The Third Way: Arrival (Prequel)

by Snens32

Two souls from the future are reborn in 1975 and their births alone already cause a butterfly effect. Soon it will be their time to actively change history but for now they are too young. Follow Arcturus Black and many other characters as they try to survive the First Blood War. Will the war turn out different with a changed Sirius and in extension a changed House Black?

27. Chapter 27

- Osulus Umbridge and Taramyn Orpington are running away, Orsulus sacrifices himself so that Taramyn can run away

- Rosalie Westonbridge gets on a hateful rant to an unconscious Adolphus

- Michelle and Jessica Blackmoore plan to betray Lawrence Diggle and the other free to get the wealth of the Pyrites for themselves

- During the fight Blossom uses a spell that creates an earthquake

- Rufus Scrimgeour and Christopher Weasley make an escape through the floo after Rufus realises multiple of his fellow aurors already left and that the battle is basically lost

- Andres Shellford, Hector Dagworth-Granger and Jordan Pyke who were out of the fight for some time and decide to go back to help out the others

- Camilla Pucey and Chandler Abercrombie struggle in the fight against Hermes Pyries

Chapter 27:

Sorry for the wait, this chapter has been incredibly hard for me to write. I lost the drive to write for a couple of months and have started a new job which is sadly quite exhausting. I also had no idea for quite a while on how to continue the battle scene.

Reviews please?

4th October 1976, England, Pyrites Courthouse:

Jessica was bored, like extremely bored. Michelle and her had been guarding their associates' back for more than 20 minutes and it seemed like their assocates would never finish gobbling up galleons and galleons.

„I never thought the Pyrites would have so much money" Michelle muttered to her after enacting privacy wards around them. Can't have their associates listening to their little talk, could they?

„Well they did manage to establish a political alliance with the Burkes and you don't do that without being filthy rich" she replied to which her sister only nodded.

„What do you think Mi wouldn't this be a good time to give our friends here a little surprise?" she asked Michelle after a couple more minutes „We did plan to take that money for ourselves, did we not?"

„You are right Jessi but I don't think it's the right moment for that yet. Maybe you haven't noticed but Bole is glancing at us from time to time" Michelle said which surprised her as it was unusual for her to notice these subtle things. It seemed like Bole didn't feel completely safe with them around. Well no surprise really, Michelle and Jessica themselves never felt quite safe with Bellatrix Lestrange around. The woman was a fanatic of a different sort and batshit crazy.

„Hmpf he was always one of the smarter ones be careful around him Mi and please let me start our surprise this time" Jessica muttered looking at her sister pointedly who had the gall to snigger, Michelle had the unfortunate habit to start their act of betrayal a little early sometimes which got them into difficult situations a couple of times.

„Sure sure Jessi whatever you want dear sister" Michelle replied with another snigger which made Jessica roll her eyes.

„You know now that I think of it if we do need to leave some of it behind" Jessica said after a while.

„You're right damnit, the Dark Lord won't believe us if we tell him the Pyrites had nothing, will he?" Michelle asked her sister with a frown.

„No he certainly won't, so how much do we take?"

„How about half? There is a lot so even only half of it will bring us closer to the revolution"

„Mhm I would prefer taking all of it but alright let's take one of the pouches for ourselves and give the other to the Dark Lord"

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Seconds later saw Hector and Andres rushing after Jordan into the entrance hall. Immediately all three realised that Scrimgeour and Weasley were not in fact fighting for their lifes, they weren't even there anymore. Instead all they found five werewolves coming back into the entrance hall having smelled the three aurors. A mexican standoff like situation followed as both sides were sizing eachother up until Hector turned to his fellow aurors and quietly said

„You know guys, I don't even know what we're doing here anymore. Let's face it, our mates are either dead or missing and the Pyrites are likely all dead by now. Let's cut our losses and report to Moody. I'd rather deal with a dressing down by him for our failure to comply with constant vigilance than being dead". They all masked their scents to confuse the werewolves, seconds later Hector shouted „Totus Obscurum" which made the hall drown in darkness. The werewolves lost sight of their now fleeing targets and were unable to hunt them. Smelling more potential victims and knowing that their superiors could maybe need some assistance they made their way upstairs.

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„Blossom I do not think we're going to get out of such a situation this time" Johnathan grimly said to his wife who grimaced at that dodging another curse. The fight had been going on for quite a while now and only their experience kept the married couple in the fight and they were slowly tiring.

Transfiguring a bunch of chairs into lions and griffins she sent at their enemies Blossom turned to her husband.

„How about we go out with style Johnny? You may remember there's that Burke family spell we always wanted to try but never could cause well you know" she reminded Johnathan who grinned at her.

„Hah you are right if we don't try that one now we will never be able to" he chuckled and then his face softened „I love you darling" he said softly to which she replied „I love you too Johnny, now come on husband let's show them not to mess with the Pyrites"

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Alores Deminiris and the other remaining werewolves sprinted through the fourth floor nearing to the sounds of battle in one of the adjacent rooms. The moment they went through the doorway however they only heard a screamed „Watch out" before a bright white beam struck them seconds later and they knew no more.

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Augustus and the others had finally managed to deal with the pesky animals that woman had sent at them when Nott screamed „Watch out". Looking to the Pyrites couple he saw a bright ball of light emerging in front of it.

'What the hell is that? I have never heard of such a spell before' he thought shortly before a bright white beam rushed towards the group. Seeing that he would pretty much be the only one who would survive the spell he thought quickly and sent a depulso at his associates. The spell connected and his three associates were sent into the wall some meters away from them. Augustus flung himself to the side, moments later an explosion occured behind him. The magical backlash sent him across the room, he heard screams and felt himself hitting something hard before everything went black.

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They had done it. They had managed to take out all of their enemies and given their family some time to escape. They knew that this most likely wasn't everything You-Know-Who had sent at them but they hoped their efforts would be enough. These were the last thoughts of Johnathan and Blossom Pyrites as they gazed lovingly into eachother's eyes before the aftereffects of casting the spell started their next great adventure.

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Fenrir Greyback couldn't believe the sight in front of him. The whole room was littered with rubble. The remaining members of his pack that had come with him were now dead and they were clearly dead, the torn apart bodies of his pack members were proof of that... this would not go down well with the others. A small part of his mind wondered what sort of magic could create such distruction. Atleast it seemed like Rockwood had survived the encounter. As Rockwood was the main leader of this raid, Fenrir would hopefully be able to avoid his master's wrath. He needed to stay here to make sure Rockwood and the others would survive the day. One could only hope his master's raid on the Burkes was going better.

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Andres was running with Hector and Jordan towards the edge of the wards when a gurgling scream occured behind him. Turning around Hector and Andres saw that Jordan had been caught by what could only be a vampire. Jordan fell to the ground bleeding heavily. The vampire stood over their fellow auror looking at them with what was clearly meant to be a challenge. They glanced at eachother. Fighting a vampire was not an easy feat, both of them knew that but they had to. Leaving behind Jordan was not an option.

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„Oh wow I never thought you guys would finish with our little robbery anytime soon, I am pleasently surprised Diggle" Jessica mockingly told Diggle as he and the others returned to the position of the Blackmoore sisters.

„Oh will you just shut up Blackmoore?" Diggle said earning a giggle from Jessica while Michelle rolled her eyes. Diggle chose to ignore the arson sisters, he really didn't want to get into conflict with them. Who knew what they would do to him if he earned their ire. "Come on let's go guys we finished what we came here for so let's get this loot to our Lord"

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Taramyn had just arrived back at her flat in Diagon Alley. The traumatized young witch had her teammate's face in mind after he had been drained of blood by the vampire. She didn't know what to do, but there was one thing she knew of. This war was just going to get worse and she didn't think she could stomach another day like this. With a heavy but determined heart she sent her resignation letter to the Auror office a few minutes later. In her resignation letter was what would be her last ever report to her now former superiors. With an empty feeling she flooed back to her parent's home. She desperately needed the warmth of her parents' arms right now.

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Jessica was currently unconvinced on how to start their own little robbery as her offer to be the group's vanguard on the way back up had been refused. Diggle really seemed to distrust the sisters', understandable but very bothersome. Glancing to the side she saw her twitching a little. Michelle was as impatient as ever and they really didn't need one of her episodes right now.

„Mi get your shit together, don't ruin this please" she hissed to her sister.

„Something you want to tell us Blackmoore?" she then heard from behind her, Diggle must have heard her say something but not understood her.

„Oh it's nothing of importance Diggle, I am just warning her to take any potential enemies seriously" she replied looking back at him. His raised eyebrow indicated that he didn't quite believe her explanation but both knew that there was no reason for him to call her out on her lie.

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Hector didn't hesitate long and began sending curses left and right at his oponnent who was surprised to see an auror this trigger happy. The vampire just barely dodged the first three curses before getting hit by a bone breaking curse. To the aurors' shock the vampire took the curse like a champ however and dodged the next and final two before charging at the two. Andres managed to pull Hector who just gaped in astonishment to the side just in time while tripping the vampire who seemed surprised at finding himself suddenly on the ground. He never got up as a bone liquifying curse courtesy of Andres took his life.

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In Transylvania, Romania stood an imposing castle, not quite as large as Hogwarts but certainly as intimidating to outsiders. In it's throne room Vlad Dracula III. head of the Dracula Clan felt the bond with one of his direct descendants breaking. Vlad (born in 1431 and in self emposed exile since 1476) shook his head in disappointment. That most likely meant that young Flavius got himself killed in his stupid endeavor to get personal glory by following a self styled dark lord over in Britain of all places.

'Poor boy never even got to celebrate his 130th birthday' he thought with amusement. To Vlad any vampire below the age of 170 wasn't a full vampire yet a side effect of being more than 540 years old. Taking a piece of parchment he wrote a letter to Voldemort in which he severed all ties to the monster for getting one of his clan killed. Vlad may have been a vampire but atleast he didn't go around murdering people left and right, no a man like Vlad was way too distinguished for that. He knew tho that the letter was most likely pointless. Voldemort would probably once again dismiss the Romanian Vampire Clans as unimportant, just as he had always done, the fool.

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„You know I really dislike how quiet it is up there, shouldn't there be some screaming by now?" Nathaniel Shawcross asked into the group who answered his question with an uneasy silence in case of Diggle, Belleville and Bole and disgusted silence in case of Jessica and Michelle. It was easy to forget sometimes that many of their fellow death eaters were just boys and sometimes girls that were trying to play Lord/Lady but then again the Blackmoore sisters were not that much older than him. The group continued to slowly walk towards the stairs before eventually Belleville took a pity on Shawcross and said „Eh not too worry, our targets have all probably perished by now and house Pyrites is in the safe hands of our Lord". These words simply seemed to have consoled the young man as he exhaled audibly. Moments later his associates were splattered with his blood as he went down in spellfire. Diggle threw up shields which saved his and Michelle's lifes as the group defended themselves against a small group of opponents that had somehow managed to get behind them.

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Earlier

„Well someone just tripped the proximity ward wanna go out there and give whoever it is a friendly welcome?" asked Reef Clockside his two coworkers.

„Hmmm they will still have their guard up before and while they are doing their business here" mused Hannah Hopkins „No it's better we wait until they trip the ward a second time on their way back up"

„What do you think are they doing here?" asked a concerned Kelly Turpin.

„I'm not sure what they could be here for other than I don't know, maybe the vast fortune of our boss' family?" Reef sarcastically asked the young woman who flushed in embarrassement and said „Yeah that was a stupid question".

„Perhaps not" Hannah said „This room might be compromised".

„You are right Hopkins, that would require one of the guards to betray the family and I wouldn't put that past some of the others" Reef said which caused both Hannah and Kelly to tense.

„So that's the plan? We wait until they are on their way back up and we curse them in the back?" Kelly asked to which both Hannah and Reef nodded.

Now

The three cautiously backed out of the wardstone room and looking to their left saw six hooded and garbed people nearing the stairs. Not wanting to leave anything to chance Hannah threw a severing curse at the nearest death eater who exploded with a huge amount of blood splattering on their associate's death eater robes. Hannah tripped however and fell to he ground. Reef managed to shake himself after a couple of seconds and threw a couple of curses at the death eaters himself but one of them managed to throw up a shield just in time before answering with a curse himself. Their associates followed in turn which forced Kelly out of her stupor as she was forced to dodge an increasing number of spells before she was hit by one of them. Searing pain exploded in her brain and Kelly went down screaming as the cruciatus took hold on her. Hannah could only watch helplessly as the young woman writhed screaming on the ground. The only good thing was that now one of the enemies was occupied with torturing Kelly and Hannah quickly stopped that by sending another couple of severing curses at the death eater.

Reef was taking on two of the other death eaters while another two strangely stood at the back not doing anything for some reason. Hannah sighed in relief as Kelly stopped screaming.

**Scene Break**

Nathaniel who was holding Kelly under the cruciatus could only look on in horror on the location where his right arm should have been. Before his brain understood what had happened a killing curse impacted his back killing him instantly.

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Reef looked on in surprise as the two death eaters he had been fighting were killed violently by the two death eaters who had been standing at the back. Seeing Hannah tending to the whimpering Ms. Turpin he moved himself in front of them, not knowing what to make of the two people in front of him. He was then quite surprised when one of them asked something that absolutely confused him.

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„Are you a muggleborn?" Michelle asked wanting to know if the man could be recruited to their cause.

„Why the fuck would something like that even matter in such a situation?" the man replied with a question of his own.

„It's very important as it will determine our course of action from here on" Jessica vaguely replied. The man tensed at that and visibly readied himself for another fight before saying „Hmpf well if you have to know it that badly, I am from the Clockside family, a halfblood" the man said cautiously. Michelle and Jessica glanced at eachother.

„Hmmm well what about your two friends there. What are they?" asked Michelle.

Clockside audibly sighed „Kelly on the ground there is a muggleborn while Hannah who is tending to her injuries is a pureblood. Now can we really get to the more important things like who the fuck you are and why the fuck you just stabbed your buddies in the back? Are you spies for the Ministry?"

Michelle and Jessica glanced at eachother again. They couldn't really risk it, could they? No they couldn't.

„Well Mr. Clockside that is very unfortunate. Believe me when I say that me and my sister are very sorry about all of this" Jessica said before throwing a killing curse in the direction of Clockside who managed to dodge the curse only to realise that said curse wasn't even meant for him but for the woman behind him. Clockside looked at the now dead woman with a pained grimace before he too was hit with a spell. The last words he would ever hear were „We were in fact once spies for the Ministry Mr. Clockside, we were once."

**Scene Break**

„It's unfortunate it came to this, isn't it sister?" Michelle asked.

„It is. But it always comes back to Grindelwald's mantra. For the Greater Good" said Jessica.

„For the Greater Good" affirmed Michelle. She walked to the last person alive in the basement aside from the two sisters of course.

„Your name is Kelly and you're a muggleborn right?"

„Yes, why?" said the young woman with a slight stutter, she was clearly still dealing with the after effects of being held under the cruciatus, as brief as it was in this case.

„Well you see we didn't trust those two with the kind of information I am going to give you since they weren't muggleborn. Well it's like this, Jessica over there standing guard a little up the stairs is my sister and she and I are muggleborns aswell though we are pretending to be purebloods" Michelle said, saying it as if it wasn't a huge deal that two muggleborns were death eaters and ignoring the widening of Kelly's eyes „We have been working inside our enemies for some time and used the time to build up trust with the Dark Lord while making sure that Death Eaters die on raids whenever possible. Oh and we started gathering allies, mainly those muggleborns that we were supposed to raid. They are in a safe house, don't worry. We are waiting and gathering more allies until we have enough to start a revolution so that we may finally get our revenge for centuries of humiliation and oppression by purebloods. So what do ya say Kelly? Wanna join?" she asked the woman whose eyes were eyes thinking about the ramifications of this. Michelle expected Kelly to accept but the woman instead spat to the ground and said „You just killed my friends in cold blood and you expect me to just forget that and become your follower? No thanks".

„Well that is very unfortunate Kelly" Kelly heard the woman say. She lifted her head to look at the woman in confusion and just managed to see the tip of the woman's wand glow with a green light. Kelly died instantly.

**Scene Break**

Immediately, after killing the woman, Michelle facepalmed as she realised she had forgotten to ask the woman where she and her compatriots suddenly appeared from.

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This fight had been going on since forever and all three combatants could feel themselves tiring. Hermes had been able to keep his two opponents at bay and even managed to take the initiative himself. Especially his male oponnent seemed to slowly lose focus and his movements became a bit sluggish. He had only briefly given the thought to the curiousity that his two opponents were showing their heads. Finally he managed to corner the man while making the woman deal with a flock of owls he conjured. A couple of spell exchanges later and a cutting curse broke through the man's shield and hit him in the shoulder making him vince. He swatted his female oponnent's curse right back at her as a mere afterthought. The woman was flung into the wall and fell down unconcious. Hermes had the killing curse on his lips to finish off his male enemy before the man could bolt through the door behind him. Just as he wanted to say the words however the door was flung open and two more death eaters ran into the room. The man Hermes had been fighting against let himself slump against the wall in clear exhaustion while Hermes now had to deal with two still fresh enemies. Only his experience in the dueling pit kept him alive against his very skilled enemies. After a minute or so during which he began slowing down as he was exhausted from all the fighting he noticed the man standing up probably planning to rejoin the fight.

'Argh fuck it' Hermes thought. He knew that this would be his end but atleast he had managed to give Calvin and Roxanna enough time to escape. He gathered the last of his strength to hurl a killing curse at one of the two death eaters currently in the fight. His target side stepped the curse and instead the man behind them took the spell to the face immediately falling lifelessly to the ground. A spell impacted his shoulders and Hermes fell to his knees.

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This had been a short but intense fight. The tired Pyrites gave the sisters one hell of a fight before he finally went down.

'But clearly not before he took down one more of his enemies' Michelle thought with a snigger as she looked back at the corpse near the doorway. She walked to the man and asked him „Now what to do with you?"

„I don't know and I don't care" the man snarled „You may kill me but what I know is that your objective to take our wizengamot vote has failed. You may have killed everyone else and may kill me but my son and grandchildren are long gone you are never going to get them".

She looked at the man carefully and found respect for him growing inside her.

„I am very sorry to say that the reason we only managed to get into your Courthouse in the first place was because you were betrayed by one of your own" she told him. He thought about that for a moment before his eyes widened and he asked „It was Adolphus, wasn't it? He was the only one who never fitted quite among us". At her shrug he slumped into himself dejectedly „Well if it indeed my grandson atleast he isn't able to take the lordship as my son is still alive".

„If it's any consolation to you be assured that only half of your fortune will ever go to the Dark Lord, me and my sister are taking the other half" she said her respect for the man's skills in battle showing as she gave out more information than she normally would. Her sister who so far had decided to watch the exchange gave a warning „Mi?" but Michelle just waved her off.

„Eh don't get your knickers in a twist Jessi, he is going to be dead before we leave anyway" she said and her sister nodded in acceptance of Michelle's reasoning.

„I expected as much" the man said with a resigned nod „May I ask who you two are and what you're going to do with my family's money? You know since I am gonna die anyway?"

„Hmmm alright it won't hurt I guess. I am Michelle Blackmoore and that's my sister Jessica Blackmoore over there. We were originally muggleborn but were blood adopted by a pureblood family so that we could join the death eaters. We are hollowing them out from within while saving any muggleborns we are meant to kill" Michelle answered the man while Jessica excused herself to go outside wanting to search the other floors for more death eaters that need to be killed.

„A noble cause even if I think you are a little too ruthless. What about your associate over there tho? I think she may still be alive" he noted.

„Huh? Oh that one over there, thought she was dead" she said before sending a killing curse at the unconscious woman who stopped breathing immediately.

„You know it's a little scary to see someone so comfortable with an unforgivable" he noted before raising an eyebrow at the glazed look Michelle was getting.

„Yeah I can understand that but my sister and I have been at this for a few years now and at some point using the killing curse or the imperius just becomes natural. Only the cruciatus is still too much for us. We prefer our innocent victims to die a quick and painless death. Enough chatting though, we need to get a move on. Anything you want to say before you die?" she asked the man respectfully.

„I just wish to know whom of my family has survived" the man answered looking at her with pleading eyes.

„We found many corpses on the first floor. Werewolves, aurors, death eaters and a middle aged woman." she said looking at him with a neutral expression.

„That must have been my dear Ida then, well then I will find no regrets. My parents are likely dead, my wife is definetely dead and my son and his family have escaped the courthouse quite some time ago. You may kill me now. I wish you good luck in your endeavors Ms. Blackmoore" Hermes said with a sad smile on his face before another killing curse ended his life. Michelle looked at him for another minute thinking why not every pureblood could be so pleasantly to talk to. She made sure that the other death eaters in the room were dead before leaving the room aswell.

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Rosalie Westonbridge was still in the little room with her patient who she had to sent back into unconsciousness after he woke up and began to annoy her. Nobody had said she had to treat him well, he'd soon be just another follower of her Lord after all, noone of importance. She'd remain here and continue pretending she was a healer. Well she was but wasn't supposed to be here but then again the aurors that would soon come to clean up this place didn't know that.

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„Thanks for the rescue man" Hector said punching his fellow auror in the shoulder after tending to the unconscious Jordan's wound with a cauterizing spell. Andres took it in stride „You know Hector, you are very good at your job, probably one of the most competent aurors I had the pleasure of working with in my career..." he said pausing as he thought on what to say next.

„Thanks I guess. I am sensing a but here lad" Hector said raising an eyebrow.

„You are pants as a soldier Hector, absolutely mediocre, the way you just froze as Fangface there charged at you... you'd have gotten yourself killed if I hadn't pulled you to the side in time. You seriously need to think about this. This war on terrorism or whatever this mess is is heating up and You-Know-Who is clearly not against targeting the families of his foes as we have seen today. The Pyrites were attacked just because the Lady of the House was the sister to the man who rallied the Wizengamot against him for fucks sake. I have neither wife or children so I only have to fear for my own life but you on the other hand Hector, you have both. Not only that but your family's been on the decline for some time and I'm not trying to be rude or anything but you'd be crazy to continue taking part in this mess when the Dagworth – Grangers are two steps away from being the next Gaunts" Andrew said ending his little tirade / speech with a deep breath. Hector sighed and sat down on a tree stump next to them. After a moment of looking at the ground he looked up into Andres' face and said

„You're right of course Andres, at this point my family is truly not far away from sharing the fate of the Gaunts. It's actually quite ironic because I remember my great grandfather mocking the Gaunts for their fall from grace back in the mid 1930s when I was just a little boy. Shortly before he died in 1938 he told the family that the Gaunts wouldn't live to see 'little Hector continue the family line'. His words proved to be quite prophetic as the entire family most likely died out when Morfin Gaunt died in Azkaban in 1949."

„Most likely?" asked a intrigued Andres. He had never given much thought to the Gaunts, the incarceration of the Gaunts' in Azkaban was only minor news when it happened thats how much the family had fallen by the 1920s'.

„Well while Morfin died childless he had a sister who disappeared after her brother's and father's incarceration back in 1925 and they never found out what happened to ol' Merope after she ran off with that muggle, did they? No I find it possible that she is still alive, she can't be older than 70, and is thus the last descendent of the Gaunts and the Slytherin's. Well unless she had children of course"

Andres was surprised by how much his friend knew about the fate of the Gaunts'. „How come you know so much about them?" he asked his friend.

„Well us and the Gaunts have had a bitter rivalry ever since Morfin's grandfather Melvinus Gaunt married Isadora Lestrange. Lad was the only one in the family in a long time not to marry a close family member. Thing is Isadora was my great grandfather's girlfriend when that happened but she was married off to the Gaunts by her father who decided a Gaunt was a far better match to the Lestranges than a Dagworth – Granger. Isadora was then ordered by Melvinus to cut all contact with my great grandfather. The whole thing pissed dear ol' Benjamin off so much that he challenged Melvinus to a duel a year later in 1869 who eagerly accepted. By that point in history however the Gaunts while still quite wealthy had already been deeply affected by all that inbreeding and well let's just say that Melvinus had average power and little skill in the duel pit. He lost horribly against my great grandfather and only Corvinus', who was Melvinus' grandfather, intervention and by that I mean bribery prevented the Gaunts from being laughed at by the Daily Prophet. A legal and political war followed between both families who spent huge amounts of money over the next few decades. This caused Melvinus to inherit basically little to no galleons when his father kicked the bucket in 1895. This political war sadly also began my family's downfall as we lost our wizengamot seat together with the Gaunts in 1906. My father is still mad about that event but by that point we had spent almost all of our wealth fighting off the Gaunts and couldn't do anything against it. Anyway my grandfather saved any Daily Prophet editions that featured the Gaunts in any way. Not to say there are many but the ones that do exist and are in our hands paint the Gaunts final downfall well enough"

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Jessica walked into the room at the end of the fourth floor and marveled at the warzone like appearence the room had. Looking to the left she saw a familiar werewolf sitting on the floor next to a group of dead or unconscious death eaters. She longed to eliminate him aswell but knew that she couldn't take him on alone.

„Hey Greyback what's the matter with these? What happened here?" she asked him whose head snapped up as he heard a potential threat. When he saw she was an ally he relaxed and snorted

„Lord and Lady Pyrites, despite their age, were more than enough to pose a threat to the group of our associates that came after them. Pennington and Dolloway are dead while Rockwood, Nott, Yaxley and Rosier are unconscious. No idea what the fuck happened here so that's all I can tell you" he told her.

„Hmmm well atleast the more experienced ones survived. What about your packmates?" she asked while lamenting the fact that noone of importance had been killed. He merely gestured to a far corner of the room where an uncertain number of bodies had been dumped. Uncertain? Well they were barely even recognisable as human bodies and it was impossible to see how many there were.

„Oh" she said not knowing how to react to such a sight.

„Yeah" Greyback grunted „What about your team? I don't see your sister with you but she can't have been killed, can she?"

„No my sister is indeed still alive but thank you for your concern. If it matters to you she is currently interrogating Hermes Pyrites about the whereabouts of the rest of the family. Seems like some slipped through the wards and escaped during the chaos."

„What about the rest of your team then? What are they doing?"

„Dead" she said and to his stunned „What the hell happened?" she said „Contacts of our Lord revealed to him that the Pyrites had a lot of their gold in their courthouse. Our goal was to raid the treasury in the Pyrites basement which went without a hitch until we tried to come back up to join the fight. I have no idea where they came from and had no opportunity to ask. We managed to get them in the end but by that time our three opponents killed Diggle, Bole, Shawcross and Bellevile."

Greyback had to digest this information for a while.

„It seems like today's victory has come at a high cost" he said after a long silence.

„Yeah I don't doubt our Lord will punish Rockwood in some way, I'm really glad now not to have lead the raid this time" she replied while looking outside the window where the sun was slowly setting.

**Scene Break**

Calvin and Roxanna who was holding the twins were frantically running towards the edge of the wards. They had been hiding inside bushes near the Courthouse for some time as Calvin had spotted multiple figures outside the Courthouse after he jumped out the window before guiding his wife and children down gently with his magic. After some time they felt that they had a good opportunity and so they had begun to run. By now they were reaching the edge of the wards, they felt elated to have made it. Suddenly Calvin noticed something in the corner of his eye, something... or rather someone. Alerting his wife to the possible danger they turned around to see a man and two women looking at them. Calvin saw their pale complexions and tensed. „Honey, run!" he muttered and Roxanna followed his command noticing his the panic in his voice. They ran not even a minute but it seemed like an hour when finally they had reached a point they knew they could apparate from. Not even bothering to see where their foes were Roxanna focused and apparated away with the twins. Calvin who stayed behind for a few seconds to make sure his family departed safely also began to focus now. He was moments away from apparating aswell when teeth sank into his shoulders. His focus wavered, he panicked once again and he apparated.

This battle has been going on for quite some time now so I thought I'd finally wrap it up to get to the next plotpoint. This has caused this chapter to be quite long as you can see and I hope that the long waiting of almost 3 months was worth it. :)

I will try to keep the next battle quite short but the battle at Burke Manor will definetely follow.

Btw I just realised that having Voldemort as the descendant of a Lestrange means that Delphini is somewhat an incest child lmao. Eh too lazy to change it, also a nice easter egg to the whole „every British pureblood is related in some way" thing.

End of Chapter

Characters in this chapter and the amount of chapters they have appeared in so far:

- Jessica Blackmoore (2)

- Michelle Blackmoore (2)

- Andres Shellford (4)

- Hector Dagworth-Granger (2)

- Jordan Pyke (3)

- Jonathan Pyrites (7)

- Blossom Pyrites (4)

- Alores Deminiris (1)

- Augustus Rockwood (6)

- Benjamin Nott (2)

- Fenrir Greyback (4)

- Lawrence Diggle (3)

- Taramyn Orpington (3)

- Flavius Dracula (1)

- Vlad Dracula (1)

- Nathaniel Shawcross (1)

- Leighton Belleville (2)

- Kelly Turpin (3)

- Reef Clockside (3)

- Hannelore Hopkins (3)

- Hermes Pyrites (5)

- Rosalie Westonbridge (3)

- Calvin Pyrites (3)

- Roxanna Pyrites (4)