Chapter 10

Medeis POV

"Well then," Medeis began as she withdrew her lightsaber and wand, "shall we?" She asked the people attacking her, and as one they launched themselves at her. She had fourteen opponents, all of them wielding blades imbued with the force and from what she could tell, none of them had a single wand. 'Strange, wands could be a hindrance in certain types of combat, but that doesn't explain they don't have any,' Medeis thought confused as she went on the defensive, blocking and dodging the attacks of her opponents.

They were skilled and well coordinated but ultimately predictable Medeis noted as she drove her lightsaber through one of the opponents while hitting another with a killing curse. As the battle raged on Medeis found herself being pushed back as her opponents attacked her from all sides, though not without casualties as she quickly killed another two with a dark spell and her lightsaber.

One by one she took out her enemies but in killing the second last one, the last one, a man in his mid thirties with a somewhat European appearance shot a bludgeoning curse at her back that she couldn't block or dodge in time. Medeis tried to stand back up but the man placed at his sword at her throat.

Despite the fact that she was at his mercy Medeis showed no fear or rather anger before this pitiful man, despite the rage that was filling her. She was taken out by a lucky shot. "I must say I am unimpressed." She stated mockingly, though the man gave no reaction at her words. "That you do not know when someone is sneaking up behind."

The man eyes narrowed in confusion slightly before widening in realisation as one of the swords imbued with magic was pushed through his chest. The man just stared at the blade sticking through him in shock before he fell to the ground, muttering something far too quite for her to hear, revealing a horrified Delphini Riddle.

"What have I done?" She muttered in horror as she stared at the dying form of the man before her, falling to her knees in shock. The first death was always the hardest one, Medeis had hated the Dursley's but she had regretted killing them for years. Though she had always been careful to never show her remorse before Darth Sidious.

"You are fulfilling your destiny," Medeis told the child, summoning her lightsaber as she then activated it, holding the malevolent crimson blade to Delphini's neck. "This will not be the last life you take, if you can't handle it then you need to decide now, for this will be your only chance." She told her apprentice coldly.

"Will you kill me if I refuse?" Delphini asked shivering in the cold and in fear. There was no mercy or pity in the woman's eyes and Delphini knew from her previous training sessions that she would not hesitate for a second to kill her.

"No, killing you would attract to much attention, but I will wipe your memory of everything that I have taught you." Medeis told the girl. "So can you handle what is required of you?" The Sith demanded with slight impatience.

Delphini was deep in thought, she didn't want to be a murderer, she didn't want to kill people, but she also didn't want to be weak. She didn't want to lose all that she had learnt and she knew that would be the case if she refused to follow Lexi, she would forget all about the Force, all about her power. Looking deep into her masters eyes she gave her answer, desperately trying to ignore the red blade inches from her neck. "I can handle it, my master." Delphini answered, causing the woman before her to smirk in triumph.

"Good." Medeis replied very pleased as she deactivated her lightsaber, it would have been a shame to lose Delphini as an apprentice. The girl was very powerful in the force and possessed a good deal of cunning and ambition, traits that were practically necessary for a Sith. "Arise Darth Augurey, Lord of Death." The newly christened Lord of Death arose, looking around curiously.

Looking at the bodies of her would be assassins Medeis was very pleased to note that one was still alive. A man who appeared in his mid forties with blonde, slightly greying hair. Casting a featherlight charm on the body she threw him over her shoulders while bidding Augurey to follow her.

"What about the bod- bodies." Augurey asked, with a slight stutter, more then slightly unnerved by them.

"There's an acromantula colony not far off, they'll deal with the bodies." Medeis replied with a smirk and in that moment Augurey decided that she did not want to know what an acromantula was.

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Hermione POV

Hermione wondered around the school after midnight, hiding under Daniel's invisibility cloak. A part of her was ashamed about sneaking around the school after school hours, but Hermione quickly reminded herself that she needed to do this that it was her job, she had to keep an eye out for students who were out of debt and report them to professor Dumbledore. Hermione liked to think of it as training for when she would be a prefect, and eventually Head Girl.

Tonight was turning out to be very long and boring, but luckily she had brought a couple of books on charms and transfiguration with her in case she needed it. Looking around her, Hermione just couldn't help but watch and admire the halls of Hogwarts. The ancient castle was truly very beautiful, but there was just something about observing it in the middle of the night that enhanced the beauty of the castle. Probably because there was no bumbling idiots around at the moment.

The faint sound of footsteps in the distance pulled Hermione from her thoughts as she shuffled under her cloak to follow the sounds, and when she saw what it was she had to stifle a horrified gasp. In the distance, walking towards her was the Slytherin Duo as they had began to be called, Lexi and Delphini. The two of them were covered in what could only be blood, but while Delphini had a gaunt and terrified look about her Lexi appeared to be nothing but smug, and the person she carried over her shoulder truly scared Hermione. 'What has that monster done now,' she wondered as she glared at the evil woman.

A part of her brain told Hermione to find professor Dumbledore or McGonagoll and turn them in but a larger, more curious part of her couldn't help but follow the two of them deep into Hogwarts. As she followed them into parts of Hogwarts that she had never even seen before Hermione began to wonder if she was making a slight mistake by following them, especially as it began to get very cold.

In the middle of November in Scotland, Hermione was very used to the cold, but something about this cold seemed sudden and unnatural, especially as neither Lexi or Delphini appeared at all bothered by the sudden cold. She followed the two of them until they came to a dead end. Hermione was tempted to leave but before she did Lexi raised her hand, and no don't using the force, she forced the stones to shift and tremble and move, much like the the entrance to Diagon Alley.

"I didn't realise that you had another secret room, my master." Delphini stated as she stared at the entrance in intrigue.

"There are many things you aren't aware of, Augurey." Lexi replied. 'Augurey?' A type of magical bird if Hermione recalled correctly, but she didn't understand its significance or why Potter would call her that. But there was a lot of things about Potter that she didn't understand. Like the force. Hermione had spent hours in the library trying to find out all that she could about this strange power that Lexi and now Delphini could wield but no matter how hard she searched she couldn't find any hint to this strange power.

Following the two of them in the strange room she couldn't help but look around in wonder, and a tiny amount of fear. There was a large fire place in the corner, that had no problem effortlessly lighting up the entire room, which revealed to have a large bookcase along one of the walls, completely filled with books, scrolls and strange artefacts that made her mouth water slightly. There was also two large tables that were covered with strange ingredients and potion materials. It was very confusing.

Lexi dropped the man onto the floor, and Hermione looked anywhere but in his direction, instead focusing on the table and ingredients in front of her. "What are all these ingredients for?" Delphini asked curiously, piquing her interest.

"A ritual." Lexi answered standing over the table, doing god knows what. Both she and Delphini waited for more of an answer but they received none.

"What's that?" Delphini asked again, this time about a flask that Lexi withdrew from her pocket.

"Unicorn blood." Lexi answered with a dark chuckle, causing Hermione to let out a gasp of horror as she took a step back which nocked over something on the table next to her, alerting e two dark witches of her presence.

The last thing that Hermione saw was dark blue, almost purple lightning flying towards her and the last thing that she felt was her body burning with pain.

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Medeis POV

Darth Medeis was pissed, no she was worth with rage and anger as she glared at the naked, bloody and tortured form of Hermione Granger. But most of all the Sith was more angry at herself, and at her incompetence. She had become complacent on this backwater planet. A dozen bounty hunters, or mercenaries as they were called on Earth, had nearly taken her down, and she hadn't even been able to get any useful information from him. The man, and the thirteen other mercenaries had all been hired by an unknown individual to take her out and they had all been offered a tone of money. Five million British pounds, or the equivalent in another form of currency each, with an extra two million to the one that actually killed her. Not only that but a group of three twelve year olds had been successfully spying on her for weeks on end and Medeis had been completely unaware.

She wasn't a stranger to assassination attempts, in fact that was the sixth attempt on her life in the last year. In the muggle world Medeis was a business woman who made a massive profit in developing environmentally friendly technology, making her an enemy of oil and nuclear businesses. In the wizarding world she was a politician who promoted equality and equal rights, and as Alexia Potter, the girl who lived, she was the vanquisher of Voldemort. No Medeis was used to assassination attempts from her time on Earth, and that wasn't even counting her training with Sidious.

But still, the attempt on her life combined with the death of Sao Feng and the disappearance of Darth Maul forced Medeis to acknowledge that someone was certainly hunting those powerful in the dark side. It also suggested that Maul had more then likely been kidnapped instead of killed simply because he wasn't human. Medeis had tasked a couple of her servants with orders to track down Maul but they hadn't reported any results as of yet.

Medeis glanced back at the unconscious little bitch and she had to force herself not to begin torturing the little brat again, otherwise she would kill the girl. Hermione was covered in cuts and burns, her hair burnt off and large portions of her arms and legs had their skin flayed off. It had only taken Medeis a few minutes of torture to get the girl to reveal everything she knew, unfortunately for her, the more she revealed the angrier that Medeis became and it had taken nearly two hours of nonstop torture before the Sith had managed to pent her anger. Medeis had wisely sent her apprentice back to the Slytherin common room before she started the torture. Augurey was still a child and Medeis knew that with murder so fresh on her mind she wouldn't have been able to handle witnessing torture.

Hermione Granger, a girl who was regarded as the smartest and most powerful witch of her generation, not surprising since she had received personal training from Dumbledore since she was nine. By the time the girl had started Hogwarts she had already mastered all first and second year spells as well as learnt the entire course up to fourth year. And in exchange for this training all Hermione had to do was report everything that Daniel, and later herself, did in Hogwarts.

That snot nosed, buck tooth brat had revealed everything to Dumbledore, about the Force, about her training Augurey and it took every ounce of her self control not to kill her. It also forced her to recognise that Dumbledore was a far greater threat then she had realised. The man was cunning and dangerous, and above all patient, proving to be far more like a Sith Lord then a Jedi Master like she had first thought.

It also meant that she couldn't attempt to do the ritual in Hogwarts like she had first intended. If the man knew about her abilities then he may know about the ritual and she couldn't risk him interfering with it, it would be far too risky. And considering the rather large bounty on her head she couldn't attempt it on any other place on Earth. Which was very inconvenient as the ritual drew upon the power of the Force around you and this planet was more imbued with the Force then any other planet she had ever seen. In fact there was only one other planet that might be suited for her to attempt such a ritual. Korriban.

Walking over to the table she picked up a vile of pheonix tears and walked over to the unconscious girl. Medeis would rather not waste such a rare and valuable ingredient on Hermione bloody Granger but with the amount of damage she had done to her, there was nothing else that was capable of heeling her without leaving any form of scar. And as much as she hated the girl she couldn't afford to kill her, not yet at least.

Medeis took out her wand and walked over and placed her wand at the girls temple, and concentrating she began to withdraw the memories that she needed, placing them into small containers. With the memories collected she placed her hand on Hermione's bald head and used the Force to enter her mind.

She would have to be careful with the way she influenced her mind, no doubt Dumbledore was routinely checking her mind and she would have to be careful with how she affected her mind. Medeis made sure that Hermione would remember what happened to her, after all what was the point of punishing someone if they forgot about the punishment. But Medeis placed a mental block in her mind, one that prevented her from ever being able to tell anyone else about what happened. And if anyone tried to read the girls mind to find out what happened, then they would only see what Medeis wanted them to see.

Withdrawing herself from the girls mind, Medeis took out the vile of pheonix tears and with a syringe she injected them directly into the brats heart. Medeis couldn't help but admire the effectiveness of pheonix tears as instantly Hermione began to heal. Her hair started regrowing, her cuts started healing and the skin she had flayed off was mending.

Medeis idly wondered if pheonix tears was one of the ingredients of the philosopher's stone. It would certainly explain the miracle that was the elixir of life, that was said to be able to heal any injury and to make the drinker immortal.

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"This training session will be informative more then anything my apprentice," Medeis informed Augurey, the two of them standing opposite each other in the room of requirement, and unlike their previous sessions they didn't have to worry about anyone spying on them. She had been very reluctant to give up the invisibility cloak but she had done so in order to avoid her brother learning about it. However, she had placed a tracking charm on it that allowed both her and Delphini to sense it so no one could sneak up on them again. And since she had placed the tracking charm on the cloak with the Force as apposed to Magic, the chances of the tracking charm being discovered were exceptionally low. "Do you remember the Sith code?" Medeis asked.

"Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, my chains are broken. The Force will set me free." Augurey answered correctly and without hesitation.

"And what does this mean?" She asked her apprentice with a curious gaze. She had started teaching Augurey the basics about the Sith Order and this was a little quiz to test how much she had learnt.

"'Peace is a lie' is rather simple," Augurey began with her brows tilted in concentration. "The world is in a constant state turmoil, barely a decade ago wizarding Britain was in the middle of civil war, and many countries are in a similar state." Medeis nodded, pleased with the answer that she had given.

"And the rest?"

"Emotions are great inspirations. If you're happy or angry you tend to work harder. And you obviously need to be strong in order to gain power-"

"What type of power?" Medeis demanded of Augurey.

"Any type. Political, intellectual or magical. If you're not determined or strong then you will never achieve any type of power."

"And the last part?" Medeis let out a smirk smirk when she saw that Augurey couldn't give an explanation for the last part of the Sith code. It was almost a shame, she had gotten the rest of the code spot on.

"I don't know." Augurey admitted very reluctantly, causing her to tut in disappointment.

"The Force is the living embodiment of power in its most basic form. We need to be powerful if we are to ever to be truly free."

"But no one is truly free, master." Augurey objected. "I am but a servant to you and you are but a servant to your own master."

Medeis felt her eyes narrow as her apprentice called her a servant. She was a cheeky, if technically correct little brat, she thought as she sent a weak blast of Force Lightning at the brat. It wasn't powerful enough to cause any long term damage but it was more then enough to send Augurey to her knees.

"But my master is servant to no man." She stated while Augurey gave her a look of hate and fear as she panted on the floor. "If you achieve your aims and master the Force then one day will be no one's servant either Lord Augurey. Now get up." She ordered as she took out her lightsaber. "Here." Medeis said in a much softer tone as she handed the lightsaber to Augurey, who looked at it in confusion.

"Master?" Augurey asked in confusion as she slowly took the weapon and looked at it in wonder. She had seen her master wield it to devastating effect and now it was hers.

"It's long past time I got my own lightsaber, that is the one Darth Sidious gave me years ago, and you are ready to begin your training with it." As soon as she finished speaking the Room of Requirement transformed into a training arena.

"Now the first lightsaber form is Shii-Cho and it mostly focuses on..." Medeis began explaining to her apprentice.

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Daniel POV

"Daniel, Daniel, wake up." A loud cheerful voice disturbed him from his sleep. Ever since his younger sisters were old enough to understand that Christmas equalled them getting presents the two of them always woke up at the crack of dawn.

"I'm up, I'm up." He said slowly and groaning, wiping the sleep from his eyes. After putting his glasses on he saw the smirking faces of his baby sisters. Unlike himself, and- and that monster, Jess and Alex both took after their mother, with bright red hair, freckled faces, but with brown eyes opposed to green.

"About time big brother,"

"We've been waiting ages,"

"For you to wake up, haven't we,"

"Indeed sister of mine." His sisters talked back and forth in their twin speech.

Daniel couldn't help but groan and feel like slamming his head against something. Daniel would bet his entire trust vault that his parents, along with just about everyone else, regretted the day Jess and Alex met the Weasley Twins. Ever since that day his sisters copied the other twins every action, including speech patterns and above all pranking, much to the delight of his father and anger of his mother.

"Is mum and dad awake?" He asked, dreading how early his sisters had woken up the family. The twin smirks on their faces showed the answer, no doubt they had been woken up the same way he was.

Still in his pyjamas Daniel lead his two sisters into the living room where a twelve foot Christmas tree stood in the centre of the room with mountains of presents at the base. His parents stood off to the side, both looking tired but still very happy.

Daniel dived at the presents alongside his sisters, tearing them open one by one. After the time at school, he needed this. Daniel knew that with the revelation that he was no longer the boy who lived that school wouldn't be easy, at the very least the Slytherins would have made his life a living hell, but with the petrifications and the chamber of secrets, it actually felt a little like hell. But that all paled in comparison to the revelation about his sister. Daniel did not know what had happened to Lexi, but he knew without a shadow of a doubt, that there was nothing good about her. She was a monster, there was no other way to describe her.

He also knew that he should tell someone about what he knew of her, but who could he tell. His faith in Professor Dumbledore had been shaken and Daniel couldn't bring himself to trust him, and he knew he should tell his parents but he just couldn't. It would absolutely destroy them. Shaking his head of thoughts about his sister he turned his attention back to the most important task at hand. Opening presents.

From his god- or rather dogfather Sirius Black he had a Nimbus 2001, along with a note stating to 'crush the cheating Slytherins' something that got a small laugh from him and his dad. He also had a potions kit from his mum. Though he would never tell his friends, at least not Ron who would likely have a heart attack at the news, but Daniel actually liked potions, at least when it wasn't taught by Professor Snivellus. His dad also gave him a duelling uniform made completely of dragonhide.

"Daniel, there's another one for you," his mother told him, pointing at a small rectangular box at the base of the tree with a card on it.

To Daniel

From Lexi, was written on the envelope in a very neat script. Daniel could feel himself pealing slightly as his breathing became a little laboured. Glancing a quick look at his family he saw that both his parents were completely distracted by an absolutely massive present that Jess was opening. Opening the envelope, he quickly became terrified as he read what it said.

"Dear little brother,

I caught your friend Hermione spying on me, using your own cloak, and from her I learnt that both you and Ronald are aware of what I am, and what I'm teaching Miss Riddle. I assume you haven't told our parents and for that I thank you. But know this Daniel, while I bare you no ill will, I despise our parents and that will never change, but that doesn't make you my enemy.

Within the box you will find jars containing memories, memories that I swear on my life and magic are real, our father has a pensieve, use it. Also baby brother, you and I will be having a long talk when we get back to Hogwarts.

Love,

Alexia Potter.

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Medeis POV

Korriban, ancient home world of the Sith, now nothing more then a barren ruin. What was once the beating heart of the Sith Empire was now but a pilot e of useless rocks, and that was all that it would ever be. While the planet had once been the thriving heart of the Sith Empire it no longer had any value, economic or otherwise, the Sith Lords of old had drained the planet of all its natural resources.

"Where should I land master?" PROXY asked her.

"Near the old academy PROXY, but make sure we remain hidden, we don't know if there's anyone there." Medeis told the droid as he piloted the ship. She couldn't help but find it a little ironic and amusing that while she could fly a broom near perfectly she was terrible at piloting ships.

In the past there used to be Jedi stationed on Korriban but she didn't know if there still were, so while Medeis couldn't sense anyone it was better to be safe then sorry. Once PROXY landed the ship the Sith wasted barely a second before she collected everything that she needed and proceeded to leave the cockpit of her ship. Medeis walked over to the training arena on her ship, which had been converted into a makeshift prison cell. Entering it she found a family of four, two parents in their late thirties, and two children a boy and a girl, thirteen and six respectively. Their glazed over expressions and the whites of their eyes proved that they were all under the imperious curse. Ordering the four of them to follow her, Medeis exited the ship and went straight through the academy entrance, weaving through the corridors like it was the back of her she was ten Sidious had left her on Korriban for six months as part of survival training, during which she had spent most of her time in the abandoned academy.

Medeis had found very little of use in the academy, its artefacts and holocrons having long since been plundered by Sith long before her time. But she had found something useful in the academy, not any valuable object or anything similar but a room, miles below ground level. A room so entranced in the dark side that when she had first found it it had made her sick. It had taken her longer then she would like to admit to realise that the room was where the ancient Sith Lords had done all their experiments and rituals.

The power in the academy was nonexistent, meaning that she would have to walk down countless flights of stairs to finally reach the room. Once she finally reached the entrance of the room, a sealed door that she used the force to pry it open. When she and her prisoners entered the ritual room, it proved to be a circular chamber that by all accounts bared a strong resemblance to the Jedi Council chambers in the Jedi Temple.

There were chains attached to the wall and she used those chains to bind her four prisoners, plus a few spells that she placed on them to ensure that the prisoners would remain secure. With them all secure she dropped her rucksack full of supplies onto the floor and began preparing the ritual.

Medeis removed three items from her back and placed on the floor in a enough spacing to form a triangle with six feet on each side. The three items were the diadem that was Voldemort's soul anchor, the second was a diamond filled with energy that she could call upon during her ritual, and the third was the holocron of Darth Plagueis that she had found in his vault at Gringotts. Darth Plagueis, or rather whatever fragment of him remained in his holocron had downright refused to teach her anything until she killed Darth Sidious, something that Medeis was incapable of at the moment. Yes she was stronger then Sidious in terms of raw power, but he still trumped her in terms of knowledge and experience. However, if the ritual proved successful then she should gain the knowledge of both the holocron and Voldemort's soul anchor in both the diadem and her scar.

'Now time for the second part,' Medeis thought as she got out the unicorn blood from her bag. Opening the flask it was contained in, she swallowed down the foul tasting liquid without a second thought. She knew the consequences of drinking unicorn blood but it was the only way that she could hope to survive the ritual. And now for the last part, she noted as she began to strip off all her clothes, leaving her naked as the day she was born.

Undisturbed by her nudity Medeis got out a silver knife and a jar filled werewolf venom. Dipping the knife into the jar, Medeis proceeded to carve Sith symbols onto her flesh, biting back groans of pain as the venom burned through her body. It was pure, undefinable agony, greater then anything then she had ever experienced during her training under Sidious.

Once she had carved the last symbol, she dropped the knife and collapsed onto the floor, a silent whimper escaping her as her bloody body collided with the stone floor. She had known that the venom would be painful, but she had never expected it to be anything like that. It was only her Sith training that taught her to channel her pain that allowed her to finish the symbols. One on each breast, four carved into her stomach, five on each arm and leg, along with one carved onto the back of both her hands and feet.

Pushing herself to her feet she walked into the makeshift triangle and then kneeled, but not before summoning the knife to her for the last part. Making sure to wipe the blood and werewolf venom off of the blade, Medeis then summoned another jar from her bag. Blood from the house elf Dobby who she had also killed, damned the consequences of Lucius Malfoy learning anything about her, and she then coated the knife in the blood. But before she could complete the final part of the ritual Medeis' eyes drifted to the family that was chained to the wall, specifically the young girl. With the exception of her late cousin the Sith had never killed a child to young.

When she had first started her training Medeis, back when deep down she had still called herself Lexi Potter she had vowed to always protect children from anything, that no matter what she did she would never harm children like she had done her cousin, bastard that he was, and if Medeis did this then there would be no turning back, she would truly be a Sith Lord, not a mere darksider calling herself a Sith. The Jedi believed that the Sith were cold merciless being without feeling or remorse, and for the most part it was true, but occasionally a murder happened, someone that they had to kill but didn't want to.

Raising the silver knife in the air she then proceeded to shove it into her heart. Letting out a small gasp of pain, Medeis immediately started drawing upon the full extent of her power and began chanting in the ancient Sith language.

End of chapter 10

In case anyone is worried about the ending, don't worry Medeis will not be turning to the light, she just felt a momentary sense of remorse, nothing more or less. Please review.