Halloween was a wonderful event. Selena had tied her hair into beautiful braids and placed them intricately around her head to form a beautiful crown of gold. She wore a pair of ocean blue robes which matched her eyes and seemed incredibly cheerful. Jake had combed his hair side to side making him look more handsome and he wore a pair of midnight black robes which gave him an unearthly appearance. Around his neck was the magical necklace which had saved him several times from walking into someone dangerous, glowing a deep blue in the torchlight. He waited impatiently for Hermione and Fleur to finish whatever they were doing up in their dorm. Selena, Jake, Seamus, Dean, Ron, and Harry were waiting for Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender as they dressed up for the Halloween feast.
"So how do i look?" Jake asked.
"Looking good." Selena said not looking. Course, she didn't meant to ignore him, she was being impatient. Jake was trying to break the impatience.
It had actually been Dumbledore's idea to make the dinner a little more formal because of the new students, including the American Ministry of Magic's "representatives". As the girls came down the stairs slowly, the boys (and Selena) sighed in relief that they had finally finished. They looked quite pretty in fact, but not astoundingly so as if they had spent hours. This was meant to be a casual/formal dinner.
Harry and Ron walked several feet away from each other. Selena and Jake felt very sorry for Harry and very angry towards Ron for not understanding that Harry had no hand in his participation in the tournament. Selena and Jake made a very large effort to be Harry's friend and confidants since his other friends didn't seem to have enough time or were simply sulking. Jake stood between the two, Ron and Harry, just so Harry can try getting his mind og Ron. Selena held his arms to comfort him and get his mind off Ron too.
When they arrived at the Great Hall, Dumbledore stood as the feast was about to begin. Everyone grew silent and turned towards him excitedly.
"I know that all of you are hungry but there are several notices that must be spoken of. First of all, I would like to please ask that no pranks should be set off in Mr. Filch's office anymore. He would also like to ask that whoever has been painting the third floor corridor pink to please cease that immediately." Jake's lips twitched but he said nothing. Selena was glancing at Fred and George slyly. The twins smiled cunningly, "Also, I would like to inform all of you of the upcoming start of the TriWizard tournament. The First Task shall begin soon and when it does, we expect a proud performance from all of those participating. Please come and support your school when the Tasks begin." Harry seemed a little green at the thought of the First Task but Selena and Jake exchanged glances. They knew all about the little Hungarian Horntail. They had seen it several days ago and it certainly wasn't all that friendly, especially when it tried to set the two fan fiction writers on fire.
That time Jake and Selena walked toward Hagrid to see the dragons. As permnission from Dumbledore. yet Hagrid was moving forward toward the carriage and Maxime came out. Jake can tells Harry was near by due to the sound of the invisible feet stomping close by. Jake said, "Evening Madam Masime." And so did Selena who said it in friendly voice. Maxime, "Evening Represenatives." She smiled a bit only to be friendly due to the fact they are American's ministry of magic represenatives.
So they moved toward the giant gates as the large giant dragons roars and tries to excape. groups of trained wizards barked orders, "Stupfey!"
"Ain't they beautiful?" Hagrid asked.
"Hey Hagrid. Hello you two. I heard about you but i didn't recall your name. Allow me, I'm Charlie Weasley."
"Jake," He said and shook his hand. "I'm Selena." She almost poked Charlie's nose when thrusted her hands for a shake. She was feeling abashed. Jake tries to keep straight face. Charlie forgived and shook.
"Didn't expect you all to be here, anyhow, i suppose you need a bit of information? As from what they told me i think was that the four champions were to pass them."
"Indeed? Whare they called?" Hagrid asked in delight.
Charlie gave a short name and description about the dragons including the Hungarian Horntail. Then jumped to Harry Potter and his mother frantically getting worried about him. Yet, Jake expected Harry must have left by now. As so then, Jake have not expected something. A wizard had scared as the Hungarian snorted. Jake slammed Selena out of the way before the fire could blast them and the wizards tries to put the Hungarian back to sleep.
"You two ok?" Charlie asked.
"Oie. yes we are." Jake said. Selena pointed to Jakes helm of the robe and Jake stump the fire out like it was nothing.
After a chat with Charlie and hagrid, Jake and Selena held back to the Gryffindor Common room. Selena found Ron on the chair crying. They obviously knew why. Selena walked over to him and greeted him queitly. Jake decided to leave them for a bit and head to bed. Jake doesn't need to get involved with comforting Ron in fact because He was angry with him. But selena did felt sympathy for Ron and tries to comfort him.
"And now, tuck in!" The feast began and everyone began to eat hungrily. As the night progressed, several subjects were brought up for discussion. Some of them were the tournament, homework, the tournament, Muggle life compared to magical life, and the tournament were some of there more frequent discussions. At some point, someone mentioned the angel and demon attacks taking place all over the world.
"And it was in the Daily Prophet. The demon had been at the Square village and two angels were fighting." seamus said as he ate his mashed potatoes.
"What do you reckon? Do you think it's the end of the world?" Ron asked as he shoveled drumsticks into his mouth.
"no one really knows. For all we know is that something is abound to happen. Eventually." Jake said, wrinkling his nose. "But I do really doubt it's the end of the world. I'm just a little thinking that Voldemort might try to join one of the sides." Everyone but Selena and Harry cringed. Well, there was one more person, Jake thought. Fleur hadn't been paying attention to anything until that moment and she hadn't so much as blinked at the name.
"And then where will I be?" Selena mumbled so that only Jake and Harry could hear her. "Ah yes, i know, In Shadow's arms that's what. He'll probably try to bargain for my hand in marriage or something just as hideous and unwanted." She rolled her eyes and took a sip of her pumpkin juice.
"Let's hope it doesn't get to that." Jake said.
Somehow, Crabbe and Goyle jolted out of their seats started to shake off scarab beetles which seems to crawl all over them and now onto the slytherins. Selena stared at Jake, 'It's working!'. Jake grinned, 'Finally, the revenge is ours.' Fred and George gave the two new pranksters, Jake and Selena a high five. Some Gryffindors laughed their heads off and the other Gryffindors started collapsing with laughters. Dumbledore waved his hands and the scarab beetles disappeared, "Rhat will be enough! Whoever did that should be warned, i did told you no more pranks is to be pulled." DFumbledore said sternly. Snape glowers at Jake with utmost loathe. Fake returns an exact same looke back. He came walking toward the table.
"I see that you are enjoying yourselves." Selena and Jake jumped, which resorted to Selena's goblet falling over. "So clumsy," Snape said, his nose sticking to the air like a dog with a scent.
"Er, yeah," Selena said, blushing slightly.
"I expect you want to stay? Well, I'm terribly sorry but your detention starts now. Come with me now," Snape began to leave the room. Selena's mouth opened and closed in shock, her eyes widened in surprise. Jake's eyebrows shot together in fury and disbelief. What the hell was his problem?! Why was he giving them such a hard time?! It was Halloween for God's sake!
"We're coming." Selena said weakly as she pulled Jake along behind her. Harry waved at them disappointedly. He had been hoping for them to keep him company since Hermione and Ron were fighting and he couldn't say a thing for fear that they would snap at him. "We'll see you guys later."
"If we live through the over grown bat." Jake muttered angrily. Selena gave him a look before they rushed to catch up with Snape, who managed to loose them fairly quickly. The teenagers were walking towards Snape's office in hopes of finding him again when they saw the professor himself walking towards them smugly. Jake made a point to stand between them and glared viciously when the Potions master motioned towards the way they had come.
"I am in need of several herbs which can only be found in the Forbidden Forest. You shall assist me in retrieving them." Snape said as he walked swiftly ahead. Selena had to jog slightly to catch up. Jake was glaring moodily at the shadows all around, making sure that no one and no thing could jump out at them unexpectedly.
When they were outside, Selena shivered slightly in the cold night, wishing that her hair wasn't up so that it could warm the back of her neck instead of look nice. Jake didn't want to show that he was cold so he simply followed Snape towards the forest. Before they went in, Hagrid came towards them.
"Good evenin' professor. Evenin' Selena, Jake." Hagrid said.
"How is the forest tonight?" Snape asked.
"Quite dangerous tonigh'. Don' know what it is exactly but it's got the critters downrigh' terrified." Hagrid said as he handed Snape a lamp. "And more attacks than usual. I don' like it, Dumbledore's deal with those demons I mean." He shuddered.
"You aren't the only one." Snape said. He motioned for the two fan fiction writers to follow him into the woods. Jake and Selena instantly felt the cold dread which resulted in entering the forest. This had been the place in which they had entered this world and they still weren't completely comfortable about the entire idea of entering it willingly.
The night was freezing with little bits of snow fluttering down between the dense canopies of trees. As they walked, Selena felt a creeping sensation deep inside of her stomach. She felt blind.
"I feel something." Jake mumbled quietly.
"Feel what?" Snape demanded.
"Something evil." Jake mumbled. He glanced to his right where the feeling was the strongest. "It's coming from over there." Selena looked that way and narrowed her eyes. As she did, she saw what appeared to be a silver wolf preparing to spring at them. She knew that it was hidden behind a bush, but she knew that it was there.
"It's a werewolf!" Selena cried. Snape pulled out his wand instantly and yelled a hurried spell when the wolf leapt at them! The creature hit an invisible wall and fell back, whimpering slightly. Snape was breathing hard.
"Hello Selena!" Her scream became muffled the moment that the boys were distracted and Shadow leapt out to grab his prize before running into the forest. Jake yelled angrily and leapt after them, his wand out to guide his way. Just as he was sure that he had lost them, he heard yelling up ahead. Running into a clearing, he found Selena racing towards him. Her hair had fallen loose from its restraints and had formed dread locks all down her back. Shadow was fighting two people, one a woman and the other a man.
After a long battle, Shadow hissed and vanished in a cloud of bright light. The two people glanced at Jake and Selena. The man had sharp golden eyes and jet black hair. The woman had large blue eyes and pure white hair. Each one wore a set of black robes and fire-embroidered gloves. They also wore a black belt with a silver buckle. There were the words H.E.L.L. embedded into them.
The two vanished in a flash of fire.
Snape finally caught up to them to discover charred trees and several white and black feathers.
"What was that?" Snape demanded angrily.
"It was the angel Shadow that we were talking about earlier." Jake explained as he picked up as many feathers as he could. "The one that's obsessed with Selena. The one we warned you about." He made a point of glowering at him.
"So he was the one who sent the werewolf out of the forest." Selena mumbled, regaining her breath. "But how did you know it was there?"
"How did you see it?" Both couldn't figure out the answer to either question.
"Maybe I can see things, but I can't sense them like you. Maybe that's why everyone wants to catch us. Together we can catch anyone that tries to ambush us." Jake thought about her suggestion for a moment before he shook his head.
"I don't know. We'll have to see what happens next."
"The First Task is pretty soon." Selena said.
"I know. That's certainly going to have our hands full. But at least He doesn't know about us yet." He said, opening his eyes wide. He, of course, meant Voldemort. Snape shook his head angrily and decided that he didn't want to relive another episode like the one that he had just endured. Instead, he took the students back to the castle and retired to his room. Selena and Jake made it for desert.
"What happened? I think that was the shortest detention in the history of school." Hermione said. Harry seemed extremely relieved to actually have someone to talk to who wouldn't mention S.P.E.W., the O.W.L.S., anything school-related, and also two people who actually talked to him.
"How could you know, 'Mione? You never get detention." Ron said, pointedly ignoring Harry.
"I know that!" Hermione hissed. "That's not what I meant!"
"Well, what did you meant then?"
"I don't know, perhaps you should ask your darling veela about it. She seems far more interesting then I am!" Ron's ears turned bright red.
"Well then go talk to Vicky! I'm sure he's a lot more fun than we are! Go on!" Harry glanced between them glumly. He and Ron hadn't been speaking but he knew that it wouldn't help if he sided with either of his friends in their constant bickering. Harry's life had becoming increasingly harder over the course of the first month but it had been lessoned with Jake and Selena around. They knew with a passion that he had nothing to do with becoming a participant of the tournament and had even argued for him in the room behind the High Table.
He knew it would have been unbearable without Jake to cheer him up and Selena to help him with homework. For some reason, Hermione had been focusing even more on her studies than usual and wouldn't talk to Harry as often as she usually did. This was, of course, because Fleur was constantly around and where ever the half-veela was, Ron's brain was not.
"Hey, Jake!" Fred whispered. He motioned towards the floor as he and his twin climbed down under the table. Jake nudged Selena and dropped his fork. Selena noticed the glance and followed after Jake to squat beneath the table.
"Hey." George said smugly. "We just wanted to tell you that we followed orders as planned. It's in the pudding and the candy." Selena and Jake smirked.
"Perfect. Go on back to your seats." Selena said.
"Aye, aye, mate!" The twins left and Jake turned to Selena evilly.
"This will certainly be interesting."
The table began to rattle and somewhere along the four tables someone was screaming. After a moment or so of this, every single person in the Slytherin table changed into a ferret. There was utter silence and then Jake and Selena began to snort with laughter. Soon the entire Great Hall was laughing hysterically.
Next the Hufflepuff table's contents were changed into badgers. Most of them starred at each other in shock and tried to grab their wands but such a feat was impossible with their paws.
At the Ravenclaw table, all of the students were changed into Mongooses. Some tried to swivel towards the High Table but they ended up moving about two millimeters a minute. The Gryffindors thought they were safe.
They were wrong.
Each one was changed instantly into an enormous crane. Each bird turned to look at its neighbor in astonishment. After that all of the teachers at the High Table were instantly changed into oversized chickens. Dumbledore was still clucking to himself with his enormous beard and huge purple hat. McGonagall glared pointedly at the students through her square spectacles.
Pretty soon everyone was starring at Selena, Jake, Fred, and George, all of who were laughing uncontrollably. When they realized everyone starring, Fred smirked and snapped his fingers. Everyone instantly changed back into their human forms except for the infuriated Slytherins. Dumbledore stood, a smile threatening to overwhelm his features.
"If you please Mr. Weasley?" George sulked as he snapped his fingers and the Slytherins changed back to normal. Malfoy was extremely red, having been turned into the only white ferret at his table. "I'm afraid I must give the four of you detention." Dumbledore said merrily.
"Thank you sir!" Fred said as the four of them bowed and sat down. Selena caught sight of Fleur, who was busily applying some kind of blush to her face. When she saw this, Selena turned away only to swivel around to stare at her. She had blotchy red and white skin, her hair seemed to be tilted slightly to one side, and her eyes were an angry brown. This girl wasn't Fleur.
"Jake!" Selena hissed. He turned to her, still laughing. When he saw the _expression on her face he sobered and looked in the direction that she was indicating. With a final tug on her hair, Fleur turned to give a sweet smile in the fanfiction writers' direction.
"That isn't Fleur!" Jake whispered.
"Was the tug on her wig a hint?" Selena demanded sarcastically.
"Where is she then? Do you think that Shadow really did kidnap her and that girl over there is a spy?" Selena shook her head.
"He said that the demons were the ones that kidnapped her."
"You're going to trust him now?" Jake asked in disbelief.
"He's never directly lied to me." Selena said with a blush. "Even in my dreams he can't do it. He only lied to me once and that was when my back was turned. He can't lie to my face." Jake, still marveling at the bizarre nature of the Angel Prince turned to the High Table worriedly.
"I guess now isn't the time to tell Dumbledore about this. We'd be killed if we got two feet away from Fred and George." He said, seeing the death glares that the Slytherin table especially was sending them. The other tables seemed to have taken it as a harmless joke and the teachers even seemed to be calming down (expect for Snape, who hadn't exactly loved being turned into a chicken in his room for no apparent reason).
"We'll have to do something about it later. The Weighing of the Wands is pretty soon and then we're going to have to be with the judges for the First Task." Selena said, risking a glance at the Fleur-imposter.
"Tomorrow is going to be way too long. I can see it now." Jake mumbled as he made to eat something before Selena stopped him. Some of the late eaters, thinking that the food was safe again, had been changed into their House's animal.
Selena and Jake felt extremely irritated the next morning. They hadn't slept a wink since they'd had another midnight class with Dumbledore and an angel had tried to kidnap Selena again. Over all, their moods could have fried an egg.
"Morning." Harry mumbled nervously. He hadn't so much as touched his breakfast, his eyes looking swollen. He obviously hadn't had a wink of sleep either since he would be facing the Hungarian Horntail that day. Selena wanted to tell him that he would be fine but Jake cursed angrily when McGonagall motioned for them to follow her. He had been about to eat up for his lack of dinner and sleep.
"Take some food with you." Selena suggested as she grabbed two pieces of toast and followed McGonagall. Jake muttered something about 'too optimistic' and followed with some more toast. When they met up with McGonagall outside of the Great Hall, she motioned for them to follow her into another classroom. Once there, Jake and Selena made a feeble attempt for the door before Darla and Rita grabbed one of them and dragged them into the room.
"Jake! How wonderful to see you!" Rita purred.
"Selena! I'm sure you have MUCH more information then Jake!" Darla purred, giving Rita a smile filled with teeth.
"She's wrong, isn't she? You know MUCH more than that girl does!" Rita smiled back sweetly but her nails dug into Jake's arm. Jake sent them both an enraged scowl before he pried off Rita's fingers and managed to get Selena away from a clutching Darla. Before the reporters could get to them, McGonagall sent them a warning glare.
"Good morning!" A voice said behind the two teenagers, making them jump. Mr. Ollivander was grinning behind them. "I trust your wands are still working?" He motioned towards the two wands in their pockets. "May I?" Jake and Selena handed over their wands worriedly. "Ah yes, just as I remember. Mr. Jake, a fine wand. Nine and a half inches, the diamond from a dwarf's mine tainted black from the coal. And the contents consist of a scale from a mermaid and the crystallized form of a phoenix tear drop." Nodding in approval, Mr. Ollivander handed back the wand. "Eight inches made of a yew tree entwined with an ask tree with an angel's hair string and a sprinkle of faery's dust." He gave that wand back as well.
"'Angel hair'?" Jake mumbled.
"Probably why Shadow likes me." Selena muttered back.
The rest of the champions arrived and then all of the wands were weighed. When they were done, Selena and Jake followed all of the adults out onto the Quiditch pitch, where a large stadium had been set up. Taking the seats motioned to them by Dumbledore, the man himself leaned over to them.
"Because you are representatives of the American Ministry of Magic the Minister has insisted that you participate in the judging." Jake and Selena blinked.
"Why? We're in Hogwarts so obviously our scoring will be biased." Jake said.
"And besides, we know exactly what everyone is going to do and exactly how many points everyone is going to get." Selena said.
"Then allow me to make a suggestion. Give the same score to everyone." Selena and Jake exchanged glances.
"Alright, we'll give everyone a nine." Jake said. "Er, what if that person doesn't deserve the score?" Dumbledore chuckled.
"Use your better judgment. I would refrain from perfect scores, however, especially because you can't favor anyone. The Hogwarts students would be after you if you favored the other schools and the Headmasters of the other schools would think that you weighed heavily on our school if the opposite happened." Jake and Selena, obviously uncomfortable with this, nodded.
The First Task began and both teenagers found themselves becoming more and more worried. Just as Harry's task was beginning, Jake grabbed Selena and hurried towards the exit. Dumbledore glanced at them but Jake merely told him that each of their scores was a nine. Once they left, Selena squirmed out of Jake's hold.
"What are you doing? I wanted to see what happened!" Selena said.
"Didn't you ever wonder what happened in the tent when the games were going on? We need to check it out. Fleur might be in there. Maybe we can get her to tell us who she really is." Without waiting for an answer, (Selena was going to tell him where Fleur was) Jake pulled Selena into the tent and straight into Victor Krum.
"'ello." Victor said as he rubbed his nose. Jake was rubbing the place where his fore head had collided with Victor's afore mentioned nose. "Iz zere a problem?" He asked.
"No problem." Selena said quickly. "Do you know where Fleur is?" The young man stiffened slightly.
"I don't know." He said stiffly.
"Wait a minute, you're not Krum! He's out there with Madam Pomphrey! Who the hell are you?!" Jake demanded. The Krum look alike glanced between them nervously and then sighed. When he spoke again, his voice was completely different.
"This would have been much easier if you hadn't said that." Selena groaned when she felt something hard smash into the back of her head. Jake whirled around to catch her and at the same time coming face to face with Fleur. She was holding up a hard piece of wood. She smiled sadly.
"Sorry about this Spade. We can't have you being kidnapped by the enemy. We've been fighting this war too long to let them get you now." Krum proceeded to take out his wand and stun Jake. The two teenagers crumpled lifelessly to the ground as the imposters reached for them with black-gloved hands.
"So how do i look?" Jake asked.
"Looking good." Selena said not looking. Course, she didn't meant to ignore him, she was being impatient. Jake was trying to break the impatience.
It had actually been Dumbledore's idea to make the dinner a little more formal because of the new students, including the American Ministry of Magic's "representatives". As the girls came down the stairs slowly, the boys (and Selena) sighed in relief that they had finally finished. They looked quite pretty in fact, but not astoundingly so as if they had spent hours. This was meant to be a casual/formal dinner.
Harry and Ron walked several feet away from each other. Selena and Jake felt very sorry for Harry and very angry towards Ron for not understanding that Harry had no hand in his participation in the tournament. Selena and Jake made a very large effort to be Harry's friend and confidants since his other friends didn't seem to have enough time or were simply sulking. Jake stood between the two, Ron and Harry, just so Harry can try getting his mind og Ron. Selena held his arms to comfort him and get his mind off Ron too.
When they arrived at the Great Hall, Dumbledore stood as the feast was about to begin. Everyone grew silent and turned towards him excitedly.
"I know that all of you are hungry but there are several notices that must be spoken of. First of all, I would like to please ask that no pranks should be set off in Mr. Filch's office anymore. He would also like to ask that whoever has been painting the third floor corridor pink to please cease that immediately." Jake's lips twitched but he said nothing. Selena was glancing at Fred and George slyly. The twins smiled cunningly, "Also, I would like to inform all of you of the upcoming start of the TriWizard tournament. The First Task shall begin soon and when it does, we expect a proud performance from all of those participating. Please come and support your school when the Tasks begin." Harry seemed a little green at the thought of the First Task but Selena and Jake exchanged glances. They knew all about the little Hungarian Horntail. They had seen it several days ago and it certainly wasn't all that friendly, especially when it tried to set the two fan fiction writers on fire.
That time Jake and Selena walked toward Hagrid to see the dragons. As permnission from Dumbledore. yet Hagrid was moving forward toward the carriage and Maxime came out. Jake can tells Harry was near by due to the sound of the invisible feet stomping close by. Jake said, "Evening Madam Masime." And so did Selena who said it in friendly voice. Maxime, "Evening Represenatives." She smiled a bit only to be friendly due to the fact they are American's ministry of magic represenatives.
So they moved toward the giant gates as the large giant dragons roars and tries to excape. groups of trained wizards barked orders, "Stupfey!"
"Ain't they beautiful?" Hagrid asked.
"Hey Hagrid. Hello you two. I heard about you but i didn't recall your name. Allow me, I'm Charlie Weasley."
"Jake," He said and shook his hand. "I'm Selena." She almost poked Charlie's nose when thrusted her hands for a shake. She was feeling abashed. Jake tries to keep straight face. Charlie forgived and shook.
"Didn't expect you all to be here, anyhow, i suppose you need a bit of information? As from what they told me i think was that the four champions were to pass them."
"Indeed? Whare they called?" Hagrid asked in delight.
Charlie gave a short name and description about the dragons including the Hungarian Horntail. Then jumped to Harry Potter and his mother frantically getting worried about him. Yet, Jake expected Harry must have left by now. As so then, Jake have not expected something. A wizard had scared as the Hungarian snorted. Jake slammed Selena out of the way before the fire could blast them and the wizards tries to put the Hungarian back to sleep.
"You two ok?" Charlie asked.
"Oie. yes we are." Jake said. Selena pointed to Jakes helm of the robe and Jake stump the fire out like it was nothing.
After a chat with Charlie and hagrid, Jake and Selena held back to the Gryffindor Common room. Selena found Ron on the chair crying. They obviously knew why. Selena walked over to him and greeted him queitly. Jake decided to leave them for a bit and head to bed. Jake doesn't need to get involved with comforting Ron in fact because He was angry with him. But selena did felt sympathy for Ron and tries to comfort him.
"And now, tuck in!" The feast began and everyone began to eat hungrily. As the night progressed, several subjects were brought up for discussion. Some of them were the tournament, homework, the tournament, Muggle life compared to magical life, and the tournament were some of there more frequent discussions. At some point, someone mentioned the angel and demon attacks taking place all over the world.
"And it was in the Daily Prophet. The demon had been at the Square village and two angels were fighting." seamus said as he ate his mashed potatoes.
"What do you reckon? Do you think it's the end of the world?" Ron asked as he shoveled drumsticks into his mouth.
"no one really knows. For all we know is that something is abound to happen. Eventually." Jake said, wrinkling his nose. "But I do really doubt it's the end of the world. I'm just a little thinking that Voldemort might try to join one of the sides." Everyone but Selena and Harry cringed. Well, there was one more person, Jake thought. Fleur hadn't been paying attention to anything until that moment and she hadn't so much as blinked at the name.
"And then where will I be?" Selena mumbled so that only Jake and Harry could hear her. "Ah yes, i know, In Shadow's arms that's what. He'll probably try to bargain for my hand in marriage or something just as hideous and unwanted." She rolled her eyes and took a sip of her pumpkin juice.
"Let's hope it doesn't get to that." Jake said.
Somehow, Crabbe and Goyle jolted out of their seats started to shake off scarab beetles which seems to crawl all over them and now onto the slytherins. Selena stared at Jake, 'It's working!'. Jake grinned, 'Finally, the revenge is ours.' Fred and George gave the two new pranksters, Jake and Selena a high five. Some Gryffindors laughed their heads off and the other Gryffindors started collapsing with laughters. Dumbledore waved his hands and the scarab beetles disappeared, "Rhat will be enough! Whoever did that should be warned, i did told you no more pranks is to be pulled." DFumbledore said sternly. Snape glowers at Jake with utmost loathe. Fake returns an exact same looke back. He came walking toward the table.
"I see that you are enjoying yourselves." Selena and Jake jumped, which resorted to Selena's goblet falling over. "So clumsy," Snape said, his nose sticking to the air like a dog with a scent.
"Er, yeah," Selena said, blushing slightly.
"I expect you want to stay? Well, I'm terribly sorry but your detention starts now. Come with me now," Snape began to leave the room. Selena's mouth opened and closed in shock, her eyes widened in surprise. Jake's eyebrows shot together in fury and disbelief. What the hell was his problem?! Why was he giving them such a hard time?! It was Halloween for God's sake!
"We're coming." Selena said weakly as she pulled Jake along behind her. Harry waved at them disappointedly. He had been hoping for them to keep him company since Hermione and Ron were fighting and he couldn't say a thing for fear that they would snap at him. "We'll see you guys later."
"If we live through the over grown bat." Jake muttered angrily. Selena gave him a look before they rushed to catch up with Snape, who managed to loose them fairly quickly. The teenagers were walking towards Snape's office in hopes of finding him again when they saw the professor himself walking towards them smugly. Jake made a point to stand between them and glared viciously when the Potions master motioned towards the way they had come.
"I am in need of several herbs which can only be found in the Forbidden Forest. You shall assist me in retrieving them." Snape said as he walked swiftly ahead. Selena had to jog slightly to catch up. Jake was glaring moodily at the shadows all around, making sure that no one and no thing could jump out at them unexpectedly.
When they were outside, Selena shivered slightly in the cold night, wishing that her hair wasn't up so that it could warm the back of her neck instead of look nice. Jake didn't want to show that he was cold so he simply followed Snape towards the forest. Before they went in, Hagrid came towards them.
"Good evenin' professor. Evenin' Selena, Jake." Hagrid said.
"How is the forest tonight?" Snape asked.
"Quite dangerous tonigh'. Don' know what it is exactly but it's got the critters downrigh' terrified." Hagrid said as he handed Snape a lamp. "And more attacks than usual. I don' like it, Dumbledore's deal with those demons I mean." He shuddered.
"You aren't the only one." Snape said. He motioned for the two fan fiction writers to follow him into the woods. Jake and Selena instantly felt the cold dread which resulted in entering the forest. This had been the place in which they had entered this world and they still weren't completely comfortable about the entire idea of entering it willingly.
The night was freezing with little bits of snow fluttering down between the dense canopies of trees. As they walked, Selena felt a creeping sensation deep inside of her stomach. She felt blind.
"I feel something." Jake mumbled quietly.
"Feel what?" Snape demanded.
"Something evil." Jake mumbled. He glanced to his right where the feeling was the strongest. "It's coming from over there." Selena looked that way and narrowed her eyes. As she did, she saw what appeared to be a silver wolf preparing to spring at them. She knew that it was hidden behind a bush, but she knew that it was there.
"It's a werewolf!" Selena cried. Snape pulled out his wand instantly and yelled a hurried spell when the wolf leapt at them! The creature hit an invisible wall and fell back, whimpering slightly. Snape was breathing hard.
"Hello Selena!" Her scream became muffled the moment that the boys were distracted and Shadow leapt out to grab his prize before running into the forest. Jake yelled angrily and leapt after them, his wand out to guide his way. Just as he was sure that he had lost them, he heard yelling up ahead. Running into a clearing, he found Selena racing towards him. Her hair had fallen loose from its restraints and had formed dread locks all down her back. Shadow was fighting two people, one a woman and the other a man.
After a long battle, Shadow hissed and vanished in a cloud of bright light. The two people glanced at Jake and Selena. The man had sharp golden eyes and jet black hair. The woman had large blue eyes and pure white hair. Each one wore a set of black robes and fire-embroidered gloves. They also wore a black belt with a silver buckle. There were the words H.E.L.L. embedded into them.
The two vanished in a flash of fire.
Snape finally caught up to them to discover charred trees and several white and black feathers.
"What was that?" Snape demanded angrily.
"It was the angel Shadow that we were talking about earlier." Jake explained as he picked up as many feathers as he could. "The one that's obsessed with Selena. The one we warned you about." He made a point of glowering at him.
"So he was the one who sent the werewolf out of the forest." Selena mumbled, regaining her breath. "But how did you know it was there?"
"How did you see it?" Both couldn't figure out the answer to either question.
"Maybe I can see things, but I can't sense them like you. Maybe that's why everyone wants to catch us. Together we can catch anyone that tries to ambush us." Jake thought about her suggestion for a moment before he shook his head.
"I don't know. We'll have to see what happens next."
"The First Task is pretty soon." Selena said.
"I know. That's certainly going to have our hands full. But at least He doesn't know about us yet." He said, opening his eyes wide. He, of course, meant Voldemort. Snape shook his head angrily and decided that he didn't want to relive another episode like the one that he had just endured. Instead, he took the students back to the castle and retired to his room. Selena and Jake made it for desert.
"What happened? I think that was the shortest detention in the history of school." Hermione said. Harry seemed extremely relieved to actually have someone to talk to who wouldn't mention S.P.E.W., the O.W.L.S., anything school-related, and also two people who actually talked to him.
"How could you know, 'Mione? You never get detention." Ron said, pointedly ignoring Harry.
"I know that!" Hermione hissed. "That's not what I meant!"
"Well, what did you meant then?"
"I don't know, perhaps you should ask your darling veela about it. She seems far more interesting then I am!" Ron's ears turned bright red.
"Well then go talk to Vicky! I'm sure he's a lot more fun than we are! Go on!" Harry glanced between them glumly. He and Ron hadn't been speaking but he knew that it wouldn't help if he sided with either of his friends in their constant bickering. Harry's life had becoming increasingly harder over the course of the first month but it had been lessoned with Jake and Selena around. They knew with a passion that he had nothing to do with becoming a participant of the tournament and had even argued for him in the room behind the High Table.
He knew it would have been unbearable without Jake to cheer him up and Selena to help him with homework. For some reason, Hermione had been focusing even more on her studies than usual and wouldn't talk to Harry as often as she usually did. This was, of course, because Fleur was constantly around and where ever the half-veela was, Ron's brain was not.
"Hey, Jake!" Fred whispered. He motioned towards the floor as he and his twin climbed down under the table. Jake nudged Selena and dropped his fork. Selena noticed the glance and followed after Jake to squat beneath the table.
"Hey." George said smugly. "We just wanted to tell you that we followed orders as planned. It's in the pudding and the candy." Selena and Jake smirked.
"Perfect. Go on back to your seats." Selena said.
"Aye, aye, mate!" The twins left and Jake turned to Selena evilly.
"This will certainly be interesting."
The table began to rattle and somewhere along the four tables someone was screaming. After a moment or so of this, every single person in the Slytherin table changed into a ferret. There was utter silence and then Jake and Selena began to snort with laughter. Soon the entire Great Hall was laughing hysterically.
Next the Hufflepuff table's contents were changed into badgers. Most of them starred at each other in shock and tried to grab their wands but such a feat was impossible with their paws.
At the Ravenclaw table, all of the students were changed into Mongooses. Some tried to swivel towards the High Table but they ended up moving about two millimeters a minute. The Gryffindors thought they were safe.
They were wrong.
Each one was changed instantly into an enormous crane. Each bird turned to look at its neighbor in astonishment. After that all of the teachers at the High Table were instantly changed into oversized chickens. Dumbledore was still clucking to himself with his enormous beard and huge purple hat. McGonagall glared pointedly at the students through her square spectacles.
Pretty soon everyone was starring at Selena, Jake, Fred, and George, all of who were laughing uncontrollably. When they realized everyone starring, Fred smirked and snapped his fingers. Everyone instantly changed back into their human forms except for the infuriated Slytherins. Dumbledore stood, a smile threatening to overwhelm his features.
"If you please Mr. Weasley?" George sulked as he snapped his fingers and the Slytherins changed back to normal. Malfoy was extremely red, having been turned into the only white ferret at his table. "I'm afraid I must give the four of you detention." Dumbledore said merrily.
"Thank you sir!" Fred said as the four of them bowed and sat down. Selena caught sight of Fleur, who was busily applying some kind of blush to her face. When she saw this, Selena turned away only to swivel around to stare at her. She had blotchy red and white skin, her hair seemed to be tilted slightly to one side, and her eyes were an angry brown. This girl wasn't Fleur.
"Jake!" Selena hissed. He turned to her, still laughing. When he saw the _expression on her face he sobered and looked in the direction that she was indicating. With a final tug on her hair, Fleur turned to give a sweet smile in the fanfiction writers' direction.
"That isn't Fleur!" Jake whispered.
"Was the tug on her wig a hint?" Selena demanded sarcastically.
"Where is she then? Do you think that Shadow really did kidnap her and that girl over there is a spy?" Selena shook her head.
"He said that the demons were the ones that kidnapped her."
"You're going to trust him now?" Jake asked in disbelief.
"He's never directly lied to me." Selena said with a blush. "Even in my dreams he can't do it. He only lied to me once and that was when my back was turned. He can't lie to my face." Jake, still marveling at the bizarre nature of the Angel Prince turned to the High Table worriedly.
"I guess now isn't the time to tell Dumbledore about this. We'd be killed if we got two feet away from Fred and George." He said, seeing the death glares that the Slytherin table especially was sending them. The other tables seemed to have taken it as a harmless joke and the teachers even seemed to be calming down (expect for Snape, who hadn't exactly loved being turned into a chicken in his room for no apparent reason).
"We'll have to do something about it later. The Weighing of the Wands is pretty soon and then we're going to have to be with the judges for the First Task." Selena said, risking a glance at the Fleur-imposter.
"Tomorrow is going to be way too long. I can see it now." Jake mumbled as he made to eat something before Selena stopped him. Some of the late eaters, thinking that the food was safe again, had been changed into their House's animal.
Selena and Jake felt extremely irritated the next morning. They hadn't slept a wink since they'd had another midnight class with Dumbledore and an angel had tried to kidnap Selena again. Over all, their moods could have fried an egg.
"Morning." Harry mumbled nervously. He hadn't so much as touched his breakfast, his eyes looking swollen. He obviously hadn't had a wink of sleep either since he would be facing the Hungarian Horntail that day. Selena wanted to tell him that he would be fine but Jake cursed angrily when McGonagall motioned for them to follow her. He had been about to eat up for his lack of dinner and sleep.
"Take some food with you." Selena suggested as she grabbed two pieces of toast and followed McGonagall. Jake muttered something about 'too optimistic' and followed with some more toast. When they met up with McGonagall outside of the Great Hall, she motioned for them to follow her into another classroom. Once there, Jake and Selena made a feeble attempt for the door before Darla and Rita grabbed one of them and dragged them into the room.
"Jake! How wonderful to see you!" Rita purred.
"Selena! I'm sure you have MUCH more information then Jake!" Darla purred, giving Rita a smile filled with teeth.
"She's wrong, isn't she? You know MUCH more than that girl does!" Rita smiled back sweetly but her nails dug into Jake's arm. Jake sent them both an enraged scowl before he pried off Rita's fingers and managed to get Selena away from a clutching Darla. Before the reporters could get to them, McGonagall sent them a warning glare.
"Good morning!" A voice said behind the two teenagers, making them jump. Mr. Ollivander was grinning behind them. "I trust your wands are still working?" He motioned towards the two wands in their pockets. "May I?" Jake and Selena handed over their wands worriedly. "Ah yes, just as I remember. Mr. Jake, a fine wand. Nine and a half inches, the diamond from a dwarf's mine tainted black from the coal. And the contents consist of a scale from a mermaid and the crystallized form of a phoenix tear drop." Nodding in approval, Mr. Ollivander handed back the wand. "Eight inches made of a yew tree entwined with an ask tree with an angel's hair string and a sprinkle of faery's dust." He gave that wand back as well.
"'Angel hair'?" Jake mumbled.
"Probably why Shadow likes me." Selena muttered back.
The rest of the champions arrived and then all of the wands were weighed. When they were done, Selena and Jake followed all of the adults out onto the Quiditch pitch, where a large stadium had been set up. Taking the seats motioned to them by Dumbledore, the man himself leaned over to them.
"Because you are representatives of the American Ministry of Magic the Minister has insisted that you participate in the judging." Jake and Selena blinked.
"Why? We're in Hogwarts so obviously our scoring will be biased." Jake said.
"And besides, we know exactly what everyone is going to do and exactly how many points everyone is going to get." Selena said.
"Then allow me to make a suggestion. Give the same score to everyone." Selena and Jake exchanged glances.
"Alright, we'll give everyone a nine." Jake said. "Er, what if that person doesn't deserve the score?" Dumbledore chuckled.
"Use your better judgment. I would refrain from perfect scores, however, especially because you can't favor anyone. The Hogwarts students would be after you if you favored the other schools and the Headmasters of the other schools would think that you weighed heavily on our school if the opposite happened." Jake and Selena, obviously uncomfortable with this, nodded.
The First Task began and both teenagers found themselves becoming more and more worried. Just as Harry's task was beginning, Jake grabbed Selena and hurried towards the exit. Dumbledore glanced at them but Jake merely told him that each of their scores was a nine. Once they left, Selena squirmed out of Jake's hold.
"What are you doing? I wanted to see what happened!" Selena said.
"Didn't you ever wonder what happened in the tent when the games were going on? We need to check it out. Fleur might be in there. Maybe we can get her to tell us who she really is." Without waiting for an answer, (Selena was going to tell him where Fleur was) Jake pulled Selena into the tent and straight into Victor Krum.
"'ello." Victor said as he rubbed his nose. Jake was rubbing the place where his fore head had collided with Victor's afore mentioned nose. "Iz zere a problem?" He asked.
"No problem." Selena said quickly. "Do you know where Fleur is?" The young man stiffened slightly.
"I don't know." He said stiffly.
"Wait a minute, you're not Krum! He's out there with Madam Pomphrey! Who the hell are you?!" Jake demanded. The Krum look alike glanced between them nervously and then sighed. When he spoke again, his voice was completely different.
"This would have been much easier if you hadn't said that." Selena groaned when she felt something hard smash into the back of her head. Jake whirled around to catch her and at the same time coming face to face with Fleur. She was holding up a hard piece of wood. She smiled sadly.
"Sorry about this Spade. We can't have you being kidnapped by the enemy. We've been fighting this war too long to let them get you now." Krum proceeded to take out his wand and stun Jake. The two teenagers crumpled lifelessly to the ground as the imposters reached for them with black-gloved hands.