Blood and Fire

The Slytherin common room was almost empty. One single occupant sat infront of the opened green fire and watched it. Mesmerized by the dangerous flames he held his hand into it. Making the fire an offer of fine skin and flesh.

After sometime the boy took his hand out of the flames and murmered something inaudiable before blowing a breath onto the hand and healing the hand. He looked at his hand and redirected his gaze back to the flames.

The smell of burnt flesh would still be in the air by night time. Now it was a little past 11 o'clock. Tom Riddle decided after having had a rather eventfull morning, that going to class would be a waste of time. He knew he would not be able to concentrate on his respective classes. So now he sat alone in the common room and his thoughts drifted towards the girl he had seen.

After having helped Lance carry the girl to the hospital wing, he had placed her into the last bed. Not because the nurse had told him, just because he wanted to make sure that if anyone would get injured, she would have as little contact to them as possible. Everyone knew that only Griffindors and Hufflepuffs were stupid enough to get hurt and into the hospital wing on a regular basis.

She had at first slept on the bed, peacefully and absolutely still. He had wanted to wake her to see her eyes, or talk to her. It had been rather odd. Never before had he felt anything like that interest in other girls before. She had looked like a corpse. Laying on the bed, being as pale as porcelane. But why was he so curious about a girl? Tom Riddle had never been the boy to search for Girl Company. He had always tried to avoid it, if possible.

But the girl now laying in the hospital wing was different. He had remembered seeing her green eyes, after she had awoken. Remembered that it looked like the green light of the killing curse. The same green, that had hit is father and grandparents.

And then all of a sudden the girl had started to scream and to fall into a fit of hysteria. Even though he should have, by this point, felt disgusted by her, he didn't. That had been odd, but even more so had been the feeling of a light pull towards her. All the other occupants in the hospital wing had probably not felt it because it had been so weak, but he had felt it.

Something inside her was calling out to him.

He wasn't sure what that had been, but he interpreted it as a sign. It meant taking the magical power for his cause. A new thought made itself clear to Tom. He would take the girl and make her one of his followers. She would serve him in his inner circle.

He took his wand out of his robe poket and placed it on the palm of his hand. He muttered the word 'ekkans' and the wand began to glow, and a cut appeared on the same spot. Blood was dripping already to the floor as he held his hand into the fire.

"I vow to make this girl give me her power. No one will stand in my path. Blood and fire seal this vow." spoke Tom, as he made a fist with his hand, squeezing more blood into the fire. After the fire turned a mad shade of purple, it tured back to its original colour. Tom took his hand out of the fire and mutter the spell "seraphia salvus" before blowing onto his hand.

He studied his now fully healed hand again. Before smirking an evil smile. He had to congratulate himself for inviting Malfoy into his inner circle. The ancient foreign magic he had brought with him had strengthened Toms power even more so. Yes, the future will belong to me, thought Tom before standing up and going to his usual meeting place to practice unforgivables.

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Tom is such a nasty little freak… hehehe…

So in this chapter I wanted to introduce some dark magic… yes, blood and fire is very dark…

A quick explanation to the words used:

Ekkans, comes from ekka. Another Germanic word meaning cutting, to cut.

Seraph salvus, is a combination of to words. The word seraph (I think it comes from Hebrew, but am not sure) means burn, to be burnt… and salvus means heal… either ancient greek or latin… so together it has the meaning of healing the burnt…

So as it seems… Tom is using quite a lot of magic not belonging to him. I hope it came out a little that all these spells are passed down from Malfoy generation to generation.

Anyway, please leave some comment… but no flames, because else I will not continue writing! ;;