Hey new chapter. I'm truly sorry the last one (the boggart) was so depressing I didn't mean it to be when I started out.
Also in this chapter slight boyxboy romance.
I own nothing except plot and OC's.
Enjoy. R&R
Chapter 9: The first task
Arthur's pov:
The days after the boggart were some of the worst I have ever experienced. People started asking questions about me and Alfred that I didn't want to answer. Me and Alfred were friends again and all of mine and Alfred's friends were happy about it.
Ten days before the task me and Lukas were in the Library researching spells when Emmaline came in.
"Hey Emmaline" I said looking back do down at my work which my eyes had previously vacated.
"shshshshshsh," she whispered "I'm not meant to be here. Quickly, for the first task you have to wade through a pool of lava. Dive into a pool of water full of beasts and rescue a hostage then face a boggart."
"Sound easy" Lukas whispered sarcastically then rolled his eyes and looked back down.
"Wait how do you know this?" I asked
"All the hostages know." she whispered then ran off.
I then got up and looked at spells for resisting fire. Lukas got up and looked at offensive spells. We then sat down and read.
Two days before the first task I realised something all this time we were so worried about then lava and lake we'd forgotten about the boggart, I needed to think of something, fast.
"Lukas, we forgot about the boggart."I whispered not wanting to draw attention to the fact we'd knew about what the first task involved.
"Oh no, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know"
"We've not finished learning the other spells there isn't enough time."
"I'll think of something on the day for the boggart. Let's finnish the spells now.
On the day of the task. I was terrified. Lots of people I didn't know came and wished me luck. Al came and sat by me during breakfast and made sure I ate something. Lukas was coming to the task with me (he would substitute if I got hurt or would just be moral support) so he sat with Mathias. I'm not sure table swapping was allowed but they did it anyway. Then the headmaster got down from the table and the time seemed to slow down and it seemed to take hours for him to walk 30 paces.
"Arthur can you come with me."
"Good luck Artie" Alfred shouted after me.
Lukas looked up then stood. Mathias pulled him back down for a kiss then let go smirking. Lukas was as red as one of Antonio's tomatoes as he (gently) punched Mathias in the arm and ran after me. I heard the headmaster give a slight chuckle.
He marched us to the field where the lake with the giant squid was. We saw a course had be set out and there at the front was a pool full of boiling hot lava. It seemed the 'pool of water' that Lea had described was the lake itself. Then the chest of drawers that we had used for our boggart lesson was standing behind the lake. Another change was all around there were hundreds and hundreds of chairs in a giant stand.
After an hour all the contestants and their assists were standing by a black and white dashed line. We were going to go in order of age (that they thought we were) and oldest first. My birthday was after Juliana's and she was the only one who was in my year. So I was last.