The Lost Lovegood

Chapter Two - Escape

Skylar shrieked with fear. Already, a cold feeling was creeping inside her.

"Go! Find the Stone!" cried Sirius.

Feeling like the worst person ever for abandoning Sirius, she ran blindly towards the wall of dementors. They had to be guarding the Stone of Despair. Skylar shut her eyes as she neared the dementors, and a ragged breathing sound filled her ears. Then it was over, she had run past the wall. She was in a room. The walls were made from dementors. In the middle of the "room", there was a pedestal. On the pedestal was an ugly, gray, stone.

The Stone of Despair!

Skylar's heart leapt at the thought of escape, and she dashed forwards and snatched up the Stone.

A loud, growling voice filled the area.

"So you found the Stone, didn't you? Rather quick, eh? Well, now is a matter of getting out for you!  I am getting a bit bored. My dementors grow restless, but I have something else up my sleeve. Get going!"

The dementors retreated in a reluctant manner. Skylar stared around and saw Sirius lying on the ground. She rushed over to him, the Stone clutched tightly in her hand. She had to get them out of there! Then the ground began to shake. Cracks appeared in the floor, and wisps of black smoke came rushing out from the cracks.  Maybe they could Apparate out of the place now that she had the Stone. She grabbed Sirius' wand and his arm, and thought about getting out. Somewhere where they could find help. Anywhere out of the Abyss. She shut her eyes yelled up to the heavens with all her heart, and together, they turned on the spot.

Skylar opened her eyes. A beam of light shone into her eyes, and she flinched and turned away. She was lying on a bed, and a woman was staring down at her. She had fiery red hair and brown eyes.

"Hello?" Skylar asked uncertainly.

"Oh, you're awake! Sorry, didn't notice!" the women said, "Hi, I'm Ginevra Potter, but you can just call me Ginny."

Ginny ran out of the room they were in calling, "She's awake, Sirius, she's awake!"

Two men burst through the door. One was Sirius, and the other was a man dressed in casual black robes, with round glasses and untidy black hair.

Sirius rushed towards her, but the other man stayed in the doorway, rubbing his chin.

"So you say this is Skylar Lovegood? Luna's sister?" asked the man.

"Yes, Skylar Lovegood. And come on, Harry. Introduce yourself." Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Ah, yes. Sorry about that," said Harry, "I am Harry. Harry Potter."

Skylar stared at him blankly.

Ginny laughed, "Well, that's a first! Someone who doesn't recognize you!"

"Well, as an Auror, I should find out more about these types of 'duplicates'." said Harry.

"You. Are. Kidding. Harry Potter!!" Ginny yelled angrily, "Can't you show some politeness? At all? This is Luna's sister! LUNA! Do you not remember LUNA?"

"You believe in that story too, right. I forgot." Harry stalked towards Skylar, "How did you get here?"

"Harry," Sirius put a hand on Harry's shoulder, "Maybe we can wait on this! We can ask Luna!"

"Right," Harry reluctantly stepped back, "Well, I guess we shall invite Luna to dinner. Actually, let's invite everyone, and see what they think about this!"

Harry seemed a bit defiant, but Skylar was feeling as if she could leap out the window with joy. Harry and Sirius left the room, but Ginny stayed with Skylar.

"Oh, don't mind him. He's been acting like this ever since a pack of outlaws escaped from the Ministry's clutches."

"Oh," Skylar whispered, "That's why."

"I'm sure Luna won't believe it when she sees you. Sirius told us everything. Luna's my age now, I guess lot's of time passed while you were in that place with Sirius."

"Oh. That makes sense." Skylar whispered again.

Ginny walked to the door and pulled the handle. It was locked.

"You're kidding me right now. He locked us in!" Ginny stomped her foot and pulled out a wand.

"REDUCTO!"

Nothing happened.

"Oh, you're kidding." Ginny stalked over to the window next to where Skylar lay on the bed and pushed it open.

It wasn't big enough for a person to fit through, but Skylar had practice with things like that. Concentrating on a hare in her mind, she felt herself morphing. She looked around at Ginny. Ginny was staring at her.

"Awesome! You're an animagus!" she said.

"Unregistered, actually," Skylar morphed back and said.

"Oh, well, we better not tell Harry!" Ginny whispered, "Come on, we can go out and get some fresh air."

Skylar jumped out the window as a hare, and Ginny disappeared and reappeared on a field where Skylar had landed. Skylar morphed back into herself, and Ginny opened a gate to let them both out. They walked to the entrance of the house.

"Auntie Ginny!" a voice called, "Hiiiiii!!"

Ginny turned. A little boy was running towards them. He had red hair and freckles. He resembled Ginny in the slightest bit.

"Ahh, hello, Hugo!"

"GINNY!!" more voices yelled.

And Ginny said "hi" to Ron, Hermione, Dean, Seamus, Parvati, Padma, Dennis, Rose, Hugo, Teddy, Larcon, Lysander, Astoria, Scorpious, Bill, Fleur, Victoire, Dominique, Louis, George, Angelina, Katie, Alicia, Roxanne, Fred the Second, Percy, Audrey, Molly, Molly the Second, Arthur, and Lucy, who were all excitedly chatting with each other, not bothering to knock on the door.

Then a blonde-haired man strolled towards the lot, and went to walk to Astoria and Scorpious.

"I thought we agreed to not come here!" he told them.

"Oh, Draco. Scorpious wants to have fun with his friends!"

Draco growled something and stalked to the edge of the mob of people.

"Where's Luna? And Rolf?" Ginny asked Larcon and Lysander.

"They're coming! With a Crumple Horned Snorkack!" shouted Larcon, "I know Luna told everyone that she stopped believing in them, but this time she found one! It came into our backyard, and she tamed it with Dad!"

Ginny rolled her eyes, but then turned around and saw a giant purple...thing. It had a sparkling shell and a beautiful ivory-colored horn. On it's back there was a type of purple hump. Like a camel's hump. And riding on it's back was a brown haired man who Skylar took to be Rolf, and there she was. Luna. Many years older, but she was Luna. Skylar forgot about everything and ran at the Snorkack. Then she jumped on to the Snorkack's hump, and hugged Luna, who was staring at her in disbelief.
Then she seemed to have remembered everything.

"SKYLAR?! IS THAT YOU?!"

"YES! ME! LUNA, IT'S ME!"

And they hugged each other in a blissful oblivion, while the Crumple Horned Snorkack prowled towards the house.