Another Chapter! Created 4/12/04

Disclaimer: Shadow doesn’t own pokemon. It belongs to Nintendo, Shogakukan Comics, etcetera, this is fanfic, non-copyright infringing, non-profit, and belongs to me since I wrote it.

Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling, not me.

 

Notes: <> for psychic communication, ** for thinking, and italics for pokemon speaking.

RANT: Why hasn’t Terminatress updated in almost a year?

 

Chapter 12: Spy and Lie

 

            It was snowing.

            Why was it snowing? That was the question Ash wanted to answer. For one thing, it was spring.

            Besides, they couldn’t play Quidditch in the snow! Not that he really cared about the game, but still…

            Ash cast a suspicious look at Lance. * Dragons can control the weather… * “Lance-chan?”

            < Hmm? >

            < You aren’t making it snow, are you? >
            < No. Someone else is performing the spell. Do you want me to disable it? >

            < That’d be nice… >

            < Just a second then… >

            Lance shifted back and tugged on the currents of magic floating inside the castle, before one startled Ravenclaw six-year dropped to the ground, concentration broken. The snowfall abruptly stopped.

            < Done. >
            < Was it… >
            < A trap? Not for you, luckily not. I would have had to kill him if it were. >

            Ash smiled. * I’m glad she’s here to protect me… *

            Lance was more than a friend. She was just… everything.

            That was the way things worked.

            Things were nice that way.

            Harry and Draco were studying by the fireplace, where it was the warmest. They hadn’t been able to scare much more information out about the book.

            That was a problem.

 

            “You know, I think we have a problem.”

            Lance yawned. < I knew that already. >

            “There’s probably traps too…”

            “Ah.”

            “Don’t worry, I’m sure we can get past them. But why are we waiting?”

            “Because, if we steal something in the middle of the school year trouble will happen always.”

            “Besides, if you get expelled at least you got a learn of class.” Harry pointed out.

            Draco smirked. “We could transfer to Durmstrang.”

            They all got a laugh out of that.

 

            Katrina glared.

            Oh, how she hated them! The hufflepuff stamped her foot impatiently. Come on, let them figure it out!
            Then, she could steal it!
            Suddenly, she felt metal against her throat. She gulped.

            “Leave. Now.” Lance said calmly, fingers already moving in the shadow stealing seal and finishing the spell.

            Katrina apparated.

            There went a good chunk of her lifeforce.

            < Stupid ones. > Lance muttered. * I’ve caught so many… oh well, the population is thinning out. *

 

            Lance?

            < No, I’m fine, Aerodactyl. >

            Just checking.

            < Thank you. >

            The sun shone brightly on the lake outside. Yes, the time would come soon, and then everything would be fine…

            She slipped downstairs.

            Through the walls, through the traps – she had lied, yes – they were frightfully easy to undo, the book lay there.

            Calmly, she took it.

            Into the dream realm it went, where it would wait for the fire child to be reborn again.

 

            “I should have done this sooner…”

            But it had been fun to force those children to study!

            That was one of those manipulative methods that could be used.

            Smirking, Lance flew off to find Ash as a dragon.

            Ash glared.

            He put down the box of chocolates. < I think I know what you did. >

            < Quite possibly. >

            < That was _mean_ of you! >

            < I understand. >

            < Argh! >

 

            Harry and Draco looked amused as Ash began eating chocolates rapidly with an angry glare in his face.

            “You okay?”

            “She lied to me.”

            “Happens to us all, my friend.” Draco said sympathetically. “What was it about?”

            “She’s got the book out already.”

            “WHAT?!”

 

            Harry put down the spell book. “So we studied for nothing?”

            “Basically…”

            “Why… that…”

            Draco searched for a word in his vocabulary to aptly fit the situation, while Lance just fluffed her wings and settled down.

            < You! You! >

 

            “Katrina.”

            “Hmm?”

            “Another one who falls.” Lance said, putting her silver gloves on. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to do more scouting.”

            She vanished.

            “You can’t control her?”

            “It’s more like the other way around, Harry.” Ash said. “She’s my guardian.”

            “Oh…”

 

End Chapter

Completed 5/1/04