Fate
Chapter 5
By Maddy
A/N. First I'd like to apologise for the fact that it's been about 3 months since I last updated. I've been well on a reading spree, but now that I'm in the summer holiday's I should update more often. Touch Wood.
Eleanor's eye's fluttered open. All she could see was Green. The wall's looked like seaweed the blanket even felt slimy. Eleanor then realised what she had been doing. Voldemort…she sat up suddenly only to be pushed down again.
Sitting next to her was a women with green hair and odd aqua marine eyes. "Who are you? How can I breathe?" Eleanor asked quickly
"I am Atlantis daughter of Alpena, Queen of the Mermaids. We gave you air from a dead…. You have been here for three hours. We began to get worried. Our medicine Mermen are not trained for human's."
"Three hours! I need to get back; wait how can I understand you?"
"Power comes in many different ways. Like a circle."
"Power is like a circle? But circle's a round. Unless you're talking about the circle of life, like when one dies another arises. Though that's not really true as 1 person dies every 5 seconds, but three people are born every 5 seconds…."
"You must go to your world." The mermaid insisted strongly "you are a human witch designed for walking and magic. We are mermaids designed for swimming and singing."
"But I can swim."
"You must go back to your world they must be worried. People from your world don't stay here long."
"You're right I suppose. I'll swim to the surface. Goodbye!"
"You can not go alone, the Grindylows-"
"I can sort them out, they're no trouble."
"You are not like the others are you?
Eleanor smiled. "You could say that but I must leave."
Eleanor turned and swam out of the hut. There were mermaids and mermen everywhere. Eleanor rolled her eyes at their pointing at her, but carried on swimming.
"Wait!" Called a voice from behind. A small merboy was swimming up to her. "Mum told me to escort you to the surface, I have a way with animals." He gave her a child like grin. "My name's Nimbus."
"My name's Eve."
They swam for 20 minutes all the while talking, while nearing the surface. The lake became a lighter blue and they reached the surface.
"Thank you for helping me Nimbus, and thank the rest of your mer village for me."
"Your friend's are waiting. Goodbye Eve."
"Goodbye Nimbus."
Eleanor started treading water; she was after all in the middle of the lake. The sun was setting giving the forest an unearthly glow. It was quiet; Eleanor could feel the breeze on her wet face. She turned onto her back and started floating. She closed her eyes only hearing the lapping of the water on her ears.
It was quiet and peaceful Eleanor's breathing became slow as she reflected the day's happenings. It was no normal day, though nothing had been normal for a while…
Eleanor eventually got onto the subject onto the subject of food, which made her hungry. She decided to swim back. She opened her eyes to find brown ones staring straight back at her. She gasped, then went under water after the sudden movement. She floated back up to the surface and glared at James "I thought you were dead." He started.
"Then you should have used ABC. Airways, breathing and circulation. Not stick your face next to their to see if you can scare them awake.
"That's a bit rich. You run off to swim. You duck under the water and don't appear above the surface for 4 hours. The sun has already set. Sirius thinks that he's killed you!"
"Stop being a worry wart." Suddenly a waterspout erupted from the placid lake hitting James, making him fall off his broom. He came up spluttering, Eleanor reaching for his broom. "Oh no you don't! You're not nicking my broom and leaving me in the middle of the lake." Eleanor rolled her eyes.
She waved her hand at the broom whispering "duo." Another broom appeared. She jumped onto it "come on!" she zoomed off leaving James hoisting himself up.
She looked around and saw Sirius and dived down towards him. She stopped abruptly 5 foot in front of him and stood on the handle of the broom, jumped of and did a summersault landing with two legs bent.
She stood up, brushed herself off and transfigured her swimming costume into a robe.
"Why aren't you dead?" asked Sirius
"Would you like me to be dead?"
"No, but you jumped into the lake and went missing for 4 hours!"
"Padfoot was worried about me? How sweet! But skip the lecture James has already tried. Now we need to go see if Dumbledore has found a spell yet. Come on!"
A/N I know it's short and it took me ages, but what the heck. Hopefully the next chapter will be up by next Saturday. If not it won't be up until Monday 6th of August as I'm going on Holiday!
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Maddy :)
Further note added: yeah it's now 13th of October sorry for the lateness but the coursework and tests keep coming! I will hopefully get the next week as it's half term I think it's a long one as well, I can't remember- I'm on chapter 17 in m note book!