Alright so here is the next part, enjoy
Previously on Lyric:
Voldemort scowled and said "She was what….."
Chapter 12
The inner circle sat in complete shock watching their lord pace the study; he had never acted like this before. He was ranting so fast that many of his words became undetectable so they simply waited for him to slow down or finish. He suddenly stopped speaking and pacing, he turned to them and said "That filthy little mudblood must be eliminated; it's just a bonus that she is part of the golden trio."
Antonin nodded and said "She will be my lord; unfortunately we can't get to her until she leaves at Christmas. Have no fear though my lord, my daughter is quite capable of holding her own, apparently she bested her biological twin. Though Lyric was then hit, she managed to send her sister to the hospital wing with a hole through her foot. Her sister was apparently insulting me and through me you, she found herself on the wrong end of Lyric's 6 inch stiletto boot."
Voldemort chuckled and said "I do not fear for you daughter, she is most impressive. What else did she say in the letter? Will she be returning for Christmas?" Antonin laughed and said "But of course my lord, I do not believe I could keep her away, not that I would even attempt to. It has barely been a weeks and I already wish she hadn't gone, it just feels odd not having her come home to me each night."
Lucius nodded and said "I know the feeling; I get so used to Draco being home during the summer that it is odd when he is not there anymore." Antonin smiled and said "I can't believe she finally got to go to Hogwarts and she is already making alliances despite the fact that she is already out of favour with the coot." Voldemort gave a slight smirk and said "Already? That is impressive. Who has she allied herself with?"
Antonin looked serious and said "Surprisingly she is allied with Potter my lord, but not for the immediate reasons that spring to mind. She is very much still your loyal follower, Lyric appears to think that Potter may not be so firmly tied to the light, and that he is simply under Dumbledore's manipulations. He has lost so much already that she believes with the right persuasion he may lose faith in the light and turn to our side. It would be a great advantage if that were to happen my lord.
Weasley she says is just that a weasley and yet his twin brothers may be of some usefulness to us, and of course Granger is just as you said a filthy little mudblood." Voldemort raised his brow and said "Indeed, what an interesting view. I am intrigued to hear more of her thoughts in the matter. Now why is she out of favour with Dumbledore?"
Antonin smiled and said "Firstly she refused to answer to what she refers to as her slave name, embarrassing him and McGonagall at her sorting. Also it meant she was openly defying her light family and the fact that she only answers to Lyric Dolohov puts her in suspicion that she is tied more firmly to the dark because of me.
Secondly is also partly my fault, when I took her shopping for her things for Hogwarts we were going to obtain her own owl when a monkey attached itself to her. She used those goddamn puppy dog eyes she has and I caved, Dumbledore tried to make her get rid of it using the argument that the list didn't say she could have one. Of course she, and I say she meaning her and I, came up with the argument that it didn't say she couldn't have one and also that Weasley had Peter until his third year and wasn't punished for it.
Lastly he tried to correct what she was wearing under her robes; she of course refused to suppress her style simply because he didn't like it. She told him that there were no rules against what she wore so she wouldn't be changing any time soon." The group smiled and Rabastan said "I'm not surprised she's shaken Hogwarts up a bit."
Antonin grinned and said "I plan on writing back, if you wish to chip in we can use a dicta-quill. I'm sure Lyric wouldn't mind hearing from all of you." The others nodded and Voldemort called for the quill and parchment, Antonin smiled and said "Right may I suggest we do not use our original names in case Dumbledore decides to intercept Lyric's mail, it wouldn't be a good idea for someone to read that."
Voldemort nodded and said "Sensible idea Antonin, so what do you suggest?" They frowned for a bit before Antonin said "Well I always call her my Little Slyth so I could be Big Slyth. My Lord, you could be The General, Bella you can be Nightshade. Rudolphus, Rabastan the two of you can be big and little brother, and Lucius well she'll know who you are with this one, Albino!" Lucius stared at him and then said indignantly "Albino! I am platinum blonde, not an albino!"
Rabastan laughed and Antonin said "Well your son is Blondie, so unless you want Blondie Snr….." Lucius grimaced and said "Albino is fine, Senior makes me feel old." Bella laughed and said "We're getting old Lucius, hell you've had offspring." Voldemort groaned and said "Way to make me feel ancient, and I as of yet have no offspring." The group laughed and a house-elf popped in with the quill and parchment and they began.
Lyric was in the common room when Tameryn flew back with her father's reply, she was sat with Draco, Theo (who still tried it on with her), Blaise, Daphne and Millicent. She smiled and took the letter from Tameryn while feeding her a couple of owl treats; she opened the letter and laughed.
Draco looked at her confused and she said "I have received a reply from my father, well not only him. Our lord and his inner circle decided to use a dicta-quill; the letter I have received is rather amusing. I shall read it aloud so you can hear it."
Letter
Big Slyth – Hey Little Slyth, I'm so proud of you getting into Slytherin. Well I was in a meeting when I got your letter so we decided to write back as a group using a dicta-quill. See if you can figure us out, you'll guess me easily but I'm your Big Slyth. We've got The General, Nightshade, the brothers big and little and my favourite Albino. You sure you're alright? We're all worried about you Little Slyth.
Big Brother – Yeah, keep us posted on everything that happens little-un
Little Brother – Yeah, we're gonna look out for you little-un.
Nightshade – Well she was the one who let that mud…
The General – Nightshade!
Nightshade – Well if she will let the stupid Granger get the drop on her like that.
Albino – Nightshade, stop it. Lyric is the victim here!
Little Brother – Wait, Big Slyth does Lyric mention what punishment they got?
Big Slyth - No wait a sec she didn't say! Lyric what did they get?
Big Brother – They better get a harsh punishment!
The General – I have doubts about that, Lyric attacked her sister first. I bet Dumbledore ruled it that Granger was just apprehending Lyric, Lyric will be punished whereas Granger and Isse won't be.
Albino – What? Seriously, you've got to be kidding!
The General – I don't kid!
Big Slyth – But Lyric was hurt way more than Isse was, Lyric wasn't running away and they'd be able to find her easily. Granger attacked Lyric when her back was turned, it wasn't her apprehending Lyric; it was revenge!
The General – We know that but unfortunately you said it yourself, she's not in Dumbledore's favour. Her sister is the popular golden girl of the light side and Granger is part of the golden trio. Of course he's going to favour those two and try to punish Lyric.
Little Brother – That's ridiculous
Big Slyth – Hey guys, this isn't a debate we're actually writing to Lyric here. Sorry Little Slyth, we kind of forgot you there. I hope you classes are going well and that you're enjoying being at Hogwarts, I miss you kid!
Albino – We all do, we haven't known you long but you're pretty memorable Punkette. Say hello to Draconis for us.
Big Brother – Enjoy Hogwarts, it's a great place and if anyone gives you trouble we'll sort em out for ya.
Little Brother – Yeah we got your back little-un.
Big Slyth – We're all looking forward to seeing you at Christmas, which you are of course coming home for right?
Albino – Oh Punkette you must, Echo will be so disappointed if you've not at our ball. I believe she finds your attitude quite refreshing.
Nightshade – I don't see why, it's not as if she doesn't already have plenty lovely more suitable women to talk to.
The General – Nightshade, I'm warning you…..
Nightshade – What the girl is a….
Big Slyth – Watch it Nightshade, that's my daughter you're talking about.
Nightshade – Surrogate Daughter
The General – That's enough Nightshade, leave now!
Nightshade – But my…..
The General – Out Now! I apologise Lyric!
Big Slyth – Well I think we should end this here, keep in contact my little Slyth! X
Big and Little Brother – See ya kiddo!
Albino – Goodbye, I hope to see you at the Christmas Ball Punkette!
The General – Indeed, I do hope to have news of you regularly….Little Dol!
Draco smiled and said "It does show they are human after all, even if our lord is only part human. Little Dol, how interesting Punkie!" Lyric laughed and said "Shut up Blondie, I think using a dicta-quill was a good idea in a group. I suggest we do the same, using code names as well. They clearly used them so as not to cause suspicion, doing the same will only help the case."
The others nodded before they all split to go to bed after agreeing to write back tomorrow. Lyric lay in bed smiling to herself, thinking back to the letter she laughed silently at all the nicknames when she remember the one the dark lord had given her. Lyric smiled to herself, Little Dol indeed!
Right okay so a little explanations to why I chose names and such.
Antonin – Big Slyth
This was pretty straight forward, because he's always called Lyric his little slyth or Slytherin it makes sense for him to be her big slyth. I didn't use father because I thought it would be kind of weird having Voldemort and the rest called him dad.
Voldemort – The General
Okay so the obvious reasoning behind this one is because he is their leader. The subtler reason I chose it is from the book/film Watership Down. It's about Rabbits yes but the main evil guy in the book is called General Woundwort, there is a part at the end where it says that mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they didn't behave that the General would get them. I found this rather amusing and quite appropriate for Voldemort as I can see people going well if you don't behave Voldemort will get you.
Bella –Nightshade
Okay so this probably isn't so easy for people to get, I was taking inspiration from Botany here and Bella's name. Deadly Nightshade is the common name for the Atropa Belladonna plant, I remembered Belladonna and just connected it to Bellatrix, plus the fact that the both of them are majorly dangerous.
Rudolphus and Rabastan – Big and Little Brother
These two were simple, Lyric would know them as brothers and I figured Big and Little Brother would be pretty easy for her to guess but hard enough for others not to get it. Not very original but hey I'm not doing too bad so far.
Lucius –Albino
I've already used Blondie for Draco and I thought that Albino would give Lyric a laugh and slightly infuriate Lucius. If it needs explaining then perhaps you should look up the definition of Albino (not being mean just friendly advice)
Narcissa – Echo
This one I got from Greek Mythology, from the story of Narcissus and Echo. Echo was a nymph who always had to have the last word, she would often copy others so one day Hera fed up of her talking cursed her so she could only repeat the last of what others would say.
Echo fell in love with a man named Narcissus and followed him round unable to say anything but the end of his sentences, Narcissus grew irritated at Echo and sent her away. Echo wandered around until she faded away become only an echo on the wind, Artemis feeling sorry for Echo cursed Narcissus to fall in love, an unfulfilled love.
He stopped at a pool for a drink and consequently fell in love with his reflection, he tried to reach for it but broke the surface and the image. So he stopped and sat and waited staring at his reflection, he waited for ages pining for this person he could never reach.
Eventually he too faded away and in his place was left a white flower which to this day is called Narcissus. This story is where I drew the inspiration for Echo from.
Lyric – Punkette/Punkie
As Draco calls Lyric Punkie for her sense of style I decided to do the same for Lucius but his is rather more refined ending up with Punkette.
Lyric –Little Dol
I wanted to give Lyric a name that just Voldemort could call her, which was sweet but could be construed as innocent in the ideas of the others. I came up with Little Dol as a shortening as Little Dolohov, the idea that he's simply shorted it is innocent enough but the fact that at the same time he's calling her is doll is quite sweet and leads to the idea that he maybe feels something for her.
Okay so I hope you enjoyed this chapter and understood all my explanations, if you didn't well sorry not sure how else I could describe them. Review if you wish and let me know if there are any mistakes, inconsistencies and such.