Chapter 14: Mud Fight
When they entered the Great Hall Demon saw Ginny waving her over. When she got there Ginny had nudged the girl next to her far enough that there was a spot waiting for her. Demon put the books on the clear spot and sat down on them.
"Why is George grinning like an idiot?" Ginny asked watching Demon put some chicken and mashed potatoes on her newly cleaned plate.
"I don't know." Demon said between bites. "He must have taken a grinning like and idiot potion cause he's been doing that ever since you and Fred left us. It only got worse after I told him I'd go out with him." She finished. Ginny choked on the pumpkin juice she been drinking and started coughing violently drawing the attention of those closest to them. "You going to be okay?" Demon asked patting her back.
Finally getting a hold of herself Ginny said, "What happened?" and Demon recounted everything that had happened that night.
"I was going to ask him anyways." Demon said pushing her unfinished dinner aside.
"That Malfoy thing was great." Ginny said. "Everyone was wondering why he trudged in here all pissed off." Demon shrugged one shoulder.
"Oi!" They heard someone down the table yell before a dinner roll hit Demon in the shoulder.
Picking up the roll Demon turned to see Fred staring at her. Grinning she threw the roll back at him and it bounced off his head landing finally on the floor. "What was that for?" Demon yelled down to him.
"You turned my brother into a grinning idiot." Fred said motioning to George.
"Hey!" George said.
"He was a grinning idiot before she ever got to him." Ginny yelled making Demon laugh.
"HEY!" George yelled sounding offended.
"You want to take this outside?" Fred said throwing his arms in the air.
"Yeah lets go." Demon and Ginny yelled slamming their hands on the table.
Demon, Fred and Ginny walked outside laughing followed by George and a group of Gryffindors. It was raining and everyone was soaked the minute they stepped outside. Brown hair matted to her head Demon picked up some mud out of a near by puddle and threw it at Fred. Soon after Fred and Demon were wrestling in the mud and the onlookers couldn't contain themselves. After wrestling for a while Demon stood pulling Fred to his feet and wiped mud off her face. Squinting through the rain she saw a dark figure walking towards the castle from the front gates. "Who's that?" Demon asked pointing in the stranger's direction.
Everyone turned around to look and two beams of red light shot from the end of the stranger's wand. The two jets hit Fred and George throwing them into the wall of the castle. Half of the group of Gryffindors screamed and ran into the castle.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Angelina ran to Fred and Demon, Ginny, Katie and Seamus ran to George. "George." Demon said. "Get up damn it." Looking over her shoulder she could see that the man was close enough and heard him chuckling.
He was tall with black hair, rag like clothes and a tattoo on his left forearm. He looked like he hadn't eaten or slept in days. His face was all angles and his eyes looked like dark hollows even though Demon could not see their actual colour.
The Entrance Hall doors flew open and a group of teacher burst through it; Dumbledore, McGonagall and Umbridge leading the group. They stood in the doorway briefly surveying the scene.
The stranger walked slowly towards Demon and her friends but changed direction when he laid eyes on Dumbledore. He raised his wand and Demon threw herself into the fray. Throwing her arms out palms facing behind her she yelled, "Protego." As the man sent a hex at Dumbledore's chest a shield with a reddish hue encompassed everyone behind her but did not disappear. The hex bounced off the shield forgotten.
"No." McGonagall yelled trying to get by the shield. "Run. Save yourself." This caught Demon's attention, which was a mistake because the man shot a curse at her, which flung her backwards through the air. She hit her shield like Fred and George hit the castle wall and sunk to the ground.
"Demon." She heard the now conscious George yell.
Demon looked down at herself finally feeling the affect of the spell. She saw deep lacerations on her upper torso all the way up to her face. Blood flowed freely out of these wounds turning her once white shirt now stained with mud a dark red.
She looked up and the man grabbed her hair pulling her to his body like a shield. Pointing his wand at her head he yelled, "Give yourself in her place Dumbledore."
A chorus of "Let her go" echoed across the grounds from the Gryffindors but Demon hardly heard them. She stood there dripping blood and felt nothing.
He hurt George and Fred. And the rest of them if he could have.' Demon thought trying to get herself mad. He's going to try again and he may very well succeed because you're not strong enough to fight him.' With closed eyes she felt the man move his wand in the direction of her friends. He's going to kill George.' And with that thought something fragile n Demon snapped like a twig. She felt the rush of power and looked up at the group on the stairs.
They all gasped and she knew why, this had happened before. Her yes were black for all the power she had concentrated on. She felt her skin heating up. The man jumped away from her as if he had been burned. Demon spun around and kicked him hard in the stomach. He doubled over and she brought her knee up to connect with his nose. Blood streaming from his nose he lunged at and held her tight. Focusing her power she levitated both of them ten feet in the air. A fore started below them and the man's grip on Demon slipped. He squirmed trying to hold on tight but Demon released them and they went hurtling down towards the fire; it extinguished at the last second. Demon grabbed the man and flipped him over her shoulder.
"Petrificus Totalus." She said waving a hand at him. He rolled out of the way of the spell and took off in a run towards the entrance gates. "No." Demon yelled taking off after him. The shield protecting the others vanished.
Demon chased him through the gates; he turned around pointing his wand at her and yelled another spell. It hit her square in the chest sending her flying backwards through the brick wall above the gates and into the ground. She landed with a hard thud on the wet earth. Everyone who had been on the stairs stopped at her side after they heard a loud crack from beyond the wall.
"Demon say something." Urged George as he dropped to his knees beside her.
Demon struggled to get up but fell back to the ground weakly, blood still pouring violently from her chest.
"She's lost a lot of blood we need to get her to the Hospital Wing." McGonagall said frantically.