AN: Sorry I took so long to post this. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters except for the plot of this story. All rights belong to Meyer and Rowling
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Edward felt a sudden gust of wind and then he heard Jacob cry out in Anguish.
"No!"
Edward turned and saw Jacob running towards where Draco sat slumped against a tree and a woman in all black and an insane look in her eyes standing next to the blond. At first, Edward was confused and didn't understand who or where the woman came from, but when she picked Draco up by the arm, he realized her ill intent. He ran to them just like Jacob was, trying to reach them before it was too late.
"DRACO!"
Edward watched helplessly as the woman disappeared with Draco in a mass of black mist that traveled away quickly further into the mountain, through the trees and out of sight.
He reached Jacob, where he kneeled in the snow, his whole body trembling. Edward looked to Harry who came over quickly with a limping Seth trailing behind.
"Where's Draco?" Harry looked down at Jacobs hunched over form. His body was trembling violently and his fists were clenched shut so tight that there were small trickles of blood streaming out of them soaking the white snow and mixing with the blood that already lay soaked there from Draco's injury.
"Bellatrix." Jacob said with clenched teeth in a harsh whisper.
Harry looked at Edward. "She was here? How? Why didn't Draco fight?" Harry was upset, but worry clearly shown on his face.
Jacob suddenly stood and turned all in one motion and angrily stalked over to Bella who, to his anger, still stood motionless, staring down at the bloody sharp rock that she had used to attack his imprint.
"This is all your fault!" He yelled as he approached her with the intention of hurting her, but Edward quickly went and held him back. Bella fell back on her butt as she realized that Jacob was about to either shove her or punch her, she wasn't sure.
"You attacked him you piece of—!"
"Jacob, calm down!" Edward yelled in the shifters ear whilst holding him back.
Bella sat on the floor, tears streaming down her cheeks, with wide open eyes. She had never before seen Jacob this angry and never had his anger been directed at her. She actually thought that if Edward hadn't held him back, he really would have hit her.
"I'm sorry…" She tried apologizing but Jacob only glared back at her, his eyes red in his fury.
Jacob stopped struggling against Edward and pulled his arm out of the vampire's grip. He stared down at Bella and waited for her to look him in the eye. "You're dead to me." He growled out then turned and walked back towards Harry and kneeled in the snow covered in Draco's blood and grasped a handful of it.
"Harry, how do I find him?" He asked.
Bella still sat on the floor and she looked up at Edward to look for some kind of pity, some kind of comfort, but only found disappointment and not a single ounce of forgiveness. She realized then that she had just lost them all, Cullens, Shifters, and even the wizards. She knew then that she could never again be among them as before. The trust and friendship she had gained went down the garbage the moment she became jealous of the blond and that garbage was burned to ashes the moment she picked up that stone and attacked him.
Edward shook his head and left her there on the snow and went to the others. He noticed Jacob was still without any type of clothing so he took off his jacket and went to give it to him.
"You can't go look for him alone it's dangerous." Harry said as Edward handed the jacket to Jacob.
Jacob took the jack and placed it around his front. "Thanks." He turned and started walking to the campsite where the three tents still stood. Harry and Edward followed behind.
"I don't care if it's dangerous." Jacob kept trudging through the snow. "I'm going out there and I'm going to find him, but it'll take me longer if you don't tell me how I can find him." Jacob reached the tent he shared with Draco only hours before and went and retrieved some shorts from inside. When he was inside the tent, his emotions nearly overwhelmed him and tears threatened to fall when he was surrounded by the blond's scent. He held it in though and walked back outside. He had no time to break down; he needed to find his imprint, the love of his life, his life line.
Once outside, Jacob didn't even bother pulling on the shorts, he simply tied them around his ankle and then looked at Harry for an answer. "Tell me something because I'm going and there's nothing you can say to me that'll keep me here while he's out there in the hands of the woman who wants him dead."
Harry stood silent for a moment, he looked at the complete devotion in Jacobs eyes and he knew that he was right. They couldn't delay a single second more without starting the search for Draco. "Alright." Harry nodded. "I'm going with you then." Jacob gave a small brief smile in gratefulness. "This won't be easy; you can't search for his scent because he still has the charm on him that blocks it."
"What about Bellatrix' scent? I can search for her scent. I caught it there where she appeared." Jacob said.
"That's right; she wouldn't have the need to block her scent. Ok, you can search for her scent and I can search for any traces of magic. That's about the only thing we can do to search for them right now." Harry turned to Edward. "Can you stay and inform the others. There's no time to waste, so as soon as they get here spread out into groups and search everywhere."
Edward shook his head. "No, Seth is already informing the others of what happened and they've just set the newborns on fire. They're already on their way, so I'm going with you."
Just then there was two small pops and Hermione and Ron were there beside them.
"Sam told us what happened." Hermione said.
"Well, technically Seth told Sam who told us what—"
"Not the point Ron!" Hermione cut him off in agitation. "We'll split up into groups and go look for him."
"Ok, I'll go with you two," Harry said to Hermione and Ron, then turned to Edward and Jacob. "You two go together." Harry turned to Seth now who had stood watch the entire time. "Seth, tell the others to split up in groups of two, one shifter and one vampire. If they find anything, then the shifter is to howl as loud as they can alright? Tell them that Bellatrix' scent is there by Draco's blood."
"Ok, I got it."
"Oh and if one of us finds anything," he pointed to himself and the other two wizards, "we'll set off a loud array of fireworks into the sky." He turned back around, "Alright lets go. Remember, if anything we have till nightfall to find him before…" He cut himself off and looked at Jacob's sullen face. "Let's just find him as quick as we can."
"Harry, what about Sirius and the others? They won't know where we are or what's going on." Ron said.
Harry thought for a moment and then turned to Seth. "Can you go to my house and wait for them to come through the chimney?"
"Yea of course."
"Ok. Bring them to us as soon as they come through."
"Let's all hope they get here in time." Hermione said. "Let's go."
There were three pops and the wizard's apparated further into the mountains.
"Seth, set Victoria's body on fire." Edward said as Jacob shifted and they both ran as fast as a vampire and a shifter could run, into the mountains as well.
Seth watched them go and wished he could go as well. Draco had become a very dear friend and he wanted to help search too, but he had to tell the others as well as wait for the other wizards to arrive.
"Seth?" Came Bella's shaky voice and Seth turned to face her. Seth could see her pleading to him with her eyes but not even he could forgive her for what she'd done.
"You can ride on my back when I go back down to Forks." He told her with an emotionless voice then turned to go set Victoria on fire and to wait for the others to reach them. Seth didn't really want to have Bella anywhere near him but he knew that the others would go out to help look for Draco, so he would be left to take Bella home.
Bella sighed and some more silent tears overflowed down her cheeks again.
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"Hermione!" Ron yelled out to her, "Try over there!"
Harry, Ron and Hermione were at least 100 feet apart from each other, casting spells around them searching for any magical traces. Once they finished in one area, they would move on to the next.
"Harry."
Harry turned to his name being called and saw as Carlisle and the black wolf, Sam, came up to him.
"Have you found anything?"
"No, not yet."
"Ok, well we're going to head further out."
"Ok, be careful." Harry said as Sam began to run ahead.
"You too." Carlisle ran to catch up to the wolf and then they were gone.
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Jacob and Edward ran nonstop sniffing the air as they went, trying to catch the witches scent.
'This is taking too long.' Jacob growled in his head.
"We'll find him, Jacob." Edward assured him as they kept running. "As soon as the others start searching, we'll be able to cover more ground."
'I never should have left his side.'
"There was nothing you could do. No one could have known what Bella would do or that Bellatrix would show up."
'I still should have been there with him.'
Edward didn't answer but they kept on searching.
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There was a throbbing pain in his head but a sharp, burning pain in his back overshadowed any other pain. He could feel his body lying on a cold hard, uneven object and it wasn't helping with the pain at all.
Draco remembered fighting the newborn by the campsite and then being attacked by Bella, getting thrown against the tree and the pain erupting in his back. He remembered destroying the vampire and then more pain.
Draco turned his head to the side as he began to gain the strength to move. He recalled then hearing Jacob's voice and then she was there, holding him. Bellatrix had him; he realized and opened his eyes.
He was blinded at first when the sun was reflected in the snow, but as his eyes adjusted, he began to take in his surroundings. He was still in the mountain's that's for sure but he was no longer with his friends or his Jacob.
"I can't tell you what a pain it has been to track you down." said a low menacing voice that Draco recognized all too well to belong to Bellatrix.
Draco couldn't see her as his head was turned the other way. He didn't even want to muster the strength to look her way and he didn't need to because just then she slowly walked into his line of vision. She bent down a little and tilted her head to match his own head that lay horizontal on the rock that he now realized he was lying on. He also noticed that he was unable to move his body; I must have imobulus on me.
"Are you cold?" She asked, eyes widening as if she just realized his discomfort.
Draco realized his breath was coming in small gasps. He was already having trouble breathing from the pain, but the cold made it even harder to breath.
Bellatrix stood up straight and pointed her chin out with pursed lips and looked down at the blond with wide eyes.
"Traitor!" She yelled and kicked him in the ribs.
Draco could only gasp in pain. The kick hurt but it also caused his back to pulse and burn even more. His vision wavered but he managed to stay conscious. He noticed his blood was dripping down the side of the rock and when he followed the trail, the blood was being directed, probably with magic, into a glass goblet with intricate designs of a snake carved into the glass and the handle was a skull with its mouth wide open where the glass snake emerged from. There was a greenish glow around the goblet.
"Do you like it?" Bellatrix kneeled next to the goblet and reached a hand out as if to touch it but merely traced the air around the greenish glow. "It's a charm to keep the blood warm. We can't waste any of it." She stood abruptly and walked away whispering 'traitor' over and over.
Draco realized with dread as he stared at the goblet, that this was his blood, the blood that was going to bring the dark lord back to life.
He closed his eyes in despair but mostly because he felt weak.
"HOOO."
Draco looked up and saw his eagle owl standing on a branch in the tree just above him. He smiled as it flew down to him.
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The day was growing old as the sun had started its descent into the horizon and the Cullen's, shifters, and Wizards all gathered to rethink some other strategy.
"We're wasting time standing around!"
"Well if you think that just blindly searching the area is helping—"
"Leah, you don't even care if we find him or not, so stop trying to sound like you care!"
"I do care! I just don't think we're getting anywhere."
"Well if you have a better idea…" The shifters were arguing with each other. They had all shifted back to human as they discussed, or in their case argued about what they should do next.
"Enough!" Sam yelled and silenced them all then turned to Harry. "Isn't there anything more that we can do?"
"No, there isn't. I'm sorry."
Jacob sat alone by a tree as he listened to the others argue. He was trying to think of something that would help him find Draco. The sun was already setting and darkness was consuming their surroundings. He was running out of time.
There was a hoot above him and he looked up and saw Draco's owl, the one that had delivered messages to him.
Jacob stood up quickly and the owl glided down and landed on Jacob's outstretched arm and just as fast he smelled the scent of Draco's blood.
"Where is he? Take me too him, please." He pleaded to the owl.
The owl just blinked his big yellow eyes and 'HOOT' again before taking flight, heading back the way it had come from.
"This way!" Jacob yelled to the others as he stripped his shorts off and tied them to his ankle. He shifted and followed the owl, the scent of Draco's blood now filling the air around him. He only knew the others followed as the rest of the pack shifted and joined his mental link.
'Jacob, where are you going?' Sam asked in haste.
'The owl; it knows where Draco is.'
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"Here are the ashes."
Draco woke up to the sound of a man's voice. He opened his eyes and was shocked to see that it was dark. The sun was still setting but under the thick canopy of the trees, the forest grounds were as dark as if it was already night. He felt a little better, with more energy than he had earlier but the pain was still there, although a bit numb from the cold.
"Guard them until it is time." Draco heard Bellatrix say. He couldn't see her or the man she spoke to but he didn't look around. He didn't want her to know he was awake.
"I still don't think we should stay here. They could find us at any moment."
"We needed the ashes. Now that we have them…lets go."
Draco's eyes widened. We can't leave! They'll never find us if we leave!
Draco closed his eyes as he heard someone approaching.
"Ennervate." The man cast the spell on Draco, removing the immobulus spell.
"What are you doing?" Bellatrix yelled.
As quick as he could, Draco went into action.
"Accio wand." He whispered as quietly as he could and surprisingly it worked. As soon as he grabbed onto the wand he apparated away.
It was a very stupid thing to do when he was injured as badly as he was but he had no choice. He apparated not too far away and he landed on his back in the snow causing the pain to erupt from his back. And he couldn't hold in the earth shattering scream that broke through.
He clenched his fists and waited for the pain to subside, tears of pain sliding down the side of his eyes. He lay there for a few minutes and then forced himself to his feet. He had to get away before they caught him.
He gasped for air as if there wasn't enough in the world. He used the trees to hold him as the pain threatened to bring him to his knees. He saw the black mist like figures as they reached him before he the crackling sounds of apparition behind him. He was too afraid to look back.
"Look at you." He heard Bellatrix call out, "A weakling!"
Draco fell to his knees, unable to carry on. Bellatrix walked in front of him and grabbed his right arm.
"You don't deserve to be his vessel after you betrayed him!" She yelled and placed her wand on the dark mark making Draco yell out in pain.
She pulled the wand away and threw Draco down to the floor and kicked him in the head.
"Prepare the ashes and begin the ritual!" She yelled to the others and looked down at Draco who stared back at her, now with a gash on his head and blood dripping down the right side of his face.
"It's time." She whispered and laughed in joy that her lord was about to return.
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Alice was running with the others when suddenly her lithe body was brought to an abrupt stop and she fell to the floor in a scream as she had a vision.
She saw black robes and white masks, a circle in the snow, ashes, and Draco's body thrown in the circle. Blood shrouded in darkness spilling out of a goblet, an evil laugh and then darkness taking over Draco's eyes.
Alice gasped out as she returned to herself.
"Alice, are you ok?" Asked a worried Jasper who help her in his arms.
"Oh God…" she whispered as her body trembled. "We have to hurry!" She stood and began running again.
"Alice what did you see?" Carlisle asked as everyone ran again.
"We have to hurry before it's too late! His eyes…his eyes were black…he was engulfed in darkness."
Jacob howled out and pushed his legs to go faster.
"The ashes of the newborns, they took them!" Alice cried out. "We shouldn't have left them there.
The earth began to shake violently and they were all brought to a stop. It last only a few seconds and then stopped. They all looked at each other and then there was a black light that shot up into the sky about a mile from where they were.
"We're too late." Alice whispered in grief.
Jacob felt devastation and fear coursing through his body. Draco…
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"It's time." She whispered and laughed in joy that her lord was about to return.
Draco could only lay there as he saw the death eaters in there black robes and white masks, melt the snow in a circle of 6 feet in diameter. Then they dumped a large amount of ashes in the center.
Where did they get those ashes from?
Suddenly, Draco found himself lifted into the air by one of the death eaters and thrown into the circle. He landed on his side, thankfully.
He began to tremble in fear as the death eaters gathered in a circle around the circle in the snow and Bellatrix walked up to the ashes and began to chant:
"Cruor of proditor est effundo spilled obviam cinis cineris of silenti etc quisnam erant mortuus in vita." Bellatrix held the goblet with Draco's blood in her left hand and her wand in her right hand. There was a black light that began to slither out of her wand and spill into the blood. Once the black light touched the blood in the goblet, Draco felt something dark within his own body. He felt the blood inside him come to life and posses his body. "Suscitatio quod rapio vita donates ingrate. Suscitatio, Suscitatio, Lord Voldemort!" Bellatrix poured the blood shrouded in black light onto the top of the pile of ashes and then she stepped back with wide eyes and a smile of joy.
The blood sank into the ashes and Draco could feel a burning in his chest. He began to scream from the pain as it felt like fire was eating away at his chest. There was a loud tremor that shook the earth, causing the death eaters to break the circle.
The same darkness of the black light began to engulf Draco's eyes and he became still and quiet as the earth stopped shaking.
The death eaters waited a bit fearful themselves as they watched a black entity rise from Draco's body and hover over the ashes before sinking into them and the black light exploded out of the ashes and into the sky.
In a evil dark comparison to the rebirth of a Phoenix bird, Voldemort came twisting out of the ashes. He bore no clothes, his skin pale and greenish, nose missing, and red glowing eyes.
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*Ritual chant: The blood of the traitor is shed, spilled against the ashes of the dead who were dead in life. Awaken and steal the life given unwillingly. Awaken, awaken, Lord Voldemort!
AN: Sorry again about the cliffhanger and of the shorter than usual chapter. I'm sure I have a few or maybe a lot of things that are wrong compared to the books but I tried my best. This chapter was really hard to write not to mention the major writers block that I had, but I finally finished it. Please write a review and tell me what you think. I'm going to try to post up the next chapter by next week or maybe the week after that. I'll write as fast as I can! Oh and can someone tell me what I should do with Bella? I was thinking of making her wallow in her misery and then maybe she just leaves without telling anyone, but that seems kind of lame. Any suggestions?