Chapter Ten -- Attack at the Ministry

The four of them were silent.

"Well you better sleep, everything's under control."

"Sirius is out there isn't it? I can't sleep, I'm fine. I need to go." Julianna said hurrying to stand up.

"You don't follow orders huh?" Mrs. Weasley said in a strange voice.

"Mum?"

"I was going to make this simple for the three of you but you leave me no choice." She held up her wand.

"What the - "

"Impedimenta!"

A stream of jet light should've hit Ron squarely if it weren't for Hermione.

"You brats!" Mrs. Weasley made a lunged at Julianna but Hermione was quicker.

"Mum what are you doing?" Ron shouted.

"Don't mum me, boy." And as she say this Mrs. Weasley once rosy face turned deathly pale - it was Bellatrix.

"How'd you get in here?" Hermione asked her wand was pointing at her. Ron slowly picked up Bellatrix's wand. Julianna was moving slowly in front of Ron and Hermione.

"Where's Mrs. Weasley?" she asked quietly.

"You're not getting out here alive, Potter. The Dark Lord knew too well that you won't get your friends involved." She laughed.

"IMPEDIMENTA!"

Ron and Hermione shouted in unison and Bellatrix flew back to the wall.

"Stupefy!" roared Ron.

Julianna snatched Bellatrix's wand at Ron's hand and said, "Mobilicorpus." Invisible strings were wrapped around Bellatrixs unconscious body. "Accio wand. Accio Firebolt."

"What are you planning to do, there must be bunch of them out there." Ron asked.

"She's alone, I know. Believe me. First we'll look for your Mum and Madam Pomprey." It didn't took them long to find their unconscious bodies laying on the floor.

"What now?" Ron asked.

"You guys stay here," she said with her own wand and Firebolt on hand.

"You're not planning to go at the Department of Ministry!" Hermione said.

"Yes, I am Hermione, I've have enough. I'll go directly to Voldemort and challenged him and get this all done with."

"Julianna you can't! We're not going to allow you." Ron said firmly.

"Don't make me use this." Julianna bellowed as she pointed her wand at them. "Look, I'll be fine. I exaggerated a bit. I'm taking Bellatrix with me." She mounted her broom, hesitatingly she said, "Impedimenta."

Ron and Hermione's body fell to the floor, unconscious.

"You guys keep an eye on things here. I'll be back." She said as she broke into two Bellatrix's wand.

It was not hard to find where the Department of Ministry is, it was very visible now because everything was on fire. Julianna slowed a bit. She knew Voldemort was waiting for her and this is bad, she haven't got any plans at all. Her mind was only about Sirius. She felt Bellatrix move and gave her another Stunning Spell. She could see the giants clearly and cursed herself for not being prepared. She only had one planned in mind - go directly to Voldemort and fight him. She went lower and dropped Bellatrix on the ground, then she had an idea. In order to defeat Voldemort she have to be closed to him as possible. So she started undressing Bellatrix, a smile on her face was visible.

"Destroy them!" Voldemort's voice echoed the whole place. But it was a fair fight. The giants were fighting with their fellow giants. Different colors of light was streaming in mid air as wizard after wizard, witch after witch fight among themselves. Sirius was dueling against Lucius Malfoy, Lupin was on his left battling with another Death Eater.

It was war.

"Master."

Voldemort turned around.

"I brought you Julianna Potter, Master." A woman in black robes said proudly as she dropped the body to the ground.

"Well done" he said as he moved forward to Bellatrix then a jet of red light hit him in the chest.

"Got it!" she said as she moved closer at Voldemort's body laying on the ground. Her wand was still raised. "Mobili-"

The woman fell backwards her body was twitching.

"Foolish girl, do you think I would be fooled with that silly disguise of yours?" Voldemort said, thoroughly enjoying every minute. "You really are predictable, Potter."

Julianna continued to twitch her body and felt as if a thousand knives were being stabbed at her.

"Look about you, Potter. Victory is in my hands and you will be my trophy. Even Dumbledore is having a hard time." His laugh was menacingly. "What's this? Get up! You are not to die yet, I want you to see everything, ah, there's your beloved godfather now together with his wolf friend. Wormtail!"

A stout bald man came forward.

"You know what to do. Go!"

Wormtail nodded and apparated to where Lupin was.

Voldemort raised his wand again and muttered something under his breath, the dementors grew in number and was heading to one direction - to Sirius.

"N-no…" Julianna moaned as she herself fight off the pain. She wanted to faint but can't, she tried with great amount of effort to raise her own wand.

"Ex-Expecto Patronum!" she said as loudly as she could and a silvery stag appeared galloping around them, "Go!" The stag jumped down from the cliff and headed towards the dementors, first knocking off Wormtail as he made to lunged at Lupin with his silver hand.

"You really amazed me, Potter." Voldemort said watching her, then with a wave of his wand the pain vanished. Julianna was able to stand up shakily. "I think enough entertainment and on to a better one." His wand was raised again in a dueling position before Julianna knew what she was doing she was almost hit by the Killing Curse if she didn't stumbled to the ground. Voldemort wasted no time using the Avada Kedavra on her and every time she evades it she was beginning to be aware that she was alone. Everyone was busy saving their on lives down at the cliff. Dumbledore doesn't seem aware that she is not far from them. She hid herself behind a huge rock, thinking of what to do as she heard Voldemort's laugh rumbled like a clash of thunder. The rock that she was hiding for comfort smashed and she was yet again running for her life.

She could feel the heat of her wand as she clasped it tightly in her hand. She let out a number of curses and countercurses but it didn't seem to touch him. She was now, to her horror, cornered. Voldemort was slowly moving towards her. She let out another number of curses but he was fast to evade it.

"This is it, Potter! Say goodbye to your puny friends now!"

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Julianna said and Voldemort fell off backwards. She looked around and saw Hermione and Ron with their wands raised too.