Title: Cruel Summer

Summary: see chapter one

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Chapter 29

Morning came, and with it the creatures of the forest seemed to come to life. Harry sat listening to the calls from one bird to another, but what made him flinch was the roars he heard. After one particular one he shook Ron awake. "Ron get up. We should get a move on and quick."

Ron opened his eyes and looked at Harry. "What is the hurry, I have not had my breakfast yet." he said blearly.

"Ron we are not having any breakfast. We are in the forest, now wake up before we become someone's breakfast." Harry was getting impatient and the growls of some creature were making him nervous.

"Okay, okay but aren't you hungry?" Ron said as his stomach began to rumble.

Harry smiled at Ron. "No I can go a couple days with no food, although it is harder now than it used to be. Now come on wizard or no I do not like the growls I am hearing. We should move on before that thing makes us it's breakfast."

Harry did not have to tell Ron twice as the next growl was heard, he scrambled out of the little hole. Shaking off the dirt from his clothes they both began walking again.

"We should get back on the path don't you think?"

" The path is just over there" Harry said pointing to it, "But I like the protection of all these trees and bushes. We can hide should someone come along."

Ron threw up his hands in submission. "I give up, but I will have you know if I am eaten by any creature I am so haunting you."

Harry laughed his first real laugh in days. "Do not think such things Ron, and besides I would not let anything eat you, well besides that spider over there."

Ron turned around wand out ready to blast one of Aragog's children, but what he saw was some little Daddy Longlegs spider making it's way up the tree next to him. "That was not funny at all. You know I hate spiders"

"I know I am sorry" Harry said between snorts. "You should have seen the look on your face though it was priceless. Come on let's get a move on. Maybe we can find some actual shelter to sleep in tonight."

Hour upon hour, and minute upon minute they walked, pushing limbs away and dodging spider webs. Ron was grumbling about how he would dry up and be as small as Colin Creevy. Harry did not feel the pangs of hunger like Ron. All he was concerned about was what waited for him back at Hogwarts, and that was a one way ticket back to the Dursley's.

Ron turned around suddenly and pulled his wand. "Harry do not move mate. There is something coming towards us, and it is big!"

"Yeah right Ron. Look I told you I was sorry about the whole spider joke." Harry said smirking at his friend. Harry froze though when he heard the ground shake beneath his feet. He jerked around wand out, and what he saw scared him. He was frozen in place, he couldn't move, and by the time his reflexes kicked in the beast was upon him.

It had two horns and looked hungry and pissed off. It raised it's head and charged at Harry. Harry wanted to move, but found he was stunned by the beast. Here it looked like a unicorn and yet it was trying to kill him. Harry next heard the curse as Ron shouted "Expelliarmus". The creature was thrown back a few feet, and it gave Harry enough time to come out of the trance he was in.

He and Ron took off running as fast as they could as soon as the beast fell. "What is that thing?" Ron shouted over his shoulder as he ran.

"It looked like a unicorn, but I think Severus has mentioned something about one that is evil and eats human flesh. He said it had two horns and to avoid it."

The creature having shaken off being blasted by Ron was now angry. It looked at the two retreating forms and put it's head down. With an almost sinister snort it charged.

Ron was trying to throw curses as he ran, and trying to avoid hitting Harry who was behind him. Harry also tried to throw a curse, but every time he turned the thing gained on him a little more. Finally Harry felt like he couldn't run anymore, and that is when he felt the horn of the beast enter his shoulder.

Harry tried to get the thing off of him, He hit it repeatedly with his fist, but it only seemed to enrage the beast. The bicorn started to charge away with one of his horns still embedded in Harry's shoulder. Ron gasped, as he now understood what it was that had attacked Harry, and he knew it would first attack and then eat him. Running for all he was worth he chased the bicorn, throwing curse after curse on the animal.

The beast ran out onto the path and began to bash Harry on the hard ground, trying to get his mangled body off his horn so that he might begin to eat him. Harry's back was a mass of bruises and cuts from the thicket of thorns they had run through. As he landed with a thud on the ground he tried to get up and run from the beast, but his legs gave out beneath him and he cried out in pain.

Ron broke through the woods and onto the path and stood facing the wild animal. He stole a glance at Harry who was trying to crawl away, considering his foot lay at a very odd angle. "Are you okay Harry" he yelled not taking his eyes off the animal who was frothing at the mouth.

All he got in response was a groan, as Harry could not even pull himself away. He had pulled himself as far as the he could, when he found out his robes are pinned to the ground with a horn through them. Ron standing up faced the creature and pointed his wand at him. All his fears, went into the spell as he shouted "Stupefy!". The bicorn's mouth froze open only inches from Harry's face and then it toppled over on top of him.

Harry could not breathe, and he was struggling to get the monstrous thing off his already suffering body. He let out a sigh of relief as Ron levitated the bicorn off him. Helping Harry up Ron tore off Harry's robe, where it was pinning him down, and began to pull him off the path. "We better get as far away as we can before he wakes up.

Harry could not walk so Ron helped him up. Ron then saw the blood seeping from the hole in Harry's shoulder and he paled. "Harry we need to go back, that looks bad, and you cannot even walk."

"I will not go back, especially not now. I will not let them do to me what this thing has. The only thing that awaits me there is certain death." Harry spoke no more as it took all his energy to keep from collapsing.

Ron half dragged, half carried Harry off the path and back to the hole they had slept in the night before. When he finally sat Harry down he could see that there were many things that were seriously in need of a mediwitch. Harry's mangled shoulder bled freely now, and his foot was turned to the side with the bone sticking out. There were numerous gashes and cuts along Harry's back, but what worried Ron the most was the stab wound. Ron was not great in potions, and he was surely no healer, but even he knew that the wound would get infected.

Taking his own robe off he wrapped up Harry's shoulder as best he could. Harry's foot was another matter entirely. Ron had no idea what to do, and even looking at it made his stomach turn. He hoped someone found them, and he hoped it was soon. The smell of blood would surely attract more things he did not want around. He looked over at Harry who was now shaking and placed his hand on his head. Already Harry burned with fever. This was not a good sign, and Ron did something he did not normally do, he wept.