A/N: C'mon people, I'm so close to my goal…only ten more reviews…
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Emerald Flame
Chapter 17
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****Hermione's POV****
"Avada Kedavra!"
I let out a scream as a burst of green light filled the room and the sound of a speeding train echoed around us all. I closed my eyes and pressed my hands firmly over my ears until the noise and the light faded away. What I saw seemed almost impossible.
Eliza had apparently thrown herself out of the way when the spell came, causing it to hit the 'bubble' and bounce back towards Voldemort. Somehow, he had dodged it as well, so the spell had hit the Death Eater behind him. The Death Eater now lay motionless on the ground.
Eliza forced herself up and smirked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Foiled -again- by a teenager…" She laughed.
Voldemort threw the Killing Curse at her again. Again, she dodged and the Curse hit a Death Eater. This only made him angrier and he threw the Curse two more times. Miraculously, Eliza dodged each time, causing two more Death Eaters to drop down dead.
"If you keep killing all your friends," Eliza said, crossing her arms over her chest, "How do you expect to get invited to parties?"
Voldemort growled, but put down his wand, apparently trying his hardest to suppress the urge to kill Eliza for the time being.
"You -will- stop mocking me," He said coldly.
"And what makes you think that?" Eliza asked, stretching her arms over her head before she yawned and crossed them over her chest.
"Unless you want to DIE, you WILL stop mocking me."
Voldemort seemed to be trying -very- hard to contain himself.
Eliza sighed and looked at the Death Eaters, who were all standing in front of the doorway, barely breathing.
"Hi Lucius," She said baring her teeth at a Death Eater near the front. I glanced at Draco. He had tensed and was glaring at the Death Eater with murder in his eyes.
Lucius brought his hands up and took down his hood, glaring at Eliza with cold gray eyes.
"I should kill you now," Eliza sneered, "But I think I'll leave that pleasure to Draco there."
She nodded her head back towards Draco, and you could see the surprise on Lucius' face.
"But I killed…" He started, trailing off when he caught sight of his 'son.'
"No," Draco said, "Sorry, I'm still here."
Lucius' expression went from one to disbelief to the normal 'I'm-a-bloody-bastard' look quicker than a light bulb blowing.
"I thought you killed him…" Voldemort growled, turning to look at the blonde Death Eater.
"I…My Lord…you must understand…I ran the sword right through him!" Lucius muttered, his expression changing into a look of fear.
"You failed me?" Voldemort said slowly.
"No! No! I didn't!" Lucius said quickly, starting to babble.
"No one -ever- fails me…"
"My Lord!"
"You've been one of my most faithful followers, Lucius…"
"Yes, my Lord…always, my Lord…"
"It will be sorry to see you go…"
"No my Lord!"
"Good-bye Lucius…"
Voldemort raised his wand, pointed it directly at Lucius, and said the Killing Curse. Lucius was dead in a matter of seconds.
"Damn," Draco muttered, "I wanted to do that…"
"Yet again Voldy," Eliza said, looking from Lucius to Voldemort, "The first rule of creating an evil army: Don't kill your followers."
Voldemort closed his eyes and growled a little, trying his hardest to keep his temper down. Eliza rolled her eyes.
"You're not going to kill me," She said, crossing her arms over her chest again and planting her feet slightly apart on the ground, "Not now, anyway."
"-Really?-" Voldemort said, an evil grin appearing on his face. He reached into his robes and pulled out a sword with huge, egg-shaped emeralds set in the hilt. Even from here, I could see the name 'Salazar Slytherin' etched in the blade.
"Unless you throw that thing at me," Eliza said, eyeing the blade wearily, "You won't be able to hit me."
"-Really?-" Voldemort repeated. Eliza looked confused for a second and took a few steps back. Her lips were moving silently and rapidly, so she was either locking herself in her head again, coming up with a new spell, or praying. Voldemort laughed at the sight of his 'prey' finally looking scared.
It was then that it all suddenly clicked in my head. The bubble that they were in reflected all spells in or outside of it. Since there was a spell over the school, it had probably bounced off the outside bubble when they made it, and thus the spells usually over the school didn't apply to anything inside the bubble. In the simplest terms: Voldemort could apparate anywhere inside of the bubble. I was about to yell this out to Eliza, but it was too late.
Voldemort apparated behind Eliza and ran the sword through her stomach. Eliza gasped and looked down at the bloody sword protruding out of her abdomen before she looked back up and gagged, a thin line of blood starting to run out of the corner of her mouth and down her chin.
"NO!" Harry screamed, falling to his knees and looking from his girlfriend to the Dark Lord, murder in his eyes.
"They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die," Voldemort said in Eliza's ear, "So tell me what you see."
He pulled his sword out of her stomach and rested it over his shoulder. Eliza fell to her knees and looked at the ground for a moment before she started to talk, her voice sounding watery and blood falling down her chin with every word she uttered.
"I'm with my mother…" She said, her eyes unfocused, "Before you killed her…We're sitting in the living room…I'm playing my guitar and she's drawing…And laughing…."
She smiled for a second, her face turning up towards the sky. Then she slowly tilted her head in our direction and looked at Draco.
"I'm twelve…" She said, the smile dropping slowly, "Draco sneaks into my room…covered in blood…and asks if he can sleep on the floor…his father's been hitting him again…"
She turned her head even more and looked towards Harry.
"I'm in the ice maze…With Harry…"
She shook her head and looked up at Voldemort, her eyes coming into focus for a brief second.
"You don't get to know that," She said, before she coughed up more blood and her eyes went out of focus again. She suddenly smiled and started to laugh. Voldemort frowned down at her.
"What?" He growled. He didn't like his victims laughing at him.
"My brother…" She said, still laughing softly.
"You don't -have- a brother," Voldemort said suddenly, narrowing his eyes at her, "I killed him."
"Yes, you did," Eliza laughed again, "But that doesn't mean he's still not walking around…"
Voldemort blinked for a second and then a look of fear suddenly appeared on his face.
"Oh no," Draco suddenly said softly. He walked over to me and stood next to me, looking up at the ceiling. I looked up too and gasped. Bats were flying around the ceiling. Many, many bats. But these bats had blood-red eyes. In other words, they weren't bats. They were vampires.
The biggest one landed next to Draco and glowed silver for a second before it transformed into a tall young man with glowing red eyes and white-blonde hair. He was apparently the leader of the clan, because once he landed and transformed, the rest followed his lead. Soon, there were almost as many vampires in the Great Hall as there were students.
"Listen closely, Voldemort," The leader said, glaring at the Dark Lord, "You will take down the force field. You will give my sister to me. And then I will kill you slowly. Understand?"
"You can't scare me, Dimitri," Voldemort growled, "Not only can you not get in the field, but I can just call the vampires under my control, and they'll most likely destroy you."
Dimitri laughed.
"Them?" He said, "Please, they didn't put up much of a challenge, nor did any of the other races."
"What?" Voldemort growled.
"We killed them," Dimitri said slowly.
"How…Never mind!" Voldemort yelled, "You still can't make it inside the force field!"
"Really?" Dimitri laughed. He took four steps forward until he was directly in front of the force field. He stuck his hand out and it simply passed through the bubble like it was nothing. He took three steps forward and stood completely inside the force field.
Needless to say, Voldemort was surprised.
"But…" He said, taking a few steps back, "How…"
"The force field prevents all humans with magical blood from entering. Thus, I can get in since not only am I not human, but I don't have blood."
Dimitri walked forward and picked Eliza up. He glanced up at the Dark Lord before he turned and whispered a few words, causing the part of the field in front of him to collapse and disappear. He walked out and set Eliza gently on the floor before turning to look around the room at his clan.
"Kill them all," He said, pointing to the Death Eaters, "EXCEPT the Dark Lord. Leave him for Potter."
In one fluid motion, the vampires rose and flew towards the Death Eaters. I whimpered once they started screaming and turned, burying my face in Draco's shoulder. Once the last scream had sounded, I turned and looked back towards the force field. I forced myself to look past at all the lifeless Death Eaters and looked towards Voldemort, who was surrounded by vampires with his back against the wall.
Dimitri turned towards Harry, who was crouched down next to Eliza, and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Call your sword," Dimitri said calmly, "It's the only way to kill him."
"But Eliza…" Harry looked down at his girlfriend, then back up at the vampire.
"I'll take care of her," Dimitri said, "Now kill the bloody bastard before he can hurt anyone else."
Harry nodded and rose, pulling out his wand and holding it over his head.
"Accio sword!" He yelled.
After a few seconds, the sword Harry had obtained after his fight with the basilisk in second year flew through the Great Hall and landed in his hand. He walked up to the Dark Lord, the vampires surrounding Voldemort parting to let Harry through, and set the tip of the sword against Voldemort's neck.
"You can't kill me," Voldemort laughed, "You don't gave it in you. You're too -nice- to kill."
"Really?" Harry said, looking down at Voldemort.
Voldemort didn't answer, he just began to laugh. Harry looked at him for a second before he lifted the sword and shoved it through Voldemort's throat.
Voldemort gagged, choked up blood, and died.
Harry turned and started walking back towards Eliza, dropping the sword on the floor as he went. Once he got up to Eliza, he crouched down next to her again, looking up at her brother.
"Will she live?" He asked.
"Yes," Dimitri said, nodding, "She'll live if you can get her to the Hospital Wing in the next hour."
"And you took care of the rest of his followers outside?"
"Yes."
"Okay then."
Harry picked Eliza up and calmly walked out of the Great Hall, stepping over the bodies of the dead Death Eaters.
The vampires walked behind us and effortlessly moved the tables, allowing the students and the teachers to go free.
"Nice to see you again, Dumbledore," Dimitri said, walking up to the Headmaster.
"Hello, Dimitri," Dumbledore replied, "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for saving the school."
"It was nothing," Dimitri said nonchalantly, shrugging.
"Although, I do have a favor to ask of you…"
"Yes, we'll get to bodies."
"Thank you."
"And…can you tell my sister to send me a letter when she gets well? I'd like to talk to her again."
"Yes, Dimitri, I will."
"Thanks."
With that said, Dimitri turned and looked around at all the vampires.
"Take the bodies and let's go!" He yelled at them. The vampires did as they were told, and in a few minutes, they were gone.
It was then that Draco turned towards me and smiled.
"It's over," He said, laughing slightly and hugging me tightly, "It's over."
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A/N: Whoa…I killed Voldy! (little midget runs by and yells "You bastard!") o.0...okay…The next chapter will be the last, I'm sure of that now. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!! I only want 100.…
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Emerald Flame
Chapter 17
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****Hermione's POV****
"Avada Kedavra!"
I let out a scream as a burst of green light filled the room and the sound of a speeding train echoed around us all. I closed my eyes and pressed my hands firmly over my ears until the noise and the light faded away. What I saw seemed almost impossible.
Eliza had apparently thrown herself out of the way when the spell came, causing it to hit the 'bubble' and bounce back towards Voldemort. Somehow, he had dodged it as well, so the spell had hit the Death Eater behind him. The Death Eater now lay motionless on the ground.
Eliza forced herself up and smirked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Foiled -again- by a teenager…" She laughed.
Voldemort threw the Killing Curse at her again. Again, she dodged and the Curse hit a Death Eater. This only made him angrier and he threw the Curse two more times. Miraculously, Eliza dodged each time, causing two more Death Eaters to drop down dead.
"If you keep killing all your friends," Eliza said, crossing her arms over her chest, "How do you expect to get invited to parties?"
Voldemort growled, but put down his wand, apparently trying his hardest to suppress the urge to kill Eliza for the time being.
"You -will- stop mocking me," He said coldly.
"And what makes you think that?" Eliza asked, stretching her arms over her head before she yawned and crossed them over her chest.
"Unless you want to DIE, you WILL stop mocking me."
Voldemort seemed to be trying -very- hard to contain himself.
Eliza sighed and looked at the Death Eaters, who were all standing in front of the doorway, barely breathing.
"Hi Lucius," She said baring her teeth at a Death Eater near the front. I glanced at Draco. He had tensed and was glaring at the Death Eater with murder in his eyes.
Lucius brought his hands up and took down his hood, glaring at Eliza with cold gray eyes.
"I should kill you now," Eliza sneered, "But I think I'll leave that pleasure to Draco there."
She nodded her head back towards Draco, and you could see the surprise on Lucius' face.
"But I killed…" He started, trailing off when he caught sight of his 'son.'
"No," Draco said, "Sorry, I'm still here."
Lucius' expression went from one to disbelief to the normal 'I'm-a-bloody-bastard' look quicker than a light bulb blowing.
"I thought you killed him…" Voldemort growled, turning to look at the blonde Death Eater.
"I…My Lord…you must understand…I ran the sword right through him!" Lucius muttered, his expression changing into a look of fear.
"You failed me?" Voldemort said slowly.
"No! No! I didn't!" Lucius said quickly, starting to babble.
"No one -ever- fails me…"
"My Lord!"
"You've been one of my most faithful followers, Lucius…"
"Yes, my Lord…always, my Lord…"
"It will be sorry to see you go…"
"No my Lord!"
"Good-bye Lucius…"
Voldemort raised his wand, pointed it directly at Lucius, and said the Killing Curse. Lucius was dead in a matter of seconds.
"Damn," Draco muttered, "I wanted to do that…"
"Yet again Voldy," Eliza said, looking from Lucius to Voldemort, "The first rule of creating an evil army: Don't kill your followers."
Voldemort closed his eyes and growled a little, trying his hardest to keep his temper down. Eliza rolled her eyes.
"You're not going to kill me," She said, crossing her arms over her chest again and planting her feet slightly apart on the ground, "Not now, anyway."
"-Really?-" Voldemort said, an evil grin appearing on his face. He reached into his robes and pulled out a sword with huge, egg-shaped emeralds set in the hilt. Even from here, I could see the name 'Salazar Slytherin' etched in the blade.
"Unless you throw that thing at me," Eliza said, eyeing the blade wearily, "You won't be able to hit me."
"-Really?-" Voldemort repeated. Eliza looked confused for a second and took a few steps back. Her lips were moving silently and rapidly, so she was either locking herself in her head again, coming up with a new spell, or praying. Voldemort laughed at the sight of his 'prey' finally looking scared.
It was then that it all suddenly clicked in my head. The bubble that they were in reflected all spells in or outside of it. Since there was a spell over the school, it had probably bounced off the outside bubble when they made it, and thus the spells usually over the school didn't apply to anything inside the bubble. In the simplest terms: Voldemort could apparate anywhere inside of the bubble. I was about to yell this out to Eliza, but it was too late.
Voldemort apparated behind Eliza and ran the sword through her stomach. Eliza gasped and looked down at the bloody sword protruding out of her abdomen before she looked back up and gagged, a thin line of blood starting to run out of the corner of her mouth and down her chin.
"NO!" Harry screamed, falling to his knees and looking from his girlfriend to the Dark Lord, murder in his eyes.
"They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die," Voldemort said in Eliza's ear, "So tell me what you see."
He pulled his sword out of her stomach and rested it over his shoulder. Eliza fell to her knees and looked at the ground for a moment before she started to talk, her voice sounding watery and blood falling down her chin with every word she uttered.
"I'm with my mother…" She said, her eyes unfocused, "Before you killed her…We're sitting in the living room…I'm playing my guitar and she's drawing…And laughing…."
She smiled for a second, her face turning up towards the sky. Then she slowly tilted her head in our direction and looked at Draco.
"I'm twelve…" She said, the smile dropping slowly, "Draco sneaks into my room…covered in blood…and asks if he can sleep on the floor…his father's been hitting him again…"
She turned her head even more and looked towards Harry.
"I'm in the ice maze…With Harry…"
She shook her head and looked up at Voldemort, her eyes coming into focus for a brief second.
"You don't get to know that," She said, before she coughed up more blood and her eyes went out of focus again. She suddenly smiled and started to laugh. Voldemort frowned down at her.
"What?" He growled. He didn't like his victims laughing at him.
"My brother…" She said, still laughing softly.
"You don't -have- a brother," Voldemort said suddenly, narrowing his eyes at her, "I killed him."
"Yes, you did," Eliza laughed again, "But that doesn't mean he's still not walking around…"
Voldemort blinked for a second and then a look of fear suddenly appeared on his face.
"Oh no," Draco suddenly said softly. He walked over to me and stood next to me, looking up at the ceiling. I looked up too and gasped. Bats were flying around the ceiling. Many, many bats. But these bats had blood-red eyes. In other words, they weren't bats. They were vampires.
The biggest one landed next to Draco and glowed silver for a second before it transformed into a tall young man with glowing red eyes and white-blonde hair. He was apparently the leader of the clan, because once he landed and transformed, the rest followed his lead. Soon, there were almost as many vampires in the Great Hall as there were students.
"Listen closely, Voldemort," The leader said, glaring at the Dark Lord, "You will take down the force field. You will give my sister to me. And then I will kill you slowly. Understand?"
"You can't scare me, Dimitri," Voldemort growled, "Not only can you not get in the field, but I can just call the vampires under my control, and they'll most likely destroy you."
Dimitri laughed.
"Them?" He said, "Please, they didn't put up much of a challenge, nor did any of the other races."
"What?" Voldemort growled.
"We killed them," Dimitri said slowly.
"How…Never mind!" Voldemort yelled, "You still can't make it inside the force field!"
"Really?" Dimitri laughed. He took four steps forward until he was directly in front of the force field. He stuck his hand out and it simply passed through the bubble like it was nothing. He took three steps forward and stood completely inside the force field.
Needless to say, Voldemort was surprised.
"But…" He said, taking a few steps back, "How…"
"The force field prevents all humans with magical blood from entering. Thus, I can get in since not only am I not human, but I don't have blood."
Dimitri walked forward and picked Eliza up. He glanced up at the Dark Lord before he turned and whispered a few words, causing the part of the field in front of him to collapse and disappear. He walked out and set Eliza gently on the floor before turning to look around the room at his clan.
"Kill them all," He said, pointing to the Death Eaters, "EXCEPT the Dark Lord. Leave him for Potter."
In one fluid motion, the vampires rose and flew towards the Death Eaters. I whimpered once they started screaming and turned, burying my face in Draco's shoulder. Once the last scream had sounded, I turned and looked back towards the force field. I forced myself to look past at all the lifeless Death Eaters and looked towards Voldemort, who was surrounded by vampires with his back against the wall.
Dimitri turned towards Harry, who was crouched down next to Eliza, and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Call your sword," Dimitri said calmly, "It's the only way to kill him."
"But Eliza…" Harry looked down at his girlfriend, then back up at the vampire.
"I'll take care of her," Dimitri said, "Now kill the bloody bastard before he can hurt anyone else."
Harry nodded and rose, pulling out his wand and holding it over his head.
"Accio sword!" He yelled.
After a few seconds, the sword Harry had obtained after his fight with the basilisk in second year flew through the Great Hall and landed in his hand. He walked up to the Dark Lord, the vampires surrounding Voldemort parting to let Harry through, and set the tip of the sword against Voldemort's neck.
"You can't kill me," Voldemort laughed, "You don't gave it in you. You're too -nice- to kill."
"Really?" Harry said, looking down at Voldemort.
Voldemort didn't answer, he just began to laugh. Harry looked at him for a second before he lifted the sword and shoved it through Voldemort's throat.
Voldemort gagged, choked up blood, and died.
Harry turned and started walking back towards Eliza, dropping the sword on the floor as he went. Once he got up to Eliza, he crouched down next to her again, looking up at her brother.
"Will she live?" He asked.
"Yes," Dimitri said, nodding, "She'll live if you can get her to the Hospital Wing in the next hour."
"And you took care of the rest of his followers outside?"
"Yes."
"Okay then."
Harry picked Eliza up and calmly walked out of the Great Hall, stepping over the bodies of the dead Death Eaters.
The vampires walked behind us and effortlessly moved the tables, allowing the students and the teachers to go free.
"Nice to see you again, Dumbledore," Dimitri said, walking up to the Headmaster.
"Hello, Dimitri," Dumbledore replied, "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for saving the school."
"It was nothing," Dimitri said nonchalantly, shrugging.
"Although, I do have a favor to ask of you…"
"Yes, we'll get to bodies."
"Thank you."
"And…can you tell my sister to send me a letter when she gets well? I'd like to talk to her again."
"Yes, Dimitri, I will."
"Thanks."
With that said, Dimitri turned and looked around at all the vampires.
"Take the bodies and let's go!" He yelled at them. The vampires did as they were told, and in a few minutes, they were gone.
It was then that Draco turned towards me and smiled.
"It's over," He said, laughing slightly and hugging me tightly, "It's over."
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A/N: Whoa…I killed Voldy! (little midget runs by and yells "You bastard!") o.0...okay…The next chapter will be the last, I'm sure of that now. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW!! I only want 100.…