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  Chapter 18

            Ron held out his light-stick, the beam of light stretched out a few feet in front of them.

            He saw Hermione shiver next to him, "What's wrong?" he asked turning to her.

            She shook her head, "Nothing, just…cold."

            The deeper they went into the forest, the colder it got.

            Suddenly, something rustled in the bush next to them. He felt Hermione step closer to him.

            Ron advanced towards the bush, but then he felt Hermione hold him back.

            "Don't." she said softly, "What if it hurts you?"

            At that very moment Ron wanted to forget about everything, that they were prisoners of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, that all his friends and family were trapped somewhere in a tower, and that they had to catch this dangerous creature.

             All he wanted to think about was Hermione.

            He never noticed how brown her eyes were, or how much he just wanted to kiss her. He knew that they had an attraction between them, but it was never that obvious until now.

            It was positively radiating from their bodies how much they wanted each other.

            All of a sudden, he felt himself being pushed backwards, the next moment he was lying down on the ground.

            He snapped out of his daze and looked around, Hermione was at his side. Her eyes were wide with fright and…anger.

            "How could you be so stupid? Didn't you see that thing come out of the bush?" Hermione said angrily getting up, "No, of course you didn't! You must have been thinking about some other g-girl! I don't even know why I bother!"

            She looked as if she was ready to walk away, but then she just folded her arms across her chest.

            Ron jumped to his feet, "Not bothering to walk away, are you? Too scared that the Mongomery is going to come after you?" he retorted, all the love feeling he had towards her melting away.

            "It's not Mongomery, you stupid idiot! It's Mongaroo!"

            "Same difference."

            "Ron, it's completely different!"

            Ron heard something growling a few feet away from them, his head snapped to the left and he saw the strangest animal looking at him.

            It was the Mongaroo! Its head was like a monkey but the bottom half of the creature was like a kangaroo, with the pocket and everything.

            Hermione must've heard the growling too, because she wasn't yelling at him anymore.

            He tried to push back the thoughts of Hermione and how he was crazy to think that she liked him back. Just because she talked to him in that gentle tone didn't mean that she actually cared about him!

            The Mongaroo sniffed the air, and then he used his big gorilla-like arms to push against the earth to lift himself up a few feet into the air.

            Ron stood frozen on the spot. He could barely feel Hermione clutching onto his dragon hide shirt and pushing him backwards into the cluster of trees.

            The Mongaroo didn't look very happy at Hermione's attempt to flee from it, so it made this weird gurgling sound, smoke emitted from it's ears. It was a light green shade, which glowed in the dark. Without any warning, bright red and orange flames were given out from the Mongaroo's mouth.

            "H-how are we supposed to capture that thing?" Hermione asked still pulling Ron farther away from the animal.

            "Maybe those food things will make it sleepy or something." Ron said putting his hand on one of the tree trunks and breathing heavily, "I think Ginny was telling me something about that from her Care of Magical Creatures essay she did a while ago."

            Hermione took the bag off her shoulders and pulled out the treats. She gave some to Ron.

            "Don't mind if I do." Ron said bringing it to his mouth.

            "Ron! That's not for you, you greedy bloke!"

            Ron laughed, "I know, I'm not stupid you know."

            "Well, then don't act like it!" Hermione snapped.

            Ron sighed. He didn't know why they always ended up fighting. Now he really knew that Hermione wasn't interested. On the other hand, maybe it was reverse psychology maybe she did like him but…but…he couldn't think of a reason for his theory.

            He was brought back to earth when he heard Hermione scream.

            Stay focused! He commanded himself. He looked in front of him and saw the Mongaroo jumping towards them at a deadly fast pace.

            "Hermione! Run!" Ron exclaimed grabbing onto Hermione hand with his free hand and running.

            "The bag! It's all on the floor!"

            "Just-leave-it!" he panted, picking up speed. He could hear Hermione whimper behind him.

            "It's catching up." She said.

            We have to make it…we have to make it…Ron kept thinking repeatedly. He had to stay positive or else they wouldn't stand a chance of making it alive out of the forest.

            Suddenly, Ron heard Hermione groan, "It burned me!" she exclaimed.

            Ron heard Hermione fall to the ground; he turned around and saw the Mongaroo quickening its pace.

            "C'mon Hermione…get up." He tried to pull her to her feet. He looked behind him and he could almost see the entrance to the forest…if only Hermione would get up!

            "Just leave me here." Hermione said pleadingly, "You go ahead."

            "Are you mad?!" Ron exclaimed. He couldn't imagine living alone in that dungeon, without her.

            Ron looked up and he saw the animal standing over Hermione. It bared its yellow long teeth, ready to spit fire at them again.

            Ron remembered that he had the treats in his hand. It's now or never, he thought throwing the treats into the mouth of the Mongaroo, which was wide enough to fit a house!

            He watched as the animal swayed from side to side, its eyes looked unfocused. Then, it fell to the ground heavily, making the earth shake beneath his feet.

            "Oh, Ron!" Hermione exclaimed, "You did it!"

            Ron shrugged his shoulders as if it were no big deal.

            I did it for you.