Title: Jake's Strange Dream
Chapter: Three
Author: Alara-Sirinial-Amalon
Rating: G
Spoilers: Well, if you really haven't heard of Harry Potter or Animorphs, then you might not get some of it…
Disclaimer: I am not KAA or JKR and do not own neither Animorphs nor Harry Potter. It would be nice if I did. Rachel wouldn't have died, and neither would Sirius (well, I guess that's the only spoiler from OotP)
A/N: Due to the crazy amount of reviews I've received lately, telling me to get this fic dusted off and running again, I've decided to put a quick hold on my original series and work on this. Let's see, this chappie is written after a lot of candy from the Link Crew thingy today. I'm required to have lots of sugar now, you know. I get headaches w/out it. So it's a great excuse to break out the Mountain Dew and all the candy I can find. Well, enjoy chappie three!
I woke up in the hospital wing. Standing over me was a little old man. A blue old man. He definitely wasn't human.
But I knew him.
"Ellimist."
"Yes, it is I."
"Are you supposed to represent a house-elf?"
"What is Jake Berenson talking about? Ellimist is a house-elf."
I rolled my eyes. "Oookay."
"Jake Berenson must not stay at Hogwarts," he said, looking around. "Ellimist thought his bludger would—"
"Your bludger? But my arm's not broken."
He looked confused. "Ellimist does not understand."
"Never mind."
"Something dangerous is happening at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Jake Berenson must not stay here."
"Might it have to do with the evils lurking within the chamber of secrets?" Might as well play along…
He looked confused again. "No." Then he gasped. "Somebody's coming." He disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Look, Professor Tom, there's been another attack," a familiar voice said, slowly coming into the room. It was Cassie. She was half-dragging somebody.
"How?" Tom asked. I stifled a laugh. I still could not get over that hair.
"The—" Cassie lowered her voice to a whisper. "The giant chessboard."
This wasn't right. People were supposed to be getting petrified, not being hurt by the giant chessboard. This was very confusing. A sharp pain seared my forehead. I cringed and put my hand up to feel a scar.
A scar? But I don't have…oh. Right. I'm supposed to be Harry Potter, and Harry has a scar.
The pain was horrible. I shut my eyes and tried to ease the pain, but it was no use. The pain…
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Horrible memories came rushing back…
Elfangor's death…
Tobias becoming a nothlit…
All of those deaths…Yeerk. Human. Taxxon. Hork-Bajir.
What was causing all of this? But that's when I saw them.
Tiny hooded figures, all coming towards me. As they advanced, the pain became worse. Dementors? I think not. These weren't takers of the soul; these were takers of the body, conquerors of the mind.
These were Yeerks.
It would have been funny, had I not been in such intense pain. Everything was growing dark suddenly, and I remembered what had happened to Harry. He'd passed out. I couldn't let that happen; I'd be made a Controller if they reached me.
What spell did Harry use to get rid of them? I asked myself. Expect…expecto…yes, expecto…patron…wasn't it called a patronus? Expecto patronus? No, it wasn't 'patronus' in the spell…patronum! Expecto patronum!
I grabbed the wand inside my robes. Let's hope this works, I thought to myself.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM! EXPECTO PATRONUM!" I cried, remembering to think happy thoughts. Happy thoughts. What thoughts were happy?
Flying high above the clouds… "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
Winning a battle… "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
A world without Yeerks… "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
Cassie… "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
The little hooded slugs backed away as a silvery mist in the shape of a tiger burst from the end of the wand, and the darkness receded.
Though I was tired from the event, I still had to laugh.
Why weren't the Yeerks that easy to beat in the real world?
A/N: Well, sorry for the shortness, but that's all that I'd ever had planned for this chappie. Thanks for the reviews, and I'll be working on more as soon as I can get a break from the original one. I promised myself that the orig. series would be done by 8/1 so I could go back to fanfics, but it hasn't worked out well. I PROMISE that as soon as I finish it, I'll be back to fanfics full-time. Well, part-time, at least. I've got myself down for…three, possibly four more original fics, but those are supposed to be finished by January, so I think I'll have time for fanfics. Well, reviews always help speed up the process. The more reviews I get on this, the quicker I'll finish all the orig. ones. The more reviews I get on the orig. ones, the quicker I'll finish them and get cracking on this. I've got another strange ani-fic in progress at the moment, and I won't be posting that for a while. Please review! Later!