A/N this chapter needed thinking on how I wanted it to go, but I'm satisfied. Please enjoy and keep in mind that this chapter has not yet been checked by my BETA as she is working on another project for me at this time.

Chapter twenty Rage of the Dragon

Once Harry reached the clearing where Voldemort and few of his inner circle were waiting, he stood there and waited while Voldemort gloated with a gleeful smirk on his snake like face. "Ah, Harry, how good of you to come to meet your death. Don't worry about your twin sister, she'll be just fine among my death eaters. Who knows perhaps I'll make her my wife and the mother of my future children. Unlike you she has a ruthlessness that rivals even my most trusted death eater." he said with a strange expression on his face as he circled Harry.

"Keep dreaming my sister would never join you, let alone marry you and have your children." said Harry not even bothering to draw his wand.

"Oh, but I beg to differ. She has already joined my death eaters and proudly wears my mark. Furthermore she has been made my heiress, and she knows that I will kill anyone who stands in my way. Even her beloved boyfriend, if that's what it takes to have my way." said Voldemort calmly.

"If she did, it was only because you twisted her mind. How long do you think that she'll remain your faithful follower once she finds out that you killed her adopted father?" snapped Harry angrily.

"Who's going to tell her about how he died? You'll be dead and so will your little mud blood friend and her little blood traitor boyfriend. None among my ranks where there, so they don't know what happened. Prepare to die Harry Potter." breathed Voldemort as he cast the killing curse.

The last thing that Harry saw was a flash of green light, and then everything went black and then a blinding white surrounded him. Harry blinked and looked around to see benches not too far from where he stood. He passed one and stopped when he heard a feeble moan come from under the bench. He knelt down to peer under it and then gasped and stumbled back landing on his backside in shock at what he saw. It looked like a bald shriveled child who was naked and forgotten.

"You can't help him, Harry." came a familiar voice from behind him. Harry looked up to find what appeared to be Professor Albus Dumbledore standing behind him.

"Professor you're dead, I saw you die. Does this mean that I'm dead too?" asked Harry getting up and stepping away from the shriveled child thing.

"Yes, I am dead, however you have a choice. That thing under the bench is what is left of the piece of Voldemort's soul that resided within you, Harry. It's dying, and that's why you have a choice in what you may do. Come let us walk a bit through this interesting place." said Dumbledore as he led Harry away from the dying horcrux.

"Sir, what do you mean that I have a choice?" asked Harry as he walked beside the old headmaster.

"Look around you, Harry. Where do you think that we are?" asked Albus with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Um, well, it sort of looks like King's Cross Station, what does that have to do with anything?" asked Harry.

"Oh, King's Cross you say! Well in that case I should think that if you so desired to do so that you could either walk out of here into the afterlife with me, or perhaps board a train that will take you back. I'd say that I'd hate to see your twin sister in morning over you as well as the only man that she's ever know as a father. Remember Harry only love can overcome darkness for the power of love is far greater than even the unforgivable curses." said Albus as he turned and walked away leaving Harry alone in the station.

Harry awoke to the sounds of Voldemort screaming in pain, and Bellatrix fawning over him protectively, while someone with long blond hair knelt over him with a soft hand upon his flesh. He opened his eyes just enough to see who was kneeling by his side and heard a soft female voice in his ear. "We never wanted this, please tell me, is Draco alive?" asked Narcissa in a soft whisper.

"Yes." whispered Harry.

"He is dead My Lord." she then said as she stood and dusted the leaves from her robes, while Haggrid screamed with sorrow in the background.

"Good, very good. The half giant will carry him back to the castle so that everyone may see that their hero, their chosen one, lives no more." said Voldemort as he regained his composure and got to his feet with a triumphant smile on his face.

Fifteen minutes later the inhabitants of the school poured out of the building just as the death eaters approached. They gasped and cried out when they saw Harry laying lifeless in Haggrid's arms. "Put him on the ground at my feet where he belongs, Haggrid" ordered Voldemort. "Do you see now, your chosen one was powerless to defeat me. It's all over now, worry not though, your new lord is a merciful lord. Every drop of magical blood spilt is a valuable loss. Follow me and I shall lead you all into a new world. A world where muggles know there place and where magic rules." he said as he walked around the clearing in the court yard.

"Ah, Draco, there you are. Well done boy, you will be well rewarded for your efforts this day. Go and stand with your family, they are waiting for you." said Voldemort as he hugged Draco briefly before releasing him. Draco slowly walked passed Harry's seemingly lifeless body and a tear of regret trickled down his cheek as he passed landing on Harry's glasses. Harry waited for something to disrupt the attention of the death eaters and the dark lord before he acted. That distraction came in the form of a very angry and defiant Nevil who had limped out to face the dark lord with the sorting hat in his hand.

When all hell broke loose again, Harry lipped his invisibility cloak on without being noticed and leapt to his feet and started throwing hexes and jinxes at every death eater that he passed. Then just as Voldemort was about to kill Molly Weasley he leapt in front of her and shielded her with a powerful shield charm, before ripping his invisibility cloak off and revealing the fact that he still lived. "My we are full of surprises, aren't we." cooed Voldemort in shock when he saw that Harry was still alive and ready to fight.

"I had thought that I killed you, but never mind, I have a better idea on how to get rid of you." he said as he quickly grasped Lucius's arm and summoned the last of his death eater's who was still not in attendance. Serenity was bustling around the hospital wing attending to the wounded while Madame Pomfrey attuned to the patients on the other side of the wing when she felt her mark begin to burn. She looked out of the window and saw the Dark Lord with his wand pointed at her brother and she knew that she had no choice but to answer his summons.

Everyone watched in shock as a stream of dark black smoke flew from the castle and disappeared to reveal who they thought was Healer Renata Prince. "Ah, Serenity it is time to reveal yourself, my dear. Your brother there doesn't believe that you've joined me perhaps you should show him and the rest here who your truly are and where your loyalties lie." said Voldemort as he took the hand of the young witch who was kneeling at his feet and helped her to her feet before placing a tender kiss upon the back of her hand and stepping away from her.

Serenity turned to face her brother and the rest of the school with her eyes closed and raised her hands to her hair to change it to the red color that she was born with, before she opened her green eyes and stared at her brother with loathing and contempt blazing in her green eyes. Harry lowered his wand and was about to step closer to his sister when she raised her wand and pointed it at his heart. "Stay away from me. You have not right to come anywhere near me after who you let the filthy muggles damned near kill me." she snarled making her wand spark.

"Yes, tell him the price that he must pay for putting his wand before the life of his sibling. Show him where your loyalties lie." hissed Voldemort in her ear in parcel tongue.

"I'll admit that at first I didn't want you involved big brother, but I had expected better from you after I told you the truth of what was going on." she said as she placed her hand over her dark mark and removed the glamor that hid it from all eyes.

"Sis, please, you can't do this. It's not too late we can end this together. I'm not going to fight you, we're family." said Harry lowering his wand.

"Enough of your lies. You never cared about me. Besides it's apparent that the only thing that you care about is your magic and the ability to use it. As far as us being family, that's not the case any longer. I renounce the Potter name and all that goes with it. My only family is my father Severus Snape. He and the death eater's are all of the family that I need." she said coldly as she turned away a d started to walk over to where the Malfoy's stood in stunned silence.

"Serenity, aren't you forgetting something?" asked the Dark Lord before she could get too far.

"My Lord?" she questioned with a slight bow of respect.

"I wish for you to kill him." ordered Voldemort.

"But My Lord, It's against the Healer's oath. If I willingly cause harm to another or the death of another I will die as penance for my crime. A healer's job is to save lives not take them." she said refusing to take Harry's life or anyone else's for that matter.

"You dare disobey me. Imperio, need I repeat myself? I said Kill Harry Potter now." he said as he pointed his wand at Serenity forcing her to do his bidding.

"If she dies as well then I'll be done with both of the Potter brats with one spell. Oh Voldemort, you sly King of Slytherin, you are a genius." thought Voldemort as he made Serenity turn back to face her brother and smiled wickedly as she lounged herself at Harry who was taken off guard and knocked off of his feet as his own sister latched her hands around his throat and started to squeeze the life out of him. Harry gasped at his sister's strength as he fought to keep her from strangling him, rolling on the ground as he looked into her blank green eyes.

As he wrestled with his sister, a thought came to him. If he could reach her mentally, perhaps he could help her to fight off the effects of the curse that was controlling her. As she pointed her wand at him and was about to cast what he firmly believed to be the killing curse, he locked his eyes onto hers and focused everything that he had upon reaching her. He even gave up struggling and just laid there motionless seeming to have given up to all of the onlookers.

As her brother stopped struggling Serenity felt a warmth flood into her and could hear for the first time in her life, her brother's calm voice in her head. "Serenity, please, you have to listen to me! I'm not going to fight you. If you kill me even under the Dark Lord's power, you will regret doing it. I'm sorry that I didn't come to your rescue when we were younger and that you almost died because of it. I'm sorry that I wasn't kinder toward Severus now knowing that he protected not only you but me as well. I love you Sis. I know that you're in there somewhere. If you can hear me at all you have to know that if you listen to Voldemort and kill me than you'll be killing yourself and the last member of your family as well. He murdered your adopted father and a snake that refused to kill him in the shrieking shack. If you don't believe my words, than my mind is an open book to you. Look for yourself. We have to fight together to beat him. We can't let him win. Please I love you sis." said the voice in her head.

Suddenly she blinked and her grasp loosened. Harry could see the spark come back into her eyes and suddenly felt as if someone, Serenity to be exact was sifting through his memories. He watched as her wand hand began to shake and tears began to form in her eyes and then gasped as she removed herself from his thoughts so abruptly and got to her feet, before vanishing in a swirl of black smoke. Upon seeing that Serenity had managed to fight off the imperious curse Voldemort screamed with rage before attacking Harry personally.

Serenity had believed that she was powerless against the Imperious curse, but when she heard her brother's voice and saw his memory of Voldemort killing first Nagini and then her father something just snapped like a rubber band in her head and she got to her feet and moved as quickly as she could to the scene of her father's murder to see if there was any chance of saving his life. She easily got passed the branches of the whomping willow, and into the room where her father and the snake lay on the floor side by side in her father's blood lifeless and cold to the touch.

She screamed in rage and pain over the loss and her magic began to flair dangerously and seemed to fill the entire shack. Wishing to give them both another chance at life her mind fliked back to a particular spell that she had found while on one of her excursions down deep in the bowels of the castle in Slytherin's chamber. Making up her mind, she placed a hand over her abdomen before summoning from the castle one of the skins of the long dead basilisk and a fang that she always took with her in the bottom of her trunk.

She then levitated the lifeless bodies of her father and the snake into the center of the room and caught the skin and the basilisk fang as they came flying toward her. Starting to chant an ancient spell that had been created by Salazar Slytherin himself and not used since the time of the founders, she laid the skin over the lifeless snake, before stabbing the basilisk fang down into the snake. Blue mist poured from the body of the snake and formed into the soul of the snake that she had known. It then hissed it's consent and pleasure to her divine wish before floating around her and attaching itself to her arm.

She continued to chant in parcel tongue and watched with satisfaction on the evil looking skull and snake mark of Voldemort changed to that of a dragon that looked very much like her animagus form appeared in its place with its claws wrapped protectively over a rather large egg. Her chanting then intensified as she then removed her father's black outer robes and put them on in the place of her healer's robes after removing the blood from them.

She then took a silver dagger from her belt that she used in potions making and used it to cut off her hair so that it was the same length as her father's had been at the time of his death. And sprinkled the hair along with droplets of her own blood over his lifeless body. Then the chanting stopped abruptly as her father's spirit was removed from his body and chose that moment to address her one last time.

"Serenity, why won't you just let me move on? I was talking to your mother who was thanking me for everything that I had done to protect you and your brother. What have you done?" he asked with his arms crossed expecting an answer from her.

"Father forgive me. He didn't keep his promise to me. He promised that you would not be harmed, that he wouldn't kill you because you saved me. He lied and murdered you. I have invoked an ancient magic that hasn't been used since Salazar Slytherin created it in the time of the founders. I wish to not only avenge your death, but to also use this spell to give you a second chance at life, just like you have me when you saved me from my horrid relatives and raised me as your own."

"If you are willing, this spell will allow you to be reborn using the life of the one day old child that I am carrying to reincarnate you and let you grow up and have the life that you should have had from the beginning full of love. If it's the possibility of being born into a life with the Dark Lord as master of the wizarding world, than don't worry. I've placed an equally ancient spell upon my unborn child that will prevent it from aging or even being born until I feel that it would be safe to do so. If you chose not to take the opportunity that I am offering to you than your grandchild will be born in the place that I'd rather have you. The choice is yours father. Just know that I'm doing this because I love you and wish to see you smile once more." she said looking calmer than she felt.

"You should have been a Ravenclaw. You're just too damned smart for your own good sometimes. But considering the risks that you've taken to give me a second chance, I will accept your offer of a second chance at life. Just promise me that you and your brother will defeat the Dark Lord once and for all, as I don't fancy growing up with him still walking among the land of the living. Also I'd like you to either keep the name of Prince or take my last name. I may love you and your mother and to a lesser extent your brother, but I'll not go by the name of Potter. Your brother can carry on that line perfectly well on his own." said her father with a smirk on his ghostly face before he floated forward and placed his cold lips against hers in a tender kiss before vanishing into her body just as the snake has only moments before.

Serenity felt warm all over as she felt her father's soul take root within her, and she smiled as the last of her red bangs and strike that went down her face turned black as her father's to match the rest of the hair on her head, and her eyes changed from green to black as onyx stones. "Don't worry Nagini and father, I will end this and you'll have a better life when it's all over, I promise." she said as she suddenly burst into flames and transformed into her animagus form making the shack and the willow that garded it's entrance explode into flames.

At that very moment Lucius was attempting to escape with his wife and son and were just passing the entrance to the willow when the ground started to shake violently and the willow suddenly burst into flames. He leapt over Narcissa who had leapt over Draco to shield them both from the falling burning pieces of debris. Then they all got shakily to their feet as a shape immured from the flames and approached them. "What is that?" asked Narcissa as she pulled Draco closer to her and shrinked into Lucius's side with fear.

"No mum, not what, who?" said Draco as he slipped out of the circle of her arms and walked cautiously toward the figure who looked like his god father.

"Uncle, Sev, what happened in there? " he asked as the figure drew closer before it collapsed into his arms trembling with sobs, feminine sobs to be more exact. "Serenity, what in the name of Salazar happened to you?" he said as he sunk to his knees with her in his arms and attempted to make her look into his eyes.

"Please forgive me Draco." she said in a hoarse whisper so soft that only he could hear her.

"What do you need my forgiveness for? You haven't done nothing to me. Please calm down love and tell me what's wrong." he said as he tenderly wiped the tears from her cheeks taking note that she refused to look him in the eye or to even open her eyes for some reason.

"You must forgive me for what I've done and must yet do." she said as she slowly opened her black eyes and gazed into startled silver ones.

"Serenity what's wrong with your eyes? Mother, father, I think that she's hurt. There's something wrong with Serenity's eyes." he said as he stared transfixed upon the depths of her obsidian eyes.

"Draco, listen to me, there's no time to waist. All I need from you is the answer to one question and your word that you will forgive me for what I have done and for what I still have to do." she said getting to her feet and looking Draco and his family in the eye in turn.

"Okay, I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about but I trust you and love you. I will do anything that you ask of me. My heart will always belong to you. I am loyal to you and to whatever cause that you take up. There is noting that you could have done or may do in the future that I will not forgive." he said before he suddenly felt her grasp his arm that had the Dark mark on it and felt a slight burning sensation before she kissed him and released his arm before turning to his parents.

It was at that time that Draco noticed that his dark mark was completely gone. "Merlin's pants, Serenity how did you do that?" he blurted out in shock as he trust his bare arm under his father's nose for inspection.

"It's simple really. The dark mark was made using the darkest of magic. What is the one thing that can defeat all forms of dark magic?" she asked.

"Love, loyalty, faith and trust." said Narcissa as he too looked at Draco's bare arm in amazement.

"you've removed Draco's mark because of your love for him. Can you remove ours as well?" asked Lucius as he rolled up his sleeve.

"Yes, but this magic has a price. If there is a shred of unsure thought in your mind, or a single shred of darkness upon your heart and soul, the spell will kill you. There must be not dishonesty, not dark thoughts, no lies, evil intent or it won't work the way that you wish. That said I must ask you both where do your true loyalties lie? Will you take my side and that of the good and the light, or will you take the side of the Dark Lord and his evil?" she asked as she placed her hands on their marks.

Narcissa and Lucius nodded and then gazed into each other's eyes as There skin where the dark marks was heated up. Just as the heat seemed to be at its hottest that could be stood, Serenity removed her hands to reveal that the dark marks were now gone. "You are all free of him now. If you desire true freedom, you'd be best advised to make yourself seen fighting with the students and staff of Hogwarts, as once this is finished I won't be able to vouch for you. Draco, Don't linger over me. Go on about your life, because I won't be around to share in it with you. I've done some horrid things that even though the muggles did deserve it for what they did to me, it was still wrong of me to take my vengeance the way that I did. I shall have to answer for my crimes against them." said Serenity somberly.

"Serenity, what are you talking about?" asked Draco grasping her arm and looking into her black eyes.

"I am saying, my love, that I will not be able to marry you because I am going to turn myself in to Azkaban and the Aurors . My father will be avenged first, then I will give aid to Madame pomfrey to heal those who we are able, and then I will surrender and face my punishment for my crimes. It won't due for you to hang on to me when I'll more than likely never be free to enjoy life with you. Daphne Greengrass, has always liked you anyway. She will make a fine wife and mother to your child. Good bye!" she said as she morphed into her animagus form and flew back into the battle area.

Draco and his parents ran back to the school and mixed themselves into the students and started to cast shield charms to protect everyone from what they knew was coming. "Malfoy, what are you doing here? You're on their side, we all saw you." said Ron with his wand pointed at Draco's heart.

"Let's just say that I realized where my true loyalties lie." said Draco as he raised his sleeve and showed that his arm was free from the dark mark. "Serenity made me open my eyes. My place is here with my true friends." said Draco as he cast his shield charm as the black dragon roared loudly and blew flames to cut off any chance of the death eaters running away or stepping in to what was going down between Harry and Voldemort.

As Harry was dueling with the dark Lord, he smiled when he saw what the dragon was doing. "It looks like someone has decided to make the odds a bit more fair, Tom. Your death eaters are not going anywhere." said Harry as he nodded towards where the Death eaters were surrounded by flames that changed into flaming cages as a shadowy figure walked through the flames with a fluttering of black robes, making Voldemort's head turn.

"Snape! That's impossible, I killed both you and my traitorous snake in the shrieking shack." snarled Voldemort as what appeared to be Severus Snape stepped forward and drew his wand.

"Thank you for that confession of guilt in the murders of my snake friend and my father." said Serenity as she stepped into his line of sight with her black eyes blazing with rage. "Harry, I think that it's time to end this the same way that it started." she said as Harry nodded his understanding

"Right together." he started before Voldemort decided to spin and curse him. Before anyone could blink Serenity vanished in flames and suddenly reappeared in front of Harry in her animagus form blocking him as the curse hit her thick hide, making her growl as she quickly grasped Harry by the collar and flew up into the air tossing him so that he landed on her neck just behind her large black horns.

She flew fast dodging curse after curse preventing Voldemort from getting a good shot at Harry. Then she and Harry both vanished in a flash of flame and reappeared right behind Voldemort catching him off guard. Serenity swiped her tail at him knocking him to the ground before placing one claw on top of him preventing him from moving and placing another claw over his hand that held the elder wand while Harry disarmed him with a flick of his wand from his seat just behind her horns. He could feel her every move as his sister in her Dragon form lowered her head so that she and Harry were eye to eye with the dark wizard and she drew air into her lungs in preparation to roast the dark wizard.

Harry aimed his wand right between the dark wizard's eyes and cast the Bombarda hex at the very moment that flames shot from Serenity's mouth making the final blow together. Voldemort's body was burned to ash and blew away in the gentle wind that blew until nothing was left. Harry leaped from his sister's neck and everyone burst into cheers as she transformed back , and turned back toward the castle silently. "Serenity, where are you going?" asked Harry as he placed a hand on her shoulder to stop her.

"I'm still a healer, Harry. I have to help Poppy Pomfrey heal those that we can, and attend to those that are no longer living. After that I'm going to turn myself in to the Aurors for my crimes." she said in a soft voice.

"Crimes, what crimes?" asked Harry.

"I've killed the Dursley's and Dudley's little perverted friends who raped me. I have to pay for my crime." she said as she pulled away from him and walked into the castle.

A/N I do hope that you've enjoyed the story so far. Please feel free to leave a review if you wish. Chapter 21 Death Eater Trials & a Dispute will be up next.