A/N: Okay, I know that I haven't updated in a while, but that's because all of my energy has gone into stories that I don't even think will make it up, pointless writing assignments from school, and just trying to get some sleep in the middle of it all. I shouldn't even be doing this now, but anything for the readers, the three that I have, but here is your new chapter.

You know what? I just realized something, at the Galleria, the food court is on the fourth or third floor. I changed everything to Del Amo Mall; which is only one floor for most of the mall, well at least only one floor shows and you enter on the top floor, the rest is underground . . . Cool huh? It's bigger and better. By the way, just for those of you who don't live in LA, who haven't been here in a while, or haven't been here at all, The Galleria at South Bay and Del Amo Mall are real malls, big ones too.

A/N2: Sorry that it's been so long and that this will be incredibly short, but I'm doing it to get a certain person- who will stay un-named- off my back. So here you go, chappie 3a.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, there I said it, now leave me alone. And I don't own the theory of the healing stone from Avalon Web of Magic.

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Chapter 3a.- They're Still Here

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Danni looked down on the little girl in her arms. "She's so tiny, how old could she be?"

"I' guessing around five or six." Hermione said.

Danni looked down and sighed deeply. "What is this world coming to?"

The girls eyes snapped open sharply and Danni jumped about a mile in the air.

"Holy crap, she scared the life out of me. I bet-"

But she stopped short as the girl started to shake badly. Her eyes were twitching with the effort to stay open and Danni got a good look at her peepers. "Oh no."

They girl's eyes were a sickly green. Puke mixed in with the color of a baby's poop, not a good combination. Her eyes glowed a mysterious light, emanating evil. If they didn't do something quick, she would die.

Danni shakily handed the little girl to Lilah as she walked to the center of the food court muttering something about incompetent employees.

"They got it in her, but how much of it?"

Hermione looked back and forth between the two girls trying to figure out what they were talking about.

"I'm guessing a whole lot. I've never seen the crudus that green before." She knelled down and placed the unconscious girl on the floor, and fumbled around her right wrist for something. Finally she pulled out a light blue stone on a soft silver chain.

"What are you doing?" Hermione asked interested, the girl hadn't even touched her wand, that was different. When Lilah didn't respond, she looked at Danni with a question in her eyes.

Danni leaned in a whispered, "She's healing her, just watch, it's different then regular wizarding measures."

Lilah twisted the chain four times and as she did, the chain grew longer so it didn't twist her skin. She placed the stone on the child's heart and mumbled something in Latin, *"Malfica caedes animus calamitas virtus aurae animas evincere."* Her voice was soft and light as air, as passable as water on a calm day at the beach, an odd combination. Her eyes widened to the size of diner plates.

Hermione looked at Danni strangely. "What'd she say?"

" 'Malfica blood will fail, light's goodness will prevail.' Old Thlanderish saying."

"Thlanderish? Malfica?"

"I'll explain later."

Hermione nodded and turned back to Lilah who was still bent over the girl.

Lilah's eyes were even wider than before and the hazelness had gone, replaced with clear water blue. She had started to shake a little, shivering every now and then. But it steadily got worse. Her shivering turned into convulses and soon, she was gasping deeply, pain etched in every line of her face, yet she kept her hands on the little girl's heart.

"What's wrong with her?!" Hermione asked afraid.

"It's the healing process, it'll be over in a minute."

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Lilah' s PoV

Lilah flexed her fingers and expertly placed her hand in the air above the small girl's chest. ::This is gonna be painful.:: She told herself.

"Malfica caedes animus calamitas virtus aurae animas evincere." She said in a soft voice so as not to interrupt the flow of magic.

The effect was almost immediate. She could feel the surge of magic flow through her veins and out of the stone. When she finished with the first transference, she prepared for the second one, the transference of the evil into her body.

She braced her feet against the floor and fought with it. It was very painful, pain beyond anything ever experienced by mankind, worse than child birth, worse than the crutacious times twenty million, almost fatal, but she fought it bravely.

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Hermione watched, afraid as Lilah's stone pulsed from blue to that sickly green in rapid motion, first the green over taking the whole stone, the blue again, then green again, until the blue finally squished all the green out and it was tossed out of the stone. For a minute, a sickly green mist hovered outside of the stone then it dissolved into thin air.

Danni walked quietly to Lilah and removed the stone from the girl's stomach with a great pull. Lilah shook as the chain unwound itself and collapsed into Danni's arms, shivering and shaking terribly. She stared off into space, her eyes still that crazy blue, shaking and coughing up a storm.

"Is she okay?" Hermione asked.

"Almost, give it a couple of minutes. They really put a lot in her, and she's so tiny." Danni replied trying to hoist Lilah into a sitting position.

Soon, Lilah's eyes had returned to normal, but she still had a far way look in her eyes. When she finally spoke, her voice was faint and stressed. "They're not done yet, they're coming back."

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Back about thirty minutes with Tally and Lor:

Lor was fuming from her conversation with Seamus. "Can you believe he said that?! Calling me helpless! Why I oughta . . ." She trailed off making a violent gesture in the air.

"You need help." Tally said inspecting something on the ground. She pulled on a pair of gloves and picked it up to get a closer look. "Hmmm . . ." She held it in front of Lor stopping her ranting. "What do you think this is?"

"Fustis remains." She said. "Yunikuo's."

"But I thought he-"

"Nope, only lasted two weeks."

"Oh, then this should be relatively easy."

"Yeah, right." Lor looked up the aisle and spotted something black and green on the ground.

"What's that?"

"Looks like a cloak. No stupid!" She whacked Tally over the head and pulled out a pair of gloves. "Don't touch it!" Lor picked it up with her gloves on and put it in a clear bag that she had conjured up. Tally did the same thing with the brown substance.

They continued down the walkway, watching for clues as they went to use as a case against some of the Malefica.

"Why couldn't Torrance come again?"

"Because her sister is still in the hospital."

"What'd they say it was?"

"Tuberculosis."

"I thought that that blood on the tissue had some importance."

"Yep. They got the tests back last night, she won't live to see the New Year."

"Poor Charli."

"Yeah, she is a smart kid."

"Hey, what's that?" Tally pointed to something sliver and shimmery lying in a puddle on the floor in the middle of a intersection of three hallways.

"The one thing odd about Malfica is that they always leave tale-tale signs of where they've been."

"Who do you think it was?" Tally asked bottling the slivery substance, making sure to get all of it.

"Linkoun, no doubt."

"So he lied then."

"Of course! He is the heart of evil, of course he lied."

"Correction, he has no heart."

"Right, forgot about that."

"Something like that is not so easy to forget about."

"Okay, fine, I blocked it out."

"That's better."

The girls continued down the hall picking up clues as they went along muttering about how the evil ones needed to be a bit more organized when they captured a place full of people.

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"Ron, do you know where we are?" Harry looked around at the closed shops and deserted hallway that they stood in.

"No idea." Ron scratched his head and stared at the near-by directory thingy, trying to figure out where they were.

Harry sighed and pushed his hair off his head making it stand up more than normal. Suddenly, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. "Ron, do you get the feeling that we're being watched?"

"Hmmm?" Ron turned to face Harry and his eyebrow arched.

Harry whipped around and came face-to-shin with a small kitten. Harry smiled. "Must have escaped from the pet shop."

"Should we put it back?"

"Yeah, I guess." Harry bent down to pick it up and cradled it in his arms.

Ron stared hard at the creature. "Harry I don't think that's a cat."

"What do you mean it's not a cat? It looks like a cat, and it sounds like a cat. What else would it be, a frog?"

"Well, yeah it looks like and acts like a cat, but do cats have eyes that randomly mist over? No. That thing is not a cat."

Harry looked down at the cat and dropped it in surprise.

It hit the ground with a thud and hissed standing up.

"I've never known a cat that didn't fall on it's feet all of the time." Harry said.

Then the cat started to swell in size.

"Yep, not a cat, definitely not a cat." Ron said backing away slowly.

"Help . . ." Harry called feebly to an empty hallway.

Twenty miles away a figure dressed in all black heard his feeble call and disappeared.

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A/N: Well, there it is. In my opinion, it sucked, but it's out. So review, even if it's flames, I don't care... Part two should be out before Christmas, but that's all I'm promising, hell, not even then maybe...