CHAPTER 10: ERIDA'S HOGWARTS SPY

"AHH!" Danicia shouted as the smoky hand tried to grab her. However, as she shielded herself from the hand, there was a breeze and the hand disappeared.

"Dear, Erida, attacking mortals is an old stuff from thousands of years ago," a voice said. Danicia looked around and saw a glowing teenage boy with wings, and a set of bow and arrow behind him, sitting on top of the teacher's desk.

"Oh, my dearest friend," Erida replied sarcastically. "Gods and goddesses should be respected."

"Oh, my, you're too thousand centuries ago with your actions. That's a thousand years ago and no one believes Mt. Olympus. Well, the people here are familiar with the twelve Olympians but Erida, you suck! They even don't know your name."

"I'll make my name after I gain all the love matches in the world!" Erida shouted in the most evil way (as in the mixture of all the cartoon villains you'll ever know) as she spread her arms, gigantic arms emerging from them.

"What is happening around here?" Danicia asked, looking confused.

"Little girl, you should not have nosed in here," Eros said. He set an arrow that went through Danicia's chest and she fell unconscious.

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"She must have been in a fit or something," Lily said as she looked over at Danicia.

"I think we should call her sister," Madam Pomfrey suggested. Minutes later, a blonde girl with the same brown eyes but with a taller built, arrived.

"Melissa," Lily said, going nearer.

"What happened to my sister?" she asked, running towards Danicia. Seeing her pale face, she said, "Is she alright?"

"I think so, Miss Stacey, but she has been unconscious since last night," Madam Pomfrey said.

Her sister, since she was in Ravenclaw and therefore did not know anything about this, looked shocked and said, "Last night?"

"Yes, we found her in a classroom," Lily replied, looking sorry.

They watched Danicia and the girl started to move her fingers slowly. After a few more minutes, she opened her eyes.

"Anni!" Melissa squealed (as she called her sister with that name and BTW, that is the way I call my friend named Danicia), embracing Danicia.

"Who are you?" she asked.

"She's obliviated!" Melissa shouted miserably.

Lily felt her bracelet burn. She looked at it and words slowly etched its way on the top.

"Your friend is alright. I was the one who did it. Meet my downstairs by the fountain."

"I think I have to excuse myself," Lily said as she looked at Melissa trying to relive memories to her sister.

Lily found Eros in a portrait of the Olympian gods. The other gods looked harassed when they found Eros squeezing himself to the front part. "Hey, our pose is destroyed!" the Apollo in the painting complained.

"Hello, Lily," Eros greeted.

Lily looked around for stalkers before hissing, "What did you do to Danicia?"

"It's not entirely my fault, Lily," Eros explained. "It was Erida."

"Erida? The Goddess of discord?" Lily repeated.

Eros placed a finger on his lips. "Be quiet. The reason why I have to modify her memory temporarily is to stop the secret from spilling," he said in a whisper. "Erida has a spy in Hogwarts."

"A spy?" Lily said, her eyes widening. "Who?"

"Danicia knew about it. However, we could to risk her knowing everything about your mission, Erida, and me," Eros said. "However, I did not have the chance to know the spy's name. I believe that Erida tricked that spy into a trap so that the person will be under her service."

"But what about Danicia?" Lily asked in concern.

"She'll be alright, Lily. She'll remember the ordinary things except for the thing that happened on that classroom. But that will take ten hours," Eros said, counting with his fingers. "By the way, before anything else," Eros started. He took out a scroll from nowhere and passed it to Lily. "Erida is such a clumsy girl," he remarked with a happy tone.

Lily opened the scroll and golden letters glowed. It was filled with enchanting runes made with gold and back grounded by a moving elegant sketch a couple dancing. If she had not studied Ancient Runes, she would not have understood the writing. "Melissa Stacey and Matthew Parker?" she said.

"Erida dropped that pair-up when we fought inside that classroom," Eros said. "Now, I want you to leave that James Potter matchmaking and focus in this one." Eros held the scroll and it became an ordinary parchment written in runes. "Since you know how to read Olympian runes, it is better to let the scroll this way. Glowing scrolls attract too much attention."

"You mean you're letting me borrow this stuff," Lily confirmed.

"You don't need the scroll when you paired Kristanna and Sirius but I bet you don't know the information about Matthew, and you only knew one thing about Melissa; she's Danicia's twin sister. This scroll tells you almost everything about them," Eros said, pointing on each paragraph.

"Since I am pairing up Danicia's sister, I have one request," Lily said.

"Whatever you say, my dear protégée," Eros replied. Lily whispered her request and Eros nodded. "Oh well, I have no choice. So, I think I must go now," he said. With a pop, he disappeared from the portrait, causing the other people in the painting to resume back to their proper places.

Lily pocketed the scroll and ran back to the Gryffindor tower. She found Kristanna punching her pillow, causing all the feathers to fall down the floor.

"You look like you want to kill someone," Lily remarked.

"If – I – could – kill – an – insect, I would kill them!" Kristanna said, each word earning a punch for the pillow.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Whatever," she said. She heard a tap from the window and she saw an owl, the very same owl Raven always used for her. "Raven!" she gasped excitedly as she opened the window and grabbed the letter from the owl's leg. The owl left, looking irritated that someone pulled its leg and did not even welcome it for a rest.

Green Apple,

If you receive this letter on time, it means you are alright and fine. I was worried that something bad happened to you when I saw that you left the talking mirror and the green apple on the meeting place where a stampede happened. Aside from that, I'm still looking forward to meeting you again. I hope we'll have another chance and another time to meet.

Raven

Lily sighed as she placed the letter back to the envelope and placed it inside her box from under her bed. "The next Hogsmeade visit will be next month," she complained loudly as she threw herself to the bed. "Come, Kristanna, don't be like that. Will you let Miss Pureblood get to Sirius? Besides, you're also one pureblood."
"Yeah, but if you're engaged to someone since you were born, it's like…"

"That is so very centuries ago, Kris," Lily said. "I've read them in history books but… hello? Arranged marriages are for geeks and old-fashioned, and Sirius is out of that category."

"Whatever you say, Miss Smarty. I'm going to sleep," Kristanna said, shaking her head and falling, knocked-out, to her bed.

"She's such a geek," Lily told herself. She closed all her bed curtains and opened the scroll, which glowed a little.

Melissa Ann Stacey and Matthew Gran Parker

Both in fourth year, Hogwarts. The two are best friends since first year but Matthew is hanging out with one of Melissa's close friends, ("Ouch!" Lily muttered) Helena Franco. No one knows that Matthew is Melissa's long-time crush…

Lily continued to read until slept overcame her. At that instant, the scroll emptied its writing and became plain paper.

However, Lily did not notice their dormitory door opened. A shadow tiptoed and opened the scroll slowly. It was obvious that the reader did not know anything about Olympian runes so she rewrote all the weird runes in a piece of parchment and quickly placed the scroll back to the original position. However, that girl happened to have her hair stuck on Lily's bedsheet. She pulled her hair out and gave a whimper of pain. With this, Kristanna woke up suddenly.