"Vi samle å bringe du prakten. velsigne oss med din prescence."
Alexa sat completely immobilized watching Lucius chant and throw sacrifices of dead animals into the fire. She wanted to leave but at the same time she wanted to stay. She knew that if she stayed that she would have the blood of countless people on her hands. As much as she was disgusted by this thought it also thrilled her.
Lucius was now on his knees rocking back and forth in front of the glowing fire. He had smeared what Alexa saw to be blood on his face and bare chest. He had a crazed look to him and in the fire light he looked absolutely evil. Her thoughts turned to Draco. Did she love him?
He was weak. He couldn't stand up to his father, he was afraid of Voldemort, and he couldn't make choices for himself. No, she didn't love him. She never did.
"Vi samle å bringe du prakten. velsigne oss med din prescence."
Alexa stood up and went over to where Lucius was. She kneeled next to him and he stopped rocking and reached over into his cloak and pulled out a knife. He handed the rusty blade to Alexa who slowly yet firmly ran the blade down her forearm. As the blood began to run she held her arm over the fire, letting the viscous, red liquid spill into the fire, which turned the flames blue. She could feel him in her. He was getting stronger. She lifted her head to the heavens and joined Lucius in his chanting.
"Vi samle å bringe du prakten. velsigne oss med din prescence."
******
It was now night, the sun had gone down, and there was no hope left in him. As Harry struggled through the tangled branches of the Forbidden Forest he paused. He had heard voices…or did he? For the past hour, He had led Snape and Dumbledore deep into the forest, not really knowing where he was going. Dumbledore had faith in Harry and followed him without question but Snape had been complaining the whole way.
"Headmaster it's been an hour and we still have not found her. I say we turn back before we get lost."
Snape was very irritated and stopped walking so he could pull all the leaves and twigs off of his robe and out of his thick, black, hair.
"Obviously Mr. Potter does not know where he's goin-"
Snape was cut short by a scream. It sounded like a man's voice. The scream was one of utmost agony and it made Harry's blood run cold. Dumbledore stepped in front of Harry and pulled out his wand.
"Follow me and be careful. We do not yet know what we are dealing with."
The three crept quietly through the trees until they came to the edge of a clearing. Dumbledore stopped and put his hand up to tell Harry and Snape to stop also. Nothing could have prepared Harry for what he saw when he looked into the clearing.
Alexa was standing inside a roaring blue fire yelling to the sky in a language Harry didn't recognize. Lying next to the fire was the lifeless body of Lucius Malfoy. He was pallid and protruding from his chest was a hilt of a knife. Harry's eye's wandered back to Alexa. She looked like she always had but he knew that looks were deceiving. She was still mumbling in the incoherent language.
"Vi samle å bringe du prakten. velsigne oss med din prescence."
Harry let out a groan as his feet gave way and the ground came up to meet him.
******
Alexa stopped chanting to look over her shoulder at the bushes. She had heard something that sounded like a voice. She rose her hand, and the bushes became uprooted and flew away, revealing three figures. As Alexa looked closer she realized that the three figures were Snape, Dumbledore, and to her surprise, Harry. With to swishes of her index finger, Snape and Dumbledore were bound to a tree and Harry's cataleptic body was hovering in the air. Alexa looked at Snape angrily who glared back.
"Hvorfor did du komme? Nå du må dø. Bortsett fra for det første."
Alexa walked over to Snape and placed her hands on his temples. The professor went stiff and then fell limp against his restraints. She went over and ripped the knife out of the comatose body of Lucius and advanced toward Harry.
"Ms. Williams please!"
Alexa turned to Dumbledore and laughed. It was a shrill high-pitched laugh that could have awoken even the soundest of sleepers. With a nod of her head, a log shot up and hit Dumbledore in the head with a sickening crack. She kept advancing towards Harry, ignoring Dumbledore's plea.
As she was about to plunge the blade deep into Harry's chest she felt a cold sensation sweeping through her body. She felt a strange mood of peace and calmness as she collapsed to cold ground of the forest.
******
"Come on Weasley hurry your ass up! We have to find them before she kills them all."
Draco, Hermione, and Ron were tearing through Hogwarts looking for any sign of Harry, Dumbledore, or Snape. When the trio had went back to the library, Hermione had found a book called The Prophecies of Voldemort. In the book was the prophecy of The Chosen One. It explained that through a chosen girl, Voldemort would rise to supreme power and kill all who opposed him. The book said that the Chosen One would be branded with Voldemort's mark and that there was no telling when he would take over her body. In further reading Hermione had found even more unsettling news. Though Voldemort could take over the person's body, the person was still alive. So unless the One Who Lived killed Voldemort, when the Chosen One died, Voldemort would remain and could pass himself onto anyone who bore the Dark Mark.
The one thing that the book didn't explain was if and how the curse could be broken. Hermione figured that since Alexa had a scar like Harry's that he was the link to letting Alexa live but killing Voldemort.
"Malfoy look!"
Hermione had stopped running to look thorough a large window. Past Hagrid's hut, deep in the Forbidden Forest, there was blue smoke rising up into the sky."
"That's where they are!"
Draco looked out at the smoke swirling lazily towards the heavens. Did Alexa do that? Inside he wanted to cry but his ego wouldn't let him, he had already been enough of a softie today.
"Alright Granger, Weasley, let's go."
******
As Alexa began to wake up, everything flooded back to her in a wash of hellish memories. She had killed Lucius. But it wasn't really her. There was something else inside of her. She stared down at the knife in her bloodstained hands. How could she do something like this? What had she become? She threw the knife over into a thicket of bushes and got up. She heard a rumble in the patch of shrubbery behind her and whipped around.
"I'm warning you, don't move!"
There in front of her was Draco, Hermione, and Ron all three with their wands out, pointed directly at her. Draco stood at the front of the group, shaking his head.
"Alexa, how could you do this to me? After all we've been through? I've trusted you since we were kids."
One look at the pained look on Draco's face sent Alexa to tears.
"Draco I swear I didn't know. I would have told you and gotten help. I didn't know until my mom died…I promise."
Alexa moved closer to Draco and from behind her body, the trio saw the corpse of Draco's father lying near the fire. Hermione screamed and Ron's face contorted into one of uncontrollable fear. Draco just stared.
"Alexa…"
Alexa couldn't bear to see Draco so emotionless. She started towards him but Ron would not have it.
"Back up or I will hurt you."
Alexa looked at Ron and slowly a smile formed on her face. She could feel him stirring inside of her again.
"Du er alle går å dø. Det er nei håpe."
As she quickly advanced on them, Draco was jolted back to reality. As he, Ron, and Hermione said the unforgivable words of death, his thoughts went back to that day. It had been a hot summer afternoon and instead of working on the potion his father had ordered him to make, Draco had decided to play outside with Alexa. He could remember running through the sprinkler and letting the cool water run over his bare back. Even at the tender age of ten, long scars plagued his once perfect skin. He could recall the fear that he felt when he heard his father's voice beckoning to him. He reminisced about how soft Alexa's hands were as she pulled him into the woods to get away from his father. But most of all, he remembered what Alexa had said to him as she looked into his once soft blue eyes.
"I'm always there for you Draco. No one will ever love you like I do."
They had hid in the woods until it was dark but when they came out Lucius was waiting. His father didn't even wait until they had got home to beat him. Right there, in front of Alexa, Lucius had relentlessly kicked, hit, and punched him all the while instilling in him the value of a good name and pureblood. Draco would never forget those words. Words that were filled with hate. Words that held the power to kill.
As they were running to the Forbidden Forest, Hermione had made a plan to which all three of them had agreed. If Alexa had turned or started to turn, they were going to do the inevitable. They were going to kill her.
Now as Alexa flew towards them in a rage that was not her own, they all shouted in unison.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
As they green sparks hit her body, Draco swore he was Alexa smile as her lifeless body hit the ground for the last time.