56 Red eye monster

Serena moved stealthily, her magic core too weakened for her to make any use of her magic, any confrontation in her current situation was sure to end badly for her side. She practically suffered an whiplash when hurried steeps sounded just around the corner. Oh shiit!

"Leyman, Browsky, Segmand, to the North Wing. Find the four teens. The rest of you just come with me to the West Gates. Leyman," the mid-aged wizard call back, "remember, our Lord ordered for them to be captured alive." A grey eye wizard with short black hair cursed, visibly annoyed by his instructions. "Leyman, I said alive, I don't said you had to play 'nice' with them." The three wizards departed chuckling among themselves. The other group soon fallowed but taking the corridor in the opposite direction.

Serena crawled out from beneath the massive cherry-wood table beautifying the long corridor as a relieved sigh fell from her lips. But her relieved mood soon changed to an aghast one, she was pretty sure who the four teens were, the wiser move would be to go find the Order members, but she knew she would never be able to turn her back on her friends.I can't believe they did something so stupid, just let me get my hands on Harry. She covered her fear with rage as she run after the wizards' first group.

The four Gryffindors ran away as the debris rained over the enraged Death Eaters, consequence of a missed curse that had been aimed at them, luckily it missed hitting a marble column instead. From it, only a pile of fuming rubble remained.

"That was TOO close," Hermione chided.

"Tell me about it," Ron said shaking his head to try to stop the buzzing in his ears.

"You guys, maybe..." Harry started before being interrupted by Ginny.

"DON'T you even think it," the ginger head warned.

"Gin is right," Hermione assented panting a little, "everything is going according to the plan, if the ruckus outside is something to go by. We just need to hang on a little while longer and find Serena," she assured.

"The we being the key word," Ron pointed out.

Their conversation was cut short by a shouted, "there they are, GET THEM!"

"Bugger," Hermione gritted out.

Harry and the two girls rapidly raised their wands, their foes too close for them to be able to flee in time.

"Wait, I've got a better idea. Get close to me," Ron told his companions as he reached into his jeans' pocket. Blackness engulfed everything the second the Gryffindor threw an handful of what at first sight seemed some kind of black powder over the place.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" The teen wizards heard in the distance as they dashed past the blinded grown-ups.

"Instant Darkness Powder," Hermione asked her boyfriend.

"Yea, I owled the twins after we decided to go forward with this," he said grinning.

"You wrote our plan on a letter!" The brunette screeched incredulously.

"Of course not," Ron said annoyed by his girlfriend low regard concerning his actions, "I told them we were planning some serious mischief and asked them to send me anything they thought could be of any use to us." They stopped their mad dash to try and regain some breath, only to find their numbers reduced.

"Oh no," the brunette exclaimed crestfallen.

"Gin, Gin, GIN," Ron shouted devastated, his frenzied eyes desperately searching for any signs of his sister.

"Ron, Mione, you'll go back and find Ginny. I'll continue on my own from now on." The Golden Boy said strongly.

Hermione look between the two boys, she wanted to help her boyfriend and go look for the younger witch, but she didn't want to let the other wizard alone either.

"No," Ron quickly said surprising his friends, "no," he repeated more to himself than anything, his eyes downcast. "We will continue as planned," he said more firmly as he locked eyes with his best mate. "It's Ginny we're talking about, she probably already found Serena and his cursing us all for losing time like this."

"But Ron," Harry started.

"No Harry, she's mysister so, Idecide."

The green eye wizard observed his friend closely as if searching for any hint of doubt, but founding none he ends up relenting and accepting his friend's choice, "very well, let's go then, we haven't much time," he said as he started walking again.

"Ron," Mione tried clutching her boyfriend's arm.

He simply shook his head," she's okay Mione, she as to be," he muttered under his breath.

Her eyes prickled with the unshared tears such sight provoked, the Golden Trio running towards her, safe and sound. Her breath caught in her suddenly constricted throat. "HARRY," Serena called, her voice shaking with the intensity of her overflowing emotions. Her feet seemed to gain wings and she sprung forward with renewed vigour. It would be impossible to not notice Harry's joy, Hermione grinned beside him, and Ron smiled at her. But, mid-way, she found herself frowning, where was Ginny, she was sure she had heard them talking about four teens, had she misunderstood?

With the agility those many duels with Professor Snape had granted her with, she veered abruptly before jumping back. From an corridor to her left, Voldemort came forth. Lucius, Greyback and a couple more wizards, she was not able to identify, stood by his sides, "seize them," he roared infuriated. They had completely and effectively managed to cut her path, she wouldn't be able to pass through them. "Damn," she riled her teeth as she saw the Death Eaters advancing to them.

From somewhere, a curse was launched missing whoever its target had been and hitting the stone wall instead. With debris flying everywhere, Serena hunched behind a large marble statue as the rubble started pouring over her, she coughed madly as effect of the dust cloud covering the entire area. Serena raised her semi-closed eyes to try and assess the situation, she groaned when she found her path completely obstructed. There was no way she could go through there. What now?

"Serena, over here," the Gryffindor heard behind her. Turning in her heels, Serena located Ginny a few feet back beside an open door, "quickly, this way," the red head told her.

The bold witch ran to her friend, a huge smile plastered on her face, "Ginny," Serena squealed delighted practically jumping on the other girl and enveloping her in a bear hug, "I've miss you guys so much," she suddenly confessed.

"We better get going," the youngest Weasley simply said untangling Serena away from herself.

"Oh, yes you're right, but I'm afraid I don't really know where to go. I have little knowledge of this place's paths. I had not been able to explore it much."

"That's okay, I do, just follow me," Ginny assured the other girl as she took the lead and directed herself to the nearest door. "Where's your wand by the way," the witch questioned looking to Serena's empty hands.

"Voldem., sorry," the Gryffindor apologised when the other girl stifled, "the-one-who-must-not-be-named took it from me and I hadn't been able to get it back," she concluded defeated.

"I see," the red head said mechanically as she passed through the door.

Serena frowned, there was something... strange about her friend, but she could not put her finger on what exactly that was, "Ginny, wait up," Serena exclaimed rushing after her striding friend. "Wha..." Serena tried to said as lancinating pain shoot through-out her entire body, her knees ceded under her as she helplessly fell to the cold stone floor. Emerald twin gems eyed uncomprehendingly the alien object deeply impaled into her chest. "Ginny?" She whispered as she clutched her bleeding chest as vivid life sustaining garment liquid slipping through the thin ivory fingers.

"Don't look to me like that; this is all your fault!" The youngest Weasley accused, "I had welcomed you with open arms, I gave you my friendship and support and YOU stabbed me on the back," she roared in the face of the agonising teen. "I find it is, kind of, poetic justice for me to pay you in the same coin," she said smugly, righting herself up and eyeing the dying witch sprawled on the ground.

"I... I don't..." she fought to say as she felt her strength leaving her, "understand," the struggle to speak making her heave heavily.

"You," the red head snapped gazing her hatefully, "you took Harry from me! I tried to give you a chance to redeem yourself, to become aware of your mistake when I orchestrated that pitiful scene where I cried my eyes out because Harry had broken my hearth.

Serena gapped at Weasley, that conversation she had accidentally overheard; it hadn't been more than a ruse!

"At first, I had thought you had finally understood as you kept distancing yourself from him, but then, THEN, you started dating him? Do you think I didn't notice the gloating glances you launched my way? YOU DOUBLE FACED BITCH," she screeched.

Serena felt betrayed as she remembered the guilty thoughts haunting her mind during the weeks after she had 'overheard' that conversation, Ginny had used them against her making her doubt even her friends reasons, how, how could the red head be so Machiavellian. Was Ginny so spiteful she didn't even take in consideration how she had tried to get away from Harry when she thought she had been the cause for they break out? Hadn't that been prof enough she hadn't planned anything that end up happening after?

"Don't look at me like that," Ginny spat, "this isn't more than what you deserve," she said derisively as she eyed her nails.

Serena merely watched, stunned, she could not wrap her mind in the thoughts of such a twisted Ginny. It seemed so far fetch, it couldn't be true. Something in the other witch's eyes caught her attention and she focused her attention on them. When she was about to blame it as a trick of the light she saw it again. Oh no! Not that. Serena inhaled deeply, that red hue that momentary appeared in the ginger head's otherwise blue eyes, it could only mean one thing. She concluded as her mind's gears started working furiously. Possibilities being raised and razed mere seconds apart, the Horcrux inside the diary, its dark nature had left some kind of scraps latched into Ginny's soul.

"By then I understood I had to get rid of you... permanently," Ginny continued unaware of Serena's inner monologue, "a single meeting was more than enough to convince Lestrange how important it was to made the Dark Lord aware of your existence. I must admit, I haven't expected him to become so obsessed with you, but I was far from caring whatever he would do with you as long as he took you to never be seen again. But alas, it couldn't just end like that; Harry had to put in his head he needed to save you. But that's okay, you'll die now, one more unfortunate victim of Salazar's heir, don't worry, I would take good care of Harry," she crowed malevolently.

Serena raised a shaking hand to the vaulting witch, her trembling lips moved to form words that did not left her lips. The pain had long faded into the numbness the blood-loss provided her with. She had to do something, warn Ginny, before it was too late.

"Just die already," Ginny lashed out smacking her hand away. The moment the youngest witch's hand came in contact with Serena's, she tensed before throwing back her head and letting out a blood crawling scream as blue light engulfed all of her body. The paled body of Ron's sibling feel to the ground just like some puppet at which its strings had been cut. She lay there, immobile, before rising into her side shakily. Ginny hissed as she continued fighting back the sourness coursing in every fibre of her body to be able to get up in her shaking legs. "SERENA," she cried out, finally noticing her infirm friend. She put aside her weakness and rushed to her friend's side, "oh no Circe, what have I done," she said choking in her sobs as she bustled herself around the death-pale witch. Ginny lowered herself to her knees not caring she was becoming soaked in the red pool around the blond witch; she was too occupied trying to keep herself from suffering a nervous breakdown as she weighted the pros and cons of pulling the fang off Serena's chest. Serena's moving lips caught her attention and she leaned over the other Gryffindor's body to put her ear the nearest possible of the feeble girl's mouth.

"Ru.. run,"she wheezed, blood tickling down her bluish lips, "he's coming," she managed to let out before passing out.

Horror made her sprung to her feet, she was pretty sure she knew to whom Serena was referring to. Her agonising soul grieved her dying friend as she turned her back to Serena and bolted forward towards the room's second door, too afraid to even cast a back glance.

Mere moments after the autumn hair left, the other door burst into splinters, an enraged Voldemort standing in its doorway. He took in his surroundings before advancing to the body in the middle of the blood puddle. He didn't go far before the bloodied body hovered above ground and disappeared into thin air. A well-known necklace dropped with a splash in the middle of the ruby pool the second its owner's neck disappeared, smudging everything around. It only took Voldemort a few minutes to hunch over it and grab it, but when he finally closed his skeletal fingers around the small piece of jewellery, it had managed to absorb all the blood from the ground. New blood-red filaments intertwined with the normal golden ones, perfectly visible over the smooth deep blue surface. His eyes narrowed before everything fall into place and he finally figured out what had been escaping him all this time, a devilish smirk took over his features. He righted himself and left the empty room behind, there was much to do if he wanted to be ready for her return, because now he was sure, she would return.

A.N. Here it is the very last chapter. Hope all of you had enjoyed the ride. Thank you to all of you who put me on alert, favourite or reviewed, I really appreciated. To the ones of you, who simply read it, thank you as well for spending that time with my work. This end leaves a lot of loose ends, but that's just because there's a continuation, you can find the sequel's URL on my profile. Anyways, thanks for everything and I hope to hear from all of you again.

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