Author's Note: Okay, I said last time Draco would meet the Dark Lord, and he didn't, all he met was some lousy Death Eater I had made up. Well, this time he real does meet Voldemort (HONEST!) I'm really not sure how long this is going to be. PLEASE, if you're reading this, REVIEW it. If you do, I'll read your stuff and review it. PLEASE?? (Continuing my series on the questionable musical tastes I listen to while writing this, we have…various heavy metal and new age Celtic dance!)
Disclaimer: JKR owns all. I own none. I am not a beautiful or unique snowflake. I am the all singing, all-dancing crap of the world. You have to realize that someday you will die; until you know that, you are useless! (Sorry about that, it kinda slipped out).
Born Under A Bad Sun
By Peeler
Chapter 3: And In The Darkness Find Me
- …To rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.
- Elven Verse, The Lord of the Rings
When I looked out the window of my hotel room at the sunrise creeping over the horizon, little did I realize it would be the last truly beautiful thing my eyes would ever see. After what followed on that fateful day, all things beautiful were, to me, tainted by the darkness that would forever after hang heavy on my soul…
I met Morris at the Portkey station in Diagon Alley. I was wearing my new Gucci dress robes, had all my Death Eater paraphernalia in a magically lightened bag, and was walking with a certain spring in my step. Ah, how soon I would lose my carefree nature…
Morris explained that we would reach Voldemort by a series of Portkeys, so none would know where he hid. Finally, the source of my long journey came into sight. I recalled how impressed I had been with my first sight of Hogwarts. The castle before me was many times greater. Darkness seemed to flow forth from it, shading the wraithlike shapes of the fog in a gothic manner. The cries of dark beasts rose from the twisted woods around, and the mournful chanting of dark incantations from within. Morris turned to me. With a sweeping bow, he said "Welcome, Draco, to our abode. Welcome to Mortifer Hollow". As we drew near to the gates, an icy cold came over me. Morris held up his left arm to the massive wooden doors, and they swung open, without noise. The interior of the castle looked as if it had once been much like Hogwarts, but was now frightfully changed. Ivy with trunks thick as trees could be seen actually growing up the walls, vines and leaves of inky black sweeping through the air. Like Hogwarts there were ghosts, but they were pale and wraithlike, letting out tortured screams, glowing with the ethereal light that surrounded the unhappy dead. Bts of frightful size swept overhead. I was too awestruck to speak, and listened to Morris as he recounted the castle's history. "In all of history, there have only been three major English schools of magic. Hogwarts is the newest. The second was waning at the time Hogwarts was built. It was destroyed by an earthquake shortly after it's headmaster had a particularly vicious argument with Salazar Slytherin…" as if on cue, a banner of the Slytherin house, silver snake on black field with green trim, rose twisting with a shriek out of the gloom ahead of us. "However, whether or not Slytherin actually did it is not important," Morris continued. "The first school of magic in the British Isles. Magically constructed by Merlin himself from the bones of the earth, hidden within a magical forest somewhere in Wales, only a select few ever went there. Salazar Slytherin, distantly related to Merlin, as the legend goes, used the abandoned school as his dwelling place, and that of his familiy's, for several years. It is then that the place became steeped in dark magic, and began its slow transformation. In 1940, it was discovered by Grindelwald, after years of laborious search. At this time, our master was an apprentice of sorts to Grindelwald. He encouraged Grindelwald to hide the castle more effectively, for his master's foes were many. It is thus that the castle was moved, by the greatest exertion of dark magic this century, to a cavern deep beneath where it had stood for centuries. A short time later, Grindelwald was killed by Albus Dumbledore. Our master had a large part in this, as he switched Gindelwald's wand for a fake one, then being manufactured by Zermiah Zonko, renowned owner of the joke-store chain. We stand now in this very castle, deep under the hills, waiting until we are called forth to wreak havoc on the fools who control our people. It is my sincere wish, and that of our master's, that you will join us in freeing the wizarding community from the control of the muggles, the Ministry, and Dumbledore's cronies. Draco: Are you with us?"
I shook Morris' hand with conviction. I would need all the conviction I had to get through this day…
"Now, Draco, it is time to meet your- no, OUR- master. Follow…"
I followed Morris down a dark corridor. The ever-present mist had become night-black rather than gray, and iridescent puddles of black condensation had formed on the walls, floors, and even ceiling, defying the laws of gravity. Nothing grew here, and the only living things I saw were a few snakes, silver, black and deep green, slithering out of cracks in the wall. The very air reeked of evil. Two high ebony doors rose before us suddenly out of the mist. A calm voic esaid, in high, even tones, enter. The doors swung inwards. A man stood with his back to us, a thin green snake of great length hanging around his neck like a scarf. His black cloak flowed out behind him in the draft issuing from a single paneless window that looked out over the dark wateland under the hills…
"Draco Erynn Malfoy. I did not doubt you would stand here soon. You are cunning, and possess the great heritage your family has passed down to you. Your father was one of my cleverest Death Eaters. I am sure you will take his place admirably…
And the Dark Lord turned to face me.
Sorry to leave you like that! It was a rather slow chapter, but hopefully the vivid descriptions will make it better!There will be some action soon, I promise! Many thanks to all who have reviewed, I've lost some names during reposting, but here are all the ones I can remember: Landry Anne, AJ Solo, Naavi0, and Fawkes! Thanks guys, (and anyone I forgot!) Blessed Be!