" GET UP NOW!" Link yelled as he ran back into the tent.
" Wh-What?" Mr. Weasley asked, jerking up in the bead.
" Death eaters are here and spreading fires! We have less then five minutes before they get to the tents!" Link shouted. Mr. Weasley, was wide-awake now, proceed to jump out of bed to wake everyone up.
" I'll get the girls!" Link called and rushed out to the next tent. The Death Eaters were closer now.
" Hermione! Ginny! Wake up the lot of ya!" Link roared as he entered, rushing to the beds.
" It's too early mum." Ginny yawned, still asleep.
" WAKE UP! There are Death eaters approaching!" Link yelled. Their eyes flew open and that sat up.
" What did you say?" they asked in unison.
" Death eaters less then four minutes away now! SO BLOODY GET UP!" Link hissed. They jumped up and ran out with Link, Mr. Weasley and the others already outside.
" You know what to do." Mr. Weasley nodded to Link.
Link nodded back as droves of people started racing past them, the fires literally within yards of them now.
" Let's move!" Link yelled to the underage wizards.
" We'll help the ministry! Link, lead them to the woods and for magic's sake stick together." Mr. Weasley yelled. They nodded but Fred already grabbed Ginny and was pulling her away from the danger with George following.
Link could've easily caught up to them and brought them back, but he was Harry's protector, and he had a feeling leaving him in the middle of a crisis where he could die was not a good thing. It started to become dark as they rand into the forest but Link managed used his senses to lead them as far away from the danger as possible.
He nearly roared in frustration when Ron tripped over a root.
" Lumos!" he hissed. His wand, using his anger, lit up furiously, a dark green instead of white. Link grabbed Ron's arm and pulled him to his feet.
" Tripped over a root." He apologized.
" It's a good thing Mr. Malfoy hasn't. Isn't that right?" Link asked blandly, eyes narrowing as he looked to a section of the trees.
" Quiet right, Professor." Draco's voice sneered as he appeared from the woods. He had been watching them calmly through the trees.
Ron cursed something terrible at him and Malfoy chided," Language, Weasley. You are in front of a Hogwarts Professor aren't you? Anyways shouldn't you be getting along now before you accidentally burn up?" he smirked, not to Link, but Link clearly got the impression that Draco didn't mind the same happening to him.
Hermione was about to retort when Link said casually," If all four of you do not shut up and start moving to safety this instant I will fail all of you before you even have your first assignment. And I mean it, Weasley, Potter, Granger, Malfoy. I do not lie."
They all, even Malfoy, looked at him in surprise before Draco headed off. Link took the others and they all ran faster towards the forest. A girl was in their way though. She stopped them and asked them in French a question.
Link quickly stood up and said in slightly rushed French back,"We do not know where Madame Maxime is, and they wouldn't understand because they are Hogwarts. I suggest you get to safety though." The girl seemed surprised, and Link could have glared seeing what he knew as admiration and the starting of a crush passed threw her eyes.
She smiled, a little seductively, and said,"Very well, kind sir. Perhaps I will see you again?"
"If you mean you are going to Hogwarts too then yes, now if you will excuse us." Link spoke before ushering the other three past her. They knew that Link was too anxious about getting them all to safety to ask about the French.
They went on the path and followed it deeper into the woods, eventually taking their wand's out and casting," Lumos!"
" I've lost my wand!" Harry cried suddenly.
'Dear goddesses, is this what I have to look forward to?' Link asked in his mind as Ron and Hermione gave suggestions as to where Harry's wand could be.
Suddenly there was a rustling and Winky came running out of the trees talking about bad evil wizard and how she's getting out of the way. Then she ran off. They started talking about how curious she was which got into a talk about House Elves.
" I wasn't kidding about the failing all three of you." Link said calmly, crossing his arms.
'Did they forget there are Death Eaters?' He thought annoyed by their lack of urgency. They looked to him, and blushed in embarrassment a bit.
" Right. Lets go!" Harry said quickly as they continued deeper into the forest. As they continued, they saw a group of young wizards surrounding giggling Veela. Then Ron yelled something about inventing a broomstick that reached Jupiter.
" Honestly." Link and Hermione muttered at the same time, though they didn't hear Link. They were deep in the forest now, and all alone.
" Let's wait here." Ron suggested, but Link knew there was someone in the woods close to them. Ludo Bagman came out from the bushes completely changed.
" Who's that?" he asked squinting, seeing them eventually in the darkness of the forest.
" What are you all doing out here in the forest alone?" he asked.
" I am a Professor if you forget Mr. Bagman." Link reminded.
" Oh yes, right." He said. Ron said something about the riot, Bagman asked about it, they explained (not meaning or including Link) and he cursed, and disapperated. The three talked for a bit, but Link still sensed someone out there, and his senses were never wrong. He focused on a part of the forest, unable to see anything in the dark or hear anything by their constant chatter.
" Quiet the lot of you. We're still not alone." The Hero of Twilight hiss over his shoulder to them quietly before looking back. They quieted down enough to hear footsteps that came to a sudden halt.
" Hello?" Harry asked as he walked a little past Link. Link immediately grabbed the back of his shirt and with his strength pulled him back behind him, Harry falling to the ground. Link tensed, waiting for any sign of an attack. Then Link heard a very clear word with a deep voice.
"MORSMORDRE!" was the incantation, and Link's eyes widened when he realized it was the spell to create a dark mark. Not thinking of the others, Link raced with unnatural speed into the forest. He was inside when he heard the faint pop, and the others gasp. Link searched for the voice, but found no one.
He heard voices roar Stupefy, but he had already sensed them the moment they arrived. They were the Ministry of magic, Mr. Weasley among them, so he wasn't in too much of a rush to get back. He finally found a body, but not one he had been expecting.
It was Winky, and she was holding a wand. Harry's wand, and surely the exact same one that cast the spell.
" Professor Link heard something and raced in! He hasn't come out yet but there was someone there!" he heard Harry say desperately. Link had already gathered the unconscious House Elf in his arms, and walked out.
" Someone is here, but not the one who cast the spell." Link said, as he walked out into the group of the three friends and about twenty other Ministry Wizards. Link felt sorry for the House Elf as the wizards went quiet when they saw Winky, and they looked to Crouch.
" Impossible." The man whispered.
" Quite right. The voice we heard was deeper then anything a House Elf, let alone, a female House Elf could make. If this elf cast the spell, then it's saying that looking into the sun won't blind you after a period of time." Link told them as he threw Winky into the air and had her floating in it in the next moment.
" She's holding a wand." One of them said.
" That's my wand!" Harry exclaimed.
" Indeed it is Harry. And I am sure that it is the same wand that cast the Dark Mark." Link told him. Then Ludo came and he was filled in.
The entire lot began to argue and finally Mr. Crouch called," Enough! We'll see if this is indeed the wand that cast the spell."
He grabbed the wand and placed the spell. A Dark Mark poured like smoke from the wand.
Then they revived Winky and she stammered threw her truthful statement. Suddenly Winky heard the phrase from her master he never wanted to hear."-This mean's clothes."
Winky literally went into hysteric's begging for him not to. Link listened in, and when Crouch said something about not wanting servants who forget her master's wishes and ruin's his reputation, he couldn't handle it anymore.
" No disrespect Mr. Crouch, but I think you and everyone here has forgotten that no one is perfect. Not even House Elf's. If they were, why are there House Elf's, which I am sure includes Winky here, being punished? Why are they being given clothes? Not everyone is perfect Mr. Crouch. There will be mistakes that even Voldemort will make. If you believe that your House Elf will be perfect at everything you want them to do, you will be very crushed in the future Mr. Crouch." Link said. They looked at him in shock as if he would actually say that to Bartemius Crouch himself!
" I expect them to listen." Crouch said a little angered.
" Do you listen to every little thing your either ordered or told you must do? I doubt it. Even I don't do that and I am sure that no House Elf could be perfect like that Mr. Crouch." Link said evenly.
" You, boy, should learn to hold your tongue." Mr. Crouch warned.
" You don't gain respect from me because of your position Mr. Crouch. You earn it." Link said calmly. Mr. Crouch looked close to exploding.
" I believe we should be going now. If Harry could have his wand back sir." Mr. Weasley said awkwardly. Harry was given his wand back and all of them people were ushered out quickly.
Link was the last to go. He heard them leave by Winky's suddenly silence as they headed back to the tents. They talked amongst each other, which Link barely listened to.
Finally they all went to sleep, but naturally Link stayed up. He knew how to take off the Dark Mark, Dumbledore has been sure to teach him that. He went outside, and raised his wand to the mark, knowing no one but Nirus was watching him.
" Stencando." He said under his breath.
His wand vibrated with power of the Triforce, master sword, goddesses, magic, and his own magic. The tip of his wand became a large dark green pinpoint, and once you could fit it in the palm of your hand. It retracted from the tip of the wand and flew into the air gently, as if dancing amongst the soft breeze. The dark green grew all shades of color as it neared the Dark Mark.
Then it hit it, and dark green lit up the sky. Nirus flew under it as the sky was lit, making a black owl shape against the unusual light. Slowly, the light dissolved, until it was completely gone, and only the stars and moon remained.
Nirus let out a caw to Link, and Hylian nodded in reply before turning around and heading back inside.