Diving Into You | Fred Weasley

28 | Lion and the Serpent

"If you think the second task is going to be easier on you two, you're dead wrong!" Naia screamed as she dodged another spell from Cedric.

"Funnily enough, this is much more challenging than the bloody Horntail!" Harry yelled, jumping away as Naia shot a row of ice by his side.

"I forget just who's training who here!" Cedric said loudly, laughing as he slipped on some ice.

They were currently in the Room of Requirement during one of Naia's training sessions. Although, she more likely took it as an opportunity to whip the two champions into better shape for the second task.

After everything that went down with Fred, George would still come to accompany Naia to some of her sessions, but his attendance had been scarce recently. She understood that his twin needed him by his side more often than not, and so she didn't take it personally when he'd miss some sessions every now and then. Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Cedric were more than willing to accompany her.

She figured she'd be hitting two birds with one stone by training with both champions. After all, she still wanted Hogwarts to win, and she did not want any of them getting seriously injured during the next two tasks. If training them in dodging and aiming would help, she was all for it.

"Surely you know more spells than that!" Naia yelled as Harry shot a stupefy. She created columns and blocks of ice and sent them straight to Cedric.

"Reducto!" Cedric yelled, blasting the ice into tiny pieces that sent back towards Naia. She held her hands up to stop them in mid-air before they could hit her.

"Good! Let's have some variety in here!" She yelled.

Training for her was a cathartic practice. It was where she could freely forget and face her problems by letting out some steam.

Training soon ended, and Harry left in a hurry as he had to finish a Divinations essay by the morning.

"Good work today, Vance," Cedric said, wiping a towel on his face. He smiled down at her as she took a sip from her water bottle. She watched as he placed the golden egg he had acquired from the first task in his bag.

"Any luck with that?" she asked curiously. Cedric shook his head and sighed. "Nope... not a single clue. I've been dreading having to open it again. I did it in the middle of the night in my dorms... and Professor Sprout was not all too pleased, burst into the common room with her curlers," Cedric said, causing Naia to laugh. "She did not!"

"I have no idea what it means but-"

"Can you open it?" Naia asked. "No one will hear it from here, it would be a good time to try..."

"You want to listen to that terrible sound!?" Cedric asked in disbelief. Naia shook her head.

"I- I don't hear what you hear..." she said quietly. "When Harry opened it in the common room, I heard a song,"

"A song?" Cedric asked in disbelief. Naia nodded.

"It was a woman singing,"

"You're pulling my leg, right? You can't be serious-"

"I am! I did hear it. I just wanted to listen to it again. She was singing about something... and I think it could be the clue." Naia said determinedly.

Cedric looked at her in disbelief. "Why can you hear it then? Are you crazy-"

Naia slapped his shoulder. "I tell you I can figure out your clue for the second task, and you call me crazy!"

"Okay, okay, you're not crazy...I think. But why can you hear the music and the rest can't?" Cedric asked.

"Dunno," Naia shrugged, pulling out her quill and parchment. "Just open it, will you? I'll need to write the lyrics down-"