Disclaimer: Once again, I own nothing dealing with Harry Potter and all that J.K. Rowling has already created for our own enjoyment. She shall forever be my favorite, along with Pearl S. Buck.
A/N: I still don't know why I am writing this, but I guess for those of you who should read this and decide that you like it, here you go. Perhaps I should make this short and sweet and stop it as soon as possible so I shall not have to put myself through the torture of wondering why no one is reading this. Even though I know that no one likes Mary Sues.
The night of the Halloween ball came very quickly as Malya and Crystal prepared themselves, and their costumes, for it. They were both rather excited because this would be the first dance that both of them had been to together. They were certainly looking forward to it. Now, only a few moments before the event was to take place, they sat on Crystal's bed, talking excitedly. Well, Crystal was talking while Malya was listening patiantly. She was already dressed in a long, red and gold dress with a golden head dress that had a ruby dangling from it. Her shoes were satin red. She was going as the heir of Gryffindor while Crystal was going as the heir of Slytherin, even though they both knew that the heirs were quite possibly males. They didn't care.
"I am so excited because I heard that Carmen, Trinity, and Grace are planning on doing something horrible to Snape. As much as I hate to admit it, and you know it is hard for me to do so, he deserves whatever they are planning on doing to him. I mean, after that stunt he pulled on Professor Sprout and her garden. It was actually becoming quite beautiful until he hexed them all to turn a stale green and smell like an alcoholics breath once he threw up..." Crystal continued to chatter on excitedly about the garden as Malya just sat there listening to her babblings. But she was pulled away when she thought she saw something sweep by her friends door. This peeked her curiousity quite a bit.
"Hang on, Crystal," she said, absentmindedly.
"But I haven't told you the worse part of the spell," pouted Crystel.
"Yeah, um, I'll be back and you can tell me while we're going to the dance," said Malya, not really paying attention to her friends protests. She got up from the bed where she had been sitting and went out the door. She looked to her left and saw the last bit of a black cloak turn another corner.
"Hello?" she called. "Is anyone there?" She only heard the persons footsteps, so she decided to follow the person. Whoever it was, he or she was heading for the Great Hall. Malya quickly headed down the hall and turned the corner once again to just see that this person was an adult and a male. But from the back, Malya could not tell who it was or if is was even a teacher. In fact, this man didn't even look like any of the professors that worked there at Hogwarts.
"Mister, wait!" she called, running after the figure. But he would not wait for her. She gathered her dress and began to run down the hall after the fleeing character. She chased him, all the time just missing him as he turned a corner. Finally, she had made it to the Great Hall, but the man had completely disappeared.
"Where did he go?" she asked herself.
"I'm right here," said Draco from right behind her. This caused Malya to nearly jump out of her skin.
"Oh, Draco, you scared the crap out of me," she said. "No, not you. I was just looking for-" she trailed off while she looked around the room.
"For who?" asked Draco.
"No, no one. It doesn't matter," smiled Malya. Everyone had filtered in and were dancing to the music. It was quite dark with the exception of the lights that were dancing over everyones heads. The music was loud enough for Malya to raise her voice when she needed to talk.
"Where's Crystal?" asked Draco.
"Oh cripe, I left her back at the Slytherin common room," gasped Malya. She turned to leave.
"I'll come with you," said Draco. "I don't want Pansy to find me down here alone or she'll probably force me into a dance." This caused Malya to chuckle as she thought of Draco being spun around by Pansy Parkinson, one of the loudest Slytherins in the entire school. She nodded her head and they headed for the Slytherin commonroom.
"About bloody time," snapped Crystal. "I was about to leave and let you find your own way to the dance."
"Sorry,Crystal, I had something I needed to find," said Malya. She then told Crystal and Draco about the man that she followed all the way to the Great Hall.
"Wow, that's creepy," said Crystal, running her hands up and down her arms.
"And you say you have absolutely no idea who this man was?" asked Draco.
"No idea," said Malya.
"Do you think we should tell Professor Dumbledore?" asked Crystal.
"Probably," said Malya. "I don't know what else there is to do." Just then, they felt a rumble as the entire castle shook.
"Earthquake? In England?" called Crystal.
"Is that possible?" asked Malya as she tried desperately to keep her balance. But none of them could since they all fell to the ground. It was another two or three minutes before the shaking stopped and they were able to get back up again.
"What the bloody hell was that?" asked Draco as he proceeded to help up Crystal and then Malya.
"I don't know but I don't like it," said Malya, near tears. "Let's go to the Great Hall. Maybe Dumbledore can tell us what that was." The three rushed to the Great Hall and were thoroughly surpirsed with what they saw. Everyone was still dancing as though nothing had happened. The music was playing, the lights going wild, and the students were still dancing.
"What is wrong with everyone?" asked Draco.
"Let's go to Dumbledore," said Crystal. But before they could get to the front of the Great Hall, the lights and music died down completely, causing students to scream as if they were being killed. There was an evil laugh as everyone felt a gust of wind rush across their faces. What was going on? Then, when the lights came back on, Draco and Malya saw that Crystal was no longer there, but had been taken. Then, the same chilling voice that had laughed talked to them.
"If you want to see Crystal again, come out and get her!" There were screams and crying from the students until Dumbledore commanded their silance.
"I need all of the students to go single file to their classrooms and-" He was interrupted by Malya, who had finally made her way up to the front of the Hall where all the teacheres sat.
"Sir, we need to go out there and fight!" she called. "One of our own is out there and we need to get her back."
"Why should we risk our lives for a Slytherin?" shouted a female member of the Hufflepuff house.
"Yeah?" shouted a Ravenclaw boy. "When have they ever done anything for us?"
"Those hoity toity know it all prats never showed us any type of support!" shouted a boy from the Gryffindor house. Then the Slytherins joined in.
"You guys need the help!" shouted a girl. There was a great rucus as everyone began to fight. Then, Dumbledore quieted them all down.
"You all disappoint me a great deal," he said. "Think of all the times Miss Banta has helped you out."
"Exactly!" called Malya. "This has nothing to do with house pride or who is better than who. We should be helping each other out."
"She's right, you know?" said Draco, standing up next to her. "I, for one, have decided to help get Crystal."
"We'll help too," said Carmen as she, Trinity, Lucio, and Grace joined them.
"That is what I call united houses," smiled Dumbledore. Everyone shuffled their feet uncomfortably.
"Let's go," said Trinity. "Crystal's waiting for us." With a great cheer, everyone in the Great Hall ran to the front of the castle.