Chapter Twelve: Personality of Death
I woke up some time later to realize that I was no longer blindfolded. I stood up and looked around. The hall seemed to be glowing blue. It wasn't the same hall, either. I looked around and I noticed that I'd never been in this corridor before. When I looked to my left, I saw the corridor I had been in before. The one where I fought Bridget and found Harry. I looked to my right into darkness. It seemed to get darker the further to that side that I moved. In the very middle something was emitting a blue glow. I wasn't able to see what it was, though. It seemed like a little round ball but I think it was more than that. I stared closer at it, still and I was walking towards it when it started to grow bigger. It grew to be a bit taller than I am and about two feet wider. It now seemed more like an orb of some kind.
I looked into the blue orb and saw that there were steps leading down from inside. I was debating whether to go in or not. I looked around me and I didn't see anything. I still had the chance to go tell Professor Dumbledore, but I was foolish and curious. Well, what were they doing to Roxeanne and Harry right now?! I figured it would be better to go in, because... I was naive. Also, I thought I might be able to help Harry and Roxeanne if they were even down there. I stepped into the blue circled orb and began walking down the transparent steps. They appeared one by one. Everything around me was a bright blue... glowing. I was trembling and extremely frightened but somehow, a part of me felt comfortable.
"Harry?! Roxeanne? YOU DOWN HERE?!" I yelled, hoping somebody... anybody would answer. "Anyone?! Hello?!" I walked a bit farther until I could no longer see where I had entered. I ran back up the steps to make sure I could get back out, and sure enough, I couldn't. "Damn it!" I hissed under my breath. I turned back around and ran down them again. This time I actually ran farther than I had gone before. "HARRY?! ROXEANNE?! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
Soon the staircase ended and I was on a white platform. The surrounding blue area turned black as I walked to the center of the platform. I looked down... all black. I thought the platform was floating. I looked around for some form of life but found none. I tried to get back to the steps when the atmosphere was blue and comforting... now it was dark and black. As I reached my foot out to walk onto the steps, my foot hit what seemed to be a wall. The steps had gone and black walls surrounded me. The white platform wasn't nearly bright enough to light up the whole area, way to the top of wherever I was, but it lit enough for me to see some things around me. I realized, there was nothing around me. It was completely empty. When I was about to give up, a small white light began to shimmer at the very top of, what I'd call, the room.
"Hello?!" I called. "Is anyone up there? Can you see me?!" I yelled, waving my arms vigorously. When I figured there was no one there, I heard a deep, evil laugh. I gasped loudly and jumped to one of the walls. "Who's there?"
From the top of the room, three figures dropped slowly down, as if they were being floated down. "Well, we meet again." The man said. The younger boy next to him chuckled and the girl behind the two of them seemed to have a pure evil smile on her.
"Wh-What do you want?" I asked. I had no idea why, but I'd been feeling quite brave at the time.
"Huh, Krystal... you've got so much to learn about me." The boy said.
"I don't care to learn much more of you, Draco." I told him. "I don't like what I've found." I said, trying as hard as I could not to blink. He didn't say anything in reply, but instead, looked over to his father. His father had a look on his face that was barf-worthy. "What?" I asked, daringly. He, again, didn't reply. He did, however, lift his hands up and clap twice. Almost at once, Draco's friends dropped from the same point they had, carrying two other people who seemed to be quite restless.
"We've got your friends, by the way." My jaw clenched. "I hope you enjoy their new personalities as much as we have." Goyle and Crabbe let go of them, but they were still tied around the stomach, so they couldn't go far. I looked at them hard. It took me a good five minutes to realize that these two wild, reckless people were Harry and Roxeanne. I jumped back.
"WHAT DID YOU DO?!" I shouted. I took a good look at Harry, then Roxeanne. Harry's eyes were red and his hair was wilder than ever. His veins were popping out everywhere and his face was bright red. He looked furious. They were both dressed in black. Harry kept stomping his feet and looked as if he'd break the rope binding him at any moment. Roxeanne's eyes were yellow, rather than red. Her normally curly, bouncy hair had been straightened so it now reached down a few inches past her shoulders. Her face, too, was bright red and she was reaching out with her hands tight, as if trying to reach... me. I realized that they were both looking at me as if I was a piece of meat and they hadn't eaten in weeks. "What's wrong with them?!"
"New personalities... as I said. They're now to do whatever Draco, Bridget or myself ask of them. I must warn you, only one spell will work on them and its not a very nice one."
"You expect me to use that on them?! ARE YOU MAD?!"
"Goyle! Crabbe!" Draco called. "Release them."
"What the -" I started. I would've finished but Roxeanne had seized me by the hair and was now practically ripping it out of my head. "ROXEANNE! BLOODY HELL! GET OFF!" I shouted. I think she was determined to make me bald. She wouldn't stop tugging until Lucius put his hand up as if to stop her. She let go, with a big sigh from me, but it wasn't over.
"Like your new friends?" He said, laughing.
"What the hell is your problem?!" I screamed. "You're... you're CRAZY!"
"Crazy? Really? Well, let's see... here I have Harry Potter and your best friend at my command ready to rip you apart with my call... and I'm crazy? Oh, yes, I see what you mean." He said sarcastically.
I scoffed. I didn't think Harry and Roxeanne could ever even look so... intimidating. So... frightening. I tried my best to talk to them and make them understand. "Harry! Harry, hold still!" I said, grabbing him by the shoulders. "Harry, look! Look at me! It's me! Krystal!! Remember?!" But he, obviously, didn't remember. He didn't even recognize me. He seized my hands with his own and flipped me over. I cried out in pain. I heard my already sprained ankle crack and I realized it was probably broken.
"Roxeanne! Roxeanne, please! Please, this is me! ITS ME!" I shouted, but she too, didn't recognize me. I drew out my wand, but quickly put it back into my robes.
"Go on..." Lucius tempted me. "Say the spell. It's the only way to win."
"YOU WON'T MAKE ME KILL THEM, YOU LOON!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... alright. Then you'll just have to... die."
"What? STOP! FIX THEM!" I shouted while trying to stay as far away from Roxeanne and Harry.
"Sorry... can't. I seem to have forgotten my wand." He told me. He forgot his wand... he didn't have his wand! I turned to him with a smirk. I pointed my wand straight at him.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" I yelled. At the exact same moment, Harry jumped in front of my wand. "HARRY!" I yelled, watching him fall to the floor. Slowly, the black walls faded.
"Thank you, Krystal... for finishing my job for me." As the entire setting seemed to fade, so did Draco, Bridget and Lucius Malfoy. Everything seemed to rewind back up the stairs, through the blue orb and leaving me, Roxeanne and Harry in the corridor we had started in.