Lucia walked around slowly, her stomach growling viciously. She hadn't eaten anything in the last day, and the dark tunnels made her uneasy. She had only the light from her wand in the tunnel, and there were noises that scared her senseless. She was only in her third year, but she was in Ravenclaw, so she knew quite a variety of spells. Even so, she knew that no spell would help her get food.
She walked down the tunnel, her wand casting eerie shadows. And then she stopped abruptly, hearing the clacking of heels on a hard surface, even though the ground was moist. Her heart raced, pulsing in her ears as she strained to hear. The only time she ever heard heels like that was when Bellatrix Lestrange had helped to "teach" the students the Cruciatus Curse. Ever since that day, Lucia had a rather large fear of that woman and her reckless lust for blood.
"Come here, darling!" screeched a voice that made Lucia's heart skip a beat.
She backed away slowly, her wand held unsteadily in front of her. No. Out of the shadows in front of her she came: Bellatrix Lestrange. Why would she be here, to just kill one person? "Stupefy!" Lucia managed to yell. A jet of a red light shot out of her wand, but Bellatrix slashed her own wand through the air, blocking the psell.
"Ha!" she yelled. "Stupid girl! Trying to kill – me?"
"Expelliarmus! Stupefy! Rictusempra! Incarcerous! Stupefy! Impedimenta! CRUCIO! AVADA KADAVRA!"
Spell after spell she sent out, and spell after spell was blocked. Until finally, Bellatrix was upon the girl, her eyes wild with bloodlust. There was no green light that greeted Lucia into death, but chilling darkness alone. And as soon as she dropped to the ground, Bellatrix was replaced by a shapeless monster, which slithered away, readying to claim its next victim.
