Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own anything dealing with Harry Potter or whatever else. Yeah, same ole' same old!
A/N: I am sorry if the last two chapters seem rather rushed, but no one has been reading this, so I don't think you guys would mind.
The crowed stopped outside when they saw Tom Riddle, holding Crystal in his left arm, his right hand holding his wand to her cheek.
"Riddle!" commanded Dumbledore as he made his way to the front of the crowd. "Let her go."
"What makes you think that I would listen to you, old man?" hissed Tom, that ever present smile on his face.
"If you don't, then not only shall you be given the dementors kiss once you are caught, but you shall also have the blood of an innocent life on your hands! Is that really worth the dying for?"
"Stop your foolish mind games, Albus, and give me what you know I came for!" commanded Tom.
"What are you talking about?" asked Dumbledore, even though he knew perfectly well what Tom was talking about. He had to stall as long as he possibly could if he was going to give every student the chance to live.
"Don't play the fool, you crazy old coot! I came here for the boy and girl!" Tom saw that Dumbledore knew what he was talking about and smiled devishly.
"Malya! Draco! Come forward!" commanded Dumbledore. Malya and Draco stepped forward. By now, it had begun to rain. The drops landed on every student, even though no one really cared. He looked at them both. "It is your choice on what is to be done."
"There has to be another way," pleaded Carmen as she walked up with them.
"I swear that I shall do my best to have everyone return home safely," said Dumbledore. "You cannot ask more than that from me. I cannot work miracles, and that you must understand." Malya and Draco nodded.
"Come on, old man, I grow weary of this waiting. You've stalled long enough!" called Tom.
"You ready?" asked Malya. Draco nodded. Without another word, they both changed into their animagi form, the dragon and the unicorn. They both charged Tom, dodging every spell that he cast at them. The other students and the professors were suddenly fighting off dementors that appeared. There must have been three of four hundred dementors on the loose and no one could be left off guard.
Draco let out a burst of flames. He did not let them reach Tom, because to singe him would mean to singe Crystal as well. He made it hot enough so that Crystal was soon released from Tom's grasp and was able to go. Malya called for her cousin to climb on her back and she did, wand in hand.
"Come on, Malya, show me what you got," she called.
"Grace!" called Crystal. Grace looked at her friend. Crystal nodded in the dragons direction and Grace nodded. Without another word, she pulled out her wand and jumped onto the scaly back of the dragon. Both the unicorn and the dragon, along with their riders, flew up into the air and began to weave between the dementors. This was because of a charm that Crystal had put on Malya. Crystal and Grace were attacking the dementors left and right, sending each spell as fast as the words could come out of their mouths.
"Get them!" cried Tom to his dementors. As soon as fifty or sixty more dementors had disappeared, Tom grew even more angry and called all of them off. "You've gone too far. Now, deal with me, the darkest and most powerful wizard there ever was!" Without another word, he began to fly upward, without the use of a broom.
"Split up!" exclaimed Crystal. She and Malya dove one way while Grace and Draco went the other way. Draco turned back and snorted as if to say, 'hang on tight', and Grace did. Malya whinied in a horse like fashion as if to tell Crystal the same thing, and she did.
"I shall get you two if it is the last thing I do!" hissed Tom. And then, as everyone looked on, he spun around and turned into a demon with two big, black wings, two horns protruding from his chin, and red eyes that resembled blood.
Malya whinnied once again to Crystal, asking, "You got any more bright ideas?" Crystal would have glared at her if she could.
"I'm working on it!" she cried. There was an evil laugh as Tom cried out a spell and threw it at Draco. He narrowly escaped, and the spell hit the ground. Unfortunately, it wiped out the entire staff and many of the students that were still on the ground fighting off dementors. The remaining dementors took off as quick as lightning, and the remaining students that had not been harmed by the now fleeing creatures or knocked out by the spell were left wondering what to do. With the rain falling madly upon them now, and the only one left to fight was Tom, who was currently fighting in the air. Suddenly...
"Harry, I've got an idea," called Hermione. "Accio brooms!" Within seconds, the three had their brooms. "Come on to the astronomy tower!" They mounted their brooms.
"Well, what do we do, then?" asked Seamus.
"Get the teachers to the hospital wing," said Hermione. "I noticed Madam Pomphrey isn't here. See where she is and see if she can fix it." She then proceeded to zoom off toward the Astronomy tower, Harry and Ron close beside her.
"I could use that plan right about now," Malya called pleadingly as she dodged yet another one of the curses.
"Head for cover!" called Crystal.
"That's the best you've got?" called Grace.
"You come up with something then," snapped Crystal.
"You're the smart one," Grace shot back. Just then, a spell hit Draco in the side of his head and he began to fall to the ground. Crystal produced a spell that caused him to go slowly enough for him not to be hurt any more than he already was. Grace, unfortunately, had still been on him and was soon pinned between him and the ground. Luckily, because of the kind of spell it was, he quickly changed into his normal self, so she was able to push him off.
"Come on, to the hospital wing," she said, levitating him and rushing to the hospital. She didn't want to get hit or for him to get hit again.
"Quickly, Malya," called Crystal. "We've got to act fast." She whispered in Malya's ear her plan and with a quick nod and a click of the tongue, Malya took a nose dive to the ground and Tom flew after her. Malya quickly pulled back up again and Tom stayed right behind her.
"Cripe! It didn't faze him one bit!" called Crystal. They flew around and then Crystal saw Hermione, Ron, and Harry in the Astronamy tower. She called to Malya to go to where they were and Malya did so. She then stopped and turned around.
"COME AND GET US!" called Crystal. Tom rushed up and hit Malya with a spell. Malya tried to get out of the way, but wasn't fast enough. She was hit and she fell to the ground. When she finally hit it, Crystal fell on top of her. She prepared to be hit, but looked up and saw a light illuminating from the Astronamy tower. It was going straight into Tom's chest and he was screaming in pain. Soon, he burst into flames and disappeared. She turned back to Malya.
"Come on, come on, turn back," she muttered. But she didn't and Madam Pomphrey came out of the front door.
"Let's take her to the stable," she said. "She won't fit into the infirmary..."
A/N: Sorry again for the long chapter! There was a lot to write about!