Chapter 3: Draco's Training
Kali's POV:
It is the day after my birthday. Time for Draco to learn how to obey, follow orders, be a proper follower… blah de blah blah. I roll my eyes at myself. I am on my bed in my room, and Draco is in the next room, although it is smaller. So, it is 7 o'clock sharp. He better not still be asleep. I walk out and into his room- did I mention, it does not have a door? He is sleeping still. His arms on top of the blankets, his head staring straight up- or it would be if his eyes were open. My eyes narrow subconsciously. I stalk over to him. "Up!" I say. He raises his hand and swats at the air. "Go 'way." He mutters. My eyes grow wide. He cannot, I repeat, cannot talk to me like that! "I. Said. Get. UP!" I snarl. He sits straight up, his eyes wide with fear, as he stares at me. "What part of what I said last night, you must be up at 7 sharp, did you not understand?" I lower my voice, and don't misinterpret that- it is more menacing then raising it, let me assure you. He quickly pulls his legs out from under the covers and jumps out of bed, turning around to straighten the bedcovers and pillows.
"I am so-sorry, K-kali!" He whimpers. I glare at him.
"Don't whimper, it is a sign of weakness. Don't call me Kali, either. You are my servant now, you must say 'My Lady', do you understand me?" I growl at him. He shakes slightly.
"Yes, M-my Lady!" He said. He tries his hardest not to whimper.
"Very well. Get dressed, I will be back in 5. I expect you to be dressed, and have your hair combed and your teeth brushed. Along with a bathroom break, I would suggest. Next one is not for quite a while, we will be busy." I say, rather gently for me.
"Of course, My Lady." He says, standing straight, and his eyes are but a small amount lower then mine, not wanting to be rude enough to look me in the eye. He is learning. I smirk, then turn around and leave, my robes billowing in a way that would make even Snape envious.
I return shortly to find him dressed nicely in a short robe, and his hair gelled and combed. I command him to open his mouth, to inspect. I grab his jaw and turn his head, making sure that his teeth are indeed clean. "Breath out." I order. He complies, and I smell his breath. Hmm. Smells… like peppermint. I assume then, that he has indeed brushed them. I take his hand and we walk downstairs. I sit at the table, and the house-elves of this house, not to be confused of mine from my trunk, bring out breakfast, as Draco and I sit down at one end of the table. A plate with bacon and eggs, sunny side up, along with two pancakes right on top of each other with syrup, are on my plate. Draco's plate… ok actually, apparently it is a bowl, has cereal. I wrinkle my nose in disgust. But then I shake my head, and start to eat my food, sitting up straight, and close to the table as to allow myself no space to drop it onto my lap. Draco, however, decides it is ok to slouch close to it and shovel it into his mouth. Milk dribbles from his mouth. "That is disgusting! Where are your manners?" I demand. He shrinks back, as I raise my hand to crucio him. But then I remember my almost-promise to his mother, and decide not to do something so… drastic. "I will leave you to Bella. She out to be able to do something. Speaking of her, where is she, and Wormtail?" I wonder the last bit to myself. And within seconds, they appear in the door.
"Someone say my name?" Bella grins crazily.
"Yes. Draco here… Has decided table manners are not needed here. I do not wish to have him under the cruciatus curse, I gave an almost-promise to his mother not to, but he needs to learns some manners. Can you do something about that?" I ask, as she nods.
She sweeps over to him, grabs his hand, and pulls Draco out of the room. Draco glances back, and a look of terror is on his face. I smirk. His eyes grow wide, and then he is out of the room.
Wormtail shakes at the door. "K-kali, can I come in?" He asks.
"And why should you not? Honestly, you drive me insane. If Bella already hasn't." I laugh, although my laugh isn't quite as most children's are, it is almost a cackle, slightly insane, and slightly malicious.
"Where should I sit then?" He asks.
I think, and then, just to mess with him, point to the corner. He shrinks back, whimpers, and walks to it, sitting down. "Oh, honestly.. I was just JOKING." I am really annoyed, and gesture to him to sit slightly further down the table. He sits, and a house-elf comes out with a plate, that has sausage and eggs. Bacon and pancakes, and hash-browns too, are privileges. I finish eating, and go to see what is taking Bella and Draco so long. I go and find them, and I see Draco first, he has tear streaks running down his face. I roll my eyes and walk into the room, and see Bella relaxing on the couch behind him. I do not, however, see why he is crying. I turn to Bella, raising an eyebrow.
"He is extremely weak. I only hit him once." She shrugged. I see that his robe is slightly off his back, and I gasp when I see what she did. She had hit him… with that vile thing? We reserved that for the worst when Tom was alive! We have not used it since that one fellow decided to betray him! I mean, seriously, using the whip on a five year old child?
"Well, then let us see how weak you are, Bellatrix." I snarl. I turn my hand up at her. "Crucio!" I shout, as she begins to writhe in pain, screaming in agony. Within seconds, the tears fall. I let my hand fall. "Hmm… Seems you are weak too. He is five. You hit him with that whip, we do NOT use that on him. We have not used it since that one fellow betrayed Tom! We have not used it in years! Why did you decide to use it on Draco?" I demanded of her.
She shrank back, hastily wiping away the tears, staring meekly at me.
"I believe I asked you a question… Bellatrix. Are you disobeying?" I narrow my eyes harshly, my expression nearly the mirror of what Tom's used to look like when he was here, whenever he was disobeyed.
Her eyes widen, she is frightened, and she opens her mouth to speak, and a squeak comes out. "I-I am sorry! Y-you said t-to take care of him.. I am not experienced with children!" She shrieked.
I roll my eyes, smirking, slightly happy inside that I can cause fear in someone so much older then me. "Nice. Once Tom is back, I believe he shall hear about the way you are so… weak. Do you really want him to know that? If not, I suggest you harden yourself up a tad, hmmm?" I said flatly. "Come one, Draco." I added as an after thought, stretching out my hand to him. He shrank back, and I shook my hand slightly at him, rather impatiently. He grabbed it and we stalked out of the room. I take him into my room, motioning for him to kneel on the ground. I pull his robe down off his shoulders, so I can put the healing paste and such on it, and to my dismay, he winces. I growl slightly, and he stills. I pout out some healing paste into my hand, and spread it across the wound. Then I conjure a bowl, and pour out some murtlap essence. I then spread the murtlap thinly over his back. His relief seems immediate, as he relaxes. I walk in front of him, and grab his chin, forcing him to look up at me. He smiles brightly, and I smile back, then yank his robes back up onto his shoulders, and motion for him to come with me. He obeys, and we walk out into the room nearby.
"Now, Draco, training time!" I say brightly, and I conjure up a dummy to be practiced on. He cannot practice on a real person yet. "Now, do you know the curse?" I ask him.
He nods slowly. "Crucio?" He asks, and unfortunately for him, his wand was pointed… at me.
I am shaking slightly, my fists balled, and I quickly try to get it off. It isn't working! I can't! I hear a scream… Who is screaming? Then I realize… It is me. Draco quickly lowers his wand. My eyes are actually… red. I stare at him, then raise my hand and shout "crucio!" At him. He collapses, shrieking in pain. I hold it there, for who knows how long, until Bella comes in the room. I do not notice however, and seconds later I stop it. It was only 10 seconds, I realize. He stares frightened at me, and scooches back into the corner.
"Kali!" Bella shrieks at me. I glare back at her. "Why did you do that? And who screamed before that?" She asked worriedly.
"He crucio-ed me instead of the dummy. That was, indeed, me, who screamed, but it was not from the pain, let me assure you. It was from frustration, I couldn't seem to throw off the crucio." I glared at Draco. "So, of course, he had to be punished. He could not go without it."
"Oh. Well, that's a different story then, isn't it? He did deserve that, indeed. The dark lord would've killed him!" Bella said.
I nodded, and motioned for Draco to come to me. He shook his head. "You will." I told him. He shook his head once more. "You want a repeat?" I asked him. He franticly shook his head and tried to stand, fell, and crawled over to me. I knelt next to him. "Now, you know that had to happen, right, Draco, love? I couldn't not do it, see, other wise you might have thought that you could do that again! And others might think I was playing favorites! We don't want that, now do we?" I asked him, my voice silky smooth, and sweeter then a sugar quill. His eyes grew wide.
"Sorry! I am so sorry! Please, My Lady, forgive me!" Draco squeaked. I nodded at him.
"Of course, Draco. All is forgiven." I said. "Now, let us practice on the dummy, shall we?" I told him. He nodded. "Now, go crucio the dummy."
He walked to the dummy. "Crucio!" He shouted at it. The dummy began to shake.
"More, Draco!" I shouted to him.
He concentrated on focusing more power into it. The dummy fell to the floor, shrieking.
"That is enough." I said, and vanished the dummy. Then I asked Bella to help. "Bella, could you be his imperio subject, please?" I asked her. She nodded. "Now, Draco, you will say 'Imperio' at her, and concentrate on what it is you want her to do. Understand?" I asked him, and he nodded.
"Imperio!" He shouted at her. She then began to do… the chicken dance. I sighed. Then he had her walk around like a zombie.
"Enough, Draco." I sighed. He lowered his wand.
"Awww. Why?" He whined. My eyes blazed and he stopped the whine.
"What was that?" Bella snarled at him. He whimpered.
"I thought it would be funny!" he whimpered.
"Now, now Draco. Don't be mean to your Auntie Bella!" I scolded him, smiling to show him I was kidding. He smiled back. We then all walked down for lunch. I called one of the house-elf's to me, and whispered something in their ear. Moments later, a feast appeared. "Well, dig in!" I shouted in delight. We all began to eat, when the wards made aware of the fact someone was approaching. But we were in Tom's house, such wards and protection surrounding. No one could no where we were! Then a house elf came in.
"Mistress Kali! Snape is here!" The House-elf said. I sighed in relief. So that's how he knew how to get here. Then my eyes narrowed. Why now? It has been… years. "Very well. Send him in." I said to the house-elf, who bowed and walked out backwards, ears and nose sweeping the floor. Snape billowed in, his robes sweeping the floor. "Kali." He acknowledged.
"What?" I snarled. "You have not been here since Tom left! Bella, Wormtail, Draco, leave." I motioned for them to leave.
"Kali…" Bella began, but left hurriedly when I made a shooing motion.
"Silencio!" I muttered wandlessly.
"Hmm. Wandless magic? Very nice." Snape said.
"We are not here to discuss this. And, I know that you were a spy for Dumbledore. Why have you returned?" I said. Snape's face, if possible, got paler.
"H-how" He cleared his throat. "How did you know?" He asked.
"Obvious, my dear friend. Now, why are you here?" I asked.
"Because, Kali, I did not know until recently what had happened to you… or what hadn't." He said.
"Hmmm. I see. Now, whats the real reason?" I asked sweetly.
"You idiot child! You are eight. Bloody. Years. Old!" He shouted.
"Hmmm. And I seem to think… I am much, much more powerful then you." I purred.
"Why do you think that?" he asked blatantly.
"Because, lets see… I am immune to truth potions, Veritiserum included, I am a highly skilled Occulemist, and legilemist, I can stand the cruciatus curse without screaming, crying, or writhing in pain, and I can perform wandless magic. Oh! And did I mention, I made an Anti-Avada potion? Also prevents the dementors kiss." I winked at him.
He blanched. "I doubt that." He said. "Crucio!" He shouted at me. I balled my fists under the table, but kept a straight face, then threw it off entirely. I smiled at him.
"You believe that now?" I asked, smiling sweetly.
"Well… You cannot stand the Veritiserum! He said, and pulled a bottle out of his pocket. He motioned for me to come over, but instead I summon-ed it to me, and cast a simple diagnosis like spell, and confirmed, it was, indeed Veritiserum.
"My own spell, you see. Even detects the undetectable poisons!" I said, and drank half the vial. He motioned for me to drink more, and I drank the rest.
"Now, is your name KaliAnna Riddle?" He asked.
"No. My name is You are an Idiot for not believing me, Snape. I also would like you to know, purple bunnies are bound to fall from the air in as soon as I finish to take a breath." I paused and took a breath, then beamed at him.
He threw a legilimency spell at me, and to his astonishment, he could not get in, at all.
"My brain, it is a prison of knowledge. No one but me has the key." I winked at him.
He grimaced. "Well… what about your potion?" He asked.
I opened my bracelet, poured a bit on my finger, and summoned a spider from across the room, force feeding the potion to the spider. I then cast the avada kedavra curse at it.
"Believe me now?" I asked, when the spider simply scurried away. "It can keep you from ever being Avada-ed, or Kissed, for the rest of your life. Oh, and DID I MENTION, my bracelet has several potions and such in it, which are charmed to be ever lasting and never ending? I even have elixir of life and Felix!" I smiled wickedly at him. "Now, why are you really here?" I asked him gently.
"I… Dumbledore… wants… you… you need to… come to Hogwarts…" He staggered over his sentences.
"Hmmm. I see. And how does he know about me? And why would I? And now?" I said, slightly confused.
"I… uh… told him there was someone here. But I did not tell him where, or the name of you." He shrank back slightly, not something he does every day, you see.
"Why should I not crucio you right here and now for being a spy and saying that?" I asked, my voice sickly sweet- and those who knew me, would say that was when I was at my most dangerous, or close to it.
"Because… Because… I came here to warn you!" He said.
"Hmmm. Very well. Come here." I said, and he staggered forward to me. "You will not speak of this, will you? You shall say that you couldn't remember where it was, or there was no on e there. Something along those lines."
"Of course." He sighed.
"Good. Off with you know! Oh, and tell them they can come back in, please." I smiled brightly as he walked out and Wormtail, Bella, and Draco came in.
"What took so long, Kali?" Draco asked. I narrowed my eyes at him, and he hastily corrected himself. "M-my Lady, I mean!"
"Snape 'warned' me that Dumbledore knew of me." I sighed.
"Strange…" Bella muttered to herself.
"Wormtail, could you go to the kitchen and fetch us some glasses of water from the house-elves, please?" I said, with a completely straight face.
"But… why can't you call a house-elf?' Wormtail's face was filled with obvious confusion.
"Because I told YOU TO!" I snarled. He jumped and ran off to get them.
I looked out the window and was shocked to find it dark. "Bella, stay here to ma- actually, just go to bed, why don't you? The house elfs can bring food to you there!" I grinned mischievously and pulled Draco upstairs, and told him to go to sleep, then went to my room, and went to sleep also. Good night, everyone, I smiled.