Chapter 34

Ginny had not expected that! How could He have met Ares before? Voldemort took it upon himself to answer Ginny's unspoken question.

"Yes, After all...Ares is the one I've sold my soul to" (which would explain the creepy, non-human look and red eyes of Voldy)

He's fucking twisted! Ginny automatically assumed that he was lying...and Ares JUST had to burst her bubble.

"He's telling the truth. He wanted immortality!"

"You've given him immortality?" Draco asked.

Ares sneered at him. "Of course not fool! I am Ares, God of War and the father of Deimos ((Fear)) and Phobos ((Terror)) and the Spirit of War. Hades is a powerful ally as the Lord of the Underworld. Granting someone immortality would not go over well with someone whose power is over people that are dead. It would break our alliance"

Voldemort continued. "Instead of immortality, he made sure age would not catch up with me for a long time. Which is fine by me, I'll have enough time to find another way."

Ares held up his hand, silencing them all again.

"I shall explain the rules to you" Rosie looked exited. "First, you three will go through a test and after that, I shall decide if the duel will be worth doing and if so, you'll duel"

"What are the rules?" Draco asked.

"There are no rules" Iris answered with a serious expression. Rosie was definitely the cheerful one of the two.

"What do you mean with 'no rules'?" Ginny asked Ares.

"Just that; there are no rules; have you never heard of the expression 'All is fair in War and Hate?"

"Don't you mean Love and War?"

"Nah...That was just made up by my ex-girlfriend Aphrodite; she being Love and me being War; glad that I dumped her!"

Draco started to get annoyed. Ginny could tell. She wanted everything to begin as well, instead of putting off something that is unavoidable.

"When do we start?" Ginny asked, before Draco had a chance to snap at Ares. When Draco is annoyed, he'd snap at anybody and something told Ginny that Ares wouldn't like being snapped at. Well...nobody would appreciate being snapped at, but when snapped at, Ares could do much more then snapping back like many others.

"You start right now, have fun!" Rosie said. The second that Rosie finished talking, the ground beneath Voldemort crumbled. The ground disappeared and Voldemort fell into the hole. He did not scream. Ginny walked over to the hole.

"Where did he go?"

Iris answered. "He's gone to take his test. He and you two are different parties. You and Draco Malfoy will go through the test apart from Voldemort" And the ground crumbled again and this time, Draco and Ginny fell through.

As Ginny started to fall, she knew that she could hear Rosie say: "See you later" But maybe she'd imagined it. It was dark and Ginny could feel nothing but the wind around her and Draco. She waved with her arms, trying to grab something solid. The only solid thing she could feel was Draco's hand. The minute their hands touched, she grabbed it and held on for dear life. They clasped their other hands together too. Ginny could see nothing through the dark, but she knew that Draco's face was just inches before her and his hands gave her comfort.

It felt like they were falling forever. There was no light at the end of the tunnel/pit they were falling in. (Otherwise, Ginny knew, to STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT!) They landed, eventually. And it was not a soft landing like most would think. They fell hard on the stone floor. Ares wasn't made for things such as cushions on the ground for falling people. They weren't injured though, which was surprising, since the fall wasn't short.

The stone floor was filthy. Draco had noticed.

"They could clean this place once in a while, couldn't they? I mean, these are my BEST robes from Gladrags! No cheap robe either" He muttered. Ginny rolled her eye.

"Don't be a drama queen and get your act together" Draco glared at her, but got the hint and stopped whining. The room they were in was very simple. Suddenly an unknown voice said something.

"evinco ut unus"

"What was that?" Ginny asked.

"It was Latin...I know some of the language. I heard 'defeat' and 'one'...what do you think it means?"

"No idea" Ginny said, looking around. There were no windows or decorations; just a simple door. They opened it and stepped through.

They entered a room that was the size of about two Great Hall. In the middle...was Rosie.

"Hi guys!" she waved cheerfully.

"What are you doing here?" Draco asked rudely.

"Yeah...aren't we supposed to take the test?" Ginny added.

Rosie grinned.

"I am it!"

"You're what?" Ginny asked dumbly.

"The test"

"We have to beat you?" Draco almost laughed, thinking this was going to be easier then he'd imagined.

"Yep! No offence against you guys, but this is my job. Be prepared to lose. I've never been beaten before"

Draco smirked. Ginny was worried. A test set by the god of war was never easy, no matter how easy it looked.

Rosie took a step back. The three of them withdrew their wands. Rosie then grew. She was growing. When the growing stopped, she was not much taller, but other things changed too. Her clothes (first was a black cloak, wrapped around her) was now changed into a black dress, with a split on each side of the legs. Her eyes changed to a startling purple. Power seemed to radiate of her and the once seemingly innocent girl, changed into a dangerous woman, with an air of elegance around her.

Needless to say, it wiped the smirk off Draco's face.

"Let the games begin" Was all she said and send a spell towards them. Draco had to jump to the right, while Ginny jumped to the left. Ginny started running, while devising a strategy. She couldn't come up with anything. She shot off a fireball, but Rosie deflected it. Draco sent a beam of ice towards Rosie's feet in the hope to nail her to the ground. It seemed to work as Rosie's feet were covered in ice, with a radius of a meter around her.

Rosie smirked. "You'll have to do better then that" She lifted her right foot and the ice shattered. She kicked away the remaining ice.

At the moment Draco was on one side of Rosie and Ginny was on the other. Draco catched Ginny's eyes and nodded; they were going to try physical force now. Both ran to Rosie. Ginny tried kicking Rosie's legs from beneath her, but Rosie jumped in time. Immediately after that, Draco swung his fist, but Rosie ducked with such speed that Draco almost didn't see her move. She whipped her wand to Ginny.

"Impetus!" She yelled forcefully. (Impetus means force in Latin, I looked it up...at least...I hope I got it right) Ginny felt the force and was thrown backward. She slid over the floor until a wall decided to stop her. (That has GOT to hurt.)

It did. Draco's ice flashed and tried to punch her again. He hit her shoulder instead, but it's something. Rosie clutched her shoulder and looked at him in disbelief. Draco ran back to Ginny who had her eyes closed.

"Wake up Gin" A trickle of blood came from the side of her mouth and Ginny groaned in pain as she opened her eyes.

"How did you do that?" Rosie's voice asked Draco.

"Do what?"

"Hit me...I move at the speed of light"

Draco snorted like he didn't believe it, but on some level, he did. Ginny stood up and everyone went back in fight-mode. Spells were thrown, but there were no serious hits. They battled like this for a while before Draco came up with a plan.

"Ginny! I've got it! I know what it means!"

"Draco! No time for bloody riddles" Ginny said as Rosie's severing spell slashed a gash across her right arm.

"evinco ut unus! It means: defeat AS one. We've got to defeat Rosie TOGETHER!"

"What do you think? I am on YOUR side, we've already been trying to defeat her together Draco" Ginny sneered.

Rosie seemed to be getting nastier. She was shooting more spells, faster. It seems that she knew that Draco was onto something. All they could do now was dodging her Spells. In the meantime (after she stopped being as dense as her brother Ron), Ginny realized what Draco meant. They had to really join forces and after that realization came, Ginny saw that Rosie was trying to keep them on different sides...away from each other.

Divide and Conquer Ginny thought. Smart little Rosie

Ginny knew that if she would go around Rosie, chances were small to actually get to Draco without being hexed. So if not around Rosie, she would go OVER Rosie. She walked calmly towards the woman in black, dodging spells as they came. Draco was on the other side, trying to find a weak spot in Rosie's defense. Ginny's speed increased and soon enough, she was running at full speed. When she came closer, she relied back on acrobatics and made a somersault over Rosie. When she was on the other side, she quickly dodged a kick from Rosie and backed up. When Ginny was standing next to Draco...nothing happened.

It was the silence before the storm...or in this case...the hurricane.

Ginny and Draco, once again, clasped their hands together and concentrated. They were flew a foot above the ground and the hurricane came. It was a magical one that filled the entire room. It was made of a bright gold, red, and ice blue.

A loud explosion came, along with smoke...

Did we win? Draco and Ginny thought.


Pfew! That was a LONG chapter! Let me know what you think of it okay?