Ginny jumped up excited. THE TOMB-RAIDING TRIP WAS TODAY!!!!

"YES!!!" Ginny shouted, leaping off the bed and into the bathroom.

She was ready in a flash- several appropriate outfits packed (mostly Lara's old stuff) and everything else that she would need (wand, toiletries- etc..............) She had taken her shower, brushed her teeth, done hair/makeup (her hair in a braid, lip gloss the only makeup she was wearing), and put on her clothes (black jeans, and a black tank top). Then, after putting on her black heeled boots and sunglasses, she was ready to go.

She ran downstairs and saw Lara eating breakfast.

"C'mon, lets move, I'm ready to leave!" Ginny shouted hurriedly making sweeping motions towards the door with her hands.

They had about two hours before Alex showed up, and Ginny already was ready to go? Lara watched Ginny pace and motion towards the door impatiently, with a laugh.

Ginny swatted at another bug that had somehow managed to land on her while she wasn't looking. Lara, Alex, and her along with a bunch of Alex's hired help, were out in the jungles of India. They had already been attacked by a group of things that looked slightly deformed, and Ginny was getting slightly annoyed. On the bright side of things, they figured they were heading in the general direction of the amulet, if those deformed creatures were already trying to keep them away from there.

They had finally reached a rather large temple after a half and hour, or so.

It was extremely old with cracks everywhere and strange symbols. Moss and other types of plants were growing all over it. They reached the front of it, after searching all around the building.

"Now, how do we get in?" Alex asked out loud- looking at the thing they assumed was a door.

"It looks almost like a lock of some sort" Lara commented, looking at an odd patch on the door with a small opening in it.

"Too bad we don't have a fucking key!" Alex complained, motioning for the workers to come forward to help him kick the door in.

"Wait" Ginny said, halting them.

"Let me try something first" she said and pulled out her wand, and pointing it at the odd patch on the door.

"Alohomora" Ginny called out the spell and the door slid open. Lara smiled at Ginny and walked in behind Ginny while everyone else stood, shocked.

--several hours later--

"Alex, do you know what this means?" Lara asked, looking at the words written up on the walls. They were written in some language she had never heard of. From the looks of it, the language seemed quite old.

"Afraid not, let's just grab the amulet and leave"

"Wait, we know where the amulet is..............." She said, pointing to the box below the words on the wall

"But what about those other two boxes next to it?" She continued, now pointing at the other two boxes on either side of the box the amulet was in.

"Well, all I read about was the amulet, there was nothing else, nothing about any other boxes" He responded

"What I heard was that this cult of demon worshipers, owned this amulet, which was used to exact vengeance on people they deemed unworthy" Lara said

"Right- that's what I heard too, except apparently there was some kind of device that activated it and another that could stop it"

"Yeah" Lara nodded, agreeing, and realization suddenly hit them. Those devices were in the other two boxes.

They opened the box in the middle (the one that was supposed to have an amulet in it) and gasped. Lying in there was the amulet. It was circular orb glowing with different shades of color- gold, amber, and the color of molten chocolate. It was on a long chain that one would hook around their neck. Symbols in that odd language were etched into the amulet.

They opened the other two boxes, and found a ring in the box on the right and a strange object in the box on the left. The ring matched the amulet in symbols and color. As for the other object, it matched the two other pieces but there wasn't an obvious use for it. It was the size of a human thumb and had a circular space the amulet or ring could fit into.

Ginny finally spoke after being silent for the whole conversation and said:

"I get dibs on the ring"

They split their findings between them- Ginny taking the ring, Alex taking the odd object, and Lara taking the amulet.

"This was almost too easy" Lara commented, examining her prize.

Suddenly, all the statues starting coming to life, and people in black and gold robes came out of hidden passage ways.

"Shit, Lara, why'd you have to say that?" Ginny whined, getting into a fighting stance.

The robed people attacked. The workers did what they were hired for, and fought the attackers. Ginny, Lara, and Alex did too, each putting what they had grabbed in their bag, first. Ginny destroyed all of her attackers. She put all her training to use. She punched, kicked, side-stepped, and backhanded her opponents.

Finally, all the enemies were dispatched and they left with their strange artifacts.

-

Ginny finished off her summer with her continued training, her relationships with Lara and Alex, as well as a new relationship. She had become friends with a Slytherin named Blaise Zabini over summer. Blaise was an unexpected surprise. It sure shocked the hell out of Ginny when she found her schoolmate living a few miles away. They had developed a mutual respect for each other, and maybe with time- a true friendship.

It was two days before school was starting and Ginny was eating breakfast. Lara walked in.

"Ginny, I have something to ask you..." Lara said with an uncertain look on her face.

"Shoot" Ginny replied with a smile

"Okay, I was wondering if..." Lara began nervously.

Ginny eyed her closely, wondering what she was up to.

"I was wondering if you would like me to be your legal guardian." Lara suggested, hope written across her pretty face.

Ginny's own face went blank.

"Only if you want me to, of course, if you don't want to its okay, it's just a sug-"

"Of course I want to!" Ginny interrupted with a huge grin, jumping up and hugging Lara.

"I've already contacted Bill and asked him for permission. He said yes an that it was just up to you, so now all I have to do is make a phone call and its done." Lara said.

Ginny squealed, tears of happiness running down her face, and hugged Lara again.

"Does this mean my name is Ginevra Croft now?" Ginny asked

"If you want it to be" Lara replied with a smile.

"I like that, besides, I never did like the name Weasley"

1st day of school

"Shit, Shit, SHIT!" Ginny yelled.

These stupid people dressed in robes had attacked her on the platform and she missed the train.

But, 'look on the bright side', she thought, you killed them and your clothes are in perfectly good shape. She looked down at her low-riding red leather pants and black tube top and sighed. They were in good shape, but she had a large scrape on her left arm. She performed a healing spell and shrunk all her luggage. She put the now miniature luggage in her pocket with her wand, and hopped on her motorcycle.

"Looks like I'll be riding there instead"

She found a charm that sped up her motorcycle and was only twenty minutes late.

Entrance Hall opening ceremony

The doors to the hall burst open with a loud crash combined with a low, rumbling noise. Everyone looked up, surprised, in the middle of eating their dinners. Ginny hopped off motorcycle and started to speak. Her dark red lips forming a pout as she looked up at Dumbledore apologetically.

"I'm really sorry, Headmaster, I was late because-" she started to apologize but was interrupted by hands wrapping around her throat, stopping her mid-sentence. Someone was trying to choke her, in the middle of an apology... the NERVE of some people.

Dumbledore, along with the other professors stood up with their wands raised. She swung her head back, hitting the attacker in the face, breaking his nose.

"No" She said, seeing them ready to curse the attacker "I can handle it"

Ginny swung the attacker around by his arm, while he was still caught off guard, slamming him into the wall. She heard a resounding crack and smiled in pleasure.

She turned around to face more attackers coming in as the other guy that tried to choke her fell to the floor. She cracked her knuckles.

"And the fun begins" she commented and then punched the guy closest to her.

They all seemed to swarm in at once. She began to use all the skills she learned over the summer, she was ready for this. She did a spin-kick, hitting several of them and taking them out. She threw the closest one over her shoulder, and succeeded in hitting the guy coming up behind her. She head-slammed another guy, and elbowed the one to the right of her. She threw about a dozen more punches, kicked, and tore at the enemies. And she so did enjoy it. The professors couldn't do anything because the people were moving so fast that they might hit Ginny instead of the attackers. Finally, Ginny stood alone, amongst the dead and unconscious, all at her demise. She looked into Dumbledore's twinkling eyes.

"Nice to see you again Lady Croft" said Dumbledore with a smile.

Everyone else stood in shock and awe, including one very confused Dream Team.