Chapter Eight

The next morning, as Lily was eating alone on one of the end of the table, two owls came and dropped letters in front of her, one was black. Her hand shaking, she took the black one, opened it and started reading.

Dear Slivia

I don't want to wait much longer, if you don't want to join me by will, I'll force you. You'll submit to me and we'll rule this world, father and daughter… As you don't want to reunite the family, I'll use other ways… From now, I'll kill someone every Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, until you give and joined the Dark Side. You'll received letters containing a few photos of the victims the day after to show you what you have done to them… Hope you'll enjoy it!

Lily starred at the letter, not believing what she had just read. What kind of man was he? How far could he go? Then a thought hit her, Today was a Tuesday! Would he…?

Suddenly an another owl came and Lily opened hurriedly the black letter.

She read quickly the little note in it and made a cry. She took the photos and begun to cry. She didn't see people eyeing her with wonder on their in particularly seven very curious Gryffondor student. She got up, the two black letters in her hands, took her stuff, and ran from the hall, the other letter laying near her plate.

Remus got up and took the letter. He opened it and read silently.

"Wonder what had upset her?" wondered James, while Remus was reading.

"I've never seen her loose her cool until now…" added Sirius.

"Me too" nodded Bella, a bit worried.

"Her parents had been killed yesterday." Answered a shaken Remus. He handed them the letter.

Dear Miss Evans

We are truly sorry to announce you that your parents are dead. They were killed yesterday by Death Eater. Your sister, who was luckily not present at that moment, is the only survivor…

We offer you our sympathy.

Fran Traillin

"My God, Poor girl!" said Bella horrified. "I'll comfort her!" She started walking out the Hall, but Remus stopped her.

"What Remus!"

"Don't go."

"Why? She shouldn't be alone in a moment like this!"

"I think she'll reject you or she'll say something she doesn't mean… Let her time to realise what had happened…"

"You sure?" replied Bella doubtfully.

"Yeah."

"If you said so."

Lily didn't come to any of her class the whole day. After dinner Bella, Lizzie, Dany raced to their dorm. They found her asleep tears on her cheeks… They noticed too that there was a new black box on her bedside. But they were unable to open it.

Claire entered. She eyed Lily, spiteful.

"Oh Little dork was crying?"

"What?" spat Bella.

"Oh Bella!" Said Claire, exasperate, "Don't stand up for her. A little piece of dirt like her isn't worth it…"

Lizzie was growing red with anger.

"How dare you saying it! She'd just lost her parents!"

"Great! Now maybe we will be finally got ride of her!" answered happily Claire.

"What do you think you're saying!" shouted Lizzie

"Liz, not you too. Look at her! She's an outcast, she's a dork, she's ugly. The only thing she had right is her brain. She's useless! Who could want to be the friend of a freak like her?" said Claire, smugly.

Bella, Dany, Lizzie were mad.

"She's a great person! Greater than you are!" snapped Dany.

"Really?"

"Really"

"Good" Claire was about to say more, then she had a cruel smile. "Alright! Suit you! But you'll regret it!"

Then she exited the room.

"And I thought she was our friend!" said quietly Bella.

"Yeah…" nodded Dany and Liz.

The next two weeks went by quickly. Lily had kept received black letters with photos of the victims, she had become pale and was weakening. She barely spoke, and kept herself away from the other. Bella, Liz, Dany and Remus were worried about her but didn't know how to approach her.

Lily hadn't showed the letters to Dumbledore, afraid of what he would think of her, afraid that he would expelled her, after all wasn't she the responsible of all these deaths. She had kept all the letters in a black box. She had immersed herself in her training, willing to destroy Voldemort.

The day of the full moon she decided to have a walk in the forest at night to help injured animals if she found some or just to forget her life for a few minutes…

James and co have planned their little escapade: they would meet the girls in the common room at 10 am then go to the shack and stay with Remus in the forest. Their animals would be strong enough to restrain a werewolf.

It was midnight, Lily was walking, lost in her thought when she heard a scream.

She looked up at the sky and saw the full moon. What have they done again? She sighed then hurried. She didn't want to transform. If she did she would have to do her Meta spell as it wear off when she used her fully powers.

Suddenly she felt a great pain, she ran and burst in a glade.

What she saw made her gasped. A unicorn was laying on the grass, severely injured, nearly dead. She saw she could barely breath.

She turned and saw the Marauders plus Bella, Lizzie and Dany. Remus was in his werewolf form. As soon as he saw her, he ran to her, growling.

She held her hand and shouted

"Halten lunedia filieris"

The wolf stopped

"mihiama Gaiaen tibiusi camicor"

The werewolf nodded and stayed still

"Camicor beanix homen fieint bleal non ihr."

Remus bowed

"You can transform back" she announced

With a few "pop", seven students were standing in the glade.

They starred at her, not completely believing what they were seeing.

"Who are you?" finally said James.

"It's not the time for questions" she replied, kneeling near the unicorn.

She checked her. She was barely alive, Lily had to make something quickly if she wanted to save her.

She sighed, she'd have to use her full power which meant that her cover would blow up, but the unicorn worth it.

She turned to the others.

"I'll heal her, but I have to do something. I warn you James, if you, Sirius or Peter do only one comment you're dead, understand?"

They nodded. She took her wand and muttered "Comnor". Her real looks appeared, long red locks, green eyes. She took off her contact and her silver pupils shine in the dark.

Then she leant near the animals, put her hand on it. Her hand started to shine and the healing started.

James was completely stunned, this was the mysterious girl…. But what was she?

"She's a Natural" whispered Bella in awe.

"And a powerful one" added Lizzie.

"How do you know that?" asked Sirius quietly (which was very un-sirius. But since he had recognise this girl as the girl who had hexed them very bad last time they had disobey her, he didn't want to make this happen again…)

"Did you guy ever listened during lessons?" sighed Dany.

"Natural, are very powerful people. They can managed every spells possible after seeing it done once, talk with animals, transform in one, heal injuries, suppress pain and manipulate a bit other people" started explaining Lizzie.

"We can identify them, as they always had green eyes, silver pupils and two beauty spots on the forehead." Finished Bella.

"So that's what she was hiding!" murmured James

"Do you know her?" demanded Dany, curious.

"Yeah, she was the previous Head Girl, the one we didn't know anything about"

"Her!"

"Yeah, but why was she so secretive?"

"Naturals aren't very appreciated by common wizards, they feared them as they are powerful and think they belong to the Dark Side. But in general they're neutral."

The boys were dumbstruck by these news. They watched as Lily and the unicorn were glowing brighter and brighter.

The unicorn was nearly dead. Lily started by healing her wound. Then she begun to gave the unicorn her energy to finished healing her. After a few minutes she realised the true. If she wanted to save the unicorn, she had to give her nearly all her energy which would probably kill her, but if didn't do that, the unicorn wouldn't be able to get up and go away, she'll have to stay laying here for a day, unprotected which meant the death of the animal. She hesitated a few moment but quickly came to a conclusion, on the one hand, a unicorn, one of the purest, the most innocent animal which had ever existed, on the other hand, her, a Natural, daughter of Voldemort, cause of her parent's death, of almost twenty murders, with nobody to care for. Her choice was settled, she would save the unicorn and did, for once, one thing right in her life. She continued to give her strength, feeling more and more tired. Then everything went black and she fell in unconsciousness.

James and co noticed that something was wrong, Lily was becoming paler and paler and the unicorn stronger and stronger. Then the unicorn got up and left whereas Lily collapsed on the grass, unconscious. They hurried towards her.

"Lily" asked James, shaking her. "Lily! LILY!"

She stayed still, not answering him.

Bella leant against her.

"James! She's barely breathing! She's dying!"

After a moment of panic, James's ideas became clear.

"OK, Bella, Sirius and Peter, stayed with Remus, transformed and brought him back to the shack. Then meet us in the infirmary. Dany, Liz, come with me!" They nodded. James took Lily in his arms, she was very light and raced to the castle followed by the girls. They burst in the Infirmary.

"What is this racket about? Potter, Hernan, Coppard! What do you do here at this hour?" shouted the nurse.

"It's Lily" said Liz, out of breath.

"Miss Evans?"

"Yeah, we found her outside! She was unconscious" explained Dany.

"Hurry up, put her on the bed!" the nurse was worried.

James put Lily's body on the nearest bed and Mrs Pomfrey started checking her.

"What has she done again… My dear, she had nearly killed herself!"

About ten minutes after, Sirius, Peter and Bella came.

"How is she?"

"Not good"

The nurse arrived.

"I managed to save her, but I have to go find Dumbledore. You'll have to explain what had happened!" she announced, looking at them sternly.

The seven kids gulped, afraid of what might happen, after all, they wasn't allowed to go outside at night…