With a snarl from the depth of its soul, it leapt. Lily couldn't move, or think, or scream. She watched in horror as its jaw opened wide and heard its howl. Lily couldn't help but think that this was her last moment on earth. She closed her eyes. But the bite never came. Instead she heard a yelp. She peeked her eyes open, hoping maybe she had been saved. What met her eyes made her gasp; the wolf was flying through the air and then end by slamming into the wall. It was almost as if she had seen a giant hand swat the werewolf like a fly. She glanced to the left and saw what looked like an enormous horse, but her eyes were blurred with tears that she couldn't tell for sure. Lily stood frozen for a brief second longer, and then the beast charged the rebounding wolf and Lily was cured from her petrified state. She continued to gaze to the left were she saw Rachael for the first time. Rachael had run off and cut a quick left, Lily had heard her scream and now she knew why. Rachael was hanging from a vine above a great gaping pit. Lily's monkey had climbed the bush and was reaching for the vine. It's furry paws grabbed just as the vine snapped and the force seemed to strangely elongate his tiny arms, but the monkey seemed not to notice. Lily ran forward and did the only thing should could do without being able to think; reached.
"Lily, save me! What are you doing? You're a witch, use your wand and your head!" Rachael scorned. Her face was livid and flush. Lily was angry for a moment for being called a witch, but then she remembered it was a good thing. 'Think lily think!" She could hear the beast and werewolf still struggling and the rustle of the leave as Jenna jumped down from her perch in the tree. Her monkey friend seemed to be going berserk with frustration. The solution hit Lily like a bat to a ball.
"Accio vine!" Lily shouted. The vine whipped towards Lily, almost dislodging Rachael in the process. Rachael stumbled to the ground, trying to catch her breath and steady her heartbeat. "Ha, good thing I don't lost my head in a crisis huh gals?" Lily smiled trying to lighten the mood, but Jenna dove for Lily and tackled her to the ground. Lily looked up at Jenna with disbelief hardly thinking that this was the time, but Lily's gaze went past Jenna to a long, 17 foot python hanging down right about the spot where Lily's head had been, apparently it had taken refuge around the vine. It plummeted the few feet down to the ground and started slithering towards the girls. Lily could hear Rachael murmuring and could feel Jenna shaking. They all felt the same; there was no way they could out distance the snake. The snake stop movie…Lily saw its head turn about. She peered her head around the snake to see her monkey thrashing about on it's tell, pulling with all it's might. Lily was awe-struck at how intelligent and loyal her new friend was. Her two friends jumped up to their feet pulling Lily up in a manner like wise. Lily stood rooted on the spot, watching her valiant little monkey dodge and strike. But then Lily noticed the snake's tail slowly wrapping around the monkey's body.
"Lily, move! NOW!" Jenna yelled right next to Lily's ear "Vamanos!" Jenna frequently switched, when she was angry, to the few Spanish words she had learned in her younger years. Rachael, in the mean time, was yanking and pulling on Lily's arm. Lily wouldn't have it, she had to watch her new friend, she felt she owed it to him. "Oh Lily, if you want your monkey back just go and ask the snake real nicely!" Jenna spat sarcastically. Jenna had obviously had enough because she marched in front of Lily, grabbed her by the knees and lifted. Lily in the meanwhile gasped as she saw the snake render her monkey helpless and then go in for a finally bite. She squeezed her eyes shut. She was ready to be out of this place. So she pushed herself from Jenna's shoulder and began to run. Rachael and Jenna taken back for a moment by Lily's sudden change of heart, but it didn't take them long to follow. They had reached a large courtyard and with a sigh of relief the noticed the entrance gate. They took off in full flight, thinking of nothing but the path in front of them. Lily could still hear the growling of the wolf and she could swear she could hear slithering behind her. She couldn't help it. She turned her head but kept her steady pace. What she saw behind her pull a scream from deep within and almost made her drop to her knees. There behind her was the python, gaining ground steady. Lily felt an angry rise up within her, yet she felt weak and helpless, what could she do to avenge her friend. Lily was an adamant pet lover, no matter how long she knew it. A squeal from her two other friends made her look back forward. There was the biggest dog she had ever seen. Grim faced, with a black shabby coat, and gigantic jaws, the brute was about as large as a small horse. They had reached the middle of the courtyard, but were trapped.
"1,2,3 wake up! 1,2,3 wake up!" Rachael was pinching her arm, checking to see if she was in a dream. Jenna steeled her face and rolled up her sleeves. Lily was quite sure that Jenna would fight, without magic, until her limbs were no longer in tact.
" Well at least we get to chose the way we will die?" Lily said with a half laugh and a shrug. She had led a pretty good life, if not to say a bit conservative. 'Should have gotten my first kiss.' Lily thought to herself. Lily found herself pondering her fate, where it would lead her, maybe to be with her mother… in heaven? Her mother had died in a car crash that both Lily and her father had survived. Her father was much older then most with a 16-year-old daughter; his health had been steadily getting worst since her mother's death. Lily had secluded herself from most people besides Remus, Sirius, Jenna, and Rachael. She had lost a younger sister to drowning and a cat to a burning down house. That's why she couldn't leave the monkey, not like she left her cat; it felt like live history. But then she got that letter, and her world brightened. She found her calling life.
In her 3rd year she had saved a girl from a falling broom, well, almost. As the girl fell, Dumbledore and Lily cried out the same charm, holding the girl in the air. Then they slowly brought her to the ground. Lily put so much heart into that one charm that she fainted from exhaustion. Dumbledore pulled her aside later and told her that he had never felt a charm done quite that well. Her very next year she had stopped a Chameleonasin. It's a creature with extraordinary strength and the ability of a chameleon, but with half the brains of a human. Four times during the year it had transformed in a spider and woven a web. It caught three students and a teacher. This creature has a hunger for human flesh, but before it could eat them Lily and Sirius had stumbled onto the hanging webbed students and teacher. They had been going for food from the kitchen, when they discovered a path not yet explored. It took them to the monster. No one had been able to figure out what it was; they assumed it was the same thing that had attacked the students 15 years ago from the Chamber of Secrets, the giant spider Aragog. But before Hagrid was whisked to Azakaban, the Chameleonasin showed itself. Sirius ran for help, having forgotten his wand in the commons room. But Lily felt a surge of magic energy welling within her, begging for release. Even after two years Lily, nor anyone else, knew how Lily had used the Lightning Charm. But it rushed through her whole body and then burst from her wand and utterly destroyed the monster in front of her, before it did this though, Lily recognized it for what it truly was. But now as she looked at the little wooden stick she held in her hand, she knew it would not suffice this time. The brute dog looked like it would reach them first. Lily laid her head on Jenna's shoulder. Time seemed to inch by. Lily heard Rachael gulp. At least Lily would be with her friends when she died, what else could you ask for, besides to live of course. They all watched, like a trigger to a gun being pulled, the dog fly through the air. All three heads went down and all faces winced. The swish of air was all they felt as the massive dog cleared straight over their heads and landed, scraping and biting the snake's large head. Astonishment, pure amazement at the luck they had that very instant in time. They exchanged questioning looks, but ran with all the strength that was now returning to their legs. They reached the entrance gate and looked back towards the sounds of the snake and dog, or farther on to the beast and wolf. Lily thought she recognized horns on the far away creature but couldn't be sure.
"Hey, what's that little thing over there?" Lily inquired, pointing to a small form moving towards them. It was just out of her eyesight so she couldn't quite make it out.
"Probably death… well in one form or another." Jenna replied dryly. Her and Rachael had crossed the line on the chance-taking field and were ready to be in bed. They turned to go but stopped when they heard a wail come from Lily.
"It's…oh my hero….it's the monkey!!!" Lily cried. Sure enough the little monkey came scuttling towards them, some how unscathed. Jenna and Rachael seemed confused.
"Yeah… right Lil, I've got him right here… um he really wants to go to…uh bed and he says he's glad you made it." Rachael spontaneously spoke. Lily hardly listened to her and she wasn't being delusional, she could see him. He reached her a couple seconds later and she grabbed him up into her arms and hugged him tight, tears starting to flow down her face. Jenna had turned at the sound of her sniffles, but then she saw the furry face.
"wha…Nooooooo…how…nooo haha…..hmmmm" Jenna seemed to be at a extreme lost of words. Lily couldn't understand… there wasn't a scratch on him. What are the chances he got away unscathed? Yet what other explanation was there?
Lily constantly looked over her shoulder as she near the castle.
"How did Dumbledore fail to mention the bad things in the maze?" an exasperated Lily asked.
"He didn't. In
fact if I think about it I can remember him saying that '…but beware, there can
be no worse nightmare, then a living one…' I think he was looking directly at
our difficult male friends." Rachael pointed out. It dawned on Lily that she
had indeed heard those words. Fatigued beyond belief, the three girls walked
through the great wooden doors into the Great Hall, not quite caring if they
were found or not. They made it to their beds, barely, and then collapsed from
lack of strength. The second week of her 6th year, as a prefect
nonetheless, and she had almost already be butchered. Her great monkey pal
nuzzled up close and she couldn't help but think before she fell asleep 'That
was probably the most fun I had ever head.'
Disclaimer-you all hear this a lot, basically none of this is mine and I ain't earnin anything for it.\
That was part two, hopefully ya liked it, if ya didn't tell me it sucked, more will be reveal about that night and the strange events in it!!! R/R
