When the Darkness Rises: A Harry Potter Tale
By: Elemental eChO

*A nOtE fRoM eChO*
This story is heating up and even I don't know what's happening!!!! Sachi: I'm still wondering when me and Kado get a bigger part!
Echo: SHUT UP SACHI! You were in the last one!
Sachi: Yeah, carrying a stupid heavy book!
Kado: Miss Echo ma'am. I didn't have a part.
Echo: OK! You can have a part this time! Sachi take a break!
Sachi: Fine! I don' have to take this! I'll be in my trailer!
Echo: Fine, please read the fic and don't worry about Sachi, she'll be alright!

*Disclaimer:* Umm....J.K. owns what she owns, I own what I own, Everything else belongs to whomever owns it. So that means[before anybody sues me] J.K. Owns the Harry Potter world! I own everything that I said I owned last time.

Chapter Three: The Messenger

Harry and Ron entered the common room to a worried Hermione. "I've been waiting forever! I still can't work the translator yet. It's harder than it seems." Hermione said. "It's late. We all need sleep," Ron muttered and headed up to the boy's dormitory. "What? What happened, Harry?" Hermione asked. "Tell ya in the morning." Harry said and went to bed, leaving Hermione in the middle of the common room.

"So. Cho and Draco are the Essences of Light and Darkness, but Cho didn't seem to know she was," Hermione thought over what Harry and Ron had just told her about their nightly events. "Well, can't be just go and tell her and get this all over with," Ron said. They were heading to Charms and kept their voices low.
"No, I don't think we should. Like Light said 'Don't start messing in this' or something like that," Harry said. Hermione looked down at the grubby translator in her hands. "Why wouldn't this book be in the rescrited section. They surely wouldn't want a students hands on this. They wouldn't know how to use it anyway...." Hermione muttered. Harry caught a glance of Cho she glanced over in Harry's general direction, but Harry could tell that she was trying not to look at him. As they reached Charms class Harry suddenly spoke up," Light told us to tell Dumbledore she was here. We better obey her,"

Kado Chang hurried down the hallway at full speed. "Late again! Snape's gonna kill me! And he has the stuff to do it with to," He said and he ran down a stairway to the dungeons. He ran with out looking until he bumped into something large and solid. He had run smack into Crabbe. Kado looked a Crabbe with fear and then he spotted Goyle. They could surly had broken him in half. Then, a much smaller boy with slivery-blonde hair stepped out in front of them. "Why hello there. Are you Cho Chang's little brother?" Malfoy asked him smiling a thin-lipped grin. "Umm....yeah, but could you please excuse me. I'm late for potions." Kado said sifting from foot to foot. "If you'll do something for me, I can get to Snape to let you off." Draco said this still smiling. "What???" Kado said interested. "Give this to your sister. Tell old Snape that Draco Malfoy, LUSCIOUS Malfoy's son, sent ya there. Tell I was asking you something in the hall. Come Crabbe and Goyle we must leave." The three boys turned and followed in Draco's wake. Kado stared at the grubby little package in his hand. Then, he hurried down to potions.

Harry was looking for an opportunity to tell Dumbledore that Light was hear and didn't fell like going into his office for one simple message. Hermione sat across from him in the Great Hall. "Harry, when, may I ask, are you going to tell Dumbledore?" she said quietly. "I'm not. I'm going to show him," Harry spoke up. He didn't know why he said that. How was he gonna get the Headmaster of Hogwarts to follow him, a 15 year old boy, to the library at night to watch good and evil battle over some old book and a person called the Messenger? It was almost nearly impossible. Ron chewed on his food. He was trying to forget the whole entire thing because his scratches still burned from the stuff Hermione had sprayed on them. Hermione weighed the options of just telling Dumbledore a small message or going to try and get Dumbledore to the library. "Why don't you tell him when he gets over here because here he comes," Ron pointed in the direction of the staff table where Dumbledore had got up and was heading over to their table. When he reached he turned to Ginny, "Do you have a message for me?" he asked her, a twinkle in his blue eyes. "Umm....I don't think so Professor Dumbledore." Ginny said looking at him. Dumbledore frowned a little. "Are you sure?" he asked. He looked like he really needed Ginny to have a message for him. "Very sure sir," Ginny continued to look at him. "Go ahead Harry, tell him! Tell him about what light said," Ron urged him. Harry sighed and pushed his chair back and walked to where Professor Dumbledore was standing. "I have a message for you Professor. Light is here," Harry whispered and turned to sit down. Dumbledore looked after him shocked.

Kado and Sachi stared at the package that sat between them in the common room after dinner. They were trying to think if they should give it to her or not. "I think we should, just because it's from Draco Malfoy doesn't mean we shouldn't give it to her. It's hers." Sachi said shaking the package. Nothing happened. Cho came down and hugged them both. It took them by so much surprise that they threw the package at her. "It's yours!" Kado screamed before he could remember that he wasn't even gonna give her the package. Cho looked at it. "hmm..." she said and threw it away. "I don't want it if it's from Draco. We've got some issues to settle," she then walked out of the common room. Neither one of them remembered they hadn't told her who had sent the package. They decided to follow her.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione waited around the corner and surly enough Dumbledore came trotting around the corner. He looked a bit worried. He hardly EVER looked worried. Professor McGonagall came around afterwards. She, as well, looked nervous and worried. "Has she..." She asked Dumbledore and he nodded. "The messenger has been taken into the Abyss. Light will not be happy." Dumbledore said and just as he finished Cho walked around in his fancy robes. "I will not be happy about WHAT?" she asked looking stern. "The Messenger. Has been found out by the Darkness." McGonagall said and clutched her stomach. "I think I'm gonna be sick Albus," she said. Light looked angry." Well, he want get far unless he has the Watcher. We have him, they're right around the corner."

Dumbledore looked toward the corner, but see anybody. He looked at light puzzled. "Harry, Ron, Hermione. Please come out," Light said. Harry had nothing to do, but get up stretch and walk out there with his two best friends. "The three halves of the Watcher..." McGonagall looked at a piece of parchment in her hands. "We can not send unprepared students into the Abyss. It's too dangerous, Light. We are not like Darkness. He does not care about Messenger at all." Dumbledore said turning to look at Light. "Cho gets to go. Can't we?" Ron asked feeling offended that Cho could go and they couldn't. "Cho is no ordinary student Mr. Weasely. She IS the Essence of Light when something evil is going on. She is very powerful as Light and she must lead us to VICTORY!" McGonagall held up her hands in a "V". "They go. I need them. If he has the Messenger then I need the Watchers," Light said," If you don't like it Albus then you can go wait in your office for the end of the world." Light then stepped through the library door. Dumbledore followed and[rather reluctantly] beckoned for Harry, Hermione, and Ron to follow him. Then McGonagall.
What seemed like a large dark cave leading downwards was in the middle of the library. A blue mist swirled inside it. "The Abyss..." Dumbledore whispered. "I sense an incantation. Darkness has used one, but not to open up The Abyss, he had used an incantation to.....envelop the world in darkness until the very first dark load is arisen. Meaning he must have The Book of the Living. Well, I have the book of the dead and I shall reach him first." At this Light marched down into the Abyss. "Professor," Ron said speaking to Dumbledore," I have an idea, but who is the messenger?" Dumbledore's lips twitched. "Ginny," he said and then followed Light.

!Another note from eChO!
How many of you are lost??? Someone has to be. Stuff will be cleared up very soon. You'll learn EVERYTHIG. Why Cho's the Light, Draco the Dark, Harry, Ron, Hermione being the Watchers, Why Ginny's the messenger, what the translator has to do with anything. EVERTHING WILL BE CLEARED UP IN THE NEXT CHAPTER: THE ABYSS!!!! Stay tunes in!