A/N: Writing is one of my passions and I take it very seriously. Fleurmione is something that warms my soul, therefore I felt that I wanted to contribute with a bit of happiness to all that like this fandom as much as I have learned to do so. Blue butterflies was my first attempt and it was well received. That made me happy but deep inside I felt that it was not enough. Despite not having other computer than the one at work because my laptop broke down, I started this story around three months ago and I had advanced on it steadily to the point that it surpasses 100 pages and I I think that it is just half of what I want to tell. (On the bright side, I do have a laptop now so I had been able to write more frequently.)
This is a Fleurmione with some soft touches of Bill and Ron. They are no bad people, just not the right ones for my girls. I tweaked some facts so do not be alarmed if you see canon spells with some of my own. This is a post war story with some death eaters on the loose. On this version, Gabrielle is older and will play an interesting role. Fleur is in her twenties and Hermione is about to turn twenty. Their three year difference remains unaltered. As I mentioned before, I will use original spells plus the canon ones.
Oh yeah, Harry Potter and co. belong to J.K. Rowling, yada yada. The original characters belong to me, however.
Updates will be weekly, although that can change if the story is well received. Reviews are highly appreciated because I do like to read other's thoughts about my stories. Without further ado, I present you this, my humble story.
Enjoy!
Antique Store
The long time lost halves would finally find the way home,
and their magie will reach the highest peak.
The blessed ones will be the carriers or reformation and peace.
1.- Sphinx
Nobody expected that after all the effort defeating Voldemort, other attacks would be happening any time soon. Then, other countries started dealing with unexpected outbreaks. Several schools including Beauxbatons and Durmstrang now had casualties of muggle-born and half-blood creatures.
Death eaters that had fled from England started strengthening their factions in other countries. Apparently, they wanted to continue the classification and further extermination of whomever they did not consider pure blood, just like Voldemort wanted to. They planned to fulfill his wish even if she was not alive anymore.
Creatures such as veela and werewolves, plus muggle wizards and witches were their main targets. That is why; those schools were their priorities considering the high population of veela attending Beauxbatons and muggle born and half creatures in Durmstrang.
Taking advantage that Madame Maxim attended a funeral and several teachers were sick due to a flu, the defenses around Beauxbatons weakened which made it easier for the rogue death eaters to invade and attack the school.
One of the few veela survivors that was severely injured during Beauxbatons' attack was Gabrielle Delacour. Thanks to her grandmother's training in defensive and offensive spells, she was able to repel some of the strongest attacks directed at her. Good thing that she had learned some advanced spells last summer because that was what spared her from a sure death.
Unlike her sister, Gabrielle was a troublemaker that learned all about Beauxbatons' secret passages to sneak out and visit Taüll, a village where her classmates could visit on weekends same as Hogsmeade for Hogwarts but in the south of France.
Being a fifth year, she did not have permission to leave the school, which is why it came handy to know every nook and cranny of the castle to sneak out with her friends from other years.
Gabrielle was falling asleep during her advanced potions class. The young Delacour was indeed a prodigy, she had an impressive skill to memorize information and cast spells that rivaled Hogwart's Hermione Granger. It was no wonder as to why the young witch was taking a class that aimed to sixth and even some for seventh year's students. She wanted to graduate faster, so she took several advanced courses.
That did not mean that she was paying attention this time. Her roommate and cousin Colette had kept her up to listen to some muggle music that she fancied so she went to bed late, and then she heard it.
A loud explosion made the windows shatter and Gabrielle opened her eyes alarmed and, in a second, she was wide-awake and with her wand in her hand. After that, everything went silent and that terrified the young Delacour.
Le calme avant la tempête, or the calm before the storm, was how her grandmother used to call this kind of situations and Gabrielle did not like the shiver that made her blood freeze when her classroom's door opened, and several dark shadows entered. The death eaters had arrived.
Merde, this is not good.
It was not until a couple of classmates sitting on the front row were killed that she quickly snapped out of it and ran towards the back door of the classroom. She barely made it through, when a loud crash was heard, a couple of death eaters were chasing her and throwing spells.
Wand in hand, she made an unexpected turn and jumped off the rail. The fall was about three stories high and it would cause her severe injuries if she did not slow down her fall.
"Vorticis!" Gabrielle yelled at the last second and a silvery whirlpool appeared out of nowhere swallowing the young witch who vanished in an instant. It was one of the advanced spells she had learned by herself after reading a book on veela magic the last time she visited her family home.
She had refined the spell in a way it could be used to move around the school without breaking the 'no apparition' rule that Beauxbatons, same as Hogwarts, had.
Landing softly on the ground floor, Gabrielle ran all the way to her room. She needed to get there as soon as possible and alert her family and friends.
After avoiding curses and hexes, she shielded against the dark side of a wall when two death eaters were heading her way. She had started learning wordless spells a few months ago and she was able to manage simple ones so far. Being Fleur's youngest sister, she had a way with magic like the former did but, she tried hard to surpass her.
"Tenebris talpa" the young Delacour silently casted and her features were concealed by merging with the dark wall she was leaning on. This was a spell she adapted from the same fundaments of the invisibility cloak Harry Potter had.
For the spell to work, she just needed to be very still, otherwise she would be found and that would mean immediate death. She had already seen some of her classmates die and she did not want to suffer the same fate.
After some death eaters strolled by and she made sure was out of earshot, Gabrielle sighed relieved and uncast the spell. Soon, her now torn blue uniform could be seen. She transfigured her skirt to a pair sweatpants and her heels to sneakers to run faster.
After checking that the hallway was empty, she decided to run again, not before casting a silencing spell to her feet, so she would not make any noise while running. She was indeed a very talented witch. If her mother and grandmother could see her now.
It was the first time that she dreaded choosing a room on the far end of the corridor of the veela quarters because of all the dangers she had endured so far. Gabrielle noticed that some of the doors of the other rooms were wide open, so she walked in slowly.
When she peeked at the first open door, blue eyes widened with realization and she had to cover her mouth to avoid screaming, it was too risky. There was blood everywhere, some of those veela were her friends and a considerable number of them were related to her. Distant cousins had been slaughtered and now their faces remained cold as stone, synonym of deadly curses cast upon them.
Gabrielle kneeled in front of her second-degree cousin, Amélie and closed her eyes. She shed a few tears before raising her head when she heard steps growing closer.
She held her wand with shaky hands before casting a soft 'vorticis' and disappeared engulfed in a silvery fog. Gabrielle tried not to use that specific spell much because it drained a lot of magic and having casted it twice in less than ten minutes was taking a toll on her. With a loud thud, the blonde teen landed on her knees in her room's floor, she was exhausted.
"Gabrielle?" a soft voice called.
"Colette are you okay?" the blonde veela asked. Gabrielle and Colette had been friends since they had memory. The latter was the youngest daughter of Apolline's younger sister Thérèse, so they saw each other often as kids. The young veelas had been close since a young age, and their closeness grew through time. When both were accepted at Beauxbatons, they asked to be roomed together.
"Oui…" Colette winced when Gabrielle touched her shoulder. Her face was slightly covered with blood and her arm was in an awkward angle with made Gabrielle assume that it was broken.
"Ze dez eaterz came and killed zem all," Colette whispered between sobs "zey were looking for you, Gabrielle" her light green eyes closed for an instant before swallowing hard "zey zout I was dez but zey did not realize that Amélie shielded me, she saved ma vie" Colette hugged her cousin and sobbed "I had enough energy to crawl here and used all ze possible locking spells I remembered praying zat you were safe."
"I barely made it here; it took me two vortici and one tenebris talpa" Gabrielle softly whispered with a small smile before coughing blood.
"Mon Dieu, how have not you fainted? Zat's too much for our magical cores" her cousin exclaimed alarmed. Then, they heard it. Those steps were just a few meters away and they started to panic when their locking charms were disabled one by one.
At that moment, Gabrielle remembered Fleur's graduation gift. It was her uniform's hat. The same one her maman and grand-mère had used before her during their time at Beauxbatons.
Being still a bit large for her head, she had it hung in a nearby coat rack. The good thing about that hat was that it was also a portkey with direct link to her parents' home, the Delacour villa.
"Accio Fleur's hat" she saw the hat coming whilst Colette's panicked scream made Gabrielle froze and the blue hat flew by and landed a few meters from her hands. In that exact moment, two death eaters opened the door with such strength that the door almost split in two.
Merde.
"Well, well, well we finally find you, little Delacour birds" a masked man spoke with mirth "someone is taking care of your disgusting half breed sister Fleur as we speak so now, it's only you and me, little girls" the man behind him sent a crucio against Colette who convulsed next to her.
"Um, actually now we are alone, well at least, you two are" the man raised his wand and yelled "sectumsempra" Gabrielle screamed in pain when several cuts covered her body with no signs of healing which was strange for the veela and their incredible healing speed.
One big gash opened on her left leg when a silent spell was cast, and she could even see the muscle contracting. The pain was excruciating.
Protego, she wordlessly cast, and the pain stopped for a moment. She barely deflected an incoming crucio and jumped to grab Fleur's hat at the same moment an avada kedabra was heading her direction. It all happened so fast.
Gabrielle grabbed Collete by the wrist and graced the brim of the hat with the tip of her fingers when the green light almost hit them. Part of that same green light leaked through the portkey and partially transformed Gabrielle and Collete's tried hard to avoid being hit. Their feathery white wings covered their bodies while Gabrielle cast several protego and prayed to get home in one piece.
As soon as they landed, their bodies gave out and their partial transformations started fading away. The cursed green light that followed them, hit a servant, killing him at once.
"Maman!" Gabrielle and Collete's pained scream could be heard all over the villa and then everything turned black when Gabrielle and Collete Delacour lost consciousness in a pool of blood.
A/N: I know that it is a bit short, but it just sets the mood. Let me know what you think in a review and thanks for reading.