CHAPTER 9
THE CHOICE
Even though most people would've cheered and whooped from the thrill off ridding a Winged Horse, Julius fell asleep during the ride. With the wind rushing in his face, the breeze of the ocean current, and the smoothness of the horse's hide were all combinations that made Julius very relaxed, and eventually sleepy. This wasn't too much of a problem for Julius, for Coalmane nudged his head into Julius after a few hours.
"What is it, Coalmane?" yawned Julius. "I was just in a field of bunnies, hopping in a grassy field full of flowers with a giant sword in my hand". Coalmane then neighed, and once Julius looked down he saw what Coalmane meant- Stonehenge was right below them. "Okay, Coalmane, take us down". Suddenly, the horse shot down like a speeding bullet towards the formation of stones. Julius yelled to the horse to stop, but he ignored the comments. Julius swore that he was going to die, but when he closed his eyes and prayed to his God the horse expertly landed on his feet and trotted until he came to a complete stop.
Julius, who was shocked that he didn't die that die, flopped off the horse, and grabbed his wand. The first thing that he saw was Cleo, still trapped inside Attila's strange machine (which was placed in the middle of the stone, wiggling and trying to get out.
"Cleo!" exclaimed Julius. "I'm here!" Without thinking he ran towards the strange device, but Cleo kept wiggling even more.
"DON'T!" exclaimed Cleo. "Get away from me!"
"I'm trying to rescue you!" said Julius.
"IT'S A TRAP!" screamed Cleo. Suddenly, a deep voice behind Julius yelled 'EXPELIARMUS!' and suddenly Julius's wand flew out of his hand and fell on the floor. Before he had time to pick it up, he saw about five strange men with exotic masks on and one man that looked exceedingly familiar- it was Attila A'Killis.
"Hello, young Julius", said Attila. "I finally get to see you face to face and my you are a nice-looking chap."
"Just tell me what you want from me", exclaimed Julius. He was indeed nervous, for people like this either wanted to do something horrible to you or wanted you to do something horrible in exchange for something they desire greatly.
"Nothing horrible", said Attila as if he was reading Julius's mind. "I want you to hold my wand."
"Hold your wand!" exclaimed Julius. "Hold your wand! And I thought you were going to suck my guts out or something!" Julius then bent down and began to laugh. Attila went through all this trouble to steel his girl and send a message just so he could hold his wand? And Julius thought that winning the Lottery was exciting!
"You must hold it while I hold it", said Attila. Julius crept closer in a very cautious manner to towards Attila, for this might have been a trick or something. "Don't worry! I don't bite".
"Are you sure?" asked Julius. Suddenly, Attila flipped his wand in front of him.
"You must grasp a hold of it", said Attila. Julius, who thought that it could do no harm, grabbed the wand as if he were just grabbing a piece of fruit to eat. Suddenly, Julius was transported into a very dark room. In fact, he room was so dark that Julius could not see his body. He heard voices, however. Lots of voices. Some he recognized, some he didn't. Even if he wanted to identify the voices he couldn't, for there were thousands of thousands of voices surrounding him. The noise was getting to him. It rang in his ears. He felt as if he was saturated in the pool of voices. Suddenly, there were a few voices louder than the rest.
"What should we do next, master?" said one voice.
"What we came here to do", said the other. "KILL THEM!" Julius's heart then stopped for a second. He heard several sounds that he had hear on November 13th 19824 the day his parents died. He heard his sister scream for Mary and run towards the house. He heard his father shout Trollamendus at a troll, and then he heard the troll fall on the house and his father and sister. He heard feet scamper. He heard dust whoosh past his ears. Then, he heard the swinging of a club and its crash on the ground. Julius knew what he was hearing. He was hearing the sounds he heard on the day his family was destroyed.
"Break it up, boys!" exclaimed a deep voice behind him. "You're acting like a bunch of pig pussies!" Julius then turned around and his eyes opened wide and he felt his eyes getting wet, for he saw the one face that he hoped he would never see again- the face of Blackstone. Blackstone was in a large cave, full of his little troll minions. All the trolls were fighting, and it seemed like Blackstone was trying to break the fight up. Julius would've loved the opportunity to see Blackstone's guts fly everywhere, but he had no wand, no training, and a bad headache. Suddenly he heard a voice behind him, a voice that made his blood boil.
"He is here..."said the voice. Julius recognized the voice instantly- it was Attila's.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD!" yelled Julius. Suddenly, he was back in the real world, in the valley of Stonehenge. Once he was back there, however, he flew back several feet until he bumped one of the stones.
"What's wrong?" asked Attila in a childlike manner. "Did I say something offensive?"
"You're using me so you can have the Blackstones in your cult!" exclaimed Julius. "I will not let you use them!"
"I already know where they are", said Attila. "They already know I'm going to get them. It's too late, young Julius. The Blackstones are coming. They will strike hard and fast. Nothing you can do will stop that."
"I will destroy you before you can make a move!" suddenly all of Attila's apostles began to laugh at the comment, and Julius play laughed with them. Suddenly, he lifted up his wand and shouted 'STUPIFY!" A stream of sparks then hit one of Attila's masked minions and he was sent flying back several feet.
"You will pay for that!" exclaimed Attila. "AVADA KEDARVA!" Suddenly, a deadly stream of light kept shooting towards Julius, but Julius just had the spell for this.
"BLOCKIUS MAXIMUS!" shouted Julius. Julius's wad then produce a pinkish circle at the tip, which caused the Death Curse to deflect off his wand and, miraculously, hit one of Attila's apostles.
"FELIPE!" exclaimed Attila. He then ran to his dead friend and clutched him in his hands, but not a single breath came from his mouth. "You will pay for your stupidity! Destroy him!" All of them then began to shoot Avada Kedarva at Julius, but his Blockius Maximus shield was still working. However, it began to dim down, which forced Julius to hide behind one of the large stones.
"You know hiding won't do anything", said Attila.
"I know something that will!" exclaimed Julius. Suddenly, with a shout of 'Wingardium Leviosa!' one of the stones was lifted high up into the air by Julius's command. Julius sent it shooting straight at Attila and his cronies, but all but two of the enemy escaped. Those two were disabled after they were hit, for the impact left them with broken bones and damaged spines.
"I'll show this kid the meaning of suffering!" exclaimed one of the apostles. "MACIOSA!" Suddenly, his wand transformed into a large mace, complete with a spike ball at the tip. He swung his new weapon at Julius, who dodged every swing, while chipping the stones in the process. One swing hit Cleo's cage, however, causing Cleo to scream at the close proximity of the weapon and making the apostle take several seconds to take the weapon out. Several seconds were all Julius needed, for once the weapon was free Julius had already aimed at the apostle.
"EXPELIARMUS!" shouted Julius. Suddenly, the mace went flying out of the apostle's hand, but the apostle was too thickheaded to move out of the way, so he was able to get a taste of his own medicine. Before Julius could take a breather another disciple crept up to him and began to shout 'AVADA KEDARVA!', but he only got to 'AVAD..' when Julius blocked the curse with 'Petrificus Totalus!', causing the disciple to freeze in place. Now, there was only one in the way between Cleo's safety and her death- Attila.
"I'm impressed, Julius", said Attila. "What a wide choice of word's you've got, there. However, I am more powerful than you."
"Whatever", sighed Julius. "That's what you'll be saying when you're in Azkaban."
"You fool!" exclaimed Attila. "The Dementors cannot hurt me! I am immune to their life sucking powers!"
"You'll burn in hell, then!"
"I was hoping to be your friend, but instead you chew up my proposal and spit it in my face while hurting my friends. For that, you shall suffer. EXPELIARMUS!" Before Julius could react his wand was flung out of his hand, and it was nowhere to be found. "I have had my way with you, Logan. I shall make sure you shall meet the same, sticky end as your parents!"
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" shouted a female voice. Suddenly, a large, bright white dolphin came shooting out of nowhere and hit Attila, whose wand flew out of the way. For some strange reason the spell affected Attila greatly, for he was screaming like was being eaten alive. The bright light then disappeared and Julius realized what happened- Cleo had conjured a patronus.
"Cleo!" exclaimed Julius. "How did that spell work? It's for Dementors!"
"Yes", said Cleo. "But when he said that the Dementors didn't affect him I realized that he didn't just have a mutation, he...."
"He what?"
"One of his parents was a Dementor". Suddenly, Attila ran for his wand, but Julius grabbed it first and used a few words to shoot flame at the wand, causing it to burn.
"Curse you!" exclaimed Attila, who fell down crying. "Curse you all! Do you have any mercy? Any at all?"
"Not when you are trying to suck the soul of my girlfriend", said Julius. Julius then used 'Alohamora' to unlock Cleo's cage, who leaped out of it and embraced Cleo. The two lovers then hugged deeply, and Julius felt a surge of happiness inside him. Cleo closed her eyes as if Julius was about to kiss him, but he put her down. "Let's just end this adventure first. ROMPEREMUS!" In a blinding second, Attila's torture machine was destroyed, and Julius finally did something he had wanted to do all his life- he kissed Cleo.
THE CHOICE
Even though most people would've cheered and whooped from the thrill off ridding a Winged Horse, Julius fell asleep during the ride. With the wind rushing in his face, the breeze of the ocean current, and the smoothness of the horse's hide were all combinations that made Julius very relaxed, and eventually sleepy. This wasn't too much of a problem for Julius, for Coalmane nudged his head into Julius after a few hours.
"What is it, Coalmane?" yawned Julius. "I was just in a field of bunnies, hopping in a grassy field full of flowers with a giant sword in my hand". Coalmane then neighed, and once Julius looked down he saw what Coalmane meant- Stonehenge was right below them. "Okay, Coalmane, take us down". Suddenly, the horse shot down like a speeding bullet towards the formation of stones. Julius yelled to the horse to stop, but he ignored the comments. Julius swore that he was going to die, but when he closed his eyes and prayed to his God the horse expertly landed on his feet and trotted until he came to a complete stop.
Julius, who was shocked that he didn't die that die, flopped off the horse, and grabbed his wand. The first thing that he saw was Cleo, still trapped inside Attila's strange machine (which was placed in the middle of the stone, wiggling and trying to get out.
"Cleo!" exclaimed Julius. "I'm here!" Without thinking he ran towards the strange device, but Cleo kept wiggling even more.
"DON'T!" exclaimed Cleo. "Get away from me!"
"I'm trying to rescue you!" said Julius.
"IT'S A TRAP!" screamed Cleo. Suddenly, a deep voice behind Julius yelled 'EXPELIARMUS!' and suddenly Julius's wand flew out of his hand and fell on the floor. Before he had time to pick it up, he saw about five strange men with exotic masks on and one man that looked exceedingly familiar- it was Attila A'Killis.
"Hello, young Julius", said Attila. "I finally get to see you face to face and my you are a nice-looking chap."
"Just tell me what you want from me", exclaimed Julius. He was indeed nervous, for people like this either wanted to do something horrible to you or wanted you to do something horrible in exchange for something they desire greatly.
"Nothing horrible", said Attila as if he was reading Julius's mind. "I want you to hold my wand."
"Hold your wand!" exclaimed Julius. "Hold your wand! And I thought you were going to suck my guts out or something!" Julius then bent down and began to laugh. Attila went through all this trouble to steel his girl and send a message just so he could hold his wand? And Julius thought that winning the Lottery was exciting!
"You must hold it while I hold it", said Attila. Julius crept closer in a very cautious manner to towards Attila, for this might have been a trick or something. "Don't worry! I don't bite".
"Are you sure?" asked Julius. Suddenly, Attila flipped his wand in front of him.
"You must grasp a hold of it", said Attila. Julius, who thought that it could do no harm, grabbed the wand as if he were just grabbing a piece of fruit to eat. Suddenly, Julius was transported into a very dark room. In fact, he room was so dark that Julius could not see his body. He heard voices, however. Lots of voices. Some he recognized, some he didn't. Even if he wanted to identify the voices he couldn't, for there were thousands of thousands of voices surrounding him. The noise was getting to him. It rang in his ears. He felt as if he was saturated in the pool of voices. Suddenly, there were a few voices louder than the rest.
"What should we do next, master?" said one voice.
"What we came here to do", said the other. "KILL THEM!" Julius's heart then stopped for a second. He heard several sounds that he had hear on November 13th 19824 the day his parents died. He heard his sister scream for Mary and run towards the house. He heard his father shout Trollamendus at a troll, and then he heard the troll fall on the house and his father and sister. He heard feet scamper. He heard dust whoosh past his ears. Then, he heard the swinging of a club and its crash on the ground. Julius knew what he was hearing. He was hearing the sounds he heard on the day his family was destroyed.
"Break it up, boys!" exclaimed a deep voice behind him. "You're acting like a bunch of pig pussies!" Julius then turned around and his eyes opened wide and he felt his eyes getting wet, for he saw the one face that he hoped he would never see again- the face of Blackstone. Blackstone was in a large cave, full of his little troll minions. All the trolls were fighting, and it seemed like Blackstone was trying to break the fight up. Julius would've loved the opportunity to see Blackstone's guts fly everywhere, but he had no wand, no training, and a bad headache. Suddenly he heard a voice behind him, a voice that made his blood boil.
"He is here..."said the voice. Julius recognized the voice instantly- it was Attila's.
"GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD!" yelled Julius. Suddenly, he was back in the real world, in the valley of Stonehenge. Once he was back there, however, he flew back several feet until he bumped one of the stones.
"What's wrong?" asked Attila in a childlike manner. "Did I say something offensive?"
"You're using me so you can have the Blackstones in your cult!" exclaimed Julius. "I will not let you use them!"
"I already know where they are", said Attila. "They already know I'm going to get them. It's too late, young Julius. The Blackstones are coming. They will strike hard and fast. Nothing you can do will stop that."
"I will destroy you before you can make a move!" suddenly all of Attila's apostles began to laugh at the comment, and Julius play laughed with them. Suddenly, he lifted up his wand and shouted 'STUPIFY!" A stream of sparks then hit one of Attila's masked minions and he was sent flying back several feet.
"You will pay for that!" exclaimed Attila. "AVADA KEDARVA!" Suddenly, a deadly stream of light kept shooting towards Julius, but Julius just had the spell for this.
"BLOCKIUS MAXIMUS!" shouted Julius. Julius's wad then produce a pinkish circle at the tip, which caused the Death Curse to deflect off his wand and, miraculously, hit one of Attila's apostles.
"FELIPE!" exclaimed Attila. He then ran to his dead friend and clutched him in his hands, but not a single breath came from his mouth. "You will pay for your stupidity! Destroy him!" All of them then began to shoot Avada Kedarva at Julius, but his Blockius Maximus shield was still working. However, it began to dim down, which forced Julius to hide behind one of the large stones.
"You know hiding won't do anything", said Attila.
"I know something that will!" exclaimed Julius. Suddenly, with a shout of 'Wingardium Leviosa!' one of the stones was lifted high up into the air by Julius's command. Julius sent it shooting straight at Attila and his cronies, but all but two of the enemy escaped. Those two were disabled after they were hit, for the impact left them with broken bones and damaged spines.
"I'll show this kid the meaning of suffering!" exclaimed one of the apostles. "MACIOSA!" Suddenly, his wand transformed into a large mace, complete with a spike ball at the tip. He swung his new weapon at Julius, who dodged every swing, while chipping the stones in the process. One swing hit Cleo's cage, however, causing Cleo to scream at the close proximity of the weapon and making the apostle take several seconds to take the weapon out. Several seconds were all Julius needed, for once the weapon was free Julius had already aimed at the apostle.
"EXPELIARMUS!" shouted Julius. Suddenly, the mace went flying out of the apostle's hand, but the apostle was too thickheaded to move out of the way, so he was able to get a taste of his own medicine. Before Julius could take a breather another disciple crept up to him and began to shout 'AVADA KEDARVA!', but he only got to 'AVAD..' when Julius blocked the curse with 'Petrificus Totalus!', causing the disciple to freeze in place. Now, there was only one in the way between Cleo's safety and her death- Attila.
"I'm impressed, Julius", said Attila. "What a wide choice of word's you've got, there. However, I am more powerful than you."
"Whatever", sighed Julius. "That's what you'll be saying when you're in Azkaban."
"You fool!" exclaimed Attila. "The Dementors cannot hurt me! I am immune to their life sucking powers!"
"You'll burn in hell, then!"
"I was hoping to be your friend, but instead you chew up my proposal and spit it in my face while hurting my friends. For that, you shall suffer. EXPELIARMUS!" Before Julius could react his wand was flung out of his hand, and it was nowhere to be found. "I have had my way with you, Logan. I shall make sure you shall meet the same, sticky end as your parents!"
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" shouted a female voice. Suddenly, a large, bright white dolphin came shooting out of nowhere and hit Attila, whose wand flew out of the way. For some strange reason the spell affected Attila greatly, for he was screaming like was being eaten alive. The bright light then disappeared and Julius realized what happened- Cleo had conjured a patronus.
"Cleo!" exclaimed Julius. "How did that spell work? It's for Dementors!"
"Yes", said Cleo. "But when he said that the Dementors didn't affect him I realized that he didn't just have a mutation, he...."
"He what?"
"One of his parents was a Dementor". Suddenly, Attila ran for his wand, but Julius grabbed it first and used a few words to shoot flame at the wand, causing it to burn.
"Curse you!" exclaimed Attila, who fell down crying. "Curse you all! Do you have any mercy? Any at all?"
"Not when you are trying to suck the soul of my girlfriend", said Julius. Julius then used 'Alohamora' to unlock Cleo's cage, who leaped out of it and embraced Cleo. The two lovers then hugged deeply, and Julius felt a surge of happiness inside him. Cleo closed her eyes as if Julius was about to kiss him, but he put her down. "Let's just end this adventure first. ROMPEREMUS!" In a blinding second, Attila's torture machine was destroyed, and Julius finally did something he had wanted to do all his life- he kissed Cleo.