Athena Black And The Goblet of Fire (sequel to The Story Of Athena Black )

Chapter 21: The Final Task Part 2

Recap: Ludo said the last task is about to start since mr Harry Potter and Miss Athena Black are tied they will enter first followed by Mr Cedric Diggory and Mr Viktor Krum finally Miss Fluer Delacore. Harry and I walked up to the maze together and kissed one more time.

“So… on my whistle, Harry and Athena!” said Bagman. “Three - two - one -” He gave a short blast on his whistle, and Harry and Athena hurried forward into the maze.
The towering hedges cast black shadows across the path, and, whether because they were so tall
and thick or because they had been enchanted, the sound of the surrounding crowd was silenced
the moment they entered the maze. Harry felt almost as though he were underwater again. Athena
pulled out her wand, muttered, “Lumos,” and heard Harry do the same just behind her. After about fifty yards, they reached a fork.

They looked at each other. “See you and kissed her cheek,” Harry said, and he took the right one, while Athena took the left one. Harry heard Bagman’s whistle for the second time. Viktor and Cedric had entered the maze. Athena sped up.

Her chosen path seemed completely deserted. She turned right, and hurried on, holding her wand
high over her head, trying to see as far ahead as possible. Still, there was nothing in sight. Bagman’s whistle blew in the distance for the third time. All of the champions were now inside.

Athena kept looking behind her. The old feeling that she was being watched was upon her. The maze was growing darker with every passing minute as the sky overhead deepened to navy. She reached a second fork.
“Point Me,” she whispered to her wand, holding it flat in her palm.
The wand spun around once and pointed toward her right, into solid a hedge.

That way was north, and she knew that she needed to go northwest for the center of the maze. The best she could do was to take the left fork and go right again as soon as possible. The path ahead was empty too, and when Athena reached a right turn and took it, she again found her way unblocked. Athena didn’t know why, but the lack of obstacles was unnerving her. Surely She should have met something by now?

It felt as though the maze were luring her into a false sense of security. Then she heard movement right behind him. She held out her wand, ready to attack, but its beam fell only upon Harry and Cedric, who had just hurried out of a path on the right hand side. Harry and Cedric looked severely shaken. The sleeve of their robes were smoking.

“Hagrid’s Blast-Ended Skrewts!” they hissed. “They’re enormous - We only just got away!” Cedric shook his head and dived out of sight, along another path. Keen to put plenty of distance
between himself and the skrewts, Harry said can we stay together now love.

Athena said yeah we both need to be in the graveyard together anyways. Athena and Harry hurried off again. Then, as they turned a corner, they saw… a dementor gliding toward them. Twelve feet tall, its face hidden by its hood, its rotting, scabbed hands outstretched, it advanced, sensing its way blindly toward them Athena and Harry could hear its rattling breath. They felt clammy coldness stealing over them, but knew what they had to do.

They summoned the happiest thought they could, concentrated with all their might on the thought of them getting out of the maze and celebrating with Ron , Hermione and their families, raised their wands, and cried, Expecto Patronum!” A silver stag and doe erupted from the end of Harry and Athena's wands and galloped toward the dementor, which fell back and tripped over the hem of its robes… Harry had never seen a dementor stumble. “Hang on!” he shouted, advancing in the wake of his silver Patronus, “You’re a boggart!
Riddikulus!”

There was a loud crack, and the shape-shifter exploded in a wisp of smoke. The silver stag and doe faded from sight. Harry wished it could have stayed, they could have used some company… but they
moved on, quickly and quietly as possible, listening hard, their wands held high once more. Left… right… left again… Twice they found themselves facing dead ends. They did the Four-Point Spell again and found that they were going too far east. They turned back, took a right turn, and saw an odd golden mist floating ahead of him.