A/N: Hey, I hoped that you all liked what has happened and will continue to like what's gonna go on later on? Lol jk jk.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters...JK Rowling does.

Chapter 18

"Blaise?" Ginny asked warily as she cautiously looked behind her, but finding nothing.

"Hmm? What is it?"

"Do…do you have the feeling that someone or something is following us, or is it just me?"

"What do you mean 'someone or something'?" Blaise asked.

Ginny widened her eyes. "Oh, if you didn't feel anything strange just then…just forget about it."

Blaise shook his head. "No, tell me what you're talking about."

"Well, as you do know, Blaise, this is the Spider village. Doesn't it seem like it would most likely belong to…spiders?" she asked in fear. 'Oh great, now I'm turning into my brother,' Ginny mentally rolled her eyes at her own thoughts, but then shook her head, causing Blaise to look at her with concern. 'No, I can't think that. There's no time for that. I just feel something very weird,' Ginny grimaced, as she felt that feeling again. It was when a cold shiver went down her spine.

"I suppose, but are you saying that you think that we're being followed by spiders?"

Ginny shook her head. "I don't know, it might be spiders, but then again, it might not be."

Blaise looked at her. "Wait, what?"

"Look, doesn't it seem a bit strange to you, that there are so many shops, but none are occupied?"

Blaise looked to his right and saw indeed, that there were empty stores and shops. He looked at Ginny again and then nodded.

"Yeah, but I still don-"

"Okay," Ginny took a deep breath. "So, these shops are empty correct? Well, it looked as though there were some sign of life and humans here, but the question is, where have they all gone to?"

Blaise stared at her flatly. "You don't think-" Ginny nodded and he sighed.

"Ginny, we don't know that for sure, so why don't you just relax for a bit?" he motioned towards the silver bench that was by a fountain. Ginny sighed and followed him and sat down.

"Well, to me, it just seems like we're here by ourselves…for now anyways." Blaise said. They both knew what they had to do the whole time. Keep an eye open for anything strange.

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"Shit. Shit. Shit!" Draco yelled in frustration. Hermione widened her eyes and rushed up to him, and before he could yell again, she slapped her hand over his mouth.

"What the hell?" he asked in irritation, but his voice was muffled.

"Shut up, Malfoy. Unless you want those 'things' to come here and get your arse." Hermione said quietly. Draco rolled his eyes and pushed Hermione's hand away from his mouth.

"And we have wands, why Granger?"

"Remember, not all spells would work, and besides, who knows what spells work and what spells don't!"

"Calm down, Granger. It's not like those things are going to pop out of nowhere and attack us." Draco said, bored.

Hermione gasped. "Shame on you, Malfoy! Go knock on some wood!" she demanded.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Why would I want to knock on some wood?" he asked confused.

She rolled her eyes. "Because, you might jinx us, you git! Now, go knock on some wood!"

"Once again, calm down, Granger, nothing bad is going to happen."

Hermione sighed. It was useless, the git wouldn't listen to her!

"Where do you suppose we should go, Malfoy?"

"Find some food, for one…and without getting caught." he smirked. Hermione ignored the last part.

"Good idea, lets go," she turned around and started walking slowly. Draco caught up to her fast, since she was walking slow.

"Oh why so gloomy today, Granger?" he drawled.

She shook her head. "It's nothing, forget about it."

Draco sighed. "You miss your friends?" he guessed. She stayed quiet.

"Granger, you'll see them soon…just when we get out of here. How are we supposed to get out of here anyways?"

"I don't know. From where we're standing, it seems like this island goes on forever."

"That's not good," Draco mumbled.

"How about we think about this after we eat breakfast?"

Draco nodded, and they set off to go find some kind of food. They walked for about five minutes before they came across a bush of berries. Hermione picked some of them, and they kept moving forward. As further they went in, the more fruits began to appear.

'What the hell? Did I have a 'civil' conversation with Granger? Shit.' Draco thought, as he picked some of the fruits and walked back to where the bag that came with them and dropped them in. He kept doing this, the same with Hermione.

Hermione had a confused expression on her face as she searched for the ripest apple. 'Hold on, did Malfoy and myself have a conversation where he didn't call me Mudblood once? This is strange, he seems nicer than usual…well, he wasn't ever nice with me but whatever. It must be because we're the only living beings here, other than the gruesome creatures, and we need to rely on each other to survive. Plus, he IS my survival buddy.' She almost laughed at her last thought, but the situation wasn't funny. They were trapped here in this island, with no one else that they could talk to other than each other. She just shrugged and continued picking fruits for the breakfast and for whenever they aren't able to come out and pick some food.

Almost an hour later, the two finished, and their bag was very full. Hermione smiled in satisfaction. She had thought that they would get only what they needed to eat and a bit of leftovers, but this would last for a couple of days, at least.

Draco picked up the bag and slung it over his shoulder, like it was nothing. Hermione gaped at that. 'How come when I tried to pick it up, it seemed like it weighed a ton! How could he just pick it up like that?…'

Draco smirked at her, and began walking in the direction that they came in, with Hermione trailing behind. They were close to their 'home' when Draco suddenly stopping, making Hermione almost crashing into him.

"Malfoy! Must you always do-" she was stopped when he shook his head and pointed to the sight before them. She looked over to the side and quietly gasped. It was a big ugly elephant sized creature with spikes all over its body, almost resembling a porcupine, but looked a lot worse. The spikes were at least five feet long, and three inches thick. It was a pale brown color with beady black eyes. The creature was currently sniffing around for something, probably food.

"Malfoy, what are we going to do?" Hermione whispered in a shaky voice.

"Don't worry, Granger. I'll deal with it if it spots us." he whispered back, his eyes narrowed at the creature.

Hermione was still scared, and without knowing, she started hugging or clinging onto his arm tightly, a thing that she always did to Mark and all of her friends when she was scared of something.

Draco was surprised as Hermione kept holding onto his arm and was shaking. 'Eh, at least it wasn't be bruising like Pansy's.' he smirked slightly at the thought of one of his friends.

They watched the creature for a bit, before the thing turned around and walked away with loud stomps. The sound of the stomping soon became distant, as the thing kept going to wherever it was going.

Draco waited for a couple of minutes before he looked down to Hermione, who's eyes were closed and was still holding onto his arm. "Granger, the thing is gone."

Hermione's eyes shot open, as she realized who's arm she was holding onto. She quickly let go and blushed.

"Sorry about that, its just a thing that I do. A habit, I suppose."

"Well, it was better than you screaming your head off at how ugly that thing was." he smirked, and Hermione rolled her eyes at him, but smiled.

"Let's go." Draco said and then they started walking again, every now and then, they would look around to see if there was any sign of another creature. They finally made it to their 'home' and sat down in front of the big trunk.

"I'll go find some leaves," Hermione muttered and walked looking at the trees. She finally saw a banana tree, but no bananas have been bloomed yet. She chose to get the leaves here, because banana tree leaves were usually very big. She got a few, about ten or so, and made her way back to where Draco and the food was at.

She began laying the leaves around, making it cover the ground. Draco poured some of the contents of what was in the bag onto the leaves.

"Well, let's start eating."

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Mark and Rolinda were running as fast as they could. Rolinda was scared for her life, and Mark was scared also, but didn't show it. He held onto Rolinda's hand and kept running. They were being chased by a dragon, and thankfully, it was a young dragon, but that didn't mean that it wasn't dangerous.

'Damn, what are we going to do?' Mark thought, looking back, and the dragon was still chasing them, its nose flared.

'Oh no. What if something happens to us? What are we going to do? This is horrible!' Rolinda thought, as they ran into a small cave and were panting while leaning on the wall.

"Mark….what are we going to do?" Rolinda asked, voicing both of their thoughts.

"I honestly don't know, Rolinda. The spells I had tried on the dragon wouldn't work so-" he quieted down when they felt the ground shaking slightly and the roar of the dragon that they have been chased moments before. They heard it pass the cave that they were in, but they were still silent.

"I guess we should stay here for now," Mark said. Rolinda nodded. They cave they were in was big enough to move and lie down, but was very limited. It was somehow cool in there, unlike how it was outside of the cave. In the very back of the cave, there was a deep half circle shaped thing in the ground and was filled with water that was streaming down. So now, they had water to drink to survive.

"I guess this isn't that bad, we have water, after all." Rolinda said. Mark and Rolinda walked to the bowl shaped thing in the ground and began getting some water in their cupped hands and drank.

Mark had a determined look on his face as he sat against the wall that night, when Rolinda was sleeping. They were going to get out of here alive, he was going to do all he can to make that happen.

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"RON! We're getting nowhere!" Lavender exclaimed, tears in her eyes. Ron came up to her and hugged her.

"Don't worry, Lav. We'll get out of here." he reassured.

"But Ron, we've been walking for a long time and we haven't found anything! Not a single thing.."

"Lavender, I'm sorry that you have to be unhappy, but we'll get through this, alright?"

Lavender nodded slowly, and wiped away the tears in her eyes, and hugged Ron back.

"Okay, let's just go and try to find some food."

Ron and Lavender walked forward and was at the point again. They had to choose which way they were going to go. They took a guess and walked to the left. They kept walking forward to the new direction and prayed to Merlin that there wasn't any creatures there.

Fortunately for them, they came across a basket of food and water, and were confused to why there was a basket and water just right there. They shrugged it off and searched in that big bag that the Headmaster had given them and brought out two big empty jugs for water and filled them up.

Ron didn't trust the way the basket is just sitting there, so he got out his wand and said, "Wingardium Leviosa!" and the food came floating into the bag.

"Let's go, Lav. I don't trust this part, I have a feeling if we stay here for long, something will come and attack us."

Lavender nodded. "I agree. I have the same feeling."

Then, the two began walking forward, like before, but felt more happy now, since now they had food and some water.

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Harry and Pansy were walking aimlessly in the Forbidden Forest. They have been doing so since the moment they arrived there.

"Harry, don't you think it's strange?" Pansy asked in the pitch dark.

"Think what's strange Pans?"

"That we can't see Hogwarts. Shouldn't we be seeing the shining light that the castle usually gives off into the forest?" she asked, remember a time when she had to serve detention and had to pick some roots in the Forbidden Forest, and in the dark, but the Hogwarts castle was still shining with all of the lights that illuminated from there as she kept moving deeper into the forest.

"That's true. Maybe the professors don't want us to see the castle, since we're so close, and all. Or…"

"Or what, Harry?"

"Never mind. Its not important." he started walking again.

"Harry!" she pulled on his robes, making him look at her. "Tell me, what was it that you were thinking about?"

"Well, I was just thinking that they had somehow transported us to a forest that is like the Forbidden Forest, but is slightly different. Like not seeing the castle, because where we are, there is no castle beyond the forest. It sounds dumb doesn't it?" he asked sheepishly.

She shook her head. "No, Harry that isn't dumb. It's probably true, since our surroundings look so different, well I mean the sky and other things."

Harry nodded. "Let's just go? We have got to find somewhere that we could rest, go to sleep, and we also got to find some food."

Pansy followed him as he started walking in a direction that would lead them to wherever they would go and whatever that they would encounter.

They walked for thirty minutes before they smelt something. They looked at each other in the darkness and began walking towards the scent. When they got nearer, they found out that it was a pear tree. They could tell that it was a pear tree because of the little fairies were floating around the tree, lighting the tree up, like a Christmas tree.

Pansy and Harry smiled at each other and began picking the food and putting it into their pack.

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"Alright, so what do you suppose we do?" Hermione asked once they were done with their breakfast.

"I haven't a clue." Draco said.

"You're supposed to be helping here!" Hermione exclaimed.

"I am,"

"By doing what exactly?"

"Nothing."

"Of course nothing you git!"

Draco sighed. "Look, how about we just do our best to survive and live through this?" he asked.

Hermione nodded. "We have to rely on each other to live. Alright Malfoy? How about a truce?"

Draco reluctantly nodded. "Alright, a truce,"

Hermione held out her hand, Draco did the same, and then they shook hands. It was brief, but it was meaningful.

"Alright, so, Malfoy, what are we going to do now?" she asked.

Draco looked at her. "Granger, are you feeling alright? I just told you."

Hermione laughed. "I meant about our living spot. You don't expect us to just sleep here, in a trunk."

Draco grimaced. "Right. Well, what else are we going to do? Build a house? Surely that's not what you're thinking about doing, is it?"

Hermione shook her head. "No, nothing that fancy. Just improving where we live, is all."

Draco sighed and said. "Okay, so what do we start doing?"

"Umm, well we need to plan this first, Malfoy. Is this place," she gestured to their surroundings. "A very safe place to live at?" He shook his head.

"So, now, we have to find our location first." she stood up and dusted her bottom of any dirt that she sat on. Draco stood up as well, slung the pack on his shoulder again, and they were off to find the perfect location to be away from the monsters and be safe.

They came across a medium sized cave and went in. They found out that the cave got bigger and bigger as you kept on going in. They both decided to live her for the time being, before they tried to get out.

The two sat down and rested for a bit, before they were to set out and look for a way out.

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"I still don't see the reason for doing this project, Albus." McGonagall said.

"Minerva…it's a good experience for them." the Headmaster said.

"But to send them off to very dangerous places to do so?" she asked incredulously. He just nodded. McGonagall's eyes widened behind her spectacles.

"Are…are you feeling all right, Albus?"

"I'm feeling quite dandy, Minerva, how about yourself?" he answered jovially.

The Transfigurations Teacher couldn't believe what she was hearing. It was complete rubbish to her.

"Albus, do you not care at all of the well beings of the children?" she asked hesitantly, debating if the man before her had became completely insane.

"I do, but do you have trust in them. Because on the contrary, I think that all of the seventh year pairs that had left Hogwarts and done their little 'trip' would all come back here, happily." Dumbledore said with a bright smile.

Had he became delusional! All that Minerva McGonagall could do was stand there and gape at the Headmaster. "I don't understand,"

"Well, you see, the people that had left just not too long ago, had left with their enemies. How I see it, Minerva, is that they will get past these 'problems' and come together to become friends, or somewhat that."

"So, you're saying you think that this little experience would improve house unity, Albus?" McGonagall said slowly, still digesting the information being given to her on a silver platter.

"Yes, exactly. I know that there are horrifying creatures there, but they will get through it. Have faith, Minerva." The Head Master said, with his usual twinkle in the eye.

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I'm sorry for not updating sooner! I just couldn't get an idea to form in my head about what was going to happen after they had finally gone to their 'place'. lol Thanks for all of your reviews! They make me feel really happy!

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