(A/N: Sorry for the last cliffy. Seems that all my clifhangers have some thing to do with death. I'm sorry for that, by the way. On with the story)
Rose fell to the ground with a thump. Her wand rolled out of her hand and her eyes stared blankly at the ceiling. Her hair swayed in the wind, and settled down, covering a part of her face. Her lips slowly turned blue and her emotionless face looked at the person who had just committed murder. Murder is such a harsh word. It was more of an unwanted death, a missed spell.
Harry and the others fell to the ground, freed by the jinx, but didn't react fast enough. "Avada kedavra," Malfoy shouted again. Jason fell to the ground, his face blank and tear stained face looked at Harry, as though wishing him luck. Malfoy grimaced as he painfully got up; he wiped some blood from his mouth and advanced towards the trio.
The three of them ran out of the room. Harry and Ron quickly ran out of the door and headed towards the stairs but Hermione stopped. She quickly grabbed the door and locked it.
"Guys," Hermione said. "Where are the others?" She pushed her back against the door to prevent Malfoy getting out. He, on the other hand, had, in some way, forgotten he had a wand and was banging against the wall, trying to get out the Muggle way. "Hurry!" she said.
Harry looked at the door, then at Rose's room. Without thinking, he opened the door. Inside, the rest of them, including Viktor's family, were all tied up and gagged on the floor.
"I think I found them," Harry said.
Ron dashed from the stairway. He rushed into the room and untied the rest of them.
"They killed someone!" Lily said as her binds were taken off.
"They vere traitors!" Viktor said.
"They killed Audrey!" Remus said.
"My butt itches!" Sirius moaned.
Everyone looked at him. "Excuse me?" Ron asked.
There was a crash and a scream. Hermione had ran into the room. All of them looked behind their back and saw Draco Malfoy at the doorway, looking furious. "Enough fooling around!" he said. "You're dead, Potter!"
Malfoy made a move towards them. His wand was pointing directly at Harry. "Accio wand!" Lily said. Malfoy's wand zoomed out of his hand, into Lily's.
"Get him!" Sirius said.
James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Ron, Harry, Hermione and, surprisingly, Viktor charged at him.
"Oh, shit," Malfoy squeaked.
The eight of them had jumped at Malfoy and had pinned him to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Krum were still shocked, but smiled. Mrs. Krum ran out of the room, took a quill and parchment and quickly scribbled a letter to the Ministry of Magic.
After the Ministry of Magic and a very angry Malfoy…
All of them stood outside, at the doorway, waving to a very angry Malfoy as two Aurors dragged him away. "Send my regards to your dad, Malfoy!" Harry said.
"I swear, Potter. I will get out of Azkaban and when I will, I'll-" Malfoy yelled before he was Apparated away.
"So, on with the journey?" Lily asked. Harry nodded.
"You're leaving already?" Mrs. Krum asked.
"Yeah, sorry we couldn't stay longer and sorry for your loss," Ron said.
"Viktor, darling, you should follow them," Mrs. Krum said.
"It vould be a good adventure for you," Mr. Krum said.
Viktor shrugged and said, "Do you guys mind?"
"Not at all," Ron said, surprising everyone. "But do you mind? It's a pretty long journey and it's going to be dangerous."
"I vouldn't if you vouldn't," Viktor said.
"Off you go," Mr. Krum said.
"Bye, dad, bye, mum," Viktor said, hugging his parents.
"Bye, darling," Mrs. Krum said.
Viktor smiled and walked over to them. "So," Viktor said. "Mind telling me who you all really are?"
James, Lily, Remus and Sirius nodded at Harry. Harry led the group out of the front yard and gave the map to James for him to lead the group. James made a saluting gesture and began leading them. Harry turned to Viktor and took a deep breath.
"Well, they are from the past, they sort of got some trouble from a Time Turner and got sent to the future," Harry said the last part slowly.
"And now we're going to Ruby Mountains to get a Pheonix feather," Lily said.
"And we're going to the Ministry of Magic," James continued.
"In-who re De-pout-men oof Misery," Sirius said, his mouth full of sandwich.
"Into the room which contains a Time Machine," Remus said. "And all of us will be on our way back."
"But it needs a phoenix feather to work," Harry finished.
"It's okay if you don't believe us," Ron said. "It seems a little too crazy."
"Vell, I'm not sure about the truth at the moment since there have been traitors and deaths in my house, but seeing is believing," Viktor said.
"Who's thirsty?" Hermione asked.
"I am," everyone said in unison.
Hermione handed Butterbeers to everyone and all of them began drinking.
"So, who vants to visit Professor Umbrige?" Viktor asked.
Bad idea, everyone spat out their Butterbeer. Sirius began coughing.
"She's here?" Ron asked.
"She lives in a very quiet cottage not far away, but she's a little," Sirius raised his finger to his ear and made the 'she's nutty' gesture. "Since an incident with some centaurs."
Harry and Hermione snorted in their Butterbeers. "No thanks," Ron said.
"You knew Professor Umbrige?" Viktor asked.
"Tried taking over Hogwarts," Ron said.
"Gave me this scar," Harry said raising his right arm.
"Taught Defence Against the Dark Arts in a lousy manner," Hermione mumbled.
"Student teacher," James, Lily, Sirius and Remus said in unison. "Horrible student teacher." They added.
"True," Viktor said. "She's a little loony now, forget I ever made that suggestion."
"Forgotten," Ron said.
"Hey, Bulgaria is on the map," James said. "Another route is appearing and now Bulgaria is on the map. Cool, but only a small fragment of Bulgaria is on it."
"Yes, ve are just crossing a small corner, of the country," Viktor said.
"We are supposed to cross," James looked at the map closely. "Sadanski."
"And more crazy and dangerous places are appearing," Lily said. "How could I not see that coming?"
"No more spiders, no more spiders, no more spiders," Ron was muttering.
"Then after all the dangerous places, we have to take a Portkey," James continued. "That's where Viktor comes in."
"Vot do you mean?" Viktor asked.
"We can't speak the language," Lily said.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot," Viktor asked. "Vare do ve take the Portkey to?"
"Another country is forming," James said, looking at the map. "That's a big country, a lot of land to cross."
Everyone was looking at the map, all eager to see their next destination. Words began to form on the map. The name of the country formed. Little labelled dot formed, symbolizing the states and cities. The others were shocked by the country and kept staring at the name as though expecting something about it to magically change.
"Oh my," Hermione said.
"O-kaay," Ron said. "So, we are getting very close to Ruby Mountains."
"Cool," James said. "Sushi!"
"James, you dunderhead, sushi is from Japan," Lily said.
"We're going to," Harry said.
"China," everyone said in unison.
(A/N: Didn't see that coming, didn't you? The Phoenix is Chinese mythology. And where better to find a phoenix than China. I would have chosen Malaysia but, it's more Malay than Chinese here. Read and review, if there are any suggestions to the story, I'm all ears)