Dark Fire

Chapter 19- The Darkness and the Light

Hermione hurried along the dark passage way with Harry, Ron and Ginny in tow. “We have to hurry, Draco could be hurt or in trouble,” Hermione said as her feet shuffled along the dirty tomb floor. Every now and then she would catch a sight of her fourteen year old body reflected in the dim light of the lantern she carried and she wondered how she could have been so mean to Draco when he still looked so fine in his fourteen year old skin, yet he accepted her buck teeth and all.

Draco walked along the dark corridor alone as he wiped the trickling blood off is mouth from his spat with Ron. He stopped short when he heard a familiar noise. He was coming. The ghost of a man who lived centuries before there was ever a Draco and a Hermione now threatened the pale boy as he trod through the tomb, his breath growing short as he hurried to meet up with his love.

“Hermione is that you?” Draco called out into the gloomy blackness.

Quick he is coming you must hide

Hurry now this way..

It was her; with her exotic beauty and her eyes painted like a majestic Siamese cat. She, who had led him through these tunnels so many times before. Suddenly another figure was at his side as they followed the ghostly lady in white whose clothing hugged her body like a sleek glove. Draco stopped, and the diminutive figure stopped too.

“Daddy hurry he is close now!” the small voice said to him. It was a girl of maybe three or four and she peered up at her father with a likeness in her eyes that Draco himself had seen only in the mirror.

“Isis, baby is that you?” Draco reached for the little girl and found her tiny hand.

“Yes father, get your wand out he is too close now, we won’t be able to escape him.” Draco did as he was told and pulled his wand out.

“Lumos!” he chanted and the wand lit with silvery white light.

“Why are you here baby you are supposed to be at home?” Draco said in a concerned manner.

“I am at home Daddy, just like always. I see through her eyes father. Please hurry we are almost there, the others are not far now.

Just then Draco felt a dangerous wind at his back, followed by the sinister laugh of the man he knew to be Seth. The man who had stolen the life away from his little girl. The man the Goddess Isis feared more then anything else in her non- corporeal life.

He is among us now

I will hide the little girl

You will face his wrath

I am sorry pale one..

Both Isis’s disappeared in a puff of smoke and Draco was left standing against a cold stone wall as he held his wand out high in front of his pale white face, his silvery -gray eyes glowing in the wands light.

“Stupefy!” Draco called out as the massive figure of Seth with his Egyptian jewels that hanged around his thick neck and his tattered loin cloth around his waist.

The hulking beast of a man was slammed against the wall and rubble fell from the ceiling as Draco stood casting spell after spell at the beast. His spells worked but the sheer size of the gigantic Seth didn’t contain him for very long and now the ceiling was threatening to come down upon them both. Draco ran forward stumbling along the dank bottom of the tomb. Water now permeated the walls as Draco splashed along his path to the central atrium that he could see only meters in front of him. Diffuse light was coming from somewhere as he burst into the atrium looking around the circle when he spotted Hermione.

“Draco!” Hermione ran to him and clutched onto him as tight as she could.

“I was worried about you. We heard him attacking you.” Hermione was looking at him with wild excitement in her eyes as he hugged his wife.

“No time. I stupefied him again and again but the spell won’t hold and he’s just back there around that bend,” Draco pointed as the others had caught up with Hermione and stood looking in the direction Draco had pointed.

“Where’s the tomb Malfoy?” Harry said in a hurried frenzy as he stood close to Ginny, as if to protect her should something jump out at them. Ron was holding his wand out in front of him, ready to pounce on whatever came his way.

“It’s through that underwater cavern and then after that I am not sure. I haven’t been further then the water.” Draco again pointed and they all saw a dank pool of water with rats climbing from it’s sides. It looked to be a huge well type structure as the water spilled over its rim and onto the floor of the tomb. It was like standing in a sewer as the five teenagers splashed as they walked, in the deathly smelling water.

“I’ll go first Hermione hold my hand.” Draco reached out for her hand and they entered the pool. They floated above the water at first and then Draco gave her the sign to take one big breath and then their heads disappeared under the black water. Harry and Ginny went next followed by Ron who was unfortunate enough to see the beast rounding the corner and coming straight at him. His face was a dark contorted vision of pain and Ron felt his body freeze up as he floated in the putrid water, too petrified of both the beast and what lay beneath him in the murky depths. Ron felt something pull his leg and he was tugged underneath the surface just as Seth crashed his thunderous hand down where Ron’s head had been only a mere fraction of a second earlier.

“Thanks Harry, you just saved my life.” Ron said as he pulled himself from the water and into a small room where the others stood in awe. The room shimmered with gold flecks of light that sparkled and cast a yellowish hue over everything it touched.

“Don’t mention it.” Harry said smiling at Ron. Harry was still reeling from Ron’s Neville confession earlier in the passage way but Ron was still his best mate whether gay or not.

“Where do you suppose it is, if its here that is?” Hermione looked at Draco shaking in her cold wet clothes.

“I am at a loss. Where would you hide a big dick?” Draco smiled at Hermione as she peeled her sweater off exposing her arms and also exposing the fact that she was cold. Draco’s eyes went straight down to her shirt where her nipples poked through a wet tank top. It was strange to see Hermione’s body this way but Draco looked on in curious enjoyment.

“Maybe you should cover up Hermione?” Hermione looked down and blushed but ignored him. Her cold, hard nipples were the least of her concerns right now.

At Draco’s first question, on where would a big dick be hiding all eyes turned to Ron.

“Why is everyone looking at me? Just because I said I’m gay it doesn’t mean I know where some bloke hid his brother’s pecker, now does it!?” Ron said in his usual comedic tone.

Draco coughed and choked on his own saliva when he heard this. “Do what?”

“Oh we forgot to tell you. Ron suddenly remembered that he had something to tell us. Ron and Neville are a couple now.” Draco fought back laughter. All those times he had been sure Ron wanted to give Hermione more then just friendship, he had been wrong, dead wrong, so it seemed.

“Longbottom?” Draco said with a sense of sarcasm in his voice.

“Yes, Longbottom, you ferret, you got something to say about that?” Ron said angrily.

For once Draco had nothing to say. Possibly later he would have a thing or two to say but right now he didn’t care if Ron was a polar bear or a pixie or gay, they needed to find what they came for and return it to Isis and hopefully leave with their lives.

“Well congrats then. I hope you both have beautiful children together.” Draco couldn’t resist and Hermione looked at him, her brow furrowed but quickly turned back into a smile. Draco was really cute. How did she miss this fact when she was in school? She had decided that it must have been his poor treatment of her that made him so unattractive back then, because he was clearly beautiful in every way even at fourteen, much like her son Scorpius was, and is now, Hermione thought quietly and briefly.

“Over here!” Harry and Ginny had been snooping around the room that was filled with treasure.

“Look at this Hermione isn’t this just the most exquisite thing you’ve ever seen!” Ginny had picked up an Egyptian headdress made of solid gold and sparkling jewels. She had never seen anything so perfectly crafted in her life and even if she had, she would never have been able to afford it and neither could Harry or even Draco for that matter. The items in this room were priceless.

“Do you think anyone would notice if I nicked it?” Ginny was holding the headdress to her hair, a sly smirk crossed her face as she spoke.

“Yes Ginny. Put it back and don’t move anything out of its proper resting place. These things have curses that are ages old and you don’t want to wake up and find a Pharaoh in your bed do you?” Ginny seemed to think about this for a minute before putting it back exactly as she had found it, as Harry shot her a look of disapproval at her pausing to think about it in the first place.

“Daddy it’s not here!” In a puff of smoke their daughter Isis was standing before Draco and Hermione.

“Baby?” Hermione said as she reached out for her little girl.

“It’s alright Hermione, the Goddess is protecting her, she can help us, she knows the way.” Draco said as he reached and held his daughter’s hand once again.

“You have to climb now, up there.” Isis pointed to a small hole in the ceiling and then she again disappeared into a plume of smoke.

Draco looked up. The hole was a good twenty feet in the air.

“Wingardium Leviosa!” Draco called out and his body began to levitate. Hermione shot a spell at Draco from her wand and suddenly he was boosted quickly through the air, his arms catching hold of the side of the hole in the ceiling.

“Come on Hermione, you next, I’ll catch you.” Hermione obeyed.

Review!?

Never go into business with family members. I have had a really bad day. That’s my tip of the day! Haha Hope you are all enjoying this. I decided to have a little fun with the story but I did always think Ron/Neville were a likely couple in the same sex pairings. I think Neville could make him happy, what say you?