Whose Side Are You On?

Andrew took a second to think about what she had said. He always thought it would be nice, everyone knowing you, and yet he had never looked at the bad points of being famous. "I have never thought of it that way," he said and wondered how she could stand it.

Andrew kept his hands to his side, wondering what was trying to attack them. If it wasn't a person, then what? They were close to the Forbidden Forest, so it was understandable that they would be attacked by some weird creatures. But, he wished that whatever was lurking in the dense woods, would just go away.

"I don't know," he said softly, trying to not alert the strange creatures. They looked like bears, but they had a similar apperance of a wolf on their face as well. What were these things? "Alright," he said softly again, "let's try not to panic. These things are obviously hungry, so let's try to scare them away." He aimed his hand towards the nearest tree and softly said "Diffindo," Suddenly, the sound of snapping wood appeared, and the tree then began to collapse near the wolf-bear things.

The tree slammed down, hard, next to one of the wolf-bears and then immediatly backed off, wondering what had just happened. They appeared to be momentarily startled, and Andrew decided to take one chance. "Let's go," he said softly, starting to walk back words, slowly to try and not startle one of them.

Chase smiled lightly. "It get insane sometimes." She said with a big happy grin. "Most of the time I wear sunglasses, and put my hair up in a hat, dress in guys clothing or something, they don't notice me." She smiled at him again and looked away quickly biting her lower lip. "Of course people in the wizarding world don't have a clue of who I am! So it's really nice.. being able to go to places like Diagon Alley, or here, and not have to worry about.. well.. being stalked." She said, suddenly revealing why she had been so freaked out when he said he was stalking her.

Chase bit her lip and moved a bit closer to Andrew, her head turning in all directions as they circled them. She yelped slightly when he made the tree fall down, and the creatures jumped back. She slowly followed behind him, taking one careful step after another as they headed back towards Hogsmeade. "You don't think they'll attack us do you?" She asked softly, her wand pointed at each one as they passed it. Turning her head over her shoulder, she righted herself, realizing they were heading right for a thicket of trees. She grabbed his arm and pulled him the right way too, she did NOT want to be separated from him now. Because then she would have to run after him.

[Kind of weird how paragraph 1 is just us talking and paragraph 2 is us fighting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Zombie Bears that Fly xD.]

Andrew kept an eye on the creatures that seemed very angry now that they had almost been killed by the renegade tree. They turned and snarled at them, which made Andrew nearly flinch. It sounded demonic, in a way. They needed to get out of there now...which Chase was already one step ahead with.

"I think they-" but could not finish the sentence, as Andrew was being dragged backwards. He tripped over his own feet, but regained balance before they both tumbled down the mountain. He ran beside Chase and felt something sting the back of his leg. "Dammit!" he said, and landed on the ground, to check and see what was the matter.

A bear had him. The bear hd managed to claw at Andrew's leg, scracthing it to where it bled and tried to pounce on him. Andrew used the palms of his hand to stop the bear, which nearly broke his arms. "Incarcerous!" he casted, and the bear suddenly was wraped into a tight rope, and could not move. Andrew, watched the other bears started to Chase after him, and despite the pain, got up and ran towards Chase, looking very weird though.

Chase was running full pelt down the road, but suddenly she couldn't feel Andrew running beside her. She skidded to a halt and saw him being attacked by a giant bear. "Oh.. My... Merlin.." she whispered her eyes on the bear, but suddenly she was yanked back into reality when two came at her. Yelling out she pulled her wand out and threw a protection charm around her. Which the bears simply sliced through.

There was something wrong with these things! She turned to run, but was grabbed from behind by one. "ANDREW!" She screamed the bear had practically jumped on top of her, and sliced the back of her shirt to shreds. Tearing long gashes in her back. She struggled hard and managed to spin around and pointed her wand in it's face. "STUPIFY!" She gasped as the bear fell to the side, stunned.

Struggling away from the bear, she was caught unawares by the second bear that had come after her. The bear knocked her wand out of her hand, and it went flying, falling into a thicket of thick weeds. She took one look at the wand, and realized the bear had looked at it too. She dove for the place where her wand had landed, but was tackled midflight by the bear. She was thrown to the ground, and hit her head pretty badly on a rock. "SHIT!" she cried out, as the bear pinned her down, it's jaws wide open, heading straight for her throat.

She kicked up and felt her foot collide with something all males had, and this bear especially did. The bear stopped, looked woozy, and dropped to the side, apparently in pain. She struggled away from it, and her back hit a tree. She was breathing heavily, her shirt kept together by a small piece of cloth that held it together in the back, and a piece of cloth at the top, but her whole back was exposed, showing, not only the new marks made by the bear, but a large raised scar, that looked very old indeed, and marred her smooth flesh in such a way that it seemed impossible that it could be Chase's back.

Andrew had to fight off a couple of bears, and did not even notice Chase get hit. He held his hands out to his sides, his palms facing towards the 2 bears that were charing towards him. With his left hand, he casted Stupefy on the first bear, which immediatly was knocked out, and used the Entrail removing charm on the other bear. The bear stopped for a second, and snarled, as if in pain. Suddenly, a small red kidney shaped entrail fell out of the bears mouth and it squealed away. Hopefully it was just an illusion.

He turned his head towards Chase and saw that she had been hurt by a bear. "Chase!" he exclaimed,running towards her, casting another Stupefy on a bear that had been foolish enough to attack him directly. He caught up with her and stood in front of her, so the bears wouldn't be able to get towards her. "Are you alright?" he asked, watching the bears begin to circle around them, waiting for their chance to strike.

Chase sat on the ground for a moment, digging through the weeds, searching for her wand. She finally found it and stood up straight, hunched over slightly from the pain in her back. "Yeah.. I'm fine!" She said spinning around so her back was facing him, back to back she stared at the circling bears. "Wow.. never been in a situation like this.. been in plenty of others, but this is rather unique." She said attempting to smile, even though he couldn't see it. She looked around at the circling bears, she couldn't even count them, but they seemed to be keeping their distance now that they had regained themselves. Some of them looked pretty torn up, and a few were laying on the ground not moving. The one she had just kicked was starting to stir, but it just hobbled off into the woods, obviously in a lot of pain. The other bears let it through and continued to circle, closing in on them.

"Well.. if we don't make it out of this, just let me say, I'm happy that I met you Andrew.." She said attempting to sound brave, even though her voice was trembling. "We.. have a lot in common.." She said and glanced over her shoulder up at him, before turning back to the bears, who were slowly closing in on them, the circle tighter and tighter. She tensed her body, but immediately regretted it as pain burst through her back. Growling her irritation, she knew she didn't have time to heal it, but it sure hurt. "I'll watch your back... and.. well.." she glanced at him again and then looked towards Hogsmeade. It was getting later now, the sun starting it's long descent across the sky, the shadows were lengthening, and she knew if they didn't make it back into town by nightfall, they wouldn't make it back alive again. "If we concentrate on the road.. on getting back to the town.. and break through their circle, we might be able to make a run for it.." She said softly, her voice hard and pressed, as though keeping back tears.

"Chase," he said calmly lowering his right hand behind his back. Apprently there was only one way out now "grab my hand. We'll apparate out of here." He kept his left hand aimed at the bears though, in case one of them tried to get lucky. He wouldn't let them though, he wasn't going to die by some...mutant bears.

He kept his gloves into the gauntlet form, ready to use a spell if need be. Things were not looking good at the moment, and it made his adrnealine pump thoughout his body faster, his left arm shaking. Why weren't they attacking? It seemed to quiet for something like this to be happening. He then made a surprised face as the unexpected happened. They moved backwards. They retreated into the forest!

Andrew smiled and laughed, due to their sudden victory. The war was not over yet. Suddenly, there was a large thud, and something moved quickly through the forest. "this is not good, let's get outta here!" he exclaimed, keeping his voice a whisper.

Chase glanced behind her and saw his hand. Her fingers slowly closed on his behind her back, she winced as her skin rubbed against the new cuts on her back. The cuts weren't deep enough to scar, but they would hurt for a while. She moved up closer to him, her hand clenched in his, waiting for him to apparate, but then suddenly.. they were leaving. Retreating! Her heart soared, but it was suddenly replaced by fear. There had to be only one reason they were retreating, something bigger was coming for them. There was a thud, and Chase's eyes flew open wide in surprise.

Chase's heart was hammering in her chest, her whole body tensed and ready for something to jump out at them. The thuds were getting closer, and she was sure they would be upon her now. She spun around and looked at Andrew, before pulling on his hand and starting to run down the path, her hair flying out behind her, a banner as it hit the light of the sun, but that only made it the more visible. She wished she had worn a hat today! She pelted through the trees, trying desperately to get back to Hogsmeade before whatever it was behind them, decided to charge. The air on her back as it whistled over it, stung the scars, that laced across her old scar like a corset, blinding red and dripping slightly.

"Chase!" he said, feeling himself being pulled again. He was just about to apperate back to the Three Broomsticks, but could not concentrate. "Chase come on!" he said running beside her "let's just apparate, we need to stand still first!" Suddenly he heard a large snarl, and thats when Andrew turned.

When he did, it looked like a regular bear, but there were many different bald spots on the bear in the shape of cuts and tears. It looked like it had seen a lot, and had become the alpha male of the group. "Stupefy!" he shouted, and a large red orb shot from the palm of his gauntlet. It hit the bear, directly in the face, but wasn't phased.

The bear landed on him, and pinned Andrew down, and tried to snap at his face, but missed by a fraction of an inch. "Dammit!" he yelled and tried to keep his way out, avoiding the bears snapping face.

Chase screamed when the bear suddenly attacked Andrew. "NO! ANDREW!" She pointed her wand at the bear. "Stupify! Stupify!" She cried out desperately, but the spells literally bounced off it's fur and flew into the trees above them. "ANDREW!" She yelled, leaping forward, and grabbing one massive paw, she held onto it, her hands closed over the sharp pointed claws on the end. "Stupify!" She cried again, pointing her wand right under his coat, hoping that a closer spell would work. It didn't, it followed the other stupify's and bounced up into the canopy of leaves over head.

The claws were digging into her hands, and suddenly the bears other paw came crashing down on her back, knocking the air out of her, and the claws dug into her shoulder blade. She yelled out in pain. But the bear wasn't even concentrating on her. It was still on top of Andrew, attempting to snap at his face and neck. The claws dug hard into her skin, and when he moved his paw, she was whipped across his body and she was flown free, hitting a tree with a sickening thud. Lights popped in front of her eyes, as she tried to concentrate on getting to Andrew, she had to save him! She just had to! Someone so dear to her now, someone who had listened to her, and comforted her, after she had finally let down her brave face and cried. And now he was in trouble, and she had to help him! She got to her feet weakly, and went towards the bear again, her wand outstretched. "Andrew!" She whimpered piteously, afraid of hitting him if she threw a spell from this distance.