A/N: I finally update….only its been a year or more, I'm sorry!

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

Chapter 19

"Hey Mark?" Rolinda whispered as she scooted over to Mark, "Are you still awake?"

"Hmmm?" he mumbled sleepily. Rolinda smiled. He was just too cute when he's sleeping!

"It's morning…I think," she said. Mark sat up and rubbed his eyes, "Already?"

She nodded, "Yes, so let's go try to find some more food, okay?" and when Mark nodded in agreement, they headed out into the hot island weather, and went on their daily search. They have been on this island for over three weeks already, so they have gotten adjusted on the living habits of the dragons there. They would have to wait until dawn or at dusk to go out on a search for food. While they look for food, they also look for a type of doorway or anything that would transport them back to Hogwarts.

"So did you sleep well, Rolinda?" Mark asked curiously. Rolinda nodded and smiled at him. They have been getting to know each other so much more than they would have at Hogwarts.

"Did you? I mean, I did just wake you up, you know." she joked. Mark chuckled and just shook his head.

"Of course. So, the past week and a half was on west, shall we go east this time?" he asked.

She nodded. "Mmmhm, let's just hope that we find the way back soon."

'I wonder what's going on at Hogwarts, anyways,' Mark thought. 'They're probably just sitting in a cool class while we're on a steamy hot island!' He sighed and then they were on their way east for the next two hours before having to return back to their cave.

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"Ron, wake up will you?!" Lavender said, annoyed. Her boyfriend was on the ground snoring as if this was the most comfiest place on the earth.

"Nyahhhh," he mumbled and then turned his body away from her. Lavender pursed her lips.

"You git! Get off the ground right now! We need to search for the door! GET UP!!!!" she screeched in his ear, and he sat up with a jolt. Lavender smirked.

"Finally," she said, and Ron turned around to look at her, confused, "Lav, why aren't you sleeping? It's dark out."

"Have you gone mental?! You know that this…this maze is always dark!"

"Oh, right,"

"Yes, so now get up! We have to get moving!" Lavender tugged on his arm. Eventually he got up and yawned. "Alright, Lav. Let's go then."

So they packed their hand made sleeping bags and then they were off. They walked on an on, but all they found were walls and hallways leading to another path, just like the past couple of weeks have been like. Sometimes, they would both wonder if they'll ever get out of this maze and go back to Hogwarts.

"I wonder how everyone else is doing…" Lavender voiced her thoughts.

Ron frowned, "Probably doing better than we are, I mean we're in a bloody maze! How are we supposed to find a way out!?" The two of them thought of what to do as they walked on. After thirty minutes, Lavender came up with an idea.

"I got it!" she exclaimed. "We should conjure up some paper and stick them on the walls of the direction that we're going to go to, so if we're going in a circle, then we'll just go the other way!"

Ron grinned as he digested this. "YES! That is bloody brilliant!" he kissed Lavender on the cheek. "You're so smart, Lav."

Lavender smiled. "Of course I'm smart Ronnykins!" she said, causing Ron to turn tomato red that was even noticeable in the darkness that they were in. Ron got out his wand, as well as Lavender and they conjured up pieces of paper that would magically glow when they stick it to the wall so they wouldn't have to use their flashlights so much.

With the two confident with their strategy working, they walked on, hand in hand, both dawning huge grins.

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"MALFOY! YOU STUPID GIT!" Hermione screeched.

"Oh, what now, Granger?" Draco rolled his eyes.

"You're doing the damn thing wrong!"

"Tsk tsk. Look at you, swearing. That is so not like you, Granger."

"Grrrrrrr,"

"Oh, we have an animal here as well?"

"Mal-"

"So, what are we going to do about this burnt meat?"

Hermione took a deep breath. 'He's not even worth getting worked up about. Even if I say anything, he's too stubborn to take it in his head.' "Well, Malfoy, we're going to roast it in the fire…but you burnt the meat!"

Draco waved a hand, putting the issue aside. "Yeah, whatever. What are we going to do now?"

"I don't know,"

"OH, this is new! Know-it-all Granger doesn't know what to do! There must be something wrong with you, are you feeling okay?" He said sarcastically. "Cause if you're sick, I could use you as bait for food."

"Oh thanks for your concern." She rolled her eyes.

He smirked. "You're oh so welcome, my dear."

She gave him a narrowed look. "Since when was it 'dear' exactly?"

"Since I said it, dear."

"Ugh! You make me irritated."

"Feelings mutual, Dear."

Hermione looked at his face. She had the urge to twitch as she saw him have that stupid smirk on his arrogant face. Though these past weeks with him had been tolerable, she wouldn't ever tell him that. 'Heh, make him even more arrogant and cocky if I ever did.'

"GRANGER!" He shouted, making her jump up to slap her hand on his mouth.

"You stupid fool! Those creatures could be coming back at ANY time. What are you doing, shouting?!"

"Well, I've been calling your name for ten minutes now, and you've been too caught up with your daydreams to be able to hear."

Hermione blushed. "Sorry…but still! You should be aware about our surroundings right now! We're in a cave, so that means if you shout, it would be even more louder because of the echo."

Draco started to whistle a tune as she lectured him, making her even more mad.

"MALFOY!"

"Ah, ah Granger. No shouting." Draco put a finger to his lips. Hermione sighed and put her hands one her hips.

"Let's go get some fruits." Hermione said as she went and got the bag and waited for him to come.

Draco sighed. He would've just told her to go by herself, but he was hungry, so he had no choice. So, he picked up his bag and they ventured out into the fruits forest, along with Draco taunting Hermione, just to see her get mad.

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"Ay Ginny," Blaise nudged the redhead girl that was sleeping right beside him. "Gin," he tried again. He got no response and he frowned, shaking her a bit. "Ginny, wake up," Blaise whispered. The only response that he got this time was her stirring.

"Come on, Ginny, you don't want that huge spider coming back, do you?" with that, Ginny shot up, eyes wide. She turned to face Blaise.

"Is the spider here?" she asked, terrified. Blaise shook his head, which caused him having a thump on the head. "Hey! What was that for?!" he rubbed his head.

"Don't scare me like that, Blaise. You know how terrifying it was to me." Ginny said. Blaise nodded and said, "Yes I do know, I'm sorry." As Blaise thought of that tiring and blasted day, he got shivers.

Flashback

-------Two weeks ago--------

"Blaise, there is definitely something following us!" Ginny exclaimed hysterically.

"Why are you so sure, Gin?"

"I can feel eyes on my back at all times!" tears started to form in her eyes. Blaise saw and he walked to where she was and wiped her tears.

"Ginny, don't worry, we'll get through this. Even if there is something following us, I will hex it to the next fucking world."

Ginny laughed, "Alright Blaise. Just walk with me, please?" when he nodded, she smiled and went to grab his arm to hug, as if his arm was a stuffed animal.

"Alright, are you okay? You want to continue looking, or do you want to retire for a bit?"

She shook her head, "Let's go. The sooner we get out of here, the better."

Blaise nodded in agreement and they started their path. While walking, Blaise pondered about things. 'How come during the time that we have spent here have we never encountered anything at all?' It was strange. He remembered Ginny's words on the first couple days that they have been here about the civilization and about the name of the village.

What if there were no civilians because the spiders had finished them off? Would they be next? Were the eyes that Ginny feels on her back from a spider? Blaise was getting a headache from all of this thinking, but he shrugged it off. No time for that.

He looked around suspiciously, looking for a shadow of anything.

Meanwhile, Ginny was walking while holding Blaise's arm against her chest. She shuddered, she felt it again. The feeling of stares. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. 'You have Blaise here with you, Ginny. Don't get so worked up about this.' she thought as she looked around for any sign of anything. She didn't see anything, so she peered in the direction where she feels the stares coming from. Her eyes widened as she saw something big hiding behind a shop.


"Blaise," she sobbed. "I was right, there are spiders! Look there," she gestured and Blaise looked behind his shoulder to see the huge shadow looming over the shop.

"Holy shit! How could we have missed that dirty bastard?" Blaise cursed, causing Ginny to shake her head.

"The question should be, what are we going to do about it?"

"…"

"Blaise?"

"Hmmm…"

"Blaise!!!"

"What? I'm trying to think!" he exclaimed as Ginny kept on shaking his arm to get his attention.

"What should we do? Run for it?" Blaise asked. Ginny shook her head. "If we run, then it would come out into the open and who knows what would happen then."

As if on cue, the creature came out of its hiding position and started walking slowly to the two. The creature was a huge spider, bigger than the one that was Hagrid's friend. This spider was probably two times larger. It was a black spider with a huge skull sign on its belly, stating that the spider was very poisonous, and had eight yellow eyes leering at the two in hunger.

"Look at that ugly bugger!" Blaise made a face, which had got Ginny to elbow him.

"Blaise let's go!" she said as she pulled on his arm and the two started running, causing the spider to speed up its walking, breaking many of the shops in the progress.

"I thought you said NOT to run?" Blaise asked as they were running.

"Shut up, Blaise. No time for that. Let's just GO!" she practically screeched.

Half an hour later, the two were walking through a forest that the village led them to. They had lost sight of the spider about ten minutes ago, so they were relieved.

"I'm glad that we lost it!" sighed Ginny. Blaise nodded, and then looked ahead of them and saw trees everywhere.

"So…uhh Ginny, where do we go from here?" Blaise asked in an innocent voice.

"Honestly? I have no idea." Ginny said in a defeated voice. She gave Blaise a helpless look. He sighed and then the two went on with their journey. As they went, they hadn't noticed how the sky seemed to be shadowing them. Then, Blaise looked up and his eyes widened.

"Ginny, lets turn around…" he said while taking a step backwards. Ginny gave him a questioning glance. "Why?"

Blaise grimaced and pointed his finger upward. Ginny followed the direction that he was pointing at and she blinked her eyes, wondering if she was hallucinating.

She took a deep breath and whispered, "What should we do?"

"I don't know…but we have to get out of here…and quick too."

Ginny could feel her heart beating faster and faster every second. "And how do you suppose we do that?"

Blaise opened his mouth to speak but was stopped when something black and fuzzy fell on him, making him fall to the ground. Ginny was on her knees, screaming.

"What the f-" Blaise choked out before he looked up and saw eight black pupils peering straight at him, and he could see the hunger in them too. Then suddenly, Ginny gave out a shrieking yell, and Blaise turned his head towards her, although his eyes would waver back to the big beast on top of him. Ginny was now attacked by one of the spiders as well, and was moving her way backwards.

"GINNY!!" he yelled, ignoring the snarling of the beast. "Calm down, Ginny, don't do anything rash!"

Ginny looked at him irritated. "SHUT UP ZABINI!"

Blaise flinched, but then he remembered what his current situation was and was thinking of ways to get away from this spider. Something popped into his head, after a couple seconds.

He cleared his throat, "Sooo, uh, mister spider? Could you be so kind to get off me?"

The beady black eyes stared at him, and then started to laugh. "Stupid wizard. Why would I do such a stupid thing like that?"

"Well, you see, I don't go for spiders, if you know what I mean.." Blaise gave the spider a skeptical look. (A/N: uhh, this is really random, yes? didn't have any better ideas sorry)

Again, Ginny had screamed and Blaise took out his wand and put a petrifying spell on the spider before jumping up and going to Ginny's side, petrifying the spiders that were surrounding her.

"Was that really hard to do, Ginny?" He asked as he gave her a sideways glance. With a 'humph' she pouted and sat there, avoiding his eyes.

He sighed and crouched down in front of her, "Come on, Ginny, or more will come" he whispered. Ginny's eyes grew big.

"Really?" Blaise gave her a grim nod. Ginny panicked.

"Merlin, now I understand what my brother feared from these things!!" With that, she stood up and headed towards the light. Blaise followed too.

After they made up their camp, more spiders had come for them and they both fought them off. Every time a spider was in front of Ginny, she gets more and more terrified of spiders.

End Flashback

"Ahh, well, let's not worry about that okay?" Blaise said as he casually walked on to find food.

"Yeah, yeah, stop using the spiders as something to get me moving!" Ginny mumbled.

"Eh? What was that Ginny?"

"…Nothing."

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"Albus, we have to cancel this project, immediately." McGonagall said.

"Oh, hello there, Minerva, how is your day? Lemon drop?"

The Transfigurations teacher shook her head. "No thank you. We have to cancel this project, Albus." She repeated.

"Why is that? They are doing wonderful!" The headmaster answered with a smile.

"Albus, these are teenagers you are talking about. They must be scared out of their wits!" she exclaimed.

The headmaster smiled. "Trust them, Minerva. They will do fine, I'm sure of it."

"How can you be so…so relaxed?"

"My dear, you just have to believe me when I say this. The students are going to come back with smiles on their faces." He said with the usual twinkle in his eyes.

"S-smiles?! Albus, how can you say that?! They are fighting for their lives out there!" She gave a look at the headmaster. If she hadn't known any better, she would have thought that he had bumped his head somewhere hard, very hard.

He merely laughed. "You will see, my fair lady, they will come back with smiles."

"But why would they, after all of this?"

The headmaster looked at McGonagall and said. "Because they will be coming back here proud of themselves because of all of their accomplishments out there." With that said, the headmaster excused himself and went to attend a meeting, leaving McGonagall very confused.

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A/N: There's no excuse for not writing for so long! I'm sorry everyone! I just really don't have any ideas on how this story should go. If you have any ideas, please tell me, they are greatly appreciated!

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