Chapter Three
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Ginny Weasley had read the book nine times and was reading it again. Labyrinth seemed to be her only link to Ruby now. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered...," she read aloud. She felt the line screamed Ruby's name. She missed her so much, especially with the start of the order. She knew Ruby could help, she was smart, both muggle and wizard smart. She could...she could...she could just be here.
If she thought the next beast was going to be easy, Ruby was sorely mistaken, for the next beast was a hippogriff. All she could here in her head as it attacked her was Hagrid saying how interestin' they were. She tried the look in its eyes and gain its trust method, but it attacked her just the same. She then held out her wand and called for Petra. The dog scampered up from behind and lunged at the strange bird. The Hippogriff flew up and lashed out with its claws. "Petra, METEOR," Ruby called. The Grim did as it had before, freezing the hippogriff with a guttural growl, then howling. The rocks took a lot out of the hippogriff. Ruby sent the grim away and finished1 the hippogriff off with thunder. The hippogriff then bowed it's head to Ruby.
"Very good! You have progressed farther then I thought," Tom complimented.
"Thank you."
"But, I will ask you, not to name them."
"Well why not," she laughed.
"Because, they are dumb beasts and need to be kept in line."
"I think I will have to disagree with you."
He laughed, "You will learn."
She brought the Hippogriff back to the garden and found Petra licking his wounds. "Here," she ran to her dog and helped cure his wounds. She then turned to her new pet. "Now, to name you..."
Now that Petra and Asta were no longer enemies, they got along pretty good and as they spent more time with Ruby, they became more protective of her. But no one can be protected all the time.
One day, after a training session where she obtained a new piece of magic, demi, Ruby found herself exploring unknown territory in the dark lord's domain. She found herself in restricted areas, she was sure she wasn't supposed to know about. The first couple rooms help odd contraptions, rusty and old, and reeked of evil. She continued down a dark hallway of doors, each marked vacant except one where a blood curdling scream came out of. She closed her eyes and shuddered as the door opened.
'What the HELL are you doing here?" Ruby eyes flashed opened to see Lucius in front of her. "So, your highness thinks she is allowed down here, hmmm," he quickly grabbed her arms and dragged her into another room and slammed the door, which now said occupied. Ruby remained in stunned silence as Lucius continued, "Maybe you need to see what it is like, since you are so interested?" In the middle of the room was a small box. He opened it and threw her in, then piled a black sheet of snakes on top and closed the lid.
She did not dare to open her eyes or mouth. The snakes were like a thick blanket. She now did not open her eyes, because at least five snakes covered her face. It wasn't long before she pasted out.
When she awoke, she was in her room, in her pajamas and Tom sat in a chair next to her bed.
"Good evening, Ruby."
"How, did I..."
"You were in the box three days before Lucius told me where you were. You need to stop getting on his bad side. Also, you need to stay out of things where you don't belong. Next time, I will not be so kind to you." He left, leaving a cold feeling in the room. Soon, Sabo came in with some food.
"How are you feeling, miss?"
"A little confused, with..."
"I heard him. No matter if he saw Lucius throw you in that box, even if he took you from this room and then throw you in, you'd be wrong."
"So I figured." Ruby sighed, "Anything important happen while I was gone?"
"There is talk of using the dementors as a possible army."
"Yes, that's not to new."
"They are talking of using dreams to infiltrate there victims."
"Hmm, now that is news. I wonder how they expect to do that. Any new weak points?"
"None that I can see."
Ruby looked at her Hand maiden, "Knowing what they are going to do doesn't help much with out finding out a weakness." Ruby then opened her notebook, added the new information, and quickly tapped her wand on the page, which turned it blank.
