A/N: Thank you all for the very positive reviews that I have gotten, without farther ado, here's chapter three.
Chapter 3.
The weeks passed quickly for the twins and their friends. The classes were normally challenging, they weren't overly so and gave Harri and Wednesday a magical workout.
Ron surprised everyone in Ravenclaw by turning in consistant good work while never seeming to study. What no one but Hermione knew was that Ron didn't have to study, not really. He had a perfect memory for anything he read. But it only worked on what he read, not what he heard or saw.
Draco surprised everyone in the whole of the school by befriending the muggleborn Hermione, it was well known among the Wizarding World that the Malfoy's hated muggles and muggleborn, the fact that the scion of such a House was friends with her was shocking.
However, the hidden truth was that the Malfoy's had never hated the muggles, and had served the various " Dark Lords and Dark Ladies" in order to save as many lives as possible.
Hermione was soon shown to be a bookworm, and a know-it-all. Often studying late into the night and urging the others to do the same. She put most others in their year to shame by putting everything she had into her work.
The bigest surprise, however, were the Addams twins.
Wednesday turned out to be a brilliant studant, but also well mannered if slightly creepy. Most of the other students didn't like working with her, after all she was one of the creepy American girls. She wore black, even when she didn't need too, and her twin pigtails seemed...wrong somehow. Her dark eyes often tracked movement in a way that let you know that she was aware of everything around her, and didn't care if you knew it or not.
Harriet however, seemed even more creepy, the way she moved and held herself told you that she was accustumed to violence, and didn't bother to hide it. She also had an aura about her that seemed to chill everyone to the bone, especially when she gave you " The Look" her bright green eyes seeming to bore into you and chill you to the soul...
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The night of Halloween arrived and it seemed to Ron, Draco and Hermione that the twins were almost buzzing with energy.
Harri especially so, she could almost not sit still during their last classes. She was fidgitting and twitching so much that she was sent to the hospital wing to be screened for drugs. Madam Pomphry found nothing at all in her system, and when asked about it all Harri would say was that something big was going to happen, but she didn't know what.
That night, during the dinner as they ate and partied, Hermione noticed that Harriet seemed to suddenly stiffen, eyes losing focus and then she blinked and said in a slow voice. " Its here."
Wednesday saw this and sighed, putting down her fork and wiping her mouth with a napkin before saying " And just before I finished my second helping too, why couldn't it have waited until I finished?"
As Harri was eating, she felt the presence of her patroness, the soothing coolness of Death before her Mistress wrapped etheral arms around her and whispered in her ear { Girls bathroom, second floor, a troll to be claimed. }
She blinked and looked around as she said " It's here." as she finished saying that, Professor Quirrol burst into the room yelling " Troll in the dungon!" and passed out.
The prefects began to gather the students up and lead them out of the hall, as they did none of them seemed to have noticed that five students snuck out of the Ravenclaw line, hiding in the shadows of the hall and waiting for the crowd to leave.
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" Remind me again,why are we sneaking down the hall instead of going back to our dormitory?" Draco asked as they moved quickly and quietly down the halls.
Hermione smiled slightly and said " We're here because we want to know more about our friends. Besides, they might need some help."
Ron snorted sightly and said " I doubt that those two need help if it comes to fighting, but I will admit to being curious about those two." as he said this, his mind was already filing through the list of spells he had learned from his classes, as well as the standard book of spells, grade one. Thinking of what might be useful if it came to a fight, and not liking his odds at all.
As they arrived at the door to the girls bathroom, the three friends all raised their eyebrows at this, but Wednesday didn't bother. She reached into her bag and pulled out a solid metal fan, with a razor sharp edge.
" Is it in here sis?" Wednesday asked, flicking open her fan with a snap of her wrist. Her dark eyes already blazing with battle lust.
Harriet nodded, and drew her Saber, her green eyes almost seeming to glow with power as she said " Yes, the troll. It's been marked. I can feel it." she could too, the steady pulse of power from her mistress's mark, calling to her's.
Before the others could ask what she was talking about, she slammed the door open and the five of them charged inside.
There, in the center of the room was a large troll, it's head almost brushing the ceiling as it turned to them and let out a bellow of challenge, raising it's tree limb of a club.
Hermione froze as she saw the troll, face going pale as she saw what was surely her death coming for her. Beside her Draco gulped, and Ron nearly dropped his wand.
Meanwhile both Addams girls charged forward.
The Troll charged forward, bellowing as it did so, swinging it's club at the twins, Wednesday dodged to the right, while Harriet jumped over the club, both yelling challenges of their own.
Harriet spun in the air and brought her saber down on the troll's arm, cutting deeply as the beast bellowed in sudden pain.
The Bellow snapped the three friends out of their stupor, the three of them split off and began to fire their own spells, minor as they were to try and aid the twins.
Ron began to chant in the far corner as he recalled a spell that he felt should help the twins, closing his eyes he held his wand before him.
Hermione levetated rubble and threw them at the trolls head, hoping to distract it, all the while Draco tried using stinging spells on its legs.
Wednesday dashed between its legs, her fan flashing as she used the Dark Water style, leaving gashes that Draco targeted for his spells.
The Troll roared in challenge and pain, swinging its club around, trying to crush the annoying insects. But these insects were stinging it, hitting it with chunks of rock, or slicing it with steal. It didn't understand what was happening, its small brain wasn't capable of understanding that it was doomed, or that these little bugs should not be able to hurt it.
Ron yelled " Get Clear! Pyro Fuego!" and whiped his wand in an upward slashing motion, causing a rushing wall of fire to hit the poor troll, setting it alight. As the troll howled in pain and surprise, Ron fell to the ground, the effort of the spell rendering him unconsious.
The Troll, seeing the one who had hurt it most fall down, lumbered over to finish it, swinging it's club with force, ignoring the scream of the little brown haired one, then something happened that surprised everyone.
The Troll's club was stopped in mid swing by Harriet, she stood over Ron, one arm raised over her head stopping the club. Her head was down, but when she raised it, her eyes were blazing with fierce azure light, and her hair began to lift as azure light seemed to radiate from her.
When she spoke to the Troll, her voice was layered. One was her normal voice, but the second was richer, more mature, and infinantly powerful.
" You. You have been marked by My Lady to die tonight, and you would have harmed my friend tonight, I will not allow this to happen."
The Troll, for the first and last time in its life, felt true fear as the one who had stopped it's attack suddenly seemed to have jumped onto its club and ran up it, up its arm, to the shoulder, then it stopped feeling anything at all as Harriet cut it's head off.
Harriet jumped from it's shoulder, kicking backward to cause the Troll's body to fall back and land with a thud that shook the room. She landed with a light tap as her feet hit the ground next to Ron.
As the heavy body landed, Dumbledore, McGonnagal, and Snape all ran in, each with a stunned look on their faces as they survayed the scene of battle.
As they sat around the bed that Ron lay in, the three friends thought about the twins, how Harriet had killed the Troll, and how Wednesday hadn't even hesitated to attack the beast. They also thought about their own parts in the battle, Hermione throwing rubble at it, Ron burning it, and Draco stinging the cuts Wednesday provided.
Each was wondering the same thing Whats happening to us?