Darkness at Dawn

Chapter 3

The Encounter

A/N: Enjoy! Sorry it been a while! :)

Seven feet away from where Sabrina was held against her will, Tori was standing there, mouth hung open in pure shock. All she was capable of doing at the moment was to take in what exactly was happening to her friend.

"'Ello Poppet. Is this your friend 'ere on the ground? Don' mind me callin' you Poppet do ya?" His voice was smooth as he spoke to Tori. "I'm sorry, do you want to join your friend?"

Tori looked awestruck and confused, more than she usually did anyway. It was obvious that she wasn't exactly planning to find her best friend in a situation like this one.

Sabrina moved Scabior's finger away from her mouth, he surprisingly didn't hold back. She spoke to him quietly with tears running down her cheeks, pleading. "Please, please don't hurt my friends."

Scabior let out a quick laugh at her. His face strained. "Ya know, you really do look cute when you cry."

How horrible was he? He enjoyed her pain and suffering?

The one thing Sabrina feared her best friend would do had finally come. Tori let out a bloodcurdling scream.

"GET OFF OF HER!"

To make matters worse, she jumped on top of Scabior's back. Punching, and kicking him as hard as she could in her attempts to save her friend. It was as if a small kitten was trying to attack a hungry lion. The ending wouldn't turn out so great for the kitten. She had never seen little Tori so angry…or scared…or brave! With every attempted punch, she was proud of her loyal friend for trying to defend her.

"KENDAL-LYNN, JESSA," she screamed to the top of her lungs, "HELP!"

Scabior soon had enough of this fired up teenager attacking him. He violently threw her off of him. Tori flew like a rag doll as he pinned her face down to the frosted floor next to her doomed friend.

All of Scabior's attention now was focused on Tori.

"You bloody bitch," He shouted as he stood over her small helpless figue, "That ain't right, jumpin' on me like that. 'Ows 'bout I teach ya some manners."

To Sabrina's horror, the most terrifying and disturbing thing she had ever had the misfortune to witness in her entire seventeen years had faced her. This monster pointed the stick towards Tori, who was still struggling to get back on her feet, and he said a strange word….

"Cruico!"

Sabrina sprung to her feet as she watched the most horrific thing happen to her brave friend. Tori began screaming the most frightening and deathly screams of excruciating pain.

Sabrina winced at the sound of the screams for she couldn't bare to see her best friend in this much trouble.

What is going on? Tori was squirming and convulsing uncontrollably in the snow. It was as if she was witnessing her best friends death. She had no idea, what the hell was going on with Tori, she only knew that it all came back to Scabior. He was making this happen! He was doing this to her…only she didn't know what exactly he was doing. All she knew was that he was causing it, he was causing her best friend to suffer, and it had to stop!

"STOP IT!" Sabrina screamed. Her tears were spilling out at an uncontrollable rate.

In the distance she heard the sound of racing footsteps. Kendal-Lynn and Jessa had finally noticed the situation that was occurring by the frozen lake, and they raced towards Tori's horrific cries. When they arrived at the scene the looks on their faces were of pure terror and confusion.

"Wha-What's going…?" Kendal-Lynn cried in a small voice that was drowned by Tori's screams. Her heart nearly stopped when her eyes met the back of a stranghers head. A stranger who was not supposed to be there.

"STOP, STOP! Whatever it is m-make it s-stop!" Jessa was on the verge of breaking down.

The four best friends were clueless to why this was happening, they just knew that he was casing this.

Sabrina, Kendal-Lynn, and Jessa were far too frightened to get any closer to Tori or Scabior, in fear that the same might happen to them if they inched any nearer.

Finally, with many screams and shouts at this "Scabior", the man lowered the stick that caused the damage.

He bent down to talk to Tori in a smart-ass tone.

"Poppet, maybe that'll teach ya some manners to not go jumpin' on people. You bloody kid." The man stood up to watch the others who surrounded him.

Tori lay there in the snow completely shaken up, and bawling. Her friends ran toward her with tear filled eyes. Sabrina ran to comfort her friend in need, but Scabior was too quick for her, and managed to grab both of her arms to hold her still. Her back towards his front.

"Let go of me!"

Jessa was crouched down by Tori trying to get her to stop crying, while Kendal-Lynn was hugging her in an attempt to comfort her. The victim was lying down, and whimpering. Too hurt to cry any more.

"Who are you?" Kendal-Lynn spoke gently toward the monster Scabior.

"You mean to say, what are you!" Jessa corrected her as she gave Scabior the death stare that was full of hatred and fear.

"Sorry. I see your friend 'ere," he shook Sabrina's shoulder, "hasn't properly introduced me. Anyway, call me Scabior, my girlies."

"What, did you do to her?" Sabrina yelled at him as she was struggling from his inescapable grip. She felt incredibly guilty now, it was her fault that Tori had gotten hurt. If only she didn't wander off into the woods by herself! How stupid, how seriously stupid!

"Hold on a second, luv. I wan' to make sure that your happy lil' friends 'ere wont try an' do anymore idiotic moves."

He placed Sabrina toward his right side, holding a firm grip around her small waist. He held up that death stick once more.

No, no, no! He was not going to hurt her other friends! He already hurt Tori, there was no way she could bare another one of her friends hurt because of her.

"DON'T! No, no more! Please!"

"Relax, they not going to get the Cruciatis brought up on 'em. That was only for your polite lil' friend who jumped on me. They be getting' something different, luv."

Before Sabrina could protest with him any further, long snake like black ropes came out of the stick he was holding. The ropes wrapped around Kendal-Lynn, Tori, and Jessa as the three of them ended up tied together, back to back, struggling with every breath. With another wave, a flash of red right appeared, and their struggling stopped.

"WHAT did you do to them?" She yelled at him

"Calm it. There not dead…yet, but they are stunned."

She continued to fight against his firm grip, but it was near impossible to escape. He was far too strong. So Sabrina calmed her struggling down a little.

"How-how did you…why did you…how…?" She was wondering how on earth he managed to "stun" her friends, and why he hurt Tori. What was going to happen to them?

"How did I what, luv?"

She looked him dead in the eyes again, this time not with fear, but with hatred. She didn't respond to him.

"Ha! Well looks like you've got 'lot of catchin' up to do. Mmm, but sadly there's no way I can bring back your precious memory."

The last thing Sabrina wanted to do was start a conversation with this horrible man. Only she still didn't understand what was all happening, and why was he talking about her memory. So many questions pounded through her head, just waiting to break through. How does he know her? How did he find her? Was it just a coincidence she ran into him? Was it planned? What was the fate of her and her friends? What the hell does he want?

"Wha-." She began but was interrupted by Scabior.

"If you're wonderin' 'ow I know who you are, then you might wan' ta try and remember the last time you woke up in the woods. Without any memory of how the 'ell you got there. Jus' think back to that time, luv."

The light switch finally clicked on inside her head.

Oh my god! This man is the reason why I cannot remember anything from "The Incident". It was him! But How?

"Did, did you-?" She began but was interrupted once more.

"Did I, did I what lovey? Oh ya mean did I erase your memory. Hmph, well it sure took you long enough to figure it out. Beginnin' to think your minds runnin' a bit slow." He chuckled at his own comment.

This didn't clear much up, in fact it just sparked even more questions to surface.

How did he manage to erase her memory? There was something about this man that defiantly wasn't normal. He was the furthest thing from normal, or sane for that matter. Sabrina just wanted answers, and she wanted them answered NOW!

"I really don't understand."

Scabior pushed her along to start walking with him toward her unconscious friends. "'Course you don't understand, luv. Wouldn't expect you to anyway." She could tell he had that smirk on his face again, "Well, looks like we've got a lot of explainin' to do."

She didn't like the tone in his voice, it was far too mocking and soft for what was going on. She also hated how he was pushing her forwards as if he owned her.

"Let me go!"

"Now luv, I really don't want ta do the same thing to you that I had to do to your friends. It would make it much less fun for the both of us."

Luckily her tears had dried up now so she didn't look too helpless in front of him, even though she was. God, she hated him. She hated him for what he was doing to her and her friends. It was so wrong!

"Luv, how bout I escort your friends and you to camp."

"Then let us go! Our tent is right there," she mentioned to the girls camping tent, "We can find our way back without your help."

Scabior let out this booming laugh. Oh great he's laughing! Why is he laughing?

"Oh lovey. You really are a crack up, you know that." He squeezed her waist into his side.

Sabrina just shook her head, great what was he going to do next?

"Luv, when I say camp, I don't mean your pathetic Muggle tent. I meant my camp." He brought one hand up to Sabrina's wavy brown hair that was wet from the snow, and he began to tousle it. Which made her hair much messier than it already was. She tried to move her head away from his hand, but it didn't make a difference.

"Stupid girl."

Oh no, oh no. This means danger, if he was going to take them all back to his camp, this was bad news. Who know what he might do to them there!

"No." She said in a small voice.

"Yes." He said, mocking her voice as he made it much higher pitched.

"Well luv. We better get a move on, the others 'ill be wondering where I went off to…an' let me tell you something. It's been a while since my men have had proper company around. It'll be a nice lil' treat for them. As it will be for me…Even though you are all dirty little Muggles." He twirled her hair in his fingers as he gave her a smirk.

No, this cannot be happening!

"Hold on tight, luv." He instructed her as he gripped her waist even tighter. He gracefully grabbed the snake like ropes that were binding her friends together, and without a second to look back, something had happened that would change her life forever.

The most strange and uncomfortable sensation came over her, and everything from there was a blur. She felt as if her whole body was trying to squeeze into a 5 inch tube. It was as if her whole body had left the ground, and then….BAM.

Sabrina found herself stumbling onto the cold ground. She fell, only to soon find herself being pulled back onto her feet, aggressively by Scabior.

When she looked up from Scabior's hold, there was something not right about the picture. The forest that she was now in was a completely different forest from 10 seconds ago. Sabrina's mouth gaped open with utter amazement, it was as if they just teleported!

She soon focused back onto reality when Scabior turned her quickly around so that she was face to face with him. He looked her in the eyes with those ice blue eyes, and when he looked at her, it was as if all of the remaining warmth in Sabrina's body had left her.

A giant smirk grew as he pulled her in closer to his face. "Now the real fun begins."

A/N: Hope you liked this Chapter! Should have Chapter 4 up very soon!