A/N: I don't have anything specific to say so just read on and have fun.
Chapter 8 Surrounding Mists
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
The next day Harry, Audrey, Ron and Hermione sat outside during a free hour since Flitwick had fallen down the stairs
*cough*pusheddownthestairs*bigcough*byPeeves*cough*.
Ron and Hermione had told their respective stories of the previous night's events.
"Well that makes us all even." Ron said.
'I'm still not sure how my telepathy works. I'd better tell them when I have it all figured out' Harry thought.
They spent some more time discussing the way everything was going in the war though it still wasn't all out in the open. Voldemort had yet to attack muggles or muggle-borns.
'I wonder what MoldyVoldy's up to... ' Hermione said with a pensive face.
That's when the bell decided to ring.
"You know Mist, you could pull a nice trick with Malfoy's dreams." Harry suggested grinning, as they walked inside, heading for double Transfiguration.
"Let him dream about waltzing with McGonagall who's wearing a tutti-frutti coloured dress!" Audrey added.
They all got malicious smiles.
"I just might." Hermione replied while they entered the classroom.
~*~ That weekend ~*~
Harry, Audrey, Hermione and Ron were sitting at breakfast. Ron was currently wondering about today's activities.
"Well, since it's a Saturday and we finished all our homework, we might as well have an all day training session." Hermione said in a low voice.
The others looked at her, then smirked (Slytherin like) and nodded.
"Well, we're done here, let's go then." Harry said.
They went upstairs first so they could change into easier clothes beneath their robes. After that they went back down and outside.
There they looked around to see if anyone was near. When they were sure there was none, they transformed and like shoots raced to their clearing.
Once they reached their destination, they changed back and took of their cloaks.
Under the cloak Harry was wearing black slacks and a forest green t-shirt with a black print saying; 'Pranks are a way of life'.
Ron was wearing blue slacks and a black t-shirt with white print saying; 'Shit happens, especially at school'.
Audrey was wearing tight knee length black training pants and a sky blue tank top with indigo blue print saying; 'Good students are just bad students who haven't been caught yet.' Her waist long hair was done in a long braid.
Finally, Hermione was wearing the same type of pants as Audrey. Only they were sea green and her black tank top had light green print saying; 'These three near me? Don't know em'. Her hair was up in a high ponytail.
They all had black fingerless gloves for a better grip.
Ron rubbed his hands and asked, "So what's the deal today?"
Hermione replied, "We've mastered apparating and our wandless magic doesn't need specific training anymore. So Audrey and I figured we could start some combat training, hand to hand techniques plus handling weapons."
Ron and Harry stared at the two girls.
"Where exactly are we going to get these weapons and training?" Harry asked.
"We already have the weapons and the training starts in books. The rest should some naturally. We're elemental mages so the style of our elements should simply kick in and we will never forget it. Just like riding a bike." Herm stated.
"Ah what?" Ron exclaimed confused.
Harry and Hermione groaned and ignored him.
Audrey began by walking to a heavy boulder and used her elemental magic to lift it up. She then used a wandless summoning spell to summon a bag from the pit that lied underneath the boulder.
She let the boulder fall down again and handed Hermione the bag.
Hermione waved her hand over the bag and it suddenly grew. She reached inside and started to pull out weapons;
2 Katana's
7 Shuriken (throwing stars)
1 Strike Sword
1 Scimitar (Arabian Sword)
1 Scythe
1 Crossbow
2 Daggers
2 Knifes
1 Spear
1 Axe (those long ones)
2 Nodachi's (short version)
7 Darts
2 Switchblades
7 Small Throwing Knifes
and
1 Chain
"Merlin's hat! What did you two do? Rob an armoury?!" Harry asked, gawking at the big pile of sharp steel.
"No not really. Do you really want to know where we got the weapons?" Audrey asked.
"Yeah, we really want to know." Ron replied anxious.
"You know when we disappeared two days ago and didn't tell you why?" Hermione began.
The two boys nodded.
"Well Nova and I asked Dumbledore if we could go to Diagon Alley for some special books that weren't in the library for a charms assignment. Dumbledore agreed but he also sent Hagrid with us." Audrey continued.
"But you know how trusting Hagrid is when it comes to us, and we hated that we had to abuse his trust but it had to be done, so we let him drink something in the Leaky Cauldron." Hermione continued.
"Then Mist and I used a strong illusion spell to cloak ourselves and went to Knockturn Alley." Audrey continued.
Harry and Ron gawked at them.
"We know it's not the nicest place but it's the only place where we could get the weapons." Hermione stated while she shrugged, saying with that *Piece of cake!*.
"So we bought the weapons, put them in a bag, put every cloaking and illusion spell we knew on it and shrunk it." she continued.
"We then left Knockturn Alley, took the spell off ourselves and hightailed to Flourish and Blotts, where we bought the books we supposedly needed and joined Hagrid again." Audrey finished.
"Do we actually have a Charms assignment?" Harry asked.
"Yes, we do but it'll only be explained next week. Professor Flitwick told us in advance." Hermione replied, grinning evilly.
"Isn't that unfair?" Ron asked.
"Actually yes, but now he's expecting a project worth an O. It's supposed to be about Cloaking and Illusion spells." Audrey shrugged.
"That shouldn't be a problem; we've had enough practice in them anyhow." Harry said smiling at Audrey and she smiled back.
Hermione eyed them and smiled mischievously while Ron looked around confused.
Audrey snapped out of it and forced herself to stop thinking about Harry's emerald eyes.
"We'd better start then." she said.
The others nodded.
"How are we going to choose our weapons?" Ron asked while eying all of the weapons on the ground.
"Just let your element guide you." Hermione replied with a bad imitation of Trelawnys *misty* voice.
That got the others to crack up for about five minutes. When the chuckles slowly decreased she summoned her element and was surrounded by her dark blue/sea-green aura. She walked to the weapons and picked the scimitar, the throwing knifes and the two larger knifes. Hermione opened her eyes and smiled encouragingly to the others who were still occasionally snickering.
Audrey decided she might as well be next. She stepped forward and summoned her element; she was surrounded by her soft blue/violet aura. She walked to the weapons and picked the twin katana's, the shuriken and the two daggers. She let the connection with her element fade and smiled at the others.
Ron went next, he called his element and was surrounded by his dark red/forest green aura. He walked to the weapons and picked the scythe, the two switchblades and a strike sword. He stepped back again.
The three of them looked at Harry since he was the last.
Harry summoned his element and was surrounded by his scarlet/yellow aura. He walked to the weapons and picked the twin nodachi's, the darts and the chain.
"Well that's that. Nova if you could please clear away the other weapons." Hermione said.
"Sure my dear Lady." Audrey replied, she waved her hand with a little flourish and the weapons flew into the bag.
She waved her hand again and the bag shrunk. Then she summoned her elemental magic and used it to lift the boulder up again. She waved her other hand and the bag flew back into the pit. Audrey snapped her finger and the boulder crashed down with a mighty bang.
"What now?" Harry asked.
Hermione grinned.
"Now we read and then we fight." she replied.
The four of them sat sown and Hermione handed the others books explaining the theoretical movements, they just had to look at the parts of their chosen weapons.
After an hour they were done, it was 10.30 so it was still pretty early.
"Well that was the theory, now it's time for the practical part." Ron said rubbing his hands.
They stood up and attached the weapons to them.
"Let's split up, Prowl with me and Snitch with Nova" Hermione said.
They split up in said groups.
'Merlin, how am I going to focus when I'm paired with Harry?' Audrey groaned.
'Just my luck, I get paired with the girl who I'm in love with. Jeez I'm screwed' Harry thought.
They moved towards the rock in which the fire cave was.
Audrey used her levitation, which she had been practicing every night so she was pretty good, to jump onto the cave (a/n make it about 12 feet or so). She had her Katana's strapped on her back, the two daggers were on either side of her hips and the shuriken were hanging on a belt.
"Not fair Nova." Harry teased as he had to climb up.
He had his nodachi's strapped to his back, the darts were on a chest belt and the chain was around his middle.
He reached the top where Audrey was already waiting with her katana's drawn.
'Holy Hippogriffs she looks beautiful and dangerous. There's no way that I'm going to win.' Harry thought as he saw Audrey standing like that.
"Come on Snitch let's get this Niffler rolling" Audrey said smiling challenging.
"That won't be the only thing rolling Nova." Harry replied, hiding his nervousness.
He drew his swords and stood facing Audrey. They were daring each other to make the first move.
After a minute of staring in silence Harry felt the earth underneath him and changed the direction of his hip slightly, trying to get a good position and then... lunged forward with lightning speed, having one nodachi in level with his lower abdomen aiming on her midsection while having the other protecting his chest from Audrey's attacks and if he could get close enough, to slash. Audrey blocked the attack with her own swords and pushed them aside, kicking Harry in the chest sending him flying backwards with him landing on his butt.hard.
He immediately jumped up and charged again, this time with a vengeance, continuing attacking, blocking, charging, striking and ducking.
~*~
In the meantime, Ron and Hermione were standing face to face in the middle of the grassy field in the clearing.
Ron had his scythe strapped on his back with the strike sword hanging deadly on his left side hip. The pretty heavy black and silver blades were held in a special wrist rest done in such a position that they would fall into his hands if snapping his wrists in a specific way. You wouldn't know he had them if you weren't told when he had his usual robes on. A definite advantage to the dumbass provoking him at the time.
Hermione had her scimitar hanging on her left side combined with one knife on either side of her hips while the throwing knifes was resting lightly on a chest belt.
"Let's start with a bit of close range fighting." she suggested while slowly unsheathing one of her knifes.
Hermione then drew her other knife and they both slowly looked each other up. Hermione smiled mischievously and unconsciously licked her lips while Ron stood motionless, as his eye, locked on her lips, followed the path of her tongue.
'Why am I starting to get these strange feelings around Hermione?' he wondered, as his stomach jumped when she took to nibble at her lip.
"Sure Mist." Ron replied, as he snapped both his wrists. The blades neatly came to do his bidding, craving his hands, wanting to dance.
Hermione suddenly and unexpected stroke; intending on slashing his chest to upper shoulder. He was just able to block her attack by getting his wits about him and get both his blades set on meeting hers, just getting them both to stop near his throat.
"Tisk tisk tisk Prowl. You've got to pay attention." Hermione said teasingly.
"Don't worry I will." Ron replied and, after getting ready in those two milliseconds, lunged for her chest, hoping beyond hope that he wouldn't be the cause for paying a breast enlargement *he liked them fine as they were... Oy...* and started the fight.
~*~
After 2 hours of fighting and changing weapons along the line, the four friends met up again near a fallen tree.
It was now 12.30.
"That was remarkably good for a first day, but we shouldn't overdo it." Hermione happily said.
The others nodded their approval.
"Say guys, is it just me or is it getting real misty here?" Ron asked.
They looked around, and indeed, there was mist everywhere and it was getting thicker by the moment.
"Uhm, I think we'd better go. Now." Harry said.
They picked up their robes and threw them on and over their weapons. Both to keep them warm and to stop their weapons from getting moist.
"I've got a feeling that this is my dear old man's doing, lets just apparate." Audrey said.
The others agreed and with four soft cracks they were gone and reappeared behind Hagrid's cabin. They ran around it and saw Hagrid.
"What are ye four sill doin' 'ere? All the students sho' be inside! You'd bette' come wit' me." he said, rushing them to the school and into the Great Hall.
The rest of the school was already gathered there, everyone was wondering what was going on. Dumbledore then decided on doing his entrance.
"Students and staff, please calm down." he said.
Everybody stopped talking and looked expectantly at Dumbledore.
"We have yet to figure out what this mist is, but we suspect that it is the doing of Lord Voldemort. Therefore, the students are to remain here while the staff and myself investigate this." Dumbledore said while looking over the scared students.
He waved his wand and the floor was covered in purple and grey cushions.
"Headboy, Headgirl and Prefects! I expect you to keep everything in order." Dumbledore said before he left with the staff and magically closing the doors behind them.
~ Guys we're still fully armed. ~ Harry remarked, looking himself carefully over so as not to let anyone notice.
~ Damn! How are we going to sit down like this?! We can't disapparate because there is too many people watching. ~ Ron groaned, as they were now some of the few still standing.
~ Men.always making a fuss. ~ Audrey commented, sighing.
~ Hey I resent that! ~ Harry and Ron chorused.
~ How about a bit of wandless magic? ~ Hermione asked, playing with her wand.
They boys' eyes lit up in understanding.
"Idiots..." Audrey and Hermione muttered under their breath, shaking their heads in sorrow.
All four of them waved their right hand and the weapons detached themselves, shrunk and flew into their pockets. They then quickly sat down and listened to everyone's guesses about what the mist could be.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Ron asked.
"We're not. We can't do that right now." Hermione replied.
Ron sighed, accepting his boring fate and just sat on his cushion and waited, looking up at the ceiling.
~*~
After 2 hours still nothing had happened.
"Merlin's beard, what's taking them so long?!" Ron complained.
By now he could tell them how many cracks there actually were in the roof. With a pitch-black sky on it that was quite a feat.
"No idea." Audrey said shrugging.
Then the doors opened and in came Dumbledore followed by the rest of the staff.
"Students, the danger has passed. You are free to go on with your business." Dumbledore happily said.
"But what happened?" someone asked.
"It was just a trick of Lord Voldemort to scare us." Dumbledore replied smiling.
"Then why did it take so long?" demanded someone else.
"We wanted to assure you safety. Now please. Go on and enjoy your weekend." Dumbledore said while dismissing them.
Everyone left the hall muttering darkly.
"He wasn't exactly straight forward with his information, now was he?" Harry remarked as they walked to the Gryffindor common room while the others shook their heads in full agreement.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
That's that for this chap.
PLZ REVIEW and Make me HAPPY
Next chap -- Quidditch Trials & Saving the Day
Bye Bye LUV YA
Nova
Chapter 8 Surrounding Mists
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
The next day Harry, Audrey, Ron and Hermione sat outside during a free hour since Flitwick had fallen down the stairs
*cough*pusheddownthestairs*bigcough*byPeeves*cough*.
Ron and Hermione had told their respective stories of the previous night's events.
"Well that makes us all even." Ron said.
'I'm still not sure how my telepathy works. I'd better tell them when I have it all figured out' Harry thought.
They spent some more time discussing the way everything was going in the war though it still wasn't all out in the open. Voldemort had yet to attack muggles or muggle-borns.
'I wonder what MoldyVoldy's up to... ' Hermione said with a pensive face.
That's when the bell decided to ring.
"You know Mist, you could pull a nice trick with Malfoy's dreams." Harry suggested grinning, as they walked inside, heading for double Transfiguration.
"Let him dream about waltzing with McGonagall who's wearing a tutti-frutti coloured dress!" Audrey added.
They all got malicious smiles.
"I just might." Hermione replied while they entered the classroom.
~*~ That weekend ~*~
Harry, Audrey, Hermione and Ron were sitting at breakfast. Ron was currently wondering about today's activities.
"Well, since it's a Saturday and we finished all our homework, we might as well have an all day training session." Hermione said in a low voice.
The others looked at her, then smirked (Slytherin like) and nodded.
"Well, we're done here, let's go then." Harry said.
They went upstairs first so they could change into easier clothes beneath their robes. After that they went back down and outside.
There they looked around to see if anyone was near. When they were sure there was none, they transformed and like shoots raced to their clearing.
Once they reached their destination, they changed back and took of their cloaks.
Under the cloak Harry was wearing black slacks and a forest green t-shirt with a black print saying; 'Pranks are a way of life'.
Ron was wearing blue slacks and a black t-shirt with white print saying; 'Shit happens, especially at school'.
Audrey was wearing tight knee length black training pants and a sky blue tank top with indigo blue print saying; 'Good students are just bad students who haven't been caught yet.' Her waist long hair was done in a long braid.
Finally, Hermione was wearing the same type of pants as Audrey. Only they were sea green and her black tank top had light green print saying; 'These three near me? Don't know em'. Her hair was up in a high ponytail.
They all had black fingerless gloves for a better grip.
Ron rubbed his hands and asked, "So what's the deal today?"
Hermione replied, "We've mastered apparating and our wandless magic doesn't need specific training anymore. So Audrey and I figured we could start some combat training, hand to hand techniques plus handling weapons."
Ron and Harry stared at the two girls.
"Where exactly are we going to get these weapons and training?" Harry asked.
"We already have the weapons and the training starts in books. The rest should some naturally. We're elemental mages so the style of our elements should simply kick in and we will never forget it. Just like riding a bike." Herm stated.
"Ah what?" Ron exclaimed confused.
Harry and Hermione groaned and ignored him.
Audrey began by walking to a heavy boulder and used her elemental magic to lift it up. She then used a wandless summoning spell to summon a bag from the pit that lied underneath the boulder.
She let the boulder fall down again and handed Hermione the bag.
Hermione waved her hand over the bag and it suddenly grew. She reached inside and started to pull out weapons;
2 Katana's
7 Shuriken (throwing stars)
1 Strike Sword
1 Scimitar (Arabian Sword)
1 Scythe
1 Crossbow
2 Daggers
2 Knifes
1 Spear
1 Axe (those long ones)
2 Nodachi's (short version)
7 Darts
2 Switchblades
7 Small Throwing Knifes
and
1 Chain
"Merlin's hat! What did you two do? Rob an armoury?!" Harry asked, gawking at the big pile of sharp steel.
"No not really. Do you really want to know where we got the weapons?" Audrey asked.
"Yeah, we really want to know." Ron replied anxious.
"You know when we disappeared two days ago and didn't tell you why?" Hermione began.
The two boys nodded.
"Well Nova and I asked Dumbledore if we could go to Diagon Alley for some special books that weren't in the library for a charms assignment. Dumbledore agreed but he also sent Hagrid with us." Audrey continued.
"But you know how trusting Hagrid is when it comes to us, and we hated that we had to abuse his trust but it had to be done, so we let him drink something in the Leaky Cauldron." Hermione continued.
"Then Mist and I used a strong illusion spell to cloak ourselves and went to Knockturn Alley." Audrey continued.
Harry and Ron gawked at them.
"We know it's not the nicest place but it's the only place where we could get the weapons." Hermione stated while she shrugged, saying with that *Piece of cake!*.
"So we bought the weapons, put them in a bag, put every cloaking and illusion spell we knew on it and shrunk it." she continued.
"We then left Knockturn Alley, took the spell off ourselves and hightailed to Flourish and Blotts, where we bought the books we supposedly needed and joined Hagrid again." Audrey finished.
"Do we actually have a Charms assignment?" Harry asked.
"Yes, we do but it'll only be explained next week. Professor Flitwick told us in advance." Hermione replied, grinning evilly.
"Isn't that unfair?" Ron asked.
"Actually yes, but now he's expecting a project worth an O. It's supposed to be about Cloaking and Illusion spells." Audrey shrugged.
"That shouldn't be a problem; we've had enough practice in them anyhow." Harry said smiling at Audrey and she smiled back.
Hermione eyed them and smiled mischievously while Ron looked around confused.
Audrey snapped out of it and forced herself to stop thinking about Harry's emerald eyes.
"We'd better start then." she said.
The others nodded.
"How are we going to choose our weapons?" Ron asked while eying all of the weapons on the ground.
"Just let your element guide you." Hermione replied with a bad imitation of Trelawnys *misty* voice.
That got the others to crack up for about five minutes. When the chuckles slowly decreased she summoned her element and was surrounded by her dark blue/sea-green aura. She walked to the weapons and picked the scimitar, the throwing knifes and the two larger knifes. Hermione opened her eyes and smiled encouragingly to the others who were still occasionally snickering.
Audrey decided she might as well be next. She stepped forward and summoned her element; she was surrounded by her soft blue/violet aura. She walked to the weapons and picked the twin katana's, the shuriken and the two daggers. She let the connection with her element fade and smiled at the others.
Ron went next, he called his element and was surrounded by his dark red/forest green aura. He walked to the weapons and picked the scythe, the two switchblades and a strike sword. He stepped back again.
The three of them looked at Harry since he was the last.
Harry summoned his element and was surrounded by his scarlet/yellow aura. He walked to the weapons and picked the twin nodachi's, the darts and the chain.
"Well that's that. Nova if you could please clear away the other weapons." Hermione said.
"Sure my dear Lady." Audrey replied, she waved her hand with a little flourish and the weapons flew into the bag.
She waved her hand again and the bag shrunk. Then she summoned her elemental magic and used it to lift the boulder up again. She waved her other hand and the bag flew back into the pit. Audrey snapped her finger and the boulder crashed down with a mighty bang.
"What now?" Harry asked.
Hermione grinned.
"Now we read and then we fight." she replied.
The four of them sat sown and Hermione handed the others books explaining the theoretical movements, they just had to look at the parts of their chosen weapons.
After an hour they were done, it was 10.30 so it was still pretty early.
"Well that was the theory, now it's time for the practical part." Ron said rubbing his hands.
They stood up and attached the weapons to them.
"Let's split up, Prowl with me and Snitch with Nova" Hermione said.
They split up in said groups.
'Merlin, how am I going to focus when I'm paired with Harry?' Audrey groaned.
'Just my luck, I get paired with the girl who I'm in love with. Jeez I'm screwed' Harry thought.
They moved towards the rock in which the fire cave was.
Audrey used her levitation, which she had been practicing every night so she was pretty good, to jump onto the cave (a/n make it about 12 feet or so). She had her Katana's strapped on her back, the two daggers were on either side of her hips and the shuriken were hanging on a belt.
"Not fair Nova." Harry teased as he had to climb up.
He had his nodachi's strapped to his back, the darts were on a chest belt and the chain was around his middle.
He reached the top where Audrey was already waiting with her katana's drawn.
'Holy Hippogriffs she looks beautiful and dangerous. There's no way that I'm going to win.' Harry thought as he saw Audrey standing like that.
"Come on Snitch let's get this Niffler rolling" Audrey said smiling challenging.
"That won't be the only thing rolling Nova." Harry replied, hiding his nervousness.
He drew his swords and stood facing Audrey. They were daring each other to make the first move.
After a minute of staring in silence Harry felt the earth underneath him and changed the direction of his hip slightly, trying to get a good position and then... lunged forward with lightning speed, having one nodachi in level with his lower abdomen aiming on her midsection while having the other protecting his chest from Audrey's attacks and if he could get close enough, to slash. Audrey blocked the attack with her own swords and pushed them aside, kicking Harry in the chest sending him flying backwards with him landing on his butt.hard.
He immediately jumped up and charged again, this time with a vengeance, continuing attacking, blocking, charging, striking and ducking.
~*~
In the meantime, Ron and Hermione were standing face to face in the middle of the grassy field in the clearing.
Ron had his scythe strapped on his back with the strike sword hanging deadly on his left side hip. The pretty heavy black and silver blades were held in a special wrist rest done in such a position that they would fall into his hands if snapping his wrists in a specific way. You wouldn't know he had them if you weren't told when he had his usual robes on. A definite advantage to the dumbass provoking him at the time.
Hermione had her scimitar hanging on her left side combined with one knife on either side of her hips while the throwing knifes was resting lightly on a chest belt.
"Let's start with a bit of close range fighting." she suggested while slowly unsheathing one of her knifes.
Hermione then drew her other knife and they both slowly looked each other up. Hermione smiled mischievously and unconsciously licked her lips while Ron stood motionless, as his eye, locked on her lips, followed the path of her tongue.
'Why am I starting to get these strange feelings around Hermione?' he wondered, as his stomach jumped when she took to nibble at her lip.
"Sure Mist." Ron replied, as he snapped both his wrists. The blades neatly came to do his bidding, craving his hands, wanting to dance.
Hermione suddenly and unexpected stroke; intending on slashing his chest to upper shoulder. He was just able to block her attack by getting his wits about him and get both his blades set on meeting hers, just getting them both to stop near his throat.
"Tisk tisk tisk Prowl. You've got to pay attention." Hermione said teasingly.
"Don't worry I will." Ron replied and, after getting ready in those two milliseconds, lunged for her chest, hoping beyond hope that he wouldn't be the cause for paying a breast enlargement *he liked them fine as they were... Oy...* and started the fight.
~*~
After 2 hours of fighting and changing weapons along the line, the four friends met up again near a fallen tree.
It was now 12.30.
"That was remarkably good for a first day, but we shouldn't overdo it." Hermione happily said.
The others nodded their approval.
"Say guys, is it just me or is it getting real misty here?" Ron asked.
They looked around, and indeed, there was mist everywhere and it was getting thicker by the moment.
"Uhm, I think we'd better go. Now." Harry said.
They picked up their robes and threw them on and over their weapons. Both to keep them warm and to stop their weapons from getting moist.
"I've got a feeling that this is my dear old man's doing, lets just apparate." Audrey said.
The others agreed and with four soft cracks they were gone and reappeared behind Hagrid's cabin. They ran around it and saw Hagrid.
"What are ye four sill doin' 'ere? All the students sho' be inside! You'd bette' come wit' me." he said, rushing them to the school and into the Great Hall.
The rest of the school was already gathered there, everyone was wondering what was going on. Dumbledore then decided on doing his entrance.
"Students and staff, please calm down." he said.
Everybody stopped talking and looked expectantly at Dumbledore.
"We have yet to figure out what this mist is, but we suspect that it is the doing of Lord Voldemort. Therefore, the students are to remain here while the staff and myself investigate this." Dumbledore said while looking over the scared students.
He waved his wand and the floor was covered in purple and grey cushions.
"Headboy, Headgirl and Prefects! I expect you to keep everything in order." Dumbledore said before he left with the staff and magically closing the doors behind them.
~ Guys we're still fully armed. ~ Harry remarked, looking himself carefully over so as not to let anyone notice.
~ Damn! How are we going to sit down like this?! We can't disapparate because there is too many people watching. ~ Ron groaned, as they were now some of the few still standing.
~ Men.always making a fuss. ~ Audrey commented, sighing.
~ Hey I resent that! ~ Harry and Ron chorused.
~ How about a bit of wandless magic? ~ Hermione asked, playing with her wand.
They boys' eyes lit up in understanding.
"Idiots..." Audrey and Hermione muttered under their breath, shaking their heads in sorrow.
All four of them waved their right hand and the weapons detached themselves, shrunk and flew into their pockets. They then quickly sat down and listened to everyone's guesses about what the mist could be.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Ron asked.
"We're not. We can't do that right now." Hermione replied.
Ron sighed, accepting his boring fate and just sat on his cushion and waited, looking up at the ceiling.
~*~
After 2 hours still nothing had happened.
"Merlin's beard, what's taking them so long?!" Ron complained.
By now he could tell them how many cracks there actually were in the roof. With a pitch-black sky on it that was quite a feat.
"No idea." Audrey said shrugging.
Then the doors opened and in came Dumbledore followed by the rest of the staff.
"Students, the danger has passed. You are free to go on with your business." Dumbledore happily said.
"But what happened?" someone asked.
"It was just a trick of Lord Voldemort to scare us." Dumbledore replied smiling.
"Then why did it take so long?" demanded someone else.
"We wanted to assure you safety. Now please. Go on and enjoy your weekend." Dumbledore said while dismissing them.
Everyone left the hall muttering darkly.
"He wasn't exactly straight forward with his information, now was he?" Harry remarked as they walked to the Gryffindor common room while the others shook their heads in full agreement.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
That's that for this chap.
PLZ REVIEW and Make me HAPPY
Next chap -- Quidditch Trials & Saving the Day
Bye Bye LUV YA
Nova