Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot and May.
Authors note: I know I haven't been writing my other story "From Badass, Too Rachael Berry" I've been on sort of a writers block for that story so I decided to continue with this story that I wrote about four years ago. So Please review and tell me what you think
I'll try to get back to my glee story as soon as possible.
Chapter 5: Mermaid Problems
It had been a couple of days since Harry and Ron had found about her being a mermaid, the more time passed the more time she spent with the two down at the lake. The only trouble she had with it was keeping it from Hermione and Ginny, seeing as the four aren't really on speaking terms.
"Hey May, do you want to come down to Hogsmead with us, after we were thinking about going to the lake." Ginny said as the others were walking out of the common room.
May smiled and nodded happily, they all walked towards the carriages to take them to the village. On the way they were all laughing and talking about random things, getting out of the carriage Blaise tripped over his robe and fell flat on his face. The girls all laughed as he picked himself up and brushed the dirt off his clothes.
As May walked through Hogsmead she was slightly amazed by all the shops they had, they passed Zonko's and she walked in. While walking in, she smiled largely as she looked around at all the candy. She was looking at the lollipops when a boy next to her spoke to her.
"Do you want one?" He asked May looked over at him; He looked to be around 5'10" or 6 feet tall, with sandy blonde hair, slightly big strong looking muscles, and bright green eyes. May smiled at him and nodded her head excitedly at the thought of getting some candy. The boy smirked and bought her the lollipop, handing it to her letting his fingers glide across her hand. May thanked him for the candy and began licking the lollipop and stood outside looking for her friends.
"I've never seen you here before, do you go to Hogwarts?" The boy asked, standing next to her.
"Yeah, I'm new this year. Thank you for the candy, what's your name?" She asked smiling brightly up at him her bright grey eyes shinning in the sunlight.
"I'm Nathan, but you can call me Nate." Nate told her smiling.
"I'm May." She said smiling going back to eating her lollipop. "I really should go look for my friends, I kind of wandered off, and they must be worried about me." She said turning away from him and walked away waving goodbye. A large hand caught her by the wrist and turned her roughly back toward him.
"You're not just going to leave without thanking me properly are you?" Nathan said with a nasty smirk on his face, May looked up at him and began to struggle to get away from him. She soon realized that they weren't around many people, him having followed her toward the path away from the village.
"Let me go!" May yelled as she tried to get away from him. She struggled some more kicking and hitting him anywhere she could. He shook his head and smashed his lips onto hers. May's eyes widened and she tried to push him away form her. She bit his lip roughly making him bleed. He yelled in pain as he pushed her away from him and onto the ground. Nathan advanced toward her, May started backing away from him still on the ground.
Before she knew what had happened, Nathan had flown five feet away from her and landed near a tree, she looked up to see a tall man with red hair and blue eyes. She started to back away from him when he kneeled down next to her.
"Hey its okay, I'm not going to hurt you." He said gently, putting his hands up in a way that showed her he wasn't really going to hurt her. She looked up at him, blinking before nodding her head and stopped moving away form him.
"Are you alright?" He asked her softly. She gave him a small nod and started to stand up, only to fall back down to the ground grimacing. He took hold of her ankle and looked at it carefully.
"Nothing too bad probably just a small sprain." He said helping her stand up. "Are you going back to Hogsmead?" He asked her, May nodded her head at him.
"Do you want help getting back?" May thought about this for a moment, looking back at Nathan and nodded her head quickly. She didn't want to be alone if he came looking for her. The man kneeled down on the ground, gesturing for her to get onto his back. May climbed on his back and he carried her back to the village.
"Where you here with someone?" He asked once they got back to the entrance to Hogsmead. She nodded her head.
"I was here with my four friends, but I don't know where they are." She said sniffling. The boy winced; there wasn't anything worse then a crying girl.
"Do you want me to take you back to my shop, while you wait for your friends?" He asked her softly, she nodded her head wiping away her tears. The boy nodded his head and began to make his way to his shop.
"My name is Fred by the way, Fred Weasley. What's yours?" Fred asked her looking over his shoulder into her bright teary grey eyes.
"I'm May. It's nice to meet you, thank you for saving me." She said smiling into his shirt.
"No problem, guys that give the rest of us a bad name, besides things like that shouldn't happen to such a pretty girl." Fred told her, smiling. May blushed and hid her face in his back. Fred chuckled and kept walked.
"So what kind of shop do you own?" May asked, her face still buried in his shirt.
"Me and my twin brother George own a Joke shop, it does pretty well." He said smirking. May smiled and then yelped when he hoisted her back up so she wasn't falling off his back anymore.
Once they made it back to his shop, he led brought her to the back and sat her down on the couch, going to get her some tea. When Fred came back with her tea he saw her sitting there with her knees curled up to her chest, her face buried in her knees as she cried. He winced and sat down next her. He placed his hand on top of her head and began to lightly play with her blonde hair she looked up at him, her grey eyes filled with tears. With a small cry she flung herself into his arms and began to sob harshly. Fred looked down at her shocked, and began to awkwardly pat her back. After a few minutes of crying she pulled away, her eyes puffy, her nose and cheeks slightly red from crying and embarrassment.
"I'm sorry for crying all over you." May said as she whipped her eyes free of any left over tears. Fred smiled down at her and handed her the tea, May smiled nodding her head before lightly sipping at the cup.
"So how did you get separated from your friends?" Fred asked her gently after she had finished all the tea. She looked up at him sheepishly.
"I got distracted by the candy." She mumbled embarrassed, Fred chuckled lightly and patted her head.
"You know you're kind of adorable." He said smiling brightly at her. May blushed and lightly bit her lip.
"So your last name is Weasley? You're Ginny's brother? She was one of the girls I was with today." May told him. Fred looked down at her and grinned while nodding.
"You were with my sister today? Hmmm she didn't say she would stop by today, do you know where she might be?" Fred asked her, May thought about it for a minute before nodding her head.
"I think she said there were going to the Black Lake." She said quietly, he nodded and told her he would take her there. Fred locked up the store and left a note for George telling him he would be back later. May smiled up at him brightly, Fred looked down at her bright grey eyes and then placed his hand on her blonde hair ruffling it. May puffed up her cheeks and pouted cutely as she tried to fix her hair. He kneeled down and she climbed up on his back. The made their way to the black lake slowly, every so often they would ask questions about each other.
Once they made it to the black lake, May climbed off of Fred's back and limped her way to her group of friends. Draco was the first one to notice her, and was over to her in the blink of an eye asking questions, soon the rest of her friends followed.
"Where were you? Are you alright? Why are you limping? Did you get lost?" the group asked her all at once, May looked at them confused, they all talked at once so everything they said was one big blur to her, She looked over at Fred for help. Ginny and Hermione looked over to where she was looking and were surprised to see Fred Weasley walking out of the trees.
"Fred what are you doing here, shouldn't you be at the shop?" Ginny asked confused, after she hugged her brother. Fred shrugged his shoulders.
"I found this one…" he paused pointing at May. "I found her about to her attacked by some dick in Hogsmead." Fred told Ginny and Hermione who gasped and ran over to May and hugged her tightly.
"You guys I'm fine, Fred helped me." May said smiling at him. Blaise and Draco nodded their thanks at him while they stood next to May.
"Don't wonder off like that again okay, you scared us." Blaise said as he patted May on top of the head. May growled in the back of her throat and fixed her hair again.
Blaise looked at her shocked, for a second he though he saw her eyes flash red but before he could say anything about it they were already back to there regular grey shade.
"Do you need anything?" Ginny asked her. May looked at her for a minute before nodding.
" I could use some salt." May said quietly, Ginny and Hermione looked at her strangely before nodding their heads and leading her back to the castle with Blaise and Draco. The group passed Fred and he winked down at May, she smiled back before looking away.
"See you later kid." Fred yelled out to her. May whipped her head around, her long blonde hair with her pink tips swaying in the breeze and smiled at him before nodding, she waved before turning her head away again. Fred smirked and began to walk back to the castle with his hands in his pockets.
On the way back to the castle the small group ran into Harry and Ron. May smiled and waved at them, the boys nodded their heads for her to come over. May limped away from the girls over to Harry and Ron.
"Why are you limping?" Ron asked her after he helped her stand up straight again.
"Well I went to Hogsmead and a boy attacked me, but your brother saved me." Ron looked at her telling her to continue.
"He has a lot of older brothers." Harry told her, May nodded and told him it was Fred.
"Well he always did have a way of rescuing damsels in distress." Ron told her as he messed up her hair. May growled and fixed her hair for the third time that day.
"What is it with everyone messing up my hair today?" May said as she pouted and stomped her good foot on the ground.
""Because you look adorable when you get angry and try to fix it." Fred said from behind her. May yelled and spun around only to lose her footing and fall on her butt. Fred looked down at her surprised before laughing and kneeling down next to her on the floor.
"Geez you sure are clumsy, it's almost like you just learned to walk on legs." He said picking her up. Ron, Harry, and May all laughed awkwardly and Fred continued to help her to the Great Hall for dinner.
"So what house are you in?" He asked her once they got inside the Great Hall
"Slytherin." She said pointing to Draco and Blaise waving at her. Fred looked at her shocked. "What?" May asked
"Nothing it's just I didn't expect you to be a Slytherin. You're too innocent." He told her as he ruffled her bangs. May blinked up at him blushing, Fred smiled and led her to her table. After sitting her down he walked over to Ginny gave her a hug and then walked out of the Great Hall.
"May you're blushing!" Blaise said, both him and Draco laughed at May, which only caused her to blush more. Ginny and Hermione looked over at her from the Gryffindor table and smiled. They both rushed over to the table and sat next to May.
"You like my brother don't you?" Ginny asked, May blushed, turning as bright as the tips of her hair. May nodded as she began to twirl her hair around her finger. Ginny and Hermione just smiled at her. May patted her cheeks and sighed
"I need some salt." She said as she grabbed the salt shaker off the table and poured some into her water glass. The others looked at her strangely while she drank her water.
"I need to cool off, I think I'm going to go take a bath." She said as she got up from the table and walked out to the Prefect bathroom, before she left she nodded over to Harry and Ron telling them to follow her. Once she left the Great Hall, the boys got up and walked out of the door, without the others noticing.
Standing outside the prefect bathroom, May waited for the boys, she sighed as she blew her bangs out of eyes, when she heard footsteps coming toward her quickly she turned and came face to face with Harry and Ron. Smiling, they all walked into the Prefect Bathroom.
"You know it's pretty amazing the way you change." Harry said while he and Ron sat at the edge of the pool while May lay floating in the water. Her Aquamarine tail glittering in the water, May smiled happily at them as her tail fin changing colors to a happy yellow before going back to its normal grey with glittering pink and gold specks.
"You're tail changed, why have we never noticed that?" Ron asked her, May smiled and shrugged her shoulders. May swam over to the edge and placed her arms on the tile while she floated the boys both looked away blushing. She looked at them oddly
"What?" May asked looking at them like she was crazy. Harry pointed down to her chest which was once covered up by her long blonde and pink hair. She rolled her eyes and pushed herself off the wall. "boys you can look, I'm fully covered even without my hair covering it." The boys turned towards her and saw that she was right.
"What is that covering your….. um" Ron asked her turning red. May giggled and swam closer to him
"Its my scales, don't worry you won't see anything. But thank you for being gentlemen." May said right before she splashed the boys. They looked at her shocked, but ended up smiling as she giggled and stuck her tongue out at them.
"You know you two should really think about swimming with me some time, it's amazing under the water, like a dream." May said as she swam around the tub. Ron snored
"Maybe for you, you can breathe under the water, we can't." Ron reminded her, May pouted and nodded, soon though she was smiling up at them happily
"Maybe I could fix that. I could grant you a wish." She said smiling, the boys looked at her for a few moments.
"But I thought you can only grant someone a wish if they help you out? Harry asked, she shook her head
"Not exactly, just leave that part to me you'll go swimming with me soon, I'll make sure of that." May said before she submerged her head under the water and swam deeper to the bottom of the tub. Both of the boys shook their heads at her. May narrowed her eyes up at them. After a few minutes of being down there the boys began to get worried
"Can marmaids drown?" Ron asked Harry quietly as the both stared into the water.
"I don't think so, but with May anything is possible, just give her a couple more minutes, she's probably just exploring what's down there." Harry reasoned as both he and Ron slowly put their feet into the pool, just as they were about to dive under the water, May swam up under them and grabbed their feet. The boys screamed out frightened, she broke the surface laughing.
"Are you mad, you nearly scared us half to death!" Ron yelled, May smirked and circled the pool once more. The boys sat at the edge of the tub trying to catch their breaths.
"You know I was wondering something, if you're a mermaid and your parents are mermaids…. Which one of your grandparents was a mermaid?" Harry asked, Ron nodded his head at her.
"Yeah, I was wondering that too actually." Ron murmured to himself.
"Grandmother was a mermaid just like I am, and just like my mother. Mermaids are usually only females, but every once in a while a mermaid will give birth to a merman. You see when a mermaid comes to the surface and finds love, they have two choices; one the mermaid can stay up here with her beloved and have the life she has always wanted or two the male and become a merman and spend his life with her under the sea." May told them, the boys nodded their heads in understanding.
"So McGonagall choose to stay here with Dumbledore…. That still doesn't explain how you're a mermaid." Ron said, May nodded her head and pulled herself up onto their ledge, her tail, still submerged in the water, was moving back and forth.
"When a mermaid who found love and stayed on land has a child, that child never loses their mermaid abilities, when they reach a certain age they are given a choice stay human forever or become a mermaid. My mother, obviously choose to become a mermaid, she met my father and here I am." May explained as she examined her nails.
"Well what about Snape? You called him uncle before." Ron asked, May giggled at him
"He's not my real uncle, he was just always there for me. Could you ever imagine Snape with a tail?" May said giggling behind her hand
"Are your parents upset that you choose to come on land?" Harry asked her, May looked up at him sadly.
"Yes and no. My mother has always supported me with whatever I had done, my father on the other hand is less then pleased that I've chosen to try and become human, Father says that humans are barbaric and that they would soon as capture me if they ever found out what I truly was." May told them sighing sadly.
"Father would much rather me stay under his waters and marry the merman that he has chosen for me. I would rather be captured then marry that, that arrogant self inflating blowfish!" May yelled her tail and eyes flashing a bright red, the boys looked at her shocked
"It's a wonder he doesn't float to the surface with his head so full of hot air." May told them giggling, her eyes and tail going back to their normal colors.
"May I wish I could see what it's like under there, you make it sound so amazing." Harry said as he pushed her wet hair from her face. May looked up at him and smirked.
"Dinner is almost over, I should go." May told them pulling herself out of the tub she reached her hand down to steam dry herself when she looked up at the boys. "Do you mind?" May asked the boys before pointing to the door.
"Oh right sorry, we'll be going now." Ron said turning red as he and Harry rushed out of the door. May quickly dried herself off before putting her clothes back on, as she walked to the door she was stopped short by a squeaky voice coming from the tub.
"Ohhh I've never seen a pretty mermaid before" Moaning Myrtle said as she floated around in the tub. May turned around her eyes flashing a bright red
"Listen here, you tell anyone that I'm a mermaid and I'll flood your precious little bathroom. Got it?" May told her pointing her finger at the ghost. Myrtle just laughed at her. "Or better yet, I'll tell Harry you threatened me, He'll never come see you again." May said glaring at the girl, who gasped and started whining,
"Fine I won't tell anybody you're a mermaid just don't make Harry hate me." Myrtle cried. May smiled and nodded her head at her before walking out of the bathroom, as soon as she was out she broke into a run toward the Head's dormitory. Once she got inside the common room she collapsed onto the couch.
After a few minutes of waiting the portrait door opened to reveal the girls with Draco and Blaise. May smiled at them and patted the seats next to her on the couch. Blaise shoved her over only to let her place her legs over his. Ginny sat next to him and Draco next to her, Hermione sat on the couch's arm with her legs over Draco's.
"I feel like we haven't spent any time together in the past few weeks." May told them pouting. The girls nodded their heads. "So how about us girls go out shopping and cook dinner for us to eat in the common room and catch up?" May asked the group, the boys nodded their head showing they thought it was a great idea.
"But we can't leave the castle, it's against the rules." Hermione pointed out.
"Rules Shumls, I'll go into Hogesmead tomorrow morning since I don't have class and get everything we need." May said smiling waving her hand. Ginny smirked
"Are you sure you don't just want to go into the village to go see my brother?" Ginny asked nudging May with her elbow. May blushed bright pink and shook her head
"Don't talk nonsense, Of course not I just miss us hanging out is all." May told them as she patted her cheeks. Ginny rolled her eyes along with Draco. Blaise and Draco began to make kissy noises while Hermione and Ginny giggled behind their hands. May stuck her tongue out at the group and stomped up the stairs to her bed.
"I hate you all!" May yelled from her bed. Shem smiled as she buried her face into her pillow her cheeks a soft pink as she thought about Fred and running into him in the village tomorrow.
Yaaay Chapter 5 is finally done, took me long enough. I had to rewrite the WHOLE thing cuz the old one sucked. LOL
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