A Dangerous Adventure

Kevin wanted to see the Forbidden Forest. Who cares about the rules? he thought, carelessly. All he felt like doing was exploring the "secrets" of the vacant forest. He was naturally curious and couldn't help but to find out about something. He could also be cunning to figure out what he wants to know. That's the Slytherin in him. Kevin walked slowly into the forest, passing the old cabin that he had no idea what it had been doing there. It looked if it had been there for years back. it was slightly burned. Probably from the Battle of Hogwarts, he thought with a smile.

As he was walking through the thick woods, he saw that it was immediately getting darker. It can't be dusk already! he thought, very confused. All of a sudden, something strayed pass him, swiftly. But he didn't know what it was. "Who's there?!" he asked, questioningly. "This isn't funny." Kevin turned around, sensing a presence behind him. "I'm well aware that something isn't funny. But I would love to laugh!" said a large centaur. "Ahhhh!" Kevin screamed. He ran deeper into the woods until it was out of sight.

A mysterious sound of a twig breaking reached Kevin's bright red ears. Then he saw a shadow. It was of a person. Ugh! I'm gonna get caught! he thought. "Who's there?!" he asked again. All of a sudden he was hit by a Stunning Spell and was sprawled across the cold concrete surrounded by leaves.

There was a lot of things that needed to be practiced. Agility, strength, and most of all... happiness. Hitame needed to act like she was happy, and not depressed. Not for herself, she could care less about her feelings, but for Naomi. Her little sister didn't know about what had happened to her during her detention with Barker, and the way she was acting and feeling wasn't helping her to hide the fact she was depressed. Naomi was starting to get suspicious and Hitame had even heard that Naomi was doing some sort of investigation with other Gryffindors who knew her. Naomi wanted to know what was going on with her sister, and Hitame didn't want Naomi snooping around where she didn't belong.

The Forbidden Forest gave Hitame all the elements that she needed to practice at least two of the things she needs practice on. She can work on her agility and strength here. No one would bother her here, especially since no one knew she had snuck out to the forest. First things first, as soon as Hitame got into the forest, she grabbed onto a low tree branch and swung for a moment before she heaved herself up on the branch with a huge swing. She landed on the branch nimbly and she stood up straight looking out further into the forest. Hitame had never gone very far into the forest, but she was curious as to what was further in, she had heard from Ryo that there was a clearing further in there, but he'd told her not to go further into the forest than where she already was.

Suddenly she heard a commotion a little further away from where she was. Because of her natural curious nature, she went to explore, further into the forest, forgetting about Ryo's warning about the forest. Not wanting to get caught she stayed int he trees and jumped from tree to tree, staying in the shadows as she jumped. She heard a scream and saw a centaur. She leaned down and called it over. "What happened here? I thought I heard a scream." she asked it. "There was a boy here, and he seemed to get scared of me and he ran away." the centaur explained. "Oh alright. Thanks." she bowed her head to him and she took off, still in the trees. Soon after she left the centaur behind, Hitame found a boy on the ground, and he seemed familiar. "Kevin...?" she gasped softly, as she stared down at him. She took a quick look around and jumped out of the tree, her wand in her hand. "Kev...in?" she asked him, putting her hand on his chest, checking if he was breathing.

Kevin had been knocked out. It was like completely dreamless sleep. He wished he could do it more often. It was interrupted by someone whispering his name. He slowly opened his eyes. "Hitame?" he asked, confused. Kevin sat up but his hands not leaving the ground as if they were stuck. All of a sudden, the pain started to come in his head. "Ow...." he whispered. Then he remembered what had happened. "We have to get out of here!" he said frantically. "Let's go. Someone is here! They stunned me!" Kevin leaped up from the ground. He whipped his wand out. He didn't know much but he did know a few hexes.

Kevin was now breathing heavily as if he had just came from a long run. There was someone coming. The same shadow Kevin had seen. "Who's there?!" he screamed loudly. He started to run, gripping Hitame's hand. But he didn't get very far before the figure had returned to their location. He looked up at Hitame. "Is it apparating?" he asked her.

OOC: zada cannot apparate. only the headmaster can apparate on school grounds, and the forest is part of school grounds.

If the "little wizards" at the school thought Zada wasn't watchful, they were sadly mistaken. She had gotten Alistair to keep carefully positioned security that were to not be seen or heard except by herself or Gellert. And there was an increase in the discontent within the school. Zada had gotten a report about some students who were slipping into the forest, practicing their spells and their physical conditioning. Zada had, up til now, merely allowed Alistair's people to follow. Today her curiosity was raised. She wanted to see for herself.

She wore well fitting black designer jeans with tall heeled black boots, a black turtleneck against the cold and the snow, and a long, full black hooded cape that had a brooch securing it shut. It was a large panther made of platinum and completely covered in black diamonds with an emerald eye. She secured the cloak around her neck and picked up her very elegant wand and made her way to the forest. Her tall, willowy silhouette made a striking figure even in what light there was here. Even when there wasn't much. It didn't take her any time at all to follow the tracks through the snow. She recognized the tracks of the centaurs and the unicorns and the great many other creatures who lived here. And the children who trespassed here.

It was easy to come upon them. She hadnt exactly done her best stealthing behaviors. Part of that was due to pure curiosity. The other part was that she saw it to Gellert's advantage if she had actually given them some sort of a sporting chance before she dispatched them beyond the veil, if that was what she felt like she wanted to do with them. She knew the "littles'" parents would find it perhaps a bit unpleasant if she started to strike down their offspring, but she didn't really much care. She rarely cared. And then a wry smile spread briefly across her lips. She had seen them. They heard her, but, of course, they were looking 180 degrees in the wrong direction. She stunned the lad briefly from a distance, more as a warning shot than anything else. But they were either stubborn or slow, because they werent moving back to the school nearly quick enough for her.

She deliberately cast a great swirling cloud of black smoke around her, rising from the ground and up around her. It was imposing in itself and intensely foreboding and evil looking. She walked up behind them as they seemed to be trying to either gather themselves together or decide if they wanted perhaps to make a stand right here. Well, she could oblige that. She walked up behind them. She clutched her hands, with her long, thin fingers, into a strong, iron like grip, around their throats and squeezed tightly, enough to make them significantly uncomfortable. Then she pressed her face closer to them so that her icy breath could be felt on their cheeks as the cold made her words form wisps of icy blue-white clouds as she spoke.

"Move and you will both die right here," she said, her voice as smooth as silk but colder than the ice that was hanging from the trees. One false move from either of them, and a simple wandless Avada Kedavra would solve these two little inconveniences. "Perhaps you should try it. I wouldn't want to get out of practice," she said, with a note of evil seductive sarcasm in her voice.

(((OOC: I know. But he doesn't )))

Kevin's neck had been man-handled by a woman. "Who are you?!" he choked the words out. His neck was in a very uncomfortable position. Kevin didn't necessarily like people in his face. He kicked her in her stomach and fell down to the ground with a loud thud. "That feel good?" he asked smugly. "I don't like people in m face or touching me. He pointed his wand at her. "Anteoculatia!" Kevin shouted for his enjoyment. He wanted to see her sprout antlers. I've been dying to do that one! he thought with a smile one his face, rubbing his neck aggressively.

"Now! Can you tell us who you are?!" he said.

Hitame stared down at Kevin and sighed in relief. "Oh good. You're okay." She said. "What happened to you?" she asked him softly. It seemed he had pain running through him, maybe his head, and she knew the feeling. She lowered her gaze when he said that someone had stunned him. He began to run, pulling her with him and she ran with him, still unknowing of what was going. "Kevin, hold up!" she said. "There doesn't seem to be anyone here, just cal-." she start to say, but she heard movement coming from the trees.

There was shadow following them. Hitame couldn't quite make out who it was, but she knew it wasn't anyone good. Her wand was still in her hand and she was gripping it hard now. She looked down at Kevin after his question and shrugged. "Must be, but I don't know how. There should be a charm on the school that prevents anyone from apparating, in and outside of the school." she said mostly to herself

"It's not safe to be here. We have to find a way to get away from here." she told Kevin. Hitame's first instinct was to go into the trees, but she didn't know if that was possible for Kevin. She looked down at the first year and sighed. "Kevin do-" Hitame was cut off by someone grabbing her throat. One of her eyes was closed while the other was open and she looked at the person who had her by the throat. "Let... go... of... me!" Hitame gasped as she tried to pushed herself away from the woman.

Zada had learned long ago how to take a physical or magical blow and barely flinch, and she had also learned to fight. The boy had weasled away from her grasp temporarily while she put up a shield against a silly charm. She ignored his demands for now. She was not subject to the whims of a first year. Instead she kicked him in the jaw with her tall, stiletto heeled boot.

"Mind your manners, Boy," her voice nearly hissing at him. "You clearly don't know who you're up against. You enjoy taking your life in your hands, do you? And hers? Fortunately for you, I am feeling benevolent today, so I might execute you more slowly, if I so choose, so that you have time to say your goodbyes to the girl here. And which one of you would like to be dispatched first?" She still had a hold on the girl and she whispered in her ear. "Shall it be you, Child? Or shall I rid myself of the rude boy on the ground there and keep you awhile longer for my own amusement?"

Then she addressed them both. "If you don't know who I am, then you have not been attending your classes. Your professors would have all warned you about me. My, my--skipping classes, are we? Naughty, naughty." She laughed evilly. "I believe Professor Barker is in charge of detention, largely. Perhaps you would enjoy him more. Do tell me. What are you both doing trespassing into the Forbidden Forest when you have been told, endlessly, not to enter here? And do make an attempt to make your lies believable, won't you?"

Kevin had been nailed across the face with her boot. DAMN! he thought angrily. His face was now throbbing and gleaming red. He lied on the ground not wanting to get up until he heard Professor Barker's name. "What're you talking about Barker for?!" he asked with an eyebrow raised. "You're one of Grindelwald's people, aren't you?! So is he! I can't believe I let him trick me into thinking he was innocent!" Kevin sighed. That cunning b****! he thought. "Filthy. Grindelwald.... Everyone was wrong to let him become our Minister!" he said. Kevin pulled out an issue of The Resistance newspaper.

"They've got the right idea," Kevin said quietly. "You should read it some time." And he threw it at the strange lady.

Hitame smirked at the woman's words. Everything she went through with Barker during her detention had taught her something, something she found valuable, and that was to not show fear, or any emotion for that matter. She felt the woman's breath as she spoke in her ear, and Hitame immediately pulled away from her. She looked at the woman with the same blank expression she had given Barker. "Do whatever you want with me. I couldn't care less." she told the woman, in a bored tone.

She looked down at Kevin and sighed. So Barker had tricked Kevin, huh? Figures he would go after a first year to trick. They wouldn't suspect anything about Barker's past, they were usually too innocent to know much about what happens around them. But Kevin knew about Barker now, and Hitame had learned more about him the hard way, and she had barely survived what happened to her. Barker was a monster, and she knew this woman was one too, they were both on Grindelwald's side and that sickened Hitame.

When the woman mentioned Barker and how her and Kevin might 'enjoy' him more, Hitame's eyes immediately widened. She didn't want to go through another detention with Barker. Not again. "Why would we lie about why we're here?" she began to challenge the woman, out of fear. "I came here for some... training." she stated simply. There wasn't any point in lying, at least there wasn't for her, she wasn't a first year or anything, so she couldn't say she had gotten lost. The truth was the best thing to say, in her opinion.

The corner of Zada's evil smile twisted upwards just slightly as the girl spoke. "You're wiser than your male counterpart," she said to the girl. "He's more interested in trying to intimidate me. It didn't work, Boy. But...you did lie, Girl. You do care--very much--if I turn you over to Barker or not. They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, and yours are, not surprisingly, transparent. As are yours, Boy. You need to keep that bravado in check. It does not serve you well. If I were you, I would be far less worried at the moment about Gellert Grindlewald and be more concerned about me. Grindlewald is not here. I, however, am.

"You clearly haven't read all the papers. You've only read the ones you choose to read. You're as deluded as the rest of your little community. The rest of the wizarding world knows that the real threat comes from the fools that have been lying to you for the last 50 years. The Order, the past ministers, the self serving families that are only interested in their own wealth--such as our past minister, Mr. Lupin. Where is he now, Boy? Has anyone seen him or his so-called famous daughter lately? If he is so interested in the greater good, why did he leave you to defend yourself? Perhaps you cannot identify who the real enemy is in this after all.

"Tell me. What exactly are you training yourselves for? Who do you think you can battle? If you really want to defend yourself, then I suggest you get your self righteous hind ends to Defense Against the Dark Arts class and learn how to do it right. On second thought,...." She fired a binding spell directly at each one of them to bind their magic. They would be utterly powerless. "You might as well surrender your wands to me now, willingly, for I shall simply take them if you do not. You will find neither of you can fire a wand or a single spell at the moment. You will serve kitchen duty for the next two days. If you do that satisfactorily, I will return both your magic and the wands to you at that time. Next time, if you disobey school rules, the consequences,...well,...I'm afraid they could become much more severe. I suggest you not try it."