You... - Harry Potter Next Generation Fanfic

Chapter 12 - Courage and Stupidity

Pyxis's P.O.V.

I was in my jeans and a sweater that I literally just pulled on over me. As a Durmstang member and a very trusted one, we're supposed to be on the lookout for anything suspious and do patrols at night when we can't go to sleep, because it means something is wrong.

Or we have too many girls on the brain.

And how very right they are. I went into the direction of the St. Josphine carriage, the parked near the forest in the exact place Desa has said it was. Typical, they want privacy with someone ill- HOLY MERLIN'S BLOODY BOWTIE!!!

From the angle I was at I could see a glowing red colour, when I approached it closer, I could see the carriage was on fire! I looked around for a cause or a hazard. The horses were off near the Half'Giant's hut and the professors slept in seperate dormitories. The flames were almost above tree heights but the noise of the wind and its circling pattern towards the forest and not the school, must have been the reason why no one had heard or seen anything yet. I looked at the carriage for a sign of Desa, but I saw no one, my subconscience told me to run and get help, but I had an aching feeling to run into the carriage. That was on fire, and in circling wind. And I wonder how the hell I have friends....I pulled out my wand and destroyed the front door of the carriage. Taking a deep breath and all the courage and stupidity in me. I ran in.

"Desa! Desa! Desa can you hear me?! Desa where are you?! DESA!" I shouted and I heard someone cough. The carriage had a couple carpets and furs a flames but the biggest problem seemed to be the bedroom. I looked over the inside of a bedroom casted "AUGIMENTI MAXIMA" and ran into it. Oh course it was bigger on the inside, but the top was caving in. My water spells seemed to become less and less useful as I went about. Reductio! And the furniture blocking my way exploded. I went to the bed and I saw Diana huddled, coughing and chocking on the reduce on oxygen. I ran next to her and saw that a flaming board had fallen onto her legs. I grabbed an end a tossed it off her. I grabbed Diana and swung her over my shoulder so that one hand could move things out of the way with my wand. I saw there was no time for that so I went to hell with it. REDUTIO MAXIMA! I shouted at the wall of the carriage as I ran through it before the entire carriage collapsed. 

Desa and I were on the grass far from the carriage, as it's flames were the only light in front of us. I knelt down and put Desa in front of me and her head leaning on my chest. I took one hand to hold her and comfort her as the other took my wand out and I shot red sparks into the sky. Within seconds I Durmstrang professors' white one shoot up.

"Help is coming Desa," I said to her as I comforted her and rocked her slightly.

"Why did you do that? You could have gotten yourself killed because of it, " she said quietly, "how did you know what was happening?" she said.

"Because I thought you might want that diary of yours back," I replied.

"Did you read it?" she said in fear as her big brown eyes stared up at me. She took my silence as answer.

She tired moving away from me but my grip on her tightened and suddenly I could feel the burns on my hands. No caring I lifted her up and sat her onto my lap as I myself say on the grass.

"Please stop, you don't want to do that," she said. I hugged her even closer and began stroking her hair. She began to shake and cry. I shushed her as I saw three professors come and rush to us. Seconds later, Headmistress McGongall, Ms. Lightwood (Desa's professor) and my mother came to us.

"Ms. Melody! Are you alright?' asked Ms. Lightwood, she was fussing over her like a baby, but the again my mother wouldn't stop either, she was all over me, hugging me and checking me over. I thought I already experienced the death hug before, but obviously not.  

"Pyxis you're burned everywhere," she whispered completely frantic eyes starring at me in worry. I was walking with her to the infirmary, well, her infirmary, her office. I looked back and saw Desa being lifted off by Professor Hagrid towards their infirmary, my guess. The image of her brown eyes came to my thoughts again. When we arrived, I sat down and took off my now burned sweater and jeans. My boxers survived because the sweater was long enough.

The burns, from what my mother said were very dim and compared to what I should have got. My hands were the worst and my feet were next, I mean come on I RAN THROUGH FLAMES and I THREW A HUGE BURNING PIECE OF WOOD, my hands and feet are a little sore. Thank-god for Durmstrang's skin protection. If someone thinks that girls use a lot of products then they have not been in a Durmstrang training sight, because there you need all the skin, hair, eyes, mouth , BODY protection you can get. My mother told me to drink something and it would help my feet heal quicker. It really did because within seconds they didn't even look burned. She said that in Beauxbatons they have a special secret recipe for dancers who hurt their feet. My mom said girl lose toe nails and toes themselves. It's secret because it's the gift of a Beauxbaton and only a Beauxbaton lady can make it. She also said since I am her son, she can use it on me but only if I don't ask for it or think about her using it.  It's a clever potion.

After the potion my mother told me to come to her and she had this cream that she rubbed all over my body, legs, arms, neck, face. I felt like a little kid again, getting a suncreen potions put on by my mom when I want to go in the lake.  I was so tired and exausted I was falling asleep, she noticed because she told me to go lie down on my belly, it stung but the back of me stung even more since it didn't have the cream yet. I fell asleep before my mom even touched me.