Chapter 15: Prison
Edenia arrived late in the evening at Hogwarts but she could not believe her eyes. Fire was burning, people were screaming, Giants and other creatures ran around and roared angrily, occasionally fought each other before they attacked students. The grounds were full of corpses and Edenia just stared at them, unable to look away. Lights around her reminded her that it was dangerous to stand and stare, but she could not budge for a few more moments. Her eyes wandered around while everything around her fought; it was as though the world stopped rotating around her. A large Troll growled loudly, causing her to wake up but it walked past her. Edenia stood on the large bricked bridge and rubbed a hand through her hair, not knowing where to start. She came here with the utmost determination to help but without clue how she could.
"You..." It suddenly came from behind her. Edenia spun her head around and held up her wand defensively at Bellatrix Lestrange.
"I let you run so many times..." Growled the raven haired witch, blood was smeared on her cheeks but there were no wounds.
"And now you dare...come back...WHY HAVE YOU COME BACK! STUPID BRAT! EXPLAIN!" She yelled but Edenia glared.
"To fight Voldemort." She spoke and something in Bellatrix's eyes lit up and gave her a jolt of energy. She raised her wand at the girl and yelled on top of her lungs.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" And green flames shot out of the wooden tip and crashed to Edenia but she dodged just in time and the curse hit the Troll instead. It sank down to its knees slowly but seemingly too fast, Bellatrix had nowhere to escape when it threatened to crash down onto herself and before she knew it, she was pulled away and the Troll fell down over the bridge, eyes following it landing dead in the water. Bellatrix sat there with her mouth gapped open, eyes round like those of a startled deer, she looked at Edenia, the girl that she wanted to kill but who saved her life. Her eyes followed her when she dashed away, not able to move for some time.
Edenia ran through the crowd, fired off spells at several Death Eaters and hit a couple of them fatally. Neville glanced at her and smiled victoriously when he saw her, both of them nodded at each other but their nonverbal conversation was interrupted by a spell that was shot at her from a distance. Edenia blocked it and glared at the performer.
"You traitor!" Screamed Pansy Parkinson, she raised her wand and was about to shoot off another spell but her wand had flown out of her hand before she could say the incantation.
"Expelliarmus!" It shouted out from behind and Pansy turned around. Draco stood there with a face of utmost anger, he growled lowly, stunned the brown haired girl and merely walked past her and over.
"Edenia..." He said softly and pulled her into a hug that she, this time, responded to. She squeezed him tightly, some tears streamed down her face but he brushed them away.
"You shouldn't have come here...it's too dangerous!"
"You are here, too..."
"I...Ripped away from mother shortly after we departed and looked for the airport...I didn't even know what it was...but I found it. I found Tyle and Emily just in time and they told me...that you are here. Potter is here...I...already had a short encounter with him..." He closed his eyes gently, remembering the scene from the room of requirements, but he opened his eyes again.
"I want you to go into the forbidden forest. I want you to hide there. All the dangerous creatures are here tonight"
"I have not come back to be a coward, Draco..." Spoke Edenia gently but Draco shook his head.
"You don't understand! Potter is here. Let him play the hero! Go!" He shoved her further towards the direction of the forest. She looked at him, decided that she will go there but come out again as soon as she was sure that he was gone. She walked on inside, took one last glance at Draco and he nodded at her before he left. Edenia sighed gently as she kept walking for a few more meters and turned around again, was almost out of the forest once more but her eyes widened and she screamed in terror, holding her hands to her mouth.
"Did you think I would forget...?" Asked the male voice roughly as its owner walked closer. Blaise Zabini stood in front of her with eyes full of hatred and joy.
"Oh Edenia..it's been such a long time...Don't look at me so innocently..." He mused and laughed when she raced into the forest but of course he chased her down. She ran as fast as she could, constantly looked back to him to make sure she was further ahead but she wasn't, he was very close, almost close enough to grab her and only a couple of inches were missing but she speeded up again and again, trying to gain more distance. She stumbled over roots of trees, ducked under branches and jumped over bushes in the darkness, it was only a matter of time until something stupid happened, and it did. She came to a halt in front of a lake, almost fell inside because it went so smoothly with the color of the earth but the water glistened and gave off its warning just in time. She was unable to cross it, not having a spell at hand in this hurry that could work. Swinging her head around, she saw Blaise walking up to her casually, his white teeth reflected in the moonlight as he grinned widely.
"Now it's only you and me...and nobody will hear you scream...nobody is here to safe you. Not this time..." And he was about to lunge out at her but he fell over and dropped to the ground motionlessly. Edenia's eyes glued down to him in shock, still panting, her eyes wandered over towards the spell-caster. Curly black hair reflected in the moonlight, pale skin and bloody red lips distinctive as ever. Edenia did not know how to take this but she was slapped so hard that she fell over and hit the ground. Groaning with pain, she sat up but Bellatrix laced her hand in her hair as always and screamed.
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU SAFE MY LIFE AND CREATE A BOND WITH ME! DO YOU HAVE NO SINGLE CLUE AT ALL?!" She screeched up but Edenia didn't understand. Could saving another witch or wizard create something like a bond with them? She looked up into those black eyes, eyes full of malice but she pulled out her wand and forced Bellatrix to back away. The dark witch looked at Edenia and laughed insanely.
"Now now! Are you trying to tell me you can actually do magic? You are so unlike a witch, it would surprise me! Why didn't you stay with your foul friends and wait on us Death Eaters to find you all and kill you?! Hmm? Why not, Nia...?" She howled and emphasized her name mockingly but Edenia did not respond.
"That poison in you..." Growled the dark witch suddenly. "Already inflected in on Blaise...then Draco...what's your goal? All of us?!" She yelled but Edenia kept quiet. She glanced down at Blaise who did not move but his eyes were opened, however, still.
"Why did you kill him if you feel so sorry for him...?" She asked and Bellatrix stopped laughing, her cheerful face turned into a nasty snarl. "IMPERIO!" She yelled and forced Edenia to drop her wand and follow her on away to another spot. Edenia did not know where Bellatrix tried to take her but she was strong willed enough to stop it. She lunged out at the dark witch, tried to slap her wand away and indeed, managed it and the wand went flying somewhere in the darkness. Full with fury, Bellatrix lashed out at the girl and slapped her so hard that she didn't move on the ground for a couple of seconds. She sat down on the girl, forced her flat on her back, pinned her arms above her head as she whispered into her ear.
"Because you are mine! That's why I killed him! You are mine! MINE ONLY!" And she sat up again and slapped the girl's cheeks left and right with the flat of her hand, then with the back of her hand. This went on for at least three times before Edenia found the strength to roll over and rip on Bellatrix's hair, causing the woman to hiss in pain but she rolled over again and forced Edenia's hands down.
"GET OFF ME WOMAN!" Yelled the girl but Bellatrix just laughed and shook her head. "No..." She purred, hot and damp breath tickled down her skin and she suddenly lashed out onto the girl's neck, sucking and biting it harshly between kisses. Edenia struggled and squirmed but it was to no use, Bellatrix was much, much stronger.
"Stop it!" Yelped Edenia when it hurt really badly, her tender skin was irritatingly red and swollen already but Bellatrix didn't care.
"Shut up. It's been way too long...and I want you. Here and now." She growled and started to tuck on the girl's clothes but her head went up the sky, then noticed the voice came from inside her head, trying to listen but Edenia screamed.
"SHH!" Hissed Bellatrix and she listened again. It was Lord Voldemort speaking and calling back his forces. Bellatrix looked down at the girl and attacked her lips passionately before she got up. But Edenia knew that if she let the woman go now, more people would die. She tucked on Bella's black dress, caused her to fall over and growl.
"Let go!" Warned Bellatrix as she tried to crawl away and look for her wand but Edenia ripped on her dress again and pulled her back. Bellatrix glared hatefully and slapped Edenia down yet again but the girl jumped up once more and pushed Bellatrix over. This went on for the next half an hour, both of them did not give up and the sky turned lighter and lighter. The dark witch panted heavily as she laid flat on her back but lashed out at Edenia for the last time and both of them rolled around the earth and suddenly, Bellatrix had her wand in her hands again and waved it at Edenia with a victorious smirk. The girl's eyes widened and she squinted shut her eyes, knowing this was her last breath but Bellatrix got up and declared.
"I will be back for you, dear..." And vanished into the air.
Edenia let out a furious cry but she stood up her feet and limbed out of the forest and over to the castle, which took her some time, especially with all her wounds, to arrive but managed it. Wandering through the gate, she looked around the Great Hall to check who was there. Ginny ran up to her and hugged her tightly suddenly and Edenia cried softly.
"You are alive...I was so scared..." She croaked and Ginny nodded and wiped away her own tears. Luna walked up to them and smiled faintly at Edenia when she said.
"It's over. We won. It's over." Edenia's eyes widened. She looked at Ginny and Luna, left and right and both of them nodded.
"Voldemort is dead. Harry killed him not ten minutes ago." Said the red head. Edenia could not say a single word but she felt happiness, deep, deep happiness. With a bright smile directed at her friends she wanted to heal their wounds but noticed that she forgot to pick up her wand in the forest. And hated herself for it.
"I'll be back!" She said softly and dashed away as fast as she could.
It took Edenia about half an hour until she found the spot again where she had last seen her wand. She walked over to the lake, remembered what happened here and deep sadness struck her again. Trying to avoid looking at Blaise's body, she looked for her wand but could not find it at all.
"Looking for this...?" Came a voice from around a tree. Bellatrix Lestrange leaned against it and held Edenia's wand in her hand, holding it up to show it but she stared at deeply in thought. Edenia gulped softly.
"You know, Edenia. He died while I was here with you." Said Bellatrix with a fake smile as she kept observing the wand in her hands. That smile. It reminded Edenia of just the same insane way a clown smiled. A smile on a horrendous figure.
"You held me back..." Continued Bellatrix calmly, but her dangerous eyes then came like daggers through the girl's heart. Edenia stepped backwards but her heel hit the water, she turned around to look at the lake but turned back only to face Bellatrix standing in front of her. Edenia started breathing unsteadily; her heart beat speeded up so fast that she feared the dark witch could hear it. Bellatrix glared down at the girl, her chest heaving in anger. Her black eyes rested on Edenia's wounds and gashes and she grinned, knowing she caused them.
"B-Bellatrix...I...am sure your family...is waiting on you...and your husband..." Edenia tried but Bellatrix laughed and twisted some strands of Edenia's hair around her index finger. "Rodolphus is dead. And Lucius, the coward, ran away." She spoke.
"I..I'm sorry to...to hear..."
"No. You are not. And I'm not sorry, either." Edenia looked into Bellatrix's eyes, unable to say something for the while, she did not know what. Her hands were then grabbed and Bellatrix walked backwards, pulling the girl with her. Edenia's insecure face tried to find an answer as to what would happen but she knew, by now, that Bellatrix was unpredictable. She was not yet rude to Edenia, even though she had, according to her, all the reasons to be. And Edenia knew this was only the clam before the storm and she did not want to wait until the storm broke out. It drove her crazy as Bellatrix kept leading her backwards but she was turned around abruptly and pressed against a tree, those insane eyes stared down into her very soul.
"What...what are you going to do?" Asked the girl nervously and Bellatrix's eyes narrowed in delight.
"Scared?" She whispered and brushed against Edenia's neck with her lips, not yet making full contact with her skin.
"Y..yes.." Confessed Edenia.
"You should be." Came the cold tone from the dark witch and her lips rested on Edenia's throat, feeling her carotid beating against them with the increasing nervousness. Edenia watched her and couldn't help but notice that it had to arouse Bellatrix.
"Why don't you just kill me..." Whimpered Edenia, her nerves were completely down but Bellatrix just laughed.
"Kill you...?" She asked and breathed hot breath against Edenia's collarbone-area.
"I know something better...something lasting...I'll have my revenge on you, girl...I won't kill you...for death is salvation...I will lot set you free...you. Will live and hear about your friends dying, one by one and I shall watch you whither." Grinned Bellatrix and suddenly they rose up the sky, through time and space and away. Bellatrix apparated them to a large black tiled manor surrounded by dead trees in a moor landscape. Winged dark gargoyles with spider webs almost as large as a person towered at the entrance and Edenia was forced inside the dark house and she knew that this was going to be her prison for a long time.