Where did that come from?
"Harry drop the cup!" yelled Remus from the ground.
Harry let go but he continued to rise into the sky, "Get me down!"
Fred and George looked at each other and hopped onto their brooms. The closer that they got the faster Harry rose. Hundreds of feet into the air Harry stopped rising and started to fall. Fred was closing on Harry to catch him when he heard the two words that haunted his dreams, "Avada Kedavra".
Hearing the students scream Harry watched as Fred's body fell off his broom and was caught by George who just hovered their in shock. Harry continued to fall and knew that his time was short. Faces started to become clearer the closer to the surface he got. Teachers were obviously trying spells to slow Harry down but Voldemort had some how blocked any of the spells from working. Hermione was gripping Ron, Remus was holding Snuffles making sure that he didn't do anything stupid but it was Icicle who was running towards him. With a blink of an eye and a faint pop there stood a full grown Peruvian Viperthooth dragon. The copper colored dragon with black ridge markings flew swiftly towards Harry dodging and blocking any spells that were thrown at her. Icicle looped around Harry, grabbed him with her for arms and pulled him under her for safety. Flying at top speed the dragon landed and with a pop there stood Icicle behind him. "You're an animagus?"
"Not now Harry," hissed Icicle as she looked towards the forbidden forest, "Don't you feel it?"
Suddenly Harry's blood ran cold. Demenors.
Lupin ran up behind the two, "Do you remember how to cast the patronus?"
"Yes," replied Harry as Icicle merle nodded clenching her wand.
A few other teachers joined them as the students were being ushered to the castle. The familiar cries ran through his head as Harry waited for the Demenors to emerge from the forest. Black robes appeared followed by more and more black robes. All the Demenors of Azkaban were on Hogwarts grounds. Harry quickly felt himself fading; summing his happiest thought that he could think of, Harry cast shouted, "Expecto patronum!"
The silver stag burst from the end of his wand and charged the on coming army with the several other patronuses that herded the Demenors back into the forbidden forest. Harry looked back at the students who apparently had no interest in heading into the school and where just standing there watching, "That was too easy. What else is he up to."
A first year screamed and pointed behind Harry. Whipping around Harry saw Voldemort and only about 20 death eaters emerge from where the Demenors had fled. Voldemort crackled, "I really missed this place. Kill them all."
Icicle quickly turned and scanned the crowed for someone, "Hermione! Remember that spell I told you to learn?" Hermione nodded, "Well now is the time to use it. Cast it around as many people as you can. Harry and I have a few things to take care of."
Harry watched in amazement as a huge gold light appeared at the end of Hermione's wand and created a shield around most of the Hogwarts staff and students. Icicle motioned to Harry and they started fighting off death eaters and pushing students who were not safe into the shield before it was solid and no one would be allowed in or out. "Well things are getting a little boring aren't they Mr. Potter and Miss Vera. Let's spice things up a bit." Said Voldemort as he sent a shock wave through the ground.
The earth continued to rumble under their feet when about 50 feet away from them a giant snake exploded from the ground. Icicle looked up in amazement at what ever the creature was, "Harry have you ever seen the movie Beetlejuice?"
"No………..why?"
"Well that worm looks a lot like the killer worms in the movie."
Harry shouted a banishment charm at the snake followed by a series of stunning charms. Every single spell bounced off the snake with out leaving even phasing the beast. "Any suggestions?" asked Harry who was flat out of spells to use.
Icicle started backing up, "Run, you pissed the snake off."
Dashing as fast as they could Harry and Icicle sprinted for what their lives where worth. The snake dove below ground and followed them. Harry looked back and saw that Icicle was slowing down "Faster Icicle! He is right under us!"
"Endurance…for …running… not…good…" puffed Icicle
The ground suddenly stopped shaking so Harry and Icicle stopped and started to listen for where he may be. Panting Harry looked around, where is that snake going to pop up?
"Ugg no," gasped Icicle, "Keep on running!"
"What why?"
The ground under the two crumbled as they were hurled into the air by the snake. Harry threw his body sideways to avoid being eaten but Icicle was heading strait towards it's mouth. Taking out his wand Harry waved one last desperate spell towards the inside of the snake's enormous mouth causing it to recoil in shock. With a loud crack Harry hit the grass and broke his right arm. A few seconds later Icicle landed a few feet away from him with a huge gash on her shin. Quickly crawling over to him Icicle gave a look of disappointment when she saw that his arm was broken. The snake quickly rose over the two preparing to strike and their appeared to be no way out. They squirmed backwards but it wasn't going to be fast enough. Out of the corner of his eye Harry saw Icicle pull out her wand and shouted "Avada Kedavra!"
Harry covered his eyes from the blinding green light and there was a thud all around him. Opening his eyes he found that they were inside the dead snakes mouth which was not closed. Icicle looked at him with shame in her eyes, "We still have to take care of Voldemort. I think that I can scare him away but you are going to have to act for me. When we walk up to him pretend that you are fearless and not scared at all. He won't believe me if he thinks that he can easily win. Here let me quickly set that arm."
She grabbed Harry's arm and pulled it so that the bones where realigned and then wrapped it up. " Did you really have to do that!" hissed Harry.
"It would have hurt more if you had to cast a spell with the bones not aligned."
Harry remembered that Icicle was hurt too and saw that the gash was bleeding profusely. "Did the snake get you?" asked Harry in concern.
Icicle quickly wrapped up her own wound, "Yeah it's teeth nicked me on the way down but I'll live. Thanks for getting me out of that."
"Thank you too. We covered for each other."
Icicle gave a faint smile and nodded "We do make a great team. Let's go and follow my lead."
Harry followed Icicle out of the snake's mouth and brushed himself off. Over by the shield that was protecting almost everybody in the school stood Voldemort who was trying to break the shield. Icicle motioned to Harry and together they marched towards the dark wizard. When they were relatively close Icicle spoke up with fake hurt in her voice, "Do you honestly think that a snake could get rid of us? I thought that you had more confidence in our abilities."
Voldemort whipped his head around and smiled at the two, "Oh so you did survive."
Harry was surprised that his scar was only tingling. He fixed his eyes on the creature ahead of him, "Come on Tom. You know that snakes haven't worked in the past. I though Slytherins were suppose to be cleaver because it wasn't really cleaver of you to make the same mistake twice."
Voldemort's eyes flashed with anger. "You arrogant fool!" spat Voldemort, "How dare you mock me."
"He dares because you make is so easy," cut in Icicle, "You are suppose to be great and I for one fail to see how attacking a school full of untrained children with a squib headmaster is great."
"Still have that tongue I see," laughed Voldemort as he approached Icicle and started circling her as if he was calculating something about her, "Dear Mariana, I haven't seen you for so long and you look just like your mother."
"You know, circling can be considered rude and I think that you have over stayed your stay."
"What are you trying to say dearest?"
"Leave, the fates have spoken to me and have said that today is not the day for the final battle."
Voldemort approached Icicle and brushed a piece of hair out of her face, "When were the fates planning on informing me of this date because you see, I have the whole school right here ready to be destroyed."
"They are far from ready to be destroyed," Icicle then whispered something in his ear and touched his chest. With a puff of smoke Voldemort was gone. Icicle turned to the remaining death eaters, "Your master has decided to go home and come back when it is time for a fair battle that Salazar Slytherin would have wanted from Godric Gryffindor. You have three seconds to run out of here before Harry and I start capturing you. Three… two…one."
Death eaters sprinted towards the forest and Hogwarts gates. In a matter of 2 minutes they were all gone besides the 5 that they had stunned. Hermione lowered the shield and the McGonagall, Remus, Snuffles and Hermione ran to Harry and Icicle. McGonagall reached them first, "Are you two okay?"
McGonagall started checking them over when Harry spoke up, "We are fine. Who did we lose?"
McGonagall face saddened, "We lost five students, Dillon Face and Rachel Tabor from Ravenclaw, Micha Kimber from Slytherian, Nicholas Fudge from Hufflepuff and Fred Weasley."
He really was dead once again someone died because of me…
Icicle spoke up for the first time, "Don't you dare start to blame this on yourself again. We both lost five people Harry, but we saved hundreds. We can't always win with out any losses."
Harry's eyes met Icicle's and saw she was suffering too. She closed her eyes and Harry saw her cover up her emotions and replace them with anger. "Now I have a few things to take care of."
Icicle slowly walked towards Fudge who was rocking back and forth holding the body of his youngest son, "Now that a family member has died because of your stupidity are you going to listen to me?"
Fudge looked up in shock, "I just lost my son! How dare you come and talk to me with that tone of voice. I am going to have you sent to Azkaban for everything that you have done."
"For what?! Saving your sorry ass? I have lost my birth parents, my adopted family and countless others. If anyone of us should be lashing it should be me so sit there and listen. This whole year I have tolerated you, played your games and I have even warned you about the choices that you have been making. Is there something else I could have done? Because I couldn't make you listen to me or take me seriously! Yes I have been an ass for these past few months because being good obviously wasn't helping me or anyone else. Dumbledore told me to respect you and not get expelled but I don't care anymore because you need to hear this. You are a coward, you're weak, stupid, fat, ugly, have a serious lack fashion sense and you are and arrogant self absorb git. I honestly have no idea why you are the Minister of Magic. Now that I have that out of my system you need to face that fact that as the current Minister of Magic you're a murderer. Your decisions left your people in the hands of the most evil man alive simply because you wouldn't believe that he was back. You make me sick every time I have to look at you so I don't even want to see you or talk to you ever again. If you do I am going to go to the press with everything that you have ignored and see what the public has to say about the job you have been doing. Get up, call Dumbledore back and go crawl back to the ministry you piece of scum."
The entire crowd stood their in shock as Icicle bent down and closed Nicholas's eyes and whispered, "El dios bendice a niño."
Fudge watched her retreating figure in shock. Realizing what she had told him he yelled after her, "I am not a murder!"
Icicle looked back over her shoulder, "Tell that to the countless people who lost their lives because you wouldn't help. Tell that to the Weasley family as they bury their son in a few days. Tell that to your wife when she has to look upon the pale, cold face of her youngest child, her baby."
