After the morning's events, we continued onto the first lesson of dueling and Occlumency for the students who weren't there during the summer.
The rest of the people who were there dueled halfheartedly in pairs, switching to different partners every fifteen minutes.
I was exhausted both mentally and physically.
By the time we reached lunch time, and put the tables back where they belonged to sit down to eat, my stomach was grumbling inravenous hunger.
The moment the food appeared before us, I didn't even give a second thought before I filled my plate to the brim with food, and my goblet with pumpkin juice, and quickly beginning to shove food into my mouth hurriedly.
The hunger I felt seemed to be never-ending, I had eaten two platefuls before I was satisfied.
When I realized how much I had truly eaten, and looked up, Bellatrix and the rest of our group were staring at me with their jaws dropped in shock and amusement.
"Gu-ah-t?" I asked, as I finished my kidney and steak pie, looking down embarrassed, as I swallowed the mouthful.
"Well, that was entertaining." Bastan said, as he finished his food.
"Oof!" He said as Bellatrix elbowed him in the middle of his stomach. 'What?' He mouthed to her.
I could feel my face flush in embarrassment as a wave a nausea hit me. I quickly clamped my lips shut and quickly ducked out of the Great Hall before, rushing to the girls' bathroom.
Just like the year before, I ended up spewing until I was tired, and my head ached.
Though we still had at least four to six more hours of training, I was beginning to think that my body wasn't going to handle much more of this stress that it was being subjected to.
My suspicion turned out to be true, after I washed my face in the bathroom and made my way back to the Great Hall to finish training.
We had just started practice dueling once more.
Tom and I had decided to attempt to help everyone at exercising their skills in wordless magic. We had just started dueling when a blast was heard from the corner of the room.
Janie Finnigan had used a spell incorrectly and ended up hurting herself and blasting her dueling partner, which happened to be Torin Potter, James Potter's fraternal twin sister.
To be honest, there happened to be at least four maybe five sets of twins in the same year with me.
Naming all of them would be like trying to name everyone in England, you'd have to be an expert at Legilimency to do that, which I was. There was just too many names to remember all at once.
However, due to my headache, it was impossible to nearly name them all, at the moment.
"Torin? Are you alright?" James asked, shaking in silent laughter.
"Do I look like I am alright, Jamie?" She asked annoyed, as she sat up.
"Actually, you look like you got blasted back into the wall." He quipped, dryly.
"Knobhead." She muttered as she got to her feet, shaking off all of the debris from where she hit the wall.
"I love you too, baby sister." He cooed back, pouting his lips at her.
"Only by two minutes, you numpty!" She called back, as she slowly made her way to one of the chairs in the corner of the room.
"Alright, that's quite enough. Let's get back to the task at hand." I commanded, sitting down as a hard wave of vertigo hit.
I sat down slowly, willing the vertigo to go away. As the moments passed I began to feel as the vertigo worsened.
Remus, who happened to a few feet away from me noticed as I tried, and failed, to get up. He saw this and quickly made his way over.
"Anna." He called as he watched me move my head and shoulders around.
"Hey, Annamarie. Are- are you feeling alright?" He asked, as he stepped closer.
"Nah-no." I stammered, woozily, closing my eyes to feel less of the vertigo spell I felt.
"What's wrong?" He asked, worried, kneeling next to me.
"Every-everything is spinning. It-it won't stop." I complained, taking slow uneven breaths.
"Do you need me to go get Tom to come over here?" He asked, carefully.
"Yes. No. Ahh...Please, don't-don't leave me alone." I whispered, my lips trembling.
"I'll only be a second." He promised, as he straightened up and rushed to get help.
I nodded slowly, trying to even my breathing as the vertigo continued.
After Remus left, I lost consciousness while trying to will the vertigo to cease.
When I woke up my surroundings were submerged in pitch black.
I didn't recognize the room or my exact location. Even as I sat up, I seemed to be lost. It was clear, however, that I wasn't at Hogwarts anymore.
I felt Tom trying to open our connection, I could feel his panic as he pushed through.
'Anna?! Anna?! Where are you?!' He thought frantically.
'I-I don't know. I-it's pitch black in here. I can't see a single thing, not even my hand or body movements. Tom, what is going on?' I asked, just as frantically.
'Remus came to get me, earlier. He said something was wrong with you. We're not entirely sure what happened after that. But when we reached where he left you sitting on the floor, the only thing left of you was your headband.' He explained.
'I don't know what happened.' I told him.
'Its alright, love, just try coming back.' He urged worriedly.
I took a deep breath, trying to concentrate.
I began getting the same vertigo feeling, and then the next second I felt as my back hit the familiar damp ground.
When I opened my eyes, I was at the meeting spot near Black Lake. I quickly sprang to my feet, and began running towards the castle hurriedly.
As I made it to the top of the steep hill my right leg began to burn, badly.
I pushed myself to run harder until I made it to the entrance of the hospital wing, where Madam Noelle was sitting by her desk, reading a potion book.
"Ma-madam No-elle, help me. Please." I said,limping, as the vertigo returned.
Lucky for me, Hogwarts had an anti-disapparition jinx, keeping me here, even if what happened earlier occurred again.
"Oh dear!" She gasped, quickly rushing to my side.
Just as she helped me onto the cot, I felt as Tom pushed the connection opened once more.
'Did it work? Where are you?' He urged, anxiously.
'I was able to get out of wherever I was, I ended up by Black Lake. I'm now in the hospital wing, I think I've been injured.' I thought, closing my eyes.
"Anna, dear, I need you to drink this. This will give your body strength and help you heal faster. You have a deep gash in your leg, luckily it doesn't seem to be damaged. I did take a blood sample just to make sure that everything is alright with you." She said, handing me a rather large cup.
"Drink every last drop." She commanded, when I scrunched up my nose.
I swallowed all of potion, gagging at the after taste.
As she was helping me lay onto my back, the door to the room slammed open so hard that it hit the back wall, and in rushed half of the group from earlier.
I heard as all of them as they took in my state, letting out a collection of gasps that varied from horror to appalled, to shock.
I felt as Tom stepped closer to the cot, his eyes full of relief as he scanned me from head to toe.
"Where did you go?" He quietly asked, as he patted my feet lightly with his hand.
"I haven't gotthe slightestclue. All I know is that I got a gash from it, and that I ended up near Black Lake afterwards." I said, tiredly.
"Is there any reason in particular you feel the need to interrogate my patient, Mr. Riddle?" Madam Noelle asked, her hands on her hips and her eyebrow raised.
"We were all truly worried about her. We just want to assure that she's alright." Tom replied, calmly.
"Will she need to spend the night here?" Bellatrix asked, calmly.
"No, actually she can go ahead and leave now, but I do advise you to get rest. Don't over work yourself." She warned as she stared down at the paper, uncertainty appearing in her features.
"Is there something wrong, Madam Noelle?" I asked, feeling my stomach stir.
"No, my dear. You just look too exhausted for your age. You look as if you've been carrying the world on your shoulders." She commented.
'If only she knew.' I thought, smiling halfheartedly at her as I slipped my shoes back on.
Tom smirked at me, as he helped me off the bed.
"Well, I am sure we've all had enough dramatics for today.The rest of today'slessons shall be suspended until tomorrow morning. Go get some rest, don't be late for tomorrow morning's lessons." Tom said, as he slowly led me out of the wing.
"Let the year's streak begin." He teased, as he helped me descend the stairs that lead to the Slytherin common room.
I rolled my eyes at him, and smacked his arm lightly as I let him lead me back towards the Slytherin dormitories.