My Own Treachery

Chapter 29 | A Nightmare

I could feel my heart beating so fast, it was going to jump upward out of my throat. The liquid salt falling from my face as I ran, hearing the sound of snarling echo, sounding like the laughter of a hyena. I dared to look behind me seeing the five large black, carnivores creatures. The three creatures looked like black jaguars, without tails with blood red pupils eyes. They looked like a skeleton, with the bat like skin clinging to their frames. What are these? Turning my head back, facing forward, I then saw a flash of a green light. I then came to a stop, hearing not the sounds of laughter, but screams coming from behind me. Turning around, I saw not the skeleton cats, but I saw three people lying on the ground. When I realized who they were, I fell too my knees. As I watched my family; My father, my mother and my sister as they screamed, as they seemed to melt before me. Begging for me to help, how could I stop them from melting, what spell melted people? This had to be a dream. Then I hear an eerie sound of hissing, as a snake, a large one went past me towards my family, going through the puddles of what was left of them.

"It's alright, love they're no longer going to hurt you." A voice behind me whispered, I looked at my bare knees. I then realized, I couldn't feel my legs. Something was wrong. Once it was realized, I felt a strong pain going through my back, causing me to fall forward, in reaction to the pain that came from my lower back, and the scene around me to change, as I let out a faint scream. It felt like I was stabbed in the back, something was wrong, the pain didn't stop. Why am I not waking up from this? Is this a dream? I then saw someone kneeling next to me, rolling me over, it hurt when they did, as I was forced onto my back. Looking up I saw the handsome face, of who I didn't know, but I recognized the face, I also saw another face, that belonged to Ginny, when I looked at her I saw her hands, they were crimson with blood on them. "What did you do? Why'd you get in the way?" The boy demanded, I looked at him taking in his beautiful face. The face I'd seen shared with Voldemort in my reflection, who are you? Then everything began to shake.

"Wake up!" A faint voice ordered.

"who are you?" I whispered at the boy, I needed to know his name.

"Amber! Wake up, stop what you're doing!" The faint voice got stronger, as the image faded, No, no, no!

I then woke up, sitting up breathing heavily, sweat trickling down my face. Sitting up, I felt the pain from my back, I saw sitting next to me was Daphne Greengrass, who was looking at me fearfully, and sitting on my bed. It was a dream? No way it was to real, the pain it followed me here. I wanted to scream, cry and hug her. The pain in my back seemed to start to fade, she saved me from whatever I was dreaming, or whatever was haunting my nightmares. I pulled her into a hug, holding her tight, grateful she had stopped the pain.

"Are you alright?" She asked lightly, hugging me back, "You screamed, and the lights kept going on and off" She informed me.

I looked at her, as I pulled away, what was the dream, that nightmare about? "I'm fine, I had a bad dream" I finally answered her.

She let out a huff of a laugh, "I think it's safe to say it was a nightmare. You're lucky the other three are such heavy sleepers. But I think you should go get yourself checked out, a nightmare causing lights to almost burst isn't normal."

I held back my eye roll. I wasn't going to go explain that a dream caused lights to flicker, I doubt it was even a dream causing it, I gave her a soft smile, "I will" I lied, reassuringly, "I think I'm going to get ready for class" I then got up grabbing my uniform and robe, I disappeared from the room, going to the shared girls room.

As I stepped under the running warm water, I looked down, leaning my hand on the wall. What was that even a dream? It felt so real. Staring at the drain, I saw crimsion water swirling around it. I backed out of the shower, thinking that maybe it was the shower head that was making the color change. But the water coming from it was clear, normal. What the hell? Stepping into the shower again, under the hot water, as it went down my back, I saw the red water again. Backing up, I looked myself over, it had to have been me, it had to have been me. Reaching my hand over the lower part of my back, just above my bum, I felt something there, pulling my hand away, I saw that there was blood on my hand. What the literal bloody hell? I stepped out of the shower, walking to the large mirror, that sat on the wall opposite, I turned around, so my back was facing it, holding my hair out of the way, I saw a cut on my back. Where did that come from? Was this from the nightmare?