HEY

HEY!

Yes, this story is close to the 4th book in the first chapters, but now it changes into something I hope is all me. I like this chapter I can say that it will not be a parody, (and I'm not trying to make it into one) from here on in, and please be kind in your reviews. R&R Thanks.

Luv

L.

Chapter four: Silent Valley

(May, Year six)

It was the last night of school, and AsVoria students were having their annual Dragon Ball. A yearly dance that they had, to celebrate the end of their year. The large field off the garden dome lit with fairies that were flying around, candles on tables, and six extravagantly carved lamp posts. There was the silver and ivory phoenix for Luminus House. The emerald, gold and cherry wood lion for Gaia House. The ruby, gold and ebony wood dragon for Pyre House. A maple oak, violet, and gold silver winged eagle for Aura House. Lastly, a lamp post of onyx black, ebony wood and silver accent snake for Stygian House'. The lampposts were evenly spaced around the ebony dance floor that had been laid down onto the glass. This was the first time ever that the ball had been held outside. The sky was clear and the air was hot, but there was a cool wind that blew the clouds away. That made it easy to see the stars through the tent that hung from the lampposts. Harpies had made the material from their silky sap; it shimmered and sparkled in the moonlight like thousands of tiny little diamonds. The students were dressed to the nines, and each girl spun around the dance floor like a ballerina; or they sat and drank. Everyone look like stars in silks, velvets, stains and cotton dresses that were to the floor or short, semi-dresses. The Garden dome had lights placed 'throughout as they sparkled in the moonlight. Small fireflies flew around the plants and flowers like sparks from a fire, yet every now and then a firefly would get too close to a snake dragon and got eaten. Lovers sat throughout the dome, kissing and walking hand in hand. Everyone was oblivious to the fact they were being watched.

Aniko Black sat alone in the darkened room; her bottle of vodka lay at her feet. She was dressed in her school kilt, which was shorter than permitted, her white polo sweater and her hair in a pony tail with a puff at the front. As the lonely moonlight squeezed through her small window, Aniko's black charcoal eye make-up and liner were smeared and running down her cheeks. Aniko watch the others at the dance, each happier then they had ever been. She kept telling herself that she was happy too, but that was a bug fat lie. The Three Fates Quest had been canceled because Sedgwick Malfoy was killed during his MST test. 'Am I the only one mourning him? Why can't I escape his death?' Nothing had been the same since Feb. 26th and every time she would walk down the hall she would see memories of Sed. They would flood into her mind like a train on a track. Each time they would bring thick heavy tears to her eyes. It was the way he smiled, the way his ego would get hurt when she would laugh at something he said, the way he would look at her and kiss her. The way his long blonde hair would whip in the fall wind, or the way his skin would darken in the summer sun.

Aniko could hear his last words as he had fallen from the room after his MST test. He fell into her arms, and reached his arm up and touched her face. She still saw his face in her mind daily, the fear and sadness that had crossed it. He reached his hand up and touched Aniko's face. When Sed died his sprit flipped and dove in the air. Aniko watched the black image take on a life of its own until it go sucked into her charmbaclet and his powers add into her own. Aniko could hear his voice in her head ringing as clear as if it had that day. Their conversation replaying in her mind over and over. She cut her hand the other day, and the pain wasn't even comparable to the pain of losing two loves. Aniko had also lost Cedric, he had left her after that day. He said the love she had for Malfoy wasn't truly gone and that she had to find peace first before they could have a relationship. That day, when they had the conversation, it was raining pretty badly, and by the time they were through, they were soaked. He told her that he could never be with someone who wasn't fully in love with him. Yet he told her he would always be with her as a friend. Friend that's all she needed was another friend. She'd broken up with guys so many times, half the school pretty much but it never hurt like it did now.

Tonight the room around her was silent, black and cold. Aniko opened the window and let the air in. It's cold hand wrapping around her waist and squeezed her; as she sat in the window-sill. All she wanted to do was cry, she had also drunk half of the bottle of Vodka straight. Its cool liquid was her only comfort now. A letter had been found in Sed's room among his things when his family was cleaning it out, and it had been addressed to her. Professor Hackery the head of Stygian gave it to her yesterday during D.A.Mology. Tears ran down her face even harder now as she finished reading the letter for the forty-ninth time. Her bottle was empty now, and nothing was left. That was just like her life, NOTHING; yet Ani was used to her life being nothing. So as she slipped slowly from the window seat on to the floor and crossed the wooden floor to get more Vodka. She ended up looking at the silver mirror that was above the table, and as she drank more cold liquid from the fresh bottle. She saw her self but she didn't see what she wanted to. As she stood there, barely able to stand, she saw her father and his beloved Godson. Thick heavy tears flooded and fell from her eyes in waves of emotion.

"Tomorrow is never going to come." She thought as rage filled her body, she let go of the cabinet and with the alcohol in one hand, Aniko Black pulled the glass mirror down off the wall. It smashed onto the floor with a bang into millions and millions of tiny, shiny pieces. It look like the materialization on how she was feeling, broken and in tiny pieces. It began to thunder, and lightning outside; with one big bang thick heavy waves of water fell onto the ground. The fierce power of the storm fuelled her. Anger filled Aniko's heart and the darkness took over. As the lighting struck, she pulled out every draw, ripped fabric, cut pillows and utterly destroyed the room around her. Aniko stood in the center of the room; drunk, crying and utterly ready to give up on life. She drank down the second bottle and let the wet wind come in from the storm. Water droplets mixed in with once warm air making the room feel muggy and slightly soggy. The soggy air picked up paper, feathers and sparkles that were strewn around the room. Making them cascade about the room taunting Aniko. Then with the strength she had left, she cried out into the night as the storms noise crashed into her room.

'FATE IS THIS LIFE!" She yelled into the heavy, fearful, black night. "I do not fear you, I welcome you to meet my inner storm." Aniko fell onto the floor, eyes shut, and overdosed, with the glass bottle in her hands. The clears shimmering glass smashed when it hit the wooden floor into to a million shinny pieces. Aniko hit her head off the table in the center of the room as she fell to the floor. Vodka spilled in her direction from the broken bottle. She lifted her hand felt the back of her head. Her fingers touched wet, soggy, sticky hair. When she pulled her hand back it was covered in blood. That was the last thing she saw before she blacked out.

R&R

Here's the letter…………………………………….

Dear Aniko,

If I don't make it out of my testing, I want you to know I always loved you. I never meant to hurt you. The day I made that fatal mistake was the worst day of my life, and if I could re-write it I would. Plus, I want you to know that every time I saw you with Padwinston, I wanted to rip you out of his hands and tell you belong to me. PLEASE go on living without me. Don't stop loving because of me, your dad or anyone.. Oh don't forget YOU need YOUR DAD more then you think you do.

I Love you.

Sedgwick.

PS Your smile can light a room, and I'll always watch over you.