Dilaimer: I own everything, muahahahaha!!!!! Dementor appears in room and hovers dangerously over her OK, OK, J.K. Rowlings owns everything, at least almost, I still own my OCs and the plot, what an accomplishment!
AN/: Me: "By the way, Voldie is here again!"
Kevin: "Yeah, I don't know why though...."
Me: "Let's just ask him.... looks around for Voldie There he is! In that dark corner, cradling a package of... chocolate chip cookies????"
Voldie: "They are mine! Only mine! My precioussssss...."
Kevin sweatdrops: "OOOOOOK, no more Lord of the Rings for him!"
Me: "Hey Voldie!"
No reaction
Me: "HEY VOLDIE!!!!"
Voldie startled: "Huh? What?"
Me: "What are you doing here? I thought you were upset and sulking somewhere...."
Voldie: "I'm hiding!"
Kevin: "Hiding? Who from?"
Voldie: "I'll tell you after the chapter!"
Me: "Well then, let's get it over with!"
This chapter is dedicated to Jessica-Black 5 who has been supporting me with her reviews from the start. Thanks a lot for caring!
Chapter 8: ON THE REVENGE TRIP
What happened last chapter:
Suddenly a strange sense of foreboding overcame her and, feeling anxious she opened it, taking the two photos out. The one on the top showed her and her friends sitting in a café. "So that's why we were being followed!" she thought. Then Ginny noticed that her fingers were feeling something strange on the photo below, it was like a scratch, like it had been torn. Putting away the photo of the group she looked at the other one. and gasped.
Hermione was walking home from her date with Draco that evening. They had wanted to forget their work for a few hours and had first gone to the movies in muggle London and afterwards had apparated from Diagon Alley to Hogsmeade, in order to have dinner at "Merlin's Tavern", a very popular wizard's restaurant.After such a nice evening, the young woman had decided not to apparate or floo, but instead to seize the opportunity to take a night time stroll and enjoy the calmness of the night. The restaurant was only a few streets away from their house anyway.
Everything was quiet as she was slowly walking down "Ravenclaw Ride" and turned the corner into "Shadow Lane". Suddenly she sensed movement behind her, she was being attached by at least five persons hiding in the shadows, crouching behind the bushes in the front lanes of the houses. Her instinct told her she was in danger, but she also knew it was best not to run and show the she was aware of their presence, that might lead them to attack her. Instead she chose to mentally contact the others and tell them about it.
Before she could do anything though, the men came out of their hiding places and she found herself surrounded by seven men who se faces showed no mercy, they really looked like brutal killers who would never question their job, they merely followed the orders of those who paid best. As son as they had formed a circle around her they began to close in, their wands drawn and pointing at her. Hermione, despite a strong feeling of foreboding in her stomach, smirked.
"Hey guys, nice night for a stroll, isn't it?"
"Shut up mudblood, our boss wants you dead, so you'll die!" one of them snapped
"Nice line, did you come up with it all by yourself or did you copy it from some action movie?"
The man looked at her angrily, but another one only laughed evilly: "Let her make fun of you Lester, it's the last thing she'll do anyway."
"It is?" Hermione asked, surprise clearly audible in her voice, "And who told you I'd let you kill me just like that?"
"My personal Seer." the man answered amused.
Hermione huffed: "Well, I have to tell you that I don't believe in Divination, I even skipped it at school. The teacher predicted my best friends death for every year and he is still alive.... so I don't see why it shouldn't be the same with me."
"Good point, but we are seven and you are alone."
"I know, isn't that unfair towards you?"
"You're pretty sure of yourself missy!"
"Modesty is of no help in life!"
"It would certainly not help you now...but nether does over confidence! Enough of talking, let's get this done. Guys, attack her!"
Two of the men launched themselves on Hermione, but she easily dodged their attack by throwing one over her shoulder and kicking the other one in the stomach to then toss him to the side. When finished she turned to the man she had previously been speaking to and who was obviously their leader, raised an eyebrow and looked at him as if questioning him if that was all his men were capable of doing.
"I see you have no problem escaping physical attacks... but how is it with magic?" he asked smirking.
Immediately three of the others threw different curses at her and Hermione quickly used a shield charm which had been improved by the Angels in many training and experimenting sessions, it even repelled a Crucicatus.
"Well, now it's my turn!" she said, smirking when a stunning spell one of the man had used was reflected by her shield charm and hit him square in the chest. "Stupefy! Immobili! () Stupefy!" she shouted and immediately three more man were "down", two stunned and one rooted to his place, she had used a freezing charm on him, another invention of the Angels. Adding the man she had thrown over her shoulder previously (he had been knocked out by the impact with the floor)five men were now incapable of fighting with her, still their leader seemed unimpressed.
"Well, seems like there's only one way to get rid of you... I'd have rather done it with my own hands... but well.... AVADA KEDAVRA!"
A flash of green light shot out of the tip of his wand and Hermione's eyes widened as it shot directly towards her....
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Luna woke up with a start and leaned her forehead on her right hand. It had only been a dream, thank God. But, on the other hand, it had been an extremely realistic dream, which meant it might be a premonition, she had already had a few in the past and, taking their current situation into consideration, it probably was one. Taking a quick decision she jumped out of bed, walked out of her room and went into Hermione's, shaking her gently.
"Mione!" she whispered, "Mione, wake up, there's something I've got to tell you!"
"Huh? What?" a very sleepy Mione asked.
"I think I just had a premonitory dream!"
"Really?" the brown haired woman asked now fully awake, "Coming from you I believe it! So, what was it about."
"I dreamed some killers attacked you, you fought them off well, but then their leader Avada'd you."
"I wouldn't wonder if Lucifer tried to kill me, it would be the perfect revenge...."
"We should ask Ginny to investigate on the mat..."
"Hey girls!" Ginny's voice sounded frantically in their heads.
"Hey Gin, good thing you come by, there's something we want you to do!"
"No time for that now, I've got important information. I know now how Damon wants to get his revenge on Draco for killing his wife, he's gonna do the same thing to him, he wants to kill you Hermione!"
"We already thought that!" Luna said matter of factly.
"Really? How?"
"I had a dream, actually we wanted you to check on that.... seems like you bet us on this one."
"The important thing is now that you tell Draco and Harry. Hermione, don't go anywhere alone, hear me?"
"Don't worry Gin, I don't intend on letting myself get killed."
"That's good to know!" the redhead joked, "Well, I gotta go now, I'd like to get some sleep, it would be suspicious if I was very tired tomorrow morning."
"Bye Ginny!"
"Yeah, Bye!"
"Bye girls!"
Without wasting any time, Luna and Hermione hurried over to the chimney in the secret chamber and flooed over to Draco's.....
Malfoy's Manor, very early in the morning, damned early to be precise.....
The two young women stepped out of the chimney, directly into the manor's library, the only place connected to the floo network in the whole building (Merlin knows why...). As Hermione was the only one who knew how the rooms were distribued in there she led the way to Draco's bedroom. The two walked silently down the corridor, just like they had learned to do in Auror training, not wanting to wake the whole house (Narcissa and the House Elves (Lucius had died during the Ring...eh, Dark War)). Once in the young man's chambers they tiptoed to his bedside, Hermione bent over him and whispered something in his ear. Instead of waking up he reached his arms up, grabbed her and pulled her down on the bed while mumbling her name. While Mione looked pretty embarrassed because of the situation, Luna smiled dreamily.
"Hey, be happy he said your name and not that of another girl!" she whispered.
"Hahaha, very funny Luna! I think I'll have to try the Sleeping Beauty method...." with that she freed herself from his arms and kissed him softly on the lips and, really, two seconds later he stretched and slowly opened his eyes, blinking repeatedly to get the sleep out of them.
"Hey love!" Hermione greeted him.
"Hey!" he answered giving her a kiss, "Did you come to...spent some time with me?" he asked suggestively.
Hermione slapped him playfully on the chest: "Don't be such a pervert!"
"Pervert? Since when is that perverted? You didn't seem to think that yesterday...." he asked innocently.
"I think..." Luna said, "She means that she isn't somebody who likes to have audience... neither am I. I didn't know you where though!"
"Luna! You're also here?"
Hermione grinned: "And you want to be a top Auror? You should stop to think constantly about sex and pay more attention to what's going on around you!"
"Hey! I'm a guy after all!" he exclaimed defensively, "Well, I guess if the two of you are here it has got something to do with work. Any news from Ginny?"
"Uhm, actually yes, there are.... we now know what exactly Damon wants to do to get his vengeance on you," Luna said hesitantly, she hadn't thought about how he would react, after all, he and Hermione had just got together again, he might not take a death threat lightly....
"And? What is it? Kill me?"
"Not exactly...." Hermione shook her head, "Kill me would be more like it."
"What? The fuing bastard! I'll kill him!" the blond man shouted jumping out of bed.
"Calm down Draco!" Hermione eased, "I'm still alive and I have the full intention of staying that way. We'll go on with the whole thing as planned, I just won't go out alone."
"That's damned right, cause I won't leave your side until everything is over, understand me?"
"Yes, oh my knight in shining armour!"
"Don't make fun of me Hermione, I couldn't stand losing you!"
"Why do you think I don't want to die, besides the fact that I'm still very young, I don't want to lose what we have, not again," she said smiling lovingly.
Draco smiled back at her and leaned in to kiss her when...
"Excuse me love-birds, but I'm still here...." the two looked up and found Luna grinning at them, both stuck their tongues out at her.
"My, my, such a childish behaviour.... I think I'm going now. I'll see both of you for breakfast at our place OK?" Without further words she disappeared through the door and left the two alone. As soon as she had vanished from view the couple lay on the bed again, cuddled together and went to sleep.
Obscuritas Manor, 1 hour before breakfast time....
Ginny awoke with a yawn and dragged herself wearily out of bed. Even though she had lain down almost immediately after talking to her friends, she hadn't managed to conceal sleep until many hours later, her concern for her sister-figure keeping her awake and anxious. She had already experienced the feeling of losing a brother during the Dark War (Bill) and she didn't want to go through all the pain again, especially since she hadn't completely recovered from her first loss yet...and probably never would entirely. With these thoughts swirling disturbingly through her head she stepped under the shower, in an attempt to wash her tiredness and worries off.
After half an hour of simply letting the hot water fall on her head she managed to at least get rid of the first thing. Feeling slightly refreshed she stepped out again and got dressed, finishing just five minutes before breakfast. As she wasn't a sucker for the whole fashionably late thing, she hurried to the dining hall, making it just in time to sit down before a butler brought their plates in, at exactly 8.00 o'clock.
"Good morning Miss Bonetti, sleep well?" Lucifer Damon asked her.
Ginny nodded: "Yes, quite well, thank you! I'm looking forward to getting the work started though. What are we going to do today?"
"Go again through the plan and make sure that nobody will be able to intercept. Nobody meaning the top trio of the Auror's department and Albus' Angels who, unluckily moved here not to long ago as you might have heard."
Ginny nodded, grinning inwardly: "A fact hard to miss for me!" she thought.
"The problem with the Angels is, that we don't know how they look like!" Lucifer continued, "They always use a charm to disguise themselves."
"I know, the three look the same, shoulder long, dark blonde hair and green eyes. They even have the same height! I suppose that's due to a charm, too!" Ginny agreed in an exasperated tone (she had wanted blue eyes).
Their conversation continued like that for some time until they were done with breakfast, then everybody headed to the conference room in order to get some work done.
Same time, Mystic Alley Nr. 3
Kevin, Luna, Hermione, Harry, Ron, Draco and Tonks (who had been invited to join them) were sitting around the kitchen table, discussing the newest discoveries.
"I can't believe he wants to kill you!" Ron shouted exasperatedly, "If he wants to have revenge on Draco why not kill him? ... Not that I want you dead!" he added apologetically to his now friend and colleague.
"The blonde however didn't mind, "He wants to kill Mione because that's a much better way to get back on me, I killed his wife which he strangely enough loved very much just like I love Hermione. He knows how much I'd suffer if I lost her, I'd rather die than live without her."
"Now that that's clear I think we should inform Albus, he'll want to know that!" Luna reminded them.
Together they went to the Angels' secret lair and contacted their former headmaster. He was worried when he heard the news, confessed however that he had been expecting something similar. He advised them to stay on guard as they had already planned and told them to give daily reports from now on, he wanted to know about each tiny progress made and every clue found.
Obscuritas Manor, conference room...
For the past hour Ginny had been sitting among Damon's men, listening to the plan they had formed, gathering information to transmit to her friends as soon as possible.
Resumed, the plan went as following: According to the information found inside the Scroll of Evil the ritual required to unleash the power needed to take over the world and transfer it to the spell caster had to be held in Stonehenge the place with the greatest mystical power in all of Great Britain. It had been built thousands of years ago by wizards as a centre for many energies; cosmic, magical, ethereal and earth bound powers flew together in that point creating a spot where even the weakest spell could be multiplied in power.
It had been used by wizards during a long time, for purposes good and bad, after a particularly catastrophic incident which had nearly caused the destruction of all life on the planet about five hundred years ago the Ministry had forbidden the use of Stonehenge and the spell used at that time had been erased off all records and had fallen into oblivion, nobody remembered what spell it had been nor what exactly it did, nobody had used Stonehenge since then and it had acquired the status of muggle tourist attraction, catching the interest of many authors and historical studies, and even though some theories were pretty close to the truth, no muggle had really discovered the secret behind it yet.
It was also the only place which remotely held enough energy to host an event of the 'importance' of the required ritual, even though nobody knew of it who hadn't read the 'Scroll of Evil', Ginny however was going to change that.
On the night of the new moon Damon's army would gather there, in case the Angels or the Ministry's top Aurors decided to interfere their plans, even though Lucifer was certain that one of their members would be too occupied with his desperation for the loss of his loved one to take any part of the action and if he wasn't there the Auror's weren't nearly as good for their success lay in their team work as they complemented each other perfectly.
As soon as the ritual was finished they would start with their attack on the wizarding world, once they had taken over the power there they would move on to bring the muggle world under their control, killing all those who opposed, muggle or not, and enslaving the rest. The world would know and fear the name of Lucifer Damon, their supreme ruler!
"If you search for the world humility in the dictionary you'll surely find a picture of him!" Ginny thought sarcastically when hearing this last statement, "He surely has an ego as big as the Mount Everest!"
After the meeting, Ginny reported the news immediately to her friends who decided to go and visit Albus personally this time for it was an issue which couldn't be discussed in front of a fireplace. So, through the floo network, Draco, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Luna travelled to his office only to find it empty. Tonks and Kevin stayed behind, the first because she shouldn't be seen in company of the Angels (security measures) and the latter because he was the one who stayed in the shadows, he was their secret helper of whom nobody knew and it was supposed to stay that way for his own good, he didn't have the training the Angels had, but they knew that, if the worst came to the worst, he would join the battle and even give his life to save theirs. To prevent that (he was like a brother for them, except for Ginny ), they hardly ever took him with them, much to his displeasure.
Hermione looked at her watch, "He might still be in the Great Hall, it's only 9.30 am and on Saturdays breakfast is always eaten later!"
So as not to be recognised by the students, she and Luna changed her appearance into 'Angel Mode', meaning the shoulder long, dark blonde hair, the green eyes and the same height, a disguise they had invented just in case a bad guy escaped or the photographers got a shot of them, anonymity was of vital importance in their business!
When they pushed the doors of the Great Hall open the chatter immediately died down and all eyes rested on them. Ignoring the curious and astonished stares the students who obviously recognised them, were giving them, they walked up to the teachers table and Dumbledore. All the way they would hear comments like: "Look, isn't that the Ministry's top Auror team?", "Whoa, cool! Albus' Angels? Are they on a mission?", "Man! Those guys are really hot!" (Hermione and Luna snickered at this one), "Look, two of Albus' Angels! Those girls are kick ass!", and similar things.
Upon finally reaching the table Hermione bent down to her former headmaster and current boss and in a low voice told him, "We've got some important news for you, we suggest to call all people involved in this to a meeting in your office or ours as soon as possible!"
Albus Dumbledore nodded, "Call Graham Carter and tell him to come to my office, Tonks should also come as she is your contact person to the Auror department. I will call Remus and Mad Eye."
Hermione nodded and they went back to his office and from there to theirs in order to call the guy's chef (Graham Carter) and Tonks who had meanwhile gone back to her apartment and tell Kevin he should come with them.
Afterwards they went back to Albus office together with Kevin and waited or the others to arrive.
AN/
Me: "So, that's all for this chapter, the second half took me an eternity to write, I was drained off all inspiration!"
Kevin: "Yeah, I mean, you wrote two chapters for the other story before you had this one finished! And they are way longer than this one!"
Me: "Yes, but I only posted one of them up tonow, I'm leaving the other for next week. I would have posted them earlier but I didn't know how t get the file from the desk top I got to readers, beaming I got a desk top for my birthday! back to Kevino this really old computer we have which is the only one with internet connection in my bloody house. I did now however and soon I'm getting an internet connection for my desk top which means everything will be easier for me! YAY!"
Kevin: "Yeah, fine, but now I want to know why Voldie is here, he promised to tell us at the end of the chapter!"
Me: "Too true" both turn to Voldie So?"
Voldie: "I'm hiding from.... AHHHHHHH there he comes!" jumps behind sofa bed
Grindewald: angry: "Where is he? Where is that no good son of a snake?"
Kevin grinning: "Do you mean Voldemort?"
Grindewald: "Yes, Tom Marvolo Riddle, were is he?"
Me confused. "Why do you want to speak to him?"
Grindewald pissed: "He was supposed to write 1000 times 'I am a shame to all dark wizards for letting a mere teenager to cross my plans of world dominance."
Me takes in his young appearance and makes some sums, then innocently bbut evilly: "Judging from how you look, Dumbledore was already pretty old when he bet you! Shouldn't you think of yourself as a shame to wizardkind, too for letting a man who could be your grandfather beet you?"
Grindewald shocked: "Bu- , but he is one of the greatest wizards of all times!"
Me shrugs: "So is Harry!"
Grindewald ghostly pale (no duh!): "I am a shame! I am every bit as pathetic as him."
Kevin: "Yep! You are a failure!"
Voldie has heard all the conversation: "Come with me Grindi, we'll work this out together, let's go get drunk!" they disappear
Me: "We have to go, too, goodbye!"
Kevin: "Bye!"
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