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I hope you like this bit, even though it's short.
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Erm…o yea…none of these characters really belong to me… well at least not the ones in the books. they're JKR's…nor the settings…
Ok yea….
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The three house elves ran out of the room. The two girls were very upset, and Dobby didn't understand why.
Later, they ran outside, to get away from Dobby, but he followed.
Dobby followed the two girls outside towards Hagrid's hut, but they didn't stop there. The kept going, till they were at the edge of the forbidden forest. When they realized he was still following them, they ran into the forest, blindly. Within minutes, the two disconcerted house elves were lost, deep within the forest. Both very upset, and therefore not acting normal, quickly began to run farther into the forest out of fear. They wanted to get out, but succeeded at doing the exact opposite.
About three hours later, a creepy creature found them. "Heehee, pretties," it cackled, wiggling its gruesome, pea-green, wrinkly fingers at them. The girls looked at her with a mix of fear and disbelief. Was she real? She was so UGLY! But she started to sweet talk them and the two of them, against their better judgment, fell into her trap.
She led them farther into the forest, sweet talking them the entire time. The two girls, oblivious to the air of magic surrounding them soon became quite trustful of the creature. Little did they know that she was about to cause a living nightmare for the two of them.
At this time, Professor Sprout and Dumbledore were trying to figure out what to do with an oversized, over grown, Ron the Mandrake. It wouldn't be long till he was supposed to be in mandrake adulthood, which meant he would be sprouting seeds. However, although with some plants the female plant had to have reached its maturity to fertilize the seeds, the mandrakes needed no such growth and they absolutely did NOT need more Mandrakes in the green house!
Harry was himself again and out on the quidditch pitch, practicing with the snitch and entertaining an audience of first years who had never seen him play before. SWOOSH! He dived down, straight for the ground, and caught the snitch about ten inches from the ground, and SWISH!! Went straight back up. A chorus of "Oooos" and "Ahhhs" came from the onlookers.
Emerald and Martin were chatting enthusiastically with some of the other merpeople, while Jessica and Sam spoke with one another about who they really were. One of the little merchildren, maybe six years old, came over to find Martin. "Uncle Martin?" the merchild asked.
"Yes, Pearl?"
She held up her middle finger and said, "I got a booboo," frowning.
Meanwhile, Jessica had just finished telling Sam about ho she had become a mermaid, and how she wasn't really one. She hung her head in shame, expecting him to yell at her, but he didn't.
"Don't you know, Jessica?" He asked her, "Once you become a magical being, like a mermaid, you are forever the magic being."
She looked up, surprised and startled. "But…"
Sam interrupted her by putting his pointer finger to her lips.
"Shush, a second. Besides, I'm not who you think I am, either."
He watched her, waiting for a reaction. She looked confused, other then that, she didn't react. He continued.
"I was a normal human boy once, as well, but I ran away from home around seven years of age. I ran and ran, until I eventually found the forest that surrounds this lake. I'm not even a magical person, I'm muggle born. However, I met this… this creature," He spat out, "who tricked me into believing that she was going to help me. I knew I didn't want to return home. My mother was a druggie, and my father, a drunk. Well, in a way, she appeared to help me; she fed me, clothed me, and more. But then one day, she wanted me to find a piece of treasure under the waters of this lake. She transformed me into a fish; a non magic being that could be turned human again. I found this treasure, but I also discovered that without this treasure, the merpeople couldn't survive and therefore, I refused to take it out. She couldn't come and get it, the water burned her skin and she could only transform others, so she transformed me into a merboy, informing me that if I wanted to help these merpeople so much, that I had to die like one when she finally got 'her' treasure. So now, I protect it. I was tutored by some of the best merpeople under the lake in such magic and learned that even if I wanted to, I could never return to the surface. At least you can do that much."
Jessica looked at him, amazed.
Draco wasn't having much fun, either. Bane had tackled him, and he was on the ground. Bane glared at him and began to question him as to who he was and why he was there. However, a true centaur could never lie, and it was obvious that Draco was lying.
"I wasn't grazing here! Honest!"
Bane looked at him in disgust. About twenty minutes of demands and questions from the older centaur brought Draco near to tears, but he was saved (A/N Lucky him…) from further torment because Hagrid appeared and told Bane to leave him alone. "He's had a terrible mishap with magic. Let him be." Bane looked disgruntled, but let Draco up.
"He's been transformed by misfit magic," Hagrid continued, "He's one of the students at the school."
At this, Bane began to laugh hysterically. "Not anymore, he's not!"
Hagrid looked horrified. "You mean the rumor is true? That he can't…" he trailed off.
"No, he can't!" Bane laughed and galloped off.
"Have fun, boy, for you'll not get back to your normal self for a Very long time!" Bane called over his shoulder.
"What does he mean, Hagrid?" Draco demanded.
"You can't change back," the man whispered.
"Ever?"
"Ever."
Hermy and Keilley followed the creature deeper and deeper into the forest. Suddenly, she stopped and showed them the entrance to her home.
"Well, pretties. I bet you want help with all those people at the school who are laughing because you've become house elves."
Since the two of them had pretty much been brain washed, they agreed right away.
"Well, then, I am willing to help you fix this problem. I'll give you a charm to cast on the students of your choice and help them decide not to be so mean."
The girls did not even hesitate in liking the idea.
"But I have a price; you must help me get back something that was taken from me."
Neither girl could disagree with this idea.
So, therefore, about twenty minutes later, they found themselves back at the school, with a special charm.
Jessica quickly swam up to Sam, and gave him a big hug. "I'm sorry," she said.
"Hey, it's not your fault!"
"No, but I should have told you the truth from the start…"
"So should have I."
Keilley ran ahead of Hermy, a little unsure of what they had just agreed to do. However, she was quiet willing to stick to then plan when she saw Kadry headed straight for them. He looked like he was laughing at her. In reality, he wasn't, he was laughing at Gabriel. But, Keilley still threw the charm at him. Hermy also threw a charm, but she threw it at Gabriel. Neither boy had even seen the two of them, so neither was suspecting anything to happen.
Yet, something did happen. The charms did their work and suddenly, there were four house elves in the grass.
About an hour later, the two girls had made their way about the school. Any time they saw anyone laughing, they assumed they were laughing at them. Within that hour, there went from only two transformed elves, to almost three dozen.
Suddenly, they ran into Draco, from behind. He was laughing at a trio of house elves in the yard who were running in circles—and got hit by the charm as well. However, he became half elf, half centaur. The poor guy couldn't even pretend to understand what had happened!
Another three hours later found almost every student on the grounds as a house elf, and several teachers. In fact, Ron and Professor Sprout were, as well. It helped Ron, in away, because he was no longer a mandrake, but…
Dumbledore couldn't figure out what was going on. He got Harry from the quidditch pitch, and the audience of first years followed them. Dumbledore quickly figured it out, however, because he was next. Hermy flung the charm at him with such force that it caught every person there.
Meanwhile, below the lake, Jessica and Sam were enjoying themselves immensely. They were playing games with each other, and the other merpeople, oblivious to the happenings above.
Later that evening, they went to get some food, but Emerald stopped them.
"It's time for Jessica and me to get back home."
"Can't we eat together first?"
Emerald decided to agree, which was good, because just about the time they would have gotten to the surface, they would have been struck by Hermy's charm. After they had eaten, they quickly swam to the surface. Sam and Martin went with them, to see them off.
"G'nite, Ladies," Martin said, giving Emerald a kiss on the cheek.
Sam was not so modest; he gave Jessica a full kiss on the lips.
When the two ladies broke the surface, they were welcomed by a frightening scene.
Harry, now half serpent, half house elf was right at the waters edge with a few select house elves from amongst the student body, backs to the mer-people. An onslaught of house elves, led by Keilley and Hermy were steadily coming towards them. Jessica was terrified. What was going on?
Sam gasped, suddenly, noticing a figure in the back of the crowd of house elves. "LOOK!" he exclaimed, pointing. There, in the back, Jessica saw the most evil and foul looking creature she had ever seen. She quickly pointed I out to Emerald, who replied, "Now I know who has those two elves in the front under a spell. Look at them; they don't know what they are even doing."
"We have to stop them; that's the creature who turned me into a merman for refusing to steal the mer-people's treasure and life force."
"O boy," Jessica muttered.
Emerald looked at her, strangely. "You have an idea of what to do, don't you?"
"Yea, but it won't be pretty."
"Well, tell us."
Jessica responded by summoning the two of them back underwater so they wouldn't be over heard. "We have to get into the castle. The candies that made me this way are in there…and we can get them to affect her and THAT might just break her concentration to release Keilley and Hermy."
"But where did all these house elves come from? Surely there is more here then there are normally," Sam asked.
"I don't know."
"We can find out, though," Emerald replied, "If we remove the spell from the two girls, they can tell us."
"Sounds good. But how do you propose we get past them?"
"That's where my plan gets quite messy."
"AHA!!! I know what they were doing now," Candi exclaimed, suddenly. She had been sitting there with a thoughtful expression for quite a while, and her outburst made Hermione, who was presently the story teller, jump.
"They wer-"
"The younger children do NOT need such information at this time, dear," Aimee interrupted, firmly.
"What was it?" Beryl asked, his insatiable curiosity getting the better of him.
"You do NOT need to know, young man."
"But Mommy!!!!!"
"No 'But Mommying' me."
Beryl started to pout, but quickly stopped when he caught his father's look.
The children quickly started messing around because of the interruption, and that's when the adults looked at the time.
"O my, it's nearly midnight!" Hermione stated in surprise.
Aimee quickly joined her and they herded the children off to bed.
When the two of them returned downstairs, they faced a special surprise.
Harry and Ron had set up a charming candle light Dessert table for four, with cake and ice cream. In the center of the table were two dozen red roses.
"Happy Valentine's Day, Ladies," the two gentlemen said simultaneously.
The two women smiled and joined their spouses for a late night dessert.
Jessica whispered to her friends her idea, then they began working on getting into the castle.
Sam got up to distract the creature, while Jessica and Emerald swam towards the other side of the lake.
Martin quickly went to assist Sam.
Meanwhile, the horde of confused house elves moved closer and closer to the lake, not realizing how close they were too it. Many of them were literally transformed into the elves and had no knowledge of being other then house elves. The few that retained their normal memories were so spread apart from each other that they did not realize that there were others…and were far enough apart that they couldn't persuade those around them of what was going on. Although it was not for lack of trying, they did not succeed.
Among those who retained their normal memories, were a few first years who were very confused and not used to such adventures. They noticed the danger of getting to close to the water's edge and went to the back of the mob, which is how they finally got together.
They were a small group, maybe five. They were just about to try to work out what they could do cause they knew that they were in a fix, when the creature that was pushing the crowd of house elves towards the lake suddenly was quite distracted…in fact, she screamed. Loudly. In rage.
She instantly recognized the boy who had refused to help her the first time she had attempted this endeavor and was disgusted at his return. The mermen should have destroyed him ages ago…mermen were well known for their destructive powers and hatred for mermen from different mer-tribes. He would be a very destructive person against the cause she led if she couldn't revert him, or better yet, destroy him!
Meanwhile, all the house elves were continuing to get closer to the waters edge, when the little group of elves who remembered who they really were suddenly remembered a spell as well. They instantly set about casting it together, deciding to perform the spell together, so that it would have more force, and more effect.
A large circle of pale blue light suddenly encircled the group of house elves. It sat there for a few seconds before exploding in a blast of dark green light. Hermione and Aimee looked at each other, saw the other in front of them as themselves as house elves…and suddenly remembered all that had happened.