AN: HELLOOOOOO! WOW it feels like its been FOREVER since I've updated! And I know it has been a while, and I'm really sorry, but you all know why I couldn't update. Well, the good news is that I've finished my exams now! Yay! So I can update more often. I'll try my best to, but I kind of have a bit of writers block at the moment, but I'm hoping that once I get writing again, the block will go away. Okay, so I'm going to shut up and let you read now, but pre-warning you- This chapter is going to be a long one.
And before you start, No, I don't own Twilight or Harry Potter.
BPOV
We all ran back to the entrance of the chamber climbed up the shoot before sprinting down the corridor. I itched to go faster, but I couldn't because I'd leave them behind. Whilst still running, I realised that I could find my family and check they were okay, and still arrive at the room of requirement not long after they would If I ran as fast as I could. I quickly stopped.
"Why have we stopped?" Ron asked, looking confused.
"I need to get upstairs and check my family's okay, maybe even put some protective spells over them." I told them. Harry started to object.
"Bella, we don't have enough time-"
"I can meet you at the room of requirement minuets after you arrive if I run at my full speed. I can't leave them unprotected, and Voldemort will be arriving any minuet!" I yelled. "Look, I'll meet you at the room of requirement, but If I'm not there, you guys need to start looking without me, we need to find the diadem!"
Harry considered what I said for a second, before saying "You be careful"
I almost laughed, before turning and running as fast as I possibly could up the hallway. I don't know if it was just a gush of wind, but I could have sworn I heard 3 gasps as I sprinted at in-human speed down the hall way.
I knew exactly where I would find my family, though I wasn't sure how. Maybe It was luck, or maybe I just had a connection with them. I ran straight toward the courtyard outside, opposite the great hall, and sure enough, there they all were. They stood in a line looking up toward the sky, watching as the force field was produced. They all looked amazed. I almost didn't stop in time, and I was inches from running into Alice.
"Bella!" she exclaimed, and everyone's head snapped to look at me, Edward's being the quickest. He started straight towards me.
"Did you get everyone out?" I asked quickly.
"Yes, everyone under 17 and those who didn't want to fight" Alice informed me.
"How long until he get's here?" I shivered, and Edward was now next to me. I instantly felt re assured when his hand slipped into mine.
"I'm not sure" Alice told me. "He keeps changing his mind, but he's close, just over the hill."
"Oh God" I shivered.
"Bella" Edward whispered. "If you're scared you should leave"
I quickly turned to him. "No you all need to leave. I have a duty here, I need to be here. I can protect myself, you can't!"
"Were not leaving you!" Edward told me, his grip on my hand tightening.
"We're a family. We stick together" Esme said firmly. I looked at my adoptive mothers face, and saw a determination there I had never seen before.
"Fine" I said, taking my hand out of Edwards. "Stay. But you need to know how to protect yourselves. Vampires are immune to most spells, but not the 3 unforgivable curses."
"Unforgivable?" Rosalie said slowly. I took a deep breath.
"Look, I don't have much time, but you guys can't fight any humans, stay away from anyone with a wand because you won't be able to defend yourselves! All you'll be able to do is dodge spells and possibly knock the human out, but I wouldn't risk getting that close to them. You all need to focus on magical creatures. They won't have wands, so you will be able to fight them. Also you'll be pretty matched against them, and I'm hoping that your skin will be strong enough against their bites. Just be careful please?" I begged them.
"Don't worry Bella, we'll be careful" Carlisle assured me.
"But you need to be a lot more than careful! You all need to have each others backs at all times! And there's going to be human blood shed; you guys need to make sure you're all in control" I was thinking mostly about Jasper. "The moment you lose control and feed on someone from our side, you will be killed" I was looking straight at Jasper now.
"I'll try my best Bella" He promised me.
"And I'll never let him out of my sight, I promise." Alice informed me. I looked at my best friend, before hugging her tight.
"I know you will" I whispered in her ear. Just then, it started to rain, like it does in movies.
"Right, everyone group together, that includes you Edward" I told my husband. I got out my wand and all of the Cullen's and Jacob grouped together. I knew this would be a hard spell to do, I'd never actually managed to do it myself, and I'd seen people at the ministry struggle to do it. But I needed to get this spell right- the protection of my family depended on it. The rain had really picked up now, and McGonagall must have seen what I was about to do.
"Do you want me to do it Bella? You know its very hard." She warned me.
"I can do it professor, I know I can" I told her sternly. I was now soaking through. I then noticed everyone in the courtyard had stopped what they were doing to watch me.
Great, I have an audience.
I pointed my wand directly at my family, before saying strongly
"Protego Maxima"
A beam of light erupted from the end of my wand, before wrapping itself in a dome shape around my family, before disappearing. Emmet was the first to speak.
"Whooow!" Emmet said with his mouth wide open.
"Well done Bella" McGonagall told me. I smiled back at her, before turning to Jacob.
"Is Renesmee inside?" I had to shout over the noise of the rain. I was now completely soaked.
"Yeah, she's with Ginny, in the room of requirement!" He yelled back. I nodded before turning to Alice.
"Alice! Stay with Professor McGonagall, there going to need you to tell them when he's coming!" I yelled. She nodded back.
"I need to go and find the diadem, the rest of you, be careful, I'll hopefully be back up here before they get here, but if I'm not, you know what to do!" They all nodded, and I started to run towards the castle, only to be stopped by someone yanking on my arm.
"Bella please don't do this!" Edward begged me. I looked at him for a second, taking in the way his shirt was stuck to his body, and the rain drops that glistened like diamonds in his hair. And for a second, just for a second, I considered grabbing our daughter and running away from the place I once called home. But I knew I could never do that to my family here at Hogwarts.
"They need me Edward! I can't leave them!" I yelled over the rain.
"But I need you Bella! If you die, I don't know how I would live with myself" he yelled.
"I'm not going to die! You have more chance of dying! Our daughter has more chance of dying! But I've accepted that you're both here! Please just let me do this!" I yelled at him. I looked at him for a second, before turning to go again.
But I didn't get far, because Edward pulled me round, grabbed the back of my neck, and crushed his lips against mine. In that moment, I forgot about everything, and for a moment, it felt like me and Edward were back where we first met- in the forest of Forks. It was like everything instantly slowed down, and, just like in a movie, we kissed each other in the pouring rain. Though I desperately didn't want to, I tore my lips away from Edwards, and started to run full speed towards the castle.
"I LOVE YOU!" I screamed, but I didn't look back, because I knew I would stay if I saw his face.
Once inside, I ran as fast I possibly could towards the room of requirement, and I got there in minuets. The doors were wide open, and I groaned at what I saw. Junk, junk and more junk. Why someone had picked this room to escape out of I don't know, but I diadem was in here somewhere, and we were running out of time to find it.
"Harry? Ron? Hermione?" I called as I entered the room. The three of them all appeared from the piles of junk.
"Bella! You're soaking! Is it raining?" Hermione asked. I laughed.
"What do you think?" I smiled. "Do you have any idea where the diadem is?"
"I can feel it's in here" Harry explained, and he was right, I could feel it too. "But it feels like its moving around and not staying in the same place, like someone has it"
"Yeah" I agreed. "I get what you mean. Have you found Ginny and Nessie? There in here, maybe they have it?"
"Yeah" Ron agreed. "But seriously, how are we supposed to find them in this junk?"
"Hang on" I told them, before jumping up towards the top of a mountain of junk.
"Wow Bella! You're like a spider monkey now! I heard Ron say, and I giggled, remembering the nickname Edward had once given me. I climbed to the top of the mountain, and spotted Ginny's hair almost straight away. She was sat playing with Renesmee across the room.
"Ginny!" I yelled, and her and Nessie's heads snapped up.
"Mama!" Nessie yelled, and I smiled.
"Come over here!" I yelled, before climbing back down.
We started through the Junk, and found them in the middle of it.
"You don't by any chance have to diadem do you?" Hermione asked. Ginny, who was holding Renesmee shook her head. I took Nessie out of her arms and hugged her close.
"No we don't, have you lost it?" Ginny asked, confused.
"Bella dropped it" Ron said blandly.
"It wasn't my fault!" I snapped, but I suddenly realised something.
"But, If Ginny doesn't have it, it means someone else is here." Hermione went pale, and Ginny gasped, and just as she did, the entire castle shook. Hermione screamed, and we all fell to the floor. I felt cold.
"There here" I whispered, just as the castle shook again and this time Nessie screamed.
"Sshh, don't worry baby you'll be safe in here" I told her.
"Nice baby Bella" I heard a cold voice say from behind me. I froze, before slowly turning around, to see Draco Malfoy along with Crabbe and Goyle standing next to him. He had a wicked smile of his face.
"What are you doing here Malfoy?" Ron spat.
"Oh hello Weasel bee, didn't see you there. Have you finally landed the mood blood?" Malfoy sneered, and his minions laughed.
"Back off Malfoy!" I sneered. He looked a little taken aback. But then the smile re-appeared.
"I wouldn't want to start a fight mummy Bella, your holding devils spawn" he sneered. I swear everything turned red.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" I yelled, and Malfoy stepped back.
"Bella! Calm down!" Harry told me.
"Ginny, take Renesmee!" I snapped, and my baby was out of my arms. My eyes were locked on Malfoy's.
"Now you can insult me, heck I might even let you insult my friends, but you dare to insult my daughter, I will break every bone in your body Malfoy before you blink" I growled. Crabbe and Goyle both looked terrified, and though Malfoy was a bit paler than usual, he still had the nerve to continue.
"Well I wouldn't do that Bella, because I have something you want." He sneered.
"What could you possibly have that we want?" I snapped, backing off a little.
Malfoy laughed. "I know where the diadem is! Give me my wand back, and I might think about telling you where it is!"
"Oh, but I've grown rather fond of your wand Malfoy" Harry exclaimed.
"Give me my wand Potter!" Malfoy sneered.
"You heard him!" Hermione shouted
"I wasn't talking to you! You disgusting little mudblood!" Malfoy yelled. That sent Ron over the edge. Ron charged at them, screaming;
"THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND YOU NUMPTY!" and the three wimps ran for it.
All four figures disappeared into the maze of furniture, and it was seconds later I smelt the smoke. I froze, before Ron ran past me, grabbed Hermione and yelled
"GOYLE'S SET THE BLOODY PLACE ON FIRE!" I watched them both disappear in the opposite direction before turning to Ginny, Renesmee and Harry and screaming;
"RUN!" and they were gone. I ran too, but I lost them both pretty quickly. I looked over my shoulder, and saw most of the mountains of chairs of chairs were consumed with fire. A giant fire snake was now coming straight towards me, and even at my vampire speed, it was fast gaining. But suddenly, I saw something silver out of the corner of my eye.
The diadem!
But I couldn't stop running, or the smoke would consume me. I suddenly remembered that my daughter wasn't so fast at running, and I stopped dead. For a moment, the smoke fully consumed me. As I did not need to breathe, the smoke did not affect my breathing, but it wasn't my breathing I was worried about.
"Renesmee!" I screamed frantically looking around for my daughter. But I couldn't see anyone through the walls fire that roared around me. I got out my wand, trying with all my might to distinguish the fire, but it was no use. The water evaporated before it even touched it. I looked up. Perhaps I could jump up onto the mountain of chairs, but the wall of fire was burning too high up- if I jumped, I would burn. I was trapped. But I had to find the others. They couldn't hold their breaths like I could, and the smoke would choke them. I suddenly had the image of my little girl, coughing on the ground while the fire moved in on her.
"RENESMEE!" I screamed in a way that only a mother could scream. That's when it happened. One of the walls of fire broke apart, and Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny who was carrying Renesmee ran in. A look of relief crossed all of their faces.
"Bella! Oh my god I thought we'd lost you!" Harry exclaimed. I took my daughter off Ginny and had her on my back in a flash.
"Quick! I need to get Nessie out of here! We need to get her out!" I screeched. We all pointed our wands at the wall of fire, and said in unison;
"Aguamenti!" The wall disappeared for a brief second, and then we were running. I wanted to run a lot faster, but I didn't want to leave the others behind. But we were still running, and there didn't seem to be a way out of this maze of junk. Not to mention we still needed to find the diadem before the room was burnt to smithereens. We reached a cross road in the path, and even my vampire senses couldn't tell me where to go. Just as I thought all hope was lost, I heard the familiar sound of paws on the floor and a deep panting. Renesmee squirmed on my back.
"JACOB!" We both screamed together, just as the giant wolf rounded the corner to our left. The others all gasped. How did Jacob know we were in trouble? How did he even know we were here? I put it down to an imprinting thing. But I didn't waste any time, the fire was still following us.
"Do you know a way out?" I asked franticly, and he nodded his giant wolf head. I quickly placed Nessie on his back and turned to Ginny;
"Ginny quick get on!"
"What!" She yelled.
"We don't have much time, and I promised your mother I'd keep you safe! Now please get on his back!" I cried.
"No way! I'm not leaving Harry!" she yelled, but just as she did, Hermione did some sort of spell which made her go ridged and stiff. She then did another that secured Ginny to Jacob.
"Get them out of here NOW!" I screamed at Jacob.
"NO MUMMY!" Nessie screamed, reaching for me. Jacob shook his head.
"I can breathe in here! I'll be fine!" I told them, but he still didn't move. That's when I heard Nessie cough. That made me snap.
"SHE CAN'T BREATHE JACOB! We'll follow you out once we've found the diadem, NOW GO!" I screamed and with that, Jacob turned on his heels and ran away, with a screaming Renesmee clinging to his back, and a rigid Ginny stuck to his back.
"NO MUMMY! NO MUMMY!" My daughter was still screaming for me, and my heart broke. When I could no longer hear her screams, I turned to the others, and that's when I felt the heat of the approaching flames.
"I saw the diadem!" I told them
"Where?" Harry yelled.
"Just down that isle" I told them. The isle that the fire tiger had now taken residence.
"How are we supposed to get down there!" Ron yelled.
"If we all cast the Aguamenti spell, it should be strong enough. I could then run down there and grab it before the flames move back in." I yelled.
"We have to do it quick!" Hermione yelled. "on three! 1, 2, 3!"
"AQUAMENTI!" We all yelled. The water put flames out to make a path for me to run down. I ran down it, grabbed the diadem, and back up, but not before my hand was burned.
"AGH!" I screamed. My hand did not blister, but the pain was excruciating.
"Bella! Are you okay?" Harry asked.
"I'm fine! We need to get out of here!" I yelled. Ron looked up.
"There!" He yelled, and we looked up to see a stack of broom sticks on top of one the mountains. We all instantly started climbing, and I reached the top first, the diadem securely in my hands. I threw down the broomsticks, Ron and Hermione sharing, and me and Harry having our own. We all jumped onto the brooms and took flight.
We dodged the flames, trying to find the exit, but before we did, we saw Crabbe falling off a mountain and into the flames. Hermione screamed. On top of the mountain was Malfoy and Goyle, screaming for help.
"We can't leave them!" I yelled at Harry, who nodded his head.
"If we die for them Bella I'm going to kill you!" Ron screamed.
It took a couple of attempts, but we eventually managed to get Malfoy on Harry's broom and Goyle on mine. He weighed it down a lot. As we were flying through the flames, trying to find the exit, I yelled to Hermione;
"Hermione! Teeth quick!" she let go of Ron long enough to grab a tooth and throw it to me. I let out a sigh of relieve when we saw the exit, but just as we went through the doors, I lost control of the broom stick.
Rather than crash to the floor, I put my hands down, flipped in the air, landed on my feet and stabbed the diadem, before kicking it into the fire room. The doors closed just in time before the fire face of Voldemort consumed us. For a moment, there was utter silence, other than Goyle and Malfoy running away.
"Oh my God, who are you?"
"And what have you done with Bella?"
I heard two voices ask, and when I saw who they were, I couldn't stop smiling.
AN: I told you it was a long one! I hope this makes up for the lost time of updating! I really enjoyed writing this chapter. PLEASE REVIEW!
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