Disclaimer: I absolutely do NOT own Harry Potter or any of its' characters.
I only own Maralinda, Christiana, Helen and Professor Pallas (who I should
probably add in agn...haha)
It's been like.. FOREVER. I'm SO sorry for the delay. I had TOTAL writers block and I had no idea what I was writing. But, on my way home from the tour of A&M, I thought of THIS. =D tell me if you like it or not please! =0)
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Chapter six: Fighting and fainting
"Well, well. I thought you would escape. Master told us all about your friends mage-like powers." Lucius sneered. Seeing Hermione's terrified face, he smirked. Hermione stepped backwards on instinct, colliding with the wall. "You've intruded. That's not good. Now you must suffer the consequences." * Crucio *
Pain overtook her body. She cringed to the floor. All her concentration was making sure the potion was safe. She tried to scream, but realized that took too much energy. She watched as Lucius looked at her with disgust.
Mara watched as Harry tried to fend off all the Death Eaters. "Where do you think my father is?" Draco asked, his hand still in hers.
"How would I know?"
"You're the high-level witch here!" Draco pointed out.
"Blah blah. You do know I have control of your life here, right?" Mara threatened. Draco just stared at her. "If I let go of your hand, the Death Eaters will see your sorry arse and they'll kill you." Draco's face went emotionless. "You're scared." Mara pointed out.
"Am not."
"Yes you are. I feel it. Your heart's pounding against your rib cage. Loudly, I might add. Yes, I can hear that stuff. It's quite aggravating I might add." Mara sent a sideways glare at Draco.
"You know." Draco whispered.
Mara's eyes softened as she nodded. "I know he'd kill you, even though you're his own son. Why Draco? Why would he kill his only heir?"
"Because he doesn't need me. He's still young. He will either make my mother give him another son or kill her and make it look like an 'accident' just like my death. He doesn't need me. I just hold him back from being Voldemort's right hand man. He wouldn't mind me gone..."
"I'm sorry." Mara apologized, "But you do know I wasn't actually going to let go, right?"
"Not sure. You have weird mood swings, no offense. I guess it's a girl thing."
"Yeah. A girl thing..." Mara muttered to herself.
Christiana's eyes fluttered open, revealing Ron hovering over her. "R-Ron?" Christiana stuttered, her voice awfully weak.
"Hey. You're finally up." Ron struggled to put on a smile.
Christiana put on a weak smile, nodding. "Wh-where's Mara?"
"Mara went to help Harry. Draco went with her. Hermione went to go get the antidote for you."
"No. Hermione shouldn't have gone. She's going to get caught..." Christiana muttered, her head felt dizzy. She coughed. She looked at it. Blood.
Mara blinked as she continued to watch the scene. Images flickered in her mind.
"What's going on?" Draco asked, for he saw the images as well.
Mara closed her eyes. She gasped. "Hermione. She's in trouble. You're father..." she was all she managed to say as she watched Lucius torture her friend. She gritted her teeth.
"Let Harry go help her. We can deal with the Death Eaters." Draco said. Mara nodded. Lucius had Harry's wand anyway. He would want it back.
' Harry. Lucius has Hermione. Go help her. She's down the hall to the left. We'll take care of the Death Eaters. ' She saw Harry nod. ' Go! '
Harry fled, running into a couple Death Eaters, but Mara blasted them away. She wasn't scared that somebody would catch them now, being that Lucius had already figured out they had escaped, there was no use in keeping it secret anymore.
Mara released Draco's hand and made them visible, for everyone to see. The Death Eaters were surprised to see them appear like that. One couldn't apparate in or out of Voldemort's lair. Where had they come from?
The Death Eaters approached them both with caution. There were at least twenty of them. "Ready?" Mara asked Draco.
"No."
"Well, it doesn't seem you have a choice."
Draco just grunted in reply.
He ran. He ran down the corridor, turned left and stopped. He skidded to a stop to face Lucius Malfoy. Hermione was against the wall, a pained look on her face. "Hermione!"
"Ah. Potter. Great to see you again." Lucius greeted, malevolence in his tone.
"Malfoy" Harry said in repulsion.
"I see your friend helped you get away from the beating you were supposed to be getting."
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked through gritted teeth.
"Haven't you already asked that? Because I--"
"Want world domination. Get a new act." Harry spat, averting his gaze, now looking toward Hermione. Her eyes were dark, showing that her pain was subsiding.
"You feeling okay?" Ron asked, knowing it was stupid, but was the only thing he knew to say.
"Okay? No. Sick? Very." Christie said, her voice wavering.
"I'm sorry." Ron said, trying to be comforting.
"It's not your fault. I chose to do this. But Hermione still shouldn't have gone. None of them should have. They'll get caught. They're already caught." Christie mumbled before falling back asleep, leaving Ron to tend to her.
He stroked her blonde hair. It was rough, having not been washed in a while. But he didn't mind, his probably wasn't any better. It was probably worse. Her last blur of words confused him. ' What did she mean by they were already caught? Were they okay? ' He worried. His brain started jumbling up worst-case scenarios that had happened. ' Harry's smart he wouldn't let Hermione get caught. Oh, I hope Harry's being smart. '
[ hey. the story is mainly around them...and Christie and Ron, but hey. I like Draco better. =P ]
The Death Eaters had taken out their wands once Draco and Mara advanced on them.
Draco was getting tired of this. "Can't you do anything with your 'higher- level' powers here?!"
"Ugh! FINE!" Mara hurried over towards Draco. "Take my hand." The surrounding Death Eaters were staring, trying to figure out what they were trying to do. But being the stupid gits they were, they didn't try and stop them from continuing their so-called escape.
Draco smirked. "Everything seems to have to do with taking your hand. Are you sure you're just not telling me that so you can hold mine?"
Maralinda glared. "You want to risk it?!"
"Fine. I'm guessing this isn't the time for jokes..."
"NOW REALLY?!"
"Well excuse me!" Draco commented, finally taking her hand. He felt Mara's energy serge through him. Dark clouds formed above them. Mara whirled Draco around, so that her back was pressed up against his front side. Draco lifted an eyebrow. He coughed, wanting to know why she did that. He got his answer.
Lightning zapped wildly all around the room. The ones coming towards Mara and Draco's direction were somehow deflected. One zapped three inches away where Draco had been standing before. He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. The Death Eaters scattered, trying to avoid the lightning bolts showering on them. Draco felt Mara squeeze his hand to get his attention. Her eyes pointed towards a door. Draco nodded. They rushed towards it, dodging most of the lightning bolts. Draco flung it open and they hurried outside as Draco slammed the door shut. He leaned back against the closed door and let out a sigh. "That was way too freaky."
"The Death Eaters wanting to kill us or the lightning?"
"More of the lightning." Draco said, but suddenly realized it was the wrong thing when Mara seized her hand back from his. He had forgotten they had been holding hands, but he felt a pang in his stomach as she removed it. "I didn't mean I'm scared of you."
"But it's hidden in there, Draco. It is. You're scared of everything I can do."
"That's impossible. I don't know everything you can do besides lightning."
"Rain...hail...snow. I can do all of that: everything that deals with weather.
"Floods?" she nodded. "Geez. Alright. I admit I'll be a little freaked. But..."
"There's no but, Draco." Mara interrupted, "after this I might as well say goodbye. I'm going to go help Harry and Hermione. They're in trouble..." She stalked off.
Draco sighed. Why did women have to be so moody all the time? Geesh. Draco trailed after her.
Harry dodged a curse that Lucius sent him. God, when could he just get to Hermione?! He looked over to see Mara approach. Mara winked and silently asked him to distract Lucius for her. Harry threw a curse back at him and prepared himself to dodge whatever Lucius sent his way.
Mara slowly and silently peered around the corner to see Hermione leaning against the wall, trying to get up. Cruciatus curse was obviously what Lucius had used on her. Oh that man made her so mad. He was trying to kill all her friends and poisoned her. Oh, Mara was here for revenge. Mara concentrated hard. Clouds appeared above Lucius. Of course, he couldn't see it, but Harry was drawn to staring at it, which led to Lucius looking up to wonder what was going on. Bad mistake because hail fell right onto his face. He screamed in frustration. While he was distracted, Harry took this as his chance to get to Hermione. He ran over and supported her up. At the same time, Mara used her power over wind to get Harry's wand back from Lucius' robe pocket. "Hurry up!" Mara yelled as she turned to return to the dungeons to heal Christie. She ran right into Draco. "Oof."
"Sorry." Mara raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"You apologized."
"And?" Draco commented, losing his temper. "Are we going or not?" He turned to lead them towards the dungeons.
Why did he make her madder than everybody else? He always knew what to say to get her on her nerves. It was frustrating and confusing. She hurried down the hall.
When they all finally arrived at the dungeons they worked in hyper-mode. Hermione's pain had been reduced and she could move on her own now, but Harry insisted on helping her around. The four of them entered the dungeon cell to find Christie asleep in Ron's lap and Ron was asleep against the wall. Mara smiled at the sight because both seemed to be enjoying the closeness of each other. She hurriedly went over and woke them up; careful to step away when Christie woke up coughing blood. "Christie?"
"M-Mara?" Christiana's eyes fluttered open. "Hey... You're alive!" her voice was weak and hoarse.
Maralinda grinned, "Always am." She held her hand out to Hermione, who place the antidote in Mara's hand. "Drink this, Christie."
Ron helped Christie sit up. Mara screwed the top off the antidote and put it to Christie's lips for her to drink. She drank it slowly. Once she finished, she closed her eyes and leaned against Ron, who turned red at the intimacy. All of a sudden, she started coughing, which caused everybody but Ron to back away. Ron softly hit her back. Soon enough, a dark substance was coughed up. It wasn't blood, like it was when she was poisoned. Right after she coughed it up, her little coughing fit gradually stopped. Maralinda just stared at the liquid. The weird thing was when it started glowing a bright blue. We all just stared at it until it all of a sudden stopped glowing.
Finally Draco spoke up, "What the hell was that?"
"I don't know, but let's get out of here. You okay, Christie?" Mara asked.
"Perfect!" Christie stated.
"Great. Time for the great escape." Mara said. "Do we have a plan?"
There was a five minute silence as they all thought.
"I got nothing." Ron said miserably. A chorus of "me either" 's followed.
"Well, what do we have so far? Anything at least?" Harry said, thinking strategically.
"We know that Christie can teleport us all to Hogwarts if we get out of this lair thing because Voldemort put some kinda of barrier around it, so she can't waste her energy and we got to watch her very meticulously, make sure she doesn't do anything risky or stupid." Mara explained. "So, we just need a plan to get out of here which is the main challenge."
"Hey Mara. You think you can blast everybody out of our way as we run out of here?" Hermione asked using the only strategy coming to mind.
"I can try." Maralinda stated.
"Well, it's our only plan. Let's go. Malfoy, you lead." Harry explained.
"Why is HE leading us? He'll probably lead us into the wrong place, right where You-Know-Who and his father want us to be." Ron glared.
"I'm leading because I'm the only one who knows the way out. If you don't trust me, you're free to try on your own but I promise you, it's very complicated and it's very easy to get lost and if you do, you're either stuck here forever or you get caught and killed/tortured, most likely the latter." Draco said sending a glare that bore through Ron's stubbornness.
"Fine." Ron mumbled.
The six of them crawled through the hole through the bars one by one and started running, Draco in the lead and Mara right behind him. All of sudden, they ran into group of at least fifteen Death Eaters who were standing in three lines. They parted to reveal Voldemort. "You thought you could escape that easily? I'm not finished exploring what these two ladies can achieve." He hissed. Ron and Hermione winced at the sound of his voice. Everybody else stood his or her ground. "Lucius." Draco's father handed the Dark Lord a circular device with two buttons side by side on it. "Let's see how you can stand this." He directed toward Mara and Christie. He pushed button on the left, which was red. A high-pitched tone was played.
Maralinda and Christiana both crumbled to the floor, covering their ears and trying not to scream. "What's going on?" Ron was very confused.
"The sound is doing something to them." Harry explained the obvious.
"Of course it is." Voldemort said. He pushed the other button, which was black. The sound stopped. Mara and Christie were panting on the floor as if they were wiped out of energy. "It weakens them so they can't help you. And it obviously worked. So, now we deal with you four."
It was Harry vs. Voldemort and Ron, Hermione and Draco against the Death Eater, which more had come to defend their Lord. Mara and Christie quickly recovered their energy and stood up to help against the Death Eaters.
' This is impossible ' Mara "told" Christie.
' I know. we'll never defeat them, we don't know Dark Magic,, or their level of it at least, except Draco. ' Christie thought while dodging a curse thrown at her.
' Hold on. Let me talk with Draco, see if he can formulate a plan ' Mara opened a connection to Draco. ' Draco? '
' Maralinda ' Draco thought, sending a curse towards a Death Eater who went unconscious.
' we need a plan. Only you know Dark Magic strong enough to actually faze them, the rest of can only dodge and stupefy. '
' Figure ' he said arrogantly.
' Can you drop the attitude for long enough to get away! This is seriously not the time ' Mara "said" ducking the Cruciatus curse that was aimed at her.
' Why should I? '
' Do you want to freakin' live? '
' I could always turn to their side and capture you and Christiana '
' you and I both know that you would rather die than turn to the Dark side. I can hear your heart beat, it gets faster when you lie. '
Draco winced. He had obviously forgotten she could do that. he would never become a Death Eater. It was, like, assuring your Death to come quicker. ' All right, so I wouldn't, but does this mean I have to work with the Weasel, Scar-face and the Mudblood? '
' In a way '
' Blech. That totally blows '
' It's life '
' Fine. So what's the plan? '
' Actually, Christie and me were hoping you had one. '
' Well I don't. '
' Hey. ' Came Christie's voice. ' Do we have a plan? '
' No. ' Draco stated flatly.
Immediately after, they heard a scream, followed by Ron shouting, "Hermione!" His temper flared. He ran towards the Death Eater that stupefied his best friend, dodging the curses that were being thrown at him and punched him to the ground. The Death Eater never got back up, showing he was unconscious.
Harry had turned to watch Hermione crumble and stood shocked. Voldemort took this time to use the device he used earlier. He pushed the red button again.
"ARGH!" yelled Mara and Christie. They writhed in pain as Harry snapped out of his trance of his girlfriend falling and sent a curse towards Voldemort's direction, which he easily dodged.
Maralinda raked her mind for a plan. She used up half of her strength to concentrate on a way to crush the device the Dark Lord had used. What in her power could she use? That's it!! Mara concentrated her aim and ~FLASH~ the device broke in half, the high-pitched noise ceased. Mara drew in some energy and yelled to her friends, "RUN!"
It took awhile for them to formulate what she meant by that. All of them ran, Harry, Ron, with Hermione in his arms, Christiana and even Draco. However, the Death Eater soon snapped out of their reverie. They surrounded Maralinda, wands pointed at her. She was gasping in breaths from lack of energy. "Very nice, Ms. Clark." Voldemort said as he entered the circle of Death Eaters. "But they seem to have forgotten you." Mara just panted, trying to regain her energy. She couldn't talk with Christie anymore because of the barrier around the lair. "Aren't friends," he said this word with disgust, "supposed to stand by one another?"
Mara didn't answer. Her energy level was rising again, but she continued to pant so they wouldn't put their guard back up. She had a plan. She had only tried this once, and it was very difficult. She had to put her full concentration into it, without looking like she was concentrating very hard. "So, where are they?"
The Dark Lord taunted Mara for what seemed like forever. She focused her mind on her goal. She looked into the eyes of Voldemort and smirked. "Bye." She felt her molecules disconnect into a million pieces as she flew through the lair as a breeze. [ If you've ever read the Daughters of the Moon series.. like Vanessa does it. =D ]
It felt like they waited forever for Maralinda to come out. They tried to keep themselves occupied. After they had gotten outside, they ran to the edge of the forest. Ron set Hermione on the ground, letting Harry watch over her and Ron was helping him. Christie kept her guard up, using her telepathy to see if Voldemort sent any Death Eaters after them. Draco, however, was leaning against a tree farther away from the Dream Team and Christiana. Looking at the ground, he was having an inner battle within his mind until Christie interrupted him. "She's going to be fine."
Draco snapped his head up. "Excuse me?"
"Maralinda. She's going to come out here all right."
"How do you know that's what I'm thinking about?" Draco narrowed his eyes. Christie's face was blank, but she tapped her head as if pointing to his mind. "Oh. Right." Draco sighed. "It's just --" Christiana's hand cut him off.
"MARA!" Christie yelled, running towards...well, nothing or at least Draco didn't see anything, but he ran after Christie anyways. Ron looked at Harry who, in turn, lifted his eyebrows in question. Christie stopped running and stared at an open area. Harry shrugged his shoulders and both he and Ron tried finding whatever she was looking at/for. Draco stopped right next to Christie and did the same as the others.
Soon enough, they felt a breeze circle around them and die away. They watched as Mara reassembled her molecules. Well, they just saw her...appear out of nowhere. But right when she did appear, she fainted. Draco, being one of the closest and quickest, caught her before she fell to the ground. "Hey." she weakly said with a slight smile.
"You made it." Draco said in a light voice. [ I realize this is soooo OOC but I'm SORRY ]
"Of course," was the last thing Mara said before she went unconscious.
"Now what?" Harry asked Christiana.
"Now I teleport us back to Hogwarts." She said with a hardened look on her face. "I've never teleported more than one other person before, but I'll try. Give me your hands." All three boys put their hands on top of Christie's. "Harry just hold onto Hermione and Draco hold Mara. Do NOT drop them" Christie concentrated exceptionally hard, she couldn't mess this up. She pictured the Great Hall in her mind and the six of them returning safely.
Draco felt his head spinning. It was like traveling with a portkey except without the extra tug. He closed his eyes, making sure he didn't drop Mara.
The spinning stopped. Christiana slowly opened her eyes and noticed they were in the Great Hall with everybody staring at them in confusion and awe. She had done it. They were safe. With her energy drained, she, too, fainted...
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Whoa. FINALLY. I finished! Just the epilogue left! =D then I'm DONE. The FIRST FIC I EVER FINISHED!!! Haha. Angela w0ot. Ahahahah.
It's been like.. FOREVER. I'm SO sorry for the delay. I had TOTAL writers block and I had no idea what I was writing. But, on my way home from the tour of A&M, I thought of THIS. =D tell me if you like it or not please! =0)
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Chapter six: Fighting and fainting
"Well, well. I thought you would escape. Master told us all about your friends mage-like powers." Lucius sneered. Seeing Hermione's terrified face, he smirked. Hermione stepped backwards on instinct, colliding with the wall. "You've intruded. That's not good. Now you must suffer the consequences." * Crucio *
Pain overtook her body. She cringed to the floor. All her concentration was making sure the potion was safe. She tried to scream, but realized that took too much energy. She watched as Lucius looked at her with disgust.
Mara watched as Harry tried to fend off all the Death Eaters. "Where do you think my father is?" Draco asked, his hand still in hers.
"How would I know?"
"You're the high-level witch here!" Draco pointed out.
"Blah blah. You do know I have control of your life here, right?" Mara threatened. Draco just stared at her. "If I let go of your hand, the Death Eaters will see your sorry arse and they'll kill you." Draco's face went emotionless. "You're scared." Mara pointed out.
"Am not."
"Yes you are. I feel it. Your heart's pounding against your rib cage. Loudly, I might add. Yes, I can hear that stuff. It's quite aggravating I might add." Mara sent a sideways glare at Draco.
"You know." Draco whispered.
Mara's eyes softened as she nodded. "I know he'd kill you, even though you're his own son. Why Draco? Why would he kill his only heir?"
"Because he doesn't need me. He's still young. He will either make my mother give him another son or kill her and make it look like an 'accident' just like my death. He doesn't need me. I just hold him back from being Voldemort's right hand man. He wouldn't mind me gone..."
"I'm sorry." Mara apologized, "But you do know I wasn't actually going to let go, right?"
"Not sure. You have weird mood swings, no offense. I guess it's a girl thing."
"Yeah. A girl thing..." Mara muttered to herself.
Christiana's eyes fluttered open, revealing Ron hovering over her. "R-Ron?" Christiana stuttered, her voice awfully weak.
"Hey. You're finally up." Ron struggled to put on a smile.
Christiana put on a weak smile, nodding. "Wh-where's Mara?"
"Mara went to help Harry. Draco went with her. Hermione went to go get the antidote for you."
"No. Hermione shouldn't have gone. She's going to get caught..." Christiana muttered, her head felt dizzy. She coughed. She looked at it. Blood.
Mara blinked as she continued to watch the scene. Images flickered in her mind.
"What's going on?" Draco asked, for he saw the images as well.
Mara closed her eyes. She gasped. "Hermione. She's in trouble. You're father..." she was all she managed to say as she watched Lucius torture her friend. She gritted her teeth.
"Let Harry go help her. We can deal with the Death Eaters." Draco said. Mara nodded. Lucius had Harry's wand anyway. He would want it back.
' Harry. Lucius has Hermione. Go help her. She's down the hall to the left. We'll take care of the Death Eaters. ' She saw Harry nod. ' Go! '
Harry fled, running into a couple Death Eaters, but Mara blasted them away. She wasn't scared that somebody would catch them now, being that Lucius had already figured out they had escaped, there was no use in keeping it secret anymore.
Mara released Draco's hand and made them visible, for everyone to see. The Death Eaters were surprised to see them appear like that. One couldn't apparate in or out of Voldemort's lair. Where had they come from?
The Death Eaters approached them both with caution. There were at least twenty of them. "Ready?" Mara asked Draco.
"No."
"Well, it doesn't seem you have a choice."
Draco just grunted in reply.
He ran. He ran down the corridor, turned left and stopped. He skidded to a stop to face Lucius Malfoy. Hermione was against the wall, a pained look on her face. "Hermione!"
"Ah. Potter. Great to see you again." Lucius greeted, malevolence in his tone.
"Malfoy" Harry said in repulsion.
"I see your friend helped you get away from the beating you were supposed to be getting."
"What do you want, Malfoy?" Harry asked through gritted teeth.
"Haven't you already asked that? Because I--"
"Want world domination. Get a new act." Harry spat, averting his gaze, now looking toward Hermione. Her eyes were dark, showing that her pain was subsiding.
"You feeling okay?" Ron asked, knowing it was stupid, but was the only thing he knew to say.
"Okay? No. Sick? Very." Christie said, her voice wavering.
"I'm sorry." Ron said, trying to be comforting.
"It's not your fault. I chose to do this. But Hermione still shouldn't have gone. None of them should have. They'll get caught. They're already caught." Christie mumbled before falling back asleep, leaving Ron to tend to her.
He stroked her blonde hair. It was rough, having not been washed in a while. But he didn't mind, his probably wasn't any better. It was probably worse. Her last blur of words confused him. ' What did she mean by they were already caught? Were they okay? ' He worried. His brain started jumbling up worst-case scenarios that had happened. ' Harry's smart he wouldn't let Hermione get caught. Oh, I hope Harry's being smart. '
[ hey. the story is mainly around them...and Christie and Ron, but hey. I like Draco better. =P ]
The Death Eaters had taken out their wands once Draco and Mara advanced on them.
Draco was getting tired of this. "Can't you do anything with your 'higher- level' powers here?!"
"Ugh! FINE!" Mara hurried over towards Draco. "Take my hand." The surrounding Death Eaters were staring, trying to figure out what they were trying to do. But being the stupid gits they were, they didn't try and stop them from continuing their so-called escape.
Draco smirked. "Everything seems to have to do with taking your hand. Are you sure you're just not telling me that so you can hold mine?"
Maralinda glared. "You want to risk it?!"
"Fine. I'm guessing this isn't the time for jokes..."
"NOW REALLY?!"
"Well excuse me!" Draco commented, finally taking her hand. He felt Mara's energy serge through him. Dark clouds formed above them. Mara whirled Draco around, so that her back was pressed up against his front side. Draco lifted an eyebrow. He coughed, wanting to know why she did that. He got his answer.
Lightning zapped wildly all around the room. The ones coming towards Mara and Draco's direction were somehow deflected. One zapped three inches away where Draco had been standing before. He felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. The Death Eaters scattered, trying to avoid the lightning bolts showering on them. Draco felt Mara squeeze his hand to get his attention. Her eyes pointed towards a door. Draco nodded. They rushed towards it, dodging most of the lightning bolts. Draco flung it open and they hurried outside as Draco slammed the door shut. He leaned back against the closed door and let out a sigh. "That was way too freaky."
"The Death Eaters wanting to kill us or the lightning?"
"More of the lightning." Draco said, but suddenly realized it was the wrong thing when Mara seized her hand back from his. He had forgotten they had been holding hands, but he felt a pang in his stomach as she removed it. "I didn't mean I'm scared of you."
"But it's hidden in there, Draco. It is. You're scared of everything I can do."
"That's impossible. I don't know everything you can do besides lightning."
"Rain...hail...snow. I can do all of that: everything that deals with weather.
"Floods?" she nodded. "Geez. Alright. I admit I'll be a little freaked. But..."
"There's no but, Draco." Mara interrupted, "after this I might as well say goodbye. I'm going to go help Harry and Hermione. They're in trouble..." She stalked off.
Draco sighed. Why did women have to be so moody all the time? Geesh. Draco trailed after her.
Harry dodged a curse that Lucius sent him. God, when could he just get to Hermione?! He looked over to see Mara approach. Mara winked and silently asked him to distract Lucius for her. Harry threw a curse back at him and prepared himself to dodge whatever Lucius sent his way.
Mara slowly and silently peered around the corner to see Hermione leaning against the wall, trying to get up. Cruciatus curse was obviously what Lucius had used on her. Oh that man made her so mad. He was trying to kill all her friends and poisoned her. Oh, Mara was here for revenge. Mara concentrated hard. Clouds appeared above Lucius. Of course, he couldn't see it, but Harry was drawn to staring at it, which led to Lucius looking up to wonder what was going on. Bad mistake because hail fell right onto his face. He screamed in frustration. While he was distracted, Harry took this as his chance to get to Hermione. He ran over and supported her up. At the same time, Mara used her power over wind to get Harry's wand back from Lucius' robe pocket. "Hurry up!" Mara yelled as she turned to return to the dungeons to heal Christie. She ran right into Draco. "Oof."
"Sorry." Mara raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"You apologized."
"And?" Draco commented, losing his temper. "Are we going or not?" He turned to lead them towards the dungeons.
Why did he make her madder than everybody else? He always knew what to say to get her on her nerves. It was frustrating and confusing. She hurried down the hall.
When they all finally arrived at the dungeons they worked in hyper-mode. Hermione's pain had been reduced and she could move on her own now, but Harry insisted on helping her around. The four of them entered the dungeon cell to find Christie asleep in Ron's lap and Ron was asleep against the wall. Mara smiled at the sight because both seemed to be enjoying the closeness of each other. She hurriedly went over and woke them up; careful to step away when Christie woke up coughing blood. "Christie?"
"M-Mara?" Christiana's eyes fluttered open. "Hey... You're alive!" her voice was weak and hoarse.
Maralinda grinned, "Always am." She held her hand out to Hermione, who place the antidote in Mara's hand. "Drink this, Christie."
Ron helped Christie sit up. Mara screwed the top off the antidote and put it to Christie's lips for her to drink. She drank it slowly. Once she finished, she closed her eyes and leaned against Ron, who turned red at the intimacy. All of a sudden, she started coughing, which caused everybody but Ron to back away. Ron softly hit her back. Soon enough, a dark substance was coughed up. It wasn't blood, like it was when she was poisoned. Right after she coughed it up, her little coughing fit gradually stopped. Maralinda just stared at the liquid. The weird thing was when it started glowing a bright blue. We all just stared at it until it all of a sudden stopped glowing.
Finally Draco spoke up, "What the hell was that?"
"I don't know, but let's get out of here. You okay, Christie?" Mara asked.
"Perfect!" Christie stated.
"Great. Time for the great escape." Mara said. "Do we have a plan?"
There was a five minute silence as they all thought.
"I got nothing." Ron said miserably. A chorus of "me either" 's followed.
"Well, what do we have so far? Anything at least?" Harry said, thinking strategically.
"We know that Christie can teleport us all to Hogwarts if we get out of this lair thing because Voldemort put some kinda of barrier around it, so she can't waste her energy and we got to watch her very meticulously, make sure she doesn't do anything risky or stupid." Mara explained. "So, we just need a plan to get out of here which is the main challenge."
"Hey Mara. You think you can blast everybody out of our way as we run out of here?" Hermione asked using the only strategy coming to mind.
"I can try." Maralinda stated.
"Well, it's our only plan. Let's go. Malfoy, you lead." Harry explained.
"Why is HE leading us? He'll probably lead us into the wrong place, right where You-Know-Who and his father want us to be." Ron glared.
"I'm leading because I'm the only one who knows the way out. If you don't trust me, you're free to try on your own but I promise you, it's very complicated and it's very easy to get lost and if you do, you're either stuck here forever or you get caught and killed/tortured, most likely the latter." Draco said sending a glare that bore through Ron's stubbornness.
"Fine." Ron mumbled.
The six of them crawled through the hole through the bars one by one and started running, Draco in the lead and Mara right behind him. All of sudden, they ran into group of at least fifteen Death Eaters who were standing in three lines. They parted to reveal Voldemort. "You thought you could escape that easily? I'm not finished exploring what these two ladies can achieve." He hissed. Ron and Hermione winced at the sound of his voice. Everybody else stood his or her ground. "Lucius." Draco's father handed the Dark Lord a circular device with two buttons side by side on it. "Let's see how you can stand this." He directed toward Mara and Christie. He pushed button on the left, which was red. A high-pitched tone was played.
Maralinda and Christiana both crumbled to the floor, covering their ears and trying not to scream. "What's going on?" Ron was very confused.
"The sound is doing something to them." Harry explained the obvious.
"Of course it is." Voldemort said. He pushed the other button, which was black. The sound stopped. Mara and Christie were panting on the floor as if they were wiped out of energy. "It weakens them so they can't help you. And it obviously worked. So, now we deal with you four."
It was Harry vs. Voldemort and Ron, Hermione and Draco against the Death Eater, which more had come to defend their Lord. Mara and Christie quickly recovered their energy and stood up to help against the Death Eaters.
' This is impossible ' Mara "told" Christie.
' I know. we'll never defeat them, we don't know Dark Magic,, or their level of it at least, except Draco. ' Christie thought while dodging a curse thrown at her.
' Hold on. Let me talk with Draco, see if he can formulate a plan ' Mara opened a connection to Draco. ' Draco? '
' Maralinda ' Draco thought, sending a curse towards a Death Eater who went unconscious.
' we need a plan. Only you know Dark Magic strong enough to actually faze them, the rest of can only dodge and stupefy. '
' Figure ' he said arrogantly.
' Can you drop the attitude for long enough to get away! This is seriously not the time ' Mara "said" ducking the Cruciatus curse that was aimed at her.
' Why should I? '
' Do you want to freakin' live? '
' I could always turn to their side and capture you and Christiana '
' you and I both know that you would rather die than turn to the Dark side. I can hear your heart beat, it gets faster when you lie. '
Draco winced. He had obviously forgotten she could do that. he would never become a Death Eater. It was, like, assuring your Death to come quicker. ' All right, so I wouldn't, but does this mean I have to work with the Weasel, Scar-face and the Mudblood? '
' In a way '
' Blech. That totally blows '
' It's life '
' Fine. So what's the plan? '
' Actually, Christie and me were hoping you had one. '
' Well I don't. '
' Hey. ' Came Christie's voice. ' Do we have a plan? '
' No. ' Draco stated flatly.
Immediately after, they heard a scream, followed by Ron shouting, "Hermione!" His temper flared. He ran towards the Death Eater that stupefied his best friend, dodging the curses that were being thrown at him and punched him to the ground. The Death Eater never got back up, showing he was unconscious.
Harry had turned to watch Hermione crumble and stood shocked. Voldemort took this time to use the device he used earlier. He pushed the red button again.
"ARGH!" yelled Mara and Christie. They writhed in pain as Harry snapped out of his trance of his girlfriend falling and sent a curse towards Voldemort's direction, which he easily dodged.
Maralinda raked her mind for a plan. She used up half of her strength to concentrate on a way to crush the device the Dark Lord had used. What in her power could she use? That's it!! Mara concentrated her aim and ~FLASH~ the device broke in half, the high-pitched noise ceased. Mara drew in some energy and yelled to her friends, "RUN!"
It took awhile for them to formulate what she meant by that. All of them ran, Harry, Ron, with Hermione in his arms, Christiana and even Draco. However, the Death Eater soon snapped out of their reverie. They surrounded Maralinda, wands pointed at her. She was gasping in breaths from lack of energy. "Very nice, Ms. Clark." Voldemort said as he entered the circle of Death Eaters. "But they seem to have forgotten you." Mara just panted, trying to regain her energy. She couldn't talk with Christie anymore because of the barrier around the lair. "Aren't friends," he said this word with disgust, "supposed to stand by one another?"
Mara didn't answer. Her energy level was rising again, but she continued to pant so they wouldn't put their guard back up. She had a plan. She had only tried this once, and it was very difficult. She had to put her full concentration into it, without looking like she was concentrating very hard. "So, where are they?"
The Dark Lord taunted Mara for what seemed like forever. She focused her mind on her goal. She looked into the eyes of Voldemort and smirked. "Bye." She felt her molecules disconnect into a million pieces as she flew through the lair as a breeze. [ If you've ever read the Daughters of the Moon series.. like Vanessa does it. =D ]
It felt like they waited forever for Maralinda to come out. They tried to keep themselves occupied. After they had gotten outside, they ran to the edge of the forest. Ron set Hermione on the ground, letting Harry watch over her and Ron was helping him. Christie kept her guard up, using her telepathy to see if Voldemort sent any Death Eaters after them. Draco, however, was leaning against a tree farther away from the Dream Team and Christiana. Looking at the ground, he was having an inner battle within his mind until Christie interrupted him. "She's going to be fine."
Draco snapped his head up. "Excuse me?"
"Maralinda. She's going to come out here all right."
"How do you know that's what I'm thinking about?" Draco narrowed his eyes. Christie's face was blank, but she tapped her head as if pointing to his mind. "Oh. Right." Draco sighed. "It's just --" Christiana's hand cut him off.
"MARA!" Christie yelled, running towards...well, nothing or at least Draco didn't see anything, but he ran after Christie anyways. Ron looked at Harry who, in turn, lifted his eyebrows in question. Christie stopped running and stared at an open area. Harry shrugged his shoulders and both he and Ron tried finding whatever she was looking at/for. Draco stopped right next to Christie and did the same as the others.
Soon enough, they felt a breeze circle around them and die away. They watched as Mara reassembled her molecules. Well, they just saw her...appear out of nowhere. But right when she did appear, she fainted. Draco, being one of the closest and quickest, caught her before she fell to the ground. "Hey." she weakly said with a slight smile.
"You made it." Draco said in a light voice. [ I realize this is soooo OOC but I'm SORRY ]
"Of course," was the last thing Mara said before she went unconscious.
"Now what?" Harry asked Christiana.
"Now I teleport us back to Hogwarts." She said with a hardened look on her face. "I've never teleported more than one other person before, but I'll try. Give me your hands." All three boys put their hands on top of Christie's. "Harry just hold onto Hermione and Draco hold Mara. Do NOT drop them" Christie concentrated exceptionally hard, she couldn't mess this up. She pictured the Great Hall in her mind and the six of them returning safely.
Draco felt his head spinning. It was like traveling with a portkey except without the extra tug. He closed his eyes, making sure he didn't drop Mara.
The spinning stopped. Christiana slowly opened her eyes and noticed they were in the Great Hall with everybody staring at them in confusion and awe. She had done it. They were safe. With her energy drained, she, too, fainted...
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Whoa. FINALLY. I finished! Just the epilogue left! =D then I'm DONE. The FIRST FIC I EVER FINISHED!!! Haha. Angela w0ot. Ahahahah.
