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So, without further ado, here's Chapters 28 and 29!

Chapter 28: The Labyrinth

"Could all the Champions please come to the meeting room after breakfast for a little surprise?" Professor Delacour was looking extremely happy about this 'little surprise'.

"It's our families, I bet," I told Spencer, "I hope Mum didn't come."

Spencer smiled that infuriating little smile, "See you at lunch!" He kissed me and then hurried off.

"What in the world?" I said confusedly.

"We'll see you later," Celeste said and everyone else left.

I sat there by myself for a minute or two while most of the Great Hall emptied out. I was one of the few left inside. All of the other Champions had already gone into the room. I braced myself and followed them. I hoped that Mum wouldn't be inside.

"RILEY!" I was pulled into a huge hug by Carmen Wood. After she released me Alicia pulled me into another hug. I was surrounded by 'family'. Angelina, Alicia, Carmen, Cammy had all come to see the Final Task, not to mention Hermione, Ron, and Dad already being there. Fred, George, and Oliver hadn't been able to make it, although everyone assured me that they had wanted to.

"I hear you've made Spencer happy over the last few months," Carmen teased and I blushed.

"Really, you hadn't mentioned that to me," Alicia raised an eyebrow, "Oh well. Let's have a tour of the school. It's been way too long."

I glanced over at Corrine who smiled at me, almost as if she didn't remember about our confrontation. It was kind of strange.

"Okay, let's go then," I led the group of people out of the room and around the school on a complete tour. I showed them all of the secret passages and things that most people had no idea even existed. They were constantly remembering 'this one time' or 'that prank I pulled'. I was fascinated by the stories they had to tell of Hogwarts when they had been in school. By lunchtime everyone was fairly tired and we were all grateful for the break.

"Hey," Spencer slid into the seat next to me and kissed me on the cheek. I blushed; I mean his mum was only like three feet away!

"Not planning on greeting your own mother are you?" Carmen pretended to pout.

"Well, if I must," Spencer gave his mum and Cammy a quick hug each and came to sit next to me again.

"Hey mum, hey Aunt Angelina," Celeste, Lauran and Greg all hugged their mother and aunt before sitting down to eat.

"We've got this afternoon off. They thought we ought to get all riled up properly for tonight I guess. I'm not complaining mind you," Colby reassured everyone of this fact.

"Where's your dad, Riley?" Dean asked.

"Probably off working on some clue or something, I'm not going to worry about it," I replied, "He, Ron, and Hermione will be here tonight, he promised that they would."

"And if they're not he'll have to answer to me," Alicia spoke up confidently.

"Well then he'd best show up. I don't know about you, but Katie sure had a strong punch!" Carmen exclaimed making everyone laugh.

That afternoon we wandered around the grounds since it was nice and sunny outside. Spencer hadn't left my side all afternoon and I was truly grateful for that. He occasionally squeezed my hand as if telling me everything was going to be alright. I wasn't as nervous as I had been before the last tasks, but as the day wore on I got that now familiar feeling of nervousness in my stomach.

Spencer pulled me into a secret passageway just before dinner to talk to me. I was feeling fully set in nerves by now. He looked at me for a minute before saying anything.

"Riley, I know you're nervous, and you have every right to be. But everything's going to be fine," Spencer pulled me into his arms and I felt safe, completely safe, for the first time all year.

"I'm going to be fine," I said, more to convince myself than him.

"Of course you are, and you know what?" Spencer asked, pushing me back so he could see me.

"What?" I asked quietly. I didn't feel as bad anymore.

"I love you, more than anything else in the world," Spencer's voice was filled with so much love and passion that there was no doubting his words.

"I know," I replied, "and you know that I love you too."

Spencer didn't say anything else but just kissed me and then took my hand and led me to the Great Hall. Everyone was talking excitedly but I saw three other pale scarred looking faces in the crowd. The other Champions looked at me and I instantly understood that we were all going through the same thing. We were all fairly evenly matched and all four of us were more nervous than we had ever been in our lives.

Spencer squeezed my hand and I sat down next to him to choke down some dinner. The minutes ticked away and all too soon Professor Longbottom stood up and asked the Champions to proceed up to the third floor. I barely remember the next while other than that Spencer kissed me and I stood up to leave with the others to tremendous applause from the whole Great Hall.

The four of us plodded slowly but surely up to the third floor corridor and shook hands all around, wishing each other good luck. Any and all rivalry was forgotten as we turned towards the Labyrinth's entrance.

I realized that the Labyrinth was the exact same place that my father had been through to get the Sorcerer's Stone in his First-year. It had just been set up differently this time. The bleachers behind us had filled up completely. A magnified voice could be heard over all of the chatter.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to the Final Task of the Tri-wizard Tournament! In the First Task the Champions proved that they could and would save a person that they cared about. But a true hero would save someone that they absolutely hated. So in this Final Task the Champions must get into the heart of the Labyrinth and save their enemy then make it back out of the Labyrinth along a different route along with their enemy. Miss Potter has the most points so on the whistle she will go into the Labyrinth and take her path. Good luck to all of you!"

I steadied myself after the surprise of all that the Final Task entailed and then the whistle blew signaling my entrance into the Labyrinth. I walked forward into the dark passage and out of sight and hearing of the crowd. I was completely alone.

Chapter 29: A Nightmare to Remember

I chose the path on the far left that said 'Riley Potter' overtop of the door. I ran down the path for a while without meeting any obstacles. This seemed strange but I didn't give it much thought.

Finally I came to an intersection. I decided that the best thing to do would be to use 'eenie meenie miney moe'. I know, sophisticated right? 'Moe' landed on the right path and I wasted no time in hurrying down the passage. I hadn't gone very far when I heard a French accented yell. I couldn't help thinking 'one Champion down.'

I came to a cloud of something and stopped abruptly. I looked at it. It was bluish colored and was glimmering. There was no way around it and I didn't feel like going all the way back to the intersection so I cautiously stepped into it.

Big mistake! Instantly the world seemed to turn on end and I fumbled on the ground to find a hand hold when I realized I wasn't sliding down the steeply sloped ground. I stood up carefully but didn't slide into oblivion. Shrugging I took a shaky step and the ground instantly flipped back to normal. I collapsed on the ground in relief.

Pretty soon I got over my moment of shock and pulled myself off of the ground. I looked to see where I was and realized that the passage had led me into a room. In the room sat four people tied to chairs. I immediately recognized Lily. Great, I was going to have to get myself and Lily out of this Labyrinth alive, and first.

I hung back for a moment and saw Corinne Hodgepeckins come out of a passage on the right. She hurried over to start untying her captive enemy when Braden Flout stepped out of the shadows. Braden raised his wand and pointed it at Corinne starting to form the words of an unforgivable curse on his lips. I didn't even think before I charged out of the shadow of my passage and hit Braden with a full-body-bind jinx. He hit the floor stiff as a board.

"Are you okay?" I asked Corrine as I helped her off of the floor.

"Yes, I'm fine. I wonder what came over him; I can't see Braden doing something like that!"

"It's like you that one time in the Library," I commented before I could stop myself.

"What?" Corrine looked confused.

"You were really mad," I explained, "for no good reason. You threatened me pretty harshly too."

"I didn't do that," Corrine insisted confusedly.

"I didn't think you would. You looked and sounded half-crazed just like Braden did just now. I think something weird is going on," I replied quickly. Then I turned to Lily threateningly, "You'd better cooperate with me or I'm not going to be very forgiving."

She was gagged and couldn't talk so she just nodded. I heard a scraping sound and four of the five passages leading out slid closed. I assumed that meant we had to take that passage. I quickly untied and un-gagged Lily and we hurried out of the room. Corrine and her enemy captive followed close behind. I came to a fork in the passage and pulled Lily to the left, Corrine and her 'buddy' took the right. I noticed she hadn't un-gagged her 'buddy'.

"Why do we have to go so fast?" Lily whined from behind me.

"I'm trying to win a competition here," I shot back, "We'd go a lot faster if your fat didn't drag you back so much."

"It's not fat, it's muscle," Lily sneered.

"Whatever, just follow me and don't talk!"

We followed the winding passage for a long time, once again, without meeting anything. I grew even more suspicious of the lack of obstacles and pressed forward uneasily. I know, you think a person would be happy about not meeting any monsters, but not me. I knew that there should probably have been something by now and was getting more and more uneasy.

"Look," Lily jerked me out of my thoughts as she spoke in a nasally voice, "We're coming to a room!"

I paused to look around before entering the room. It was a normal classroom sized room with a table in the center. On top of the table stood different colored potions in many different colors and sizes of bottles. I saw a rhyme inscribed at the head and foot of the table. I cautiously entered the room and walked over to read the inscription. It read as follows:

Eight Potions around the table

Sitting peacefully

Only one will send you forward

One will send you back

Two are simply colored water

Two more completely harmless

The final two are slow working poisons

So choose most carefully

The other end has all the clues

Of finding which is which

"Lily, what do you think of this?" I asked gesturing her out of the corridor and over to the table.

No sooner had she stepped into the room than flames popped up in the doorway. The door across the room that I assumed was the exit was also blocked by flames. Another passage was blocked by a force-field. I assumed that was where Corrine would come through eventually.

"No!" Lily spun around and looked at the flames and then ran over to me. She grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me back and forth screaming, "I'm too young to fry!"

I slapped her. Hey, that's what you do when people go into hysterics which she most definitely had.

"Snap out of it. All we have to do is drink the right potion and then we can get through the fire without getting hurt. Just wait a second and I'll have it figured out," I was talking half to myself.

I walked over to the other end of the table to read the clues. They read as follows:

Right lies between two wrong;

With water on the end,

Completely opposite

And across from poison

Its companion lies;

To your left a harmless one;

Between two safe potions

The key to turning back lies;

Choose carefully and move on!

"It's this one! Only the good one can smell this good," Lily picked up one of the potions.

"No, Lily, that's got Ambrosia in it! Its not-" I stopped in horror as Lily drowned the whole potion in one gulp.

Lily retched all over the cold, stone floor. She had drunk the poison. Thankfully all it did was make her throw up.

"You idiot," I muttered helping Lily to sit down and turning away as she vomited again. I patiently picked the right potion as she ridded herself of the contents of her stomach.

Going over to the groaning Lily I handed her the potion and told her to drink it. She did and I followed her example. Just as I put the potion back on the table Corrine and her 'buddy' came through the door and flames popped up in front of the door.

"Let's go Lily," I helped Lily up off of the floor and walked through the blue fire that led out the other end of the room. Why did I have to be cursed with a stupid sister?

The room on the other side of the flames was empty. I searched the room to see what was going on but there wasn't anyone or anything inside. I wasn't about to walk out into the middle of the room though. Lily sunk sown to sit on the floor.

Corrine and her 'buddy' came through the flames in almost no time. She paused like I had and looked around warily. I saw in her face that she, like me, just wanted to get out of this Labyrinth.

"What do you reckon is out there?" Corrine turned to me finally.

"I have no idea and I'm not about to walk out into the middle of the room to see," I replied baffled.

"Well, I suppose it's the only way to find out," Corrine sighed and stepped out towards the center of the room, nothing happened.

"Be careful," I warned.

Corrine nodded and proceeded towards the middle cautiously. She was in the exact middle of the room when it happened. The ceiling seemed to move and a gigantic spider-like creature dropped down beside Corrine. She screamed in panic and tried to run away but it grabbed her in its pincher.

I pulled out my wand and let loose with the jinxes. Everything bounced off of it. I ran closer to get better aim and it picked me up too. Suddenly an idea hit me.

"Try and hit it in the eye!" I shouted to Corrine, "Stun it or something!"

We both flung stunning spells at the giant spider-like creature. Both spells hit it in the eye dead on. The spider-thing fell stunned to the ground. Its pincher that was holding me went limp and I fell twenty feet to the floor. I landed on my right ankle and it made an awful snapping sound. I collapsed on the ground in a heap.

"Riley, are you okay?" Corrine had been only two feet above the ground when it dropped her so she hadn't received any damage.

"Yeah, my ankles completely snapped though. That's a nightmare to remember though," I responded untangling myself and trying to stand up. I winced as I put my weight on it.

"Nice job, I underestimated you," a familiar voice floated out of the shadows.

"Corrine, run!" I hissed.

"No, you can't walk and I'm not leaving you here alone," Corrine stubbornly moved to help me walk.

"No, go!" I shouted.

"Potter's right you know, you should have listened to her while you had the chance," Moresby stepped into the dim light, "Avada Kedavra!"

Corrine fell dead onto the floor.

AN/ (said in a sarcastic voice) Bet you didn't see that one coming! hahaha, it's a bad parody, wait til next book!

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Mother Crumpet