"Our purpose is to maintain stability in an

unstable world - kill one, save a thousand."

Jade stood in the dark and musty graveyard that contained the bones of Voldemort's father, and now contained the bones of Voldemort himself. She looked around noticing that the place had been abandoned for years, not that she was surprised. Too may things had gone on here to keep this place in a state of liveliness. She sighed softly as she lifted her leg onto the tombstone to prop it up. She was wearing a skirt, so her inner thighs were easily accessible. On her right inner thigh was the mark of all Death Eaters. The Dark Mark. She placed the tip of her wand to it and as she closed her eyes and felt the burn the mark pulsed and started to move. The snake sliding out of the skulls mouth.

One by one the Death Eaters that were still alive arrived in the graveyard. There were not as many as she wished there to have been. In total she counted twenty-seven people. She looked at the faces of the people before her. Some were older faces, some were newer. She didn't recognize everyone as so many people had pulled their children into it, as well as other loved ones. Not to mention the constant recruiting that was always going on, or at least had been up until the Dark Lord had died and his prodigy of a son started killing them off one at a time.

"Who are you to call us to this place?" the voice came from an older gentleman. She didn't know his name, but he was burly and strong in appearance. He looked as though he used a knife to shave, as it was a poorly uneven job. He had many scars on his face, battles with the ministry or random wizards the Dark Lord wanted killed, being the most reasonable explanation. Her leg came off of the tombstone as she took a step closer to the people before her.

"I have called you all here today-" she was cut off by the sound of someone apparating. Her eyes widened slightly as the man came forth out of the smoke.

"Only the Dark Lord had the right to call us using the Dark Mark, and you look nothing like my cousin," Kouji's face became clearly evident. His feminine features made most men mock him, at least until his prowl had been set upon them. He was not, in the slightest, gay at all. However, one had to look at him twice sometimes to make sure they were not staring at a woman.

"Kouji..." everyone's eyes raised. It was known that everyone related to the Dark Lord, aside from his son Takamaru, had been killed. Their bodies lay beneath the dirt that they all were currently standing on. Jade swallowed back what she had prepared to say, and looked at this rare occurrence.

"The Dark Lord is dead and his son, as you know, has been killing us off one at a time," her back straightened as she took charge, "This is the age in which a new leader shall arise-"

"And that is you?" he asked softly, his eyes flickering playfully. She could see that in his folded arms he carried his wand. The boy always had his wand out., and he was never to be underestimated. Most people thought that because he was a Hufflepuff he had no skills at all. That he couldn't hold his own in combat. He was more than effective. He could do things that had been noted making the Dark Lord's skin crawl.

"Takamaru has taken friends and family away from each and every one of you!" Jade spoke over the mumbling that was starting to go around from her previous statement, "He killed my Husband , Angel O'Conner, and he has tried, and will keep continuing to try, to kill my son! I will not stand for this. As you all know, he was one of you. He knows your tricks...your secrets. He knows it and he will use it against you. We must take him out, and in doing so we must remove the one person he still has a minimal amount of feelings for. Alexandria Marks."

"That will just make him even more dangerous," said the man who had first spoken against her, "You take away that and he has nothing to lose. There is nothing more dangerous than a man without something to lose."

"That is the difference between us and him. We have something to lose, and as long as he is alive he will take it from us in any way that he can, and you know it. We must take him out!"

"You are in this as a personal vendetta?" Kouji asked, softly.

"I am in this for us all. The Death Eaters need a ruler and I am going to give them one!" her wand came out and sparks flew into the sky forming the Dark Mark in the clouds. She looked down at them as they all dropped to their knees, all but Kouji. He smiled wickedly.

"This is going to be interesting..."

(Not five minutes later)

Takamaru came straight up. His eyes were wide with alert as his wand was pulled quickly from his pocket in the side of his robe . He looked around, having sworn that he had just been in a graveyard. He looked at his forearm. The mark burned deep into his skin, someone had been calling the Death Eaters. Someone was rallying them.

He rubbed his eyes softly, lack of sleep was something he was used to, but for some reason it seemed to be catching up to him. He shuddered at the thought of possibly getting old. It was just too soon for him to be thinking about something like that, and he straight up refused to grow old, at least just yet.

He sat there staring at the wooden floor tracing the grains of the wood with his eyes, refraining from doing it with his fingers as he had been forced to do many times during his childhood.

He heard a movement outside of the room he was currently occupying. He was up in an instance, his wand forward as he moved through—trained and deadly. As he came around the corner and into the foyer he say the reason behind the noise. Lexie was standing there, she had a glass of water in her hand. Her eyes were surrounded by cuts and bruises. She was frail and gauntly. Takamaru lowered his wand. She had been unconscious since the last time he had heard her voice. The fact that she was able to move made him happy.

"Lexie.." came his words, kind, soft—deadly; dangerous. He moved out of her way as she moved towards the couch in the room he had just exited. She slowly sipped the water, he set his wand down on the table. He then sat in the armchair, and let his eyes stare right through her.

"Everyone around you always gets hurt..." her voice was so quiet he nearly missed it. He could tell it pained her to speak, what she had gone through he knew nothing of. He almost felt sorry for her, but that was probably what Jade wanted. She would want him to feel sorry for her, want him to want to protect her. Anything to hurt him. That was all that Jade was capable of doing.

"Even when they try to get out, they get hurt," she swallowed the rest of the contents in the glass. She let the glass crash onto the table. It shattered into billions of pieces. Takamaru failed to flinch at the noise, he never even blinked.

"Lexie..." the word came from his lips once again, she ignored it.

"I tried for so long to justify what I was doing with you. I was helping you kill people, not just people though. They were Death Eaters. So in a roundabout ways, it was helping you and the world. But now, now I see that all I was doing was placing myself into one of the most dangerous positions the world has to offer. You are a wanted man, not by just the ministry Taka...the Death Eaters want you," she stood up and looked at him, shaking her head softly, "Its over. I am leaving, you will never hear from me again. Don't try to contact me or I will let the ministry know where you are." she turned to walk away.

Takamaru's eyes flashed dangerously, his wand lifted off the table and back to his hand as he stood in one swift fluent movement. He passed her, as he moved at twenty percent her speed with her currently being injured. He turned and faced her directly in the eyes.

"I did not mean for you to get hurt!"

"Just like you never meant for Jade to leave you, but you drive people away. It is all you are good at, and all you will ever be good at. Everyone around you constantly gets hurt, and you know what, Jade realized that. She was the smart one!" Lexie's eyes were cold and unforgiving.

His eyes widened as she spoke those words. His knuckles went white as he gripped his wand. It took everything he had not to kill her on the spot. Everything.

"Goodbye Taka." She walked out the door, never looking back. Takamaru hit the ground on his knees. "Just like you never meant for Jade to lave you..." he let out a gasp. He slammed his fists into the ground. As much as he wanted it to be Jades fault, maybe it was his own. But she had been with Angel before she left him, so it could still have been partly her. He let out a shrill scream at the top of his lungs. He stumbled outside, as he passed through the doorway rain poured from the heavens. He crashed to his knees on the solid stone of the road. He felt rain wash the blood into the stone. He let out another scream, and then another one, and another one.

He heard some people come out of their homes to see what was causing all the noise. He turned to them, hatred in his eyes. His wand came up and blasts resonated throughout the neighborhood. He heard the people scream as they were covered in burns, boils, and cuts. The woman was thrown through the wall of her house and into her living room. The impact crushed her bones.

"Are you really this stupid?" said the voice he knew all too well. He turned around and faced Kouji. Behind Kouji stood three Aurors, they had no chance.

"Where is Jade Kouji? I am going to rip her heart from her body and watch as the life leaves her!"

Kouji laughed, "Come with me, we have a lot to discuss." Kouji grabbed his cousin, and together they apparated.