For disclaimers & exceptions see chapter 1.
Chapter 22003:
The Rj45 cruiser gently drifted across the surface of a large lake. The pirates gazed out of the porthole in disbelief, just three seconds ago they were in space, now they were on a lake. It just didn't make sense to them. Elentari held Gizmo in her arms and he buried his face in her black jacket.
"AHHH…Bright light! Bright light!" He squeaked. Silver-Raven stood in front of the porthole to cover Gizmo from the sunlight.
"Did you forget that sunlight can KILL him?!" He yelled. Elentari narrowed her eyes.
"No, I didn't forget! I just thought that the sun wouldn't shine in that much!" She snapped. Silver-Raven shook his head as he walked over to the bed and took the sheet off. He tossed it to Elentari, who caught it and wrapped it around Gizmo. They exited the room and hurried to the loading bay, Silver-Raven pressed a few buttons on the panel that was on the wall next to the door they just came through. Half the room opened up as the bay door slowly rose. Sunlight flooded in as it opened wider. Elentari made sure that Gizmo was completely covered when the light started to crawl up her legs Gizmo could feel the warmth of the light and Elentari could feel him quivering under the sheet.
"Don't worry, it's ok. You won't get in the light." She said soothingly. Silver-Raven walked towards the edge of the loading bay and leant out. A forest surrounded the lake and slightly to his left was a massive castle with turrets and towers, the stained glass windows stood out from the grey stone walls. The ship dipped slightly as the weight shifted. Silver-Raven jumped backwards before water started to leak into the ship.
"How do we get to the shore? The engines aren't working." Elentari said. Silver-Raven shrugged his shoulders.
"I have no idea." He replied. He turned once more to face outside when he saw something.
"What's that?" Elentari asked as she pointed to the many black objects flying towards them.
"I don't know and I don't think I wanna know!" Silver-Raven yelled. He ran to the panel and tried to close the door, nothing happened.
"Don't tell me EVERYTHING on this heap of shit is bust!" He yelled to himself. Elentari looked out the bay door and the looked back at Silver-Raven, who was cursing the ship and the doors.
"Quick! They're getting closer!" She yelled and looked back at the objects. She could make them out by now, they looked human, but they were on…broomsticks!
"What the fuck is going on?" She asked herself. The first of the humans stopped and hovered just in front of the door. The two pirates stood and stared at them nervously, they looked human, but humans didn't fly on broomsticks…did they? They stood in silence for several minutes before one of the flying humans spoke up.
"Who are you?" A boy with red hair asked, he seemed just as nervous as they were. He was wearing a red robe that draped down to his feet.
"W-we c-could ask you the s-same question." Elentari stuttered. The boy didn't answer, instead he looked at another boy with jet-black hair. He turned to the two pirates and pushed his circular glasses back up his nose. He was wearing the same robes as the other boy.
"My name's Harry, what's yours?" He asked in a friendly tone.
"I'm Silver-Raven and she's Elentari. That thing under the sheet is Gizmo." Silver-Raven answered. Elentari nodded as she held a quivering Gizmo in her arms. As soon as Silver-Raven had finished addressing himself and his companion, Harry and the other humans gasped. They began whispering amongst themselves. Elentari edged closer to Sliver-Raven, while trying to keep Gizmo from jumping out of the sheet.
"What are they talking about?" She asked. Every now and again, someone would look over at the two confused pirates and then go back to whispering. Silver-Raven shrugged his shoulders and looked at Elentari.
"I have no idea, they seem to know our names." He said before looking at Harry, who had turned to look back at them.
"You have to come back to the school with us. There's someone who would like to meet you." He said.
"And how do you propose we get off this ship?" Elentari asked in a demanding tone. Harry looked at them stupid.
"Don't you know how to fly?" The boy asked.
"Ummmmm……no." Elentari replied. Harry's face dropped, as did the other humans.
"Everyone knows how to fly, its common knowledge!" He exclaimed.
"Well we're……...not………from around here." Silver-Raven replied. The boy with red hair flew towards Harry and hovered next to him.
"Are they muggles?" He asked him.
"Fred, they're right over there, you don't have to ask me to find out." Harry replied.
"Yeah, don't be such an ignorant prick!" Elentari yelled quietly. Fred sighed and looked over at the two strangers, three counting Gizmo. He cleared his throat and took a deep breath.
"Are you two, or three, muggles?" He asked timidly. Silver-Raven and Elentari looked at each other in confusion. They both shrugged and looked back at Harry and Ron.
"He's a Mogwai…" Silver-Raven said, pointing at the lump under the sheet in Elentari's arms. Fred raised an eyebrow.
"What's a Mogwai?" He asked.
"What's a muggle?" Elentari retorted. Fred looked at Harry, who was just as confused as him.
When the group of flying humans did not reply, Silver-Raven's already thin patience snapped.
He disappeared back inside the ship, reappearing a moment later with his lightsabre. Elentari shook her head when she saw what he had left to get.
"Why can't you just clip that thing onto your belt?" She asked.
"The clip broke off." He replied in a slightly irate tone, before he drew the lightsabre. It radiated a deep purple light. Silver-Raven smirked and gave a reasonably expert swing, or it would have been if the railings at the edge of the ship hadn't been in the way.
Elentari jumped back rapidly as sparks flew off the railings.
"Watch it!"
Harry stared at the Silver-Raven and the lightsabre.
"That's a lightsabre."
"Like, that's obvious." Elentari muttered, then out loud, "So?"
"I thought they only existed in 'Star Wars'."
"In what?" Silver-Raven asked, his bewildered look matching his companion's. He even stopped swinging the sabre long enough for Harry to answer.
"There're a series of films. Those are carried by a bunch of people, Jedi, and…"
At this point Elentari found that she had to hold on very tightly to the cargo bay's doors with one hand and keep Gizmo balanced in the other, as the ship tilted as Silver-Raven lent heavily on the railings as he fell about laughing.
"Rav!"
Eventually a wet Silver-Raven managed to steady the ship again, before he looked crossly at Elentari.
"Don't call me Rav, it's not my name."
"Sora can." She retorted.
"Sora can call me what she wan-…"
"You know Sora?" Harry interrupted.
"Of course." He replied, "Wait. You know her?"
"Probably not the same person." Elentari said as she struggled to keep Gizmo fully covered.
"Dark-brown hair, green eyes, average height. She works here."
"What?!" Silver-Raven shouted as Elentari yelled,
"Impossible!"
They looked at each other. Unless…
"How long has she been…working…here?" Silver-Raven asked.
Harry stared at them as if the answer was obvious. "Since the start of term, about two months ago. She's our Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher."
"She's what?"
"Our Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher." He repeated, "She's really different from all the others we've had in the past. She's teaching us to fight with those sort of guns!" Fred pointed at Elentari's two lasers either side of her hips. They moved their gaze to Sliver-Raven's lasers, which were the same size as Elentari's, but they looked different.
"They're LASERS not GUNS." Elentari yelled back angrily, drawing one and waved it at him.
Silver-Raven, who hadn't paid any attention to Elentari's outburst, asked,
"If she's been here for two months, where is she now?"
Harry jerked his head at the castle behind him, "Back up there. Come on, we'll take you to her."
"How?" Silver-Raven asked. "We've told you, our engines aren't working and we CAN'T FLY!!"
"Actually…" Elentari began.
"Shut up! I need to think." He snapped.
"But…"
"Quiet!"
Elentari sighed. There was no point in talking to Silver-Raven when he was in a mood. She turned and walked back into the ship, leaving her fellow pirate going through a list of possibilities on how they could get to the shore.
"Maybe someone could magic you and your…ship to the bank." Harry suggested.
"NO. No way. No one's putting any magic anywhere near my ship." Silver-Raven shouted. "Or us." He added.
As a few more people flew up on broomsticks, he yelled,
"And get those brooms outta here. They're cleaning things not transports."
Fred shook his head, "Definitely a muggle."
"Ravvy. I…"
Silver-Raven groaned and muttered, "I think I preferred 'Rav'."
Glaring at Elentari who'd just come back outside he asked crossly,
"What? Make it quick. We're still no closer to the shore."
Elentari gave him an irritating little wink.
"Well, seeing as I'm the brains on this…" She paused trying to remember what Silver-Raven had said. "…heap of shit, I think it was, I…"
"Oh, stow the gab and just tell me."
Elentari grinned, delighted she was annoying her companion, and repeated herself,
"The brains on this heap of shit remembered the…parting gift from that merchant ship in the Ford Galaxy those…"
"Hoverboards." Silver-Raven finished. "Have you got them?"
"Well, I got mine." Elentari replied, "But I daren't get yours. You said I can't go in your room 'less I got your permission, an' you stopped me from askin' if I could g…"
"OK OK!!" Silver-Raven yelled. "If it's an emergency you can go in without my permission. Happy? Go and get my board." He ordered.
Elentari folded her arms and looked at him.
"Now."
Elentari gave him another look, which said "You give me another order like that and I'll take your head off."
Just as Silver-Raven stormed off to his room, he heard Elentari say,
"I just hope yours works."
"What was that?"
"Nothing. Just hoping that the ship will work again."
"That's what I thought."
Elentari returned the smirk he had given her back on the ship.
Thoroughly annoyed and fed up of being bossed around by someone who was supposed to be lower than him, even if it was only for the week, Silver-Raven left her with the people on broomsticks to find his own hoverboard.
"She does it on purpose, I KNOW she does…" Silver-Raven muttered to himself as he hurried to his room. Bursting through his door, Silver-Raven tripped over a pile of clutter that was conveniently situated in the doorway.
"I bet she put that there too." He growled as he got to his feet. He opened his wardrobe and was about to search through the mass array of junk when he noticed that the board was lying on top of everything.
"That's weird, I don't remember putting that on top…" Silver-Raven shrugged it off, grabbed his board and ran back to the loading bay. When he got there, Elentari, Harry, Fred, George and the others were halfway across the lake.
"Hey! Wait up!" He yelled. He flicked a switch on the side of the board and let it go, it fell to the ground, stopping a few inches above the floor. Silver-Raven jumped on it and, using a pressure pad on the back end of the hoverboard, jetted across the water towards Elentari and the others. He sped up, leaving a trail of small waves behind him. The others had reached the land by now and they were waiting for Silver-Raven. Elentari let a smirk creep over her face. Even Silver-Raven could see it.
"What's she smirking about now?" He thought to himself. Suddenly, the hoverboard careered out of control. It flew from under his feet and toward the sky. The pirate didn't get a chance to react before plunging into the icy-cold water. He quickly surfaced with a scowl on his face, only to see Elentari doubled-over with laughter. The other humans were also laughing, but not as hard as she was. Silver-Raven glared at her and growled.
"Just you wait, you'll get yours." He mumbled to himself as he swam to the shore.
"Awwww…are you wet Ravvy?" Elentari asked sarcastically as Silver-Raven waded through the water. He was nearer to the land now and the lake was only waist-deep there. Silver-Raven glared at her.
"No, I'm bone-fucking-dry. WHAT DO YOU THINK WOMAN?!" He yelled angrily as he got closer. Elentari growled and drew her Laser with her free hand, clutching Gizmo with her other. She aimed it at the water around Silver-Raven's waistline and fired a few shots. Seeing this, Silver-Raven quickly took his lightsabre and drew it. He dodged the first two shots and, using his sabre, deflected the third. It flew back towards Elentari's feet, blackening a small patch of sand mere centimetres from her left foot. She jumped backwards and would have lost her footing, if it hadn't been for George, who caught her just in time. She looked down and noticed his arms were wrapped around her chest. She pulled away and smacked him upside the head.
"THAT was for tryin' t' cop a feel!" She yelled. George rubbed the back of his head where she hit him and turned slightly red.
"I didn't mean to do that…" He started.
"Well don't touch me unless I ask you to ok?"
George sighed and nodded.
Silver-Raven had reached them by now and was squeezing water from the sleeves of his navy-blue jacket. Elentari looked at him and smirked.
"C'mon Rav, we gotta go find Sora, that is if she's the same Sora we know."
"I told you, don't call me that! Its not my name!"
"If it's not you're name, how come Sora can call you that?" Elentari replied as she turned towards the castle.
"Sora's my girlfriend, she can call me what she wants." Silver-Raven retorted as he followed her and the others.
"But you're best friend can't?"
"Exactly."
Elentari sighed and shook her head.
"Wait, you two are best friends?" Harry asked.
"Yup, known each other all our lives…unfortunately." Silver-Raven answered. Elentari gave a slight laugh and shook her head.
"Yeah, you wouldn't think it, especially with the way we fight and play tricks on each other."
"Oh yeah, that reminds me." Silver-Raven said to himself. Elentari felt a sharp pain in the back of her head as her friend hit her. Turning to face her companion, she glared at him.
"What was that for?" She yelled angrily.
"For messing up my hoverboard!" Silver-Raven yelled back.
"I didn't touch it!"
"Pfft! I'll believe that when a Jawa crawls outta my ass!" Hearing this, Harry turned and gave him a confused look.
"Jawa's exist?" He asked.
"Yeah, so?" Elentari replied. Harry shook his head and sucked his teeth.
"Right, we've got to get this straight. Are you guys aliens?" He asked. Elentari looked at him wide-eyed and Silver-Raven growled.
"What did you call us?" He yelled, even more irate than before. He took his lightsabre from his pocket, drew it, and started swinging it wildly towards Harry and the other flying humans. As he swung it to the right, he burned off a bit of Elentari's hair. She screamed in surprise and jumped backwards.
"RAV! YOU ASSHOLE!!" She screamed angrily.
"Wha'd I do?" He asked, still glaring at Harry, who was frozen to the spot with fear.
"YOU CUT MY HAIR WITH THAT DAMNED SABRE! I LOOK RIDICULOUS!" She yelled angrily as she examined her hair.
"No change there then…" He muttered. "It'll grow back." He said, a bit louder than his previous remark.
For a short moment Elentari was lost for words. She stared at Silver-Raven as her mouth opened and closed twice.
Harry giggled, "You look like a goldfish!"
That did it. Drawing her laser with her right hand again, she fired one shot, which blew most of the end of his broomstick off as well as burning a small round hole in his Quidditch robes.
"Hey, what was that for? That was the best broom our team's got!!"
Silver-Raven raised an eyebrow at Elentari. "Nice shot."
She glared at him, "Don't think I'm gonna let you off if you pay me compliments."
"What's going on here?" All of them turned in the direction of the voice. A group of adults were walking towards them, also dressed in very strange robes. But both pirates were staring at the woman following just behind the group. Sora.
TBC…
R&R