The Battle For The Cards

The Watery

Ginny lay back and sighed. They all took turns watching out for any unusual activity on the news. So far, nothing unusual had been reported. Just baseball results, political disputes and local events. Ginny rolled her head around, un-cramping her neck. She closed her eyes letting her head roll forwards. She was about to fall asleep until she heard a sentence from the new reporter.

"…so many dead. It is out of control!" flustered the reporter, frowning.

Ginny's head shot up, sending sharp pains through her neck. She ran her fingers through her long red hair. Ginny watched as footage of a secluded beach was shown. The beach was strewn with about six bodies of drowned people. She listened closely to the report.

"…they were having a large gathering to celebrate the birth of their first child," the reporter explained, "Suddenly, witnesses report, a large wave rushed forward and pulled several people into the water. Lifeguards were called; a couple of which were pulled down into several whirlpools. The authorities turned up later to see another wave pull a few more bystanders and lifeguards out into the water. They are all drowned now but experts are baffled at these happenings…"

Ginny watched as a wave sneakily grabbed hold of one person dragging them into the water. Suddenly, Ginny spotted a glint. At the victim's feet, Ginny saw two long ears and a tail.

"No doubt the Watery," Ginny muttered as she scrambled to her feet.

*~*~*~*~*~*

"Hey Sakura?" called Hermione from the corridor outside Madison's room.

"Yeah?" Sakura called back, running her fingers through her hair.

"Whose watch is it next?"

"Ummm…it is…" Sakura paused for a moment, "…Li."

"Thanks. Want me to go get him?"

"Okay. Thank yo…" Sakura started but was cut off when the door to the TV room was slammed open.

"Ginny, what's wrong?" said Sakura and Hermione together.

Ginny was pale and stuttering. "Quick!" Ginny indicated the TV.

Sakura and Hermione ran into the TV room and paled. They watched in amazement as more and more people were pulled into the water by surprisingly vicious waves.

*~*~*~*~*~*

"Fly!" Sakura said. She beckoned to Madison who clambered onto Sakura's wand.

"Element, wind!" cried Li, lifting himself off the ground.

"Float Card!" bellowed Meilin, whipping the card and rising into the air.

"Propero Leviosa!" affirmed Ron, ascending into the air.

Hermione, Harry, Ginny and Draco stared at him.

"The Mid-Air Self Propulsion Spell," Ron shrugged.

"H-how did you find that spell?" asked Hermione curiously.

"Never mind. Just do it," Ron replied.

"Propero Leviosa!" they all called.

The Nine set off for Constellation Beach.

*~*~*~*~*~*

The waves and the tide became higher, nearly reaching the grassy bit of the beach. The police had just barricaded off the beach from patrons as Sakura and the gang landed in a small clump of trees a little way from the beach. By then, it was about 4:30pm and the sun was slowly sinking. Police officers were stationed every two metres or so along the entrances of the beach.

"How are we going to get in there?" asked Li, screwing up his face to look at the sun, "The sun doesn't go down for a while."

"Invisibility," piped up Draco, sporting a superior look on his face. "As I was growing up, my father taught me Dark magic, but he also taught me a few interesting spells."

"But how will the four of us become invisible?" asked Li, indicating Sakura, Madison, Meilin and himself.

"Don't worry," Draco replied, "We can cast the spell on you and take it off as well. You see, you see things because light reflects off them. When you invisible, light doesn't reflect off you, thus you are not able to be seen."

Hermione, Sakura, Harry, Madison, Ginny, Meilin, Ron and Li stared at him as if he had just sprouted another good-looking head.

"What?" exclaimed Draco, eyeing the group confusedly.

Ginny shook her head as if she was shaking off a bug. "How do you do the spell?"

"Simple. All you do is point and say 'Dissimulo'. To take the spell off you just say 'Finite Incantem'." Draco informed the four others with wands.

"Alright," Harry intoned, "let's do it."

The five Hogwarts students pointed their wands at themselves and muttered the word. They then turned their wands to the four Japanese teens and made them invisible. Since they were all invisible, they could still see each other in a hazy, bad reception type of way. Quietly and carefully, they made their way past the police guards and barricades. On the sand, they kept to the long grass to keep someone from seeing their footprints.

"LOOK OUT!" Meilin suddenly shouted, then clapped a hand over her mouth.

They all turned to see a huge wave about to crash on the shore led by none other than Watery. A completely blue figure that looks like a mermaid that has extra long ears and exceptionally long hair with bubbles floating in it. Watery was in the wave, leading it onto the shore. The wave was right on top of them!

The Nine ran, not caring if bystanders were able to see their footprints, towards the rocky cliffs that bordered the far left of the beach. The wave, instead of crashing on the shore, tore after them leaving the water shallow. The Cliffs bordered a rocky plateau that extended a bit over the sea. When the Nine reached the plateau and the cliffs, they turned to face the card. Sakura pulled out Freeze Card, Li readied himself to do an Elemental Freeze, Madison summoned Wave Card, Meilin held Storm Card and the five Hogwarts students pulled out their wands to do a Freezing spell.

Watery rapidly approached, surrounded by water. The three card users summoned their cards.

"Freeze Card. Release and dispel! Freeze Watery!"

"Wave Card. Release and dispel! Try to pull back the water in the waves!"

"Storm Card. Release and dispel! Hail onto the wave!"

"Elemental Freeze!" Li summoned.

Hermione, Ron, Harry, Ginny and Draco lined up side by side, their wands pointing at the wave.

"Congelo!" they all shouted simultaneously.

Blue sparks flew from the five wands; they circled the wave slowly expanding to ice. With the combined strength of the Nine, Watery froze and was trapped.

"Do it Sakura!" called Ginny.

"Watery, return to your power conf…" Sakura bellowed but was cut off.

The same dark cloud as before appeared just above the wave.

"Watery. Return," came the same commanding voice.

Watery was sucked up into the cloud, which slowly dissolved. All the members of the Nine sighed and let their shoulders droop.

"He's called it back," Li murmured.