"Why was Niaomi so psycho a second ago? I was just telling Max how sorry I was about Skylar. That was way too low of her. How did she figure out I was an orphan?" Jessica was walking along the edge of the Forbidden Forest. "Maybe I'll go visit the centaurs, I need something to get this off my mind even if its their mindless dribble." She started to follow the familiar path to the home of Mercedes and Dantes. The full moon she was previously using for a source of light disappeared behind a cloud, making it pitch dark.
"What the heEEYYYYYYYY!" She yelled as she tripped over a broken branch along the path. She stood up to brush herself off when she heard a crack of a twig behind her. She whipped around to see what caused the noise.
"Is someone here?" She stepped toward the place she heard the crack. She whipped around again when she heard the crackling of leaves behind her. As the moon reappeered from behind the clouds all she saw was a cloaked figure and red glowing spots as she was knocked unconscious by a stunning spell from behind.
"Argh, where am I?" Jessica asked as she woke up in a dungeon that smelled suspiciously like cat pee. She pulled herself up from her spot on the ground and walked over to the small window in the corner of the cell. She tried to climb out of it, but she noticed the 50-foot plummet she would endure if she did climb out.
"Holy mother of Bob." She swore as she saw the ferocious dragon that was sitting on the ground below her. She imagined herself both falling and being eaten by the dragon.
"So you're finally awake. I would have thought the person who knocked out two of the best hit wizards in all of Europe could endure a simple Stunning Spell." A wicked voice said from behind her.
"How do
you know about that?" Jessica asked as
she turned around. "You're the guy that
leaped at me in the forest."
"The one and only. Now be a good girl and help me get the
people I want."
"Never. I don't care if
it's Shenlong Malfoy or Snape that you want.
You trapped me in here with the only possible way out is through the
digestion tract of the dragon down there.
And where in Hades is my wand?!"
"You'll get it back as soon as I seem fit."
After a week of being punished, tortured, and threatened, Jessica was too weak to fight against the man who captured her. She was force fed a potion that glowed through her skin as it traveled down to her stomach.
"My dear servant. Are you ready to do my bidding today?" The man in the black cloak said.
"Yes master." Jessica Ely said in a cold manner. She knelt down and kissed the man's hand.
"Perfect. You will teach those who mocked you and said
you were incapable of Dark Magic."
"Yes master." Jessica said. Her eyes glowed a sickenly red color.
"You will return to Hogwarts, then come back here with Lorna Doors."
"Yes master."
"Crabbe, Goyle, take her with you and make sure no one suspects her." Two bruly old men came and took Jessica out of the room.
"Dear dear Lorna, you might have gotten rid of my father, but you don't know how powerful I am." The cloaked man laughed manically.
"Are you sure you saw Jessica in the flames?" Skylar asked.
"Positive. Who else has pointed ears and that hair?" Meg asked.
"Doors. What color was the hair?"
"It was fire. You can't see colors that aren't the colors of fire Skylar. I know what I saw. Now we have to find Ely." The Three Musketeers just came out of their Divination class. They were doing fire divination. Meg, who was good at all kinds of magic, saw a figure being beaten and whipped inside a cell. She automatically knew it had to be Jessica. The figure had pointed ears and had her hair braided into two pigtails down her back. As they ran down the hall they spotted Niaomi and Max. Skylar grabbed a hold of Max and Niaomi's arms.
"Hey buddies. Where's Ely?" Skylar asked.
"She's been missing for a week." Niaomi said. "I think she ran into the Forbidden Forest after I slapped her."
"You slapped her? Why did you do that?" Tim asked.
"I don't remember." Niaomi said.
"Liar, you were always a terrible one. Now what did she do to make you hit her?!"
"She was apologizing about Skylar, and then Max thought she was apologizing for the pranks, and then she insulted him, and was yelling at him, and then I slapped her."
"Niaomi, you really need to work on your temper. You get it from your dad. Guys, lets go see if Jessica is in the Forbidden Forest." Tim said. He turned around and the two girls followed him.
"Jessica!"
"Jess!"
"Ely!" The three continued to call. They walked around the whole Forbidden Forest, and couldn't find her.
"Think we should tell McGonagall?" Meg asked.
"No, that would mean that we would have to tell her we went into the Forbidden Forest." Skylar said.
"Yeah, too bad that Dumbledore guy isn't around anymore. My dad told me how he let him and my uncle off of a lot of punishment. He seemed to be able to see everything, and know everything that goes around Hogwarts." Tim said.
"Wait, maybe Hagrid would have seen her and taken her back to his hut!" Meg said. The others nodded and ran into the direction of his hut.
"Hagrid! Hagrid!" The three said as they banged their fists on the door. It swung open and the half giant stuck his head out to see what was going on.
"Hey 'ere Skylar Tim and Meg?" Hagrid asked.
"Have you seen Jessica Ely? She has really long brown hair, and pointed ears." Tim asked.
"Yup, she's a sleeping in here. Come on in." The three walked inside a saw Jessica laying on a rug by the fireplace with Fang beside her.
"Is she alright?" Tim asked.
"She was in worse shape, but she seems to be alright now." Meg bent down and pushed the sleeves of her robes up to show the others welt marks.
"We were too late." Meg whispered.
"Can you come up to the castle when she's awake and tell us?" Tim asked.
"Sure." The three left the hut and made their way back to the castle.
"I can't believe we were to late. She must have just come back. I wonder how she got here." Skylar said.
"I don't know, but I'm going to yell at Niaomi for a long time." Tim said. He kicked a stone that was at his feet.
"Why?" The two girls asked.
"It's her fault she ran away and got caught by dark wizards." Tim said angrily.
"No it isn't." Skylar said. "And she's your cousin. What is Jessica to you?"
"She's the person that saved my best friend." Tim said.
"Hey! What about me?!" Meg said.
"She could have saved you from the horrors called Skylar." Tim said. Skylar punched him in the arm and started chasing him across the grounds.
"Those two are insane." Meg muttered as she walked up the castle.
Jessica rubbed her eyes as she awoke in Hagrid's hut.
"Where am I?" She wondered as she looked at the huge boarhound snoring beside her.
"Well yer up." Hagrid said. She jumped at the sound of his voice.
"Oh, hello there Hagrid. Can you do me a favor?" Jessica asked sweetly.
"What's that?"
"Tie me up and don't let me go anywhere, or do anything!" She yelled.
"Why's that?" Hagrid asked as the ringing stopped in his ears.
"I can't tell you. Just do it!" She ordered.
"I think I better get McGonagall." Hagrid left the house and left Jessica alone.
"I can't hurt Doors, I can't." She repeated to herself. Fang came up to her and sat on top of her.
"Thank you doggy." She said as she whispered. The weight began getting to her.
"Ow, gerroff!" She cried out. Fang yelped and bound of the room. She stood up and left the hut, and walked toward the greenhouses.
"Where is she?" Professor McGonagall asked when she, Hagrid, and Joanne Black came back to the hut. Jessica disappeared.
"She probably went back to the castle Professor. It was the strangest thing. She kept asking me to tie her up."
"That is strange. I just hope it's not like what happened to Skylar." Joanne said. They left the hut and went back to the castle.
"Professor Doors?" Jessica called as she walked into greenhouse three.
"Over here, Ely." Lorna called from one of the tables. Jessica came up to her.
"Do you have any spare Devil's snare? Because it will be useful at this moment." Jessica called from the door.
"No, but I think I can keep you from taking me to the new dark lord." Doors said,
"How do you know that?"
"You are one of us my dear, you can control the balances between good and evil. You are an elf. Well actually a half elf." She sat down at the table that Doors was sitting at.
"What's an elf? You mean those things Americans have helping Santa Claus?"
"They are truly remarkable creatures that can turn evil if they want, are very powerful, and have pointed ears." Doors said. Jessica could feel all the pain given to her lift as Doors spoke.
"So I'm a half elf?? Were my parents?"
"Your parents? No, they weren't. Your father was a wizard, but I don't know who he was. Your mother was an elf that I encountered in Scotland. But enough about them, what I want to know is how you got those gruesome welts on her skin."
"After me and Niaomi got into a row, I went into the Forbidden Forest. Then some guy came and took me with him. I woke up in this cell with the guy in a black cloak watching me. He started telling me to join the Dark Side. That it was my destiny. They forced me to drink this potion. I don't know what it was. It tasted really sweet though."
"Did it glow orange?" Lorna asked.
"Yeah it did."
"That was Maligo Diabolus. Meaning 'The Evil Devil.' It causes a being that
could be pure good, to pure evil. You're now evil, unless you can fight with yourself to be good." Doors said. "There is a spell I can perform on you, to help you fight the evil inside of yourself, but it is rather complicated."
"I really don't want to do anything bad to you, or give you to that psycho guy."
"If you're sure, then come back here tonight."
"But, what do I do until then? I don't want to pull a Lizzy Borden and kill people." Jessica said.
"I recommend you go to the Gryfinndor Common room and tell Tim and Skylar that you're okay, then go hide in some closet and lock the door behind you."
"Thank you Professor."
"You're pulling a Skylar now?"
"Kinda. But now I'm evil, but I can fight it better."
"Okay. Are the ropes too tight? They aren't gonna cause Pomfrey to amputate?"
"No. They are fine." Tim finished tying the ropes. Skylar looked out onto the grounds. Tim, her, and Jessica were in the Shrieking Shack.
"Ah crap. My dad is walking up to the castle."
"Why?"
"Don't know. He's an Auror, they have spies, and probably found out about you. Or, he has come to hurt you for dying my hair."
"How about I stay here with Ely?" Tim said.
"You're afraid of my dad?" Skylar teased, but then something hit her. "Uh, maybe I'll stay too."
"Why?"
"He probably found the stuff I hid in the forest behind our house."
"What did you hide?" Jessica asked, which caused Skylar to put one of Tim's socks in her mouth.
"Nothing." Tim took the sock out.
"Come on. Tell us. We're all friends here."
"Fine. He probably found his motorcycle in 5 pieces."
"What hell did you do?"
"That's a story for a whole other day." Skylar picked up several torn blankets and transfigured them into sleeping bags. "Doors will know where we are."
"As long as she doesn't tell you're dad that you're sleeping in the same room as a guy."
"Yeah. Comfy Jessica?"
"Nope. Thanks."
"Goodnight."
"Night."