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Chapter 1: The final battle.
It was a gloomy day with great big grey clouds in the sky. The weather seemed to depict the impending doom that the war was bringing. Wizards and witches were dying left, right and center. People were locked up in their homes, hoping that they would be able to escape the war alive.
Numerous families had been torn apart and loved ones were lost. There was hardly any hope left…
In one home, a girl sat alone in her room, gazing at the grey sky and thinking about her life. She was only thirteen years of age and in normal circumstances she would have many more years to come, but now, no one knew whether they would be alive the next day or not.
Alexis was a bright girl and usually full of life. But she couldn't help but feel guilty for sitting peacefully in her home while many witches and wizards out there, were being tortured to insanity and put to death mercilessly.
'I can't wait for the war to get over!' she thought to herself. Because of the war, she was not allowed to attend Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry, which had been her dream since she was a little girl. Her parents wanted to keep her safe because everyone knew that Hogwarts was the main target of the self-proclaimed lord, Lord Voldemort.
Alexis jumped about a foot in the air when she heard her bedroom door creak ever so slightly. She looked up and saw her older brother walking in. She was fond of him but he could be a nuisance at times.
"Hi Alex, why do you look so glum?" he asked, ruffling her hair good naturedly.
"I am sick and tired of being stuck in this god awful house the entire day." She snapped. She could see a look of understanding cross her brother's face.
"Why don't you work on your transfiguration? I saw you having some trouble with it earlier." He said while sitting down opposite her on the bed. It was true that she was having a bit of trouble with the latest spell that they had learnt. Her parents tutored both of them at home since they weren't able to go to Hogwarts. They learnt everything that they would have been taught had they gone to Hogwarts and some other extra skills like healing, dueling and the mind arts. Even though the ministry traces were still on them, it only indicated that magic was being performed in that particular place but not who was performing it. And since both of her parents were magical, they didn't have to worry about getting caught.
Her parents were healers at St Mungo's, the wizarding hospital. While they were only trying to look out for her safety she couldn't help but feel extremely irritated at their over protectiveness.
She had always wanted to do something with her life. You could say that she was rather ambitious. With the war brewing, she wanted to do something now more than ever. With a sigh of resignation she resumed looking out the window which overlooked a field. They lived near the outskirts of Hogsmeade in a beautiful patch of land.
While she was looking out the window she realized that she had completely ignored her brother.
She looked up to see that he had dozed off on her bed. She shook her head fondly.
"Children, lunch is ready!" her mother called from downstairs. Her brother jolted awake and almost ran downstairs. Alex chuckled lightly and followed her brother but at a much slower pace.
The small family sat around the table and started eating their bread and soup. The atmosphere at the table was heavy.
"So Dad, how was your day?" Fred, Alex's brother asked, trying to break the deafening silence.
"It was fine. We had a lot casualties to attend to." Their father, Mr Nicholas Bluewell said. The last few days at the hospital had been hectic due to the number of people who got cursed by the death eaters.
They spent the rest of lunch in silence. There was nothing much to do at the house.
As the evening wore on, Alexis and Fred tried to pass their time by playing exploding snap or gobstones.
They were just packing up their gobstones set when they heard sounds of heavy footsteps.
Alex looked out of the window and her insides froze. Hundreds of death eaters were marching towards Hogsmeade. They were cursing every single person in their way. Some people tried to block their path but they just ended up getting hit by the killing curse. Alex stood there for a moment in shock and was blinded by flashes of the sickly green of the killing curse.
She heard a blood curdling scream and saw one of the death eaters torturing a young girl who looked to be around the age of seventeen. The death eater was smiling down at her evilly and was laughing coldly at the ear piercing screams.
Without another thought, Alex ran to the front door and opened it with a strength that she didn't know that she had. She ran outside and held her wand out in front of her. She stood to the sidelines and watched. She needed a plan.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?!" someone yelled from behind and she turned around, wand pointed at whoever it was. She saw her brother standing there looking panicked and slightly frustrated.
"I am helping, that's what I am doing." She said and went back to thinking of a proper plan of action.
She was pulled out of her thoughts again when her brother pulled her behind a large fence. She was about to snap at him when he started speaking again.
"You are too young to die Alex. Stop this at once. Do you think you will be able to stop a fully trained death eater who has years of experience?" he hissed.
"Well even if I can't, I am going to bloody well die trying." She spat back.
"No, go back inside at once. Mum and Dad must be searching for us. You can't die now, we will need you after the war is over." He said trying to reason with her.
"Even if the war is over, life will not get better. What are the odds that we will win? Look at how many death eaters there are. The Dark Lord has gathered half the dark creatures to his side. If he wins, we will be killed anyway." She said and pulled her arm out of his grasp.
"Very well, it seems that I won't be able to stop you. But I am going to protect you as much as I can and fight with you." He said.
Alex looked ready to argue but then suddenly a red beam of light whizzed over her head. Both brother and sister looked at each other and silently communicated. They hugged each other and then ran onto the street, away from the protection of the fence.
Alex started firing every spell she knew at the cloaked wizards and witches. She actually managed to hit four of them before a death eater caught sight of her and fired the torture curse at her which she dodged just in time. The death eater growled and then started firing spell after spell. Alex dodged a few but she had to raise a shield for some of the curses that came too close to her.
"Well, well it seems that you are a good duelist little girl." The death eater said in a patronizing voice. "With some training, you could be a good asset to the Dark Lord."
"I will never bow down to that sick lord of yours!" she spat. The death eater glared at her and then smiled at her. It was an evil, almost predatory smile.
"Well, don't say that I didn't give you a choice." He said and raised his wand and said in a deadly whisper, "Avada Kedavra". The spell zoomed at her at a ferocious speed. She looked at it in fascination and closed her eyes in acceptance of her impending death. She kept her eyes closed for a few more seconds but still didn't feel the impact of the spell. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Fred's body at her feet. She gasped. His eyes looked glassy and his lips were slowly turning blue.
She felt as if someone had melted all the bones in her legs and fell to the ground, desperately trying to assure herself that this was all just a bad dream.
She held her brother's body close and sobbed.
"Now, it's your turn!" the death eater said and pointed his wand at her. Alex looked up at him and felt hot white rage fill her up. She was going to kill this pathetic excuse of a man who had taken her brother away from her.
"I don't think so." She said and fired an impediment jinx at his feet which he was able to quickly dodge. The death eater fired the cruciatus curse at her which she blocked by levitating a rock in front of her. She shot a blood boiling curse at him and it hit him in his left shoulder. She quickly fired a stunner when he stumbled at the impact of the previous spell. The stunner hit its mark and he fell to the ground. She quickly walked up to him and picked his wand up and broke it. She smiled triumphantly at the stunned death eater before the smile was wiped off her face when she remembered what it had cost her. She was never going to see her brother again. She stood there, trying to come to terms with everything that had happened. She was also glad that her parents had seen fit to teach her some of the darker spells.
She looked down at the stunned death eater and gave him a kick in the ribs. She looked around and saw people fighting and bodies falling to the ground. She was so caught up in the moment that she didn't notice a green beam of light flying towards her. By the time she saw it, it was too late. It hit her right in the chest and she felt a horrible crushing sensation before everything went black.
Alex was spinning in what she thought was a long black tunnel. She thought about her current status and accepted her death. At least she would get to see her brother again.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. Please tell me what you think and if any improvements need to be made.