(A/N: Depending on how much more I feel like I can stretch this story out it could end up rounding out at about 10 chapters, maybe less. But I've got a sequel idea. And yes I've read it and it is a good fanfic.)
Chapter 7
Serena arrived at Harry's flat 15 minutes after Sirius had contacted her. She found Harry and Sirius in Harry's bedroom and looked shocked at all the blood on Harry. "Alexander will be here soon."
"You rang?" Alexander stepped into the room. "Holy…" Alexander cleared his throat and got an impartial look on his face again. "Let's get Mr. Potter to the hospital shall we?"
Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were nearing the end of their search. The trace of the map was nearing the end. They didn't know that after the episode three days ago Harry was fighting for his life in Phoenix Memorial.
"At the end of this cave should be the dragon." Ron said.
"We're gonna get to go back to Harry!" Ginny said.
"Let's get going then." Hermione said.
They walked and walked through the cave carefully following the way the map said to go and they came to the end of the cave but found only a large lake.
Sirius sat by Harry's bed every day and night since the hellish scene that he'd walk in to find. Harry's condition was worse than when he'd collapsed and been brought in according to Alexander. Sirius had to agree because even intubated it didn't seem like Harry was getting enough air. And he was very thin. Sirius grew wearier and more worried every hour that passed. "Please get well Harry."
Harry however was in another world. He'd started seeing moments from his life again. He saw memories of how badly the Dursleys had treated him for the longest while. That was all broken by the memory of his first encounter of Hagrid. Then it was his trip to Diagon Alley and his first trip to Platform 9 and ¾.
"Hello!" Ginny yelled into the open room. "Is this some sort of trick?"
"No trick young one." Said a dragon that suddenly sprang up on a fountain in the middle of the lake which then moved to the edge nearest them and they got closer. The dragon had golden bumps, like horns sort of, all over his body. He was grasping a crystal orb in one of his 'hands' and he stretched his large wings out. He was green other than the bumps. "I'm Fountaine. I'll be helping you today."
"I hope so." Ron said. "We need a new lung for our friend."
"Why?" Fountaine asked looking contemplative.
"Because he'll die without it." Ginny said.
"People are dying somewhere as we speak. Why is this one so special?" Fountaine asked.
"We don't have times for these games! Just help us!" Hermione said.
"You have time. Be patient young one." Fountaine said.
"We do not have time!" Ron yelled. "Our best friend is back home dying from c…c…cancer and this lung you can make could help him and yet you're asking questions and for all we know he could be dead now! He saved the world from Voldemort and that'll answer your stupid question!"
"Good answer. Your wish shall be granted. Give me the vials." Fountaine said.
Ginny held them up at him and the contents suddenly were sucked into the crystal orb Fountaine was holding.
Alexander paced the length of his office. He heard the door open. "I don't have time for you, Drake." Drake's mouth opened. "I'm not sending you to The Pit. Leave me alone please."
"Ok. See you around." Drake said.
Alexander looked up as the door shut and resumed pacing.
Sirius could've sworn he saw a smile on Harry's face but it was hard to say with the nasty tube down his throat. "Don't think about it if you want Harry to survive long enough for the others to get back."
A tall man Sirius could only vaguely remember came into the room. "What?" Sirius asked innocently.
"If you take out the tube to check that the smile on his face is a smile you will damn him to death." The man said.
"Isn't that his fate already, Falcore?" Sirius asked finally remembering the tall man.
"No. If his friends can get back they will be bringing the thing that can save him." Falcore said.
"Well they'd better hurry." Sirius said.
Harry's memories were traveling through his Hogwarts days. Meeting Ron on the Express, fighting the mountain troll to save Hermione, saving the Sorcerer's Stone, and some Quidditch were the memories currently going through his mind.
"And Potter has spotted the snitch!" The voice of Lee Jordan was barely audible to Harry as he sped towards the snitch. He closed in with Malfoy trying to catch up beside him. Harry reached out and grabbed the snitch. "GRYFFINDOR WINS! GRYFFINDOR WINS THE QUIDDITCH CUP!"
Second cup. Harry smiled as he thought about it. He won it in his fifth year.
Ginny and the others watched in horror as the clear box with the lung in it floated over the center of the lake and then fell into the lake. Ron ran and jumped into the lake but was ripped out by the dragon. "Why'd you do that?!"
"Because you must go get it…" Fountaine said and suddenly all of them were floating above the lake and plummeting into it all at once.
Potter is back in the hospital then? That means his life is nearly over. The man in the high-backed chair set the Evening Prophet on his desk. He clasped his hands together and smirked. Revenge is sweet. And revenge was his.
"Hang in there Harry. They'll get here. You'll be ok." Sirius said. The door creaked open and Remus walked in.
"Hello Padfoot." Remus said and Sirius just inclined his head towards Remus and then leaned back in the chair he was in.
"He looks so awful. He's gotten so thin. And it hasn't been quite 5 days since he came here." Sirius ran a hand through his hair. "I don't care what the freakishly tall Falcore says I don't think Harry is gonna make it and Ron, Hermione, and Ginny are off on some sort of mission and…"
"He's going to make it Padfoot." Remus said. "You have to believe that."
Sirius sighed heavily and just shook his head.
Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were suspended in an infinite void. The lung was not far from them but they couldn't figure out how to move. Suddenly they could see Harry in the Hospital like it was on a TV or something. Harry was grossly thin and hooked up to the tube again. Sirius was in a chair beside him and Serena was there too massaging Sirius' shoulders.
"Harry!" Ginny screamed.
"You have a choice, you can go for the lung and end up back in the Forbidden Forest where you may not make it back in time but have a shot to save Harry's life. Or you can go back to Harry now and just be there with him and say goodbye." Fountaine said.
"I'm not telling my best friend goodbye. He's not gonna miss my wedding." Ron grinned at Hermione even though his eyes were wet. "But it looks like we might since this has taken so long."
"I'm not giving up." Hermione said.
"I… I… don't know." Ginny said.
"Ginny we have to try. Even if he should happen to d…d…die before we get to him we have to try… Come on… you know that. We've got to get the lung and go." Ron said.
"That was fine when we could have Apparated away but… he looks so sick…" Ginny started to break down.
"He'd do it for any of us. We have to do it." Hermione said.
"She decides what happens. You have only two minutes." Fountaine's voice said.
"Ok. Let's take the lung and go." Ginny said.
"Ok. You will end up in the forest with a new map. Good luck." Fountaine's voice faded away as Ron was able to grab the lung and they suddenly appeared in the Forbidden Forest. A map appeared on top of the lung box and the trio hurried to follow it.
