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Chapter 7: The Queen
"It's so- long. So sharp." Ron said touching the scar while looking in the mirror. Hermione and him were in the warm Gryffindor Common Room. "Where's Harry- s'pose we can finally see Harry without something on his forehead eh?"
Hermione frowned. "You sound as if you just got that scar."
"I did."
"What's up?" Harry said coming over to them.
"Harry-wow your forehead looks bigger." Ron said standing up and shaking Harry.
"Huh-what?" Harry started messing with his bangs.
"Don't worry Harry you're beautiful.beautiful, beautiful." Ron said as he sat back down. Harry smiled, and then frowned. "As for me.I have this- scar!"
"Ron says he just got that." Hermione said.
"No he didn't he got it when his parents died."
Ron dropped the mirror. Fortunately it didn't break. "My Parents." he whispered. He looked at Harry. "They're- dead?"
Harry and Hermione exchanged confused glances.
"What about my brothers and Ginny? They exist?" Ron asked, again shaking Harry. "Do you have parents?"
"Pretty sure since Ginny is standing over there." Harry pointed out. "And of course I have parents you've met them!"
"Thank God.but my parents.my life." Ron walked off to a window, putting his hand on the cold glass. "Hermione's under the necklaces spell like Harry, Snape, everyone. I've been under it to. Believing I could be the Quidditch Hero, having all this knowledge in my already stuffed and stressed brain. This isn't the way to the good life. I should be changing the way I look at things. Shouldn't be ruining lives." Ron whispered. He saw Harry and Hermione slowly coming closer to him, drawing every word he said in. Ron reached into his pocket and took out the necklace, rubbing the soft green stone. "Should be ruining this."
***
Ron put the necklace on the table. "And I thought you were to great to destroy." Ron slammed the rock into the stone. He kept doing this and looked at the stone. It looked even more shiny and smooth then it did before. Its emerald green glowed luminously.
"Damn it!" Ron howled as he brushed his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"Ron, what are you doing?" Harry asked coming into the room.
"You up for another- adventure?" Ron asked holding the necklace tightly.
Harry looked from Ron to the necklace. "What is that?"
"Look get Professor Squilt and meet me outside the common room," Ron ordered. "Now! Chop, chop!" Harry left.
Ron looked at the necklace then put it into his pocket. He walked down the stairs, not paying attention to a conversation including a student stealing from Snape, hearing a musical flute. He saw that Lavender was playing and was extremely good. He came closer and started to recognize the song.
Lavender stopped playing and beamed at Ron. "Good?"
"Yes," Ron answered. "What-what's that song called again?"
"I don't know- the tune was stuck in my head all day." Lavender said as Seamus tried to grab her attention. She played again and the crowd disappeared and then Lavender stopped. "You hear that?"
Ron's eyes widen. Lavender strolled off leaving Seamus on his spot frowning. Parvati followed. So did Ron.
When the three came out of the common room Ron saw Harry, Hermione and Professor Squilt sprinting over.
"Ron what-"
"Shh! We follow." Ron said to them quietly and followed Lavender and Parvati.
"What is this about, students? I have better things to do at this time." Squilt said in the dark night.
"If you knew that Sea witches communicated through song, why didn't do a thing about all those people humming and magnetic to the lake?" Ron took out the piece of paper he had seen on the ground earlier.
"They mean no harm- they just wanted to find the student who took their necklace away," Squilt said, eyeing Ron's pocket. "They would have pulled half the school to find it."
"Yeah, cut them slack because they're you're family." Ron said angrily.
Hermione looked at the Professor ashamed and shocked. "You lied to me?! I am-"
"You had it coming!" Squilt said snapped. "I was not about to be exposed by the- exposer!"
"Huh?" Hermione said.
"You found out that the Chamber of secrets held a Basilisk, you knew Lupin was a werewolf, you knew that Skeeter woman was animagi- I could go on!" Squilt explained. "You investigate, you research and then the whole gang of you get into pretty adventurous situations!"
"That's who we are, sea witch." Hermione said huffily.
"You should look into other things that don't involve you breaking the rules."
"SHUTUP!" Ron said annoyed. He stopped the gang and threw his arms out. "We have a MISSION. I have a PLAN. We have to FOLLOW them. And you have to SHUTUP before I turn you into beetles and STEP on you."
Hermione and Squilt exchanged glances.
"They're being pulled in!" Harry said pointing.
"What?" Ron ran and the others followed. Ron grabbed onto Parvati's leg and let them slide in. Ron felt Harry grab his legs and all of them fell deeper into the water. Ron felt suffocated. The breath he took before entering the lake was not a big one and he felt the need to exhale. As they fell farther the faint song grew larger.
Suddenly he felt the brush of the sand and saw they were being dragged into a gold dome. The water around him seemed dry and he breathed what seemed like fresh salty smelling air.
"Did you see this during the 2nd task Ron?" Harry asked as the six got up and looked around.
Crystal seashells everywhere, large moldy instruments and plates of seaweed and worms. Ron saw a bucket of dead grindylows and grimaced. Then there were loud bellows and high-pitched screams.
"Where are we?" Lavender cried sinking into a corner.
"What is this place- are we going to die?" Parvati said.
"You will be hurt," Squilt said taking a strip of seaweed and smelling it. "Unless the necklace is handed over quickly and gracefully." Squilt looked at Ron and bit the seaweed. "Also if you breath a lot of this water air you'll burn."
Then a luminous figure burst into the already bright room. It was tall and beautiful. Long golden strands of hair that swept the sand, large warm turquoise eyes, Long robes of milky white and bullion. Ron couldn't help but smile. He looked around and saw the smiling faces of everyone.
"Lesquiltis- it is easy to be dragged in and difficult to escape. Therefore, welcome back." The figure said looking at Squilt. She touched Squilt's hair and it grew as long as the figures.
"I am strong- I will return above ground."
The figure laughed gently but it echoed. "Into the door, into the door."
Squilt looked back at the five students and disappeared behind a gold door.
The figure sniffed the water. "I smell magic. I smell- our necklace." The Sea witch said. "The original owner wants it back- hand it over now and spare pain."
Everyone looked at each other. Ron knew that if he gave it to the original owner- the Sea witch Queen- she would use it to get her kind above ground and control power.
"We don't have your necklace!" Hermione screamed confidently.
"Very well, very well.if the owner won't budge I take action." The Seasick said and opened another gold door. It was bright on the other side. All of the sudden Ron felt something puling him inside and magnetically flew toward the door. So did everyone else. The five held onto the door screaming. Lavender and Parvati flew back.Hermione did to. Finally Harry gave way.
"The hero- the most magnificent- and possibly the owner of our necklace." The Sea witch said smiling. Then she shut the door on Ron's fingers. Ron howled in pain.
Ron looked around. He was shocked to see Parvati, Lavender, Hermione and Harry all tied to poles their mouths covered and chains around their neck. He also saw Cho, Elizabeth and Emma, a red faced red haired girl and a brunette.
Ron tried to find the source of the light. It turned out to be coming from a beautiful Sea witch sitting on a throne. The queen.
"We can not search him." Another sea witch said next to the Queen.
"Yes but we can torture him." The Queen said. "Oh you don't know what's in store for you." The Queen said merrily. The Queen let out a musical echo. In midair a box appeared. The box opened in a snap and out came.
"I'm not afraid of no dementors." Ron said eyeing the two dementors.
"What? Oh.the necklace has an even more powerful effect then I thought," The Queen seemed excited still. "I believe.this is what makes your skin boil." The dementors turned into two extremely tree height spiders.
Ron winced. He saw Harry whimpering. Then he felt his fingers being released. He looked at them. Still normal and flexible.
"Am I supposed to fight those?" Ron asked shakily.
"Come on, famous Ron Weasley- I know you can handle them." The Queens lip curled. It was weird seeing such a bright and graceful figure smirk.
Ron took out his wand shakily. "Expelliarmus!" Sparks shoot out and hit one of the spiders, which barely moved.
"No? Err..Tarantallegra!?" The spiders started to get irritated and threw themselves at Ron.
Ron screamed and ran to another side of the room. "Er- Impedimenta! Impedimenta! IMPEDIMENTA!"
The spider he pointed to froze. Then slowly it started moving.
Ron pointed to the other spider and said the same thing. It did the same. Ron turned to the other spider, which was moving slowly toward him. "Stupefy! STUPEFY!" The Spider fell backward. Ron smiled at his victory. He turned around to the other spider to see that it was very close to getting him. Ron ducked, avoiding the pinchers.
Then Ron remembered. He had a brain, smarter then Hermione's he just needed an advanced spell to do the trick.
"BLADESWISUIS!" Ron yelled and out of the tip of his wand came a long sword. Ron pointed down at his feet. "Ascendus." He rose. He moved his feet. It was as if he were walking on an invisible floor. He could now be eye contact with the spider. With the blade He stuck it into each of the spiders eyes. He cringed at the same time. The spider screamed in horror and fell backward. Ron fell to the ground his charm worn off.
Ron turned to the Queen smiling. "Ha-ha!" Ron looked to his right and a spider kicked him, so he was lying on the floor. Wand and sword separated from him in the distance the spider hovered above him ready to give him the one last punch.
Ron bit his lip and closed his eyes and hated that he ever stumbled upon the necklace. Instead of making him good, it was going to kill him.
Then the spider froze. Ron froze except for his head. He turned to look at the Queen.
"Give us the necklace now, and the spider goes." The Queen smiled covertly.
"If I give you the necklace, you go above ground and take over. No." Ron said stubbornly.
"Okay then. Goodbye, Ronald Weasley." The Queen said seriously. "I will resume play."
And it did.
***
Hmmm last chapter up later!
Chapter 7: The Queen
"It's so- long. So sharp." Ron said touching the scar while looking in the mirror. Hermione and him were in the warm Gryffindor Common Room. "Where's Harry- s'pose we can finally see Harry without something on his forehead eh?"
Hermione frowned. "You sound as if you just got that scar."
"I did."
"What's up?" Harry said coming over to them.
"Harry-wow your forehead looks bigger." Ron said standing up and shaking Harry.
"Huh-what?" Harry started messing with his bangs.
"Don't worry Harry you're beautiful.beautiful, beautiful." Ron said as he sat back down. Harry smiled, and then frowned. "As for me.I have this- scar!"
"Ron says he just got that." Hermione said.
"No he didn't he got it when his parents died."
Ron dropped the mirror. Fortunately it didn't break. "My Parents." he whispered. He looked at Harry. "They're- dead?"
Harry and Hermione exchanged confused glances.
"What about my brothers and Ginny? They exist?" Ron asked, again shaking Harry. "Do you have parents?"
"Pretty sure since Ginny is standing over there." Harry pointed out. "And of course I have parents you've met them!"
"Thank God.but my parents.my life." Ron walked off to a window, putting his hand on the cold glass. "Hermione's under the necklaces spell like Harry, Snape, everyone. I've been under it to. Believing I could be the Quidditch Hero, having all this knowledge in my already stuffed and stressed brain. This isn't the way to the good life. I should be changing the way I look at things. Shouldn't be ruining lives." Ron whispered. He saw Harry and Hermione slowly coming closer to him, drawing every word he said in. Ron reached into his pocket and took out the necklace, rubbing the soft green stone. "Should be ruining this."
***
Ron put the necklace on the table. "And I thought you were to great to destroy." Ron slammed the rock into the stone. He kept doing this and looked at the stone. It looked even more shiny and smooth then it did before. Its emerald green glowed luminously.
"Damn it!" Ron howled as he brushed his fingers through his hair in frustration.
"Ron, what are you doing?" Harry asked coming into the room.
"You up for another- adventure?" Ron asked holding the necklace tightly.
Harry looked from Ron to the necklace. "What is that?"
"Look get Professor Squilt and meet me outside the common room," Ron ordered. "Now! Chop, chop!" Harry left.
Ron looked at the necklace then put it into his pocket. He walked down the stairs, not paying attention to a conversation including a student stealing from Snape, hearing a musical flute. He saw that Lavender was playing and was extremely good. He came closer and started to recognize the song.
Lavender stopped playing and beamed at Ron. "Good?"
"Yes," Ron answered. "What-what's that song called again?"
"I don't know- the tune was stuck in my head all day." Lavender said as Seamus tried to grab her attention. She played again and the crowd disappeared and then Lavender stopped. "You hear that?"
Ron's eyes widen. Lavender strolled off leaving Seamus on his spot frowning. Parvati followed. So did Ron.
When the three came out of the common room Ron saw Harry, Hermione and Professor Squilt sprinting over.
"Ron what-"
"Shh! We follow." Ron said to them quietly and followed Lavender and Parvati.
"What is this about, students? I have better things to do at this time." Squilt said in the dark night.
"If you knew that Sea witches communicated through song, why didn't do a thing about all those people humming and magnetic to the lake?" Ron took out the piece of paper he had seen on the ground earlier.
"They mean no harm- they just wanted to find the student who took their necklace away," Squilt said, eyeing Ron's pocket. "They would have pulled half the school to find it."
"Yeah, cut them slack because they're you're family." Ron said angrily.
Hermione looked at the Professor ashamed and shocked. "You lied to me?! I am-"
"You had it coming!" Squilt said snapped. "I was not about to be exposed by the- exposer!"
"Huh?" Hermione said.
"You found out that the Chamber of secrets held a Basilisk, you knew Lupin was a werewolf, you knew that Skeeter woman was animagi- I could go on!" Squilt explained. "You investigate, you research and then the whole gang of you get into pretty adventurous situations!"
"That's who we are, sea witch." Hermione said huffily.
"You should look into other things that don't involve you breaking the rules."
"SHUTUP!" Ron said annoyed. He stopped the gang and threw his arms out. "We have a MISSION. I have a PLAN. We have to FOLLOW them. And you have to SHUTUP before I turn you into beetles and STEP on you."
Hermione and Squilt exchanged glances.
"They're being pulled in!" Harry said pointing.
"What?" Ron ran and the others followed. Ron grabbed onto Parvati's leg and let them slide in. Ron felt Harry grab his legs and all of them fell deeper into the water. Ron felt suffocated. The breath he took before entering the lake was not a big one and he felt the need to exhale. As they fell farther the faint song grew larger.
Suddenly he felt the brush of the sand and saw they were being dragged into a gold dome. The water around him seemed dry and he breathed what seemed like fresh salty smelling air.
"Did you see this during the 2nd task Ron?" Harry asked as the six got up and looked around.
Crystal seashells everywhere, large moldy instruments and plates of seaweed and worms. Ron saw a bucket of dead grindylows and grimaced. Then there were loud bellows and high-pitched screams.
"Where are we?" Lavender cried sinking into a corner.
"What is this place- are we going to die?" Parvati said.
"You will be hurt," Squilt said taking a strip of seaweed and smelling it. "Unless the necklace is handed over quickly and gracefully." Squilt looked at Ron and bit the seaweed. "Also if you breath a lot of this water air you'll burn."
Then a luminous figure burst into the already bright room. It was tall and beautiful. Long golden strands of hair that swept the sand, large warm turquoise eyes, Long robes of milky white and bullion. Ron couldn't help but smile. He looked around and saw the smiling faces of everyone.
"Lesquiltis- it is easy to be dragged in and difficult to escape. Therefore, welcome back." The figure said looking at Squilt. She touched Squilt's hair and it grew as long as the figures.
"I am strong- I will return above ground."
The figure laughed gently but it echoed. "Into the door, into the door."
Squilt looked back at the five students and disappeared behind a gold door.
The figure sniffed the water. "I smell magic. I smell- our necklace." The Sea witch said. "The original owner wants it back- hand it over now and spare pain."
Everyone looked at each other. Ron knew that if he gave it to the original owner- the Sea witch Queen- she would use it to get her kind above ground and control power.
"We don't have your necklace!" Hermione screamed confidently.
"Very well, very well.if the owner won't budge I take action." The Seasick said and opened another gold door. It was bright on the other side. All of the sudden Ron felt something puling him inside and magnetically flew toward the door. So did everyone else. The five held onto the door screaming. Lavender and Parvati flew back.Hermione did to. Finally Harry gave way.
"The hero- the most magnificent- and possibly the owner of our necklace." The Sea witch said smiling. Then she shut the door on Ron's fingers. Ron howled in pain.
Ron looked around. He was shocked to see Parvati, Lavender, Hermione and Harry all tied to poles their mouths covered and chains around their neck. He also saw Cho, Elizabeth and Emma, a red faced red haired girl and a brunette.
Ron tried to find the source of the light. It turned out to be coming from a beautiful Sea witch sitting on a throne. The queen.
"We can not search him." Another sea witch said next to the Queen.
"Yes but we can torture him." The Queen said. "Oh you don't know what's in store for you." The Queen said merrily. The Queen let out a musical echo. In midair a box appeared. The box opened in a snap and out came.
"I'm not afraid of no dementors." Ron said eyeing the two dementors.
"What? Oh.the necklace has an even more powerful effect then I thought," The Queen seemed excited still. "I believe.this is what makes your skin boil." The dementors turned into two extremely tree height spiders.
Ron winced. He saw Harry whimpering. Then he felt his fingers being released. He looked at them. Still normal and flexible.
"Am I supposed to fight those?" Ron asked shakily.
"Come on, famous Ron Weasley- I know you can handle them." The Queens lip curled. It was weird seeing such a bright and graceful figure smirk.
Ron took out his wand shakily. "Expelliarmus!" Sparks shoot out and hit one of the spiders, which barely moved.
"No? Err..Tarantallegra!?" The spiders started to get irritated and threw themselves at Ron.
Ron screamed and ran to another side of the room. "Er- Impedimenta! Impedimenta! IMPEDIMENTA!"
The spider he pointed to froze. Then slowly it started moving.
Ron pointed to the other spider and said the same thing. It did the same. Ron turned to the other spider, which was moving slowly toward him. "Stupefy! STUPEFY!" The Spider fell backward. Ron smiled at his victory. He turned around to the other spider to see that it was very close to getting him. Ron ducked, avoiding the pinchers.
Then Ron remembered. He had a brain, smarter then Hermione's he just needed an advanced spell to do the trick.
"BLADESWISUIS!" Ron yelled and out of the tip of his wand came a long sword. Ron pointed down at his feet. "Ascendus." He rose. He moved his feet. It was as if he were walking on an invisible floor. He could now be eye contact with the spider. With the blade He stuck it into each of the spiders eyes. He cringed at the same time. The spider screamed in horror and fell backward. Ron fell to the ground his charm worn off.
Ron turned to the Queen smiling. "Ha-ha!" Ron looked to his right and a spider kicked him, so he was lying on the floor. Wand and sword separated from him in the distance the spider hovered above him ready to give him the one last punch.
Ron bit his lip and closed his eyes and hated that he ever stumbled upon the necklace. Instead of making him good, it was going to kill him.
Then the spider froze. Ron froze except for his head. He turned to look at the Queen.
"Give us the necklace now, and the spider goes." The Queen smiled covertly.
"If I give you the necklace, you go above ground and take over. No." Ron said stubbornly.
"Okay then. Goodbye, Ronald Weasley." The Queen said seriously. "I will resume play."
And it did.
***
Hmmm last chapter up later!