Discy: On Chapter 2, not prologue, not Chapter 1, but Chapter 2!!
(A/N: I'm in Spain now, in my apartment watching the buff guy swimming in the pool!! The beach is right opposite us btw, isn't that appropriate!!)
Okay so here is part two of SOS.
*********The Last Night Here, I Hope*********
Holly woke to find that she had slept rather comfortably considering the state she was in. But as she properly got out of her slumber she realised the binding spell was off and she was in a bed.
Hold on a minute, what happened to the binding spell, oh well, I'm not complaining. But whose bed is this? Ew! It's made of snakeskin!
"Sleep well, sweet heart?" Cole was back, in his original form, "Don't worry at night, as in exactly 11.53pm, I change back into my normal body. It's only 7pm at the moment."
I'm no sweet heart of yours. "Who's – I mean how did I get in this bed?" Holly gazed down and nearly screamed, she was wearing a black dressing gown – translucent, "And what – I mean who put this on me?"
"Well, I carried you into my bed, and don't worry, I slept on the floor. I still love you Holly, I wouldn't dream of hurting you. And the nightgown – like it? My choice, but all I did was just flick my wand, don't fret about it." Cole calmly sat down on the bed.
"Don't think I'm going to say thank you, Cole, because I won't," Holly stammered out.
"I wasn't counting on it," Cole moved closer towards Holly, he was only wearing his boxers she noticed.
"Cole –"
Their lips met in a flash, and Cole forced Holly's lips apart, his arms wrapped around her. Holly tried to move away from him, lips still locked. She pushed hard and Cole came off her. At the same time, Holly shot her hands up and froze Cole half way through falling. He landed softly on the bed, his body in the same shape.
It suddenly occurred to Holly what had happened, now she was free, she could keep Cole frozen until she found a way to escape. Then she remembered something –
"The ceiling is held by a freezing enchantment, when I'm knocked out or anything, the freezing enchantment will give way in four hours. Enough time for me to wake up, or if I'm dead, there will not be any traces of my home left."
Only four hours, Holly thought that she should hurry now or maybe she could send a witch message to Ron, Harry. Yes, and tell him that I am here, at the bottom of a well.
Holly found her wand on top of Cole's and she cast a four-point spell.
"North-East, I'll tell Harry I'm at the bottom of well, North-East of the Russian School of Sorcery," Holly murmured.
To her fright, the water above shook violently, not yet, she still had three and a half hours to go.
*********On Our Way*********
"Everybody set?" Rose called as she, Nick, Aurora, Russell, Riana, Leah, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Liz mounted their brooms.
"Yes!" They all shouted at once.
"I'll go first, I've got a Lighteningstrike, too," Harry said proudly.
"I'll go with him," Ron came up with a comet 64, "Russell and – Harry! You okay mate?"
Harry eyes went out of focus but quickly returned to normal, "Yeah, fine." (A/N: Remember when Harry had a fit? In Liz's first ever appearance? If not go back to that chapter and read it! It's important!)
"You don't look it, mate," Ron put an arm around his shoulders.
Harry then put both hands to his head and concentrated hard, it was not like his previous action.
"Just had a message from Holly. We'll have to change courses; Russell and Aurora, you travel off the Northeast boundary line. Holly said that she is in a well – Northeast from here, and the only well around here is on Dragon Snout's Peak. Riana and Leah, you will travel off line too, but to the left hand side of it. Liz and Rose, circle the well. Ron and I will go straight towards them," Harry ordered them around smoothly.
"Glad to know she's safe," Aurora let out a deep breath as they set off to go.
"Yeah, figures though. The reptile demon has his layer on top of a sleeping dragon," Liz thought aloud.
Their journey was slightly troubled by the chaotic winds trying to push them off course, but they struggled on. Harry saw a glimpse of the Dragon Snout's Peak in the distance, and immediately hurtled towards it. Ron came up shortly afterwards.
"Do you see that enormous hole in the ground? That's the well," Ron stated.
As Harry and Ron sped towards the well, and landed safely on the edge, another thought entered Harry's brain.
"Thank you for stating the obvious," Harry said, "Only thing now, is how are we going to get down there without the water killing us?"
"How can you forget we are whitelighters thicko, we can just orb down there," Ron smacked Harry on the head.
*********The Ball*********
"What's wrong Hermione –?"
"That's Granger to you," Hermione shot a venomous look towards Malfoy.
"Hermione (Hermione glared at Malfoy), why don't you love me anymore? I didn't do anything to you, it was that Parkinson," Malfoy pleaded an answer from Hermione as they walked towards the Main Hall.
Hermione was wearing the blue and silver dress she had found in her wardrobe, the one Malfoy had given her – but Hermione didn't know that. She wore an opal necklace and set of earrings to match, and a pair of opal bracelets hung from her wrists. Silver sandals protected her feet, and her metallic blue nails shone in the light
Malfoy wore a dark suit, with a dark silk shirt with the first two buttons open. His hair was gel free but neatly styled – spiky but smooth. A thick silver chain hung from his neck and a silver watch on his wrist. He wore leather shoes on his feet.
"I heard you talking to Parkinson. Saying how you would leave me for some odd reason to do with your father," Hermione answered coolly, "I had heard enough so as I turned my back, SMACK, I was down. And it was all your fault!"
As she shouted she decided to turn back and run all the way to her room, but as
she turned, Malfoy took hold of her hands and drew her closer to him.
"I'm so sorry. If only I could have stopped Pansy, maybe you would still love me," Malfoy looked carefully into her chocolate brown eyes, picturing them together again.
"It's a little too late now," Hermione pulled away from him, she was still in love with Malfoy, but she wouldn't tell him till he proved he wouldn't break up with her, "Let's go and open this stupid ball."
She sped up her rhythm and Malfoy practically had to run to keep up with her. Once they reached the hall, she quickly linked arms with him, her eyes avoiding contact with his. The doors opened and whatever noise or movement that went on inside went out. Everything was still and quiet as the two walked into the centre of the hall.
From the corner of the hall, music started to play softly, a twinkling tune. As the instruments were played, sparks of light flew from them and circled the now dancing pair.
Malfoy looked steadily on at Hermione, whereas she looked at the floor. It was covered with smoke – more like clouds.
Soon the other students joined in the dance and once the second song started to play, and everyone was dancing, Hermione broke away from Malfoy. She fled to the drinks bar, and ordered an ocean spirit.
Malfoy pushed through the crowds and sat by Hermione side, still looking steadily towards her.
Suddenly Hermione leapt into his arms and cried her eyes out.
"Oh, Draco. I do love you, I do," Hermione rested her head on his shoulder and soon fell asleep, still hiccoughing now and then from the drink and the crying.
Draco carried Hermione out of the hall and through the corridors, as they reached their dormitories, he lifted her on to her bed and flicked his wand. Hermione's clothes changed into a satin nightgown. Draco covered her with the bed sheets and left to go to his own room, a little happier.
*********Finally*********
"Argh!" Holly jumped as she felt a hand tap her shoulder, "God! Don't scare me like that!"
"Sorry Holly. Are you okay? I mean where's Zeladrix?" Ron blushed a bit.
"Cole is frozen for the moment – I'm a Charmed One, didn't Liz and Rose tell you that (Ron looked confused but then a light bulb lit up somewhere)," Holly held Ron's hand and Ron's face went even redder than his hair, if that's possible, "Come on, take me out of here."
"Not that easy, Holly. See we have to find this horn and get it back to the Rosicrucians – Liz will tell you about them. Then we have to kill Zeladrix and go home," Harry started the search for the horn.
"We only have two hours left down here before Cole is unfrozen and the water comes down on us. And what horn anyway?" Holly asked.
Harry and Ron gazed up at the ceiling.
"Cool!" Ron gasped, "The horn he has is to call dragons and reptiles from their sleeping state, there's one right under us now."
"Okay, let's find it then!" Holly screamed quite panicked by the idea of dragons and reptiles running everywhere.
After an hour later, they still hadn't found the horn and now panic and fear started to build frantically in their minds. Harry sped everything up and even decided looking under minature statues of snakes, Ron hands grew sweaty and he started to bite his nails, Holly's mind pictured Cole getting his hands on them – especially on her.
With ten minutes left to go, something stopped their search, Cole's body was turning into Zeladrix. The horrifying look on Holly's face made them look up at the ceiling. The water began to shake violently. Above the water they could see the others thinking to come down, Harry told them to back off by witch message. They tried to find a safe corner to hide in as the water began to slowly drip.
"We're gonna die!!!!!!!" Ron shrieked.
"Hurry! Get her out of –"
Harry was stopped in mid sentence, as the water gushed out rapidly surrounding the four all round. Harry gestured to Ron to get Holly out of there as fast as he could. Ron and Holly glanced worriedly at Harry, before he ordered them to go.
His last breath was starting to hurt his lungs; he should have asked Hermione how to perform a Bubble Head charm. Oh, Hermione, please help me. He thought. Even though he was a whitelighter, he needed to find the horn before he left.
A sudden thrashing to his right brought him back out of his nightmare – Zeladrix was not frozen anymore and now he wanted a piece of Harry's flesh.
Zeladrix turned into a water snake and darted in zigzags towards Harry. Harry made a flash to the throne and hid behind it, so as not be seen by Zeladrix.
Where is that flipin' horn? Oi! Rosicrucians I need some help down here! Harry thought desperately.
As if an answer to his prayer he felt a sharp object hit his hand as he slid it under the throne, the horn!
"Harry Potter! Don't think you can stay away from me forever – you can run but you can't hide!" Came the voice of Zeladrix.
Harry tried to use his orbing power to get himself out of there, but he could not concentrate on it. It would not stay in his grasp. His hand quivered as he held tightly on to the horn. Hs sight grew shaky and black spots appeared before him. He could hear the quick thrashing of Zeladrix's tail – or his whole body.
Oi! You keep on forgetting! A tiny voice suddenly came up in his aching head, you are a whitelighter and they cannot die twice – unless shit by a darklighter or believing they are dead. And you believe in death – Why, I ask? Come on get up!
"Yes, I'm a whitelighter, I can't die a second time!" Harry came out of his hiding place now full of newfound strength; it was time to kick some ass.
"I'm getting so tired of playing hide and seek, let's play kill the bloody human!" Zeladrix roared, his white fangs dripping with yellow acid.
"You forget, reptile freak, you can't kill me with your poison. I'm a whitelighter," Harry whispered to himself.
Harry decided to orb right there and then, and he would, believe me – I'm the freakin' author, but Zeladrix had a tight grip on his throat. Damnation! Why?
Harry wrenched on the tail trying to get it off whilst holding the beast's head away from him. Why so much cruelty? Maybe…
"Uh, hang on a sec, can I just tell my girlfriend I won't be coming home for tea? Speaking of tea, do you have some, I'm kind of thirsty?" Harry asked Zeladrix.
"What? What do you think I am? I am not so easily manipulated!" Zeladrix roared unravelling himself.
"Ahh, but it got you off me didn't it," Harry smirked evilly.
He grabbed Zeladrix's head tightly and concentrated on snapping its skull. CKKHEERACK!
The head dangled in his grip and he immediately let go, the livid snake turned into Zeladrix's original form – his scales peeling off.
Harry went back down after the body and snatched the horn from its teeth. As he turned to orb out of the water, he heard something that made him twist his neck painfully. His eyes grew wide and round and a few bubbles escape from his mouth as he gasped.
"Aurora, I'm so sorry," Harry saw the human form of Zeladrix croak.
Only the human form wasn't Cole, it was Russell.
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