| Jarvey
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Chapter 26
Now I let the tears fall. Our friend, Jen, gone. What was to become of her? And most importantly, would she ever come back?
I looked at my friends through my blurred vision, and saw Tonks was silently sobbing, and Charlie was in a state of shock, touching the place on his cheek where she had kissed him.
Clearing my eyes and attempting to make them as dry as possible, I realized that I had to take charge of the quartet-gone-trio. “Come on you guys,” I say to them in a hoarse voice. “Even though we don’t have the Ring, the dementors are still holding that student.”
Tonks silently nodded and began walking away from the Fountain, as if wanting to get as far away from it as possible. But Charlie stayed put, still staring at the Fountain.
“Charlie, come on,” I tell him as I’m walking away from the hollow. Realizing he can’t hear me, I repeated myself again, attempting to grab his hand. “Charlie come on.” But he quickly moved his hand, and had a look of fury in his face.
“I can’t believe you allowed her to go! She didn’t have to go! She didn’t have to!” And with that he broke down in tears. “And now she’s gone.”
I reached my hand up to rub his back, and this time he allowed me to touch him. “Charlie, I realize it’s painful, but we have to go. If we don’t stop Lalanos, then there was absolutely no point to Jen leaving.”
After many moments, Charlie stood up, and now it seemed that he felt he was in charge. “Come on you guys,” he said as he took Tonks’ hand. “Let’s kick some elf butt.”
At this Tonks laughed, and I was glad to see my two friends back to normal, or as normal as possible.
We wandered through the woods for a long time. And my mind went back to the note that we had left behind. Wouldn’t Dumbledore have found it by now?
But as I was looking at a very gnarled and odd looking tree, Charlie hit me on the arm. About to yell at him for hitting me, I discovered the reason behind the blow. The world had suddenly gone cold, and the leaves on the ground were beginning to cover with frost. I could just make out a dark figure hovering through the woods. A dementor.
As quietly as we could, we followed it, hiding behind trees and bushes as we went through the forest.
And then we came to a new hollow that none of us had seen before. My breath froze as soon as we had reached the closest tree to it. Hundreds of dementors, all crowding around an elf-lord, the one I knew to be Lalanos.
I searched for the missing student, and my heart stopped when I saw who was in the clutches of a dementor. Heather Finnigan; the kind, intelligent (and I suppose I have to say pretty) Ravenclaw who was in Herbology with us. Her auburn hair was lying over her ever-more paling face, and she seemed to be unconscious. Or at least I was praying that she was just unconscious.
“Where are they?” Lalanos whispered to himself. “They should be here any minute.”
Taking a deep breath, I walked out from behind the tree, and Charlie and Tonks quickly followed.
When Lalanos saw us, his eyes widened and then a sly smile came upon his face. “Aww… welcome young wizards and hobbit. I see you’ve come for someone.”
He gestured toward Heather and anger began bubbling inside me. “Let her go,” I told him, defiant.
His smirk grew ever wider. “Of course, if you give me the Ring, everything will go back to the way it was.” He held out his hand to us, as if waiting for us to drop it in it.
We said nothing. Him believing we had the Ring was the only way we were staying alive at this moment.
But then, I could see realization dawning on him, “Where’s the fourth one? Where’s the blond wizard that the ginger fancied.”
I looked at Charlie. The fury was obvious on his face.
Then Lalanos turned to Tonks. “Where’s the Ring, girl? Where’s the Ring?”
Tonks was the one who took the next step forward. The defiance in her eyes showed me that the Ring’s power had officially left her. She was no longer afraid of this elf. The old Tonks was back. “It’s in a place you’ll never find it.”
Lalanos stepped back, abashed. “Oh no,” he continued to mutter under his breath. “Oh no. Galadriel will murder me if she finds out who took it.”
He then looked urgently at the dementors. “Finish them off for me. I’ve gotta get that little brat with the Ring.”
He was about to make his way around us when Charlie extended his wand and quickly stepped in front of him. “You’re not going anywhere.”
Lalanos grinned ruthlessly. “Bring it on, Lover boy.”
That’s when Charlie let out every spell his first-year mind would know, and Lalanos quickly defended himself by causing a protective shield to surround him. Charlie might not have been beating him, but he was slowing him down.
As we watched them battle, Lalanos screamed from behind his shield, I suppose it was pointed toward the dementors. “Well don’t just stand there! Get them!”
The descendants of the Ringwraiths quickly came upon us, discarding Heather on the way. Tonks and I were trying to stop them, but our small collection of spells was no match for them.
They quickly got a hold of us, and I felt a sinking feeling, as if I’d never be happy again. All of the cheerful memories of my life were gone. And now the memories I had put in the back of my mind were groping up to the front. The long and cold winter when we were low on food in the mountains; the time when Rosie had broken her ankle when it was just the two of us; finding out about my grandfather; and a new one, Jen saying her last good-byes.
And then, I felt a jolt in my naval, as if I had been electrocuted, and then I felt like I was floating.
The next thing I know, I could see something that stunned me. The dementors surrounding me were no longer dark and daunting. They were beautiful, men and women, hovering like angels above me. My heart stopped to see the forms of Charlie, Tonks, Lalanos, and Heather now cloaked and horrifying; attacking each other, fighting off the angels, and lying face flat on the ground. And the most terrible thing was when I turned my eyes downward to find my own body below me, lifeless. To keep away from the horror, I turned to the dementors who were now supposedly angels. But for some reason, they too were horrifying. They were so beautiful that they were haunting, but I was incapable of looking away. But as a beautiful woman dementor came down upon, I looked transfixed at her mouth. And within it was something I never imagined. The rolling hills and hobbit holes of the Shire appeared.
And at that moment, I welcomed the Shire, and I was fully prepared to go to the Hobbit’s Garden of Eden.
But then from behind the angel came a beautiful phoenix, a doe, and a majestic eagle of shining colors.
And everything was gone. |