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Chapter 8: What Happened to Ali?

The water blasted through and swept them through the cave. It was no where

near a smooth ride. The water was harsh and pounding, it kept throwing

them against the walls. They were all getting badly beaten while flying

through passageway after passageway. Then suddenly, it went dark.

Ali's eyes flew open as she began to violently cough up salt water. After her coughing subsided she looked around; she was on a beach, she figured on the same island as before. She glanced to her left and right. On her right she saw Ron, who had his eyes on her; behind him was Hermionie, who was watching Draco.

Ron turned around and tapped Hermionie on the shoulder. "Hey, she's okay."

Ali started coughing again. When it finally stopped she managed to ask, "What's been going on?"

"Well, we don't know any more than you do. Draco's still out cold." Ali smiled but then realized how cruel that was. "Move over." She crawled over to where he was laying and put her head on his chest. She could hear Hermionie gasp, was she offended? "Quiet, I'm checking for a heart-beat." She couldn't hear anything. "Shit!" She moved her ear over Draco's mouth, still nothing; not any sound or suggestion of breathing. "Damn!"

"What?"

"He's not breathing. He needs mouth-to-mouth, and I don't want to have to do it."

"WHAT-TO-WHAT?" Ron exclaimed.

"It's what they call it when someone breathes into someone else's mouth to help them regain their breathing." Hermionie explained flawlessly.

"Although, Ron, I'm sure that if you kissed sleeping beauty here, that'd work too."

"Ew, Gross! No bloody way!" (a/n: if anyone out there would care to explain to me why the British always seem to say 'bloody' of all words, I'd be much obliged.)

"So, since I'm not doing it. And you're not doing it."Ali looked at Ron, then they both looked expectantly at Hermionie who threw up her hands in exasperation.

"Fine. But you're off my Christmas list Ron."

"Ooooh! He was on it?" Ali giggled suggestively.

"Not like that!" Hermionie looked at Ron and blushed.

"Come on Hermionie. Quit stalling, you know, Draco's life may depend on you." Ali scolded jokingly.

"And why should she stop stalling?" Ron asked. Making Ali giggle like crazy.

"Okay, Hermionie. Get on with it," Ali said when she regained her breath, "we all know that you want to."

Hermionie, who'd been about to put her lips to Draco's sat back up rigidly. "You guys stop, please! I can't handle this; it's bad enough that I've got to do this for Draco." She looked really stressed, and pretty red.

She plugged Draco's nose, and bent over. Just before her lips touched his, he coughed out water. She pushed her lips onto his. His eyes flew open, as he realized somebody was kissing him. He closed them again, as Hermionie got into the kiss.

"Well then." Ali looked at Ron, raising her eyebrows; "I thought so."

Ron looked confused. "Wha-?"

"Oh, come on! Look at them, what do you think?"

"I dunno'." Ron shook his head confused. "Hermionie, and Draco? Nothing makes sense anymore."

Ali was laughing so hard by now that she couldn't respond. Ron was still gaping at the two, who seemed to have forgotten that anyone was nearby.

"Gill?!?" All four of them looked up, even Draco and Hermionie.

Ali looked up to see her friend, Julie, looking very confused. "What's

going on? Zobel? Nolan? And...someone...?"

"Oh god, not this again," said Ron, finally finding his words.

"Oh my God, Julie you won't believe this!" In about one sentence Ali had

characteristically explained, more or less, what had happened so far. How she woke up in a hole, and how Zobel, Nolan, and person were really Draco, Ron, and Hermione, and how Draco had hit her and called her names then used a wand to make her throw up slugs. Oh, and by the way, they were wizards.

Julie was shocked, and disgusted by what she had heard. "YOU HIT HER?!?"

Draco, caught by surprise, said nothing.

"YOU HAD THE NERVE TO HIT A GIRL AFTER YOU MADE FUN OF HER!?!" Julie ran over to Draco and grabbed him by the shirt collar.

Behind her Ali called out, "The wand! Get his wand!"

Julie glanced down and saw him wand in his hand. She grabbed it and threw it back to Ali.

"Don't loose that," she commanded. Ali nodded, covering her mouth with one hand, boy Draco was in for it now.

Hermione tried to stop Julie, but was held back by Ron. "Let's see what she's gonna do," he said, "Draco may deserve it."

Julie glared back at Draco, struggling to break free of her grasp. "You're sick."

"Shut up you stupid muggle."

With a large smack Draco fell over, clutching his face. "What the hell?! Don't touch me!"

He got up to strike back, but she was too fast. Her fist was raised again

and this time contacted squarely on his nose. Blood made its way down his

mouth and chin. He yelped and held his face.

"Oh my." Ali murmured, seeing that she'd kind of brought this on. She was both grateful and angry with Julie. Grateful for the loyalty; angry because now SHE couldn't pay Draco back.

Hermionie ran down and tried to help Draco with his nose. Meanwhile Ali addressed Julie. (Ron was still standing there gaping.) "Julie, where'd you come from."

"I dunno', I was on the computer, and then all of a sudden I woke up here. I must've dozed off or something."

Suddenly Ali felt something hard hit the back of her head, she saw stars. She turned around to see a few more of her friends. "Becca? Janet? Nolan?" She asked aloud, "What the heck is going on here?"

Suddenly, the ground opened up, and swallowed all of her friends, one by one. The sky flashed purple, lightning ripped the sky, and darkness took her.

~A Few Hours Later~

"Ali." A voice crooned. "Ali, wake up." It came louder, setting her head ablaze. Her brain felt a searing pain pulsing through it. She felt something around her. Something warm and strong, that was gripping her tightly. She followed her instincts and fought as hard as she could, but it wouldn't let her go. "Ali, Ali, ALI! STOP!" The voice told her, gripping her harder.

Unexpectedly she recognized the voice, "Ron, is that you?" she opened her eyes and looked up. She could just see his face, silhouetted against the garishly bright sky. Then she realized he was holding her. "What happened?" She looked around, and asked, "Where's every one?" before he could answer her first question.

"Draco and Hermionie were torn away from us in the cave."

"Okay, but what about Julie, and Becca, and Janet, and-"

"WHO?"

"It must have been a dream. How'd we get here, WHAT happened?" She asked again, this time giving him a chance to respond.

"Well, I woke up here, I don't know what happened before that. I looked around and you were sitting a ways away. So I walked over and you were just waking up. So I waited and when you got up you had these red eyes! And you came at me; you were talking with this weird raspy guy voice. Eventually this green person flew out of you. It came at me, and snarled, it said something about Harry, but I don't know what. It left, I think it was V- V- V- You-Know-Who." Ron trailed off, his face paling.

"Oh my." She decided not to tell him about her dream. She just closed her eyes, and hugged him tighter.

**AWW! How sweet, I hope you liked it. If you did or if you didn't, please leave a review. Read some of my other fan-fictions. Thank you ELWOOD PENSCOTTIE for writing part of that chappie! If you have any, I'd appreciate ideas. Chao 4 Now! Rose W. G. **