AN. Time for Voldemort to claim his bride, but at what cost?

Chapter 16 Battle, or lack of

It was then that Hell descended on Earth.

Voldemort stood still as the Centaur warriors recovered from their fear and approached him holding swords and bows pulled back with sharp arrows.

He turned around and faced them. "You bore me." Holding his hand out and froze the fifty warriors in place.

Moving to Bane he looked into the eyes of one stallion. "You will reveal where my Bride is."

Harry crouched hidden and took advantage of Voldemorts's distraction. "Attack!" he yelled out, pointing his wand and pushed Expelliarmus to the hated man, red light exiting his wand.

Voldemort continued looking into Bane's eyes and held his hand out, hexes and deadly curses bouncing off the shield he silently created. "Daemons you know what you need to do.!" Voldemort commanded. The attack stopped and soon blood curdling screams were heard from the witches and wizards of the hidden Order.

He turned away from the Centaur, who fell down eyes opened wide in Death.

He whirled around and found his three followers standing beside him. "Slightly, Donovan you will search for my Bride now!". Pushing the location to him.

"Your will My Lord." Both murmured out and left the clearing.

Voldemort turned to Snape freezing the wizard. "You have much to explain and I will make sure I draw your confession out so lovingly. I have always known you were unfaithful, along with Slightly."

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Neville and Luna stood back to back, watching two large Daemons approach them grinning, shouting the killing curse and watched the Daemons continue to move forward.

"Luna, I love you." Neville shouted out.

She turned and grabbed him, pulling her husband closer to her. "I love you too. I will see you in the Veil."

They both closed their eyes as the Daemons took possession of their bodies.

Animated by the Daemons they separated to seek out the others, moving along and killing their friends.

Harry, Hermione, and Sebastion stood still, watching their fellow Order members turn on one another, shooting the Death Curse to each other.

Two Daemons approached them and suddenly a protective shield around them as Justice floated out to confront them, whole and solid. "You know who I am!" Justice shouted out.

The Daemons stopped, confused. The floating form in front of them smelled of their master.

A white blur shot in front of and grabbed them.

The found themselves holding on for life on the back of Munir, leaving the Daemons behind at a fast gallop, taking them away from the clearing.

"My father told me to watch you." Munir panted out. "I'm taking you to Erin to rescue her.

Munir slowed to a trot and then stood still in front of the thick grove watching Donovan pull Erin out, kissing her and stilled when he found the group looking to the couple.

"You're too late." Donovan sneered out and turned his heel and Apparated away.

The two legged ones slipped off Munir's back. "Merlin, what are we going to do?" Hermione cried out.

Munir watched the two legged ones grab hold one another and cried.

Munir snorted to draw their attention. "I must rescue the mares and children of my herd and take them away. You are on your own now."

Harry stood o and offered his hand down to Hermione and pulled her up. "We've got to go back. We need to find out what happened."

"Let's go." Sebastion called out, moving away at a run.

They approached the Clearing slowly, finding the members of the Order walking in, their movements jerky and unnatural.

"Oh my God" Hermione whispered. "The Daemons possessed them to turn on one another and kill each other.

Sebastion grabbed her hand and they slowly moved to a better view, scene blocked by the arrival of one hundred people.

Voldemort turned to Severus, who stood with no emotion reveled. "There are more than fifty standing about us. You lied to me." He snarled out.

"My Lord, they must have changed their minds after they left. I have not had any contact with them since I informed you of their plans." Severus replied respectfully. He must tread carefully.

"Donovan, where is Slightly?" Voldemort hissed out.

Donavan held Erin's arms tightly behind his back. "We split up to find Erin My Lord."

"How could you do this to me Donovan! After all of these years and you're in league with him!" Erin spat out.

Voldemort held his hand out and her jaw click shut, continuing to look at Severus, eyes narrowed. "Where is Harry Potter? Daemons dinner has been provided!" pointing to the frozen stallions.

Harry watched horrified as the Daemons left the bodies and rushed towards the group of stallions and began to eat, screams from the stallions sounding out.

Sebastion pulled his mum toward him, holding her tightly against his chest so she could not see.

The screams were short lived and soon all that was heard was bones snapping as the Daemons continued to feast.

Voldemort walked over to the pile of bodies, kicking at them to spread them out. After ten minutes he turned back to Severus. "Where are Harry Potter and your son and wife?" He snarled out.

"My Lord I left them with the Order." He replied back in a neutral voice.

Severus remained impassive watching a Daemon pull away from the body of the stallion; large body covered in blood and strode out of the clearing.

Voldemort laughed. "I've known of your duplicity for so long Severus but I needed you to get to this moment. I have Erin and I do not need you any longer for once I am married and consummate our Union no one will be able to stop me." Pointing his wand and froze him in place.

The Daemon went straight to them, smoke whishing out of the large nostrils as the humans held tightly to one another. So weak! It thought.

They watched the Daemon stop in place as Justice floated in front of it, and after a moment it turned and walked away.

Justice floated back to them. "I told you that I will protect you." Justice murmured.

Justice continued. "We must wait for them to leave. As long as I am with you, the Daemons cannot find you as well as Voldemort."

Hermione began to speak and Justice cut off her words. "I know you have questions but you must be silent. I will explain when they have left."

Hermione turned her attention back to the clearing and watched Voldemort leave along with her husband, Donovan, and Erin after the Daemon came back and moved once again to the feast to eat.

It took hours and they watched the Daemons feasted and disappeared.

Hermione, Sebastian, and Harry moved into the clearing finding only pools of blood from the stallions and the bodies of the Order left in the clearing.

Harry moved to the bodies in the clearing. "They are all dead." Sinking on his knees and began to cry. He found Ginny lying among the bodies and it broke him.

"After all of it, I lost the one thing that meant most to me!" Harry moaned out.

Hermione sat down next to him and held his hand. "You have your children Harry." She whispered in his ear.

Harry grabbed her hand. "Voldemort has her, Hermione. What are we going to do?"

"He has Severus as well. I can connect to him through our Bond but I am not going to risk it in case Voldemort finds out."

Just then Slightly appeared in the clearing, gasping in pain. "He k ew of my deception as well as Severus. If we are to survive you must cut this off!" Holding out his left hand.

Sebastion wasted no time pulling a knife out from his robes and chopping the hand off and used his wand to sear the end of Slightly's arm to stop the bleeding and tucked the severed hand into his robes.

"There is a place that we can go. Dad set it up years ago and pulled the memory from him so he could not remember." Holding out his hand. while using the other to grab Slightly and hold the injured wizard up.

Harry and Hermione immediately grabbed Sebastion's outstretched hand and felt the sickening pull of Apparation twist them away.

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Voldemort arrived at his old Muggle flat that he kept after moving back to the Magical world years ago.

"Donovan, put her in the first room upstairs and close the door. Wards will descend when you close the door. I want her in isolation." He hissed out.

Donovan came back and found Voldemort eyeing the frozen body of Severus Snape leaned against the wall.

Voldemort motioned the strapping wizard to him, pushing back the sleeve and pressed his wand tip to the Donovan's arm.

"Find the traitor Slightly and bring him back to me Donovan. If you fail your life is forfeit." Voldemort commanded.

Voldemort watched Donovan leave and looked to Severus. "I will know everything that you do and find your wife and son. I promise that I will torture them slowly as you watch and helpless in their Fate!" Voldemort cackled out. "After you watch me kill them you will watch me take Erin to me. I think I will let you live for a while Severus Snape and ponder why you left me."

Severus watched the Dark Lord extinguish the lights and the rustle of robes told him the demented wizard was going upstairs.

Body locked up tight and no way to escape. He looked out of the large window to note where he was and observed the visage of Big Ben off to the right.

Severus chuckled to himself, thinking of his witch and his son.

AN: Oh my! Do you know how he is going to get out of this one? If you guess correctly via PM I will write a story just for you! First one received will get it.