Snippet #1307257

By the time Harry had finished burying Charlie, Kreazil had left. He noticed that Hermione held the final vial of potion and frowned at it as he walked towards her. He felt very tired and very alone all of a sudden, as though reality had struck him up side the head.

"Did he say what that was?" He paused and then chuckled coldly at his words, "Not that I would believe a word he says anyways." Harry added, using a quick spell to make the fire larger. He sat down as close to it as possible and allowed his toes to rest only inches from the flames. He trusted Ron to make it out okay with Mr.Smith, and so all he could do was wait.

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"...Yes? Can I help you, miss?" He cautiously spoke, in a wary tone. His parents and brother had always told him to be cautious of strangers.

Natasha gave the boy a sweet smile that lit up her features, "Hello." She said again trying to think of how adults spoke to children. She wasn't very good with kids. No, that wasn't true... she hated kids. There, that's better.

"I'm a friend of your brother Drake." She said, still smiling warmly. She knelt down in the sand next to Dimitri, so she was at eye level with him, and then frowned slightly, "I'm on vacation with some friends and I thought I'd come and say hi to Drake but I was just informed that he's not around. He promised to take me on a great tour of the island whenever I got a chance to come. I have to admit I'm sort of disappointed. Could you suggest any places I should see before I go...?" She trailed off, and shook her head in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, dear, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Natasha. It's a pleasure to meet you." She said, extending a long slender arm to shake Dimitri's hand.

She could feel the seconds ticking by and knew it would be any moment that the glass ball would take her back to the castle. If she could just get Dimitri's hand in her own... then she could get the brat and get out of there.

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Down by where Ryu and Evelynne was standing, the ground shivered as soon as the last note died out. The keys then suddenly ripped themselves out of the ground, wrapping themselves up and disappearing. In their place stood a reasonably sized musicbox. The handle turned slowly by itself, re-creating the tune that Evelynne had just played on the giant piano.

"“London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London bridge is falling down -”

Just before the last three words, however, the music stopped. The handle didn't turn. All that could be heard was a small ticking sound.

Evelynne took a shocked step back as the keys were torn from the ground, but then tried to move forward as a music box appeared. She couldn't move forward, however, and looked down to see that Ryu had thrown his arm out infront of her in a protective gesture. "Ryu, I think we should check it out. I-" She began, as the music continued to play, but stopped talking when the song cut out. A ticking noise was all that was left...

"Ticking...?" Ryu whispered, before his eyes bulged out. His left grip on his knife loosened, slipping it back into its sheath as he whipped out his transfigured wand. ~Bloody hell!!~

"IT'S A BOMB!! HIT THE DIRT!!" He cried out, immediately assuming the worst (despite it being an unlikely scenario), and throwing himself into Evie to toss them both to the soft ground again, snapping his wand arm out. "PROTEGO TOTALUM!" The protective bubble just as quickly shimmered over them, ready to shield them from any heat or shrapnel...

Evelynne fell beneath Ryu, hitting the earth hard. The back of her head hit the grass so hard that she could see stars bursting all around her, "Ow, fuck!" She cursed, pinned beneath Ryu. Her voice sounded hollow inside the bubble that Ryu had created around them. There was no blast... no explosion... just the sound of ticking and an indistinct scratching noise.

"Maybe we have to open it?" Eve ventured, not bothering to move from under Ryu. She was freezing from the rain and very weak from the entire evening. Laying in the mud seemed like a perfectly acceptable place to be at that moment.


OOC: I guess Jim doesn't know that they aren't aurors right? To be honest, Eve and Ryu probably have no effing clue what to do next. haha.