Chapter Two

By Shadow-Demon14

Disclaimer: no I don't own Harry Potter or any of the original characters, but I own my characters and the plot as well!

It was four hours later and Jordan, Ayania, Kim, Rain, and Eric were all heading back to the Master. Today hadn't been a good day, it seemed the crowds were getting smarter with their money.

"This is all ye have been able to collect today?" Master was sitting in his little shelter with the group standing where he could see all of them. Their pickings were all in a pile; it was a fourth of what they usually collected.

The Master was a cold, cruel man who was quite harsh. He had been on the streets since he was eleven, and like to remind the group of all the things that he had accomplished during that time. Master was now around his mid-fifties, never did say exactly what his was. He was also strong from all the years on the streets and had many scars on his arms and legs. There was one particular nasty scar that went from his left shoulder down to his thumb on his left hand. The part of the scar on the hand was the only part anyone ever saw of it, because of the baggy clothes.

"Ys sir," it was Ayania that answered him, it was normally her or Jordan, they were his favorites. He'd ignore Kim, and then yell at Rain and Eric.

"An ow much did you colect taday Eric?"

Eric looked down, concentrating on his feet, "One watch, an two wallets sir." Eric started to fidget, he never liked it when Master cornered him.

"Eric I know you, ya can git more than tha. Now why don cha?"

Eric mumbled. "Now I can ear you."

Still looking down Eric answered, "I think tha I wrong ta steal sir.'

Master stood up and went towards Eric, and raised his hand going for a hit. Just before his hand made contact, someone grabbed his wrist.

"Master, ye rember our deal don cha? No itting Eric, you git ta it meh wit out resistence." Rain had stopped Master from hitting Eric, who she had protected as a son ever since she took him in.

Master sneered at her, yanking his arm away from her and hitting her upside the head causing Rain to stumble back a step.

"I don undestand why ye bothe protectin im Rain. No one, but meh, as ever done anything for ya."

"Ye aven't done anything for meh Master," Rain stood her ground.

This earned her a slap, "why you little bitch! I ave taken care of you since you were a baby, and this is the thanks that I get?" whenever the Master got angry, his street accent would clear up dramatically.

Master continued with Rain's beating for a few more minutes, while Kim, Ayania, and Jordan looked away, grimacing whenever they heard a hard hit connect with Rain.

Eric was silently crying, but made himself watch his surrogate mother get a beating because of him. He didn't want to watch, he hated watching, but it was punishment to himself to her get the beating that was meant for him.

After Master was done, he gathered the stolen items and left, but no before throwing four small sacks towards the group. The small sacks contained a little amount of dry bread. Food was almost impossible to come upon on the streets of London, it was a miracle that anyone living on the streets were able to get a hold of anything.

Rain forced herself from the ground, ignoring any attempts someone gave to help her. Once she was standing everyone could see her cut lip, bleeding temple, bruised cheek, as well as a few more bruises and cuts here and there.

"Come ere Eric."

Cautiously, Eric walked up to Rain, wanting to hug her and start crying but held back, considerate of her injuries. But Rain gently took him in her arms, knowing how he felt having this type of thing happen many times before.

"Ya alright there Rain?" Kim was going through a certain spot in where the Master stayed most of the time, she pulled out some sort of rags. They were dirty, they were something to use to clean up blood and use as temporary bandages.

Eric backed up and let Kim and Jordan, who were the best at first aid, and let them bandage her up. He was proud of her because she always got up from a beating, she didn't allow anyone or anything to keep her down.

A few minutes later found Rain and Eric on the sidewalks, walking them for five minutes before heading back to the others. They split up the money that they collected, each getting six dollars.

Grabbing the sacks of the little food that they left and walked through the alleys. Jo was helping Rain walk. She was worn out because she pushed herself to get those extra dollars for themselves. Eric was on her other side trying to help any way that he could.

They came to an alley that was darker than the others, one that most people would miss because of all the junk blocking it. But the group knew better and went over the junk, coming to where they stayed at night and some other times.

There were blankets that acted as tents, shielding them from passer-bys, and the rain. It was a fairly large "tent" since all of them could lie down in there comfortably.

Jordan and Eric sat rain down in her corner, and Eric sat next to her, carefully hugging her. Kim was beside Eric, and Jordan and Ayania were on the opposite side.

"So, Eric. Why don ye git as much stuff as ya can? Cause of you, rain gotnother beatin." Ayania didn't like Eric all that much, thought that he was too clingy for his own good since they were living on the streets. Plus she had a little problem of always pointing fingers at people.

"Mum. She tol meh not ta git so much." The group knew how Eric called Rain his mother, even though she was way to young to be, but it didn't bother them at all.

Kim looked at Rain who had her eyes closed and was leaning against the wall.

"Did ye really say tha Rain?"

Rain kept her eyes closed, "Yeah, I di. We gttn away from Master one of these days. Got ta know wha i right from wrong."

Ayania looked disbelieving at Rain and Eric, " an ow are yeh gonna do tha?"

"Haven figured tha part out yet. I didn't say tha we were gonna git out o here tomorrow.'

Ayania hadn't meant to sound so harsh, everyone knew that, it was just her way of looking out for everyone. Jordan sat there, and Kim smiled at the both of them.

"So tha i the reason you an Eric go out an git all that money each night. Why don' ya keep all o de money?'

Rain still had her eyes closed, looking as if she were sleeping with Eric leaning against her slowly nodding off to sleep.

"Why? Don ye wan to get outta o here too?'

Jordan, Kim, and Ayania shared looks, smiling at each other. They liked the idea of getting off the streets and having a real home. It was nice to know that the one who had been on the streets all her life, and was cold to many people, was looking out for them.

It had been two hours since everyone had nodded off to sleep, when a loud blast was heard. Causing dogs to start barking and people running. Screams could be heard, and they were close by.

The group jumped and were instantly wide awake and standing. Without saying anything to each other they slipped out of their sleeping area into the alleys.

It was easy to tell where everyone was going because the "street rats" and some other people were running through the alleys all in one direction.

Wordlessly the whole group started to go in the direction of everyone else, not wanting to confront whatever it was that was causing all this panic.

Though they didn't get far. Turning a corner they came face to face with a group of black figures and were immediately trapped, as well as a few other that they didn't know.

Slowly other black figures came, bringing more hostages. Jordan, Ayania, and Kim were huddled together, with Rain and Eric right beside them.

"Wha are we gonna do? Wha the hell is going on anyway?" Kim whispered to the gang.

"I ave no idea-"

Jordan was suddenly cut off when the mysterious black figures started to chant something and a few people near them collapsed and showed no more signs of life.

Then the black figures turned onto the group, pulling out some weird looking sticks, they said some more weird things, and next thing that the group knew, they were withering in pain on the filthy ground.

Without knowing what was going on, a black figure approached Rain and dragged her away. Rain saw the rest of the gang withering in pain as she was being dragged away from them. Before things became black, she saw Eric and heard him finally scream out in pain, that was when everything went black in Rain's world.

TBC

peacockgal17- Man that was a quick review. Didn't expect that to happen so quickly. I just pu it up and then I go back and I already have a review. I'm glad. You don't have to worry though, the first was just a prologue so it was short. This one was short because I wanted to quickly update. And don't worry, it deals with Harry Potter. thanx for the review! I hope that I will make onto your favorite stories list as well!