AN: Well here it is! The long awaited chapter 7. Sorry to all, this chapter provided me with a bit of a challenge as it has the first battle scene I've ever written so forgive me please if it sucks. I hope you all like it though. I've also been working on Forging Alliances predominantly so that is my other lame excuse for putting my stories on hold. HBP makes a few things in this fic AU now, hope no one minds but hey this is fanfic so most of it is AU anyways. Happy reading!
Chapter 7 Vengeance and Victory
The month went by in a blur. The Romanian Task Force kept busy tracking the DE and vampires they would be fighting. Charlie and Bill expressed concern about having almost all there other siblings assigned to the fight against the upstart dark wizards but Dora reassured them that they all had plenty of experience fighting in the war. Seeing as how Kingsley and Moody were taking the time while working as Aurors to make sure all the civilians on the mission were up to standard they would all be fine. They still were uneasy but trusted the two Aurors in training as well as Kingsley Shacklebolt to get people prepared.
One quirk in their plan was that the night of the party was a full moon. The plan was to give Remus his Wolfsbane potion so that he would be in his right mind but he would act as if he had not taken it. They all figured it would give them the element of surprise. He would not kill anyone just either distract them or incapacitate them so the others could capture them. That way they had the help of a werewolf, the natural enemy of the vampires, in the battle.
The night came finally and Dora attached herself to Malfoy's side so that when the raid started she would have easy access to him. Rookwood was the wild card as neither Anderson nor Dora had any excuse to shadow him all night without seeming suspicious. The clock struck midnight and that was the signal for the ambush to begin. Just as the doors burst open Dora snuck Draco to a nearby sitting room; fooling him into thinking she was helping him escape. Once alone she turned on him then stunned him. Once he was shackled in anti apparation manacles and paralyzed she enervated him.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Draco screeched, eyes darting about in a frantic fashion.
"Why Draco darling I'm doing what I've wanted to do to you since I first met you."
"I knew you had some kinks I just didn't know they involved bondage while others are fighting for there lives."
"Well I must say you really have misunderstood me, my dear. You see shagging you is not at all something I am remotely interested in. I want vengeance love for all the innocent people you killed and all the filth you polluted the magical world with. You see I never have believed in the pureblood supremacy that you and your former master ascribed too."
"You bitch! You mean to tell me you're a blood traitor? Just you wait! I'll get out of this and when I do you will be sorry. No one crosses a Malfoy and lives!
"You know, cousin dearest, it really is a wonder how you survived the war. Capturing you was so easy that it almost wasn't worth my time. I mean really, all this bull shit about you getting away and paying me back. Voldemort was so much better at striking fear into the hearts of his friends and foes alike. You, you're just a pathetic excuse for a pansy boy!"
"What the bloody hell are you talking about? I'm not your bloody cousin I just met you last month. I demand you let me go this instant or you'll be sorry you bitch!"
"Tisk tisk my dear. That language is far too harsh to be using in front of a lady. And I am so hurt you don't recognize me, your first cousin Nymphadora!" Dora spoke in a condescending tone; he really didn't deserve much more then that, as he was being so textbook villain.
"Nymphadora Tonks! You're that mudblood disgrace of a daughter of Andromeda's! Well just you wait until I get out of this you'll be sorry you were born!"
"Oh Draco come now must you be so cliché? I mean really how many times have you called someone 'mudblood' and I doubt you will be able to do anything to make me regret my birth since I am the one levitating you to the floo and will be sending you to British Ministry of Magic's high security ward cell c-ten." She spoke the instructions after throwing the floo powder in the fireplace then she levitated Draco Malfoy into the green flames. He was summarily delivered to the high security ward where Aurors apprised of the situation and waiting for any renegade Death Eaters which were captured that night would meet him.
She made her way back to the fight as stealthily as she could but ended up getting waylaid by a couple of New DE. She was prepared to fight two against one but was not thrilled with the prospect. Her first shot missed the skinny bloke, hitting plaster to just to the right of him. He sent off a stunner but she raised a shield just as the spell was about to hit. His partner was a big man with a slight limp. He trained his wand on her and was muttering the killing curse but she ducked just in time only to hear another one of his cronies hit the ground. She thanked all the powers that be for the fact that the oafs she was fighting had the mental capacity of a gnat and blasted her way out of the trap she'd found herself in to join the others.
Meanwhile the rest of the Order team was busy fighting their opponents in the grand dinning room. Bill had vanquished two vampires and was working on a third. The last one was giving him a run for his money. He'd never tried to steak a vamp through the heart while he was wielding a broad sward taken from one of the resident suits of armor.
Harry and Ron were fighting back to back with three DE while Ginny was trying to help Hermione, who had been dueling with a witch with some wicked wand skills. Harry was shooting offensive jinxes at the two wizards that had he and Ron cornered while Ron was busy erecting shields at regular intervals. Hermione had been hit twice with slicing hexes but slung a stunner that finally got through the woman's shield when Ginny distracted her from behind with a jelly legs jinx. She stuck with the simple knowing that Death Eaters never expected it, they didn't think them powerful enough even though they were the most effective.
Moody had downed one Death Eater and was working on another while the twins were working through the mêlée to assist Charlie who was cornered by a couple of vampires. They were slinging stunners left and right, making more scorch marks on the walls and floor then hits but it was their way of distracting their opponents. The other members of the Order were familiar with their antics and used it to their advantage more often then not.
Lupin, in his werewolf form was fighting fiercely against a pair of vampires who where not prepared face the business end of a werewolf's gaping maw full of vicious fangs. He was fully aware of himself, having taken his Wolfsbane potion but was in a vicious mood just the same. It was time to finish the Death Eaters now as far as he was concerned and the vampires had no real justification for being in league with them. Cursed magical creatures such as Vampires and Werewolves had what they needed to be valuable members of society now that Deloris Umbridge's legislation had all been revoked and replaced with laws to help not hinder. There was no real excuse for their continued malevolent actions.
The fighting went on for what felt like hours. Once Tonks was finished dispatching the two wizards in the hall leading to the main battle she was just in time to stake a vampire who was very nearly successful in turning Anderson. Charlie was dueling with Rookwood who was the only Death Eater who seemed to have any stamina left. The other DE had been killed, captured or lost faith that they would win the fight and were steadily loosing ground. She made easy work of a few witches and wizards by the time the fighting was over in the Dinning Room.
Everyone had sustained some kind of injury ranging from a broken leg (Fred) to a nose bleed and black eye (Kingsley). The one thing on everyone's mind was that it all just seemed too easy and any moment a contingent of unknown DE would show up and they'd all be much more out numbered then they started out as and with half the energy as well but it never happened.
Charlie was not gaining any ground even though he was sending several heinous Egyptian curses Bill had taught him one after the other. Tonks knew that it was only a matter of time before he was bested and not due to any lack of skill on Charlie's part. Rookwood seemed to be drawing from some kind of secret reserve of energy that no one else had access to. She got in a stunner that just missed Rookwood but was enough to distract him. He turned slightly and sneered, a stupid mistake if there ever was one. Charlie shot a disarming spell at him that slammed him into a great marble pillar. The impact to the back of Rookwood's skull was enough to crack it. He was lying limp and lifeless on the marble floor of the entry when they reached him.
Soon after Rookwood was killed the Order made their final push towards victory and was able to subdue the Death Eaters completely. They bound the ones that survived and portkeyed them to the Ministry holding cells. Tonks and Kingsley apparated to Auror Headquarters to help in the interrogations and file their reports. The Aurors on duty had the interrogations under control and had Malfoy locked in the highest security ward the Ministry had. He would never get out. There was no way they would ever risk putting him in Azkaban, which was no longer guarded by the Dementors, just to have him escape. Tonks got a private laugh out of that seeing as how she incapacitated him so quickly and humiliatingly.
Tonks was exhausted after all the fighting and paper work so she apparated to Grimmauld Place for the night. There would be a debrief in the morning and then hospital visits to be paid to Fred, Anderson and Hermione who all sustained either broken bones or some spell damage. But until then she was not going to let anything interrupt her from a thorough night's sleep. Her bed was comfortable and familiar which made her fall asleep that much faster once she dropped into it.
The next morning she woke with the sun and went to start the tea. She was greeted by Dumbledore and Moody both occupying chares at the table.
"Ah Miss Tonks you will be glad to know that the trials for the captured Death Eaters is set for next month and we have been able to get quite a bit of information about the goings on of Voldemort before he was vanquished and information about the resurgence of his followers. It turns out that they were the last known supporters of Voldemort. More then likely you won't need to testify so you will have time to use your cache of holiday time you've been hoarding." He smiled at her enigmatically and she wondered how he knew about her desire for a holiday. She had never mentioned it in his presence.
Not long after they finished their first cups of tea for the day the others started to file in. The debriefing went well. Until a new Dark Lord surfaced the Order of the Phoenix was disbanded but most decided to stay around Grimmauld Place as it had become home to most of them during the second war and the pursuit of the remaining followers of Voldemort.
The majority of the Order members then convened at St Mungo's to visit their injured friends. Fred was milking the injury for all it was worth when Tonks and Charlie stepped into the room. No one ever told him that good bedside manner was a standard for all nurses so he was mistaken when he thought his flirting would get him anywhere. Anderson was sleeping off the potions he had been given so they let him be. Hermione was busy lecturing Harry and Ron on the importance of what they learned during the fight and how it pertained to their Auror training. Needless to say Ron looked a tad bit relieved when they walked in. The prognosis for all in St. Mungo's was excellent. They would all be released later that day.