This is Tom once again.
I was completely tied up in chains, sprawled on the stone floor, uncomfortable. Magnolia looked so concerned and confused and sad and worried. Nice to know she cared. And Anna was utterly terrified, she'd been scared to death of Death Members, because her aunt happened to have been murdered by one. Rosemary, however, looked furious at Poseidon, and I'm sure if she would have been less angry, she'd have cussed at Poseidon, but there goes a point where you're SO mad you just don't say a thing, and that's exactly Rosemary. Lila was practically in tears; no wonder, her ex-crush being a Death Member and stuff, trying to harm me, trying to get them all to join the Dark Lord's bloodthristy gang...
"Surely we can come to a reasonable agreement?" Anna asked hopefully.
"-- Like a compromise?" Rosemary added. Maybe she was too worried about me suffering to be angry anymore, who knows, Rosemary's sort of complicated.
"Probably, we could discuss this without threats?" Magnolia declared, looking at me.
"You're all wrong. To make a decent girl choose to go bad, there's got to be a friend's suffering involved. You see, you could learn lots of stuff from my Master like this." Poseidon said.
"And we could learn a lot at school too!" Lila said.
Blink! A lightbulb lights up in my brain... and Magnolia could read my mind.
"Yes, Poseidon, we've GOT to finish school, then we'd know all the important complex spells to help you Death Members!" Magnolia said. Of course she didn't mean she wanted to help the Dark Lord, she was only trying to fool Poseidon.
No such luck, my friend.
"Right, like you MEAN that!" Poseidon exclaimed.
Rosemary shook her head impatiently. Lila shot dirty looks at Poseidon. Anna looked across the corridor thousands of times, as if expecting someone, anyone, to come and save us. Magnolia was still kneeling down besides me, holding my head.
"So, you want to work with the baddest guys in the wizarding world?" Poseidon asked, smirking proudly.
"NO!" Rosemary, Lila, Anna, & Magnolia shouted at the same time.
"DON'T TRY ME! I ask you one more time, join the Dark Forces of the Dark Lord?" Poseidon was fuming. Uh-oh, I felt something BAD coming...
"We said NO." Lila replied flatly.
That was the last straw. Poseidon's had it, I could tell by the way smoke was coming out of his ears and how his eyes flashed with evil.
Then PAIN, PAIN has I've never ever felt before... PAIN beyond broken bones, PAIN beyond a blow of a knife... PAIN that pierced through the heart of my bones, throuygh my brain, through my skin, through my heart and lungs...
Everything went blank. Darkness, I even thought I was dead.
After what seemed like trillions of light years of nothingness, I woke up, there, again, in that corridor, at around 1 o'clock in the morning, with Poseidon roaring with laughter. And I at last felt my body, and I could control it. Then I felt something soft & warm on my lips. Magnolia had been trying to save me with the Heimlich Maneuver or whatever it's called, and she did! Oh, I was so grateful I had a friend like Magnolia. I truly love her.
"So, anothe dab of pain for poor little Tommy if you girls don't answer what I want to hear, is that clear to all of you?" Poseidon said.
Anna looked even more horrified than before. Rosemary looked both concerned and enraged. Lila was staring at Poseidon with such dislike that I knew she'd beat him up if he hadn't been holding his wand. And Magnolia -- well, Magnolia's Magnolia, her feelings can easily be covered up around strangers, but her emotions truly show on her face around us, and that's just beautiful, because sometimes there's such sadness in her eyes you feel like crying yourself. And when her eyes are dancing and her smile is shining, it's completely like the dawn of a new day, a phoenix reborn, a sunrise, an exquisite piece of 3D art.
Okay, back to the subject. Slap out of it, Tom, STOP WRITING ABOUT MAGNOLIA.
So Poseidon asked the question again much more in a huff. And this time, my friends really had to think about it.
Magnolia's face brightened up. She took out her wand and shot red sparks at Poseidon and he turned into a pig. LITERALLY.
Then, Rosemary got the idea and shot more red sparks at Poseidon, and the pig was chained.
Anna got the hang of it too and shouted expelliarmus so that Poseidon's wand flew into her hands. They all looked at Lila.
Lila didn't feel the need for wands; she kicked Poseidon the pig hard on the belly and looked so pleased with herself.
Then, Magnolia freed me from the chains, and I thanked her a million times.