A/N
Thanks to all you loyal fans who keep reading the story. And a big, big, big thank you to everyone that reviewed the story! And I'm very sorry I haven't updated this for sooo long, I had troubles with the up=loading systems then I went away for a few days but anyway on with the story!
Chapter Sixteen
"Headmaster we have a problem…" Max said gravely. Dumbledore looked up from his work with deep concern. "You know how me and Willow can teleport in, out and around Hogwarts?"
"Yes…" Dumbledore said apprehensively.
"Well, I can't teleport, not at all. We shouldn't have waited another day. We should have left last night." Max said whacking himself in the head. "Stupid, stupid, stupid…" each time he said it he would whack his head.
"Max, there is no need to beat your self. We can still use a portkey to escape." Dumbledore said.
"Can we test that, can you make me a portkey that will move me from where I am to like behind you or something?" Max asked.
"Of course, that would be a good test." Dumbledore removed an old boot from his draw and waved his wad over it muttering a spell. He handed it to Max. "Five, four, three, two, one…" Nothing happened: nothing at all.
"We need to find Willow. I'll get her and come back…Oh Headmaster what is your password?" Max asked.
"Candy cane." Dumbledore said. Max nodded and ran from the room. He bolted to the Scooby's Portrait.
"Password?" the little girl asked.
"Umm, Hellmouth, Sunnyhell, yellow crayon?" max asked desperately. The girl just shook her head in a playful manner. "I don't have time for this." Max said. He just pulled the portrait open with magic and went in.
The Scoobys were sitting around a table eating breakfast.
"We have a problem Willow." Max said.
"What is it?" Willow asked.
"Try to teleport." Max said. She tried but nothing happened.
"Oh goddess; hold on." Willow said closing her eyes. She raised her hands; she seamed to place them on invisible objects; then returned to normal. "There a large amount of new charms placed over the school. This magic is amazing; I don't think I could crack them." Willow said with shock.
"We have to go to Dumbledore." Max said
"Yes let's." Willow said getting up.
"Do you want us to come up with you?" Buffy asked.
"Maybe, Buffy if you come with me." Willow said. Buffy nodded and the three of them left the room and strode down quickly to Dumbledore's office. When they got there they were greeted by Harry, Hermione and Ron. They were trying to guess the password.
"Jesus, move out of my way!" Max yelled pushing Harry and Hermione out of the way. "Candy Cane!" Max yelled extending his fingers to the gargoyle. It opened up and he, Willow, and Buffy stepped up on to the steps. The Trio followed closely behind. They went in without knocking and went straight to Dumbledore's desk.
"Have you tried…?" Dumbledore started but cut off when he saw the Trio. "What can I do for you three?" He asked turning to Harry.
"We want to hear the prophesy." Harry said stepping forward.
"There's a prophesy?" Max asked.
"Now is not the best time Harry…" Dumbledore said.
"Headmaster with all due respect I think you should tell him, and me, you don't want to repeat another O.O.T.P." Max said.
"O.O.P.T.?" Hermione asked
"Order of the Phoenix, you know umm, your fifth year." Max said.
"And what exactly wouldn't we want to repeat?" Hermione pressed, she was curious into what this boy thought he knew.
"You know…" Max said vaguely.
"What exactly would you be talking about?" She said her voice rising.
"Sirius's death as a mix of Albus and Harry's ignorance and stupidity!" Max said exasperated.
"This is not the time for this; we have a catalytically apocalyptic problem on our hands." Buffy said trying to break up the two. "You wanna know the prophesy, I'll give you the gist of it. It predicts the coming of a boy god, who will help the marked one defeat his enemy. Some one innocent will die; "white knights" will fight hell things. And if the marked one fails we all go to hell. And finally the Key will diminish and the boy god will become!" She said her voice rising.
"Whoa…" Max said in response, "this is bad and things have just got a lot worse…"
"What's happened?" Hermione asked.
"Well, you know how I said that there was a siege in progress?" Max asked curtly.
"Yes, last night when you flew in on the broom…" Hermione replied.
"Well do you know why we did all run away very, very quickly?" Max asked in a voice that one would use when talking to a baby, or small child.
"No, I assumed that we could portkey out or you and Willow could teleport us out." Hermione said.
"Well we can't." Max snapped in frustration.
"Well if you can't teleport we can still portkey." Hermione said. No one said anything. "Headmaster you can still make us a portkey can't you?"
"I am afraid I cannot at the present time Ms. Granger." Dumbledore said gravely. "And I must ask that you don't share this with any of your fellow students."
"Yes, of course headmaster…" Hermione said softly.
"I think you three should go back to your common rooms…" Willow said. "Now…" She said her voice rising. The Trio looked at Dumbledore and he nodded. They quickly exited.
"Headmaster, there are new charms over the school, heaps of them. And they are extremely powerful, it's like nothing I've seen before…and I've seen a lot." Willow said.
"Yeah, it's strange and new, and can feel it pressing on me it's so heavy. But we need a plan…" Max said.
"I do agree, though I am not sure as what we should do." Dumbledore said.
"Woh, woh, woh…do your girls have an e-mail?" Max asked Buffy excitedly
"Yeah some of them do…" Buffy said.
"I'll be right back!" Max said running from the room. He was back quickly and had a shoulder bag over his shoulder.
"What's that?" Buffy asked pointing to the bag.
"This is a laptop." Max said, puling it out; he placed it on the desk. He performed the same spell he used on his Ipod again but it was a little harder this time but he succeeded. He switched it on and got it running. He pulled out what looked like a small satellite disk and did it again. He looked for a connection for the net with the satellite thing.
"We aren't high enough here…" Max said, "Is the highest place in the school the Owlery?" he asked Dumbledore.
"Yes…" Dumbledore said.
"Well let's go." Max said packing up his equipment. As he was going out he turned to Willow.
"Umm, I know you have done a lot with computers, but I am a bit of a nerd myself." he explained, Willow smiled knowingly. "Well, that's not the point…I need you to go to Snape or any one. Can you make a "Ball of energy" is the best word. But it needs to be contained and it has to be able to leak out some. It's to keep the laptop working." Willow nodded. "Buffy follow me…" Buffy Max and Dumbledore walked briskly up to the Owlery.
They finally got there and they had to move the Owls out into the Hallways. They got strange looks from the students but it had to be done. There was a wooden box that Max set the laptop down on.
"Buffy could you put this up there…" Max handed the satellite thing to Buffy and pointed to a very high area where a piece of wood jutted out.
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Willow ran to Snape's Office and burst in. He looked up from his categorizing.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" Snape drawled.
"Not now Snape. Is there such a thing as an energy potion; that we can manipulate to electricity?" She asked bluntly.
"Why?" Snape asked curtly.
"Dumbledore needs it, as soon as possible."
"Yes there is a potion."
"Well, make it man!" Willow said ushering him off his seat.
Three ours later Willow was holding a small ball with a glowing potion in it. She quickly thanked Snape and walked briskly from the room. She ran to the Owlery and was greeted by the annoyed hoots of owls in the hallway. She pushed her way through the masses of owls, and ran up the stair case. She burst in and found Buffy, Max and Albus.
"Willow, did you get it?" Max asked rising from the laptop.
"Yep." She said showing him the vial of glowing liquid.
"Good, I need you to find a line out. I found a way to break through the shields but I can't find an internet connection. I have amplified my satellite with some charms but do you think you can get one; magically or normally?" Max said ushering Willow to the laptop.
"I can try…" Willow said looking at the laptop.
One and a half exhausting hours later, a grin crept on to Willow's face. They had connected up the energy into the computer and it was leaking well into the computer giving a good energy source. Willow started to type quicker a smile slowly getting larger. Max looked up from his drink and noticed Willows look of happiness.
"What's up Willow?" Max asked.
"I think I've got it." She said not looking away from the screen.
"Really?" Max said rushing over.
"Yep, we are now officially connected to the net." Willow said relaxing.
"That's great Willow, you're amazing." Max said, "You should go and get something to eat you look tired, and you should send Buffy up from the Great Hall." Willow nodded and got up and left sluggishly.
Before Buffy came up Max decided to check his e-mail. He got onto Hotmail and signed in. it worked. So far so good. He thought. He opened it and found it to have heaps of emails. He opened the first one that was from his mother.
Dear Max
Where ever you are, could you just give us a call to tell us you're all right? God knows how you got your stuff out of the house with out us knowing. But we miss you and we just want to know where you are, we want to know you're doing all right. We miss you, we just want to know why you left, we will always love you and we hope to hear from you.
Love Mum and Dad
Max was speechless; he didn't know what to think. Tears started to well up in his eyes. He was glad he was the only one in the room. Everyone else had gone to eat. He sat there not crying, he never cried, he couldn't even force himself to cry anymore. He sat there in silence. He heard Buffy coming and closed the e-mail window and opened a new one quickly.
"Buffy, can you e-mail all your girls and get them over here?" Max asked as she came into the room.
"I guess but I don't know how long it would take." She said uneasily.
"I don't think the bad guys aren't going to attack any time soon; so as long as they get here as quick as possible." He said getting up.
"If they can re-group somewhere nearby and just get here and we can attack from the outside from the inside and from Hogwarts at once." Buffy deduced.
"Yeah, brilliant minds think alike." Max quipped tapping his head. Buffy smiled.
"Are you ok?" Buffy asked a bit more seriously.
"Yeah…" Max said. "Why do I seem, not ok?"
"Well, I think you're taking it quite well that you're some boy god supposed to help save all humanity…" Buffy said.
"Yeah, I guess I am…" Max said leaving. "Do you know how to…" Max asked pointing at the computer.
"Yeah, I'm not completely computer illiterate." Buffy said with a smirk. She sat down and started to write to all her Slayers.
Max left, thoughts raced through his mind. About being such an important person and what had happened to the "him" in this world. Thoughts whirled through his mind from one subject to another. He drowned out his thoughts with his Ipod. Music bleared into his ears, and he walked in sync with the music he was listening to. There were students every where as they weren't out allowed outside. Max was wearing a lot of cloths and in the sun it was quite hot. He had been using quite a lot of magic and he could feel the effects. He hadn't eaten that much today but he didn't feel like he could. He was seated near the courtyard and decided to go back to his room. He rose and felt the blood rushing to his head.
"Shit" he said before falling to the ground unconscious.
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A/N
Hey sorry it took so long to post this I haven't had access to the net with my regular computer and there fore haven't been able to post this chapter. Sorry about that. Thanks to all of the people who did review this Fanfic. And I am aware of some of the spelling errors in previous chapters I just haven't had time to correct them all, again I apologize. Well as always, happy readings and writings people!—Oh one question what is the name of the "thing" that is in Fred's body…and what is she? Sorry I didn't really see enough of those last few episodes. But yeah if someone knows and can give me some info on that thanks!