Tom Riddle X Reader | ✓

Part 96: Beginning Of The End

"Need some help?" 

You glimpsed to your right, spotting a familiar face

"MARY!" 

You were glad to see her, you haven't spoken to her since Hogwarts, and she barely changed.

"Good to see you too" - she stunned one of the death eaters you were fighting, as the two of you now darted towards Igor Karkaroff, battling him like a dynamic duo.

Until you felt a sudden struck to your head and you fell face front to the cold ground.

"This is mine, bitch!" - Bellatrix had reached out for her wand that you had dropped, then waved it and sent Mary writhing into the air.

Mary's body clashed against a pillar and she fell unconscious.

You sat up, summoning a stunning spell at Bellatrix, who easily dismissed it as she tauntingly laughed.

Igor Karkaroff smiled as he watched Lestrange shoot out a red beam of light at you "Crucio!"

You yelped quietly as your body mangled, it felt like your bones were cracking, trying to leave the layers of your flesh.

And she continued to laugh "Crucio!" - she said again, her disturbing laugh vibrated between the ruins

It was like your skeleton had decided to crumble and your blood wanted to find a one-way exit to leak out of your skin.

In agony, you turned over, your forehead touching the frigid ground as you coughed. 

Faintly, between the hysterical giggling, you heard a cry of a bird above your head.

"Fawkes..." - you faintly murmured

Bellatrix watched it drop something that fell flat right in front of your nose. You looked into what appeared to be an old, brown hat, noticing something glint just inside of it.

"Come on, now" - Lestrange snickered as she watched you rise on your knees "I haven't stopped, have I----"

Bellatrix ambled backwards as with a sheer blink of an eye, she watched you yank out a white blade that you swung at her, splitting open her knee as she tried to dodge it.

You stood up, panting, wielding the sword of Gryffindor.

Bellatrix scoffed, shooting out a curse, but it bounced off the sword and shot back at her. Lestrange missed it by an inch, plunging down.

Not too far from you and Bellatrix, Snape had been appearing between the pillars, but he did not seem to take particular effort in fighting.

He heard something snap behind him and under an instinct, he swiftly turned, but his eyes widened at who he saw.

"Been a long time..." - she said

"Lily..." - he whimpered, inhaling

She stood stiffly and yanked out her wand, pointing at Severus. 

Snape gulped, his heart sunk watching her ready to attack "I will not be fighting you, you're pregnant."

"Are you above that now, Severus?" - she asked "Isn't that what being a death eater is about?"

Her eyes glinted as if wet, reflecting the shimmer in Snape's own.

"I will not be killing you." - he said

Lily's hand trembled as her wand ejected a jet of light. Snape swung his hand, shielding against the spell. Her eyes turned red, as if she was about to cry, but her wand still quivered, leaping out spells, which Snape, one by one, would dismiss.

"Say it Snape, say what you've said to me years ago. I am a mudblood!"

"No" - Severus replied with a heavy heart "I will not"

Their heads turned to the side as a female voice called out "Lily!"

Lily saw Molly sprint towards her and quickly clutch Lily's shoulders "Let's go, we need to leave"

Lily glanced back at where Snape was standing but she saw nobody there now.

"Come on" - Molly wrapped her arm around her shoulder "Let's go" - she apparited out of the battle, barely missing a few spells that flew at them at the same time.

Meanwhile, Voldemort had been throwing spells left and right at Dumbledore, who had been deflecting them with little strive.

Voldemort had summoned another hurricane of a colossal flame that shape-shifted into a sizzling beast, plunging at Dumbledore. Albus flicked his wand and the beast hissed, quickly turning into a wave of ashes that dashed for Riddle.

Tom grunted, catching the wave of ashes with the tip of his wand, and turned it into a set of sharp glass, sending it flying back at Dumbledore.

Albus swung his arm, conjuring a splash of water that devoured the shards of glass and conveyed it back at Riddle as a mixture of dangerous liquid and solid.

Marvolo stretched out his wand, covering his face, as he stopped the rushing wave, it bounced as if against an invisible wall and turned into a tall water barrier right in front of him. As he lowered his wand, the wave splashed down between his and Dumbledore's feet.

Tom was exceptionally talented for his age, especially when Dumbledore was a lot older, and even when Albus was more powerful, it was impressive at how well Riddle could stand against him.

Back where you were battling Bellatrix, you held onto the sword in your left hand as with your wand in your right, you were shooting spells at Lestrange.

Rubeus Hagrid and Arthur Weasley joined in to fight Igor Karkaroff and Evan rosier by the side. The air rumbled and ruins shattered even more after curses and jinxes would miss wizards and dash at walls.

Arthur disarmed Evan as Rubeus had a spider half his size seize in place before ambushing Igor from behind. Hagrid took this chance to stun Igor, winning over this duel.

Meanwhile, Bellatrix was cornered by you and for a split moment she looked terrified.

But then a spark flashed straight before you and it blinded you, you couldn't see anything at all. When it cleared up, Bellatrix was gone and you looked behind to see someone you had known before.

Her silver hair. Her eyes that you looked into all those years ago.

"Li-Lizzie?" - you said, barely believing what was straight in front of you

"Miss me?" - she had her wand aimed at you

"You have no idea" - you confidently smirked, it was time for payback.

But as you felt like you were about to fight until a drop of blood, the golden bracelet around your wrist suddenly started to glow and you glanced at it before realizing...

"Tom..." - you murmured. You glimpsed at Lizzie and squinted "Sorry, maybe next time" - you waved your wand and shot out lightning that hit into her and she fell backwards, stunned stiff.

You rushed through between the quivering ground and crumbling walls, to the distant rise of loud banging and powerful magic. You squeezed between the duelers, evading spells that would rush at you.

Until you reached an area where Dumbledore had been standing over an injured, fallen Tom Riddle.

"I did not mean for this, Tom. Your spell backfired because of your own doing"

Riddle's lip was cut and his face was wet from sweat as he still sneer-fully smirked "I will win"

"Not this war" - Dumbledore replied.

Panting, you rushed over to Riddle. You only had a slight moment to lock eyes with stunned Dumbledore. You clutched onto Tom's body and apparited out of the battle, teleporting him to a safe zone.