RPG from the Garry Potter World Club
"Man it's crowded in here! With all these people in here it's hard to breathe!" Mistikal said as he decided to go out of the Hospital wing for a minute to think about all that has happened." So Tom has 2 elements...wind and water...only 3 more to get, including me." Mistikal said to himself.
He went back into the Hospital Wing.
Anne looked around the Hospital Wing. There were many people about; it was hard for her to see them clearly.
Suddenly another person entered the room. That person was as clear as crystal. It was a ghost. It was Wind.
Anne watched the figure approach the Headmistress and try to talk to her. But the Headmistress couldn't see her.
'Wind?' Anne said finally. 'What are you doing here? What happened to you?'
She stopped for a moment.
'Are you all right?' she said finally.
The ghost stared at her.
'Yes, I can see you,' said Anne eventually. 'The elements can see and hear each other when they are in a special condition.'
At that moment the door opened and the fourth element came in.
'Please, answer me, what happened to you? And if you're not going to then at least tell me where Tom is.'
"Anne, He's waking up." said Marsea hurrying to her bedside. "I'm gonna make myself seen and tell everyone. The Headmistress has to know."
She ran back over to the headmistress. She made herself visible. Several of the people in the room screamed, but the Headmistress kept her cool.
"Headmistress, Tom is recovering from your spell. You must get to Hagrid RIGHT AWAY!" she blurted out.
As they were talking an eagle was on its way to Hogwarts with a letter. The letter contained a notice of a new exchange student from America -
Dear Headmaster/Headmistress,
As you have probably heard, Salem's academy in New York (New York in America) was attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named yesterday. I would like my adopted son, Todd, to attend Hogwarts.
His full name is Todd Dirdle. He is a 6th year and is passing every class with top marks. This is his Eagle Godspeed. I hope it will work as a substitute for an owl. He has had him since he was 7 and won't go anywhere without him. Please return this letter with an answer.
Mrs. Witchcraft
The eagle landed on the headmistress's windowsill and tapped on the glass.
In the Hospital Wing- "Marsea?" said the Headmistress. "Oh, well, hello Marsea! It's good to... See you again! Anne? Is there something wrong?"
Then Madam Pomfrey said- "I think that she is just a bit dizzy and can not see clear. What she really needs is rest! I suggest that you all leave her to do that!"
"Well, I just need to talk to her for a few minutes," answered Headmistress Stone. "And the rest of you go back to your common rooms. And I assure you that Hagrid can handle everything.
Right after I talk to Anne I will go check on Hagrid and Tom. And Marsea, Where is Draco?"
"Draco is here, just... invisible," Said Marsea and looked at Draco and smiled. He became visible too.
"We're dead," he said
"In case you hadn't noticed." quipped Marsea sarcastically.
The Eagle, seeing no one is there, flew through an open window and started looking for the Headmistress. It saw her and flew over and landed on her shoulder with the note on its claw.
"Hello Draco," said the Headmistress. "Marsea, don't think that I don't care that your dead. I'm getting to that. After I talk to Anne, we will talk. I have to call both of your parents. We really need to get Tom under control so this doesn't happen again...."
Just then an Eagle landed on her shoulder; she took the note from its beak, and read it to herself. She sent back a quick reply saying this:
Dear Mrs. Witchcraft,
I am very sorry about your academy, and hope that you are able to get your school back in order soon. I will be glad to take your son into our school with us. His eagle will do just fine; not all students have owls anyway. I hope to hear from you and Todd soon,
Headmistress Stone
"OK. Anne you look like you want to talk," said the Headmistress finally. "So everyone clear out. After I talk to Anne, she can get some rest. Just go back to your common room, and I will update you on everything tomorrow morning."
Everyone turned and left, except Crono
"I'd like to talk with Anne also," he said whimpering.
"OK Crono, you can stay," said the Headmistress.
She went and sat on the bed that was next to Anne's.
"Now Anne, are you feeling alright?" she said. "Are you able to talk to us?"
CC was walking with all the Ravenclaws back to their common room.
"I hope Hagrid's going to be OK," she said. "Tom better not do anything to him or I don't know what I'd do! I like Hagrid!" She burst into tears.
"He's one of the nicest teachers here," she continued sniffling. "And has one of the most interesting and best classes. I mean where else would we get to walk right up to a unicorn and pet it's fur? It'd be just a shame for him to die from some lunatic named Tom!" And burst into tears again.
Far away, the eagle had landed on its owner's shoulder.
"Hey, Mom!" Todd cried. 'Godspeed's back. I got accepted."
"All right honey," said Mrs. Witchcraft. "Write often."
"All right."
Todd stepped outside his house and raised his right hand. The Knight Bus showed up.
"Hogwarts, please," said Todd.
10 hours later Todd stepped off the Knight bus with his supplies. He bid his thanks and went up to the giant doors and knocked.
Through all this time Crono and the Headmistress were trying to talk to Anne who fell into a sort of trance.
"Anne?" Crono said as a tear fell from his eye. "Anne? Please speak to me."
There was a knock at the front door.
"Crono, see if you can get Anne to talk to you," said the Headmistress. "I need to check who is at the door. And if I see Hagrid, I'll check on him too. I'll be back in a few minutes."
She walked down to the front door. And in about 2 minutes she opened it.
"Oh, you must be Todd," she said. "Please come with me. Sorry that you could not be here at the sorting ceremony, but lets just go to my office and put the sorting hat on you to see what house you belong in."
As they were walking upstairs towards her office, there was something big, and ice blue ahead. She ran forward only to find Hagrid frozen in a block of ice. She quickly melted the ice away and talked to Hagrid
"Hagrid are you alright?" Headmistress Stone said. "Why didn't I think of this before?! Do you know where he went?"
"I'm fine," said Hagrid. "I think he wen' down towards the fron' door, I'm pretty sure bout that."
"Todd, did anyone come though the front door while you were there? And don't worry, these kind of things are very rare at Hogwarts..."
Headmistress was, of course, not aware of two ghosts following her to the front door and from there to her office.
When all of them reached Hagrid, Marsea whispered to Draco "Oh, no. I told her!"
The headmistress unfroze Hagrid and he said that Tom had headed for the front door.
"He hasn't gone far," said Marsea.
She looked at the new boy. A thought crossed her mind, but she quickly dismissed it. She remembered the feeling she got whenever Tom was around, and the feeling was not present. She turned to Draco. He was looking at the boy too, obviously thinking the same.
"It's not him." he agreed. And Marsea calmed.
Marsea wondered where Tom had gone, and what house the new boy would be in.
"Slytherin, please." she thought. "He seems like he could be a good asset,"
Draco smiled at her.
"I was thinking the same thing."
Meanwhile in the Hospital Wing, Anne had finally escaped her trance.
'Oh, I'm sorry Crono,' she said. 'These dreams I have. I hate them.'
Anne could feel herself getting stronger.
'Anne, can you talk?' said Crono again.
'Yes, yes,' she said. 'There were so many people it was just too much. It's better now.'
But that wasn't the only reason. She now could sense Tom escaping Hagrid.
'I can't tell Crono,' she thought. 'He'll immediately go away. I'll be alone again. The dreams will return.'
'What did you want to talk about?' She said to him in what she hoped was a calm voice.
"I want you to tell me about Tom, so I can take him on." Crono said to her.
Tom snuck catlike through the school. Without a wand, he was defenseless. Rshsaw young Daunte Mills, a Slytherin 3rd year, walking by. Tom hid behind the statue of Harold the Hungry before lunging on Daunte, seizing his wand and stunning him. Throwing Daunte into a hall closet, Tom walked toward the castle doors, ready to attack...
Liz woke up in the Ravenclaw common room. Everyone told her what had happened during the night.
'They must be hungry after all that,' thought Liz. So she ran down to the kitchens and got tea and breakfast sandwiches. And then she ran up to the Hospital Wing, spilling some tea on the way, but oh well.
She brought it to Anne and said, "Hello, you might not know me, but I'm from Ravenclaw too. And I heard what happened. So here."
She handed her the plate of food and tea. "Chow down," she continued. "You won't believe how easy it is to get food from the kitchens."
"Hi." Crono said quietly to Liz. "My name's Crono."
"Ok, so Tom might still be in the castle," said the Headmistress. "I'm going to have all the teachers help look for him."
She sent small owls though the school to find the teachers and give them her note.
"Todd, since they will all be looking for him, we must get you sorted. So lets go to my office."
They walked to her office and Todd sat in one of her chairs. She went to the shelves that were behind her desk and picked up a very old looking wizard's hat.
"This is our sorting hat," she said. "We put it on our new student's heads and it tells us which house you belong in. There is Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, And Ravenclaw. So lets see which one you belong in."
She walked over to Todd and put the sorting hat on his head.
When Todd put the hat on his head it spoke. "Ah, another one of them."
"Another one of what?" asked Todd.
'Oh, I see," said the hat. " You don't know who your father is. Hmmm. this is a tough choice. You are brave, but have a bad temper. And like to play tricks on people. And seeing who your father is, it better be SLYTHERIN!
"Ok, since you belong in Slytherin," continued the Headmistress. "I will show you to your common room. Lets go"
After Todd got up the Headmistress pulled out her wand (just in case) before she opened the door. She looked out and didn't see any sign of anyone there. So they went out, headed towards the Slytherin common room.
Marsea and Draco were talking quietly about Todd's sorting.
"Another Slytherin. I knew he could be fun," said the smiling Marsea.
"Not too much fun, I hope." snapped Draco.
"What are you talking about?" asked Marsea, annoyed.
"I saw you eyeing that new guy before, you know, the one with the "caring green eyes..." Draco frowned.
Marsea, dumbfounded, looked at Draco. "You don't, you're not, JEALOUS?"
Draco looked away. Marsea changed the subject quickly.
"They're leaving," she said, and they got up and followed the Headmistress and Todd.
In the closet (A/N- this sounds bad, doesn't it? lol) "Ooh, my head", Daunte moaned. He struggled with his shaking fingers to find the door handle.
Click…Click…
"It's locked," he said in vain. "I should have known. But, really, how was I to-- oh, man!"
He could hear the footsteps of two men walking toward him: Professor Snape, and Filch. What a fun time he'd have trying to explain to them what he was doing locked in a broom closet.
"So, Professor," Filch was saying. "What are we to do about the kids anymore? Messin' up the halls and screwing' with anything they know perfectly well is off limits!"
"Argus, detentions just won't do it," answered Snape. "I keep persuading the Headmistress to change the rules, but she insists on sticking to them like my Adhesive Draught! It's mad-- AAARRRGH! Daunte, what the--"
Daunte broke loose. The second Snape had opened the door; he had ducked, rolled, and set off on a dead sprint. He was originally headed for the Slytherin tower, but he thought, rounding a corner, whoever stole his wand could be up to no good...
After Liz left CC couldn't take it anymore. She had to know if Hagrid was ok. So she pulled on her black cloak with sliver fastenings and walked down to Hagrid's hut. Much to her surprise he wasn't there. She started crying again and while thinking that the worst had happened she ran straight into a leg of a giant of a man. She looked up and couldn't see very clearly through all her tears but whoever it was appeared to have wild, tangled hair and beard and black beady eyes. She immediately knew who it was.
"Hagrid! I almost thought you were dead!"
She wrapped her arms around his leg in what was supposed to be a hug.
"Nope CC I'm not dead. I'm lucky to be alive though. Did yeh hear from the headmistress what happened??"
"Nope, I didn't yet. She told us to go back up to our common rooms, but I couldn't take it anymore. I had to know if you were OK!!"
"O' course, she probably didn't want yeh to be crowdin' up Anne's room. Well, not anymore then all yeh already were."
"So, tell me Hagrid what happened!!"
"O' I was mindin' my own business an' I was gettin' me broom out from the shed an' I laid Tom out on the side of the shed while I was gettin' me broom, see. So I walked out of the shed an' brought Tom back up to the castle to ask the headmistress somethin', I don' remember what. When we got up to bout the headmistress's office I turned around and Tom was standin' there. The next thing I knew was that I was standing in a block of ice and the headmistress unmelted me an' then she ran off to find Tom. Pretty scary experience if I do say so myself."
"Wow Hagrid, that does sound like a scary experience!! Should I brew you up some tea??"
"Sure, that sounds pretty good right bout now!"
So CC went back into Hagrid's hut followed by Hagrid and had some tea and talked for about an hour when she decided she'd better walk back up to the common room.
"Bye Hagrid!"
"Bye CC, see yeh in class tomorrow!!"
So she walked into the big door of the castle when she met none other but Tom!! Thinking as fast as she could she pulled out her wand and yelled, "stupefy"!! But it wasn't fast enough. Tom yelled, "expelliarmus" and she was thrown against the wall and knocked out.
Then Tom said, "Silly little girl, thinking she can stun me!!" and let out a cold, high-pitched laugh that rang throughout the castle.
Mistikal was on his way to his common room when he heard a loud laugh coming from the entrance hall. He went down to the entrance hall and didn't see anyone.
"Hmm, maybe I should check outside," he said to himself as he opened the front door. "What the..?"
He saw that CC was lying on the ground. He decided to try and carry CC up to the Hospital Wing but stopped once he was back in the castle.
"There has to be an easier way to do this," he said just before he remembered that he could make people float by casting a spell on that person (learned from parents for emergency). He did it on CC and got her up to the Hospital Wing, where he told Madam Pomfrey that he had found her outside.
"I think that she might have been attacked by Tom. But I can't be sure until she wakes up. So I guess I'll just wait here." Madam Pomfrey said that would be OK, so he sat down and waited.
After Liz left the Hospital Wing too, Anne looked at Crono.
'You want to know about Tom?' she said. 'That is the shortest story there is, you know? She said very sarcastically.
She stopped for a moment and then laughed. It wasn't her laugh any more; it was getting cold and heartless. That laugh sent shivers down her own back.
She looked up at Crono again. He looked scared.
'You want to hear the whole story? OK.
'Tom and I grew up together. He's 2 years older than I am.
'He comes from a wizarding family. He's the first dark one in more than 20 generations.
'His family had a prophecy. It said that when the dark and the light, or the heat and the cold, I don't remember, will be born, or live or something like that, anyway, when they'll be together then the light will fall and the winter will rule. It was horrible; my parents wanted me to know it by heart. And I did, for some time. But I forgot it as soon as I ran away for the first time. I found that it only brought trouble.'
She stopped and looked down. Then she lifted her head proudly, 'I know 6 languages, you know?
'Didn't help , did it? place I went, I was thrown out of. Everyone afraid for it to start in their home.
'It's gonna be the same here, It'll get a little more serious and the next thing I know, I'm out on the street again,' she laughed again.
'All the promises, everything, are worth something only when there's no fear of them coming true.'
The door opened and a boy Anne recognized as the Metal Element came in. Next to him was floating an unconscious girl.
Anne sighed.
'It has begun,' she said turning to Crono again.
Crono looked at Anne stunned.
"A - Anne... I can't stay here anymore," he said as blood red scales started forming on his skin. He quickly ran off out of the castle and to the forbidden forest where he sat down and grabbed his head. He couldn't stop the transformation. He looked away from the moon. But the red scales were still pouring on him. Crono then found himself in a deep sleep. And in his sleep he dreamt.
"Die all of you!" Tom called out blasting everybody. He tried to kill Crono 5 times already but his protection spell was working too well.
"Die!" He yelled at Anne blasting her and killing her.
"And you also!!" He yelled at Crono and blasted him. Crono dodged it and it hit the castle, the roof caved in. A thunderstorm was starting.
Crono was throwing everything he had at Tom, every ounce of energy, he knew that he'd kill himself if he kept on but there was no longer any sense. He had lost everything. He kept blasting Tom like there was no tomorrow.
"Avada kedavra!" Crono yelled.
"Avada kedavra!" Tom shrieked back. The blasts hit each other and Tom's won out; the blast headed straight for him.
Crono shook awake. He was back to normal. The scales were gone. But the dream. It was so real. Crono shivered as it started to rain. Crono leaned up against a stump, and passed out.
Anne was staring at the door.
She was used to people being scared of her, and not wanting her to be around. But no one ever ran away from her.
Add to that it was Crono! She didn't know he was that scared of her.
It broke her heart completely. She couldn't move and she was afraid she was going to start crying.
At another corner of the room CC was waking up she looked around the room she was in. It was very blurry and hard to see. She squinted her eyes to see all the white walls and the other bed beside her.
"Oh, I'm in the Hospital Wing," she thought to herself. She could just make out the figure of a guy sitting by her bedside.
"Mistikal, Mistikal? Is that you?" she said. "I need to tell you something!"
He said yes it was he and asked what the heck had happened.
"Tom had a wand, and, and I tried to stun him but I was too late and he used the expelliarmus spell on me!! I suppose that I flew back and hit my head on the castle wall."
She tried to remember what she was going to tell him before he asked her what happened. It was painful to think about. But she had to tell him to protect his & Anne's safety.
She sat up and breathlessly said, "Mistikal, Tom's armed now as he stole Daunte's and my wand.
He's going to try to get to you and Anne again!! Be careful and please hurry..."
Then she collapsed into her soft, white, feather pillow and fell back to sleep.
Anne walked up to Mistikal after hearing CC's words.
'Did she just say what I thought she did?' she asked Mistikal when she saw CC's unconscious body.
He nodded.
'We're not safe,' Anne said quietly. 'People don't want us here. I know, I spent most of my life knowing.'
She stopped for a moment and looked at him.
'We have two choices. We either run and give ourselves a little more time on this earth, or we can stay, get ourselves kicked out, and die protecting, or rather trying to protect our lives and this world.
'I'm tired from running,' she sighed. 'But I don't want to die.
'I don't want to make the choice; you don't want to make it too. We're the only elements he doesn't have, since Earth doesn't exist yet.'
She stopped again.
'What do you think?' Anne said finally.
"You are right Anne," said Mistikal. "I don't want to die either, but if it saves the world or many wizards, I just might be willing to die trying. But if he kills us both, then he only needs Earth to destroy anyone or anything in his path. Oh, and he has 2 wands, according to CC."
Anne looked at Mistikal.
'Earth doesn't exist yet,' she said. 'It will only exist when either side will win. Meaning, either when Tom has everyone on his side or we defeat Tom. Not an easy job to do either way.
'I don't know what to do, and since we're the two living elements, we're the ones to decide.'
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