*Sorry its taken me a while to update. Anyway thanks to lovevanillacreme that review was very very very very helpful. New plot twist coming soon peeps! This may kinda ruin things, but I'd hate to have people thinking they were related, but they're not, don't worry. It will be revealed later on, maybe about chapter 16 and defiantly in the last chapter. So bear with me.

Sorry if its too much of spoiler lol, but I had to say they weren't cousins

Thanks to my other reviewers as well, you guys rock.

Ok dramatic chapter! YAY!

Hunted

Monday came too quickly for Raid. The morning found her back in her robes with her hair long and purple once more. She sat through History of Magic bored and fidgety, there was no note passing with Harry and Ron this lesson. Although she knew she was safe inside Hogwarts, she felt a nagging in the back of her mind that something was not right and that it was something to do with her.

In potions she took her usual seat by Draco. He placed a gentle hand on her leg and she gave him a brief, but warm smile. Just as Professor Snape started to talk Raid heard a voice in her mind.

"Help!" It shouted.

She looked around to see if anyone else had heard. No-one else appeared to. It came again.

"Help me!"

Suddenly Raid instinctively knew it was Shadow. She had to help him. She got up and swiftly ran out of the classroom, leaving the stares of the other students behind her.

"Mr Malfoy, if you would be so kind as to fetch back Miss Minorita." Professor Snape drawled.

When Raid was in a deserted hallway she shed her robes, underneath she had her trademark black combats with a t-shirt. Then, concentrating hard, she disappeared.

She apperated in a clearing in the forest, just as Shadow galloped across it full pelt. She whistled shrilly. Hearing the familiar noise, the large Unicorn swerved and galloped towards Raid, she turned slightly and the horse slowed to a canter as Raid leapt lightly to his back. Entwining her fingers in his mane tightly, she shouted the concealing spell for his horn above the din of the hooves on dirt. The horn shimmered and disappeared as the horse picked up pace.

Raid heard a shout behind her. She turned to find 5 men on broomsticks chasing them at speed. They had their wands out and were preparing to fight. They all wore black robes and look of gleeful pleasure on their faces as they chased the Unicorn. Hunters.

Suddenly a black figure appeared right in front of Raid, Shadow reared and turned to find the other hunters had caught up. Before Raid could call up her shield she was hit by five curses. They opened deep wounds on her back, chest, legs and the right of her face. Pain laced through her body, momentarily making her freeze. Finally Raid managed to call up her shield, Shadow was unharmed, his own brand of mysterious magic protected him. The horse backed away from the hunter slowly and Raid shot curses at them. She was weakening as they fought deep in to the forest. Their curses rebounding off her shield and hers being dodged by them on their swift broomsticks. The forest was getting darker and Raid could see her pursuers getting nervous, she was getting weaker by the second, the blood pouring from her wounds draining on to Shadows black coat and falling to the floor.

The hunters, all of a sudden, turned and flew away quickly towards the light that was the edge of the forest. At that same moment something large hit Raid in the back. She felt two very sharp pains in her right shoulder. Eight legs gripped her body as the Acromantula sunk its fangs in to Raids shoulder, the poison seeping in to her body quickly. Shadow reared violently, Raid somehow managed to say seated, but the large spider, about one metre in width, was thrown from Raids back. Shadow immediately, went in to a full gallop despite his exhausted state. He raced for the light that showed the edge of the forest and safety of Hogwarts. Raid glanced back and gasped in shock, hundreds of huge spiders were scuttling as fast as they could towards them. They kept coming and coming as Raid slipped in to delirium, the spider poison entering her blood.

As soon as they reached the light of Hogwarts grounds, the spiders stopped, they didn't seem to care to chase their prey in to the light. However Shadow kept galloping, his exhaustion showing now through his faltering stride.

A figure raced of the front doors of the castle and ran as fast as it could towards the galloping horse.

Draco had searched everywhere for his girlfriend. He had been out of Potions for over half an hour now, Professor Snape would not be happy. Draco was now walking toward the main entrance hall, he glanced out of the window and did a double take. Her saw the dark figure of a horse with a rider bent low over its back as it raced out of the cover of the Forbidden Forest. He saw a large dark mass moving behind it but he couldn't see what it was because it did not come out of the shadow of the trees. Although the horse was no longer pursued it carried on galloping, bearing its rider towards the castle. With a jolt, Draco realised the rider was Raid, and that she was bent over because she was injured. He raced to the entrance of the castle and towards the horse. When the horse reached him it came to an abrupt halt. He went to its side, to the rider.

When Shadow stopped, Raid just slipped off his back. Her energy gone and her life force swiftly being drained by the poison that was coursing through her body, she was  barely conscious. She felt herself being caught by strong arms, she managed to focus on the face swimming above her.

"Draco." She breathed, and slipped completely out of consciousness.

After Raid had barely whispered his name, she slipped in to darkness in Draco's arms. He looked down at her bloodied face and torn clothing, then to the exhausted horse, standing a little further away, its head bent low to the ground. Quickly Draco carried the unconscious girl to the castle and in to the hospital wing.

"Mr Malfoy, what are you.. Oh my goodness." Madam Pomfrey said as he walked in quickly.

"I don't know what's happened, I think she's been attacked." Draco said.

He sounded strange without his usual drawl. He sounded, worried.

He placed Raid gently on to a bed, as he drew back he looked a his hands and robes. They were covered in dark blood. He leant against the wall and slid down to the floor, staring at his hands, stained with blood.

Draco glanced up at his pale girlfriend, who lay limply on the hospital bed as her blood continued to pour and soaked the sheets.

*ooooooooooooo What do you think??? *sigh * I love dramatic chapters  *