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Essie, Loki, Draca, and the new one that you're about to meet. Also, I DO
own the plot, but not the settings, and of course, like they say at the end
of movies, the characters and events in this fic are entirely fictional
(despite my resemblance in character and looks to Essie) and if they
resemble your life or whatever, I don't own you and no offense was meant.
There, that over-
~Fic Starts Here~
Harry, Essie, Loki, and Draco all dropped down at the same place.
Essie looked around. They were in some weird clearing at the edge of the Hogwarts grounds. She could still see the castle. There was a bubbling cauldron, and several potion ingredients in the center of the clearing, along with an unconscious Professor Snape. She looked up. Oh shit. And they were surrounded by Death Eaters.
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Wormtail stepped forward and bound them all with cords coming from his wand, giving special attention to Essie's. She glared at him, her eyes turning a blood red, and her pupils forming flaxen slits.
"You puppet bastard," she hissed.
Wormtail just kept on tying her.
"I know who you are, Peter Pettigrew."
Wormtail froze. How had she known his name?
"You absolute, fucking, bastard."
He had had enough. He slapped her face.
Her head snapped. She slowly looked up, her eyes glowing with a crimson pulse.
"Bet you Liked that, eh Wormtail? Beating on helpless people, just to make sure you win." She fingered her wand. "Well, no more. RELEASE!" She yelled, sending her bonds flying. All the Death Eaters took a step back. "Yes," she hissed, "I'm not just a nice little Asian girl, I'm a mad, bitchy, POWERFUL little Asian girl." She started to slowly turn around in a circle, still facing the Death Eaters, "Scared? You should be." Her back still away from the Death Eaters, she went of to Loki, Harry, and Draco. "Release." Their bonds disintegrated into dust. She went over to Snape. "Enervate."
He sat up, blinking his eyes. "Essie?"
"Yeah?"
"Where am I?"
"In the middle of a clearing on the edge of the Hogwarts grounds, surrounded by what looks like very loyal Death Eaters. I suggest you stand up, pull your wand out, and get ready to start hexing the figurative pants off of all of them."
"Oh. Right." He got up clumsily and pulled his wand out of his pocket. He settled into a fighter's stance and eyed the Death Eaters. "I'm assuming they're trying to kill us?"
"Well, does it LOOK like they're throwing a Christmas party?"
"Good point. Thought they look quite happier than the last time I saw them."
A soft, evil laugh rippled through the circle. "Still haven't changed, have you Severus?" A think willowy, red-haired figure stepped thought the crowd, "Still try to mouth off when you shouldn't, eh?"
Harry's gasped. "Professor Draca?"
She smirked. "Looks like that eh? Well, just you wait. My Polyjuice Potion should be wearing off about now."
Just as she spoke, she began to change. Her curls began to lengthen and become wavy. The color turned slowly to pitch black. Her skin became paler, and her hazel eyes turned a wicked green. She became several inches taller. Even her dress changed. She was now in a solid black, strapless dress with no back and an extremely low neckline. The dress came to her mid-thigh, where it met the beginnings of black leather boots. She still wore the dragon charm.
Now it was Snape's turn to gasp. "Serena?"
The woman smirked evilly.
Essie turned to Snape. "Who?"
Snape blushed. "Err, well, she's an evil, bitchy slut who I, err, happened to have dated at Hogwarts."
Essie's eyes widened. "You actually DATED someone at Hogwarts!?"
Snape nodded reluctantly. "Err, yeah. Gave her that dragon charm actually. But, like I said, evil bitchy slut."
Essie eyed Serena. "How evil?"
Serena laughed again. "Oh, I'm VERY evil," she said, her voice low and diabolical, "Severus can tell you. But I'm not a slut, I'm a whore."
"Indeed. And she's my whore now." All the Death Eaters in the circle fell to their knees as a tall, thin wizard with a high voice came and kissed Serena on the neck.
Harry's scar exploded with pain. "Voldemort."
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"Ah yes, Harry Potter. I'd have thought you were dead by now."
Essie couldn't help it. She started laughing. Hard.
Voldemort turned to her, quickly. "Ah. Harry Potter's girlfriend. My delightful spy-" he paused to press Serena closer to his chest, "-Tells me you have some unique powers."
Essie kept laughing.
Voldemort's eyes widened under his hood. "Idiot girl. Are you laughing at ME?"
She was bent over mirth.
"ANSWER ME!!"
Essie turned to Harry. "You mean. . . to say. . . that this skinny pimp. . . with a helium infused voice. . . is VOLDEMORT?! You've got to be JOKING!" She started to crack up again.
Voldemort narrowed his eyes even more. "You find this amusing, girl?"
"Oh, heavens yes."
"I wonder how amusing you'd find it under the Cruciatus Curse! CRUCIO!" Red sparks flew out of his wand.
Essie looked up and made an upward motion with her hand. The sparks flew into the air, and having nothing to harm, exploded. She turned to Voldemort. "Lovely fireworks. Not quite torture though."
Voldemort's eye's widened. He recovered quickly and sent the curse to Harry.
Harry collapsed to the ground, gasping in pain.
Essie's eyes narrowed as she felt them go blood red. OK. This guy had gone far enough. She walked over to Harry. "Release."
Harry immediately felt the pain evaporate.
Essie walked over to Voldemort. "OK, wise guy. That was going WAY too far. You can hurt me, but NOT my friends. Because, you see, that was VERY much uncalled for. So just fight me. And take off the frickin' hood. It's annoying me." She yanked off his cloak, and stood, shocked.
His eyes were the mirror image of hers.
He stood, looking just as shocked. How? And why THIS girl?
Essie shook her head to focus herself. "Well? What ARE you waiting for? DUEL!"
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Half an hour later, things were NOT looking good.
Loki had been dragged to the cauldron, and it looked like the two Death Eaters holding her were about to throw her in. Suddenly, Draco pulled himself away from the Death Eaters he was currently fighting. "NO!"
Voldemort looked up. "No? Lucius, I thought you had taught your son loyalty to me."
Lucius Malfoy strode over and grabbed Draco's shoulders. "I have. You will follow my lord without question," he hissed into Draco's ear, "or you will shame your family name. The Dark Lord needs her visionary powers in the potion. He will be much strengthened. And you will be the one to stir it." He shoved Draco to the bubbling mixture and handed him a spoon, and forced him to stir. Lucius signaled the Death Eaters who were holding Loki forward. They were about to toss her in when Draco stopped stirring.
"I don't think so." He hit the two Death Eaters and his father with a jelly-legs jinx. He turned to his father. "It's shaken, not stirred, father."
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Voldemort had her where he wanted her. Oh, she had taken down his Death Eaters, yes, but he knew EXACTLY how to make her surrender. "So, you said I could attack you, eh?" He said, inching towards her.
Essie backed up against a tree. Close. He was far too close.
"But I can't hurt your friends?"
Essie looked at him, terrified.
"Well, it's high time you saw the full power of my wrath." He nodded to his remaining Death Eaters.
They all aimed their wands at Harry. Red currents of fiery magic wrapped themselves around him and lifted him up with their power.
Harry's cries were ones of true pain
Whoa. Where had that thought come from? It sounded incredibly like Loki.
She looked up. Loki and Draco had been gagged and bound, but it looked like Loki was trying to say something around her gag.
My vision
Essie finally understood. But how to defeat this? She stared at the Death Eaters.
"LET HIM GO." Her voice, two octaves lower and 10 decibels louder reverberated across the clearing.
The Death Eaters faltered. She sounded powerful. Far too powerful.
But they weren't letting him go. She stalked over to them.
"RELEASE."
Harry fell free, free from the pain, free from the crimson currents, and dropped to the ground, stunned.
"Accio wands." All of the Death Eaters' wands flew into her hands. "Petrificus Totalus." All fell to the ground, stunned.
A low laugh echoed through the clearing. "Shouldn't have paid any attention to my little diversion, eh? Funny how being so attracted to someone makes you so unperceptive to anything else." He gestured in the direction of Hogwarts.
Essie looked up. There was a dark, red, THING flying around the castle.
"Oh shit."
The Chinese Fireball blew a fiery breath over the whole castle. And it was NOT fireproof.
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Essie was thinking frantically. What? What could she do? Her powers could never extinguish a blaze as big as this.
Kill the source
What? She could her Loki in her brain, but what WAS she talking about?
Get rid of a problem by its source
It was worth a try.
She aimed all the wands at the dragon. Here went nothing. "AVADA KEDAVRA."
A gigantic line of green light hit the dragon.
The fire kept going.
"IT'S NOT WORKING!"
So DO something!
"What?"
ANYTHING!!!!!
Voldemort was watching Essie curiously. Who was she mind-speaking with?
"Well, here goes nothing!"
She sent a prayer up to heaven and started to concentrate on her powers.
"I call of Father Zeus and all his Olympian companions."
She had no utter idea what she was doing. But it sounded good.
Voldemort had no utter idea what the girl was doing. But it sounded really good.
"I call on Aeolus, keeper of the winds, to heard the rain clouds and unleash the mighty North Wind, Boreas."
Wow. So all that Greek mythology HAD paid off. There was a swirling wind going around, tipping everything over.
"I call on Demeter, goddess of the harvest, to send me a powerful rainfall."
Err, well, she had to, for harvest, right?
"I ask for Zeus to protect my school and friends."
A boom of thunder echoed.
"Spirits of water, of the clouds, come share your mighty gift."
Clouds gathered near Hogwarts.
"Again I ask you, mighty Zeus, to aid me in my task!"
A bolt of lightning cut through the clouds. It was as if it popped a seam in the sky, because right then, it started to rain in sheets, ONLY AROUND THE CASTLE. The water quickly doused the fire.
Essie turned, victoriously, to Voldemort. "Like that, Voldey?"
Voldemort growled. There was no way she could have known how to do that. The spell had sounded so ancient. Too ancient.
He stalked over to her. "How in Morgan le Fey's name did you know how to do that?"
Essie smirked. "Know how to do what? That was entirely made up. I think."
Voldemort stepped closer. "You THINK?" he hissed.
Essie pushed him away. OK. WAY too close for comfort. "Um, do all Slytherins have a problem with personal space?"
He shoved her back. She fell on the ground. And her eyes gave a burst of scarlet power. Enough was enough.
"You BASTARD." She knew one well-placed spell could kill her. But one well-placed spell could kill him, too. She levitated herself up and glided towards him.
She was aiming all her wands at him. But he acted quicker.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Green light exploded from his wand. Essie thought quickly and tried to divert his magic away from her body. But she wasn't quick enough. The magic hit her right on the center of her crystal choker. Sharp heat radiated from her necklace. She could feel it cut her flesh. She gave a scream of pure pain before collapsing to the ground.
Voldemort eyed her smugly. That had almost been too easy. Amazing how easy to defeat cocky you witches were. There was absolutely no way to block the killing curse.
Little did he know.
He strolled casually over to her body, intent on kicking it, but as he was raising his leg, her "corpse" said something. Two things actually.
"Locomotor Mortis."
Voldemort fell on his back in a full body bin.
Essie slowly got to her feet. The large crystal she had on her choker now pulsed with green flame. Somehow, she had controlled the curse just enough so that she had captured its essence (an: lol. Essence got essence. Err, right. On to story). She strolled over to Voldemort and casually picked up his wand and added it to the bundle she had pointed at his head.
Voldemort gave one more stab at defeating her.
"Come, come, girl. You needn't KILL me. Just JOIN me. I can feel your power. You could be great, you know. Just join me, call me your master-"
Essie pressed the wands into his neck. "Cease your spewing, bitch. You? YOU, my MASTER? Gag me with a SPOON. Hello? I just defeated you. And I am but 16. I've not grown into my full magical potential yet. Who knows how powerful I'll be in 2, 4, 6, 8, TEN years? And YOU want to be my MASTER? YOU, who was defeated by a one-year-old INFANT, when you were in your prime-"
"Harry Potter." Hissed Voldemort.
"Yes, my Harry," Essie gave a small, slight laugh "Harry and I both share the secret to your destruction-WE are not intimidated my a mere NAME- VOLDEMORT!"
Voldemort looked at her in shock. NO ONE spoke to him that way. "Who are you, girl, to speak to me in such a way? Who are you, you American wench?"
Essie smirked. "How thoughtful of you to ask. I, am Essence Lei, begat of Beckilyn Lim, Begat of. . . Cordelia Marvolo Riddle, sister of Tom Marvolo Riddle." She smirked at his surprise. "Yes, Tom Marvolo Riddle is in my past, and in my present, but I hope to Dear GOD, he is not in my future, UNCLE."
She summoned her powers to her body and began to talk in Parseltongue. "My legless friends of the woods, I invite you to this clearing."
Voldemort's eyes widened in fear.
"Slither quickly, for I have prey for you to squeeze."
There was distinct hissing sound all around them.
"My prey as killed many of your brethren."
There were several flickering shadows dancing along the edge of the clearing.
"He has possessed their bodies, shortening the lives of your kin."
Several snakes started slithering towards him.
"And he has tried to do the same with me and mine."
Voldemort was covered in a living, breathing carpet of serpents bent on strangulation.
"I only ask that we do the same to him."
The carpet tightened. Voldemort gave a tortured gasp. He lay still upon the ground.
"Thank-you for your kind task."
The snakes nodded to Essie before they slithered away, into the forest.
Essie still had her suspicions, though. And there was only one way to dispel them. She pointed all the wands at him.
"Avada Kedavra"
Voldemort gave a furious scream as the combined force of all the wands lifted his body and it started to burn. There was a curious smell of burnt flesh as Essie watched the corpse of her great-uncle turn to ash.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Thou shalt not return to the kingdom of heaven for what thou hast done. YOU SHALL BURN IN HELL."
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AN: and where was our dear Snapie in all of this? GETTING HELP, of COURSE!!!! Right! REVIEW ME!!!
~Fic Starts Here~
Harry, Essie, Loki, and Draco all dropped down at the same place.
Essie looked around. They were in some weird clearing at the edge of the Hogwarts grounds. She could still see the castle. There was a bubbling cauldron, and several potion ingredients in the center of the clearing, along with an unconscious Professor Snape. She looked up. Oh shit. And they were surrounded by Death Eaters.
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Wormtail stepped forward and bound them all with cords coming from his wand, giving special attention to Essie's. She glared at him, her eyes turning a blood red, and her pupils forming flaxen slits.
"You puppet bastard," she hissed.
Wormtail just kept on tying her.
"I know who you are, Peter Pettigrew."
Wormtail froze. How had she known his name?
"You absolute, fucking, bastard."
He had had enough. He slapped her face.
Her head snapped. She slowly looked up, her eyes glowing with a crimson pulse.
"Bet you Liked that, eh Wormtail? Beating on helpless people, just to make sure you win." She fingered her wand. "Well, no more. RELEASE!" She yelled, sending her bonds flying. All the Death Eaters took a step back. "Yes," she hissed, "I'm not just a nice little Asian girl, I'm a mad, bitchy, POWERFUL little Asian girl." She started to slowly turn around in a circle, still facing the Death Eaters, "Scared? You should be." Her back still away from the Death Eaters, she went of to Loki, Harry, and Draco. "Release." Their bonds disintegrated into dust. She went over to Snape. "Enervate."
He sat up, blinking his eyes. "Essie?"
"Yeah?"
"Where am I?"
"In the middle of a clearing on the edge of the Hogwarts grounds, surrounded by what looks like very loyal Death Eaters. I suggest you stand up, pull your wand out, and get ready to start hexing the figurative pants off of all of them."
"Oh. Right." He got up clumsily and pulled his wand out of his pocket. He settled into a fighter's stance and eyed the Death Eaters. "I'm assuming they're trying to kill us?"
"Well, does it LOOK like they're throwing a Christmas party?"
"Good point. Thought they look quite happier than the last time I saw them."
A soft, evil laugh rippled through the circle. "Still haven't changed, have you Severus?" A think willowy, red-haired figure stepped thought the crowd, "Still try to mouth off when you shouldn't, eh?"
Harry's gasped. "Professor Draca?"
She smirked. "Looks like that eh? Well, just you wait. My Polyjuice Potion should be wearing off about now."
Just as she spoke, she began to change. Her curls began to lengthen and become wavy. The color turned slowly to pitch black. Her skin became paler, and her hazel eyes turned a wicked green. She became several inches taller. Even her dress changed. She was now in a solid black, strapless dress with no back and an extremely low neckline. The dress came to her mid-thigh, where it met the beginnings of black leather boots. She still wore the dragon charm.
Now it was Snape's turn to gasp. "Serena?"
The woman smirked evilly.
Essie turned to Snape. "Who?"
Snape blushed. "Err, well, she's an evil, bitchy slut who I, err, happened to have dated at Hogwarts."
Essie's eyes widened. "You actually DATED someone at Hogwarts!?"
Snape nodded reluctantly. "Err, yeah. Gave her that dragon charm actually. But, like I said, evil bitchy slut."
Essie eyed Serena. "How evil?"
Serena laughed again. "Oh, I'm VERY evil," she said, her voice low and diabolical, "Severus can tell you. But I'm not a slut, I'm a whore."
"Indeed. And she's my whore now." All the Death Eaters in the circle fell to their knees as a tall, thin wizard with a high voice came and kissed Serena on the neck.
Harry's scar exploded with pain. "Voldemort."
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"Ah yes, Harry Potter. I'd have thought you were dead by now."
Essie couldn't help it. She started laughing. Hard.
Voldemort turned to her, quickly. "Ah. Harry Potter's girlfriend. My delightful spy-" he paused to press Serena closer to his chest, "-Tells me you have some unique powers."
Essie kept laughing.
Voldemort's eyes widened under his hood. "Idiot girl. Are you laughing at ME?"
She was bent over mirth.
"ANSWER ME!!"
Essie turned to Harry. "You mean. . . to say. . . that this skinny pimp. . . with a helium infused voice. . . is VOLDEMORT?! You've got to be JOKING!" She started to crack up again.
Voldemort narrowed his eyes even more. "You find this amusing, girl?"
"Oh, heavens yes."
"I wonder how amusing you'd find it under the Cruciatus Curse! CRUCIO!" Red sparks flew out of his wand.
Essie looked up and made an upward motion with her hand. The sparks flew into the air, and having nothing to harm, exploded. She turned to Voldemort. "Lovely fireworks. Not quite torture though."
Voldemort's eye's widened. He recovered quickly and sent the curse to Harry.
Harry collapsed to the ground, gasping in pain.
Essie's eyes narrowed as she felt them go blood red. OK. This guy had gone far enough. She walked over to Harry. "Release."
Harry immediately felt the pain evaporate.
Essie walked over to Voldemort. "OK, wise guy. That was going WAY too far. You can hurt me, but NOT my friends. Because, you see, that was VERY much uncalled for. So just fight me. And take off the frickin' hood. It's annoying me." She yanked off his cloak, and stood, shocked.
His eyes were the mirror image of hers.
He stood, looking just as shocked. How? And why THIS girl?
Essie shook her head to focus herself. "Well? What ARE you waiting for? DUEL!"
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Half an hour later, things were NOT looking good.
Loki had been dragged to the cauldron, and it looked like the two Death Eaters holding her were about to throw her in. Suddenly, Draco pulled himself away from the Death Eaters he was currently fighting. "NO!"
Voldemort looked up. "No? Lucius, I thought you had taught your son loyalty to me."
Lucius Malfoy strode over and grabbed Draco's shoulders. "I have. You will follow my lord without question," he hissed into Draco's ear, "or you will shame your family name. The Dark Lord needs her visionary powers in the potion. He will be much strengthened. And you will be the one to stir it." He shoved Draco to the bubbling mixture and handed him a spoon, and forced him to stir. Lucius signaled the Death Eaters who were holding Loki forward. They were about to toss her in when Draco stopped stirring.
"I don't think so." He hit the two Death Eaters and his father with a jelly-legs jinx. He turned to his father. "It's shaken, not stirred, father."
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Voldemort had her where he wanted her. Oh, she had taken down his Death Eaters, yes, but he knew EXACTLY how to make her surrender. "So, you said I could attack you, eh?" He said, inching towards her.
Essie backed up against a tree. Close. He was far too close.
"But I can't hurt your friends?"
Essie looked at him, terrified.
"Well, it's high time you saw the full power of my wrath." He nodded to his remaining Death Eaters.
They all aimed their wands at Harry. Red currents of fiery magic wrapped themselves around him and lifted him up with their power.
Harry's cries were ones of true pain
Whoa. Where had that thought come from? It sounded incredibly like Loki.
She looked up. Loki and Draco had been gagged and bound, but it looked like Loki was trying to say something around her gag.
My vision
Essie finally understood. But how to defeat this? She stared at the Death Eaters.
"LET HIM GO." Her voice, two octaves lower and 10 decibels louder reverberated across the clearing.
The Death Eaters faltered. She sounded powerful. Far too powerful.
But they weren't letting him go. She stalked over to them.
"RELEASE."
Harry fell free, free from the pain, free from the crimson currents, and dropped to the ground, stunned.
"Accio wands." All of the Death Eaters' wands flew into her hands. "Petrificus Totalus." All fell to the ground, stunned.
A low laugh echoed through the clearing. "Shouldn't have paid any attention to my little diversion, eh? Funny how being so attracted to someone makes you so unperceptive to anything else." He gestured in the direction of Hogwarts.
Essie looked up. There was a dark, red, THING flying around the castle.
"Oh shit."
The Chinese Fireball blew a fiery breath over the whole castle. And it was NOT fireproof.
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Essie was thinking frantically. What? What could she do? Her powers could never extinguish a blaze as big as this.
Kill the source
What? She could her Loki in her brain, but what WAS she talking about?
Get rid of a problem by its source
It was worth a try.
She aimed all the wands at the dragon. Here went nothing. "AVADA KEDAVRA."
A gigantic line of green light hit the dragon.
The fire kept going.
"IT'S NOT WORKING!"
So DO something!
"What?"
ANYTHING!!!!!
Voldemort was watching Essie curiously. Who was she mind-speaking with?
"Well, here goes nothing!"
She sent a prayer up to heaven and started to concentrate on her powers.
"I call of Father Zeus and all his Olympian companions."
She had no utter idea what she was doing. But it sounded good.
Voldemort had no utter idea what the girl was doing. But it sounded really good.
"I call on Aeolus, keeper of the winds, to heard the rain clouds and unleash the mighty North Wind, Boreas."
Wow. So all that Greek mythology HAD paid off. There was a swirling wind going around, tipping everything over.
"I call on Demeter, goddess of the harvest, to send me a powerful rainfall."
Err, well, she had to, for harvest, right?
"I ask for Zeus to protect my school and friends."
A boom of thunder echoed.
"Spirits of water, of the clouds, come share your mighty gift."
Clouds gathered near Hogwarts.
"Again I ask you, mighty Zeus, to aid me in my task!"
A bolt of lightning cut through the clouds. It was as if it popped a seam in the sky, because right then, it started to rain in sheets, ONLY AROUND THE CASTLE. The water quickly doused the fire.
Essie turned, victoriously, to Voldemort. "Like that, Voldey?"
Voldemort growled. There was no way she could have known how to do that. The spell had sounded so ancient. Too ancient.
He stalked over to her. "How in Morgan le Fey's name did you know how to do that?"
Essie smirked. "Know how to do what? That was entirely made up. I think."
Voldemort stepped closer. "You THINK?" he hissed.
Essie pushed him away. OK. WAY too close for comfort. "Um, do all Slytherins have a problem with personal space?"
He shoved her back. She fell on the ground. And her eyes gave a burst of scarlet power. Enough was enough.
"You BASTARD." She knew one well-placed spell could kill her. But one well-placed spell could kill him, too. She levitated herself up and glided towards him.
She was aiming all her wands at him. But he acted quicker.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Green light exploded from his wand. Essie thought quickly and tried to divert his magic away from her body. But she wasn't quick enough. The magic hit her right on the center of her crystal choker. Sharp heat radiated from her necklace. She could feel it cut her flesh. She gave a scream of pure pain before collapsing to the ground.
Voldemort eyed her smugly. That had almost been too easy. Amazing how easy to defeat cocky you witches were. There was absolutely no way to block the killing curse.
Little did he know.
He strolled casually over to her body, intent on kicking it, but as he was raising his leg, her "corpse" said something. Two things actually.
"Locomotor Mortis."
Voldemort fell on his back in a full body bin.
Essie slowly got to her feet. The large crystal she had on her choker now pulsed with green flame. Somehow, she had controlled the curse just enough so that she had captured its essence (an: lol. Essence got essence. Err, right. On to story). She strolled over to Voldemort and casually picked up his wand and added it to the bundle she had pointed at his head.
Voldemort gave one more stab at defeating her.
"Come, come, girl. You needn't KILL me. Just JOIN me. I can feel your power. You could be great, you know. Just join me, call me your master-"
Essie pressed the wands into his neck. "Cease your spewing, bitch. You? YOU, my MASTER? Gag me with a SPOON. Hello? I just defeated you. And I am but 16. I've not grown into my full magical potential yet. Who knows how powerful I'll be in 2, 4, 6, 8, TEN years? And YOU want to be my MASTER? YOU, who was defeated by a one-year-old INFANT, when you were in your prime-"
"Harry Potter." Hissed Voldemort.
"Yes, my Harry," Essie gave a small, slight laugh "Harry and I both share the secret to your destruction-WE are not intimidated my a mere NAME- VOLDEMORT!"
Voldemort looked at her in shock. NO ONE spoke to him that way. "Who are you, girl, to speak to me in such a way? Who are you, you American wench?"
Essie smirked. "How thoughtful of you to ask. I, am Essence Lei, begat of Beckilyn Lim, Begat of. . . Cordelia Marvolo Riddle, sister of Tom Marvolo Riddle." She smirked at his surprise. "Yes, Tom Marvolo Riddle is in my past, and in my present, but I hope to Dear GOD, he is not in my future, UNCLE."
She summoned her powers to her body and began to talk in Parseltongue. "My legless friends of the woods, I invite you to this clearing."
Voldemort's eyes widened in fear.
"Slither quickly, for I have prey for you to squeeze."
There was distinct hissing sound all around them.
"My prey as killed many of your brethren."
There were several flickering shadows dancing along the edge of the clearing.
"He has possessed their bodies, shortening the lives of your kin."
Several snakes started slithering towards him.
"And he has tried to do the same with me and mine."
Voldemort was covered in a living, breathing carpet of serpents bent on strangulation.
"I only ask that we do the same to him."
The carpet tightened. Voldemort gave a tortured gasp. He lay still upon the ground.
"Thank-you for your kind task."
The snakes nodded to Essie before they slithered away, into the forest.
Essie still had her suspicions, though. And there was only one way to dispel them. She pointed all the wands at him.
"Avada Kedavra"
Voldemort gave a furious scream as the combined force of all the wands lifted his body and it started to burn. There was a curious smell of burnt flesh as Essie watched the corpse of her great-uncle turn to ash.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Thou shalt not return to the kingdom of heaven for what thou hast done. YOU SHALL BURN IN HELL."
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AN: and where was our dear Snapie in all of this? GETTING HELP, of COURSE!!!! Right! REVIEW ME!!!