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Chapter Eleven: The Calm Before the Storm
After about what seemed like hours, I had finally woken up. I sat up from my bed and rubbed my eyes, groaning as I stretched my arms out. I then stood up and saw that Harry was laying on the floor. I leaned down and picked him up. "What are you doing down here, Harry?" I asked and gave him a big hug.
I looked around before walking outside, looking around at all the different habitats. "Daddy!" I called, wanting to make sure that daddy was here. When I didn't get a reply back, I figured that he and the others were still looking for Dougel. I decided to walk around all the different habitats, petting all of my animal siblings and making sure they were okay. But then I came across to where the Obscurus was. I bit my lip before walking into its habitat. When I did, it continued to swirl around in its small but protective bubble. I remembered the story of how daddy found this. It was a few years before he found me in Egypt. He had found one inside a little girl in Africa, who had suppressed her magic for too long. He managed to separate it from her to try and save her, but she then died a few seconds later.
I then wondered whether I would turn into an Obscurus or not.. Or if I was even a witch or a Squib. I hadn't had any spots of magic or random instances of magic, but daddy told me that sometimes they don't show until a year before you turn eleven. So there was still hope for me.
"Emma! Emma, my dear!" I heard daddy's voice call to me.
I gasped and instantly ran out of the Obscurus' habitat and back into the shack, seeing daddy coming down the ladder while holding Dougel in his arms. "Daddy, you're back! And you found Dougel!"
"Yes we did. And we found an escaped Occamy as well. It turns out that I had miscounted on how many were missing." Daddy said with a small laugh before Jacob, Queenie, and Tina joined us down.
"Well, we should get them all back into their homes, shall we?" I said and held daddy's hand, "Come on, everyone! There's a whole world in here!"
"What does she mean by that?" Queenie asked confused.
"Trust me. You're gonna wanna see this." Jacob told her with a grin.
As Jacob, Queenie, and Tina all lead the Occamy and Dougel to their homes, daddy was telling me what had happened at a place called the "Blind Pig" and at a department store. "Wait, wait, you were gonna sell Pickett?!" I exclaimed angrily.
Pickett was already on daddy's shoulder and was making a bunch of squeaking noises, obviously angry at what he went through.
"No, no. I would've never had let him take Pickett. I would rather chop my own hand off than get rid of him." He replied with a sigh.
"I believe you, daddy, but I think you're going to have to convince Pickett that." I said before taking Pickett off of daddy's shoulder and holding him in my hand. "Come on, Pickett, you can't stay mad at daddy forever. Come on, please give me a smile. For your favorite big sister?"
All I got in response was Pickett sticking his tongue out at me. I frowned and sighed. "Meanie." I then placed Pickett back on daddy's shoulder as daddy laughed a little.
"Hey, Newt, Emma? Who's this lady in the photo?" Queenie asked, pointing to something in daddy's shed. I wasn't supposed to go in there because there was a bunch of sharp tools. But I could see by daddy's face that it wasn't something he wanted to talk about.
"What photo? What lady?" I asked in confusion.
"Ah, that's no one. Emma, why don't you go see if the Niffler's okay?" Daddy asked me, looking rather upset now.
"Umm.. Okay." I nodded and ran off, but then I hid behind a small tree close enough so that I could hear them. I wanted to know who the lady in the photo was!
"Leta Lestrange? I've heard about that family. Aren't they kind of.. You know?" Queenie asked, reading his mind. Leta Lestrange? I've never heard of her before and daddy's never once mentioned her when he talked about Hogwarts.
"Please don't read my mind." Was all daddy said. I saw Queenie walking closer to daddy, still reading his mind. Her face changed to a sad expression. Clearly the relationship between daddy and Leta Lestrange wasn't a pretty one. "I'm sorry, I asked you not."
"I know, I'm sorry. I can't help it. People are easiest to read when they're hurting." Queenie replied shyly.
"I'm not hurting. Besides, it was a long time ago."
"That was a really close friendship you had at school." So they did know each other at Hogwarts? And they were friends? Then what happened?
"Yes, well, neither of us really fitted in at school, so we-"
"Became real close. For years. She was a taker. You need a giver. And more importantly, you need a mother for Emma."
"What are you guys talking about?" We all looked at saw Tina looking at Queenie and Newt. I then blinked for a moment, realizing what she meant. Maybe Tina could be my mommy and daddy's wife? Maybe she could be good for our big family?
"Ah- nothing." Daddy replied, busying himself to avoid any further conversation.
"School." Queenie lied.
"School." Daddy agreed with her.
I decided to come back to the group and ran back to daddy. "I checked on the Niffler. He's fine. Just busying himself with what treasures he has now." I lied with a giggle.
Newt bought the lie and patted my head. "Thank you, my dear."
"Wait, did you say school? Is there a school? A wizardry school here in America?" Jacob asked, putting on his coat.
"Of course- Ilvermorny! It's only the best wizard school in the whole world!" Queenie exclaimed happily.
"I think you'll find that the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts." Daddy replied with much sass in his voice.
"Hogwash." Queenie argued.
Daddy and I looked at Queenie with shock before I snorted with laughter. She didn't not just talk trash about daddy's favorite school. But I found it kind of funny that she did. To our surprise, Queenie and Tina then sang their school song, which was rather catchy and the two sounded great together when they sang. I saw both daddy stare at Tina and Jacob stare at Queenie, but in a weird way. Was this what love looked like on other people?
The two women eventually finished their song as we all clapped for them. "I wanna be a wizard!" I heard Jacob sigh.
But our happiness was then stopped by a crack of thunder. We looked up and saw Frank flying in the sky, screeching loudly and flapping his wings violently. "Daddy, what's happening?" I asked worried.
"Danger. He senses danger." He replied concerned. Danger? What was the danger? Was it the mysterious Obscurial in New York?
We had excited the case and appeared on a rooftop underneath a large "Squire's" sign. I had made sure to change out of my nightgown and into a regular long sleeved purple dress with black wasn't the time to care about what I wore. I had even grabbed my backpack in case of emergencies. We had a clear view of what was happening below us from the roof. It was the mysterious Obscurial and it was destroying all of New York. The large black mass was twisting and churning through the city, causing chaos and havoc while it destroyed buildings and cars.
"Geez! Is that the Obscurial thing?" Jacob asked shocked.
"That's more power than any Obscurial I have ever heard of." Daddy replied while we continued to watch. We then saw an explosion in the distance as the city started to burn beneath us.
Daddy then quickly gave Tina the case and two journals. "If I don't come back, look after my creatures and look after Emma no matter what. Everything you need about the creatures is in this journal and the second one is everything you need to know about Emma."
"What?" Was all Tina could say.
"They're not killing it." Daddy said as he looked back at the Obscurus.
Wait, he was going to try and save the Obscurus? No, he couldn't! He could get himself killed out there! "Daddy, no, you're not leaving! I'm not going to let you die!" I yelled, grabbing daddy's arm tightly. I had already lost my parents, I was not going to lose my daddy to some angry Obscurus!
Daddy looked down at me before placing a kiss on my forehead. "I love you, my little beast." He then jumped off the roof and disapparated away.
"NEWT!" Tina yelled.
"DADDY!" I yelled while Tina yelled.
"You heard him! Look after them!" Tina said to Queenie, slamming the case in Queenie's arms before disapparating as well. Oh great! Now two people I cared about were going to get themselves killed.
While Queenie and Jacob were having another grown up loving moment between each other, I quickly and quietly ran to the fire escape of the building and ran off to find Daddy and Tina. I knew that this was stupid and dangerous to go into a war zone like this, especially because of the angry Obscurus that was destroying the town, but I had to help. I had to protect daddy and Tina and maybe, just maybe, help the Obscurus if I could.
"EMMA!" I heard Queenie yell for me, but I ignored her as my legs wouldn't stop making me run.
I had to keep running. I had to help stop this madness.
And that's it for 11 folks! Things are gonna get crazy now that Credence is in his Obscurus form. And Emma is stupidly running into the danger like a Gryffindor. I'm seriously stressing about what house to put her into when she goes to Hogwarts. Hope you look forward to that! Thanks for those who reviewed! Please continue to do so! Reviews are awesome!