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Father Mine
Chapter 26: Voldemort retaliates
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"SERENITY!!!" Harry and Sirius cried out at the same time. The ground where she had been projected was still lightly fuming with the dust the attack had created. Around them, the battle still raged, but some pairs of eyes didn't pay attention. The baleful laughter of Fudge brought them back to reality.
"HOW COULD YOU?!" Mad-eye Moody asked him, disturbed by the turn of event. He and Dumbledore were about to raise their wands but 2 giants advanced beside the corrupted minister, looking down at them menacingly.
"This is indeed disturbing, Cornelius. Explain yourself." Albus said, the twinkle in his eyes completely gone, only to be replaced by sheer seriousness.
Fudge smiled slyly and took a few steps to them, shedding his cloak in the process. He dumped it on the ground, exposing his left arm in the process. Mad-eye reeled back along with a few other people who were witnessing the scene.
"YOU BASTARD!!!" Sirius had his wand up in no time and was cursing him. The jet of light never reached the minister, though. One of the giants put a shield spell up and Lupin made sure to restrain his friend stronger the next time.
Fudge sneered and started to talk casually, fingering his wand. "Oh, it's almost new to me, you know. I wasn't always a Death Eater. I've always contemplated on being one but I never got the guts to do it. That is, until the girl" he jerked his head in the direction of the still unmoving rabbit "started to seriously butt in my issues. She got in my way too much, so it's her own fault she pushed me out of my edge." He cackled. "Now, where were we? Ah yes! Hurt them!" He ordered the giants.
Before they could start their incantations, however, a faint voice wheezed through the air. "Isn't it, with me, you have a, problem?" The phrase was punctuated by several intakes of breath.
All heads in the vicinity turned to the struggling rabbit. Her legs were shaking with the sheer effort of standing up and Harry ran to her, helping her stand up. "Are you ok?" He asked her silently. She smiled back to him and swatted him away when she regained her balance.
"We have a score to settle, Fudge. You and me, boy."
The minister got an evil glint in his eyes and ordered the giants to step back.
He raised his wand. "You're on. STUPEFY!" She dodged, and winced, almost loosing her balance. A couple of ribs had broken with the earlier attack and it had become hard to move and breathe. It was taking too long for her to recuperate and she cursed her rotten luck. She could only do so much right now. She couldn't call on any more powerful attacks and felt the Silver Crystal starting to drain the energy from her heart to her ribs for the healing process. She couldn't waist much energy, she just couldn't afford this.
"JUPITER! OAK EVOLUTION!" The crackling thunder descended from the sky in a rush, surprising everyone with the sudden light it created. The minister yelped as it came to him but sighed when 3 giants put up a shield spell once again. They struggled, but there wasn't enough power behind the attack.
"You cheater! You said you were going to fight her alone!" Yelled a fuming Harry.
The minister just laughed at him. "Since when does evil persons hold their promises, Potter? EXPELLIARMUS!"
Harry was caught off guard since the spell was speeding towards him instead of his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Sirius saw it and sped towards Harry, getting in front of him at the last second. He got blasted in the back and they both fell backwards hard on the ground.
Sirius groaned and rolled off of the body of his godson, while the green eyed boy eyed him with worry. "Sirius? Are you ok? Why did you do that?"
His godfather chuckled weakly. "Cause I love you, y'git! You're the only family I have left, beside Serenity and Remus."
Cornelius sneered when he saw their interaction and lifted his wand again. Before anyone could tell them to watch out, he felt himself be knocked over with a blast of freezing ice.
"You animal! You'll pay for what you did to my father!"
Fudge tried to get up but he failed miserably, since the chunk of ice was now pinning him on the ground securely. He cursed his idiocy under his breath. He had concentrated his attention solely on the Potter boy and forgot Black's daughter.
The air whipping around her became ice cold and her hair swished violently behind her. Her aura started to freeze the grass below her, forming sharp, razor-like points about half her height and the need to take out her transformation locket for the first time in months increased exponentially.
Finally, the need became too great. She made it appear and pinned it securely on the front of her shirt. It felt kind of odd to touch this item again, and she knew it was risky to use it here, but rules be damned. "MOON ETERNAL! MAKE-UP!"
She felt rather than saw the bright light engulf her and the peace it created in her heart. When the light subsided, Eternal Sailor Moon stood where Serenity Black once was. Harry was almost drooling, while Sirius was trying to cover his godson's prying eyes, all the while gaping at her attire.
She had always fought without transforming, so he wasn't accustomed to see her like this. A chorus of 'Oh my's' could be heard, especially from Mc Gonagall, who had to dodge a Confundus charm while looking at Sirius' daughter. Eternal Moon didn't waist any time, though. Deciding to forget the stupid entrance speech, she took a step towards the pinned minister, only to have her way blocked by the giants.
"I don't have time for this." She growled. She took out her Tier well before the giants could utter a word. "STARLIGHT HONEYMOON! THERAPY KISS!" The people around them had to shield their eyes because of the light it created. When Fudge reopened his eyes, he whimpered loudly and cowardly.
The place where the group of giants once stood was now completely empty, save for a new patch of green grass that seemed to grow out of the burst of pure power. "And now, it's your turn."
Cornelius started to cry lamentably. "No! Please! I'll give you anything you want! Just don't kill me!" He couldn't move, couldn't reach his wand which had fallen a few meters away from him.
She sneered and lifted her Tier once again, but this time it shone a faint pale blue. "MERCURY! AQUA RAPSODY!" An arch of ice hurled towards him and before he knew it, he was trapped in a prison of ice. His terrorized, unmoving face made Tonks shudder.
At one point, the crowd around them started to disperse when a dark cloaked person made his way to them. He clapped his hands loudly and a maniacal laugh emitted from his throat. Eternal Moon stood still and Harry stiffened at her side. Soon, Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus and the other members of the Order came to their side and had their wand up, ready to stop a surprise attack.
"You surely have a nice way of ending one person's life, Miss Black. Very enjoyable indeed! How good to finally be able to put a name on the one who ridiculed my army and captured my most trusted servant. I must thank you, though, for riding me of Fudge yourself. I never liked the bloke anyway. He was too noisy and had started to take too much place and make himself comfortable in my presence. But having him on my side sure had its conveniences. I used him and learned quite a lot about you, you know. I would have loved to have you on my side. With your power, we could have ruled the world! But alas, you made your intentions quite clear." The Dark Lord hissed.
Eternal Moon gripped her staff tighter and glared back. "You're a monster, Voldemort! You used Fudge to your advantage, and you don't even care for the ones who work for you! Have you no heart at all?!" She replied, eyes glinting, but she was totally out of breath.
Voldemort cackled maliciously. "A heart!? Dear, you have no heart when you're an evil serpent!" He took off his cloak and people gasped with horror. Wine red eyes looked back at them with malice and his snake-like face shifted when he grinned darkly.
Nagini stood still on his shoulder and hissed something. Harry hissed back, balling his fists in anger. Voldemort didn't look impressed at all, probably because of the Legilimency and the number of times he actually took a hold on Harry's mind before the boy could successfully block him off.
"You're quite right, my friend" he started, talking to Nagini but not in Parseltongue. "This girl will surely pose a problem, and we can't have her mess up our plans."
Eternal Moon lifted her staff menacingly and stiffened, ready to strike at any moment. Sirius was at her side in no time and glaring at the deranged man.
"See, my pet? That's what I meant. We should stop her before it's too late. After all, I AM winning here!" He laughed like a maniac but stopped when Sirius interrupted him.
"I wonder how the hell you'll be able to stop her, you freak! She's virtually unstoppable!" The proud father smirked and Moon's glare hardened.
Voldemort cocked his head on the side speculatively. "Hmm, it certainly looks that way. But you have to remember I had Fudge on my side. He told me quite precious information about your daughter, Black. Like how she had troubles with Fate and Destiny and how she shouldn't even be here. I decided to make a plan of action just in case. I myself don't even know if it'll truly work. But you know what they say; there's no day like today to find out!"
Sirius growled and started to recite the Avada Kedavra when Voldemort murmured something under his breath. To Remus's trained ears, it sounded suspiciously like 'Accio veil'.
Suddenly, up in the air, the veil from the Department of Mysteries appeared as if it had come here at great speed. Harry blocked his ears when he started to hear the mumbling from behind the veil.
"They're mumbling louder than last time." The people yelped when Luna Lovegood came behind them, a couple of scratches on her arms but no important injuries.
"Mumbling? I don't hear anything!" Sirius denied, looking at her as if she was crazy.
She arched an eyebrow back at him. "Don't look at me like that! Harry hears it too! And by the look on Serena's face, she can hear it too."
The dog animagus gazed at Harry and surely, his godson was trying to block his ears from something. What made him look away was when his daughter suddenly took a step back, dread written in her face.
"Serenity? Are you o-" Something came out of the veil, making Sirius stop what he was saying. 2 shadows came out, still in the thick air, and placed themselves at each side of the dark archway. One of them spoke loudly, but the language was completely foreign to them, and even to Albus.
What was their surprise when the rabbit started to talk back to them in the same language. She looked mad at something, but she was visibly shaking. The conversation looked quite heated and it was visible that those 2 up there didn't appear to be friendly.
Unexpectedly, the one on the right spoke in English when Usagi started to retaliate more viciously to their threats. "Usagi Tsukino, Princess Serenity of the White Moon Kingdom, you are sentenced to be sealed away from this world! You have broken many laws, and this is the last straw! Not only have you come back to this world when you were supposed to stay in the other-"
Usagi cut her off, seething. "You're the idiots in all of this! You made me reborn here! It's your own fault!"
The shadow started to speak again as if she had never been interrupted; "But you have also fought with your original powers, completely un-doing the perfect balance of this world and interfered with fights and battles that weren't yours to fight! You are sentenced to be sealed away from this world, and nothing can undo our command!"
Eternal Moon took another step back but raised her staff higher. "I won't go away! I refuse to! MARS-!" She stopped with a gasp when a black metallic chain hurled out of the veil and encircled one of her wrists, making her loose the grasp she had on her staff. It fell on the ground and fluttered away in sparkles of light.
It started to pull her, clinging loudly, and she desperately tried to pry it off, but to no avail. She tried to anchor herself on the ground and it started to pull at her. She struggled and shook her head, starting to panic. "NO! I don't want to go away! You have no right to stop me!"
Harry gripped her other hand and in a desperate attempt to free her, he used his wand against the chain. She wasn't even touching the ground now, and she struggled to keep Harry's hand in hers. The green eyed boy tried to destroy the chain again when another one blocked his way and made him loose his grip on her.
The other chain came around her waist, making her wince. Her crescent moon started to glow on her forehead and she struggled like the devil. "I. DON'T WANT. TO GO!" She was starting to cry in frustration and helplessness. "HARRY!" She extended her hands down to him but she was too high for him to reach.
The shadows shook their heads. A third chain wound itself around her broach securely and something cracked. "AHHHHHH!" She screamed in pain, before her eyes glazed over and her body went limp in the chain's hold. She de-transformed and was left with bruises and gashes, along with tore clothes.
"NOOO! SERENA!" Harry couldn't do anything, and no matter how many times Sirius or anyone else tried to free her with any spell they could think of, everything was simply absorbed by the veil. Soon, she reached the veil and was slowly absorbed by the dark emptiness.
She looked unconscious, limp and devoiced of life, her eyes glazed a dark, almost blackish blue. No cries or screams of terror reached her ears as she was enveloped against her will in the void. The shadows vanished and the portal closed, leaving nothing behind. Not a single trace of the archway being there seconds before.
"That was most definitely interesting!" Said a speculative Voldemort, watching the terrorized face of the girl's friends and family with joy. He chuckled, until this same chuckle became a full out sinister laugh.
Harry got up from his kneeling position, tears coming down his cheeks, but he roughly swiped them away and gave his nemesis his most chilling glare. Riddle shut up and took his position, which Harry quickly imitated. "You'll pay for what you did! IMPEDIMENTA!" Harry yelled, pointing his wand at the Dark Lord.
Riddle quickly stepped aside and yelled "INCENDIO!" Harry quickly retaliated with a Protego and it went on and on. Dumbledore knew they couldn't be of any help for that battle, and despite what Sirius or Remus said, they just had to stay away and help the others instead, who were beginning to draw back.
Losses were great on both sides, but it's the light side that suffered the most. Because of Fudge, their plans had been destroyed and the number of dark servants was just too superior to theirs.
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There you go, another chapter! The next update will probably be Thursday, I'm still not sure. I won't be able to finish next chapter Tuesday, I have a reunion with my job at 6pm Wednesday and I plan to go to the cinema with my dad to see the new movie 'The prisoners of time' or something along these lines on Thursday. So bare with me, kay? ^_^;
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