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When she woke up she was tied spread eagle in the middle of a large painted pentagram in the middle of a dark and cold room. There were people surrounding her chanting in a strange yet musical way. The clothes she was wearing before where replace with a sheer white calf high dress look to be more of a toga then a dress. Her nails look as though they were painted a brilliant blood red but on closer inspection she saw that her nails where bleeding. Her chocolate brown hair had been straightened and was fanned around her like a halo. At each point of the pentagram there where strange objects. At the most northern point there was a they're was a dark emerald green snake pendent. On the next point on the pentagram was a gobbled of water mixed with the blood of an innocent. On the next point there was a flame for the depths of hell devouring the hate of the caster. On the next point they're was the earth from a grave of a recently deceased child and on the final point they're was the bottled essence of the last breath of a dying virgin.
Hermione knew what this was, this was the ritual that they had been preparing for, all year they had been working for this and now it had finally come. She didn't want to die but she was so tired. Since Halloween when the darkness started to take over her heart they had been preparing both her and Luna for this ritual. Both girls where still tortured everyday to further break their minds but it was on a much less frequency going from three times a day for at least six hours to once a day for only an hour. They had been fed more in preparation for the ritual and both girls had put on the weight they lost in their many months on captivity. But despite all this Hermione was tired her body still hurt from the constant torture months prior and her grasp on her sanity had started to slip.
But she was still only sixteen years old and she did not want to die, she did not want her body to become the puppet of someone who died before she was even born. She wanted her revenge and thoughts who hurt her to be in paint, she wanted to kill Albus Dumbledore for keeping her in that place just for his curiosity and because of all of this she did the only thing she could do with what little energy that she had she drew ancient runes on the floor when each one was completed they glowed briefly and then disappeared. The people that were surrounding her did not notice to focused on the words they were chanting, which was getting louder and more musical as time went on.
It happened suddenly then, the four elements rose above her head and crashed together in a bright light that hovered their until the snake pendent begin to leak out black goo that slivered towards Hermione entering her body anyway it could and one it had Hermione screamed allowing the glowing ball of light to enter her mouth and connect with the black goo that seemed to be infecting each of her blood vessels turning them black as it traveled along her body until she was fully infected her caramel eyes turned black.
Next to her there was another scream, where Luna could be seen going through the same ritual with a matching snake pendent leaking black goo.
Memories played before her eyes, but they where not her's they where of two twins born in the 20's, they where from the most ancient and noble house of Leflay descended for the great dark witch Morgana. Hermione watched as the little Mia grew up and was schooled in the dark arts from a young age, she watched as she played with her twin sister, who took to the dark arts in a different way. She watched as they grew up in a large manor house with an insane and mother who wanted them to rule and change the wizarding word giving woman more say then they had and a farther that they never met because the mother murdered him once he gave her heir for her house.
She watched as they got their Hogwarts invitation and went to get their things form Diagon ally where they met a beautiful boy names Tom Riddle who had the same darkness that Mia had and she watched a the twins got their mother to adopted a young Tom Riddle and then she watched the years pass as the three of them went through Hogwarts causing mayhem and pain but where never caught because the teachers excepted one saw them as little angels and she then watched as boys became enamored by the beautiful twins whist Tom got jealous and possessive of them in particular Mia who Hermione could tell he loved in. She saw how Tom promised Mia the world if she would be his and then saw them together as they watched Murtal die and then Toms uncle, farther and grandparents and carved out their souls be together forever and to rule the world. She watched as they gathered followers become more possessive and obsessive with each other whist Lu strung along men of all ages never settling down.
Hermione saw as they left Hogwarts and traveled the world searching and learning obscure magics with Lu at their sides and she watched as they came back ten years later becoming the dark lord and dark mistress again with Lu as their second in command using her gift of premonition to give them warnings of danger. She watched as they met with an insane Bellatrix Black who fell not only for Lord Voldemort but his Dark Lady as well and watched as she was involved in some of their sex games but was never seen as an equal and how as she later became a Lestrange but never showed the same devotion to her husband that she did the leaders of the dark. She watched as Malfoy Sr. was branded and despite being married fell for Lu and she saw the potential that a younger Snape had before he become bitter and filled with hate. And then she saw the dead body of Lu and then she saw the devastation on the dark lord's face as he saw Mia crumple in on herself and die a few hours later.
She saw everything from this woman's life and she could even feel the emotions that she felt, in the back of her head there was a seductive purr of a dark voice telling her to give in and to give up control and despite wanting to Hermione pushed that voice up and built mental walls around herself that were hardened by her earlier runes and she hid herself. Because right now she was not strong enough to fight the voice and so for a short time she would give up controls and embrace the dark void of nothing and rest until she was strong enough to take her body back.
She could only hope with her last coherent thought that Luna had done the same and that the sweet younger girl wouldn't be lost.
When I woke up it was with a panicked scream, that was the first time since it had happened that she had dreamt of the ritual. That was when everything had changed, and my soul was taken over by the darkness and I became something that couldn't be recognized. I had buried myself deep in to the back of my mind and waited until the soul of Mia Leflay was at its weakest before I took back my body back, it took a year and a half before I had gathered enough energy to reclaim my body. And the things that I did in that year and a half will forever haunt my memories and even though I was not I control of my own body I will never forgive myself.
Getting out of bed I reply the glamorous I use to cover my scars, Bellatrix liked using knifes never on my face. They used to bother Mia when she was in charge of my body but for me I like to think of them as battle scars and I only carve them because I don't want people to stare at me anymore than they already do.
I get out of bed and get ready for the day, knowing that I will have classes where people will look at me and Luna because she told everyone yesterday that we were kidnapped.
After having a smoothing and relaxing shower I get ready for school. I was wearing a black sleeveless top with black lace overlay that extended in to sleeves that covered her arms, I then threw on some black low waisted jeans that where ripped at the knees and throwing my three-quarter length leather jacket other it. Adding some dramatic eye make up to hide the dark circles under my eyes from the lack of sleep and to add some color that I seemed to have lost. All in all, it me a took me an hour for me to get ready.
Going downstairs to wait for Luna I make some breakfast and take my potion to give myself some energy for the day and to also slow down the prosses of what the illness was doing to me and it would only last until I used my magic again.
It does not take long for Luna to come down stairs in an outfit that just screams her and will likely only draw more attention to us at school but with the smile on her face I don't have the ability to tell her to go and change. She is wearing a tie dye purple and pink thigh length dress, on her legs she was wearing sheer black stocking. Over her dress she was wearing a purple denim jacket. She was wearing knee high boots where I was wearing black army boots. She also had a purple cable knit bag that I could see a copy of the Quibbler peeking out of as well as her camera. After eating some breakfast which consisted of a large English spread which mostly ended up piling on to my plate due to a glare from Luna.
"Reddy to go Luna"
"Yup"
When we got to the school the stares where as bad the day before but instead of parking next to an empty space there where two equally brand-new cars on ever side. From my right I could see the same boy that I was sat next to in English. And just seeing him made my heart beat a little bit faster in a way that I couldn't understand. He was hansom that much was obvious and from what little I talked to him yesterday he was kind. But I have met hansom men and kind speaking men and they all turned out to be sadistic ass holes and even then, none of them made me feel like this, they never made me feel safe not even my husband.
Next to him was his sister who was introduced as Rose, who was glaring at me like I just killed her puppy. She reminded me of Narcisa Malfoy poised and looking perfect her blond hair falling low on her back and the look of a permanent sneer on her face. Next to her was the largest of the siblings who could give Hagrid a run for his money when it came to size and could make Greyback envious of his muscles. His humor filled amber eyes reminded me of the twins with the mischief that danced within them and I could tell that he loved his girlfriend because his eyes softened when he looked at her and I could also tell that she loved him back.
On the opposite side was the shorter one that was called Alice, who in my opinion looked like an over excited pixie with the way that she couldn't stand still, and her boyfriend looked disturbingly like Cedric Diggory that it hurt to look at him with out the onslaught of memories from the past.
Ignoring the way that Jaspers features lit up when he saw me because it was something that made my stomach flutter. And waked in to the dreary building towards the gym building for my first lesson
"Why did you even come here "an annoying whiny voice spoke from my right
"Because I wanted to closer to my family" I lie to Bella without even turning around "and what a mistake that was" without even stopping.
Gym was not a class that I was looking forward to in the slightest it would use a lot of energy that I didn't have to spare but if I baled on the class then I would be going against one of my main rules never to skip a lesson.
Getting to the changing room I change in to the basic purple shorts, socks and white polo shirt that I took in to the shorts, putting my hair up in to a high pony tail, Luna dresses the same except her socks are mismatched with one being bright orange and the other being sunflower yellow, to match her mismatched converse shoes.
I make a split-second decision and remove the glamorous covering my body, because yes, their going to look and stare but I shouldn't let it get to me, Luna soon follows my example and we leave the gym. The first thing that I notice when I step out of the toilet in the changing room is that the girls all stop and stare at us and I don't blame them.
On my leg there is a spiral scare that goes all around my right leg up from my ankle to just above my knee, it was from Rowal when he wrapped barbed wire around my leg charming it to dig in to my flesh every time I moved, it was there for two days before Voldemort saw and ordered it to be removed but it was too late to get rid of the think scare that not even magic could get rid of. On the upper side of my left thigh there where multiple scars from laying in glass and burn marks down the leg from a cattle brand. They couldn't see the scars on my stomach or back due to my top but it to was littered with scares the largest you could see from the top of my white polo top. My arms where littler with burns and scares form knifes and cigarettes and another one that spelled out MUDBLOOD in childish writing.
Luna had it worse as Bellatrix hated her. Her arms where badly scared from the insane woman's knife spelling out words like WHORE, BITCH and CHEAT her legs where badly scared from wipps, knifes, batons and nails. One of the things that I have never felt guilty about was killing Bellatrix.
The class was a multi-sex class but was split so that the boy's where playing basket ball and the girls where playing netball, no one said a thing about out scars and that made me smile, that was until my cousin Belle walked in to the gym and sneered at us
"And I thought you couldn't look any worse then you already did" I clenched my fists doing my best to ignore her but that was easer said then done when she kept insulting me and trying to hit me with the ball. It was not until she went after Luna that I saw red and dived knocking her down. Before I knew it my first was connecting with her face and kept going to I heard a satisfying crunch.
"HERMIONE" I froze at my birth name and the red that had clouded my vision quickly disappeared leaving my straddling my cousins waist as she had blood gushing out of her noise whist holding it trying to stop the blood flow and moaning in pain. Both and the girls where standing around us in various states of shock and disbelief. Luna was stood behind me trying to pull me off Belle but looking at the door where a tall dark man stood with his travelling companion using him as a shield
"Hello Kings"
I know that Kings is not meant to be their for a week but it will be explained in the next chapter to why he is early