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Chapter Twelve: The Battle
As I ran through the streets of New York, the chaos continued. Buildings were on fire, people were running and screaming through the streets, and cars were laying on the street destroyed. Whoever this Obscurus was, it must've been very angry.
"EMMA!" I heard someone yell to me before I was grabbed and pulled behind a fallen car. I looked up to see it was my daddy. To my surprised, he look both scared and angry that I was here. "Emma, what do you think you're doing here?! I told you to stay with Queenie!"
"No way, daddy! I am not leaving you alone to face this Obscurus! It's too dangerous and I'm going to help you." I argued.
"No buts, you are going-"
"Newt!" We turned our heads to see Tina running towards us, shocked to see me here. "Emma?"
"Hi." I waved to her shyly.
"She was just leaving. The Obscurial, it's the Second Salem boy." Daddy told her. Second Salem boy? Wait, he couldn't mean that one boy who wore all black that gave me a pamphlet at the bank? But he couldn't be!
"But he's not a child." Tina said.
"I know, but I saw him. His power must be so strong he's somehow managed to survive." Daddy replied as they all looked to where the Second Salem boy was. We all heard him scream as he destroyed more buildings. I didn't even know that Obscurus' could scream..
"We have to save him!" I got up and ran away from daddy and Tina, running towards the Second Salem boy. He was going to be killed if someone didn't do something.
"EMMA!" I heard daddy and Tina yell towards me, but I ignored them. I had to save that boy from MACUSA. From himself.
As I continued running to where the Obscurus was flying off, I passed by Mr. Graves who was also chasing after him. But I didn't have time to kick him in his special place right now, even though I really wanted to. "Hey! I need to talk to you!" I yelled up to the Obscurus boy, but he continued to ignore me.
It wasn't long before I saw a bunch of MACUSA people shoot spells from their wands. This is what I feared! They were going to kill him! Thankfully, the Obscurus boy tried to avoid the spells, leaving black snowflakes everywhere, before continuing his destruction on the town.
He then rose into the air, spells from more MACUSA people hitting him before crashing into the ground and destroying whatever was in his path. I fell to the ground hard before I got back up, unaware of the large scrape on my knee, before I continued running after the Obscurus boy.
To my surprise, he finally flew down to the City Hall subway entrance. I saw a bunch of Muggle policemen that were laying on the ground, which was perfect for me. I instantly ran past them and quickly ran down the stairs into the subway station.
The subway station was a long tunnel that had a bunch of damaged signs. I saw the chandelier above me that had a few cracks on it and a couple of tiles that fell. I kept quiet before I came to the epicenter, see the large black mass that was slowly sliding down the ceiling. This was the Second Salemer boy.
I had expected it to start attacking me, but it didn't. It just stayed here and continued its sliding down onto the tracks, now gently swirling in the air as if showing it had calmed down a little. My heart was pounding in my chest out of fear, but I took a deep breath and started to walk towards him.
"Hello. You don't know me, but I remember you. You're the kind boy who gave me that pamphlet at the bank a couple days ago, remember?" I asked with a gentle smile.
The Obscurus only replied with a soft whimper, as if he was saying yes. I decided to continue speaking. "We may not know each other and we don't even know our names, but I'm here to help me. I'm here with my daddy, his name is Newt Scamander. He and I can help you. I'm not gonna hurt you. I mean, I can't hurt you."
I turned my head to see daddy standing a few feet away from me. I gasped softly and motioned to where my daddy was. "This is my daddy. He can help you. You just have to trust us."
The Obscurus finally and slowly made it onto the train tracks. But suddenly, and to my surprise, the black mass started to fade away to reveal the boy from the bank. He was curled back against the farthest wall, holding his legs and looking at us with such fear.
"Hi. What's your name?" I asked to him as daddy stood right by me. We were calming him down.
"C... Credence." The boy quietly replied.
"Credence? That's a nice name. I'm Emma." I said with a smile. I saw him smile back at me. It was the exact same smile he gave me when I said thank you to him at the bank.
"I've met someone just like you, Credence. A girl- A young girl who'd been imprisoned, she had been locked away and she'd been punished for her magic." Daddy said to him.
I saw a little bit of shock on Credence's face, almost as if he had never heard of someone being exactly like him. "Credence, can we come over there? To you?" I asked.
After a second, I saw Credence nod to us. I smiled happily before daddy and I started to walk over to Credence. It was finally the end of all this madness..
Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a blast of light came out from the darkness of the tunnel and struck daddy in the chest, sending him backwards. "Daddy!"
"Emma, run! Take Credence and go back to Tina!" Daddy yelled to me as I saw Mr. Graves come out of the dark tunnel towards all of it.
"But daddy-"
"Emma, run!" Daddy yelled again as he got up, getting out his wand and casting spells at Mr. Graves, but they kept being deflected.
I grabbed Credence's hand and helped him up. "Come on, you heard him!" Dragging him along, the two of us quickly ran away from the battle between my daddy and Mr. Graves. But we were stopped in our tracks when we saw a train that was heading towards us. Thankfully, in that moment, I managed to get us out of the way from the moving train before we were harmed.
We hid behind a pillar and watched the battle between the two men. Suddenly, Mr. Graves casted a spell onto the train tracks and blasted into daddy, which threw him into the air before bringing him back down. Mr. Graves then casted spell after spell in a whiplike motion as daddy tried to block him as best as he could.
"Daddy!" I yelled and looked up at Credence, letting go of his hand and running to the fight. "Stay right there, Credence!"
"E-Emma, wait!" Credence called for him.
I ran to Mr. Graves and grabbed a hold of both of his arms, which caused him to stop casting the spells. He struggled against me as I kept holding onto his arms, but he eventually got the upper hand and threw me back with a single push. I landed on the ground, but I caught myself with my hands.
Before Mr. Graves could resume throwing spells at my daddy, we saw Credence turn back into his Obscurus form as he blasted up to the ceiling and looking down at Mr. Graves. I saw him stare up at the black mass, falling to his knees and looking up at Credence with pleading eyes.
"Credence." Was all Mr. Graves could say.
Without warning, Credence let out a scream and dived towards Mr. Graves, but he disapparated away. Angry at this, Credence continued to blast his way throughout the whole tunnel.
I tried to get up and ran away, but daddy ran over to me and grabbed a hold of me tightly, disapparating us away from Credence's continuing attacks. We continued to apparate and disapparate around the subway trying to avoid Credence, but this only caused the station to become even more destroyed than before. But then Credence flew through the roof and flew up into sky above. Seconds passed before he flew back down into the subway station, screaming like a banshee.
We all watched as Credence hovered over Mr. Graves, ready to attack. He flew up to the roof and was about to dive right down to Mr. Graves, inches away from his face, before we heard someone yell: "CREDENCE, NO!"
We all turned our heads and even Credence stopped his attack to see Tina standing a few feet away. Slowly, Credence rose back up the ceiling and stared at Tina in what I assumed was confusion.
"Don't do this, please." Tina begged to him as she walked towards daddy and I.
"Keep talking, Tina. Keep talking to him. He'll listen to you." Daddy encouraged.
"I know what that women did to you. I know what you've suffered. You need to stop this now. Newt, Emma, and I will protect you." Tina told him in a motherly tone. I saw what she was doing. She was trying to get him to calm did, as daddy and I did earlier, "This man, he's using you."
"Don't listen to them, Credence. I want you to be free! It's all alright." Mr. Graves said, standing back up in his feet.
We all saw Credence's Obscurus form beginning to shrink down in size and we could see Credence's face through the black mass. He looked as though he was sobbing. I decided to run over to him and stand in front of him, I held out my hand for him to touch. "It's okay, Credence." I whispered to him. I could see him starting to cry even more, trying to reach out and take my hand. But suddenly, we saw the MACUSA people coming down to the steps of the subway and over to us. They all had their wands raised to Credence. No, this wasn't happening! He was just calming down! "No, get away! You'll scare him!"
Credence backed away from me and began to increase in his size again. Daddy and Tina both ran to my size, trying to block the MACUSA team from hurting Credence. Even Mr. Graves looked at them all, wand in his hand. "Wands down! Anyone who harms him, they'll answer to me!"
But it was too late. The MACUSA team had already started pelting out spells towards Credence. One by one, each spell hit the poor boy as Credence screamed in pain from each spell that hit him. "STOP! STOP IT!" I yelled to them.
Finally, Credence's Obscurus form imploded from all the attacks as a white ball of magical light took over inside the black mass, sending every single one of us stumbling backwards and blinded us rom the white light.
When the light finally cleared up, Credence was gone. Only small flakes of black matter remained, floating in the air like black dust. I stood up and looked around, trying to see if Credence ran off in fear. "Credence!" I called out.
But when no answer came, I knew what had happened. They had killed him. I fell to the ground in tears, sobbing hard into my hands. I felt someone come up to me and wrap their arms around me, squeezing me rather tightly. I knew only daddy would comfort me and squeeze me this tight when I was sad. I instantly hugged daddy back, sobbing into his chest.
Credence was gone. We didn't save him. We had failed. I had failed.
That's it for chapter 12! God, I always hate it when Credence "dies.' Thankfully, I've heard some rumors that he's alive in the second movie, so things will be good. Poor Emma though, experiencing that and she's still six. Just going to thank those who reviewed and encourage you to review more!