How to Live life
Chapter 14
A/N: Hello everyone who still reads this story of mine! I know! Aren't you surprised? I actually produced another chapter only about a week after the last! I know that that shouldn't be a surprise, It won't be a surprise soon, but a regular thing again. Anywho here's next chapter
Warning: Language is a little more intense than my usual chapters, I feel it's totally appropriate for a T rated story, which mine is, but thought I'd put it out there for some of you who may feel differently
Disclaimer: I'm obviously not JK Rowling, so I obviously don't own Harry Potter
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"Hahaha, this is great," Vlasta yelled as she watched many wizards die around her. Seeing blood and people suffering brought an evil grin to her face.
This is what she wanted all these years, it took forever for it to happen, but she refused to make her fathers mistakes. She was not going to rush into things, she took time, a long time in fact, so she could get stronger and have a gigantic army on her side. It seemed to be paying off too, with this attack they were obviously going to win. Big shot Ministry officials were dead for crying out loud!
She was standing on stop of the Big Ben where she could see everything going down. Harry Potter, was putting up a good fight alongside his wife, Ginny Weasley. Kingsley Shacklebot looked a bit rusty. Buildings were going down too. But she still didn't see the person she's been wanting to see, pity.
Vlasta just kept standing on top the Big Ben, sending killing curses at anyone and everyone.
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"James, Chloe, I think it's best I just go to find them, by myself " Ella said nervously. She wasn't nervous about doing it alone, she honestly believed it was for the best and was quite confident about it. What she was nervous about was James and Chloe putting up a fight.
Chloe and James responded on impulse in unison, "NO!"
Ella sighed then said, "There is no way we are going to stick together out there and I'm the only one who knows where they are, how are you going to be any help, no offense, you guys are amazing wizards, but if we can't stick together, what's the point."
"Ella, you're not going alone, you're only a third year! These people know more spells than you, it is too dangerous," Chloe said to her sister as James nodded in agreement.
Ella sighed and looked at her feet, then looked up and said, "I hoped it wouldn't come to this."
"Ella, wha-," James started to say, but could not finish because while he said that, Ella pushed them into the vanishing cabinet and away they go.
Ella took a deep breath and then ran out of the horrible store before James and Chloe came back, because she knew they would.
And what do you know, James and Chloe climbed out of the vanishing cabinet a second later, with a worried look on both of their faces.
There was no sign of Ella.
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Ella rushed through the dangerous city of London, dodging unforgivable curses and some other nasty curses every second. Complete Chaos was an understatement for what it was like in London, words couldn't even describe it. At least ten dead people everywhere you looked, muggles and wizards. Buildings in flames or completely demolished. People suffering and screaming in pain. Spells being thrown everywhere by wizards, guns being shot by muggles. It was a horrible sight. Ella felt lucky to be alive
Ella had quite a few spells up her sleeve though. Living with Vlasta on your tail for most of your life you had to know some, including the nasty ones.
Ella didn't bother using those curses though, she just had the most powerful shield spell she knew around her as she looked at her locket and tried to find where her parents were being kept.
On her way she saw some... Stuff. Vlasta on top of the Big Ben. Kingsley Shacklebot struggling to keep fighting, he looked completely drained. Harry Potter looked very distressed as if he was trying to get to someone, he followed his eyes and saw he was trying to get to his wife, Ginny Weasley, who seemed to being tortured with the Cruciatus curse, by someone who looked very familiar to her, someone who could only be one girl she knew.
Ella stopped her venture to find her parents and stopped right where she was. Her face turned as red as a tomato.
With a flick of her wand, Ella cleared the path in front of her with a big boom, causing everyone to turn to look at her and go quiet as she stormed up to Ginny and the girl, Ella yelling, "HELL NO! YOU LITTLE BITCH!"
Ella was now facing a grinning Celeste.
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25 minutes earlier...
"Celeste, look at this, isn't it amazing!" Vlasta yelled from the top of Big Ben.
"Yep," Celeste lied.
"I'm going to need you to fight tonight, Celeste. I know you usually take care of the behind the scenes stuff, but you are one hell of a fighter and there are some certain individuals I need you to take care of," Vlasta explained to her.
Celeste nodded and then Vlasta continued, "Look out for signs of the Smith girls tonight, I would think the Ministry would warn Hogwarts thinking we are going there tonight and you know how the Smith's are. Also anyone of the Potter-Weasley family, if you see them torture them, the Smith's are good friends with them seeing them in pain will make them try to stop it, leading them to us. That's it, got it?"
Celeste nodded then disapparated off Big Ben, yes she could apparate at 13, Vlasta was a great mentor for her educational wise, moral wise, not too great.
Vlasta is very smart, evil, but smart, just like her father. She was top of her class at Ilvermorny.
Celeste apparated to the Ministry entrance where she sat down and put her head in her hands. She knew no one was going to hurt her because Vlasta's followers knew who she was, and everyone else will just think a poor helpless innocent girl is stuck in a battle she wasn't meant to fight, how wrong they were.
Celeste was tired of all this, she felt bad about thinking this, but she wouldn't have a problem torturing anybody else, she just has a problem torturing the people listed by Vlasta.
Celeste just wished she could go back to all the years before she started school. All of the fun times she had with Ella.
Celeste reached for her neck and took the half heart shaped locket in her hands and stared at it. She may have been able to get rid of the friendship bracelet, but she could never get rid of this, it was too meaningful.
~~~Flashback~~~
"Celeste!" Seven year old Ella called to her best friend.
They were at the Smith's beach house, where they went every summer, and kindly always invited Celeste.
"I'm coming, Ella!" Seven year old Celeste yelled back as she ran over to Ella, who was trying to move a big rock.
"What are you doing?" Celeste asked as she just watched her friend struggle to move the rock.
Ella stopped to look at her friend and said, "Are you just going to stand there? Help me!"
Celeste laughed at her friend then asked, "But why are you moving that big rock?"
Ella sighed and rolled her eyes playfully, getting a playful punch in return from Celeste then told her, "See that golden thing right there? Well I want to see what it is, but it is stuck under this rock, so will you help?"
Celeste didn't even answer, she didn't need to. Both girls put all they had into it and moved the rock, after about fifteen minutes. And what they found made both girls smile.
Two lockets shaped like half a heart, friendship lockets.
They immediately grabbed them and opened them to find a picture of two girls, one with brown hair and blue eyes, and the other with blonde hair and hazel eyes. On the left side of each locket they looked like they were about their age, seven, and on the right they looked about seventeen.
"Let's take a picture of us, but leave the other girls pictures there, we can just put it over theirs," Celeste suggested.
Ella nodded and grabbed her mom who took a picture of them and put it in the left side of both of their lockets, the right side still had the other girls picture.
"Let's not put a picture on the right side until we're about their age," Ella told her friend as they sat on the beach looking at the sky.
"That is if we're still friends," Celeste said.
"What are you talking about?" Ella asked her friend as she sat up to look at her.
Celeste sat up as well and said, "I heard your parents talking, they're sending Chloe to Hogwarts, not Ilvermorny because of Vlasta. That means you will probably go there too."
"That is like forever away, she'll probably be gone by then and I can go to Ilvermorny," Ella told her.
"But what if she isn't?" Celeste asked her.
"Even if we don't go to the same school we'll still be best friends, we'll still have summers and Christmas'," Ella told her.
"Well let's hope she's gone by then," Celeste said.
"You don't think our friendship could survive if I went to Hogwarts?" Ella asked, a look of hurt in her eyes.
Celeste saw that look of hurt and told her, "No, it will survive it, I just don't want to be away from you for so long."
~~~Flashback ends~~~
And the friendship couldn't survive, because Celeste wouldn't let it. That's why she just sat there in regret looking at the locket. Looking at how happy she and Ella were at seven and how happy the other two girls looked at seventeen, she wished she had that type of friendship.
Celeste then felt as if someone was staring at her causing her to look up, she saw Vlasta's bright red eyes looking directly at hers, angrily.
Shit, Celeste thought to herself because she wasn't doing as Vlasta asked. She quickly put her locket back on and slipped it under her shirt so no one could see it. She transfigured her current cloths into what all of Vlasta's followers were wearing. I wonder why Vlasta hasn't named her followers yet, Celeste thought to herself as she looked around for a Potter, Weasley, or Smith.
To Celeste's luck she saw Ginny Potter just get separated from her husband, Harry Potter, because he got hit with a nasty Levicorpus spell hanging him upside down.
Celeste muttered, "Immobulus," at Ginny causing her not to be able to move, as she marched right on up to her.
Harry saw this as he was hanging upside down and yelled, "NO!"
Celeste laughed and yelled back, "YES!" with an evil grin on her face.
"Expelliarmus!" Celeste yelled at Ginny, Ginny then looked Celeste right in the eyes. All Celeste saw in Ginny Potter's warm brown eyes was helplessness, guilt flooded over her body as she realized this, but hid it with an evil grin and kept approaching her.
"CRUCIO!" Celeste yelled at Ginny Weasley as Harry yelled, "NO!"
Harry was on his feet again and trying to make his way to his wife, but was having a hard time. "Incarcerous!" Harry yelled at Celeste, but it seemed she had eyes on the back of her head and put up a shield charm with the wand she just disarmed from Ginny, all while she still tortured her.
"Nice try Potter! But even if the spell hit me do you think tying me up with a rope would stop me?" Celeste laughed as she watched Ginny cringe and yell in pain.
A few seconds later she heard a big boom come from behind her and a familiar voice yell, "HELL NO! YOU LITTLE BITCH!" and everyone went silent, even Ginny, whose body seemed to give up on her. She took a quick glance at Harry to see him looking as if he was on the verge of tears, then she turned around to face her former best friend.
Celeste was scared, worried, and sad, she hoped she wouldn't have to face her tonight. Yet she plastered an evil grin upon her face to hide her true feelings.
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"Where the hell is she?" James yelled as he and Chloe searched for Ella.
"I hope we find her soon, what was she thinking? Going out all by herself, that is the most idiotic thing she has ever done," Chloe yelled right before they heard a huge boom.
"What was that?" James asked.
"I don't know but everyone is quiet," Chloe said.
"HELL NO! YOU LITTLE BITCH!"
"Ella," James whispered in horror as Chloe nodded.
They were about to make their way to the commotion, but they heard a pop behind them causing them to turn and face Vlasta.
"Shit, it's Vlasta," Chloe whispered to James as they both froze in horror as Vlasta grinned.
"I was up on top of the Big Ben when two people I hate were about to get into a fight they are not meant to be in, and I thought I should take you back up to the Big Ben to see this shit show go down," Vlasta said as she immobilized them, then apparated them and herself to the middle of the Big Ben.
Ella and Celeste were just beneath them and they could see everything that just happened.
"Is that my mother? Why is she just laying there" James asked, voice quivering.
"My dear follower, Celeste, performed the Cruciatus curse on her and her body just gave up," Vlasta said
"You Bitch," James yelled causing everyone from below to look at them.
"Shut it boy, or you will end up like your mother. I wish it was your grandmother that was laying there though," Vlasta said with a frown.
"Why?" Both Celeste and James asked.
"If you must know, Bellatrix was my mother, and your blood traitor grandmother probably told you what she did to her, she killed her," Vlasta spat out.
"Wait, Bellatrix is your mother?" They both asked.
I mean Bellatrix was really devoted to Voldemort, but everyone just figured he did some weird magic to have his daughter.
"Yes, it was just an affair. My dad had me in case things went downhill with him, and good thing he did," Vlasta said with a shrug.
"Looks like they are about to fight," Vlasta said excitedly.
They watched and saw Celeste literally jump on Ella, then they disappeared.
Vlasta smiled and said, "Smart, bring the fight somewhere else, I believe that's them on top of that building right there, let's go to the top of the Big Ben for a better look."
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"Long time no see Morgart," Ella said angrily.
"It's good to see you too," Celeste said as she stepped closer to Ella.
Ella rolled her eyes and said, "what do you want from me?"
Celeste laughed and said, "honey, you came to me, I should be asking that to you."
"Well I think we both know why I came up to you," Ella laughed.
Celeste was about to respond, but they heard someone yell, "YOU BITCH!"
Everyone looked up to see James, Chloe, and Vlasta sitting in the middle of the Big Ben.
Ella cursed herself internally for letting Vlasta get to them, but then she looked again at James and realized why he screamed, he saw his mother.
Ella looked over Celeste's shoulder to see Ginny's unconscious body surrounded by Vlasta's followers.
She then looked over Celeste's other shoulder to see Harry crying while hugging Ron and Hermione Weasley.
Ella felt horrible.
"Looks like your little boyfriend is upset about his mommy," Celeste told Ella.
Ella looked into Celeste's evil eyes and said, "he is not my boyfriend."
"Sure," Celeste laughed.
"He's not," Ella whined.
For a moment it was like they were friends again, but both quickly realized this and changed the conversation.
"Morgart?" Ella asked with a funny look on her face.
"What?" Celeste spit out.
"You look like ET," Ella said with laugh.
"You bitch, you know how I feel about ET," Celeste snarled.
Ella kept laughing at her.
"That tears it," Celeste snarled as she jumped on top of Ella and they both disappeared before everyone's eyes.
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"I hate you," Ella said as she pulled Celeste's hair causing her to groan.
"Well I think you should go to hell," Celeste roared as she punched Ella in the stomach.
"I think you should kiss my ass!" Ella yelled as she kicked Celeste in the stomach, allowing Ella to get up.
Celeste smiled then said, "Lets settle this like real witches, I challenge you to a duel,"
Ella smiled and said, "you're on."
"YES!" Vlasta screamed, causing everyone to look at her.
Vlasta just smiled in response and lifted her hands. Causing everyone in London to rise in the air and then be dropped upon a building.
"Now when I get to one everyone will fight, five," Vlasta counted.
"Four"
"Three"
"Two"
"Crucio!" Celeste yelled.
Ella fell to the ground in pain, all she could feel was pain. Celeste didn't wait to one, Ella wasn't t prepared, but she somehow had enough strength to yell, "Vipera Evanesce!"
Celeste yelled as her arm just got burned. Ella got up, Crucio being lifted off her.
"Playing dirty," Celeste grinned.
"Could say the same to you, Bombarda!" Ella yelled.
She aimed at Celeste, but she dodged it.
"What is up with you and explosions, Smith? Levicorpus!" Celeste yelled.
Ella was now hanging by her ankles. She quickly muttered Liberacorpus to get down, then quickly fought back, "Stupefy!"
Celeste quickly put up a shield charm then muttered, "Langlock"
Ella's tongue was now glued to the roof of her mouth, good thing she was good at nonverbal magic.
Ella pointed her wand at Celeste and shot the leg-binding spell, Locomotor Mortis, at her.
"Shit, I'm taking that Langlock off of you, I need to know what spell you're throwing at me," Celeste yelled then muttered the counter to Langlock.
"Locomotor Mortis," Celeste yelled
Now both of them couldn't move their legs.
This battle went on for awhile
"Titillando"
"Flagrate"
"Reducto"
"Incendio"
"Waddiwasi"
"Serpensortia"
"Relashio"
"Incarcerous"
"Obscuro"
"Everte Statum"
"Bombarda"
Both of them were too beat up to continue this.
They had all types of cuts, bruises, burns, and broken bones to keep going at it.
In unison they both yelled, "Avada Kedavra."
The spells hit each other and it was if an explosive went off.
Everyone else stopped and stared at the two girls as they were sent flying back into the buildings behind them at the speed of lightning.
They dropped to the ground.
Then each girl blacked out.
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A/N: Okay, I really want you guys to review because this chapter was a lot different than what I normally do. It was the most fun to write though. I just feel this chapter changes a lot. I would really appreciate it if you could tell me what you thought about it and answer the questions below to help me out with upcoming chapters...
How do you feel about Ella?
How do you feel about Celeste?
What do you think of the 'war'?
What do you think about the flashback, mainly Ella and Celeste's previous friendship?
Feelings on what happened to Ginny?
Feelings on Ella and Celeste's duel?
I would really appreciate it to know your thoughts so I can make the upcoming chapters better. Oh, I almost forgot, Bellatrix is Vlasta's mother cause basically everyone voted for her! I almost forgot because I'm thinking about how to start next chapter! I think I have a pretty good idea how I'm going to begin it, but tell me in your review how you think it should start
Thank you so much for reading this chapter and please answer my questions, it will help me write the next chapter!
Thanks again!'
~~SoccerDiva (aka Lanie)~~~3
