Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter
A.N. Warning, there is some violence and gore in this chapter. It's not too bad, but thought I would warn you just to be safe.
Chapter !7
The Seven all squashed into the battered telephone box, while Harry silently prayed he would get to Jesse in time, he would hate if anything happened to him. He might fight with his older brother all the time, but he really does care about him, it is his brother after all.
"Whoever's nearest the receiver dial six two four four two." Harry said, the moment Cody got the door shut. Luna reached out and did what Harry had said. As it whirred back into place the cool female voice sounded inside the box.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic. Please state your name and business."
Harry took a deep breath and said: Harry Potter, Ginevra Weasley, Cody Potter, Rigel Black, Ted Lupin, Ronald Weasley, and Luna Lovegood. We're here to save someone, unless your Ministry can do it first."
"Yeah right." Rigel snorted.
"Thank you," said the cool female voice. "Visitors, please take the badges and attach them to the front of your robes."
Half a dozen badges slid out of the metal chute where returned coins usually appeared. Ginny scooped them up, snorted then handed them to Harry; he glanced at the topmost one.
HARRY POTTER
RESCURE MISSION
Harry looked at the one under it and it read the same thing except for having Ginny's name instead of his, the others had the other's names as well. He passed them all out, not really knowing why, it's not like they were actually going to put them on. And Rigel just tossed his down on the ground.
"Visitors to the Ministry, you are required to submit to a search and present your wand for registration at the security desk, which is located at the far end of the Artium."
"No one is searching me." Rigel snapped, looking up, as if trying to talk to where ever the voice came from. Harry's scar gave another throb.
"There's no time for that, anyway." Harry said. "Now get moving!"
The floor of the telephone box shuddered and the pavement rose up past the glass windows of the telephone box.
"Harry, bro, I don't have a good feeling about this." Cody said, as Teddy pinned his badge to his chest. "What if it's a trap. We should just get this thing to take us back up and contact Sirius or something."
"There isn't time." Harry snapped. "Voldemort would have killed Jesse by then. Can't this thing move faster?"
"Just think about it." Cody went on. "How would Voldemort get a hold of Jesse, and why bring him here of all pleases when he's doing his hardest not to let on that he's back."
"I don't know, Cody, and I don't care." Harry said. "As to why bring him here. I don't know that either, maybe looking for whatever that weapon is the Order is guarding. I don't know nor try to understand how Voldemort's mind works."
Before Cody could respond the telephone box shuddered again, and stopped. Golden light shined in on them, then the doors slid open.
"The Ministry of magic wishes you a pleasant evening," said the woman's voice.
"Sure you do." Teddy said. "Just as long as we're not Werewolves, right?." Harry winced a little at what Teddy said. Thinking about Sophia being a Vampire. Harry wondered how bad she had it.
Harry stepped out followed by Ginny, who had her wand out to, and slipped her free hand into Harry's, he gave her a slight smile, before looking around. Rigel and Teddy stepped out of the box, closely followed by Luna, Ron and Cody. The only sound came from the steady rush of water from the golden fountain, where jets of water from wands of a witch and wizards, the point of a centaur's arrow, tip of a goblin's hat, and a house-elf's ears continued to gush into the surrounding pool.
"This way," Harry said, and they headed down the hall, Harry and Ginny in the lead. Wands out and their other hands tightly gripping each other's. They walked past the fountain toward the security desk.
"Shouldn't there be like a guard there or something?" Ron asked.
"Yes, there should." Cody said. "Harry, I don't like this, I'm getting a real bad feeling that we're heading into a trap."
"Voldemort probably killed the guard." Harry said. "And did something with the body."
He led them to the lifts, he pressed the down button, a lift clattered into sight almost immediately, the golden grills slid apart with a great, echoing clanking, and they dashed inside. Harry pressed the number nine button, the grills closed with a bang, and the lift began to descend, jangling and rattling. Harry had not realized how noisy the lifts were on the day they had their hearing. He guessed because of all the noise the wizards made.
After what seemed like years to Harry, the lifts finally stopped the voice said: 'Department of Mysteries' then the grills slid open and they stepped out into the corridor where nothing was moving but the nearest torches, flickering in the rush of air from the lifts.
Harry turned toward the plain black doors, he's been dreaming about since the summer. Not for the first time he wondered what was behind it.
"This way." he whispered, and he led them the way down the corridor, Ginny still with him, holding tightly to his hand, and Luna right behind them, gazing around with her mouth slightly open.
"Harry, I still don't think this is a good idea." Cody said. Harry stopped and turned around to face Cody.
"Listen, if you don't want to be here, then leave." Harry said. "I'll save our brother myself." He turned to face the door.
"Harry, that's not fair." Cody said.
Harry decided to just ignore Cody and opened the door, and marched over the threshold, the others at his heels.
They were standing in a large, circular room. Everything in there was black including the floor and ceiling-identical, unmarked, handle-less black doors were set at intervals all around the black walls, interspersed with branches of candles whose flames burned blue, their cool, shimmering light reflected in the shining marble floor so that it looked as though there was dark water underfoot.
"Well, isn't this a cheery room?" Teddy asked. "Hey, Trouble, I didn't know you could get into your bedroom from the Ministry."
"Ha..Ha..you're so funny." Rigel rolled his eyes.
"Someone shut the door." Harry ordered.
He regretted it the moment Ron obeyed it. Without the light the torch-lit corridor behind them, the place became so dark that for a moment the only things they could see was the bunches of shivering blue flames on the walls and their ghostly reflections in the floor below.
Harry felt like something was wrong, this was the room, he had went through the right door, in his dream he always just walked through the door and straight to the one opposite, but he couldn't do that here. There were dozens of doors here. Harry couldn't understand it.
As he ran his hand through his hair, trying to decide what to do, or which door would be the right one to go through, there was a great rumbling noise and the candles began to move sideways. The circular wall was rotating.
Ginny let go of Harry's hand and grabbed his arm with both of her's. For a few seconds the blue flames around them were blurred. And just as Harry was starting to feel dizzy just watching them, the rumbling stopped and everything became stationary once again.
"Well, wasn't that fun?" Teddy asked.
"Why did it do that? Ron asked.
"They want to stop us from knowing the way out." Cody said, in an almost whisper. He then swallowed and looked at Harry.
"Don't say it." Harry warned. Cody closed his mouth and glared at him, with his hands on his hips and his eyes narrowed.
"How are we going to get back out?" Ginny asked.
"That doesn't matter what now." Harry said. Clutching his wand tighter. "What matters now is finding Jesse."
"So, where to?" Ginny asked, she let go of his arm, and slipped her hand back into Harry's.
"I don't...know." Harry admitted.
"You don't know? Rigel demanded.
"In my dreams I went through the door at the end of the corridor from the lifts into a dark room-that's this one-and then I went through another door into a room that kind of ...glitters. We should try a few doors," he said. "I'll know the right way when I see it."
"Glitters?" Rigel demanded. "We're looking for a room that glitters?"
Harry didn't answer he was looking around trying to decide what door to go through. Rigel growled a little and marched to the door facing Harry.
"You said you always went straight." Rigel said. "Well, let's go straight then."
He pulled out his wand, and laid his hand on the door, raised his wand up and gave the door a push. It swung open easily. It was a long rectangular room, much brighter than the first, but no glittering, shimmering lights, like in Harry's dream. The room was almost empty except for a few desks and, in the middle of the room, an enormous glass tank of deep-water, big enough to swim in. It contained a number of pearly white objects that were drifting around.
"What the hell kind of fish is that?" Cody demanded.
"They're not fish." Luna said. "There Aquaviris maggots. Dad said the Ministry were breeding them."
"What of what? Ron asked.
"No," Ginny said. She let go of Harry's hand, stuck her wand in her back pocket and moved to look through the tank. "They're brains."
"What?" Cody demanded in disbelief.
"I wonder what they're doing with them." Ginny said. Harry joined her at the tank and pointed at the nearest one.
"Now, we know why most the Ministry is stupid idiots." He said. "They've taken out their brains."
Ginny, Ron, Cody, and Teddy laughed. Rigel just nodded as if he agreed with Harry's joke, and Luna still insisted they were Aquavirius maggots.
"Let's keep moving." Harry said, taking Ginny's hand. "This isn't the right room. I never saw in brains in my dream."
"That's because you don't have any." Teddy said. Harry glared at him, and Ginny took the hand that wasn't holding Harry and gave Teddy a push, which made him bump into the tank.
"Harry, there's a lot of doors in here too." Ron said. Harry looked around the room with a frown, he wondered if he was really going the right way, but he had to be.
Harry sighed and gripped his wand tighter, with a frown. Ginny gave him a smile.
"Let's just keep going straight, I guess." Harry said. "I went straight in my dream, so, that seems like the only thing to do."
"Alright." Teddy said. "On to the next room then." He walked over to the door straight of them. "Let's see what's behind door number two." He pushed it open and walked right in without waiting for anyone, they heard him gasp, and they all ran to help, but when they got in the room, Teddy wasn't being attacked as they feared. He was barely standing inside the door looking ahead of him as if in shock.
Harry looked around the room, and it was even emptier than the first, there was what looked like a muggle operating table, with silver trays, and all kinds of silver instruments that looked like sugary tools, and what looked like silver bullets. Harry could see bits of blood on the tray and instruments. The only other thing in the room, was what Teddy was staring at.
Right ahead of them, hanging from the ceiling with long chains was the body of a Werewolf, a tag was tied to its wrist marked: Test Subject Number 33.
"What in the..." Cody seemed for once speechless.
"I thought if you killed a Werewolf it turned back human? Ron asked. Teddy flinched and Ginny glared at him.
"They usually do." Teddy answered, in a small voice. "I don't understand why-"
"They used a potion." Rigel said, he had walked over to the Werewolf and was reading the tag. "If you go by what it says on the inside of this tag, once it was killed it was giving a secret potion to keep him in Werewolf form."
"But why the hell would they do something like that?" Harry demanded.
"So they can study it." Ginny said, she was flipping through a notebook that Harry hadn't noticed had been lying next to the silver trays. "They want to find more about them, how they came to be and how to cure it or stop them, as it's written." She closed the notebook and made a face.
"They have to be better ways of studying them then-Well, that." Harry motioned to the dead Werewolf. "That's just sick."
"Dose your Mum know about this?" Ron asked Teddy, he glared at him.
"Of course not." he snapped, "if she did she wouldn't-"
"Besides." Rigel spoke of Teddy. "The wizards that work down here aren't allowed to tell anyone, not even their families what goes on. They're called Unspeakables for a reasons."
"Yep, and now we know why."Cody said. "It's because they do the Unspeakable."
"Let's just get out of here." Ginny said. "This obviously isn't the right room."
"Yeah, let's go." Harry nodded. They all turned toward the door, that was just in front of them, all but Luna, who, instead walked to the other side of the room, grabbed a hold of what looked like nothing and gave it a pull, and a black curtains that had blended in with the wall flew open to revile a giant looking tube thing that was full of green liquid. The worse thing was, there was a body of a man inside the tube. He looked dead, wearing nothing but long white hospital robes, and looked a little like Professor Grimes.
"What the-" Ron said.
On the side of the tank was a tag was attached there, Luna lifted it up and said. "He's a what they're calling a Hybrid."
"Hybrid?" Cody asked. "What do you mean Hybrid?
"He's part of two different creatures." Luna said. "The tag says he's alive, but in a deep sleep, till they're ready for him to wake."
"What's he part of?" Teddy asked.
"Doesn't say." Luna dropped the tag and shrugged. "But his name is Trent Grimes."
"Grimes?" Harry asked. "Like, Professor Grimes?"
Ginny frowned at the man in the tube, then looked to the werewolf, then her eyes widened and she walked over to the notebook and started flipping through it. She stopped at one page and gasped. "I thought so, but how-"
"What?" Rigel demanded.
"He's a Werewolf- Vampire, Hybrid." Ginny said. "Or so they tried to make him, they don't know if they experiment worked, not till they wake him." Ginny took breath and went on. "Said all the others they tried, either died or the Vampire venom killed the Werewolf virus and they just became Vampires. That's why they decided to try it with someone who was already a Vampire. They've taken his blood and venom, mixed it with the Werewolf blood and virus, and put it make in him." She closed the notebook with a look of degust.
"Think he's related to Professor Grimes?" Cody asked.
"If you go by his last name and looks," Rigel said. "I'd say brother." Harry nodded, the guy in the tube did look a lot like Professor Grimes, just with short hair, and bluesh color sky, almost the color of someone who has been dead a while.
"Let's just go." Cody said. He nodded to the sleeping Hybrid. "Before he decides to wake and wants a nice magical snack.
"Yeah, we need to find Jesse." Harry said. He took Ginny's hand and headed toward a door, pushed it open walked through and was blinded by dancing, diamond-sparkling light. As Harry's eyes became more accustomed to the brilliant glare he saw clocks gleaming from every surface, large and small, grandfather and carriage, hanging in space between bookcases.
"I believe we found Harry's glittering princess room." Teddy said. Harry glared at him.
"Look at that!" Luna said. She was pointing to a towering crystal ball jar that stood at the far end of the room. Drifting along in the jar was a jewel-bright egg. As it rose in the jar it cracked open and a hummingbird emerged, which was carried to the very top of the jar, but as it fell on the drift, its feathers became bedraggled and damp again, and by the time it had been born back to the bottom of the jar it had been enclosed once more in its egg.
"This place is getting weirder by the minute." Teddy said.
"Let's keep moving." Harry said. "I'm pretty sure it's through here. Harry pushed the door open. His tattoo suddenly started to itch, which he took to mean they were close, since being anywhere near Voldemort would put them in danger.
He was right, they found the right place: high as a church and full of nothing but towering shelves covered in small, dusty, glass orbs. They glimmered dully in the light issuing from more candles brackets set intervals along the shelves. He couldn't hear anything, no yelling, cursing or screams of pain.
"Okay, this is the right place." Harry said. "We just need to find roll ninety-seven."
Ginny looked up at the end of the closets row. "Fifty-three, we go right I believe."
Harry nodded, letting go of Ginny's hand, and made her get behind him. He held his arm out and ignore the itching of his back. They crept forward, staring behind them as they down the rows of shelves. The further they went, the more his tattoo itched, Harry knew they had to be close, but why wasn't he hearing or seeing anything. He noticed tiny, yellowing labels had been stuck between each glass orb. They passed row eithty-four...eighty-five...Harry was listening hard for the slightest sound of movements, but Jesse might be gagged now or unconscious, hopefully not dead.
"Ninety-seven!" Whispered Ginny. They stood grouped around the end of the row, gazing down the alley beside it. There was nobody there.
"He's right down at the end." Harry said.
"Harry," Cody whispered, gently. "Nobody's here."
"You can't see properly from here." Harry said. "Jesse's -"
"Not there, Harry." Cody said.
And he led them forward, between the towering rows of glass balls, some of which glowed softly, as they passed..
"He should be near here." Harry said. "We're really close."
"Baby," Ginny said. "I think Cody's right, no one is here."
They reached the end of the row and emerged into more dim candlelight. There was nobody there at all. Harry's heart dropped in his chest, he felt like a fool.
"We're too late." he whispered. "That's why they're gone, we're too late. Jesse is...Jesse it..." he couldn't say it. They had wasted their time and now his brother was dead, died at the hands of the very guy who had killed his parents. And who knows what he did with Jesse's body to hide the crime. He tried to blink back tears as Ginny came up behind him and put her arms around his waist. He turned around to face her and put his arms around her shoulders and held her close to him.
"If no one is here and we're not in any danger? Teddy asked. "Then why the hell do our tattoos itching." He was using his wand to reach up his back to scratch his tattoo. Harry frowned, he was so upset about Jesse he hadn't noticed his tattoo was itching.
"Harry?" Ron asked. "Why does that orb have your name on it?"
"What? He asked, he pulled away from Ginny and walked over to where Ron was pointing to. He frowned when he looked up at it. On the yellowish affixed to the shelf right beneath the dust ball. In spidery writing was written a date of some sixteen years previosly, and below that:
S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D.
The Dark Lord
and (?) Harry Potter
"What is the Ministry up to?" Cody demanded, sound angry. "Having my brother's name down here."
"I think..." Ginny swallowed. "I think it's a prophecy."
"What?" Harry almost laughed. "A prophecy."
He reached up, put his fingers around the dusty ball's surface. Nothing happened, Harry picked it up and brought it down eye level to get a better look, he knocked some of the dust off, he's tattoo now itching like crazy, then-
"Very good, Potter." Rang out a drawling voice right behind them. "Now turn around nice and slow and give it to me."
Black shapes emerged out of thin air all around them, blocking their way left and right; eyes glinted through skull like mask, a dozen wand tips were pointing directly at their hearts. Ginny gave a gasped of horror as Harry stepped in front of her, blocking her from harm and rasing his wand higher.
"To me, Potter," repeated the drawling voice of Lucius Malfoy. He held out his palm and Cody jumped in front of Harry, his wand pointing at Malfoy.
"Don't come any closer." He warned. Harry stepped out from behind Cody.
"Where's Jesse?" He demanded. The Death Eaters laughed. A harsh female voice from the midst of the shadowy figures to Harry's left said triumphantly. "The Dark Lord always knows."
"Bitch!" Rigel cried. He went for the voice and, Cody threw out his arm and stopped him. He growled, Harry had never seen him so mad.
"Now, give me the prophecy, Potter." Malfoy said.
"I want to know where my brother is." Harry said.
"I want to know where my brother is." mimicked the women to his left. She and her fellow Death Eaters closed in so that they were just feet away from Harry and the others. He reached over grabbed Ginny's arm and pulled her back behind him, she had been behind Cody, since Harry had moved out from behind him.
"Give me the prophecy or we start using wands." Malfoy said.
"Go ahead, try." Rigel snarled.
"Don't do anything." Harry told the other's for they had raised their wands. "Not yet-"
"You hear him? You hear him?" Said the female voice. "Giving instructions to the other children as though he thinks of fighting us!"
"Hey, he took out your precious Dark Lord, didn't he?" Teddy demanded.
"You dare!" The women screamed, she stepped into the light, and all Harry could see was cold black eyes through eye holes of a silver skull like mask, with designs on it, it wasn't like the mask the other Death Eaters wore, the face was more female looking.
"You filthy son of a Werewolf!" She yelled. "How dare you bad mouth the Dark Lord...-Cruico!"
Teddy screamed out and fell to his knees withering in pain.
"STOP!" Harry yelled. Rigel's eyes flashed in anger, as the women lifted the curse, laughing as Luna helped Teddy to his feet. Rigel stepped forward and held out his wand.
"Cruico!" Rigel cried, his spell had not been as powerful as the women's, but she still screamed as she dropped down on her knees. "Nobody hurts Teddy or any of my friends!"
Rigel lifted the cruse and the women jumped to her feet, took off her masking, showing she was Bellatrix Lestrange and snarled.
"So, little baby Black, does know how to play." She smirked. But Harry could see anger in her dark cold eyes.
"My last name is Black isn't it." Rigel said. The same anger flashing through his gray eyes.
"Okay, let's play then." Bellatrix said. She raised her wand, but Malfoy threw out his arm, blocking her.
"No!" He cried. "What if you hit the prophecy, you'll break it."
"Fine!" Bellatrix snapped. She turned her wand to Harry. "Accio Proh-"
"Protego!" Harry cried, blocking her summoning charm.
"Oh, so, Baby Potter knows how to play too." Bellatrix snarled.
"Yeah, it's like Teddy said." Harry smirked. "I already took out Voldemort once, and I'm going to do it again."
Bellatrix glared raised her wand, "Cur-"
"NO!" Malfoy yelled, he shoved Bellatrix, she bumped into a shelf and knocked a bunch of orbs down, they ones that didn't smash went rolling all over the place. One hit Ginny foot and she bent down and picked it up.
"You'll make him break the prophecy." Malfoy went on. While they were arguing Ginny reached up and squeezed Harry's shoulder.
"We are out numbered, and need to get out of her, Harry?" She whispered. He frowned.
"I know, I've been trying to think of a way?" He whispered back."
"I have an idea." She whispered. "Give me that." She took the orb from him, and stuck it in her pocket. "Now take this one. Get their attention, and then throw it, they'll think it's the ones they want and go after it." Harry nodded, and let out a big whistle.
"Hey, Riddle puppets!" He yelled, Malfoy and Bellatrix stopped arguing and faced them. "You like the Fitch things for your master like some dumb dogs!" he held up the orb. "So here, Fitch this." He threw it as hard as he could, the orb went sailing over the Death Eater's heads and into darkness.
"NO!" Malfoy yelled, and all at once the dozen Death Eaters went for it. Leaving Harry and his friend's pathway to escape clear.
"RUN!" Harry cried, he grabbed Ginny's arm and pulled her along running down the rows, not waiting to see if the others followed. The only thing running through his mind was he had to get Ginny to safety.
"Damn it you fools!" he could hear Bellatrix yell. "You let him trick you!"
Soon Harry heard feet running behind him and Ginny yelped, he looked to see a large red place on her arm. A Death Eater was behind them and had hit Ginny with a stinging hex. Harry stopped and faced the Death Eater.
"Stupefy!" The spell hit the Death Eater, sending him flying into the Darkness behind him. Harry turned back around, grabbed Ginny's hand and kept running. He could hear more footsteps behind him, Rigel and Ron were suddenly running next to them, the door which they came through was straight ahead. When they got there, he made Ginny go first, then he went right behind him, followed by Rigel, then Ron.
"Colloportus!" Ginny cried, and the door sealed itself with an odd squelching noise.
"Where-where are the others?" Harry panted. "Where's Cody?"
"They must have gone the wrong way." Ron whispered.
"Listen." Rigel snapped.
Footsteps and shouts echoed from behind the door they had just sealed. Harry and Ginny, copied Rigel and put their ears to the door.
"Leave, Nott." Malfoy yelled. "No, leave him, I say. The Dark Lord will not care for Nott's injuries!"
"A caring lot, aren't they?" Ginny whispered.
"Jugson, come back here, we need to organize! We'll split into pairs and search, and don't forget, be gentle with Potter-"
"Ohh, they do care." Harry mocked, Ginny stared giggling. Rigel rolled his eyes.
"-Until we get the prophecy." Malfoy went on "You can kill the others if necssary-Bellatrix, Rodolphus, (Rigel growled at the name) you take the left, Crabbe, Rabastan, go right-Jugson, Dolohov, the door straight ahead-Macnair and Avery through here-Rookwood, over there-Mulciber, come with me!"
"What do we do?" Ron asked them from behind.
"Well, we don't stand here like idiots waiting for them to find us." Rigel said. "And if they do we fight back."
They ran as quietly as they could passed the bell jar and to the exit, toward the room with the sleeping Hybrid and dead Werewolf. They were almost there when Harry heard something large and heavy collide with the door.
"Stand aside!" said a rough voice. "Alohomora!"
As the door flew open, Harry, Ginny, Ron and Rigel dived under desk. They could see the bottom of two Death's Eater's robes.
"They might've ran straight through to the hall!" said the rough voice.
"Cheek under the desk." The other shouted back.
Harry saw knees of the Death Eater bend. Poking his wand out from Under the desk he shouted "Stupefy!"
A jet of red light hit the nearest Death Eater; he fell backwards into a grandfather clock and knocked it over. The second Death Eater however pointed his wand at Ginny, who had crawled out from under a desk to get better aim.
"Avada-"
"NO!" Harry cried, he jumped out from under his desk and tackled the Death Eater to the ground. Rigel too jumped back up and aimed his wand, but couldn't get a good shot without risking hitting Harry. The Death Eater got to his feet, and that's when Rigel hit him.
"STUPEFY!" He cried. The jet of red light hit the Death Eater right in the chest and sent him flying into the wall.
"Everyone okay?" Harry asked, they all nodded, and he got to his feet then turned and helped Ginny up. There was a shout from another room.
"CODY!" Harry yelled. "TEDDY? LUNA?"
"Harry." Ginny cried. "Don't yell!"
More footsteps were growing closer. Damn, how could he had been so stupid, now he given away their position.
"Come on!" He ordered, grabbing Ginny's hand, they took off for the door that stood ajar at the other end of the room, leading back into a black hallway. They had got halfway when the door flew open and three more Death Eaters came running at them, Harry veered left and bust through a small office room and slammed the door shut.
"Collo- began Ginny, but before she could complete the spell the door had burst open again and the three Death Eaters came hurtling inside. With a cry of triumph, both yelled. "IMPEDIMENTA!"
Harry, Ginny, Rigel and Ron were knocked backwards off their feet, Ron was thrown over a desk, rolled off and hit the floor on the other side pretty hard and didn't move.
Ginny smashed into a bookcase and was promptly deluged in a cascade of heavy books; Harry's head hit the wall hard and for a moment he was stunned.
"WE GOT HIM!" yelled the Death Eater. "IN AN OFFICE OFF-"
"Silencio!" Rigel cried, and the man's voice was extinguished. He continued to mouth through the hole in his mask, but no sound came out.
"Petrificus Totalus!" shouted Ginny, as the second Death Eater raised his wand and pointed it at Harry. His arms and legs snapped together and he fell forward, face down onto the rug at Harry feet, stiff as a board and unable to move at all.
"Way to go, Sas-"
The Death Eater Rigel and cures made a sudden slashing motion movement with his wand from which flew a streak of what looked like purple flame. It passed right across Rigel's chest; he gave an "oh" of surprise and then crumbled onto the floor where she lay motionless.
"RIGEL!"
Harry fell to his knees beside her as Ginny ran toward them, the Death Eater stood over them his wand raised. He pointed at Harry, then Ginny, then his wand. The meaning clear: "Give me the prophecy or your girlfriend gets what he got."
"You touch Ginny and I'll kill you." Harry warned. The Death Eater gave Harry an evil grin reached down grabbed Ginny by the arm and jerked her up. Harry stood holding out his wand, The Death Eater held Ginny to him with one arm and with the other held his wand to her throat.
"Let her go." Harry demanded. "I don't even have the prophecy." Harry held out his hands. "You see it?" He patted his jean pocket. "See, I dropped it running from you prats."
The Death Eater snarled, and held his wand closer to Ginny's throat. Harry took the chance and suddenly stepped forward and knocked Ginny away from the Death Eater and tried to snatched the wand out of his hand, but the Death Eater knocked Harry to the ground and went to make that swashing motion, but Ginny picked up her wand and cried.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" The Death Eater fell to the ground, unmoving.
Ginny and Harry crawled to each other, Harry put his hands on Ginny's face. And they checked each other over for injuries.
"You're not hurt are you?" Harry asked, Ginny shook her head, and checked Harry over.
"I'm fine, what about you?" She said.
"Fine, but it scared me to see his wand at your throat." They leaned in and kissed.
They were startled apart when a door suddenly burst open, Harry threw Ginny down and covered her with his body, as he held out his wand, but it was only: Cody, Teddy and Luna. Harry frowned when he noticed blood on Cody's shirt. He stood and helped Ginny to her feet.
"Where the bloody hell have you guys been!" Harry demanded. "And, Cody why do you have blood on your shirt?"
"It's not mine." Cody said, he had one of Teddy's arms around his shoulder and had helped him to walk, Teddy pulled away and snuck to the floor.
"What's wrong-"
"I think he broke his ankle." Luna said. "I heard something snap." Harry frowned at the look of pain on Teddy's face.
"Where's Rigel?" He grunted. Harry pointed down at him, just as over in the corner Ron groaned. Ginny ran over to him.
"Four Death Eaters chased us into this weird room with flouting plants and stuff." Cody explained. "For a few minutes we were just flouting around ourselves, one Death Eater grabbed Teddy's ankle, but Luna blasted Pluto up in his face. We got away and ran into two others, but then a door flew open and Sophia, her husband, Professor Grimes, and a few others came running into the room." Cody made a face and held out his shirt. "Harry, did you know Sophia was-"
"Yes," Harry answered. "And it doesn't matter. What happened next and why isn't she with you."
"She and her husband ripped apart those Death Eaters." Luna explained. She pointed to the blood on Cody's shirt. "She got the one apart to curse Cody, and her good-looking husband got the one that was about to curse me. They told us to get out and that they would find you guys."
"Alright, Cody, you grab Teddy, and Ginny, Luna you go with them, find help." Harry said. He turned and headed toward the door Cody and the other's just came through.
"Harry, where are you going?" Both Cody and Ginny cried.
"To find my sister." Harry said, he pressed his raven "Sophie, I need you." He whispered hoping it will led her to him and they could leave the Ministry together. Ginny glanced at Cody, then turned and ran after Harry.
"I'm coming with you!" She cried. Harry stopped, to one look at her face then nodded, and grabbed her hand.
"Ginny, Harry, come on." Cody cried after them. "Let's just go!"
They ignore him and pushed open a door and walked through, they walked back into the room with the sleeping Hybrid, the door slammed closed behind them. They headed toward another door, when it burst open before they got there to revile a three Death Eaters being led by Bellatrix Lestrange.
"I found them!" She cried. Stunning spells shot across the room: Harry shoved Ginny behind him and cried, "Protego!"
The spells bounced off his shield charm, and went hitting the walls, the silver table, the Werewolf body, and the tube holding the sleeping Hybrid, it cracked a little in the front and green liquid dripped out and onto the floor. Harry kept his wand out and the shield charm up, thrust open the nearest door and made Ginny run in first, before he sent a stunner of his own after the Death Eaters and ran after her. They took each other's hands as they ran down a long hallway, Death Eaters hot on their trial. They turned left then right, left again and ran through another door.
They ended up coming out at the very first room they had entered, Harry and Ginny looked around wondering what door to go through when all around then Death Eaters came crushing through. This time with more of them.
"We have you trapped now, Potter." Malfoy said. He held his hand out. "Give me the prophecy, now."
"I don't have." Harry said. "I'll tell you want I told the other prat. I dropped it running from you gits."
"LIAR!" Bellatrix screamed. Harry just shrugged, She pointed her wand at Ginny. "Give it to me now, Potter or I swear your little girlfriend will be screaming in pain". Harry stepped in front of Ginny, and before anyone could do anything else two doors suddenly burst open on either side of the room.
On one side in ran: Sirius, Jesse, Lupin, Moody, Bill, Kingsley, and Tonks. All four came running in, wands raised and ready to fight.
And on the other side, it was: Sophia, Caleb, Cody, and a few others Harry realized was vampires, all being led by Vaughn, the leader of the clan. All, but Cody hissed and ran into the fight, ripped apart the Death Eaters, while Cody pulled out his wand and started casting spells.
Harry and Ginny just stood there, in awe as they watched the fight. They shook their heads and held out the wands and joined the battle.
"Avada Kedavra!" Was screamed out, Harry turned around to see one of the vampires fall to the floor. Then that Death Eater pointed his wand and Sophia. On the other side of the room Tonks was curse with some kind of spell and she went flying across the room and hit the wall and fall to the floor.
"Hey!" Harry cried. "I have the prophecy, you want it come get it!" Hoping they would follow him and leave the others alone Harry ran into the other room, where the sleeping Hybrid was.
"Harry!" Ginny cried, she ran after him. Followed by about four Death Eaters. But before they got to the other door, it flew open and three more Death Eaters ran in. Ginny and Harry was trapped in between seven Death Eaters, two of which were Bellatrix and Malfoy. No one seemed to notice the tube with the Hybrid was not empty of water with a big hole in the front and the Hybrid gone.
They turned so there backs was pointed toward the tube, and held their wands out.
"Give me the prophecy, Potter." Malfoy demanded.
"I already told you." Harry snapped. "I don't-"
"Curico!" Bellatrix cried, the spell hit Harry and he dropped to the floor withering in pain.
"STOP!" Ginny cried, "Please! I have it, I have the prophecy." She reached in her pocket and held it out. "Take it, just please, stop hurting him!"
Bellatrix lifted the curse with a smirk, Malfoy stepped forward to take it, but he suddenly jumped back as if Ginny had the Dragon Pox, Bellatrix's smirk dropped and all the Death Eaters was backing the eyes wide with fear. Ginny frowned.
"What-" Ginny suddenly felt someone behind her, she turned around and towering over her, his eyes open and pitch black was the Hybrid from the tube. She would have backed up, but she was frozen in fear. It stared right into her eyes, and snarled with razor-sharp fangs, and raised razor-sharp pointy claws. Then let out these awful roar and lounged at Ginny.
"GINEVRA!" Harry cried, he jumped up, and pushed Ginny out of the way and the things sharp fangs snuck into his neck. Harry let out a scream of pain as he slammed him to the ground. The Hybrid raised its head back and gave a howl, then leaned in and went on working on Harry's neck like it was a chicken leg. Harry screamed in pain, as he kicked his feet and used his hands to try to push the thing off.
Ginny let out her own scream as she watched the love of her life being attacked. "STOP! Please, you're going to kill him! HELP! Someone please."
Ginny finally got up the courage and ran forward to help Harry, but someone grabbed her around the waist and held her back.
"Let go of me!" Ginny cried, hitting whoever it was stopping her from getting to Harry. "Harry needs me please let go."
"Calm down." Bill said in her ear. "He'll help Harry." Caleb ran forward and grabbed the thing by the shoulders and tossed it crossed the room, it hit the body of the dead werewolf and fell to the floor. Jesse, Cody and Sophia ran right to Harry and all knelt around him. The rest of the Order and Vampires stood around watching the scene.
Meanwhile the Hybrid stood back up, and howled at Caleb, he just hissed back, his nails grew into long claw and as he bared his fangs at him, the other Vampires ran over to join him. Knowing he was out numbered the Hybrid turned and fled.
"Get him!" Vaughn cried. "He attacked one of our protected, do not let him live!" Caleb nodded at his father's order and together the Vampires ran after the Hybrid.
With the danger gone from the room Bill let go of his little sister and Ginny walked slowly toward Harry, when she got to him she felt as if her heart broke into pieces. His shirt was covered in blood, half his neck had been ripped out and every once in a while his hand on that side would jerk. Ginny dropped to her knees by Harry's head and burst into tears. She pulled Harry's upper put of his body into her lap, laid her head on his and cried.
"I hope Caleb rips that thing in two." Sophia said. She was holding Harry's hand. Harry was breathing slowly.
"Damn it!" Cody cried. "I told him this was a trap. He wouldn't...he wouldn't-" Jesse reached over and put a comforting arm around Cody. He too had tears falling down his face and for once him and Sophia was not fighting each other.
"Somebody do something!" Ginny suddenly cried out. "Please, we can't let him die, he can't die." She cried more, Cody suddenly jumped up and went to the other side of the room a punched the wall Bill walked up to Ginny and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Why is everyone just standing around" Ginny cried. "We need to get him to a healer-St. Mungo's somewhere. We can't just-" She stiffed. "Please! I can't lose him. I can't. It should be me laying here, if he hadn't pushed me out of the way, it should be me. It's my fault."
Vaughn walked over to Sophia and laid and hand on her shoulder. "Sophia, there is one way to save your brother." Sophia looked up hopefully to Vaughn he nodded. "I give you permission if you want. You may turn him."
Sophia nodded wiped her eyes and turned to Jesse questioningly, he glanced down at Harry for a long moment, then looked back up at Sophia and gave a very slight nod. Sophia turned to Ginny.
"Ginevra?" Sophia asked. She laid her hand on Ginny's arm, she raised up and looked at her.
"Just save him, I don't care what he becomes." Ginny said. "I love him and I need him." Sophia smiled a little and after a moment she turned Harry's head, so that the side of his neck that was unharmed came into view. She bared her fangs, and bent her head.
"Wait!" Cody cried. "What are you doing, Sophie don't!" He ran forward but Jesse jumped up and held Cody back. "Come on, Jesse, don't let her do that to him, there has to be another way!" Bill walked over and helped hold Cody back, as Sophia's fangs snuck into Harry's neck. But instead of sucking his blood she dropped venom down into his neck, it flowed through his vines. After a moment Sophia raised up, but so far nothing happened. Vaughn bent down and turned his head, and after a moment the ripped up part of his neck started to heal.
A door opened and Caleb and the other vampires walked in. All was covered in blood. Vaughn straighten up and looked up at him questioningly.
"He's dead." Caleb said, Vaughn gave a nod. Caleb's eyes dropped down to Harry, he's neck was now almost completely healed. Caleb's eyes widened.
"Did you-"
"Sophia did." Vaughn said.
"Ginevra, you might want to get back." Sophie said. "Harry might wake up acting viciously."
Ginny glared at her. "Harry would never hurt me." She tightened her hold on him.
"Maybe not in his right mind, child." Vaughn said. "But the change affects everyone differently."
Ginny opened her mouth to argue, Bill walked back over and patted her shoulder. "Come on, Ginny, stand back here with me, just in case okay." Ginny sighed and nodded, she gently laid Harry's head down, and stood, her brother led her over to a far corner and made her get behind him. Jesse, Bill and Cody stepped back a little too. The other order members had not come into the room, they had stayed to watch the caught Death Eaters in the other room. They probably didn't even have any idea to what was going on. And Remus Lupin had stayed to witch his hurt wife.
The moment Harry's neck healed up all the way, his eyes popped open, to revile a light blue almost white, he opened his mouth showing freshly grew fangs as he let out a horrible sound almost like a scream or the sound of something dying. His chest raised up almost lifting up off the floor, as a bright light shot out of him. Then as suddenly as it happened it stopped, Harry fall back down, his eyes closed and the screaming stopped.
"Um...that's not normal is it?" Jesse asked.
"No, I-" Sophia looked up at Vaughn. he was at lost to what happened as much as she was. Harry pale and he moved his head and mumbled.
"Ginny." She ran out from behind Bill and over to Harry and dropped to her knees next to him she took his hand in her's.
"I'm right here, Baby." Ginny said. Harry opened his eyes with a sudden hiss, showing fangs. Vaughn reached in the pocket of his robes and brought out a flask, he opened it passed it top Caleb, who got down next to Harry, Sophie raised him, and he turned it up to Harry's mouth and he drank it down hungrily. When he was done, Harry jerked the glasses off his face blinking as if he couldn't see. Then stopped, his eyes turned to their normal green and he looked real pale. Ginny wrapped her arms around him and he clasped into her arms. He looked up at Ginny, and she could tell he was real weak. He could barley reach his hand up to lay on her cheek.
"You didn't..." He tried to say. "He did...get you did he?" Ginny burst into tears, here Harry was almost killed and all he was worried about was if the Hybrid had hurt her. His hand dropped, being too wake to hold it up any longer. He frowned as Ginny got hold of herself and wiped her eyes.
"When need to get him back to the house." Vaughn said. "He needs rest and blood."
"Blood?" Harry asked, he looked around confused. "What...what's going on?" He let his head fall back on Ginny. Sirius now came walking into the room. He stopped, eyes wide at the blood all over his favorite godson's shirt.
"Harry!" Sirius rushed over and knelt next to him. What happened.
"I'll tell you want happen." Cody said. "Sophia there, just turn her own brother, my little brother into a blood sucking-"
"Watch it." Caleb warned.
"What? Both Harry and Sirius said. Harry reached up and felt of his teeth, his eyes widened when he felt fangs.
"It's the only thing we could do to keep you alive." Jesse told him, he knelt next to Harry and explained what happen to him and Sirius what happened. Sirius just sighed and nodded, he didn't care as long as Harry was alive. Harry just sat stunned for a moment. Then he looked at Ginny.
"I still love you, Harry, I don't care." Ginny said. "Always will."
"Come along, child." Vaughn reached down to help Harry up. "You were turned by one of my family members, that means you're a part of our clan now. We'll get you back to the house and you can rest, then we're help you learn how to be one of us." Harry nodded, not really listening, he was still shocked, but he knew there was this growing hunger inside of him.
"It's normal." Sophia said. Like she knew what he was thinking. "You need blood." Vaughn and Caleb helped Harry to stand. He stumbled a little, but Caleb helped him to stay standing.
"Just wait one damn minute here." Cody snapped. "I don't care who turned Harry, he's going home with us."
"And do you know how to train a freshly turned Vampire?" Vaughn calmly asked. "Teach him to hunt, to control his craving, and all that?" Cody glared at him.
"Harry has to go with them, Cody." Jesse spoke . Cody turned to face him, Jesse looked sad all a sudden. "Is safer for him to move in with them. Now that-not only for the summer, but for good."
"What? Jesse, no!" Cody cried. "You can't just let them steal out little brother!"
"He's my brother too." Sophia said.
Their arguing was stopped when a voice suddenly rang. "Harry Potter, where are you? I want my prophecy." They all looked at one another.
"Was that?"
"Voldemort." Ginny answered. Sophia jumped to her feet as the voice rang out again.
"Harry Potter, come out come out where ever you are!"
"Why does he sound so close?" Cody demanded.
"He's using a spell to make his voice carry." Jesse said. He walked over to Harry. "We need to get him out of here." Sophia suddenly took off running to the nearest door.
"Sophia, get back here!" Vaughn cried. "That's an order." She stopped turned around and looked at him.
"That's the guy who tore my family a part." She said. Vaughn looked at her a moment, then gave a nod. She turned and push open the door and ran though.
Sophia, no!" Harry cried, he tried to run after her, but he was too weak and Sirius had to stop him from falling. "Sophia, please."
"Sophia, wait!" Caleb cried. He ran after his wife, Jesse right behind him.
A.N. I'm ending it there, this was one long chapter, hope you like it, and hope I did Harry's turning alright. It was the best I could do. There might be two more chapters instead of one, depends if I could fit Sophia's fight with Voldemort and the ending in the same chapter.