Misidentified

Chapter 8

"MOOSA?!" Mika freaked out and ran to him and was met with a very lazy embrace. Moosa reached back and put his wand back into the back pocket of his jeans, which were covered in a very thick layer of dust with a few tears in it and proceeded to properly hug her for a moment. 

He put his finger up to his mouth, "Shhh, do you want me to be discovered? They're already in the school. " He spoke in a very panicky, shaky voice, breathing heavily and looking around for people. Mika moved back beside Syed, who had moved forward to get a closer look to confirm the boy before him was actually the supposed dead boy found in the school bathroom. 

"Yes. It's me. And I know what they've been saying. That I was killed. But that wasn't me. Last night while I creeped into and slept in my cousin's house in Hogsmeade, I realized there are numerous ways someone could've gotten my hair and..." Moosa trailed off, catching a glimpse a silhouette behind Syed and Mika.

"Polyjuice Potion? Why would someone want to pretend to be you? No offense," Mika asked. 

"I don't know...maybe to get into the school? I really don't know. It started off a normal day for me too," Moosa answered. "Hey...did you bring anyone along?" 

"No, why do you ask?" Syed questioned. 

"Then who is that?" Moosa gestured behind Syed and Mika. 

"Shit..." Syed whispered as he grabbed both of them by the arms and ran to hide behind a bush. They peered through the bush to see who it was behind them. A lady walked into sight, limping very noticeably. She was wearing robes...the same type of robes that any Hogwarts student wears...And then Mika noticed the emblem. The pin of the Slytherin emblem was on her robes. Mika squealed and was about to yell, but Syed put his hand over her mouth. 

The woman abruptly stopped in her place. She turned around, revealing her gruesome face. The sight of her face was enough to make anyone aware of the evil that shrouded her heart. In the place of her left eye, something that looked like a completely red eyeball. The red eye reflected the light of the moonshine. The eye was clearly a result of some very dark magic that had spread onto the rest of her face. She might have been very beautiful in the past, but the dark magic had ravaged the rest of her face. Little black lines mimicking veins were covering the bottom half of her face, starting with her neck and extending up her face. Despite her gruesome face, Syed felt a bit safe near her. She pulled out her wand and whispered a spell. 

"I know you're out there. Come out or I will make you wish you had listened to me the first time," She said aggressively. Her voice sounded familiar to Syed. But not the regular type of familiar. He felt as if he had heard it before countless times, but he also felt as if he had never had that voice come to his ears. 

Syed stood up, revealing his face to her above the bushes. The woman glanced at him and a glimpse of shock almost appeared upon her face, but quickly disappeared when she turned to face him, her wand at her side and not raised. 

Moosa signaled to Mika to stand up. She obliged and stood up rather slowly, grabbing onto Syed's arm. The woman stood, her black hair coming down below her shoulders and the red eye, shining brightly into Mika's eyes. Mika stumbled backwards, and almost fell until Syed caught her, looking to see if she was okay. He looked up at the woman...she was no where to be seen. Syed said out loud to Moosa, "The...lady..she's gone." Moosa stood up to take a look.

"You think I'm going to leave you so easily?" The woman's voice came from behind them. They turned to see the woman raising her wand at them 10 feet away. She looked more depraved than before, a murderous look upon her face. At the wave of her wand, Moosa and Syed were both knocked off their feet and sent through the air, and she followed, flying through the air only to land on her feet between Moosa and Syed. Syed felt something rope-like wrap around his wrists and ankles and attach to the ground. He was unable to move. And his wand was left where they had been standing behind the bush. He and Moosa were at her mercy. "Who are you kids?" 

"Why should we tell you?" Moosa replied, in a very cowardly voice. 

"Oh you want to be childish do you?" The woman pounced on Moosa, levitating above him, her hair coming down onto his face. "Let me just tell you my name instead. And just so you don't forget it..." The lady used her wand to rip open Moosa's arm sleeve of his clothes. Then the red eye ball glowed a very bright red. The kind of red that reminds one of blood. The eye shot a glimmering red light out of the middle, onto Moosa's forearm, which had been exposed. Moosa screamed in pain, but the woman waved her wand and he became silent, his mouth wide open in terror. He had nowhere to go. She was carving letters into his arm. Blood dripped down onto his torn sleeve that lay at the foot of the forest. 

Soon, she looked as if she was finished with the attack on Moosa's arm. Moosa at this point was still trying to scream, but no words or sound came out.

The woman soon suddenly turned her face to Syed. He knew what was coming. She quickly flew to where he was, hovering above him. "You're next."

Suddenly, Syed felt himself drowsy, as if he was close to fainting. He looked up to see a flash of red light hit the woman as she was thrown across the place. Syed looked to see who it was. His vision was getting blurry, but he could make out a feminine figure ahead. A woman or girl in all white clothing coming down even below her feet. She began dueling the wicked woman in black. Syed wondered if Mika was okay as his eyes closed shut and he lost consciousness.