What Lies Within…
By: An Anti-Sheep Cheese Muffin
Rated: PG-13, just to be safe. For Language and Suggestive themes
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter that's J.K. Rowling's, Scholastic, and Warner Bros. All I own is Genevieve. Hope you enjoy my fanfic!
Plot: Only a magical jewel can stop Voldermort's reign. But when the jewel is broken and sent to the corners of the of the world, only a young girl with a scarred past can find them in time, and must come to except herself in the process.
Dedication: This is to everyone whose felt alone and discriminated. You are not alone and there are people who love you even if you don't know it. Also, a warm thank you to Emily Wallinger, my beta, who's just the best Beta any writer could obtain really she's awesome! And my two main reviewers Tweetyiscool and Cookie6!
Author's Note: Oh my freakity god! We are only five chapters away from
the great finale! Are you guys mad? Sad? Happy? I am going to be so miserable I
mean I am having so much fun with this story! Oh well, I knew it was going to
end but not like this!
Cookie6: I thought I made it clear the Voldermort kidnapped Harry…unless you are referring to the fact that I did not say how Snape kidnapped Harry then yeah…I know I didn't say how hehehe. LOL! Oh man you are so funny! I love your reviews!
Sognare: Yeah…sure she'll be all right…Charlotte's Web is so sad **tear sniff tear** are you happy now? I reviewed! Oh and thanks for your review man!
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Tears of a Lady: ARG! Don't ask me that I'll just pretend I didn't read that lol sorry man but I don't know use your imagination! Thanks for your review though!
Tweetyiscool: Yeah, you spelled his name right woo! Thanks man and thank you for your review!
Spiffy-Delus of the Durfs: I will always call you that ya know hehehe. Yeah, I remember the mermaid one and yes those chappies were SHORT! LOL! Mmmmm, fish tails **drools** Fine in the next chapter you can see more Sabby/Damien…happy?
Chapter Twenty-One: Deora Ar Mo Chroi
"Genevieve!" screamed Harry.
He rushed over to where the entrance was and tried to claw his way in but it only resulted in him breaking his nails. He uttered a scream of frustration and anger and knelt by the rock and began to weep. He felt a strong pair of hands grab his shoulders and pull him away from the site.
"Harry! C'mon! We have to get moving! Harry!" screamed Sirius as he pulled a crying Harry away from the battle.
"We can't just leave her like this!" said Harry.
"Leave whom?" asked Sirius.
"Genevieve! She's t-trapped inside the c-cave!" wept Harry.
"What?" screamed Sirius?
"We grabbed the Shards and we were running and I thought she was behind me but she stayed she might have been hurt or something! I didn't know! It was all my fault!" said Harry.
"No. Listen to me, Harry; it's not your fault. Maybe she's out and you don't know it. Maybe there was another way."
"No! I tell you there wasn't another way out she's trapped in the cave!" Harry broke down once again and fell into his godfather's arms.
Sirius hugged Harry will all his might and looked back at the rock. It appeared that the rock pushed down upon the cave probably crushing it. Sirius knew there was no way she could have survived so he simply hugged his godson and cried.
Meanwhile, back at the cave, Genevieve was awaking to the sound of a woman singing. It was soft, like velvet, but the tones and the tune of the song was harsh and melancholy. Genevieve opened her eyes to see neon blue ones.
Genevieve gasped slightly and jumped to her feet and leaned against the wall. A beautiful woman dressed in a simple white gown was in front of her. Her shinning, gold hair cascaded down her back in wavy curls. She had a plate of food and a goblet of water she placed them at her feet and ran toward alter.
Genevieve noticed a lot of things changed, for example, the walls changed from dirty, blocks of mud to beautiful, marble granite. The ceiling was covered in multicoloured portraits of angels, gods, and nymphs. At the centre of the room was a giant; bed covered in different assorted flowers some that Genevieve didn't recognize.
A woman, far more beautiful than the rest of the women at the temple, sat on the bed looking at a strange ye majestic looking flower.
"I am glad that you came, Protector, I was beginning to worry." She said her voice sounded heaven like.
"Are you an angel?" asked Genevieve.
The woman laughed, like a thousand birds sweetly serenading the morning's light, and replied,
"No I would put them to shame if they heard. No, I am merely a memory. Of a priestess who lived long ago."
Her long, dead straight, waist-long hair moved smoothly likes water as she stood up. Her clothes transformed from a casual white, plain dress to that of a Japanese warrior.
"I go by many names but you may call me Yumiko, daughter of the great Master Gin Taji, in my previous life I was Adeline Coronet your caretaker. In my past life I was a great warrior who made the shards that you seek."
"You are?" asked Genevieve.
"I am. I have come to guide you." She said.
"Home? Am I going back to Hogwarts?" asked Genevieve.
"I am afraid not. You will never go back for you see you need to change. You need to help those you love overcome the perils that await them. It may take you a day or many years. Once you have accomplished your mission you are to return to the Land of the Shadows where your parents dwell."
"My parents? But I thought they died!" said Genevieve.
"Their bodies decompose but their spirits live on in the Land of the Shadows. They are neither human nor beast they are condemned just as you are. You are to roam the Land of the Shadows for eternity in grief, pain, misery for your selfishness."
"Selfishness?" asked Genevieve
"Yes, you chose to live when you weren't meant to. And now you must undo what harm you did. You were never meant to be neither was your mother, father nor your grandmother. But they were foolish and desired life instead of eternal peace...but isn't that what all humans want? A long, fruitful life?"
"I don't…when you suffer all your life for something you don't know about or don't want to know." Said Genevieve sadly.
"Good! You see the light not all life is not a rainbow. It's harsh, cruel, malevolent, malicious and above all earned. You work hard in life you get what you deserve for your sweat, blood determination at the end even if you do not see any improvement everything has an ending and a beginning and all will be dealt with. Your family, whoever, did not see this."
Genevieve lowered her head in shame.
"Do not fret. Something will change for the better. Maybe not for you but it will comfort you some."
With this, Yumiko walked toward a large archway with rune symbols decorating it. It was about seven feet tall, made of a smooth, dark stone that Genevieve did not know the name of, and the runes came to life as Yumiko touched them.
"This is the Window of Time it shows us what becomes of the world, what will happen and this that have all ready made its path. Let us see your friends shall we?" Yumiko's yellow eyes shone with mirth and mystery as she made the archway come alive once more.
Genevieve could see Sirius and Harry crying in Dumbledore's office, McGonagall weeping silently, Flitwick's head bowed in memory, Hagrid blowing his nose on a large handkerchief, and Severus…was in the corner half covered by darkness.
"May I hear them?" asked Genevieve.
"Of course." Said Yumiko.
She waved her hand over the archway and the room came alive with weeping and wailing.
"Why did she leave? She was so young." Replied Hagrid.
McGonagall gently tapped the half giant's shoulder and she wiped her tears away.
"There has been a great loss today. A brave, proud, and virtuous young woman has fallen due to Voldermort and his insolent pests." Said Dumbledore.
"We shall always remember her, Genevieve the girl ---"
"Stop it! Stop it I can't take it anymore I don't want to hear it!" screamed Genevieve.
Her sudden outburst scared most of the maidens in the temple but Yumiko simply looked down on the young woman.
"Why do you protest to their remarks? Do they not please you?" asked Yumiko
"I am not what they say! They pile me up with fake titles! Things I would never do and dare not dream! I am not brave! I am not proud! I am not virtuous! I am nothing but a waste of hum…I'm not even that I am nothing!"
Genevieve sat down on the hard floor and began to weep in her hands. She felt useless, weak, and insignificant.
"You do not have to feel this way, Genevieve, you, indeed, are those things."
Genevieve looked up at Yumiko's face and saw her eyes. They told an untold tale of a battle. A battle she fought and still fights to this day against her demons.
"How can you do it? How can you overcome them all?" asked Genevieve
"It's not simple but everyone does it they just do not know it or care less in knowing. Everyone fights his or her own demons mine are just more dangerous then others. You are very close to your end. Your demons will not prevail I can assure you of that."
Yumiko waved her hand again and the images fled from the archway. She, then, sat down next to Genevieve and replied,
"If I had not become what I became I would have probably never overcome my demons, not the creatures, but my emotional ones. The ones that plague us if a death occurs or if a love one would take flight. I would have had a family and the shard never created but then no one would know what there really is inside us."
Yumiko stared deeply in Genevieve's eyes.
"And do you know what is inside us, Genevieve?" she asked
Genevieve shook her head "no."
"Courage, Love, Determination. Things that get us moving in life, things that motivate us to do great things if I had settled down no one, not even in a million years, would they have figured this out."
"I do not regret the path that I took even if I did sacrifice everything I loved. I did it so you all could do things I never had the chance…yet no one seems to be enjoying life as I would have." She continued.
"They complicate things with hate, envy, power all sorts of things I wanted to prevent but it seems that wherever you are if its in the outskirts of the Outback or in your hometown in a small village all is the same."
Yumiko stood up and walked to her bed where she picked up a small, rose like flower with its petals moving and giggling.
"Things have changed since I have been around but one thing never changes. Good and love will prevail in the end. There will be times of great sadness and loss but in the end good will always bring a light to shine those in need."
Genevieve stood up and walked toward Yumiko on her way she saw her reflection on a vase nearby.
"My scars!" she uttered.
"You didn't really think I would let you have those now would you?" said Yumiko smiling.
"Now, you fancy a lemon drop?" said Yumiko as she offered Genevieve a silver platter full of lemon drops.
Genevieve arched an eyebrow and looked at Yumiko suspiciously,
"Did I say something wrong?" asked Yumiko.
"Nothing." Said Genevieve as she took a lemon drop.
Seems powerful Wizards love lemons, thought Genevieve,
"You know I never thought of it that way." Said Yumiko suddenly.
"You can read my mind?" asked Genevieve.
"Sometimes…if I feel the need to."
"Now, on to more pressing matter since we do not have much time." Said Yumiko.
She walked to alter where the Shards were and brought back a small, amulet.
"What am I supposed to do?" asked Genevieve.
"I want you to do something that will save the lives of many. I want you to change the past. I want you to bring back Remus Lupin from the grave."
Another Author's Note: Now wasn't that nice? Sure! I love suspense have you noticed? Will Genevieve bring him back or let the future take its course? What will happen? Well, I know so ha! In your face! In, Memories of Old, Genevieve has to decided to bring him back or let him stay…and yeah there are other stuff there too…review man! I am getting kind of mellow I so need sodie…where's my SODIE? SEVENTY NIIIIIIINE! LOL! Oh man Orchestra's so funny…**wipes tear form eye**
~An Anti-Sheep Cheese Muffin
