Into the Spirit World

Moony

JKR owns everything! Except for Aisling and Sande. They are my creations.

Sorry for the bad dialogue chapter. Once again, I will try hard to stop BLOODY DIALOGUE. Dialogue is eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. –Moony

Chapter 8

"Uh… what?" James asked, poking his head out of the tent.

"YOU HEARD ME. IT'S THIS ONE!" she yelled, back to her normal self seemingly.

"And how would you know, you old hag?" Sirius asked bitterly.

"BECAUSE I AM SMARTER THAN YOU DIM-WITTED ONE," she yelled.

"Oh are you!"

"Sirius, I really think we should try…" Lily said.

"Why are you listening to the old hag?"

"It was on the paper Sirius! Your mom is supposed to help find it, along with an angel, Aisling!"

"What if it's wrong Lils?"

"What if it's right? There's a chance, Sirius. If we stay here there is no chance!"

"But something's supposed to happen! Aisling said!" Sirius said stubbornly.

"I have an idea. How about we wait for a while for 'something to happen'. If nothing does, we go through that door," James said.

Sirius gritted his teeth. What choice did he have? Even his best friend seemed to want to charge through that door.

Mrs. Black seemed to go along too.

"And how long do we wait?" Sirius asked fiercely.

"How about an hour or so?" Sande asked.

"No, I don't think Chan expected it to happen that quick. How about three?" Aisling suggested.

"Fine. Three hours," Sirius said, with a voice of defeat.

James went to get some Butterbeers and they sat around the table in silence, drinking the Butterbeer. Sirius watched the clock. He was dreading the time when they were going to go through that door. He was almost certain there was nothing that would help behind that door. Tick… tick… the hands on the clock moved closer. Sirius took a tremendous gulp of Butterbeer.

It warmed him, but it did not soothe the churning in his stomach. It was a feeling of dread, apprehension, anger, fear, worry. In a matter of minutes, Lily stood and said, "It's been three hours."

Sirius's heart pounded. They stepped out the tent, and Lily folded it all up with her wand. Step by step, they got closer to the door, until at last, they were right in front of it.

"Here goes!" Aisling said, her hand reaching out to the knob. She turned it, and opened it.

As soon as the door opened, it seemed an invisible force was pushing them, and they all fell in, through the door. It slammed behind them. It was dark. Total darkness with no light. Sirius could not see a thing, though his eyes had adjusted long ago. There was no light infiltration. He couldn't even see his own hand. His heart sank. It was surely the wrong one. They could wander in this place forever, never finding the archway, or the door to get back.

"James? Lily? Aisling? Sande? Mum?" he called.

He took a step back.

"OUCH!" a voice cried, the familiar voice of James, "Ouch! Get off my foot Sirius! I'm right next to you!"

Sirius stepped back, then felt for James' hand.

"There you are," he said with relief.

"Can you guys get off me?" Sande asked.

The two looked down, but did not see anything. They bent down and fell off whatever it was they were standing on.

"Ow!" Sirius said.

"That's better. My back hurts now!" Sande whined.

"James? Sirius? Are you guys there?" Lily's voice yelled. The voice was very close to Sirius.

"Right here Lilykins," Sirius teased.

"Where's my sister?" Sande asked.

"Aisling?" James called.

There was no answer.

"Oh no!" Lily said.

"Don't worry, we can find her," Sirius said.

"Aww? Can't we just leave her?" Sande asked.

"Lumos!" James muttered.

A tiny light flared on the end of James' wand. It sputtered, then went out. They all were shocked. Was the darkness so powerful? The Lumos charm had never failed before.

Sirius took out his own wand, and tried too. It also sputtered, then died.

"Incienso!" Lily said. Bluebell flames shot out. It seemed there would be light for awhile, but then it too, flickered, sputtered, then died.

"The darkness is like… impenetrable. What are we going to do? We can't get back to that door if we can't see a thing!" Sande wailed.

"It's all your fault Mum!" Sirius yelled.

But there was no screaming reply. Sirius realized his mother was no where in sight either. Where were Aisling and his mother? Sirius did not move. He was afraid if he moved, he would lose James and Lily and Sande, and then he'd be lost. He would wander forever in the endless darkness. Lily shivered next to him.

The four of them stood there, at a loss for what to do. What could you do if you were in endless darkness that could not be chased away by light? What could you do but stand there? It was dangerous, and now Sirius could never, never go back to the Living and help Harry.

Then, Sirius heard something. A soft whisper, but it seemed to warm his heart and soul.

"Do you hear that?" Sirius asked.

"Yes…" James breathed.

The whispering sounded like French…

"Lumière, lumière, lumière, laissez la lumière conquérir l'obscurité, laissez le blanc conquérir le noir, laissé il y ait lumière, lumière, lumière, lumière…"

And next to Sirius, Sande was whispering in the same tone that warmed them all,

"Light, light, light, let the light conquer the darkness, let the white conquer the black, left there is light, light, light, light."


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