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Chapter 9: The Shapeshifter
Previously:
"Josh, what's my favourite colour?" He asked
"Blue"
"No it's green" Said Kieran, punching Josh in the face. He then got his wand out and casted a spell
"Stupefy" Josh went flying back
"KIERAN!" Shouted Charlotte
"What?" He asked
"You just attacked Josh"
"It's not Josh"
"Yes it is, your mental" Kieran saw that 'the' Josh was slowly getting up so he casted the spell 'Incendio' but it didn't affect him, he just turned into an animal/human species
"What is that?" Asked Pixie scared, suddenly the real Josh appeared
"Hey Guys-What the hell is that?"
"A Shapeshifter" Muttered Charlotte and Laura, together
The nine children stood there and watched, watched as the shapeshifter slowly turned into a man, a wizard, a legend they knew and loved so dearly. The shapeshifter had turned into the grateful, the powerful Albus Dumbledore. Suddenly Blue Dumbledore skipped past them and saw the demon.
"Dad?" She asked
"Blue...GO!" Shouted Pip, Blue ran away scared and confused, nothing was making any sense at the moment.
"Okay so what do we do now?" Asked Pixie to Zack
"RUN!" Shouted Zack, they all went in different directions, no knowing where they were all going to go.
Laura's Pov
I don't know where I was going be I knew something was chasing me; I saw Emily and Tom run past me, holding hands. I wonder where they are going; Laura there is no time to wonder about these things! Our yeah...just keep running and you might find a way to help save yourself and your friends. In here...I'll hide in there...a classroom who would have thought that anyone would hide in a classroom.
Emily's Pov
Tom and I ran, we ran like our lives depended on it...which it did. I had clue where we were running but we ran past Laura. I felt so sorry leaving her behind like that...it was horrible; she's my best friend other than Kieran of course. Why did Tom grab me and not Pip or Charlotte, does he like me? Wait why am I talking to myself, I could die any second now, focus Emily. Finally we found somewhere to hide, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. It's not like anyone else would come in here to hide, would they?
Zack's Pov
I was running alongside Pixie, we had no clue where we were going, we knew the shapeshifter was after us...we ran into the library to lose it. We stopped behind one of the book shelf and heard it work past us...we slowly creped out of the library and started running to get away from it. I don't think it heard us, but we still ran to get as far away from it as we could.
"Where do we go now?" Asked Pixie "I mean everyone else has gone into hiding"
"Classroom?" Said Zack thinking while still running
"No...I think everyone else would have gone there"
"Moaning Myrtles bathroom?"
"Still oblivious Zack"
"You asked the question, I'm just giving you answers"
"Yeah...bad answers"
"Sorry" Muttered Zack "Wait...I know...the dungeons"
"The Dungeons" Said Pixie
"Yes"
"But it's scary down there"
"That's it won't think of going down there...who would go down there apart from the Slytherin's but I saw them go in different directions which doesn't lead them down there"
"Alright...but can I hold your hand?" Asked Pixie, scared
"NO!"
Josh's Pov
I was running with Kieran, no idea what so ever how to defeat these creatures that Laura had name Shapeshifters. I just followed Kieran; I followed every turn, every jump, and every movement he did I copied him, afraid I get caught. I just didn't want to die...what would my parents do if they knew I died. Would my father care?
"Kieran where are going" I asked as we reached the fourth floor, a floor which was full of classroom's. I think the muggle studies classroom is on this floor! Maybe that would be a good place to hide.
"In here" Said Kieran who dragged him into a classroom to hide in. Suddenly a book came flying at him, he ducked so the book flew past him, he stood up and looked at Kieran
"I don't know" Shrugged Kieran
"Kieran? Josh?"
"Yes" I said, nervously "Is that you god?"
"No...It's me Laura" Said Laura walking out of the shadows, looking at both of us
"Hi Laura" I smiled, waving at her
"You thought I was god?" She asked
"No" I lied
"Josh, don't lie"
"Okay...I thought you were" Laura just shook her head and sat down on one of the seats.
"So is it gone?" Asked Laura
"We don't know...we just ran into here"
"I wonder what the other guys are doing, I hope they are safe" Wondered Laura
"Let's hope" Muttered Kieran
Zack's Pov
Pixie and I finally made it into the dungeons', we looked around and saw nothing coming towards us but we heard something coming down the stairs.
"What do we do now?" Asked Pixie, panicking
"I don't know" Whispered Zack, suddenly he was pulled back into a classroom
"Zack?" Whispered Pixie following Zack into a classroom
Tom's Pov
I sat their staring at Emily, I had to tell her, I had to tell her how I felt...I don't care what she thought of me...we might die and she needed to know. I stared at her.
"Emily" She looked up at me, smiling at me
"Yeah"
"I need to you something"
"Yeah?" Asked Emily, waiting for me to tell her the thing
"I-I-I...I love you" I said, looking deep into her eyes
"What?" She said, I didn't know if she was shocked or that she didn't hear me as we were trying to keep our voices down.
"I love you" I said again, suddenly the door opened and pip appeared from it, she came in and sat next to Emily
"Hey Guys" She said smiling
"Did you just lead it here?" I asked
"God No...It never chased me...but I ran still scared. Then I ran into here and saw you guys"
"Okay" Emily and I said together.
Zack's Pov
I was scared. Scared it was the shapeshifter. I heard Pixie walk into the classroom searching for me
"Zack? Zack? Zack where are you" He said, someone whoever had got a hold of me let me go.
"Really guys" Said a girly voice, I know that voice. Where is it from
"Zack's it me, Charlotte, you know your cousin" I looked up and saw Charlotte; I stood up and saw her with her arms crossed with a annoyed expression on her face. I haven't seen a face like that since I woke her up when we were camping one time. Let me tell you, that is a memory I will never escape.
-End of Pov-
"What are you doing in here?" Asked Pixie to Charlotte
"Hiding from the Shapeshifter but with the noise you two were making you might have let it down here."
"There's only one" said Zack
"Actually the shapeshifter has a max of three of them...but they can only change when three of them go back into one body"
"What" Said Pixie and Zack together, confused. Charlotte looked at them, walked over to them "Ssh...it's outside the door" She said, making sure they were quite. The watched the shadow of the figure disappear from the door. Zack, Charlotte and Pixie waited a few seconds to make sure the shapeshifter was gone.
"Okay Charlotte explain everything...we need to know how to kill these creatures. We can't get hold of our parents" Said Zack
"Can I remind you...I don't have parents! I live with my grandma" Complained Pixie
"Not now" Said Charlotte and Zack together
"Fine then"
"You do you want me to tell you guys or not" Said Charlotte
"Yes!" Said Pixie and Zack together
"Well it all started when Laura found this book in the library about magical creatures, so we both started reading it. We found the shapeshifter...it's a snake like creature in a human form..."
"How does that work?" Asked Pixie
"It has a human body but it skin is scaly like a snake and it also has the eyes and tongue of a snake."
"Woah" Said Pixie, imagining it in his head
"As I was saying...me and Laura found this book, looked through it and saw this creature. We started reading more about it. We found out that it can split into three but it can't change the form it was in before it split up and we also found out you can't kill it very easily.."
"What do you mean?" Asked Zack
"You have to get it to turn into dust and then you should be able to cast incendio on it" Said Charlotte
"And how do we do that?" Asked Pixie
"I have no idea..." Said Charlotte, they sat there thinking about it
"I know that face...you have an idea" Said Zack, looking at both Charlotte and Pixie
"I do"
"So what is it?" Asked Pixie
"We have to get the book and find more out about this creature" Whispered Charlotte
"Ravenclaw House. Here we come" Said Pixie and Zack together
"Let's go" Said Charlotte, she opened the door to make sure everything was clear and they headed out and ran to the Ravenclaw house
Meanwhile with Tom, Emily and Pip, they were sat their bored out of their mind. Emily wanted to talk to Tom but not with Pip there, she couldn't...she wanted to tell Tom how she felt about him, whenever she see Tom she falls more and more in love with him.
"We need to check if the hallway is clear" Said Pip
"Okay, you do it" Said Tom
"You're the man of the group" Replied Pip
"But..." Said Tom
"Are you not a man then?" Asked Pip, Emily looked at him and smiled
"Fine" Said Tom, getting up and going to the door, checking that nothing was there "It's clear, lets go"
"That's it...we need to do something" Said Josh
"And what should we do?" Asked Kieran
"I don't know...kill it" Answered Josh
"We can't" Said Laura
"Pardon?" Asked Josh
"We can't kill it, not unless it turns into dust"
"And you know this how?" Asked Kieran
"Does it matter?"
"No...But how do we turn him into dust?" Asked Josh
"Kieran...you said to Zack and Pip that you killed someone and that turned them into dust."
"Yeah...so"
"Maybe if you done that again...maybe someone can cast incendio on the dust...that's how we can kill it...but then we would have to do that to all three of them" Said Laura thinking to herself
"Let's do it" Said Kieran getting ready to kick some ass.
"But we have to find the others" Replied Josh
"Yeah...I wonder where they are" Said Laura
"Scurvy Cur" Charlotte said, the door opened the I entered with Zack and Pixie following me in
"Is this safe?" Asked Zack
"Yeah, it's fine" Answered Charlotte, she looked around "Where did she put it?"
"What Laura?" Asked Pixie
"Yeah...oh I know where it is" Said Charlotte, running up the stairs which led to the girls dormitories, Zack and Pixie looked at each other and followed her up the stairs.
"Wow...it's not a mess" Said Pixie
"What do you think of us?" Muttered Charlotte, she was searching around Laura's bed, she opened her trunk where all of Laura's books were "Found it" Smiled Charlotte lifting it out of the trunk
"What does it say?" Asked Zack
"People normal think of this creature is from Slytherin, as the Slytherin is always seen as a snake"
"Is that it?" Asked pixie
"A page...a page is missing" Said Charlotte, looking at both Zack and Pixie worried
"We need to find the others" Said Pixie, Charlotte and Zack nodded running out of the common house of Ravenclaw and trying to find their friends in Hogwarts.
"Guys" Said Charlotte she had bumped into Tom, Emily and Pip and fallen on top of them
"CHARLOTTE!" Shouted Zack, chasing after her, he helped her up and then they started helping the other three friends up
"What's wrong? Did something happen to Kieran, Laura and Josh?" Asked Emily
"No...but we need to find them...we have an idea how to kill the Shapeshifters"
"Shapeshifters" Asked Pip
"Yeah...theirs three...actual their one but they can split into three" Said Pixie, who looked at Charlotte. Charlotte nodded
"Yeah... so we need to find the others and try and kill them"
"And how do you we do that?" Asked Tom
"Um...Beat it up and then when it turns into dust cast incendio on it" Smiled Zack
"Right...well we might want to do that now" Said Emily pointing to something behind Charlotte, Pixie and Zack. They turned round and saw two of them coming their way.
"Ready guys?" Asked Charlotte
"No...But here goes" Answered Tom
Pip and Charlotte looked at each other and nodded and started running towards the shapeshifters and did a cartwheel and landed right in front of them and started to punch it, one of the shifter's slapped Pip who went flying back towards the others.
"Well that didn't work" Said Emily
"You think" Muttered Pip. Charlotte just stared up at the two shifters which had the snake features she described earlier on to Zack and Pixie.
"CHARLOTTE! RUN!" Shouted Zack. As Charlotte was about to do that Kieran appeared, out of nowhere he started punching and kicking one of the shapeshifters and it turned to dust and then he started on the other one. Charlotte got her wand out of her pocket and pointed her wand at the dust "Incendio" and did the same to the other shapeshifter when Kieran was finished with it. Then Josh and Laura ran over to them.
"You guys okay" Asked Laura
"We were looking for you" Said Charlotte
"Yeah...I kind of guessed that"
"The book...a page is missing..."
"Really?" Asked Laura
"Book" Asked everyone else but Zack and Pixie
"YES BOOK!" Said Laura, Charlotte, Zack and Pixie all together
"Alright keep your hair on" Said Kieran, they all laughed and ran to each other and had a group hug
"I wish Colin and Rupert had been here to see all of that"
"Hey what about the last one" Asked Emily
"We killed that one ages ago" Smiled Josh, they all laughed and hugged again
"NO...NO...NO! DON'T HUG ME" Screamed Kieran who was being hugged by everyone
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