Dual Reality

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"Spells" "Speech" "Parseltongue"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter Three The Show Begins

The Dark Lord sat upon his obsidian throne, gazing upon his followers. They had been here for 2 hours now. More than 400 men and women kneeling on the harsh stone ground. None dared to so much as twitch.

Some one, had killed Lucius.

Some one, had cast his mark.

Some one, had went behind his back.

Some one, was going to die.

In these whole two hours only three words had been spoken.

"Who is responsible?"

A vague question sure. But each and every one of them knew what he meant.

Lucius had been one of his most prized followers. He was his right hand man. A man Lord Voldemort would consider a friend. Not that he'd ever admit that but he wasn't completely heartless. He was still human, much to his distress.

Ever since he had cast his first dark spell he had dreamed of immortality. To rise above the pathetic mortals and become a god. To rule forever, controlling every aspect of human life. Bliss.

But he was getting distracted. There was a disloyal follower in his midst and he planned to eliminate them. When he found out who they were.

He had to force himself to not fidget; commissioning an obsidian throne hadn't been the best idea. Although it had a fearful affect, it was deeply uncomfortable, even with several cushioning charms.

20 minutes past and Voldemort was beginning to get impatient. Soon he would have to either mass feed them veritaserum or look through all of their minds. Though he dearly hoped it would not come to that. The first option would cost a small fortune and the second would take A LOT of energy: He'd be weak for a fortnight at least.

He knew it had to be a Death Eater because only some one that served him could use it. He should know he created the spell himself. It couldn't just be a supporter of the dark lord that was to cowardly to stand up and join his ranks either, he had made the specifications very clearly.

He mental sighed. It didn't want to have to resort to empty threats, but it looked like he was going to have to.

"Stay where you are."

He exited the throne room through the door behind his throne into his personal chambers. He made a beeline for his potion cabinet and took the largest empty bottle. Using his wand to fill it with water he cross-examined it with the vial of veritaserum.

Identical.

Veritaserum was very difficult and dangerous to make and was therefore extremely expensive. A vial containing just 3 drops of it cost a couple thousand galleons, it was why only the most dangerous or tricky criminals were administered it.

He gave a grim smile. This bottle must contain a good few hundred drops, obviously it wouldn't work, but they didn't have to know that. Hopefully the threat would be enough to make one of them sweat, flinch or just tell him straight away.

Relaxing his face into a cold blank mask he swept back into the chamber and stood before his minions. Holding his the flask containing the 'veritaserum' he gazed at them.

"The person responsible, for this step forward now and you will look forward to a slow and painful death if you do not and I have to find you using this…You will be begging for my previous offer." He said this quietly but his voice carried around the hall, striking fear into the hearts of all and warning there most primal urges to fight or flee. None would dare do either.

Nothing.

He screamed internally.

It was going to be a long day.

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(A.N. I don't know if this is true or not but for the sake of the story it is.)

Well there you go! Third Chapter! I am aware that these chapters are short but I prefer to keep scenes separate. Like some people would have put chapter 2 and 3 together. I couldn't have done this without my wonderful talented betta Maddy who I thank dearly!