I see nothing (little ceramic monkey covering its eye's with its hands.) I
hear nothing (little ceramic monkey's little brother covering its ears with
his hands.) I own nothing! (little ceramic ME covering my empty wallet with
my hands...)
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Harry looked like he was trying to figure out how to articulate his thoughts, and when he spoke it was in parseltongue(sp?? Help!!). Ginny had a somewhat confused look on her face as Harry was talking, but seemed to shrug off whatever it was that had bothered her. He sat listening to the snakes replies, then nodded at Ginny. "Yeah, they say that there's a rabid bear out over towards the west of us. They're all in agreement that it's headed this way. Lavyn, can you understand me?" The horse nodded, much to everyone's surprise. "Good, you stand guard to the west and yell when you see it. Sirius, you turn into Snuffles and guard Severus and Lupin. Everyone else, get your wands ready to stupefy the beast."
If anyone thought that these orders were strange in any way shape or form, they kept it to themselves. All of them simply did what they were told to do. The next few minutes were insanely tense as they waited for the bear to get closer. When Lavyn screamed his battle warning not one of them hesitated in using their wands, and they hit the bear with a mass stupefy.
After the bear went down, Draco walked over with a transfigured knife, and put the bear out of it's misery. By the time he got back, Snape was starting to wake up again, and Harry was sitting faithfully by his side. The rest of the group was staring at Harry in confusion wondering if whatever it was that brought them here did something to his sanity.
"Lavyn...what are you..? How can you speak...??"
This little question from the potions master got quite a few incredulous looks from all of the others. The horse, talk?! It did seem to understand Harry, but Harry was a parseltongue, and maybe he could make all animals understand him. Besides, horse _don't_ talk!
'I'm your companion. I'm not a horse, so don't treat me as such. I'm not really a person either. We will be partners until the end of time. I can talk to you because of our bond. The rest will be explained to you when you get to Haven. The companions for some of your friends will be waiting there.'
'not...my friends!'
'Oh? Not even Harry?' (uhoh.....matchmaker!)
'...I don't have friends...'
Severus heard something that sounded somewhat like a sigh in response to this. 'I'm your friend. No one could keep me away from you. Believe me; anyone who tried would meet my hooves quite personally!'
'No one?' Severus snorted. 'You sound pretty sure of yourself.'
'No one will _ever_ take me away. You're stuck with me now!'
'Lucky me.' Severus groaned and opened his eyes. Instead of Lavyn's deep blue eyes, though, he met Harry's brilliant green ones. "Oh..." He felt a shiver run up his spine that quite most definitely wasn't from fear. "What's going on? Why did I faint?"
"I don't know, Professor. But maybe that horse could take us to someone who does..." Hermione of course. Stupid know-it-all. "Lavyn is _not_ a horse, Miss Granger. He's my companion. Weren't you listeni..."
'She can't hear me. I'm speaking directly into your mind.'
Snape jumped up, wide eyed, and took the two strides over to Lavyn's side. 'How...how dare...'
'Don't even start. Or didn't you notice that you're speaking back the same way?'
Snape didn't have a response to that one, so he asked a question instead. "Where are we?"
'We are in Vanyel's Forest of Sorrows. This is the country of Valdemar. As soon as you wake up the werewolf, we'll be on our way to the capital, Haven.'
Severus decided to ignore the fact that he had never heard of these places before. That happened often in the wizarding world. '...Where are we in comparison to Hogwarts?'
'I've never heard of Hogwarts. I can look into your memories to see if I know. I won't, though, if you ask me not to.'
'I'd...rather you didn't. Just how do I wake up Lupin?'
'Simple. You go into the same trance you went into last time, but hold onto yourself as well. You only need a small bit of power to awaken someone, even if they're in a coma and have been for a very long time. Almost anyone with even a trace of healing can do it. Think about waking him up, but concentrate on only sending out a tendril of power towards him. Do you understand?' (I know I don't...)
'I'll try it. But afterwards you have to explain it all more clearly to me. Deal?'
'I was never a healer, I was a destroyer. You will learn to control your powers in Haven. You all have the mage-gift, of course. The members of your group with abilities besides that are the ones who will be chosen. For instance, you have the second strongest mind-speech of the party. Your lifebonded might be the strongest herald-to-be I've ever seen. But I need to stop babbling, and you need to wake up the werewolf now. The moon is full tonight, and we need to get to the waystation so that we can secure ourselves. Vanyel, Stephan, and Y'fandes are no longer protecting the forest, so they cannot keep him in his human form. So then...'
'Ok, ok!! You really need to learn to stop talking so much! I'm going to try and heal Lupin now.' Severus got up and headed towards Remus, but was stopped before reaching him by a suspicious Sirius.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Severus sneered. "I'm trying to save your master, mutt. Get out of my way!"
Sirius started to growl, but Harry came to Severus' defense. "Look, he healed Ginny, right? She would've died!"
Ginny did not look to happy at this exclamation, but agreed with Harry. "Yeah, I would've, wouldn't I."
Harry looked apologetically at Ginny, before turning back to his irate godfather. "Look, he just wants to wake him up, tonight's the full moon! There's no harm in trying, right? I mean, you may not like each other, but we're all we have left right now!"
Severus looked curiously at Harry, wondering how he could possibly have known that tonight was the full moon here as well. But when Sirius sighed and backed off, Snape simply placed the thought back away for future consideration. He sat down next to Lupin on the bed, and tried to go into the trance only halfway. It worked and soon he had a little control over the 'tendrils' that Lavyn was talking about. Snape tossed one out at Remus and tried to concentrate on waking him up. 'Come on....'
His efforts were rewarded, and soon Lupin had opened his eyes and asked; "Where's Lucius Malfoy?"
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Yay! New chapter! This one's pretty long too. Wowies... Well, the next chapter...I have no idea what's going to happen!!! Give me some ideas, please!
The winners!! I want name, and (teenagers preferably!) age, please! Gender also helps.... Oh, and you're all heralds, so you need companions too. Silver, you were the first! Gryphnwng, you got it, my friend ^_^ Viscountess Babbles-On I'm on your favs list?! I'm so honored!
Fav peeps: Katy999-yes Lavyn's a companion. That's not what I meant at all... Nope...Remus will not be Chosen, he's a dark creature! (I don't hold it against him!) Lorid-no, Harry and Sevvie weren't involved with each other previously..., Here are the current established relationships: RL/SB RW/HG and GW/NL. That's it for now...hehehe. Hana-chan-thanks for the link! I've decided not to stop though, because this site has a Mercedes Lackey section anyways. I'm not going to hurt anyone by amusing myself, right? Erm....Lavyn knew that they would show up there cuz...I said so! LOL! Big plot hole there, and I didn't notice it myself...eep! And yes, they will be very confused as to why he is not only a healer, but he's a herald too! The insaneness of it all... Silver-Go read when Kerowyn was chosen. She was chosen by Savil-but it was spelled differently! You should be recognizing the other companions as well... Sevvie-kun has been chosen by Lavyn ^_^;; Gryphnwng-YAY! YOU'RE BACK!!! I know! Sevvie, Chosen! Lol, just wait til it gets explained to him. Hehehe...just wait, you'll see Kalira later...but she won't be Choosing who you might think! Viscountess Babbles-On-Mardic and Donni will be Chosing just whom you thought ^_^ But who says that the others can't be reincarnated over and over, hmmm?? Arwen Rayne - erm...who???
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Harry looked like he was trying to figure out how to articulate his thoughts, and when he spoke it was in parseltongue(sp?? Help!!). Ginny had a somewhat confused look on her face as Harry was talking, but seemed to shrug off whatever it was that had bothered her. He sat listening to the snakes replies, then nodded at Ginny. "Yeah, they say that there's a rabid bear out over towards the west of us. They're all in agreement that it's headed this way. Lavyn, can you understand me?" The horse nodded, much to everyone's surprise. "Good, you stand guard to the west and yell when you see it. Sirius, you turn into Snuffles and guard Severus and Lupin. Everyone else, get your wands ready to stupefy the beast."
If anyone thought that these orders were strange in any way shape or form, they kept it to themselves. All of them simply did what they were told to do. The next few minutes were insanely tense as they waited for the bear to get closer. When Lavyn screamed his battle warning not one of them hesitated in using their wands, and they hit the bear with a mass stupefy.
After the bear went down, Draco walked over with a transfigured knife, and put the bear out of it's misery. By the time he got back, Snape was starting to wake up again, and Harry was sitting faithfully by his side. The rest of the group was staring at Harry in confusion wondering if whatever it was that brought them here did something to his sanity.
"Lavyn...what are you..? How can you speak...??"
This little question from the potions master got quite a few incredulous looks from all of the others. The horse, talk?! It did seem to understand Harry, but Harry was a parseltongue, and maybe he could make all animals understand him. Besides, horse _don't_ talk!
'I'm your companion. I'm not a horse, so don't treat me as such. I'm not really a person either. We will be partners until the end of time. I can talk to you because of our bond. The rest will be explained to you when you get to Haven. The companions for some of your friends will be waiting there.'
'not...my friends!'
'Oh? Not even Harry?' (uhoh.....matchmaker!)
'...I don't have friends...'
Severus heard something that sounded somewhat like a sigh in response to this. 'I'm your friend. No one could keep me away from you. Believe me; anyone who tried would meet my hooves quite personally!'
'No one?' Severus snorted. 'You sound pretty sure of yourself.'
'No one will _ever_ take me away. You're stuck with me now!'
'Lucky me.' Severus groaned and opened his eyes. Instead of Lavyn's deep blue eyes, though, he met Harry's brilliant green ones. "Oh..." He felt a shiver run up his spine that quite most definitely wasn't from fear. "What's going on? Why did I faint?"
"I don't know, Professor. But maybe that horse could take us to someone who does..." Hermione of course. Stupid know-it-all. "Lavyn is _not_ a horse, Miss Granger. He's my companion. Weren't you listeni..."
'She can't hear me. I'm speaking directly into your mind.'
Snape jumped up, wide eyed, and took the two strides over to Lavyn's side. 'How...how dare...'
'Don't even start. Or didn't you notice that you're speaking back the same way?'
Snape didn't have a response to that one, so he asked a question instead. "Where are we?"
'We are in Vanyel's Forest of Sorrows. This is the country of Valdemar. As soon as you wake up the werewolf, we'll be on our way to the capital, Haven.'
Severus decided to ignore the fact that he had never heard of these places before. That happened often in the wizarding world. '...Where are we in comparison to Hogwarts?'
'I've never heard of Hogwarts. I can look into your memories to see if I know. I won't, though, if you ask me not to.'
'I'd...rather you didn't. Just how do I wake up Lupin?'
'Simple. You go into the same trance you went into last time, but hold onto yourself as well. You only need a small bit of power to awaken someone, even if they're in a coma and have been for a very long time. Almost anyone with even a trace of healing can do it. Think about waking him up, but concentrate on only sending out a tendril of power towards him. Do you understand?' (I know I don't...)
'I'll try it. But afterwards you have to explain it all more clearly to me. Deal?'
'I was never a healer, I was a destroyer. You will learn to control your powers in Haven. You all have the mage-gift, of course. The members of your group with abilities besides that are the ones who will be chosen. For instance, you have the second strongest mind-speech of the party. Your lifebonded might be the strongest herald-to-be I've ever seen. But I need to stop babbling, and you need to wake up the werewolf now. The moon is full tonight, and we need to get to the waystation so that we can secure ourselves. Vanyel, Stephan, and Y'fandes are no longer protecting the forest, so they cannot keep him in his human form. So then...'
'Ok, ok!! You really need to learn to stop talking so much! I'm going to try and heal Lupin now.' Severus got up and headed towards Remus, but was stopped before reaching him by a suspicious Sirius.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Severus sneered. "I'm trying to save your master, mutt. Get out of my way!"
Sirius started to growl, but Harry came to Severus' defense. "Look, he healed Ginny, right? She would've died!"
Ginny did not look to happy at this exclamation, but agreed with Harry. "Yeah, I would've, wouldn't I."
Harry looked apologetically at Ginny, before turning back to his irate godfather. "Look, he just wants to wake him up, tonight's the full moon! There's no harm in trying, right? I mean, you may not like each other, but we're all we have left right now!"
Severus looked curiously at Harry, wondering how he could possibly have known that tonight was the full moon here as well. But when Sirius sighed and backed off, Snape simply placed the thought back away for future consideration. He sat down next to Lupin on the bed, and tried to go into the trance only halfway. It worked and soon he had a little control over the 'tendrils' that Lavyn was talking about. Snape tossed one out at Remus and tried to concentrate on waking him up. 'Come on....'
His efforts were rewarded, and soon Lupin had opened his eyes and asked; "Where's Lucius Malfoy?"
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Yay! New chapter! This one's pretty long too. Wowies... Well, the next chapter...I have no idea what's going to happen!!! Give me some ideas, please!
The winners!! I want name, and (teenagers preferably!) age, please! Gender also helps.... Oh, and you're all heralds, so you need companions too. Silver, you were the first! Gryphnwng, you got it, my friend ^_^ Viscountess Babbles-On I'm on your favs list?! I'm so honored!
Fav peeps: Katy999-yes Lavyn's a companion. That's not what I meant at all... Nope...Remus will not be Chosen, he's a dark creature! (I don't hold it against him!) Lorid-no, Harry and Sevvie weren't involved with each other previously..., Here are the current established relationships: RL/SB RW/HG and GW/NL. That's it for now...hehehe. Hana-chan-thanks for the link! I've decided not to stop though, because this site has a Mercedes Lackey section anyways. I'm not going to hurt anyone by amusing myself, right? Erm....Lavyn knew that they would show up there cuz...I said so! LOL! Big plot hole there, and I didn't notice it myself...eep! And yes, they will be very confused as to why he is not only a healer, but he's a herald too! The insaneness of it all... Silver-Go read when Kerowyn was chosen. She was chosen by Savil-but it was spelled differently! You should be recognizing the other companions as well... Sevvie-kun has been chosen by Lavyn ^_^;; Gryphnwng-YAY! YOU'RE BACK!!! I know! Sevvie, Chosen! Lol, just wait til it gets explained to him. Hehehe...just wait, you'll see Kalira later...but she won't be Choosing who you might think! Viscountess Babbles-On-Mardic and Donni will be Chosing just whom you thought ^_^ But who says that the others can't be reincarnated over and over, hmmm?? Arwen Rayne - erm...who???
