Shado of the Covenant

Chapter 26

Freedom!

Rose found it amusing to watch her sexy twin sister beating the crap out of Sirius Black. She found her newfound freedom to enjoy the simple things refreshing, but she did feel a tad sorry for the poor bastard, as Sirius Black was innocent. However, Shado was just too precious. It was just unfortunate for Sirius that he didn't realise that as her fist connected with his face. He cried out in pain more than that idiot brother of hers had, as Ronald was in the dirty old room too with a snapped ankle, half-sobbing. Hermione was in a corner whimpering and sniffling, but she stayed away from Rose and her Shado, and that div, Ronald.

"What...? Going to kill me I-Ivy, right!?" Sirius asked with a crazy grin full of blood on his lips as she pulled him up to face her by his hair. "A-and you're, Rosette, right?!" he asked as he could only strain to look over at her.

Shado looked more amused with him, smirking before she threw him to the side, nonchalant. "I really have no reason to kill you… neither of us do," she replied whimsically, and Rose was worried as he baited her, but she still didn't kill him.

"Why not!?" he spat out spitefully.

"Because you're innocent for one, and I tend to not kill innocent people no matter how much they piss me off... though I suppose even I do have my limits."

The man looked like he went to retort but he stopped, staring at her in shock, mouth hanging open and blood dripping from his lips. "You know that Pettigrew...!" he asked quickly before she rolled her eyes and gestured to where Ron looked horrified, on the bed clutching a dirty great big rat to his chest.

"The rat is the animagus, Peter Pettigrew!" she agreed as the rat in Ronald's hands squealed in panic, trying to get free. "Him... well his life will be my newest toy and I will make him suffer for what he allowed Dumbledore to bring down on me and my sister, and our parents!" she said with hunger in her eyes as she moved around the bed where he was, and tore the creature from Ronald's hands, and smacked Ronald in the face, causing him to scream and burst into tears, blood exploding from his nose.

"Whoa," Sirius mumbled, as he pulled himself up to his feet, looking at the boy as Shado turned back to him clutching the rat in a grip so tight that the creature was screaming. "Dumbledore said he was your friend, gloated over and over when I was locked away, visited sometimes to tell me how you and Rose belonged to him, and that he would make sure one of you married the Weasley boy, and that your mum and dad were all for it… he's done something too them!"

Rose growled in rage. "That bastard old man is shit with us!" she retorted in rage. "We've already gotten mum away from Dumbledore, and we'll get dad back soon enough! As for Ronald Fucking Weasley; he'll die a painful death before he touches either me or my sister!" she sneered out as the atmosphere seemed to get heavy before flinging out her right hand towards the crying boy, and he screamed out as she closed her hand and he seemed to be crushed as his arms snaped and he passed out from the pain.

"That should clear up any misunderstandings you might have about that!" Rose replied coolly as she turned back to Sirius, and Shado thought she might have wet herself a little as that was so hot, and the fear in the room was almost pliable; her sister was going to get a lot of 'pampering' from her later that night.

Sirius gulped before looking to the twitching rat. "I'm glad I'm not him now more than ever!" he said nervously.

Shado turned from him to look over at Hermione, green eyes rolling and flashing electric lime. "See Dumbledore for the foolish old bastard he is because you do not want to be on the wrong side of the coming war. He tries to tell people I'm a racist muggle hater, yet he keeps the magical world free of science, and ignorant of their world. He treats people like they are commodities to use at his whim, and to throw away at his convenience."

Shado gestured to Sirius as he made it clear Dumbledore knew he was innocent and got rid of him. "Getting rid of our godfather so that he could dump me on a doorstep where I could be abused, beaten, and have my hope stolen. Stealing my family. Forcing me and my sister apart. Treating us like his property! That piece of shit deserves to be destroyed.

"Now you have a choice girl," she said moving closer, and Rose watched as the rat in her hands ran out of air; it couldn't breathe as Shado was squeezing it so tight. It was crying, but sound could no longer exit, as it had no air to build the vibrations in the air to hear.

Shado dropped the rat, as in a pop, and shift of form it transformed into a huge set man with balding mousey hair and bucked teeth. His robes were worse than Sirius's and he was just as filthy. He was chocking and wheezing, coughing up blood on the floor with tears pouring from his eyes while he whimpered and coward.

"Hello, Peter!" Shado greeted him after a few minutes of letting him get his breath back while Hermione was staring at him in horror and disgust. Pettigrew looked up at Shado with fear-unimaginable in his brown eyes. Rose doubted Voldemort could put that much fear into him. Voldemort had purpose with his fear. He could be bargained with. Shado was vengeance incarnate, and Pettigrew knew that she would never bargain with him because he would never have anything she would have ever wanted, and even if he did, she would rather not have it.

Pettigrew's eyes flickered around before they fell on Rose, and he looked like he was going to crawl over and beg her before he looked back at Shado and gulped, as he knew he would be dead quickly if he continued thinking about it. However, he then turned to Sirius, and Rose wasn't the only one surprised. Sirius had obviously come for the rat, and yet the rat scurried along on his knees openly crying his eyes out, as he grabbed the bottom of Sirius's dirty robes. Rose grimaced as she realised that he had left a trail of urine in the dust. He feared Shado more than he had feared anyone, Sirius included, and he had let the man rot in jail for his crimes for the past fifteen years.

"S-Sirius my old friend!" he croaked out shakily and it was amazing that he was going to a man that he had personally had part in torturing. Rose could tell as his eyes had flickered to her first that he knew going to her was an immediate death, as she knew he knew that Shado would have never allowed him to live for a moment longer if he went towards her. "You won't let her near me, I know you, you know me... I had-had to do it or he... he had terrible ways!" he whimpered and looked to Shado's crewel expression and turned back quivering. "She's not like Lily or James, they wouldn't hurt me… they would understand!"

"Then maybe we should bring you before our mother once she's been completely flushed of Dumbledore's magic?!" Shado suggested, and his eyes widened in horror while shakily moving away further. "That's just what I thought. You know as well as we do that that was complete bullshit."

"P-please!" he begged, as Shado grabbed his throat and lifted him from his knees to eye level, and he was a fat man, and she didn't even struggle.

"You tried to murder our parents, and watched as Dumbledore enslaved them, and expect me to care one bit about you!?" she demanded when she suddenly moved, throwing him into a wall and flipping round, sliding as she did, grabbing a post of the bed, and span round and up, half crouching on the post, as gravity around here seemed to have a fit of indecision, and shooting at the members of interlopers with a fireball that barely missed, and just ended up hitting the floor, and blowing out as the old wood was too rotten to burn.

Shado reminded Rose of that Spider guy from the comic books that Shado liked reading. It was actually awing how many muggle-comic books Shado had managed to buy since she joined the magical world, and that was not including her already huge collection, though apparently Shado preferred older books, as the newer ones had gotten ridiculous with identity over character, whatever that meant as Rose didn't really get it, but did agree having read a few books that the older ones were better, but Rose preferred manga's, which were Japanese comics, her sisters favourite, and Rose's once Shado sister introduced her, as they were as lot easier to follow, even if you had to read the books back to front, it didn't take long to get used to, and the art could be so cute.

Dumbledore had interrupted Pettigrew's imminent death. He fired at Shado, but his spell hit Pettigrew instead, knocking him out, and the old man was with Ginny's parents, and a large black man, Kingsley Shacklebolt. He wasn't that promising if he bowed to Dumbledore though. Not someone that Rose would want investigating any crimes for her if he couldn't see through such obvious bull-crap.

They dodged out of the way of more return fire, as a few more blasts of lazily flung fire flew towards them from Shado's free hand, and Sirius raised the wand he stole from Ron at them while Shado finally swung around, flipping from the post, and gracefully landed without effort on her feet with bursts of lime lightning rolling around her as she grinned viciously, and stood protectively of her sister.

"Hello again, Mr. Dumbledore...!" Shado said with a mocking grin. "I believe what... it's been about a month or more."

"Just over five weeks since you were allowed to murder Severus," he replied coolly. "And you kidnapped Lily Potter, but I made sure to leave James in the castle, or else I would expect you to try corrupting him."

"Corrupting my father, into siding with his daughters over you?!" Rose demanded and made it clear that she thought that Dumbledore was crazy.

"You will return Lily Potter!" the old man said coolly. "And you will both be put in your place!"

"You are aware that you are in breach of a court order, aren't you?" Shado interrupted him whimsically, and she didn't wait for a reply. "Well, of course you are, but you're the Great Albus Dumbledore, and the Great Albus Dumbledore believes that he in all of his glory is the next coming of Merlin, Jesus, and Hercules, themselves, all rolled into one, but what am I talking about. Merlin was a Slytherin; the greatest muggle rights activist of all time in the magical world, but then he was terribly sexist, so that lets him down; though, he was a product of the times, so good on him for understanding muggles had rights, and he wasn't woman beater, and didn't think they were unable to learn the same magic… so… fairly-okay guy all things considered, and probably got put in his place a few too many times by Morgana. But anyway, the great Albus Dumbledore seems to be under the impression that all Slytherins are racist jerks, or should I say, enjoys promoting such idiocy amongst Gryffindors especially, boosting the Circle of Debauchery."

"Enough of this, Rose!" Molly Weasley demanded, angrily, glaring at her as she had her wand out ready to fight for her people. "You cannot let this evil continue to corrupt my daughter. If you do not, I shall never let you continue your friendship!"

Molly Weasley had hated both Bill and Charlie at some point for their career choices, and she knew she would hate the twins worse than that for theirs, but Ginny? Rose knew that Molly Weasley would never care about Ginny again because she was doing the unforgivable in her eyes. Ginny was siding with Rose and Shado, and doing the right thing, but didn't realise that the right thing was turning against Dumbledore for a brand-new ideology of freedom, and equality, and waking up with their queen, even if Shado was sometimes cold, violent, and full of rage and hate; she would always protect them.

"No, Mrs. Weasley!" Rose replied coldly, which shocked her greatly, but Rose would no longer care unless she abandoned Dumbledore, but she wouldn't, Rose knew that to her, he was more important than her own children were. "I do not side with Dumbledore, and I do not side with Voldemort, and I never will!" she said with narrowed eyes. "Neither of them are any good, both preaching bull crap, just because they both want to rule, one by controlling naive idiots like you, and another through fear and hate!"

"What about her?" the auror demanded, pointing to Shado. "She's a murderer; tricked the Wizengamot into letting her kill Snape!" he said while trailing his wand on Shado.

"Wait, you killed Snape!" Sirius interrupted looking as if he was trying to hide his pride, and not doing a very good job of it, but no one answered him. Rose thought he was kind of amusing in a childish kind of way.

"Shado doesn't tell me what is right or wrong," Rose answered instead, shrugging. "She lets us come to our own conclusions, whether they match or not she doesn't care. Snape was a murdering, pitiless man who was a bitter fool. He bullied students, and all for what evidence of his teaching prowess? Or that he wasn't a Death Eater? Is Dumbledore's word, law to you?!"

"Let's not forget, Rosie!" Shado piped in here. "One man's word against another's, no matter who that man is, means very little without any evidence to back it up, but they go 'awww' every time the man looks at them with those twinkling eyes, raping their minds of all the perversions he could enjoy late at night!"

"Why you little brat...!" Dumbledore finally added in. "I do what I do for the Greater Good of the wizarding world! Once I'm though with you I'll have you sealed so tight that you'll be practically a squib, and I'll do the same to your entire little girl's club, Rosette, and Lily included, and then you'll become property of any boy I see fit to marry you too!"

"Really now Mr. Dumbledore?" she asked in amusement, which surprised Rose as Shado laughed as Rose had expected some serious violence and murder. "You believe any one of you little stick wavers have the power, even combined, to seal my power away, hahahaha!" she said whimsically while she looked passed them. "Why hello Professor Strife!" she said and they all looked.

Shado shot forwards smashing into Kingsley and he went straight down the stairs screaming and wasn't getting up again before her left fist took out Ginny's mother, and she broke her father's leg sending them down next before she grabbed Dumbledore's wand, snapping his wrist, and threw him by his beard into the room, closing the door behind her.

Rose was pretty-impressed with the trick, and easy defeat, as Dumbledore grit his teeth, looking up at her, his wrist broken.

"Now what Potter, going to murder me too!" Dumbledore demanded in hate. "I will get you back under control, and I will do what I like, you think you can stop me!?"

"No," Shado agreed. "You've already gone, and portkeyed away, leaving this... I suppose astroprojection? And I know you're no weak mage, but you will always underestimate my power! And the power of those around you, because we aren't all weak fools like your minions. My subjects are powerful and I wouldn't have it any other way!" she said snapping his wand with a blast of blue it exploded but she didn't even look fazed while he glared in horror staring at the wand pieces.

Rose couldn't help but wonder whether there was something important about his wand that they were missing, but whatever it was, whether it was powerful or special, it and Dumbledore didn't match up to Shado. Rose realised that maybe Shado destroyed something, more than normal. Perhaps it was a legendary wand, and something caught her eye as Shado went to toss the pieces aside and she moved and took them from her sister, and looked at the signature of three ovals.

"Holy crap, Shado!" Rose said in awe while Dumbledore glared, enraged. "This was the Elder Wand… no wonder Dumbledore was so powerful if he was using a freaking mythical wand that… damn… it actually exists, so then maybe the other two Deathly Hallows exist?" she suggested when her eyes widened and Shado looked semi-baffled. "My Invisibility Cloak… it's been functioning for way too long… it's the Cloak of Invisibility!"

"No way!" Sirius exclaimed as he looked over the marking on the wand in awe. "James, Remus, and I had been playing with a bloody Deathly Hallow!"

"What have you done...!?" Dumbledore sneered in hatred and disgust.

However, before anyone could respond, Remus Lupin interrupted them, as he pushed the door open. However, he looked to Pettigrew seconds later, anger swelling in that expression.

"I knew it; the moment I found out about Shado, that Dumbledore did something fucked up! Lily and James aren't right. I knew they would never abandon me willingly, and especially not Ivy, but until now I could never get close enough!" he hissed furiously glaring at Dumbledore, as the old man finally faded away as his cham failed.

Shado turned from them to Hermione where she looked like she was going to be sick. "Go straight to McGonagall with Lupin and tell her, she needs to have tea with Amelia Bones, no matter who else is in front of you!" she said before turning to Lupin while he looked shocked. "Guard her, and take down any of Dumbledore's minions that try to approach. The old man has lost his fucking mind! McGonagall will know to attack first and ask questions later!"

Shado raised her hands and in a boom of blue, the side wall of the shack was blow out and to the ground outside, leading to a rusted stairs down the side of the shack.

"Now!" Shado said turning to them. Hermione quickly nodded as she pulled herself up from the floor and hurriedly led the confused professor from the shack with one last look at Pettigrew.

"Let's go!" Shado finished, walking over to Pettigrew, and grabbing his ankle, dragging him. Sirius and Rose quickly followed her out. "Be prepared for an attack, probably dementors!" she said banging Pettigrew's head on every step down

"What about Ron and the other three?" Rose asked, looking back at Ginny's battered brother.

Shado shrugged, nonchalant. "Just leave them, they aren't worth the bother," she answered as Rose felt it coming down-the cold, and oppression, chilling her to the bones.

"Dementors...!" Sirius muttered as it was dark now and it would be hard to see where they were coming from, as Shado forgot they were about to try capturing Sirius, because until then, they had stayed clear of her.

Shado frowned, as they had to stop. The dementors were getting so close, and Rose jumped as she heard snapping, then again, and looked to see Shado snapping Pettigrew's legs in several places, then his arms before looking at Rose as she sensed her stare.

"It will be very unlikely that he'll get away now!" she explained while Sirius again looked proud, probably a dark family thing on his part, or he was that starved of anything to do in prison thoughts of painful vengeance kept him going. Though, Rose thought that through and realised that that would have kept her going too.

They stopped by a wall of the castle, sliding through an opening into a large courtyard, and thankful of the poor funding that allowed walls to have gaps and holes to take short cuts. They moved in looking for a door or window to get into the castle, where with luck the dementors would never get at them. Rose didn't think the castle would let the monsters in because of the wards, but then Dumbledore was partially in control. The other teachers could keep the other wards open if they weren't in his pocket.

"Over here!" Shado said as she dragged Pettigrew and pulled open a window into the castle. It was an unused classroom, and she dumped Pettigrew through. Rose wasn't certain that Pettigrew was even alive anymore, and Rose was near certain that he was dead, and if not then he would be soon, but then he had survived for so long, he was probably past due his painful demise.

Shado helped Rose climb in through the window before Sirius climbed through after her, and Shado slipped in last. Shado closed and locked the window with a seal before looking to Sirius.

"Drag him, would you? Since I'm the most powerful and talented here, unless you want us to watch you struggle with the bad guys while all you can think about is streak and chips?!"

"Well, I wasn't thinking about steak and chips until now!" Sirius replied and didn't complain further, as Shado looked a little amused, and led them out of the dark empty classroom, and Sirius took great pleasure in dragging the dead or dying man through the hall by his hair after them without a care for his continuity.

"Which way to the Great Hall? Dinner should be on now!" Shado said looking around, trying to gain her bearings.

"I think it's that way," Sirius said pointing down one corridor, and trying to pretend that his stomach didn't just grumble.

"Okay, let's go!" Shado agreed, taking Rose's hand they led the way, sneaking through the dark, which was odd since Rose knew that all of the torches throughout the school should have been lit until eleven at night when they dampen to a minimum, but there were no lights on at all.

They moved around a corner, and Shado's forearms lit up as she let Rose go as they almost attacked. However, they were almost attacked too, but it was lucky the lime lightning lit the hall, or they might have all attacked without thought, even Sirius as he let the prisoner drop to the floor: a crumpled mess and drew his wand.

"Wands down!" Amelia Bones said as she was with several aurors, and moved forward to Shado, as they were all armed and ready for a fight. Rose thought they came from the Gryffindor side of the castle through the transfiguration corridor, so they couldn't be far from the Great Hall. They must have arrived because of McGonagall.

"What's going on, My Lady? The whole castle is in low power!" Amelia said, concerned. "The only wards still operating fully seem to be anti-transport for things like apparation and portkey. It was lucky that my department, for my use had tampered with McGonagall's fire or we wouldn't be here yet. We got a message through the fire, but she had to leave quickly."

"Dumbledore is attacking us!" Shado said while Amelia looked at Sirius and he looked nervous, she let her eyes travel down to their prisoner.

"Pettigrew!" she said gesturing two of her aurors. "Take him into custody, and make sure everyone knows we have him, and then call-in reinforcements fast!" she said and they nodded, dragging away the traitor.

"One or more men who are supposed to lead the dementors sent them after us, ordered by Dumbledore," Shado added quickly. "That is one demented old man and he needs to be stopped!"

Amelia nodded her head. "Let's go!" she said leading everyone on.

"If you find our dad, stun him for us," Rose said quietly. "Laurel has some healers waiting for him," she said and got several nods when they came out into the Entrance Hall, they heard some explosions as they neared. They never would have expected to see Professor McGonagall engaged in battle with Dumbledore, and holding him to a standstill, and kind of proving that without his special wand, he wasn't that special. Also, Professor's Strife and Sinistra managed to scare off some of Dumbledore's minions while he was calling a retreat, as they were heavily outnumbered.

However, he had likely noticed that he was outnumbered; he was also outpowered without his wand, as the lights from their spells lit up the hall, and he was moving back to the open doors before he turned and ran. Rose couldn't say what happened to the hand Shado had snapped, but he did have magical powers, and found a new wand it seemed. Though, Rose ignored that as she found their dad unconscious and bleeding on the floor and went to his aid, thankful it didn't seem serious, and she was happy to have finally gotten hold of their father.

Most of the older members of the Covenant were outside in the hall with bruises and cuts, along with some allies while the Great Hall doors had been closed and sealed. Ginny had glompped Rose out of nowhere and held on tight, telling her how worried she was, and how much she loved her, and how she was so scared. Rose could only cuddle her best friend, and girlfriend tightly, kissing her cheeks.

Meanwhile, Shado walked up to the Great Hall doors through the mess, and Rose and Ginny let each other go from their cuddling, as they had to cover their ears, as thunder exploded through the castle as Shado slammed her palms into each door standing between them. The doors were torn off, falling forward. Rose knew that Shado's body suppressed the thunder, but never imagined that it would have been so loud if she didn't hold it back, as lightning seemed to be Shado's favourite destructive magic, especially since it turned lime green.

Inside was chaos as tables had been overturned and used as shields as other students, and the few remaining teachers, trapped had picked sides and were fighting up until the moment of thunder, and then they stopped, looking to the doors as they fell to the ground between the battle, and made a loud bang.

It was a surprise that the 'light' and 'dark' had been pushed into 2 corners the same side of the room by the 'other', and were losing because they were taking shots at each other more than anyone else.

"I do hope that the light and dark minions are going to be cleaning this mess up!" Shado said coldly before her girls got up at her gesture, and helped their injured and quickly hurried to her. "Head to the tower, and we'll be with you shortly. Dumbledore will not get away with this!" she said and the girls all nodded their heads and hurried away.

Shado turned to Amelia. "Dumbledore always underplays people's strength, and today, he witnessed his own defeat!" she said before turning an impressed eye to her teacher (McGonagall) before grinning. "I like the cut of your kickarse magic," she praised before turning serious as she looked to the woman. "Dumbledore knew Sirius was innocent, and that Peter Pettigrew was guilty. I wouldn't be surprised if Dumbledore knew Pettigrew was alive and chose not to care, for his Greater Good. We have our dad now, and healers to free him from his slavery… by my words, slavery of intelligent creatures, and cruelty to working animals, is illegal," she said, and they all knew by that, that things had to change, and though by ministry law they were not illegal, would they risk Shado's wrath?

Shado then took Rose's and Ginny's hands, smiled at them, and led the way away where some of the older girls waited for then, leading then as royal guard back to their tower where they knew things had changed, and Dumbledore had declared war on thew good and just.

However, they knew; they would destroy his 'Greater Good' and protect the world from people like him, forever.

They would do this together.

to be continued…