As one adventure ends another is surely to begin!
By Fallensoul62
Warning: This story is a mixture between canon and AU containing a Sherlock like/powerful fem harry, character bashing, alive-snarky but nice Severus, nice Malfoys and all around occ-ness.
Guide
"Hello"...means talking
"Hello"...means flashbacks/memories
'Hello'... thoughts
'Hello'...thoughts in a flashback/memory
"Hello"...means parseltounge
"Hello"...means spells
Chapter 4
New world, new home and surprises.
-Previously-
The screaming then starts, the soul screeching screams, from deep within their chests that echo throughout the clearing, though to Severus all is silent as once the pain hit his mind shut down turning into a blank sheet of nothing as it tries to cope with the pain, while all his senses dull to the point of also nothing. The only thing he could still feel is his heart thundering in his chest and his throat vibrating from his screams. Soon, though to the pair it feels like an eternity, the pain and incantations stop which goes unnoticed by them as they find themselves falling into the dark abyss both feeling numb and relief. They could distantly hear Rose shouting their names in panic and hear her running towards them before the darkness swallows them whole.
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Different shades of blue, gold, purple and silver swirl and weave in and out of each other, sometimes blending together and other times not creating a mystical vortex of sweeping colour. Rather suddenly three blurry figures can be seen falling at sky diving speeds don through the swirling, pulsing vortex, a women's anger and shock filled scream of "Kurai you arsehole! I'll kill you!" following behind the quickly falling trio. The wind whipping through the vortex carries the shout to said person who's watching from a hole above, a smirk on his childish face while waving sarcastically down at them goodbye with both hands much like a child would do to their friends or parents.
-Flashback-
As soon as the light died down and disappeared Rose ran to the pair and dropped to her knees in between them, " quickly Rose! Put a drop of blood on the pendant to bind ad bond them to yourself or they'll die! A look of fear encased her face at Kurai's words so with speed only a cheetah possessed, Rose snatched up the pendant, cut her palm with a wandless and wordless cutting charm and enclosed the pendant within her heavily bleeding palm. Not even a second later a light made up of purpleish-blue, blue and brown shone from her still bleeding hand before it disappears in a flash. This caused Rose to open up her hand and gaze in awe at the once clear, but blooded covered, crystal that now looked like it contained a swirling mist of blue and brown speckled with purpleish-blue.
She carefully, as if she was afraid to break it, slipped the pendant over her head where it rested delicately just below her collar bone with the tip of the pendant stopping just above her cleavage. "Rose your hand," Kurai reminded her only with only a slight hint of concern that coloured his voice, which caused Rose to finally take her attention of the pendant and take notice of how much her hand was really starting to hurt. A quick 'episky' healed her hand almost completely only leaving dried blood and a large white, puckered scar behind, "so what happens now? Do we wait for them to wake up?" Rose questioned her attention back on the pendant as she asked this, "No need for that." Commented Kurai before he started to snicker which was Rose's only warning to whatever mischief Kurai had managed to cook up inside that small head of his.
For you see while her attention was captured by the pendant Kurai slowly and carefully began to make a portal underneath the trio, a portal with a glass top heated to body temperature so they wouldn't notice the randomly appearing portal. So when Rose went to look behind her at Kurai in confusion she got the shock of her life when instead she found herself and the others falling through a vortex. Surprise turned into anger which caused Rose to start screaming abuse up at a waving, smirking Kurai. 'I've got to get my entertainment from somewhere, ' thought Kurai as he watched them fall further down the swirling, colourful vortex before he closed it with a sharp snap of his fingers.
-End of Flashback-
'Arse! The bastard is such a sadistic prick!' Is the thought flying through Rose's head as she tries to distract herself from the swirling mass of colours making up the vortex, which soon begins to make her stomach turn uncomfortably and gut churn painfully. "How long have we been falling?" Rose muses to herself under her breath as she fiddles with a piece of hair that's whipping around in front of her face. No sooner had she said this a bright white light appears in the corner of her eyes, the source coming from behind her, and a groan coming from one of the men behind her is also heard. With slight difficultly she moves her body so that she's falling so the light is facing her front instead of her back; gasping she notices the light is a huge misty hole at the end of the vortex, presumably the entrance to her, sorry their, new home, only to be distracted by another groan making her head snap over to Lucius whom by the looks over it is waking up. 'Oh shit! He has to wake up now doesn't he?!' The exasperated thought crosses her mind as she watches Lucius' eyes flutter open.
'Arggg! My eyes! What the..!?' Thinks Lucius as he quickly closes his eyes in an attempt to block out the multicoloured light shining in his sensitive, bloodshot eyes. A giggle followed by a soft call of his name causes him to carefully open his eyes again, only to quickly snap them open in bewilderment as he's greeted by the sight of Rose who's seemingly floating in the air above him. 'Rose? Floating?' The thought races through his head while out loud he questions in confusion, "What!" A sharp glance around suddenly clues him in on the fact that Rose isn't floating but that they're falling and fast; scowling Lucius glares rather heatedly at Rose, "Care to explain. Now!" He demands curtly something he wishes he hadn't done when he sees Rose wince and cringe away from him, before she begins to explain what had happened while Severus and he were unconscious. It doesn't help that his barophobia (1) is starting to kick in though he tries to hide it rather gracefully from Rose who's now looking at him in concern, once she sees the sweat starting to form on his hairline, forehead, brow and upper lip as well as the slight shivering of his body.
"So to summarize Kurai bound us together through that pendant you're wearing and then sent us on our merry way without so much as a good bye, or an explanation on what's going to happen to us when we get to our new home. Not to mention instead of being some what normal and transporting us there himself he just throws us in a vortex and leaves us to fall. Did i miss anything?" Recites Lucius with a blank expression on his sweaty face. Before Rose could confirm or deny his summary they're engulfed in the white light from below feeling as though they're being ripped apart by rapid wolves and serrated knives. The feeling then soon changes to that of being put back together with scorching hot blowtorches and super glue, all the while salt is being rubbed into the jagged and gaping wounds covering not just their bodies but their souls as well. To their relief an all consuming darkness begins to eat away at their vision before taking hold completely. Not that they minded in fact they welcomed it with wide open arms and small but painful smiles.
-Home world e.g. Naruto world-
All but invisible to this worlds inhabitance three portals open up in the sky with each portal opening at different points in the country and time. Quite suddenly three colourful and rather misty orbs of light shoot out of the portals like bullets. The orbs bob up and down in place for a moment or two as the portals close behind them, before shooting off through the sky in seemingly random directions like shooting stars. The first orb that's dark blue in colour hovers over a heavily forested area for a second then dives into said forest, twisting and turning in and out of the large, tall trees and fat, bristly bushes making up the forest. It never once stops for rest not even caring when it's faced with a massive wall of wood and stone. All it does is fly over said wall and zip through the streets and buildings hidden behind the massive structure, until it reaches a large walled off compound to which it disappears into never to be seen again...Well at least not as the way it went in.
The second orb of a bark brown colour does pretty much the same as the first except for a few differences such as the landscape for one. Instead of lush forests and green grass there are high rocky mountains to the north-east, while the rest of the country is a dry, crisp desert complete with hot, biting winds that sweep through the mountains, and sometimes creates tiny tornadoes of sharp sand as it blows over the desert surface. One of which the orb nearly gets caught in when it flies pass one while on it's way through the desert, it's destination a village that's hidden in the mountains to the south-west of the desert. Upon reaching the village and zipping in and out of the buildings it disappears into a large building close to the gates of the village, the word's 'hospital' written above the doors of the building and just like the first orb it's never to be seen again.
As for the third orb, which is purpleish-blue in colour, the country it lands in is similar in landscape to the country the second orb found itself in, with it's rocky brownish-grey mountains and vast beige deserts dotted with one or two rarely seen oasis'. Luckily for this orb it has no sandy tornadoes to get caught up in on it's journey to the very centre of the country. In no time at all the orb reaches it's destination a village hidden in a large circle canyon with only one way in and one way out, then just like the first two orbs it dodges and swerves through the sandy buildings and streets until it reaches a rather large building almost in the centre of the village. Quickly it flies around to the back of the building, up the wall then through an open window where the pained screams of a women can be heard. Though seemingly all to quickly the screaming is silenced before being replaced with a shrill cry of a new born baby.
- End of chapter 4 -
(1) Barophobia is the irrational fear of gravity, a type of specific phobia. Individuals suffering from barophobia can either have the fear that gravity might crush them, the fear of falling because of the gravity involved (distinct from the fear of heights), or even the fear that gravity might cease to exist and they will float away.