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Chapter 10
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After a day of school, Will and Lyra started walking about the grounds. Other students staring at them. Will had brought the golden egg with him, to see if they could decipher it. Something was prickling the back of his neck. He spun around and saw Malfoy aiming a curse at Will and Lyra.
"GET DOWN!" shouted Will. They dived on the floor as the curse flew over their heads. "MALFOY! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
"Because you're an idiot and would never keep to your threat!" sneered Malfoy.
"I wouldn't would I?" he said, pushing Malfoy to the floor, grasping his hand around Malfoy's neck and tightening.
Crabbe and Goyle crept up behind Will and tried to grab him, but Will was ready and pointing his wand straight at them and fired two body-binding curses at them. Will kept tightening and tightening, pushing Malfoy harder and harder into the ground. Malfoy was starting to turn blue with the lack of air and resorted to mindless flailing, trying to knock Will off in a failed attempt.
Will flew into the air as a stunner came hurtling through the air and Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape, came running from the main entrance, shocked that Will was trying to kill Malfoy.
Lyra, who was holding the golden egg when Will went off, dropped the egg. It split and gave off a horrible screeching noise and rolled down into the lake, ran over to Will crying. Snape levitated Malfoy and quickly took him to the school infirmary. Dumbledore calmly walked over to Will and revived him.
"Where's the egg?" asked Will dusting himself off.
Lyra pointed at the lake where the egg had rolled. She started apologising and Will told her it was fine, took off his shirt, ran and dived into the lake. He saw something glinting near the bottom of the lake and head straight there, sprouting wings to push himself faster and faster. The lack of oxygen was beginning to take hold of Will. He thought back to all the charms classes they had taken this year. And then it hit him.
The Bubblehead Charm!
"Bullataenia medicatus!" he shouted, only bubbles came out but the charm worked.
Something the back of Will's foot and he quickly spun around but nothing was there. He carried on swimming, he could see it properly now, and it was open. But it wasn't making a horrible screeching sound. No, this sound was calm and tranquil. It was a heavenly voice, something must have happened.
Maybe you can only hear it in the water? He asked himself. And then that same something brushed against his foot again. He spun around faster than before and saw a tail disappearing past a rock near to where Will had been. He picked up the egg, swam after it and what he looked upon made his eyes widen is shock.
Will was right in front of a mercity! There were mermen, mermaids and little merchildren swimming about everywhere. Will stared in awe as the merpeople swam past him. Some of them were whispering things like, why is a human here now? And, the second task isn't for awhile! He swam around looking at what the city had to offer and found himself floating in front of a huge statue, probably of the king or something, thought Will. After awhile the mer-city's town folk began getting a bit annoyed at Will being in their town, and one child eve through a rock at him. Will got the idea and fled to the safety of the surface waters.
As Will climbed out of the lake, he noticed that Dumbledore was sitting on the ground talking to Lyra. Will shook the water off him and walked over.
"Sir," said Will. "Did you know you have merpeople at the bottom of the lake?"
Dumbledore nodded. "Yes, I did. But anyway, did you retrieve your egg?" Will nodded.
"Will," Shouted Loki, he was running from the school entrance. "Lyra, I've been looking for you two for ages! Where have you been? Are you coming?"
Loki was with his sister Zephyr. Will and Lyra nodded, said bye to Dumbledore and walked off with them. A small jet-black raven landed on Will's shoulder and dropped a letter into his hands. Loki and Zephyr both looked at the letter in Will's hands. He stuffed the letter into his pocket, saying that he was going to read it later.
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Voldemort was sitting in Riddle Mansion in the armchair by the fire, with his snake Nagini curled on the backboard. He had just killed two of his inner circle death eaters for being so stupid at the Quidditch World Cup. The death eaters had been so stupid to show themselves and kill the three mudbloods. Even though that meant there were less muggleborns for him to worry about, it was a sure sign that he might be back. They were the twins Alecto and Amycus who were the only death eaters that had had their masks knocked off and the whole of the wizarding community had seen their faces. He had no other choice.He was waiting for that faithful day when he would be re-born.
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Your father is going to see you soon.
Will was getting annoyed at these letters. He had always wanted to know his father, but now he knew who his father was, he didn't want to know him at all. Will was really sick of getting these letters. And now he could tell what they were. They were the only envelopes with out any writing on. Usually the letter had the name of the person on it so the owl could find the person.
The Hogsmeade visit was tomorrow and Will couldn't wait. Harry, Ron and Hermione and just wanted to spend time with Lyra there. They entered the room of requirement and got to work on their wandless magic.
Zephyr took Lyra off and Loki took Will. Will had been wondering about the dark art and was going to find a time to ask Loki. Zephyr took this time to gossip about the relationships at Hogwarts.
"So Lyra, who do you think is a good couple?" asked Zephyr, taking Lyra further away from Will and Loki.
"I don't know. I think that Ron and Hermione might be good together, but they always act like an old married couple." Replied Lyra, taking a book from a shelf and starting to read it.
"Yeah, everyone thinks that. I think you should go out with Harry." She blurted out. Lyra looked shocked. She turned to Zephyr and was about to ask why, when they heard an explosion.
They rushed to where the explosion had come from to see the unconscious body of Loki lying on the floor with Will standing over him shocked. Will looked up to see Zephyr and Lyra staring at him.
"I'll go and get Dumbledore." Said Zephyr. She pelted through the door and down to Dumbledore's office.
"What happened?" asked Lyra.
"It was an accident." Said Will, staring at Loki on the ground. Will picked him up and carried him over his shoulder and out the door, headed for Dumbledore's office.
Will started into a jog with Loki over his shoulder, trying to get to the school infirmary or Dumbledore's office, whichever was closer. He turned a corner and found himself out side Dumbledore's office, the stairs descending downwards exposing Dumbledore and Zephyr. Dumbledore rushed down the rest of the stairs and grabbed Loki from Will's arms, with surprising ease, waved his wand and placed Loki on the stretcher that had just appeared.
Dumbledore motioned for the three children, Lyra had just turned up, to follow him and ran to the school infirmary with amazing speed for an old man. As Dumbledore entered the infirmary, Madam Pomfrey rushed up to him and stared fussing over Loki, telling Dumbledore to place him in one of the beds. While Madam Pomfrey rushed about bringing multicoloured potions to Loki's bedside, Dumbledore took Will, Lyra and Zephyr aside to talk about what happened.
"Well, me and Loki were in the room of requirement," started Will but was interrupted by Dumbledore.
"When did you find out about the room of requirement?" asked Dumbledore, a twinkle creeping into his eyes.
"Loki showed me. He said that his family had made it." Dumbledore nodded along. "Anyway, we were practising Wandless Magic," Will was interrupted again.
"Wandless Magic?" Dumbledore asked. Will nodded and continued.
"And he was teaching me a spell, and when I tried it, he was fired back into a shelf."
Flashback
"Ok Will, this new spell is great in duels. Its called anada fedavre, and what it does is it temporarily blinds your opponent. Got it?" said Loki, Will nodded.
"Ok, Ananda Kedavra." Shouted Will, mixing up the spell. Loki was forced back into the bookshelf as a blinding green light shot out of Will's hand and straight into Loki's chest. Will had got Loki's words mixed up. Will panicked and looked around for some help. He saw Lyra and Zephyr and Zephyr ran to get Dumbledore. Will wasn't concentrating on what he was saying but he knew he said something. He picked up the unconscious Loki from the floor and ran out the door, following Zephyr.
End of Flashback.
"I see." Said Dumbledore, taking account the things Will had just said. "You do know that you have just mixed up two spells. The first, being the spell you were initially trying to use was the temporarily blinding spell. The second, which I hope was by an accident, the killing curse. Because you mixed the spell and that it wasn't intentional we won't know the effects the spell will have on Loki." Dumbledore was looking directly at Will when he said this.
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Loki woke up after a week, and many people had visited him while he was asleep. Will had missed his first Hogsmeade trip to stay with Loki, who still felt very guilty for having put him there in the first place. Will was coming in everyday to bring things that he had transfigured to show he had got better and that he was sorry. Will and Loki had been talking for hours and it was getting dark when Madam Pomfrey came in, shooing Will out and giving Loki the last of his daily potions. Loki hadn't got his eyesight back, but was starting to see blurry objects in front of him.
Will was walking back from the infirmary when he overheard a conversation. About him.
"Why did you want me to come here? You said you had something important to tell me?" Will could tell that voice belonged to Lyra.
"So, seeing as you and Will aren't actually going out, shall I use my persuasion skills to get Harry to ask you out?" said a voice which Will recognised as Zephyr's.
He had heard enough; he didn't want to here any more. Will got out the subtle knife and cut a hole into the next world. He didn't care where he was; he just wanted to blast something. Will stepped through and took out his wand. He transfigured a rock into a target board and started aiming random curses at it. He was so annoyed at hearing what was said. He loved Lyra and her and Zephyr were talking about Lyra going out with Harry. Will transfigured the target again and this time into a picture target of Harry.
Will aimed another curse at the target Harry, who now was bewitched to move around. The curse hit the target right in the chest. Will shrunk the target a bit and started aiming the curses again. Every curse he used hit its target. Will shot more curses at it the target Harry, the only thought going through his head was I HATE HARRY POTTER. Will was going through all the offensive spells that had registered into his memory when he remembered when Moody showed them the unforgivibles.
What were they again? Crucio – torture curse. Imperio – Kinda like hypnosis, and Avada Kedavra – the killing curse.
"Crucio!" shouted Will. The electric blue light he had seen when he was younger filling him with rage. The target Harry trembled with the power of the curse. Will felt a tingle run through his fingers as he held the curse on the target for an age.
Will tried another curse to try to take his mind off that memory. "Imperio!" he shouted. But nothing happened. Will looked at the target and remembered it was meant to be used on living a thing, that's why it wasn't working.
Will went on to the third unforgivable. "Avada Kedavra!" he screamed as the thought of killing Harry pulsed through his mind. The blinding green sawing out of his wand and straight into the wooden target of Harry, shattering it and sending splinters everywhere. Will quickly brought up a shield as a chunk of the wooden Harry was careering towards him. Will felt that same tingling in his arm that he had when he used the Cruciatus Curse, but this time it was spreading up his arm and through his chest and into his heart. And he liked it.
I wonder if I could do this wandlessly? Will asked himself as he transfigured another boulder into a target of Harry. He bewitched the target again for it to move around and put away his wand. Will concentrated his power and said the curse. "Crucio!"
The electric blue light that he tortured him and his memory's for year's shot out of his hand and straight into the stomach of the target Harry. Will's rage powered the curse to his maximum level and felt the tingle serge through his body as he held the curse on the wooded target.
"Why are you taking so much anger out on that?" asked a voice from behind him. Will spun around to see who was talking to him. It was a small black slinky cat. It's long fur swaying behind it.
"Who are you?" asked Will, not sure if he was dreaming or not.
"I have been named Kirjava. I believe I am your dæmon, Will," said Kirjava. Will looked a bit puzzled at this new news, but nodded along.
"So, you're my dæmon? Ok." Said Will, taking in to account that he had a dæmon.
"You didn't answer my question, Will. Why are you taking so much anger out on that?" asked Kirjava, cocking her head slightly.
"I feel betrayed by this person who I thought was my friend, but might not be in the end." Said Will, not looking into Kirjava's eyes for fear of humiliation.
"Why?"
"If you're my dæmon, shouldn't you know that?"
"I do, but do you?"
Will looked at Kirjava, wondering if this was real. If he had a dæmon. If this dæmon was talking the truth.
"I don't know."
"I thought not." Kirjava turned and started walking off.
"Where are you going?" Will started after his dæmon but stopped as it turned around to address him.
"With you."
Will nodded, to out the subtle knife and cut a way back into the Wizarding World.
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"So, Harry. What do you think of Lyra?" asked Zephyr as Harry came and plopped down onto the seat next to her. Harry looked at Zephyr for a second before answering.
"Why?" Harry looked straight into Zephyr's eyes.
"Well, she's not seeing anyone at the moment and I know you have a crush on her, so I was wondering if you would ask her out?" Harry pondered on this for a moment and Zephyr continued. "I know she likes you as well!" Harry's eyes light up as she said the last sentence.
"Yeah ok. I will ask her out. Where is she." Harry looked around and Zephyr pointed to the couch in the corner where Lyra was sitting reading a book, her long dirty blonde hair hanging neatly around her face, framing it and for Harry, making her look even more beautiful.
Harry strode over to Lyra and sat down next to her. He took a deep breath and asked her out. Lyra looked at him, and then at Zephyr, who turned around and pretended to read a book. She turned back to face Harry and said that she would go out with him. Thoughts where speeding through her head saying things like, You love Will, but Harry is really cute. You're betraying Will; he would never do this to you! Harry has the courage to ask you out you shouldn't turn him down.
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Harry climbed into bed and took off his glasses. He had had a long day and just wanted to switch off because tomorrow was the second task and Ron, Hermione and Lyra had gone off to see Professor McGonagall. Harry still hadn't prepared for the second task, but hopefully it was something he had covered. Everyone else was downstairs still and Harry turned over to try and get comfier when a small crack erupted from the carpet. Harry shot up and grabbed his wand from the bedside table and shouted Lumos. The light emitting from Harry's wand, wandered across the floor to reveal a small green pointy eared house-elf.
"Dobby!" he sighed. "You scared the crap outta me!"
"Sorry, Mr Harry Potter, sir, but this is very important, sir. It is about the next task." Said Dobby. Harry nodded to show he was listening and Dobby continued. "The second task is in the lake, and you have to find your treasure. This is to help you." Dobby pulled out something green and slimy from the inside of his sock and bag suit.
Harry looked at it.
"This is Gillyweed. Eat it before you go into the water." Said Dobby. Harry took the Gillyweed and put into a glass and said his thanks and goodnights.
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The Champions gathered on a stand in the middle of the lake. Kirjava was waiting in the lake as a fish for Will and Harry had the Gillyweed safe in his hand. Krum was flexing his arms and Fleur was talking to her little sister. Dumbledore was saying something but Harry wasn't taking any notice, he was looking around for Ron Hermione and Lyra in the crowd. He thought that they probably couldn't get to the front of the crowd gathered here. He turned his attention to Dumbledore.
"Last night something was taken from you. You must retrieve that something from the bottom of the Black Lake. Now get ready Champions, you have one hour." Said Dumbledore.
Harry lined up next to Will at the edge of the podium. Will glared at Harry and got ready to perform the Bubblehead charm. Will sprouted wings and got ready for the cannon to sound. BOOM! Will took off as everyone else dived in except Harry who had taken a little shove from Professor Moody. Will flew a bit over the Black Lake and then took a dive into it, performing the Bubblehead charm as he spiralled into the oozing green waters.
Harry swam on through the tangled seaweed, using the Diffindo spell to cut through. The treasure would probably be his friends and he would have to find them in the hour. The Gillyweed had given him fins, webbed hands and feet and gills. Harry swam on, cutting down the seaweed in his way. Making his way through the seaweed, something swam past his foot and he quickly spun around. Nothing. Harry turned back to be face to face with a small pale green thing with horns and dark green teeth. Harry swam back and pointed his wand at the Grindylow.
"Impedimenta !" shouted Harry, but all that came out was bubbles. The spell hit the Grindylow in the stomach, slowing it down so much that it took it one minute to get two inches in front of itself. Harry just laughed at the slowness of the Grindylow and swam off.
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Kirjava swam up to Will and started talking to him.
"You know, the Champions treasures are over this way." The fish turned as she said this. Will nodded, turned around and swam behind her, his wings licking the water behind him.
Will looked down at his watch and saw he had been down in the lake for 20 minutes now and was only just getting used to the coldness of the water. Kirjava lead him to a small opening. He looked around and realised he'd been there before! He swam further on and found the statue he'd seen last time that he came here. Only this time, there were three people hovering there, attached to the floor by rope. Only three? Will asked him self. Will saw Lyra and was about to swim up to her but saw that Harry had just entered the mercity and was heading towards her as well. Rage swept through his entire body as he saw Harry about to untie Lyra and save her. She's the one I'm meant to be saving, not you. I love her. Will tried to resist the urge to use an Unforgivable on Harry, as he remembered that you would get chucked into Azkaban. He sped towards Harry sending curses towards him as he ran. Harry dodged all the spells but Will was so angry he made up curse and sent it straight towards Harry, which hit square across the chest. Harry bent over and threw up a bloody vomit, which floated up to the surface of the lake.
He strode/swam up to Harry and, while changing his foot into his animagi form, kicked him in the stomach. Will bent over Harry, his eye's blazing and growled into his ear, "She's mine!"
Will strode/swam over to the unconscious Lyra and started to untie her, but was struck in the back with a boiling hot jet of water, right between his wings. Will yelled as Harry moved the spell to his upper legs, burning through his swimming shorts.
"So it's a duel you want? Ok then!" said Will, seeing the merpeople gathering around them. "Let's see how you can cope with this! Furnunculus!"
The spell shot out of Will's wand and Harry jumped out the way. The spell sped on and hit an oncoming merman in the face! The merman looked shocked as huge boils erupted from his face. Will laughed and sent another curse at Harry who dodged it again and sent one himself at Will. Will quickly brought up a shield and the curse slammed into it.
"I don't have time for this." Said Will. He fired the blasting curse wandlessly and a stunner from his wand.
Harry slid out the way of the first but got hit in his leg by the stunner. Harry sunk to the floor as Will walked over to Lyra and untied her. He looked back over at Harry and shot the reviving spell over, which hit him in his back.
Harry got up and swam after Will sending up a stunner, which hit Will in the stomach. Harry grabbed Will and Lyra and swam up to the surface.
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The story of how Will and Harry had duelled over Lyra had travelled through the school now and it was the only thing they would talk about. Lyra wasn't talking to Will because he was so insensitive about what had happened and wasn't talking to Harry. And Harry was getting loads of attention from all the girls in Hogwarts. Dumbledore had announced that there was going to be the Yule Ball and Harry was going with Lyra, which made Will dislike him even more.
Will stayed in his dorm all the time and only came out for his lessons and food. And even then he kept to himself and didn't talk to anybody. Will always kept an eye on Harry, whenever he was in the dorm and saw him closing the curtains around his bed one night with his wand and a piece of parchment. Will quietly got up and peaked through a gap in the curtains.
Harry pointed his wand at the parchment and said, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
Writing appeared on the parchment and Will saw dot with names next to them, moving around on the map. Will saw the Griffindor dorm and his name next to Harry's. Harry tapped the parchment again and said, "Mischief managed." The ink on the parchment disappeared and Harry looked up. Will ran back to his bed and dropped himself on it, just as Harry came out of his bed and stared at Will. Will lifted his wand and pointed it at Harry. Harry backed off and placed the parchment into his trunk, not noticing the eyes watching him from Wills bed.
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Harry got out of bed and walked downstairs for breakfast. Will pretended to be ill and stayed in bed, waiting for the rest of them to leave.
Will quickly got up and went into Harry's trunk for the map. He took it out and did what Harry did, and the map opened up and showed the drawing of the school and the dots with names showing the people. Will started looking for the thing he wanted on the map. An escape route!
Will found one. It was a secret passage from the third floor to Honeydukes in Hogsmeade. It had a little message beside it which Will thought was the password for it. Perfect. Will waited for the first bell before running down to the kitchens where Harry had shown him was when they were friends. He tickled the pear and walked into the kitchens where he was surrounded by house-elves asking to do things for him. He asked for a satchel of food and drink that would last one week. Once Will had got the satchel he ran to the Owlery and picked the strongest looking bird to take the challenge. Will quickly wrote down a note and gave it to the owl and said it was for Voldemort. The owls freaked out and scattered as Will said the name. He sighed and walked out. He ran towards the secret passage, which turned out to be an old witch with a huge butt. He tapped the witch's butt with his wand and said the password "Dissendium". The statue moved to show a tunnel that looked like it could go on forever. Will stepped through and the entrance closed behind him. Will lit his wand and ran through, never to look back on the school.
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Voldemort sensed something with his son. He needed to send another letter. He called on he messenger raven and told Wormtail to write a letter to his son. The messenger took off with the letter and flew to Hogsmeade with the letter to Will.
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The raven flew away from Riddle mansion with the note from Voldemort and flew straight for Will, who had just exited from Honeydukes shop and was making his way to the cliffs on the other side of the town. Will kept to the shadows and back alleys of Hogsmeade as he made his way through the town, the satchel of food bouncing against his back. The raven was flying at top speed towards Will, landed on his shoulder and dropped a letter into his hands. Will quickly read the letter.
One of your father's followers is coming to get you. Wait at the Hogsmeade Cliffs for ten minutes from now. His name is Wormtail.
Will smiled and rushed towards the cliffs and waited. He sat on the edge of the cliff and looked out for how the person would get here. He thought about if they would get here by broomstick and remembered that he left his one in the broom cupboard on the grounds. Shit!
"Accio firebolt." He said. Hopefully his broomstick would arrive and he could go.
Will heard a small pop behind him and turned around to see a small looking man, with massive hair loss and very dirty clothes. Will looked at him for a moment.
"Are you Wormtail?" asked Will. The man nodded.
"Do you have everything you need?" asked the man named Wormtail.
"No, my broomstick is on its way. I summoned it."
The man nodded and waited. Will saw his broomstick have trouble with the gates. Will stared. Wormtail stared.
"It will not come. The wards on the school trap it. We have to leave now." Will nodded and Wormtail grabbed him by the collar. "We shall do sidealong Apparition." Will didn't know what that meant but nodded all the same.
Wormtail closed his eyes and Will did so too. He felt a strange sensation, like chains were tightening around him, making it hard for him to breath and his feet take off the ground.
Will felt his feet touch back down and he opened his eyes. He looked around and saw he was in a huge room with nothing but a fireplace and a tall armchair. A high voice echoed into existence.
"So, son, you've made It." said a voice from the chair. "Come closer, let me see you face."
Will walked in front of the chair and looked upon the bundle of rags in the chair before him. Will smiled.
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End of Chapter 10
Bit of a cliff. Please R&R
