Forever Yours
Chapter 21
The Test
By the time Christmas came, everyone had gotten used to their new lives. Lily and James still doted on Harry and Hermione, as did everyone else. The babies were a part of them now. They were a part of the group.
It was two days before Christmas, and everyone – meaning Kayla, Sirius, Aria, Remus, James, Lily and the babies – were sitting in the parlor of Sirius and Kayla's two storied brick house talking about anything and everything while five month old Harry and three month old Hermione slept cuddled together on a chair with wards around it so that they wouldn't fall off.
"They're so cute!" Aria squealed as she watched the babies cuddle with one another.
Kayla and Lily just looked at each other with amused expressions. They both already had a feeling that their first-born children would end up more than friends.
"I still feel like it's totally unfair that Hermione gets Sirius's eyes. I really wanted her to have mine," Kayla sighed as she leaned her back on the coffee table that sat in front of the chair that the sleeping babies were in.
Across the room, sitting on the couch was James and Sirius while Remus was in the red chair across from them, discussing Quidditch like there was no tomorrow.
"What is it with guys and their fascination with talking about Quidditch?" Lily asked as they looked over at spouses. (Except for Aria, who was looking at her fiancé.)
"I don't know," Kayla frowned. "I mean you and I were on the team, and you don't see us talking about it constantly, do you?"
"Exactly." Lily nodded in agreement.
"It's one of those guy quirks that never leave their limited brains," Aria laughed as she looked away from the group of guys.
Kayla and Lily looked at Aria for a few seconds before they joined in on the laughter.
"Hey! You three over there! What's so funny?" Sirius called out as the guys paused their discussion, being the nosey people that they are.
"None of your business, Dog breath," Kayla called back.
"'Dog breath'?" James laughed as he clapped his best friend on the shoulder. "Way to go Sirius. You must have done something right to be having your wife call you 'Dog breath'."
"Shut up, James," Sirius replied, trying to get rid of the blush that rode high on his cheeks.
"How in the world did you come up with that name?" Lily asked Kayla with a raised eyebrow.
"One night a couple of months ago – it was a couple of weeks after I had Hermione here – Sirius comes in the room in his dog form, jumps on the bed and starts panting right over my face. I was asleep, but I wake up once I catch the smell of his breath. I guess that while I was opening my eyes that he transformed, so instead of seeing him in dog form, I saw him in human form. I frowned and looked around for a dog, but I didn't see one, so I look at Sirius and ask him if there's a dog in the room. He shakes his head, and I just look at him and tell him, 'Then I guess you better brush your teeth, because your breath smells like a dogs.' And that's about it," Kayla laughed at the memory.
"You just had to tell them that, didn't you?" Sirius grumbled as everyone in the room laughed.
"It's just, that sounds so much like you, that I can imagine you doing that!" Lily managed to say before she started to laugh again.
"Well, gee, thanks you guys!" he drawled sarcastically.
"You are very much welcome," Remus retorted.
Sirius crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against the cushions of the couch, waiting for everyone to stop laughing at him.
It took a few minutes, but sooner or later everyone calmed down.
"Are you all finished yet?" he asked with a glare.
Kayla smiled and got up from her place on the floor and walked over to him. "I'm sorry, baby, I didn't mean to embarrass you," Kayla said as she straddled his hips and linked her arms around his neck.
"Sure you didn't," Sirius smiled as he settled his hands on her waist and brought his mouth down to hers for a kiss.
The rest of the people in the room ignored the couple, too used to one of the couples in the group making out to take any notice.
"It's hard to believe that Christmas is so close again," Lily sighed as she laid down on the floor and looked up at the white ceiling.
"I know. It seems like we just passed the holidays," Aria said.
"You know, I was just thinking about something," James informed them.
"We'll make sure to mark this wondrous event on the calendar at home, honey," Lily snickered.
"Ha, ha, funny Lils," James shot back. "But really. I just thought of something. Here we are, barely twenty, four of us are married and have a child, and the other two are about to get married. Don't you think that we jumped into all of this fast?"
"Wow. When you put it like that you make us sound like we're deprived," Lily frowned as she sat up and looked at her husband.
"I didn't mean it like that, I just –" James stopped.
"Do you feel that?" Aria whispered as she looked around the room frantically.
The room had suddenly gotten cold. Really cold. But the fire was still blazing.
All the adults in the room got up on their feet and tried to figure out what had happened.
"Shit!" Lily muttered, hoping not to be heard. Unfortunately, James was close enough to hear. "What?" he asked her. "Uh. I think that this is the first part of the prophecy. Our test." Lily answered sheepishly.
The five remaining adults looked at her with identical looks of shock. "How the hell did you know!" Kayla screamed.
"Uh. I got warned – sorta- kinda when you were in labor."
"And you haven't deemed yourself to tell us?" James yelled in outrage.
Lily shook her head mutely, knowing that she did something wrong.
"Well, do you know what we're supposed to do?" Aria sighed, disappointed in her friend for the first time. 'She should have told us,' Aria thought with a shake of her head.
"No," Lily whispered.
Just then, there was a loud swoosh!, and everyone was transported to some kind of field. Or so they thought.
"What the hell is this?" Sirius voiced as he began turning in circles.
"The babies!" Lily realized with a quickly and started to fret.
"They're safe," a new, unfamiliar voice sounded from behind her.
Lily turned around quickly and faced the stranger with a look that only a Mom could manage when she's scared about her child and someone knows something about the said baby but isn't telling. "Now listen here, you – you! – I don't care what this is about. But if my son has one tiny-" she screamed and held up her finger to show how tiny – not even enough space in between her fingers for a spot of dust to get through – she meant, "molecule of his body harmed I will personally hunt your big, scary ass down and kill you very slowly and very painfully, got that?" she huffed.
This . . . thing, in the white robe and shadowed face laughed. Laughed!
"I assure you Mrs. Potter, that your son will remained unharmed. As will yours Mrs. Black," the thing added hastily upon seeing Kayla's dark look and the opening of her mouth.
Kayla huffed, crossed her arms over her chest, and glared at the thing that was standing in front of them all.
"Why are we here?" Remus and James asked at the same time.
"You all are here as the elements: Air, Water, and Fire – together you all make up the element Earth. But you are being put to test. We are to see if you all have the courage, hearts, and determination to stay as a unit when it is most needed of you," the thing with the shadowed face told them in his/her melodic voice.
"What will we be doing?" Aria asked as she tried to make out some kind of features on the man's face.
"You will be fighting to stay as one," the thing said before clapping his hands twice.
As soon as the sound of the second clap faded away, Lily, Kayla, and Aria found themselves transported again. This time it was to a beach.
"Where's the guys?" Aria asked hesitantly, not knowing if she wanted to know the answer.
"'You will be fighting to stay as one,'" Lily repeated.
"You mean we have to find them?" Kayla asked in astonishment.
"How the hell are we going to do that?" Aria cried out furiously as she began to pace on across the sand. "We don't even know where the hell we are!"
"Whoa, calm down there, Aria," Lily blinked in surprise. She's never seen an outburst like that from Aria before.
"How are we going to find them?" Aria questioned.
"Well, I guess we just start by doing some kind of spells?" Kayla frowned.
"Might as well try," Lily sighed. She had a feeling that this was going to be taking a long time.
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"Lily!" James yelled as he saw his wife disappear.
"Kayla!" came Sirius's cry as she too disappeared.
"Aria!" Remus's cry echoed.
"Where the hell did you take them you –" James started as he turned to look at the guy in the white robe. But he was no longer there. "Where the hell did he go?" he yelled as he turned in a quick circle.
"Great." Sirius muttered. "Our women are gone, James and I have children that are home alone, and we don't know where the hell we are!"
"And not to mention that we have to find the girls," Remus said as he began to tredge through the grassy field.
"Wait! What do you mean 'And not to mention that we have to find the girls,'?" James asked as he caught up with Remus.
"Just that. That person – thing – said 'You have to fight to stay as one,'" Remus explained.
"I thought that he meant something else," Sirius muttered as he came up to them.
"So, how do we know that we're heading in the right direction?" James asked after they had walked for what seemed like ten minutes.
"We don't. I just guessed. But it makes more sense that they'd send the girls to somewhere where the water is, don't you think?" Remus answered.
"Yes." James nodded. "No, actually. It doesn't. Why would they be near water?"
"Don't you read?" Remus asked in exasperation.
"Not if I can avoid it, no," James replied nonchalantly with a shrug of his shoulders.
Remus shook his head and muttered something that James didn't quite catch, then raised his voice to explain. "Lily and Kayla just had a baby each, am I correct?"
James and Sirius shot him a look that said 'No, you think?'.
"Well, Lily and Kayla's powers will be a little weak due to the power that they transferred into Harry and Hermione's body as they were born. Meaning that both Kayla and Lily's body aren't holding as much power as they usually do, and if they have to face something big, they'd be in trouble. If Lily or Kayla try to defeat the thing, it'd drain them both of nearly all of their magic, and they'd be weak. So therefore, Lily needed to be transported to something around water, and Kayla could find fire nearly anywhere," Remus explained as they continued on to God knows where.
"Oh," Sirius and James muttered.
"Well, how do you know which way the water is?" Sirius asked.
"Scent. And . . . James, tell me, can you feel the magical pull of water from this direction?" Remus asked as he paused.
James concentrated and used the easiest method that Lily had taught him to feel the pull of water. And there it was, in the back of his mind, pulling his body towards the direction that they were headed in. James opened his eyes and nodded his head before continuing on his way, Sirius and Remus following a step behind.
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"My body's absorbing the water," Lily observed as she watched the water from the tide turn a bright blue light, drift up off the earth and soak into various parts of Lily's body.
"Now all we have to do is find some fire for Kayla," Aria replied.
"Yep!" Kayla sounded.
Lily shook her head at her best friend and closed her eyes and concentrated on figuring out how much power she was absorbing like James cautioned her to do whenever absorbing any sort of power. When she felt that she had enough, she opened her eyes and stepped out of the surf.
"Right. Let's go and see if we can find any," Lily said as she began walking in one of the directions.
"Wait. I just thought of something," Aria said. "What if you and I – Lily, create a fire? Would that work?"
Lily thought about it for a few seconds before nodding her head. No book said anything about it having to be found or something like that.
Within a minute, Lily and Aria had set up a fire, and Kayla was absorbing the bright red cloud.
"Now," Lily said as she clapped her hands together after Kayla finished. "Which way do we go?"
"Uhh . . ." Aria deadpanned.
"Great!" Kayla muttered sarcastically.
"Why don't you try to – Holy Mother of God!" Lily screamed as she saw the ocean form a tunnel that shot, at an estimate, five miles into the air.
"What are you – We're going to die," Kayla whispered, shocked as she looked at the water, which now had a ring of fire running around the tunnel in spirals.
"Help," Aria squeaked as the looked at the now moving – with raging winds – tunnel.
"How in hell are we supposed to stop this?" Kayla screamed as the girls stumbled back, away from the shore.
"I don't know!" Lily cried.
"You're the one whose supposed to know everything about our powers! And now you're telling me that you don't know how to get rid of this thing!" Kayla screamed frantically as the moving tunnel of water, air, and fire sped towards them.
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"What is that?" James asked as he squinted and looked towards the horizon. He could have sworn that he saw a mass of water shoot up in the air.
"What's, what?" Sirius panted after having climbing the steep hill that they just conquered.
"That," James said, pointing at the mysterious mass that was just joined with what looked like fire.
"I do believe that that is where we are going to find our girls," Remus gasped, trying to get air in his lungs after that hike.
"James, help," Lily's voice sounded in James's head, causing him to frown. 'How'd she do that?' he wondered.
"It's my engagement ring James."
'Where are you? Are you okay?' he wondered as he began to sprint toward the thing that he saw shoot up into the air.
"You know where I am. But I'm not strong enough without you to get pass the 'Cloud of the Elements', as they call it," she sounded again.
'Don't worry baby, I'll be there for you. I promise.'
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"Sirius, get your ass down here!" Kayla's voice screamed inside of Sirius's head.
'No need to scream, Kay dear,' Sirius thought sarcastically as he picked up his pace upon hearing the hysterics that was in his wife's voice.
"I need you," was all the voice said before Sirius felt it go away.
"Shit!" Sirius screamed. What happened to her? He wondered as he caught up with James. They were just a few yards away.
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"What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?" Lily yelled as she felt the air begin to pull her towards the 'Cloud'.
"Lily!" James screamed as he saw her on the beach.
Immediately, Lily ran over to him and grasped his hand.
Together, as a unit, Lily and James started to speak the words that were clouding their minds, waiting to be spoken. "Sono acqua ed è me. Obbedisca al mio ordine e cedi alla nostra voce. Li controlliamo, noi siamo voi. Obbedisca e cedi, dato che siamo voi." [1] Just then, the mass of water stopped, and simply stayed still, waiting for Lily and James to command it.
Sirius and Kayla were next, and they stood next to each other, holding hands and looking at the still moving mass of fire and air. Together, they raised their voices and called out, "Sono fuoco ed è me. Obbedisca al mio ordine e cedi alla nostra voce. Li controlliamo, noi siamo voi. Obbedisca e cedi, dato che siamo voi." [2] And like Lily's and James's element, the fire stopped and awaited for its command.
Aria and Remus looked at each other and nodded, resigned. Clasping one another's hand, they faced the raging wind and took deep breaths. "Sono aria ed è me. Obbedisca al mio ordine e cedi alla nostra voce. Li controlliamo, noi siamo voi. Obbedisca e cedi, dato che siamo voi,'' [3] they called out in clear voices.
As soon as they finished the last syllable, everything turned peaceful.
Lily looked at James, and shook her head. "This seems too simple," she said.
The others nodded their agreement and searched the beach wryly. Something seemed . . .off.
"Lillian Evans – Potter, I know what you miss, and I can give it to you," an eerie voice called out into the night.
Lily frowned and looked around. No one was there. "Who are you? And what do you assume that I want?"
"I am you. And I know that you want your Father and Sister back. With a word, I can give them back to you. If you promise me your devotion." The voice sounded again, causing shivers to run down Lily's back.
"I don't even know who you are," she snapped back.
"I am the one you fear. The one who rules your life. I am Lord Voldemort," The eerie voice said again.
Lily's eyes sharpened, and James tightened his hold on her hand.
"I do not fear you," Lily yelled.
"But you do want your family, don't you Lily? Your sister, your father. I can give them to you," Voldemort goaded, not coming from his hiding place, where ever it was.
Just then, images of two children – twins – with red hair and willowy figures was in front of Lily. The girls – Lily and Cammy – were running towards a cliff.
Lily gasped as she saw this. This was the day that Cammy died!
"No," Lily whispered hoarsely. She didn't want to see this. Living through this once was enough for her.
"Yes, make your decision Lily. Your husband and friends, or your sister and Father?" the voice taunted.
"I'll never be apart of your useless, feeble group of followers so that you can rule the world! Never!" she screamed and watched helplessly as a man stepped from the shadows in the image of her and her sister and broke the cliff away, causing Cammy to fall to her death.
"You. You killed my sister!" Lily realized with a flash.
"Yes, I did," a deep, grating chuckled sounded.
"I'll be seeing you all soon!" Voldemort predicted.
"What the hell?" Sirius asked, moments before they were all transported back to his and Kayla's house.
"Harry!" Lily screamed as she heard a wail from behind her and rushed over to her son.
"Shh, baby. It's okay. Mommy's here now," she cooed and rocked him.
James stepped up behind Lily and looked down at his son. "Hush, Lil' Man. Everything's okay now. I promise," he soothed as he brushed a finger down his sons cheek.
"What do we do now?" Aria asked as she slumped into the cushions of the couch tiredly.
"There's nothing to do." Lily sighed and looked down at her now sleeping son. "But I know that I'm going to go see Dumbledore sometime within the next few months. He'll know what this was all about. Hopefully." She informed them.
"So we all go home?" Remus asked as he pulled Aria up gently.
"It's the only thing that we have to do," James sighed and walked over to the corner where Harry's baby bag was.
With promises to be safe and visit each other again tomorrow, everyone went their own ways, trying to figure out what the next step was.
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Authors Note:
Hey you all! Okay, this is actually very long, and you didn't have to wait that long for it! Aren't you all proud of me? Well, you should be!
Okay, if any of this is a little confusing to you, you can either email me at Mymonkeygurl21@aol.com, IM me for aol on the screen name Mymonkeygurl21, or leave your questions in a review, and I'll be happy to answer any of your questions.
Okay, and the parts in a different language are right here, and just so you know, they aren't in Latin like I wanted them to be because I could find a Latin translator. Even though I didn't look that hard, so this is in Italian, which is a lot easier for me.
Here are the translations for you:
[1] I am Water, and it is me. Obey to my command and surrender to our voice. We control you, we are you. Obey and surrender, for we are you.
[2] I am Fire, and it is me. Obey to my command and surrender to our voice. We control you, we are you. Obey and surrender, for we are you.
[3] I am Air, and it is me. Obey to my command and surrender to our voice. We control you, we are you. Obey and surrender, for we are you.
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