Lusitania
Author: Sirius
White
Author email: siriuswhite@schnoogle.com
Category:
Romance/Adventure/Action/Mystery
Keywords: Artio
Sperios, Patrick, Anaras, Captain Dolphin, Lusitania
Spoilers: All
the four books and QTTA and FB.
Rating: PG
Summary: Artio is a girl who goes to a
magical school, as Hogwarts. She is going for the first year and very strange
things happen. Patrick is a boy who people don't like. Why?
Disclaimer: This
story is based on characters and situations created and owned
by JK Rowling,
various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic
Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no
copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Author's Note: Dedicated to my family
and my country, Portugal.
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She fainted.
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Artio woke up on the infirmary.
She opened her eyes and searched for Captain Dolphin, but he was not
there. There was a nurse.
"Hi" she said "I'm Seitinn Shalbourn, the nurse of the Lusitania Magical
Academy of Sorcery and Magecraft".
"What happened?" asked Artio.
"You fainted," said Madam Shalbourn "Captain Dolphin left you here last
night".
"Where is he?"
"He has gone to search for Patrick".
"Who is Patrick? What has he done?"
"Artio, I think Captain Dolphin wouldn't like if I told you about
Patrick. The Captain will tell you all you want to know, I'm sure. Now, you
must have to sleep."
"I don't want to sleep. I want find Captain Dolphin!"
"Very well. I'll tell Captain you want to see him, but you stay here."
"Okay. Thanks."
Madam Shalbourn went out the infirmary and Artio saw a letter on a bed,
near a window.
She went near the bed, where the letter was. She opened it and started
reading:
Dear Artio …
But she couldn't read more because Madam Shalbourn and Captain Dolphin
entered the infirmary.
Artio hided the letter on her cloak and feigned that she was looking out
the window.
"Artio! What are you doing there?" Madam Shalbourn asked, nervously, and
came near her.
"I was only looking out the window", Artio said.
"Oh girl! Do you think I will believe you? Outside it's only water and sea…
tell me: what are you observing??"
Captain Dolphin saw Artio coming to bed, ashamed. He was there since the
beginning but it seems he was not because he hasn't said anything.
Artio finally asked the Captain:
"Captain, what happened? Who is Patrick? What has he done? Why don't you
like him?"
"Stay calm, Artio. I will tell you what you want to know, but only when
you wake up again. Now you have to sleep."
"I don't want TO SLEEP!!!!!!" she shouted, "All people want me to do is
sleep, but I don't want! I want to discover this mystery!"
"Artio" the Captain was calm, as ever, and Artio thought he always
seemed calm… maybe he can't be angry… and he continued, "You need to sleep
because you are very tired… I know you are very tired… so you don't want to
tell me you are not, okay?"
"But I am not!" Artio said feeling tired, and the Captain laughed.
"I know you are, Artio and you will sleep, now, because you are
veeeeeery tired" and Captain said those last words as a sleeping song… and the
song worked: Artio fell asleep.
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She was somewhere, in the middle of a big corridor, with a unique door
at the end, facing Artio.
The door opened and Patrick came near her, saying, "Artio I love you.
Come with me to my world."
She was confused. It seemed her life was confusion: since the
beginning of the tour on that ship she was confused more times than all her
entire life together!
When she is going to say "okay, I'll go
with you…", Captain Dolphin entered the corridor and ran to Artio.
"Artio, no!" he said, with a nervous voice, and a calm expression,
"Artio" he continued "don't go with him!"
"Why?" asked Artio.
"Go! Please, go with me if you love me" said Patrick.
"No!" Captain said.
"Yes!" Patrick said.
"Why?" asked Artio.
And she listened those words more and more times: "yes… no… why… yes…
no… why… yes… no… …".
******
She woke up again. That was a dream. This time, Captain was sitting on a
chair near her bed and when he noticed that she had woken up, he said "Hi."
"Who is Patrick?" asked Artio, for the million time.
"Okay, now I will tell you all you want to know…"
They were talking for two or three hours…
At the end, she knew many things about that confusion.
She knew that Patrick didn't exist.
Well, Patrick was an illusion. When a person feels alone and without
friends, Patrick takes a human body and appears to the person. He tells that
person all she wants to know about the place where she is and other useful
things. At the beginning, this seems a very good thing, but it is not.
Sometimes, he offers that person things (as he offered that drink to Artio),
and that thing can cause secondary effects to the person, bad effects, which
are made by dark spells. And even if he doesn't give anything to the person,
the words he says will make that person sick and he can control them as if they
were under the Imperius curse.
In conclusion: he is dangerous because when he helps a person, he can
control her.
It was difficult for Captain Dolphin tell this to Artio because she
likes Patrick very much.
When they finished talking, Artio remembered the letter she found on the
bed and she couldn't decide if she should or not tell the Captain about it.
Captain told her "Artio, let's go to the common room. It will take only
five or six hours until we arrive to the island where students can buy their
school things. Let's go?"
"Okay" she said, "I will get dressed. Wait outside for me, please!"
Captain looked at her and laughed.
"Hahaha!! The girl who seemed to be a angel giving orders to her
Captain! Hahaha!!" and went out.
Artio dressed quickly and when she was
going out to join the Captain, she remembered the letter. She took it from her
cloak and opened it again. Maybe now she finally could read it without
interferences! And she started reading:
Dear Artio …
But the Captain opened the door:
"Artio, let's go! You are dressed and we don't have much time to join
the party on the common room!"
Artio hid the letter carefully in her dress… that was the second time
she tried to read it, and the second time someone interfered!!
"Okay, Captain. Let's go." And she followed him to the common room,
where the party still continued, without going to bed… they were few who slept
that night…
Anaras came near Artio and asked her about what happened. Artio told
Anaras what the Captain told her before, but she didn't say anything about the
letter.
Anaras had gone and Artio entered the dormitories, where she would
finally read the letter.
She sat on her bed, where she should have slept last night, if Patrick
hadn't appeared…
She took the letter, opened it and read Dear Artio, when a girl entered the dormitory:
"Sorry… I came here looking for my cat… have you seen it?"
Artio hid the letter one more time and asked what the cat looked like.
"Er… he is black, with green eyes… I don't know what else to say…"
"Is it big or small?"
"Small, it is only two months old…"
"No, I haven't seen it… sorry…"
"Okay… Thanks", and the girl went out.
Artio continued reading the letter, finally.
Dear Artio,
I was in the infirmary with you, but you were
sleeping when I left. Captain Dolphin took me yesterday to the infirmary
because I could be sick or under a curse… you know…and he told me also what
Patrick has done, well, what I have done…Sorry …I was Patrick yesterday. My
body was the one he took. I would like to meet you personally. Send me Strimmy
saying where you can meet me and when. I know it is not an owl, but it is very
intelligent and I know it will give me the letter.
Waiting for Strimmy.
Kisses,
Jeremy (Patrick's
body…)
Artio read the letter three times and finally understood what she had to
do: send a letter by Strimmy…
But she didn't know at the moment what Strimmy was…Well, was not an owl because Patrick, well, Jeremy had
written that he knew Strimmy was not
an owl… Maybe… a dog… or a mouse… it could also be a toad… and… (How could she
be so stupid?) A cat!! Strimmy was a cat…the cat the girl was
looking for!!!
Artio ran out the dormitory. She had
to find that girl!
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