Boom The blast shook the house like an earthquake. Arianna ran toward the sound but a wall of green acidic smoke stopped her. It was pouring out of her living room and she could feel her eyes burning from it. A demonic cackle rose from the smoke and the sound chilled her to the bone.
"Where is the book witch, give it to me or you'll never see the girl again." The cruel voice threatened. Ari could hear her sister crying.
"Luci!" Ari's mother cried desperately, "oh please let go of her, she's just a child." Ari was too afraid to move as her sister's screams intensified. "the book, it's in the portrait over the couch. Reach in and you will find it."
There was a moment of silence while the voice presumably followed her instruction. "I've got it!" it shouted suddenly and Ari's heart dropped. "Now kill them, we can't leave any loose ends now can we." Ari's scream was covered by her mother and sisters cry's of pain as they were stuck down. There was a series of crackling pops and she knew the culprits were gone.
She knew they were dead, there was no reason to enter the room. Ari sat on the floor for hours, it wasn't until the Aurors showed up that she moved. There were three of them, all in black robes with matching badges. A young looking female with bright purple hair leaned down to her. "are you ok?" Tonk's asked and looked into the living room. "can you tell me what happened?"
"they killed them, all of them. That stupid book, they just wanted that stupid book." Ari murmured and dropped her head to rest on her knees. Tonk's laid a hand of the girl's shoulder and Ari shivered under her touch. Ari whispered something about being the only one and collapsed. Tonk's picked the girl up and was surprised by how light the teenager was.
The other Aurors called Tonks in to look at the damage. Another family had been murdered by the dark lord's cause, except for the first time they had not finished the job. Ari slept dreamlessly in Tonks' arms and didn't even wake up for the side along apperition.