One By One (One Direction Fanfic)

Khryah's World

*Clarissa's POV*

I collected myself off the floor and picked up the phone. I dialled Eleanor first, then Danielle. I told them both to meet me at Danielle's apartment. We had some things to talk about, important things. I was getting my boys back if it was the last thing I ever did. I went into Harry's bedroom and found his phone sitting on the bedside table of the bed he never used. Did anyone actually sleep in their beds in this house other than me? I opened it since his password was his own birthday. Every directioner knows that and I was always bugging him to change it. Boy was I ever glad he didn't listen to me. I flipped through his pictures finding the ones from his little solo party the night before. The girl he was taking them with had dark purple eyes and skin so pale it made all her features pop. Her hair was so white blonde it was almost blinding. I knew she was no normal girl. I just couldn't figure out what type of not normal she was.

*Liam's POV*

After she clapped her hands over her head we were all suddenly in a dark and strange forest. There were gray trees everywhere. The trees didn't grow straight up but to all different angles. They were dark and sinister with not a leaf in sight on their sickly branches. Not a speck of light brightened the gray, clouded over sky and no birds sang. There was nothing earthly about this place, but everything about it was evil.

"I'm Queen Witch Khyrah in case you're wondering."She said."This is my playground. I created all from scratch, my life's work."She glanced around and patted a dead looking tree lovingly."Now you're stuck here until you can find your way back to my castle and in case you think you'll just stick it out until someone comes for you I'll be taking some things."She held Zayn's lamp in one hand and ripped Harry's charm from around his neck with the other.

"Not my charm, please."He groaned doubling over in pain like he always did when he shifted from one form to the other. She smirked as if enjoying his pain.

"I'll just turn up the volume on that."She whispered clapping her now empty hands together twice. Harry screamed in agony as she did so. She slipped Niall's sweater off his back his wings springing out like a Jack in the box. She draped it over her arm getting to Louis. She smiled at him and brushed her finger along his jaw line. He pulled away an obviously disgusted look on his face.

"Pity."She whispered."I always was a sucker for a good looking merfreak."

"Not. A. Freak."Harry gasped out and I could tell he barely got it out at all. She glared at Harry and slipped Louis bracelet off his wrist. He fell to the ground almost immediately. His legs melted into his silver scaled tail and he stared back at it in pure horror.

"The humidity is just right don't u think."She said starting to crackle like an old witch but stopping herself. She cleared her throat and looked at me.

"I know you won't go anywhere without helping them first so I don't need to take anything from you."She said."Cheerio."She laughed as she clapped her hands again disappearing leaving us standing in the middle of a strange place with no map. I looked around at Harry, who was still struggling to shift like a new centaur would, and the others. Poor Louis lay on his stomach on the ground. He was trying to flip over and drag himself to an upright position but he was failing miserably. Merpeople's tails are very heavy and most of them can't lift them out of the water. Unfortunately for Louis he wasn't part of the group that can.

"Stupid tail! I hate being a merman!"He yelled thumping his tail against the ground in anger."Ow."I held back a laugh knowing now wasn't a good time to be laughing at Louis.

"We'll get out of here, I promise."I said helping Louis sit up.

"Thanks mate."He said and I patted his shoulder. I meant what I said. We'd get out of here and if I succeeded maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't transfer me after all.