Chapter 16: The Battle!
"Look there's that bitch Bellatrix Lestrange, who's that she's fighting? I can't see." Rachel scowled.
"That's my mum. Look there's Sirius fighting Lucius Malfoy." Clare said, feeling very worried.
"We need to help them, they don't know it's a trap." Kirsti said urgently. Kirsti, Harry, Rachel and Clare ran out into the battle, whipping out their wands.
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Rachel bellowed and Antonin Dolohov was sent flying away from Danielle and his wand.
"STUPEFY!" shouted Clare at Barty Crouch Jr.
Harry had meanwhile started a duel with Regulus Black.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" shouted Harry, but it missed and Regulus shouted "IMPEDIMENTA!" and Harry was frozen on the spot. He then disarmed Harry and shouted "REDUCTO!" and Harry was knocked to the ground and he fell unconscious after the blast had hit him in the head, while Regulus was leaning over him in preparation to cast another curse. Suddenly a tawny owl swooped down and attacked Regulus' face. Regulus in retaliation cast the Cruciatus curse. The owl fell out of the air and Amy transformed back into herself. Amy was writhing around on the floor screaming in pain. The screaming had caused Sirius to look over. He headbutted Lucius which broke his Malfoy's nose. Sirius then ran over and shouted "INCARCEROUS!" Ropes shot out of the end of Sirius' wand and bound Regulus to the nearest tree.
"Are you ok?" asked Sirius.
"Yeah I'm ok." replied Amy.
"What the hell are you doing here?" demanded Sirius.
"We came to warn you, it's a trap." said Amy.
"What do you mean." asked Sirius.
"Voldemort." replied Amy.
Just as Amy said this Voldemort emerged from the shadows.
"So glad you could join us at our little meeting. You have made my job so much easier; I can now kill most of my enemies in one go. But before I kill each and everyone of you, I would like to reacquaint you with your dear friend, Mr Pettigrew." Voldemorthissed.
Peter Pettigrew also emerged from the shadows next to Voldemort but he was now deformed because his animagus transformation had gone a bit wrong. Peter had huge rat ears and a long rat tail, Sirius would have roared with laughter had the circumstances been not quite so serious. Peter stepped forward and shouted, "FURNUOCULUS!" aiming at Clare but actually hit Rabastan Lestrange, whose face then became covered with boils. Voldemort was watching the battle from the side. Moody was duelling with Crabbe, Tonks was fighting Malfoy, Sirius was fighting Barty Crouch Jr and Snape and Lupin were fighting Dolohov and Rodolphus. When Danielle approached Pettigrew she shouted "TARANTALLEGRA!" and Pettigrew began dancing uncontrollably, then Kirsti cast the Twitchy Ears Hex. Voldemort then turned his attention to Rachel, who was in the middle of the battle hexing any Deatheater in sight.
"IMPERIO!" Voldemort yelled, Rachel suddenly felt as if she was walking on air. Voldemort, with a swish of his wand, made Rachel walk over to Harry, his intention was to get her to kill Harry. Rachel, with all her strength, shouted, "NO!" Rachel tried to fight the curse and was crawling around on the floor in agony until Voldemort got bored, when a new Deatheater apparated in and a flock of about 20 Dementors swooped in.
The Dementors hovered over the battle, not particularly hurting anyone specific until they came across Lupin and Snape, all of the dementors grouped around them and began sucking out all of their happy memories. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" shouted Rachel, who had just stood up and had recovered from the Imperious curse. A silver phoenix shot out of the end of her wand and charged at five of the Dementors, driving them back, driving them away from Snape and Lupin. Danielle and Lily were also casting Patronus' at the other end of the battle. The Dementors retreated to hovering overhead.
Voldemort was now talking to the new Deatheater that had arrived and Rachel recognised him immediately, it was her father.
"What the bloody hell?" Rachel muttered to herself, "YOOOOU!" Rachel shouted, as she began to run towards him but Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange stopped her.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Rachel hollered.
"REDUCTO!" Rodolphus yelled, and Rachel was sent flying backwards, now with a few bruises.
Rachel pulled herself up and shouted, "PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"
"PROTEGO!" Bellatrix yelled. Rachel continued to fight the Lestranges.
On the other side of the battle Amy and Tonks were fighting with Macnair and Crabbe.
"IMMOBULUS!" Tonks shouted and Crabbe was frozen.
"RICTUSEMPRA!" Macnair shouted and Tonks doubled over laughing. Macnair then punched her in the face; Tonk's grasped her nose, which was bleeding heavily.
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Amy shouted.
"PROTEGO!" Macnair shouted and the Expelliarmus spell bounced back and Amy went flying ten feet backwards. Amy sat up to see Voldemort duelling with Sirius. Sirius had just cast the Hurling Hex at Voldemort, which had absolutely no effect.
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Voldemort screeched cruelly and Sirius' wand flew from his hand. Voldemort then began to talk in parseltongue, which Sirius did not understand, "You will all die soon, even if you manage to live through this battle. You will not survive, the dark mark will spread. Evil will prevail!"
"Why don't you stop mumbling to yourself and fight!" Sirius shouted cockily.
"You are not as strong as you think you are. AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort hissed. But before the spell hit Sirius, Amy dashed and pushed Sirius out of the way. Amy fell to the floor unconscious, as the spell just missed her, while Voldemort was again laughing cruelly.
Then Dumbledore apparated on to the battlefield and began duelling with Voldemort. Clare meanwhile was duelling with Antonin Dolohov, now with little success as she had been hit with the Giggling curse and now couldn't say any incantations because she was laughing too much. Kirsti was duelling with Lucius Malfoy and had been hit by the Suffocating curse and was on the floor trying to breathe. Suddenly Voldemort vanished, leaving the Deatheaters to continue the battle. The Deatheaters fell in to disarray quickly without a leader and one by one they disapparated, all apart from Rachel's father, who grabbed hold of Rachel and then disapparated. Lupin saw Kirsti rolling around the floor, now an unhealthy blue/purple colour.
"Finite!" Lupin said hoarsely. Kirsti was able to breathe more easily but she was not back to normal. Sirius apparated with Amy, while Danielle apparated with Kirsti, Lily and Tonks took Harry and Clare to St Mungos. Moody walked over to where Dumbledore, Snape and Lupin were standing.
"Where's Rachel? Has she been taken to St Mungos?" Lupin asked.
"No, she's been taken by her father." Dumbledore replied calmly.