A Journey Through the
Unknown
Chapter Two – The Mix-Up
"Mr. Potter." Whispered Snape at the front of the potions
lab. A sly smile creeps its way onto
his face. "Mr. Potter," he whispers
again.
"Harry." Hissed Ron while
Hermione gives him a quick kick under the table.
"Hmm? Oh." He sat up in his chair. "Present."
"I see, Mr. Potter, that you
believe that you don't have to pay attention like the rest of us. Well your wrong and you will pay attention
in my class," said Snape in a low voice. " Twenty points from Gryffindor."
"What's a matter Harry?"
whispered Ron as Professor Snape continued the role call.
"Oh I was just thinking about
tonight," he whispered back.
"Well if that's all. I think you should pay more attention
Harry. You can think about that after
class, this is our last one for today."
Whispered Hermione, who was sitting on his other side. He nodded and looked back at the front of
the class where Snape was writing down the ingredients for today's potion. He put the thought out of his mind and
concentrated on the potion.
At the front of the class, Snape looked over the class as
they got started on their potions. His
eyes fell on the table in the back where Harry sat. Potter's acting weird.
He thought. Even for him.
He then notices the concentration on his face. It's as if he was trying to block out something. Whatever it is I'm going to find
out. I bet he's planning on doing
something to night. There's no way I'm
letting Potter get away with another one of his midnight strolls through this
castle. With this thought in his
mind he goes on with his observations of the class. This time his eyes fall upon Neville Longbottom. Snape smirks to himself as he sees Neville
once again messing up the potion. I'm
surprised I even let him pass my class year after year.
(Some
time passes)
The bell rings marking the end of class. Everyone packed up their things and headed
for the door. Harry follows Ron out
with Hermione right behind him. As they
headed for the Great Hall for dinner, he lets himself think about what's going
to happen tonight. But he couldn't think
long because Hermione started talking once they got seated in the Great Hall.
"Hey Harry, I think we should make a list of things
we need to bring with us to this other realm." She stated.
"Can't we do that after dinner?" whined Ron. "I'm so hungry. That potions class really took a lot out of me."
"Fine," she sighed. "We can do this in the common
room after dinner." With that
they started eating in quiet. Hermione
thinking over the list in her mind, Ron thinking if there are going to be any
cute girls in this other realm, and Harry thinking about this Sir Myles
character.
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Mean while in Tortall, Kel is riding up to the gates
of Corus. She sighs to herself as she
rides through the gates on Hoshi. It's
good to be back. She guides the
horses to the stables. Once she got
there, she gets to work unsaddling her horses, brushing them, and cleaning the
tacks. When the horses got settled she
heading for the bathhouses. In the
bathhouse, she relaxes in the warm water and goes over her thoughts. The first one that comes to mind is, of
course, Cleon. As Kel revels at the
idea of seeing Cleon, kissing Cleon, she falls asleep.
A/N (this next part in italic does not belong to
me. Do not sue)
He was short, scrawny, with mouse-brown, unruly hair clumsily
cut, bewildered eyes that blinked constantly, and a thin, selfish mouth. He wore a dark, musty robe covered with
stains and scorch marks. He could not
stay still: he dug absently at a pimple on his face, chewed a fingernail, and
picked hairs from his robes.
Blackness moved out of the shadows. Kel stepped back,
forgetting this was an image, not reality.
Like so many alien beetles, the dreadful machines of the battle at
Forgotten Well, multiplied by eleven, walked from the dark to from a half-circle
at the back of the little man. They all
turned their smoothly curved heads towards him with eerie attention.
Kel blinked. She had not seen that something lay on
the ground between the little man and the machines. It was actually a pile of something, she thought, trying to get a
better look. She took two steps
forward. Several some things. Her eyes
saw the gleam of dark, fresh liquid on a doll's face. And there-who would make a doll with a black eye? All had bruised faces….
Later she would understand why she had refused to
believe what she saw. It was too vile.
A twelfth black killing device forced her to see things as they really
were. It stepped out of the shadows. A tossed a dead child onto the pile. They were all battered, dead children.
There is your task, the whispering voice told her. You will know when it has found you.
When the voice died down, Kel woke up shaking. It was the dream again, she thought
with a sigh. She quickly finished up
and got out. She had suddenly lost her
appetite and so decided to go directly to Sir Myles's study to wait for the
others.
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"…OK so we are going to bring our wands, of course,"
stated Hermione. "Like Snuffles says, we need you invisibility cloak, your
broom, our school books…"
"Hermione are you going to do HOMEWORK while we're
there?" asked Ron, shock in his voice.
"Of course not Ron!"
Replied Hermione. "But you don't
know if we'll need them or not."
Ron rolls his eyes and turns his attention back to
the chess game he is playing with Harry.
Harry moves his queen out of danger and asks Hermione, "What else are we
going to bring?"
"Well, I think I might bring this book on war tactics
I was reading." She answered. "You now
just for reading on my own time."
"You and your books." Sighed Ron, "Checkmate"
"Your too good for me." Said Harry. "Hey bring this with you so that I can get
some practice in."
"OK."
Harry looks down at his watch. "Well, if that is all we need, I think we
better start packing. We've got an hour
before the portal opens, and it will take us at least 30 minutes to get
there." He went up to get his invisibility
cloak and broom from upstairs as the other two started to pack their backpacks
with books.
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Kel walked through the familiar halls thinking It's
good to be back. Checking the nameplates
on the doors as she went by, she finally comes across the one that is labeled Sir
Myles. She knocks on the door and waits.
The doors swing open and Cleon stands there for about a second before he
scoops Kel up in his arms. "My sunrise"
he whispers in her ears. She is
surprised by this sudden hug but adapts quickly by snaking her arms around his
neck. "Oh Cleon I…" her words are lost
as he lips meet hers in a soft kiss which leads into a one minute long
passionate kiss. As they break apart, Kel
looks around the room. She sees Neal
trying to look innocent with his hands in his pockets and whistling. With a glare from Kel he drops the act. She continued her observations and sees Sir
Myles reading, but he is also caught for watching because Kel noticed that the
book was upside down. He looks up from
his book, blushes a little and puts the book away. "Hello Kel, how have you
been?"
"Good Sir Myles," she replies as she breaks from a
hug with Neal. "And you?"
"Oh I'm fine.
Shall we get down to business?
We have all been waiting for you." Kel nods her head, takes a seat and
Sir Myles continues. "Lets see, where should I start? Oh I know. Tonight at
midnight, a portal is going to open up right here in my study. Three wizards are going to cross over from
their realm to ours. They are coming
because they are endangered in their realm and seek protection in ours. Since they have the Gift, they will also be
trying to help us in this war with Scanra.
This portal is only allowed to open on Friday the 13th. Which is today of course."
"What are wizards?" asked Neal.
"Wizards are what they call people with the Gift."
Answered Sir Myles
"So we just wait now for the portal to open?" asked
Cleon.
"Yes it should open in about 30 minutes."
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"OK are we all ready?" asked Harry. He looks around then pulls the invisibility
cloak out. They huddled together under
the cloak and left the common room.
They didn't notice, however, that the back of Ron's leg was not
covered. But someone else does.
Keeping very quiet in the halls on their way to the
north tower, they passed Snape's office but did not notice that the lights were
on. As they passed, Snape came out of
his office unknown to the three. He
looked around and spots Ron's leg. He
knew right away that Harry was also under the invisibility cloak. So being Snape, he decides to follow. What he doesn't notice is that Professor
McGonagall, coming around the corner sees Snape leave his office, but does not
see what he is following. The three
continue on their way not knowing that two professors were following them. Harry frequently checked his watch to make
sure they kept good speed.
When they finally reached the top of the tower, Harry
pulled off the cloak and everyone breathed in the fresh air. Checking his watch in the moonlight, he saw
that it was one minute to midnight.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In Tortall, Cleon, Kel, Neal, and Sir Myles sat up
hearing the bell that marked the hour.
It was now midnight. They all
new what was coming. They looked around
the study and saw the portal. It was a
brilliant sphere of blue and white light.
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Checking his watch one more time, Harry sees that the
watch is showing that it is now midnight.
"Hey you guys, it's midnight." The
three look around and notice a sphere of blue and white light in the center,
just like Sirius said. "I'll go through
first."
"I'll go after you." Said Ron.
"Then I'll go last."
Said Hermione.
"Well, I'll see you on the other side." Harry said as he stepped through the
portal.
(On the other side)
Everyone stared as Harry stepped from the
portal. He looked around and found that
he was in some kind of study. He
noticed the people and stepped away from the portal so that Ron could get
through. He looked back into the portal
and saw Ron. Ron saw everyone and gave
a cheerful "Hello! Hermione should be
coming any minute now," he said to Harry.
(Back at Hogwarts)
Snape, hiding by the opening of the stairs, sees the
three walk through the portal and disappear.
He quickly gets up out of his hiding place and follows. Walking right into the portal. McGonagall gets to the top of the tower just
in time to see Snape enter the portal.
She stand in front of it for a moment, then decides to enter. Once she steps into it, it gives off a flash
of light then disappears.
(Back in Tortall)
Ron steps aside from the portal to let Hermione
out. But to his and Harry's surprise
and horror it is not Hermione that steps out of the portal, but is Professor
McGonagall.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
In the throne room, Princess Kalasin is sitting on
the queen's throne observing her imaginary court, when suddenly out of nowhere
there come a great flash of light. She
shields her eyes to get a better look. What she sees amazes her. She sees a young girl step from the light
with some sort of lump on her back.
Hermione looks around but does not see Ron or Harry anywhere. But she does however notice a girl sitting
on what looks to be a throne.
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Snape steps through the portal and finds himself in
some sort of bar. Confused, he looks
around for Harry. Not seeing him, he
goes up to the bar and taps a guy on the shoulder. "Where is Hogwarts and where am I?"
The guy looks him over and answers, "You are in the
Dancing Dove. And what is a
Hogwarts?" The guy then notices the
clothes that Snape is wearing. Being a thief,
he thinks this is a great opportunity.
He lunges for Snape, but Snape is too quick and stuns him. The man's companions see this and grab he. Overwhelmed, he is unable to stun them and
is knocked out by one of the men. "What
did he do to Bruce?" Asked the man that
had hit Snape.
"I don't know but he's out cold." Answered the man next to the still form of
the man named Bruce. "What ever he did,
he used that stick thing to do it. Grab
it." The man at Snape's right grabbed the wand.
"What should we do with him?" asked the man on
Snape's left.
"I say we take him to George." Said the one that hit
him. The rest nodded in agreement.
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Disclaimer: I
don't own any of the characters except for Bruce and the other men at the
bar. All other characters belong to JKR
and TP.
A/N: Do you
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props go to my twisted friend, Emily, a.k.a on ff.n Molten Saffire. If you didn't like them, then blame goes to
me for accepting her help and to her for coming up with them. Hope you all liked it. If you want more, you know what to do. R/R
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