Dark and Light--A Harry Potter Fan Fiction

Chapter 8-Silver the Unicorn

Evie had befriended a unicorn.

Seriously.

The first night she had crept out into the forest, she had ran into it. She also found out that Neptunia could understand the language of any animal, which pissed Evie off. Of course, the unicorn had a name. Neptunia had translated it for Evie and then forgotten it. Evie had attempted to say it around eleven times before finally getting it right. She remembered it for the rest of the night, forgot it by the next day, and thus proceeded to call it Silver.

Silver didn't seem to mind.

Now, Evie made her way through the woods cautiously, for as much as a single sound would attract--

Snap.

--centaurs.

Whoops.

"Smooth, Evie," Neptunia said dryly over the loud rumbling of footsteps.

"Shut it," Evie snapped.

Three centaurs appeared in the distance. "Who goes there?"

"Get out of my way," Evie demanded.

"A witch?" One of the centaurs said.

"You shouldn't be out here," Another advised.

"I don't care about your freaking words--get the hell out of my way," Evie hissed. "I go where I want to go and this has nothing to do with you."

"How dare you--"

There was a noise, and every head turned towards it to see a majestic white unicorn.

"The unicorn..." The centaur said in surprise.

"It said 'Evie, if you don't behave, Hagrid will kick you out,'" Neptunia translated absently.

"Why do I care what that half ogre does?"

A whinny, then--

"'He's a half giant.'"

"Not you too."

"That wasn't me, that was Silver."

"Whatever. Big difference."

"Excuse me," Neptunia said in offense. "If you can't see the difference between a talking cat and a unicorn, you have brain issues, Evie."

"Snap it shut, Neptunia," Evie huffed.

"Hmph," Neptunia said with a toss of its head.

"Anyway, Silver, how's it been? I know I haven't visited in a while..."

"You know this unicorn?" The centaur thundered.

"Yep," Evie said in a bored tone. "Get lost."

Silver gave some weird unicorn noise, and Evie tipped her head at Neptunia expectantly. Neptunia looked thoughtful for a minute (more or less) until she finally looked up at the centaurs, blinking. "Are your names Ronan, Bane, and Firenze, by any chance?"

"How did you--" The centaur named Bane thundered.

"Just checking," Neptunia yawned lazily. "Silver said this, 'Neptunia, tell Ronan, Bane, and Firenze that Evie is no harm and that she and I are friends,' so I figured I'd just check. Oh, and that was a quote."

"Beautiful, Neptunia," Evie said sarcastically. "Now do me a favor and shut up. None of this matters right now."

She raised her hand and the sparks on the tip of her wand turned into fireworks on the tip of her wand. A small ball of red magic appeared and she thought, What was that big fancy spell again? Started with an 'e' and sounded like excellent...screw it.