Chapter 17

McGonagall contacted them during breakfast the next day. "You all will be going into the Forbidden forest with Hagrid. Someone has been starting fires so you will be assisting Hagrid in finding the culprit."

Logan wasn't speaking to Addy because Addy had been out of bed. Addy was practically in tears the whole day. Even when Hagrid came to get them they heard a sniffle from Addy.

"Now yer comin into the forest. Someone has been settin fires around the ol' forest. Probably nuttin to worry yerselfs about." Hagrid assured them.

They walked into the forest all silent behind Hagrid, except Logan who was next to him with her wand out. "Where have the fires been starting?"

"Pretty deep. Some recent ones have been starting closer but not many."

"Oh oka-" Suddenly Logan was not there anymore.

"Logan! Logan! Logan!" Addy cried.

"I'm okay!" She screamed from down below. "I'm in a tunnel! Come down here and see!"

They all slit down the whole but Hagrid. "I ain't gonna fit." He said.

"That's okay Hagrid. You stay above ground and we will search this tunnel!" Logan yelled.

The tunnel was dark and the only light was from their wands.

"We will go this way." Logan said point to her left. The tunnel was moist and damp with tree roots hanging from the top.

"What do you think made this?" Ron asked.

"You tell me." Logan said turning a corner.

"I dunno."

"Good. It's better if you don't know."

Ron gulped. When they turned another corner they heard a low growl. A silver claw reached around the dirt.

"Run." Logan said. But what they saw made them tremble and paralyzed from the waist down. Something came around the tunnel. It stood high and slouched over. Its skin looked scaly, slimy and an unnatural color of green. The creature had long arms with one silver claw at the end of their arms. The head was small and the skin was thing over where the eyes were supposed to be and the mouth was thing, black and long taking up most space on the monsters head. It growled again when it sensed the students. It started walking towards them getting faster with each step. Then another came.

"I said run!" But before they did move the creature speed past Logan with its claw up. It opened its mouth to show short sharp teeth. It grabbed Faye by the robes and ran the way they had just come.

"FAYE!" Addy screamed and tried to run after her but Ron grabbed her wrist.

"No, we can't go." Addy started crying and Ron picked her up. The other creature growled and Logan raised her wand. The green monster now had his eye (which Harry couldn't find) on Addy. Harry stood in front of her and Ron. Logan held her wand in her hand and with the other clutched her arm. She was losing blood quick. It was already seeping threw her sleeve.

" Odilious Verdido! "She yelled and a green light speed towards the monster but missed. Logan had to have been injured a lot if she missed. The monster beat its chest he didn't like being attacked.

"Run now! Go! NOW!" She said and ran to the monster to battle it.

"Logan!" Addy screamed as Ron carried her away with Harry behind him. He heard Logan scream and metal on metal. Harry turned back but a voice on the back of his head told him to keep going and leave Logan. And he did. They ran to the hole they came threw.

"How are we going to get up there?" Ron said.

"I don't know." Harry said trying to think over Addy's sobs. "What were those things?"

But just them a pair of strong arms grabbed Addy and pulled her up the hole. Then another took Ron and finally Harry was brought back up to the Forbidden Forest and saw the night sky. Harry looked at the people who brought them up from the tunnel and hoped they were friend not foe.

Harry was surprised to see the familiar face of the centaur Firenz. There was another centaur, a female. She was tan with green eyes like the grass. Her hair was long, blonde and held in two pigtails. She wore a shirt/bra made of leaves from fallen trees.

"Firenz! I'm so glad its you." Harry said.

"You know him?" Ron said.

"Yes, you know the whole thing in the first year."

"Oh yeah."

"Harry what are you doing in here?" Firenz asked.

"Detention."

Addy was crying and the female centaur hugged her trying to comfort Addy. "Don't fret young one." Her voice was soothing.

"This is Zirvilla. She is my mate." Firenz said.

"I have heard much of you Harry Potter." She said while patting Addy on the back. "Who is this child?" Zirvilla asked.

"Addy Figg." Harry said.

Zirvilla looked at Firenz. "We must get you out of the forest."

"No! My sister is still down in the tunnel."

"Zirvilla you stay here and watch the students. I will find Mogo." Firenz said while galloping into the night.

"What did you see my children?" Zirvilla said in her soothing voice.

Harry tried to explain the goutiest features of what he had seen. Addy went on Zirvilla's back and wrapped her arms around Zrivilla's muscular stomach and feel asleep.

"What you saw down there was a foid."

"Foid?"

"Yes, foid. It's a creature that evolves quickly from fire but an evil potion must be spread over the fire. Recently the foids have evaded some of the forest. There is a magical spell over this forest and the foids cannot leave. My people have been fighting off most of the foids but death eaters keep making more and more."

There was a rustle of leaves and Zirvilla magically pulled a bow and arrow from her back.

"Show yourself." She said her voice no longer soothing.

The dark figure moved into the light of the boy's wands. Logan stood pale and covered in blood. She had a gash from her right eye to her chin; her robes were cut all over and falling off. Scrapes, cuts, burses, and burns covered her arms legs everything digging into her skin. She held up the foids green head and fainted.

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::twilight music plays::

Mwahahaha! I'm so evil! I will turn to the dark side! ::turns to dark side and sees Voldemort::

Voldie:: Moony.::chh chh:: I am your father! Me:: NOOOO Voldie:: Mwahahaha!

::turns back good::

Lmao.Sorry to leave you like that. Logan took a beatin' from many o' foids.

Homework is a b*tch. I'd do better without it...

TGIF!!!