I noticed a mistake in the last chapter. I put 'Several have been spotted
on the grounds'. What she meant to say was, 'Several –dementors- have been
spotted on the grounds'. I assume you all made the connection with the
Patronus charm yourself, but just in case, it was dementors she was talking
about. Gomen!
-Chapter Four, The Threat: Part Two-
Two wizards. The creatures felt them as they sucked the air with slow, rattling breaths.
Two painful pasts...
Their gliding quickened towards them.
A thief, murderer...
Quicker.
If they were humans, the dementors' faces would be shining with malicious glee. Such wonderful emotions...hatred, guilt, anger...in such heavy quantities...
Their rattling breaths become even shallower and raspier as they glide at a rapid pace towards the two wizards. They could feel them splitting up now. The murdering thief was coming towards this particular trio.
--
Kurama, who'd taken the Eastern grounds, could smell the rotten flesh of the horrid creatures. It brought back sharp memories of the Makai...the air in the demon's realm smelled like rotting flesh and blood...he enjoyed that smell, or used to. Now it made him sick to think about it.
He advanced at a swift pace towards the dementors, his wand raised, the sunlight bringing out bright reddish hues in the smooth, dark wood.
A cold wave suddenly swept over the fox. He stopped dead, his body rigid as a stone, when yelling suddenly engulfed his world. He was thrown into a vortex of black, swirling with pain, agony and pure suffering.
-'Run, Kurama!'...a deep, raspy voice, choked with pain...
'I don't want to die!'...a higher, clearer voice, filled with fear...-
The voices repeated in his head, and suddenly his insides seemed to be turned to ice. Rattling, sucking sounds could be heard, but they were distant...so distant, so muffled...
They were standing right in front of him.
His emotions were taking control...no, he couldn't let that happen!
'That's over!' he screamed in his mind.
The voices grew louder.
'IT'S OVER!'
His own voice clouded the ones of Kuronue and Amanuma. Now they were the ones distant...and the rattling was getting so close...he shivered.
Kurama's green eyes shot open, a deadly glint in his eyes.
No one. NO ONE! Used Kuronue to make him weak!
His golden aura flared around his body like bright orange flames. He realized he'd fallen to his knees. The fox doesn't bother to get up.
He glared at the dementors as they slowly closed in on him. His emotions were gone. Completely. They fed off of nothing. They wanted his soul now...
"Expecto Patronum!" Kurama snarled, thrusting his wand in their direction.
A large, slender silver creature shot out of the tip, baring needle-sharp canines. It charged at the dementors, but didn't just barrel into them. It opened its mouth and sank its fangs into the first dementor's neck.
An ear-splitting shriek assaulted Kurama's ears as the patronus's teeth sank deeper into the dementor, until it finally vanished in a puff of pitch- black dust.
The silver fox landed lightly on its feet and snarled silently at the other dementors. It lunged at them, biting them in the necks and they, too, disappeared in clouds of black smoke.
Kurama closed his eyes and leaned against a tree, panting hard and shaking violently. His patronus had disappeared.
--
Snape trekked the Eastern grounds, looking for Professor Minamino. He'd taken care of the two dementors in the Western half of the grounds.
He knew that boy shouldn't have been appointed the DADA professor...much too young and inexperienced...he probably got the kiss by now.
Suddenly he heard a piercing screech, and took off at a run towards the sound.
There was Shuichi, on his knees, wand raised, shaking so forcefully he looked ready to collapse. A silver fox was charging at the two remaining dementors and biting them in the necks.
The professor's black eyes widened at the sight before him. The silver fox wasn't just barreling the other two dementors down and chasing them away...it seemed to have...killed them.
Was it possible to kill a dementor? Yes, but it was one of the most advanced spells, it had never been mastered before.
And before him was a sixteen-year-old boy, tall and lean, looking none too tough at all, yet he created the first deadly patronus.
And there was the power that surrounded him. Like fire that burst up at his feet, the boy was surrounded by something golden. Snape had no idea what, but he could feel pressure, even from this distance, as though the "flames" were pushing him backwards.
He watched silently as the fox disappeared, and its master leaned against the tree. He was shaking, but his wand was clutched tightly in his hand.
Snape watched Kurama grab a tree branch for support and get himself to his feet. Snape turned swiftly on his heel and went to use a different entrance into the castle.
And it's a good thing he did.
--
"You'll never survive that fall!"
Yusuke raised an eyebrow, "Sure I will. It's not that far down."
"Wha-what?! We're in a TOWER! You'll break all the bones in your body!" Hermione snapped.
"No, I won't," Yusuke said firmly, and before she could say another word, he stepped off the ledge of the Gryffindor Tower's window.
--
Yusuke kicked off his slip-on black shoes in mid-air, and his feet began to glow blue with spirit energy.
The ground was coming up to meet him at an exceedingly fast pace. Yusuke bent his knees, and sent spirit energy to both of his legs before landing rather expertly on the grassy earth below.
"Hey, Kurama," he grinned, but that smile quickly faded when he noticed what state his friend was in.
He slanted his red-brown eyes with concern and walked over to the fox, "You ok?"
Kurama's skin was white as a ghost's, and looked even paler against his black robes and vivid red hair.
"Just...nothing, Yusuke. I'm alright."
"You're shaking like hell, Kurama!"
"Really, Yusuke, I'm...you mind my asking why you're not wearing the black school robes?"
"Ok, now you're starting to sound like Keiko!"
Kurama smiled weakly, "I must be getting back to the castle now...and so should you, before anyone notices you're gone."
"Hell no! Foxboy, knowing you, you would walk a mile with your head hacked off. Doesn't mean I'm gonna let you," Yusuke said, and he threw Kurama's arm over his neck and grabbed him around the waist for support.
--
Kurama's violent shaking had subsided slightly, and the fox insisted he walk on his own once they reached the front doors of the castle. But Yusuke wouldn't let him walk to the teachers' lounge alone. No one saw him, because the teachers were in the lounge, and the students in their House dormitories.
"Alright, Yusuke, now go back to your House," Kurama said once they were in front of the teachers' lounge.
"Yeah, ok. Hey," he suddenly smirked, "you gonna punish me for breaking two rules now?"
"Of course not. I didn't want this job in the first place. Just wear your uniform during classes, alright?"
"Yeah, ok, foxboy," Yusuke waved and walked back to Gryffindor Tower.
Kurama sighed. He was still shaking, and he could only guess how pale he looked. He opened the door to the teachers' lounge, and was immediately attacked.
"I can't BELIEVE they hired someone so YOUNG, and then sent him out to fight dementors!" Madam Pomfrey muttered irritably, feeling his forehead, checking his pulse, and then shoving a chunk of chocolate into his hand. Kurama recognized this as the antidote to dementors.
He smiled, "I'm alright, really..."
"No, you're not! You're shaking, you're pale, and you're ice-cold. Eat the chocolate, Shuichi."
'Worse than my mother,' Kurama thought, taking a small bite of the chocolate just to appease her.
"So," Professor McGonagall said, "Shuichi, how many dementors did you encounter?"
"Three."
McGonagall nodded. So there'd been five dementors on the grounds. Shaking her head slightly, she walked out to report this to Dumbledore.
"Well, since classes are canceled for the day, I need to go and tend to some plants," Professor Sprout said and headed for the door.
Kurama quickly downed the last of the chocolate, "Professor Sprout, I could help if you like."
Professor Sprout smiled slightly at him, "Know something about plants? Well, come along if you want."
Kurama smiled and followed her.
-End Chapter-
Almost five full pages! Hope you liked. I know, this is centering a lot on Kurama...but I can't help it! lol We'll see how Yusuke does in his classes soon, and he'll be the "main" character for awhile, I promise.
-Chapter Four, The Threat: Part Two-
Two wizards. The creatures felt them as they sucked the air with slow, rattling breaths.
Two painful pasts...
Their gliding quickened towards them.
A thief, murderer...
Quicker.
If they were humans, the dementors' faces would be shining with malicious glee. Such wonderful emotions...hatred, guilt, anger...in such heavy quantities...
Their rattling breaths become even shallower and raspier as they glide at a rapid pace towards the two wizards. They could feel them splitting up now. The murdering thief was coming towards this particular trio.
--
Kurama, who'd taken the Eastern grounds, could smell the rotten flesh of the horrid creatures. It brought back sharp memories of the Makai...the air in the demon's realm smelled like rotting flesh and blood...he enjoyed that smell, or used to. Now it made him sick to think about it.
He advanced at a swift pace towards the dementors, his wand raised, the sunlight bringing out bright reddish hues in the smooth, dark wood.
A cold wave suddenly swept over the fox. He stopped dead, his body rigid as a stone, when yelling suddenly engulfed his world. He was thrown into a vortex of black, swirling with pain, agony and pure suffering.
-'Run, Kurama!'...a deep, raspy voice, choked with pain...
'I don't want to die!'...a higher, clearer voice, filled with fear...-
The voices repeated in his head, and suddenly his insides seemed to be turned to ice. Rattling, sucking sounds could be heard, but they were distant...so distant, so muffled...
They were standing right in front of him.
His emotions were taking control...no, he couldn't let that happen!
'That's over!' he screamed in his mind.
The voices grew louder.
'IT'S OVER!'
His own voice clouded the ones of Kuronue and Amanuma. Now they were the ones distant...and the rattling was getting so close...he shivered.
Kurama's green eyes shot open, a deadly glint in his eyes.
No one. NO ONE! Used Kuronue to make him weak!
His golden aura flared around his body like bright orange flames. He realized he'd fallen to his knees. The fox doesn't bother to get up.
He glared at the dementors as they slowly closed in on him. His emotions were gone. Completely. They fed off of nothing. They wanted his soul now...
"Expecto Patronum!" Kurama snarled, thrusting his wand in their direction.
A large, slender silver creature shot out of the tip, baring needle-sharp canines. It charged at the dementors, but didn't just barrel into them. It opened its mouth and sank its fangs into the first dementor's neck.
An ear-splitting shriek assaulted Kurama's ears as the patronus's teeth sank deeper into the dementor, until it finally vanished in a puff of pitch- black dust.
The silver fox landed lightly on its feet and snarled silently at the other dementors. It lunged at them, biting them in the necks and they, too, disappeared in clouds of black smoke.
Kurama closed his eyes and leaned against a tree, panting hard and shaking violently. His patronus had disappeared.
--
Snape trekked the Eastern grounds, looking for Professor Minamino. He'd taken care of the two dementors in the Western half of the grounds.
He knew that boy shouldn't have been appointed the DADA professor...much too young and inexperienced...he probably got the kiss by now.
Suddenly he heard a piercing screech, and took off at a run towards the sound.
There was Shuichi, on his knees, wand raised, shaking so forcefully he looked ready to collapse. A silver fox was charging at the two remaining dementors and biting them in the necks.
The professor's black eyes widened at the sight before him. The silver fox wasn't just barreling the other two dementors down and chasing them away...it seemed to have...killed them.
Was it possible to kill a dementor? Yes, but it was one of the most advanced spells, it had never been mastered before.
And before him was a sixteen-year-old boy, tall and lean, looking none too tough at all, yet he created the first deadly patronus.
And there was the power that surrounded him. Like fire that burst up at his feet, the boy was surrounded by something golden. Snape had no idea what, but he could feel pressure, even from this distance, as though the "flames" were pushing him backwards.
He watched silently as the fox disappeared, and its master leaned against the tree. He was shaking, but his wand was clutched tightly in his hand.
Snape watched Kurama grab a tree branch for support and get himself to his feet. Snape turned swiftly on his heel and went to use a different entrance into the castle.
And it's a good thing he did.
--
"You'll never survive that fall!"
Yusuke raised an eyebrow, "Sure I will. It's not that far down."
"Wha-what?! We're in a TOWER! You'll break all the bones in your body!" Hermione snapped.
"No, I won't," Yusuke said firmly, and before she could say another word, he stepped off the ledge of the Gryffindor Tower's window.
--
Yusuke kicked off his slip-on black shoes in mid-air, and his feet began to glow blue with spirit energy.
The ground was coming up to meet him at an exceedingly fast pace. Yusuke bent his knees, and sent spirit energy to both of his legs before landing rather expertly on the grassy earth below.
"Hey, Kurama," he grinned, but that smile quickly faded when he noticed what state his friend was in.
He slanted his red-brown eyes with concern and walked over to the fox, "You ok?"
Kurama's skin was white as a ghost's, and looked even paler against his black robes and vivid red hair.
"Just...nothing, Yusuke. I'm alright."
"You're shaking like hell, Kurama!"
"Really, Yusuke, I'm...you mind my asking why you're not wearing the black school robes?"
"Ok, now you're starting to sound like Keiko!"
Kurama smiled weakly, "I must be getting back to the castle now...and so should you, before anyone notices you're gone."
"Hell no! Foxboy, knowing you, you would walk a mile with your head hacked off. Doesn't mean I'm gonna let you," Yusuke said, and he threw Kurama's arm over his neck and grabbed him around the waist for support.
--
Kurama's violent shaking had subsided slightly, and the fox insisted he walk on his own once they reached the front doors of the castle. But Yusuke wouldn't let him walk to the teachers' lounge alone. No one saw him, because the teachers were in the lounge, and the students in their House dormitories.
"Alright, Yusuke, now go back to your House," Kurama said once they were in front of the teachers' lounge.
"Yeah, ok. Hey," he suddenly smirked, "you gonna punish me for breaking two rules now?"
"Of course not. I didn't want this job in the first place. Just wear your uniform during classes, alright?"
"Yeah, ok, foxboy," Yusuke waved and walked back to Gryffindor Tower.
Kurama sighed. He was still shaking, and he could only guess how pale he looked. He opened the door to the teachers' lounge, and was immediately attacked.
"I can't BELIEVE they hired someone so YOUNG, and then sent him out to fight dementors!" Madam Pomfrey muttered irritably, feeling his forehead, checking his pulse, and then shoving a chunk of chocolate into his hand. Kurama recognized this as the antidote to dementors.
He smiled, "I'm alright, really..."
"No, you're not! You're shaking, you're pale, and you're ice-cold. Eat the chocolate, Shuichi."
'Worse than my mother,' Kurama thought, taking a small bite of the chocolate just to appease her.
"So," Professor McGonagall said, "Shuichi, how many dementors did you encounter?"
"Three."
McGonagall nodded. So there'd been five dementors on the grounds. Shaking her head slightly, she walked out to report this to Dumbledore.
"Well, since classes are canceled for the day, I need to go and tend to some plants," Professor Sprout said and headed for the door.
Kurama quickly downed the last of the chocolate, "Professor Sprout, I could help if you like."
Professor Sprout smiled slightly at him, "Know something about plants? Well, come along if you want."
Kurama smiled and followed her.
-End Chapter-
Almost five full pages! Hope you liked. I know, this is centering a lot on Kurama...but I can't help it! lol We'll see how Yusuke does in his classes soon, and he'll be the "main" character for awhile, I promise.