Vampire Half 3: A Snake's Pride

Author's Note: Vampire Half is back ALL RIGHT! (Put Backstreet's back music from Backstreet Boys) Back here to continue with my trilogy (before HP 5 comes out) even though I never planned to make one. As you can remember, Voldemort was defeated in the last story, some Death Eaters still are alive and free, roaming the land. Here will be new characters, and there will be a surprise! Enjoy reading! (All characters belong to J.K. Rowling, except Selena, Septimus, Dr. Hunder and Mata Shani).

In secret he sang to me,

In dreams he came,

At first he talks to me, and speaks my name,

And do I dream again, for now I find:

The Phantom of the Opera is back inside my mind!

('Phantom of the Opera' sang by someone I can't remember, from the play/musical Phantom of Opera. Those who haven't seen this play, I advise you to see it. It's lovely!)

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Selena thrashed about in her bed, in the Hospital Wing.

'I can't do anything Headmaster!' cried Pomphrey,' I gave her all the calming potions, but nothing works!'

Dumbledore rushed to her side, and laid his hand on Selena's forehead. Selena's eyes suddenly, frighteningly burst open. But her blue eyes were distant, and didn't seem to see the two adults towering above her.

'Underground..Darkness...danger...Ruby's not Ruby....the person whom you most trusted isn't who she is...' Mumbled Selena.

'What is she talking about?' asked Poppy, looking at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore looked very grave.

'There is another spy at Hogwarts who caused all this,' spoke Dumbledore solemnly,' someone whom we trust a lot.'

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Severus looked at the prone form of Fleur Delacour, who blankly, unconsciously stared at the ceiling.

'As I was saying,' continued Crux,' it is time to explain everything to Professor Snape.

'We all perfectly know that Delacour is from a Veela origin. Her grandmother had been a Veela, and a strong one too. Even her hair is used in Delacour's wand. You may know, Professor Snape, that Veela blood may be used for resurrection of something that doesn't exist anymore.'

Comprehension seemed to dawn upon Severus. Crux smirked as he saw creeping horror overshadow Severus' pale face.

'A Veela's body is the place where the resurrected creature get it's soul in, and feeds on the precious Veela soul that rests in it. As the Veela soul is sucked away, so is her body shape eaten, leaving the shape of the body of the soul that now lays inside it.' Explained Crux,' The person will be as strong as he was before, and all because f the Veela.'

They were trying to resurrect Voldemort! They were going to use Fleur's blood to revive his soul, her body so his evil powers can germinate inside her, transforming her body shape to be the same as Voldemort's! Her soul will be eaten away by his rotting soul and soon she would look worse than a prisoner would from Azkaban who had his soul sucked out by a Dementor.

'The ingredient recipe to make this potion was lost 200 years ago, because it was outlawed,' hissed Severus.

Crux swirled around to face Snape, a strange smile on his face. His hand crept to the side of his robes, and pulled out a very old parchment. He showed the parchment to Severus. On the parchment was the recipe for the potion.

'How clever of you Minerva,' spoke Crux, fingering the outlines of the parchment,' to force Ruby to make a Polyjuice Potion, take her place, and ask Granger to search among the Hogwarts Library for this. You finally stole it from her, didn't you?'

'If you're implicating that my top student isn't intelligent as she is...' threatened Minerva, growling.

'No, no absolutely not,' said Crux, ' but we have to get on with our potion. Lepus, I hope you made the potion, since our dear little Ruby doesn't want to help you?'

Crux, grabbed her chin in his hand, while Ruby stared up at him.

'Such a pretty girl, but alas, such a shame that she may be killed. Another member of the Pureblood family is to be gotten rid of,' Smirked Crux.

Ruby frowned.

'Just the same as your parents, Diego and Marina Dockworm,' Spoke Crux,' Fools, trying to "protect" you from Lord Voldemort, since it was time of your sacrifice, so they show their devotion to him. They didn't want you to get killed, so they hid you somewhere in the forest, where we couldn't find you. Lord Voldemort got disposed of them.'

Ruby's fists clenched even tighter. Her eyes were hard and cold.

'The potion is finished,' announced Lepus from behind them.

'Excellent!' hissed Crux, 'Let's continue with the procedure.'

Lepus took a glass of the potion, and dropped a strand of hair in it. Voldemort's hair, Severus knew.

Suddenly, the black potion began to glow, turning into a blinding white colour. A huge ray of white light erupted from the potion, spreading into a white cloud in the air..forming the figure of Voldemort. The white glowing figure of Voldemort was actually his soul who had taken his shape. Instead of talking, the soul was screaming, expressing its feelings through the scream: hatred, anger, power and revenge.

The soul of Voldemort floated around the room, and suddenly turned its way towards Fleur's body on the table. It flew straight through the young woman's heart, right into her very soul. Soon, there will be nothing of her gentle soul, and Voldemort would have taken over her body.

'It worked!' exclaimed Crux with triumph. His eyes gleamed towards Severus,' Now it is your time to share some part in this, Potions Master!' Crux particularly spat the last two words.

Lepus stepped forward, and took a book out of his robes. Severus' eyes widened when he saw this.

Please don't, Severus' mind and body begged, not tht... But Severus stayed silent.

Lepus began to read again the Exorcist spell, the same spell that Severus' father and Justice Archlight read, so to torture him. The medieval spell that drags the vampire part out of the person and makes him clean. The spell which could be fatal to Severus, since in his blood he was half vampire.

Severus' body began to contract, and the familiar feeling that fire was burning inside his body returned. It felt as it his bones were being burned into ashes, it was so painful...

Even though it was a forgotten ancient language, Severus understood some of it.

'Dear Lord...' it said something like that, 'help cleanse this unfortunate soul who has been caught by the devil which drinks human blood...destroy every part of the demon inside his body..even if it kills him...let this be a sacrifice for you lord...'

They were going to torture him to death! Severus had realised even during the burning pain through his body. And they were going to use this blood to finish off the procession...

Pain wrenched Severus' body so much, that his own skin began to bleed, relieving itself from the merciless pain of purity.

'Stupefy!' yelled a voice behind them.

Lepus had stopped reading and fell unconscious onto the floor. Crux swirled around and spotted the person who said that. Sibyl herself.

'Get her!' growled Crux.

The ex-Death Eaters swiped out their wands and pointed them at her. Severus suddenly felt, his ropes going free. He looked behind himself, and saw Septimus and Leonardo Moon coming from under an invisibility cloak!

'Potter was kind enough to borrow us this,' smirked Septimus.

'After a lot of pressure,' chimed in Leonardo.

Septimus rummaged around the cloak and pulled out Salazar's Spear. Even in Septimus hand, it glowed, for he was also another heir of the Slytherin.

'Get them father,' Septimus said securely, handing his father the spear.

Severus felt energy rush through his veins once he toughed the spear. He stood up, and pointed the spear towards the Death Eaters.

'Let her go!' growled Severus.

The Death Eaters just stared and advanced on him. Severus took a breath, and dug the spear into the ground. The stone ground glowed, and the glowing spread, all the way to the marble table where Fleur was tied up. Her chains broke, and Voldemort's soul, with another horrifying scream disappeared into nothingness.

The process was broken.

Sibyl in the mean time sneaked up to Severus' side, standing on her ground proudly.

The Death Eaters were in a panic. Only Crux seemed cool, his eyes blazing with anger.

'You shall pay for this, filthy Slytherin snake!' hissed Crux.

Without warning, he shot a light of green from the point of his wand towards Severus and Sibyl. Sibyl stepped in the way, making her hit by the curse. Her body collapsed on the ground, cold, unmoving and ...dead?

Author's Note: Oh my god! Will Sibyl die? Yes, Ruby's parents were Dockworms Pureblood family and her grandfather, or great-grandfather is Dorado Dockworm! So many things happened now! Stay tuned for next chapter! Please review!