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Title: Song of the Melodie
Author: Ivory Core
Chapter 13: As night falls…
And someday you'll know
that nature is so
the same rain that draws you near me
falls on rivers and land
on forests and sand
makes the beautiful world that you'll see
in the morning
Vienna Tang 'Lullaby for a stormy night'
What felt like hours to Eliora, was only but a few minutes in the outside world. Eliora Melodiana had stepped onto a total of five stones, each one bringing a memory long forgotten.
She now could clearly remember her grandmother, father, mother, and many other faces that she didn't exactly know the names of.
But Eliora still did not know what she was. In fact, instead of her questions being answered more seemed to appear.
Sure she now had memories of playing with her mom in the meadow and watching her dad read in front of the fire, but Eliora still had not one clue as to who she was and why was she able to do the things that were unexplainable.
Every step she took, Eliora secretly hoped that it would present her with a memory that could clear up her questions. Mixed emotions would come after stepping off a stone. Eliora would feel joy that she could remember another memory, but she would also be saddened that no answers to her questions were given.
Now only two stones were left until Eliora would reach her mother on the other side.
With a look towards her mother, Eliora lifted up her foot and stepped onto the sixth stone.
FLASH
A six year old Eliora, soon to be seven, was sitting on soft green grass, deep in the woods. She was in a small clearing with a tinkling water fall spilling cold pure water into a small lagoon below.
The trees above allowed spots of sunshine to shine through their leaves and cascade across the lagoon. A rainbow arched from one end of the lagoon to the other, creating beautiful colors to reflect on the waters below.
This was Eliora's secret place to be. She was sure of it. No one knew this place but herself. She had found it with the help of the medallion that hung around her neck.
She had had it since as long as she can remember. It always brought a sense mystery to her. When she had asked her mother on why she felt this way, her mother had suggested seeing her grandmother.
But there was just one problem with this. Eliora did not enjoy being with her grandmother.
Through Eliora's eyes, mixed with purple she saw a dark mist surround her grandmother. From the very first time, Eliora had not liked being near to her grandmother.
But she kept her thoughts to herself. At least here in this place she could speak to the creatures that lived here and they will never judge her actions or thoughts.
She found out that she could speak to animals when she found herself speaking to a garden snake. At first, she thought she was speaking in English. But upon hearing herself, she finds that she was hissing.
Though this greatly surprised and excited her, she never told her parents. Some things, at least for now, where best kept a secret.
Eliora lightly placed a finger into the lagoon and watched as ripples erupted from the point of her fingers intrusion on the calm waters. Eliora watched as the ripple expanded.
Without realizing it, Eliora had closed her eyes and was concentrating on her father. Instantly the ripples began to shimmer in a sparkle of gold and white light.
Opening her eyes Eliora watched as an image of her father appeared in the lagoon before her. He looked like he was sitting on a chair that was facing a large desk.
On the other side of the desk was seating an elderly man whom Eliora had met only a few times in her life. She could not perfectly say his last name, but he had told her to call him Albus.
"Why is daddy talking to Albus?" Eliora asked herself as she peered closer into the lagoon.
Her dad had left them a couple of months ago. Eliora did not understand why daddy had to leave home, which was the little cottage.
Her dad had explained to her that he was going away for a little while, but he promised that he will be back. He didn't tell Eliora anything else, but she wondered still wondered why dad was leaving.
But when Eliora had asked her mom, her mother had told her that daddy was going away to make sure that we were safe.
Eliora had asked her mother to be safe from what. But no answers were given.
So now as Eliora silently watched as her father talked to Albus, she wondered what was the big deal that dad couldn't tell her that he was just visiting Albus.
A sudden spark of black mixed with dark purple sparked up from the tip of where Eliora had her finger in the lagoon.
Eliora cried out as pain shot up her finger to race all the way up to the length of her arm. She hastily pulled out her finger and quickly held her hand against her chest.
But when Eliora looked again at the lagoon, she could not hold in the ear splitting scream.
Powerful, red eyes stared back at Eliora from the lagoon. Eyes filled with so much hatred that Eliora found herself paralyzed with fear.
"ELIORA!" A distant voice screamed from somewhere.
Eliora barely heard the voice of her mother as she frantically called out. All she saw were the red eyes that stared straight at her.
Images of horrible things crossed into Eliora's mind as she unknowingly read the mind of the owner of the red eyes. Images of a man crumbling to the floor as a flash of green light consumed him.
A woman screaming in pain as the same green light shot towards her chest. And then, Eliora saw the image of a baby boy with green eyes and black hair.
She screamed that the baby won't be killed, but the green light came over the baby as well. But instead of killing the baby, Eliora saw the green light backfired towards the caster.
For a moment in time, Eliora felt the pain of the green light as it surrounded her. She closed her eyes and fainted in a heap on the grass as the image in the lagoon faded to nothing.
FLASH
Eliora crumbled to floor in a dead of faint. Her skin was as pale as snow, sweating all over. She was uncontrollably shaking, feeling hot and cold all at the same time, the pain still lingering but not as severe as before.
"So much from one memory. You will not survive the next memory, not until you are ready." Aura softly said as she watched her daughter tremble in her unconscious state.
Aura then slowly walked unto the stones, the last stone still being transparent, and kneeled beside her daughter.
With gentleness and ease, Aura brought her daughter up into a sitting position and gently placed Eliora so that she was wrapped up in her arms.
With that, Aura began to softly stroke her daughter's hair while humming a melodious and sweet tune.
Like magic, Eliora slowly opened her eyes and looked up into the amethyst eyes of her mother.
She weakly smiled as she remembered the tune of the song, having remembered her mother singing the song to her on many occasions when Eliora was feeling sad or lonely.
As Eliora listened to her mothers voice sing, she did not notice as the grey clouds started to roll over the land. Until that is the rain began to fall. No lighting, just rain. It fell on the stone bridge while making tapping sounds as it made contact.
It splattered across Eliora's face and soaked her hair. Her gown was soon soaked in wet, but neither she nor her mother seemed to care.
Now that Eliora had some of her memories back, she remembered that at the very end of the song she had always sang with her mother.
Everything's fine in the morning
Eliora's surroundings began to become brighter and brighter, the rain pounding harder.
The rain will be gone in the morning
But I'll/you'll still be here in the morning
As Eliora sang her mother leaned towards her. Eliora felt her mother kiss her on the forehead.
"Whenever you need me, Eliora; for what ever reason, just close your eyes and concentrate on seeing yourself here. I will always be here to help you in any way I can." said Aura in Eliora's mind.
As everything around Eliora became brighter and brighter until Eliora had no choice but to close her eyes, she heard her mother speak.
"Remember Eliora, some questions are not supposed to be answered. Don't try to answer them, if you aren't ready for the answer."
And then the world around Eliora slowly faded away like a ripple in a pond. The smell of trees and flowers were gone to be replaced by the heavy smell of fresh rain.
The feeling of being in her mothers arms were replaced by the knowledge that her head and neck was being held by someone's hands while someone else was grasping her hand.
And the enchanted forest was completely gone, leaving Eliora right back where she was before. The only difference was that she was surrounded by voices who were all talking at once.
"I think it's going to rain." A voice barely said out loud.
"Why did she faint?" Another voice questioned.
"Hey Harry, maybe she fainted because of you." A voice jokingly stated.
"Yeah Harry, you two were staring into each others eyes…" said another voice in a mocking dreamy voice.
"The twins." Eliora thought to herself as she slowly gained some of her senses.
She moved her fingers and tried to open her eyes that were considerably heavy.
"Shut up!" Eliora heard Harry answer. Now more than ever she wanted to open her eyes.
"Hey, she's waking up." Eliora recognized Ron's voice.
A frenzy of voices was heard and this only strengthened Eliora to open her eyes. She slowly squinted her eyes open and waited to see if she could go further.
"Eliora?" The worried voice of Charlie encouraged Eliora to open her eyes all the way.
When Eliora fluttered her eyes open she was not prepared for the worried faces looking down at her.
She looked around and saw that Charlie was the one who had been holding her hand. But where was Harry?
Eliora looked straight up and wasn't surprise to meet the green eyes of Harry's looking down at her. He was the one who was bracing her neck as he kneeled down above her, since Eliora found herself lying on the floor.
"How long have I been out?" Eliora asked, but she was surprised to find that her voice was scratchy.
"Only a couple of minutes." One of the twins answered, though Eliora didn't know which.
She looked up at Harry again and was shocked to find him staring down at her with a question burning through his eyes.
"What?" Eliora softly asked.
Harry shook his head. "Nothing." He then helped Eliora up to a sitting position. Charlie too helped as well and with the help from the boys, Eliora soon found herself standing on her own legs.
She was a bit wobbly, but she quickly gained control of herself. Harry stayed close just incase she fell again, but Eliora told him that she was fine.
"Where's…" Eliora started as she looked around for her stuff.
"Oh here." Neville said as he handed Eliora here bags.
Charlie was already holding onto his backpack and bags, so Eliora took the rest. When all of that was done she turned towards the boys.
"I want to thank you all for…for everything." Eliora said, not really knowing what to say.
The sudden sound of thunder brought all eyes up towards the sky. Large black clouds had already rolled in. The wind and picked up and the rain was coming soon.
"We better get inside before its starts to pour." Ron suggested as he and the boys started to walk up the steps to the Leaky Cauldron.
Charlie too began to follow them, but was stopped by Eliora.
"Wait Charlie, we have to go back to Coldrock." Eliora said. Immediately with the words Coldrock, Charlie's face fell.
"Oh come on Eliora. Why do we have to go back now, why don't we spend the night here." Charlie suggested, hoping that Eliora would say yes.
Eliora knew just what Charlie felt. Neither did she want to go back to Coldrock since now she remembered her past…
It was than that Eliora remembered everything, the forest, her mother, and her memories. She couldn't exactly remember her last memory that she witness, but she didn't care now.
All her memories came flooding back like a tidal wave and she couldn't help but drop all her things and raise her hands towards the heavens while smiling in pure joy.
Like on cue, the rain came pouring down on all of them. Charlie and Harry ran up the steps but stopped to look back at Eliora.
What a sight. Eliora had her hands raised up above her as she twirled around and around as the rain splashed on the pavement and unto her clothes.
Her clothes were completely soaked already, but seeing Eliora's face light up in pure joy one knew that she didn't care.
For a while, both Harry and Charlie watched as Eliora danced in the rain with such a carefree soul. Not even Charlie had ever seen Eliora act this way, but when he tried to enter her mind to find out, he was surprised to find that he couldn't.
The rain slowly began to dribble until it stopped all together; almost like it had rained just for Eliora to dance underneath it.
The clouds parted to reveal a shinning moon with stars twinkling in the night. At this moment, for Eliora, nothing mattered.
All was right in the world. She remembered her parents, she had finally danced in the rain without anyone telling her not to, and she was probably going to be in deep trouble once they went back to Coldrock…but who cared now.
Eliora turned towards the two who where staring at her. Well, now it appeared that there was a small audience of boys who had walked out to watch Eliora dance in the rain.
"What are you all staring at? Haven't you ever seen people dancing in the rain?" She questioned while trying to be serious.
But her heart was overjoyed, so it only came out as smirk as she twirled once and walked up the steps.
Harry and Charlie were holding the bags, so nothing was getting soaked. Eliora stepped up to stand in front of the two.
She was a sight. Her hair was completely wet that it draped across her face and dripped water. Her clothes were soaked straight through, now looking like a heavy load.
But it was Eliora's expression that truly got everyone attention. She was breathing heavily, but she was smiling. Her smile was like someone who had received a great gift. Her eyes shined so brightly that one wondered if they were actually glowing.
And speaking of glowing, Charlie and Harry's eyes were directed to something glowing purple underneath the layer of clothing on Eliora's chest.
"Ummm, Eliora. " Charlie started as he motioned with his head towards the medallion.
Eliora looked down and quickly covered the part that was glowing. She gave a quick smile as she turned her back towards them and began to calm herself.
She knew that the medallion glowed from either her emotions or her actions, so the best thing to do now was to control her overflowing joy.
While performing this task, it didn't take long for the medallion's glow to dim. When she was sure that it wasn't going to glow any brighter, she turned towards the boys.
"I…" She was cut off by the sound of bell tolling the hour.
Charlie quickly looked at Harry's watch and couldn't help his jaw to drop any lower.
"Charlie, what is it?" Eliora suddenly asked, worried by the answer.
Charlie slowly turned towards Eliora. The full impact of the time and Coldrock had come full force to him.
"It's 9:30…" Charlie whispered his eyes bulging.
Eliora's eyes expanded like saucers as the horror struck true. Lights out had already been said at Coldrock. That meant that by now all hell was breaking loose at the orphanage; no doubt they thought that Eliora and Charlie had run away.
Without a word, Eliora grabbed for her bags and started to help Charlie get the backpack on.
"Wait a minute, where are you going?" Harry suddenly asked as he watched the two hurry in their preparing.
Eliora snapped her head towards to face Harry. "We are in serious trouble Harry. Coldrock by now would think that we ran away." Eliora quickly explained.
"Not that it hadn't crossed our minds to do so." Charlie put in.
Eliora ignored her brother's statement and continued to get things ready.
"If we don't get there soon, we are in serious…serious…" Eliora didn't know what would be the right word to tell how much trouble they will be in.
"…shit." Charlie finished.
"Watch your mouth Charlie." Eliora firmly stated to her brother telepathically.
Charlie bowed his head and continued to pack his stuff with haste.
"But, how far is Coldrock?" Harry asked.
This brought a thought to Eliora. They were a good distance from Coldrock. By the time they made it, by taxi or train, an hour or more would have passed.
"It's not far." Eliora lied.
Even though Charlie could no longer penetrate into Eliora's mind to see what she was thinking, that didn't mean that Harry could not.
He was just getting use to this whole telepathy thing, but he knew that Eliora was lying.
"Listen Eliora, we can help you get there. Ron's dad has pretty good connections for transportation." Harry suggested.
Eliora and Charlie were all packed. Eliora looked up at Harry and knew that he was only trying to help.
"Thank you Harry for your help, but Charlie and I will manage." Eliora said as she spoke to Harry in his mind.
"What about Charlie, how will he get his supplies for Hogwarts?" Harry asked, knowing that Eliora had to come back to the Leaky Cauldron.
"That's why we have to go now. If we go now, there's a chance that Charlie and I can enter Coldrock with Mrs. Perkings none the wiser." Eliora explained.
Without a word, Harry pulled out a peace of paper from his back pocket and a pen out of the other. He then scribbled something down on the paper.
When he was finished, he handed the paper to Eliora.
"What's this?" Eliora asked as she skimmed through the note.
"It's an addressto the house I'm living in. If you need any help, just send a letter and…well you know." Harry stumbled.
Eliora smiled towards Harry. She then pulled out a pencil from her own pocket and scribbled a small note on the bottom of the address that Harry had written down.
When that was done she ripped off the bottom part and handed it to Harry.
"That's the address to Coldrock. I know how wizards and witches send mail to each other. So just make sure that Hedwig knows to bring the letter up at the tower." Eliora explained.
She remembered when her and Harry were dream festing that he had a snowy owl called Hedwig.
Harry nodded his head and watched as Eliora and Charlie made their way down the stairs and across the street.
"SEE YOU ELIORA! LATER CHARLIE!" The boys called out as they waved towards the two as they ran across the street.
Before they turned the corner, Eliora turned around and looked back towards the boys. With a final wave she took Charlie's hand and sped around the corner.
"Eliora, we aren't going to make it!" Charlie called out as he raced to keep up with Eliora.
Eliora was racing because she was hoping to catch the train that would take them directly to the station that was a couple of blocks away from Coldrock. If they hurried, they might be able catch it.
They had just entered the subway, when they watched in horror as the very train sped off.
Eliora didn't know what to do now. It was late at night, their train was gone, and they were in such trouble when they reached Coldrock; if they ever did.
Right now, Eliora felt like she should have stayed with Harry and taken up his suggestion. Now they had to walk all the way and that didn't include the fear of being mugged or worse.
"We're doomed." Charlie muttered under his breath as he too felt the pressure of the moment way down on him.
Eliora reassuringly squeezed Charlie's' hand as they both walked out of the subway and into the cold night air.
"What now?" Charlie asked as he looked up at Eliora.
Eliora didn't know what to say. For the first time, she didn't know what to do. She was lost and scared.
"Maybe we should back track to the Leaky Cauldron." Charlie suggested.
At first, Eliora thought that to be a good idea. But when thinking of the serious trouble the awaited them back at Coldrock, Eliora knew that it would be best to appear there in the morning than not at all.
"I need you mom. I don't know what to do." Eliora softly said. So softly that Charlie didn't hear.
Inside her mind, she was thinking of the Tower. Tal would be there by now, the fire roaring in welcome. She really wished she was there now, with Charlie snuggling under the covers.
Their attention though was drawn to the sudden glow of the medallion. Both stared at it in amazement as it began to lift itself out of Eliora's soaked shirt until it was completely out in the open and floating in midair before them.
The chain was still around Eliora's neck, but the medallion was floating on its own accord.
It was a good thing that they were in a corner of a building, hiding in the shadows, since the medallion suddenly sprang to life in a bright purple glow.
Charlie and Eliora's eyes could not leave the medallion as the purple light seemed to seep out of the medallion to cover them both.
"Eliora, what's going on?" Charlie asked as he looked up to face Eliora.
He wasn't prepared to find his sister's eyes completely glowing purple like the medallion was.
"Eliora?" Charlie whispered as the light became brighter and brighter. Charlie had to tightly close his eyes shut as the light became unbearable to keep his eyes open.
The few people that were passing by would say that they witness a sudden flash of purple light and then nothing. Others would say that they swore they saw two children disappear.
But none will know for sure…
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