Part 9: Detention
Soon their amazing holiday was over and it was back to their school work, and [I]Detention[/I], the last class of the day was Transfiguration, then after that they had dinner and a short time after that they had to meet Professer Mcgonagal outside the great hall, as they walked into the class and sat in their usual seat Professer Mcgonagal came in and gave them instructions to turn their goblet into an animal, as the girls were trying to turn their goblet into an animal, "Lily is the only one of us that don't have to go to detention tonight" Nicole said sarcastically "Only because she's a good girl" Sylvir added in a baby voice, Kat and Nicole laughed Lily was starting to get angry she hated being called a good girl she pointed her wand at Nicole and Sylvir, they kept laughing, before she could say any spell Professer Mcgonagal swooped over to Lily and gave her a detention aswell, Kat tried not to laugh as they left the class they all started to laugh even Lily.
They walked down the hall "What's up with Mcgonagal lately she's like out to get us or something" Kat said stopping the laughter "I dunno" Lily said "But something's up" she finished, their conversation finished by the boys jumping out, the girls screamed in fright then they hit the boy's playfully for scaring them, as they were walking towards the great hall for dinner they were telling the boys what happened in Transfiguration, they were once again interrupted but this time by a cold lifeless voice "my my my look what the cat dragged in" they turned around to see Cherub and Flinders the Slytherin Bitches.
"What do you want" Lily and Nicole said together "Hmmm, I want a word with my cousin" Cherub said the crowd got bigger knowing that their was going to be trouble,
Sylvir, Nicole & Lily knew what she meant but the boy's had no idea what she was going on about, Kat went pale once more, "Well we don't know, who your cousin is" "What's it got to do with us" Cherub laughed so did Flinders, "your telling me that she hasn't told you" Kat let go of Sirius's Hand and took a step closer to Cherub "So what if I didn't tell them" Kat screamed, Tears building up In her eyes "your not considered my cousin, You're just a spoilt little BRAT who thinks she can get anything she wants" "Well I'm glad we sorted that out" Cherub said with an evil ring to her voice "just so you know I don't consider you family either Kat" Cherub said walking closer to Kat giving her a evil death stare "oh and I do get everything I want, look at my family for instance they give me everything you nothing, except your traitor of a mother gives you all she can" Kat was so close to bashing the smile off her face, but she couldn't she felt so weak…so sick "what did you want" she said tears building up in her eyes and looking else were.
Cherub smiled "Just thought I should tell you how much joy, and fun it was, Christmas without you everyone enjoyed themselves except your stupid mother" that's it she thought I can't stand this anymore Kat slapped Cherub across the face making her face turn side ways, Most of the crowd laughed at Cherub.
Kat turned around not wanting to cry in front of all these people, she saw most of her friends in shock walked towards them, she saw Sirius's face he looked so hurt, she couldn't take "I'm sorry" she said then she ran off, Tears fell down her face making it red and blotchy, she ran as fast as she could, hoping that no one would find her, she did not know how everyone could treat her since they new who she was related to, the image of Sirius's hurt face burnt into the back of her head not being able to get it out of her mind, she ran up stair's leading her outside, to one of the tower's roof's the view was beautiful, but she lay down against the wall, just crying not wanting to move from that spot.
She thought that her friends would have just gone to dinner leaving her be, but she was wrong she heard footsteps she sat up wiped her tears away as much as she could and looked out into the forest & the grounds not wanting to see anybody or anybody to see her in this dreadful state, the footsteps were getting closer, Sylvir, Nicole & Lily walked onto the roof and saw Kat looking over the ground's they walked over to her and sat down beside her, "I didn't want everyone to know" Kat said as her eyes watered up again, as her friends came and hugged her "ohh it's ok" Nicole said "How's Sirius?" Kat said as pulled away from her friend's trying to calm down, wiping the tears off her face.
"He's upset that you didn't tell him" Lily said, "But he's really worried about you and he wants to talk to you" Sylvir added tears builded back up in her eyes "were is he" Kat said "we'll go get him" Nicole said, but before she could say no the girls were walking down the stairs, [I]oh great, what am I going to say to him now[/I] Kat turned around to look at the ground's, then she heard a pair of footsteps walking over to her side, she kept looking into the sky while a little tear ran down her eye, she looked towards Sirius, into his big puppy dog eyes, she looked down after awhile, "I'm so sorry" Kat said looking back to his eyes his hand went to her face and brushed away the tears, "I know how you feel my family is exactly the same, except everyone is mean, be thankful your mother is nice to you" she smiled and looked deeper into his eyes, he smirked and said "you still are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen when your crying" Kat laughed and told him softly to shutup, they sat in each others arms until the sun went down, talking & kissing.
Kat realised the time "oh no my detention, I'll be late" she kissed Sirius goodbye and ran down the stair's to see that the girls were still their, "what's wrong" Sylvir said looking at Katie "duh, look at the time our detention" the girls were shocked that the time flew by so fast, they said goodbye to the guys, as they walked up the stairs to join Sirius.
They just made it in time, Mcgonagal was standing outside the great hall, with Cherub & Flinders, and a man they didn't know, they stoped running at the site of them and walked over to them, "Good your all here" Mcgonagal said sternly "So what are we doing for our detention" Flinders said sourly giving the 4 Gryffindor's a revolting look, "you'll be going into the forest with" "Me, you may call me Sir" the man said next to the Professer the girls looked shocked "I think you can take it from here" Professer Mcgonagal said
"follow me" he said in a disgusted voice as he walked out of the castle, "but….But the forest is dangerous" Cherub replied in a high squeaky voice. Sir gave out a laugh "the forest is only dangerous if you wander off" he said in a spooky voice.
As they walked to the edge of the forest he said, "okay we are looking for some red herbs they have amazing healing powers and the nurse in the forest is running out and it is our job to find some" he gave the girls a rather large bag each to put the herbs in, he turned around and walked into the forest, the 4 girls turned around to look up at the castle and saw small figures of 4 boys up on top of the roof, they were waving the girls laughed quietly and waved back and turned around and walked into the forest.
They walked quietly into the forest witch seemed that they were walking for hours, Cherub walked up to Kat and whispered "you know I will have him" before Kat could say anything Sir stopped and said "Ok girls you 2 go in that direction" pointing to Cherub and Flinders "and you 4 go that way, and I will go that way" he said pointing to 3 different directions, and you best be lighting up your wands you will not be able to see soon" and he got off and walked in his path, the girls walked there separate ways.
"this is really creepy" Nicole said while they all lighted up their wands and begun to pick there herbs "I agree with you on that one mate" Kat said looking around the forest for anything Suspicious soon Kat's Bag was full, she put it in her pocket and sat down waiting for the other's to finish, then she heard footsteps up ahead, "something's coming, the girls put the wand to the darkness and saw that it was just Cherub and Flinders "are the 2 mighty Slytherin's scared of the dark" Nicole said in a baby voice while the 4 girls laughed standing up "No we just finished" Flinders said with Attitude "So we came to find you" Cherub added with a smirk on her face "Sounds like you looking for trouble" Sylvir said putting her arm around Nicole.
Then there was a loud noise, "What was that" Cherub said looking petrified "Oh it was just a dragon" Flinders said, she just realised what she said "A Dragon" Flinders and Cherub cried clinging onto each other, Kat and her three companions turned around and saw a smooth scaled copper coloured with Black ridge marking's "it's a Peruvian Vipertooth" Kat said "How do you know that" Flinders said trying to sound mean still scared out of her skin, "well If you must know the fangs are short as you can see, the copper colour and the Black ridge markings and its smoothed scales" they were all shocked by Kat's knowledge but it didn't surprise the Gryffindor's they knew how much her friend loved Care of Magical Creatures.
"the Ministry exterminated most of them, because they were increasing rapidly, I wonder what he is doing in the forest" "He, how do you know it's a he" Cherub gulped after speaking " will it eat us" she finished off, "well they usually eat goats and cows, But" "but, what but" Flinders spoke with utter fear in her voice, "they do like to eat humans from time to time" Kat finished. "But if we be quiet" as she said this the dragon moved slightly in its sleep, Cherub & Flinders Screamed so loudly birds in the forest stirred, and they turned around and ran cowardly away, Kat's attention went back to the Dragon it had woken up, before the 4 girls could move the dragon Swiftly flew over their heads and landed on the only way they new their way back to Sir, "and it's the Swiftest in flight" Kat said as they turned around and ran for it as it started to breath fire at them.
They finally got away from the dragon, hiding in a hole in a tree, they had black spots all over their body, from the flames, they didn't get hit but they came close a great amount of times, they were sitting their scared for their lives, scared that they would never see the school again, "shhh, I can hear something" she said to, Sylvir & Nicole who was comforting Lily" they went silent, they could hear the Dragon howling and voices of student's and teachers further away, then they heard no more of the dragon, animals were stirring in the forest, "it's not safe to go looking for the castle now" Sylvir said "we better sleep here, but first lets do a couple of charms up around here so nothing can harm us" the girl's agreed and were soon fast asleep.
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Back at the castle all the students looked out their window's some running out to the ground to see what was happening Sirius, Remus, James & Peter all ran out to the grounds after seeing a huge Dragon lying on the floor, they wanted to see if the girls were ok, they saw Cherub & Flinders crying beside Professer Mcgonagal & Dumbledore the boys looked everywhere but there was no sight of Sylvir, Nicole, Lily & Kat they rushed up to Professer Dumbledore, "Professer where's, Kat, Sylvir, Nicole & Lily" Remus said while the boy's looked in his blue eyes with fear.
"I think you boys should come to my office were I will explain everything" the boy's followed the Professer up to a stone gargoyle "chocolate frogs" the gargoyle moved up in to stairs they walked up and sat in chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk, after Dumbledore had explained everything the boy's were extremely sad and shocked, "you are going to find them" James said in fury "yes there are search parties out their as we speak, and I would advise you boy's to stay in the castle and not venture into the forest to find them" Dumbledore said looking into each boy's eyes, "I would like you to return to your common room's immediately and [I]please[/I] try to get some sleep" the boy's didn't say anything and returned to the common room without saying one word.
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Kat woke up early the next morning as soon as the sun came up, it was still very dark but it was much lighter then the night before, Kat sat up and so did Lily, Lily put her head on Kats shoulder Sleepily "I wonder if the school is looking for us" she said with a yawn afterwards "of course they are" Nicole said stretching her arms out followed by a yawn, Sylvir sat up also and sighed "I wonder how the boy's are" "I'm sure their fine" Kat said smiling remembering Sirius's face smiling at her.
"Kat if it wasn't for some of your information last night…I don't know what could have happened" Lily said looking at Kat removing her head off her shoulder, "we would have gotten away anyway" Kat said stubbornly not wanting credit for her knowledge, "I think we should get a move on if we are to find the castle before night" Kat said, the girls agreed and continued their journey.
It had been 3 days in the forest, the girls had come across many wild animals leaving bruises cuts and all kinds of pain, the girls limped and hurt everywhere, they were sick of walking, there only source of survival was 4 bottles of water and a whole heap of muggle food that Lily had in her pockets, "I'm sick of walking" Nicole complained, "we got to be almost their" Sylvir encouraged "We're going to die aren't we" Lily whined "Lily don't be silly of course were not I wont let you even if I have to die to save you guy's I would" there was silence for a short while but it was broken by a evil giggling kind of noise.
"Doxy's" Kat said taking out her wand "take out your wands don't get bitten buy them there fangs a very poisonous" Kat said as the other girls took out there wands "what's that on the ground with them" Nicole said looking horrified "it's a Lethifold" Kat said looking towards the ground at the slithering cape like figure, "it's only weakness is a Patronus spell, there has been only one man to survive it" Kat said as they all started to yell out spells at the doxy's "I'll take care of the Lethifold" Kat said doing a couple more spells on the doxy's "Kat but you can't do a Patronus" Sylvir said "Yes I can" and she walked over near the Lethifold".
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The boy's were sitting in the common room "its been 3 days and they haven't find them yet" James said "that's it were going in tonight and if you guys don't want to come Im going by myself" Sirius said "But you heard what Dumbledore told us he told us that we were not to go into the forest" Peter said looking up at his friends in shock "fine Peter you can stay here and if anyone asks were not in the forest you have to stall for us" Remus said in fury, "ok its settled were going in tonight" Sirius finished off.
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"EXPECTO PATRONUM" Kat yelled thinking of the most happiest thought ever, and a silvery white cat emerged out of her wand, and ran straight for the Lethifold, the girls were fighting what seemed like all night, when ever they destroyed all the doxy's more just kept appearing their were thousands everywhere, then they saw 3 jets of light coming by and hitting some more doxy's they turned around and it was Sirius, James and Remus the girls were pleased to see them but they had no time for hugs and kisses, they had to defeat the doxy's "come on our best chance is running" Remus yelled taking a hold Sylvir's hand, Kat took a hold of Sirius and smiled, "bout time" she said muttering a few spells that hit the doxy's coming towards them "sorry Dumbledore wouldn't let us" Sirius replied.
Then there attention went to a silvery white cat that had jumped on something that looked like a cloak on the ground, "who's Patronus" James said in amazement "mine" Kat said blasting a few spells and some more doxy's "OK lets run for it" Kat said who turned around running at the front with Sirius by her side.
After ages of running Kat turned to Sirius "so how long to the castle" "if we keep on going straight ahead maybe a couple of minutes" she held onto his hand firmly, "AHH"
Kat fell into something but she stoped because Sirius kept a hold of her, the others stoped almost falling in also, the girls told the boys to help Sirius with Kat while the 3 girls kept the Doxy's back.
"GO before the doxy's catch up you can get out" Kat yelled at Sirius and the boy's "not without you" Sirius answered as the doxy's came back swooped down trying to bite everyone, Kats hands were getting to slippery "look I need to go get my wand," Kat said with her wand had already fallen down, "promise me that you wont go out with Cherub ever," she smiled "I'll find a way back I promise" "No, I'll get you out….I love you" Sirius said "I love you too" Kat said looking into his eyes for the final time before she fell "NOOOO" she heard Sirius yell as she fell into blackness when she heard nothing.
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It took all of James's and Remus's strength to get Sirius away but then there was a big bang and Dumbledore appeared taking most of the doxy's out in one spell "where's Kat" he said looking at all of the girls who were starting to cry but Remus was the one who broke the silence with the answer of the question "she…she fell down their" he said pointing at the big black hole, "the hole of no return" some of the doxy's were coming back, Dumbledore told the students to run and he followed closely behind.
The next couple of days the castle new everything that happened their was sadness in Gryffindor house as the girls cried over their friend and the boys tried to comfort them but it was no use Sirius would sometimes not even talk to anyone, it had been 2 days since her disappearance, Dumbledore had sent a owl to her parents explaining everything and they would be coming to Hogwarts tomorrow for her memorial dinner.
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Kat opened her eyes coughing, looking at dim light far above, she couldn't move her arms and legs they were in to much pain from the fall, "do not try to move you'll only hurt yourself more" a manly voice "who are you and how long have I been down hear" Kat replied in a whisper, "I am Cartof, a centaur and this is my brother Baramon" the Centaur replied "are you the only ones down here" Kat replied stiffly "no there is a injured unicorn here also we have been here for months the unicorn landed here 2 days before you" Baramon replied Kat never thought of it before this the herbs that they picked days ago, "there are some healing herbs in my pocket, and some muggle food and water" Cartof gently took the herbs out, "here eat some of this he said putting the herbs near Kat's mouth you should be fixed in a couple of hours" Kat ate the herbs there was a cold sensation went over her body.
A couple of hours later Kat was healthy as ever she sat up, the herbs made all her cuts and to her surprise it was like she had a cold shower and she was all clean again, and she saw the 2 Centaurs for the first time, Cartof was a pale shade of blue & Baramon was a pale shade of green, "thank you" Kat said "where's my wand" Kat said "over there" they both said pointing to her wand Kat picked it up "there is no need to thank us, your our only hope of getting out of here" Cartof replied "first where's the unicorn, you said it was injured" Kat said taking no notice of what Cartof said, "she wont let you go near her" Baramon said.
Kat put her wand in her pocket and walked over to the unicorn slowly, "Im not going to hurt you Im trying to help you" Kat said walking over to the unicorn it stopped struggling after awhile and let Kat pat her, "the wound is deep were are the herbs" Cartof handed her the herbs and she feed some to it, "I fear that the herbs wont work for the unicorn" Baramon said "why not, it worked for me" yes but it is a magical creature and it has already lost so much blood" Baramon replied, "well I will need to get her to the castle, don't worry girl you'll be ok" Kat said stroking the unicorns mane.
"ok so you want to get out of here" Kat said to the Centaur's "yes" they both answered "ok get ready" Kat took out her wand muttered a spell under her breath and they were floating to the surface, "we'll take you to the edge of the forest and that will be all we can do" Baramon said Kat was still levitating the unicorn while running by its side comforting it "its ok settle down" Kat said patting the Unicorn, they soon got to the edge of the forest and the castle came into view, she thanked the Centaurs and they ran out of site, "ok everyone will be eating dinner so you wont be seen you will only be seen by the Nurse Madam Promfrey" Kat told the unicorn as she ran into the castle.
"Madam Promfrey" she yelled as she walked into the Hospital Wing she came running in "Kat your alive" she wailed "of course I am" she replied "you got to help her she fell down the hole 2 days before me I ate some herbs" she said taking out the herbs "I fed some to her but the wound is to deep" she said while levitating the unicorn to the nearest bed "ok she'll be fine I can fix her, but you my dear better hurry down to the grate hall their officially claiming your dead today" Kat promised the unicorn that she would be back and she ran out of the Hospital Wing and ran down to the great hall.
As she got to the great hall she slowed down and took a deep breath and opened the great hall doors everything was black, as she walked in everyone at the house tables turned to look at who entered they were all shocked that it was her everyone was whispering to their neighbours she heard things like "she's back from the dead" she looked at the Gryffindor table but her friends were no where in sight, then she looked up to Dumbledore, he smiled at her then with a flick of his wand all the black around him went back to its normal joyful colours.
She walked up to Dumbledore, he welcomed her back "Professer Dumbledore, where are my friends" Kat said looking into the headmasters eyes "their in Gryffindor tower, with your mother, little sister and your father" Dumbledore replied "my father" "yes your father, the password is Expecto" he smiled "you will need to change the password after my father leaves" Kat smiled and the Professer nodded and she turned around and walked out the way she came to go to the common room.
When Kat got to the Portrait of the fat lady she spoke the password and it opened, she walked in the room everyone's back was to her "so what have I missed" she said in a sarcastic voice, her mother was the closest she ran up to her and gave her a big hug followed by her friends and baby sister who had just learnt how to walk, her mother finally let go of her and gave all her friends a hug, the girls were crying with joy, while the guys were smiling, they finally let go of her and she gave Sirius one big hug.
"I thought I had lost you" he said hugging her tighter "for a minute their you did" then they kissed, he father on the chair watched all this what looked like in disgust, then she felt a little tug on her skirt she pulled away from Sirius and turned around and saw her sister who was standing up, she knelt down and gave her a big hug, "cat-ie" she said Kat smiled and hugged her again while her mother gasped and the others laughed and she said to her sister, "hey do you want to see a unicorn"
Then without even talking to Kat her father stormed out of the portrait and slammed it shut, Kat just ignored it like it was normal and stood up pinking her sister up, "I have to go to the Hospital Wing I'll tell you everything along the way and to that they all walked out of the Portrait, by the time they got to the Hospital Wing Kat had told them everything that happened after she feel down the hole, "cool" her sister said in amazement.
"Madam Promfrey" she called as she walked in the door "is she going to be ok" Kat said "yes she is fine, we will take her back to the forest latter tonight" Kat told the others to stay their and she took her sister over to see the Unicorn "oh Pretty" she said Kat sat down in a chair while her sister sat on her lap, "hey their girl" Kat said patting her softly "this is my little sister Aimee, she wont hurt you, and them over there are my friends they wont hurt either" she said as Aimee patted the unicorn, her friends & mother all came and sat around her.
Latter that night Kat walked the unicorn to the edge of the forest she hugged her and watched her galop of into the darkness of the forest, and she walked back to say goodbye to her mother as they left, she waved as they disappeared into hogsmeade, she walked back into the castle holding Sirius's hand, and looked up into his eyes happily, while her friends talked joylessly around them.
Soon their amazing holiday was over and it was back to their school work, and [I]Detention[/I], the last class of the day was Transfiguration, then after that they had dinner and a short time after that they had to meet Professer Mcgonagal outside the great hall, as they walked into the class and sat in their usual seat Professer Mcgonagal came in and gave them instructions to turn their goblet into an animal, as the girls were trying to turn their goblet into an animal, "Lily is the only one of us that don't have to go to detention tonight" Nicole said sarcastically "Only because she's a good girl" Sylvir added in a baby voice, Kat and Nicole laughed Lily was starting to get angry she hated being called a good girl she pointed her wand at Nicole and Sylvir, they kept laughing, before she could say any spell Professer Mcgonagal swooped over to Lily and gave her a detention aswell, Kat tried not to laugh as they left the class they all started to laugh even Lily.
They walked down the hall "What's up with Mcgonagal lately she's like out to get us or something" Kat said stopping the laughter "I dunno" Lily said "But something's up" she finished, their conversation finished by the boys jumping out, the girls screamed in fright then they hit the boy's playfully for scaring them, as they were walking towards the great hall for dinner they were telling the boys what happened in Transfiguration, they were once again interrupted but this time by a cold lifeless voice "my my my look what the cat dragged in" they turned around to see Cherub and Flinders the Slytherin Bitches.
"What do you want" Lily and Nicole said together "Hmmm, I want a word with my cousin" Cherub said the crowd got bigger knowing that their was going to be trouble,
Sylvir, Nicole & Lily knew what she meant but the boy's had no idea what she was going on about, Kat went pale once more, "Well we don't know, who your cousin is" "What's it got to do with us" Cherub laughed so did Flinders, "your telling me that she hasn't told you" Kat let go of Sirius's Hand and took a step closer to Cherub "So what if I didn't tell them" Kat screamed, Tears building up In her eyes "your not considered my cousin, You're just a spoilt little BRAT who thinks she can get anything she wants" "Well I'm glad we sorted that out" Cherub said with an evil ring to her voice "just so you know I don't consider you family either Kat" Cherub said walking closer to Kat giving her a evil death stare "oh and I do get everything I want, look at my family for instance they give me everything you nothing, except your traitor of a mother gives you all she can" Kat was so close to bashing the smile off her face, but she couldn't she felt so weak…so sick "what did you want" she said tears building up in her eyes and looking else were.
Cherub smiled "Just thought I should tell you how much joy, and fun it was, Christmas without you everyone enjoyed themselves except your stupid mother" that's it she thought I can't stand this anymore Kat slapped Cherub across the face making her face turn side ways, Most of the crowd laughed at Cherub.
Kat turned around not wanting to cry in front of all these people, she saw most of her friends in shock walked towards them, she saw Sirius's face he looked so hurt, she couldn't take "I'm sorry" she said then she ran off, Tears fell down her face making it red and blotchy, she ran as fast as she could, hoping that no one would find her, she did not know how everyone could treat her since they new who she was related to, the image of Sirius's hurt face burnt into the back of her head not being able to get it out of her mind, she ran up stair's leading her outside, to one of the tower's roof's the view was beautiful, but she lay down against the wall, just crying not wanting to move from that spot.
She thought that her friends would have just gone to dinner leaving her be, but she was wrong she heard footsteps she sat up wiped her tears away as much as she could and looked out into the forest & the grounds not wanting to see anybody or anybody to see her in this dreadful state, the footsteps were getting closer, Sylvir, Nicole & Lily walked onto the roof and saw Kat looking over the ground's they walked over to her and sat down beside her, "I didn't want everyone to know" Kat said as her eyes watered up again, as her friends came and hugged her "ohh it's ok" Nicole said "How's Sirius?" Kat said as pulled away from her friend's trying to calm down, wiping the tears off her face.
"He's upset that you didn't tell him" Lily said, "But he's really worried about you and he wants to talk to you" Sylvir added tears builded back up in her eyes "were is he" Kat said "we'll go get him" Nicole said, but before she could say no the girls were walking down the stairs, [I]oh great, what am I going to say to him now[/I] Kat turned around to look at the ground's, then she heard a pair of footsteps walking over to her side, she kept looking into the sky while a little tear ran down her eye, she looked towards Sirius, into his big puppy dog eyes, she looked down after awhile, "I'm so sorry" Kat said looking back to his eyes his hand went to her face and brushed away the tears, "I know how you feel my family is exactly the same, except everyone is mean, be thankful your mother is nice to you" she smiled and looked deeper into his eyes, he smirked and said "you still are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen when your crying" Kat laughed and told him softly to shutup, they sat in each others arms until the sun went down, talking & kissing.
Kat realised the time "oh no my detention, I'll be late" she kissed Sirius goodbye and ran down the stair's to see that the girls were still their, "what's wrong" Sylvir said looking at Katie "duh, look at the time our detention" the girls were shocked that the time flew by so fast, they said goodbye to the guys, as they walked up the stairs to join Sirius.
They just made it in time, Mcgonagal was standing outside the great hall, with Cherub & Flinders, and a man they didn't know, they stoped running at the site of them and walked over to them, "Good your all here" Mcgonagal said sternly "So what are we doing for our detention" Flinders said sourly giving the 4 Gryffindor's a revolting look, "you'll be going into the forest with" "Me, you may call me Sir" the man said next to the Professer the girls looked shocked "I think you can take it from here" Professer Mcgonagal said
"follow me" he said in a disgusted voice as he walked out of the castle, "but….But the forest is dangerous" Cherub replied in a high squeaky voice. Sir gave out a laugh "the forest is only dangerous if you wander off" he said in a spooky voice.
As they walked to the edge of the forest he said, "okay we are looking for some red herbs they have amazing healing powers and the nurse in the forest is running out and it is our job to find some" he gave the girls a rather large bag each to put the herbs in, he turned around and walked into the forest, the 4 girls turned around to look up at the castle and saw small figures of 4 boys up on top of the roof, they were waving the girls laughed quietly and waved back and turned around and walked into the forest.
They walked quietly into the forest witch seemed that they were walking for hours, Cherub walked up to Kat and whispered "you know I will have him" before Kat could say anything Sir stopped and said "Ok girls you 2 go in that direction" pointing to Cherub and Flinders "and you 4 go that way, and I will go that way" he said pointing to 3 different directions, and you best be lighting up your wands you will not be able to see soon" and he got off and walked in his path, the girls walked there separate ways.
"this is really creepy" Nicole said while they all lighted up their wands and begun to pick there herbs "I agree with you on that one mate" Kat said looking around the forest for anything Suspicious soon Kat's Bag was full, she put it in her pocket and sat down waiting for the other's to finish, then she heard footsteps up ahead, "something's coming, the girls put the wand to the darkness and saw that it was just Cherub and Flinders "are the 2 mighty Slytherin's scared of the dark" Nicole said in a baby voice while the 4 girls laughed standing up "No we just finished" Flinders said with Attitude "So we came to find you" Cherub added with a smirk on her face "Sounds like you looking for trouble" Sylvir said putting her arm around Nicole.
Then there was a loud noise, "What was that" Cherub said looking petrified "Oh it was just a dragon" Flinders said, she just realised what she said "A Dragon" Flinders and Cherub cried clinging onto each other, Kat and her three companions turned around and saw a smooth scaled copper coloured with Black ridge marking's "it's a Peruvian Vipertooth" Kat said "How do you know that" Flinders said trying to sound mean still scared out of her skin, "well If you must know the fangs are short as you can see, the copper colour and the Black ridge markings and its smoothed scales" they were all shocked by Kat's knowledge but it didn't surprise the Gryffindor's they knew how much her friend loved Care of Magical Creatures.
"the Ministry exterminated most of them, because they were increasing rapidly, I wonder what he is doing in the forest" "He, how do you know it's a he" Cherub gulped after speaking " will it eat us" she finished off, "well they usually eat goats and cows, But" "but, what but" Flinders spoke with utter fear in her voice, "they do like to eat humans from time to time" Kat finished. "But if we be quiet" as she said this the dragon moved slightly in its sleep, Cherub & Flinders Screamed so loudly birds in the forest stirred, and they turned around and ran cowardly away, Kat's attention went back to the Dragon it had woken up, before the 4 girls could move the dragon Swiftly flew over their heads and landed on the only way they new their way back to Sir, "and it's the Swiftest in flight" Kat said as they turned around and ran for it as it started to breath fire at them.
They finally got away from the dragon, hiding in a hole in a tree, they had black spots all over their body, from the flames, they didn't get hit but they came close a great amount of times, they were sitting their scared for their lives, scared that they would never see the school again, "shhh, I can hear something" she said to, Sylvir & Nicole who was comforting Lily" they went silent, they could hear the Dragon howling and voices of student's and teachers further away, then they heard no more of the dragon, animals were stirring in the forest, "it's not safe to go looking for the castle now" Sylvir said "we better sleep here, but first lets do a couple of charms up around here so nothing can harm us" the girl's agreed and were soon fast asleep.
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Back at the castle all the students looked out their window's some running out to the ground to see what was happening Sirius, Remus, James & Peter all ran out to the grounds after seeing a huge Dragon lying on the floor, they wanted to see if the girls were ok, they saw Cherub & Flinders crying beside Professer Mcgonagal & Dumbledore the boys looked everywhere but there was no sight of Sylvir, Nicole, Lily & Kat they rushed up to Professer Dumbledore, "Professer where's, Kat, Sylvir, Nicole & Lily" Remus said while the boy's looked in his blue eyes with fear.
"I think you boys should come to my office were I will explain everything" the boy's followed the Professer up to a stone gargoyle "chocolate frogs" the gargoyle moved up in to stairs they walked up and sat in chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk, after Dumbledore had explained everything the boy's were extremely sad and shocked, "you are going to find them" James said in fury "yes there are search parties out their as we speak, and I would advise you boy's to stay in the castle and not venture into the forest to find them" Dumbledore said looking into each boy's eyes, "I would like you to return to your common room's immediately and [I]please[/I] try to get some sleep" the boy's didn't say anything and returned to the common room without saying one word.
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Kat woke up early the next morning as soon as the sun came up, it was still very dark but it was much lighter then the night before, Kat sat up and so did Lily, Lily put her head on Kats shoulder Sleepily "I wonder if the school is looking for us" she said with a yawn afterwards "of course they are" Nicole said stretching her arms out followed by a yawn, Sylvir sat up also and sighed "I wonder how the boy's are" "I'm sure their fine" Kat said smiling remembering Sirius's face smiling at her.
"Kat if it wasn't for some of your information last night…I don't know what could have happened" Lily said looking at Kat removing her head off her shoulder, "we would have gotten away anyway" Kat said stubbornly not wanting credit for her knowledge, "I think we should get a move on if we are to find the castle before night" Kat said, the girls agreed and continued their journey.
It had been 3 days in the forest, the girls had come across many wild animals leaving bruises cuts and all kinds of pain, the girls limped and hurt everywhere, they were sick of walking, there only source of survival was 4 bottles of water and a whole heap of muggle food that Lily had in her pockets, "I'm sick of walking" Nicole complained, "we got to be almost their" Sylvir encouraged "We're going to die aren't we" Lily whined "Lily don't be silly of course were not I wont let you even if I have to die to save you guy's I would" there was silence for a short while but it was broken by a evil giggling kind of noise.
"Doxy's" Kat said taking out her wand "take out your wands don't get bitten buy them there fangs a very poisonous" Kat said as the other girls took out there wands "what's that on the ground with them" Nicole said looking horrified "it's a Lethifold" Kat said looking towards the ground at the slithering cape like figure, "it's only weakness is a Patronus spell, there has been only one man to survive it" Kat said as they all started to yell out spells at the doxy's "I'll take care of the Lethifold" Kat said doing a couple more spells on the doxy's "Kat but you can't do a Patronus" Sylvir said "Yes I can" and she walked over near the Lethifold".
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The boy's were sitting in the common room "its been 3 days and they haven't find them yet" James said "that's it were going in tonight and if you guys don't want to come Im going by myself" Sirius said "But you heard what Dumbledore told us he told us that we were not to go into the forest" Peter said looking up at his friends in shock "fine Peter you can stay here and if anyone asks were not in the forest you have to stall for us" Remus said in fury, "ok its settled were going in tonight" Sirius finished off.
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"EXPECTO PATRONUM" Kat yelled thinking of the most happiest thought ever, and a silvery white cat emerged out of her wand, and ran straight for the Lethifold, the girls were fighting what seemed like all night, when ever they destroyed all the doxy's more just kept appearing their were thousands everywhere, then they saw 3 jets of light coming by and hitting some more doxy's they turned around and it was Sirius, James and Remus the girls were pleased to see them but they had no time for hugs and kisses, they had to defeat the doxy's "come on our best chance is running" Remus yelled taking a hold Sylvir's hand, Kat took a hold of Sirius and smiled, "bout time" she said muttering a few spells that hit the doxy's coming towards them "sorry Dumbledore wouldn't let us" Sirius replied.
Then there attention went to a silvery white cat that had jumped on something that looked like a cloak on the ground, "who's Patronus" James said in amazement "mine" Kat said blasting a few spells and some more doxy's "OK lets run for it" Kat said who turned around running at the front with Sirius by her side.
After ages of running Kat turned to Sirius "so how long to the castle" "if we keep on going straight ahead maybe a couple of minutes" she held onto his hand firmly, "AHH"
Kat fell into something but she stoped because Sirius kept a hold of her, the others stoped almost falling in also, the girls told the boys to help Sirius with Kat while the 3 girls kept the Doxy's back.
"GO before the doxy's catch up you can get out" Kat yelled at Sirius and the boy's "not without you" Sirius answered as the doxy's came back swooped down trying to bite everyone, Kats hands were getting to slippery "look I need to go get my wand," Kat said with her wand had already fallen down, "promise me that you wont go out with Cherub ever," she smiled "I'll find a way back I promise" "No, I'll get you out….I love you" Sirius said "I love you too" Kat said looking into his eyes for the final time before she fell "NOOOO" she heard Sirius yell as she fell into blackness when she heard nothing.
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It took all of James's and Remus's strength to get Sirius away but then there was a big bang and Dumbledore appeared taking most of the doxy's out in one spell "where's Kat" he said looking at all of the girls who were starting to cry but Remus was the one who broke the silence with the answer of the question "she…she fell down their" he said pointing at the big black hole, "the hole of no return" some of the doxy's were coming back, Dumbledore told the students to run and he followed closely behind.
The next couple of days the castle new everything that happened their was sadness in Gryffindor house as the girls cried over their friend and the boys tried to comfort them but it was no use Sirius would sometimes not even talk to anyone, it had been 2 days since her disappearance, Dumbledore had sent a owl to her parents explaining everything and they would be coming to Hogwarts tomorrow for her memorial dinner.
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Kat opened her eyes coughing, looking at dim light far above, she couldn't move her arms and legs they were in to much pain from the fall, "do not try to move you'll only hurt yourself more" a manly voice "who are you and how long have I been down hear" Kat replied in a whisper, "I am Cartof, a centaur and this is my brother Baramon" the Centaur replied "are you the only ones down here" Kat replied stiffly "no there is a injured unicorn here also we have been here for months the unicorn landed here 2 days before you" Baramon replied Kat never thought of it before this the herbs that they picked days ago, "there are some healing herbs in my pocket, and some muggle food and water" Cartof gently took the herbs out, "here eat some of this he said putting the herbs near Kat's mouth you should be fixed in a couple of hours" Kat ate the herbs there was a cold sensation went over her body.
A couple of hours later Kat was healthy as ever she sat up, the herbs made all her cuts and to her surprise it was like she had a cold shower and she was all clean again, and she saw the 2 Centaurs for the first time, Cartof was a pale shade of blue & Baramon was a pale shade of green, "thank you" Kat said "where's my wand" Kat said "over there" they both said pointing to her wand Kat picked it up "there is no need to thank us, your our only hope of getting out of here" Cartof replied "first where's the unicorn, you said it was injured" Kat said taking no notice of what Cartof said, "she wont let you go near her" Baramon said.
Kat put her wand in her pocket and walked over to the unicorn slowly, "Im not going to hurt you Im trying to help you" Kat said walking over to the unicorn it stopped struggling after awhile and let Kat pat her, "the wound is deep were are the herbs" Cartof handed her the herbs and she feed some to it, "I fear that the herbs wont work for the unicorn" Baramon said "why not, it worked for me" yes but it is a magical creature and it has already lost so much blood" Baramon replied, "well I will need to get her to the castle, don't worry girl you'll be ok" Kat said stroking the unicorns mane.
"ok so you want to get out of here" Kat said to the Centaur's "yes" they both answered "ok get ready" Kat took out her wand muttered a spell under her breath and they were floating to the surface, "we'll take you to the edge of the forest and that will be all we can do" Baramon said Kat was still levitating the unicorn while running by its side comforting it "its ok settle down" Kat said patting the Unicorn, they soon got to the edge of the forest and the castle came into view, she thanked the Centaurs and they ran out of site, "ok everyone will be eating dinner so you wont be seen you will only be seen by the Nurse Madam Promfrey" Kat told the unicorn as she ran into the castle.
"Madam Promfrey" she yelled as she walked into the Hospital Wing she came running in "Kat your alive" she wailed "of course I am" she replied "you got to help her she fell down the hole 2 days before me I ate some herbs" she said taking out the herbs "I fed some to her but the wound is to deep" she said while levitating the unicorn to the nearest bed "ok she'll be fine I can fix her, but you my dear better hurry down to the grate hall their officially claiming your dead today" Kat promised the unicorn that she would be back and she ran out of the Hospital Wing and ran down to the great hall.
As she got to the great hall she slowed down and took a deep breath and opened the great hall doors everything was black, as she walked in everyone at the house tables turned to look at who entered they were all shocked that it was her everyone was whispering to their neighbours she heard things like "she's back from the dead" she looked at the Gryffindor table but her friends were no where in sight, then she looked up to Dumbledore, he smiled at her then with a flick of his wand all the black around him went back to its normal joyful colours.
She walked up to Dumbledore, he welcomed her back "Professer Dumbledore, where are my friends" Kat said looking into the headmasters eyes "their in Gryffindor tower, with your mother, little sister and your father" Dumbledore replied "my father" "yes your father, the password is Expecto" he smiled "you will need to change the password after my father leaves" Kat smiled and the Professer nodded and she turned around and walked out the way she came to go to the common room.
When Kat got to the Portrait of the fat lady she spoke the password and it opened, she walked in the room everyone's back was to her "so what have I missed" she said in a sarcastic voice, her mother was the closest she ran up to her and gave her a big hug followed by her friends and baby sister who had just learnt how to walk, her mother finally let go of her and gave all her friends a hug, the girls were crying with joy, while the guys were smiling, they finally let go of her and she gave Sirius one big hug.
"I thought I had lost you" he said hugging her tighter "for a minute their you did" then they kissed, he father on the chair watched all this what looked like in disgust, then she felt a little tug on her skirt she pulled away from Sirius and turned around and saw her sister who was standing up, she knelt down and gave her a big hug, "cat-ie" she said Kat smiled and hugged her again while her mother gasped and the others laughed and she said to her sister, "hey do you want to see a unicorn"
Then without even talking to Kat her father stormed out of the portrait and slammed it shut, Kat just ignored it like it was normal and stood up pinking her sister up, "I have to go to the Hospital Wing I'll tell you everything along the way and to that they all walked out of the Portrait, by the time they got to the Hospital Wing Kat had told them everything that happened after she feel down the hole, "cool" her sister said in amazement.
"Madam Promfrey" she called as she walked in the door "is she going to be ok" Kat said "yes she is fine, we will take her back to the forest latter tonight" Kat told the others to stay their and she took her sister over to see the Unicorn "oh Pretty" she said Kat sat down in a chair while her sister sat on her lap, "hey their girl" Kat said patting her softly "this is my little sister Aimee, she wont hurt you, and them over there are my friends they wont hurt either" she said as Aimee patted the unicorn, her friends & mother all came and sat around her.
Latter that night Kat walked the unicorn to the edge of the forest she hugged her and watched her galop of into the darkness of the forest, and she walked back to say goodbye to her mother as they left, she waved as they disappeared into hogsmeade, she walked back into the castle holding Sirius's hand, and looked up into his eyes happily, while her friends talked joylessly around them.