Chapter 23:
Even a world of Magic couldn't have been Enough…
Harry ran as fast as his feet would carry him down the stairs and up the other stairs to the girl's common room. He pushed the door open and ran in not caring to be quite. When he found Airean bed he almost cried, it was empty and untouched. 'Where is she? WHAT HAS HE DONE TO HER!' Harry thought. He was shaking all over and jumped when he heard a voice behind him.
"Harry?" Hermione said looking at him surprised. "What's going on?"
Harry was paling and just stared at her unable to talk.
"Harry? Should I go get someone? Umm I'll go find Dumbledore" She said running from the room.
Harry just sat there on the floor unable to move at all. 'He's taken her...'he thought. 'How could he! I'll kill him! She's mine!...I-I love her' he cried to himself.
"Harry what's going on?" Dumbledore said coming back with Hermione, Sirius was behind her too.
Harry couldn't speak. He wanted to tell Dumbledore everything, he wanted to scream but he couldn't. His voice was frozen.
"Harry" Sirius said putting his hand on Harry's arm. "We can't help if you don't calm down and tell us what's up" he said.
Harry nodded. "He... k-kid-kidnapped her!"
"Who kidnapped who Harry?" Dumbledore said.
"Vo-Voldemort" Harry sputtered.
"Voldemort kidnapped who?" Dumbledore said again.
"A-Airean" he sobbed.
The others looked at each other as Harry started to cry. None of them knew what to say.
"Do you know where he took her?" Sirius asked after a while.
"N-no but he said he was going to tell me or something like that" Harry said starting to calm a little.
"Well then we have to wait I guess" Sirius said hugging Harry.
Harry didn't go to his classes that day or the next he just waited around for some sort of sign as to what Voldemort wanted him to do. He couldn't think, he couldn't speak full sentences, and he couldn't even eat. He was going to lose it if he didn't get word soon. Just as he thought that an owl came through the window and gave Harry a note. It read...
Meet me at Death's graves or she will die-Lord Voldemort
Harry stared at it, 'Where is Death's graves?' he thought. He decided he would ask Dumbledore.
Harry rushed to Dumbledore office and pushed open the door with out even thinking to knock. Dumbledore had his head buried in a large old blue book. He looked up at Harry and frowned.
"You should be resting" he said.
"Where is death's gave?" Harry asked.
Dumbledore looked scared for a second but it was gone in a flash. "How did you hear of a place like that?" he asked.
Harry showed him the note.
"Well Harry it's a very old graveyard were a even older dark wizard is buried. He in his time which was very long ago was as powerful as Voldemort himself"
Harry was surprised he'd never heard of him. 'Why can't we learn this stuff in history?' he thought. "What happen to him?"
"Well someone killed him of course, it's so long ago no one is sure just who but there are lots of stories"
"Well were is it?" Harry asked again.
"Well that's just it, like I said it's so long ago no one really knows anymore"
Harry sat there sort of out of himself as Sirius, Lupin, Dumbledore and lots of other members of the order ran around him in this little meeting office Dumbledore had set up trying to find out where Death's Grave could be. They had been here most of the day and so had Harry, at this rate Harry wondered if he would even pass this year. That wasn't important at the moment though and the only thing that was Harry couldn't find. 'I won't sit here and do nothing' he told himself in spite of the fact that was what he had done all day. 'I'll get Hermione and well go check the library or something' he though getting up.
"Harry?" Sirius said. "Where are you going?"
"To bed" Harry lied quickly.
"Alright get some sleep" Sirius said smiling weakly at him.
Harry nodded and shut the door behind him. He knew Hermione was in class now but he didn't care. He made his way down to Snape's class. There would be a sub since Snape was with the others of the order.
Harry opens the door of the classroom and looked inside. Hermione was sitting in the back with Ron.
"Pst Hermione" Harry called.
Ron turned and then poked Hermione who turned around too.
"Come on I need your help" Harry whispered.
They looked at each other for a second and then slipped out of the room as fast as they could.
"What's up?" Ron said.
"I need you to help me find a place called Death's Grave" Harry said.
Ron paled a snow white color "Why w-w-w-ould you want to go there!" he said.
"Harry oh that place is suppose to be so dreadful" Hermione shrieked.
"Well that's where Airean is so that's were I'm going...will you help me or not!" Harry said angrily.
"Yeah ok" Hermione said.
Ron didn't speak.
Harry and the others which now was Hermione, Ron, Shane, and Luna piled through books at the library looking for something to tell them were Death's Grave would be.
"Harry this is pointless there are lots of books that talk about Deaths Grave but none of them know were it is" Shane said. "We need a new plan"
"Yeah I guess" Harry said. "I don't know what else to do"
"Well why don't you try a finding spell?" Luna said.
Harry looked at her. "Well I..."
Hermione rolled her eyes. "There isn't a strong enough spell for that don't' be silly" she said.
Luna frowned. "We could make one"
"Make a spell!" Hermione ranted. "We can't make spells that is only for upper class witches and wizards" she went on.
"We can't ...Harry could" she said looking at him oddly.
Harry stared at her. "No-no I can't I never made a spell!" he said.
"Not yet" Shane said.
"What? You too! Harry can't make spells don't be dumb all of you" Hermione said.
"Well couldn't he try I mean to save Airean?" Ron asked.
Hermione stared at him blankly.
"I don't know how even" Harry said still in shock that they thought he had that kind of power.
'But don't you?' a voice in his head went on. 'You are a mage that's above witches and wizards'
"I'll need some help lots of help" he said.
Harry and the others then spent the rest of the day looking up how high ranking witches and wizard make spells.
"This looks like it could take a long time Harry" Hermione said.
"I know but we don't have a long time" he said sadly.
Ron looked at him and sighed, he'd never seen his friend this worried before. 'Guess he really loves her huh?' Ron thought.
"Harry!" a voice said. It was Sirius. "I've been looking for you for an hour I thought you went to bed"
Harry sputtered. "I-I was but I felt like helping Hermione and the others with a paper to get my mind off things"
Sirius nodded. "Well get back to bed now" he said and watched Harry as he slinked out of the library.
Harry was lying in bed looking at the ceiling when an idea struck him. He sat up and got out his fathers diary.
Dad are you there?
Yes, is something wrong?
Yeah do you know where Death's grave is?
Yes...
Will you tell me, I need to go there
Why, it's dangerous there
Voldemort took Airean there and I need to get her back
Ok...I'll show you but you mustn't go alone
Alright
Harry watch the journal as a map appeared on the page. He quickly made a copy of it on a piece of paper and tucked it into his pocket.
Thanks
Be careful Harry
I will
Harry ran as fast as his could down to the room that the order was in. He had to get them to help him. There was no way he was ready to stand up to Voldemort alone. Harry burst into the room panting, the others looked up at him surprised.
"Harry?" Sirius said. "What's wrong?"
"I've got it! I know where Death's Grave is!" he said between large breaths of air.
"What!" Sirius said his eyes growing large. "How did you find out where it was?"
"Da-" Harry stopped. In all that was going on he had almost spilled about the journal to Dad. "It doesn't matter, I've got a map of how to get there"
Sirius looked unsure but Dumbledore spoke. "Let me see the map Harry"
Harry handed it to him.
"Yes, yes this looks right. We'll head there tomorrow but now we all need some rest from today. Harry since you had some sleep you'll help me and Lupin get ready for the trip"
Harry groaned inside wishing he had not lied about sleeping. "Alright"
"What about-" Sirius stared.
"No, you will get some rest Sirius" Dumbledore said.
Sirius sighed and nodded leaving the room with the others except for Lupin and Harry.
"What do you want me to do?" Harry asked.
"Food" Dumbledore said.
"Huh?"
"Here" he quickly wrote a list. "Go give this to the house elf's and tell them I need this food as fast as they can make it"
Harry nodded taking the note and going to the kitchens.
When he came back he saw Lupin and some other men he hadn't seen before running around making the preparations for the trip.
"Is there anything else" he asked Lupin since he didn't see Dumbledore.
"No it's alright. Now go get some real sleep before we go. No messing around you hear me?" he said.
"Ok" Harry said gratefully.
When Harry awoke he found Ron and Shane packing up there things.
"You guys are going too" Harry asked.
"Yeah all of us are, Hermione and Luna too" Shane said quickly.
Harry paled thinking that one of the people coming with him then was a trader. "Oh..."
"Well we packed some of your stuff for you. Clothing and such so you could sleep more. You have to do the rest. We'll be downstairs helping" Ron said and he and Shane left.
'Those too sure get along a lot better now huh?' Harry thought climbing from bed.
He packed his dad's journal and his cloak plus some other things he loved then headed downstairs to join the others.
Harry was surprised at just how little of people were going compared to the number of people he knew were in the order now. Beside Shane, Luna, Ron, and Hermione. Sirius, Lupin, Dumbledore, Mr. Weasley and Snape were the only ones going with Harry.
"You ok?" Sirius asked Harry.
"I...don't know" Harry sighed.
He patted him on the back nodding. "I understand"
"How are we getting to Death's Grave?" Hermione said.
"Oh...well" Dumbledore almost smiled. "By air"
"Brooms? That will take forever though" Ron whined.
"No, no brooms...Dragons" Lupin said.
Harry watched amazed as three of the largest dragons he'd ever seen flew down to land on the grass in front of the school.
"Wow..." Harry said.
A large red dragon leaned over and sniffed him, she whined and licked his face with the tip of her tongue.
"She can feel your sadness" Luna said climbing on her without a hint of fear.
Harry nodded and did the same as Luna while the others watched in surprise.
Dumbledore smiled. "Well then off we go"
Harry leaned forward against the Dragon and closed his eyes. Wind blew all around him, he felt so used up and tired he just wanted to sleep. He couldn't face Voldemort like this. hH needed strength.
The Dragon grunted and turned it's head towards him looking straight into his eyes with it's large gold ones.
Harry suddenly felt power rushing through him.
'Harry...'
'Yes?'
'I'll give you my strength if you need it'
'Who are you?'
'Hmmmm my name is Stenphere but besides that I can't put it into worlds'
'ok...'
'Do you feel better?'
'A little'
"Good. Seep now'
Harry closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep.
When Harry woke they were at camp somewhere. He felt a little better but still tired. He looked around and saw he was in a tent. Outside he could hear lots of people moving around. No one stirred in the tent, but there was someone sleeping near Harry. Harry moved to look at the person and saw Lupin sleeping next to him. He looked tired and old, much too skinny Harry thought too. Someone came into the tent and Harry glared at him or her to see whom it was.
"Your awake?" Sirius asked.
"Yeah" Harry said. "Where are we?"
"About three miles from Death's Grave were taking a break for the night"
"Oh..." Harry said his thoughts drifting to Airean. "Do-do you think she's dead?" Harry asked.
Sirius didn't need to ask whom he was talking about. "No of course not. Voldemort isn't stupid enough to hurt her."
"If he does I swear I'll kill him" Harry said felling his hands go into fists.
"Harry...I'm so sorry. You really do love her don't you?" Sirius said, he had the same look James did when he would talk about Lily.
"Of course I do!" Harry said. "I'm sorry I'm just worried I guess"
Sirius nodded. "Get some sleep tomorrow will be a very long day"
Harry had horrible dreams that night that he was watching Airean. She was bound to a pole and she was tired and hadn't been feed in a long time. Her powers were weakening. He was laughing at her and telling her what a weak little thing she was to fall under his power and that she would be the death of Harry. She would live on always knowing that she was the reason the boy who lived died. Airean was crying loudly and shaking as he laughed more and more.
Harry jumped up from his bed in a cold sweat. He had been seeing through Voldemort's eyes again and now he finally knew whom the trader was. Tears slid down his face and he cried silently.
"I love your Airean" he whispered into the night.
Harry didn't go back to sleep that night. After crying for a few hours he found he was hungry. He hadn't eaten anything since long before they left. He wandered around the campsite looking for someone who was wake that he knew or some sort of food. He was so tired when he finally saw Shane sitting up next to the fire and poking at it he almost fell asleep trying to sit down next to him.
"Oh...hi Harry" Shane said surprised looking. He dropped the stick he'd been poking the fire with and began playing with his hands.
"You ok?" Harry asked.
"No, I guess not. I'm worried about Airean"
"She...she's still alive"
Shane looked at Harry. "I know, but still I get this feeling like, like something bad will happen when we go get her"
"Well I guess so, after all it will kinda be a small war when we do" Harry sighed.
Shane shook his head. "That's not what I mean, like something that will go on for a long time is gona happen"
Harry didn't really want any more pain. "Well I need some food and you some sleep lets just see what happens"
"Ok" Shane said.
Harry woke the next morning to the ground shaking under him. He jumped up quickly and woke the others.
"What is going on?" Sirius asked.
"I-I think he's here" Harry said pulling out his wand.
"He? Voldemort!" Ron spat still half asleep.
"Yeah" Harry said.
"No way we're not ready for a fight" Hermione whined.
"Do you think he cares!" Shane said.
Harry watched as the first of Voldemort's men came into view.
They seamed to be caring something...no it looked more like someone. The person was struggling against them. It looked like...
"Airean!" Harry yelled at the girl chained between the men.
"Harry!" she said weakly. "It's a trap dont-"
Harry didn't hear the rest because one of the men kicked her in the stomach shutting her up.
Behind them stood Voldemort proud and tall with an evil smile on his face. When they were close enough they stopped.
"Potter…have you come to save the girl?" Voldemort's deep cold voice asked making everyone including his own men shiver.
"Yes" Harry said showing no fear in his voice.
"Well if you want come and get her" he said. The men unchained her and let her fall to the ground next to them.
'It's too easy' Harry thought.
"She's yours" Voldemort went on.
Airean just lay there slumped in a pile crying.
Harry nodded. He had to do something. He took a step forward and then another till he was standing right next to Airean. He reached down and lifted her head up.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
Airean looked at him tears in her eyes. "Oh Harry what have you done..." She whispered.
Suddenly Voldemort's thick laugh filled the sky and the ground under Harry quaked. It split open and he and Airean fell into the blackness.
Ok sooo we're coming up to the end of this story VERY fast dear dear i will really have to start really working on getting the sequel ready to be posted...or at least what i have written so far...and i like it much better then this fanfic i MUST say.