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Carrow twins. Should have guessed. My heart is beating heavily inside my chest as we stare each other. This is just like last summer - back in Cokeworth, when those two tried to ambush me on my way back to train station. Only this time, they got the furry guy here to help. This isn't good. Apparate sounds good right now for some reason. Amycus keeps on smiling:"Back in the alleys, I see. No wonder, that's where you whores belong.". Alecto lets out a witchy chuckle as in 'good one brother'. Looks like she's completely fine from last time I saw her. Her brother seems to be still salty about me turning him down back at the festival. Geez... Even I'm feeling somewhat anxious, I keep the stern glare:"If you learned anything from last time, Amycus... You don't wanna do this.". Amycus seems confident as he draws his wand:"Oh, I think I do.". I sigh slightly frustrated what's about to happen:"Didn't think you were that smart in the first place.".
Before any of them could react, I quickly cast a spell on the werewolf-man. He immediately flies further away and lands on his back unconscious. The twins won't waste their time and starts shooting spells at me. The sound of spells being casted and blocked starts echoing around the alley. As I fight, I keep taking steps away from them. I need to leave before they'll call more people to join them! "C'mon, (Y/N). Give us some challenge, would ya?" Amycus grins like a maniac. Quickly, I swing my wand at them after blocking one of their attacks:"Confringo!". A big ball of fire that fills the whole alleyway shoots towards them. That got them off guard, but Alecto managed to block it just in time. As soon as the fiery fog settles down, they realize I have started running away. Werewolf-man got up from the ground with slight headache. "Don't just stand there! Go after her!!" Amycus hisses and all three of them runs after me.
Thinking if I'll get back to the main alleyway, they wouldn't dare to come there and cause a scene. But I was wrong. After I get to the main street and start scampering thru the people, the Death Eaters rush in the main street and tries to spot me. Shit, shit, shit, shit! "There she goes!" Alecto sees me further away in middle of the sea of other witches and wizards. Without caring about the civies, they start casting spells towards my way, breaking couple of windows and owl cages on the way. Immediately it causes chaos. People are screaming and running. Most of the people recognize they are Death Eaters, so they step away or go hide. Only a few tries to fight back, but ends up go flying or got hurt. This is not how I wanted this to go!
Somewhere in the distance, I can hear how someone whistles into a whistle that let's everyone know that the Magical Law Enforcement Officers are now intervening. As I'm running among the others, I see how couple black smokes whooshes above the main alleyway. Fucking shi..- Suddenly, I trip and fall down on my stomach:"Ah..-!!". In panic, I turn myself around and try to spot the enemy thru all of these running people, wand ready. When I try to get up, someone's knee accidentally hits across my face and I get back to the ground. "Argh!" I groan from the pain, but try to stay alert. Now there is a higher change I'll get stepped to death rather than get killed by a Death Eater! Just then, a black smoke flies from the sky and lands only one meter away from me. My eyes widens. It's the same Death Eater that was in Burrow! The one who almost took their mask off. The one who I begged to save Sniffy from the burning house...
All of the witches and wizards keep their distance while running in terror, which gives us space in middle of this chaos. The Death Eater is just standing there, looking down on me behind the metal mask. It's really hard to tell what is going thru their mind now. Are they here to help..? But then, I notice how they calmly move their hand where they hold their wand in. It gives me the sense of alert and quickly raised my wand and cast a spell. Immediately they blocked it. Damn it! As fast as I can, I got up and continue to run. No matter if this person helped me, they are still a Death Eater and I can't let my guard down. While running away, the Death Eater stares at me where they stand for a moment longer before they turn into the black smoke and whooshes up in the sky.
The sound of the Officers yelling and trying to fight against some of the Death Eaters can be heard behind. How in the world did it all turn into this?! Again, spells are being cast near me and one of the spells hit me and I go flying:"WAH!!". My body comes down crashing on wooden table that breaks under the sudden impact. On that table had towers of different sized pots that are now all rolling down on the ground. Looks like I just got smashed into the presentation table of Potions shop. "Aahw, my back..! That's not good. Ooff..." I whine while rubbing the small of my back and try to get up. Had to gain back my focus when I hear how there are people screaming as the Death Eaters are approaching my way. Shit. Think, (Y/N). THINK! Part of my leg touches one of the pots that is laying on the ground. It gives me an idea. Amycus asked for a challenge... Then I shall give him the challenge.
As soon as the twins, the werewolf-man and the mystery Death Eater comes rushing, I start throwing the pots at them by using my wand. "What the..-?!" Amycus gets hit by one of them right in his head. The others gets surprised this, but gets busy to start avoiding sharing the same fate as him. Without stopping, I keep throwing all different pots at them. 'Bing-! Bong-! Dung-!' The sound of hard pots being thrown around is filling the alley. Someone might call this 'such a Hufflepuff move', but at least it's working! None of them is getting the change to cast any spells at me if I'll keep going like this. Then again, I can't do this forever. I get the feeling of relief when I get perfect shots on Alecto and the mystery guy. Right on their foreheads!
The werewolf-man uses his wand and catches one of the pots in mid air and throws it back at me. "Woah!" quickly I hunch down to dodge. The pot goes thru the Potions shop's window. That's not good. Since I tried to avoid getting hit, there is now an opening and the Death Eaters starts casting spells at me when they gain back their focus. But I was already on the move, running as fast as I can. Oh, dear Merlin! I have now just pissed them off even more! Finally, I lost them and stopped to catch my breath in one of the alleyways, hidden from everyone. There are still some people running and screaming. How on earth am I going to get out of this one? When all of sudden, a stern voice calls behind me:"(Y/L).". Huh?!
Immediately when I turn around to see who it is in panic, my eyes widens out of surprise. It's Mad-eye Moody! What is he doing here?! Before I can even say a word, he grabs me by my arm tight:"Let's get you out of here.". Right after that, he uses the Apparate spell and we vanish just before anyone could find us. After the spinning stops, I falter and actually fall down on a chair:"Oof!". Still feeling on the edge, I quickly look around where he has taken me:"Wha..? Hahh...". We are in the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom and I'm now sitting on the chair behind teacher's desk. The familiar environment makes me feel more calm, and my breathing settles down a little. Oh, thank Merlin..!
Mad-eye limps over and takes out one of his flasks and takes a big gulp from it. "You got lucky I was there, kiddo." he mutters and shakes as the drink hits. I sigh deep and run fingers thru my hair, still feeling shaken up by everything:"I think I'd need a drink myself...". "Don't think you'd like this one." he keeps muttering as he puts the flask into his coat's pocket. "Oh, anything at this point would be great." I chuckle, hoping that would light up the mood. No answer. But I can tell he's judging me with that artificial eye. Giving him the side eye:"What? Aren't you going to lecture me?". "Why would I?" he asks. Little bit taken aback how calm he is about this, I shrug:"...I-I dunno. Thought you'd be angry you needed to save me? Again.". "Again?" he wonders at first, but then his thoughts trails off. "Oh, yes. Again." he nods.
This has been all too much for me. There is no way people in the castle won't hear about this. Can already see the headlines of the Daily Prophet... "You don't haveto tell me, but it would be good to know what were you doing in there?" Mad-eye finally ask. "Oh, uh... I was in one of those Apparate spell classes, and a..- uh... Death Eaters made an attack when I was walking back home." I try to explain. Mad-eye stares at me, somewhat unconvinced:"And they just... Attacked? Just like that?". I keep nodding, hard to make an eye contact with him:"Yeah. They are all crazy - as you already know.". No answer. He just turns around and walks away:"Very well... But don't do that again.". I got up from the chair and do a small polite bow:"...I won't. Sorry, sir. Thank you.". With that, I leave the room.
Even he just saved me, there is still this feeling deep inside me that I shouldn't trust him completely and tell him everything that I know regarding the Death Eaters, You-Know-Who, Harry and etc. Surprisingly, I do feel bad for feeling this way. Trying my hardest to push this feeling away and shook my head. I need to tell someone what happened. First person who comes to mind is Severus. Then again, I haven't shared any of my experiences with the Death Eaters so far. I just haven't wanted to worry him with something like this. And most of all... I don't want him get hurt. I would never forgive myself if he would get into this mess and hurt himself in a crossfire. I want to protect him. But now... I feel like it's time to tell him the truth before things get more out of hand.