Finding themselves within one of the corridors, Hermione and Ginny stood back to back as they defended themselves against the Carrow siblings. Hermione summoned a defensive charm to block another curse hurled at her by the male sibling, Amycus.
The deafening sounds of battle rung in her head as she struggled to concentrate. Not only did she have to ignore the tormented cries of agony that accompanied the cries of rage and spell-casting, Bellatrix was also fighting to get into her head.
The demented woman knew that Hermione was inside the school and the building pressure behind Hermione's eyes nearly cost her dearly. A horrible cut formed along the side of her face, narrowly missing her eye and causing a horrible pain from her temple to the base of her neck. Regaining herself quickly she deflected another curse aimed at her throat.
A horrible anger coursed through her veins as she took on a more offensive strategy. The look of horror and fear in Amycus Carrow's eyes as she deflected his curses with ease gave her a small amount of pleasure that sickened her. But she didn't have it in her to kill the man once she had disarmed him. So she settled for immobilizing him.
With Amycus out of the picture she turned to aid Ginny in her fight against Alecto Carrow. Hermione threw a stunning spell at the female Carrow from over Ginny's shoulder, the Death Eater deflected Hermione's spell with a swift diagonal crossing of her wand across her body. But she didn't have time to deflect a stunner from Ginny and her body flew through the air before landing in an unmoving heap.
"Nice one 'Mione you came just in…Oh Merlin your face!" Hermione knew the cut to her face was deep, she could feel her blood sticking to her skin as it slipped down her skin but they couldn't stop just because of one little scratch. Glancing back over her shoulder her eyes widened as a group of club swinging, monstrous trolls came round the corner at the end of the corridor.
"Run!" barked Hermione at Ginny before pushing the girl forwards. Ginny and Hermione sprinted down the corridor away from the charging monsters, throwing various spells over their shoulders to try and slow them down.
The group consisted of three Trolls. The chief of the group was by far the largest and held the biggest club. It was also the more intelligent of the bunch. As the two girls ran for all they were worth down the, in Hermione's opinion, unnecessarily long corridor the leader pulled back its hulking arm and propelled its club through the air and into the ceiling above where the girls were heading.
The debris from the broken ceiling plummeted towards them, grabbing onto Ginny's sweater, Hermione pulled the younger Gryffindor out of harms way and quickly backed away from the forming wall of concrete and debris in front of them.
A primal roar from behind the girls brought them out of their shock at almost being crushed and forced them apart as a club came hurtling down at them. Ginny rolled to the side whereas Hermione ducked beneath the creatures legs. Summoning a quick spell she sliced at its inner thighs with her wand, leaving behind horrible bloody welts.
As it collapsed onto its knees with a roar of pain, Hermione felt the floor beneath her shake. But she didn't have time to dwell on the stability of the floor as the leader of the group snarled down at her. Its arms were raised above its head and just before it brought its fists down to crush Hermione a jet of green light collided with its chest.
Ginny stood near the wall with her wand pointed at the now dead Troll, a look of horror on her face as she struggled to come to terms with actually using the killing curse. Hermione watched as the leader of the group fell back onto the floor, its massive body cracking the floor and making it horribly unstable.
"Ginny…don't move" stated Hermione as she looked at the horrified Weasley.
"Ginny look at me….look at me!" her raised voice caught Ginny's attention and the girls wide green eyes settled on Hermione's dark brown eyes.
"I killed it" she whispered. Hermione's heart tugged painfully in her chest as she listened to Ginny's stunned voice. As she made a move to go to Ginny and comfort her the floor beneath her feet shook again. Looking up at the source of the disturbance she watched in horror as the last Troll slammed its club onto the already weakened floor.
The floor gave way and Hermione and Ginny found themselves falling through the floor and plummeting towards the floor beneath.
Colliding painfully with the carpeted floor beneath the now shattered ceiling, a strangled cry of pain escaped from Hermione as she landed on her front. Stunned, her mind refused to focus on anything except the pain and shock coursing through her body. The intense pain blinded her to the fact that there were others surrounding her, both members of the Light and Death Eaters.
Their battling had ceased momentarily and a few dead bodies littered the floor closest to where the debris had fallen, dead witches, wizards and even the bodies of the Trolls were scattered about the floor with blood slowly pooling beneath their bodies.
Without warning the fighting began once again, with Death Eaters fighting against everyone who wasn't one of them.
Ginny moaned in pain as she struggled to move, luckily for her she had landed on a piece of furniture which had broken her fall enough to only leave her with a few fractures and major bruising around her entire body. Sliding off of the now broken bench she sat on the floor with her back resting against the wooden bench.
Horrible pain shot up her left leg, glancing down at the limb Ginny cringed at the gaping wound that travelled from the top of her thigh all the way down to her ankle. A sudden wave of nausea forced her to look away from her injury and to search for her missing companion.
Her eyes settled on the struggling form of Hermione as the wounded witch tried to push herself off of the floor, only to collapse back onto it with a wheeze of pain. Getting up from the floor Ginny limped towards Hermione with the pain in her leg being slightly dulled by the adrenaline coursing through her veins. Ignoring her own pain the red head collapsed onto her knees next to the brunette and reached forward to push her onto her back.
A cry of pain escaped from Hermione before she whimpered, causing Ginny's heart to ache. The red head looked away from the damaged young woman and her eyes caught sight of a discarded wand. Reaching for it she grasped it in her bloodied hand before pointing it at Hermione.
"Episkey" she whispered, small cuts along Hermione's skin sealed themselves shut but the spell did little else. Cursing under her breath, she looked to her own leg before casting another spell which wrapped the bloodied limb in bandages.
The red head watched with apprehension as Hermione's eyes remained closed tightly in pain while she clutched pitifully at her chest.
"Come on 'Mione…stay with me…" pleaded Ginny as she watched fearfully as Hermione whimpered in pain. She didn't know what to do. Her own mind was still reeling from having fallen through the ceiling and she couldn't think clearly.
Panic began to flood through her. Hermione could be dying right in front of her but she couldn't think of what to do! The ringing in her ears was deafening and the dust still hadn't settled from where the remains of the ceiling had collidied with the floor beneath.
"Ginny!" cried out Neville Longbottom as he and Seamus Finnigan rushed towards the two injured Gryffindors. The youngest Weasley looked up at the two boys with relief shining in her eyes as well as a dazed expression.
Thank Merlin for small miracles.
Right I promise next chapter will have alot more Hermione/Fleur interaction. I hope you like this chapter and please review! Everyone's review is appreciated immensly.