A week has passed since Rox's encounter with Dumbledore and life has returned to normal for everyone. DA meeting were becoming more frequent even though they were still held in secret right under Umbridge's nose. The staff had no idea of the DA. It was, however, a popular subject amongst students.
"Harry is this okay?" Hermione asked.
"What is?"
"The fact that every single student here knows about the DA," Hermione answered as Ginny nodded worryingly.
"Well no one has made a fuss about it yet right? I'm sure no one will do anything," Ron said.
Harry shot a glance at Rox and Luna who were walking with them. Luna was snickering slightly as Rox had a smug yet exasperated look on his face. -And he goes and jinxes it. -
Harry just gave Rox a helpless shrug as Ron and Hermione caught sight of the small exchange.
"He just said something didn't he," Ron said annoyingly, "Was it about me?"
"I still don't understand how you and Luna can hear him, but we can't. I know you told us to just listen and we tried our hardest, but we still can't hear him," Hermione said sadly. Ginny was cupping her ears and placing her face uncomfortably close to Rox's face trying to hear something, to which Rox blushed and backed away slightly.
Harry looked over at Rox who only shrugged at him. -They're still trying to use their ears instead of their hearts.-
Harry then looked over at everyone else and said, "Maybe you should try using something other than your ears,"
In response, everyone except for Luna and Rox , gave Harry a puzzled look. Harry was about to explain further when a scream rang out throughout the air.
"Oh bullocks…" Ron sighed as they all sprinted down the hall and around the corner as a girl ran right pass them.
Everyone's eyes widened in shock at the sight before them. Nailed by his arms and legs onto the wall was Dean Thomas covered in blood. He was bleeding profusely from where the nails jutted out. What was even more frightening was the red writing around him.
"Bye Bye DA"
Ginny recovering from the shock quickly ran up to him and began to pull out the nails saying, "We have to get him down," Every time she removed a nail, blood squirted out from the wound.
When Ginny removed all the nails, she carefully brought Dean to the ground in front of them. Luna placed her fingers on his neck. After awhile she said, "He still alive but barely,"
Hearing this, Rox knelt beside him and pulled out his wand. The wand glowed a bright green as he swept it over Dean.
-Cura-
As Rox put away his wand, Luna noticed something odd. Rox wand was a different color. Before, it was a dark, near black, brown. Now it was a light brown that when looked at from afar would be mistaken for white.
Rox looked up at Harry. -He needs to go to the Hospital wing NOW. My spell isn't strong enough to cover all the internal injuries.-
Harry nodded as he picked up Dean, "We need to get him to Pomfrey," he said as he, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna began walking towards the Hospital wing. Rox however stayed behind. His eyes were clued to the message on the wall.
"Rox aren't you coming?" Ron asked, looking back at him.
Rox raised his hand and waved them off before refocusing on the message.
Luna gave Rox a concerned look before she heard, -Gotta clean this up-, she then understood and proceeded to walk off with the others.
After observing the message a little longer, Rox pulled out his wand and siphoned all the blood from the wall and formed it into a little ball. He then flicked his wand and the ball of blood disappeared. He had sent the molecules in the blood moving so fast that it had turned the blood from a liquid to a vapor thus rendering it invisible.
A few hours had passed and Rox was once again sitting atop the clock tower just in time for the sun set. He had begun to get drowsy when something began heating up in his pocket. He reached into his pocket and pulled out the fake Galleon otherwise known as the DA's official badge and calling card. The fact that it had grown this hot meant that Harry was holding an emergency meeting. Not wanting to waste anymore time, he stood up and began making his way towards the Room of Requirement.
When he arrived, he saw that everyone who was with him at the gruesome scene was pale as they looked at the ground. The others however, did not know what was going on since their facial expressions did not seem different. Harry himself was sitting on a chair with his head in his hands.
"…Alright everyone, quiet down… and sit down while you're at it," harry said as chairs appeared behind the DA members.
"Why did you call this meeting Harry, what's wrong?" Seamus asked as he and everyone else took a seat. Only Rox remained standing against the pillar.
Harry paused for a moment before saying, "….Today, our good friend Dean Thomas was viciously attacked by an unknown person. He's now in a coma at St. Mungo's and… I'm not gonna lie, but the doctors say that his chances of waking up are slim…."
Silence reigned in the room.
After a little bit Seamus asked slowly, "What happened to him…?"
Harry looked at him as he said, "Trust me when I tell you that you don't want to know,"
"Harry!" Seamus yelled suddenly causing Harry to jump. He looked at Harry, tears in his eyes, and said, "He is like a brother to me; I have the right to know what happened to him. Now tell me damn it!"
Harry looked at Seamus' wild face before saying quietly, "When we found him, he was nailed to the wall. We quickly took him down and Rox healed as much of the injuries as he could. Dean would have been dead if Rox was not there… We then took him down to the Hospital wing. He was then quickly transferred to St. Mungo's. The doctors say that not only did he lose a dangerous amount of blood due to all of his lacerations, but he also suffered heavy damage to his brain. The doctors said that whoever did this was doing it for torture reasons….They were….Whoever did this was stimulating the pain center of Dean's brain…."
Upon hearing this, Seamus promptly got up and left the room. Ron put his arm around Hermione, who was now crying along with many other members of the DA.
Harry, Harry however, was not done, "He was attacked because…because he was part of the DA; because he was one of us,"
Everyone looked up at him in shock and fear.
"With that in mind, if any one of you wants to leave the DA now then go. I perfectly understand if you do…."
A single boy from Ravenclaw stood up and left the room. Everyone else remained in their seat.
Harry did not expect this as he said, "Don't you guys understand? If you stay in the DA you can be killed or WORSE!"
"We knew that when we signed up," a voice came from the door. Everyone looked towards the door to see Seamus standing there. His face was stricken with tears, but otherwise calm and determined, "We all knew that we could and…most likely will die in the DA, but we have a duty to protect this school for as long as we're here and that will never change," Seamus said as everyone nodded in agreement, "Besides…I have bone to pick with whoever attacked Dean…" He then moved to sit back down in his seat.
Regaining his confidence, Harry stood up and said, "Thank you all for staying with me. Everyone return to your dorms and get some rest. If any news about Dean comes up then you'll be the first to know," and with that the room emptied out leaving only Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Rox left.
"Who could have done this?" Harry asked to no one in particular.
"Must be someone working for the toad I reckon," Ron said.
"I don't think so. Umbridge might be evil, but she wouldn't resort to these methods," Hermione said thinking of who else might this be.
"It must be someone who hates the DA yes?" Luna spoke up, "Maybe Voldemort knows who we are and he or one of his followers are doing all this,"
"Why would You Know Who target a small DADA club?" Ron asked.
"Because Harry is leading it you moron!" Ginny responded.
"Even then it wouldn't be likely. If Voldemort got his hands on Dean then he would be dead by now,"
At this point, Rox looked over at Harry with a grim look on his face, -Blondie-.
"Malfoy would pull this stunt!" Ron exclaimed.
"I don't think he would want to get that much blood on his hands Ron," Hermione said.
"He's too wimpy anyways," Ginny agreed.
That's when three pairs of eyes went wide, "We can hear you!" all three of them exclaimed.
"But it not like normal hearing…It almost like we can feel your words…" Ginny said as she placed her hand on her chest.
Rox looked at them; -You're listening with your heart now. I'm guessing Harry explained it to you?-
The three of them nodded and Rox smiled.
Harry spoke up saying, "It's good that we can hear you now, but we have bigger stuff to deal with right now. Rox, do you really think that Malfoy would do something like this?"
-It's not impossible. I know that Slytherins in general hate you and that would mean they hate the DA as well-
"But enough to cause that much damage to one person?" Hermione said incredulously; Luna nodding in agreement with her.
-Like I said it's not impossible-
"I reckon the attacks won't stop either…" Ron said suddenly.
"What makes you believe that?" Ginny asked her brother.
"I reckon the plan here was a scare tactic so that there would be a mass exodus out of the DA, but that wasn't the case. Only one person left. I reckon from here on out, the attacks will get worse and worse," Ron explained.
Harry was surprised at first, but then he remembered that even though Ron looked and acted like a klutz, his mind worked like a strategist's when need be. He knew every tactic and strategy used on both the chessboard and the battlefield during war.
"So more people will get hurt?" Luna asked worryingly.
-No- All eyes turned to Roxas who was looking at the ground. When he looked up there was nothing but determination on his face, -We'll bring this person down before anyone else can get hurt and if we fail at that then we'll be there to protect anyone who gets targeted-
"How will we be able to do that?" Ron asked.
After a moment of silence Hermione snapped her fingers together, "I can modify to coins! I can modify the coins so that when someone's pulse spikes suddenly, our coins will heat up and show us the name of the person!"
"You can do that?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Well…I can try… I'm not sure if it will work," Hermione said nervously.
"I can help you Hermione," Luna said softly.
"Alright then, you guys get to work on that as soon as you can please. We should also keep an eye on Umbridge and the Slytherins," Harry said,
At this, Rox nodded and proceeded to leave the room.
"What should we do Harry?" Ginny said, referring to her and Ron.
After a moment thinking Harry said, "You take Seamus to go see Dean tomorrow. Dumbledore will be okay with it," Ginny and Ron nodded, "Okay, I'm just about down and out so let's get some rest," Harry stated and every one left the room to get some sleep.
A/N: Hi everyone, if you have read this far then thank you, if you intend to keep reading then tank you even more. If you intend to review then I can't thank you enough. Anyways just a small note that even though this is a Harry Potter and Kingdom Hearts crossover. There will be references from various final fantasy games and naruto (no naruto references til a lot later) the references will be just magic and such. There will be no characters from either. Characters are strictly from Harry Potter or Kingdom Hearts.