part fifteen
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this could go on forever ya know...
song of the update is: new order- true faith. its a good song, i like it, and it fits in well with some of sirius' stuff throughout the series.
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The room was an uproar, the large stained glass window had shattered suddenly, and now, blazing arrows were firing through, setting the tables alight, and a few death eater's cloaks.
"What is this?" Voldemort shrieked incredulously, as a smoking arrow pinned his arm to the table.
Sirius stopped to watch and laugh, that was something he wanted to remember forever, he was dragged out of his reverie by someone tugging on his arm... Her hood was slipping and he could see that Narcisa wasn't at all the snooty uptight blonde haired wrinkled-nosed stick that she had seemed to be earlier.
"Eds?" He asked as he tripped over one of the death eaters who was frantically crawling round trying to find his wand that had caught fire in the chaos.
"What have we here?" Volemort ripped the arrow from his arm and picked up Edea (who had fallen over Sirius as a result of him tripping over) by the scruff of her cloak.
"Never fear... Eddiemort is here..." Edea choked as she stuck the tip of her wand in his eye. Voldemort let his grip loosed and he reacted to the pain. Sirius jumped up over the table and grabbed a wand off MacNair, stunning him with such force that he flew across the room and hit a stone bust of Lucius Malfoy with a sickening crunch.
Edea and Sirius were hurling an array of hexes and curses at the crowd but had to admit the were being backed up into a corner... or the open window at least.
"That's a long drop." Sirius hissed.
"You're telling me?" Edea rolled her eyes. The death eaters were like a pack of hyenas who knew they had just cornered their dessert.
"How particularly fortunate... now we have two." VOldemort smiled evilly.
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Remus stared up at the window.. two figures were standing on the ledge, their backs facing the open grounds. "Oh.... great." Remus sighed, he couldnt fire any more arrows in case they hit either Eds or Sirius and there was no way he could communicate with them... the dememtors guarding the main doors had sensed danger and had increased security. There was no way of getting into that building. Then his attention was caught by something creeping round the side of the building... The midnight blue cloak was only just visible in the rapidly diminishing evening light... Pulling the invisibility cloak over his head, he started to walk, silently in the direction of the figure... If that was Snape.. Remus was personally going to throttle him, and that wasn't in his nature at all.
The figure seemed to be casting a spell on the ground, whch was just as well really if Remus had known what was going to happen next...
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"I'd rather die than join you." Sirius spat at Voldemort. "And i was a fool for trusting you, Wormtail. You're nothing, in fact, you're less than nothing. And as i have to be alive for this little sacrifice party you have planned, i think i'll resign from the position of chief sacrificee."
Voldemort wiped the spit from his eye, and raised an eyebrow. "Really?" He laughed. "You think you have a choice?"
"I certainly do." Sirius took a step back and disappeared from view, Edea had forgotted she was still gripping onto his robes, and was pulled down after him.
"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii..." Edea screamed as they fell past window after window... She closed her eyes, waiting for the second deathly thud in her lifetime, and found none, instead she heard a loud splash and soon after, fell into the water herself... She opened her mouth to scream when she realised she was underwater, and opening her mouth would not be adviseable under the circumstances. Remus, she thought, You're a lifesaver.. literally.
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Remus almost tripped over his own feet when he saw Sirius take a step back out of the window, and started running as they fell. Stupid idiot. Remus thought. "Think of something." He shouted to himself.
He needent have bothered, as Voldemort's scream of defeat rang out through the mansion, he watched in amazement as a large deep moat appeared round the walls. Edea and Sirius fell into that. It wouldnt kill them, just wind them slightly, and feel a bit painful..
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Sirius dragged himself up onto the edge of the moat, coughing up the water he'd swallowed in his shock. He saw a bloddy hand grasp the grassy edge and reached in to haul Edea out by her sleeve.
"Clever..." Sirius murmured to himself. "Didn't remember that being there."
"Sirius?" Remus asked, pulling of his hood. "You need to get out of here, the death eaters, they're coming..."
"They wont see us just yet." Another voice said quietly, "I like to think you'd credit me with a half decent illusion charm Remus."
The figure found three pairs of eyes staring up at her with horrified expressions... "Well... the man of so many words has been reduced to nothing." She muttered, eyeing Remus' invisibility cloak.
"A... Anna?" Remus croaked "You... You're okay?"
"Of course she's okay, idiot." Sirius snapped, feeling his ribs for bruises. "Where've you been, Moony? Cloud Octopus?"
Moony didn't answer, he was to busy hugging Anna, and muttering nonsensical sentences.
Sirius shook his head, grinning slightly, his grin vanished however when he saw three dementors gliding round the side of the building.. "Er... is this a good time to point out that there are... Dementors in the vicinity?" He was shaking and had turned an unnatural shade of white.
"They can't see us." Remus shrugged, "we just need to lie low here for a while until they pass, then we can leave."
"Illusion charms... they're no use against non-human creatures..." Anna murmured,
"I have a word of advice for such situations... "RUN!" Sirius picked himself up and pegged it back to the forest, the dementors in hot pursuit of the crowd. They hit the spell barrier.
"Its closed." Edea shreiked... Pounding on the wall. "Open up you buggers."
"Yeah, you may as well say open sesame..." Remus snarked, then stopped as the barrier fell... "I was only joking..."
The group set off at a run again as the dementors, confused at the lack of barrier, carried on after them.
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"I cant just sit around and wait." Harry stood up, breaking the silence... "I can't afford to lose Sirius..."
"Harry..." Dumbledores placed a hand on the boy's shoulder, "You can't deal with this situation, you must let them do it themselves and have faith that it will be successful."
"I... i just feel so useless." Harry sank down into his seat, he looked across at a particularly peeved Snape. He looked awful, Harry thought.
Snape stood up slowly. "I agree.. with... Potter." He looked like he was hating saying every word of that sentence.
Hary raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"I can't just sit here and wait for them to either die or return... even if i don't care about their welfare." He added as an afterthought.
Hagrid laughed. "Didn' think yeh had it in yeh t'be compassionate."
"I wasn't being compassionate." Snape said sneering at the half-giant. "I was commenting on my dislike for sitting round waiting, when something constructive could be done."
"I don't think you're the right person at the present time... Sirius might... react badly." Dumbledore chose his words with care. He was unsure whether Harry knew everything, and wasn't gong to take the chance.
Snape snorted and sat down again, resuming his favorite occupation of out-staring Harry.
TBC
sorry its short, i have to do some art before tomorrow, when the oil paint will have dried and will be no use...
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