A/N; I don't own Harry Potter or its characters.
The last morning before heading out of Hogwarts, Alex was sitting alone in her dorm, looking out of her window. This would the first time that she would away from Hogwarts for Christmas Holidays, Alex thought, just as Helios and Lily flew into the dorm, from their morning flight into the forbidden forest. "Hi guys." Alex said, as each landed on a shoulder. "Remember, I'm leaving on the train at nine." Alex said to her familiars, since Helios would telepathically alter peoples perceptions whenever Alex was around people who didn't already know about them, but the second Alex was alone the two would appear at her side.
As soon, as Alex informed her familiars, a voice came from the door. "Alex lets head for breakfast." Hermione said from the doorway. "I'm leaving now Hermione." Alex said, as Helios flew out of the window, but Lily stayed on Alex's shoulder.
In the great hall, everyone was looking forward to the holidays, and talk was abundant as they ate, especially for three friends. "Hey, Alex, any plans for the holidays?" Hermione asked. "Actually I heard that we might be allowed to head to Diagon Alley, and Muggle London, to do some Christmas shopping." Alex said happily, since she was looking forward to the excursion. "Isn't that dangerous, leaving the school grounds, He-who-must-not-be-named spies would surely spot you Alex." Hermione said, looking worried. "I can easily alter my looks, and a number of the professors will be following us." Alex informed her. "Hermione, they should have everything covered, for Alex and the others safety, they probably wouldn't let Alex leave, unless the professors had everything covered." Ron said, hoping to change the subject, luckily Hermione dropped her questions, and they begin talking about other plans for the Holidays, since the three will be leaving Hogwarts.
Several hours later, on the Hogwarts Express, Ron, Hermione, Neville and Alex were sharing a compartment, talking about the holidays, when Neville change the subject. "Hey Alex, my parents want to invite you over my house, sometime over the holidays, since they want to get to know you better, do you think you would able to?" Neville asked hopefully. "I would love too Neville, but I need to check with Professor Crystal," Alex said, even though she would like to go, she knew Crystal might say no. "I will send Helios to give you the answer." Alex said, then Neville went into plans they might do, if Alex came for a visit.
Sometime later, once threw the barrier on the Muggle side of Platform 9 3/4, Alex was saying her good-byes to Ron and Hermione, when Neville stepped up to her. "Hope you have a nice Holiday Neville." Alex nervously said. "I sure hope you can come over." Neville said, as Alex looked around, and seeing it clear. "I sure hope so, see you later." Alex said, and then gave Neville a light kiss, before teleporting away.
Moments after Alex was gone, Neville parents came by. "Did Alex leave already?" Alice said, looking disappointed. "Sorry, I forgot to tell her, you wanted to talk to her, before we leave." A blushing Neville said looking sorry. "It's alright Neville we understand; at least she gave you a good-bye kiss." Jonathan joked, since his son's lips had lipstick, Alice whom saw this, wipe Neville lip with a handkerchief.
At Crystal's school, Alex appeared facing Crystal's office. "Come in Alex." Crystal called from the inside, and Alex entered the office.
Once seated, Crystal looked to Alex. "Look like your relationship with Neville is still going on?" Crystal joked since she noticed Alex's lipstick was smeared. "But on to other business, I will allow you to visit Neville, on Christmas Day, but you only can stay till dinner, alright." Crystal said, and Alex nodded. "I will, I promise." Alex said, looking forward to going. "And for our Holiday trip to London, I expect you to stay near a professor, and I want you to make sure, the professor knows who you are, since you are going in disguise, do I make myself clear?" Crystal asked, as Alex nodded. "Now I think that is all for now, why not fix your lipstick, before heading to see your friends." Crystal said, in amusement, as Alex quickly took out her compact mirror, and redid her make-up, then with a last good-bye, Alex left.
The Holiday trip to London, was set a day before Christmas Eve, so the students have time to buy each other gifts, and everyone was looking forward to it, since they all was counting the days, before the trip.
On the morning of the trip, Alex was looking over her stuff, when she came across her special wallet. "I can't believe I almost forgot about this!" Alex thought, as she cast the spell to stop it from duplicating money, and place another spell to automatically draw out muggle money from her vault." There, now I don't need to go to Gringotts." Alex said, as she placed the wallet into her pocket, and left her room, when she saw the time.
As Alex got into the great hall, the fifty students that reside in the school were already eating, so Alex headed towards where Tina and Laura were sitting. "Thought, you were going to miss our Holiday trip?" Laura asked, as Alex sat down. "Nah, wild horses couldn't keep me away," Alex said, as she placed food on her plate. "What?" Laura and Tina said. "Never mind, muggle expression. So where are we going, Diagon Alley or the muggle mall?" Laura asked. "I wouldn't mind checking out the new Muggle things." Tina said. "Then lets go then, I have seen enough of Diagon Alley, since I been going there almost every summer." Alex informed. "The Muggle Mall it is, we better inform Professor Crystal, since we are leaving in two hours, and then get into our Muggle school uniforms." Laura said in disgust, since she prefer the normal wizard robes they wore daily, to the fancy private school uniforms, they had to wear every time they leave the school, for a special event in a nearby Muggle town.
A little over an hour later, Alex was alone in her room, looking in the full-length mirror. Alex was wearing the Muggle uniform, which had a red tie, a white long sleeves blouse, a black jumper, with a skirt that stopped at the knee's, and lastly a thick long yellow coat, with the school symbol of the four elements on a shield. "I hate this uniform." Alex said, as she played with the red bow tie, to set it right. "This would have to do, I guess?" Alex thought, and then headed out of the door, to meet her friends at the entrance.
At the school's entrance, Alex saw Laura in the same muggle uniform. "I see you hate it too, eh?" Laura said, as they got together. "Hey, wait up." Tina said, also wearing the uniform. "Does anyone know the professor that will be watching us?" Alex asked her friends. "I heard professors Glen and Crystal, are our guides, so we better find their group." Laura said, and they headed out into the field, where a number of students were splitting into five groups, each with two or more professors.
Once the trio got to their group, Crystal whom was wearing a normal teacher's outfit was waiting, for the last student to head into their group, before speaking. "For those of you who are new here, here is the rules, each student must stay with their assign professor, and must not go off on their own, any one breaking this rule, will loose their privilege to attend the next outing." Crystal stopped to check they understood, and continued. "Now with that said, professors, please split again your group, and use your port key when ready." Crystal called to them. Once the groups were ready, one by one, the groups vanished.
All but one group was left, and that was Alex's group that consists of five girls and Crystal was their guide. "All right now, Alex, it is time to change your appearance." Crystal reminded Alex, and Alex changed her hair to black, and eyes to brown. "Professor is this fine." Alex asked, and Crystal nodded. "Alright now, let's hold hands, and I will teleport us near the Shopping Mall." Crystal said, everyone took a hand, and after a few minutes, were teleported.
The group appeared in a corner of a deserted park, there Crystal led the group, to the street, and started walking. "Alex, since this is your first outing, I will relay this message only to you," Crystal telepathically said to Alex. "When we are out in the Muggle world, anyone who asks, where you are from, informed them you came from Crystal School for Orphans," Crystal said. "Also don't worry, since there is a spell on you that will stop anymore questions from prying Muggles." Crystal finished. "Professor, what about Voldemort, will he be able to sense me?" Alex telepathically asked, since that worry was bothering her. "As long as you are within twenty feet of me, he won't sense you." Crystal only said, since they had reached the Shopping Mall.
The Mall, was huge, and filled with many deferent types of stores, and restaurants, but mostly Alex group only went into the clothing stores, since they were not interest in the others, that much.
The trip up to lunch went well, and Alex, along with her group, had couple bags filled with clothes, and stuff they would need, but after a while Crystal stopped their walk. "Alright now, let head to a restaurant, any suggestions?" Crystal asked the group, and the students said, a number of restaurants, but when two students name the same one, Crystal went ahead to pick that one and they went to eat.
As the group headed to the restaurant, Alex noticed several not so welcome customers. "MALFOY'S?!?! What are they doing in a Muggle town?" Alex thought, as she saw Draco and Lucius dressed like Muggles, but did not look so well, as they walked across the Mall. "Great, if they are here, then there must be trouble. Oh well, I guess I can try out that spell I found." Alex thought, then waited till her friends and Crystal entered the restaurant. "Gemello!" Alex whispered, and for a second, her body glowed, and with a blink, she followed her friends into the restaurant.
Across from the restaurant, Alex appeared. "Wow it works, while my clone keep my friends company, I can follow the Malfoy's. I just hope Crystal won't notice anything." Alex thought worriedly, since she knew the spell should have copied everything about her, from her memories to looks, but unfortunately, it would only have half of her magic and Elemental strength, with that in mind, Alex quickly left her spot.
Far across the Mall, Alex followed the two Malfoy's to a renovating area, covered in wood and tarps, they both quickly went in. "I guess I should follow?" Alex thought, and said a spell. "Anti il mago!" Alex whispered, and again her body glowed for a second. "Good, with this spell on me, I can easily walk in front of any wizard, and they won't be able to see me. I hope." With that thought, Alex went into the closed off area.
Once into the room, Alex could sense tons of protection wards about. "Hmm, anti Muggles, anti animagus, and what's this?? Dark Mark detection spells, an a special ward that will stops anyone without a Dark Mark. Great, what ever going on here, Voldemort doesn't want anyone but Death Eater to be here?" Alex thought, as she continued walking.
The room Alex was in was large, and she could tell it was magically enlarged, to ten times its original size. "They must hold some of their Death Eaters meetings here?" Alex thought, as Death Eaters appeared, and went into the center of the room, where an eerie ball of light was seen. "Well here goes nothing." Alex thought, and started walking through the ranks of the Death Eaters.
For one thing, this was weird for Alex, she was standing in plan sight of the Death Eaters and Voldemort, and they were ignoring her, and not only that, they were talking about her. "Report Lucius and it had better be good!" Voldemort hissed. "Sir, Alexandra seems to have disa-" Lucius was quickly cut off. "Crucio!" Voldemort screamed, and Lucius went down screaming for a few minutes. "I said, it had better be good, and that most certainly wasn't. Crabbe anything from your son? Crucio!" Voldemort quickly yelled, the second Crabbe shook his head, and he also fell screaming. "What about your son Goyle? Crucio!" Goyle didn't have the time to answer as he too fell under the curse. "Complete fools I surrounded myself with, how am I going to succeed to having an Heir without her?" When Voldemort said that, Alex suddenly felt like sterilizing herself on the spot. "Alexandra must be powerful to survive the Veil, and with her, our offspring will be much more powerful?" Voldemort said, as he walked about the light, lost in thought.
As seconds went by, Alex inwardly wanted to leave here, but knew there was more to see. "Macnair, get the ceremony ready by tonight, I do not care anymore that it will take a year for it to be ready, I going to need all the help I can get, with this Sorceress about I can't afford to lose anymore Death Eaters." Voldemort hissed at Macnair, and he quickly bowed, and left.
Once Macnair left, Voldemort quickly pointed his wand to the side. "Crucio!" Voldemort yelled, and Alex was hit with the curse, and she fell screaming. "Foolish girl, your personal wards had not made you fully undetectable. Although you came very close." Voldemort said, as he released Alex. "Now who are you, and who are you spying for?" Voldemort said loudly. "Pieno guarendo!" Alex mumbled softly, and felt the after affects of the curse leaving her body. "I spy for no one, Tom Riddle!" Alex said, getting up, and at the same time, her golden robes appeared. "You're the Golden Sorceress?!" Voldemort said startled. "That I am, and don't bother asking around for my description, that wasn't my real appearance." Alex said, looking from under her hood. "I don't think it will be necessary." Voldemort hissed. "TAKE HER OUT NOW!!" Voldemort yelled, and all the Death Eaters surrounded Alex. Scores of Death Eaters cried out "Avada Kedavra!" And just before the spells hit, Alex disappeared, leaving behind a one foot diameter white sphere, that absorbed all the green spells, and then shot out a red spell back at the casters, and all the Death Eaters fell stunned.
Once it was clear, Alex appeared in front of a furious Voldemort. "This was fun, let's fight again later, alright?" Alex said, and teleported. "YOU PAY FOR THIS SORCERESS!" Voldemort yelled, before apparating away.
Once Alex appeared, she was standing near the restrooms by the restaurant. "Alexandra, can you hear me?" Alex telepathically called to the clone. "Yes, I'm here, you want to meet in the restroom?" Alexandra telepathically asked. "Yes, I just placed wards on the restroom, so no one enters before we are done, and hurry." Alex said, and went into the restroom.
In a few minutes, Alexandra appeared, facing Alex. "Were there any problems with Crystal or our friends, Alexandra?" Alex asked. "No, at least I don't think so, but I have a feeling Crystal might," Alexandra said, as Alex nodded. " I thought as much, she would be the one to see through this. Oh well, let us merge, so I can see the full details of what was happening during lunch." Alex said, and held out her hand, and Alexandra complied, and took it. Once their hands touched, there was a blinding light, and when it over, there was only one Alex.
Once Alex was alone, she knew everything that the clone did, and also the clone's suspicion about Crystal. "Great, I better not create my clone around Professor Crystal, or else she will suspect something." Alex said, then left the restroom, and headed to the restaurant.
Once back in the restaurant, Crystal was just gathering up the five students. "Good, you are back, let's head to the other stores." Crystal said, and Alex followed, feeling lucky that whatever the clone ate, made her full, so Alex was not hungry, as they continued shopping.
The rest of the day was uneventful, as Alex and her friends finished their Christmas shopping, and went into their rooms, to gift wrap their gifts, but as Alex magically wrapped her gifts, her mind was on the meeting, and what Voldemort had said. "A year for it to be ready? But what is 'it' exactly?" Alex questioned herself. "Voldemort is summoning something, which would take a year to be ready, but what?" Alex grilled herself for answers. "Wait a minute, the prophecy. In another six months, a new Darkness will begin, and the Light will succumb to the Darkness." As Alex said that, she knew whatever Voldemort is doing, will set in motion the next Darkness, and there was nothing she can do, since it would change the prophecy. "Great, I officially hate being a Seer. I wish I could talk to someone, maybe Chronos?" Alex thought, but shook her head. "No, he will not help, not until the rest of the prophecy is said. If I tell professor Dumbledore or Crystal, they would want to know how I came about this, unless." Alex thought, and an idea hit her. "Yes, that will work; I got to see Professor Crystal." Alex said, and teleported.
In Crystal's office, Alex told Crystal everything about the meeting, by saying she saw it in a vision, and when Alex was done. "I will inform professor Dumbledore, why not head to the great hall, to have dinner, I will probably talk to you again." Crystal informed, and Alex nodded, as she left.
For the rest of the day, Alex was not inform of what happen between Dumbledore and Crystal's meeting, but she was sure, they along with the Order, would look up anything that would help in the coming darkness. "Would it be enough, will we be ready for the next Darkness." Alex thought, but knew that the only thing could help them, was finale part of the prophecy, which she hoped, will come to being soon.
As Alex laid in bed, her eyes close, ready to fall asleep. "And the Light will succumb to the Darkness, unless the one born.." Alex said, and was sound asleep.