Pt. 4: More messed up stuff
The man looked terribly familiar to me. He was the man from the pictures. He was the one that Trev had warned me about.
"What do you think you're doing?" Shayna yelled as he grabbed our arms and pulled us onto the balcony and then into some weird little vehicle.
"Its all part of Lucius's plan, dearies."
Things began to come clear in my mind. I felt a build up of rage inside of me. "So you did kill my father!" I yelled trying to kick myself free.
"Bright girl. Oh yes, and how else would you have come to live here? Was it hard for you to leave your perfect Switzerland?"
"I hate you! I hate you I hate you I hate you!"
"Ah, but I still feel so loved."
"Why are you doing this?" Shayna asked.
"What better way to get into Voldemort's inner circle than through his own little children?"
"Well I still don't understand." I said.
"Amber, we are Voldemort's power right now. If Lucius has us, then Voldemort cant get back. He needs to have a way into Hogwarts. I think this is a ransom like thing."
"So if Voldemort wants us back, he's got to let Lucius into his inner circle? I thought he already was in."
"I thought so too. This is really dumb." Shayna said.
"Why so dumb, precious?" The little man asked.
"Sadly, Voldemort is more powerful than you ever will be. He will crush you and kill you ten times over."
"Why didn't you get Harry instead? Don't you think this would have worked that way, too?" I said, restlessly.
"Oh, we're already ahead of you. Another person has got Harry, and your dear cousin Draco too." He smiled again. "We have you all."
Shayna glared at him. "Harry will defeat Voldemort again."
"No, Shayna, Harry is only a silly little boy. Eventually, he will lose, and sorry to say, it has to be this time." The man responded.
"Harry is the boy who lived." Shayna finished, with hope.
For a while there was silence. We had no idea where we were going. I was starting to get excited. IN this one day, I had learned so much about my life. My uncle, my family. None of them had ever loved me. They wanted me only out of greed. And now, finally, I was going to meet my grandpa, the man who would help me rise up and become a great dark lord.
We continued to travel through dark undergrounds. Shayna gazed hopelessly at me as if it was all over. She had ever wanted to be a death eater, unlike me. Now I would be the most powerful one. What would he do when he learned Shayna didn't want to help? I would be his last chance. I would rule beside him.
Whatever it was that we were riding in stopped abruptly. Shayna and I were thrown across the cab. I felt my arm begin to burn again. Shayna was also gripping her arm, in pain.
"It's the dark mark, Amber. We must almost be there."
The man pulled us out and we walked. We walked down, and crawled, and climbed, and swam, and then, finally,
We stopped. We had reached a dead end. The man threw some muggle shovels at us. "Start digging."
As soon as he turned his back and left, Shayna pulled out her wand.
"Shayna, you know we're not supposed to use magic outside of school." I said, smiling.
"I don't care."
In seconds, we were faced with an old wooden door. Since that man hadn't returned yet, we let ourselves in.
"Whoa," Shayna and I said simultaneously as our jaws dropped in amazement. We were in my green room.
"How in the hell did we get here?" I said, as I looked around, shocked.
"I see you know this place well," a voice behind me said.
I turned around and faced the strangest looking man that I had ever seen. His face was white and sunken in. His eyes were bloodshot and they seemed to be glowing. He wore dark robes and a dark hood was pulled over part of his head. He extended a long, pointed hand to the both of us, revealing gnarled fingers.
"Come my children."
Hesitantly, I took his hand. Shayna stepped backwards, slowly, away from the man.
"I will never join you." She said with a hateful tone in her voice. At that moment, Draco and Harry appeared on the field. Soon, death eaters from all over began to pop up in the stands.
"What was that, my daughter? I don't believe I heard you correctly!" He yelled, throwing her backwards. "How dare you resist me!" He sent her flying across the field, slamming into the goal posts. "I will finish you now!" He yelled, raising his wand.
His voice slowly started to yell out one of the unforgiving curses.
"Al- oh- a- " and instead of shooting Shayna, he turned the wand on me.
The death eaters who had been watching in the stands stood up slowly as the magic was released from his wand.
"NOOOOOO!!!" One of the people yelled, dodging in front of my. I was to stunned to notice who it was as the curse hit the boy. I felt my head start to swerve, and the next thing I knew, I was passed out on the floor. The rest of the story took place as Shayna, Draco, and Harry told me after I woke up.
The boy that saved my life was the one and only Harry Potter. Draco ran out of the stands to get me right as Voldemort was really getting heated up. He watched as Draco dash across the field and began to raise his wand again. Just his luck, Draco managed to pull Harry to a port key that was lying nearby. The port key directed them to the library of the Malfoy mansion.
"What the-" Draco said, confused, as he landed at the conference table with the same large men that had been in our house just yesterday.
"Aah, Draco. We've been waiting for you."
A worried look covered Draco's face. "Is Harry-"
"Harry will be fine. He'll come around in a minute or two." One of the men replied.
"But the curse he got hit with would kill an ordinary wizard!"
"Harry, as you know, is not just another ordinary wizard."
Back at the battlefield, tension began to rise even more than ever before. The clouds were starting to rumble with thunder. Voldemort had Shayna backed into a corner, but she refused to step down.
"Give up, you hopeless excuse for a daughter!" Voldemort yelled.
"Never!!! I will never join you!" Shayna screamed back at him.
She stepped forward with all the power in her body. Voldemort shrank backwards with every step she took towards him.
"You think that I could join you after you killed my mother? Don't forget who I am, Voldemort!!! I am you 2nd born daughter! I am just as powerful as you ever were or will be! There's no way you can kill me, and even if you did, somebody would seek my revenge!!"
Voldemort glanced behind himself. Slowly, he took a few steps backwards, away from Shayna.
"I have no reason to kill you," he said plainly. "You are but a silly girl, young and helpless. There is no way that you could stop me. Yes, you are my daughter, and yes, you have my power, but there is no stopping the lord Voldemort. I am what some people call, the All-Powerful." He smiled smugly. "Besides, anybody that tried to get revenge would face the same fate that you had."
"You? The all-powerful? Not without Amber and I." Shayna finished.
"Amber will die, you fool! And, I only need one of you at Hogwarts to help me rise again!"
"Then I wont go to Hogwarts. Here is where you have become the fool, because Amber would have gladly given her life to serve you, and now you've gone and killed her."
Voldemort stopped. He considered what Shayna had said, and then went on. "I managed to bring Potter here, too."
"But where are they now?" She faced him, "You haven't even come close to winning yet."
Meanwhile, back in the library
"How did you know that we were coming?" Draco asked, puzzled.
"Draco, we're here to help you."
"My cousin is going to die! Who did this to her?"
"Your father did, and you knew it, too. You could have prevented this, Draco," the other big man said with a stern look on his face.
"How do you know that? And how do you know that Harry will live?!"
"First, my name is Roscoe Inglewurst. I'm a member of the team that uncovers the death eaters. Your father has been under investigation for quite some time now, as you probably know."
"What Roscoe is saying, Draco, is that there is a very large group of us who investigate powerful death eaters and try to keep them from rising up and rejoining the dark sides. My name is Edward Luncombe. I am a seer, and I knew this would happen. I knew you were listening from the newspaper room and I knew Amber would fly down to us on her broom the other day. I saw a vision this morning that Amber and Shayna would be kidnapped and we arrived here as fast as we could. I know Harry will be fine. I don't have any reassuring visions about Amber just yet though. We need to get her out of that room."
As the man spoke, Harry began to stir.
"Hello, 'ol chap! You feeling alright?" Roscoe asked Harry.
Harry stood up and looked around. He rubbed his forehead and wiped off his glasses. "My scar hurts… awfully bad. What happened here?"
"Well, I'm not surprised that it hurts. You survived yet another curse. It would be my best guess to say that you are immune to those now," Edward said.
"Where am I now, then?" Harry asked.
"Your in my library. I saved your life." Draco muttered, looking half embarrassed. He glanced down at his feet and then back up at Harry. "You saved Amber's life, I mean, so I pulled you through a port key before Voldemort could get the best of you."
Harry looked in disbelief at Roscoe and Edward, and they nodded their heads in approval. "Never in a thousand years thought you would help me. Is Amber alright though?"
"Amber is still in much danger, Harry." Edward said.
"Well I've got to help her!" Draco yelled. "My family lied to her, had her kidnapped, and now she's about to die, all because of us! I have to get back in. I have to save her!" Draco cried out desperately.
"I'll help you, Draco," Harry said.
"But then you'd have to go back in, Harry, and you could get killed! I don't think its right for you to go." Draco said.
"Hey, I'm J.K. Rowling's main character. This little fanfiction author can't kill me." Harry said, matter-of-factly.
"Well why not?" Draco asked.
"Its just one of those fanfiction rules." Harry replied, smiling, "You ready to go yet?"
"Yeah, lets go. Roscoe, Edward, you guys in or what?" Draco asked.
"We're in."
Draco reached out to the port key. With that, the four brave characters were transported back to Voldemort's layer.
"Potter will surely die. He can't survive that curse five times, can he?" Voldemort threw back his head and laughed an evil laugh. "BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"Obviously I can, Moldywart!!!" Potter yelled as he entered the field.
Voldemort swung around. "What?" He faced Potter. "You're… You're …supposed to be dead!!!" His jaw dropped. "I was sure that curse hit you… how'd you survive it again?!" Voldemort was astonished. "Oh well. I will just kill you again."
"No you wont. I'm not going to fall to you." Harry said. "We're here to save Amber and Shayna."
"Aw Harry, how sweet of you! Actually, I am just fine, thank you," Shayna said from the corner.
The kids glanced across the field to where Amber had been. "Where'd Amber go?" Draco yelled angrily.
"Amber? Little Ammie Malfoy? Aah, Where do you think she is?" Voldemort laughed. "She is terribly weak to be my granddaughter."
"You'd be surprised, Dad. I bet you don't even know where she is." Shayna teased.
While everyone was talking, they didn't bother to notice the man approaching from behind the group. He began to speak.
"My lord, we've taken her." The man said.
"Lucius Malfoy! It's about time you showed up!" Shayna yelled.
"Upset? I brought you to your daddy, now I expect my reward," Lucius said as he narrowed his eyes at Voldemort.
"Reward?" Voldemort bellowed, "You endangered my power! What side are you on, anyway?" With that, he threw his head back and laughed yet another evil laugh. "BWAHAHAHAHA!"
"Yours, oh lord!" Lucius said, smiling awkwardly.
"And you think I couldn't have retrieved her on my own?" Voldemort asked.
"Oh, no lord!! I just wanted-"
"Wanted what?" He interrupted, yelling at the top of his lungs, and raising his wand.
"Oh no, my lord! I only wanted to help!" Lucius said, getting on his knees and bowing towards the evil man.
"That is a lie! You wanted back into his inner circle! You used us as ransom!" Shayna yelled.
Voldemort turned to Shayna. "Shut your mouth!" And he put a lip lock curse on her.
"Lucius Malfoy, faithful death eater, no doubt. Your time has come. You have betrayed me, used my own daughter against me. What kind of idiot are you? I ban you to an eternity filled with muggles!!!" Voldemort yelled, narrowing his wand at Lucius.
"No."
All the heads turned. This was the part where I re-entered the scene calmly. "Voldemort, or should I say, Grandfather, my entire life I wanted to join you and now, even after you have tried to take my life, I do not step down! You would have killed me, but I was saved from your wrath. I can't deny my family, but I know now what I want. Don't even bother banning Lucius to the muggles. Please, let me take care of him." I said.
"And? Ammie, are you going to fight with me, or against me?" Shayna asked smiling.
"Only time will tell." Said Edward before I could answer. He approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder.
"Yeah." I said, looking up and smiling. Quickly, I whipped out my wand and turned on Lucius. "It was you who made me feel wanted. You told me that I would be safe, and that I was in good hands! Yesterday in the library I felt like someone was jabbing my through the heart with a knife! Now, it is your turn to feel my pain!" I said, viciously, glancing back at Voldemort to see if he approved.
" I raised my wand and narrowed my eyes. Lucius stood defenseless in front of me. "Dear, I can explain!" He said as he dropped to his knees and put his head on my feet.
"You'd better talk fast because you're almost out of time," I said nonchalantly while glancing at my sundial.
""It was Giovanni! He always had it so damn good! Your mother was beautiful, he was famous, and on top of that, you were his daughter. All I ever had was my money, my greed…" He glanced up at me, smiling cautiously.
I slowly lowered my wand with sympathy, but then something hit me. It was like I was getting a message in my head.
Amber, he's not what he says! Destroy him now!
I raised my wand back into position. "No. You deserve no more chances, so you are getting no more chances."
"Amber!! My niece!!!," He begged, "Have mercy!"
"On this side, we have no mercy," and I paused. "Shayna, get Harry and Draco out of here. This is between the three of us and I don't want you all to see it."
Shayna gave me an unsure glance and turned away with the guys. I felt a sudden pang of guilt hit my stomach. I was sensing some hate, but that would have to wait until after I punished Lucius.
"Now," I started, "Where was I? Oh, yes," I paused, "Lucius is going to die." I smiled up at Voldemort. "Which unforgiving curse should I use?" I asked him.
"Aah, my young heir, let me finish him." He replied, pulling out his wand. "Give me yours so that you wont disturb anything now, my child," he finished, removing my wand from my hands. I let go of it with confidence.
"Stupid girl!" Voldemort laughed. "Now that Shayna is safe, I will kill you and your uncle!"
"ME?" I yelled. "I'm on your side!"
"No, you're dead." His evil laughter filled the air and my arm throbbed worse than ever before.
"No, I am not dead!" I yelled. I lowered my head and what happened after that surprised me very much. I focused all of my power in front of me and released it on Voldemort and Lucius. With that, they tumbled backwards, smacking into a wall. I don't know what drove me to do that, or where all of that energy came from, but a moment later, I passed out on the floor.
