The Destination of Fantasy Chapter 3

Hermione looked around herself to see that she was indeed in a clearing in a foreboding looking forest, exactly where she intended to be.

There was a ring of masked death eaters around her, 13 if she counted correctly, and beyond that were 2 other rind of death eaters, 25 and 50. The rest of the area outside the rings was tightly scattered with them. She guessed that the higher lever of death eater you are, the closer to Voldemort himself you get to stand.

That is where Voldemort himself stood, in the very center, right in front of Hermione.

Voldemort himself wasn't half bad looking. She guessed, judging by what Harry had told her, that when he had faced Harry, his human body wasn't fully developed.

He had black hair and green eyes, although they did have a slight reddish tint to them. Also, he looked no older than 30, despite Hermione's knowledge that he was at least older than 60 years of age.

Hermione could see now why people were drawn to him. Then again, she didn't see how people could be so terrified of such a handsome face.

AT the moment, his eyes were narrowed, as he looked her over, calculating, trying to see what to make of her.

"Who are you to disturb my circle unauthorized?" He said.

Hermione didn't even notice her response until it came out of her mouth.

"Who are you to question my motives?"

Voldemort, no, Tom Riddle, you grant him the ability to take a name of power, then he will have that power over you.

Voldemort smirked at her courage, or was it insolence, it didn't matter, he liked her. Not many would talk back to him, nor play word games, it had to be worth something.

"I am Voldemort, and you might be?"

He would play along with her.for now.

"I am Rioen of Destiny, center of the 13th generation circle, and I need no motives to be here."

Hermione didn't' know where that had come from, it just did. And all she said seemed to be true. Rioen was her magical name, something all in a cult of coven must have, and destiny was the group she belonged to. She counted in her head the generation and concluded that she was indeed the 13th generation. She had no idea what the center part was about, but what ever it was had to have some sort of meaning. She'd find out later.

"And you are here to pledge your loyalty to me?" He asked, sounding almost pleased and only slightly inquisitive.

"I will promise my loyalty to no one but myself? I'm only curious." Rioen (or Hermione) replied.

Voldemort's face immediately went rigid.

"Curiosity killed the cat." Voldemort sneered at her.

"And ignorance will kill everyone lese, will it not?"

Hermione didn't understand where she got all this courage from but it didn't matter, she liked it. She liked this part of her that she never knew she had. It was scary, but at the same time, ultimately thrilling, ultimately deadly.

Voldemort looked thoughtful for a moment, seemingly trying to deduce and then follow the correct course of action..

Finally after several minutes of unconfterable silence, Voldemort seemed to decide what to do.

"Give proof that you are of destiny." He said to her, "And let me look upon the face of the one who dares to be so.improper."

Only the people in the first circle and 2 or 3 in the second understood everything that he asked of her, the rest were utterly clueless, though they did not show it for fear that their master would take it as a sign of weakness.

Hermione nodded her head and then slowly lowered her hood reveling her powerful and commanding facial features. She then moved aside part of her blouse to show the back part of her shoulder. On it was a pentagram*(See chapter notes for definition) etched in with the darkest of blacks. She quickly covered it up to keep her modesty and then completely removed her cloak, reveling all her features. Every one around her took a good look.

"Is that proof enough.Tom."

Now there was a gasp from nearly every death eater, most holding their breath to see his reaction.

Voldemort mearly chuckled. Hermione turned towards him and grinned slightly, the moonlight catching her face, lighting it up.

Hermione heard an almost inaudible gasp somewhere in the crowd of death eaters and she snapped her head over to look in that direction, only to literally look right through the death eaters mask right onto the face of..

~EclypsCC1~

A pentagram is a perfectly proportional five point star enclosed in a circle that touches each point. They are used in all types of magic and are said to show or conduct great power. It is often mistaken as a symbol of dark magic, but it depends entirely on the caster to determine weather the magic is intended for good, evil or one of the many shades of gray in between. This is my own definition and I truly do believe it.

Okay, I am having a major block in my mind. I cant figure out where to take the story from here so I will give you a bunch of choices and I would like you to please tell me which you like best. I know put this in Severus / Hermione romance, but I just don't know if that is right anymore. If I don't get enough responses to this, I will just continue with what I had originally planned and not give any of you a say.

Alight here are the choices,.

Romance with Draco Severus is really father to Hermione Severus is Hermione's uncle on her father's side Hermione will just become friends with Severus Romance with Severus Draco will be Hermione's cousin like I originally planned Draco will just be Hermione's friend or her best friend Draco will not have any connection to Hermione

If She has a romance with Draco Malfoy I will go back and either delete the information I gave about him being her cousin or change it. I will go by the most popular combination. You can either write out the whole combination or just put down the letters and numbers.A1, A2, B1, B2 and so on. If you have any ideas of your own, you can also give them to me and I'll think it over. It might take longer to get the next chapter out because I don't have it started yet, but it shouldn't take more than a week.

Thanks to all my reviewers-

Slytherin Girl ~ I wouldn't want to make you mad now would I. Thanks for the support.

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*K* ~ Thanks for the thought, I'll try to do that

AJ ~ I'm glad you agree with me. And please do come back

Delphi ~ I really apreatiate your review and I do agree with you that there are way to many of those kind of stories out there.

Please read 'Destined to Be: The Court of Twelve' of you have time. I wrote it!

Yay! I got 7 reviews for this chapter, that is an all time high for an actually good story. All of my bad storys are the ones people want to read, I don't get it.

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