When Darkness Rises

Saved Again

"We may need you again Stephen." Draco takes the book and bolts.

"He means to say 'thank you.''' Astoria says as she walks out after Draco.

Blaise, Pike, and Pansy talk to Stephen while the other two go back to the Great Hall.

"When did you two get together?" Pansy is rather interested in the pair.

"Last year, a couple weeks before Christmas break." Nott replies.

Cornfoot adds, "It helped when neither of us went home for break." He winks and Nott blushes. "It does not help, however, that we are in separate houses. I just wish I could be with him more."

"Cute, but we need to go." Hermione sticks her head around the bookshelf. "Ron is on the move." Almost immediately, everyone is jumping up and heading for the door. 

"Wait, someone needs to get Draco and Charlie!" Pike hisses.

"No time! Ron was going at a near dead sprint!" They all run to the front doors and out. Nott pulls ahead, right behind him Pike, Pansy, Hermione, then Blaise and Stephen are side by side.

Ron is just approaching the Whomping Willow. He freezes it and dives under. Moments later, the others are doing the same. When they come out into the Shrieking Shack, Ginny is waiting. She zaps them with a freezing spell and they go immobile. Ice coats their skin. Ginny leaves with a smile on her face.

Pansy closes her eyes against the pain, letting her mind wander for an animal of use...

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Meanwhile, Ron has appeared at the bunker. Down in it, he opens Harry's cell door. "Potter."

Harry sleeps on, oblivious to his visitor.  Until his ear gets yanked on.  Yowling, he jumps, but is restrained by manacles at his wrists and ankles. His cloak had been pulled off, and his sleeves rolled up. The cold metal bites into his skin.

"Potter, you were ment to be in my family. Not with a bunch of Slytherins. They have tainted you."

"Oh, Harry, why have you betrayed us?" Ginny rounds the corner.

The bound hybrid gives the two a dirty look.

She kneels in front of  him. "Tell me you will come back." Her hand brushes his face.

He growls at her.

"You bastard." She backhands him hard. Because of no nutrients going into his body, his skin is dry and cracked. It splits, producing a little blood. "After all I have done for you, you growl so ungratefully."

"Bitch." He rasps. Its barely audible.

She backhands him on the other cheek. "What's wrong Harry? Cat got your tongue?" Her nails scrape his arm.

He hisses out his pain.

"Come on Harry, what's wrong?" The torment continues.

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Snape cocks his head at a bird that had landed in front of him and started laying out seeds. The lunch hour is almost over and Draco had just reappeared with a book and Astoria. 'MOONY'S' is spelled out. He stands quickly, scattering the seeds. The bird flies away. People look at him funny as he grabs Draco and storms out of the Great Hall. Charlie is close behind.

They leave the school through the Whopping Willow. Each stumbles over their robes as they see the others frozen on the floor. Severus cast a powerful warming spell. After a few moments their getting up.

"Pansy, that was smart using your abilities to message me. Now, were were you lot headed?"

She gasps, "Harry! Sir, you know the bunker on the other side of the village right? Harry is being held on the bottom floor! Let's go!"

Once again, they take off, running down main street. Draco and Charlie are pulling ahead because of the drive to get to their mate. When they reach the bunker door, Charlie shreds it to get inside. His eyes are now glowing gold.

The group charges down the stairwell. At the second level Draco stumbles, "I smell blood." He shares a frantic glance with the ginger before flying down the rest of the stairs.

They bust through a door to see: Ron with a frightened look, Ginny kneeling beside Harry, who has his teeth gritted with scratches all over his dry skin.

Tremors rock through the two mates, before they blurred. Charlie darted forward, tossing Ginny into Ron, then going to them. His form is shimmering, scales try to take over as his claws and enlarged teeth have. While Charlie holds them by their throats, Draco is getting the manacles off of Harry.

Once he finishes that, he is licking the smaller teen's face. "Char! He looks and tastes as if he is deteriorating!"

"Blood, Dray. Blood." Charlie says calmly while taking a rope and tying it around Ron's and Ginny's arms and legs. He confiscates their wands, tossing them to Snape. The rest of the crew is standing against the wall.

The blonde takes a deep breath. He rolls up his shirt sleeve, then presses his wrist to Harry's mouth. After a moment, the vampire bites down. Draco groans.

The others hover around the three mates, as Charlie had kneeled beside the busy pair. It doesn't take long for Draco to start shaking.

"Harry, let him go now!" The wyvern's voice rings in Harry's ears and head. He lets go with a whine and Charlie puts his wrist in place, which is bitten seconds later.

Only a couple of quarts is taken out of the ginger's body before Harry lets go on his own will. A little life is seeping back into his skin.

"Stephen, Nott, Pike, Professor will you get the trash. Hermione, transfigure me a large pallet that my mates can lay on, with a long steel rope attached so I can carry them. Pansy, help her. Blaise, your going to have to help me move them up to the surface." Charlie makes the requests and they all hop to.

The four remove Ron and Ginny by dragging them, instead of making the trip easier by floating them. The girls race ahead. Blaise uses a locomotor charm to float Draco. Charlie picks up Harry and they quickly leave the bunker.

When they arrive, the carrier is ready. Snape had ordered a carriage, and they were all on it with a spot open for Blaise, who gently placed Draco on the metal pallet. Harry was placed beside him. "Thank you," Charlie says as the carriage starts to pull away. "Our pleasure," they reply.

With a low growl, the dominant mate of the three explodes into his wyvern form. Powerful gold legs bunch, talons grabbing the steel rope. Slender, muscle packed body stretches as the massive spiked wings do. They beat the air, bringing up the the pallet. Once he had cleared the trees in height, Charlie points in the direction of the school, his long spiked tail working as a rudder.