Hopeless Night in the Forbidden Forest(Nuna oneshot)

The Hopeless night

       The wind roared behind me echoing the emptiness that filled the darkness of the dead trees. 

They somehow, someway got her. Why didn't I do anything? I fell down into a log "crash"(not a log!)  three eyed spiders started to swarm around me eyeing their home wrecker. I shivered, but they were tiny and look harmless even.I'm still that kind of coward  grandma was right I laughed tears staining my eyes. Luna would have probably told me I was acting like dramatic nargle  the thought hit me like a ironic punch. Why did I do nothing? I was standing there right as she was being pulled away by dirty, mangy death eaters.

        My heart started beating angrily in response and I stepped back hearing the deafening call of a familiar animal.  A long looming shadow with a skeletal body reptilian wings with the stench of death hung onto it like a coat. With it's head held high the Thestral glided over to me it's eyes were filled with curiosity wondering what a poor sap like me was doing here. The sight brought a thin smile to my face. I was once cautious of reptilian horses , but their intelligence and gentle attitudes were too interesting to stay away from. After the Battle of the Mysteries Department I started to sneak out of the castle to the forbidden forest to try and find where the magnificent creatures hid.

  One starless night I walked among the dark trails with my wand held high in my hand. I noticed a ghastly figure stalking in clearing nearby. 

  "  Who are you and what are you doing here?" I had yelled 

  The figure stepped into moonlight pale skin and white gleaming hair. 

" Oi, sorry Luna I though you were a death eater for a second. "

" What are you doing here" she said questioning me with her big pale eyes.

 " Um,well I'm actually looking for Thestrals. You don't perhaps know where some of the herds are?" I had asked shyly.

 At that moment her face had lit up into a a glorious smile. " Oh I come out to see them every Thursday evening after everyone  in Ravenclaw asleep.They'll usually come up to me looking for food , Hagrid always will leave raw meat out for them ,so I just take it to them. Each one of them is special and has a different personality , but they all are very loyal and caring. They've grown quite fond of me ". 

"Wait, how did you become so close to them? Do you have to like say a magic charm  " I asked intrigued at how she could get close to such high class animals. 

She smiled again that time more brilliantly than the last. I remember getting a feeling like everything in the universe had just shinned a little brighter after it. She had moved closer to me so close that I could feel her warm breath against my ear and whispered "You, silly no magic is needed. It's all just trust between you and them. It's a slow processes , but the end result is something more powerful than words or magic."

" I hope you wouldn't mind  if I ask could you perhaps teach me,how?" I said  quietly so only she could hear me. 

" I would be more than pleased to." she  bowed as a thestral begun to revel itself from an unknown hiding spot.

"Lesson number one" she commanded in voice that sounded familiar to professor Mcgonagall "Learn to trust yourself , because if you can't do that however will a thestral learn to trust you?"

That was how we spent our evenings as we went back and forth on rules of thestrals. Slowly and surely I learned it's ways and gained it's respect. I remember the first time the thestral allowed me to touch it me and Luna cheered so loudly that it caused some centaurs to come wandering over. I also became very close with Luna as we exchanged knowledge about different plants and animals. We joked how Snape might secretly be a Dementor in disguise and other such things. She became my closest friend and now I lost her.  

The thestral looked at me discouragingly as if it could read my thoughts. I patted it's long scaley neck. No she was not lost, not the Luna I knew because she will do anything to get out  and would never give up. I've already messed up ,once I can't afford to lose another friend. I need to stop mopping around and start taking back Hogwarts for Luna's sake. " And I Promise no matter what, Luna you will come home  if it means I have to go up against the dark lord himself." I yelled looking up to the stars as if they would send the message to her. 

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