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Shiseishi - Bastards

Chapter 9 - A Rising Flame

"What the hell was that?!" exclaimed Harry at the explosion, as the back wall of Shadows blew apart and evil, demon-like creatures dressed in black hooded capes flooded into the club.

"Daemons! We have to get these people out of here!" Serenity yelled.

"What are they and why are they attacking here?!" Hermione yelled back.

"Daemons?! What are they doing here?" Harry yelled as they begin to feed off the magical energy of the witches and wizards at the club.

Draco yelled back to him, "It doesn't matter- I'll explain later. Just stop them now!"

"It's time to give our new powers a field test!" Harry said, as he touched his hand to the purple stone hanging around his neck.

"Voco Lionheart!" he yelled, and suddenly, the hilt of a sword appeared buried in Harry's chest. Harry pulled the shadow sword Lionheart out of his own body.

"Let's destroy these shiseishi!" Serenity said, as she touched her own stone and summoned her weapons.

"Voco ventus vesica!" she yelled, pulling two metal fans out of thin air.

"Voco Aqua Speculum!" Hermione chimed in, as she touched her aqua-colored stone. The air in front of her wavered like water, allowing her to reach in and pull out a mirror. "We can't let them hurt anyone."

"Let's show these bloody bastards why they shouldn't mess with the avatars!" Draco encouraged, touching his forest green stone.

"Voco rose verbero," he said, pulling a rose from within his stone. He then snapped his wrist, and the rose lengthened into a whip covered in razor sharp thorns.

Serenity pointed one of her closed fans at a daemon and yelled "Galaxy Storm!" An intense blue vortex engulfed two of the Daemons and tore them apart. The four avatars were fiercely fighting when they heard a raspy female voice shout "everto redimio!" All of a sudden, dark gray vines wrapped around the four avatars.

"What the bloody, buggering hell is going on!" Draco yelled.

"Why, if it isn't my traitorous little niece and nephew," Bellatrix Lestrange said as she stepped out of the shadows. The four avatars struggled against their bonds to no avail .

"Let us go!" Harry yelled.

"Harry, Harry," the woman said in a teasing voice as the vines squeezed tighter and tighter. "My Lord wanted to know the measure of these new powers you and your little friends have acquired- I have to say, I don't think he'll be very impressed."

"Well, whatever, kill the brats already!" she said to the Daemons surrounding the avatars. Just as they were beginning to do her biddingOMH3 , everyone heard another voice yell "Voco phobos quod deimos!" and a sound like the whistle of fireworks echoed through the club.

"Leave my friends alone you crazy bitch!" Bella spun around to see Blaise standing behind her, holding a pair of flaming daggers with a burning red stone on a golden chain hanging about his neck.

"Blaise is one of us?!" Hermione cried out, confused.

"Aestuo Sniper" Blaise yelled out as he threw his daggers at the daemons. The daggers flew around the club stabbing each daemon in its heart.

Blaise caught his daggers and then threw them again cutting Harry, Draco Hermione and Serenity free of their bonds. He ran over and stood with the other four avatars facing Bellatrix. He glanced at the others with a cocky smirk on his face. "Pretty cool, huh?" he asked.

Bella screeched, "This isn't over brats; in fact it's just the beginning!" Then with a pop, she apparated away angrily.

Draco looked around the club at the Slytherins who were scared to death. "Nobody is to tell anyone what went on here tonight. If I hear anything about it, the repercussions will be dire. Everybody got that?!" Almost as one, the Slytherins nodded.

He looked at his fellow avatars, "There's a private room upstairs, let's head up there- we have a lot to talk about obviously."

The five avatars went upstairs to the private room, and when they opened the door sitting on a couch serenely was Trista. "Trista!" Harry exclaimed, "What are you doing here?!"

Trista stood and bowed "My Lord Potter. Please sit, all of you, there is much to discuss."

They all sat down and the first thing everyone did was look towards Blaise. However, Serenity was the first one to speak, "Well, Blaise, welcome to the insanity of being an avatar."

"How the hell is Blaise one of us?" Draco asked petulantly.

"Mr. Zabini is the avatar of fire," Trista explained, "His trial by its very nature was one of fire. The powers that be felt it necessary to awaken Blaise quickly to aid you."

"Yeah," Blaise said, "While you all were trapped, I heard a voice in my head that sounded kind of like me telling me to wake up, and then I felt these words and Phobos and Deimos appeared."

"Phobos and Deimos?" Hermione asked.

"My daggers," Blaise replied.

"So, changing the topic, what were those things Draco? Since you and Serenity seemed to know what they were," he asked.

"They were Daemons, Voldermort's new pets. They're worse than Dementors ever could be. Dementors can only suck your soul, which, granted, is pretty bad. Daemons, on the other hand, feed on magic. The stronger your magic is, the more Daemons are attracted to you. The more they feed on you, the more you become a soulless, magicless husk of your former self," Serenity explained.

"That sounds pleasant," Harry said sarcastically. "Where'd he get them from?"

"He used a very old summoning spell, my Lord," Trista chimed in, "He had to sacrifice his own Death Eaters to bring them back into being. Daemons do not have their own bodies; they are formless sprits until they are summoned. The more evil the host, the stronger the Daemon will be."

"How did Draco and Sereknow what they were?" Blaise asked.

"Well, I saw them in a vision, and then I told Dr-" Sere began to explain .

All of a sudden, her body jerked and she sat straight up in her chair. Her eyes closed for a moment and when they opened, they had changed from their normal sapphire blue to an eerie glowing white. "Bugger, she's having another vision," Draco said and then asked her, "Sere, what do you see?"

"I see us," she said in a creepy sing-song voice, "I see the Daemons. We're fighting in the halls of Hogwarts- they are many, we are one. Only as one, can we win. Apart, failure is guaranteed; the world will fall into the light and be destroyed."

Then, with a shiver, she collapsed forward. Harry caught her and laid her on one of the couches in the room. "Okay, that was scary," Blaise said.

"Yeah," Draco said calmly, "She'll wake up in a minute, but she won't remember what she said or saw until we get the vision out of her head and into her pensive. We have to get to Malfoy Manor."

"I'll get us there," Harry said, and with that he closed his eyes and concentrated, saying, "Umbra evanui." Shadows started to flow from his stone like water and engulfed the six avatars until they vanished into the darkness.