Child of Darkness, Child of Light
By: Fyre Fairie Rated R (For mature content and violence) Summary: Harry finds out he has been lied to all his life. After GOF he travels to lands forgotten until he is ready to face the friends he abandoned, the love he will encounter, and the evil he must conquer. Just now when he has finally found his family will they all survive the war?
Chapter 10: Surprise Attack
Looking down upon the site through a crystal glass propped up by extravagant silver vines twisting and melting into the magical artifact a man and a woman each wearing black and white robes. Their hoods no longer obscuring their faces like they normally would. The two stood side-by-side watching expressionless as the binding of the child of the darkness bound herself with a werewolf and an escaped convict.
"It is done then Cassarius, she is lost to us and so is our rule. That binding will protect her from us, from others, the girl is even more godlike than before. We have nothing left." The woman spoke in a monotone voice yet retaining an air of false dignity, dignity she was not born with but taught.
"No Analise," the graying man said, he must have been over a hundred now yet he still led the their organization to victory like he had for many years. "We have not lost yet. She may be bound by soul, power, and heart, but the child of light is no longer bound to her. The girl is owned by her mother but she does not own her mother. There is only a one-way connection. Liliana was smart not to bind herself to her lovers but her daughter has not been so clever. You see Analise, the girl just gave up her rights to her little bambina." The man said with a pleased smirk lighting across his face.
His victory may be small but valuable in the end. As the woman thought more and more of it she realized he was right. Yet another move they made in this game of life, but the real question was, what would Emerald's move be once they've taken what they wanted.
"She will come after her. She won't leave her daughter behind." The brown- haired woman known as Analise said, not once taking her eyes off the mural they were looking into.
"Ah but my darling, she cannot come if we deny her access. She is bound to those infernal men so she is bound to their land as well. The only time she may come back is in twelve years time when she will have to participate in the next tournament as the previous champion." Catching on Analise gasped and continued for him filling in the rest.
"By then we will have the little one trained and ready for the tournament as well, and with talent like her mothers she would have to face Emerald off. What better way to kill the darkness than with its own child the light!"
The man nodded triumphantly although nothing had been done yet he felt a tremendous amount of glory had befallen him. "Yes and by then the light will work on our side, to do our bidding. We will not only break the cycle but also win in this war. The land of Ambrosia shall be ours my dear, unconditionally and completely ours." Smiling to himself he then added as an after thought. "When sleep drowns them and dreams encase them, then we shall make our move to get the little princess."
//I've thought of every single thing that could go wrong in our situation and I just can't find the missing link of the puzzle. Why would binding themselves be a bad thing? Surely they would have been able to hold of Voldemort that way.\\ Emerald thought as Remus pulled the heavy blanket at their feet up to cover all three of them.
Snuggling against him while hugging Sirius to her whom had cuddled up to her like a small child Emma felt sleep tugging at her eyelids as they grew heavy and finally closed without any thought as to what might happen when morning came.
"They're asleep. Shall we make our move Cassarius?" Analise asked turning to the older man whom nodded briefly sweeping a hand over the mural murmuring.
"Show me Jasmine Le Fey." And the glass started to shimmer and show him an image of a small bedroom in their opinion furnished simply although it would be extravagant in many people's rights especially if they weren't Ambrosian. Inside was a roaring fire and a small girl soundly asleep unknowing of what her parents had just done a few doors away and unknowing of what would happen to her within just a few moments.
"That mirror by the dresser will do nicely for our purpose," Cassarius said. "Go now and bring her back." He ordered astounding the woman for a second before she remembered her place in the council instead of her place as the man's lover and curtsied simply. She was born to a family with much money but was soon reduced to peasantry until she joined the council. Of course her etiquette was still as rusty as muggle farm equipment thus her curtsy was not only wobbly but also simple.
Creating a portal and zoning in on the mirror in young Jasmine's room Analise made an extra door in her hallway and quietly stepped through sealing the door on her way into Hogwarts castle. In front of her on a large mahogany bed with blue and silver hangings slept a young girl named Jasmine Le Fey.
Moving closer Analise cast a quick but powerful locking charm on the door tried to make as little sound as possible but alas fate was definitely not on her side especially when it had anything to do with the Le Fey's. Because of Emerald she had already had an ear severed by the Charmer's teeth and a replacement had to be found. And now that she stepped on some kind of scattered object and tripped yelling out profanely caught by surprise as her temple hit a sharp corner of the four-poster bed Jasmine slept on.
The noise had obviously woken the girl and she bolted up right in bed, her eyes snapping open and staring straight at the older woman's unnerving her. Analise was startled when the girl had stared at her with her big green eyes searching for some answer or another and Analise had sat perfectly still at the foot of the bed like a deer caught in the headlights daring not to move as to not scare the girl and alert her mother.
Her piercing green eyes so much like her mothers bored down onto hers and Analise felt them penetrating her soul. She felt like all her secrets and deepest thoughts were being revealed and poked at. The girl's clairvoyant she figured and tried to fight the invisible hands that searched her mind.
But if the girl's stare had frightened her then her high-pitched scream for her mother and two fathers was even worse as it echoed through the whole flat. It seemed Jasmine could feel her magic pushing and it scared her along with everything she had seen.
When Emerald had woken up to her daughters loud screaming she was more than grateful that the silence charms she erected onto the room only blocked sound from her room not from the rest of the house. Pure instinct sprang up and the need to protect her child overwhelmed all other senses and she was barely conscious enough to remember to tie a dressing gown securely around her now healed but still nude form.
"Jasmine! Mummy's coming!" she yelled securing the dressing gown and barely noticing Remus and Sirius spring up each draping sheets around their waists and following her. Neither of them heard the loud knocking on their portrait whole as they ran to their little girl.
It only took Analise seconds to sober at the sound of Emerald's voice screaming toward her daughter that she was on her way. The girl had by now sprinted to the door and was trying to unsuccessfully open it but the locking charm that was placed on it held still and true, although Analise had no doubt the girls mother would knock it down like it was nothing.
In a few smooth motions the brunette picked up the screaming and squirming redheaded child and held her tightly. She fought to keep the girl still and managed to flatten her against her own body and hold her in her arms with the girl's back facing away from her. The brunette winced surprised when the girl's teeth sank into the side of her neck where she held the girls head. With a scream of rage she pulled the girl roughly away and placed her back on the floor while keeping a hand on her wrist while attempting to concentrate enough to make a portal. But each time she tried the girl would sink her teeth into uninjured flesh causing her to lose all concentration.
It was the middle of the night and his mark buzzed again giving him an unpleasant feeling. It had been buzzing for 16 years now growing ever more painful the past two. He knew what it meant. They had a connection and it served the purpose of reminding him of how much of a monster he truly was.
Feeling that he wouldn't get any sleep that night Snape reluctantly rolled out of bed with a groan and lowered his feet to the floor bringing himself to a sitting position. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes before reaching a hand to his right hip bone and putting pressure on the serpent mark that kept buzzing he got up and dressed in a plain black robe feeling the need to get something to eat he exited his dark rooms and made his way to the kitchens thinking that perhaps he might even find some unfortunate student out of their beds and give them enough detentions to last the poor soul until they left for the summer.
Halfway to the kitchen Snape had to lean against the wall to steady himself. They buzzing in his serpents mark grew stronger and started to stab at his skin and abdomen causing the man to grit his teeth and clench his fists. This was not the first time such a thing happened. It had been particularly strong the past two years ever since Harry Potter had disappeared.
Severus had always assumed it meant his child was in trouble but paid little attention to it. Often the burning would grow tedious and interrupt him in the middle of his class but of course like always no one seemed to care. Accept for maybe Albus and that know-it-all Granger.
"Damn it girl what have you done this time!" he snapped and started making his way to the room he overheard the headmaster giving them directions to. His pace started up faster when a slight tug on the mark gave the impression of having a metal hook pulling at his insides and it became warm. Suddenly he halted to a stop.
The warm sensation made him aware that something else was being poured into the mark. Something was beginning to seep through that shouldn't.
"Bloody hell Potter!" he swore and began running faster cursing when the staircases decided to change routes and he had to take another longer way to the rooms his daughter, granddaughter and the two men were occupying.
"Just keep your legs closed for another minute Potter otherwise you may not be able to see your daughter grow up!" he panted in a sort of prayer and almost collapsed against the portrait of the fairy that guarded their rooms.
"Ah another child has come to visit me. Tell me young one what the password may be?" Snape was all to aware of the fairy's heavenly and hypnotizing voice asking him for a password and right at that moment he wished more than anything to have stayed in the headmaster's office long enough to hear what the password was.
"Just let me in.," he growled. "This is a life and death situation!" he didn't in the least expect her to open just for those words and he was right she didn't but it was worth a try.
"I'm afraid not sweet child. You may not enter without the password." She giggled slightly giving Severus the impression she was on a sugar high.
He shook off the effects her voice had on him and without further delay Severus gone ahead and started pounding on the wall next the portrait and screaming obscenities.
Emma practically crashed into the door expecting it to wrench open. Stumbling back right into Remus they toppled over in a tangle of limbs but desperate to get to her daughter she elbowed him in the groin trying to get back up and she curled up wincing.
"Oh my god Remmy I'm so sorry." She was torn between helping her daughter and helping her lover when she realized that Sirius would help him and she swiftly kicked the door breaking the wooden doorframe and almost knocking it off its hinges.
She first thing that Emma saw was Analise de Plume, one of the Magi who'd only gotten on through the ways of Cassarius' bed. The wretched woman was struggling to drag Jasmine into a portal she had just created.
Seeing his lover struggle pathetically with the little girl and witnessing the child's parents burst through the door Cassarius immediately knew what was going to happen and at once sent for hiss best men.
Within seconds two large broad guards appeared at his side. One around 6'8 in height and as large as a horse stood with his hands clasped behind his straight back and his armor gleaming proudly. His name was Oloff a man coming from a rather wealthy family that had been run out of his own house when his mother died and the boy's father left him on the streets for Cassarius to find.
The other a shorter man but still quite tall standing at around 6'4 with darker skin and dark brown eyes that showed his southern decent. He too was broad but not at all poverty stricken. The boy's family had been advisors to the Gryffindor court for a long time but Naman had chosen his own path by joining the Magi believing in equal rights and most especially in the future of an independent Ambrosia governed completely by the Magi.
"Oloff, Naman" he greeted them each with a nod and with a dismissive hand he gestured to the mural where Emerald had already leapt on the other woman clawing and beating at her while the two men ushered the little girl out of the room.
"As you can see." He sneered at them and noticed them stand at full attention and give him their highest respect. "Analise is in a bit of a fix here. I will need you two to go and retrieve the child of light for me. I warn you though, do not start a fight with the bonded ones. They shall be your own demise if you do. Just go in grab the girl and get out. And don't you dare harm her others wise the price to pay shall be grand.
"Sir, what of Analise?" Oloff asked indifferently as his cold blue eyes watched the brown haired woman struggle against the redhead but getting battered even more fiercely.
"She is to far gone already to save her. Just go." He dismissed them with a sigh. His thoughts trailed to Analise, his friend, his love, his bedmate, work associate, and whore. She was a dear loss, not to their cause but to his lust. Now was the time to make preparations for the little one though and he began drawing plans for her years on the isle.
Back at Hogwarts Emerald was still cutting Analise with her claws relishing the cries that rose from the woman's throat. The charmer in her enjoyed watching the crimson blood seep all over the thrashing woman's body and onto the floor. And animal instinct urged her to drink that blood but she resisted as much as possible.
This blood was filthy she told herself and made three slash marks across Analise's chest tearing at the woman's robes and making deep gashes along her mid section.
"What does Cassarius want with my daughter!!!??" she screamed for the third time but no answer came and she raised her arm again to swipe with the blades when there was a flash in front of the mirror and she knew she should have broken it upon entrance. Her eyes widened marginally as Oloff and Naman stepped through, looking their imposing and idiotic selves as usual.
She leapt up ready to defend herself but was surprised to see them merely walk passed her and Analise. They wanted Jasmine she realized, they didn't want a fight with her because they were afraid.
//Well then I'll still give them a fight.\\ she thought furiously leaving the sobbing brunette on the floor knowing perfectly well she wouldn't be going anywhere soon with her limbs mangled as badly as they were. Her legs were shredded into ribbons and were almost torn off below the knees barely dangling by whatever skin was left and her arms were not as bad but sported severe cuts upon them.
She knew now why she was the Child of Darkness. Born to light parents she bore violent and vindictiveness in her nature towards those that threaten what little family and friends she had left. She was a ruthless warrior that would stop at nothing for her revenge. That is what they made her over the years in Ambrosia, a monster simply put. A monster that cared little for those that had no direct connection to her but would protect her own loved ones with her life.
And with a startlingly high jump she leapt onto Oloff's back securing her arms around his neck and her legs around his waste and proceeded to choke him while kicking Naman in the back precisely where his kidney's were knocking the wind out of him.
"Sirius, Remus! Take Jasmine and get out of here!! Hurry!! I'll hold them off!!" she screamed and she was sure that her voice could probably be heard at the other end of Hogwarts. With a click she realized why she suddenly had such a feeling of déjà vu upon saying those words. She remembered those were the last words her James Potter, her father had said to her mother before dieing and she had a bad feeling about this, a very bad feeling. The kinds she would get before someone died.
//No. No. No. No. No\\ she kept repeating to herself. //No one besides the Magi guards and Analise are going to die tonight.\\ she reassured herself. That's when she heard yelling and banging outside their portrait whole and she could tell that both of her lovers were not about to leave. The voice was Snape's. Had he known this would happen? Was that why her parents never bonded? To keep her safe?
"Pixie Powder!!!" she yelled. "The password is Pixie Powder!" the portrait opened with a bang and the Potions Master jumped in with wide eyes and Emma vaguely wondered if he slept in black robes. They were what he was wearing after all.
"Severus take them and leave! Don't just stand there drag them out of here!" she was referring to her new family while still wrestling with Oloff and repeatedly kicking Naman. If he had any brains in his head then he would have crawled a safe distance before getting up again. But as she proved by kicking him down once more his head was completely hollow.
They still stayed and Emma for all her life wished that they didn't bind themselves. If they hadn't then they wouldn't have used up all their magic during the ritual, they would have it right now and the Magi wouldn't have been able to touch a hair on Jasmine's head.
Seeing as they were all still in shock and Oloff was getting better at trying to dislodge her from his back she yelled like a crazy woman.
"God damn it! Take her and leave now!!! I'll hold them off!! Just go for fucks sake!" At that point she felt a sharp pain at her thigh where Oloff had taken a knife and started to cut her leg slowly. And it sickened her to the point where she almost threw up when he did the same to one of her arms currently around his neck and started licking her blood off.
Emma wasn't sure if her claws would be able to get through his armor or if it was spelled against penetration so instead his let the claws that jumped from her right hand to cut along the side of his face rather harshly and this time he swung her clear off since she was still weakened.
Hitting the stone wall with a hard "thump" she groaned and slid down the wall hearing Sirius shout out for her but she was relieved to see Snape pull everyone through the portrait hole snapping at them for the delay and reassuring them that she would make it. Or at least reassuring them as much as Snape could.
The two guards were about to go in search for them and Emma picked herself up from the hard floor and ran into her bedroom quickly pulling on her usual white Amazon wear as fast as she could before extracting her two katanas from her trunk and she raced out. It turned out that the two Magi guards were already in the hallway walking along not even bothering to run figuring she had probably fled from them. In the distance she could see her family running down the corridor and bending a corner.
As quietly but quickly as possible she snuck up behind the towering men and tried to attack with the twin swords but as the swords hit their metallic armor with a loud clash and sparked it only angered the men. From her point of view it seemed like they were impossible to harm too much extent without any magic, and magic was what she didn't have at the moment rendering her almost helpless against them. The guards drew their own broadswords and had succeed in swinging at her, one sword at her neck where Naman most likely hoped to decapitate her and the other for her arm where Oloff swung trying to disembowel it.
But years of training did not serve for Emerald to throw down her swords and run but instead raise them and block each move saving herself from a very excruciating pain and possible death. Fighting back with every ounce of her strength was hard. Yes, she had to admit she was trained well and made to be one of the top sword fighters in all of Ambrosia but when it came to brute strength the only thing saving her was the Charmer, which held characteristics enough with a werewolf to lend her advanced strength.
Once again they swung at her moving backwards down the hallway while she moved forwards. She had been stuck in the defensive position with ever blow they aimed and with every perry and block she made. Their swords clashed and sparks flew making the redhead all to aware that their broadswords would most likely break her katanas in half if they continued this way much longer.
Her determination to save her daughter did not let Emma give up but it did nothing to keep her from tiring, she had only let down her guard for a second perhaps less when she felt a stinging lash to her thigh where Naman had skimmed it. Seeing the blood well up and seep down her tanned leg onto the stone floor only caused to anger her as she saw no signs of it healing.
"You'd better hope that doesn't scar, otherwise your ghost can join the headless crusade!" she hissed at them in Ambrosian speaking to the men for the first time and swung viciously.
But in return they acknowledged her with a deep laugh and blocked her attempt to harm them with her katanas.
"It is not you we have come for Le Fey, relinquish your daughter to us and you may come out of this alive." Oloff thundered at her taking a swing and having it not only blocked but thrown back at him with so much force his arm recoiled and the back of his sword came in contact with his forehead almost giving him a concussion.
"You," Emerald barked at him "you will address me by my proper title!"
Taking advantage of his dazed state to slash her sword across his face and through his right eye making the man scream and press a hand against it dropping his sword. The heavy sword fell to the ground and the noise echoed once again through the halls. She had an advantage again now ducking the swipe Naman took at her and using her left arm to drive one of the katanas right through Oloff's thick neck effectively cutting off his screams and ending his pathetic life. He too crashed to the ground by his own weapon, his armor clattering and sliding his body a few feet away from the two remaining warriors.
Emma didn't allow herself to even breathe a sigh in relief as she turned her green eyes that had turned catlike in her defensive state on Naman. Even if her magic had not returned yet the Charmer would always be there to make itself known and the sharp incisors that poked through her gums proved it.
If the man had wanted to fight her before he certainly didn't want to without his partner because as soon as she let out a threatening hiss in his direction Naman had made to pick his friends sword up and break into a run in the direction Sirius, Remus, Snape, and Jasmine had taken.
"Oh no you don't" she whispered to herself and ran as fast as her weakened and slashed legs could carry her. Her speed hadn't decreased by much but it had decreased noticeably. If only her she wasn't as weak. She thought to herself and continued running after the man gaining on him rather quickly. They were approaching one of the staircases and Emma feared that if he got on before she did that it would shift and she'd be required to use the longer way down.
And that was what precisely happened. Naman had been momentarily jolted by the move but the small victory caused him to look up at her and show off a devious sort of grin on his face as he cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled in his native tongue.
"Let us see how your precious family does without you Highness, do you think that your daughter would scream for you as I ripped her from your dead lovers' hands?" he chuckled as Emma glared at him almost ready to throw her katanas at the man's head when she had a better idea.
"Do you think you can get there before me?" she asked mockingly. "You mustn't forget that cats always land on their feet!" she gave a glance at the floor beneath the one she was on. It was at least fifty feet below her but her reluctance to go through with her idea disappeared when she thought of her family. She couldn't let the man harm them and his reply only fueled her determination more.
"Go ahead! Jump! I'm sure our sire Cassarius would be more than pleased that the Le Fey and Slytherin heir would wink out of existence along with her daughter whom would be close behind. You've always dreamed of meeting your no good parents well here's your chance!" His deep laugh put shivers down her back as she shouted one last statement that made him go pale in the face.
"You forget this cat can fly!" she said ignoring the remark about her mother and one of her fathers. A ripping sensation had rippled through her back and her shoulder blades sent shockwaves of pain to her mind. It felt like they were being stretched and pulled at. The skin did not tear but stretched painfully making it almost tissue paper thin before thickening and continuing to grow outward. What looked like spades were growing from her back until they shifted and formed wings.
At first they were the kind of wings that baby birds had, no feathers, just fuzz until moments later the fuzz started turning black and then transforming into feathers that sprouted all along that exposed flesh. The new limbs grew larger weighing Emerald down at first before she grew accustomed to the pain and weight of them. She did not cry out, despite how severely her body throbbed and how much it hurt to have her shoulder blades snap in many places and reform again.
This process was all to familiar and took less than half a minute to accomplish, less than a quarter of a minute in fact due to numerous transformations much like that one. Soon there was only a dull ache in her back and as she sprouted the enormous wings that had the span of about ten feet Naman had even jumped off the staircase once it was only a few feet off the ground and ran down the halls not exactly sure where to find the little girl he was charged to bring back with him but instead he ran to escape the girl's mother. It seemed true indeed that animals would protect their young at almost any cost unless the predator hunting their young was much bigger and much more ferocious.
But the animal that had jumped onto the railing and jump from it gliding through the air down to his level and now following him, this animal would protect its young at any cost even her own life.
Emma felt the air rush by her as she glided down to the third floor following the Magi guard and with quite an effort started flapping the wings that she sprouted as they carried her faster.
Up ahead she could faintly make out running footsteps and since she was hot on Naman's heels it wasn't him. Like a hawk coming down on its pretty Emerald swooped down katana's at ready and used her feet to knock the man down to the ground. He fell with a startled yelp and turned over swinging one of his swords at her feet but missing as she flew up an extra foot out of his reach long enough for him to get up and make a dash again.
"Emma!" Sirius' voice rang out to her ears. She realized it were her lovers that ran towards them and knew that she had to end Naman before he could hurt either. But there were more than two pairs of feet echoing as they run. It sounded more like ten. Fearing that the Magi might have sent more guards she swooped down sharply about to end their little came of cat and mouse using her two katanas in a scissoring effect as she decapitated Naman.
Like a headless chicken his body ran for a few steps before collapsing far from his head, which rolled away farther into an alcove. Not bothering to go and retrieve it Emerald just hoped a student wouldn't stumble upon that head, god knew that an innocent child didn't need to see that kind of carnage.
Flapping her wings harder and faster she rose higher into the air, into the wooden beams that supported the ceiling even and folded her wings as she traveled jumping from beam to beam making her way farther towards the voices of Remus and Sirius whom still called out to her and the many footsteps that followed.
It turned out that more Magi guards weren't following them but instead the whole staff of Hogwarts with their wands outstretched. Sirius and Remus had brought the whole cavalry and she couldn't help but laugh. The only ones not present were her father and daughter, and she noticed that both her lovers had acquired black robes from somewhere instead of wearing the sheets they previously had on.
"Siri, Remmy! Up here!" she yelled down causing them to halt and look towards the ceiling where she crouched on one of the beams. Spreading her wings she heard loud gasps from everyone and glided down.
Enveloped into a tight hug by both her lovers she was able to breath peacefully now.
"You're hurt!" they mentioned in unison upon seeing the cuts and blood over her body that didn't heal.
"I know and I have no magic to seal them." From down the hall they were able to hear rushed footsteps like someone was sprinting their way over to them. The claws which she had wiped off on her skirt sprang out of her fist again as she stood ready to defend herself and her lovers.
It was Snape, blood gushing from his head and barely able to stay on his feet he collapsed and Emma immediately ran to him falling on her own already scraped knees and catching him to keep the man from crashing completely to the ground.
"What happened!?" She asked worry creeping into her eyes and voice as she ripped off a section of her already blood soaked skirt and pressed it to the gash on his temple. Even though she had no magic left herself, her own blood still worked perfectly fine to heal her father and his eyes soon swam into focus.
"Jasmine," he croaked. "They have her." And his world went black as he fell limp in the redhead's arms breathing softly in his dead faint.
Cassarius chuckled to himself stepping through a large gold-framed mirror with an unconscious redheaded little girl in his arms.
It seemed that his missionaries became a good distraction, and he noticed not for the first time that if you wanted something done you have to do it yourself.
**********************************AUTHOR'S NOTE************************************
YES I DID IT!!!! Mwahahaahah!!! I completed this chapter! Yes, I know I'm cruel, so very cruel for taking little Jasmine from her parents. I am truly sorry it took me so long to post this! Honestly I had some difficulties but now they seem to be straightened out and I shall continue to post more often.
I hope this chapter doesn't seem to rushed or cheesy. Let me know what you think.
READ AND REVIEW!!!!!!
By: Fyre Fairie Rated R (For mature content and violence) Summary: Harry finds out he has been lied to all his life. After GOF he travels to lands forgotten until he is ready to face the friends he abandoned, the love he will encounter, and the evil he must conquer. Just now when he has finally found his family will they all survive the war?
Chapter 10: Surprise Attack
Looking down upon the site through a crystal glass propped up by extravagant silver vines twisting and melting into the magical artifact a man and a woman each wearing black and white robes. Their hoods no longer obscuring their faces like they normally would. The two stood side-by-side watching expressionless as the binding of the child of the darkness bound herself with a werewolf and an escaped convict.
"It is done then Cassarius, she is lost to us and so is our rule. That binding will protect her from us, from others, the girl is even more godlike than before. We have nothing left." The woman spoke in a monotone voice yet retaining an air of false dignity, dignity she was not born with but taught.
"No Analise," the graying man said, he must have been over a hundred now yet he still led the their organization to victory like he had for many years. "We have not lost yet. She may be bound by soul, power, and heart, but the child of light is no longer bound to her. The girl is owned by her mother but she does not own her mother. There is only a one-way connection. Liliana was smart not to bind herself to her lovers but her daughter has not been so clever. You see Analise, the girl just gave up her rights to her little bambina." The man said with a pleased smirk lighting across his face.
His victory may be small but valuable in the end. As the woman thought more and more of it she realized he was right. Yet another move they made in this game of life, but the real question was, what would Emerald's move be once they've taken what they wanted.
"She will come after her. She won't leave her daughter behind." The brown- haired woman known as Analise said, not once taking her eyes off the mural they were looking into.
"Ah but my darling, she cannot come if we deny her access. She is bound to those infernal men so she is bound to their land as well. The only time she may come back is in twelve years time when she will have to participate in the next tournament as the previous champion." Catching on Analise gasped and continued for him filling in the rest.
"By then we will have the little one trained and ready for the tournament as well, and with talent like her mothers she would have to face Emerald off. What better way to kill the darkness than with its own child the light!"
The man nodded triumphantly although nothing had been done yet he felt a tremendous amount of glory had befallen him. "Yes and by then the light will work on our side, to do our bidding. We will not only break the cycle but also win in this war. The land of Ambrosia shall be ours my dear, unconditionally and completely ours." Smiling to himself he then added as an after thought. "When sleep drowns them and dreams encase them, then we shall make our move to get the little princess."
//I've thought of every single thing that could go wrong in our situation and I just can't find the missing link of the puzzle. Why would binding themselves be a bad thing? Surely they would have been able to hold of Voldemort that way.\\ Emerald thought as Remus pulled the heavy blanket at their feet up to cover all three of them.
Snuggling against him while hugging Sirius to her whom had cuddled up to her like a small child Emma felt sleep tugging at her eyelids as they grew heavy and finally closed without any thought as to what might happen when morning came.
"They're asleep. Shall we make our move Cassarius?" Analise asked turning to the older man whom nodded briefly sweeping a hand over the mural murmuring.
"Show me Jasmine Le Fey." And the glass started to shimmer and show him an image of a small bedroom in their opinion furnished simply although it would be extravagant in many people's rights especially if they weren't Ambrosian. Inside was a roaring fire and a small girl soundly asleep unknowing of what her parents had just done a few doors away and unknowing of what would happen to her within just a few moments.
"That mirror by the dresser will do nicely for our purpose," Cassarius said. "Go now and bring her back." He ordered astounding the woman for a second before she remembered her place in the council instead of her place as the man's lover and curtsied simply. She was born to a family with much money but was soon reduced to peasantry until she joined the council. Of course her etiquette was still as rusty as muggle farm equipment thus her curtsy was not only wobbly but also simple.
Creating a portal and zoning in on the mirror in young Jasmine's room Analise made an extra door in her hallway and quietly stepped through sealing the door on her way into Hogwarts castle. In front of her on a large mahogany bed with blue and silver hangings slept a young girl named Jasmine Le Fey.
Moving closer Analise cast a quick but powerful locking charm on the door tried to make as little sound as possible but alas fate was definitely not on her side especially when it had anything to do with the Le Fey's. Because of Emerald she had already had an ear severed by the Charmer's teeth and a replacement had to be found. And now that she stepped on some kind of scattered object and tripped yelling out profanely caught by surprise as her temple hit a sharp corner of the four-poster bed Jasmine slept on.
The noise had obviously woken the girl and she bolted up right in bed, her eyes snapping open and staring straight at the older woman's unnerving her. Analise was startled when the girl had stared at her with her big green eyes searching for some answer or another and Analise had sat perfectly still at the foot of the bed like a deer caught in the headlights daring not to move as to not scare the girl and alert her mother.
Her piercing green eyes so much like her mothers bored down onto hers and Analise felt them penetrating her soul. She felt like all her secrets and deepest thoughts were being revealed and poked at. The girl's clairvoyant she figured and tried to fight the invisible hands that searched her mind.
But if the girl's stare had frightened her then her high-pitched scream for her mother and two fathers was even worse as it echoed through the whole flat. It seemed Jasmine could feel her magic pushing and it scared her along with everything she had seen.
When Emerald had woken up to her daughters loud screaming she was more than grateful that the silence charms she erected onto the room only blocked sound from her room not from the rest of the house. Pure instinct sprang up and the need to protect her child overwhelmed all other senses and she was barely conscious enough to remember to tie a dressing gown securely around her now healed but still nude form.
"Jasmine! Mummy's coming!" she yelled securing the dressing gown and barely noticing Remus and Sirius spring up each draping sheets around their waists and following her. Neither of them heard the loud knocking on their portrait whole as they ran to their little girl.
It only took Analise seconds to sober at the sound of Emerald's voice screaming toward her daughter that she was on her way. The girl had by now sprinted to the door and was trying to unsuccessfully open it but the locking charm that was placed on it held still and true, although Analise had no doubt the girls mother would knock it down like it was nothing.
In a few smooth motions the brunette picked up the screaming and squirming redheaded child and held her tightly. She fought to keep the girl still and managed to flatten her against her own body and hold her in her arms with the girl's back facing away from her. The brunette winced surprised when the girl's teeth sank into the side of her neck where she held the girls head. With a scream of rage she pulled the girl roughly away and placed her back on the floor while keeping a hand on her wrist while attempting to concentrate enough to make a portal. But each time she tried the girl would sink her teeth into uninjured flesh causing her to lose all concentration.
It was the middle of the night and his mark buzzed again giving him an unpleasant feeling. It had been buzzing for 16 years now growing ever more painful the past two. He knew what it meant. They had a connection and it served the purpose of reminding him of how much of a monster he truly was.
Feeling that he wouldn't get any sleep that night Snape reluctantly rolled out of bed with a groan and lowered his feet to the floor bringing himself to a sitting position. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes before reaching a hand to his right hip bone and putting pressure on the serpent mark that kept buzzing he got up and dressed in a plain black robe feeling the need to get something to eat he exited his dark rooms and made his way to the kitchens thinking that perhaps he might even find some unfortunate student out of their beds and give them enough detentions to last the poor soul until they left for the summer.
Halfway to the kitchen Snape had to lean against the wall to steady himself. They buzzing in his serpents mark grew stronger and started to stab at his skin and abdomen causing the man to grit his teeth and clench his fists. This was not the first time such a thing happened. It had been particularly strong the past two years ever since Harry Potter had disappeared.
Severus had always assumed it meant his child was in trouble but paid little attention to it. Often the burning would grow tedious and interrupt him in the middle of his class but of course like always no one seemed to care. Accept for maybe Albus and that know-it-all Granger.
"Damn it girl what have you done this time!" he snapped and started making his way to the room he overheard the headmaster giving them directions to. His pace started up faster when a slight tug on the mark gave the impression of having a metal hook pulling at his insides and it became warm. Suddenly he halted to a stop.
The warm sensation made him aware that something else was being poured into the mark. Something was beginning to seep through that shouldn't.
"Bloody hell Potter!" he swore and began running faster cursing when the staircases decided to change routes and he had to take another longer way to the rooms his daughter, granddaughter and the two men were occupying.
"Just keep your legs closed for another minute Potter otherwise you may not be able to see your daughter grow up!" he panted in a sort of prayer and almost collapsed against the portrait of the fairy that guarded their rooms.
"Ah another child has come to visit me. Tell me young one what the password may be?" Snape was all to aware of the fairy's heavenly and hypnotizing voice asking him for a password and right at that moment he wished more than anything to have stayed in the headmaster's office long enough to hear what the password was.
"Just let me in.," he growled. "This is a life and death situation!" he didn't in the least expect her to open just for those words and he was right she didn't but it was worth a try.
"I'm afraid not sweet child. You may not enter without the password." She giggled slightly giving Severus the impression she was on a sugar high.
He shook off the effects her voice had on him and without further delay Severus gone ahead and started pounding on the wall next the portrait and screaming obscenities.
Emma practically crashed into the door expecting it to wrench open. Stumbling back right into Remus they toppled over in a tangle of limbs but desperate to get to her daughter she elbowed him in the groin trying to get back up and she curled up wincing.
"Oh my god Remmy I'm so sorry." She was torn between helping her daughter and helping her lover when she realized that Sirius would help him and she swiftly kicked the door breaking the wooden doorframe and almost knocking it off its hinges.
She first thing that Emma saw was Analise de Plume, one of the Magi who'd only gotten on through the ways of Cassarius' bed. The wretched woman was struggling to drag Jasmine into a portal she had just created.
Seeing his lover struggle pathetically with the little girl and witnessing the child's parents burst through the door Cassarius immediately knew what was going to happen and at once sent for hiss best men.
Within seconds two large broad guards appeared at his side. One around 6'8 in height and as large as a horse stood with his hands clasped behind his straight back and his armor gleaming proudly. His name was Oloff a man coming from a rather wealthy family that had been run out of his own house when his mother died and the boy's father left him on the streets for Cassarius to find.
The other a shorter man but still quite tall standing at around 6'4 with darker skin and dark brown eyes that showed his southern decent. He too was broad but not at all poverty stricken. The boy's family had been advisors to the Gryffindor court for a long time but Naman had chosen his own path by joining the Magi believing in equal rights and most especially in the future of an independent Ambrosia governed completely by the Magi.
"Oloff, Naman" he greeted them each with a nod and with a dismissive hand he gestured to the mural where Emerald had already leapt on the other woman clawing and beating at her while the two men ushered the little girl out of the room.
"As you can see." He sneered at them and noticed them stand at full attention and give him their highest respect. "Analise is in a bit of a fix here. I will need you two to go and retrieve the child of light for me. I warn you though, do not start a fight with the bonded ones. They shall be your own demise if you do. Just go in grab the girl and get out. And don't you dare harm her others wise the price to pay shall be grand.
"Sir, what of Analise?" Oloff asked indifferently as his cold blue eyes watched the brown haired woman struggle against the redhead but getting battered even more fiercely.
"She is to far gone already to save her. Just go." He dismissed them with a sigh. His thoughts trailed to Analise, his friend, his love, his bedmate, work associate, and whore. She was a dear loss, not to their cause but to his lust. Now was the time to make preparations for the little one though and he began drawing plans for her years on the isle.
Back at Hogwarts Emerald was still cutting Analise with her claws relishing the cries that rose from the woman's throat. The charmer in her enjoyed watching the crimson blood seep all over the thrashing woman's body and onto the floor. And animal instinct urged her to drink that blood but she resisted as much as possible.
This blood was filthy she told herself and made three slash marks across Analise's chest tearing at the woman's robes and making deep gashes along her mid section.
"What does Cassarius want with my daughter!!!??" she screamed for the third time but no answer came and she raised her arm again to swipe with the blades when there was a flash in front of the mirror and she knew she should have broken it upon entrance. Her eyes widened marginally as Oloff and Naman stepped through, looking their imposing and idiotic selves as usual.
She leapt up ready to defend herself but was surprised to see them merely walk passed her and Analise. They wanted Jasmine she realized, they didn't want a fight with her because they were afraid.
//Well then I'll still give them a fight.\\ she thought furiously leaving the sobbing brunette on the floor knowing perfectly well she wouldn't be going anywhere soon with her limbs mangled as badly as they were. Her legs were shredded into ribbons and were almost torn off below the knees barely dangling by whatever skin was left and her arms were not as bad but sported severe cuts upon them.
She knew now why she was the Child of Darkness. Born to light parents she bore violent and vindictiveness in her nature towards those that threaten what little family and friends she had left. She was a ruthless warrior that would stop at nothing for her revenge. That is what they made her over the years in Ambrosia, a monster simply put. A monster that cared little for those that had no direct connection to her but would protect her own loved ones with her life.
And with a startlingly high jump she leapt onto Oloff's back securing her arms around his neck and her legs around his waste and proceeded to choke him while kicking Naman in the back precisely where his kidney's were knocking the wind out of him.
"Sirius, Remus! Take Jasmine and get out of here!! Hurry!! I'll hold them off!!" she screamed and she was sure that her voice could probably be heard at the other end of Hogwarts. With a click she realized why she suddenly had such a feeling of déjà vu upon saying those words. She remembered those were the last words her James Potter, her father had said to her mother before dieing and she had a bad feeling about this, a very bad feeling. The kinds she would get before someone died.
//No. No. No. No. No\\ she kept repeating to herself. //No one besides the Magi guards and Analise are going to die tonight.\\ she reassured herself. That's when she heard yelling and banging outside their portrait whole and she could tell that both of her lovers were not about to leave. The voice was Snape's. Had he known this would happen? Was that why her parents never bonded? To keep her safe?
"Pixie Powder!!!" she yelled. "The password is Pixie Powder!" the portrait opened with a bang and the Potions Master jumped in with wide eyes and Emma vaguely wondered if he slept in black robes. They were what he was wearing after all.
"Severus take them and leave! Don't just stand there drag them out of here!" she was referring to her new family while still wrestling with Oloff and repeatedly kicking Naman. If he had any brains in his head then he would have crawled a safe distance before getting up again. But as she proved by kicking him down once more his head was completely hollow.
They still stayed and Emma for all her life wished that they didn't bind themselves. If they hadn't then they wouldn't have used up all their magic during the ritual, they would have it right now and the Magi wouldn't have been able to touch a hair on Jasmine's head.
Seeing as they were all still in shock and Oloff was getting better at trying to dislodge her from his back she yelled like a crazy woman.
"God damn it! Take her and leave now!!! I'll hold them off!! Just go for fucks sake!" At that point she felt a sharp pain at her thigh where Oloff had taken a knife and started to cut her leg slowly. And it sickened her to the point where she almost threw up when he did the same to one of her arms currently around his neck and started licking her blood off.
Emma wasn't sure if her claws would be able to get through his armor or if it was spelled against penetration so instead his let the claws that jumped from her right hand to cut along the side of his face rather harshly and this time he swung her clear off since she was still weakened.
Hitting the stone wall with a hard "thump" she groaned and slid down the wall hearing Sirius shout out for her but she was relieved to see Snape pull everyone through the portrait hole snapping at them for the delay and reassuring them that she would make it. Or at least reassuring them as much as Snape could.
The two guards were about to go in search for them and Emma picked herself up from the hard floor and ran into her bedroom quickly pulling on her usual white Amazon wear as fast as she could before extracting her two katanas from her trunk and she raced out. It turned out that the two Magi guards were already in the hallway walking along not even bothering to run figuring she had probably fled from them. In the distance she could see her family running down the corridor and bending a corner.
As quietly but quickly as possible she snuck up behind the towering men and tried to attack with the twin swords but as the swords hit their metallic armor with a loud clash and sparked it only angered the men. From her point of view it seemed like they were impossible to harm too much extent without any magic, and magic was what she didn't have at the moment rendering her almost helpless against them. The guards drew their own broadswords and had succeed in swinging at her, one sword at her neck where Naman most likely hoped to decapitate her and the other for her arm where Oloff swung trying to disembowel it.
But years of training did not serve for Emerald to throw down her swords and run but instead raise them and block each move saving herself from a very excruciating pain and possible death. Fighting back with every ounce of her strength was hard. Yes, she had to admit she was trained well and made to be one of the top sword fighters in all of Ambrosia but when it came to brute strength the only thing saving her was the Charmer, which held characteristics enough with a werewolf to lend her advanced strength.
Once again they swung at her moving backwards down the hallway while she moved forwards. She had been stuck in the defensive position with ever blow they aimed and with every perry and block she made. Their swords clashed and sparks flew making the redhead all to aware that their broadswords would most likely break her katanas in half if they continued this way much longer.
Her determination to save her daughter did not let Emma give up but it did nothing to keep her from tiring, she had only let down her guard for a second perhaps less when she felt a stinging lash to her thigh where Naman had skimmed it. Seeing the blood well up and seep down her tanned leg onto the stone floor only caused to anger her as she saw no signs of it healing.
"You'd better hope that doesn't scar, otherwise your ghost can join the headless crusade!" she hissed at them in Ambrosian speaking to the men for the first time and swung viciously.
But in return they acknowledged her with a deep laugh and blocked her attempt to harm them with her katanas.
"It is not you we have come for Le Fey, relinquish your daughter to us and you may come out of this alive." Oloff thundered at her taking a swing and having it not only blocked but thrown back at him with so much force his arm recoiled and the back of his sword came in contact with his forehead almost giving him a concussion.
"You," Emerald barked at him "you will address me by my proper title!"
Taking advantage of his dazed state to slash her sword across his face and through his right eye making the man scream and press a hand against it dropping his sword. The heavy sword fell to the ground and the noise echoed once again through the halls. She had an advantage again now ducking the swipe Naman took at her and using her left arm to drive one of the katanas right through Oloff's thick neck effectively cutting off his screams and ending his pathetic life. He too crashed to the ground by his own weapon, his armor clattering and sliding his body a few feet away from the two remaining warriors.
Emma didn't allow herself to even breathe a sigh in relief as she turned her green eyes that had turned catlike in her defensive state on Naman. Even if her magic had not returned yet the Charmer would always be there to make itself known and the sharp incisors that poked through her gums proved it.
If the man had wanted to fight her before he certainly didn't want to without his partner because as soon as she let out a threatening hiss in his direction Naman had made to pick his friends sword up and break into a run in the direction Sirius, Remus, Snape, and Jasmine had taken.
"Oh no you don't" she whispered to herself and ran as fast as her weakened and slashed legs could carry her. Her speed hadn't decreased by much but it had decreased noticeably. If only her she wasn't as weak. She thought to herself and continued running after the man gaining on him rather quickly. They were approaching one of the staircases and Emma feared that if he got on before she did that it would shift and she'd be required to use the longer way down.
And that was what precisely happened. Naman had been momentarily jolted by the move but the small victory caused him to look up at her and show off a devious sort of grin on his face as he cupped his hands to his mouth and yelled in his native tongue.
"Let us see how your precious family does without you Highness, do you think that your daughter would scream for you as I ripped her from your dead lovers' hands?" he chuckled as Emma glared at him almost ready to throw her katanas at the man's head when she had a better idea.
"Do you think you can get there before me?" she asked mockingly. "You mustn't forget that cats always land on their feet!" she gave a glance at the floor beneath the one she was on. It was at least fifty feet below her but her reluctance to go through with her idea disappeared when she thought of her family. She couldn't let the man harm them and his reply only fueled her determination more.
"Go ahead! Jump! I'm sure our sire Cassarius would be more than pleased that the Le Fey and Slytherin heir would wink out of existence along with her daughter whom would be close behind. You've always dreamed of meeting your no good parents well here's your chance!" His deep laugh put shivers down her back as she shouted one last statement that made him go pale in the face.
"You forget this cat can fly!" she said ignoring the remark about her mother and one of her fathers. A ripping sensation had rippled through her back and her shoulder blades sent shockwaves of pain to her mind. It felt like they were being stretched and pulled at. The skin did not tear but stretched painfully making it almost tissue paper thin before thickening and continuing to grow outward. What looked like spades were growing from her back until they shifted and formed wings.
At first they were the kind of wings that baby birds had, no feathers, just fuzz until moments later the fuzz started turning black and then transforming into feathers that sprouted all along that exposed flesh. The new limbs grew larger weighing Emerald down at first before she grew accustomed to the pain and weight of them. She did not cry out, despite how severely her body throbbed and how much it hurt to have her shoulder blades snap in many places and reform again.
This process was all to familiar and took less than half a minute to accomplish, less than a quarter of a minute in fact due to numerous transformations much like that one. Soon there was only a dull ache in her back and as she sprouted the enormous wings that had the span of about ten feet Naman had even jumped off the staircase once it was only a few feet off the ground and ran down the halls not exactly sure where to find the little girl he was charged to bring back with him but instead he ran to escape the girl's mother. It seemed true indeed that animals would protect their young at almost any cost unless the predator hunting their young was much bigger and much more ferocious.
But the animal that had jumped onto the railing and jump from it gliding through the air down to his level and now following him, this animal would protect its young at any cost even her own life.
Emma felt the air rush by her as she glided down to the third floor following the Magi guard and with quite an effort started flapping the wings that she sprouted as they carried her faster.
Up ahead she could faintly make out running footsteps and since she was hot on Naman's heels it wasn't him. Like a hawk coming down on its pretty Emerald swooped down katana's at ready and used her feet to knock the man down to the ground. He fell with a startled yelp and turned over swinging one of his swords at her feet but missing as she flew up an extra foot out of his reach long enough for him to get up and make a dash again.
"Emma!" Sirius' voice rang out to her ears. She realized it were her lovers that ran towards them and knew that she had to end Naman before he could hurt either. But there were more than two pairs of feet echoing as they run. It sounded more like ten. Fearing that the Magi might have sent more guards she swooped down sharply about to end their little came of cat and mouse using her two katanas in a scissoring effect as she decapitated Naman.
Like a headless chicken his body ran for a few steps before collapsing far from his head, which rolled away farther into an alcove. Not bothering to go and retrieve it Emerald just hoped a student wouldn't stumble upon that head, god knew that an innocent child didn't need to see that kind of carnage.
Flapping her wings harder and faster she rose higher into the air, into the wooden beams that supported the ceiling even and folded her wings as she traveled jumping from beam to beam making her way farther towards the voices of Remus and Sirius whom still called out to her and the many footsteps that followed.
It turned out that more Magi guards weren't following them but instead the whole staff of Hogwarts with their wands outstretched. Sirius and Remus had brought the whole cavalry and she couldn't help but laugh. The only ones not present were her father and daughter, and she noticed that both her lovers had acquired black robes from somewhere instead of wearing the sheets they previously had on.
"Siri, Remmy! Up here!" she yelled down causing them to halt and look towards the ceiling where she crouched on one of the beams. Spreading her wings she heard loud gasps from everyone and glided down.
Enveloped into a tight hug by both her lovers she was able to breath peacefully now.
"You're hurt!" they mentioned in unison upon seeing the cuts and blood over her body that didn't heal.
"I know and I have no magic to seal them." From down the hall they were able to hear rushed footsteps like someone was sprinting their way over to them. The claws which she had wiped off on her skirt sprang out of her fist again as she stood ready to defend herself and her lovers.
It was Snape, blood gushing from his head and barely able to stay on his feet he collapsed and Emma immediately ran to him falling on her own already scraped knees and catching him to keep the man from crashing completely to the ground.
"What happened!?" She asked worry creeping into her eyes and voice as she ripped off a section of her already blood soaked skirt and pressed it to the gash on his temple. Even though she had no magic left herself, her own blood still worked perfectly fine to heal her father and his eyes soon swam into focus.
"Jasmine," he croaked. "They have her." And his world went black as he fell limp in the redhead's arms breathing softly in his dead faint.
Cassarius chuckled to himself stepping through a large gold-framed mirror with an unconscious redheaded little girl in his arms.
It seemed that his missionaries became a good distraction, and he noticed not for the first time that if you wanted something done you have to do it yourself.
**********************************AUTHOR'S NOTE************************************
YES I DID IT!!!! Mwahahaahah!!! I completed this chapter! Yes, I know I'm cruel, so very cruel for taking little Jasmine from her parents. I am truly sorry it took me so long to post this! Honestly I had some difficulties but now they seem to be straightened out and I shall continue to post more often.
I hope this chapter doesn't seem to rushed or cheesy. Let me know what you think.
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