Absolutely Spiffing!
Part 5
The next morning, George, Julian, Dick and Anne awoke feeling rather wet. They had been sleeping outside, and it had rained. In fact, it had poured. The students from Hogwarts had not felt the rain at all, for they were sleeping in a rather comfortable cave that they had found.
George awoke first. She stood up and stretched. The sky above her was dark and gloomy and the sea out to the front of her didn't look too healthy either. What had caused this disastrous weather? Why, yesterday it had been fine!
Slowly, Julian, Dick and Anne awoke. The first thing Anne said when she woke up was:
"Where's Timmy?"
George looked around her, and couldn't see him. She tried calling him, several times in fact, but nothing happened. No Timmy came bounding out from over a hillock. George was rather puzzled and very worried. What if he had gone foraging during the night and had injured himself? At this moment, their new friends, the Hogwarts Students emerged from their cave. George's frivolous shouting had aroused them.
"What's happened?" Kira asked.
"Timmy seems to have disappeared!" Anne said, sounding disarrayed.
"Oh, right. So what'ya going to do about it?" Sirius said, yawning.
"Look for him, I suppose." Dick said.
They began washing themselves in small pools of water, and after ten minutes they were ready for a Timmy hunt.
"Right. We'll go to this side of the island, and you go to the other." George said, "if you see Timmy whistle loudly. Okay?"
Everyone nodded.
The Famous five went one way, and the Hogwarts students disappeared the other.
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WOOF! WOOF WOOF!!
"Can't you shut that beast up?" a bespectacled man asked.
"Sorry guv'nor, e's bein' very awkward." replied a man named Twig.
"Surely a large man like you can control a puny animal like that? If you find you cannot manage, wake up Trog and get him to help you." The bespectacled man pursed his thin lips and clasped his biny fingers together.
"What should I do wiv 'im when I get 'im tied down Mr Quinn Sir?" Twig asked.
Quinn sighed. This man really was a bigger fool than he had first thought.
"There is a small box room cut into the rock a little way down the corridor. Put him there."
Twig scratched his head and looked puzzled.
"Where you keep your tobacco." he said wearily.
Twig's eyes lit up with the mention of tobacco and a look of realisation crept into them.
While Twig and Quinn had been talking, Timmy had been trying to pull himself free of the rope that tethered him.
Just as the conversation finished, he managed to wrench free of the rope and run off down the rocky corridor.
Twig grunted and stared after the retreating behind of the dog.
"GET AFTER HIM!" shouted Quinn.
Twig, being large and bumbling had a hard time manouvering himself in the small room, and an even harder time squeezing through the doorway. Finally when he managed to get a sort of loping walk going that seemed to work, Timmy was happily trotting out of the cave entrance, where he ran into Lily.
"Timmy! Where did you come from?" she asked herself curiously.
She called out to Kira who was searching nearby.
"Kira, I've found him!"
Kira came running over and sighed happily.
"Where was he?"
"I don't know. He just appeared from in there." Lily replied.
Kira walked into the cave and saw the ledge. She pulled herself up onto the ledge and saw the large hole that led to the hollow room.
"Lily," she called, and Lily answered, "there's a tunnel up here. I'm going to go through into it and have a look, okay?"
"Be careful." Lily called up.
Kira just managed to get into the tunnel, when she saw a huge giant of a man running down the tunnel towards her. She screamed, turned and ran out of the tunnel, jumping off the ledge in the process. Without explanation, she grabbed Lily's wrist and dragged her away. Lily was reluctant to leave, but the man was advancing fast, so she too began to run.
"What is it?" she asked.
"A man. Huge, evil looking. Didn't look friendly." Kira panted.
They ran until they met up with the boys.
Man, after us. Think we lost him." Lily managed to say, through short gasping breaths.
James reached into his trouser pocket and pulled out a small piece of tubing.
"What's that?" Lily asked, curiously.
"A help capsule. If you press it at either end, help will come." James explained.
Lily suddenly saw the enormous man coming over the hill.
"Quickly, press it!" she shrieked, "he's coming!"
James hurriedly pressed the two ends together and Dumbledore apparated in front of them.
"What is it?" Dumbledore asked quickly.
"A huge man is after us. He looked angry enough to kill!" Kira explained.
Dumbledore turned around just as the man was about to grab him. Dumbledore raised his wand and said an incantation and suddenly the man was on the floor, thin ropes wound tightly around his hige mass.
"Why are you here?" Dumbledore asked.
"I'm 'ere on a job. Me boss, Quinn is doin some business. Me an' trog is 'elping 'im." Twig explained.
"I see." Dumbledore stroked his beard, "what business is this you speak of?"
"I daren't say." Twig said.
"Tell me." Dumbledore said calmly pointing his wand at his body. Twig trembled. If this piece of wood could bind him up like this, who knows what other damage it might do?
"We's smuggling. Me boss, Mr Quinn 'as a big job down in Sweden. We comes 'ere to stow the goods."
"What goods?" Dumbledore said, continually pointing his wand at Twig.
"Well it's black market stuff, 'ennet? Tobacco, pot stuff like that. We ain't doin' no one no harm."
"I see." Dumbledore said, "well, seeing as he's a Muggle, we'd better call up the muggle cavalry, what do you call them? Police men?"
Dumbledore waved his wand and out of thin air, appeared eight smartly uniformed police men. Four of them set about untieing and handcuffing Twig and four disappeared into the tunnel for Quinn and Trog. Ten minutes later the four police men re-appeared, with Quinn and Trog handcuffed.
"Well Mr Quinn sir. You's better take a good look at that sun up there, because you aren't going to be seeing it for a long time." said the Chief policeman.
"BAH! We'd have gotten away with it as well, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!" shouted Quinn from the police motor boat that was zooming off into the sun.
Without prior warning, Dumbledore disapparated. Just as he did, the Famous Five, minus Timmy who was with the Hogwarts students re-appeared from over the hill, smiling.
"Hallo. I say, did we miss something?" George asked.
"Yes, I suppose you did. You missed an Absolutely Spiffing adventure!" said Lily grinning broadly.
A/N. The End, Finito, Finalemant. However you want to put it, this story's over. Actually, I'm quite glad, it means I can spend more time working on my new story, "Zaphod's Just This Guy, You Know?" which is a Hitch-Hikers Guide to The Galaxy and Harry Potter crossover. You can read it if yopu like. (hint hint!)