Hey there, so sorry for not updating!
But thanks so much for all the reviews! And I know that some of us might be confused at the measurements that are in meters or centimeters, its just i had to change it because the Australians use cm and m instead of feet and inches. I used a converter and rounded it off, you can do it yourself if your a bit confused.
and when it says harry pov it'll be in 3rd person pov because the books really influenced my writing of harry's pov. its really annoying having to go back to edit a he into a my every few seconds
Oh yeah, and some of you might have noticed, but im sometimes basing the girls powers on their emotions, i thought it would be a bit more interesting :)
Harry POV
"Hi!" Smiled the blonde named Rikki, smiling and waving as if nothing ever happened. That single word seemed to call every one back to Earth.
"STUPEFY!" Cried one of the sixth years at the Hufflepuff table, sending the bright red light straight at the brunette. Before he knew it, the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws were shouting masses of spells at the trio which for some reason, seemed to be unharmed.
The Slytherins were helping out too and before he knew it, the Gryffindors too. He was loosing sight of the girls and couldn't see what was happening. He stood up and craned his head, trying to see over the other students.
"STUPEFY!" bellowed Ron from beside him, blasting his eardrums back to the last century.
"Ron!" he cried, clutching his ear. Looking around, he spotted Hermione who was standing on top of the table, doing her best to avoid the plates still piled with uneaten food. Using her idea, he scrambled up the bench and onto the table.
Standing next to Hermione, he craned his head over some of the other students who had the same idea as Hermione. He could see occasional bursts of flames and what looked like vapor around the trio. If he squinted he could see a dozen spells being deflected at once with a flick of a wrist, He could even see spells hitting an arm of ice only to somehow freeze before the ice smashed when an ice hand swiped through the recently frozen beams. He could see students staggering under the weight of an extra long wand once the spells had been frozen. He could see a blur of fire moving through the spells which were having no affect, whatsoever, on it. In fact, if you concentrated, you could see that when the spells touched the figure of fire, they weren't going through it, once they touched it, the seemed to just...disappear. Like the heat was somehow able to incinerate the spell or something.
Then with a jolt, he realized that the brunette was missing. Squinting, he realized that she was crouched right outside the Great Hall with her arms in front of her and her fingers tensed in what looked like the shape of claws. Squinting he could make out water gushing out of her hands and forming a low wall that was getting higher and higher. The water was gushing out of her hands faster and faster and soon, half the students had stopped fighting and were walking backwards in awe of the water wall about half the height of the doors to the Great Hall.
The brunette was now standing up and water was gushing from her elbows, surrounding her arms in what looked like twin waterfalls.
"Rikki! Emma!" She cried. He expected the cry to be drowned out by the sound of gushing water, but he realised that the water wasn't making the slightest of noises. It was completely silent until her cry and the attack started once more. Turning and fleeing, the two figures of fire and ice returned to a human form and the blonde with straight hair shoved her hand behind her as if to stop the onslaught of spells. It did. Somehow, her wandless magic was enough to stop all the spells at once and bounce them back to the crowd. They bounced back from a few feet behind them like a shield charm had been cast around the two. Then they disappeared into the wall of water.
He thought he heard a muffled bang through the water, like the doors had been shut but he couldn't be sure because at that moment, an uproar began and students began running to the wall, intending to go after the trio.
It was honestly quite amusing to see them literally run into the wall that had somehow frozen in less than a millisecond.
"SILENCE!" boomed McGonagall's magically amplified voice.
"That took them a while." Grumbled Hermione and he couldn't help but agree. They probably thought that three muggles could be easily detained by only a handful of students, they were obviously not expecting such a strange turn of events.
"Now, all eighth years and seventh years will stay behind and assist the staff in patrolling the grounds once the barrier has been removed, and all prefects will lead their houses calmly and quietly to their house common rooms. No one is to under any circumstances leave their dormitories or common room until tomorrow morning. Everything will hopefully be sorted and explained at breakfast tomorrow. Now all sixth years and under please move to the back of the hall, everyone else move toward the front and assist in the melting of the barrier."
"Professor," Hermione raised her hand, "Where will we put all the water?" In response, a long container made of wood about a foot deep appeared with a flick of McGonagall's wand. It's length was the length of the barrier and touched the ice. McGonagall cast an undetectable extension charm on the long box and turned around.
"Satisfied Miss Granger?"
"Very Professor." She replied with a nod.
"Ready, start!" Cried Mcgonagall and cries of Confringos and Incendios could exploded from students mouths. The bursts of flame were so hot, it felt like his eyebrows would be singed right off, but the hot flames barely scratched the ice. It did nothing but cause a bit of downpour from the barrier, you couldn't even see a dent in the ice, that was how much was melted.
Hot air charms were cast which worked a bit better but barely and finally Hermione tried out a Reducto chunks of ice finally began to fall. They had to send a dozen students behind them when larger chunks of ice went off course and threatened to knock someone out like a bludger. It took them almost twenty minutes to finally finish breaking the barrier down.
Harry found himself cheering with the rest of the students at their victory only to realise a moment later, that the doors had been frozen too.
"This ice must be as cold as the ice in the Antarctic!" cried Hermione in frustration. The she brightened up, "Wait a minute Harry, I've got an idea." She grinned triumphantly before hurrying over to McGonagall. A few minutes passed before McGonagall called everyone to attention.
"Attention! Myself and Professor will be standing by the doors, we will be casting the Phasing Charm on groups of six who we will assign either a floor or a certain area they must search and patrol before reporting back to the Great Hall. Prefects and younger students will be charmed last and will immediately go straight to the houses. Now hurry and begin."
I quickly found Ron and Hermione before finding Ginny, Neville and Seamus. "Perambula Murum," Chanted Flitwick and McGonagall before saying, "You six will search the grounds outside." He stepped through the door, but not before looking behind his shoulder and seeing Malfoy, Greengrass, Crabbe, Zabini, Bulstrode and Parkinson get assigned to the dungeons. Typical.
Once they got outside, Neville asked, "Did you see the wandless magic they were using? it was amazing, I didn't even know it was possible to turn yourself into an element." Hermione bit her lip.
"Actually Neville, I'm not sure if that was wandless magic."
"What do you mean 'Mione?" he asked, "How else would they be casting shield charms and freezing spells, it doesn't make sense."
"Well, you can't actually turn yourself into any sort of element using wizarding magic, sort of like how house elf magic is different from wizarding magic, there are certain restrictions to what wizards can do. Take animagi for example, they are able to choose a single animal to turn into, but they are restricted to purely non-magical animals, like cats, dogs and stags, they wouldn't be able to turn into a unicorn or a dragon. A metamorphmagus wouldn't be able to turn his or her hair into fire, water, earth, or any other element. They are restricted to animals and humans. You notice that they can't turn into wood because that, too is an element." At this point, Neville looked slightly confused, but he seemed to have gotten the main point.
"So...What are you saying they are? I mean...I thought they were muggles. I've never really been to the muggle world, Gran never really thought it necessary, but those clothes were the strangest things I've ever seen." He blushed beet red at the memory, and Harry couldn't help but do the same. Don't get him wrong, he loved Ginny, but even though he knew that was standard sleep ware for teenage girls in the muggle world, he had never really paid attention to what girls wear to sleep...
"Do all muggle girls dress like that?" Asked Neville curiously before turning darker then Ron's hair when he realised what he just said.
"I wouldn't say yes," Hermione replied disapprovingly, "but i would say most of the teenage population would, especially in America. Only when sleeping though!" She added at the end when she caught the look of shock on Neville and Ron's faces. "Most wouldn't dress like the brunette, hers were bordering on lingerie." she muttered to herself just as they stepped outside onto the grass.
He stopped and gaped. With his mouth open. Standing in front of them, was what looked like a cross between a roller coaster and a slide. Only taller than the world's tallest building. And it was made out of ice. "What is it with these girls and ice?" He asked out loud, dazed, he still couldn't see the top. It was probably blocked by all the twists and turns.
"Forget that! How would they even make this, why would they even make this?" Cried Hermione. "This is even more proof that they're muggles. They at least live in the muggle world. Judging from their appearance, they were about 17 and wizarding schools don't teach such things as physics. If they were plain witches, the would have just plunged straight down on a straight slide of ice. But they knew! They knew about physics, and how having a straight slide would not help break their fall!" Hermione continued ranting, her exasperated voice getting softer until it eventually turned into muttering as she paced along the length of what looked like a pool.
Harry, taking pity on his female friend, put a hand on a shoulder, causing her to stop her pacing. "We'll figure this out later. If we can catch them, we can get all the answers we need." Biting her lip, Hermione nodded, closed her eyes for a second, before snapping into what Ron had dubbed her "teacher mode". Neville, Seamus and Ginny, you three go check the quidditch pitch. Ron, Harry and I will patrol around the Black Lake and around Hagrid's hut. If you don't find anything, meet back here in half an hour." She instructed.
"Yes ma'am," Ginny mock saluted her and made a show of marching in the direction of the quidditch pitch, locking her arms in a rigid position and swinging them stiffly by her sides. Seamus and Neville followed suit, minus the marching.
Hermione huffed, "I knew I shouldn't have shown her those movies." She grumbled to herself. Somewhere in the background, a splash sounded, followed by something that sounded heavy landing on the shore.
"Hey, there's something down by the lake!" Ron shouted, having wondered off. He waved his arms and pointed. He squinted, trying to make out what it was but could barely make out a greenish tinge. Ron started jogging towards the figure. "I'm going to check it out!" He shouted.
"Wait Ron! Don't!" He and Hermione started after Ron who of course wasn't listening. Despite all of them having become more wary during the war, Ron was still a dunderhead when it came to these things. Some things never seemed to change and sometimes, he wasn't sure whether he thought that was a good thing or a bad thing.
Ron was a dozen yards ahead of them, he pumped his arm harder in an effort to catch up. Squinting, he made out what looked like a giant silvery fish tail. It was big. As in, almost as tall as Hagrid big. From this distance, he could see that it was about a foot shorter than Hagrid, about seven feet. It's skin was gray and the green hue he had made out before appeared to be the wild ropes of hair on it's head. He couldn't help but think he had seen it somewhere before.
The it raised it's head and glared at him, snarling and baring it's pointed shark's teeth. It's yellow eyes burned with intensity before it shifted its gaze to Ron. Horror dawned on him. Mermaids. From the Black Lake. In his fourth year during the Triwizard Tournament. An onslaught if memories assaulted him. Cedric...Voldemort...Moody... He shook them off.
Hermione gasped. "Is that a-"
"Mermaid?" He finished for her, "yes, yes it is. and if memory serves me right," He examined the creature once more. Yup. It was there. "There's a spear."
"Ron!" Hermione yelled, pumping her arms. He followed suit. "Stop running! Get away from it!" They were a few yards away from Ron who was a few away from the Mermaid. He honestly had no idea how he didn't notice how horrible looking it was or how it was already raising the spear, training it on his chest.
"Ron!" He shouted. Too late. The world seemed to slow down. The spear left the mer's hand and flew towards Ron who's eyes had gone wide with shock. His legs were like lead, not allowing him to run fast enough. Suddenly, a pinky skin colored fleshy arm dropped down between the two, taking the blow of the spear instead. The world spead up again. Arm after arm came falling down on the shore. Water flew everywhere and he covered his face. Grabbing Hermione and running the other way, he was relived to see that Ron had managed to scramble further down the shore, away from the onslaught.
"You all right?" He asked Hermione who nodded.
"Ron, where is he? Is he alright?"
"He's ok," He replied relief tinging his voice. Hermione immediately stood up.
"Where? Where is-sweet Merlin!"
"What?" He asked in alarm.
"It's the giant squid." She breathed. "It looks hurt. It's not moving." He noticed that the arms were indeed tentacles.
"You don't think..."
"No, it's not dead. I'm pretty sure it takes quite a bit to kill a giant squid." She replied firmly. "But whoever did this was powerful." She said grimly.
"You aren't saying that..."
"Yes." She confirmed. "I think it was those three girls." He gaped.
"Your kidding. That's a bit far, why would they even hurt the squid? It's a gentle creature."
"They are muggles or live in the muggle world anyway. How else would they react. But the point is. I think we found out where they went."
There was a pregnant silence that was interrupted by Ron. "Harry! 'Mione! It's the giant squid! Blimey, I don't think anyone's ever actually seen this much of it before!"
He chuckled. "Trust Ron to say something like that in such a situation." He was ignored and instead got a mouthful of Hermione's hair who had whirled around. She stormed back the way they had run from to Ron who looked like he was wondering if touching the squid would be a good idea. He held his finger out a bit before pulling it back and making a face.
"Hey! Do you think it'll feel gross if I touch it? It looks alot worse close up... What do you think Har-"
"Ronald Weasley! You bloddy idiot! You had me worried sick! Why are you always rushing into things and never thinking things through. I'm so-"
"Calm down 'Mione, I'm fine now though, see? The squid saved me." He grinned. "Blimey, the squid is so big, you'd think that the first thing you'd worry about is memorizing every inch of this thing to study later on." He joked. Hermione sighed and gave up, resigning to hugging him instead.
"I'm just glad your ok." The scene would have been a bit more romantic if a grindylow hadn;t shot out of the water and landed on Ron's head.
Ok, I know I said that Bella would be in this chapter, but I really couldn't find a place to slot in the girls in this chapter. It was mainly focused on the HP gang and them trying to solve the 'mystery'. I was gonna make it longer, but then I would have written 2 chapters in 1 and I know I totally owe you guys for not updating in so long, but next chapter will be mostly h2o anyway, so please! I'm so sorry!
Also, in answer to 'Mermaid want2be', my time zone is also central, but I am currently in Australia as you can see in my profile, so what is your morning is my afternoon, or something like that anyway. I've got a break from school because of this awesome holiday! but i'm not usre how much i can update cos my family has a super day to day schedule planned out on where we're gonna go ^ ^
But I do suffer from a but of insomnia, so I might be updating like this again once i get back to america...
Thanks again for the reviews!