Chapter 5: Charging Confusion
Vyk looked at all the stunned faces staring back at her. Vyk felt a hot steam of air behind her. She turned around and saw that the fire was still roaring and green. That wasn't supposed to happen, so it could not be good. She saw something tall and grey materializing in the fire. The leithfold's head and torso came out of the flames. Vyk backed up a few paces until she could see the leithfold fully glaring at her. Vyk drew her sword and was preparing to fight it, when the leithfold charged her. Vyk barely had time to move out of it's way. She swung and collided with the beast. Thud! The beast roared and flipped its angry head and charged again. Vyk didn't have any time to move and had no where to go, so she thrust her sword into the belly of the beast. The beast was not dead though. It scratched her arms and stomach before it finally closed it's eyes and slackened to the floor. Vyk felt numb and fuzzy. She looked around the Great Hall and back at all the staring confused faces. She gasped with pain and sagged on the wall for support. She slid down the wall and landed in a piled heap. She saw Dumbledore leaning over her and talking with some of the other teachers. Some of the older students had surrounded the teachers. Vyk tried to breathe, but was paralyzed and could not make her lungs constrict. She saw a distinct face in the crowd and tried to smile before the darkness engulfed her.
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Harry was eating dinner and trying to convince Ron not to quit Qudditch. He heard a big bang and looked up to the fire. It was green and a girl stepped out. She was very pretty. She had long hair that was braided and fell to her shoulder blades. She was wearing mens clothing and had a sword slung about her hips. She looked frightened and confused, almost like a rabbit. The fire was still glowing green, and should have died out by now, but something else came through the flames. Harry had no idea who this girl was, but she seemed different than most of the other girls he had ever met. She stepped back, and watch a hideous beast come out of the emerald flames. It was one of the ugliest things Harry had ever seen. It was tall and bald with long nail-like claws that were very sharp. It's pasty grey skin glowed with the flickering fire. It looked at the girl and became angry; evidently, the girl had done something to piss it off. The girl unsheathed her sword, and the creature charged, but the girl easily dodged it. The monster charged again, but she had no where to turn so she faced it head on.
She plunged her sword straight into it, but the creature fought for it's life by slashing her up on her arms, face, and upper body. The creature fell in a heap on the floor and the girl was grasping for life. Dumbledore rushed to her aid, and so did all the prefects and Harry. He was leaning over her and saw her stare up at him. Her piercing blue eyes clouded over to a dark blue and closed. Her lifeless body hit the ground with a thud. Dumbledore held all the students at bay by making them go to their dormitories, with their head of house leading them to their respected common rooms and lock the doors so no one could go out without a teacher going in to retrieve them.
Harry sat in the common room with the rest of his house and wondered why Dumbledore would do something so un-Dumbledore. The only other time, he had done something so weird was in third year when Sirus Black had entered the castle and attacked the portrait. This time they were being locked up in their dormitories for no apparent reason other than the girl who stepped through the flames. Harry looked over at Ron and Hermione, Ron was writing something and Hermione was back to her book. Harry looked back at the door, and it suddenly swung open. Professor McGonnagal stepped through and looked around the common room in one sweeping glance. "Ah. Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Granger, would you care to come with me, please?" Ron and Hermione stood up started walking towards the door. Harry looked at Ron quizzically and he shrugged his shoulders in a "Dunno" gesture. Harry watched as his two best friends walk out of the door. Ron and Hermione were prefects, so that is probably why they were taken out of the room and with Professor McGonnagal. But what if they weren't?