A Hogwarts Adventure Book 2: River of the Spirit

Chapter 2: Stone of Ra or Portkey?

Kura sighed from where she sat at the Gryffindor table.

She, like many others, had been thrilled to have Remus as their DADA teacher. If he knew about Dementors, he would be a good teacher...hopefully. He proved it on the train. Right?

"You okay?" Harry asked as he sat down.

She looked up at him. "Why are you late?"

"Well-"

"Oi, Potter!" Harry and Kura turned around to face Draco Malfoy, "Is it true? You FAINTED on the train?"

A Slythering next to him mimicked fainting and the other Slytherins laughed.

Ron sneered at them and turned Harry around.

Kura, however, locked eyes with Sakura. Sakura held up the package and placed it before herself.

She placed her cheek on her palm.

'What are you?' She wondered.

She rolled her eyes and grabbed the package again.

Jack and Elsa looked at her out of the corner of their eyes.

Sakura held up a box and slowly opened it.

She frowned, her eyes pulsing again, as she pulled out a chipped sandstone with the eye of Ra.

She turned it around and looked at them, "All that waiting for a rock?"

Jack shrugged.

Sakura sighed and rubbed the stone.

The familiar texture making her feel nostalgic.

"Yami," Draco spoke up, "what's going on with your stone?"

Sakura shot him an odd look and gasped.

The stone started glowing in a bright, golden, light.

Silence filled the hall, only to be broken by Sakura's screaming.

Once the light died down, where Sakura sat, was the sandstone.

"Sakura?!" Kura yelled as she sat up.

Her blue eyes became half violet.

Sydney walked over, "I'm sure she's fine-"

"THEN WHERE IS SHE?!"

Mason, who overheard them, frowned, "I know this is hard, especially seeing as to how she was in Slytherin-"

"What's wrong with Slytherin?" Jack asked.

"Nothing." Draco said automatically.

Ron snorted, "Of course YOU'D say that. But everyone knows that where the evil people go. No offense Jack, Elsa, Kura."

Kura's frown deepened and she ran out of the hall. Ron sighed and turned back to his meal, not really listening to Hermione as she reprimanded him.

Kura knew she shouldn't have entered the Slytherin common room.

But honestly, she just wanted the other half of herself.

'They wouldn't understand,' she thought bitterly as she clutched Sakura's spare robes, 'yami isn't evil...sure she...may have wanted to kill a guy...but that was in the past...she's changed...'

"Yami?"

Kura looked up.

"Oh..." she muttered, "hi Draco."

Draco frowned, "Okay...one, how'd you get in here, two what's up with your eyes, and three why are you in here?"

Kura bit her lips, "I...can't tell you...not everything at least. You'll think I'm crazy...and...for what it's worth...I don't think being in Slytherin in bad. Sakura used to tell me, that after hearing all the things people said about Slytherin, if you got sorted into it, the school was basically saying, 'You're a bad kid...have fun being an asshole shithead...'* but...that's not true. Is it?"

Draco sat down close to the fire, "No. Not all of us are like that."

Kura didn't reply. Her grip on the robes before her just grew stronger.

"Do you have to mock him?"

"Who?"

"Harry."

"Oh...well, no, I don't HAVE to, but I CHOOSE to. Why? I...honestly have no idea. Maybe it's because he just assumed the worst of me without knowing me, maybe it's because I couldn't get him as a friend-"

"I wonder why..."

"Shut it."

Kura cracked a smile and chuckled, "Imagine this...a Slytherin and a Gryffindor...having a nice chat."

"They'd kill us." Draco grinned. "Do you miss her?"

Kura nodded, "It may be hard to believe, but it's like I lost half my soul..."

Draco said nothing.

Silence befell the two.

They didn't pay attention to the footsteps coming near until.

"Uh..." Jack let out a cough, "hi?"

Draco and Kura looked at him.

"Overland."

"Hi Jack."

"Kura, Draco." Jack grinned, "Oh! Here. I thought...you might want it..."

He handed Kura the sandstone.

Kura smiled bitterly.

"Thanks...I'll see you both tomorrow...maybe..."

Kura stood, hugging the robes to her chest, and walked out.

Jack and Draco stared as she walked out.

They stared at each other, but then went their seperate ways.

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Taken from CinemaSins', "Everything Wrong with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."