A/N: This chapter has not been properly checked for error and mistakes as I was in a bit of a hurry to upload it so if you find such mistakes I apologize for it…

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Draco appeared using the transportation rune in the forest which surrounded the Riddle Manor as he looked around with his wand in his hand. His senses were alert as he used special charms around his eyes to see through the dense fog and the darkness inside the forest.

He could see the traps laid around on the forest floor and the trees around him. He'd already scanned and learnt were they all were in the route which he had planned to take in order to go to manor. The security was tighter than ever and he knew this was going to be difficult as he took out the communicator rune to see if they were all connected.

Over two hundred aurors surrounded the perimeter of the forest. Longbottom had really done it when he said he could get those numbers. Draco knew it was mostly because of Augusta, his grandmother but Neville could take the credit for that amongst his friends and since Voldemort's takeover of the ministry those who could have run away and the aurors who used to work for the ministry had been disbanded, captured or made to take sides with Voldemort. Those that remained either went into hiding for the safety of their own and their families while the rest found ways to somehow fight this danger and those remaining were the ones who had joined tonight to hopefully take down Voldemort.

"Are you ready?" he asked.

"As much as you are," Selandra replied inside his head.

"Is everyone ready?" Draco said over the communicator.

"Everyone's in position," Sirius said from the other side. "Break it down."

"Let's do this," Draco said to Selandra as he crouched down on the ground on all four and took a deep breath. "Beast mimicry!"

He felt his magic connect to Selandra's as he began to feel the changes in his body as his magic flared around his body like green fire before it began to take form as it expanded over the forest floor in the shape of a snake…a giant, monstrous snake and a minute later Selandra materialized from the green flames and slithered beside Draco who was barely the size of one of her fangs.

"You look much larger," he said.

"The wards cast around the secret chamber didn't allow me to live to my full potential," she said. "Back then I lived with just half of what my actual size was."

"So this is the complete you?" he asked.

Selandra looked at him as she flicked her tongue. "Yes," she said inside his head before looking towards the manor in the distance. "Are you ready?"

Draco nodded. "Charge ahead," he said standing on top of Selandra's head as her magic and his combined forming a slight merge between his feet and her head so he wouldn't fall over when she moved as she slithered as low as possible while charging towards the manor. Draco reported his move on the communicator to signal everyone to get ready as Selandra obliterated all the traps laid in her path while moving forward. The others followed behind her.

This move would obviously alert everyone on Voldemort's side but with Selandra's speed and suddenness and every auror on standby to move Voldemort and his followers would barely get any chance to do anything.

Selandra tackled through the wards around the manor, shimmering and cracking it like glass as everyone inside the wards looked in horror, shock and surprise at the monster that had barged in breaking through their wards like they were nothing.

Spells began to fly, mostly killing curses but none of them affected Selandra as she shimmered her scales, hardening them and repelling any spells which flew her and Draco's way. Some of the repelled spells flew back towards the death eaters and Voldemort's standing army as they got the taste of their own medicine.

"Shoot the rider!" someone screamed as the incoming spells changed their directions with their new target being Draco who was wearing a long hooded robe and a mask to cover his identity. Seeing the direction of the attacks change Selandra shifted and coiled her body around her head and Draco taking in all the incoming hits and repelling them back with her hard and shiny scales.

Without even a single offensive spells Draco and Selandra had taken down almost all the death eaters who were inside the manor's campus as others began to arrive. The backup consisted of trolls, vampires, giants and of course dementors. Draco knew there were a lot more than this that Voldemort was keeping hidden and would deploy accordingly but the signal was sent and the aurors were already on the move and with the traps and wards taken care off they arrived at the manor in no time as everyone in Voldemort's army was surprised with the sudden attack of spells coming at them from all directions.

Knowing their number was nothing compared to Voldemort's army the aurors and everyone else knew they needed to fight while hiding themselves so their numbers would suffer as less as possible. They were all wearing dragon-skin armors with elbow and leg guards made from bones of the dragons. Harry had found them in the armory of his manor in huge numbers and realized they would be of appropriate use for the aurors and others who would join the fight against Voldemort.

While Dragon skin was very commonly available although being very pricey for its nature of blocking many powerful spells the elbow and leg guards that Harry gave to the aurors was something they were seeing for the very first time. The dragon skin which was available in the market was ether the skin which a dragon had shed or was extracted from an already dead dragon as killing dragons was a worldwide crime.

The bones, however, were new to the aurors. A few of them, though, knew about the use of these bones in old times when no such law was there to protect dragon hunting and people hunted the dragons for their skin, meat and, well, bones. The bones were one of the strongest objects in the world against many physical attacks and spells and that included the killing curse as well. The dragon bones could take in the killing curse with very little damage and that alone was a big advantage that the aurors got with the use of these armors as they all wholeheartedly thanked Harry for his donation of these armors to them.

For Voldemort it was a matter of shock that his hideout had been attacked like this out of nowhere. He was planning on conducting the biggest raid as of yet tonight right in the heart of Diagon Alley but out of nowhere someone had attacked his place and with half of his army already sent towards the Alley he was left with only the other half to tackle the situation, not that it was a problem of any sort as even with half his army here its number was in tens of thousands and whoever had stupidly attacked him clearly didn't have enough numbers on their side to tackle his army.

But that didn't mean he was careless. He wasn't the most feared dark lord for nothing. He knew charging through the wards – most of which he had raised personally around the manor – wasn't a simple feat. The way they'd been shattered along with all the traps that were laid around the manor in the forest area, whoever had attacked was strong and if allowed could even defeat his army without a doubt but that didn't mean that whoever this person was they would be all invincible as battling though his army they would certainly be tired by the time they can reach close enough to Voldemort and that is when he will strike.

But then the doors to his chamber banged open as Bella came in running and panting. She stopped, catching her breath before she looked at her master with fearful eyes. That was something that Voldemort wasn't expecting to see. If something had made Bella worry than it really was a problem worth dealing on his own, Voldemort thought as he stood up, looking at his right-hand woman.

"Bella, what happened?" he asked in a nonchalant tone as he walked towards her.

She looked up at him, her breath shaking as she slowly stood up with her head low, showing respect to her master. "My lord, we have been attacked by a basilisk!"

Voldemort looked at her with wide eyes as he ran his fingers on her face. She felt lost in his touch as she enjoyed the sensation of his fingers before they moved down to her neck and started choking her. She gasped for air as Voldemort lifted her off the ground, bringing her to his eye-level. "You chose a very bad time to joke around, Bella," he said hissing as he licked her face with his longer than normal tongue before throwing her on the floor.

"It..It's true, my lord!" she said coughing and collecting herself as she remained on her knees, bowed in respect for her master. "I…I saw it with my own eyes!"

Voldemort knew that if there was one thing he believed of all it was Bella's devotion and loyalty towards him but with Snape's betrayal he'd started questioning everyone around him and now Fenrir was missing. He'd sent many of his followers looking for him and none had returned. If he wasn't sure enough he knew they'd all been dead and with Grindelwald and Fenrir's increasing conversations which happened while Grindelwald was living in the manor Voldemort knew that that werewolf had changed his alliance and it angered him even more. Fenrir was a very valuable part of his overall strength and now he was gone.

But Bella would never lie to him, would she? No, she wasn't like that. Voldemort knew she loved him. They even had a child together – a girl hidden away in safety. No one but he himself and Bella knew about it and while he wouldn't care if Bella died fighting for his cause he didn't want to bring any harm to his little girl and when she would grow up she would also need her mother to be around, something Voldemort never had which is why he didn't want Bella to be in harm's way. So he had secretly taken it upon himself to protect her as well and once everything was over he could spend more time with…his family.

Walking up to the window he looked outside and saw nothing but chaos. Spells were being fired towards the manor from the forest. So they were hiding in the forest, he thought but the scenery inside the manor's campus was that of a complete destruction as he saw bodies of his followers lying around everywhere. Having experience with death he knew all of them were dead and the fact that the enemy had resolved itself into killing his followers was something that worried him a bit. This clearly meant one thing – whoever was attacking him wasn't doing so under Dumbledore's orders. That old fool would never give a kill order to his people even when suffering a huge blow from the opposite side.

Suddenly he heard a huge crash as his eyes widened with shock to see a really monstrous basilisk inside the manors' campus. It slithered into his sight taking out his army with ease and there was someone riding on its head. Voldemort didn't know who that person was but he sure had recognized the basilisk as his lips twitched into a small smile but he was also shocked to his core.

There was also confusion inside him as he wondered how come Selandra had grown so much in just fifty years. Yes, it was a long time but not for a basilisk to grow this much. She was at least twice the size of when he'd seen her and back then she was almost seventy feet long if not less. Now looking at her he felt a slight tinge of fear but that wouldn't matter as he knew monster or not she would listen to him.

Besides, he really wanted to know who was under that hood and was able to ride her so comfortably. From what he knew there were no surviving members from Slytherin's line other than he himself as he had looked for and killed anyone who was a descendant of Slytherin years ago. He hadn't missed anyone so this person was surely someone else and to be able to ride and possibly control Selandra…he was also very powerful and for that reason alone Voldemort guessed that this might be the person who had been attacking his inner circle members and was the one who rescued Snape. It seemed he needed to see this person personally.

He gripped his wand in his hand tightly before being surrounded by black smoke and flying out of the window as Bella lay there on the floor watching where her master stood a second ago.

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Sirius worked together with a small group of aurors while Harry was in the forest with the remaining aurors firing at anyone who came their way. Neville and Luna had entered the manor's campus in the disguises of death eaters in order to find the horcruxes. They weren't alone as a few aurors were also with them in death eater disguise as that was enough for them to go in without being noticed, especially because of Draco and Selandra's rampage which had kept everyone else busy.

"This place is like a maze!" Neville said. "We would never be able to find where the horcruxes are like this! We barely have time as it is."

"Accio horcrux!" one of the aurors said but nothing happened.

"It's a soul anchor," Luna said. "Like a ghost or a spirit you cannot summon it."

"So what do we do?" asked the auror.

"Find it the old-fashion way," she said. "We will cover more ground if we all split up."

"Are you crazy?" Neville said. "We are inside enemy-territory and splitting up especially with Voldemort here is a very bad idea."

"I think so, too," said another auror. "We need to find another way."

"I can do it." Everyone looked at the communicator in Luna's hand. It was open all this time.

"Harry?" she said bringing the communicator close to her.

"I can sense the horcrux," he said from the other side. "Remember, I had one inside me so I can sense them. I've done so before."

"Are you certain?" Neville asked.

"Just find me a way to get inside and I can find the horcruxes for you!" Harry said as the call was cut.

"Going back is not possible and Harry can't come in with or without cover since we no longer have Draco's distraction," said one of the aurors. "What are our options?"

"The manor's anti-apparition wards are no longer in place so someone can portkey or apparate him here," Luna said.

"But didn't we cast an anti-apparition ward?" asked the auror.

"That was for the death eaters," Neville said. "We can still move using apparition and portkey."

"Okay, I'll go get him," said another auror as he stepped forward.

"Bring him here as quickly as you can, Boris," Luna said looking at the auror. "We'll stay here."

Boris, the auror nodded before apparating away.

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Draco felt Voldemort's presence through Selandra's link as she could do so because he was a descendant of Salazar as she curled herself in preparation to meet the one who had used her in order to try and kill innocent students decades ago.

Voldemort landed as the black smoke around him dispersed. He walked with grace through the explosions and screams of people around him, unaffected. Both Draco and Selandra prepared themselves to face him knowing that this wouldn't be easy. Draco knew for sure that if Voldemort is able to control Selandra through his lineage's power then it would speak trouble for everyone. He hoped that Griffin and Celia would be able to control Selandra then, that is, if all of it happens before the horcruxes are destroyed.

This had been discussed between the three divine beast vessels before coming her as per Selandra's concern. They all knew that while she was Draco's greatest weapon against Voldemort she was also Voldemort's greatest weapon against Draco and everyone else. And so if Voldemort manages to control her than it would entirely be up to Celia and Griffin to stop her from rampaging on her own friends and people who were against Voldemort.

Even though they were unsure about it both Luna and Neville had agreed although everyone hoped it wouldn't come to that and as Voldemort walked towards Selandra and Draco both could feel his effect on Selandra slowly increasing as he smiled at her in full confidence before stopping about a meter away from her. He completely ignored Draco as he looked right at her and grinned.

{"It's been some time since we last saw each other, Sel,"} Voldemort said. {"You look different…healthier."} He then looked at Draco who looked back at him. {"It seems you made a new friend while I was gone. I am sorry that you felt alone but it's okay now."} He opened his arms as if to hug. {"I am here. I have returned and we can be together again. Why don't you stop this madness and come with me?"}

'He's strong,' Draco thought as he tried to shake off Voldemort's powerful aura that filled the air around them. He could also feel Voldemort's influence on Selandra as she was struggling against it. This was tougher than he'd thought but he couldn't do anything as he wasn't sharing any connection with Voldemort like Selandra did. This was her fight alone and she needed to win it if they wanted to defeat Voldemort.

Getting desperate Draco fired off a barrage of spells at Voldemort who casually deflected them all with his focus entirely on Selandra. He smiled, looking at the hooded man riding his basilisk. "Who are you?" he asked looking at Draco. Draco didn't answer. "I thought I dealt with all the members from the Slytherin line."

Selandra moved her head back, aiming for a strike as she flicked her tongue before her head went towards Voldemort at blinding speed considering how big she was. She attacked at him with the speed of an actual snake but Voldemort just stood there unfazed and unmoving. {"You wouldn't hurt me, would you?"} he said and she stopped immediately with her head only inches away from Voldemort as she glared at him. She couldn't even use her death glare because Voldemort didn't want her to. {"So, seeing that your rider isn't willing to talk to me, why don't you make him do so? It's rude not to answer anyone's question if they're asking politely."}

Draco knew what this meant as he looked from Voldemort to Selandra who was clearly fighting a losing battle as she raised her head higher and higher before starting to shake off Draco. She also undid the magic which was keeping him on her as he was thrown off of her and fell hard on the ground with a grunt. The fall was rough and from a good height as Draco landed on his left hand and was pretty sure from the pain that he'd broken it along with a few left ribs.

He grunted as he glared at Voldemort who just stood there, not even bothering to move…to take an aim at Draco who, for the moment, was just a sitting duck for Voldemort to kill. No, the dark lord wanted to enjoy it and here it was Selandra going for a kill at the one who was riding her. This mysterious person had done a good amount of damage to him as Voldemort stood and watched with amused eyes how this masked man avoided and jumped around like a monkey, dodging and evading Selandra's strikes. One strike was all she needed to make on this person and he would be a goner but Voldemort wanted to give him a very painful death and while dying from basilisk venom was enough torture it wouldn't satisfy Voldemort's hunger of torturing him with his own hands.

"Fuse with me!" Draco heard Selandra's voice inside his head as he dodged another head-butt from her and panted. She was fast and almost had a complete reach around herself in the place they were so he wasn't really safe with her attacking him. He understood fusing back with her would break Voldemort's influence on her and so he fired off a powerful shockwave towards Selandra in order to give himself some time.

A few seconds was all he needed as his spell pushed Selandra a good distance back surprising Voldemort as he acknowledged this mystery-man's magical prowess. Draco stood unmoving as Selandra recoiled herself, shaking her head as she tried to focus on Draco when he put both his hands on the ground and she felt a pull towards him.

Both of them knew the risk that came with fusing together as after doing so they wouldn't be able to separate back again for quite some time but they had no other choice as Voldemort's influence on Selandra was increasing with each passing moment.

Voldemort watched in utter shock as Selandra's body flew towards this mysterious person as he absorbed her entirely inside him. He didn't know if something like this was even possible but now that he'd seen it he knew it was dangerous as if this person was able to absorb the entirety of Selandra inside himself then there was no telling whether or not he could also use her powers but then something was felt by Voldemort as he smirked.

Draco knew it wasn't anything good as he saw Voldemort smiling when he felt something inside him, mostly inside his head. His occlumency shields rose up as quickly as they could but it was already too late. Voldemort's influence on Selandra had now involved Draco, too, after their fusion.

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Boris apparated beside Harry, shocking him and Sirius for a moment.

"What is it?" asked Sirius.

"We need Harry in order to locate the horcruxes," said Boris. "The place is too big and we've no idea where the horcruxes are. I've been told that you can sense them which is why Neville and Luna sent me to get you," he said looking at Harry.

Harry looked at Sirius who was in a dilemma whether or not to let him go. He needed to be here in order to lead the aurors but Harry needed to be inside. "You look after him," Sirius said looking at Boris with serious eyes before looking at Harry. "And you, be careful."

Harry nodded before apparating with Boris inside the manor where Luna and Neville were waiting for them but as soon as Harry and Boris apparated inside a killing curse went past Harry, barely touching him and hit Boris who dropped dead in an instant. Everyone got on their guards, their wands in their hands as they saw in horror at the arrival of Bellatrix with at least a hundred of Voldemort's followers.

"Hello, Neville," she said baring her teeth as she looked at the round-face boy with her crazy-big eyes.

Neville's grip tightened around his hand but he knew he couldn't lose his control now. If he did then everything will go south and that wouldn't be a good thing. So he just stood there with no reaction to her taunting which caused Bella to frown as if she was hurt but they all knew Bella and the kind of person she was as the remaining aurors

The aurors all stood in front of the three kids, guarding them with their wands pointed at Bella and Voldemort's army. She smiled before laughing maniacally when Harry picked up the familiar sensation of a horcrux. He looked towards his right and saw a long corridor. Bella caught his movement and knew that boy was trouble and fired a warning curse at him. She knew her master wanted to deal with that boy on his own so as much as she hated it she couldn't kill him.

Her curse was deflected off by the aurors who stood together shielding the kids as Harry looked at Luna and Neville. "I can sense it," he said. "It's in the manor…somewhere in that direction." He pointed towards his right as Neville and Luna nodded.

"But what about this problem?" Neville asked. "We can't move an inch with Bella and Voldemort's followers blocking our path!"

"We can," Luna said with a smile as she stood up straighter. "On my signal run towards the direction. Neville, no matter what happens you have to stay by Harry's side as you will be the only one who can destroy the horcruxes once you've found them."

"Luna?" Harry said looking at her. "What are you doing?"

"Dealing with the problem," she said. "I wonder how long she will be able to hold seeing this surrounding isn't favorable for her." She then smiled and crouched on the ground, her hands and knees touching the floor as Neville realized what she intended to do.

"We need to move," Neville said holding Harry's hand.

"What…What's happening?" Harry asked.

"Beast mimicry!" Luna said as the aurors and Harry watched in shock and amazement at her changing right in front of them. Her legs changed into octopus tentacles as her hair turned black and elongated further down, below her hips. Her pupils turned green and so did her lips while her ears became pointed like that of a goblin. She waved her wand which then changed into a long and twisted wooden staff with a beautiful blue crystal at its tip.

Harry watched with open mouth when Neville tugged him again and he looked at him. "Let's go," Neville said before he looked at the aurors. "Everyone, let's go!"

The aurors looked form Luna to Bella and others behind her to Harry and Neville.

"Go," Luna said as some aurors recognized her tone's resemblance with that of merpeople as they all looked at her. "I will hold them off."

"Come on!" Neville said as he began to run towards the corridor to their right where supposedly the horcruxes were. The aurors followed the boys leaving Luna behind on her own who turned to face Bella as her crystal glowed bright blue.

"What the hell just happened?" Harry asked as they ran towards the horcrux whose effect he felt getting stronger.

"She partially transformed, combining her powers with Celia," Neville said.

"That was Celia?" Harry asked shocked at the revelation.

"A part of her," Neville said. "She's most powerful near water bodies and since there's around here all she could do was lend some of her powers to Luna which she is now using in her beast mimicry form."

"What's beast mimicry?" Harry asked.

"It's when the vessel and their divine beast combine their powers for the divine beast to form a physical form outside of the vessel's body," Neville said. "It can vary depending upon how much power the divine beast and its vessel are able to combine together. Draco did the same thing which allowed Selandra to take her complete physical form and break the wards and traps around this place."

"That's amazing," Harry said wishing he could do that but he knew he couldn't. He didn't have a divine beast inside of him. Well, technically it was a divine beast but it wasn't what he would call a natural one like Neville, Luna and Draco's.

"There's a turn coming up," Neville said making Harry focus back what they were doing as he focused and tried sensing for the horcruxes.

"Another right," he said as they took the right. "We are close," Harry said.

"Let's do this!" Neville said.

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Bella had seen many things in her life but not something like this. The blond little girl had transformed herself into a tentacle-equipped water creature that looked something like a mermaid but with octopus limbs and with that transformation her powers had also increased as Bella had experienced it herself when Luna had fired not spells but straight-up water currents from her staff which hit like solid objects, immediately taking out the mountain trolls which Bella had brought with herself.

She didn't know what this girl had turned into but nothing will stop her from finishing her master's orders as she gave out a valiant cry before firing a long killing curse towards the weird creature as Luna blocked it easily with her staff.

However, with no water around and with only a little power from Celia Luna was feeling tired already. The proportion of their magic which they needed to combine wasn't perfect and so her transformation wasn't up to the mark even though she may have changed her form completely which put her at a severe disadvantage seeing who stood in front of her.

Knowing she didn't have long Luna went into action, taking out as much of Voldemort's army who were with Bella as she could while Bella dodged her attacks with shields and conjuring objects. She knew that the followers didn't matter as much as Bella and so she needed to preserve enough energy to face her once she was done with Voldemort's men.

Bella was finding it hard to tackle this new problem that was in front of her as most of her spells was ineffective on this weird girl. It made her more and more annoyed while Luna took down more and more of her backup.

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Harry, Neville and the four aurors ran through the manor following Harry while looking for the horcruxes. They met a few death eaters but not enough that would be a problem as the aurors took care of them.

"We're close," Harry said when he stopped and looked at a closed door to his left. "It's in here," he said.

One of the aurors tried to open the door but nothing happened. He then tried some explosive curses, unlocking charms but none of them worked. "Makes sense that one wouldn't simply be able to enter," said another auror. "We need more manpower to take down this door. There's easily at least ten wards on this entrance if not more and none of us know any curse-breaking."

"Step back," Neville said as he walked towards the door. Everyone saw as he raised his right hand which formed a yellowish aura in the shape of a lion's paw at least three times the size of Neville's palm. He then hit the door with his hand and the impact happened when his aura touched the door and not his palm as the air around the door crackled followed by a powerful shockwave.

The aurors raised a combined shield in order to block the shockwave as they watched in amazement at Neville's powers. They all wondered what the hell was up with these kids as some time ago Luna had also transformed into a weird looking water creature and now it was Neville who displayed something which was either a very complex form of magic or something completely different.

The door cracked and then broke into splinters as the air inside the room crackled as well before they saw as small cracks formed around it. Inside were another set of wards and it wouldn't be surprising if they ran into traps after breaking down the wards but the feeling of the horcruxes intensified tenfold once Neville brought down the wards inside the room.

"You all stay here," Neville said as he had a small talk with Griffin. "The horcrux will affect you if you enter this room. Harry, you too." They all nodded as Neville's aura flared, now forming around his entire body as if he was wearing a lion's skin. He walked ahead inside the room and could see the snake curled up in one corner, hissing when it saw Neville enter. He knew taking a bite from that snake would mean he was dead as Griffin warned him.

In the middle of the room was a small box with runes engraved on it. He knew the ring was inside it but the runes on the box looked very complicated. He wondered if Griffin could break through the rune's magic. He also had to look out for the snake in case it decided to attack him.

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Sirius had heard the news and couldn't believe what had happened. Draco had just took out at least twenty or so aurors. Confused and utterly shocked Sirius wondered what the hell was happening and so he apparated inside the manor's campus to see nothing but destruction everywhere.

H stayed low, grabbing the mask and robe of a dead death eater and wearing them just in case other death eaters didn't attack him as he didn't see any aurors around. He looked around wondering where the hell Draco was. He was supposed to be working alongside Selandra but Sirius couldn't see a big-ass basilisk slithering around so he wondered what was going on.

He saw the dead aurors around him along with dead death eaters when he heard a loud explosion which shook the very ground inside the manor's campus. He struggled not to fall before running towards the sound's source and what he saw shocked him to the core.

Draco was shooting down the aurors one by one and beside him stood Voldemort grinning like a mad man. Sirius knew about Draco and Selandra's one weakness against the dark lord but with Selandra not in sight he wondered if this weakness also prevailed when Draco and Selandra were one. It seemed to be that way as Draco looked to be struggling with that he was doing as he helplessly took down one auror after another when his wand was aimed at Sirius.

"Look who we have here!" Voldemort said loudly as his grin widened. "So you came as well, eh, Black?"

Sirius' eyes were on Draco whose wand arm was shaking as he had the wand pointed at him when he noticed Voldemort's expression change all of a sudden and Draco seemed to come out of his control as he gasped loudly and grabbed his head with both his hands. Sirius looked at Voldemort while Draco collected himself, recovering from Voldemort's control over him as Voldemort shouted in anger and fired a killing curse towards Sirius but not before Draco pushed him on the ground.

The curse narrowly passed Sirius who was stunned with this sudden move from Voldemort as he wondered what had happened when Voldemort shouted in pain as from within the manor a huge explosion took place followed by black smoke rising from one of the windows.

Sirius smiled as he heard on the communicator that the horcruxes were gone. He mentally applauded Harry, Neville, Luna and the aurors who were given this task as he looked at Voldemort who was now on the ground panting loudly and appeared to be in immense pain.

Draco had gathered himself by then as he cast a powerful ward around him and Voldemort so that no one else will disturb them. Because Sirius was near he also came inside the ward as he felt that the ward's magic wasn't normal and he realized that Selandra must've been the one who cast the ward through Draco. This made sense as he saw some of the death eaters desperately firing killing curses towards them but the ward dispersed those curses like nothing.

Voldemort looked at the masked man as he panted and crawled away from him when Draco stepped on his robe, preventing him from moving any further as he reached for his hood and removed it.

As if he'd seen a ghost Voldemort's eyes widened in disbelief as he recognized that pale blond hair. "Lu…Lucius?" he gasped.

"If only," Draco said. "You are now completely mortal, Tom." Voldemort's face said enough as he recognized the voice immediately as Draco removed his mask next and looked dead at him with his grey eyes. "But you were right. Revenge is satisfaction."

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