So this chapter is a little shorter than the last, but I wanted it to end there :P
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Chapter 4 Bella's Story
As they got closer to the light they heard giggling and laughing. There were women gathered around a chained up man. It was probably a stray werewolf that dared to come into the cave. He was a well built fellow that happened to wander into the wrong place.
His clothing was missing, and he had blood all over his face and chest. There were chains coming down from the ceiling which held him hanging just off the ground.
Bellatrix tried to scream when she felt the hand go around her mouth, but nothing came out. Something came around her eyes, preventing her from seeing anything. Her arms were pulled behind her and she was dragged away.
As they got closer to the light they heard giggling and laughing. There were women gathered around a chained up man. It was probably a stray werewolf that dared to come into the cave. He was a well built fellow that happened to wander into the wrong place.
His clothing was missing, and he had blood all over his face and chest. There were chains coming down from the ceiling which held him hanging just off the ground.
"Poor guy, doesn't look a day over 18." Rodolphus whispered. Not two seconds later and he was being dragged away. There was a gag in his mouth, stoping him from calling out. He watched as Evan tried to put up a fight against their attackers, but it was no use. Evan was soon being dragged the same as him.
Giggling.
Running water.
Splashing.
More giggling.
The light hurt when she first opened her eyes. It seemed sterile at first, like she was in St. Mungos. She sat up.
Pain.
Her hand flew to her head, it throbbed.
The infernal giggling again.
What happened? Where was she?
"She has awaken girls!" The deep voice sounded to get closer as it finished.
A cool hand touched her forehead, it felt good. Slowly opening her eyes, Bellatrix saw a couple dozen women standing around her. They were beautiful women dressed in harem outfits.
"What happened? Where am I?" Bellatrix questioned as she shooed the hand away from her head.
"I am Lana, my mistress has asked me to prepare you for tonight's entertainment." Lana smiled at her and helped her up off the bed she was sitting on.
"Who is your mistress?"
"We will see her when you are ready."
Curiosity got the better of her and Bellatrix complied. At least they weren't torturing her.
She was led to a bath, the women began to wash her hair when she was settled in. Bellatrix insisted she washed her own body.
"What is your name, dear?" Lana asked as she was choosing something for Bellatrix to wear.
She hesitated. These women didn't seem a threat, but then again most mistook her for not being dangerous. Just because she was a woman didn't mean she couldn't take as much pleasure out of a kill as the next man.
"Bellatrix." Her instinct told her that this woman wasn't a threat. At least not to her. "Bellatrix Black." She held her head high.
"Ahhh a Black. We haven't had one of those in centuries."
"What do you mean, had one of us?" This woman was crazy.
All Lana did was smile, showing her pretty white teeth.
Bellatrix nearly fell over the bed.
"Shit! You're a vampire!" Bellatrix screamed at her. She went for her wand but she was clad in only a towel.
"Of course. What else did you think we were?"
"We?! All of you?!" She scrambled to the other side of the bed. "I was hoping you weren't vampires! Just crazy!"
"Come over here and get dressed."
"Where is my wand?!" Bellatrix needed it, she felt helpless right now. Naked and without her wand.
"My mistress has it. And I shan't bring you to her dressed like that."
Bellatrix didn't move from her spot on the bed.
"I won't bite." Lana giggled. "It's not my place, my mistress decides your fate."
Still Bellatrix didn't move.
"You will never see your wand again if you don't get over here."
Slowly Bellatrix got off the bed and walked over to Lana.
'Well she hasn't bitten me thus far."
She allowed Lana to help her dress into an outfit similar to her's, and then do her hair. When she finished she brought Bellatrix over to a mirror.
"There. Beautiful." Lana said smiling, looking at Bellatrix in the mirror.
And she was. Bellatrix was amazed, she never really spent too much time on her appearance. It was a waste, the one time she did she came back a wreck after her mission.
"Are you ready to see my mistress now?" Lana asked stood by the door. Bellatrix nodded and followed her out the door.
It was cold and dark, he couldn't see anything. He opened his eyes but it was darkness.
"Rodolphus?" Evan called out to the man that was like his brother, but he got no response.
"Tell Demetrius one of them is awake." Evan didn't know who said it, the voice was not familiar.
He felt someone doing something behind him, but couldn't move. His hands were chained, outstretched above him. Then there was light, he could see three other men in the room, not including the one that was still behind him. Moving his head to the right, Evan saw Rodolphus chained in the same position he was, a couple feet away. His head was hanging forward down on his chest, Evan assumed he was knocked out because his chest still rose and fell. Rodolphus was in rough shape though. He was bleeding and bruised, the poor guy must have had the shit kicked out of him. Evan felt horrible too, he looked up to see his arms full of bruises and some cuts here and there. Rodolphus definitely had the worst of the too.
"Wake the other. Her highness wants to see them." Another man entered the room with two more men. He looked at Evan then over to Rodolphus. "Jesus Vilatos, what the hell did you do to him? I said till they were out cold, not on the brink of death."
"Calm down Demetrius. He wouldn't go out, a fighter." The man called Vilatos responded.
"Well awaken him. The queen wants them now. She doesn't want to postpone her party tonight anymore. She says she has a new bride to present to some one." Demetrius smiled an evil smile, baring teeth.
'I fucking hate vampires.' Evan thought to himself.
"Wakey wakey! Rise and shine!"
Rodolphus opened his eyes to a man standing in front of him.
"Ahhh! There he is! Good morning beautiful! You sure do put up a fight!"
Rodolphus groaned as he tried to move. Everything hurt. He felt people tugging on his arms, then started to fall. He fell into a set of arms, and was held up.
"Good job Vilatos, now we have to carry him."
"Quit your whining and let's go."
Rodolphus felt himself being dragged, he wasn't sure where, but there was music and laughter getting louder as they kept moving.
"Mistress, these are the ones we caught snooping the other night."
Rodolphus was dropped, he fell face first onto the ground. A bucket of cold water was dumped on him and all his senses came back. He put his hands on the ground, and lifted his upper body up. He stopped moving and rested when he was on his knees.
"I see Vilatos had that one." It was a woman's voice this time. "How are we supposed to find out what they were doing when this one can barely hold himself up?" The woman didn't sound too pleased. "No matter. The other one shall tell us."
Evan was grabbed by his hair, and his head was raised to look at the woman talking. The queen.
"Why were you sneaking around my cave?" Her voice was loud, but she didn't yell.
"We have a business proposal." Evan coughed out. Why didn't they think of a plan for when they got caught? Evan never did the talking, just the work part of it all.
"A business proposal? From whom?"
"The Dark Lord."
"The Dark Lord? The one who ordered my demise?" She stood up quickly from her thrown. "The one who sent men that killed nearly half my coven?"
"Uhh, that would be the one, yes."
She started to laugh, it was shrill, not at all pleasant.
"And you are the one that killed all of our men in the village."
The laughter had stopped, and the queen looked at Rodolphus with wide eyes.
"I only gave back what I received." She snipped at him. She continued to stare at him as she stepped down to where he was. There were woman all around her thrown, in various stages of undress, sitting on pillows. None of them moved as she approached him. The tension in the air was crushing down upon everyone.
"I feel like I know you." She whispered it.
"I should hope so, Leerie." Rodolphus laughed.
The queen hissed as she turned her back to him. "I should have known it was you."
"It would have been nice, save me the trouble of having to patch up these cuts."
"If you hadn't been sneaking around!"
"We weren't sneaking around, we were going to come see you."
"Why were you hiding then?"
"Didn't want to interrupt anything." He smirked, his teeth covered in his own blood.
"Rodolphus you are such a foolish man sometimes. Clean them up. Get them some food and water. We have things to discuss." The queen ordered as she walked back to her thrown.
"You knew it was me?"
"Yes." Rodolphus responded lowering his head a bit.
"Why didn't you come to me first? We could have avoided all of this mess." Aleera said as she took a sip from her glass.
"Honestly, I did think of it. It's just been so long..." He trailed off shrugging.
"We use to be best friends. What happened to us Roddy?"
"We grew up, and apart."
"I miss you." She said trying to look into his eyes, but his head was still down. "You made me feel like I didn't have to be perfect, even though you knew someday I'd be a queen. You still bossed me around and pushed me down if I deserved it. I do love being queen, it has it's perks, but it's still a lot of work."
"I'm sure you're very good to your people. Mother trained you, I've heard she was the best." Rodolphus smiled at her.
"Mother died Roddy. Before I was 18, before I was ready to become queen."
"Aleera..."
"It crushed my people, but we healed. They said there was so much of my mother in me, but yet there was more. There was something I had, that my mother didn't." She smiled here, but it was sad. "I have led my people unto many victories, something my mother didn't quite do. Where she would seek peace and equality, I seek war and leadership. Our numbers have grown immensely throughout the decade that I have been queen. But I know when I am up against something that I can not rule. And I can't rule your Dark Lord."
"No, and I hope you won't try." Rodolphus looked up at her sincerely. "He is a very powerful and dark man, Aleera. He never hesitates to kill whatever or whoever stands in his way. He is bloodthirsty and twisted, but so am I."
"Rodolphus," Aleera smacked his arm. "When did you get turned?" She joked.
"I kill woman, Aleera. And children. I curse and hex them until they are on the brink of death, until their body has almost given up on them." He said seriously. He didn't want her to think that he was the same person from all those years ago. He had changed. A lot. But he hoped it wasn't too much for her. "My favorite way to end it is slicing their throats, and watching as their souls leave their eyes as the blood pours from their necks."
"Oh Roddy, that sounds so romantic." She grinned at him. "Your wife must be one lucky girl."
He snorted. "What wife?"
Aleera have him a funny look, "You haven't married?"
"Nah. Been too busy with...work." He winked. "What about you? Where's your guy?"
She giggled. "Oh I haven't taken a mate yet. I have also been busy with...work." She giggled again.
They sat in silence now. Rodolphus ate while Aleera continued to drink from her glass. Rodolphus knew what the red liquid was that she was drinking, it was the only thing she could have without getting violently ill.
"My queen." A tall man wearing a trench coat came over to them. "The others wish to know when the activities shall begin."
"Tell them they'll just have to wait a little longer. I have a new girl I want to see first. Get me Lana."
"Yes, my queen." The man left them.
"A new girl?"
"Yes, I will decide whether or not she'll become a member of our coven."
"Where exactly did you find this girl?" Rodolphus asked curiously.
"Oh, some where roaming about outside the cave. I hear she is quite pretty."
"He-"
"My queen." Lana interrupted Rodolphus before he could even finish his first word. "I prepared her just as you requested." The vampire smiled at Aleera. "She is absolutely beautiful."
"Then let me see her already." Aleera said impatiently.
Lana moved to the side and ushered the woman behind the curtains to come over.
"Bellatrix!" Rodolphus stood up from his seat quickly. "You're alright!"
"Rodolphus?!" Bellatrix looked bewildered. "What happened to your face?" She asked as she put her hand to her cheek.
"Oh, uh, there was just a little misunderstanding." Rodolphus rubbed the back of his neck.
Bellatrix nodded. "Where's Evan?"
"I knew that leaving Hogwarts so late would be dangerous, but I had to do the dare. I would be shunned if didn't!" Evan explained. The men nodded their heads in agreement. "The damn thing came out of nowhere I tell ya! I was picking the flower and when I looked up there was the bloody beast! His face was covered in blood," the eyes if the other men widened,"I figured since he just ate, he would leave me alone. But as soon as I stood up straight he lunged for me!" Here Evan jerked forward and put his hands up, the others didn't flinch.
"He tackled me to the ground, he couldn't have been a full grown werewolf because I was able to push him off of me. I rolled away and went for my wand, but I couldn't find it. The wolf was starting to get up, and I couldn't find my wand. I scrambled over to where it had leaped on me, there was my wand, by the flower. I grabbed my wand as fast as I could and killed the mongrel." The men cheered and patted Evan on the back.
"Must you really tell everyone that story, Evan?" Rodolphus asked as he came to stand behind his friend.
"Rodolphus!" Evan jumped up. "Meet Farkus, Roy, Trec, Demetrius and Vilatos." Evan pointed out each man. "They're great!" He smiled.
"So am I right to assume you'd rather stay here then come sit with Bellatrix and I." Rodolphus asked.
"Totally right." Evan smirked and sat back down.
Rodolphus couldn't help but smile, it was like Evan was at school again; sitting with his group of friends.
"I shall finish out business and then we'll leave."
Evan nodded and shooed Rodolphus away.
The room was full of women, and pillows and curtains. Some of the women were bathing in the glorious bath in the center of the room, which looked more like a pond than a bath, it was huge.
Others were changing outfits, brushing each others hair or playing with their jewelry.
And there were a few watching their queen and her new pet.
"But you could have anything you want! A witch and a vampire! You'd be magnificent! There are only a select few with that chance."
"I just want my wand." Bellatrix snapped.
"And you will get it once you see reason!" Aleera yelled. She couldn't understand why this witch wouldn't agree to let her turn her. Men would scramble to be apart of her coven if they got one look at Bellatrix.
"One little nip and then it's over. You'll hardly feel any pain."
"I don't want that! I want my wand!" Bellatrix screamed.
"And I want you!" Aleera screamed back.
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