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I Am Lacerta Chapter 53
While I explained the plan, I looked around at all the people to see who Aoife had brought. I was impressed by the sheer numbers on such short notice - she definitely knew what she was doing.
My pitiful uncle, Lucius the furthest on the left, looking grim at the prospect of being bossed about by his 13-year-old niece. Next to him stood Nott, a slimy little man who shook frequently, but I had heard he was a good dueller... sometimes.
Next to him stood Crabbe, who was looking as thick as ever, then Aoife who looked determined and like she understood what I was saying, but her eyes kept darting to the man on her left and right, as Goyle was on her other side.
Finally she had brought three new recruits, who's backgrounds were all virtually the same - hard core Slytherin parents, graduated last year, hated muggleborns, half-bloods, blood traitors, half breeds... basically anything that wasn't them.
"Okay, have you all got that?" I asked at the end of the explanation.
Lucius and Nott nodded grimly, as did the three new Death Eaters. Aoife gulped visibly and tried to smile weakly. Crabbe and Goyle just looked confused.
I sighed. "I'll say it slower, 'k?" I asked, and they nodded slowly.
"Depending on numbers, we will fight in pairs or threes. I don't think they brought very many people. Lucius, you're with Nott. Crabbe, you're with Goyle. Aoife, you're with.. I'm sorry I don't know you three's names.." I said awkwardly, though I'm pretty sure it may have come across snooty.
A black haired girl with violet highlights and eyes to match, looked like she would rip out my throat at being so socially dissed by me, her pale skin flushed with anger - but she was put to a stop by a poke in the chest from a short, blond haired boy with plain brown eyes and a nose too large for his face. His face was permanently turned down in a snooty smirk.
The last boy had dark black hair and stormy brown eyes, his chocolate brown skin seemed to be glowing - he was in his element. He spoke up first and said;
"I'm Aaron Slater. This is Blake DaVira and Evangeline Brooke. We all just graduated Hogwarts."
"Okay, well I don't know if you know, but I'm La-"
"Lacerta Lestrange? Oh yes. We all know you." he said creepily.
"I should remember you guys really - I know you were Slytherin prefect, Evangeline along with Paley - he's already a Death Eater." I stated, before turning back to the rest of the group.
"Right then - Aoife you can go with Evangeline - you look like a good fighter, don't let me down - and Blake and Aaron together, 'k?"
"Who's your pair?" asked Blake snootily.
"Oh... I don't need one." I said ominously.
"If we completely outnumber them, go in threes. If they outnumber us, split up. Do you guys all know the Unforgivables?" I asked the graduates.
Evangeline nodded, as did Aaron, but Blake just gulped and shivered uncontrolably.
"Good - that'll do. Let's go. Lucius, take the front. I'll take the back. Don't get captured and don't lose. Go." I said and Lucius immediately ran ahead with Nott, Crabbe, and Goyle. I stayed back as the three new Death Eaters ran ahead.
I turned to Aoife. "You ready?"
"Ready as I'll ever be.." she stated.
"Come on, I meant what I said - I won't make you kill anyone. Evangeline seems like a nice girl - get to know her and she'll get your back, 'k?"
"And if she doesn't?" Aoife asked quietly.
"Well, then that'll be one less person who's got it - 'cos you know that I got it." I said nudging her with my shoulder.
She nudged me back. "Thanks. I don't know what I'm so worried about..."
"Oh, you should be worried. It's not exactely easy... but I find this sort of stuff exciting - I'm not exactly normal..."
Aoife just looked paler than before. I sighed, and tried to change the conversation.
"So how'd you get so many people on such short notice? I'm impressed." I said and Aoife beamed.
"Well, I went straight to the Dark Lord, and no, I didn't forget to bow. He called all the other Death Eaters to him and he sent us off. OH! That reminds me - he said he might come and help out." Aoife said quickly. I nodded and thought my plan through again.
I looked up as we walked steathily and quickly towards where the others were no doubts waiting for us and saw that the sky was a dark grey - and still no one was around. It was eerily quiet... like I was missing something...
Finally we caught up and me and Lucius led the group into the middle of the street. I couldn't see any of the Order around, so I called out childishly:
"Cooeee! Anybody here!"
Suddenly a flash of light passed me and I blocked it easily.
"Now, now, you'll have to do better than that - I'm not your average thirteen-year-old, see. Come out and play.." I said laughing crazily, my eyes snapping from side-to-side. Aoife and Evangeline were back to back, which I was glad of, and Lucius looked slightly sick, but I ignored him and kept looking around for the Order.
Suddenly, everything exploded. Spells shot inches away from my head, I just ducked out of the way in time. I realised that my long, flowing hair was going to be a problem here, so I morphed it into a ponytail.
I stood up and faced a member of the Order. He had light brown hair with flecks of grey, indicating his age and his dark eyes looked determined. The scars across his cheeks were clearly due to his condition. All in all, I was looking into the face of Remus Lupin - ex-Professor of DADA.
"Hello Professor." I mocked, and slashed my wand through the air.
"Evening, Lacerta. How's mum?" he mocked, his teeth gritted. I let out a small shriek of outrage, and shot spell after spell at him, but he blocked easily.
I looked carefully at his face, and saw how tired he looked, then looked up at the sky and saw that the moon was almost full - in a couple of days he would transform. I looked straight into his eyes as we shot spell-after-spell at eachother, deflecting and attacking like a strange dance. His eyes flashed to his left when he heard a gasp of pain, and mine followed to see that my 'dear' cousin Nymphadora had been temporarily knocked off guard.
I smirked to myself, taking this temporary lapse of guard as my chance, and performed the same non-verbal spell I had before to Lara - and a werewolves howl sounded from behind Lupin. His eyes darkened and he turned in fear, whispering:
"Fenrir Greyback?", in complete fear - I guessed that greyback had bit him. I stunned him easily and was walking towards him, and was about to kill the stupid werewolf when a spell caught me off guard from the side, cutting a deep wound into my left arm.
I let out a strangled shriek of shock and my head snapped up, looking for the source of this attack. I saw Mad-Eye Moody glaring at me, about to fire another spell at me.
"You'll regret that, oldy." I snarled and fired a spell at him. He blocked it easily, so I fired another. And another. In fact I fired at least twenty spells at him all in a row, and he managed to deflect most of them, but one cut past and he got a large deep wound in his arm.
"An eye for an eye, as they say." I smirked and he growled at me. I had injured his wand arm, where as I was ambidextrus and could fight with both hands. Sadly, it seemed that he was extremely talented at wandless magic, and kept attacking me.
We continued to duel until I heard a crack from behind me and a sharp nasal voice cut the air saying:
"I'll take this from here, Lacerta."
I immediately backed out of the way of the Dark Lord as he fired a spell at the resilient Mad-Eye. I looked around and saw that Aoife was lying on the ground, stunned, so I revived her with a wave of my wand, who immediately ran over to help an injured Blake.
Then I had a sudden brainwave - if Aoife was lying on the floor then where was Evangeline...
I looked round and saw the girl in question struggling to battle both Tonks and a revived Lupin. I sprinted to her aid, blocking a spell that she hadn't seen.
"Well hello there, Nymphy - how are we?" I asked as I twirled in mid-air to avoid a particularly nasty-looking spell that had appeared from Lupin's wand.
Tonks just grunted, and I managed to hit her with:
"Flipendo!", which I had shrieked in my anger, and she flipped in mid-air and landed at a funny angle on the floor a few metres away.
"Nice one!" Evangeline said and blocked a spell from Lupin as I said:
"Sectumsempra!"
He fell to the ground bleeding and I grinned turning to Evangeline.
"Very nice defense." I said, and she beamed.
I turned back to the fight and saw that Dumbledore had arrived and was fighting the Dark Lord. All the other duels had slowed down in comparison to this one - everyone wanted to see the outcome. I saw Lucius battling Emmeline and Crabbe and Goyle on Lara. Aoife was mending wounds, which reminded me to heal my own.
I tapped it and said: "Vulnera Sanentur.", the wound healing easily.
I then noticed Kingsley Shaklebolt was edging ever closer to Aoife, as if about to spring to attack.
"Aoife - watch out!" I screeched and at the use of the name, the injured Tonks' head sprung up. I ran towards Shaklebolt and sent curse after curse at him.
"Haven't you ever heard it's cowardly to attack someone when their back's turned?" I shouted at him, punctuating every word with a spell. He deflected them with mock ease, though I could tell he was confused.
"Run, Fi!" I screeched as I saw that she was lying on the floor, with a wound in her leg.
I turned to see Evangeline on Lara, Crabbe and Goyle on Lupin, Lucius and Nott on Mad-Eye and Tonks, Aaron and Blake on Emmeline - no one could heal Aoife.
"I'll have to do it myself." I said, gritting my teeth.
Shaklebolt shot a spell at me and I pretended to get knocked back by it. He stopped firing, and I took my chance - firing the Confundus Charm at him. He appeared to have been hit, so I ran towards Aoife, screeching:
"Vulnera Sanentur!", on my way, before I felt a serious pain my back. I turned to see a perfectly well Shaklebolt looking grimly at me.
I then heard a yell as the Dark Lord apparated in anger, and Dumbledore turned to me. I heard Aoife snap her fingers from behind me and I felt my back heal. I turned to thank her when I heard Dumbledore's voice boom:
"You shouldn't have come here tonday, Lacerta."
I turned back to face him and smirked.
"What makes you so sure of that, Dumbly? It's a free country - I was just out innocently buying some potions ingredients when Low and Vance over there attacked me and my dear friend Aoife O'Hara, over there - who's apparently a medical genious." I said smiling back at her.
"Aoife?" came the hoarse voice of Tonks.
Aoife looked pleadingly at Tonks, willing her to not believe what she knew I was just about to say:
"Yeah - me and her are bigs pals - ent that right Fifi? When her family died - you and your shoulder just weren't there to be cried on, and guess who's was - mine." I smiled cruelly, then added salt to the wound by saying:
"Really Tonks - you'd think that your mother would have been able to teach you something right - like how not to fail a friend in need. Because that's what you did, Nymphadora."
She then screamed, "Don't you dare insult my mother!" and lashed out, firing curse after curse at me, which I easily deflected. Vance, Lupin and Low all had to hold her back to prevent her from attacking me.
I just laughed easily, even sparing a yawn and pretending to find a sudden interest in my fingernails. It wasn't until she screeched:
"You stupid cow, Lacerta! What have you done to Aoife?!", that I pretended to remember where I was.
"You still here? And look you have to be held back - tut, tut, tut, you're clearly insane. Must be that dirty blood from your father.." I said and several things happened simultaniously.
Firstly, Lara, Vance and Lupin all let go of Tonks at the same time. At the same time, Aoife pulled my by the ankles out of harms way. Dumbledore also fired a huge shield between us.
But just a split second later, Blake DaVira did the stupidest thing he could have possibly done in such a situation. He went over and stunned Dumbledore - causing the shield to collapse and Tonks to continue her run towards me.
"Oh sweet Merlin, what am I going to do with that boy..." I muttered as all hell broke loose....