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Chapter 6

The Mysterious Disappearance

It has been hours since they've walked away from the place where they were attacked, and it has been hours since they've arrived in a small clearing completely covered from view of any prying eyes in what seemed to be the heart of the forest.

Harry Potter, the heir of the Gryffindor kingdom, remained motionless as he slept. Draco Malfoy, the heir of the Slytherin kingdom kept a close watch on him and made sure that the Gryffindor Prince remained warm. The sun has almost completely set and Draco had made sure they have enough wood to keep the fire blazing through the night to keep them all warm. Hermione and Ron, the princesse and prince of the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff Kingdoms were busy preparing their meal.

"I wonder if he's okay." Hermione stated as she took as seat at the right of the blonde prince whilst watching the sleeping prince.

"What I'm wondering about is why was he so tired when we were ambushed? And has anybody ever mentioned that he has healing powers?" Ron asked as he also took a seat.

"No, nobody ever mentioned that fact about Harry and there weren't even rumors about it." Draco replied calmly.

Well we'll just have to ask him about it as soon as he wakes up." Hermione said in a tone that nothing should be discussed on the matter until Harry was conscious enough to answer any of their questions." The three settled in silence eating their meal made up of fruits and berries that Hermione had picked from the forest.

A few more hours later, when the moon has fully risen in the dark night sky Draco kept watch while Hermione and Ron catch up on some sleep. He made himself comfortable leaning back against tree where he had a complete view of the clearing. A little off to his left was the sleeping figure of the Gryffindor Prince. He looks so peaceful in his sleep that nobody wanted to disturb him to eat. Silver eyes scanned the area and found the bowl of fruit and berries that Hermione left in case Harry wakes up during the night. Draco sighed no matter how many times he tried to stop himself from worrying about the other prince, he couldn't. He always found himself wanting to protect the other prince, to make everything alright for him.

A sudden movement from Harry's direction drove him out of his thoughts. He immediately got to his feet and walked the short distance to Harry. By the time he got there the other prince was sitting up with the blankets covering him falling to his lap. He was watching his surrounding warily and he immediately relaxed upon catching sight of Draco.

Draco squatted in front of the Gryffindor and whispered, "How are you feeling?"

Harry stared at him for awhile before replying. "I'm alright I guess, why did you ask?"

"You seem tired earlier when we were attacked. Hermione and Ron had to support you to bring you to safety." Draco replied as he stood up and took the bowl of fruits and offered it to Harry.

"Tired? Attacked? What are you talking about? I don't remember anything like that happening." Harry asked curiously as he gratefully took the offered food. He was very hungry though he couldn't understand why.

"You don't remember? We left Gryffindor at the crack of dawn and a little before midday we were attacked. You were asleep so we woke you up but you could barely keep up so Hermione and Ron supported you between themselves to escape." The blonde prince explained as he took a seat beside Harry.

"I don't remember any of that. Why are you making things up, Draco? That's not very funny." The raven-haired prince said in between bites of fruit.

"I'm not joking Harry. That's what really happened and you did something weird actually." Draco said cautiously waiting for Harry's reaction.

"Weird? What did I do?"

"I got slashed by a sword around here," He lifted his shirt a little to show the spot where his wound was, "And sort sat up when Hermione was trying to look for something to bind it."

"And what did I do?" Harry asked as he stopped eating to stare at the Slytherin Prince.

"You sat up and then said something about being able to do that and you just pressed your hand against my wound. It started to glow, a greenish glow and then wound completely mended itself. And you just sort of fainted." Draco finished.

"You're lying. I can't believe you're lying to me. And why are we here anyway? This couldn't be the place the elders sent us to." The raven haired prince exclaimed as he put down the bowl on the ground.

"I told you we were ambushed in the middle of a forest, so we've decided to hide out a little off from the place where we were attacked in case some of them are still here looking for us."

"I still don't believe you. I don't know why Hermione and Ron agreed to this joke and I'm not willing to listen to anymore of your jokes. Let's just go to place the elders had arranged or better yet let's just go home."

"I told you this isn't a jo—"

Draco immediately stopped talking when he heard the cracking of leaves. Harry must have heard it as well since he didn't argue anymore. The blonde carefully walked towards the other sleeping heirs and woke them up. "Someone is here." He whispered. Hermione carefully took care of their things. She packed them up and shrunk it to the size that will fit her pocket. Ron on the other hand banked the fire to keep them and the stranger in the dark.

Draco offered his hand to Harry to help him get up and the other gratefully took it. Hermione offered the other three cloaks that she retrieved from their luggage. "It's getting cold. If we're walking to get away we might as well keep warm." The three nodded as they accepted the cloaks and fastened them noiselessly.

Ron motioned for them to follow him a little to the right as they heard more sounds of cracking leaves. "Hurry!" Ron whispered. The four settled behind the trunk of a huge tree and kept their eyes on the clearing they have just vacated when a figure emerged from the trees on the other side.

"DAMN IT! They heard us! The master will not be pleased with this." said a man with a raspy voice.

"Be quiet! They'll even hear us and they'll know that we're looking for them." Another voice was heard and it belonged to a woman.

"What do we do now?" The owner of the raspy voice asked.

"We report to the master of course. He would want to know about this. Those heirs would have been his already if they weren't alerted of the attack this morning." The woman stated irritably and she disappeared with a flash of black light.

Noticing that his comrade had gone the man closed his eyes and vanished into thin air.

The four who were hiding behind the tree let out the breath that they were unconsciously holding.

"Who're those two?" Hermione whispered. Her voice sounded a little shaky. She carefully settled on one of the roots of the tree.

"I don't know but one thing's for sure, they're looking for us." Ron replied as he sighed heavily.

"It's a good thing we got away and that they didn't pursue us." Harry said.

"They probably though that it was dangerous to be a dark forest at night anything can be lurking." Draco stated.

The four of them didn't know what to do and didn't want to return to the clearing in case the two came back.

"I wonder who there master is." Ron said out of the blue remembering one part of the conversation they overheard.

"He's probably behind the attack on us this morning." The blonde replied from the tree he was leaning on.

"And the attack on my parents." Harry said forlornly "And I'm sorry Draco for not believing you when you told me that we were attacked.

Hermione lifted her gaze towards the depressed prince and said. "Hey don't be sad. I'm sure the elders will catch whoever was behind this and the attack on your parents. There's no point getting depressed on things that have already happened. You should look forward some other thing. Like what we'll be doing once we get to the vacation house near the Azkaban mountains."

"That's the point Hermione I don't think we'll be able to go that way." Ron said.

"And why not?" The Ravenclaw princesse asked.

"Because they know we left the kingdom. They know which direction we were headed and that because someone probably have tipped them off of our plans. It will be dangerous to that place they will have it covered by now in case we came." Draco explained patiently.

"So where do you plan to go?" Harry asked nobody in particular, as he plopped down on the dirty ground.

"I don't really know." Draco replied.

The next morning

Hermione got up early to prepare some food for breakfast. She ventured a little off from the group curled around the roots to gather berries their only food, when she suddenly heard the crackling of leaves. She immediately turned around to find Harry standing behind her smiling.

"Harry! You frightened me!" She gasped out.

"I'm sorry. I just thought you would like some help." Harry replied.

"It's alright. You just caught me by surprise." Hermione said as she took Harry's hand and urged him to come with her to the direction where she thought she saw some berries.

When Draco woke up he saw that Hermione and Harry was nowhere to be found. He assumed of course that they were just nearby gathering berries for breakfast. So he sleepily stood up and did a few stretches when suddenly a scream startled him.

He immediately started to run to what he believed to be the source of the sound. What he saw made his blood run cold. Hermione was lying on the ground unconscious and Harry was nowhere to be seen. He ran to the princesse's side and carefully cradled her head. "Hermione! Hermione! Wake up!" Hazel eyes blinked up at him then suddenly,

"Draco! Harry, he's been caught!" Hermione stated frantically.

"What are you talking about?" Draco replied, he felt himself beginning to panic after every minute that it sank to his brain that Harry's missing.

"Someone got behind us when we were busy gathering berries. And they sort of attacked us. They attacked me first and when Harry noticed this he tried to help me, I don't know what happened to him after but I was conscious to register that he received a blow to the head and he was unconscious when they carried him off." She explained as Draco helped her stand up.

Ron came running towards them. He carefully took Hermione from Draco and carefully inspected the cut that run along Hermione's cheek. "What happened? I was asleep when I heard you scream, and I didn't know where you all were so it took me sometime to get here."

"Someone attacked us and they took Harry." Draco replied. "I'll go after them. Ron take Hermione to our camp do something with that cut. I'll try my best to get Harry."

"We'll help." Hermione tried to stop Draco.

"Yeah I'll go with you." Ron said.

But Draco took no heed he went on his way to the direction that he thought the attackers took. With every step he took he became deeply worried. 'Is he alright?'

In Harry's perspective everything happened so fast. They were busy picking berries for breakfast that they didn't notice the people that stood behind them. Then suddenly Hermione turned around and came face to face with two strangers and screamed.

Harry turned and he noticed the look of surprise in their faces when Hermione screamed so they slapped her hard causing her to fall unconscious on the ground. He tried to get to Hermione but the strangers hit him as well and he must have fallen unconscious at some point because couldn't remember ever coming to this place.

When he woke up he found himself in a dark cave. The strangers that took him where nowhere in sight but they did left a blazing fire to keep him warm. He surprisingly found out that the kidnappers didn't thought of tying him up. He gingerly got to his feet and went closer to the fire.

He was scared. He didn't where he was and he didn't know whether the others were okay. It must have been hours since he has been taken since he can already see darkness settling in from the mouth of the cave. Wrapping the cloak Hermione had offered to him the night before tightly around his body he settled into exploring the vast cave he was in.

To some people this must have been the worst idea he could come up with but he thought that exploring a cave would be better than venturing out into a deep dark forest with absolutely no idea where to go.

As he went farther from the fire shadows begin to surround him. He shivered both from the slight chill that came from within the cave and from the claustrophobic feeling he felt. He concentrated at the task hand and that is to explore more about the cave. Of course he couldn't help but wander why in the world the kidnappers took him here and left him without taking anything. 'They've probably realized that I don't have anything valuable on me and left me here instead so I wouldn't know where to find others.'

He was driven from his thoughts when there was a sudden flash of bright white light. At the center of the light a woman with curly light brown hair and big round spectacles stood. She has shawls trailing around her and seemed to be floating.

"The four elementals have united. All will be able to control all elements but specializes in one. The water will be wielded by one holds great wisdom, the wind will be controlled by one who has a great mind, the fire be held by the one who is cunning and the earth will be used by the pure of heart. The four elementals shall conquer those who threatened the peace, but with great personal risk. They must first get past different challenges that will make their trust for one another waver or strengthen. The one who is pure of heart shall have gifts that nobody else has and this will be enough to prevent great harm to the person he loves the most."

And just like that the apparition vanished leaving Harry in almost complete darkness. He was startled when someone came behind him and placed a cold hand on his shoulder.

Time finished: 8:20 pm

August 16, 2007

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