Flight from death
2 months after the attack on the Potter's and the vanquishing of Voldemort, many of his followers scattered to the wind at the loss of their leader while high ranked death eaters tried to carry on his legacy, this is how they found themselves laying a 2 months magical siege of Blackstone beach house. This magical property was a safehouse of the High Duke Taurus Julius Black, lord of the Noble Founding House of Black and his wife the Noble Caesar Reia Black-Caesar, heiress to the Imperial throne of Rome. Yeah, real upper class people. Their marriage was a political outrage and was contested fervently by The Mugwumps of the ICW,why, because their child would be the most politically powerful individual in the Magical World upon his ascension with a force that could rival and defeat any other empire and nation.Thats why our friendly neighbourhood death eaters have laid siege to their sea-side safe house and after 2 months of drawing and powering up runes and rituals, they were finally able to break through the Black Family's nigh impenetrable wards. "Take the child and run" Taurus instructed his last surviving maid, "B...but my l...liege, w..what about you?" she stammered, "Im not going to lie to you and tell you ill be fine"he said as he looked at his wife's still form, "This is the end of my time,and fate does not like to be tempted" "If i had known earlier my love wouldnt have been-" he choked back a sob. The maid was shocked, her liege lord was usually the picture of perfect ancientblood nobility,calm,collected even in the face of the brash ,idiotic light-sided Barons who were foolish enough to speak against a founding lord in the wizengamot, but now his beautiful face was gaunt and ashen with tears,his striking grey eyes wrought with sorrow and his pitch black hair disheveled like it had never been. Blood painted his robes with his sword and wand laying beside him as the house burned around them. He collected himself and said "It wouldnt be long until they break through the wards of this room, take him and run, you'll meet roman warriors at the other end of the beach,give him to them alongside this letter." He said as he reached into his robe pocket and pulled out a letter with the seal of rome on it, " They'll know what to do from there, now go" the Duke exclaimed as a loud explosion was heard from outside the door along with gleeful laughter. "And may Deios and Lady Magia be with you" he whispered as he whirled to deal with the dozen death eaters that had broken through the door.
The sound of spellfire and clashing of swords could be heard as she ran as fast as she could while carrying a 2 year old child, tears leaked from her eyes as the child opened his gleaming kaleidoscopic eyes and gazed up at her in curiousity, he let out no cries despite just seeing his parents killed right before his eyes. "Beautiful" the woman said dazedly as she gazed down at his already etherealy beautiful face, she tripped as she got near the other end of the beach and was steadied by a pair of muscled arms, she looked up in alarm to see a handsome bearded man wearing armor usually worn by high officials in the roman legion, "How...", she began confused, because she knew for a fact that roman officials and citizens were prohibited from entering britain by powerful laws and magical wards. "We are here for the child"the armoured man said, as he slowly took the boy from her arms. "Wait!"she shouted as she snatched him back, not trusting them for a second, "Who're you two!"she asked "My name is Maximus Plubius Pompey, General of the Roman Legions and he," General Maximus said as he gestured to the similarly armoured man behind,"is Claudius Laurus,High Tribune of the Roman Legions"he finished. "Oh..." the maid said in shock as she handed the child to them, "I was asked to give you this letter" she said in a voice that clearly showed that she had been crying. General Maximus gently took the letter from her hands and muttered some words in a language she recognized as latin which caused the magical seal to glow and break. He read over the letter and said in a solemn voice and said as he rose the child "Her Most Noble Caesar is dead, long live the Caesar" and Claudius repeated the cry giving a salute "And long live her heir, Arcturus Octavius Black-Caesar"he continued as the said child giggled in response to being lifted.