Book II - The Drew Grindelwald series

4. Find A Friend In The Darkness

I rapidly blinked my eyes as a blown of energy had awoken me from my slumber. I tried to get free but I noticed my hands we chained to a chair just like my legs.
I looked right into the face of Theseus Scamander. Around him stood a bunch of men all dressed wealthy.

I was at the ministry, Tina, Newt and Albus had all brought me in.
I didn't mind them bringing me in, I'd told them to do it many times. The thing that hurt the most was that they tried to obliviate me.

They tried to get rid of my memories once again, knowing it could only scar me more. Good thing I had a protection plan in place causing me to not forget a single thing.

"Drew Grindelwald" Theseus called out, mostly to gain the attention from the other men.
I just looked at him blankly, what did he want?

"Do you remember anything?"He didn't get a reaction from me. I didn't trust him, right now, playing dumb could help me give the element of surprise later on.

"Didn't your brother tell you they obliviated her" one of the men whispered in Theseus' ear. But as it was very silent everyone in the room could hear it. Theseus gave him a serious look and nodded. He then turned back to me.

"I'm sure you're very scared right now as you won't remember anything" He began. I was glad my act worked, he wasn't getting anything from me at all.

"You're Drew Grindelwald the sister of the most infamous and dangerous criminal on earth Gellert Grindelwald"
I wanted to scoff, of course they were scared of Gellert but if they truly knew my brother they'd know he was not as scary as he looked. Albus knew that... or so I thought. Turns out I couldn't trust him.

"You have been arrested for conspiring with him against the greater good. Therefore you are a criminal and will be locked up. Nonetheless you'll get a fair trial in which you get to defend yourself" The man in front of me explained.
I heard him whisper below his breath,

"not that you remember anything" It made me despise the man even more.Everybody in this room knew they could raise an oblivion but nobody was willing to do it as they wanted to watch me suffer.

Theseus raised his wand and I felt the chair I was in starting to move.
The chair moved through the hallways, there were dementors flying above me. Making sure I was secure and wasn't escaping in any way, not that I could.
It wasn't long before I was locked up in a cell, thankfully they'd unlocked the chains around my hands and feet as it was only meant to keep me in the chair.

The cell was dark and dirty.I looked around, trying to take my new home in. This sucked, I could already feel the anxiety in me build up. It reminded me a lot of the cell in which Gellert imprisoned me. In which I was tortured.

It sent shivers down my spine. Don't think about it.
I suddenly heard a noise. I looked at the stone bench as it had come from there. Only now I noticed a small monkey sitting on it. His hands were bound to each other and he was giving me the saddest look I had ever seen.

"Are you okay?" I asked the animal, confused as to why the ministry would lock up an animal in the first place.
The animal didn't react and was only staring at me with big scared eyes.It looked like he was afraid of me. What did they do to him?
It made me feel really bad.

I quickly felt my pockets, my normal ones had been emptied assumingly when I arrived here unconscious. Thankfully I had a hidden pocket for my wand.
I felt a pang of happiness shoot through me as I grabbed my wand.Unfortunately, the monkey's eyes grew even more scared.

"I'm not going to hurt you" I promised, it didn't seem to calm the animal though. I suddenly had an idea.
I grabbed the mind stone that thankfully had been in the hidden pocket as well.

'Hey, are you okay?'The monkey's eyes grew wide, he slowly shook his head no. It only occurred to me now that the body of the monkey was extremely thin. Had they been feeding the monkey at all?

'I'm not going to hurt you. I'm Drew. What's your name?' I thought looking at the animal. I slowly walked towards him, he seemed a little calmer. I placed the stone in front of him as a sign of peace.
He could just grab it with his chained hands. He looked at it curiously just before I heard his thoughts.

'I'm Metis'I'm so glad it worked.I raised my hand towards Metis and he clearly shrunk back scared for it.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I'm helping you get out of the chains" I explained nodding towards the chains. Metis kept still.

I whispered the spell and the chains fell off his hands. He looked at me in amazement before he transformed into a small bear and ran up towards me. Before I could even react to what had happened I was being hugged by the bear. I couldn't believe my eyes as I realized I had just met a shapeshifter.
Shapeshifters are very rare, I stared in awe realizing its ablities
Newt would love to study one, yet I quickly reminded myself Newt had betrayed me as well, I honestly would've never thought that.

"Why did they lock you up?" I asked once the bear ended the hug, Metis sat down back onto the stone bench.

'They caught me stealing food' the animal admitted. I felt anger flair through me. The magistry had locked him up for stealing food as he'd probably just been hungry? That's inhuman!

"I'm sorry to hear that, you can keep the stone. It might help you communicate" I sat down next to the bear. Today had been a huge rollercoaster.

'Thank you'I just nodded. There we were, a wizard and a bear sitting in a cell.

'Why are you here?'I looked at the bear who was watching me with huge curious eyes.

"My brother is a criminal who forced me into conspiring with him. My friends gave me up" I told Metis, I sighed sadly

"I guess they aren't my friends anymore"I felt a soft paw on my arm.

'I'll be your friend' I sent a small smile towards the shapeshifter.

"Thanks, got any idea about how we can get out... friend?" I asked him. Metis nodded and I watched in wonder as the bear transformed into a dragon, one that barely fit the cell.

'Climb on my back friend'I heard Metis think, I laughed out loud. This was the best thing. I quickly climbed on his back. I'm sure the chains he had on earlier were enchanted with a spell preventing him to transform. I held on tight as Metis started to move.
A loud roar came from his huge mouth followed by fire that broke down the cell doors.

The cell was just a holding place before sentencing the criminals to real prison which meant the security wasn't as good.Metis flew through the hallways, quickly dementors and wizards alike were onto us but somehow Metis managed to dodge them all.
He broke down walls and windows, this was going to be very expensive to remake but at this very moment, I did not care.

He flew out the nearest window and free we were. I felt the wind against me as he flew as high as he could trying to lose the dementors.

"NOW IT'S MY TURN" I yelled out as loud as I could hoping Metis could hear me over the loud wind. I flicked my wand and we disapparated. Teleporting to a random location  thankfully losing the dementors. We ended up in the air above a small village, Metis flew us into a nearby forest. Once there he let me climb off his back before he himself transformed into a bear again.

"Thank you for helping me escape" I thanked the shapeshifter. The bear nodded.

'Can I stay with you?' Metis asked surprising me. It had only been a few hours since my last friends got rid of me but here a new one was wanting to stay with me.
I smiled, "You can but I cannot guarantee your safety"

the bear just went in for another hug, at this moment I pledged an unspoken promise to try and take care of this animal as best as I could. He was really precious and innocent.
I hope I could keep him that way.