Between Crown And Heart - Book 2

1 - Something Wicked

"That was a lovely dinner, So!" I said happily. My sister Sonja and I walked back home after having dinner at Sebastian, So's boyfriend. They had been dating each other for more than a year now.

"It was nice." Sonja underestimated it. Moreover, she just tried to say as little as much because of blushing.

I stopped in my tracks and put my hand on her arm and turned her to me.

"Are you kidding?! He made a bombastic dinner with all those strange and foreign food. I didn't know what I was eating the entire time! It was like a 5 star dinner! And you're just saying 'it was nice'?!" She looked at her feet and smiled.

"I loved it!" She admitted. Finally!

I smiled at seeing my big sister behaving like a teenager.

"You know, he couldn't take his eyes off you all the time! I felt like a fun killer!" I giggled.

Although it was pitch black night, I know that Sonja was blushing only more.

"Noo, he just wanted to meet you and finally after you've got holidays we finally managed to meet. He thinks you're sharp minded by the way." I rose an eyebrow.

"Of all compliments he found that one?! Wow! And I thought he was finding more compliments when I left you both alone, before we left." My sister hid her smiling face in her hands.

"By the way, he's really cute. And an amazing cook! Damn! How I want my future husband to be a good cook now!" So and I laughed.

I tried not to think about whether Snape was a good cook or not.

"You really deserve him. He's doing good to you." I hugged my sister tightly.

"Thanks." She said back as we tore apart.

As we tore apart a strong wind blew and the starlit sky above us covered in unnatural speed with clouds.

I sensed something wrong in the air and tensed.

"It got very cold at once!" Sonja stated in a light shivery voice.

"Let's hurry up and get home." I nodded worriedly.

We started to walk faster. My sister did so because she wanted to feel warm; I was doing it because I felt a threat.

"What if the death eaters came back? But this time they would take my sister too? Or worst, they would kill her?" I remembered my very first encounter with the magical world last year.
I shivered and fastened my pace more. We were already in the little forrest near our house and we would be home in 10 min.

Out of my corner I noticed something very unusual for a summer night near the end of July, the ground and the trees started to cover in a slight icy layer. It looked like morning drew had been frozen. But as we walked faster and faster it got more colder and the ice layer got thicker and thicker and soon covered all plants around us.

From our mouths escaped huge, white mists.

"What's that?!" Sonja asked. We stopped.

A scary rattling noise appeared out of nowhere and it was getting louder and louder.

"So, we need to get out of here. Now!" I grabbed her arm and started running back, from where we came.

The street lamps started to extinguish one by one.
We stopped and watched them helplessly vanishing.

"Galaxy..." My sister clasped tightly my hand. She was scared and so was I.

"To the other side!" We turned around and were about to run in the other direction until we saw the light extinguish again.

"Shit! We're surrounded!" I thought.

"G-Galaxy!" Sonja was gripping my shoulder in fear.

"Sonja, you're actually the stronger one of us. Therefore, you shouldn't be freak out that much!" I thought in my head.

The rattling voice got nearer and a strange rotten smell filled our nostrils. Additionally it was getting unbearable colder and... I felt sad and gloomier after every second.

I grabbed my wand and pointed in front of me. Something that felt strange after not doing it after nearly a month and yet, it made me feel stronger.

"What are you doing?!" Sonja asked panic struck.

"Preparing to defend us."

"Defend us with a stick?!" She believed that I went mad!

That made me remember Dumbledore's and my first encounter. He rescued me from the death eaters about a year ago. They wanted to kidnap me but Dumbledore saved me at the right moment.

Back then he took out a wand too and explained to me that magic does exist. There I thought he was mad too.

"Dumbledore! I wish you were here to help us!" I muttered.

I squinted in the dark and tried to make out my enemy.

A hooded shadow was floating towards us.

"Expelliamus!" I shouted as a reflex and ignored the law that prohibits jinxing in front of muggles but it didn't do anything good anyway. It kept on coming towards us.

I looked around to see anything that can help me but instead I saw an other hooded shadow floating towards us from the right.

"Stupify!" I shouted again but it was useless.

"Galaxy! What's that coming out of you-" Suddenly my sister cut off and slumped down on her knees. I looked down and saw her laying on the ground motionless.

"No!" I cried. I jumped on her and covered her body with my body, keeping her from any harm.

I felt a cold suction which sucked all my happiness and my breath out.

I heard distant voices and my surrounding darkened.

"You! You killed him! You!" My mothers voice appeared.

Right then everything darkened completely and I was falling into a very deep sleep. It felt a little like I felt before I drowned back at the second task of the Triwizard tournament last year.

But before I was completely gone I thought one last thing and for the very first time after weeks: "My guardian! Help!"