AN: Hello everyone, time for the answer to all your questions. Ever since I began y3 everyone has wondered how Sirius is still the guy in Azkaban. I didn't want to spoil anything but I left clues throughout the previous chapters if your knowledgeable enough to see them. But for those who are not, no offense, all will be revealed in this chapter.

So to cause you all more pain I will answer some reviews before getting to the action :)

JDS62: I will not say anything spoilerish but many of your ideas are close to plot developments that are in the future. So I hope you look forward to those.

WinxPossible: It is certainly possible (snigger) that Alice will become enemies with Lilith but for now they are allies.

Eden the Eternal Silent Joker: Awsome name btw. But yes the scene was inspired from Tower of God, awesome web comic, probably the best from Korea in my opinion.

Anyway as I am sure you people love to hear me ramble here is the chapter :)

Chapter 21:

Value of a Soul

(Two Months Later – Full Moon)

Steps lightly echoed in the darkness of the halls as Lilith walked down the hallways. Her hooded cloak lightly brushed against the ground as she made her way out of the dungeons and through the entrance hall.

She paused at a window and stared up at the large harvest moon hovering above the school, the only source of light as she made her way out of the school.

After the events of the King Game she had been forced to hold off on any rituals as the Christmas Holidays past. There were too many chances of being discovered as the castle prepared for the holidays.

But now, at the end of January was the perfect opportunity to finally gain her new power. The power of the soul.

Exiting the entry hall, she walked across the damp grass and made her way past the Womping Willow and to the crystal clear lake that perfectly reflected the moon.

Looking around at the serene environment she felt at peace in the darkness and waited calmly for the stars and moon to be in the optimal position for the ritual.

As the clock neared twelve she drew her wand and took a deep breath, seeing the fine mist of her breath in the air.

Wait.

It was not cold enough to see her own breath. How could she see it when it was supposed to be fifty degrees outside?

Looking around she felt the temperature beginning to rapidly decrease and the grass around her freezing over.

Finally, she looked up back to the moon and saw an entire swarm of Dementors beginning to swarm in the air and around the black lake.

Drawing her wand again she was prepared to cast her patronus but the agonizing iciness of the wraiths began affecting her. One may not affect her, but hundreds?

She tried to grasp the memory that allowed her to cast the patronus but could not conjure the necessary feelings to produce the wolf.

"No! Sirius!"

Slowly she turned, feeling as if she was moving under cold water as she observed the fugitive Sirius Black and William Potter collapse on one of the sides of the lake.

The Dementors were swarming around the two, preparing to perform the Dementor's kiss.

Her eyes roamed over the body of Black and almost gasped as she felt a tug on her magic. Putting a hand over her heart her breath sped up.

It was if magic itself was telling her to save them.

But how? She could not perform the patronus…

Her magic tugged against her once more and she closed her eyes.

In her mind's eye she could see the purple tinged miasma that was her magic.

It pulsed and she opened her eyes, eyes shining purple and she rushed forward, pocketing her wand she jumped high in the air before biting down hard on one of the Dementors that was about to administer the kiss to Sirius.

The wraith shrieked before blowing away into smoke.

Lilith's hair shadowed her eyes as she stared down with shining purple eyes at the face of Black.

For some reason her magic wanted her to protect this man.

Slowly turning away from the human she observed the hundreds of Dementors hovering around her.

With a deep breath she whispered into the air "So be it. I shall feast upon all of you."

As if on a signal all of the Dementors converged upon them.

Lilith formed purple swords out of each finger and stood protectively over Black.

"Raaaaaagh!" She screamed as she began slashing and dicing any Dementors that came near her. Every time she killed a wraith, white orbs appeared that she quickly ate before moving on to the next one.

She lost track of time as she feasted upon the souls that the Dementors had collected over the years.

Unnoticed by her but purple cracks were beginning to form around her body as she ate more and more souls.

But she did not stop, not matter how exhausted she was becoming from constantly killing the Dementors.

However, as she ate more souls from the last dementor she had slain, the was forced to pause as the glowing purple cracks along her body finally seemed to be giving way.

The dementors closed in, thinking she had collapsed from exhaustion.

As they closed in Lilith leaned back and opened her mouth, eyes and mouth glowing purple.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

A piercing scream emerged from the circle of dementors and an explosion of purple energy reduced the dark wraiths to dust, leaving Lilith on her knees. Her hood had been knocked back and her white hair gleamed under the moon.

(Sirius POV)

Sirius slowly opened his eyes to see all of the dementors gone and Moony nowhere to be seen. He could not feel the presence of dementors which was a good thing.

Slowly sitting up he was startled to see a young girl resting on her knees with her head bowed, a purple aura emitting from cracks running all over her body.

His magic tugged and he widened his eyes as he recognized the feeling. The godfather bond he had performed with James allowed him to sense whenever his goddaughter was near and vice versa among other benefits.

So that means…this was Lilith Potter? His God daughter?

He stood up unsteadily after his battle with Moony the Werewolf and slowly walked towards his god daughter.

"Lilith…? Is that you? What happened?" He questioned uncertainly, weary of the aura that was surrounding the girl.

There was no response as the purple aura began to condense.

"I would back away from her Mr. Black." An unknown voice spoke from behind him.

Whirling around he stared at a young black haired girl in a gothic outfit standing there, looking serious at the appearance of his goddaughter.

"What? Who are you? What is wrong with Lilith?" Sirius asked rapidly.

"I am Alice Potter. The youngest of the Potter spawn." Alice said simply as she cast a spell on the area, sealing it off from the rest of the castle. It would be disastrous if anyone else saw the event that was about to happen.

"As for what is happening to your goddaughter…" Alice trailed off as the dark wisp like aura around Lilith condensed into eight wolf heads that floated around her.

"She absorbed too much power from eating the dementors." Alice finished, preparing to fight for her life.

Sirius was flabbergasted "What? Absorb powers from dementors?"

"All will be explained soon Black, but for now back away, this is not a fight you should participate in." Alice said seriously as she drew a staff with a lantern attached from the ground, twirling it around.

"But!" Sirius protested before he was pushed back by the ward that Alice constructed.

"This fight will be very destructive Black; this ward will ensure your safety."

Alice said as the lantern attached to her staff began emitting a green flame.

Across from her Lilith stood up, the dark wraith like aura moving with her as she turned to face her sister, a black wolf mask resting on her face and eight purple wolf heads weaving around her.

Alice frowned as she readied her best spells "Very destructive indeed."

(Mindscape)

Lilith slowly opened her eyes to find herself back in the reverse world that was her mindscape "What happened?"

"You were an idiot, that is what happened." A cold voice answered. Looking around Lilith spotted Logyck staring up at the sky worriedly.

Looking up as well Lilith gasped to see a large mass of darkness in the center of the sky "What is that?" She nearly yelled in shock.

Logyck frowned and adjusted her glasses "I believe that is the true form of your Kakuja."

"What?" Lilith questioned in disbelief. Her Kakuja would hardly be the large gathering of spoke that was currently in her mindscape.

"Your Kakuja is powered by the number of souls you consume. You just ate nearly a hundred dementors, each of them holding who knows how many souls from past victims. Your power has grown out of your ability to control. Soon it will rampage unchecked."

Lilith widened her eyes "Rampage? What is my real body doing!?"

Logyck closed her eyes with a sigh "Currently our body is fighting with your younger sister who appeared to stop you. However, she can only hold off your current berserker state. You must defeat your rampaging powers inside yourself to retain control."

Lilith frowned, she did not have to ask where to go, it was obvious.

Turning around she looked at the large double doors that led to her soul.

Stepping forward she slowly opened the door.

(Real world)

"GO Mr Fuzzles!" Alice yelled as she threw the rabbit doll forward, which in midair exploded into dark energy and revealed a much larger vicious beast that only vaguely resembled a rabbit. The demon was ablaze and charged forward while shouting in his cultured voice "For the Mistress!"

Opposite the charging monstrosity berserker Lilith roared and charged forward as well, matching the large rabbit demon with equal intensity.

Alice frowned as the eight wolf heads, seemingly now detached from Lilith's Kakuja went after her. Spinning her staff around in intricate arcs she began launching dark green fire at the wolf heads and simultaneously deflected any of the heads that got too close.

'You better come back to your senses soon sister, I am a scientist not a fighter!' Alice thought bitterly as she launched another dark green flame at one of the ethereal wolves.

The fire splashed against the wolf but it was seemingly unaffected as it lunged for her.

(Mindscape)

Lilith opened the wide double doors and slowly entered into her soul scape.

Emerging into the plane that represents her soul her pant legs immediately felt wet and she looked down to see the crimson life blood of all that she had slain was up to her ankles.

Looking around she observed the seemingly never ending plane of blood and slowly walked forward.

In the center of the pool of blood stood a large dire wolf made of the same dark smoke that accompanies her powers.

Red eyes glare at her hatefully as she slowly gathered her accumulated power.

She would need all of it to fight the representation of her madness.

With a roar the wolf charged.

(Black Lack)

The enraged Lilith spasmed and twitched as she dashed forward like a madman, swinging purple claws as she fought the demon possessed doll with all of her insane fury.

Alice knocked another wolf back and glared at it as she tried to find some sort of weakness in the beasts. They could turn intangible in an instant but could regain their substance in order to attack, meaning she had to go on the offensive at the same time they did, drastically reducing her defensive options.

What was worse the wards she had placed around their impromptu battle were not designed to last to this much abuse. If Dumbledore even got one hint of the dark magic's they were using he would be on them in an instant.

"Alright, I really did not want to use this in front of my oh so precious family." Alice mutters as she glances back at Black and the unconscious form of William, the former of the two was staring at the fight with wide eyes.

"But it seems you leave me with no choice dearest sister." Alice said sinisterly as a dark green aura surrounded her and she spun her staff in the air before slamming it onto the ground.

"Your invincible wolves against my immortal minions. Let us see who has the stronger pawns." Alice muttered sinisterly as long dead corpses of great warriors from ages past emerged from the ground.

"Meet the Volsung Tribe, a famous clan of Vikings that terrorized Great Britain before falling in battle, it was quite easy to recover their remains for my own use." Alice growled as each warrior charged with haunting cries as they fought the ethereal wolves, giving her time to rest and observe the fight between Fuzzles and Lilith. Currently it was as a stalemate as her beautifully genetically and magically enhanced and bound rage demon fought against her sister.

Any time that Lilith would deal damage the rabbit would regenerate while on the other hand Lilith appeared to have the same power as her wolves, allowing her free usage of intangibility as her purple claws tore through her pet's considerable defenses.

This was not a fight she could win. Her only advantage was that the current Lilith had no sense of reason and was purely focused on the immortal fluff ball.

The only way she could win was getting her mind back.

(Mindscape)

Lilith rolled out of the way as the wolf charged, causing blood to splash around, covering them both in gore as they fought in her soul, chaos magic against her Kakuja's claws.

Lilith jumped into the air and blasted the beast with purple lighting, using the momentum to carry her further as she casted destructive spell after spell, none of them having any affect against the wolf.

She doubted any of Peralti's spells would help in this situation, summoning an outer realm creature into her soul did not sound like a good idea.

But how could she defeat what was essentially the manifestation of her own power? She had fought many enemies, but none of them could prepare her to fight herself like this.

Before she could think further the beast prepared to attack her again.

"Alright then." She muttered as purple lighting sparked from her hands as she gathered it in both of her hands before ripping the tension she had gathered to her sides, spreading her arms wide and causing electricity to discharge all around her.

"Come at me then!"

In a lake of blood two demons fought.

(Black Lake)

Alice thought frantically of any solution to bring Lilith back to her senses. She may have accumulated the knowledge of many dead predecessors but none of them could claim to be in a situation like this. Her undead minions were still holding out but even zombies had limits.

She was broken out of her musings when Sirius spoke from behind her "I may not understand the situation fully but I think I can help."

Alice raised her eyebrows at the convict "Help? How? I hardly think pranks or auror training can deal with this."

Black shook his head "No, this is not from my Hogwarts years. The black family was infamous for dealing with demons, using their wealth to prevent any retribution. But the importance of this is that I think I know a ritual that could help exorcise her from whatever this is."

Alice gave him a skeptical glance "Exorcism? This isn't exactly demon possession black. This is due to dark energy that she consumed from the dementors infecting her consciousness and causing severe magical stress that has caused her to go into a magically induced rage spree." She had briefly looked into exorcism but had quickly left that behind after learning how to banish demons from this world. She did not care much for holy magic's that priests use.

Black shook his head "This is different, what the blacks did was create a dark version of Exorcism."

Alice's eyes widened. Exorcism was fundamentally a holy ritual, using light magic to forcefully purge any dark magic in the body, causing the demon or curse inside someone to be forcefully expunged. Using that technique on Lilith would essentially kill or fatally wound her. But a dark version? "What does the ritual do?" Alice asked, her analytical mind already breaking down the proposed technique.

"I have never used it myself, and only taught myself the theory in case I would ever need it. But essentially you fight dark magic inside the body with dark magic, similar to cancelling out a flame with another source of fire. You have to grab hold of her and channel as much dark magic into her body as possible, this will cause the dark magic that is polluting her mind to die and be replaced by your own neutral magic!" Sirius explained, for once ironically Sirius as he watched his long lost god daughter fight like an insane demon. He may not know what was going on, or how they were using such advanced dark, no black magic, but that was for later.

For now, he had a god daughter to save.

Alice nodded at the technique. Remarkable. A wizarding family finding a way to purge demons without having to resort to light magic. The Blacks may have been scum but they were intelligent scum it would seem.

"After this we are having a long discussion about today's events young lady." She heard Black mutter behind her and she smiled.

She would enjoy that discussion. Sirius had not abandoned her so she had no reason to hate him, perhaps she could corrupt him and turn him into her assistant? Oh the possibilities…

But for now Lilith.

Focusing dark magic into her hand, causing her signature green and black tinted magic to be visible around her hand she began cautiously walking forward to perform the technique on Lilith, who was currently smashing her claws into Mr. Fuzzle's back.

This would be difficult.

(Soul plane)

Lilith was glad that she could feel no physical exhaustion in this place or even with her enhanced stamina she would be feeling tired.

She almost felt like she was in a Dark Souls game, constantly evading and dodging while only getting in one shot every could of minutes as the wolf charged across the shallow lake.

It would seem that physical confrontations would not work against this thing. She had tried everything from electrocuting it to burning it alive, nothing had worked.

She assumed that this was because she was essentially fighting her own powers, of course her powers would not work against itself.

The only thing that would work would be something not inherently a part of her magic.

Something like…

With a frown she looked down at her wand in her sleeve. Something like her patronus.

But…would that work? Her powers were going out of control because of the dementor tainted souls she had eaten to save Black, who she was still confused by.

Using her Patronus may allow her to calm the beast, perhaps even defeat it. But would she be able to summon the patronus? After what she was going to do?

There was only one way to find out.

With a deep breath she drew her wand and tried to think of something happy. Her first thought turned to her original image of her perfect world where she got her revenge against her family but frowned as she felt no more happiness from that vision. Revenge was sweet, sweet enough that the first taste gave her happiness but now it was just an empty thought.

What was true happiness?

She could tell she was running out of time, the dark wolf was about to charge again and she knew it would be pointless to keep fighting it.

A happy memory…

Unbidden to her but an image of a smiling face and a lab coat flashes into her mind.

The only memories she associated with her adopted father were pained as they inevitably led her to thinking of his death.

But what if she just thought of the man that Samuel Cain was to her?

Closing her eyes, she envisioned the warmth that Samuel had given her and the light he had brought to her life for those two years. With a soft smile she knew it was possible.

Despite all the pain and hatred in her life.

Snapping her eyes open determinedly she raised her wand right as the Wolf leaped forward into the air.

All of the death.

"Expecto Patronum!"

Nothing could extinguish the love she felt for her father. Her real father!"

(Black Lake)

Alice panted as she gripped Lilith's forehead with her hand, performing the dark exorcism. It had taken five more undead minions, Mr. Fuzzles earning himself an extra bushel of carrots, and quite a bit of restraining hexes but she had finally managed to get a hold of the insanely powerful third year.

Pumping neutral dark magic into the girl she could feel the mad aura surrounding the girl dimming as she struggled feebly against the hand.

With a sigh she relaxed her tense stance and continued the procedure.

Hopefully this was the end of this madness.

(Minscape)

Lilith opened her eyes to see a large white wolf holding down the corrupted manifestation of her magic.

With a sigh of relief, she closed her eyes in mental exhaustion as she stood in her soul scape. Her patronus will be able to restrain her out of control powers for now.

Now, to find a way to rectify this situation.

As soon as she thought of that that a wave of darkness swallowed her as the dark magic that Alice was channeling into her began to purge the corrupted magic's that had affected her from the Dementors.

In the darkness that blanketed her soul she stared at the glowing wolf, floating in front of her.

It had come to her aid, despite conspiring to kill it to gain more power.

Reaching out a hand she placed it upon the beast's nose and smiled lightly before floating into the dark mire.

Perhaps…she already had enough power for now.

(Real world)

Slowly opening her eyes Lilith awoke on wet ground as she stared up at the concerned faces of Alice and Black.

They both sighed in relief to see a lack of madness in her gaze "it worked." Sirius said in relief as he slumped back.

Alice nodded "Indeed, a fascinating spell you had there Sirius."

"W-what…is going on?" Lilith asked, her voice cracking a bit from her exhausting experience.

Alice stared down at her "You ate over a hundred dementors, that's what happened you foolish girl. The accumulated dark magic that you gathered caused you to go into a dark magic infused rage. On the other hand, it appears your Kakuja has grown stronger, congratulations."

Lilith smiled weakly at that before turning to Sirius "Why did I feel such a great need to save you…?" She questioned him. She had never felt such a protective urge before.

Sirius smiled warmly "That would be the godfather bond that was casted on us as children. It is often used during a child's infancy so the godfather knows that everything is fine. However, since that night it was never removed. Due to our separation the affect is only strengthened."

Lilith leaned her head back on the ground. A godfather huh. She had forgotten that Sirius was selected as her godfather while Remus was selected as Williams.

"However, the bond also gives me basic information on the status of my godchild, and you have some explaining to do young lady." Sirius said teasingly, he had a werewolf for a best friend and one of the darkest families in Great Britain. He may hate Voldemort and his agenda but he never hated dark magic.

He would not abandon Lilith.

Lilith smiled weakly up at the man "I guess, but yeah, lets save it for later. But if you did not betray our family, who did?" She knew enough that a bond like what Sirius described would be broken if he had betrayed them.

Sirius looked up panicked "That's right! Where is Pettigrew?"

Alice held up her hand, an unconscious rat being held up by it's tail "This thing?"

Sirius broke into a wide grin "How on earth did you find him?"

Alice gave a small smirk "Lilith is not the only one who steals family heirlooms for herself. All I can say is that I managed my mischief well."

Sirius nearly shed a tear in pride.

AN: And that's the end of third year. Sorry for skipping a head some but I was so tired of writing third year. So I hope your satisfied with my epic fight scene. I am so excited for the next year, 4th is my favorite and I have so many ideas to elevate the challenges a bit. Anyway, as always if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to send me a pm or review.