Disclaimer: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel belongs to Joss Wheldon, Charmed belongs to the creator whose name I don't know, Harry Potter belongs to the wickedly amazing J.K Rowling and the Lord Of The Rings trilogy belongs to J.R.R Tolkien, Peter Jackson and all the other screenwriters. The songs in this story belong to the songwriters who wrote these amazing songs. Please don't sue me, I'm completely and utterly broke and it's for entertainment purposes only.
Timeline: post season 7 Buffy, six months after the series finale Chosen. AU: Charmed. Post-book 5, two months after the events of OOTP, Harry Potter. During the first movie The Fellowship of The Ring all the way to The Return Of The King.
Pairing(s): Buffy/Legolas, Dawn/Frodo (weird pairing I know but I wanted to do something different), Dawn/Sam (friendship), Piper/Sam (friendship), Merry/Willow (friendship), Willow/Boromir, Angel/Cordelia, Cordelia/Pippin (friendship), Fred/Wesley, Leo/Piper, Paige/Richard (?), Lucius/Narcissa, Harry/Ginny, Dawn/Harry, Buffy/Draco (friendship), Dawn/Draco (friendship?), Sirius/Paige (?), Ron/Hermione, Cole/Phoebe, Aragorn/Arwen
Author's Note: So sorry for the delay. I had to keep rewriting the whole chapter just to keep the story flowing and to stay true to it. Anyway, the entire Harry Potter crew makes their first appearances in this chapter. So enjoy and please no flames, I will ignore them and I don't have the patience for them.
Summary: Spike is reunited with an old friend, a wizard turned Whitelighter named Sirius Black. Then Spike and the rest of the Fellowship are taken to see Galadriel and Celeborn.
Malfoy Manor
November 18, 2003
12:30 am
Narcissa Malfoy laid in her bed staring at the window that was open a couple of feet away from her. Just as she closed her eyes to try to sleep, she heard a soft noise coming from downstairs. She slowly got up carefully to avoid waking her sleeping husband and walked out of the room to investigate the noise. Her wand in her hand, Narcissa slowed her pace and kept her eyes open for anything suspicious. Ever since the start of the summer, there had been rumors of strange demons on the loose in England killing people at will. It was something that couldn't be dismissed or ignored. The demons had slaughtered both Muggles and wizards and so far, they haven't shown signs of slowing down in numbers. That caused chaos within the Ministry as they struggled to figure out what was going on.
As Lucius said to me. Narcissa thought to herself.
Her thoughts derailed when she heard the sound again only this time it was louder than before but she forced herself to remain calm. She turned around the corner and saw a small body of a house-elf lying on the floor. Narcissa ran to it and examined the body. It looked like that the house-elf was stabbed to death by a knife or a sword rather brutally.
Sweet Merlin! What kind of a demon is responsible for this?
Unfortunately for Narcissa, her unspoken question was never answered because just as she was finishing examining the house-elf's corpse, a demon started to come up behind her with a battle-ax in its hands. Hearing it come up behind her, Narcissa turned around and screamed just as the demon swung the ax down.
A terrified scream woke Lucius Malfoy from a sound sleep and he flew out of bed, grabbed his robe and rushed out of the bedroom to follow the source of the scream. He was furious that he got woken up but at the same time afraid of what he was going to find. Ever since the start of the slaughter of thousands of wizards during the summer, he had been taking drastic measures to try to protect himself and Narcissa from the mysterious demons responsible for the massacre. But now, Lucius wasn't sure that those measures are enough to save himself and his family.
Lucius called out his wife's name as he was running and to his dismay, she didn't answer which meant something was terribly wrong. Then he turned around the corner and saw an ugly looking demon standing a few feet away carrying a blood-covered battle ax. Then it moved to swing the ax at Lucius but the Death Eater was too fast for it when he moved out of the demon's path. Before the demon could make another move, Lucius drew his wand out of his robes and pointed it at the demon.
"Avada Kedavra!" He shouted.
The demon was engulfed in a blinding green light before it dropped dead onto the floor. Without looking back, Lucius turned and felt the strength go out of his legs when he saw the bloody, motionless body of his wife and he half-walked, half-crawled over to her. He then picked up her upper body and held her in his arms.
"Narcissa." Lucius whispered struggling to keep from losing it completely.
"Lucius." Narcissa opened her eyes and smiled weakly at her grieving husband. "It's …"
"No!" Lucius shook his head in denial.
"Take care of Draco." Narcissa's voice grew weaker and her breathing grew labored as the life was leaving her. "Take care of him. I will always be with you. I love you, Lucius." Narcissa closed her eyes one last time and her chest rose and fell till it went still. She was gone.
"Narcissa! No, no." Lucius's grief was unbearable. "NO!"
For the first time in his entire life, Lucius let loose all of his emotions. Something he hadn't done since he was a child. He let go all his grief, anger and devastation as the reality of Narcissa's death took hold. Then he wept. Tears swam down his face as he held her closer to him, holding her lifeless body against his chest and sobbing uncontrollably.
"I love you, Narcissa." Lucius whispered sobbing.
Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry
November 18, 2003
6:30 am
"Oy, Harry! Are you awake?"
Harry Potter groaned as he slowly began waking up from a rather horrible nightmare. Ever since the beginning of July, he was plagued by a series of horrifying and gruesome nightmares of pain, torture and death. He knew that people were dying not at the hands of Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters but something much, much worse. In his dreams, he saw people being slaughtered by mysterious demons in the most horrifying ways that would Death Eaters look like choirboys and girls. But it was his most recent nightmare that was now causing him the most distress.
Because this bloody nightmare concerns Malfoy. Harry thought thinking of his rival and arch-nemesis, Draco Malfoy. And I think those demons have already killed his mother if this nightmare hasn't come true yet, that is.
Harry pulled himself out of his thoughts when he turned to see his best friend, Ron Weasley sitting at the end of his bed. He was already dressed in his school uniform and robes.
"You're awake early." Harry said.
"I know." Ron said. "I couldn't go back to sleep so I got up early."
Before Harry could say something else to his best friend or to even crack a joke with him, Seamus Finnegan burst into the room out of breath and with a horrified expression on his face.
"Professor Dumbledore is calling everyone to the Great Hall." He said once he calmed down. "There's been another massacre."
Harry's heart gave a horrible jolt at the news. Oh, Merlin! Please be wrong! He and Ron followed Seamus out of the dormentries and into the Great Hall. He saw the looks on everyone's faces were all grim and with horror. Once again, he prayed that he was wrong and that his nightmare had not come true again as he sat down next to Ron. His other best friend, Hermione Granger sat across from him. Harry shifted his focus to the teachers' table where Dumbledore was sitting.
"As you all know, there has been a series of massacres committed not by Death Eaters but by something worse than Death Eaters. A group of demons by the likes which we have never seen before. They run across England, unchecked, unchallenged, killing at will. Early last night, they hit again. This time, in the home of one of our students, Draco Malfoy."
No! Harry couldn't help but stare at Dumbledore in utter horror. Then he glanced at the Slytherin table where Draco was sitting and he saw that he was grieving and was sitting alone away from his housemates. As much as he hated him, Harry couldn't help but feel sorry for him at the fact that he lost his mother to unimaginable horror.
"Who was killed, Professor?" Ginny Weasley shouted from her seat.
"Narcissa Malfoy, a few house-elves and the family's other servants were the ones who were brutally slaughtered. Lucius Malfoy, however, survived the massacre and will be staying here as our guest until the danger passes."
The Great Hall erupted with protests and shouts from students. Feeling sick, Harry didn't stand up and he couldn't take his eyes away from Draco who was now standing up from the table and began to storm out. Ignoring the sick feeling in his stomach, Harry got up and followed Draco to the boys' bathroom where he found him standing over a sink shaking. Harry saw that he was crying profusely.
"Malfoy." Harry said softly.
Draco turned and glared when he saw who it was. "What the fuck do you want, Potter?" He snarled.
Harry winced at the utter loathing in his rival's voice but remained firm. "To talk." He said.
"About what? The fact that my mother is dead?" Draco demanded. "That I got what I deserved? Fuck you, Potter. I don't need it."
"I'm not here to gloat, Malfoy!" Harry snapped feeling slightly angry. "I'm here to tell you that you didn't deserve what happened to you whether you're my enemy or not. I also wanted to say that I'm sorry for what happened to your mother. I know you loved her very much. Even if you are my rival, it would be wrong to say that you deserved what happened to her because you don't."
"What I'm trying to say, Malfoy," Harry continued. His anger slowly dying down. "Is that I know what it's like to lose someone you love very much." Harry's mind drifted to Sirius. It was painful after losing him to the Death Eaters but he knew that his godfather was now with his parents smiling down on him. He pulled out of his thoughts when he saw that Draco's already shaky resolve was collapsing all together and he broke down crying again. Before he knew what he was doing, Harry stood beside him but just as he was about to lay a hand on his rival's shoulder, Draco flung himself in his arms sobbing uncontrollably.
A few stray tears ran down Harry's cheeks as feelings of guilt washed over him like a tidal wave and he wished that he could do something to prevent what was happening but he knew that he couldn't and that made him feel worse.
"I'm sorry." He whispered. The words sounded hollow even to his own ears but he repeated them over and over until he was only mouthing them knowing that there was nothing he could do to ease Draco's pain.
Potions Classroom
Five hours later …
Severus found himself standing in front of a gate of a castle in overlooking a large field. It was dark and raining. He turned to see men and young women standing over ledges. Some were holding bows and arrows. Some were holding other weapons like swords and axes. They were standing in a position that Severus would classify as a war stance as if they were waiting for something or someone. Suddenly, a sound of pounding steps pulsed behind him and Severus turned to see that it was caused by a massive group of the mysterious demons. They looked like the same ones who killed Narcissa and all of the others who were unlucky to have been caught in their path.
Then suddenly, the image was replaced with something more terrifying. A fiery eye staring directly at Severus.
"I see you." It said in a voice so evil that it frightened Severus as a flicker of recoginzation etched on his face.
"Sauron." Severus whispered in horror and he …
Severus Snape flew from his desk so fast that he almost fell off his chair but managed to steady himself. His heart pounded and sweat poured down his face as he tried to calm down but it was virtually impossible with all of the fear and anxiety he was feeling over what he had just dreamt. What he saw was something that had hasn't been seen by human eyes in three thousand years and an enemy that was rumored to be the most feared before the days of Lord Voldemort has returned. Badly shaking, he walked slowly out of his classroom where he had fallen asleep and headed to the Headmaster's office.
"L-l-lemon drop." Severus said trying desperately to calm down as the memory of the nightmare threatened to overwhelm him further. As the gargoyle moved, he walked up the stairs slowly then he burst in not bothering to knock. He saw that Dumbledore was not alone but Lucius was there as well. Both men looked very concerned.
"Severus, what happened? Are you all right?" Dumbledore asked in a worried voice.
Severus struggled to calm himself down before he spoke. "I had a nightmare and what I saw in it was something that hasn't been seen in over three thousand years."
Dumbledore already knew what Severus was talking about and it disturbed him greatly. "The Eye Of Sauron." He said in a grim voice. Then he put two on two together and he turned to Lucius who looked confused and upset.
"The demons that killed Narcissa are not really demons. They're orcs." Dumbledore said.
"How is that possible?" Lucius exclaimed. "How can ..?" Then the memory of a previous Death Eater meeting washed over him and he remembered what Voldemort said about him forming an alliance with an evil who hasn't been seen or heard from in nearly three thousand years. An enemy that both good and evil fought in an epic battle long ago.
Lucius could barely keep the fear out of his voice when he spoke the name even more feared than Voldemort. "Sauron."
Dumbledore nodded. "He has returned. Just as we all feared."
"Voldemort is forming an alliance with him." Severus said as he also remembered the meeting. "I dismissed it at first thinking that he was not serious about aligning himself with a Dark Lord who hasn't shown himself in three thousand years but with the recent slaughter, I am beginning to think that he is very serious about this. He has even gone as far as punishing the Death Eaters who were opposed to the idea of an alliance between themselves and Sauron." The Potions Master turned to Lucius as he said those words knowing that his best friend was one of the Death Eaters who opposed him.
"That's why they killed Narcissa." Lucius said catching on. "Because I betrayed the Dark Lord by opposing him."
Dumbledore nodded. "Exactly." He said. "I'm afraid that you and Draco, as well as the rest of the students and staff are no longer safe. Not as long as Sauron still lives."
Severus and Lucius both gave each other worried glances knowing that as long as they remained in opposition to Voldemort's plan for an alliance with Sauron, they were both wanted men and they would never be safe.
Evil, aren't I? Well, I said that everyone in the Harry Potter universe would make their first appearances in this chapter and more of them will be in the next chapter as well as the Scoobies, the Charmed Ones and the rest of the Fellowship. Please review and remember no flames! I will ignore them and I don't have the patience for them.
