The "IT"

Aylin was surrounded by darkness and the smoke coming out from under her hat was making her choke. "Stop it!" she grumbled and her words were followed by some weird noises. "One day it will happen!" she whispered but her mouth barely opened and her voice was very deep.

"One day nothing will happen! One day there will be no more smoke coming out!"

She was walking in the darkness... 50 steps. It seemed like she knew the corridor by heart. The wand was in her hand and her eyes had a weird sparkle. It was getting hot. She felt the need to take off her hat but she knew she wasn't allowed to. "It's dark, eh?" the weird voice echoed again. Aylin didn’t answer though...

"I bet my body likes it..." A humid hot air was hitting her face. It felt like a sauna. It was terrible. Then she finally stopped, paused and listened carefully. Her finger touched something on the left side and another door opened. Soon she found herself somewhere up, in one of the Kwadleigh's Towers. There was a small hole in the wall allowing the fresh air to enter the room.

But still, it smelled like meat. Raw meat. The walls were covered by green plants and had a smoky color. Aylin kneeled next to the big package lying in the middle of the room. She unwrapped it slowly... very carefully. IT was the same package that arrived a week ago at Kwadleigh. A green light spread in the dark room and
Aylin's hat started bouncing on her head.

The thing in front of her looked like a big and hard egg. More like a rock... transparent green light was passing through it like fog and a small something was moving inside. "It better work" she sighed as she took out from under her robe a potion. The words that followed belonged to something no one has heard before. A muttering... she was muttering commands, or at least that is how it sounded by the tone of her voice. The liquid surrounded the egg and the light changed to red.

"It works. I better let Mel and Selena know it... " She tried to stand up... The smoke grew denser and denser... Aylin covered her mouth... She felt her body changing... then, without realizing, her eyes closed and she fell down. "It's too soon... It cannot happen" she managed to think. If only the others would come to find her before it was too late! She saw a cat in her mind.. a blue cat sniffling on her face...

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The blue cat that was sniffling at Professor Aylin's face was Spark, the same cat that had caught the girls entering the forbidden corridor not that long ago. Spark knew the school, well, probably better than the professors, ghosts and builders themselves, he could get to the other side of the school in a minute flat, under even, if he ran.
He continued to sniff around her body, picking up all needed information, keeping back from the now red colored egg like object.

Then he ran, to anyone watching they would have gasped as he ran at the north wall, going straight through it, at anyone's watching relief. Within less then a minute Spark showed up in a southern corridor, closer to ground level, where he met another male cat, this cat was a brown-lilac color and of the tonkinese breed, where as Spark was a blue Persian... they sniffed around each other, purred a hello and then started meow-ing at each other, paws going up and down at times as if in a cat sign language.

Spark hissed suddenly, the other cat's head went to one side and bolted. He ran so fast he skidded to halt at Professor Riddle's, sliding across the waxed wooden floor the last stretch of the way. "Loki, Baby! What's wrong?" (Loki being Prof. Riddle's cat) "Mow" His paws reaching up in the air in front of him, clawing the air air in a slow, gentle motion, meaning danger.

"Oh, Dear! Aylin! Where is she?" Loki turned tail and quickly trotted off, his head turning now and then to make sure she was following. Melody followed Loki till they came to the top of the stairs outside of the forbidden corridor, there they were meet by Spark, the two cats circled each other and Loki ran off again, back to his post and duties. Spark looked up at the professor before him, his head bowed and he turned to face the wall now in front of him, his tail twitched waiting for Mel to produced the words. The ancient words passed her lips and the seal broke, the door opened. "After you sweetie" Mel said to Spark.