Summary: Sequel to Who Am I? Who Do I Love?... Ginny finally wakes up after four years, but she doesn't know it's been that long. When four mysterious teenagers help Ginny find her father, will she regret waking up when everything she loved has changed? Ginny doesn't know how to react to the change in her fiancee's affections, and it isn't helping her that the rebellion has been building under her father's nose. It is up to her to find and unite all of her friends again and defeat the rebellion before it can even begin. To top it all off? Another traitor is in their midst.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own anything originally from Harry Potter! Most of the characters and places belong to J. K. Rowling! I only own parts of the plot and some of the characters!
A/N: This is the second story in the Questions Series. The first story is Who Am I? Who Do I Love? You MUST read that story first before reading this one or else you will be almost completely lost most of the time.
Chapter 1: Waking to An Alliance
My name is Genevieve Splendora Riddle, also known as Retina. I am the Dark Princess of the Wizarding World, daughter of Lord Voldemort and Alecto Carrow. Or, I was before I went into a coma-like state.
You see, I have visions of the past, but they are dangerous to me sometimes because of how long they can last at once. The longest vision I ever had was the one I had before this one and it lasted three days. This one, is still lasting. If my counting in correct, it has been lasting for the past three or four weeks so far, and I still can't wake up.
This vision I am having is of my ex-best friend, Trinity Malfoy, before she turned against her own family and me. Though, now I'm thinking that she never truly turned. I hear her thoughts, feel her emotions, act out her actions. I am her in this vision. I'm seeing and living the actions of the past two or three months before the day Trinity killed our friend Cho Chang, which seems now to have been an accident and not in Trinity's control.
For the past three or four weeks in actual present time (that I am guessing), I've been laying somewhere unconscious and missing my friends. There's Pansy Parkinson, Grace Jones, Millicent Bullstrode, Damion Cowe, Briant Wilson, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy, Padma and Parvati Patil, and Luna Lovegood.
Luna is my soul-sister. In our very first life ever we were both daughters of Salazar Slytherin and Rowena Ravenclaw, and we've been reborn many times to help bring justice for the Slytherins who have been wrongly hated and accused of wrong-doing.
All of my friends have lived many lives, seeing as all of us were believed to be needed to win this war, but since the death of Cho and the betrayal of Trinity, I think I see what we were doing wrong. I mean, every life we tried to get all fourteen of us together and to stay together, but something always caused us to die before we won. It was because we weren't supposed to have all of us. This life is our last life, and I know it is because I have finally figured out the key to our success. Brains, experience, and powers are the keys to winning this war, not numbers, love, and friendships. Those will play roles, but they won't win the war.
Now, I am going to wake up, reveal what I know to be the truth, and win the war that my great ancestors began a thousand years ago.
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I slowly open my eyes, afraid that a bright light might shine in my eyes, but it's total darkness. I wait a few moments for my vision to get used to the darkness, and when it does I wish I hadn't been able to see.
I sit up quickly with a gasp as I look at where I am. Glancing around I realize I am in a mausoleum built for the descendents of Salazar Slytherin, but why?
I am in an open casket, wearing the dress Draco got for me for Christmas and my hair is pinned back in a long plaited braid. I swing my legs over the side of my casket and touch down softly on the dust covered floor. Dust rises up in a big poof causing me to start coughing. Waving away the dust, I glance around and notice a few caskets with members of Slytherin house that were alive when I began my vision.
I glance at the writing on each marker…
Brandon Krashanko 1980-1997
Jaymen Luther 1984-1997
Jamie Neimetz 1980-1997
Michelle Lyles 1980-1997
Mark Batcha 1982-1997
Josh Fritz 1985-1997
Our loving friends who died for justice in our World. Go on into the void and be welcomed by the Great Lord Slytherin and Wise Lady Ravenclaw. They await your brave and caring spirits.
What happened during that month of "sleep"? I quickly turn back to my casket. Running to it, picking up dust on the way, but I ignored it.
Princess Genevieve Splendora Riddle a.k.a. Retina
Born October 31, 1980- Died ?, 1997 Daughter of Dark Lord Voldemort and Dark Lady Alecto.
Rise up to your throne, our loving Princess of Darkness, and bless us with the justice you worked to achieve. Our victories are in your name, and your name is in our hearts.
Odd. Very odd. Why did they think I was dead? Shouldn't they have known that I was having a Lasting Vision? Did anything happen to convince them I couldn't have survived? Maybe an attack on where I had been kept happened and they believed I was killed.
I need to find a way out of here! I need to find my father!
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Athena's POV
"Get out of this house, you freak of bloody nature!" my father screams at me. Though I have no where to go, I flee. I take heed of my father's words and flee.
I run through my old, run-down village of Raven Oak, which lies near to Snake's Cove, Badger Nest, and Godric's Hollow. Running, my long, platinum blond hair flies out behind me, waving in the strong wind that gets stronger as I run faster. I run past the old church, now charred and brown from the fire of two nights ago. I run past all the other teenagers and children of my village who stop what they are doing to whisper about my actions.
My vision blurs as I catch sight of my closest friends - Hades, Zalen, and Persephone. Hades, strong and burly with dark, short, curly hair. His eyes dark abysses that wait for you to look in before swallowing and pulling you down into despair. Zalen, strong, but not as well built as Hades. His honey colored hair hanging shaggily in front of his shocking blue eyes. Persephone, with her jet-black, shoulder length hair and olive skin. Tall and graceful with a twilight purple color in her eyes.
We are the outcasts of the village. Outcasts for being different from them, and different from witches and wizards. Different from the witches and wizards because we have rare powers.
Persephone, always the one to know where I am, turns her worried filled gaze towards me, but I am already far past them for them to follow quickly.
I take a sharp right at the end of the block and keep running through the trees of the abutting forest. The tree branches hanging low and scraping my face. Thistles and thorns snagging my sunset pink dress as I run faster and faster towards Snake's Cove.
I have gone this direction many times before since my father blames me for my mother dieing when I was only five. Though if it was any of us four's fault, it would be Zalen's, but my father blames me. Ever since my mother died, I have needed a place to turn to, and I found it on the outskirts of Snake's Cove four years ago. The Slytherin mausoleum, resting place for our Lord's daughter and brave supporters of the cause they fought for those few years ago.
"Ah!" Damn. I roll over onto my back and look to where my feet are. Coiled around them is a loose root of a tree, which had caused me to fall. I sit up and carefully remove the tree root. I don't see why my clumsiness should damage part of its life.
I glance around at my surroundings, recognizing the circle created by the trees to mark the mausoleum's garden. A few meters away is the secret entrance that leads directly to the princess's crypt.
So, standing up and ignoring the pain coursing through my leg muscles, I walk over to the opening in the oak trees and bend down. I dig my fingers into the ground and pull upwards, lifting the grass off of the trap door.
"Lumos," I mutter as I jump down into the dark tunnel. I walk swiftly down the tunnel, not worrying about traps and the such since I know the set ups well enough now. I quickly arrive at an intricately designed door and I push hard against it.
"Umph!" What was that? I slowly open the door the last little bit and see the princess on the floor.
"For our Lord's sake! How…?" I stare open-mouthed as the long missed princess stands up and looks back at me in as much awe. I come to my senses and curtsy, "M' lady!"
"Who- Who are you? Where am I?" she asks with a hint of nervousness in her voice.
"I am Athena of Raven Oak, Princess."
"Raven Oak?" She seems perturbed. "That's near Godric's Hollow, isn't it?"
"And Badger Nest. And here of course."
"Here?" She slowly walks over to a stone bench, "I think I need a lot of catching up, Athena of Raven Oak. Come sit and you can fill me in on what has happened."
I turn back to the door and close it before moving over to the bench to sit with the supposed-to-be-dead Dark Princess.
A/N: Hey, everyone! Hope you liked the first chapter of this story. I'm hoping for this one to be better than its prequel, but I doubt it will be better. It will probably be about the same, or worse, but I do hope it isn't worse.
The characters wanted to be here to say hi to all of you, but I had to send them to find Cho. Cho took off a few days back and hasn't returned, so I had to send all of them out to search for her. I have no idea of where she is, so I'm hoping you guys can help me. What I need you guys to do is give me a review with a made up name of a place. Here's how it should look in the review:
Name of made up place...
Description of place...
Kind of people that live there...
Who finds Cho there...
So can you guys help me? I'm trusting you to give me ideas for things like these, so don't let me down!
REVIEW PLEASE!!!!
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