I AM SOOOOO SORRY I HAVN'T UPDATED!! I've been so busy lately, School, and I'm writing my own book. Hopefully this is a long chapter to slightly satisfy you! I would appreciate reviews! The more reviews the faster I'll update!Oh! And just to clear it up, Bella is NOT in love with Hermoine, she just wants to suck her blood I promise! I'm being Jane from the Volturi for Halloween! Hahaha... Again review! And enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Twilight Saga or Harry Potter. That privilege remains with J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. So sad...
Chapter 4: Tests
"Bella." Edward cooed, pulling me onto his lap. "What happened?"
"That girl, with the hair. I think I found my singer."
"Ahh…" he sighed, looking at me with pain in his eyes. I hoped you would never have to deal with that."
"Is that how I smelled?" I asked in shock.
"Most likely." Edward said.
"How did you do it? How did you stand being even ten feet from me?"
"I love you." He said simply, kissing my forehead.
"I believe you."
"You better. And I believe you. Considering you risked possible eternal damnation to be with me forever."
"I'd take eternal damnation any day." I sighed. I was trying to think of his smell only. The best scent in my world, or was it? Every time I thought of that girl my throat burned and I held Edward closer. Trying to keep myself here, and not run back to the school to relieve my painful hunger.
"I'm proud of you." He said lifting my chin up to see my eyes.
"You shouldn't be. I almost attacked her! I was so close to murdering an innocent girl!" I was livid at myself.
"But you didn't. You ran. You have excellent self control. Emmett couldn't resist."
"Well you could resist, pretty easily." I said gloomily.
"Easily? It took me a long time to be able to show my affection t my true love. It was extremely hard. It's hard for everyone, and everyone responds differently. You did the right thing. But that guy, Slughorn, was very surprised. We left him in utter shock and confusion."
I moaned thinking how much I must frightened that girl.
"He defiantly has a crush on you." Edward said playfully.
"Jealous?" I asked jokingly.
"I would be, but I made you mine in every possible way."
"That's true." I buried my nose in his shirt and inhaled. At least I didn't want to eat him.
"That Snape last night liked you too, along with every boy in the school. And some girls."
"Oh, well we should get Rosalie over here. That would really start a riot."
"Rosalie isn't nearly as beautiful as you are."
"Yeah right!" I snorted. "I'm sure all the girls were thinking along the same lines about you."
"Possibly" he admitted. "But I'm already taken."
"Yes you are!"
"Arghhh!!" I burst out clutching my head. "That smell isn't going away!"
"It's okay." He whispered. "We should leave here. I don't want you to be in pain. We can come back when she's no longer here, or not at all."
"No Edward! These people need us! That man, Voldemort is murdering more people every day!"
"Maybe Emmett would help. He'd be up to any fight, no matter how small."
"No! I want to help! I can handle this. If you can, I can." But I wasn't so sure. I wanted her so bad! But I didn't want to be weak. I would hold my breath around her, try to avoid a meeting.
Edward looked unsure. He could see my hesitance. "Okay Bella. But if I get any hint you can't handle this, we're out of here. And don't hurt yourself trying to do this. I will be able to tell."
"Deal." I agreed.
Before I even considered going back I had to hunt. We ran through the forest trying to catch a scent of a big animal. The bigger it was, the better off I would be. At least Edward knew what I was going through. On this side of the forest the trees grew close together and gave off an Erie feeling. It was very spooky. It soon grew pitch black, for a humans eyes. I kept catching scents I had never experienced before. I often would cross a unicorn or some strange scent that was a mixture between a human and horse. But I didn't dare hunt them, I didn't know the ways of these wizards, if these creature's were rare. We found no elk, deer. There were no mountain lions or bears. Just unrecognizable scents. I caught a wolf smell.
"Edward, I smell a wolf...but the scent's a little disfigured. Should I..." I was so thirsty. I had to have blood now. Or I was afraid of what I might do. Edward moved with me, trying to sniff out edible pray as well.
"You might as well." he sighed, "you have to get something." I nodded. I tore off toward the scent. My hunger drove me faster than usual. I stopped. The wolf was only four feet away. It was huge. Almost as big as the werewolves in La Push. But not quite. It was leaner, not so muscular. I peered into it's eyes, it didn't have the human intelligence there. What are I thinking? I attacked myself. You have a werewolf as a best friend and your going to drink a similar looking wolves blood? You're sick Bella. I took a step back, disgusted with myself. Of course Edward didn't think anything of it.
The large creature looked up hostilely at me. We stared at each other for a long time, then it turned the other way and ran fast for a normal wolf. I was confused, could this wolf be related to the werewolves I knew? I shook my head, then ran to join Edward in the search for drinkable blood. We'd had many strange encounters in this forest. What was next? Eventually we found a large beast. We didn't know what it was, but I drank anyway. It was heaven. No where close to that girl, but it was better than a grizzly. We found two more of these strange black creatures then headed back the way we came. When we reached the edge of the forest Edward turned to me.
"Are you absolutely sure about this?" He asked, his eyes boring into mine.
"Yes." I said forcefully. He gave a stiff nod and ran with me, we were more cautious than usual as we ran towards the castle. Students hustled inside and outside. Trying to get to their classes.
"We should find Albus." I said. I could smell her everywhere. My throat burned so badly, my nose was overwhelmed with her scent. I tried to concentrate on the matter at hand. But I found myself day dreaming of sinking my teeth into her warm soft throat... No! Don't think about it!
Edward was staring at me, his brow furled in concern. "I'm fine." I lied quickly."
"Okay lets go then." Edward said looking around. "Um... I guess we don't know where he is do we?"
"Let's just sniff him out." I said. Maybe if I just concentrated on Albus's scent... We started following his newest scent as fast as we could. We arrived at a door that had to stone gargoyles on each side. I walked up to the door and tried to open it but it didn't budge. I didn't want to break it so I stepped back.
"Hmmm... You don't suppose there's a password do you? Albus mentioned his office having a password..." Edward said, thinking.
"Oh how wonderful." I said sarcastically, "that's makes things so much better knowing that we need a password." He looked at me, thinking.
"I don't know what it could be." Edward said after he had blurted out many possible passwords, 30 minutes later.
"Open sesame." I said swinging my arms in the air. Nothing happened. Then we heard a weird sound from behind the door. Like rocks rubbing together. Albus appeared from behind the door draped in midnight blue robes.
"Ah, hello, Bella, Edward, ready to go? I hope you weren't waiting too long." Albus said sincerely.
"No. Not at all. But we do have a matter to discuss with you." Edward said politely.
"And what might that be? Please, come inside." Albus gestured toward the door.
"Blood Blister Pod." Albus said to the door. It swung open to reveal a stone stair case. Albus stepped onto the stairs, and they started moving upward, like and escalator. Edward and I followed. The stairs seemed to take forever to get to the top. Finally we reached floor level and stepped off. Albus's office was huge. More like a large apartment with no rooms. There were odd instruments here and there sitting on countless tables. A large desk was placed in the middle.
"Please, sit." Albus said, sitting behind his desk. We sat down on the two chairs opposite of him. I was extremely edgey, my head darted quickly from side to side as I struggled to forget the girl's scent.
"Is everything all right?" Albus said, looking at me with concern. Edward glanced at me, his well known worried expression on his face.
"Not really." Edward said.
"What's amiss?" Albus asked.
"Well, you see... It's hard to explain. But...Bella has found herself...attracted to one of your students. No! Not physical attraction! She...Uh... longs for her blood."
"Oh." Albus said, realization dawning on him.
"Vampires, sometimes, find someone that's their 'singer' it's someone who's blood calls to them specifically. It's like their blood was made, just for them. Bella is having a very hard time...resisting. We try hard, to not be what we are." Edward looked at Albus, unsure of his reaction. I wondered if Albus even wanted two blood sucking vampires helping him. Who could blame him? Albus just sat there, his head bowed, deep in thought.
"I see." He said finally, "Who is the student?"
"We didn't catch her name, she had big bushy brown hair, brown eyes..." Edward said, trying to remember.
"What class did you meet her in?" Albus asked.
"Potions." Albus's face realized something.
"Yes that's her." Edward said to Albus. He must have seen the girl in his mind.
"Hermione Granger." Albus said seriously. "Are you leaving?" he asked, troubled.
"Not unless you don't want us here." I said.
"Well if you can't handle it then..."
"I can handle it!" I interrupted loudly.
"Very well than, should you just avoid her?" Albus asked.
"Yes, I'll take extreme precaution! I promise! I will not harm her!" Albus surveyed me for a while. With his piercing blue eyes I felt like he was seeing through me, all my thoughts, dreams, wishes.
"Okay." He said. "Should we proceed to the practice then?" Albus said, standing up.
"Yes." I said relieved.
Albus lead us to the 'practice room' it took at least 15 minutes. "In here." he said, opening the door for me. I nodded at him and stepped into the large room. Desks had been pushed to the side to make room for whatever we were doing. A cluster of adults stood in the corner whispering to one another. Everything went quiet as we entered. I heard some whispers before then, "Can we trust them?" "They're vampires?" "But Albus said they're different than the normal vampire." "Humph."
Albus cleared his throat and said, "May I introduce, Edward and Bella Cullen, who are willing to help us." The teachers, I assumed, were looking at us skeptically. That Snape guy was there, along with Hagrid, a stern looking woman, a young women with bubble gum pink hair, a tired looking man with shabby robes, and a teenager boy with round glasses and black hair. I vaguely remembered seeing him in the potions class room.
"Well Dumbledore, what do we do?" Growled a man I hadn't realized was there. His appearance certainly startled me. One of his eyes were normal, but the other was electric blue, and spun around in it's socket. His face was so covered in scares he had the appearance of tree bark. A chunk of his nose was missing, and one of his legs was replaced be a wooden, clawed one. All I could think was, WOW.
"Hold on Alastor." Albus said, "These two, as I have told you, have agreed to help us defeat Voldemort. Everyone flinched, except the boy with the glasses. He was surveying us with interest. And blushed when he caught me looking. I let out a low chuckle.
"What?" Edward said in a vampire whisper.
"That boy." I whispered back.
"-and so we are going to be performing spells on them to make sure they are immune to all magic." Albus finished. Oops. I didn't hear his explanation of us. Edward however, looked determined, and apeared to have drank in every word Albus said. A slight wind blowed the boys scent towards me, and I realized too late, that the girls scent clanged to him. Urgh. I wrinkled my nose and stopped breathing. No. I was a wimp. I inhaled deeply. It wasn't so bad.
"Try anything you can think of. Don't be afraid. I that all right?" Albus asked Edward. Edward nodded and said, "hit us with your best shot." I laughed.
"Now everyone stand over here." Albus said pointing to the wall. "Edward Bella, you stand in the middle. They all lined up opposite to us, pointing there wands towards us. "When I count to three everyone fire." Albus said. "One." What if this didn't work? "two." What if Edward got hurt? "THREE!" He shouted. Tons of jets of colored light flew towards us. We just stood, frozen to the spot and waited for them to hit there target. I watched one hit my arm, but nothing happened. We both were not effected. I looked at Edward, and he looked back reassuringly, taking my hand. All the wizard shouted curse after curse for it seemed like hours.
Finally Albus shouted, "All right everyone stop!" The shouts vanished to be replaced with an absolute silence. Albus walked toward us, smiling brightly. "It seems like you are immune to magic!" He said happily.
"Wait Dumbledore." The man with the blue eye growled. "We haven't tried the unforgivable curses yet."
"Yes your right Alastor." Albus sighed. Glancing at us, slightly worried.
"Go ahead." Edward said to Albus. "I doubt anything will work." Albus nodded and stepped back.
"Alastor?" Albus said, "Would you mind doing the honors?"
"Sure Albus." He said seriously. It was silent as he stepped toward us, his wand out, a serious expression on his face.
"Imperio!" He yelled. Nothing happened. Everyone sighed in relief. "The killing curse, Albus?" Albus nodded. Killing curse? Please let nothing happen! Please! I thought, worried at the look on Alastors face as he said, "AVADAKADAVRA!" Again we just stood there. I felt a gust of wind fly past us, I wondered if it was the spell.
He raised his wand again and cried,"CRUCIO!" I felt nothing, but I heard a cry of pain and spun around to see Edward on the floor, clutching his head in agony. I stopped breathing and screamed a high pitch shriek as I flung myself on the floor by my screaming husband.
Sorry for the cliff hanger! Until next time!
Mikay Cullen
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