The Hope Spell.
Authoress: Princess Lalaith"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, snif; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 31.- Fight your fears."Fine, go on, you're doing very well." Tomoyo complimented.
They had been teaching Harry to use a sword(not very good at it really), and Hermione was improving in the management of the cane.
"I'm not good at this." Harry complained as he dodged a slash from Harry.
"The best is to never give up." Eriol said.
"You're good dodging attacks, and maybe later we can find you a more suitable weapon." Shaoran added.
"We've gotta be ready for anything." Sakura said.
"To me the waiting is killing me." Hermione complained. "I mean, look, it's been three weeks already and nothing."
"Don't worry. We'll win, we've trained and we are all really powerful." Eriol said.
"No one can defeat six Sorcerers." Tomoyo said with a smile.
The rest nodded, although they were still afraid of what was to come.
Dumbledore had doubled the security measures. No student was to leave the dormitories after ten o'clock. Prefects, Head Students and Professors were alert at all times, making sure students wouldn't get in danger. Although the Headmaster hadn't told them that Voldemort was to attack before the end of the term the Professors noticed that what was going on was serious.
Some students too suspected something big was going on but they didn't dare ask. They knew well enough that Voldemort was trying to rise again and the least they wanted was to hear the school was in danger, again.
>> They were standing in Hogwarts Grounds. She, along with Tomoyo, Eriol, Shaoran, Harry, Hermione and Ron. She felt Sonomi's aura behind them, along with the professors, creating a shield to prevent anyone from entering the castle. And it was that a full army of Death Eaters stood just before Sakura and her fiends. There were flashes of a battle, and suddenly something went wrong: A body laid on the ground, pale, cold…dead.
"Iie!!" Sakura cried out when she woke up.
"Daijoubu ka(Are you alright) Sakura-chan?" Tomoyo asked running to her side.
"Iie." Sakura said, her eyes were teary, distress shown clearly on her face.
"What's happening Tomoyo, Sakura?" Hermione asked getting up.
Parvati and Lavender were heavy sleepers.
"Something's wrong with Sakura-chan." Tomoyo explained.
Hermione nodded when he saw the distressed Sakura.
"Better call the boys." Tomoyo said.
Hermione nodded and sprinted off the room.
"Sakura-chan, onegai(please), calm down, we'll talk with the Shonens(boys) in a second. Hermy-chan already went to get them." Tomoyo said.
Hermione got over the staircase that led to the room of boys and noticed it was locked.
"This is not the time." She murmured.
She took the key from her neck and opened the door with it. Then she quietly walked to Harry's bed.
"Harry…Harry wake up." She called.
"Wha…" he began.
But Hermione immediately covered his mouth with her hand.
"Just come with me." She said.
Harry nodded, pulled back the covers and got off bed, following her.
Once outside he eyed his girlfriend carefully, wondering what was in her mind.
"And what brings such a beautiful lady, at this late hours, to my bed?" he asked with a smirk that looked to much like Eriol's.
"Tomoyo's right, you're spending too much time with Eriol." Hermione murmured elbowing him lightly.
Harry just laughed.
"Just follow me." Hermione said. "Seems Sakura is distressed about something."
This got Harry in alert, having Sakura distressed, and calling them could just mean one thing: Problems.
They got to the Common Room, where Tomoyo was still trying to calm down Sakura, who was now crying in silent. Just then Eriol seemed to appear out of nowhere, followed by Shaoran who had done just the same.
"You know you aren't supposed to be able to do that here in Hogwarts." Hermione murmured.
"Sorcerer." Eriol said as an explanation.
"We couldn't wake up the Fat Lady at this hour and explain her I'm here to try and calm down my girlfriend." Shaoran added.
"And here are more important business to deal with than apparating." Tomoyo added.
Hermione nodded, understanding.
"Doushitano(Is something wrong) Ying Fa?" Shaoran asked.
"It was terrible Xiao Lang, terrible!" Sakura whimpered.
Tomoyo sighed, at least they had already gotten her to talk.
"What?" Eriol asked.
"I saw it…the battle." Sakura babbled. "It was…terrible. Something…awful…happened."
"Doushita(What happened)?" Shaoran asked sweetly.
"I saw it." Sakura said opening her eyes, clouded with fear and anguish. "One of us…I saw…"
"You saw what?" Hermione asked getting nervous too.
"One of us…dead." Sakura cried out, sobbing uncontrollably. "I saw it, I did. The battle, that night, all of us fighting the Death Eaters…" she hiccupped. "And at the end…(hiccup) One of us was…Dead!"
Shaoran hugged her tightly, trying to comfort her. But it seemed to be useless, Sakura was too distressed.
"Who?" Eriol asked.
Sakura slowly raised her face to look at them, tears falling down her cheeks.
"I…don't know." She finally answered. "I was too shocked and scared I didn't recognized who was."
They all stayed in an awkward silent, looking down, wondering who would die, but at the same time dreading the answer.
Just Tomoyo was looking at Sakura in silence. Knowing her for all the time she had, and as well as she did, she knew her cousin was lying.
'You can't lie to me Sakura-chan.' Tomoyo thought. 'You know who laid dead in your premonition, you know who's destined to die in that battle. But you're afraid to tell us.'
She tried reading Sakura's mind to find out but it was useless, Sakura had closed herself.
Sakura noticed Tomoyo trying to get inside her mind and turned to look at her, in silence, not saying a word for fear others would notice she was lying to them.
'Why Sakura-chan?' Tomoyo asked herself. 'Why do you lie to us?'
'I can't tell you Tomoyo.' Sakura was thinking at the same time. 'I just can't.'
The days went by slowly, terribly slowly. The group was alert at all times, afraid to find danger in any corner.
"You two are really going paranoiac." Ron commented to his two friends.
And it was just then he noticed it wasn't just the two of them.
Sakura didn't got any, or almost any sleep anymore, she was too afraid she would have the same dream again.
Sonomi noticed they were all acting more strangely than before, but every time she asked the teens just looked at her with a look that clearly said: Don't ask.
Finally on Wednesday what they had dreaded came true.
"The Mark!" Some kids began yelling.
And it was that the Death Eaters Mark was glowing at the entrance of Hogwarts's Castle.
"Calm down!" Dumbledore called. "Stay silent and sit down, everything will be just fine."
And just then the doors flung opened.
"I don't think so old man." A dark voice said from the door.
More than half of the school yelled at that. Some of them even fainted. It was it, the thing that they had feared the most: Voldemort was in Hogwarts.
"You will all die." Voldemort said. "Beginning with you." He raised his sword to Dumbledore and called. "Avada Kedavra!"
There was no shield to stop that curse, or so they thought.
"No!" a cry was heard.
The green light was shot from Voldemort's wand, but vanished before it could touch Dumbledore. A woman was standing before the Headmaster, wand raised, enveloped by a glowing shield.
Many of the students gasped.
"Sonomi…" Both Dumbledore and Severus murmured, worried for the woman's safety.
"You won't touch them Voldemort, 'cause I won't let you do so." Sonomi said seriously.
"So it is true, you finally decided to show up." Voldemort mocked her. "Got tired of running away, after I killed your worthless husband."
"Don't you dare talk that way about Daniel!" Sonomi exclaimed. "Expelliarmus!"
The spell was easily repelled by Lord Voldemort.
"Who would have thought you would have the wits to fight me Amamiya, or was it Black?" Voldemort was still mocking her. "Ah, no, now I remember, you're now with that traitor of Severus Snape." He turned to the Potions Professor. "I don't know how you survived last time, but trust me, it won't happen again."
"I won't let you." Sonomi said raising her wand again.
"There's nothing you can do." Voldemort assured. "Expelliarmus!"
Sonomi hadn't yet recovered from the shield and the spell, so she couldn't build a magic shield in time to protect herself. She was thrown backwards into the table.
"Ahh!" She cried out.
"Sonomi!" Snape called out.
He immediately went around the table and knelt next to her.
Many of the students were shocked to see his dreaded professor worrying about someone.
Voldemort laughed evilly. His laugh making some of the classmates and teachers shiver.
"Oh, look at that, isn't it cute?" Voldemort scorned. "Maybe I should take this opportunity and killed both of you." He raised his wand.
"No you won't." Tomoyo said.
She immediately roused from her seat and stood before Sonomi and Severus with her wand raised.
"Is this a joke?" Voldemort eased. "You won't be able to put up with me alone girl."
"She isn't alone." Eriol contradicted him.
He left his place and jumped over the Teacher's table, standing just next to Tomoyo with his wand out too.
Sakura and Shaoran took this as a signal and they too stood from their seats and went to their friends, wands ready to attack.
Voldemort just laughed at them, he couldn't imagine how four people could say they were a match for him.
"So, you'll fight me." He said with a sneer.
"Yes." Sakura said. "But not here."
Move, get the Death Eaters and us four outside the Castle. Sakura ordered.
There was a glow and they all disappeared.
The students gasped.
"Everyone, get out of here, now." Mcgonagall said.
But just as the students were reaching the doors some of the Death Eaters returned and closed them with magic.
The students panicked, as they began calling for help, some even cried.
"We need to help them." Hermione whispered to Harry. "They might be Sorcerers but there were just too many Death Eaters."
Harry nodded.
"Ron." He called to his best-friend.
"Yeah?" Ron asked.
"Look for all the members of the D.A." Harry instructed. "Talk to them, and those who are willing to fight the Death Eaters bring them to the back of the room."
Ron nodded and went to look for them.
Harry, meanwhile, walked to the back of the room, where the Teacher's table was.
"What are you planning?" Hermione asked.
"You are right." Harry said. "They need help, but even with us it won't be enough. The D.A. members are the most capable of the students in this school to fight against the Death Eaters, so those to are willing to do so will follow us outside."
Hermione nodded.
Just then they reached the table. Severus was helping Sonomi stand up(she had hurt her back on the fall). Dumbledore and Mcgonagall stood next to them.
"Prof. Dumbledore." Harry called.
"Ah, Mr. Potter, Miss Granger, just the ones who I expected to see." Dumbledore said. "I thought you would be gone by now."
"Sakura thought it would be better if we waited." Hermione explained.
"What are you talking about?" Mcgonagall asked.
"You're going alone?" Dumbledore asked.
"No." Harry answered. "We're planning to take Ron and the members of the D.A. who are willing to accompany us to help them in what we can."
Dumbledore nodded, he liked the idea.
Mcgonagall just looked at them, wanting to know what was happening.
"You think you could get us out 'a here before you leave Miss Granger?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes." Hermione answered. "I can get us out of here but once out of the room we'll split."
"Let the other professors take the students by the nearest passageway, out of Hogwarts." Sonomi proposed.
"And you?" Severus asked her.
"I won't leave my daughter alone." Sonomi replied.
"Then I won't leave you alone." Severus replied.
"Fine." Dumbledore said. "Let Prof. Flitwick, Sprout, Vector, Sinistra and Hagrid lead the students out of the castle. The rest of us shall accompany you."
Harry just nodded.
Just then Ron was back with at least 30 students.
"We know what you want." Colin said.
"We are willing to fight those Death Eaters." Seamus added.
"What?!" Mcgonagall cried out. "Are you crazy?!"
"No." Ron said.
"Sakura, Shaoran, Tomoyo and Eriol are out there fighting for our safety against Voldemort and his Death Eaters." Harry said.
Mcgonagall flinched, but she was surprised to notice the students reacting in no way by the mention of the name, it was as if they didn't fear him anymore.
"We can't let them fight alone." Hermione added.
"For some of us it isn't the first time we fight them." Ginny added, thinking back to what had happened in the Department of Mysteries.
"But it might be the last." Neville added.
"This might be the night when we finally defeat him." Another girl added.
The rest just nodded.
"Albus, you can't possibly let them go." Mcgonagall said distressed. "It's too dangerous."
"It's not about letting them go or not Minerva." Dumbledore replied. "They've decided to fight their fears, and I won't stop them."
"Hermione, the mirror." Sonomi told her.
Hermione nodded and took out the mirror.
"Show me the outside of Hogwarts." Hermione ordered.
The mirror showed her the ongoing battle. Things weren't going well for Sakura and company.
"They aren't using their staffs." Harry whispered.
"Maybe they want to try Voldemort's powers out first." Hermione thought.
"They can't use them." Sonomi said.
Both teens turned to loom at her.
"Voldemort isn't giving them any time for them to call out their magic." Sonomi explained.
And it was true, the attacks went one after another, the Sorcerers didn't have any time to summon their staffs or weapons.
"We need to get to them now." Hermione said seriously.
"That's just fine Miss Granger." Mcgonagall said, still not satisfied with the idea. "Just one question, how do you plan to get us out of here?"
"That's not a problem." Hermione assured. "Follow me."
She put away her mirror and unclasped the key she had around her neck. Harry, Sonomi, Severus, Dumbledore and Mcgonagall were just behind her.
"Ready?" Hermione asked Harry.
"When you give the word." Harry replied.
Hermione nodded and got the key in the lock.
The Professors were wondering how she was going to open the lock with that key when suddenly the door opened.
The four Death Eaters standing behind the doors turned to them surprised.
"Hello." Hermione smiled.
They attacked.
"Reflectus!" Harry called.
Not even bothering to get his wand out.
His emerald green aura created a barrier that deflected the spells, sending the Death Eaters flying backwards.
"Sleep, now." Sonomi ordered raising her hand.
Her Sorceress talent worked out, making all the Death Eaters fall asleep at the moment.
"How did you do that?!" Mcgonagall exclaimed, shocked.
"Long story, there's no time." Harry replied. "Ron!"
Ron immediately got to them, followed by the D.A. members.
"Come on." Hermione said. "Lets get going."
And without waiting for anything they walked away.
"What was that Albus?" Mcgonagall asked.
"I myself don't know the complete answer to that Minerva." Dumbledore answered. "Lets just get the rest of the students out of here."
Mcgonagall nodded.
So the rest of the students left with some of the professors.
Then Sonomi guided Severus, Mcgonagall and Dumbledore in the direction Hermione and the rest had gone just a couple of minutes ago.
Eriol was sent to the ground hard as he had received an Expelliarmus spell aimed for Tomoyo.
"Daijoubu ka(Are you alright)?" Tomoyo asked him.
"Hai." Eriol answered, not sounding at all convinced.
"Where are Hermy-chan and Harry-kun?" Tomoyo asked.
"They shall be here any minute now." Sakura said.
Just then a rain of curses went to them, but they never reached their destiny.
"Protergo!" About two dozens of voices called at the same time.
"You were calling for us?" Hermione asked smiling.
"Took you some time." Shaoran replied with fake anger.
"Had to open some doors and get rid of some Death Eaters who wouldn't let us pass peacefully." Harry replied with a smile.
"Hey, you can get sarcastic all you want later, now fight!" Eriol yelled as he dodged a spell.
"Fine." Harry said. He turned to the D.A. "Everyone, you're here by your own will. You've learned how to fight. Now it's your time to do it. Fight!"
The rest of the students needed nothing more. They immediately split and, by pairs, charged at the Death Eaters. Each time they were attacked one of them would protect and another attack.
"You taught them well." Sakura complimented them.
Harry just smiled.
Then he, Hermione and Ron got into a group and they too fought.
Voldemort wasn't expecting this, the students fighting him and his Death Eaters with no fear. Some of them fell, wounded, and others would get there and protect them.
"We need some help." Sakura murmured. "Tomoyo-chan."
Tomoyo understood and whistled. The tune was sweet and low.
A couple of seconds later there was an answer.
And something else Voldemort wasn't expecting happened. Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix arrived. He began shedding tears, healing those who had been wounded. Seeing they could be healed made the students loose the little fear they had gotten, and they fought even harder.
"You never expected this, did you?" Shaoran asked to Voldemort dodging an attack. "All this people, fighting you, unafraid."
"I'll teach them to fear me." Voldemort said. He aimed to Sakura. "Avada Kedavra!"
"Sakura Abunai(Beware)!" Tomoyo and Shaoran yelled at once.
Sakura raised her hand, she didn't get any time to create a shield.
There was a green flash and…
What can I say? I had some writer's block(again). But then suddenly I got my inspiration. I already have the idea of most of the big events I will be including in the sequel.
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