There was nothing but silence for awhile, and darkness.
Then she remembered her name, Nix.
The language of snakes made her remember that she had a friend that spoke to snakes like her and she had a….twin.
"Harry!"
He had turned and had been lunging toward her, she blocked the spell that was meant for him but he….
She choked on a cry, but he still vanished. He was gone and she didn't know where.
The darkness lit up with a faint light, green, her favorite color along with midnight blue.
Blue like her brother's eyes, green like grass, serpents and mint.
Where am I?
She tried to remember other words, form syllables that didn't have the soft hiss that her words so far had been but she couldn't seem to get the words out.
You are in the sssspace between spacesss, little sssnake.
She knew that voice.
Nagiinii?
Yessss, little one.
The voice seemed to float down from above, from the glowing green light above her, softly cradling her.
I knew you were the one.
What do you mean?
Nagiiinii! What isss the meaning of thisss?
Ah, Masster you've arrived.
The glow surrounded the dark lord on the other side of the darkness, a space between Nix and him as if protecting them from each other.
You! You promisssed! No one would hurt my brother!
I promissed my men would not harm him asss long assss it wass in my power.
The darkness seemed to vibrate around both opposing sides, their power causing magic to make the air around them stifling.
Thisss iss not the time to fret about thingss that cannot be changed. Little sssnake, your brother iss safer where he iss now then he wass before.
Where isss he?
Nix tried to leap forward but the darkness kept her at bay, while Nagini's image seemed to form from the green fog above the air almost as if creating a celestial form of her created by green dwarf giants.
That I cannot say for time will only be able to tell. Asss for you Masster you have been quite impulssive, I have not ssseen you like thiss ssince your youth.
Nagiini, what iss the meaning of thiss?
You were right Masster about the little ssnake. She hass great power, but you will not be able to ussse her assss you had wished. Your impulsssiveness has cost you yearsss of power. You will now be a her mer...ccy.
Nix stared up at Nagini and Nagini lowered her great star filled head to be just above her little one.
I am sssory little one for the pain you have endured but the future will be hard and you will still need to grow stronger.
Will I find him? Harry?
One day, you will, but it will be not for many yearsss. Your reign will be at itss highesst power when you sssee him again.
Her cosmic presence wrapped itself around the young one and Nix laid back against the transparent coils.
Today you have a decisssion to make. You gave your life for your brother, but Massster could never actually be able to kill you. You hold hisss life now in you little handss. Will you give him another chancce?
What do I need to do?
He hass forssaken magic by nearly killing what magic hass given him, even if it wasss not hiss decission.
Me? I'm not sssomething to be given.
No, but he wasss given to you too.
Nagiinii… The dark lord growled and tried to move forward only finding him stuck in the darkness unable to move and now unable to speak again as the darkness covered his body only leaving his eyes and his ears to view the scene before him.
What's happening? Nix viewed the darkness as it wrapped around the man across from her, the darkness seemed to smother the smell of thunder so that she could almost not smell it.
You are killing him!
He isss already dying.
The eyes not yet covered by darkness widened and then narrowed into thin slits.
He can't! He'sss one of my firsst friendss that wasn't sscared of me, except for you. You are leaving me I can feel it. I can't loosse him too.
Little One, you ssstill care desspite all that hass been done?
I can't forgive him but I don't want him to die!
She stared at the once powerful man being reduced to a shadow before her and untangled herself from Nagini's coils.
She stood in front of the person she'd come to look forward to meeting, she looked into his eyes and saw something she'd never seen before in them. Fear. Defiance. Fear.
You can ssave him, but oncce you do there iss no going back. You will forever be tied together, you will belong together and will be unable to part.
He won't like that, he likes being free. Nix tilted her head, Like the sssnake that he isss.
He hass no choice, either he fadess into the aether or he bondss with you.
Can you releasse him?
I cannot but I will allow him to tell you another way. Stare into his eyes and say Legilemenss.
Nix took a deep breath and stared into the now crimson eyes, Legilemens.
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Another dark place.
How dare you!
Leave immediately!
The thoughts were thrown at her from right and left.
What do you want me to do? Should I save you? Even if it means you won't be free? I don't know what to do? Please tell me what to do.
Little Snake, we were bond the minute we met. I would not have let you go.
I don't like that, I would have fought against you for myself. I am only 5, I still have to grow up.
Yes you do.
Nix closed her eyes and then reopened them outside of the man's, Tom's, mind.
She turned toward Nagini.
What do I need to do?
The darkness unraveled from the form of the man now named Tom and he slumped forward only for a couple of seconds before strengthening once more.
Hold handsss and repeat after me.
I, Phoenix Calieopea Potter (Tom Marvolo Riddle),
make a solemn oath to never forsake Tom Marvolo Riddle (Phoenix Calieopea Potter) Each one of us shall uplift and strengthen the other,
no harm shall come to one another within our power;
no hand risen and no cruel betrayals shed.
We are of one heart and never shall another come between us,
so mote may it be.
The words resounded around them echoing in both snake speech and human. Two voices followed and magic bound them to their word.
Once more they disappeared from the dark space, this time never to see Nagini again.