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Chapter Eleven: The Lestrange Tale
Daddy, Leta, Tina, and I all eventually arrived at the Lestrange Mausoleum as the sun had finally disappeared into the sky and the moon took its place. We entered the mausoleum and saw a bunch of sleeping statues, which represented the dead family members of the Lestrange Family.
Suddenly, Kama was pushed out of the darkness, pointing his wand at a large snake. "Move back! Move! Out of the way! If I must kill you as well as Corvus, I shall!" He yelled at the snake, oblivious to the four of us.
"Stop!" Leta raised her wand and pointed it at Kama, who turns around and finally spotted all of us. But Kama seemed more memorized at Leta; He looked at her as if she was a ghost that came back to life.
He moved closer to her and studied her closely, as if she was a bug in a jar. "Leta?"
Leta's eyes widened. "Yusuf?" She whispered in shock.
I looked behind Kama to see that the snake had magically turned into a woman with long black hair and a blue and black dress. Out of the darkness came Jacob and... Credence. He was still as pale and as meek as the first day I saw him.
"Credence!" I exclaimed and ran to the boy, hugging him tightly. "You're okay! You're alive."
"W-wait... E-Emma?" Credence asked me as he looked down at me in shock and smiled at me, "You're okay.."
"So are you." I said with a smile before looking up at Jacob with a more stern look. "And how did you get here, young man?"
"Oh, umm... Wondering off when I shouldn't have been." Jacob admitted to me awkwardly.
"Is it really you? My little sister?" I heard Kama ask to Leta before seeing daddy and Tina exchanged looks of confusion. Leta and Kama were related? Well, they did kind of look alike.
"So, he's your brother? So who am I?" Credence asked out loud.
"I don't know.." Leta admitted.
The Obscurus boy held a look of anger as he faced the two siblings, unprotected by anything. "I'm tired of living with no name and no history! Just tell me my story- Then you can end it."
"Your story is our story.." Kama replied, gesturing to him and Leta.
"What do you mean, Mr. Kama?" I asked innocently.
"My father was Mustafa Kama, a pureblood of Senegalese descent and most accomplished." He explained to all of us, sitting down his wand, "My mother, Laurena, was equally high-bred- A noted beauty. They were deeply in love. They knew a man of great influence, from a famous French pureblood family. He desired her."
"Who was this man?" I asked, walking over to the group and standing beside Credence.
"His name was Corvus Lestrange. He used the Imperius Curse to seduce and abduct her.." He continued before Tina let out a small gasp. "I tried to stop her and pull her back upstairs, but it was too late... That was the last time I ever saw her. She died, giving birth to a little girl." He glared at Leta, "You."
I could see tears started to run down Leta's eyes as Kama just continued on. "The news of her death drove my father insane. With his dying breath, my father charged me to seek revenge. Kill the person Lestrange loves best in the world... I thought at first it would be easy.. He had only one close relative.. You. But.." He couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence.
"Say it." Leta whispered with venom in her voice.
"He never loved you." Kama replied , "He remarried not three months after her death. He loved her no more than he had loved you. But then.." He looked at Credence, "His son, Corvus, was born at last. And that man who had never known love was filled with it.."
The pieces of the puzzles seemed to be coming together as to why Kama wanted to kill Credence in the first place, but was it true that Credence was Corvus Lestrange Jr?
"So, this is the truth? I am Corvus Lestrange?" Credence asked.
"No!" Leta yelled.
"Yes!" Kama said overlapping her.
The two half siblings stared at each other with both determination and pain that they had experienced in their two separate lives. Kama continued on, looking at Credence, "Realizing that Mustafa Kama's son had sworn revenge, your father sought to hide you where I couldn't find you. So he confided you to his servant, who boarded a ship for America."
"He did send Corvus to America, but-" Kama cut Leta off.
"His servant, Irma Dugard, was a half-elf, her magic was weak and therefore left no trace I could follow. I had only just discovered how you had escaped when I received news I ever expected.. The ship had gone down at sea.. But you survived, didn't you?" He looked at Credence angrily, "Somehow, someone had pulled you from the water! "A son curly banished; despair of the daughter; return, great avenger; with wings from the water." There-"
"Stand the despairing daughter! You are the winged raven returned from the sea, but I... I am the avenger of my family's ruin." Leta explained.
This was too confusing. I tried to prove together everything in my head but I didn't have time because Kama pointed his wand at Credence, who raised his hands in fear. "I pity you, Corvus, but you must die."
I ran in front of Credence and glared up at Kama. "No, you're not killing him, Mr. Kama! I won't let you!"
"Emma, no!" Daddy yelled, trying to pull me out of the middle of Credence and Kama.
"No, daddy! It's not right! Kama can't kill Credence even if he is Corvus Jr! I don't care about his revenge, he's still a boy who-"
"Corvus Lestrange is already dead and I killed him!" Leta yelled, cutting me off. That silenced me and daddy as we looked at her.
She started shaking before raising her wand. "Accio!" Suddenly, a heavy box that was hidden in the corner of the mausoleum, came crashing to her before laying in front of her. We heard a few clicks before it opened up, revealing a small paper like tree that grew. On the tree, it had pictures of all different kinds of men, but no women. Instead, there was only orchid-like flowers. Leta sat in front of the box, watching the tree reveal itself. "My father owned a very strange family tree. It only recorded the men... But the women in my family were recorded as flowers. Beautiful. Separate."
I watched the sight of the paper tree and walked over to Leta, sitting across from her and watching her tell the story. "We're listening."
She let out a small sigh. "My father sent me to America, along with Corvus. Irma was to pose as a grandmother with two grandchildren.. Corvus never stopped crying." She then started to cry, "I never wanted to hurt him. I only wanted to be free of him. Just for a moment... Just a single moment." She told us that she has swapped baby Corvus with another baby while the people were trying to be saved from the sinking ship. Her, Irma, and the swapped baby made it to safety on a lifeboat to shore, but the lifeboat that had baby Corvus on it sadly went down with the ship...
The orchid that represented Leta on the Lestrange family tree wrapped itself around a branch labeled "Corvus Lestrange", but then the leaves started to wither up and die. As that happened, Leta was in tears and started to quietly sob.
I felt tears streaming down my face as I got up and ran to Leta, pulling her into a great big hug. "Leta, you were young. You didn't mean to do it, I know you didn't. It wasn't right what you did.. But you were a child." I told her comfortingly.
Daddy walked over to us and kneeled beside me and Leta. "It's true, Leta. It wasn't your fault. You didn't mean to do it." He said, petting her hair.
Leta looked up at daddy and I, tears streaming down her face, her eyes holding a sort of melancholy look upon them. "Oh, Newt... You And your daughter are in one the same. You never met monsters you couldn't love."
"Leta, so you know who Credence is? Did you know, when you swapped them?" Tina asked, finally speaking up.
"No." Was all Leta could say, wiping away her tears.
Before Credence could react to this, an opening suddenly appeared in the wall of the mausoleum. We all stared in shock and confusion as a bunch of steps appeared, leading down into the earth, or where the steps ended. We could heard a gigantic crowd rumbling underneath us.
The first of us to go down the steps was Jacob, walking down the steps as if he was in some kind of trance. Daddy stood up before taking me into his arms as we ran down the steps, following Jacob down the steps. Tina, Leta, Kama, Credence, and the snake woman, who's name I didn't know, followed behind us.
I suddenly had the feeling that what was waiting for us wasn't good at all.
I honestly feel like I've been writing that line a lot, I don't know. Hey, quick question; What do you guys think will happen in the third movie? Like, they pushed back production to the fall, so I'm kinda nervous to see what will happen. I don't know. Anyway, make sure to leave a fav, comment, or follow if you guys wanna see more. This next chapter is one of my favorites.