Book II - The Drew Grindelwald series

3. You Have Me Tongue-Tied

I was staring out the window of the train. We were all on our way to Ireland. After the ordeal of last night, I hadn't talked to anyone. I didn't know how but Newt somehow knew about what happened as well, in a way to lighten the mood he kept telling me animals facts but after ignoring him he eventually stopped.

Albus and Newt were excitedly discussing newly discovered magical creatures and Tina was reading a book.My mind felt like it was going a thousand miles an hour.The closer we got to Dundalk the more anxious I got.

The small cabin felt like it was closing in on me so when we arrived I was glad to go outsideWe all walked in silence through the town. I recognized all the buildings from back in the day and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I'd love to visit this place properly once, without the threat of danger. That'd be nice.

Once the house was in sight I stopped walking. The others stopped as well and knew what I was looking at. We had to start our plan from a distance away to avoid being seen by any of the guards if Gellert had any, he probably did.

"You all still know the plan?" Albus asked the three of us making sure. He was mostly looking at me to make sure I wasn't changing anything. I nodded my head, of course, I knew the plan!

"Great. Good luck" He pulled a polyjuice potion out of his pockets and drank it immediately. It was very weird to see but he slowly started to change into me.
This was all for the plan, he had to look like me.
While Newt got into his own suitcase - that Tina closed and grabbed once he was in it - I transformed myself into a rat.

I shrunk and the world immediately grew ten times bigger which was quite intimidating, which fed my anxiety for what was about to happen.I had to lead which is what I did. I ran through the street and snuck into the garden of my former house.
I knew a hole in a wall that'd leads into the entrance if it was still there. Thankfully the hole was there and I snuck through it with my rat sized body. Once in the entrance room I watched as one of Gellert's guards opened the door. Revealing Tina holding the suitcase and holding her wand raised towards Albus looking like me.

As expected the guard immediately called for back up and it wasn't long before two new guards entered the room.
I walked up the staircase that had a view of the door below.

I heard Tina say "I've come to join Grindelwald's army" just before I disappeared into the hallway.

The house was big as my parents had been very rich, living in this mansion would be anyone's dream. The size also made it a good hideout for a criminal like Gellert with his followers.I heard a door open and before I could react I came eye to eye with Credence who was staring at me curiously. He had just opened the door and was standing in the opening.I stood there, frozen.

Hoping he'd think I'm just a normal rat and he'd leave me alone.

As if my prayers had been answered he closed the door again disappearing into his room.

"Boss" I heard a guard call out. A man hurriedly ran past me. It was one of the guards that had just been with Tina. I smiled, This was the perfect distraction.
I followed the man who stopped in front of a room. My dad's old office. Gellert always loved that room.The door flew open and my brother gave the guard a very annoyed look.

"What?"

"It's Tina Goldstein and your sister," The man told my brother I watched as his eyebrows raised. A second later both were walking down the hallways towards the entrance. I quickly made my way into Gellert's empty - or so I thought -office.
I quickly transformed into myself.
Before I could even begin to start looking a woman appeared in front of me. Queenie.

"I kept it in perfect condition," She said worriedly as she had a small package in her hand. I frowned as she pushed it into my hands. I opened it revealing my cut off tongue.
Before I could even react Queenie had spoken the spell and the tongue returned to my body, meaning I could speak again.

"Thank you" I smiled, speaking for the first time in months. Queenie nodded still looking very worried.

"Please get Tina out, Gellert will kill her" She warned me. I frowned, he wouldn't kill Tina because it meant breaking the blood-pact. Right...?
I knew I had broken it and then suffered for it but that didn't mean the whole pact was off? He never suffered right?Queenie saw me thinking and was losing patience.

"You don't have time" She called out pushing me back towards the door. I quickly got out my wand.
I had to do something first.

"Queenie. I'm sorry for what I'm about to do just know you'll always be my friend" I spoke the spell and I watched as mist appeared around Queenie, she was about to remember her past memories with me.

I didn't have time to hang around though. I ran out the office. The moment I entered the hallway I heard loud blasts coming from the entrance, people were shooting fire beams at each other, shit was going down. I ran through the hallway. Twice one of Grindelwald's followers tried to stop me but I paralyzed them.

"And now, Tina Goldstein. You will meet your end" I heard my brother say as I was running as fast as I could.

"STOP" I yelled as loud as possible which hurt my throat as I hadn't used it in months. I didn't have time to run down the stairs and just jumped off the balcony.
I fell right in front of Tina, in between her and Gellert. I didn't feel my foot hurting in the process as I was running on adrenaline.

Tina was sat on the ground behind me, defeated without a wand.
Albus was laying passed out next to her still looking like me. Newt was nearby as well. There were also a bunch of Gellert's guards laying defeated on the ground.

"Drew" My brother said surprised. His wand was raised towards Tina and thus towards me. Before anyone could react I yelled out a powerful spell and flicked with my wand.

In one big blow Tina, Newt, Albus and I disappeared out of the house and appeared somewhere else. We fell down on the grass. I quickly sat up and looked around, we were on a huge grass field near a mountain.

We had to be somewhere within 10000 meters of the house. For now, we could relax though. I sat there looking at the others worriedly. Tina was shaking real bad and Newt was making sure his animals were okay inside of his suitcase.

Even Albus was starting to gain consciousness again.

"Drew your foot" Tina gasped. We both looked at my right foot which looked to be completely twisted from my fall off the balcony. The moment I noticed it I felt the pain slowly starting to act up.
The adrenaline was slowly leaving my body.I inspected my foot, it could be cured with a simple spell but as not all wounds could heal quickly it would keep on hurting for a while, at least my foot would be looking alright though.Tina knew this as well.

She looked at me, "May I?"

I nodded. Tina grabbed her wand and spoke the spell. I felt my foot heal, a bit of the pain went away but the pain was still there. Nothing to do about that for a while.
Even though we ended up in a small fight we have returned my tongue which means we managed to do the mission without dying. We were a great team.
I slowly stood up, trying to ignore the pain in my foot. The others were ready as well. Albus was back transformed into his own body.

looked at the watch on his wrist and frowned.

"We're really late" He concluded giving a worried look to Newt and Tina.

"Late for what?" I asked confused. We had all day to go to the safe house. Suddenly I noticed Newt's balancing his weight from one foot to the other, he only did that when he was nervous and/or anxious.

"Newt?" I said gaining his attention as he had not been looking at me at all.I truly was very confused now.
I turned my head towards Tina. I jumped back in surprise as she had her wand raised towards me. There was a tear in her eye threading to fall. My hands shot up into the air.

"Tina, whatever you're go-" I tried to speak but the woman interrupted me,

"I'm sorry Drew"

Before I could even react she had spoken those cursed words. The oblivion spell. I felt a huge blow against my head and just barely managed to keep standing.

"Why" I called out as the world around me started to spin. The last thing I saw were the apologetic faces of my former friends.