Sorry for the late chappie, guys... I forgot that I had a ski trip...*sniff* but...ow...my head...x_x You wouldn't believe what happened on Saturday!!!
Ok, me and my best friend (Erin, aka Boogiepop on ff.net) were speed skiing down one of the blue squares, right? So I'm trying to get past this one guy, and he stops right infront of me, sending me off to the side and onto the icy tracks of a snowmobile. I don't remember what happened between then and when I sat up, but according to Erin, I was rolling down the hill head over heels, although I remember sliding a couple feet (I'd say about 2 meters for all you who use the metric system) on my face. If you wanna know how it felt, just imagine you sliding down hill with your face in jagid ice. But anyway, I sat up, heard Erin screaming her head off (apparently at the speed I was going I should have hit the pole that holds up the chairlifts but I miraculessly stopped two feet infront of it, so says Erin) while I tried to check my numb face for blood. Erin stopped infront of me and just stared at me, screaming if I was alright. I looked up at her and asked her if I was bleeding and she, with a look of what I thought was horror on her face, but later realized it was a look of amazement, she said, "Only your lip!" So I just sat there as she went back up and retreived my poles, not knowing whether I was crying or laughing.
Apperently some ski patrollers were coming up the lift as I fell, and asked me if I was alright (they saw everything happen). It took me a few minutes to talk and I just said, "I think so, yeah." We got back to the lodge and radioed my parents and brother and we went home. (It was already 6:00 at least) That night my mom kept coming in and waking me up to make sure I hadn't fallen into a coma. The next morning I woke up, my shoulders and neck so stiff they hurt like hell, my nose was swollen and hurt everytime I touched it and my head still hurts. Of course this was only two days ago, so... ^^;;; but I have to go to the doctors tomorrow anyway. Yesterday in the van as we were driving back home I said my brain felt all rattled, Erin said "Poor Stephie-chan" and my dad said "You do realize what you'd need for your brain to get rattled dont you?" -_-;;;
Fang of an Immortal
Chapter Three
Green-Eyed Basilisk
Sakura's eyes fluttered open to a bright gold light. She blinked against the sun's blaze and looked around. She had never seen it this bright before in her room. Looking over at the clock she saw that it was well past noon. 4:00.
"Why didn't someone wake me up???" Sakura moaned, trying to get up, but didn't succeed.
"They tried." said a voice.
Sakura, still to sleepy to freak out, looked up to see the Sorting Hat resting on a stool near the foot of her bed.
"Why...are you here?" Sakura asked grogily.
"I wanted to be the first to see you when you were awake."
"So...They just decided to let me...sleep in? Will someone bring me the work I missed today?"
"They'll bring you the work from the previous days you were asleep too."
"What?!?! How long have I been asleep?!?!?!"
"For three days."
"WHA-?!?!"
"People have been checking on you in two hour intervals."
"Checking on me...?"
Sakura looked around her room at the various...feminen items in her room and blushed.
"People like Madam Pomfrey and Proffesor Sprout."
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief, then shook her head. She was afraid she would fall back to sleep.
"Show me."
"Huh?" Sakura looked up at the hat.
"Show me. Transform."
"Um...ok..."
Sakura closed her eyes, ready to begin the transformation again, but the hat cut in again.
"Change into a cat."
Sakura looked up.
"But last night I changed into an owl. I dont know how to..."
"Change into a cat."
Sakura, not being able to argue, nodded and started.
It took her an hour, but she did it.
Sakura looked up with a wondering look in her cat eyes.
"It took you an hour, but you did well."
"A WHOLE HOUR?!?!?!" Sakura shrieked.
"Keep it down, and quickly, change back before someone comes in!"
Sakura did as she was told, and this time it only took half the time to change back.
"You'll feel really sleepy after you change untill you get the hang of it." The Hat said as Sakura stumbled to her bed.
She collapsed and fell once again into a deep sleep.
~~~
The next day Sakura struggled to stay awake. Each class she would nod of at least three times (except for transfiguration, which she found absolutly fascinating).
Today they were transforming shoelaces into as many different kinds of snakes as possible. It was sort of a contest; which ever pair of students could change the pieces of string into the most speices of snakes got extra credit, and ten points a house for each speices. (This was one of the hardest things to do, many pairs only ended up with one spieces)
No one was surrprised when Hermione got to two different kinds of snakes in only twenty minutes...but then again, Sakura and Tomoyo where doing even better.
Kids tried to take a look at how they were doing it. Sakura just muttered spell after spell and had a new snake every minute (she played with them alittle before changing them again.) Tomoyo yelled out each snake's name.
"Fer-de-lance, common coral snake, wied's coral snake, Indigo snake, corn snake... " The list just went on and on.
Neville over heared one of Sakura's spells for a horned asp, and tried it on the Indian cobra he and his partner had infront of him (which he was quite terrified of). As usual, something in his spell went wrong and the cobra grew a foot longer and reared up, spreading his hood and hissing at Neville.
The cobra's fangs extended till it showed it had three inches of fang.
That's when it happened.
"Harry, talk to it!" Hermione shrieked.
Parsel Tongue could be heard now throughout the room as the snake closed its mouth and put its hood down.
"Wow Harry! That was fast!!!"
Harry shook his head.
"That wasn't me." he said.
Everyone looked at him. The parsel tongue continued but Harry was just gaping.
"Oh my God..." Hermione said and lifted a finger to point.
They all looked--at Sakura.
Sakura's mouth was moving, but all that came out was hissing. Her eyes were no longer the light joyful green, they were now dark, almost black, and she didn't seem to notice anything around her as she approached the snake, stroking it and talking to it.
"What's she saying?" Ron asked Harry. Harry didn't move. He heard what she was saying.
Oh, you beautiful thing, you. That boy did a wonderful job on you. Yes...you are so sweet...
Syaoran also stared at Sakura. The Sakura that was in a trance. This wasn't his Sakura.
It was a good thing everyone was too busy staring at Sakura. The didn't see his chin tremble.
~~~
"Here we go!"
Hagrid set down a huge crate and leaned on it.
"I thought this would catch yer's attention." He opened it, and out slithered an...odd looking baby snake.
Hermione and Harry jumped back.
"IT'S A BASILISK!!!" They both yelled at once. Everyone else in the class shifted nervously.
"But this one's a runt! You can look him in the eye, and nothin'll happen!"
Sakura raised her hand. Hagrid nodded in her direction.
Sakura lowered her hand and studied the basilisk and then spoke up.
"It's a green-eyed basilisk."
"Well of course, it has green eyes."
Sakura shook her head.
"No, that's a spieces. I can't kill people by looking them in the eye."
"How do you know this when I don't?"
Sakura blushed.
"One lives...under Tokyo. I talked to it."
Hagrid nodded.
"I heard about yer being a parsel..." he trailed off.
"Instead," Sakura continued, "They turn humans into stone, only if they want. And...they eat stone, too."
"Is that so?" Hagrid, so interested in learing about another creature, he completely forgot about the class.
~~~
Sakura nodded.
"They turn humans to stone, immortals to silver, and gods into gold."
"Is there any way to get them back to normal?" Hagrid asked.
Sakura shook her head. "The only way is if the basilisk that did that to you were slain, although three immortals can break the spell. Another basilisk (for obvious reasons), a unicorn (it's magical blood), and phoenix's (their tears.)"
Malfoy watched Sakura as she spoke. She was so beautiful...soft full lips, a mysterious air, and a perfect body...
Hey, he was a teenage boy. He was alowed to think those thoughts, right?
But even so, it made him mad to see her become the center of attention yet again.
He grinned and leaned over to Crabbe an Goyle.
"Whatch this!" He took out his wand and muttered semething.
Immediatly the basilisk reared up and hissed at Sakura who had been stroking its head.
Sakura stepped back, but it was too late.
A spark grew in the basilisks eye and Sakura glowed in a brilliant white light. Her image became hard as the light engulfed her. It grew brighter and brighter till no one could look anymore.
But when they looked, they didn't find what they thought they would find. They didn't see a stone Sakura.
Infront of the basilisk was a statue of Sakura.
Made entirely out of silver.
Hey, once again you guys simply amaze me. I'd like to take this time to give a special thanks to the following: crystal-kitty2003, kawaiitenshisakura, sweetlilacblossom, li wei, The Black Angels, THE-CANADIAN-GAKI, Emma, :D, Monique, Suki, SwitSakura, and jen.
...
JEEZE! LISTEN TO ME! I SOND LIKE SOME FREAKIN' AWARDS-WINNING MOVIE ACTRESS! GAH! *bangs head on the wall, then gets dizzy and falls over*
-$tephanie Lynn F. aka $harky-
Ok, me and my best friend (Erin, aka Boogiepop on ff.net) were speed skiing down one of the blue squares, right? So I'm trying to get past this one guy, and he stops right infront of me, sending me off to the side and onto the icy tracks of a snowmobile. I don't remember what happened between then and when I sat up, but according to Erin, I was rolling down the hill head over heels, although I remember sliding a couple feet (I'd say about 2 meters for all you who use the metric system) on my face. If you wanna know how it felt, just imagine you sliding down hill with your face in jagid ice. But anyway, I sat up, heard Erin screaming her head off (apparently at the speed I was going I should have hit the pole that holds up the chairlifts but I miraculessly stopped two feet infront of it, so says Erin) while I tried to check my numb face for blood. Erin stopped infront of me and just stared at me, screaming if I was alright. I looked up at her and asked her if I was bleeding and she, with a look of what I thought was horror on her face, but later realized it was a look of amazement, she said, "Only your lip!" So I just sat there as she went back up and retreived my poles, not knowing whether I was crying or laughing.
Apperently some ski patrollers were coming up the lift as I fell, and asked me if I was alright (they saw everything happen). It took me a few minutes to talk and I just said, "I think so, yeah." We got back to the lodge and radioed my parents and brother and we went home. (It was already 6:00 at least) That night my mom kept coming in and waking me up to make sure I hadn't fallen into a coma. The next morning I woke up, my shoulders and neck so stiff they hurt like hell, my nose was swollen and hurt everytime I touched it and my head still hurts. Of course this was only two days ago, so... ^^;;; but I have to go to the doctors tomorrow anyway. Yesterday in the van as we were driving back home I said my brain felt all rattled, Erin said "Poor Stephie-chan" and my dad said "You do realize what you'd need for your brain to get rattled dont you?" -_-;;;
Fang of an Immortal
Chapter Three
Green-Eyed Basilisk
Sakura's eyes fluttered open to a bright gold light. She blinked against the sun's blaze and looked around. She had never seen it this bright before in her room. Looking over at the clock she saw that it was well past noon. 4:00.
"Why didn't someone wake me up???" Sakura moaned, trying to get up, but didn't succeed.
"They tried." said a voice.
Sakura, still to sleepy to freak out, looked up to see the Sorting Hat resting on a stool near the foot of her bed.
"Why...are you here?" Sakura asked grogily.
"I wanted to be the first to see you when you were awake."
"So...They just decided to let me...sleep in? Will someone bring me the work I missed today?"
"They'll bring you the work from the previous days you were asleep too."
"What?!?! How long have I been asleep?!?!?!"
"For three days."
"WHA-?!?!"
"People have been checking on you in two hour intervals."
"Checking on me...?"
Sakura looked around her room at the various...feminen items in her room and blushed.
"People like Madam Pomfrey and Proffesor Sprout."
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief, then shook her head. She was afraid she would fall back to sleep.
"Show me."
"Huh?" Sakura looked up at the hat.
"Show me. Transform."
"Um...ok..."
Sakura closed her eyes, ready to begin the transformation again, but the hat cut in again.
"Change into a cat."
Sakura looked up.
"But last night I changed into an owl. I dont know how to..."
"Change into a cat."
Sakura, not being able to argue, nodded and started.
It took her an hour, but she did it.
Sakura looked up with a wondering look in her cat eyes.
"It took you an hour, but you did well."
"A WHOLE HOUR?!?!?!" Sakura shrieked.
"Keep it down, and quickly, change back before someone comes in!"
Sakura did as she was told, and this time it only took half the time to change back.
"You'll feel really sleepy after you change untill you get the hang of it." The Hat said as Sakura stumbled to her bed.
She collapsed and fell once again into a deep sleep.
~~~
The next day Sakura struggled to stay awake. Each class she would nod of at least three times (except for transfiguration, which she found absolutly fascinating).
Today they were transforming shoelaces into as many different kinds of snakes as possible. It was sort of a contest; which ever pair of students could change the pieces of string into the most speices of snakes got extra credit, and ten points a house for each speices. (This was one of the hardest things to do, many pairs only ended up with one spieces)
No one was surrprised when Hermione got to two different kinds of snakes in only twenty minutes...but then again, Sakura and Tomoyo where doing even better.
Kids tried to take a look at how they were doing it. Sakura just muttered spell after spell and had a new snake every minute (she played with them alittle before changing them again.) Tomoyo yelled out each snake's name.
"Fer-de-lance, common coral snake, wied's coral snake, Indigo snake, corn snake... " The list just went on and on.
Neville over heared one of Sakura's spells for a horned asp, and tried it on the Indian cobra he and his partner had infront of him (which he was quite terrified of). As usual, something in his spell went wrong and the cobra grew a foot longer and reared up, spreading his hood and hissing at Neville.
The cobra's fangs extended till it showed it had three inches of fang.
That's when it happened.
"Harry, talk to it!" Hermione shrieked.
Parsel Tongue could be heard now throughout the room as the snake closed its mouth and put its hood down.
"Wow Harry! That was fast!!!"
Harry shook his head.
"That wasn't me." he said.
Everyone looked at him. The parsel tongue continued but Harry was just gaping.
"Oh my God..." Hermione said and lifted a finger to point.
They all looked--at Sakura.
Sakura's mouth was moving, but all that came out was hissing. Her eyes were no longer the light joyful green, they were now dark, almost black, and she didn't seem to notice anything around her as she approached the snake, stroking it and talking to it.
"What's she saying?" Ron asked Harry. Harry didn't move. He heard what she was saying.
Oh, you beautiful thing, you. That boy did a wonderful job on you. Yes...you are so sweet...
Syaoran also stared at Sakura. The Sakura that was in a trance. This wasn't his Sakura.
It was a good thing everyone was too busy staring at Sakura. The didn't see his chin tremble.
~~~
"Here we go!"
Hagrid set down a huge crate and leaned on it.
"I thought this would catch yer's attention." He opened it, and out slithered an...odd looking baby snake.
Hermione and Harry jumped back.
"IT'S A BASILISK!!!" They both yelled at once. Everyone else in the class shifted nervously.
"But this one's a runt! You can look him in the eye, and nothin'll happen!"
Sakura raised her hand. Hagrid nodded in her direction.
Sakura lowered her hand and studied the basilisk and then spoke up.
"It's a green-eyed basilisk."
"Well of course, it has green eyes."
Sakura shook her head.
"No, that's a spieces. I can't kill people by looking them in the eye."
"How do you know this when I don't?"
Sakura blushed.
"One lives...under Tokyo. I talked to it."
Hagrid nodded.
"I heard about yer being a parsel..." he trailed off.
"Instead," Sakura continued, "They turn humans into stone, only if they want. And...they eat stone, too."
"Is that so?" Hagrid, so interested in learing about another creature, he completely forgot about the class.
~~~
Sakura nodded.
"They turn humans to stone, immortals to silver, and gods into gold."
"Is there any way to get them back to normal?" Hagrid asked.
Sakura shook her head. "The only way is if the basilisk that did that to you were slain, although three immortals can break the spell. Another basilisk (for obvious reasons), a unicorn (it's magical blood), and phoenix's (their tears.)"
Malfoy watched Sakura as she spoke. She was so beautiful...soft full lips, a mysterious air, and a perfect body...
Hey, he was a teenage boy. He was alowed to think those thoughts, right?
But even so, it made him mad to see her become the center of attention yet again.
He grinned and leaned over to Crabbe an Goyle.
"Whatch this!" He took out his wand and muttered semething.
Immediatly the basilisk reared up and hissed at Sakura who had been stroking its head.
Sakura stepped back, but it was too late.
A spark grew in the basilisks eye and Sakura glowed in a brilliant white light. Her image became hard as the light engulfed her. It grew brighter and brighter till no one could look anymore.
But when they looked, they didn't find what they thought they would find. They didn't see a stone Sakura.
Infront of the basilisk was a statue of Sakura.
Made entirely out of silver.
Hey, once again you guys simply amaze me. I'd like to take this time to give a special thanks to the following: crystal-kitty2003, kawaiitenshisakura, sweetlilacblossom, li wei, The Black Angels, THE-CANADIAN-GAKI, Emma, :D, Monique, Suki, SwitSakura, and jen.
...
JEEZE! LISTEN TO ME! I SOND LIKE SOME FREAKIN' AWARDS-WINNING MOVIE ACTRESS! GAH! *bangs head on the wall, then gets dizzy and falls over*
-$tephanie Lynn F. aka $harky-