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Cherry Blossoms

By Alan's Only

Part 3

Hermione slept pass breakfast. So when she awoke her stomach growled. She stood and walked into the bathroom. 15min later she came back out in black jeans and a greenish-blue light sweater. She sprayed some of her perfume on her wrists and neck. She grabbed Snape's Outer robes and walked out of the tower.

Her stomach could wait till lunch she told herself. the dungeons were freezing. She couldn't understand why or even how Snape could survive down here. She knocked on his office door. A loud 'Enter' was yelled from the other side. Hermione slowly opened the door. As she walked into the room her eyes where amazed to see all of the things on the walls. She walked up to his desk and waited for him to look up.

"Yes, Miss Granger?" he asked as his head slowly raised.

"I um…came…uh…came to…ahhh…" she tried to speak but her mouth couldn't form the words. She did know why her mouth reacted like this. Or why she had an over whelming sense to kiss the Professor in front of her.

"Well do spit it out." Snape sneered. That brought her back in to reality. She shock her head and pulled the robe out from behind her.

"I came to return this. And to say thank you." Hermione said. She handed Snape's out stretched hand the robe. Their fingers lightly touched. It sent a little tingle down Hermione's spine.

"Well, Thank you for returning it." He said. He sat the robe in a corner of his desk.

Hermione nodded then a weird chilling sensation went down her spine. The kind that tells you something is wrong. Hermione quietly nodded and excused herself. She walked rather fast out of there and ran up the stairs. She didn't know where she was going but her legs where taking her some where. They took her outside and on to the Quidditch pitch. She looked around and saw no real sign of why she was here. But then her eyes spotted something red off in the distance. She ran to it. As she came closer the snow on the ground became red. She stopped horrified at what she saw. Ginny was lying there huddled in a little ball. Hermione dropped to her knees not caring if the blood stained her clothes.

"Ginny? What happened," Hermione asked. She looked down at Ginny. Ginny slowly moved her head to look at Hermione. Tears were running down her cheeks. She moved out of the ball and showed Hermione the cuts on her arms. They looked like they were infected but fresh.

"I don't know…" said Ginny. The blood ran down her arms. Ginny's eyes were only pupils making them black.

"Ginny, have you ever lied to me?" asked Hermione. The books information itching in the back of her mind. Ginny nodded. "About our relationship?" Ginny nodded again. "Tell me why." Hermione demanded. Not only was she scared but she also was furious.

"Because the day you left the library I thought you where going to find out if you where straight…So did I" said Ginny. Hermione gasped. "And I found out that…" Ginny tried to keep talking but stopped in a groan of pain. She doubled over in pain.

"Ginny! What's the matter?" Hermione said. She moved so she could hug Ginny from the side. Tears welled up in her eyes. "Ginny!" she cried.

"Go run." said a voice a bit like Ginny's. But it sounded like the monsters voice was breaking in. Hermione didn't move. "RUN away!" Ginny screamed she looked over at Hermione her skin started to peal away. Hermione screamed and backed a way. As the clear liquid ran down Ginny's face it dripped down into the snow eating it away like salt.

"Ginny!" screamed Hermione. She looked away again closing her eyes in fright. The sound of a wet thud filled her ears and then the sickening creak of the ribs. A low growl then issued from the beast.

"Hermione, Look at me" it growled. Its voice was like one in her dream. Hermione gulped and slowly opened her eyes. She felt a claw run its self across her cheek. Hermione turned her head. A scream burst from her mouth. The monster was worst than the book said. It was a greenish-flaming fire red.

The beast roared. Hermione gulped. She reached into her pocket and pulled out her wand. The beast roared again at her. The clear liquid flew from her mouth a bit landed on her sweater. It started to eat it away.

"Reprisenta!" she yelled the beast took a step back its leg creaking but it was just like a pop. Its tail lashed at Hermione. She backed away. It nearly hit her she turned and ran to the bridge that crossed over the opened area around the arena. She ran out in to the open grounds of the school she head the beast catching up to her. She made a beeline to the forest, which she hoped to lose the thing following her. Her sweater began to burn at her skin. She pulled it off and pointed her wand at her chest. She stopped and whispered a spell. A black hoody appeared. She put the hood over her head and she disappeared from site. She took deep breaths and walked on.

Trees looked like they were reaching out to her. She could feel the quite staking of the beast behind her and the eyes of the woods around her. Her grip on her wand tighter as she turned around and walked back the way she came.

But instead of finding the open field of the school grounds she found an open field and at the other side was the beast. Its head looked around and its nostrils flared. She knew it could smell her but she quietly moved on. She stepped down and her foot found a twig. It snapped and the Beast's head snapped in her direction. She ran and blindly too. Her face was slapped by leaves and dry twigs. Her arms moved in front of her face but left a clear view of the path in front of her. The hood fell from her head bringing her back in to view. Finally she hit the edge of the forest. She ran but went flying once her shoe hit something in the snow.

"Hermione, Why do you run?" asked the beast. Once it came out of the tree line.

"Stay away!" Hermione screamed. She crawled backwards. The beast slowly walked to her. It jumped and landed right over Hermione. It roared again. Hermione covered her face with her arms, again. The liquid started to eat away her sweater again. She screamed once more. A loud booming voice shot across the grounds.

"Inatara Incanto!" the voice roared. A emerald-ruby spell hit the monster and it flow back. Another voice roared the same spell with the first voice a second time, as the beast came running back to Hermione.

"Don't kill Ginny!" Hermione whispered. She could feel her bare skin being burned and the stinging sensation of the snow on her naked back.

The last thing she heard was a howl like scream as three voices yelled the for a third time. Finally the pain was to much and she fell in to a void of no pain or worry.

TBC

AN/ Hey all not as long as the others but what the hell! By the next chapter this story will have more words in it then 'Mistakes' but what ever. AVP Kicks Arse!