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Michelle's POV
Well, it was clear that our little plan to trap them in a room together didn't work. Clearly, instead of the room filling up with "Sorrys" the room was full of piano tunes and songs. Not that it's not good sounding. It just didn't fit the criteria we were hoping for. As I sit at the Slytherin table with Keith next to me, I couldn't help but notice that he was skimming the Hufflepuff table anxiously.
I look at him confused, "Who are you looking for?"
"Did you notice Jennifer isn't at breakfast?" He says, still scanning the table as if he missed something. Wait, when did he start noticing Jennifer. I couldn't help but feel a spark of jealousy. Regardless, I scan the Hufflepuff table. He's right. She's not there. I look over at Tamara, she seems to have noticed too and is talking to Bianca. I look over at Natalie, she smiles back. Okay, i'm guessing she didn't notice.
I walk to class with Tamara. I decided to bring up the topic that has been bugging me all day.
"Hey, you know where Jennifer is? I saw you talking to Bianca." I say.
She shakes her head," Nope. According to Bianca, Jennifer wasn't there when she woke up. Everything else was there, even her wand." she explains.
She wasn't there when she woke up? Thats weird. Jennifer, according to Bianca, is the type of person who would wake up on her own. As for the wand thing. It doesn't surprise me. She only had it for so long and has been exposed to magic for so long compared to the rest of us. This entire thing is just so bizarre. I try not to think about it. I'm sure she'll be back tomorrow.
The next day, Jennifer is still nowhere to be seen. I'm seriously starting to get worried, and sitting next to Keith on that part doesn't help. I turn to the Ravenclaw table to see if Natalie noticed. Only, she wasn't there. Now she's gone too? What's happening? I have to talk to Tamara about this before she mysteriously disappears too. I get up from the Slytherin table and head over to the Gryffindor table.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Keith cries, ignoring him, I head over to Tamara. Many Gryffindors turn their heads and look at me as I approach. Tamara gets up from her seat.
"Natalie isn't here now too." She says, dragging me away from the audience.
"Yeah, Jennifer isn't back either. Have you talked to Bianca?" I ask.
She nods, "Yeah. She stayed up and she didn't come back, and now Natalie is gone too. This is seriously starting to worry me."
"Did Natalie leave behind her wand too?" I ask. If she did too...
"I don't know..." Tamara says, drifting off, "Do you think this has to do with that Patronus that came the day before they went missing?"
I never thought about that. Come to think of it, it does seem odd.
I look at her, "We need to do more research." She nods. I leave the table and head over to the Ravenclaw table.
"Hey. Have you seen Natalie?" I ask Zoey, Natalie's Ravenclaw friend.
Like I expected, she shakes her head. Turns out she woke up to an empty bed next to her. Natalie's wand also abandoned. I'm started to get scared. I thank Zoey and return to my own table.
After a day full of classes, Tamara and I meet at the Library.
"What exactly do we research? Pelicans again?" She asks questioning.
"Yeah, I guess. There might be something else stuck in that book we found the map in." I reply, skimming the shelf.
Tamara suddenly turns to look at me. "What if their disappearance ties in with the map? It started after the Patronus came and when we found the half of the map.
"Umm, maybe." I say. If it was then what good will that do? We don't have the other half. Besides, Dumbledore has it now. However, it can be a possibility.
"What did the end of the map we had say exactly?" I ask Tamara.
She scrunches her brows together. "I don't think I remember. It must be important though, from the way Dumbledore looked at it." She confirms. I nod. Though the map may have nothing to do with Natalie and Jennifer's disappearance, I'm starting to get more and more curious.
The next day, I wake up in my own bed. Okay, if Tamara is missing, something is definitely going on. Something not normal. I quickly get dressed and head down to the great hall. I scan the Gryffindor table as I take my seat. Here's the thing. Tamara always wakes up early. So if I don't spot her there now, then I won't at all.
I didn't. I'm almost positive that I'm next, and if not...then it's rigged. Tonight, I'm going to bed with my wand in my pocket. Just in case.
I wake up with someone shaking my shoulder. It must be Helda. I groan.
"Uhhh, Helda give me five more minutes..." I drift off, ready to go back to sleep. Strange, the bed feels different...it's not that comfortable. Just...different. Helda continues to shake my shoulder.
"Wake up." It wasn't Helda. It's Tamara's voice. What is she doing in my dorm? Does she want to get killed by all the Slytherins?
I get up opening my eyes. Tamara closely coming into focus.
"What are you...?" I suddenly became aware of my surroundings. I'm not in my dorm anymore. It was a dull place. As if all the happiness has been sucked out by a vacuum cleaner. There was a door with bars and a lock. We're in a dungeon.
I notice harmonica music coming from a corner. I turn to see Jennifer playing a sad song to fill the void. I see Natalie in another corner, listening to her iPod with closed eyes. I turn my attention back to Tamara.
"What happened?" I asked stupidly.
"You know how we've been disappearing? Well, this is where to." She answers. " I woke up and saw you on the ground. According to Jennifer and Natalie~who are still not talking by the way~ it was like that with them too."
I nod, trying to progress all of it. Wait. I quickly reach inside my robe, where I kept my wand. It's wasn't there. Where is it? Is it with the so-very-nice person who "kidnapped" us? I slump at the thought.
"Oh," Tamara says, getting up. "Look what I found in here" Handing me a piece of ripped parchment. It was the map. The half we found in the Library. But why is it here? We gave it to Dumbledore.
"Why is it here? Shouldn't it be with Dumbledore?" I ask her, with harmonica music in the background.
"I was about to ask you the same thing. I found it here yesterday. I was hoping you would have some news to return to us. So have any?" She asks hopefully. I think about it for a moment.
"Not really" I reply. Tamara nods, slightly disappointed. I get up from the hard concrete floor, how could I have thought this was my bed? Jennifer continues to play.
"Would you stop that? It's not helping." I say to to her kinda annoyed.
"No!" Natalie cries, we turn to look at her. Expecting to see her lose her paperclip.
"What happened?" Tamara asks.
"The battery ran out..." Natalie says, lifting her dead iPod. Uhhh...okay...Natalie gets up, stuffing her iPod in her pocket.
"So, have any ideas who put us in here?" I ask. They all shrug in response.
"No idea. Whoever it is, they're dead. Sticking me in here for four straight days! I'm starving." Jennifer says, first time talking after her little harmonica solo. Or solos.
"Any idea how to get out?" Tamara asks.
"Nope," Natalie says, "We're all wandless." That's true. With a wand, each of us could have easily gotten out this dungeon.
"Who says you need a wand to break out?" Jennifer pipes in, breaking off my train of thought. I look and see her narrowing her eyes at Natalie. Sigh. Jennifer gets up.
"There's more than one way to open a lock." Jennifer says, staring only at Natalie.
"Well, then why don't you show us? You spent the majority of your time playing with your little harmonica." Natalie says, staring back. Tamara and I glance at each other nervously.
"Okay," Tamara says, trying to break to tension. "Since we're in a situation here can you two at least try to get along?"
They both think about it for a second then quietly murmur 'fine'. Thank goodness.
"Okay, Jennifer, why don't you show us how to get us out of here." Tamara continues.
"I'm going to need a pick." Jennifer says.
"What kind of pick?" I say confused.
"Oh you mean one with a loop on the end?" Tamara says who seems to get what she means. I just stand there confused. A pick? Loop?
Jennifer nods. Natalie reaches in her pocket and pulls out a paperclip. "Would this work?" She asks.
Jennifer takes it and nods. She starts to bend it. She moves toward the lock on the iron gate, treading her arms through two bars. She puts the end of the pick in the keyhole and start jiggling it around. The lock clicks.
I look at her in amazement. "How did you learn how to do that?" I ask, clearly fascinated. I realize my mouth was open the whole time and quickly closed it.
"Long story. I'll explain later." She opens the gate, the hinges squeak. Sound echoing through the empty halls. At least, I hope they are empty.
We walk down the hall and see a partially open door. Jennifer peaks through it.
"There's a safe in here. Do you think we should open it?" she says grinning.
"Probably something important is in there. Maybe my wand too." I say.
We open the door, and go in.
"Do you know how to pick that too?" Tamara asks Jennifer.
"No, but we can use this." she says picking up a large hammer from a toolbox. Probably to fix the broken chair next to it. Jennifer hits the safe multiple times till the door falls off.
"Note to self, do not make Jennifer angry while she has access to a hammer." I say.
Natalie takes out the things in the safe. Inside is an old piece of parchment. That was a waste of time.
"It's the other half of the map!" says Natalie.
"What!" Tamara, Jennifer and I say together.
"Let's put it together." says Tamara.
We put it together but we barely have anytime to study it when there was a sudden knock on the door. We look up to see a man. He smiles at us. The man looks about 40, with a faint grey beard and jet black eyes. He was tall and really skinny which made it look like he hadn't eaten for months.
"Well, girls. It seems that you have 'found' the other half of the map." The voice matched the one of the baboon Patronus.
"You brought us here? Why?" I ask.
"Like I have said before. It is time to find an elixir to help in the defeat of an enemy that is soon to come."
"But why us?" asks Natalie.
"You're the one's who were actually curious enough to go and look up pelicans and I think curiosity will help you get through your quest. We also have one person from each house which could also help."
"So you're saying we have to go and find an elixir to defeat evil, axe-using, mutant, cannibal pelicans?" says Jennifer.
"Something like that." says the old man.
"So i'm right Natalie." says Jennifer.
"He said somewhat." Natalie replies.
"Well atleast i'm partly right." says Jennifer raising her voice a little.
"Well I never said you were all wrong..." answers Natalie looking at the floor.
"You girls need to get going. There's no time to waste. You can talk along the way. Here, take this car."
"You're giving us a car?" I say surprised.
"Yes. You have to get there somehow."
"We're 11! What makes you think 11 year olds know how to drive a car?" says Tamara.
"Uhmm..." I say.
"You know how to drive a car?" says Jennifer.
"Let's just say that if my parents find out, i'm dead. Though i'm not sure if the controls on an flying car are the same as on a regular car."
"Do I even want to ask?" asks Natalie.
"No, not really." I say.
"If you can figure out how to enchant it to fly. Feel free to do so. If the car makes it back here I wouldn't mind having a flying function" says the old man.
"Now I have things to do so you can leave yourselves. Good luck. " says the old man and he leaves.
"So how we going to make this fly?" I ask. Reaching the car. It was a beat up five passenger car. Considering how beat up it is, I'm scared it will just fall apart.
"Well..I read a book about it.." says Natalie.
"Why did you do that?" asks Jennifer.
"I thought it might come in handy." says Natalie.
"Why would you need to do that at Hogwarts?" replies Jennifer.
"I have my reasons." says Natalie.
"Let's just do this." I say. Don't need to give them time to start fighting.
"Well in the book to make it permanent or last for years it would take 100 steps." says Natalie.
"We don't have the time for that!" I say.
"Well there's a temporary one at the back of the book. It lasts for 24 hours." says Natalie.
Jennifer shrugs, "Well better than nothing."
"Well, let's get started then." says Tamara.
She opens up the front.
"fugere currus, invisibilis, ieiunium, volavit, lapsus, celeri..."
After a few more spells Natalie says "That should do it. I think."
"You think?" I say.
"Well I didn't memorise the book. I only remember since I read it recently." says Natalie.
"Okay...so where are we going?" I say.
"Let's look at the map." says Tamara, taking it out. She holds it out. We all lean in to look at the map. It was really the first time we got to fully examine the other half of the map. It lead to what looked like an underground cave.
"A underground cave?" I wonder out loud.
"Looks like it." Tamara confirms.
"Okay, we should get going." I hop in the driver seat. It smelled weird. I can't really put my tongue on it. Either way, It smelled worse than the dungeon I can tell you that much.
There were a pair of fuzzy hot pink dice hanging on the rear-view mirror. Maybe it was just me, but I found it a bit odd. Jennifer takes the passenger seat, Natalie and Tamara take the back seats. I turn the key, the engine roars to life.
"So where to?" I ask.
"I'll tell you where to go, just PLEASE drive carefully. You better know what you're doing," Jennifer says nervously. I nodded. The controls look exactly the same, but instead of a wand, there's a key to ignite the engine and the function to have the car automatically fly up. I took a deep breath. Oh my Merlin, I hope nothing bad happens. I have all of our lives in my hands. Gosh, talk about pressure...
I pushed the gear up for it to fly and I stepped on the gas pedal slowly at first. The car started driving forward and as it goes on, it slowly starts to descend into the air. I looked out at the side and rear mirrors to see if there's any Muggles watching and once I saw there weren't any, I put more pressure on the gas pedal to go faster.
"Why do you keep on looking at the side mirrors?" asked Jennifer.
"One, to make sure no Muggles are watching. Two, need to make sure, there's no other flying cars, and if there is, I need to make sure I don't crash into them. I also need to make sure that we're not discovered. We're too underaged to drive a car. I can't afford being caught by anyone. It will ruin my family image." I replied.
"Is your family image that important to you?" Natalie asks. I sighed softly. Well, this is the life of a well-known, rich pure-blood family. I nodded. Silence filled the air.
"You know if you press that blue button over there the car becomes invisible?" says Natalie, breaking the silence.
"You should have said that earlier." I say, hitting the blue button.
"Sorry." she replies.
"It's fine. So where do we go?" I ask. Jennifer looks at the map.
"Well we need to figure out where we are first." says Jennifer.
"I'll drive a bit lower then." I say.
"I've got it. Go south Michelle." says Jennifer.
"Okay." I turn south.
After driving for a bit, I finally see a small bottle-shaped lake. I land carefully beside it and we all get out.
"Um..can we just leave the car here?" says Natalie, looking around.
"Yeah, won't we get a parking ticket?" says Jennifer.
"It should be fine." I say. "If it gets a ticket it's the old guy's fault."
"So the cave should be on the north side of the lake." says Jennifer.
"Let's get walking then." says Tamara.
We walk quietly Jennifer holding up the hammer from earlier as a weapon. Before long we reached the entrance to the cave. It was honestly nothing special looking but it looked like it went down deep. Hopefully nothing else is down there. A hammer is not going to beat a Acromantula. There better not be an Acromantula or that wouldn't be good. The four of us go in and we hit a wall.
"Oww.." says Jennifer. The minute she touches the wall the candles on the wall light up.
"There's a snake symbol on this wall." I say. "If you were more specific it's Salazar Slytherin's sign."
"Maybe a Slytherin can open it." says Natalie.
"Open" I say. The wall doesn't budge. "You guys try."
"Open" says Natalie but the wall still doesn't move. Then Tamara tries.
"Open" Silence. Finally Jennifer tries.
"Open" Well I think that's what she was trying to say since instead of English she hissed. On the wall a door appears.
"You can speak Parseltongue?" I say.
"What?" says Jennifer.
"It means you can speak Snake." says Natalie.
"But I was speaking English." says Jennifer.
"Well you weren't." says Tamara.
"But how can you speak a language and not know your speaking it." says Jennifer.
"Well according to Harry Potter that happened to him too." says Natalie.
"Okay, let's figure this out later." I say.
"Let's go." says Tamara.
We walk and as we go the candles light up one by one. All of us looked around. It actually looks pretty cool and interesting but kind of creepy at the same time. The cave was carved in some places to look like some shelter but it looks eerie. It doesn't help when you see skulls, skeletons and a small amount of decomposing...I have a bad feeling about this...Soon, we arrive at another wall. When someone touches it words appear on the wall.
"I am a creature you would fear to kiss. What am I?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" I say.
"It's a riddle" says Natalie. She notices a quill on the floor and picks it up.
"A Dementor"
"Correct"
"How did you know that?"
"It's was the Ravenclaw question to get into the common room on the first day." says Natalie
"You have questions instead of passwords?" asks Jennifer.
"Yeah." replies Natalie.
"So if you get it wrong you're locked out?" Jennifer asks.
"Basically"
Natalie touched the wall again.
"Under the water is where I live. I speak a language above the water and a language below. What am I?"
"A merman or mermaid"
"Correct"
"With lack of oxygen I die out but water can also kill me. Oil can make me worse but wood will spread me. What am I?"
"Fire"
"Correct"
"I may take away your good times, your bad times as well. You might not even remember if you've cast this spell."
"Obliviate"
"I'll bring you good luck, I take your bad luck away. You drink me and I'll take all your troubles away. What am I?"
"Felix Felicis"
"Final Question: The art of keeping young and well, lasting for all eternity, it creates diamonds from coal, and gold and silver from stone. If you succeed you shall unlock the key to all. "
"Hmm...this is hard." says Natalie.
"If you ask me it doesn't even make sense. It sounds like a beauty product that seems to make gold, silver and diamonds." says Jennifer.
"It seems to be like what the Philosopher's Stone does." states Tamara.
"You mean the one that belonged to Nicholas Flamel?" I ask.
"Yeah, the Philosopher's Stone created the potion of immortality which made you immortal and young. It could also create gold and silver from stone. I think diamonds from coal too." says Natalie.
"Then write it down." says Jennifer.
"But it says the art at the beginning and the key it's talking about should be something like the Philosopher's Stone. It also can't be the Philosopher's Stone since it was destroyed many years ago."
"One minute" appears on the wall.
"There's a time limit?" I say.
"I guess so." says Tamara.
"Uhmmm..." says Natalie.
"Come on Natalie" I say. "You can do it!"
"Uh..got it!"
"Alchemy"
"Correct. You may pass but beware that another obstacle is about to appear."
"That can't be good" I say.
We all go through and arrive in a room full of weapons. Swords, Knives, Daggers, Spears, Crossbows, Staffs, almost any weapon you want, you'll find it. The only thing it doesn't have is wands. I guess you had to bring your own.
"This seems like the armory in Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This is so cool. I feel like a demigod." says Jennifer as she picks up a long sword.
"Ouch!" She says, dropping the sword, almost slicing her foot off.
"What happened? You okay?" Tamara asks, looking at her.
"The sword just burned my hand." Jennifer states, examining her hand. Confused, I reach down and pick up a sword. It immediately reached to my touch, only, it didn't burn.
"It doesn't burn though." I say, looking up to see Jennifer. Tamara reaches and picks out a sword as well. She held it up.
"Nope. No burn." Tamara confirms.
Natalie and Jennifer look at each other. They reach for a dagger this time. They dropped them down at the same time. Both of them clutching their hands. I can see it redden. Tamara and I look at each other.
"I don't~" the cave starts to rumble. We scramble out of the room, I look back. Stones, boulders and rubble cover the entrance. Closing in the room of Weapons. I look over at the others panting. "What just happened?" I ask between breaths.
"I have only one guess, the next challenge." Tamara says. "And I have a feeling it involves these." She finishes, holding the sword up. I gulped.
We continue walking through the creepy tunnels, meeting more skeleton friends, when the tunnels rumble again as we enter another room. Only this one doesn't have any weapons. Rumbles echo the room. We turn around toward the direction we came from. Nothing there. I hear a sound behind us. I glance nervously at Tamara. By the look on her face, she heard it too. We turn around to see an Occamy.
"Oh snap..." Tamara mutters under her breath. I could say the same thing. It was about 13 feet tall with two legs and wings. Oh my Merlin...we have to fight this thing? Natalie and Jennifer backup away from the creature. I glance at Tamara. Why is our task the hardest? This is so freaking unfair.
The monster sounds. Oh god. I raise my sword hesitantly. The monster charges. I dive to the side, rolling as I land, dropping my sword. It sounds as it hits the ground. It charges towards Tamara. She steps to the side last minute. Making the monster hit the wall hard. The sounds echo through the tunnels. I get up and grab my sword and slash it across its back. It screams in pain. It looks straight in my eye. Spending my shivers down my spine. Before I realize, it charges towards me. Tamara grabs me and pulls me away.
"Okay, how are we gonna get rid of this this?" She asks, eyes not leaving the creature. How are we? This thing is like three times our size!
"We disturbed it's home. It gets aggressive when we go near it, or its eggs." Tamara states. I look around. My eyes lock on its eggs, which are pure silver. Okay, I understand why it would get aggressive.
"It probably thinks we are trying to take its eggs." I reply. Tamara nods.
"Exactly what I was thinking." The Occamy notices we are looking at its eggs and growls. Its wing slings towards us. Tamara deflects it with her sword. It screams in pain.
"How are we gonna defeat this thing? We are not getting anywhere." I say. Tamara's eyes widen, as if a light bulb has lit up above her head. She has an idea. She drops her sword. What on earth is she doing?
"What are you doing?" I scream, as the monster charges at her. She runs towards the nest of eggs. Is she freaking insane? I hold back the monster, trying to distract it. But it's eyes are only on Tamara. I slash it's big leg. It stumbles in pain. At least, it's eyes are off Tamara. Tamara jumps out from the nest, picks up the sword, grabs my arm,and runs. Natalie and Jennifer follow. The monster right behind us. The entire time I was confused. First she dares to go near its nest, now she's making a run for it? We leave the underground cave. Jennifer quickly seals the entrance. Trapping the creature inside. We take the time to finally catch our breath.
"Are...you...out of your MIND?" I yell at Tamara, she nearly got us killed.
"I was thinking the same thing." she replies. Still catching her breath.
"What was that?" Jennifer screams, equally pissed. "Did you want to become dinner?"
"Don't you see? It wasn't only guarding its eggs, it was guarding something else." Tamara explains, she reaches in the pocket of her robes and reveals the elixir.
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