Chapter 9 - The Truth

Ron stepped through the old vines and past the trees of the long forest.

The branches and bark of the trees were torn off or covered with moss. Ron stepped through, knowing he will be were he should soon enough. The sky was closed out by the trees, but Ron could see sun shining through. He didn't think it was right for the sun to be shining when he was so sad and upset.

He ran through the forest fast, trying to get to his destination. He stopped a little after a while of running. He had remembered to bring water, thankfully, and he could refill the bottle thanks to Hermione's spell she had taught to him last year, but he was still tired, and didn't think he should rest on the floor of the dirty forest. He didn't know what kind of magic could happen if he slept. So he kept running, he would be there soon.



"You really think Ron would be there?" asked Oliver.

"Yes, but Harry, you do know what comes before that, don't you? He has to get past the Minourical Forest. Do you know how many spells and incantations that could harm him if he tried to get past that place walking? It's hardly safe passing that place flying on a broomstick!" exclaimed Hermione.

Ginny gasped in reply, "Maybe we could get him out of there with a spell, before he gets hurt if we can't find him." she said.

"We can't, Gin," answered Harry, "That forest has been cursed to many times to let anyone remove anything out of it. We learned about it in Defense of Dark Arts - so it must be bad."

"Wait, didn't you hear what our sub said that day?" Hermione said.

"No." Harry replied.

"She said that the only way to remove anything is with the arculus imbarsen."

"Arculus imbarsen? The ring? They're rare, not even rare, there's only one of them! And it's known be a myth, nobody has ever really seen the ring in decades." Oliver added.

"Malfoy." whispered Ginny.

"What?"

"Malfoy has the ring, I saw it. It's green and glowing."

"What?" Hermione said in amazement, "How did he get his hands on something like that?" she looked over at Harry.

"Look, I don't know, but we need to get it from him."

"How?" Hermione asked.

"Ginny?" Harry asked hopefully.

"No. I was wrong. We're not together or anything, Harry. He hates me."

"You're our only hope." Harry added.

"I can't-"

"For Ron, Ginny." Hermione assured her.

"I can try, but I don't think he'll listen."

"Make him listen." said Hermione angrily by the thought of Malfoy.

"I'll try." Ginny said quietly, walking away from the group silently, not wanting to see Draco, because of his rudeness earlier that day. This was the first day since they arrived at Hogwarts it was not raining, and of course it should be the day it should be raining - for it was the worst day of Ginny's life. His brother furious at her, her friends not exactly as fond of her as they used too, and not even having Draco to talk to anymore. She felt like she had no one.



Draco Malfoy stepped out of the Slytherin common room and into strangely empty corridors. There usually would be many teachers walking around, and many students, but it was oddly barren, reminding him of the one he had seen in his dreams. He looked up, seeing a girl walking towards him. She wasn't far back, but he couldn't see her well, although, since he got pretty beaten up none of his body eyes or anything really worked well, everything in his body ached, though he wouldn't act as if it hurt in front of anyone.

Ginny breathed in a deep breath, seeing Draco down the hall, staring straight at her. She wasn't sure if he knew it was her or not by his expression.

"Draco..." she said as she walked up, face to face with him, "Can I talk to you?"

He walked past her.

"Draco!" she said sternly, making him turn towards her.

"Weasley, what the hell is your problem? I thought we were enemies and now you wanna make with the friendly? Sorry, I don't make friends with outcasts."

He started walking again until Ginny said, "I know about your dreams."

He turned towards her once more.

"How?" he asked, a sneer still on his face.

"I was in it - I saved you Draco."

"Why the bloody hell do you keep calling me Draco? And how the hell did you save me?"

Draco Malfoy walked up to Ginny, face to face, leaning in as if bullying her to tell him something.

"Huh?" he asked again, an evil smirk glowing on his face he said, "That's what I thought."

"It was the ring." she said.

"The what?"

"The ring... the green one, that you had, I need it."

"And you think I'd give it to you? Let you go all wacko again and open up another chamber of secrets?"

"It's not for that, Draco. It's for Ron."

Draco laughed.

"He could die, Draco. That ring is the only possible way I can save him."

"Hmm... so, should I give it to you, let me think. No."

"I should've let you die when I had the chance."

Draco looked back, a dead serious look on his face.

"Draco, that ring is more powerful than anything in this world. It saved you, it helped me save you. If you don't believe me," she said, she took out the white ring she had taken, "look, I have the matching ring. I had to wear it to get into your dreams so you wouldn't get to-"

"Get to what?"

"The girl you were searching for in your dream, Draco, she wasn't there. I don't know who this girl was, but you were looking for her, and I transferred my body into your dream to get you out of there until you got to-" she abruptly stopped.

"To where?" he asked, stepping closer to Ginny.

"The dreams you had are called Desirious Rependium. It's not a dream that just comes. Somebody with Malfoy blood had to curse you with it. The rings that kept appearing once you woke up - I can't explain them yet, but somebody must have wanted to help you. I'm sorry, Draco. I transferred myself into your dream to save you from getting to the end of the dream. The Desirious Rependium is a type of curse that kills another. It doesn't stop til it does, and wherever you were, it was slicing you up pretty bad. I had to transfer you out with the white ring, its the only thing that can control the green one."

"We need the green ring because Ron ran off to the Minourical Forest, and thats the only way to get him out safely. Please, Draco." she pleaded.

He looked at her, all the evil had vanished from his face. He took off the ring from his index finger, and handed it to Ginny.

"Thank you." she said gently, almost surprised Draco gave it to her.

"Go." he said, looking down at his feet, she hesitated a moment, and then ran down the empty corridor, down the stairs, and out of Hogwarts. She ran to the Quidditch field, almost tripping over herself.

Observation
This is probably the most confusing chapter in the whole fanfiction. Mostly because the green and white rings that you hardly know anything about and you're trying to figure out what the hell Ginny is talking about. But it gets a little more clear by next chapter how she found out, and then it gets more and more clear. This is one of the longer chapters of the fic because Ginny had a lot to say, I guess. I really didn't like the white/green ring thing, because I knew it was confusing but I had no other choice then to fill you in a little... so I did. This is basically the last chapter to be not full of action. In the chapters after this it gets a little more angsty and actionish, as well. By this time, I was sure everybody would be confused, but as you got confused, I got more confused. It's as if, since i had no idea what to put after making this imaginary world, that I got twisted into the mix and had no idea how to come to an understanding conclusion. But I had the hope to keep on writing and knew I'd find a way to make it all come together(hopefully).