" asked Draco.
"Yes, well, I'm all for evil, you know me, but he killed us remember? I'm not exactly into being really loyal right now."
"Yeah, you're right. Say, do ghosts have powers?" asked Draco.
"I assume so. Let's see." Marsea waved her hand. Nothing happened. She frowned. "I imagine we have powers, but I'm not sure how we go about using them."
"Well, let's figure it out later." Draco pointed to Hagrid. "The big oaf's about to leave."
Hagrid walked silently out of the Hospital Wing, flanked closely by the shadowy ghosts of Draco and Marsea.
The Headmistress started walking to the hospital wing with CC. When they got there, Hagrid was leaving with Tom over his shoulder.
"Hagrid, hold on a second, I need to put a new controlling curse on him. CC, if you know how to do one, it would be more powerful."
She raised her wand and put a new curse on him.
"Ok, now take him to Azkaban as quickly as possible. Wait a second. Why didn't I think of this before?"
She reached into Tom's pocket and pulled out his wand.
"Ok, you should be more safe now, so get a move on to Azkaban. Owl me if you have any trouble."
"K, I'll jus' be on me way now then"
Headmistress Stone walked into the hospital wing and talked to Madam Phomfrey. "Ok, they are dead. I'm so sorry everyone, but these things can happen with people like Tom around. He's like Voldemort, killing everyone that gets in his way. And yes, now he does have wind. But he doesn't have all the others. Who knows how long they can keep him in Azkaban, but let's hope it's long enough to get the castle back to normal."
Anne just sat there.
Someone dead... Tom in Azkaban... Pomfrey thinking she was crazy... And voices, voices in her head. They sounded so much like Wind and that guy, what was his name? Dracon? Darso? They were talking, talking about being dead... It couldn't be...
She was going mad and no one noticed... It was like being home again, left alone with Timberlin. That was safe. So damn safe he tried to kill her when she refused to join her... Timberline... Tom...
Anne felt like she was going to fall asleep... No! She can't fall asleep! She'll meet him again! He'll make her agree... Not to fall asleep... Not to... N...
"So what's going on?" Mistikal asked as he walked in.
"Are those two dead or what? I thought they were but I wasn't sure. I still ain't. Wooo. Wh's wrong with Anne? looks like something is wrong...and where is Tom? id Hagrid take him to Azkaban or sumthin?" Mistikal asked as he looked from Headmistress Stone to Anne.
"Something seems very wrong to me," Mistikal said.
"Anne!" Crono shouted. He shook her awake. "Anne, tell me everything, NOW!" Crono shouted at her.
"Yes, Marsea and Draco are dead. Their ghosts must be somewhere here at Hogwarts unless they left. But we can only see them if they us to... Hagrid is taking Tom to Azkaban. Anne? Anne wake up! What's wrong? Madam Pomfrey is this normal?"
Marsea sighed as she and Draco followed Hagrid down the hallway.
"Is this it?" she said. "This can't be the end of the excitement!"
"Maybe." Said Draco. "Well, it depends on your idea of excitement. We're ghosts, we can do whatever we want remember? This could be fun, like you said." he grinned. "You know, Weasley and Potter already think.."
"No." said Marsea, scowling, and kept walking, shaking her head. "I just don't believe this is actually over. Crono didn't even get what he deserved."
Just then, Hagrid stopped. Marsea and Draco almost ran into him. The load on his shoulder was moving.
"Oh God," said Marsea. "It's not over."
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Disclaimer- Most things here are ours (the members of the HPWC), the castle of Hogwarts & people you recognize from the books are JK Rowlings. Though Marsea insists that Draco is hers.
A/N- I do hope you like it. Please review.