Chapter 18
We walk to the castle. "There you are Miss Richards!" I hear Dumbledore say in the main hall. "Sorry sir I flew to a field and fell asleep and dreamed of St. Valeria and she took my Angel Nymph powers." I say in one breath. "Oh dear so you don't have your nymph powers." he says. "Yes sir. I was just so frustrated and I didn't think it meant anything since it was a dream." I say. "Well dear this isn't good. And who is this?" he asks noticing Lira. "This is Lira sir. I found her when I was wondering the woods." I say. "Oh thank gods there is hope." he exclaims. "What do you mean sir?" I ask petting Lira behind the ear as she purrs. "Well Lira here is you guide and protector. Because you gave up the power she is to protect you until you find it again." he says. "Oh good I feel empty without part of me." I say. "I think you should go to your mate he's ripped apart the dorm you've been gone for 2 days we had to move Miss Weasley to protect the baby." he says. "Yes sir" I say rushing off worried about Draco. I reach the dorm to find it ripped apart and run to my room to find Draco about to hang himself. "DRACO!" I scream rushing to him. "Adrie!" he says coming down of the chair. He crushes me in a hug. "Oh Draco I'm so sorry let me explain everything." I say sitting him on the bed and proceed to tell him everything including Lira. He looks down at the little white creature in my lap. "What is she?" he asks. "I don't really know? But she helped me out of the forest." I say. "Well then I love her." he says kissing her on the head. The door bursts open and Draco pushes me behind him as our friends run in the room. "Oh Adrie!" Ginny cries. She wraps her arms as best she could with her belly. We all sat in our room; me and Draco conjured up some chairs. I told them all what happened including losing my Angel Nymph powers. They all agreed to help as best they could.
They all like Lira. Luna says Lira glows. We hear a bang downstairs. Blaise makes Ginny stay in the room just in case as we run downstairs. There in the middle of the room is my mother and an upside down table. "Oh dear I heard you were back and ok and I rushed over." she says hugging me. "I'm fine mom but I don't have a dress." I say. "Oh honey that's not a problem. We can just go to The Falls." she's says. "Excuse me ma'am but what is The Falls? I've never heard of that store." Pansy says. "It's the colony in England for the water nymphs." mom says. "There are colonies?" Ginny asks. "Yes I grew up in The Falls." mom says. "So we can visit grandma too?!" I exclaim. "Yes honey. Now girls you may come but we will have to create breathing bubbles for you until we get to where it is." mom says. We change into our bathing suits. I wear a white bikini with gold detailing on one of the straps and on the side of the bottoms. I put on a multi-pastel colored cover up and white braided gladiator sandals. Pansy went and put on a forest green halter bikini with a gold key hole in the top and gold ring on the side of the bottoms. She also puts on forest green khaki shorts and forest green converse sneakers with a black rose dangly belly ring. Ginny is wearing a dark purple string bikini with a purple and blue cover up and purple gladiator sandals and a cherry dangly belly ring. Hermione comes out in a red ruched one piece with a white mini skirt and white flip flops. Luna is the last to come out in a blue green bikini that looked like fish scales and blue green knee length skirt with ruffles on the bottom. She had on a pair blue green braided sandals and a seahorse with a turquoise gem in the belly of the seahorse belly ring. "Only you can look like a fish and hot at the same time." Ginny laughs. "Thank you Ginny." she says in her usual dreamy voice. We walk down stairs to my mother sitting on the couch looking as regal as ever. "We are ready mother." I say. "Oh dearie I didn't hear you come down I was looking at your book collection and I must say I find it lacking. You and Draco will have to buy more." she says. "Mother there isn't enough room but we will be moving into our French summer home after Hogwarts which has lots of books and more than adequate space for more." I say opening the door for her. "Yes of course. By the way where are the boys?" she asks. "There is a qudditch game today so Draco bought everyone tickets." I say as we walk to the lake. "Excuse me Mrs. Richards but why are we going to the lake? Do you people live there?" Pansy asks. "No but to get there we need to appearate under water. Two of you can side along appearate with me and two with Adrie. Honey you remember the place." she says. "Yes mother. Now everyone take a deep breath." I say as we submerge ourselves in the cold black waters of the lake. We all take a deep breath as I hold Ginny and Pansy's hand and mother is holding Hermione and Luna's hands. We appearate next to a pond in a forest in Lombardia which is in Italy. We are next to an algae filled inlet to a river. Me and mother stepped toward the inlet. "EW where are you guys going?" Pansy asks. We have to go in here to get to the place. Its fine you won't get dirty it's a spell to cover the beauty of what's underneath. It's not even there." I explain. A look of relief floods Pansy's face. Mom parts the water with her Water Nymph powers to show us a pair of stairs. "Before we go under I must cast a spell on you so you can breathe under water." my mother says. "It's only temporary don't worry." I say. Mother cast the spell and we go under water. We swim about 5 feet then go into an underwater cave with stalagmites and stalactites. We swim a few more feet and find a hole in the ceiling with stairs. We go up the stairs and we walk into a room that is chiseled out of the rocks underwater with thick glass all around the room from floor to ceiling. A women walks into the room. After mother greets her as Gianna I realize that it's my Auntie Gia. "Oh my gods Auntie Gia!" I scream and jump into her arms. "Hey kiddo how's it hanging?" she says. "Good!" I say smiling. "So I hear you're getting married." she says giving me a wink. "Yes I'd like you to meet the wedding party and my friends. Ginny my Maid of Honor, Pansy my Bridesmaid, Hermione my Bridesmaid, and Luna my Bridesmaid." I say pointing to each one of my friends. "Oh how wonderful to meet you all!" she says giving them each a hug. "So what is your hubby's name?" she says turning to me. "Draco Malfoy." I say blushing. "Oh I think I heard that name as a child. Yes a boy named Lucius Malfoy went to Hogwarts with us." she says. "That's his father." I say. "Really?! Well he must be attractive." she says with a giggle. "Quit" I say. "So let's get a move on shall we find you your wedding dress?" she says with her usual large grin.