"I need to know about how you learned to secrite passages." Uryu said. James gave him a shocked look as he gaped from his bed.
"How do you even know about the passages?!" James asked. Uryu sighed.
"A friend mentioned them. I need to know about them." Uryu said. James shock his head.
"I'm sorry but as the Head Boy it is my job to prevent you from duing stupid stunts like that. You'll get in trouble and get me in trouble as well." James said.
"This is important." Shuhei insited. James still shock his head, and in frustration Uryu stormed off. When he reached the common room it was almost cleaned out, so he left for the infermery to check up on the boy he had found. As he entered the room Madam Pomfry came to meet him.
"There you are!" she said in a huff. Uryu gave her a surprised look.
"How is he?" he asked. She looked down.
"He isn't regaining conciousness and so far I havent' really be able to tell whats wrong with him." said the woman. Uryu nodded.
"May I see him?" he asked. She sighed.
"There is no point but since there's nothing else I can do right now, go on ahead." she said. Uryu nodded his thanks and walked into the room to see the boy on a nearby bed. He sat next to the boy and searched out for his spiritual pressure. It was still there, but so weak and faint Uryu dobuted the boy would ever be able to see any spirits again, let alone manipulate his spiritual energy to use what they called 'magic' for a long time, if ever. He sighedin frustratin, wishing that the boy would regain conciousness so he could talk to them and tell them who his attacker was. Realizing there was nothing left that he could do, Uryu stood up to leave. "He'll be fine, pleanty of rest and he'll wake up in no time." Madam Pomfry told him, but Uryu said nothing as he left. He checked his watch to see that the events had taken him to lunch time and went down to the Grand Hall. He saw James, Albus, Rose, Hugo, Lily, Ichigo, Chad, and Orihime all eatting lunch together and reluctently went over.
"Hey Uryu, where have you been all morning?!" Orihime asked.
"Orihime, he was the one who found the unconcious student." said James, acting as if their discussion on the secrite passages never happened. Uryu nodded.
"So what happened?" Ichigo asked.
"I don't know. The boy was just unconcious, he hasn't woken up yet either." Uryu said. The others nodded.
"It's not really that much out of the ordinary, students collapse from time to time, or disappear for a few months, or simply fall ill. This is a place of magic, odd stuff happens on a regular basis." Albus explained to them. They all nodded, Orihime, Ichigo, and Chad pushing the issue from their minds for the time being. Uryu however hadn't told them about the boy being drained of his spiritual pressure.
"So are you guys ready for Quiditch this year?" Rose asked, changing the subject.
"Oh yeah, we're going to have practices at least three times a week, especially becasue so many of our new members are new to the game." James said. Rose nodded.
"I can't wait!" Orihime said. The others nodded. They continued to eat their lunch discussing the game. "Uryu you need to watch our next practice! I'll even teach you to play!" Orihime insisted.
"Not a chance Orihime, he's too uptight to play." teased Ichigo.
"I have more important things to worry about you idiot!"Uryu snapped. The others gave him surprised looks.
"Is everything alright Uryu?" Orihime asked.
"What's wrong Uryu?"asked Chad. Uryu sighed.
"The boy is the first attck of whoever is draining everyone's spiritual pressure. His spiritual pressure is all drained away. I don't know what's going on, but it's getting bad with the first attak and we've only been hear a week."Uryu said. The others gave him a worried look.
"Is everything alright?" asked Lily with a worried voice.
"Oh yeah, we're fine." Ichigo said. They nodded, accepting that for now.
The group all went to bed that night. Uryu sat up reading his book. Finally around midnight he saw Ichigo, Chad, and Albus as well as the last man were all asleep. Uryu climbed out of bed and started down the stairs. He was going to start looking for the secrite passages so he could trable around the castle at night to start looking in on the two boys. He entered the common room and headed toward the portrate hole.
"I figured that you would do something like this." came a voice. Uryu turned to see James. "I hear that you were a great student who never broke any rules, yet here you are." James said.
"How did you know I was coming down? I didn't even make any noise." Uryu protested. James held up a blank piece of folded parchment in his hand and Uryu noticed the cloak sitting on his lap as well. It was a beautiful silvery coat that reminded him of water. He looked at James and frowned. "I don't understand." he said.
"I want to know what's going on! I'm not stupid, understand. I'm the biggest trouble maker in this school, that means I can sense when something isn't right." James said.
"What..." started Uryu, hoping to diswade him.
"I know somethings wrong, the way your all always talking in japanese to each other, the suspicious behavior you all have, those suspicious letters. Somethings wrong and it has to do with the students hear. It is related to the student who fell ill isn't it!" said James. Uryu looked at him with a sigh. He shock his head.
"James, there's a reason that I was alone. Ichigo and Chad would stand out too much and I didn't want to tell them until I was sure." explained Uryu. "I don't wasnt to get anyone needlessly involved." Uryu said. There was another reason as well, with Ollivander's words echoing in his head. He hated to risk anyone needlessly and since it was forbidden to be out he didn't want the others to get in trouble as well.
"If you get caught then it's over for you, I can help you but only if you tell me everything." explained James. Uryu sighed in defeat.
"Fine, I'll tell you what I can." Uryu said. James nodded. Uryu sat down across from him. "All humans have what we call spiritual pressure. The humans with a strong concentration of it have stronger powers. We beleive that you all have found a way to manipulate the spiritual pressure threw a focus oint, your wands, to use it for battle, your magic." Uryu explained.
"OK..." James said, not fully understanding, but getting the jest of it.
"I'm what is called a Quincy, we're humans who have manipulated our spiritual pressure into a focus point of a cross and use it to create bows and arrows to fight. Ichigo is what is called a soul reaper, or a spirit with higt spiritual pressure. Orihime and Chad each have powers in focus points too, like Orihime's hair pins and Chad's skin. Our friend Kisuke Urahara had found out that someone is draining the spiritual pressure from the students here." explained Uryu. James blinked.
"So...they're stealing our magic!" he summed up. Uryu nodded.
"That's pretty much it. That's what happened to the unconcious student, all of his spiritual pressure was drained out of him. I was thinking about sending Ichigo out to look around in his soul form, but everyone would see that since they have enough spiritual pressure. I figured if we could find those secrite passage ways we could look out for the boys that we suspect are causing the problem and catch them before they do something bad." Uryu said. James nodded.
"I see, so you need to find a way to look on them without being seen." said James. Uryu nodded. Then James started to laugh. Uryu glared, not liking being laughed at.
"I fail to see what's so funny here." said Uryu with a hiss. James raised an eyebrow.
"So that's everything then." James said to confirm that. Uryu nodded, then paused for a second.
"No, we have back up coming to help us. A group of soul reapers." said Uryu. James nodded.
"Alright then, if you want to find out who's doing this you'll need this." James said holding out the parchment. Uryu gave it an odd look. "Pull out your wand and tap it. The password to open it is to say 'I solomely swear that I am up to no good.' and it'll show you the castle. Go on." said James. Uryu gave him an odd look, then with a shrug he grabed his wand from his back pocket and tapped the paper, repeating the words told to him. Immeditaly a map sprang forth that they could see every individual and room in the castle!
"Amazing!" Uryu said.
"Of course, it doesn't include the room of requirement an the chamber of secrites, i'll have to show you those two personally one day. It let's you see where every given person is at any given time. This way you can see when anyone is anywhere they shouldn't. When your done with it you just say 'mischief managed' and it'll become blank again." said James.
"Where did you get this?" Uryu asked.
"It's called the Maruders Map. My grandfather James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew created it while they were hear at school. That idiot Filch tock it from them and held onto it until our uncles Fred and George stole it from him in their first year. they later gave it to my father Harry Potter, and I stole it from his desk before my first year." explained James. Uryu smirked.
"That's quite useful." Uryu said. James nodded. Then he held up the silver cloak.
"Now this is called an invisability cloak, it's pretty useful too!" James said proudly. He threw it around his body and his body vanished. Uryu gave him a wide eyed look.
"Steal that from your father too?" Uryu asked.
"No, this one was actually given to me." James said.
"So why are you helping me like this?" Uryu asked. James smirked.
"Because where this is going, trouble isn't too far behind, and I don't like being left out of any trouble in my school!" James said. Uryu nodded. "Just don't do anything stupid alright." James said. Uryu nodded.
"Good to see that your actually asking for help, we thought you forgot about us." Ichigo's voice came from the staircase, and the two turned to see Ichigo, Chad, Hugo, Albus, Orihime, Lily, and Rose standing together.
"So that's what has been going on in this school?! It's going to be an interesting school year, there haven't been any incidents since our parents defeated Voldemort. Guess it's only natural." Albus said.
"So your all going to help us?" Uryu asked. Lily, Rose, Hugo, and Albus all nodded.
"Why didn't you come tell us Uryu?! You really need to stop working alone you know." Ichigo scolded. They all smiled. It would be an intersting second week.
Again I feel so bad about the last chapter, i'm such a dumb ass! I'll be more careful to keep shit like that from happening, excuse my language please! I am so sorry! I feel like a total idiot and not even noticing it for a day and a half as well! Anyway, thankyou for reading my new chapter and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks Phantom Claire, EnvysMistress, DDJ, and feminaromanov1917.