Charlie Bone and the Library of Fantasy
Chapter Four: Peeves the Poltergeist
"Looking for this?"
They group turned around quickly and saw a cheeky looking poltergeist floating in mid-air, dangling a weird symbol.
"Yeah. Could we please have it?" Tancred said cautiously; weary that the poltergeist might be very sensitive like Myrtle.
"Erm…how about…No." the poltergeist giggled.
"It's ours. Give it back." Tancred said firmly.
"'It's ours. Give it back'" Peeves mocked.
The rest of the gang started edging away…
"Give it back!"
"'Give it back!'"
"Stop it!"
"'Stop it!'"
Tancred lunged at the poltergeist – and fell through him.
He landed on his face.
The poltergeist smirked.
Tancred lunged again, this time, aiming more for the teleporting symbol. That, at least, was whole.
The poltergeist dodged and giggled as Tancred landed on his face again.
"If you want it, you have to catch me!"
The poltergeist started flying away.
Tancred growled and sprinted after him. The group looked at each other and chased after them.
It was like a mouse-cat-dog chase. Peeves was the mouse. Tancred was the cat. The others were the dog (s).
Tancred was way ahead of the rest of the group. He was very close to Peeves. They both turned the corner into another corridor.
Suddenly, Peeves turned again and went through a wall. Tancred turned after him and ran into the wall, face first. He fell backwards from the collision.
Tancred yelped and rubbed his poor bruised face. It had been through so much pain in less than five minutes.
Peeves poked his head and an arm out of the wall and dangled the symbol in front of Tancred.
"I'm determined but I'm not stupid! I know that you'll just pull it back into the wall when I lunge at it, so I'll hit the wall again."
Peeves giggled mischievously and flew out of the wall. Tancred got on his feet and sprinted after him.
The others just turned into the corridor Tancred and Peeves were in when they saw Peeves flying towards them.
"CATCH HIM! SNATCH THE SYMBOL FROM HIM!" Tancred shouted, running.
They stopped in their tracks, wide-eyed; everything was going too fast for their brains to react properly.
As Peeves flew over the group, Olivia was the first to snap out of it. She jumped up and grabbed onto the symbol. Peeves didn't let go but kept flying, going faster.
Everyone snapped out of it as Tancred sprinted towards them.
Seeing that they wouldn't budge, Tancred leaped over the gang.
The gang shrieked and ducked, not wanting Tancred to fall on them and crush them.
Tancred managed to jump over them and he continued sprinting after Peeves.
The rest of the gang finally ran after Peeves, Olivia and Tancred.
Tancred and the rest of the gang suddenly stopped in their tracks and turned deathly pale.
They'd reached the place where there were all the moving staircases.
Peeves was flying high, doing loop-de-loops and all these other moves to try and shake Olivia off, who was clinging to the symbol for dear life, literally. If she let go of the symbol; she'd drop so many storeys. They were very high up in the castle.
Suddenly, Peeves grinned and let go of the symbol, making Olivia and the symbol fall.
Olivia shrieked.
There was a hard thud. Peeves giggled and flew up through the ceiling.
Everyone rushed down all the staircases to the ground level.
Olivia was dusting herself off.
"Olivia! You're ok!" Fidelio cried in relief.
Emma hugged Olivia, tears in her eyes.
"But – how – what – gah – err –whosamajiggy?" The boys all burbled.
They eventually all managed to spit out, "What the beep!"
Emma rolled her eyes at their pleasant little speech.
"What they mean is, how come you're not dead?"
"Oh, right. I landed on a teacher. He's right there." Olivia pointed at a body on the floor.
Everyone stared at the body.
"I think you killed him…" Charlie said in awe and in horror.
"I did? Oh…"
This was followed by some awkward silence.
"You know, you'd think I'd feel guilty about this…" Olivia smiled.
Everyone, except Charlie, stared at her in shock.
"Eh, it's not much of a loss. This is that guy who uses polyjuice potion to look like Mad Eye Moody as a disguise, so he can get Harry to Voldemort and make Voldemort alive again." Charlie said.
Gabriel moaned.
"Whether it's a loss or not, I still feel terrible. We've murdered two people! We've murderedboth Harry Potter and…um…what's this guy's name?"
"Bartemius Crouch Junior." Charlie answered.
"Yeah! That guy!"
"Actually," Olivia corrected, "We've killed Harry.I was the only one whokilled…um…thingaling…"
"Bartemius Crouch Junior." Charlie said, irritated.
"Yeah…"
Olivia started to glow gold. Everyone realised she was holding the teleportation symbol.
"Quick! Grab on!" Emma shouted.
Everyone grabbed on.
They all glowed gold. Just like before, they felt the odd sensation of floating, the symbol tinkled and then they were sucked into a swirling vortex.
Author's Note:
AyanamiEraclea: Um...no I wasn't Jay and Kayla in a previous life...?...
Anyway...erm...review please?
