Character List

Harry – Golding Emerald Potter

Draco – Silver Malfoy

Hermione – Hermia Granger

Ron – Reginald Weasley

Blaise – Blaze Zabini

Pansy – Primula

Lucius – Lucian

Chapter Twenty-One

Come Not Between The Dragon And His Wrath

May 1039

Emerald sat on a hill looking over a valley waiting for Reannon's forces to show up. He looked up seeing clouds drift across the inky black sky promising rain. In the distance there was a rumble of thunder. Emerald chuckled quietly at the irony of his life before smirking at the up coming battle. A hand touched his shoulder lightly and he turned green eyes to Hermia. She smiled at him softly before sitting down beside him. Emerald turned his eyes back to the valley.

"Maybe they won't come. Maybe you won't have to fight this time." Hermia said quietly. He shook his head.

"I'll fight and you will return to your seventh year without me. I will not see tomorrow." Emerald replied. Hermia turned to him surprised. He held his hand up as she opened her mouth to reply. "Don't say anything. You wouldn't understand even if you tried."

"Golding, I just want to know why you think you won't make it through the night that you won't see tomorrow." Hermia asked quietly. Emerald raised an eyebrow in question.

"Using the name I have abandoned, a name I refused to use since my parents died an interesting way to get my attention, very interesting." Emerald remarked before sighing. "I won't make it through because I have seen it. I will die along with my forsaken love, the love that I wish to have but I know I would never receive." Hermia looked at him with sad brown eyes.

"May I ask who this forsaken love is?" she asked. Emerald turned to her with painful eyes.

"I made a promise to never speak of it to anyone. All I can tell you is he is a silver dragon made of ice and will lay asleep until awaken from its slumber once again. I rose from my ashes and I will do so again. The phoenix always rises again." He stated before turning back to the valley. He saw movement in the darkness and sighed. "Go get the others ready. They are coming." Hermia nodded and stood walking to the others. Emerald stood watching.

Silver stood beside his father Lucian as they appeared in the valley. Reannon looked at the top of the hill and chuckled. Silver's eyes moved to the hill as well and his eyes widened. Raven-hair flowed in the surprisingly strong wind, the figure was outlined by the fire of the camp he stood in front of. Silver knew who it was, the one person he couldn't seem to get out of his mind; after all he had been haunted by Emerald's ghost since that night he tried to forget. Silver sighed inwardly what he would do to change what had happened so he would be standing beside Emerald right now instead of looking across from him.

"Reannon! Before this battle begins I must speak with one of your followers." Emerald shouted across the open air. Reannon sighed pushing long curly blond hair out of her violet eyes.

"Who must you speak with? Is it a traitor because then they can stay on your side." She called back in a angry voice.

"You should know if you have a traitor amongst you anyway and I know for certain he is no traitor. I wish to speak to my rival Silver Malfoy." Emerald called walking slowly down the hill.

"Emerald what are you doing?" Reginald asked trying to catch up. Emerald stopped and shook his head.

"This is a private matter. Stay and prep the troops." Emerald said before walking away to stand in the middle of the valley. Reannon looked at Silver before jerking her head in Emerald's direction.

"How long do you want?" she asked Emerald. Silver smirked.

"He says as long as it takes us to have our conversation." Silver said walking towards Emerald. Reannon glared at the boy's retreating back. Silver stopped right in front of Emerald staring into sad green eyes. Emerald watched Silver for a moment just taking in the other boy, basking in his presence that he had been without for over a year. The fighting had stopped after that night, they had avoided each other as much as possible. 'This is the closest we've been in so long. I just want to reach out and touch him.' Silver thought sadly.

"This is the last time we will meet. Destiny likes to play with me all too often. I just wanted to tell you don't think with your head for once during this battle, think with your heart it will get you much farther. As well who wouldn't want to say goodbye to the one person they couldn't get off of their mind for over a year." Emerald said quietly. Silver sighed.

"You're not the only one that couldn't get someone off their mind. I was wrong to leave when it felt so right but I knew it could never be, we were on different sides even then. We were rivals and always would be." Silver whispered. Emerald sighed looking past Silver to Reannon's troops behind him before turning back to Silver's eyes.

"I want you to live through this battle. Do not do anything stupid. Even if –"

"You know I can't promise to live through this battle you've seen it yourself. Don't worry." Silver said with a sigh as he watched Emerald. "You know I regret standing here across from you and not beside you. Then I regret not getting one last kiss either, one last touch, one last worship of your skin. To tell you the truth if I didn't know better I would say I was in love with you only I was never taught what love was. The world works in mysterious ways." Emerald wanted to raise his hand to Silver's cheek but knew Reannon would kill Silver on the spot if he did.

"Perhaps we will be together in the next life or the life after that. I know I love you Silver and I know you love me too you just can't find the words. So my dear dragon this is goodbye." Emerald said. Silver sighed and walked closer to whisper in Emerald's ear.

"I like to prove you wrong often so I love you too, phoenix. Goodbye." Silver whispered as he pulled away his lips ghosted Emerald's check before pulling away completely giving Emerald one last look and walked back to Reannon's side. Emerald watched him walk away and just stood there. Reannon glared at Emerald.

"Are you finished? Can we get this battle started?" Reannon asked. Emerald nodded.

"Very well then." Emerald said before raising his hand. He heard footsteps come towards him before he felt his army at his back. Emerald sighed quietly. Reannon grinned as she threw a spell at Emerald whom quickly deflected it. Suddenly the whole air was filled with spells flying every which way.

Emerald gasped out as a spell hit him in the stomach causing him to collapse to his knees. Reannon smirked triumphantly. Emerald growled as he looked up at her defiantly. 'I will not go down now, I've lasted longer against Silver than this.' Emerald thought. He quickly jumped out of the way of her spell leaving a deep black scorch mark on the ground. Suddenly a large thunder clapped right above the battle and then rain started pouring down from the sky, soaking everyone. Emerald growled at the unexpected feel of his wet clothes on his body, they seemed to weigh heavily upon him. Emerald sighed jumping out of the way of a spell before throwing his own at Reannon.

"Poor, pitiful little boy, you will never defeat me. I am too powerful to be defeated." Reannon said before throwing another spell at Emerald. He let out a breath as the spell hit his shoulder causing him to start bleeding he lost the ability of his wand arm. He quickly switched hands staring at her.

"I will not be the one to defeat you. It is far past my time to return once more to the fire. The phoenix will return to the ashes before the dragon this time for it is the dragon who will defeat you." Emerald replied. Reannon threw back her head and laughed at him. Emerald pushed his bangs out of his eyes before throwing a spell but it bounced off her barrier and flew back at him. Emerald went flying through the air and he landed hard on the ground. Not giving himself time to catch his breath he jumped up in time to stop her next spell. She sighed.

"Let's end this. Avada Kedavra!" Reannon yelled green light shooting from her wand. Emerald's eyes widened as it came towards him. It hit him full on, causing him to get swallowed by the light. The light disappeared from in front of his eyes and he collapsed to his knees. He spit out the blood in his mouth and stared up at Reannon in defiance. He pushed his bangs back to feel a scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt.

"I will not die by such a spell. I refuse to die until I see you nothing but a pile of dust." Emerald said. Reannon glared at him and raised her wand to do the spell again when suddenly Silver stood in front of Emerald. The blond glanced over his shoulder.

"There will be another life, phoenix. I'm just sorry I had to miss this one." Silver said before turning eyes towards Reannon. He smirked his eyes were cold and hard as he stared at his former leader. "Meet your worst nightmare, me." Reannon gave him a shocked look.

"You really are a traitor. You will die like a traitor then. You can die like your precious rival." She whispered. He smirked before throwing a look over his shoulder at Emerald.

"I was only a traitor to my heart until a few moments ago or I wouldn't be standing here in front of my enemy, my rival and the one person that made me feel, the one I love. So if you want to kill Emerald, you'll have to go through me." Silver stated. Reannon sneered her beautiful features twisting into an ugly visage. She suddenly threw a spell at him. Silver stopped it simply as a strange green and silver aura like mist surrounded him. He walked forward stopping every spell easily before he was only a foot away from her. "Go to Hell bitch." He pulled on his strength and magic and pressed his open hand into her stomach. Reannon screamed as she slowly turned to ice and became encased in a solid spear shaped ice coffin.

Silver collapsed into the mud in front of her before slowly turning to crawl towards Emerald whom was lying down staring at the sky watching the rain fall. Silver gasped as his strength slowly leaked out of his body as he crawled before his strength was almost completely zapped he slid towards Emerald. He stopped reaching out to take Emerald's hand in his. Emerald turned green eyes towards Silver and gave a small smile.

"I knew you would do it. I guess this is our goodbye until next time. I love you Silver." Emerald gasped out. Silver returned the smile.

"I love you too Emerald." Silver said. Emerald gave a small chuckle before his breath became laboured. Silver watched as Emerald's breaths slowly became longer and watched as Emerald breathed out one last time, never breathing in again. Silver laid there for several moments just watching Emerald's body and felt what heat was in Emerald's hand disappear. He gave one last smile, squeezed Emerald's hand. "Don't leave without me." Silver sighed quietly. The blond boy smiled as he felt his body grow cold and all life slowly trickle out of him. He closed his eyes and felt his spirit slip away towards the light. A single tear slipped from beneath Silver's eyelid to stroll down his cheek and freeze there.

Godric and Salazar stood in the battle field looking for survivors. Godric gasped as he came upon the pair. Salazar walked up behind him and placed a comforting hand on Godric's shoulder.

"We won the war but at a heavy price. We only won because the Gods thought it fit to bring to us the Golden Phoenix and the Silver Dragon. To the power they already have the two of us shall add our own when we pass from this world into the next. A gift to them for what they did for us." Godric said. Salazar nodded before leading Godric away from the star crossed lovers.

Present

Draco sat up staring at Harry before sighing quietly. Harry looked at him trying to find what was wrong before shaking his head.

"What's wrong now?" Harry asked laying back to stare at the clouds. Draco sighed looking down at Harry.

"It's just every time something happens and we never get to be together I rather hope that doesn't happen this time." Draco replied before moving closer beside Harry and laying his head on the raven-haired boy's chest. Harry smiled.

"I know but things have changed from what they were supposed to be." Harry said. He sat up taking Draco with him and waved his hand making everything disappear. They headed out of the forest and walked across the lawn towards the stairs. Remus came bursting out the door looked around spotted them and ran up to the pair. He put his hand on his knees trying to catch his breathe.

"What's the matter, Remus?" Harry asked. Remus stood to stare at Harry.

"Your aunt is awake."

To Be Continued…

Descendant of Doom