Chapter 34 (Begun in my last class of the term… English… YAY!!! And finished during the second and last week of the HOLIDAYS!!)
Colin continued to groan, even after the crystal ball had disappeared into his skin.
"Did it work?" Sarah asked
"I don't know." Said Hermione
"Colin, Talk!" Harry said, poking him
"OUCH!" Colin cried. "Why'd you poke me Harry, you know I'm in pain."
"Oh my gosh, it worked!" Sarah said happily, dancing around the room.
"Yet I'm still in pain… was there a point to that?" Colin asked. He was grumpy. Being slowly turned into a tiger will do that to you
"Hey, I did my best" Sarah said sadly
"Yeah, be nice. Now you don't talk like an idiot." Jareth said, poking him
Colin cried out in pain. "You're the one who made me talk like an idiot! You made the entire school talk like idiots. You are an idiot!"
"That hurt" Jareth said, frowning.
Anastasia giggled.
"And you"! Colin said, pointing at her. "You can't even heal me! Call yourself a nurse!"
Anastasia sat on the floor and broke into very loud
"Now look what you've done! She'll go on like this for hours now!" Jareth said angrily, putting his arm around Anastasia in a vain attempt to stop her crying.
"Serves her right for being a lousy doctor. Now hurry up and find me some food! I'M STARVING!!"
Colin was really mad now. The pain in his stomach was only slightly better then the pain he felt… everywhere else.
"Fine then, let me try to fix you." Anastasia said. Again, she held her arms up and emitted a bright blue light, which surrounded Colin completely.
When finally the strong glow faded, everyone in the room gasped at the outcome
"It didn't work, did it?" Colin asked
"Well, I wouldn't say it didn't work…" Harry said slowly
"It just didn't have the effect it was supposed to." Hermione finished
"What. Did. You. Do?" Colin said through clenched teeth
"Well, the thing is… You're now kind of…" Sarah was trying to break it to him gently. Jareth, however had other plans.
"Worse"
"What do you mean by worse?" Colin was now crouching on his bed, like a tiger ready to pounce.
"Well, you're now sort of…" Hermione began
Harry, also quite blunt at times, continued with
"Your nose has gotten big and black. And flat too. Hey, you look like a tiger!" Sarah hit him in the back of the head.
"No duh." She said. "Colin, what the hell happened that would make you turn into a tiger? What spell were you trying?"
"I wasn't trying any stupid spells!" Colin cried, waving his arms… paws, angrily. "Those stupid Weasley twins sold me some candy that would make me fast like a leopard. Which didn't work, surprise surprise."
"Hey, their potions aren't that bad!" Harry said, crossing his arms.
And who could blame him for fighting back; he funded a lot of their work.
Sadly, Colin shot him such a fierce glare that he whimpered and hid behind Hermione.
"At least it did something." She said.
"I wonder what went wrong with it…" Jareth said. He hadn't spoken for a while, and felt like giving some sort of input.
"Why don't we ask those Feasley's?" Anastasia said
"Weaseby" Sarah said
"Weasley" Hermione said.
"Whatever." Jareth said. "Anyway, let's go see those people who made you eat that monkey pill."
"It was for the speed of a tiger, and they didn't make me eat it. They sold it to me… under false pretences, I swear" Colin said.
Jareth raised his eyebrow.
"Whatever. Now that I have a bigger part in this plotline, I am taking charge. Let's go!" He said, and walked out the door, followed by Sarah, then Anastasia, Harry and Hermione.
"Hey guys, what's happening?" Asked Ron as he walked in the door.
"What do you want?" Colin asked grumpily. "Everyone's left already."
"Are they having fun without me again?" Ron asked sadly.
"Yup. Want revenge?"
"Oh yeah."
LALALA… I LOVE VIVA LA BAM…AND HIS UNHOLY UNION…
The twins sat in a secluded courtyard outside Hogwarts, sunlight streaming through the trees, sparkling as it was reflected off the snow, disturbed only by the coloured smoke wafting up from various cauldrons set up around the area.
"So next time we make that one, instead of dung beetles, lets use ladybeetles." George said.
"Exactly what I was thinking!" Fred said, writing it down. "Great minds…"
"Think alike."
"Except when neither of the minds are great." Jareth drawled from the doorway.
"Uh, what do you mean Professor Sidhe?" Fred asked
"We think that our minds are exceptionally great." George said. "If I do say so myself."
"Well Colin Creevy would definitely not. Do you know where he is right now?" Hermione asked
"Doing homework?" George asked
"No" Sarah said.
"Sitting in his room eating candy?" Fred asked.
"No" Harry said. "But I wish I was…" Hermione glared at him
"He's sitting in the hospital wing." She said
"Poor chap" Said George
"What happened?" Fred continued.
"One of your potions backfired on him," Sarah said, poking Fred in the chest.
"Yeah, and now I have to do work and try and fix him." Anastasia said, crossing her arms.
"Ah, I think you must be talking of the Speopard formula." Fred said.
"The Speedy Leopard. I think we put in the wrong sort of polyjuice potion." George said.
"Well, we know from experience that polyjuice potion does not change humans to people successfully." Harry said, winking at Hermione, who shuddered.
"How do you know that?" Sarah asked
"No reason." Hermione said quickly
"Then how come Harry winked at you?" Jareth asked
"And why'd Hermy-thingo shuddered like that." Anastasia said pointing at her
"It's Hermione," Hermione said through clenched teeth.
"Just give Colin this," Fred said, handing Anastasia a small orange pill
"And he'll be fine in a day or two." George continued
"Oh man, that means I'll have to look after him for that long." She grumbled as she walked back towards the hospital wing.
"Maybe you two should go make sure no one else who bought that candy has had s transformation. Give them back their money" Hermione said, before leading Harry through the door, back into the third floor corridor.
"Well Gred, I think we should probably pack things up." Fred said
"Indeed Forge, those first years we were testing products on have probably reached full potency." George replied.
The twins packed up their cauldrons and returned to their dorms. Sarah shivered, before wrapping her arms around herself.
"Dang, I left my jacket in the hospital wing" She said.
"Sarah, Sarah, Sarah." Jareth said, walking over to her and shaking his head. "you are a witch, remember? you could just magic it over here."
"I always forget that" Sarah said, conjuring a crystal and getting herself a black double-breasted jacket to wear. "I've wanted a jacket like this for years." She said.
"It suits you." Jareth said, pulling out a few crystals and attempting to juggle them.
"Here, do it like this." Sarah said, showing him how.
The next hour and a half were spent with Sarah trying to teach Jareth to juggle.
The sun finished it's ascent into the sky, before slowly beginning its descent.
"You know it's Christmas Eve tomorrow." Sarah said. "I was wondering…"
"What is it?" Jareth asked, not looking away from the two balls he had finally managed to juggle fluidly.
"I was wondering… I didn't get a chance to get anything for my friends… and I wanted to make them something. You know how, when we first met, you showed me my dreams? Well, I read about something similar they once had called the Mirror or Erised, which did a similar thing. Could I make something like that for Harry and Hermione and the Weasley's?"
"Sure, it's quite simple."
And so, for the next few hours, Sarah and Jareth sat below the stars as they slowly appeared in the sky, making crystal balls of desire (Until it grew too cold for even Jareth, and they moved into the Dark Arts rooms)
"Finally, all finished." He said, flopping backwards to lie on the floor.
"Thank goodness." Sarah said. "well, I guess I should be going."
"Rightio, bye Sarah." Jareth said quickly, ushering her out the door, ignoring her protests.
"Hey, Hogsmeade. Get Diddy Kong and Bluto together. I have a surprise for you three." He said into a crystal ball…
FURIOUSLY IRONING HANDS…
ARGH!!!!!!! I am so so sorry! I've been way all holidays, doing… stuff…
Though not really
I am so sorry for taking to long to update! I didn't mean to! I had planned to do SOO many chapter these holidays!
It's just, I'm at the Gold Coast (the beach for those of you not from… Queensland) and my computer is the only one we have that's constantly connected to the internet, so everybody is using it…
Anyways, I have found out that the new average for each chapter is 1,424.45 words. And I'm pretty sure I've beaten it.
Hopefully I'll start the next chapter tomorrow…
OMG! It's now twelve AM!!!!!!!
Lolz
Oh man, I so badly want a black double breasted jacket… the only one I've found is Country Road, and is a couple hundred dollars… so I'm like… HECK NO!!!!!!!!
My back and my fingers are killing me… so it may be bed time for Charlotte
I have a new Labyrinth Myspace too! ADD ME!!!!!!! I'm under (email) littlelottie1 at hotmail dot com…
Here's another Saiyuki quote, and I have an anime festival this weekend! YAY!!!!!!!
Sha Gojyo: analysing their foe so, whadda ya think, Goku?
Goku: Seems like an asshole and he's got bad hair. I say minus twenty points.
Cho Hakkai: Take off another fifteen. His clothes are lame and he smells.
Monk 3, Demon 3: laughing until he realizes they're talking about him Huh? How dare you! How dare you mock me!
Goku: Oh! Dude! Bad teeth! Take off another five!
the demon throws his axe at Gojyo and misses
Sha Gojyo: Bad aim. That's another ten.
Genjo Sanzo: And you're not all that bright either. Take away another forty-five.
Goku: Nice shot.
Cho Hakkai: With that many points, he's definitely out of the game.
Hope you guys had an awesome Easter!
Your slightly frecklier Queen!
Lady of the Nymphs…
PS
WC1,745 Words
I think I sort of blew away the average…