Chapter 5: Elmanort.
The Mirkwoods family steps into the empty room. Hermione questioningly looks at letter that her friends sent her. Although it just says where to meet, not exactly what room to meet, but Hermione knows exactly where. It has been the same room all over again whenever the Weasley family likes to hangout. It's always been that room. But no one is here! Just her and her family. The family starts to move around the room.
The triplets start to move restlessly. Hermione can see Syara's mouth moving and gesturing to her siblings "I think mom just got tricked by her best friends. Classic!" The other siblings try to hold their laughs but to the frantic mother, it was more like Skyler making an inexpressible expression of laughing and crying since Scarlet is pinching him so hard, just not to let him to laugh out loud.
Legolas comes and puts his hands on Hermione's shoulders.
"Dear, is everything okay? They probably just aren't here yet. You don't know what happens on the way to come here."
"I hope you are right, dear. But it just…it's been such a long time since…"
Hermione is interrupted when a young man, perhaps a year older than her children, comes in harshly. He swings the doors so hard that they hit the walls with a bang and the left door becomes crooked. Hermione doesn't like that. He seems to be very angry. Then she sees that chasing after the young man are Hermione's best friends.
They seem to be arguing about something as Hermione observes. A heated one too. She doesn't like this tension at all. She wants her reunion to be perfect. Although she knows she sounded like a spoiled brat, she wants this to be absolutely perfect.
She tries to speak up and walks toward them. However, when she walks closer, something stops her. It is an invisible shield. She can touch it but she can't break the spell. This is a completely new spell. But inside, she has an anxiety.
Legolas comes to her and put his hands on the invisible shield. He immediately withdraws his hands. His purity of an elf awakens within himself. Legolas knew this isn't good at all.
"Hermione", he whispers as he doesn't want his children to hear, "this isn't a spell. But I think you already know that. This shield has dark power in it…"
"and Ron and Harry have nothing to do with it!" Hermione finishes her husband's sentence "The kid is behind it. He creates dark magic."
Frustrated, she pounds her fists on the shield while Legolas immediate turns around and tells his kids to order some drinks. The kids leave, sensing that there might be something wrong for they notice that the three strangers haven't talk to them (which is absurd because everyone talks to them when they first see them, they are gorgeous after all).
Legolas than does a simple spell, a skill he learnt from his wife after hundreds of years, to block all the sounds. Hermione screams at the top of her lungs, but the three angry people seem not to pay attention. In fact, the shield blocks away the sound
She tries with spells she can think of to penetrate the shield. But all is fruitless. How is it impossible? It must mean one thing, his power is much more fearing than any body else. Perhaps Lord Voldemort's power cannot be compared. Maybe this is the reason why Ron and Harry have such cautious eyes towards him even though they are angry and they really seem to want to punch him in the face.
Legolas calms his wife down and decides to try something he learns from his father. He walks towards the shield and says "Disperse" in an ancient language that has been long forgotten by his kin. He then feels a sudden drain of power. He feels weak. But of course, he remembers, it's the prize he must take. It is after all, the language of "Elmanort"- the tongue of the darkest kin that has ever existed in history. Few have heard of it for the horror they brought upon the mortal men, which was too heinous for elves to mention without shuddering or some, crying rivers as they talked about it. Needlessly to say, it has become a forbidden topic to discuss.
To his surprise, Elmanort works. Although it doesn't fully make shield go away, it does lessen the effect of it.
Now, they can hear whatever the other side talks about!
"Calm down, Hunter", screams Ron at the top of his lungs, "Even if she finds you, it would take her an extremely long time to actually capture you."
"Finds me? She FOUND me! And there's no guarantee that it would actually take her a long time to bring me back to Mount Sarinaha. Let's me repeat! Pearl found me. And my older brother, Johan, will pick up the traces and find me. I have to go back! Or else they will come here, and I promise you, it won't be just a tea party." Yells the young man.
- So what do you expect us to do? The Order hasn't found all of the people that are mentioned in Professor Trelawney's last prophecy. As long as I know, we only found three, including you. We need to wait!"
- I can't wait! Johan will not wait! Who do you think he is? A sitting duck? A villain that says "Oh well, I will just wait for people to come and kill me?"? I think not, Mr. Weasley. I have to go back! I can bring Ayumi and Scorpius with me and you can send the rest….
.. and by doing will just be like sending them to Azkaban!
Ron talks as he grabs Hunter by the collar. He wants to beat the young man in
front of him up in order to bring some senses back to him. Harry, his best friend, stops him before the redheaded man brings any further damages.
"What we need to do now," as he tries to calm the two angry people down, "is to think this through. Hunter gets a point, it is urgent now. We can no longer postpone it. But Ron is also right, if we send all of them back to Mount Sarinaha right now, they will all die. They are not ready for it yet."
He then turns to the young man and says "Hunter, I promise the Order will find the rest as quick as we can and also put a training course to ensure the success of the mission. But you have to wait. That's all we need. I promise you."
Hunter reluctantly agrees and turns to the door. He then puts down the shield, and what he finds is not expected. In front of him are two adults, whom he's never seen before, and without a doubt, their expressions tell him that they heard all of the argument.
Ron and Harry quickly come to the door and smile awkwardly: "Hermione! Legolas! It's been a long time. How's it going?"
Hermione steps up in front of them and requires "What's going on? What's the Order up to?" as Legolas comes up and asks "Mount Sarinaha? What are you thinking? That place is forbidden."
Hunter tries to slip out without getting notice. But Legolas, an elf with very keen eyes, notices the small movements of the young man. He grabs Hunter's wrist and demands an answer. "What is your business with Mount Sarihana? What do you want to do there?".
Hunter looks at him with tired and disinterest eyes. Then, suddenly, he talks to the troubled elf: "Dear sir, have you recently spoken Elmanort by any chance? For something in your expression tells me that you are tired from speaking it."
Legolas looks at him with bewildered eyes. He replies: "How do you know? Unless…"
"Yes, you have hit the bull's eyes. Indeed, Elmanort is my mother tongue." Smirks Hunter, "My advice is, you shouldn't speak it. After all, it is forbidden. It will only bring you closer to darkness."