A/N: Hey everyone, I am back. I would sincerely like to apologize for my long, long, long, extensive absence. I have been thoroughly crushed with assignments in school and school does come first. For anyone who has been reading my other fan fictions I will not be writing in them for quiet some time. I would like to finish all of my stories so I will finish this story, then Twisted Fate, then The Diary.

Chapter 15

Hermione's mouth dropped open as they stared at the creature before them. Its head was that of a lion, but it had the body of a goat and the tail of a dragon. Saliva was dripped from its mouth along with blood that must have come from its fresh kill. It snarled revealing sharp teeth that could easily rip apart Harry and her.

"M…Mione' is th…that a…a….a," Harry couldn't seem to find the exact word to describe what was before him. Either he couldn't remember the name, or the fear of it was enough to make him hope that it wasn't true Hermione didn't know but she knew what he was thinking.

"Is that a Chimaera Harry? And I am afraid it most definitely is."

"I…I was afraid of that." Harry said, grabbing Hermione's arm and starting to walk backwards with her as the chimaera began to step towards them. A loud crunching noise sounded as Harry made a back side step and both him and Hermione closed their eyes as chimaera roared in anger of the yet another crushing of one of her eggs.

With another even louder roar the chimaera made to leap at them. Hermione thinking quickly shoved Harry aside, crushing more eggs as she did so, and the chimaera jumped between them instead.

"Harry, run, now!"

They both took off at a dead run straight through the mattered and dying trees. The pounding of the chimaera could be heard very clearly behind them as they ran as hard as they could, jumped over broken logs, dodging tree branches, stepping on dead animals.

"Oh, Harry w…why did you h…have to do th…that?" Hermione panted as she clutched a painful stitch on her side.

"Y…you say it l…like I meant to do i…it!"

With the effort of trying to run to keep ahead of the chimaera all other conversational thought seemed to slip away from them as their feet echoed over the hard ground. Then as they rounded a particularly lard tree they saw a small area of broken trees that would be big enough to hide them if they made it before the chimaera saw them.

"Harry qu…quick over there!" Hermione huffed as she grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him over to the area.

She jumped behind a large broken tree, shortly followed by Harry, and crawled as far back as they could. They came against a large rock and leaned against it as they tried to catch their breath and hope that they wouldn't be discovered.

The form of the large animal appeared as a shadow in front of them, but shortly dissipated as quickly as it had come. Hermione breathed a huge sigh of relief, closed her eyes and laid her head back against the rock.

After Harry had finally gotten his breath back, and felt it was safe enough to speak he turned to Hermione who still had her eyes closed and said, "That was way too close for comfort."

"Well you had to break her eggs. Any creature would have been mad Harry you can't blame it."

"I can't blame it? I can't blame it! Hermione it tried to kills us and you are still sticking up for the bloody beast!"

"Harry you squished its children, any parent would have been murderous after that."

"Oh, and I suppose that if it had just happen to come upon us another time it would have been more understanding and not have tried to rip our heads off?"

"Don't be ridiculous! It wouldn't have found us otherwise. But we might find other things so deep in the forest here that might not be as pleasant as a chimaera."

"Oh, and I suppose us being lost is going to be my fault as well, and not that blood thirsty beast that was chasing us all over the island and back?"

Hermione glared at Harry and shook her head. "If you want to be like that maybe I shouldn't help you back. I never said we where lost I just said we might find something more dangerous. We have the map…you do have the map don't you?"

"Of course I have the map. What do you think I am thick?" Harry leaned back on the rock to reach into his back pocket.

Just then there was a creaked and the rock, as if it where a curtain, fell back and Hermione and Harry where hurtled downward, screaming into utter and complete darkness.