[ a/n: my version of a wizards duel… don't sue me…]
Strawberries
Malfoy Manor
Harry apperated into the manor. At once he started calling out their names, "Ginny! Serena!"
He heard crashing about him, and then the doors to his left and behind him flew open and masked death eaters came charging at him. He started dueling with the first one, immediately knocking him out with a jinx. He next screamed "partifices totalus!" at a nearby one and he went down, stiff as a bored. He made a cutting motion across the stomach of a third and dark blood came spilling out of him. He screamed in pain and he was replaced by many other death eaters gathering around him. He was trying to keep many at bay at once, but found that he couldn't for long. He made a slashing motion and he made a path in the deatheaters to a flight of stairs. He made a run for it, blasting hexes and jinxes randomly behind him and hearing bodies fall.
He called their names again, "Serena! Ginny!" and somewhere from above he heard a scream. He ran towards he, but was suddenly stopped short by something on his leg. He kicked the death eater right in the face with his foot and his mask came off, revealing Tomus Parkins, a Slytherin who had gone to school with him. He kicked him again and his nose started bleeding in which he let go. But Harry kicked him again, just for the heck of it and speed up the stairs, following Serena's and Ginny's calls.
***
There was much crashing down below and Ginny knew that someone unwelcome had arrived, "Harry!" she screamed, hoping with all her might it was him. She fought out of her binds and made a beeline to the door, "Harry!"
"Da-ddy!" Serena screamed and kicked more furiously at Draco who was trying to restrain her.
"Harry! Harry!"
Draco let go of Serena, and went for Ginny. He was too far to catch her, and she was almost to the door. He threw a binding curse at her legs and she fell down. She clawed her way violently to the door but Draco had caught up to her, spun her around, and seethed through clenched teeth, "You aren't going anywhere!" But there was a sudden crash and the door flung open, narrowly missing Ginny's head.
"Mr. Malfoy! Harry Potter is on the loose in the manor!"
He sprang up and grabbed him by the neck, "Well, if he's lose, why the hell did you run all the way up here to tell me! GO BLOODY GET HIM!" and he threw him back out of the room. By now, Ginny had undone her bindings and had sprang up, protecting Serena behind her back. He slammed the door and locked it with a flick, turning back to them, eyes flashing dangerously.
"I save you and this is how you repay me, calling Mr. Boy-Who-Lived? Serpen sorcia!" He flung the snake at them, laughed as they backed into a corner, the snake advancing on them.
***
Harry ran down a dank corridor, not hearing the two's calls anymore. He called their names, opening doors and flinging them open to glance in, and seeing them not there, would continue down the corridor calling their names and opening other doors. He heard a crash from a room up above and ran to a nearby staircase. Deatheaters came swarming down in front of him. He was just about to turn and run the other way, but he heard Serena's desperate screams floating down from the staircase the deatheaters had just come out of and instead plunged right into the throng of them. Two went down immediately and Harry slashed another one across the chest with his wand, red sparks shooting out as it came in contact with him. He fell down, clutching the wound which was now spurting blood and after a few moments, fell still. But Harry didn't have time to think about him, he was surrounded by deatheaters who were all taking swings at him with their wands. He stabbed a death eater with his wand and pushed him out of the way, slashed another and pushed him out of the way as well. He did this and slowly made his was across the hall and into another corridor. By the time he made it across, he was cut and bloody and had 20 more deatheaters on his tail. He ran up the corridor and turned down another hall, calling, screaming for them. He blasted more deatheaters he saw swarming out of a hall in front of him and ran past them, flinging curses over his shoulder.
"Serena! Ginny!"
There was another high pitched scream, and Harry turned down another hall towards it.
"Ginny! Serena! Serena! Where are you? Ginny!" He let fly a couple of curses behind him as he ran on.
***
"Harry!" Ginny was screaming as she tried to keep away from it. She backed up into the small table where the amber liquid was sitting, and it spilled onto the floor, a dark spot seeping onto the rug and onto the stone floor, glass going everywhere. Draco laughed at her antics.
"Hhhhhiiissssss…" the hiss hadn't come from the snake, it had come from Ginny. Draco stared at her incredulously. Ginny herself looked surprised, but soon recovered and hissed at the snake again menacingly. Draco was still staring, in denial. Ginny took a step toward it, eyes flashing; the snake stopped it's advancing and weaved back in forth in the air, it's tongue flicking in and out.
"Hiisssss, sshissss," Ginny looked down at Serena, who was hissing venomously at the snake.
The snake bobbed it's head up and down, seemed to back up. Ginny looked at her in surprise.
"It's okay mommy-"
"Bloody hell," Draco whispered under his breath, "You're both parseltongues," Ginny came out of her surprised state she hissed at Draco menacingly. Draco backed up slightly, "How-"
"Voldemort, in 1st year. When, my life force came rushing back to me, I must have inherited some of his powers as well…," she hissed again at him, advancing toward him and stepping past the snake. Serena followed her, picking the snake off the ground and cradling it in her hands, hissing softly to it, as if comforting it. "I found out about it when I ran across a garden snake in my garden in my 3rd year. I've known about it ever since. Serena must have inherited some of it-" she was standing right in front of him, staring at him definantly.
He looked down at her, and smiled. He gave a soft laugh.
He brought a finger up to her face and put it on her face, "You will never stop surprising me,"
"Never underestimate," she stepped out of his grip.
There was a crashing noise below them and yelling. Then the fire turned bright green and a face appeared there.
"Mr. Malf-"
"I SAID-" he raged, flicking a blade that was laying on the floor, where it had fallen off the table, into the air with his foot where he caught it in his hand and threw it viciously at the head in the fire, "- GO BLOODY GET HIM YOU FUCKED UP SON OF A BITCH!" The blade flew at the fire, in it, and through it where it hit it's target which fell. He pulled out his wand violently and pointed it at Ginny, in a fury. Ginny backed up and stepped on the glass. She immediately toppled and fell right into the shattered bottle. She cried in pain, her skin seeping blood, cut and ripped. She struggled in the glass, desperately trying to move to console her wounds, and at the same time trying not to move to prevent from getting anymore.
Draco now turned to Serena who had backed into a corner after seeing Draco throw the blade into the fire. He advanced on her, and she desperately tried to push herself farther away and into the wall. He swiftly picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. She was screaming and kicking, crying. As her tears hit the floor they flared up in flames and then died, she was strong with magic.
"Daddy! Mommy! Mommy!" she reached toward her mom as Draco pulled her out the door and out of sight. But just before she did, she tore of her locket and threw it to her mom.
"Serena!" Ginny crawled out of the glass mess and to the door, knees and hands cut up. Ginny reached the locket and cradled it in her bloodied hands for a moment. Then she opened it.
***
"Harry!"
Harry immediately grabbed at the locket bouncing on his neck.
"Ginny?"
"Draco's taken Serena! Please! Help her!"
"Where are you!"
"I don't know! A room inside the manor!"
"Yea? Me too! Surrounded by deatheaters. Could you be a little more specific about the room?"
He could hear her making whimpering noises, and for a while she didn't reply. Harry ran around straining his ears to hear her desperate sounds from around a corner and not from the little silver locket, but with not much luck because of the thousands of footsteps following him.
"3rd floor, maybe 4th… in a room close to the garden. In the corridor-" he could hear her moving about, "Right outside there's a picture of a man holding up a sword- that's all I can really tell you-"
"Can you move?"
"Little bit-"
"Hold on, I'm coming,"
***
Harry ran down a flight of stairs, through a hall, to a big wood door. Harry pulled them open and closed them, putting a locking charm on it. With a long swing of his arm, the furniture in the room piled against the door. He then, aimed his wand and fired a blasting charm. The wall and furniture was ripped apart, hurled debris fell on the deatheaters and forced them to the ground where they lay still and didn't get up. There was a small cave in and stones fell, blocking remaining deatheaters from sight. And with that little obstacle in they're way, Harry flew out another door and down a corridor, screaming Ginny's name.
Then he heard it, "Harry!"
He turned into another hall to the left and heard her voice clearer now. Down another corridor, and turned right, where he saw a bloody Ginny laying half in the corridor and half in a room, calling his Harry's name.
"Ginny!"
"Harry! Please Harry- Draco's taken Serena!"
Harry reached her and slide his arms under her. He sat down against the cold wall and held Ginny in his arms, trying to comfort her. She cried into his shirt, leaving stains; she wouldn't be pacified.
"Please Harry! Serena-"
"I know, I know. Shh-" Harry pulled out his wand, also covered in blood, and whispered healing spells. He helped Ginny to her feet, but she swayed dangerously from loss of blood. But as soon as she recovered they were off down the corridor and racing for the nearest flight of stairs.
[sorry it took so long to update… my first finals are really starting to stress me out, hard to write… hope you liked… REVIEW!
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