Chapter 9: Broken Glass
Rose looked around the Common Room. She had definitely heard that laugh before. It belonged to Alamaster Gold, who was part of the Death Eater's Rise. Hugo suddenly appeared at the top of the stairs.
"Hugo!" Rose said, resisting the urge to hug the brother she was supposed to be mad at.
Hugo looked at Rose, said, "Rose!" and ran towards her, grabbing her and Albus by the top of their cloaks and dragging them to the staircase.
He looked at Pip and Jamie.
"Run!" he said, and Pip and Jamie followed him as he dragged Hugo and Albus down the stairs.
They stopped at a wall, which Hugo jumped through, pulling Rose and Albus behind him, Pip and Jamie following him. On the other side of the portal was a large room, with broken glass beneath their feet. Hugo casted a spell on the wall and sealed it.
"What is going on?" Rose asked her brother.
"Alamaster Gold and the others in the Death Eater's Rise-" Hugo said, interrupted by Jami asking, "And Raya, right?"
"Yes, 'Raya'" Pip said in a mocking voice, "No need to be a know-it-all!"
"Anyways, the Death Eaters are attacking the school!" Hugo said, "The teachers set these up and told a few other kids and I know how to enter the portals. We'll be safe in here until the fight is over," Hugo said.
Rose picked up a piece of broken glass and held it up. There was no light source in the room, but it wasn't dark. Up close, it seemed to have some sort of word on it.
"The serpent is," Rose said, noticing the sentence was cut off where the glass was broken.
"What?" Jamie asked.
"Look," Rose said, holding up the piece of glass to Jamie.
Hugo picked up another piece of glass and examined it.
"Must work together," Hugo said, reading a piece of glass.
Albus picked up a piece and read, "The lion's."
"This one just says 'friend,'" Jamie said, looking at his piece.
"'They' is the only thing this one said," Pip said.
After a while of this, the five had created this sentence:
The serpent is the lion's friend. They must work together to defeat evil. The bird can devour both separate, but together they are stronger.
"What does that mean?" Hugo said.
"I think it means that some bird is going to eat a lion and a serpent unless they create some sort of snake-lion hybrid. Oh, and also the serpent is evil. Or is it the bird that's evil?" Jamie said.
Suddenly, the room went quiet.
"Do you hear that?" Rose asked.
"No," Pip said.
"Exactly! The laughing stopped!" Rose said.
"Yeah, but will still have no idea what evil snake-lion hybrid is out there," Pip said.
"Well, I don't think Jamie's theory was quite right," Albus said, smiling.
All of them fell to the floor laughing.