I can't tell you how much I've been looking forward to this chapter….
Chapter 6: Mass Breakout
It was easy entering Azkaban. All she had to do was take a broomstick and land, she had announced herself as a guest, and an Auror having taken Polyjuice Potion earlier to sell her disguise, thought it would wear off soon. The enchantments guarding the prison were briefly lifted and she had swooped in. Bellatrix Lestrange strode easily into the reception lobby under the disguise of some snooty looking, black haired Auror woman. She strode up to the receptionist's dark desk as though she had all the authority in the world at her side.
The lobby area was quite small and gave on the feeling of claustrophobia, Bellatrix remembered back when she had been led through this room very room and to the only door in it, directly behind the desk, a barred door with numerous enchantments on it, formerly guarded by two dementors, now two grim looking Aurors stood on either side of it.
"Welcome to Azkaban Auror Anita Narwin." said the gruff looking receptionist. "I'll be needing to sign you in. What's your business here?"
"Transfer request from Head Auror Potter himself." Bellatrix replied shortly, it took all of her will to not utter Harry Potter in a hateful, spiteful tone.
"For whom?"
"Fenrir Greyback, and Rudolphus Lestrange." she said, pulling a falsified order signed by Harry potter out of her black robes. The receptionist looked it over quickly and then pulled out his wand. Bellatrix kept a firm hold on her own, if he was going to test it by magical means….
Sadly he did, the man swept his stout, ash wand over the parchment several times. Bellatrix suspected he knew it was not written by Harry Potter at all when he looked back up at her.
"Drop your wand please, and show me some identification." he commanded. Bellatrix moved, the receptionist moved fast, his wand was aimed at her chest before she drew hers.
"Expelliarmus!" he cried.
Bellatrix ducked and felt her wand slightly vibrate.
"EXPULSO!" she bellowed, and added. "Protego!" as the man's desk exploded, sending him flying back towards the barred doors and the Aurors who were now running toward her, wands drawn. The chunks of the desk bounced off of her shield easily as did a curse from one of the Aurors which rebounded and blew a bit of stone out of the black wall. Bellatrix stood to her feet again, and even though her shield prevented her from casting a spell at one of her enemies… there was one spell that she knew could easily break it, and she happened to be quite accomplished in the art of murder.
"Avada Kedavra!" she cried. There was a whoosh, a jet of emerald light, and a blinding flash as her shield broke. A small thud as the Auror to the left hit the ground and the other one took his chance.
"Stupefy!"
"CRUCIO!" Bellatrix dodged the jet of crimson light sent at her from her enemy; however he was not so lucky. Her curse hit him full on and he dropped to the floor, withering and screaming in pain.
"Open the door you filthy muggle born!" she commanded of him.
"NOOO!" he cried, still bellowing at the top of his lungs from the pain of the curse, however she doubted anyone would hear, the stairs spiraled up the length of seven floors before actually reaching a large guard area, and then the prison and various other facilities stood above that. Though dementors used to tread the stairways as guards, so she wouldn't be surprised if an Auror or two was up there… still….
"Are you quite sure?" Bellatrix sneered.
"NEVER!"
"Fine," she snapped and aimed her wand down at his foot.
"Incendio!"
A small string of red-orange flame shot from the tip of her wand and hit the Auror's foot, his boot burst into flames and as it burned his foot he cried out more terribly then ever.
"OPEN THE DOOR!" Bellatrix shrieked. However the man's screeches of protest were not incoherent.
"Avada Kedavra!" she hissed through gritted teeth. The Auror screamed no more.
As she strode toward the receptionist on the other side of the lobby, bloodied and bruised after the desk exploded, but alive, she felt her skin twitched and then bubble, slowly she reverted back to her original appearance, no longer did she look like Anita Narwin whom she had killed in London, she was once again Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Levicorpus!" she growled inside her head. The poor receptionist, dripping blood, bruised and battered everywhere was lifted into the air by his ankles.
"I don't want to make this hard for you." Bellatrix Lestrange said insincerely.
"Kill me! You'll get nothing from me you—you bit—"
"Crucio!"
"ARGH!"
This man's shrieks were worse than those of the Aurors. He convulsed and shook violently in the air, as he bellowed in pain.
"Crucio!" Lestrange repeated, and the man ceased his violent convulsion, breathing hard, wheezing slightly, and now bleeding worse than ever for some reason. "Tell me how to open the door!"
"Put the Imperious curse on me!" he retorted. "That's the only way you'll get it out of me!"
"No it is not. Now tell me… what do you fear? Hmm…. Legilimens!"
In Bellatrix's sight, the Auror's image seemed to spin, and his eye flew closer and closer, until it completely filled her view, and suddenly she saw what he feared the most… oh, how… simple. With a flick of her wand she now saw the man clearly, not just his eyes.
"Serpensortia!"
An oily black cobra seemed to grow from the tip of her wand. The dangling receptionist let out a shriek of terror as the snake began to weave itself around his neck, and travel along his arms. He quivered in cold fear.
"Open the door." she commanded as she twirled her wand, the snake and the man both fell to the ground, the cobra letting out an angry hiss. Almost as soon as he could he got to his feet and attempted to shake the snake off.
"Careful… you'll only make it angry." Bellatrix warned. Her victim gulped as the cobra's mouth flew open, revealing long white fangs.
"Open the door!" she commanded again. He did need to be told a second time, quickly his stubby fingers closed around a discarded wand, not daring to turn on Bellatrix Lestrange he pointed it unsteadily at the door and began to mutter certain complex incantations. Seconds later the door burst open with a kind of buzzing sound.
"Thank you dear, your sacrifice to our cause shall not be forgotten." Bellatrix said gleefully as the frightened receptionist dropped the wand, casting a nervous glance at the cobra.
"My sacrifice?!" he asked incredulously.
"You can't possibly think I could let you live? No, no, no, you've seen me, you know who I am."
"Surely you can just erase my memory?! Please, I don't want to die."
"Erasing your memory might be amusing for a moment… but I'd rather not, plus you weren't exactly helpful until I cast out that cobra were you?"
"But—"
"But, but, but—nothing!" Bellatrix screeched in a singsong mock baby voice, horribly shrill and chilling to the bone.
"Please! I beg you."
"You're wasting my time. Avada Kedavra!"
A jet of green light, a whoosh broke the silence and the man spoke no more, the snake uncoiled itself from the dead man's limb and slithered toward its master, Bellatrix extended an arm and allowed it to slither up on her shoulders.
"You've been helpful my sweet." she cooed as she stepped through the doorway and began to climb the tower of Azkaban stopping on the first landing she came to where the guard house was… pointing her wand at the door she casually said,
"Expluso."
It exploded into splinters of wood, shooting inward and killing a guard in the small room behind it. There were three doors, one in front, one to the right, one to the left….
"Expulso!" she cried three times, each time aiming her wand at the walls which blew and killed the guards in the other rooms… obviously they did not have enchantments to protect the inner walls… but the outer walls might be a problem… or perhaps it was just on the guard floor? After all guards may need to cast spells… so there would be no protective enchantments there? Or maybe the fools had taken them down, either way she continued upwards to the very top floor where the most dangerous of prisoners were held, releasing some on the way (which proved difficult because there were indeed anti spell enchantments on the upper floors) to distract more guards in other guard houses. Finally she reached the top landing, two Auror's guarded the heavy iron door that led into the cell area, they were clearly expecting someone, raising their wand right away they cried "Stupefy!"
"PROTEGO!" Bellatrix screeched, it echoed down the stairwell and a magical shield appeared before her, the guards' spells bounced off like ricocheting bullets and hit each of their casters. The lady Death Eater angled her wand at the door and began to rip away at the defensive enchantments which were some of the most powerful she'd even encountered, finally they were lifted and the door flew open easily with a swish of her black wand.
She stepped into a narrow hall way, barred cell doors on each side… a guarding Auror had his wand pointed directly at her from the end of the hall.
"Petrificus Totalus!" he bellowed.
She barely dodged, and hardly had her wand aimed at him before he shouted another spell in her direction.
"Stupefy!"
Bellatrix had been expecting this, trained by the Dark Lord himself she knew an easy way to counter, non verbally and without the use of an entire shield, simply flicking her wand the spell turned and went to other way, flying towards its caster, however Aurors were actually quite skilled it seemed, for the man cast a shield in front of himself and the spell flew into the ground, but this amount of time gave the Death Eater the time she needed. This man was too much of an annoyance to be killed outright, he had to pay!
"SECTUMSEMPRA!"
A huge, deep gash appeared at the man's stomach, he dropped his want and clutched at it, as though he could staunch the bleeding from a wound so large, he fell to the ground, grunting in pain before he ceased to move, becoming weaker and weaker before he finally passed out from losing so much blood. The shadowy figures in their cells howled and cried triumphantly, and Bellatrix worked her way to releasing the first… once the cell door opened Fenrir Greyback and Amycus Carrow stepped out of their cell and breathed deeply as though the air in the hall way was sweeter than that of their cell.
"Hello Bellatrix." Greyback growled.
"Greyback, Carrow," Bellatrix acknowledged. "Would one of you take the Auror's wand and help me release these people?"
Both Death Eaters rushed to retrieve the wand; however Greyback was far too fast for Amycus, he retrieved it and both he and Bellatrix emptied the cells of Death Eaters. Alecto Carrow seemed to know where they stored prisoners wands, for she exited the corridor and strode down another, upon her arrival several more Death Eaters accompanied her and she was holding a huge stack of wands. After a few more minutes of releasing (which was very fast because of the number of people breaking enchantments) they had everyone out. Bellatrix led them to a dead end wall; each of them took aim with their wands.
"EXPULSO!" Each Death Eater bellowed, the force of several dozens spells was powerful enough to break the enchantment, the wall exploded forward and they were free!
That was fun, probably not realistic but it was fun to write, it's like flashy James Bond HP style, no realism, just flashiness. I planned to have a lot more stuff in this chapter about people at Hogwarts reading about the breakout in the paper and whatnot… but I think I'll save it for next chapter.
