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Summary: Winter Rosa Potter has always been diffrent from people. Being a witch hadn't changed that due to her near death experiences. After nearly dying of hunger due to being forced home during the Christmas holidays in second year, she finds an odd fruit and eats it. She doesn't care if it could kill her, the school hating her and always being alone was already doing that. She was rather surprised to see the results of doing that, but she can't help it if she's happy with it. After all, it gave her what she wanted most in the end and that was enough for her. Fem!Harry. Ministry/Dumbledore/selective!Weasley!Bash!

Pairing: Fem! Harry, Winter/Trafalgar Law

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Chapter Thirteen

Previously on Racing through the dark~~
I took comfort in my familiar's presence as I spoke...

Now:

My voice was slightly shaky even as Boreas' presence comforted me, "It looks like we're about to face something dangerous."

"Yes, but we're going to do it together," He assured me while eyeing the door, "No matter what,"

"No matter what," I replied softly while giving the door another look.

It was far larger than I was and circular rather than a rectangle. Snakes decorated the front and appeared to be made of gold. Each of the snakes eyes were a dark green or silver. I scanned the door and found that there wasn't a visible locking mechanism which meant that I couldn't do what I usually did. I mentally sighed at that before hearing Boreas murmur, "It will most likely be the same as the others."

"True," I muttered while a prickling feeling ran across my neck, "This screams trap," I shook my head while Boreas chuckled, "Here it goes," I closed my eyes before hissing, "Open!"

A low grinding sound met my ears before a low click was heard. Two snakes made an appearance as part of the circle around the door moved. Before I could utter a word, the door slid open with a loud creak making me curse silently. If sensei had seen this, she would've sent me flying for giving away my position right after laughing at me for being worse at sneaking around than Shi. I shook my head and pushed those thoughts down as I moved through the door. The door closed behind me, but I ignored it as I took in the sight before me. The whole place was done in cold green and smelt of water. A shiver of dread went down my spine at the scent of decay met my nose. It was odd, but now I could remember how the air smelt when my magic tore Vernon apart. It was the same scent, yet life seemed to cling to it like the zombies on Thriller Bark. I shook my head and focused on continuing my observations. Large snake heads lined the straight pathway towards a large platform behind which sat an ugly head. I shuddered in slight anger as the scent of snake hung limply in the air meaning the snake hadn't been in the area for awhile. I took a deep breath through my mouth as Boreas murmured, "Calm down and look carefully. We may need to find alternate exits."

I nodded my head and began to move forward. I felt the prickling feeling get worse as I made progress towards the platform. I pushed that feeling down as I looked around. Water drenched the floor which would have made it slippery had it not been for the non-slip enchantment on my boots. A small feeling of relief went through me upon seeing the large tunnels between each of the snake heads though I grimaced at the amount of water between the pathway and the exit points. I stopped moving once I got 3/4's the way up to the platform when I heard the sound of breathing. A dark aura and the scent of death were coming from there making me grimace as I murmured, "It looks like we found the girl."

Boreas shivered against my neck and murmured, "We must be quick. Whatever that dark aura is, it isn't something either of us are strong enough to deal with."

I bit the inside of my cheek to keep myself from panicking. Dark aura? Okay Winter calm down and focus. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath before taking a step forward. The prickling feeling grew as did the feeling of hornets flying around my head and digging their stingers in as deep as possible. It grew worse and worse the more I moved forward, but I tried to ignore it as the platform came into full view. My eyes zeroed in on two figures. One lay on the ground as still as a corpse, yet faint breathing could be heard. The second was a rather tall male with brownish-black hair and dark brown almost black eyes. He had pale skin and radiated an aura of cruelty much like Vernon used to. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck raise as I felt the dark aura. I felt eyes on me and heard, "Well this is a surprise, Winter Potter has arrived."

"Who are you?" I asked while eyeing the male warily.

"I am Tom Riddle," He answered with a smirk.

The name caused me to frown as a memory stirred...

Flashback

"Hey Hermione," I called to her as I looked through the trophy case, "Look these awards are for those that did special services to the school,"

She hummed and walked over, "Really? You deserve one then."

I rolled my eyes and picked up on, "This one belonged to," I frowned at the name, "Tom Marvolo Riddle," I snorted and put it back, "Who the hell did would name their kid that?"

End of Flashback

I snorted softly, "So you're the one that got that services to the school award?"

"How did you know?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"A guess," I then snickered, "Who the hell gave you that name? It sucks,"

He glared at me and something inside of me bristled, "What would you know? Your name is Winter Potter."

"I'm a cold person," I shrugged causing him to snort, "So you're the so called heir of Slytherin and have been attacking the students?"

"Yes," He answered with a slight smile.

"Why?" I asked while moving closer, "What could have possibly caused you to do this?"

"At first, I did it because of the Mud-Bloods. They don't deserve to learn magic," I growled at him, "Oh touchy subject?" I glared at him in reply as Boreas tried to keep me calm, "Then, my little write started to write about you. She talked about how you were being blamed because you could speak parseltongue. I asked her for more information and she gave it to me,"

Boreas spoke as the boy kept talking, "Sniff the air. Something isn't right."

I did as asked and found that I only smelt the one living being other than the snake. The male didn't have a scent. I frowned before asking, "Why don't you have a scent?"

He stopped speaking and looked at me. Shock was clear on his face before it turned dark, "You're a beast?!"

I snorted softly, "No I just have a better nose than most people."

He frowned before answering my question, "Because I'm merely a memory," He gestured to something on the ground, "Inside of that diary, I live on," He smirked and looked at the still figure on the ground, "Thanks to her, I will soon be flesh on bone again. I will do what my elder self couldn't."

"Elder self?" Boreas stiffened.

"Yes," he smirked crookedly at me, "You and I aren't that diffrent Potter. I too lived with Muggles, but unlike you, I was abused-"

I cut him off with a snort, "Yeah right. All those stories that they tell aren't true."

"So you two were abused?" He asked with a grin on his face, "Then we truly aren't that diffrent. You see I found out about magic..." I ignored his story and looked down at the girl, "...And Dumbledore came to the orphanage..." Her features were asian and I did hear a few people say that it was Chang that got taken, "...I went to Hogwarts after that..." Her skin was really pale and her hair seemed to be turning a bit brittle, "...I learned about my mother's family..." Her scent held that perfume from the top of the staircase the day before Fred got frozen, "...I didn't want to my muggle father's name," Boreas lightly nudged me to pay attention, "I couldn't if I wanted respect. I chose to take my own name. A name that would be feared by all. I would become the Greatest Sorcerer of all time!"

He waved a wand that I had never seen before and wrote his name in fire. He then switched the letters around and I felt my eyes widening as I read, 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT,' I stared at the name for a long while before looking at the boy, "So your the younger version of the idiot I killed when I was a baby?"

He stared at me in shock as if not expecting me to say that. I was slightly shocked that I said that, but I'm going to stick by that. After all, you had to be an idiot to not be able to kill a baby, or rather toddler. It just wasn't possible because kids had really brittle bones. Sensei had proven that multiple times when she decided that I wasn't moving fast enough during training. I held back a shudder and pushed those thoughts away as Tom shouted, "I am not an Idiot!"

"Then why couldn't you kill when when I was a fucking toddler?" I asked him with a raised eyebrow, "Only an idiot wouldn't be able to kill a toddler,"

He looked at me in visible anger before seemingly calming down as he looked at the girl, "It shouldn't be long now."

I frowned and was about to ask when I looked at Cho. Her skin was getting paler by the minute. Boreas spoke through our bond, "He's connect to the diary. It's taking her life force and giving it to the shade. If we don't save her within the next thirty minutes, her life force will be completely absorbed into the shade."

"You're using the Diary to kill her?" I asked the shade and noticed that it seemed to be gaining a clearer shape.

"Yes," He offered me a smile, "It's a rather tragic ending for her,"

"She's stupid for not giving the diary up once she noticed that it had a fucking mind of it's own," I rolled my eyes at the stupidity of some people, "However, I really don't want to deal with you, so I'm going to have to save her,"

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that," He shook his head before looking at the ugly statue, "Open Salazar Slytherin Greatest of the Four!"

The mouth of the statue started to open and the scent of snake got heavier. I grimaced and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to kill you with the very beast that's going to kill all those that are unworthy of learning about magic," The shade grinned at me as the mouth of the statue fully opened, "Kill the girl,"

A giant snake came out of the statue's mouth and I closed my eyes just as the sound of something flying met my ears. Boreas hissed in my ear while I heard something hiss, "Which one Masster?"

"The one standing with the red and gold tie," The shade answered as I started to back away and the sound of wings beating through the air nearby, "What's this? An owl?"

"Leave my Saiken alone!" Hedwig's scent met my nose.

"Hedwig?!" I shouted in surprise just as I heard a screech of pain.

"Take that you stupid snake!" Hedwig screeched.

"No!" The feeling of a weight settling on my shoulder was comforting.

"It can't see, so open your eyes little one," I did as asked and found the snake bleeding out of the area where it's eyes had been.

I opened my mouth to speak, but no sound came out. I shook my head just as Riddle growled, "Very well. Even if the beast can't see you, it can hear you. Get her!"

"Yesss Masster," The beast hiss and struck towards me.

I backed away before turning and running as Hedwig shouted, "Run!"

I ran as fast as I could to the first opening and darted down the tunnel. Cold water soaked into my skin causing both relief and tiredness to spread through me. I ignored it as best as I could as I kept myself from being hit by the snake. It followed after me as I ran causing me to curse. Boreas' feelings only showed his fear even as he tried to calm me down, "We just need to keep ahead of it. It'll get tired eventually."

"That won't work," I hissed softly as I tried to keep my breathing even, "I'm getting tired really easily,"

"Of course you are," Hedwig groaned softly, "Devil Fruit users are weak against water. Sure if it's moving, you're good, but this stuff ain't moving unless you make it move,"

"How the hell am I supposed to beat this thing?" I growled as I shot down another tunnel and out onto the watery pathway.

"Freeze the water," Boreas suggested, "The cold will make it harder for the snake to move,"

"Good idea," I said as I ducked into another tunnel and felt relief at the fact it was dry, "But how do I do that when you haven't taught me how to,"

He was silent and I took a moment to lean against a grate. The tunnel branched three diffrent ways from where I was leaning. The first was the way I came, the second was straight across from me, and the third just continued the first. I heard the snake coming and looked around before catching sight of a stone. I picked it up and tossed it into the tunnel across from me. I held my breath and heard my companions do the same as the basilisk appeared. It's head moved towards me then towards the other tunnel before going towards where the stone continued to clatter against the tunnel. I let out a soft breath once it was gone from my sight, hearing, and smell. I felt the relief from my companions before hearing Boreas murmur, "Right. I forgot about that."

Hedwig was about to snap at him, but I stopped her by asking him, "Can you teach me now?"

He nodded against my neck and I moved carefully off of the grate. I quickly cast a drying charm on myself before going on the move again. Boreas spoke as I moved back towards the watery pathway, "How did you manage to get down here?"

"I found an entrance to a tunnel while I was trying to figure out where you went," She answered softly, "I followed the bond between Winter and I. I made it here in time to blind the snake,"

"Yeah good job doing that," I felt slightly irritated at her, "I could have tried to talk it out of killing all of us, but you had to go and blind it," I felt her shiver at the icy tone my voice took, "I really wish you would've let me try to reason with it even if the damn thing probably wouldn't have listened,"

"Sorry," She apologized.

I shook my head and murmured, "Don't. It's over and done with. All we need to do is focus on saving Chang and getting out of here."

"Right," She agreed.

"Any idea where the soft spots are?" I asked as I looked around.

"The mouth," She answered, "The mouth is the most vulnerable place on a snake since all you need to do is stab something sharp through the roof of it's mouth and into the brain,"

"Okay, but how do I hit that without getting bit?" I found myself getting closer to the entrance of the tunnel I was in.

"Create a spike of ice and have it extend towards the snakes mouth," She suggested.

"Good suggest except it would close its mouth once Riddle saw the spike heading towards his beast," Boreas snapped, "Creating an ice spike is all well and good, but it is one of the most draining things a child of frost can do when just beginning to learn their magic,"

"Right," Hedwig sounded sheepish.

A thought occurred to me as a something rose...

Memory

"So we're basically out of options and the damn things are getting closer," I mutter as a clicking sound met my ears.

"Damn this is so fucked up," Shachi whined from my side.

"Oh really? I thought it would be nice to be fucking spider chow when I'm only fucking twenty eight," Penguin snapped.

"Damn man sorry," Shachi muttered before looking to the side, "Damn it Bepo ain't looking too good. I think these fucking things are poisonous,"

I froze before a grin wove its way across my face, "Oh boys I have a plan."

"EH? WHAT?!" Both looked at me.

"If ya can't use anything else, just kill it it with fire," I cheerfully said.

End of memory

"...on't know," Hedwig's voice brought me back to the present.

"Guys I have an idea," I said before looking at the watery pathway, "But I don't know how it'll work,"

"It's better than nothing," Hedwig assured me.

"If you can't use anything else, you need to kill it with fire," I murmured and waited for them to speak.

The two were silent for a while before Boreas nodded, "That sounds like a good idea."

"How do we do it then?" Hedwig asked causing me to shrug.

"Let's just freeze the water first," I suggest, "After that, we'll figure it all out," I turned my attention to Boreas, "Well?"

"Draw on your inner frost," He instructed.

I closed my eyes and imagined my element. The chilling warmth of my element swirled eagerly to the surface. I opened my eyes and breathed out softly as a measure of calm settled on my mind, "Now what?"

"Push it towards your hands and then put your hands on the water," He instructed in a soft voice.

"Alright," My voice was soft and smooth with calm.

My element only needed a small probe and moved from it's position all over my body to focus on my hands as I bent down. A small crackleing sound echoed from the water as my hands settled on top of it. I stared down at the slowly gathering ice as Boreas murmured, "Now push it forward slowly. Not too much or you'll end up pour all of your elemental reserves into freezing the water. Do not put too little in or you'll only cover the water in a thin surface of ice."

Nodding slightly, I started pushing my element forward. It tried to rush forward in one big burst, but I kept it back. After a while, it calmed down enough to do as I said without a struggle. The strange calm that settled over me seemed to seep into every pore of my being the longer I used my element. It was as if everything that was wrong wouldn't be a problem so long as I used my element. It was like a blanket of warmth that called to me and told me that I would always be safe. It was torn away as I felt a bright fire of pain. I yelped and gasped, "What the hell?!"

Boreas spoke as Hedwig removed her beak from my ear, "You need to keep your mind on the situation. You almost lost yourself."

"What?" I asked causing him to sigh.

"Every child of the elements will do the same thing you did the first time they consciously use their power," He explained, "They fall into a state of complete calm and serenity. It prompts them to keep using their power until there's nothing left,"

"And I almost did the same," I murmured softly, "Sorry,"

"It's alright, Little one," He nuzzled my cheek, "Withdraw your powers, you've put enough into the ice to make it solid enough,"

With a deep breath, I pulled my power back into myself before standing up and looking around. We were standing at one of the lower ends of the pathway, "Okay now what?"

"Let's head for the girl," Hedwig suggest as she hopped off my shoulder and turned into her Raiju form, "I'll blast that thing with an electrical charge,"

"Right," I stepped onto the ice and immediately felt a sense of peace curl through me.

Boreas nudged me and I started moving towards the platform after pushing that feeling down. I started skating down the pathway and soon reached the platform. The shade looked at me in anger and hissed, "How did you freeze the ice?"

"A secret," I sent the disarming charm towards him and caught Chang's wand, "Let's get her free of you,"

I walked over to her and bent down as I checked her pulse. Hedwig settled between the shade and I while asking, "The girl?"

"She has a pulse, but it's starting to slow," She growled in response, "Boreas?"

"The diary must be destroyed," He replied causing me to nod.

"How?" I asked while Hedwig kicked it over.

"You won't be able to destroy it," The shade mocked with a nasty smile, "She'll be dead soon,"

I ignored him while Boreas jumped from my shoulder and onto the icy floor. He looked at the diary for awhile before hiss, "It's not something I've seen before, but I can tell that it won't be easy to destroy."

"I'll try burning it," Hedwig suggested as lightning radiated from her form, "Stand back a bit,"

I moved Chang back as Boreas settled on her stomach, "What are you-"

I didn't get to finish the question as Hedwig suddenly opened her mouth while shouting, "Lighting God's Breath!"

End of chapter