Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter related belong to J.K. Rowling, and all things "Aliens" and "Predator" related belong to 20th Century Fox and such. However the plot belongs to me. Also my friend Writer Chica was kind enough to beta read my story.

Harry Potter and the Alien Hive

Chapter 9: Rescue

Draco raised his wand, shaking.

"STUPEFY!" The spell came not from Draco, but from behind him. The red beam grazed the young Slytherin's face, but hit the black creature in front of him dead on. The creature shrieked and fell limply back into the hole.

Draco whipped around and saw Professor Snape holding up his wand, blazing down the boy's dormitory stairs he recognized the golden trio, a couple of other Gryffindors, three Ravenclaws and a Hufflepuff, and the DADA Professor Lupin.

"Draco! Come here! Now!"

Without a second thought, Malfoy ran over to the potions Professor.

"Great of all the people that had to survive." Ron Weasely his voice a mixture of terror and rage.

"They got Seamus! God they got Seamus!" Neville was shaking, his eyes going from this way to that looking for more of the eyeless monsters

"Here they come!" Cho Chang sobbed.

Rising up from the hole in the floor like some obscene fountain was a flood of black, a wave of sharp teeth, razor claws and sickle tails.

"Mercy." Hermione whispered breathless.

"To the portrait! Quickly!" Lupin yelled opening the portrait entrance/exit.

The children started rushing through, in the mean time the golden trio, Luna Lovegood, and Snape used "incendio" to hold off the approaching horde. Draco looked on, frozen in fear and awe.

"Right! Harry! Hermione! Ron! Draco! Go!" Lupin shouted at the top of his lungs.

The aforementioned students stopped their jets of flame and made for the door. Hermione grabbed Draco's arm and pulled him along with them. Ron stopped suddenly when a dark shape landed right in front of them, followed by another and another. Ron backed up into Harry who had stopped dead in his tracks.

Lupin sidestepped away from the portrait door and stood by the kids, wand raised. They slowly backed toward Snape.

"It's no good Severus, they can just bypass us by climbing the damn walls." Lupin growled.

"I know. I had hoped you would have gotten the children out by they time they had figured that out." Snape hissed discontinuing the jet of flame from his wand.

Everywhere they looked, they saw the black creatures slowly creeping toward them.

They were surrounded.

"Why aren't they attacking?" Hermione whispered. "The one that went after Seamus attacked right away."

Harry's heart was racing. They should be dead by now. What were the creatures waiting for?

Then he heard it. The voices

They have her.

They have the young queen.

Be careful.

"What?" Harry whispered.

"Potter, please tell you hear them talking too." Draco's voice wavered.

"Yes."

"What do you mean? All I hear is hissing." Hermione looked frantically back and forth between Harry and the black beasts.

"It doesn't make sense. They say we have the queen, but we can't, she's down there." Harry pointed to the hole in the common room floor. "So I can't think what they mean unless "

Harry slowly turned his head and stared at Draco.

"What?" Draco nervously asked.

Without another word Harry grabbed Draco and pointed his wand at the Slytherin's throat.

"Back off or he dies!!" Harry screamed at the black beasts.

The creatures screeched angrily in response, but before everyone's unbelieving eyes they all took a few steps back.

Harry turned to the door where two of the creatures were standing. "Get away from the door. NOW!"

"My, God." Lupin rasped as the two creatures moved aside.

Harry could hear they angry words the creatures were spitting at him as he moved toward the door with Draco.

Beast!

Brute!

Bastard!

"I don't get it, why'd they back off?" asked Ron desperately when they got to the door.

"Draco's infected." Harry growled keeping his eyes on the creatures.

"What?!" Draco's voice cracked as he swiveled his head around to look at Harry. "Infected with what?"

"You mean he's got one inside him?!" Ron's face looked horror stricken.

"Inside me? What's inside me?" Draco turned back to Ron frantically.

"Come on let's go!" Lupin shouted.

"What's inside me?!" Draco repeated looking even more panicked.

"We can't take him with us!" Ron dissented looking very frightened.

"Well we can't just leave him here." Hermione protested.

"He comes!" Harry interjected loudly.

"Once we leave him they'll just hunt us down and kill us later." Luna continued Harry's statement calmly.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL'S INSIDE ME?!" Draco's had look of sheer terror and rage on his face that had gone, if it was possible, paler.

Everyone froze, even the black beasts. The humans looked at each other silently asking, how do we tell him? Fortunately for them Luna stepped up to Draco, her face completely void of emotion. Yet, there was a look of pity and sorrow in her eyes.

"There's a monster inside your chest. These creatures captured you, allowed one of their larvae to latch on to your face and it put one of them inside you," She said gesturing toward the black beasts. "And any minute now it's going to burst its way through your ribcage and you are going to die. Any questions?"

Draco opened his mouth to say something, but decided to pass out in Harry's arms instead.

The black beasts didn't like that very much for there was a resounding hiss after Draco fell limp.

Snape and Lupin held the door open as the kids passed through. However, as Harry hefted Draco through the doorway the black beasts slowly inched forward, determined to follow their new unborn queen.

"This is no good, they'll just follow us wherever we go." Lupin's growl sounded more feral than usual.

Lupin and Snape looked at each other and seemed to silently agree on something. With a quick move Snape and Lupin shoved Harry and Draco out the doorway and slammed the door shut.

"REMUS!" Harry scrambled to his feet ran to the portrait and tried to pull it open. "REMUS NO!"

The other members of the rescue team who had gotten out before, rushed over to see to their friends. Harry pulled himself away from the door, grabbed the front of the unconscious Draco's robes and started shaking him.

"Draco! What's the password?! Draco, damn you, wake up!" Harry shouted.

Harry stopped when he heard the mass screeching of the creatures from behind the door, and the screams of terrible pain emitting unmistakably from Remus Lupin.

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Ah, a very suspenseful chapter 9 if I do say so myself. Don't worry I'll be introducing the Predators back into this story in the next chapter, we'll also be getting back Nyuki too. And just wait till the other kids find out Draco has been infected.

As to why Harry and Draco could understand what the Aliens were saying, that will be answered soon. Bare this in mind though; remember the Aliens hiss similarly to another animal Harry has communications with.

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Till Next Time.

-Vega Sailor