The playful moment between Lilly and Severus was inspired by a conversation I overheard with my friend and his daughter, shes adorable and will be a heart breaker when she's older, he raised her on martial arts and firearms making her one of the most self confidant little ten year olds I've ever met and she kinda dominates any reprimands he gives her. He's so wound around her little finger it's hilarious, anyway this was a ludicrous amount of fun to write, hope you enjoy it and as always, REVIEW!
Aside-Also those who have read most of my stories may note I have a keen interest in the afterlife, Gaelic lore, and the symbolism of ravens and death, this is all Arthurian Legend, Edgar Allen Poe and Lovecraft's fault, blame them.
ATTENTION-Anyone want to make the cover image for this story? I always thought an image of Snape holding little Lillith on his lap while she grinned down at a globe of the world in her hands was adorable. Anyway, just a question since I really like this story.
It ended up that Filch was even more petty than Lillith had initially suspected and thanks to needling from that bint Parkinson he'd bypassed Professor Snape and dragged the trio up to the Headmaster's office, as the five newcomers stood before Dumbledore and McGonogall Lilly felt the control over her magic begin to slip at their judging stares. Both Blaise and Draco were returning the looks with practiced indifference, Lillith would normally be taking the lead on that one, but with Parkinson's smug smile and Filch's excited sneer she felt the desire to murder those standing before her. Clearing his throat Dumbledore began speaking,
"This was not quite the best first meeting for us dear children, lemon drop?" Lillith stared down at the dish a moment and asked Tom,
"They dosed?" He snorted a bit,
"You're a properly paranoid young lady, but no it's too obvious, he tried it before but covering the flavor of droughts even with citrus is a losing battle," nodding inwardly she surprised the entire room by reaching for one of the confections, tossing it in the air and catching it in her mouth.
"Thanks," the looks on the two professors faces indicated no one had ever taken him up on the offer before, the goddess be damned twinkle in his eyes showed true amusement for her actions. Smiling congenially he than asked,
"Could you possibly tell me what brings you all here tonight?" Filch stepped forward sneering,
"I caught these little brats breaking curfew, the-" he fell silent still mouthing words, his face purpled in rage noticing Lillith pointing her wand at him as the last visages of her whispered 'silencio' left her mouth.
"Quiet, the adults are talking," turning to the stunned professors she continued, "before your resident child hating sociopathic sadist accosted us thanks to the traitor over there I was leading my friends in an attempt to keep your gamekeeper out of prison." McGonogall's mouth was pinched into a tight line at the girl daring to cast a silencing charm on Filch but she was if nothing else fair so instead of exploding she asked,
"And what do you mean by that Miss Potter?" The Deputy Headmistress took in a quick intake of breath as the girl stared at her, the irises of her eyes scintillating like gemstones,
"Hagrid is a wonderful cheerful man with a heart bigger than Britannia but the common sense of a grapefruit, he'd won a dragon in a card game and hatched the bloody thing, seeing as the fine if he were caught would bankrupt him and he'd end up in Azkaban for six months I contacted a dragon reserve to remove it." She sighed as a wry grin curled up her face, breaking eye contact with the professor she shook her head in amusement, "Goofball would keep manticores if he could I swear." Draco spoke up at this without prompting,
"She wanted to handle it on her own Headmaster but we kind of insisted to come along, the grounds can be dangerous at night and well...baby or not it's a dragon, Blaise and I suppose Parkinson overheard us so he offered to come along as well." Blaise coolly nodded at this, his gold eyes offering no indicator of his emotional state (if anyone were interested to ask it would be angry, mixed with a dash of annoyed), Dumbledore smiled widely at this and looked as if he'd been given the worlds biggest gift.
"There is nothing in this world quite as endearing as true friendship, as you two showed for young Miss Potter and she for our dear Hagrid, I am slightly disappointed you three decided to take matters into your own hands but also impressed at your loyalty." The trio of Slytherin's nodded at this in unison which actually earned a quirk at the corner of McGonogall's mouth, the Headmaster pointedly ignored the still silently raging Filch and the now furious looking Pansy as he turned to his deputy.
Smiling benignly he continued, "While I believe a punishment is in order the loss of house points shouldn't be necessary, since they earned this attention by helping Hagrid they could spend an evenings detention with him, does that sound fair?" The Scotswoman looked down at her great-grandniece, standing proudly shoulder to shoulder with her friends, the trio exuding a sense of calculated indifference but she could see James' defiant posture in the girl. Nodding she agreed,
"It's fitting, one should not be overly punished for helping others through their mistakes, may I suggest Miss Parkinson joins them seeing as she broke curfew as well?" The girl in question let out an indignant sound that was ignored as the Headmaster nodded in agreement, "I'll see to it that Hagrid hears about it soon then, I'm sure he could use their help cleaning up something or other," Dumbledore let out a cheerful clap while smiling happily.
"Well than, you three take this pass to avoid further altercations on your way to your dorms, you may go now," the trio looked surprised to get off so lightly but they were Slytherin's, they didn't ask questions when they got away with something. The two boys gave the professors slight bows and Lillith performed an abbreviated curtsy, they turned to leave and headed down the staircase. Before the door closed they heard the girl sigh out,
"Sorry about that guys, what an evening," Dumbledore then heard Mr. Zabini speak for the first time,"
"Don't worry about it Lils, it's what friends are for, come on we've still got time for a game of exploding snap," and with that they were gone and so was the headmasters smile. Turning to Miss Parkinson he called for a house elf to escort the girl to the dorms and once gone he removed the silencing charm on the still fuming Filch,
"Argus..." he began, "I've warned you before this over zealous desire to chase down and punish children who have never done anything to you is unacceptable, do you honestly believe I hadn't noticed three of my schools brightest students gallivanting around in the dead of night?" Gaping the greasy haired man just stood there with a look of shock on his face, "Miss Potter is a very powerful, very protective young witch and your actions have made yours and Miss Parkinson's future well being questionable at best, I for one have seen her mothers vengeful streak, and I do not envy either of you for earning the daughters ire."
Looking over his spectacles he stared the caretaker in the eye, "Do try to show some proper judgment in the future, you are dismissed." The caretaker left the room grumbling and as soon as the door closed Dumbledore collapsed fully into his seat. He was smiling a bit which confused his deputy,
"Albus what is it?" He shook his head and grabbed a lemon drop, tossing it into his mouth his smile grew wider,
"I was worried about her Minerva, I was worried something went wrong when she was sorted into Slytherin and befriended young Mister Malfoy, but I see her parents in her now, shes fiercely loyal and holds no biases if her friendship with Hagrid is any indicator. Things...things are looking up for the Light, now could you possibly find out exactly how a dragon egg ended up at Hogwarts? As much as I believe Hagrid's intentions were innocent his acquiring such a heavily controlled item is...concerning." Nodding quickly she left the office and promptly made her way down to the dungeons, she'd have to let Severus know what had happened to his charges, and maybe she'd finally get some answers in the process.
As the Slytherin trio entered the common room Lilly let out a deep breath, turning to Blaise she wrapped him in a hug than did the same for Draco, thanking the pair she shuffled off to the girls dorms brow furrowed in concentration. Blaise followed her with his eyes until she was out of sight, letting out a sigh he turned to the blonde and asked,
"So, what do you think she's going to do to Parkinson?" Draco gave him a coy smile as he returned the Italian wizards gaze,
"How are your occulmancy barriers?" Looking nonplussed while cocking a eyebrow he said,
"Quite good, my mother insisted," Nodding Draco continued,
"Did Lillith ever tell you her Godfather spent five years in Azkaban?" Shaking his head and giving his friend a queer look he replied,
"Err, no but I did read about it, why?" Smiling a bit indulgently he began walking to the boys dorms and Blaise followed,
"Uncle Sirius perfected the art of torturing his cellmates without ever touching them driving a dozen hardened Death Eaters to suicide, I recently found out from mother that Lilly has spent the past five years training with him and the Black sisters...I'm going to need a pensieve when she's done, father will enjoy this." Smirking in response Blaise had to agree, with their friends intelligence coupled with that skill set...well the next few days should be interesting to say the least.
Lilly padded into the dorm on light feet quietly changing to not wake her roommates, once again stashing her robes and cloak in her trunk she shucked off the rather tasteless gray skirt/jumper combo and slide into her pink pajamas with the little moving golden snitches on them. Pulling her beds curtains aside she cast the usual charms on them when she noticed the small fox sleeping at the foot, grinning she began scratching it behind its ears, as it unconsciously began shaking its leg in enjoyment its brown eyes snapped open. Stretching the fox stood and then dove at Lilly while shifting into her best friend, landing in her lap she of the bushiest hair rose her eyebrows,
"So how did the heist go?" Lilly grimaced and filled her in on the whole ordeal, Hermione's brows furrowed together in anger and she let out a slightly canine growl, much like Sirius did when he was irritated, after a moment she noticed Lilly's calm visage and smirked, "You have a plan, don't you?" Nodding slowly while playing with a locke of Hermiione's hair she explained,
"I'm going to need some help to make it...impressive though, you need to lie to our house of bigots about one of our favorite authors, and I need to get Sally, Sue Li, and Hannah's help, also some polyjuice from dad," eyebrows raising she hopped off Lillys lap and stretched out beside her pulling the blankets up,
"This I have got to hear," in the end it was a very good thing Lilly put up silencing charms, Hermiones laughter was quite contagious.
The next morning during Charms class Lilly received a letter from a house elf ordering her to go to Snape's office after class, alone. Fillius frowned as he overheard her telling her friends this, while he didn't share the Headmaster's concerns about Severus' proclivities he still worried about the daughter of his favorite student. So in that worry he did something very questionably morale, especially for someone as good natured as himself and cast a eavesdropping charm on Lillith's hair band as she bent down to grab her bags; deciding to assuage his conscience he immediately went to Minerva, sighing she shook her head sadly.
"While I wish it wasn't necessary I would like some answers as well and I'm getting none from either of them, I've an idea what's going on but not enough of one, lets...lets listen in on it and work from there, how long does the charm last?" Pulling a loose button from his pocket he cast the spell to actually hear what was said on it before replying,
"An hour, maybe two, I made it very low powered so it wouldn't set off any wards," nodding to her colleague they waited with bated breath until they heard a door creak open,
"Heyya Professor Snape, you called for me?" The door slammed close, Snape cleared his throat,
"Lillith I had a visit from Professor McGonogall last night-," she interrupted cheerfully,
"Oh, what did Professor Pretty Kitty have to say?" Fillius had to cover his mouth to hide the smile that grew as the older woman's eye twitched, Severus sighed deeply then,
"Lilly, dearest, I sincerely doubt Minerva would appreciate that...pet name," dearest...oh my, what was the nature of this...was Albus right to worry?
"Pff, like she's going to find out, besides all the names I give my teachers are positive, well, aside from the whiskered meddling bastard but that goes without saying, besides her animagus form is honestly quite pretty."
"May I remind you that that your animagus is that of a little baby bird, offending a *sigh* pretty kitty should be low on your priority list" Huffing she sounded rather indignant as she cut back with,
"I am NOT a 'little baby bird' daddy, I am a beautiful graceful raven with lustrous black plumage, a glistening beak, and pedicured claws thank you very much," Severus' eyeroll was easily imagined, Fillius' leaned back in shock at the 'daddy' implication much less the animagus as the Potions Master drawled back,
"My mistake dear, and I have no desire to know how your animagus form has a pedicure, and while I hesitate to ask what do you call your other teachers?" There was a distinct giggle before the girl replied,
"Professor Sprout is Madam Greenthumb, Professor Malfoy is The Lady, and Professor Flitwick is Sensei Funsize," Minerva turned a catty smile his way as his brows knitted together in confusion, apparently Severus was in the same mindset.
"Sensei...Funsize?" You could practically hear the girls nodded enthusiasm,
"Mmhmm, Sensai because he is dueling master and the way he walks reminds me of the wise old masters in Kung Fu movies, and Funsize because well, like the candy bars, he's funsize!" Fillius blushed a bit at this while Minerva shook her head in amusement,
"I...see" Severus stated, obviously not really but wanting to move the conversation along, "Anyway, she tells me you got a detention last night," another deep sigh this one sounding particularly exasperated.
"Yeah all thanks to that traitorous horrid twat-" Severus cut her off here,
"Young lady, language," more huffing,
"That horrible bint-"
"No,"
"Two timing bitc-"
"Lilly," a sigh,
"The girl with the only future career option being a semenal fluid depository-"
"Ah Miss Parkinson than,"
"Quite, anyway she broke the cardinal rule of Slytherin and turned Blaise, Draco, and myself in to that foul creature Filch while we were out last night," Another sigh from the Potions Master.
"Why were you out past curfew?" Lilly's tone became defensive,
"Hey it wasn't like I wanted to do it, Hagrid, bless his wonderful foolish heart hatched a rudding dragon in his shed and I arranged for it to be taken out of country, not my fault Parkinson has it out for me for some weird reason," Severus let out a scoff,
"Please she's jealous," snorting Lilly spat back,
"What's she got to be jealous of?" Severus made a tsking noise,
"The adoring adulation of the masses, the caring attentions of young Mister Malfoy, being one of the highest marked students in the entire school much less your year-" Lilly's scathing voice cut him off,
"And yet the stupid chits parents are still alive and she was never raped by ol' uncle Touchy, yeah, my life is amazing!" Fillius sat up straight looking stunned, turning to Minerva she pursed her lips as if only having a fear confirmed, there was a pregnant pause before Severus stated,
"Lillith I-" he was cut off with what sounded like a clatter than some sobbing,
"I'm sorry daddy I didn't mean to bring...HIM up...I'm sorry," Severus made a low cooing noise and the only sound heard for a few minutes was the occasional sob, eventually it quieted down and the girl spoke again, "I...I hate her daddy...she's horrible, she's...goddess she's everything my Aunts warned me about here, a ladder climber, an untalented opportunist...a waste of space...I shouldn't let her get to me." Severus sighed than said,
"Lilly there is nothing to be sorry for, what happened to you wasn't your fault it was the Dursley's and Dumbledore, and as for Miss Parkinson well, you're an imaginative young witch, I'm sure you have something...memorable planned for her already." There was a snicker from her but you could still hear the tears in her voice,
"I'm...I need to use one of your potions, and no it won't be used on her, my plan is...not something my father would have thought of, too elaborate...you, mum, or Uncle Padfoot? You three would like it," Severus sighed playfully before replying,
"As if I could deny you anything, just promise me she isn't damaged permanently and we'll see," another pause,
"Define, 'permanently' daddy..." and with that the spell wore out, Fillius was staring down at his hands for a few minutes then met Minerva's eyes,
"Albus will never hear of this," she nodded quickly,
"Agreed."
Lilly's detention was soon scheduled for the following Saturday, this gave her a few days to work out her plan, it took some finesse to get the three girls necessary for the scheme together, mostly Sue Li because while cordial with each other they hadn't spoken much, the small Chinese girl did share her hatred for Pansy though so there was that. Hermione was currently performing her part of the plan, the common room was mostly full at the moment so she took the time to read Draco and Blaise a story about a wizard who was haunted by the loss of his dead love, no one in the room had to know that Edgar Allen Poe was in fact a muggle and 'The Raven' was not a true telling. Turning to the two blondes and ravenette Lilly waved cautiously as they walked into an empty classroom, making sure the door was locked she spun around and clapped once.
"Ok! So as it ends up you three all happen to have free periods on specific days that Parkinson and I have class, this is an action of psychological warfare, never once will she suspect you three to be involved and your part will actually make it so I'm not culpable." Sally smirked while adjusting her glasses,
"You know I can't stand that little twit so I'm in regardless, but whats the end goal?" Hanna toed the floor nervously but didn't avert her gaze from Lilly's eyes as she added,
"And...and she's not going to be hurt is she?" Bless the little Hufflepuff's heart, Lilly would be shocked if she didn't end up becoming a healer, turning to Sue Li the Chinese girl was giving her polite attention to continue so she did.
"No, not physically, my goal is to drive her to the edge of madness and have no one to blame for it, once the weekend comes around it will all end and she'll be wondering for years if she imagined it, afterwords anytime she acts up I'll activate her trigger putting her into a panic attack. Is it cruel? In a word, yes. Do I particularly care? No, not really. You three will be playing me with the use of polyjuice potion while I do what I need to, yes I know it means extra classes for you but Hermione and I are willing to give you any help with class work you need in exchange for your aid." Sue Li smirked a bit at this,
"So, in the end we just have to sit in class and observe her being driven to the brink while acting as confused as the rest of the class?" Nodding quickly all three girls grinned at once, and stated,
"I'm in," queue Tom's maniacal cackle,
"Your time at Hogwarts has already been so much more memorable than mine little one, well shall we delve into madness?" Grinning she agreed with disembodied voice in her head, her Marauder side was about to rear its vicious head for the first time and chaos would follow.
Pansy entered her room that evening a bit unsettled, that mudblood bitch Granger had been reading her Draco and that foreigner Zabini an old poem book, she hadn't caught the authors name but the story of the raven terrorizing the poor heartbroken wizard had gotten to her. Changing she ignored the Carrows who shared a mutual dislike with her and Bulstrode who could be categorized as the female version of Nott's lackeys Crabbe and Goyle before slipping into bed, she'd just begun to drift off to sleep when she heard a rapping on her bed frame.
Opening irritated eyes the pug faced girl sat up looking around in annoyance but the tapping had stopped, grumbling she curled back up when she heard it bloody again, growling she once again sat up, this process repeated several times causing her to circle her bed looking for the cause of her insomnia, finding nothing she sat on her bed groaning out,
"Am I ever going to get any sleep," the words,
"Nevermore," were whispered beside her, turning quickly she saw a raven sitting on her pillow staring at her, its emerald eyes boring into her soul, she wanted to scream but it caught in her throat, the raven cocked its head and silently took flight then vanished in thin air. Pansy sat in bed with her knees to her chest and curtains closed the rest of the night, looking about the enclosed space in constant panic waiting for the morning light. The next day found her red eyed and disheveled, she'd gone to class and as she began to zone out listening to Professor Sprout she heard tapping on the planting bed next to her, jumping back she stared at it wild eyed while Potter and Granger eyed her quizzically.
"You all right there Parkinson?" Potter asked with genuine concern, Pansy snapped back with heated hatred,
"Shut your filthy mouth you half-blood bint," cocking a brow her ravenette rival (who had absolutely no idea that was her status with the other girl) tilted her head and turned away ignoring the comment, Pansy hated being ignored. She heard the tapping throughout the day and felt her nerves unraveling, no one else heard it, no one, only her, leaning against the wall of the corridor she muttered,
"Is this ever going to stop?" She heard a ruffling and looked up to see the raven from the night before standing atop the head of a suit of armor, it cocked its head and clearly stated,
"Nevermore," Pansy screamed and ran through the hall, reactivating her invisibility cloak Lilly cawed in amusement as she winged her way to the great hall for lunch. This continued for the rest of the week leaving Pansy jittery and on edge, when Friday rolled around she was jumping at the slightest noises and looked like she hadn't changed once since her ordeal started. Truth be told, Lilly felt kind of bad, she had no idea she would be so good at driving her enemies insane. It ended up that stopping the harassment had been what sent the girl over the edge and ending up in the infirmary, she'd been diagnosed with having a mental breakdown and Madam Pomfrey was actually considering sending her to Saint Mungo's.
"Holy shit," Lilly flatly stated at lunch when she heard this, Draco, Blaise, Hermione, and her three conspirators were all sitting on the empty side of one of the Hufflepuff tables, poor Hannah looked awful, sure she disliked the bigoted Parkinson but she never thought she'd be part of driving the poor girl insane. Sue Li was gently rubbing her back trying to soothe her nerves while Sally was grinning openly highly amused at the entire situation,
"I know right? We should do this more often, there's this bitch in Ravenclaw, Cho, she likes to bully under years we should do her next," Hermione sighed while buttering a slice of toast,
"Language Sally, and I don't know Cho, who is she?" The silent Sue spoke up,
"Oh Sally's right, she's a bitch, she's our house quiditch team seeker and quite stuck up, my family and hers tentatively associate due to our shared heritage but the lot of them are quite 'Holier Than Thou'." Draco and Blaise were for their part quietly observing the girls seeing as far as they were concerned they were simple observers, amused observers for sure, but still just observers, both boys turned to Lilly to hear her reaction to the Chinese girls statement,
"Hmm, we'll wait till next year I think, Draco and I will be trying out for the team so if I can get on as seeker and build a rivalry it will be more fun to knock her down a peg or six," Hannah shook her head sadly at this,
"Can...can I just watch? I won't turn you guys in but seeing Pansy fall apart like that...I don't want to be responsible for that again..." Smiling sadly to the Hufflepuff Lilly nodded slowly,
"I'm sorry Hannah, I really am I had no idea she'd self destruct like that, Little Dragon you grew up with her was she always so...easily manipulated?" The blonde boy scoffed while rolling his mercury gray eyes,
"I wouldn't know, all she would talk about was marrying her prince charming while giving me cow eyes, her lifes goal is seriously to just marry into power, I don't think you actually had to exert the effort you did to destroy her mind," grimacing Lilly sipped her juice while twirling her wand in her off hand, eventually she just shrugged,
"Oops."
That Saturday her bookends (Hermione's words not hers) followed her out to their detention, Pansy had been exempted due to well...insanity, so they were escorted by the silently glowering Filch to Hagrid's cabin, the giant man looked down at his charges with concern before turning to Filch,
"Are ya sure teh Headmaster said teh take these three wit' me out to the forest?" Sneering Filch turned around and headed back to the castle ignoring the Gamekeepers question entirely, sighing he looked back to the trio smiling wanly, "Pleasant chap tha' Filch it'nt he?" Smirking Lilly nodded slightly. Turning he picked up a crossbow that you'd be hard pressed to convince Lilly wasn't a siege weapon he turned back to the children while frowning, "Somethin's... somethin's been go'in after teh unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, we're going to patrol for a bit, I was going to do some serious searching but..." he looked Lilly in the eyes and shook his head, "We ain't do'in anythin' that dangerous." You could feel the relief rolling off both Draco and Blaise, Lilly turned to her enoromous friend and smiled up to him,
"Why not just do our patrol and we can come back, I'll play guitar for you if you can keep up with your flute," grinning down at the small girl he ruffled her hair affectionately and walked ahead of them, dutifully the trio followed him.
"The forest has all sorts o' creatures init, don' know fer sure if all o' them are native but mos' o' them are dangerous to one extent or another, oh if we run into any centaurs be polite and lemme do teh talkin', they're a prickly bunch." Silently nodding Lilly and in turn the boys got closer to Hagrid as the cloying darkness of the silent woods surrounded them, after about a half hour Blaise asked,
"Umm...Hagrid, back home the forests and woods were always filled with noise, why are they so quiet now?" The large man turned around and met the Italian boys eyes,
"There's somethin' out here...be still li'l ones..." They followed growing fearful, without thinking about it she took both boys hands in hers, giving them a reassuring squeeze, that seemed to help all three of them to an extent, Tom than spoke up for the first time that evening.
"Love, there's something out here I can feel...well I don't know exactly what it is, but its close," inhaling sharply both boys looked at her quickly, in the dead silence of the forest it was quite noticeable, she glanced to both of them and released their hands. She gulped slowly and whispered,
"Wands out," as she said this she drew her mothers wand in her right hand and her Black Dagger in the left, noticing this Draco's eyes widened and he mirrored her actions but his dagger was held in a underhanded grip. As the cloud cover cleared they saw the clearing before them light in the moons glow, and the quartet froze in midstep seeing a shadowed figure leaning over the prone form of a motionless unicorn, Hagrid needed no prompting and shouldered his crossbow aiming at the cloaked mass of shadow.
"Stand up! Hands up!" The figure fluidly took to its feet staring at the group, then as if on skates it slid towards them in a flash, Hagrid's crossbow bolt was quickly deflected and the shadow threw the giant man into the trunk of a tree knocking the air out of him, turning to the children it charged towards them hissing menacingly. Lilly's head was throbbing but she pushed it aside as she found her focus, this thing had hurt her friend, was going to try and hurt her Draco and her Blaise both who were desperately throwing useless hexes at it trying to protect her. Nothing. Hurt. What. Was. Hers. Eyes glowing in rage she fell back onto her default for all dangerous situations and roared,
"INCENDIO!" The super charged fire starting charm looked like a flamethrower from one of those BBC war documentaries, the shadowed figure roared in agony, as the clearing was ignited into an inferno, she stepped forward never once silencing her bellowing challenge. She was the bloody DARK LADY this thing would not hurt what was hers, with that thought she felt the dark reserves within her expand, Tom was seething that she was in danger and practically in awe as she channeled the rage of her very soul turning a simple charm into something so much more. As the fire petered out there was silence aside from the crackling of the fires, huffing loudly she was about to turn to Hagrid when the figure flew from the flames on a jet of black smoke grabbing her, screaming she was carried about the tree tops her rage turning to terror as they sped along.
Eventually she snapped out off it and began stabbing the figure with her dagger, she felt the satisfying squelch of blood and flesh parting as the blade dug into the things guts, screaming in agony it let her go, as she fell back down into the forest and was slapped around by the tree branches flashing past her her last thought was how beautiful the moon looked as she slammed into something unyielding, then it all went dark.
FINALLY! Goddess I've wanted to get to this since I started, heh, hope you all enjoyed, PLEASE REVIEW!