Okay, I'm here with chapter two of 'The Poet Sings'. Does anybody out there wonder why I'm calling it 'The Poet Sings'? Well, it's the title of a song that I'm singing in choir. It's really pretty and talks about this girl that continues to travel, I suppose, all over the world and this guy falls in love with her and describes her in this song. It's so romantic! I thought that it described one of the main characters in my story, you know? I'm so excited right now! She's going to be so awesome and I can't wait to get this chapter out to all of you guys! You'll finally get to meet...well, perhaps I shouldn't tell you her name...just to be on the safe side! Okay, and away we go!
She calls me in the wind's soft song,
And with the flowers she comes again.
The next day, Draco woke up bright and early and that meant before the sun even rose. He took special care in combing his hair back and putting on his clothes to make sure that they were perfect. He did want to make a perfect impression on this young woman that he had seen last night. He was still reeling over what he had seen last night. Her pale skin and deep, inky black hair reflected perfectly in the moonlight as she walked up the steps to his school and into his domain. Draco was sure that when she took one look at him, she would most defiantly want to be with him as well. Either way, she would be his by the end of the day. Draco waited out in the lounge of the head boy and girl rooms until he saw Susan come out of her room. She cocked an eyebrow and yawned as she saw him reading a book in his seat.
"What are you doing up so early?" she asked tiredly with her messy hair. Draco stared up at her with his dark gray eyes.
"I couldn't sleep," he mumbled while looking back down at his book. Susan shrugged her shoulders and walked into the bathroom to take a shower. Draco listened to the sounds inside the bathroom as he continued to read his book. He finally heard the bell for breakfast and rushed down there. Of course he didn't run, but walked very swiftly past his fellow students. He was one of the first students to sit down at the Slytherin table and spotted the girl from last night. She now wore her hair up in a little bun at the base of her neck and still had on her midnight blue cloak on with the silver stars. He licked his lips as she turned her head as a piece of hair fell into her face. She looked absolutely delicious right at that very moment. Draco served himself a few spoonfuls of eggs and a few pieces of bacon with an English muffin buttered with raspberry jelly. He took a bite and suddenly felt a presence join him. He looked to the side and saw the coy face of Pansy. He let out a mental groan and put down his English muffin.
"What do you want, Pansy?" he asked taking a sip of his orange juice. Pansy put an arm around his shoulders and began to play with a piece of loose hair.
"How did you sleep, Drakie?" she asked in a sweet voice. He let out a low grunt.
"Why do you insist on calling me that?" he asked in a low voice. She shrugged her shoulders.
"I think that it suits you." Draco shrugged off her arm and went back to eating his breakfast. Pansy let out a little sigh and served herself food and began to eat. Soon, Dumbledore stood up with his hands raised for silence. Eventually, they all quieted down and looked at him. Their eager eyes roamed over the newly added people sitting at the head table. A warm smile graced Dumbledore's face.
"I hope that you're all excited for today," he said in a bright and cheery voice. "Today is the day where you will all decide what you will do in your lives. I will admit to you now that your choice may change, but this is only to help you on your way." Dumbledore motioned down the table.
"You all will be broken up into eight groups and you will be rotating through each speaker. Be sure to take notes and ask questions and have fun!" he exclaimed and slowly sat down. Professor McGonagal instantly stood up with a piece of parchment in her crinkled old hands.
"Each table will be divided into two groups. Ravenclaw's with last names starting with A-H will be going to the dungeons. Names G-Z will be up in the observatory." McGonagal continued to go on and Draco mentally tuned her out and waited for her to say Slytherin. His ears instantly perked up when he heard his house being called.
"All Slytherins with last names starting with A-H will go to my classroom. The rest of you will report outside to the grounds where your lecture will take place out in the protected part of the Forbidden Forrest. A teacher will escort you all from person to person when the bell rings. That will be all." She slowly sat down and Professor Dumbledore stood up once again.
"You are all dismissed to go to where you have been told. Like I said: take notes, ask questions, and have fun!" the students all stood up from their seats and walked out of the great hall. Draco, along with Pansy clinging to his side, walked out to the protected part of the Forbidden Forrest. A small seating arraignment had been set out with a little platform constructed in the middle with a covered purple velvet chair. Draco let out a heavy sigh as he sat down with Pansy next to him. The chirping of the birds sounded all around them as they all waited for the first person that would be lecturing them that day. Snape stood in the back row with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. Draco looked around and saw that many of his classmates were very anxious to get started. Snape turned his head slightly as he heard the rustle of steps on the leaf ridden ground. Snape then turned back to the students.
"I expect you all," he called over the crowd. "To be on your best behavior." Everyone all turned to try and see whom their speaker would be. Draco turned a bit too enthusiastically for Pansy's tastes. Draco was more than happy to see the girl that he had seen that very night walking through the rows of people and up to the platform. Everyone hummed in a murmur of talk until they were shushed by Professor Snape. Draco looked up at this woman with wide eyes as she looked out over the crowd.
"Hello," she said in a small voice. Draco nearly swooned at the melodious sound of her voice even though it was rather quiet. He really could have cared less if she did talk; all that mattered was that she was seriously hot. She stood on the platform with her hands clenched together as if she were nervous. Draco raised an eyebrow.
'What on earth does she have to be nervous about?' he wondered to himself. She looked from one side of the platform and then to the other and finally, out to her small audience. A little smile graced her face.
"My name is...well, I uh...Professor Snape?" She looked to the back of the small audience where Professor Snape stood. "A little help up here?" she asked. Professor Snape walked forward through the rows of people to the small platform. Pansy let out a little snort.
"Is she so stupid that she can't even tell us her name?" she asked to no one in particular. A little snicker of laughter went around the audience until Snape glared at them all. Draco didn't listen to what Pansy had to say. He was currently concentrating on what was going on up front. The girl leaned down and whispered into Snape's ear before he whispered back into hers. She quickly nodded and Snape retreated back to his spot next to one of the pine trees. The girl stood up straight and brushed down her cloak with a little smile on her face.
"Hello, my name is Ruby and I suppose that I'll be giving you your first lecture." Draco smiled brightly and sat up straight hoping to catch Ruby's attention. He was happy when she seemed to smile in his direction.
"I was told to talk about my job..." she carefully unbuttoned her cloak and laid it across the chair. Draco nearly fell out of his chair when he got a good look at her body. She wore a corseted top with deep blue ribbons and a sky blue background with white lace. Her skirt went down to the platform and swayed every time that she made a voice or took a step. There was a little cape in the back that slide on the floor.
"But I'm not really sure what to say." Draco eyed her as she sat down on top of her cloak and let out a little sigh. She reached to the back of her head and pulled the tie that was holding her bun in. Ruby shook her head and her hair cascaded around her like a curtain of the black sea. She tucked some of it behind her head and looked at the people before her.
"I guess that I could start off by saying that I work for the ministry doing some odd jobs but my main job is to go under cover to catch a few witches and wizards that are at large right now." Draco sat up forward in his seat. She was an under cover agent that worked for the ministry? She had to be kidding...
"You see," she let out a heavy sigh. "I'm currently here on business to try and find a rather large cult of death eaters. It could be the biggest bust in the entire wizarding world...if I play my cards right." Ruby leaned back in her seat slightly and crossed her legs showing off her finely made white ivory shoes with white stockings. Draco instantly got a picture of him taking those shoes and stockings off with his teeth and then...Draco instantly caught himself from getting a little too excited. She tossed her hair behind her shoulder.
"I really don't have much to say. Are there any questions that you would like to ask me?" a few hands instantly shot up into the air Draco's being one of them. She pointed to the other side of the room to call on a young first year who jumped up from his seat.
"What are the physical and mental demands of your job?" he asked, Draco knowing that his body had yet to hit puberty. Ruby smirked.
"Well, there's a lot of running and fighting that I have to do and some death eaters may try to get into my mind so I've learned a specific type of tai chi that allows me to keep people out of my mind. Plus, I have to be able to call on different sorts of disarming spells at any time." The first year nodded and sat back down. Draco's hand instantly went back up but Ruby decided to call on a fourth year girl instead of him.
"Why do you wear those clothes?" she asked. Ruby looked down at her attire with a slight smile on her face.
"Well, sometimes death eaters go back in time to try and hide from me. I just returned from apprehending a witch who hid in the year 1793, about the time that a fever hit Pennslyvania. It turns out that she was the one that started to fever and had tried to take over the America's. She was a rather difficult woman to apprehend. She hid in a coffee shop working as one of the waitresses." The girl bounced in her spot with a happy smile on her face.
"How did you catch her?" she asked eagerly. Ruby gave her a bright little smile.
"Well, I disguised myself as a customer and caught her brewing potions in the back room with a girl named Polly. They were making the fever for the rich part of town so that they could ransack the area." She let out a little laugh. Draco swooned at the sound of her laughter as it drifted in and out of the forest.
"He thought that she was showing him how to make a special sort of perfume while she was actually making a potion to overtake the French court!" more laughter escaped her cherry lips as Draco leaned a bit more forward in hopes of hearing her inner thoughts. He had never actually gone wild over a girl before...this was a totally new feeling for him. He really wanted to have her in his arms...at that very moment. He raised his hand again hoping that he would be called on. She nibbled on her lower lip and looked back at Professor Snape. He held up his index finger to signal her that she had time for one more question. She nodded and then looked back to her crowd.
"I only have time for one more question, so..." she scanned over her audience. There were other hands including Draco's that were raised and eager to get their questions answered. Draco caught her gaze and held it for as long as possible. Her eyes seemed to widen as Draco stared at her with his deep gray eyes. She slowly pointed in his direction.
"You, the young man back there with the blonde hair." Draco smirked and slowly stood up from his seat. He crossed his arms as he heard a slow murmur go throughout the crowd. Ruby cocked her head to the side.
"You had a question, sir?" she asked in a most innocent voice. Draco nodded.
"How on earth do you have time to have a social life?" he asked with a playful smile on his face. Ruby pursed her lips together and ran a hand through her hair.
"I don't have time for a social life. I haven't had a boyfriend for...let's see," she looked up to the sky as if in thought. "I believe that I had a boyfriend when I was about...thirteen so that would have been three years ago." A little gasp passed through the crowd as her audience continued to stare at Ruby.
"You're only sixteen?" the fourth year girl asked. Ruby slowly nodded.
"Yes, the ministry likes to hire people for this position particularly early on in life." Draco raised an eyebrow while he continued to stand.
"Have you finished school?" he asked in a coy voice. Ruby nodded.
"Yes, I was the top student in my class." Draco's smile dropped from his face and he quickly sat back down in his chair. Ruby smiled but was interrupted by a little ring tone that sounded from her cloak pocket. She stood up and reached into her right hand pocket. She pulled out a small cell phone and flipped it open.
"Hello?" she said in a hushed voice. Her eyes bulged and she covered her mouth with her free hand.
"WHAT?" she asked in an astonished voice. She tossed her hair back and continued to listen to the conversation. Ruby began to pace back and forth on the platform with every eye on her.
"No I didn't know," she said in an angry hushed voice. Draco licked his lips and continued to watch Ruby with keen eyes. Ruby rolled her own eyes as she continued to pace.
"Where do you think I am? I'm at that school that you assigned me to come to, where else?" she asked in a rising voice. She stopped dead in her tracks with a serious look in her eyes.
"Tell me where I need to be," she said in a serious tone of voice. After a few seconds, she flipped the phone and looked out at her small audience. She mustered up the best smile that she could and nodded.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go now, I hope that you all understand." She quickly pulled on her cloak and jumped down from the platform rushing through the crowds of people now on their feet. Draco quickly rushed after her pushing a few people onto their butts. Pansy pouted her lips as she watched Draco disappear into the woods. Draco tripped over branches and shrubs but continued to run after Ruby with a passion. He quickly came to a clearing where he saw Ruby standing with her wand raised in the air. Draco crouched behind a tree and watched with wide eyes as a blue smoke slowly came out of the tip of Ruby's wand. She closed her eyes and began to chant a specific saying over and over again.
"The task at hand will cause me to be divine, send me back through the throws of time." The smoke began to swirl faster and faster around her until Draco could no longer see her through the smoke. There was a little bolt of lightning and the smoke began to slow. Draco ran from his hiding spot and into the blue smoke. He felt along trying to feel a piece of lace of some of her hair but as the smoke evaporated from the spot, Draco noticed that she was no where to be found. He looked around the clearing but what he saw, or the lack of, shocked him to the bone.
"Jesus," he muttered running a hand through his hair. "She's gone."
That's all for this chapter! Have you all been working and putting together the song every time that you read. Are you doing it? I hope that you are! It's a rather pretty song that I truly enjoy singing every time in choir. You have no idea how high I have to go in that class. Note wise I mean. I'm a soprano one and that means that if I don't go up high, I'm a soprano two. Not that I'm saying that soprano twos aren't important, but I have always sung that high notes and if I don't sing the high notes, it doesn't feel right, you know? I love to feel the jump of my voice and the way that I can just belt out those high notes! Okay, I'll just stop talking about my singing life and ask you to please review this chapter! It would mean a great deal to me if you just press that little button and tell me if you did or didn't like my story. I'll see you guys later! Demon of the Wind