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Chapter Fourteen – A Final Victory
It was night once again. The gardens surrounding Malfoy Manor were bathed in starlight, the burning specks overhead illuminating the grounds that the girls Cyan and Magenta had once called home. Underneath the oak tree where the tyre swing had once been, two figures sat gazing out in the direction of the fields beyond the manor grounds. This place was not familiar to either of them, but after the tumultuous events of that day it now provided a place of sanctuary and rest.
The crimson haired girl sat beneath the branches turned to the boy at her side. "Can you believe it's over, Harry?" she said with a smile. "You're finally free of everything Dumbledore was doing to manipulate you."
The boy looked at her, his emerald green eyes fixed on her deep red ones with a look of adoration. "It's wonderful," he whispered to her, "Now I'm free to be with you, and that old man can't hurt us anymore." He then leaned in to kiss her gently, but their lips only touched for a few seconds before Scarlet pulled away, noticing something was wrong.
"What is it, Harry?" she asked, concerned.
He bit his lip and glanced downward briefly, as if confused. "Thing is, I still don't quite understand what happened. All I remember is being in that cave with Dumbledore, then you showed up, then... it's all a bit of a blur. What happened?"
"Harry..." Scarlet said with a sigh. "You were unconscious, and that was my fault, and I'm sorry, but you needed to be out of the way. You see, only me and my sisters could be the ones to stop Dumbledore. I'll explain what happened after I carried you to safety..."
"Hey, lovebirds! Whatcha doing?"
They both lifted their heads to see two girls, identical in every detail, except for three features: their eyes, their hair, and the boys whose hands they were holding onto. One of them, Cyan's, was a pale blond with clear blue eyes, and the other one, Magenta's, was tall, tanned and had perfectly messy hair. They were Draco and Blaise, who greeted the couple under the oak tree. "Nothing," said Scarlet, "Harry wanted to know what happened in the cave, and I was telling him..."
"That's great!" Interrupted Magenta "Cyan and I were just telling them..."
"We can say it together!" added Cyan, before everybody started to sit themselves down in a circle. "Bianca is inside the house, I'll go get her"
A while later, when everyone involved was sitting under the tree, the story began.
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Dumbledore was now cornered. His dear pet, his loyal Fawkes, was now just a pile of ashes that would no longer regenerate, and all the inferi were unable to move anymore, since several spells had rendered them useless. The four daughters of Tom Riddle, the Dark Descendants, each and every one were pointing their wands at him. The girls started to discuss what to do with him: Scarlet wanted to tear him apart limb by limb, right after casting the Cruciatus spell on her future victim, but Cyan was a little reluctant to do so, since she thought it would be more entertaining to psychologically torture him first. Magenta just wanted to see him explode into tiny bits, but the principal was most afraid of Bianca, whose green eyes were staring coldly at him.
"Please...you wouldn't harm an old man, would you?" he tried to say. "You are not your father...you are capable of forgiving, right?"
"Crucio!" yelled Scarlet, causing him to double over in extreme pain. "Like the way you forgave the Grangers? Like how you manipulated Harry and me? LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO BIANCA...?!"
But said sister gave her a pacifying look, making her lower her wand. "He needs a better punishment than that. Something more creative, and I think I have just the right thing." Bianca then turned to Dumbledore, raising her own wand. "Have you any idea how long you left me trapped in the fourth dimension?" she said in a tone of menacing calm. "I think not. As you well know, time moves differently there. I must have been there for the equivalent of fifty years on Earth, at least, trapped just outside of reality while the whole world rushed past me and my family forgot I even existed. An experience like that can do funny things to a person's mind. I think it's about time you found out just what that's like."
She then twirled her wand in an elaborate flourish, but did not speak. Instead, she drew purely on the force of intent to cast the spell silently, projecting the madness that had plagued her for so long onto Dumbledore's mind. He looked at her wide eyed. "Jade, you wouldn't..." he began to say, but then the spell took hold and his eyes glazed over. The old man's long pale fingers twitched and then he began to swat at invisible shapes in the air, mumbling gibberish while Bianca forced him to experience losing his mind the way she had.
For a few moments it seemed as if Bianca had overpowered him completely; the jibbering wreck they saw before them couldn't possibly fight back, but then something dangerous flashed in the principal's icy blue eyes. His sanity must still be in there somewhere, and the girl's realized he was resisting.
Then, it all happened quite suddenly. Bianca let out a gasp, her concentration thrown as Dumbledore successfully threw off the curse, and clutched her hands to her head. Clearly, she was in pain from her magic being deflected back onto her, and seeing this Scarlet rounded on Dumbledore angrily. "You..." she snarled, preparing to curse him again, but she didn't see the look of satisfaction on Dumbledore's face.
As the jet of light burst forth from her wand to collide with him, Scarlet herself felt light headed, and then her whole world was swirling in a rush of color before she collapsed onto the floor of the cave. "Bastard!" Yelled Bianca. Ever since she came back from the fourth dimension, she had never been as angry as she was at the moment. Her face was red, and so were her fists. "MALDITO TÚ Y TODA TU PROLE!"
"Now, Jade, that's just being rude" Said Dumbledore, laughing. It almost didn't seem like he and his offspring had just been cursed "And a bit unrealistic, too...you know that, to really curse a person, you need a spell..."
She pointed her wand at him, hitting his head with a jinx ."Like this one?!"
Dumbledore's eyes went white, and his expression became blank. Bianca looked at the twins, and said. "When I give the signal, get us outta here! Dumbledore must not leave!" Then, both the witch and the wizard fell to the floor, unconscious.
"What the flying fuck happened?" asked Magenta, still confused.
"I think they're having a battle inside their own heads." Cyan had gotten near the bodies and, with her wand, started to examine everything. "Would have been nice if they discussed it with us first, though. What are we going to do now? Play pattycake?"
But Magenta was pondering something. "Can we separate them from Dumbledore, or could it damage their minds?"
"I think they're safe, but we need to confirm it." After carrying out a magic tracing spell, she knew Magenta's scenario wasn't a real possibility. Still, the blue haired girl checked both girls' pulses, to
find everything was normal. The eldest sister then conjured up chains around Dumbledore's feet, much to Cyan's interest. "What are you planning?"
She smiled. "Remember when we blew up that mudblood's house?" Her sister knew what was coming, but just nodded. After all, that was the reason they went into hiding for three years. "Wanna try doing it to a whole cave?"
Cyan smirked slightly. "That could be...interesting." Then, with Dumbledore chained up, they set about levitating Scarlet and Bianca, along with Harry, back towards the cave entrance and to safety.
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Having all listened to the girls recount the tale, Harry, Draco and Blaise all glanced round at each other. "So, before you blew everything up, Herm...uh, Scarlet and Bianca were fighting off Dumbledore with legilimency or something?" asked Harry. "What was that like? Dumbledore's a very powerful wizard."
"It wasn't exactly easy..." Bianca answered, "But I'd picked up a few skills while I was in that coma. I knew my way around Dumbledore's mind by then and I knew his weaknesses. Scarlet and I were able to defeat him once we realised that the one thing he couldn't fight in his head was his own memories. I changed the whole dreamscape around us to take him back to his fight with Grindelwald. He was nearly defeated that time, and with Scarlet and I there we were able to turn the tables on him..."
Bianca continued to recall the story while the others listened.
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Dumbledore's mind was dark and stormy. Shadows moved all around, never quite solidifying into shapes around where the conflict raged between the two witches and the elderly wizard. At first Dumbledore had had the upper hand, forcing Scarlet into this strange nightmarish place, but when Bianca had appeared he found himself equally matched, and now floundered. The girls continued to beat him back, and he knew he was losing.
"Crucio! Crucio! CRUCIO!" Scarlet kept yelling, causing the images around them to start shattering as Dumbledore doubled over in pain. "CRUCIO, YOU DAMN ASSHOLE...!"
Dumbledore cried out in agony, but Scarlet's thirst for blood still wasn't slaked. "Incendio!" Fire streamed from her wand to scorch his flesh. "Diffindo!" Gashes appeared on his skin.
"Confringo!" Dumbledore was blasted backwards by a sudden shock of heat. Scarlet continue to scream every harmful spell she knew at the man, lost in a fit of rage.
But then, her sister asked her to stop with just a movement and a look. Scarlet sat on the floor then, crying, and Jade patted her head.
"A while ago, I was even ready to show a little mercy," said Bianca, as approached closer to her prisoner. In her green eyes, there was only hatred. "Why? Because I used to think there was, at least, a little bit of goodness inside everybody...But you, Albus, have changed my perceptions. You have officially crossed the line, and it's about time for you to deal with the consequences..." She raised her wand and, immediately, lighting bolts ascended to the heavens accompanied by thunder. "WELL HERE IT IS, YOU BALLBUSTING OLD FART! HAVE FUN ROTTING IN HELL!"
Dumbledore screamed in excruciating pain, as his mind started to break down into nothingness. A pair of huge hands came out of the ground, trying to get to the girls as everything was falling apart, but Scarlet made them disappear with a wave of her wand. The sisters held hands as Bianca's lightning bolts struck Dumbledore, turning him into a stain of ash and coal. But there was no time to
celebrate. "We have to get out of here!" yelled Bianca. The racket of Dumbledore's mind violently collapsing around them made it hard to hear.
Scarlet then raised her wand, casting a spell for them to do so. They both were magically dragged up, far from that grim place that, surely, was being sucked into emptiness...
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"Allons enfants de la Patrie-e-e," sang Magenta, in a very good mood, as she and her twin were exiting the cave while levitating her sisters and Harry. "Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Contre nous de la tyrannie..."
"Mag", Cyan was analyzing the dimensions of the whole place, as well as how much intensity was needed for the spell to work. "Stop butchering that poor song, I'm trying to concentrate"
"Butchering? Are you saying I'm a bad singer?" she asked, smirking. Her sister shook her head.
"No, I'm saying your problem is not having any knowledge of French," They had just gotten out of the cave, so the sisters left Bianca, Scarlet and Harry under a Shield charm, cast by Cyan, in the woods before heading back to the entrance. Magenta, on the other hand, started to stretch so the flow of magic could be most effective, or that's what she said. Cyan just looked at her without being fully convinced, and put herself in position. "Ready?"
"Always."
Both sisters waved their wands in a pattern that almost seemed like a drum solo, causing at first just a few, small explosions. But then, said explosions began to get bigger and bigger, matching the strength the sisters were using to cast the spells. Soon, there were so many and so big that even the sky was red, until a humongous cloud of smoke could be seen above all the others, like a king upon his throne. Magenta laughed and clapped, and Cyan grinned with satisfaction, as they knew this was surely the end of Dumbledore.
The two girls looked at each other, smiling as they met each other's gaze, and then in a moment of silent understanding that only twins seemed capable of, they both decided to deal the final blow. Without even speaking, they unleashed their final spell; a sudden intense shockwave of hot energy that stormed through the cave and blasted into the ceiling, bringing the whole structure down in a tumbling chaos of rock and fire. The girls could swear they even felt the ground moving as they quickly dashed away from the dust and debris that was being spewed from the cave entrance, but then once the rumbling had stopped and the heat of the explosion abated, they stopped to look back at the damage they had done. The mouth of the cave was blocked up with lumps of stone, the entire thing having collapsed, and both girls knew that now Dumbledore's body was buried beneath hundreds of tonnes of rock. He was well and truly dead.
Cyan and Magenta both cried out in joy before going to embrace each other, and as they did so they saw Bianca and Scarlet appraoching them, the girls having woken after escaping from Dumbledore's mind, which had collapsed at the same time as the cave. Harry was with them, holding Scarlet's hand and looking utterly confused.
"Wh...what happened?" he asked dazedly.
"It doesn't matter," Scarlet answered with a smile. "All that matters now is that it's over. Dumbledore's dead, and we're free."
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"So that's what happened?" Draco said, squeezing Cyan's hand while they all sat in a circle. "Then when you told your father, he called the Death Eater's here to tell us the news that Dumbledore was dead."
"You were-a magnifico," Blaise added while looking at Magenta adoringly. The moment he had heard what the girls had accomplished he realised how much of an idiot he had been for ever being with Lina, and Draco came to the same conclusion about Pansy. Now they were in happy relationships with the two twins who had helped bring down the mighty Albus Dumbledore.
Bianca looked round at her sisters and their boyfriends and smiled. "Yes, that's what happened. Now without Dumbledore and with Harry on our side, the war is as good as over. Everything's going to be alright."
There was a happy atmosphere as the seven of the sat in the moonlight beneath the old oak tree, realising that Dumbledore - the man who had manipulated Harry, attempted to manipulate the young Tom Riddle, and had done horrendous things to Bianca and Scarlet to further his own interests - could never hurt them again. For Cyan and Magenta, memories of their childhood spent in this garden came back to them, no longer melancholy as they realised that there future promised many more happier times.
They sat there a while before at last Narcissa came to find them, inviting them inside for some hot cocoa before bed. She smiled warmly at them all as they went into the manor, her affection for the twins restored and a sense of contentment and optimism settled on all of them as she welcomed her new family home.
But when they went back in the manor, there was a big surprise. Not only did Lucius welcome the twins with a warm hug, but the Queen of the Fairies, Nagini, congratulated the girls with a gentle smile and four kisses on their four foreheads. "There's more, though" she added, opening the door of the next room. "Someone else wants to partake in this, too..."
To everyone's surprise, Scarlet found herself being hugged and kissed by Bellatrix, who couldn't stop crying. "My baby! We can finally be together now!"
Hermione was shocked. It was the same voice, the same gentle scent that she had longed for so many years...Realizing this, she started to cry "Mom! I've missed you so much!" They both knelt on the floor, still hugging and sobbing, forgetting about the other people in the room.
"Where's Daddy?" the twins asked their own mother, as an excuse to give Scarlet and Bellatrix some space. They didn't really miss him, since they knew he was always busy, but it was customary to ask.
Nagini then answered, "He's conquering London, making sure everything falls into place. He says he's very proud of you. But not as much as I am."
She hugged them, and gestured for Bianca to join them before also sweeping her into the embrace. "Will we finally live in peace?" asked Jade, still dubious.
"Yes, we will," Nagini stared at the window "Now that nobody is in our way, we will."
THE END
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