author: Brandi Vincent
disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nor Harry Potter. Joss Whedon and J.K. Rowling own their characters from their imaginary story.
title: Hogwarts and The Scoobies
chapter: 18 Hell of a Wedding
recommended fanfictions: Paint the Stars In the Sky, The Seed of Good and Evil, I Hate Goblins!, Spike and I are in a Band, Keep my Heart
******Chapter 18: Hell of a Wedding******
Throughout the week, everything was back to normal. But the only thing wrong, was Dawn and Harry. They weren't hanging out. Also because that Malfoy kept blocking Harry's view. Dawn missed him. Malfoy wasn't that bad, but Harry was affectionate, caring, sweet, and not to mention cute. But who could resist Malfoy? Top hottie in Slytherin.
"I can't wait! I can't wait! I'm so excited!" Anya kept sating. Then she groaned and let her face fall. "I can't do this! I'm so nervous that I'll porbably trip and fall on my face and my huge dress will flap up."
"Don't worry, Anya. Only the entire school is out there, it's not like the entire country is here." Willow said. Anya had given them their dresses. Red like the blood of mortal flesh.
"Wow. That makes me feel a whole lot better." Anya said, stuffing her face in her pillow.
"Uh, sorry." Willow said as somebody knocked on the door. "Oh, that should be, uh, Remess. I'll get it." Willow opened the door and saw Lupin come in, looking down at a piece of parchment.
"The count is in: 342 times." Lupin said.
"Do you have the flowers?" Willow asked, rolling her eyes.
"What flowers?" Lupin asked, looking up.
"For Anya??"
"Oh yea, Giles has them."
"Uh!" Willow shoved him out of the door and looked back to Anya. "See? No biggie!"
******The Great Hall******
Chairs were placed in rows down to the door, split up from a red carpet.
"Demons aren't going to be here, are they?" Oz asked Dawn.
"Of course not! I hope..." Dawn replied, in the first row. All of the students starting piling in now, through the huge doors.
"Where's Xander?" Oz asked again.
"You know, by any degree, I have a theory that he'd be running away instead of the bride." Dawn laughed.
"Hey, whatcha guys talking about?" Xander asked, walking up to the front.
"Nothing." Oz defended quickly.
"Scared?" Dawn asked him.
"You kidding?" Xander laughed, then looked around. "I'm absolutley terrified! What do you think, I'm scarred??" He lowered his voice harshly.
"Hey, aren't you the flower girl?" Oz asked Dawn.
"Keep your voice low and I'm not." Dawn said.
"Yea, you are, come on back here." Xander pulled at Dawn's arm down the red carpet.
"Good look." Oz flashed her a thumbs up, smiling sarcastically.
"Sleep with one eye open, Oz!" Dawn shouted before she was pulled into the main hall.
******The Wedding******
"Go! Go! Go!" Buffy gestured to Dawn for her to go walking down the aisle.
"I'm not flipping pedals if that's what you want." Dawn said, and came out of the hallway, smiling as she strode down the aisle. Everybody stared at her. She was beautiful. She held a basket of flowers, but she didn't throw them around like a five year old. As she came up to the front, she stood across from the gloomy ring bear, which was Oz. Then came the three bride's maids, in their scarlet red laced dresses. First was Buffy, then Tara, then Willow, all looking identical to one another.
"They look so beautiful." Anya covered her mouth, almost crying.
"Ready to go soon?" Giles asked her.
"Just peachy." Anya's stomach lurched. As everything was a go, the music got heavier from the organ, and Anya and Giles hooked arms, walking down the aisle. Everybody turned their heads to see the pearly white poofy dress of Anya. She looked beautiful as everybody else thought. When she came to the front, she stood next to Xander and Giles walked to the side of them with Oz.
//Don't know any wedding sayings, so let's say I did but I didn't//
"Now, you may, kiss the bride." The minister said, closing the book he was holding as Anya and Xander kissed passionatly. Everybody around cheered. Buffy started to cry.
"It's so beautiful." Buffy cried.
"It's OK, Buffy." Oz patted her back as everybody still cheered and hooted.
"Get me a tissue!" Willow started crying as well, crying on Buffy's sholder. Tara didn't, she just smiled at the beautiful room surrounding them. The ceiling was charmed to look like a blue sky and fluffy clouds. Dumbledore was the one who had closed the book, and smiled at the happily married couple.
"Did anybody hear that?" Dawn asked, nudging Giles.
"Hear what?" Giles asked, beaming. Dawn wasn't, a cross of confusion and anxiousness took over her expression. "What is it?" Then Giles put his ear to the air, too. He started hearing it as well. Then he nudged Dumbledore. "Albus, do you hear that?" Dumbledore stopped smiling and fear crossed his face.
"They're coming for her." Dumbledore whispered.
"Pardon?" Giles asked.
"Dawn! They're coming for Dawn!" He started shouting. He pointed his wand at the door and the door started turning to medal. It was too late. A full grown, giant Happet flew in, crashing the door and making a huge hole, flapping it's full grown wings wildly.
"I thought they couldn't fly." Dawn squeaked.
"Just because they look like chickens doesn't mean they don't soar like eagles." Tara replied, terrified. "Come on!" Tara grabbed Dawn's hand.
"Holy crap!" Hagrid stood up, looking up at the dark creature. It was carrying some one. Then hooded figures flew in on brooms, wearing all black.
"Death eaters." Oz muttered, looking up at them, terrified as well. Everybody tried flinging curses and spells at them, but it wouldn't work. It was like they were curse proof. Malfoy's eyes grew wide when he saw somebody he recognized and knew. That very man took down his hood and looked around, happily. Then he spotted the blonde and flew down.
"Ah, Draco. What do you think?" He asked, looking around. The death eaters were flying around, scaring every soul in there. Dumbledore tried fighting them off, but nothing would work. But he did put a protection spell over everybody in the room. It helped alot actually. The students couldn't do anything but run out of the door, frightned of the giant Happet that was being ridden my Voldemort in the (not so pretty) flesh.
"Run." His scratchy, demon voice said to all of them, grinning evily. Then he looked around. Where was his key ingrediant? He hissed and directed for his death eaters to go look for Dawn and bring her to him. Lucius nodded towards him, then looked back to Malfoy.
"Do me a favor, son. And bring Harry into the Forbidden Forest between the magical waterfall and the orange road, where we'll be." He said and pushed up into the air, flying off down the corridors.
******Dan and Tara******
"Where do we go?!" Dawn panted, running with Tara down a long hall full of moving paintings.
"Any where but where the death eaters are!" Tara replied, terribly worried of it all.
"This can't be happening! It's Anya's wedding and almost Christmas!"
"Just keep moving!" They started running down a different hall. All of the other students had piled into their rightful common rooms. Dawn didn't really have a rightful one. But she had an idea. Who would suspect her of being in Slytherin?
"Come on! To the Slytherin tower!" Dawn sped off to a different direction, while Tara followed.
******Slytherin Common Room******
"We'll be safe here." Dawn huffed, sitting on a chair and catching her breathe.
"Are you sure?" Tara looked anxiously around.
"No sweat." Tara sat down in the dark and closed her eyes, wishing it would all go away. But it didn't.
"Dawn? Are you sure?"
"I'm-" Dawn silenced and heard something, "not so sure." Tara heard it too. The sound of silent buzzing of a broom.
"Run Dawn!" Dawn shot up, but it was too late again. A black broom tore through the portrait. Then more poured in. Dawn froze. She couldn't move. Lucius smiled, hood pulled over his head and landed next to Dawn.
"Where's one of your friends to save you now?" He asked darkly, then laughed.
"Right here!" Tara ran up out of the dark and smacked him in the head with a wicker chair and grabbed Dawn's arm. "Come on!" But before they could run, Tara was shocked from an energy of lightning from another death eater.
******Around the Corridors******
"Potter!" Malfoy yelled and ran after Harry down the halls where Harry was searching.
"What is it, death eater? Call upon your father to bring along chaos?" Harry snapped. Malfoy shot him a glare but continued.
"Dawn's in trouble. I need your help."
"Wow. Never thought you'd ever need my help, dragon breathe."
"My father came here with Voldemort, and I want them gone just as much as you do. He says I'm destined to be a death eater, and as much as evil as you think I may be, I NEVER want to follow in my fathers footsteps."
"Why is that?"
"I was not his only son, Potter. I had a little brother, Joey. No one could seperate us. He was my little brother and I loved him. He was eight when my father killed him."
"He was what??"
"My father killed him!" He shrieked, eyes getting puffy." Joey was listening on my father's conversation with my fathers companions. My father is CRAZY. Joey didn't even get to tell me what he'd heard."
"Why did he...you know?"
"My father has alot of anger. When he saw Joey peeking in through the corner of his den, he couldn't let Joey go. Joey was the only good Malfoy. He would tell what my father said to others. It was right before I went off to Hogwarts. In the fifth grade."
"Oh..."
"I still miss him. We did alot together. To trading wizard cards to checking out girls. But Joey wasn't all that of a pig. And I want to make it up to him why I wasn't there. And we ae rescueing Dawn. They have her. We have to get her back. And I need your help. NOW!" Malfoy yelled, waiting for a response.
"I want to get Dawn back too. And I'm sorry for your brother and you." Malfoy gave a tiny smile then ran off, expecting Harry to follow.
******The Great Hall******
"They're gone." Oz said, getting up from under some chairs and rubble.
"You think??" Buffy shrieked. "Where's Harry? Where's Dawn??"
"My guess-"
"Don't guess." Giles hushed Willow.
"Where's Tara?" Lupin asked. They all looked around, then ran out of the door.
******The Slytherin Common Room******
The Scooby gang ran through the Slytherin's portrait and looked around anxiously.
"Tara!" Xander shrieked and they ran over to a dark corner of the room, where she laid motionless.
"What happened?" Buffy asked. Tara didn't answer.
"Where is Dawn?" Oz asked. Silent.
******The Forbidden Forest******
"How could they let their guard down?" Harry asked as he and Malfoy strutted inside the dark woods.
"Sodding wedding." Malfoy muttered and tore through some bushed and weeds.
"Where did they take her?"
"In between the waterfall and the orange path. Just like old times."
"Old what?"
"I was baptised in that waterfall. That's why I'm destined to be a death eater."
"How far is it?"
"Long walk. About five hours. We have 'til night fall, where they'll do the ritual."
"It was 7 when we left."
"At 12 it starts. We need to get there fast." Harry rubbed his hands together. It was cold. Very cold. Snowing hard, and in the forbidden forest made it worse. Dead cold. There was something in there. Something demented. But all they could hear was the rustling of leaves and the whistling of the harsh december winds.
******To be Continued******
Next Chapter of Hogwarts and The Scoobies: What does the Scooby Gang do now? Alot, that's right!
author's note: So sorry it's really late!!! But recognize the last sentence? I couldn't help but use my username at such a perfect moment! See ya. But don't expect the next chapter to be THAT soon. Bye!
disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nor Harry Potter. Joss Whedon and J.K. Rowling own their characters from their imaginary story.
title: Hogwarts and The Scoobies
chapter: 18 Hell of a Wedding
recommended fanfictions: Paint the Stars In the Sky, The Seed of Good and Evil, I Hate Goblins!, Spike and I are in a Band, Keep my Heart
******Chapter 18: Hell of a Wedding******
Throughout the week, everything was back to normal. But the only thing wrong, was Dawn and Harry. They weren't hanging out. Also because that Malfoy kept blocking Harry's view. Dawn missed him. Malfoy wasn't that bad, but Harry was affectionate, caring, sweet, and not to mention cute. But who could resist Malfoy? Top hottie in Slytherin.
"I can't wait! I can't wait! I'm so excited!" Anya kept sating. Then she groaned and let her face fall. "I can't do this! I'm so nervous that I'll porbably trip and fall on my face and my huge dress will flap up."
"Don't worry, Anya. Only the entire school is out there, it's not like the entire country is here." Willow said. Anya had given them their dresses. Red like the blood of mortal flesh.
"Wow. That makes me feel a whole lot better." Anya said, stuffing her face in her pillow.
"Uh, sorry." Willow said as somebody knocked on the door. "Oh, that should be, uh, Remess. I'll get it." Willow opened the door and saw Lupin come in, looking down at a piece of parchment.
"The count is in: 342 times." Lupin said.
"Do you have the flowers?" Willow asked, rolling her eyes.
"What flowers?" Lupin asked, looking up.
"For Anya??"
"Oh yea, Giles has them."
"Uh!" Willow shoved him out of the door and looked back to Anya. "See? No biggie!"
******The Great Hall******
Chairs were placed in rows down to the door, split up from a red carpet.
"Demons aren't going to be here, are they?" Oz asked Dawn.
"Of course not! I hope..." Dawn replied, in the first row. All of the students starting piling in now, through the huge doors.
"Where's Xander?" Oz asked again.
"You know, by any degree, I have a theory that he'd be running away instead of the bride." Dawn laughed.
"Hey, whatcha guys talking about?" Xander asked, walking up to the front.
"Nothing." Oz defended quickly.
"Scared?" Dawn asked him.
"You kidding?" Xander laughed, then looked around. "I'm absolutley terrified! What do you think, I'm scarred??" He lowered his voice harshly.
"Hey, aren't you the flower girl?" Oz asked Dawn.
"Keep your voice low and I'm not." Dawn said.
"Yea, you are, come on back here." Xander pulled at Dawn's arm down the red carpet.
"Good look." Oz flashed her a thumbs up, smiling sarcastically.
"Sleep with one eye open, Oz!" Dawn shouted before she was pulled into the main hall.
******The Wedding******
"Go! Go! Go!" Buffy gestured to Dawn for her to go walking down the aisle.
"I'm not flipping pedals if that's what you want." Dawn said, and came out of the hallway, smiling as she strode down the aisle. Everybody stared at her. She was beautiful. She held a basket of flowers, but she didn't throw them around like a five year old. As she came up to the front, she stood across from the gloomy ring bear, which was Oz. Then came the three bride's maids, in their scarlet red laced dresses. First was Buffy, then Tara, then Willow, all looking identical to one another.
"They look so beautiful." Anya covered her mouth, almost crying.
"Ready to go soon?" Giles asked her.
"Just peachy." Anya's stomach lurched. As everything was a go, the music got heavier from the organ, and Anya and Giles hooked arms, walking down the aisle. Everybody turned their heads to see the pearly white poofy dress of Anya. She looked beautiful as everybody else thought. When she came to the front, she stood next to Xander and Giles walked to the side of them with Oz.
//Don't know any wedding sayings, so let's say I did but I didn't//
"Now, you may, kiss the bride." The minister said, closing the book he was holding as Anya and Xander kissed passionatly. Everybody around cheered. Buffy started to cry.
"It's so beautiful." Buffy cried.
"It's OK, Buffy." Oz patted her back as everybody still cheered and hooted.
"Get me a tissue!" Willow started crying as well, crying on Buffy's sholder. Tara didn't, she just smiled at the beautiful room surrounding them. The ceiling was charmed to look like a blue sky and fluffy clouds. Dumbledore was the one who had closed the book, and smiled at the happily married couple.
"Did anybody hear that?" Dawn asked, nudging Giles.
"Hear what?" Giles asked, beaming. Dawn wasn't, a cross of confusion and anxiousness took over her expression. "What is it?" Then Giles put his ear to the air, too. He started hearing it as well. Then he nudged Dumbledore. "Albus, do you hear that?" Dumbledore stopped smiling and fear crossed his face.
"They're coming for her." Dumbledore whispered.
"Pardon?" Giles asked.
"Dawn! They're coming for Dawn!" He started shouting. He pointed his wand at the door and the door started turning to medal. It was too late. A full grown, giant Happet flew in, crashing the door and making a huge hole, flapping it's full grown wings wildly.
"I thought they couldn't fly." Dawn squeaked.
"Just because they look like chickens doesn't mean they don't soar like eagles." Tara replied, terrified. "Come on!" Tara grabbed Dawn's hand.
"Holy crap!" Hagrid stood up, looking up at the dark creature. It was carrying some one. Then hooded figures flew in on brooms, wearing all black.
"Death eaters." Oz muttered, looking up at them, terrified as well. Everybody tried flinging curses and spells at them, but it wouldn't work. It was like they were curse proof. Malfoy's eyes grew wide when he saw somebody he recognized and knew. That very man took down his hood and looked around, happily. Then he spotted the blonde and flew down.
"Ah, Draco. What do you think?" He asked, looking around. The death eaters were flying around, scaring every soul in there. Dumbledore tried fighting them off, but nothing would work. But he did put a protection spell over everybody in the room. It helped alot actually. The students couldn't do anything but run out of the door, frightned of the giant Happet that was being ridden my Voldemort in the (not so pretty) flesh.
"Run." His scratchy, demon voice said to all of them, grinning evily. Then he looked around. Where was his key ingrediant? He hissed and directed for his death eaters to go look for Dawn and bring her to him. Lucius nodded towards him, then looked back to Malfoy.
"Do me a favor, son. And bring Harry into the Forbidden Forest between the magical waterfall and the orange road, where we'll be." He said and pushed up into the air, flying off down the corridors.
******Dan and Tara******
"Where do we go?!" Dawn panted, running with Tara down a long hall full of moving paintings.
"Any where but where the death eaters are!" Tara replied, terribly worried of it all.
"This can't be happening! It's Anya's wedding and almost Christmas!"
"Just keep moving!" They started running down a different hall. All of the other students had piled into their rightful common rooms. Dawn didn't really have a rightful one. But she had an idea. Who would suspect her of being in Slytherin?
"Come on! To the Slytherin tower!" Dawn sped off to a different direction, while Tara followed.
******Slytherin Common Room******
"We'll be safe here." Dawn huffed, sitting on a chair and catching her breathe.
"Are you sure?" Tara looked anxiously around.
"No sweat." Tara sat down in the dark and closed her eyes, wishing it would all go away. But it didn't.
"Dawn? Are you sure?"
"I'm-" Dawn silenced and heard something, "not so sure." Tara heard it too. The sound of silent buzzing of a broom.
"Run Dawn!" Dawn shot up, but it was too late again. A black broom tore through the portrait. Then more poured in. Dawn froze. She couldn't move. Lucius smiled, hood pulled over his head and landed next to Dawn.
"Where's one of your friends to save you now?" He asked darkly, then laughed.
"Right here!" Tara ran up out of the dark and smacked him in the head with a wicker chair and grabbed Dawn's arm. "Come on!" But before they could run, Tara was shocked from an energy of lightning from another death eater.
******Around the Corridors******
"Potter!" Malfoy yelled and ran after Harry down the halls where Harry was searching.
"What is it, death eater? Call upon your father to bring along chaos?" Harry snapped. Malfoy shot him a glare but continued.
"Dawn's in trouble. I need your help."
"Wow. Never thought you'd ever need my help, dragon breathe."
"My father came here with Voldemort, and I want them gone just as much as you do. He says I'm destined to be a death eater, and as much as evil as you think I may be, I NEVER want to follow in my fathers footsteps."
"Why is that?"
"I was not his only son, Potter. I had a little brother, Joey. No one could seperate us. He was my little brother and I loved him. He was eight when my father killed him."
"He was what??"
"My father killed him!" He shrieked, eyes getting puffy." Joey was listening on my father's conversation with my fathers companions. My father is CRAZY. Joey didn't even get to tell me what he'd heard."
"Why did he...you know?"
"My father has alot of anger. When he saw Joey peeking in through the corner of his den, he couldn't let Joey go. Joey was the only good Malfoy. He would tell what my father said to others. It was right before I went off to Hogwarts. In the fifth grade."
"Oh..."
"I still miss him. We did alot together. To trading wizard cards to checking out girls. But Joey wasn't all that of a pig. And I want to make it up to him why I wasn't there. And we ae rescueing Dawn. They have her. We have to get her back. And I need your help. NOW!" Malfoy yelled, waiting for a response.
"I want to get Dawn back too. And I'm sorry for your brother and you." Malfoy gave a tiny smile then ran off, expecting Harry to follow.
******The Great Hall******
"They're gone." Oz said, getting up from under some chairs and rubble.
"You think??" Buffy shrieked. "Where's Harry? Where's Dawn??"
"My guess-"
"Don't guess." Giles hushed Willow.
"Where's Tara?" Lupin asked. They all looked around, then ran out of the door.
******The Slytherin Common Room******
The Scooby gang ran through the Slytherin's portrait and looked around anxiously.
"Tara!" Xander shrieked and they ran over to a dark corner of the room, where she laid motionless.
"What happened?" Buffy asked. Tara didn't answer.
"Where is Dawn?" Oz asked. Silent.
******The Forbidden Forest******
"How could they let their guard down?" Harry asked as he and Malfoy strutted inside the dark woods.
"Sodding wedding." Malfoy muttered and tore through some bushed and weeds.
"Where did they take her?"
"In between the waterfall and the orange path. Just like old times."
"Old what?"
"I was baptised in that waterfall. That's why I'm destined to be a death eater."
"How far is it?"
"Long walk. About five hours. We have 'til night fall, where they'll do the ritual."
"It was 7 when we left."
"At 12 it starts. We need to get there fast." Harry rubbed his hands together. It was cold. Very cold. Snowing hard, and in the forbidden forest made it worse. Dead cold. There was something in there. Something demented. But all they could hear was the rustling of leaves and the whistling of the harsh december winds.
******To be Continued******
Next Chapter of Hogwarts and The Scoobies: What does the Scooby Gang do now? Alot, that's right!
author's note: So sorry it's really late!!! But recognize the last sentence? I couldn't help but use my username at such a perfect moment! See ya. But don't expect the next chapter to be THAT soon. Bye!