James, Ichigo, Uryu, Chad, Orihime, Rose, Albus, Lily, and Hugo all sat in the common room. It was thursday evening, all the others had already gone to bed. Each night the group had taken too looking over the map to see if Lestrange or Malfoy had tried to sneek out, but neither had ever done anything out of the ordinary all week. "This is stupid, and I thought you all had back up coming!" Albus said. Uryu shrugged.
"You can't put any faith in what a soul reaper says sometimes." Uryu said.
"HEY!" snapped Ichigo in frustration.
"Are they close?" came a very familiar female voice. The others stiffened.
"Yes Rangiku, but you would know that if you bothered to SEARCH FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL PRESSURE LIKE I ORDERED YOU TO!"snapped an irritated voice.
"But captain..." the female's voice started.
"Where is that coming from?" asked James as the group stood up ready to act when the owners of the voices came in. Suddenly a large bang came to their ears and a large number of boodies fell into the fireplace, the fire going out instantly from the lack of oxygen by the bodies. The one on the bottom let out a large yelp as the weight of the others fell on him, and then all the bodies rolled onto the floor in front of the group, six in all.
"Your such an idiot Rangiku!" hissed Renji Abarai as he was the first to climb to his feet. He had long red hair tied up into a high pony tail and black tribal tattoo's across his forhead, down his neck, and continuing under his uniform. He had his zanpakuto Zabimaru by his side and his uniform was singed from being the body to land on the fire.
"What are you talking about! It was you who was leading Renji!" Rangiku said standing up. She had long blonde hair and blue eyes, she wore a low cut uniform and a pink scarf and chain necklase. Tied around her waist was her squad ten lieutenant's badge and her zanpakuto Haineko.
"Your the one who said to go that way though!" Nanao Ise said, pushing herself up. She had black hair pulled back in a bun and royal blue eyes behind oval glasses.
"Well it did get us into the castle."Rukia Kuchiki defended. She was a short girl with short black hair and violet eyes. By her side was her zanpakuro Sode no Shirayuki.
"Is everyone alright?" Shuhei Hisagi asked. He had black hair and grey eyes. Down the right side of his face was three long scars, and across the left side was a blue-grey strip with a black sixty nine on his cheek. He had a black choker and matching arm bands and his uniform was lower cut and sleevless. By his side was Kazeshini.
"All of you shut up. We don't want to attract attention." Toshiro Hitsugaya said getting up. He was a small boy with white hair and teal eyes. He had his zanpakuto Hyorimaru on his back and wore a sleevless captain's coat for squad ten with a green lining.
"A little late for that one." Ichigo said. All six turned to see the group watching them in surprise.
"Oh, so you can speak english too!" Renji said.
"How can you all speak english?!" Orihime wondered.
"Kisuke created a divise. It tock him only a day but then there were complications after that." said Renji.
"Yeah, Renji couldn't figure out how to work it." Rangiku said. Rukia, Nanao, and Shuhei laughed as Renji looked offended then pouted.
"We're not hear for games." hissed Toshiro. They all fell silent looking at the group. "And who are they?" asked Toshiro, pointing to the others.
"Oh, these are friends of ours. This is James, and his brother Albus and their sister Lily. And this is their cusion Rose and her brother Hugo." said Ichigo gesturing to each one of them.
"So these are the soul reapers?" asked Lily. Uryu nodded.
"So you told them about us?" Toshiro asked. They all nodded. "I see, so I guess we'll have to include them now. Kisuke said you had the first attack." Toshiro said. They all nodded. "Wherre is he now?" Toshiro asked.
"The infermery." Ichigo said.
"We need to talk to him." Renji said, only to be silenced by a glare form Toshiro.
"He's still unconcious." Ichigo said.
"Then we'll take Orihime. Uryu, you can show us the way." Toshiro said.
"WHAT! WHY URYU!" Ichigo whinned.
"Because if we were to have you do it then it would take too long to get your soul from your body and according to the letter it was Uryu who has interacted with him, so he'd know the boy by sight. Orihime can heal the boy and then we can talk to him. As for the rest of you..." Toshiro started.
"You'll need this." James said, tossing a cloak at Uryu who caught it.
"What is that?!" Toshiro asked.
"It'll be no good if you get spotted, but not all of you will be able to go, maybe three at that." James said. Toshiro nodded.
"Very well then. Me, Uryu, and Orihime will go. The rest of you stay here. And try NOT to break anything!" Toshiro said. Uryu, Orihime, and Toshiro set out for the portrate hole.
"What a kill joy!" Rangiku whinned.
"So Rukia...Renji...I..." Ichigo started but Rukia kicked him in the face. "WHAT THE HELL!" Ichigo yelled, only to be silenced by James and Rose.
"It'll be bad if you bring attention to us!" Rose hissed.
"THAT'S FOR NOT CALLING US WHEN YOU KNEW YOU WERE LEAVING ON A DANGROUS MISSION YOU ASS!" Rukia yelled. Rukia and Renji smiled. Nanao and Shuhei moved back, not knowing them as well and giving the friends time together.
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Toshiro, Uryu, and Orihime moved quietly down the hall under the cloak with Uryu watching the map. "This is amazing." Toshiro gaped.
"Yeah, but we need to be quiet." Uryu hissed as he saw a teacher moving threw th hall nearby. Professor Gretal passed the group silently but he paused for an instant when he was directly beside them. All three were frozen, but the Professor continued on as if it was nothing. They arrived at the infermery and Orihime cast her healing shield over the boy. "Madam Pomfry is in the next room. We'll need a distraction to...I'll be right back." Uryu dashed out of the room with his hyrenkyaku. A few minutes later a huge crash could be heard outside of the hall. Madam Pomfry went running down the hall and a scream of 'Peeves!' followed soon after, then Uryu returned.
"What was that?" asked Toshiro, not pleased about the ruckus.
"Sorry Captain Hitsugaya. I went to ask a guy named Peeves for help. He is a trouble maker around here and I uhm...sugested...that he unscrew a chandelier and it fell to the ground. It was a few floors above us though, so they'll be gone for a few minutes." Uryu said. Toshiro nodded. The boy started to stir and Toshiro turned his attention to him. Finally the boy sat up under Orihime's shield.
"Who are you?!" he asked. Toshiro smiled.
"My name is Toshiro Hitsugaya. This is Uryu Ishida, he's the man who saved your life, and Orihime Inoue who is now the one healing you. We have some questions for you." Toshiro said. The boy sighed.
"Where am I?" he calmly asked.
"You mean you don't know?!" Toshiro gasped. The boy shock his head.
"No, I don't even know why I had to be saved. All I know is that I was sick when I woke up this morning and I felt faint. I was on my wasy back from breakfast wanting to take a nap." the boy said.
"What is your name?" Uryu asked.
"Thomas Wolpert." the boy said.
"Well Wolpert, the day is thursday, it has been almost five full days that you have been unconcious. A young boy found you in the hall and went for help, finding me. I brought you to the infermery." Uryu explained. The boy nodded.
"I see." he said.
"You don't seen suprised." Toshiro said.
"My father Nigel went to school hear with Harry Potter, we've heard so many stories of their school years and just reading the history of this school, it's hard to be surprised if anything happens. It only means trouble is close behind." the boy mused. They all nodded.
"I see." Toshiro said.
"UNBELEIVABLE!" came Madam Pomfry's voice. The group dived under the cloak as she strutted in, muttering curses when she saw Thomas sitting up. "Oh, your awake, that's good! Now get some sleep so you can leave when your good and healthy again!" she said. The three moved threw the doorway beside her into the hall.
"Damn it, that was a waste of time, so he didn't know anything at all!" Toshiro hissed as they moved along down the halls.
"No, it wasn't. From that we can conclude whoever is draining people's spiritual pressure does it from adistance, they'll never see it comming. As long as we have Orihime though, we can save the students. We need to figure out what is going on though, and fast." Uryu said.
"I agree, but dispite us talking about it, we can't act. We have to sit back and let him make the next move. Me and the other soul reapers will patrol the school for now and keep an eye out for everything. The four of you will jsut have to go back to your studies for now until we can figure out our next move." Toshiro said. Uryu sighed. As much as he didn't like it, he had to acknowledge that Toshiro was right. They arrived at the common room to see Rangiku sleeping on the couch, Renji and Ichigo were head to head arguing, Rukia was trying to seperate them along with Chad, James and Albus were watching and laughing, Rose and Nanao were in an emese discussion, and Lily and Hugo were trying to talk to Shuhei who was trying to get away. "IDIOTS!" he growled.
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Friday morning the group headed down to breakfast, the soul reapers off doing their patrols when they found a girl lying unconcious in the hall. "Oh no!" Orihime was by the girls side in an instant. Uryu tried to sense her spiritual pressure.
"This isn't good, it's just like with Thomas, her spiritual pressure is gone." Uryu said. They all looked down at her.
"AH HA!" came a voice, they all looked over at the old caretaker, Argus Filch. "I knew it was strange Potter's friend found the boy, your the ones doing the attack aren't you?!" Filch yelled.
"LIKE HELL WE WOULD!" Ichigo yelled. Filch ignored them and walked away leaving the group dumbfounded. He arrived shortly after with McGonagall.
"We need to talk." she said. They nodded and followed her to her office, clearly worried about what was to come.
Another chapter down, yea! Thank you Guest, that was a good point, I don't know why I didn't think of it either! Thank you Phantom Claire and matan253.