Chapter 40: Finding Ash…
After 10 minutes had passed, Rhea, Sid and James met up in the common room, it was only 11pm and everyone had gone to bed because of the fright… No one wanted to die…
'We have to be careful, we stick together okay?' James said
'Also when the lights go out, we stick closely okay?' Sid replied
James and Rhea agreed to Sid and Sid and Rhea agreed to James.
Getting out of the common room quietly, they stayed close together, James was at the front and Sid and Rhea were behind holding hands. They didnt hear anything or anyone so they quickly made their way down to the courtyard…
Slowly and slyly, they were almost there and all they could hear was rain pouring down from outside, there was no more thunder or lightning so there was no way this ghost could murder someone else. They got to the doors to go outside to the courtyard and James stopped.
'Whats wrong James?' Rhea asked
'Do you want to do this? Both of you' James looked at Rhea and Sid
'I do… I want to save my best friend!' Rhea said
'I do as well James, Ash is someone important for all of us here' Sid said
'Okay then… Wands out' James got his wand out followed by Sid and Rhea taking their wands out
They opened the door and all went outside into the rain together, they couldnt see anyone, just could feel the rain and could see the courtyard, just empty…
'XING WHEREVER YOU ARE COME OUT!' James shouted
There was no reply
'DONT TRY HIDING FROM US!' James ran to the middle of the courtyard and couldnt see anything, he looked down the different tunnels and couldnt see anything until… He could see some glowing coming from the far tunnel… There was a glow until…
*SCREAM*
A ghostly figure was in front of him, she was pale with black hair and had blood all over her, mainly on her hands, James with a scream fell to the floor and Sid and Rhea turned around, her apperance was too scary to look at. The ghost looked at James with wide eyes and with a fright she screamed loudly with wide eyes and her hair in front of her face… James closed his eyes.
On the other side Rhea let go of Sid's hands and opened the doors to try and escape but Rhea let out a scream as she saw Xing again, now with her white dress covered with blood and with a knife in her hand, Rhea tried backing away but Xing got closer and closer and her eyes widened and widened as she got closer, Sid tried casting stupefy at her but it wouldnt work! Xing started getting closer to Sid…
'STAY AWAY FROM ME!' Sid shouted as he pointed his wand at her
Xing didnt say anything and pointed her knife at Sid, she then forced her knife to where Sid's stomach was… Sid screamed thinking he would get stabbed but there wasnt any pain and he opened his eyes to see Xing laughing.
'Too much blood has already been spilt' Xing laughed
'Where's Ash?!' James shouted
Xing then appeared in front of James with blood splatters on her face and her eyes getting darker…
'Don't you worry about her, shes perfectly safe in my hands' Xing smiled, her teeth were sharp as anything and had blood on them…
'Nothing is safe in your bloody hands!' Rhea shouted
Xing laughed and turned to James again…
'If you really want your 'Ash' back then… Well you cant do anything because you'll never get her back' Laughed Xing
'What do you mean?' James asked
'I mean she's never going to come back you dimwit!' Xing screamed
'WE WILL GET HER BACK AND YOU CANT STOP US! AVADA KEDAVRA!' Rhea screamed… Nothing happened
'Your little spells can't work on me Rhea' Smiled Xing as she got closer to Rhea
'Stay away from me…' Rhea started moving back, but she couldnt escape her, as behind her she bumped into another figure of Xing which caused her to scream
'You can't escape me!' Xing said
Xing looked at Rhea for a moment and smiled showing her brown bloody teeth and there was a noise and Rhea screamed… Xing smiled and waved and raised her knife which had blood dripping down onto her hand…
'RHEA!' Sid screamed
Rhea fell to the ground, Xing had stabbed her knife into Rhea and she fell onto the ground, and then she became unconcious… Then there was all of a sudden some noise of footsteps, and a scream… The scream came from the bridge and the footsteps were coming from inside, James started to run to see what the noise was from the bridge but Xing stopped him by appearing at every entrance…
'Xing!' McGonagall was here with Professor Lockhart
'Professors?' James looked at them
'I told you not to go looking for trouble…' McGonagall was disappointed
'Ah Minerva, long time no see' Laughed Xing before she could do anything to James
'You swore to stop murdering students before you died Xing' McGonagall said
'I may have, but that was when I was alive, I'm dead now' Laughed Xing
'Xing, its too much now!' Lockhart interrupted
'Dont get yourself invovled in this pretty boy!' Xing laughed as she wiped blood on Lockharts robe
Lockhart being disgusted turned to try and get the blood off his robe, when he noticed Rhea was in need of some help, Sid was crying… Lockhart helped Sid to get back to himself and Lockhart carried Rhea to the hospital wing, she was in need of help, Sid followed Lockhart.
'Fine… You broke your promise then I'll break mine' McGonagall laughed
'I think I should kill you before you do anything' Xing held up a clean new knife
'Too late Xing, TOO LATE' McGonagall shouted before she threw a locket to distract Xing as in was…
'HOW DARE YOU TAKE THE LOCKET' Xing shouted
'I can take whatever I want Xing!' McGonagall said
Xing screamed and blood started dripping down her face onto the floor… Xing dropped her knife and screamed more, and then in a flash, McGonagall took out a device which then made Xing scream and she fell to the floor and looked up at McGonagall wide dark eyes and then she screamed turning into blood, which then the device McGonagall had, took all the blood away…
James soaked in rain ran to the bridge, Ash was on the bridge covered with blood, her arm had been bleeding again and she had been hurt. James quickly picked her up and then hurried her the best he could to the hospital wing… Xing gone and everyone was safe again. It became the next day and it was still raining, the people who had been killed were killed and were given a proper burial, but Ash and Rhea were still in the hospital wing…
'Do you want to go and see Ash and Rhea in the hospital wing?' James asked
'Do you really think they've recovered after a few hours?' Sid asked
'We're wizards, anything can happen' Smiled James
'True, lets go then!' Sid said
James and Sid then made their way to the hospital wing, before coming in they knocked on the door and one of the nurses opened the door and recognised who they were and let them in…
'Ash's getting a little better now but Rhea lost a lot of blood so… Well she needs more rest' The nurse said
'Shes a vampire… If she's lost blood she needs to have some human blood' Sid said to James
'You could go and quickly ask McGonagall about it? I'm sure there is some human blood somewhere in this castle! While then I'll look after both Rhea and Ash' James smiled
Sid nodded and quickly rushed to get the blood, James went up to Rhea and checked she was okay, she was unconcious. Then he went up to Ash, she still had the scar on the side of her face and her scar on her arm had gotten worse, but she looked okay. Out of curiousity he lifted his sleeve and looked at his scar on his arm, it looked very similar to the one on Ash's arm… He called the nurse and asked her about the scar…
'Why are me and Ash's scars similar?' James asked
'I'm assuming the same person gave you the scar?' The nurse replied
'How do I find out?' Asked James
'I dont know, but you could ask some teacher, they could know something about it, or your parents, I know for a fact your dad has some knowledge in scars' Smiled the nurse
'You knew my dad?' James asked
'Yes, I did, he was always in the hospital wing as well' The nurse said
James turned and saw Sid was already back, with a vial of blood in his hand… Sid was out of breath…
'Seriously, this is the first time I've been out of breath like this in a while' Sighed Sid
'Did you get the blood?' Asked James
'Yes… I found McGonagall on this floor and she got me some, apparently its fresh, but its weird, usually I feel like drinking the blood, today I cant even look at it properly…' Sid was confused
The nurse took the blood from Sid and gave it to Rhea, thankfully it worked and she started moving again, but she was unconcious… Sid and James now had to wait...