Keeping a Promise

Chapter 21

I pulled my wand out of my pocket and pointed it towards Fenrir. My breathing began to get heavy as I watched him give the orders to the other trackers to capture Astoria and I but to kill the extra. My grip tightened on my wand. There was no way I was about to let anyone kill my best friend. 

"He doesn't even know my name!" Kam whined as she pointed her own wand at them. "Why does no one know who I am! My best friend is famous within your ranks, you stupid bastards!" 

Fenrir grinned. "I know who you are, darling." 

She rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right. Whatever!" 

"You are the girl who is about to be my next meal," he said, licking his lips. "Now, why are we waiting?" 

"Petrificus Totalus!" I yelled as the other two trackers came towards us. 

Of course, they blocked it. Astoria threw a stunning spell towards them, which gave me the opportunity to bind them again. The two bodies fell to the ground, clearing the way for Fenrir to jump towards us. We all jumped out of the way, but Kamrynn was not as lucky. He had grabbed her by her arm. He turned her to face us and put his mouth to her throat. 

"Stop!" I yelled, trying to hold tears back. "Give her back!" 

"Don't worry," Kam smirked, but her voice waivered some. "I can take care of this ugly bitch." 

I let out a scream as she made her move. She kicked him in the balls just as his teeth grazed her throat. It didn't penalize him for long, but it did give her a moment to get out of his grasp. She hurried over to us while holding her neck. I pulled her behind me and ran up to Fenrir, pushing my wand against his throat. He laughed at me, grabbing my wrist. 

"You are brave," he smirked. "Let me guess, you're in Gryffindor." 

"Damn straight," I said just as his body froze. 

I looked back towards Astoria and Kam, who both had their wands drawn. I wiggled my wrist out of his death grip now that he was frozen and unable to hurt me. Astoria took care of Kam's bleeding but couldn't do anything about the wound. So, we hurried in the direction of the Hog's Head. That's when we saw it: Harry's stag patronous coming straight for us. We all moved and leaned up against the wall of the building to our right. 

"That's him! Harry Potter is close! I saw his patronous!" called someone from behind us. 

"That is not what you saw!" called a husky voice. 

Another patronous was sent down past us. It looked nothing like the Harry's, even though this man was claiming that is what the tackers, and us, had seen. There must've been a dementor around in order for anyone to be sending patronouses anywhere. 

"Potter, in quick!" 

I saw a door open and headed for it. The rather tall, bearded man look at us and was about to open his mouth to say something when Harry told him that were were with them, so he quickly let us in. 

"Upstairs and keep the cloak on!" the man yelled again. 

We ran up the stairs, following the the pairs of feet that were traveling in the same direction. The man leaned out the front door as we followed his directions. 

"So what?" he was bellowing into night.  "So what? You send Dementors down my street, I'll send a Patronus back at 'em! I'm not having 'em near me, I've told you that, I'm not having it!"

When we got into a room, Astoria and I made sure all the curtains were shut. Harry, Ron, and Hermione pulled off the invisibility cloak. We all were breathing heavily, but all six of us had made it to the Hog's Head.