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We stand back to back, staring down at the wizards and witches staring at us.
"I WANT MY MONEY!!" The same woman who had kidnapped us screeches.
A woman steps forward, blonde hair willowing behind her. She gives us a smirk walking towards us, in freaking three-inch heels. The woman from my compass. My heart skips a beat. That was the woman my compass had shown me.
"So, you are the two brats who kidnapped my daughter."
We look at her industriously. I was gaping at the woman.
"You willingly allowed Grindelwald to knock you up?" Tom huffs out, unimpressed. He crosses his hands and raises a brow in her direction.
"You dare talk TO ME LIKE THAT YOU IMPRUDENT CHILD!!" She screeches, making me turn around.
"Don't be so flattered. He talks to everyone like that. You are no one special." I scoff at her.
"I am going to so enjoy torturing you two to insanity." She cackles, after giving us a hateful look.
"Your daughter is doing so much better without you anyway." I snarl, making Tom shoot me a look.
"Two thousand galleons as promised." The blonde woman smiles.
As a unit, all the people who'd kidnapped us rush forward to take the money.
I didn't expect them to all end up dead.
In synchronized fashion, wizards and witches standing on the floor above us shoot out the same spell, "AVADA KEDAVRA!!"
Tom and I find ourselves rushing backwards in surprise. An outraged look appears on my face as the blonde woman struts forwards, heels clicking on the floor. She wore a satisfied smirk on her lips, and I find myself wearing one of anger.
"Oops..." She giggles, swinging the bag filled to the brim with gold.
It was official.
I hated this bitch.
"I WAS SUPPOSED TO KILL THEM!!!" Tom rages, making me glare at him.
"Wow. Well done, Riddle. Very SUBTLE!!" I smack his shoulder. "AND I thought we agreed on torturing them!!" I demand in outrange.
"I agreed to nothing of the sort!!" Tom snarls and unsheathes his wand from his sleeve.
"I THOUGHT WE HAD A PLAN!!!" I shout, and then I see a spell coming towards me. I deflect it with a dismissing wave of my hand.
"Do you freaking mind!? We're having a crisis here!" I snarl at the blonde woman who was blinking at me in surprise. "Ouuuu!!!" I jump up and down in excitement. "Not so smug now are we," I grin at Ariana's birth mom.
"And that's extremely subtle." Tom drawls pointing to me and blondie.
"You had a plan. It was terrible. I changed it!" Tom snarls, making me curl my lip at him in disgust.
"Well, what's your plan!??" I hiss at him, making him shrug. He eyes the wizards around us in mirth.
"We fight our way out, Dumbledore. Honestly, woman." He gives me a look that said he was done with my dramatics.
"ENOUGH! I am calling Grindelwald. He will deal with you two!!" The woman snarls, moving to walk away.
Without moving, I keep her in place with a thought.
She looks back with a surprised look on her face.
"OH, honey!! You think you're getting out of this without a fight!! After what you've done to these people. I think not." I laugh out. My laugh was cold... hard... I thanked Tom for making me more intimidating by association.
Spells instantly are shot from above, but channelling Abaddon, I send them hurling back at the senders by pushing out my hands.
Screams.
Loud and terrifying.
My eyes were even more frightening.
Tom steps up to meet my side, and then the battle begins.
We're a force to be reckoned with. Wizards and Witches alike were being shot down quicker than flies.
We parried and moved like we have our moves choreographed.... not like we'd been screaming at each other two seconds before.
Every spell Tom sent out, I sent out one out too. Tom moved forward, and I moved back, defending his blind spots. Tom did the same to me.
The blondie was staring at us in shock, watching the whole thing.
I stare at her for a second, allowing Abaddon to come forward just for that split second.
I couldn't help but smirk when she lets out a scream of pure terror.
"Reducto!" I scream, allowing cage doors to explode above me. "On my mark, jump," I order Tom, and he only has to stare at my face to give me a curt nod.
"NOW!" I shout, waving my wand around above my head and then spinning to slam my wand down on the floor. Rows and rows of clawed chains burst out from my wand, erupting around me in circles. They followed after the wizard/witch until it had captured them wrapping itself around the poor person. The spikes pierced through skin, and I smirk, stepping back in satisfaction seeing the wizards who had hurt so many now feeling the same pain.
Those spikes held remnants of an exceedingly painful poison on them. Not lethal but excruciatingly painful.
Tom stares at my wand in awe. "Add that to the list of spells you're teaching me, Dumble." He points at me, and I step up to give his cheek a fond tap.
"Of course." I grin up at him and then we move our hands up at the same time, heads whirling around.
Our spells hit the man who'd dared try to attack us, in sync. He flies away with a shout of surprise. We whirl back to stare at each other, smirking.
I look up, and I see a boy staring at me. I would recognize those eyes and features anywhere. Greta's brother stared at Tom and I in barely concealed awe.
"Reducto!!" I scream, and the cage holding Greta's brother blasts open. He eyes me with respect. I give him a nod in return, before spinning around and sending a powerful spell at a wizard sneaking up on Tom.
The screams echo through the underground torture chamber.
Blondie was running away.
I scoff and send a spell at her, eyes blazing in anger. "Locomotor Mortis." I snarl.
Her legs are instantly locked together. She starts hopping around like a bunny rabbit.
I start laughing.
Whipping my hand up, I drag her along the floor. She screeches out profanities, making me giggle in glee. "Hey, bitch!! Get ready!! This spell is dedicated to you!!" I squeal in glee, bringing her up and hanging her up on the edge of one of the balconies by her hood.
"What are you going to do, you devil!?" She shrieks and then I look at Tom, who was grinning like a madman. It was getting creepy, actually.
"Stop that!" I hiss at him, and he gives me a look.
"Stop what?" He asks, making me give him a deadpanned look.
"That creepy arse smile."
"My smile is perfection."
"Unlike your arse."
"What?!"
"What?" I grin at him innocently, making him glare at me.
"Want to do the honours?" I ask him, shrugging.
The creepy grin comes again.
"I told you to stop that!!!" I smack him, making the grin drop from his features.
"Let me HAVE MY MOMENT!"
"NO!! YOU ARE FREAKING ME OUT!!"
Tom doesn't answer me next because every cage left overhead, explodes. The wizards and witches trapped, start to cheer. They were crying and leaping out.
Raising my wand, I look at Blondie when I say my next spell, "Accio."
At once, all the wands of the prisoners that had been kept in storage fly towards me. I direct them towards the wizards and witches behind me.
"I'll leave your punishment to the people you've hurt." I give her my own version of Tom's creepy grin.
"Stop that," Tom demands, gesturing to my evil grin
"WHY! You do it!" I snap.
"I excel the look.... you, however, look constipated."
"I do NOT!! Take that back!" I hit his arm,
The people behind me are more than happy to step up and deal her their very own punishments. Blondie's screams echoed through the arena. They were tormented, and I didn't think I'd ever forget them. It was a primal scream.... one someone would use when they were in anguish.
A guy walks up to us, and I look at him kindly. "Greta Ollivander's brother.... and her mother." I nod to the blonde, tired woman leaning on her son.
"You two saved us." He breaths in awe, and I smile.
"It was no trouble we-"
"I saved nobody. I tortured and killed." Tom barks, making me glare at him.
"I was watching you! You didn't kill anyone." I scoff, making him make his glare even more lethal.
"Ignore him. He doesn't like to interact socially after he's been in a fight." I pat, Tom's shoulder, leaning my chin on it as I stood slightly behind him.
He doesn't move away.
"How do you know my sister?" Greta's brother asks.
"We saved her from being killed and raped three weeks ago." Tom drawls.
Greta's brother looked like he wanted to be sick.
I elbow Tom roughly.
"Yes, Greta's one of my best friends. I'm Valentine Dumbledore, and this is Tom Riddle. We are students at Hogwarts." I nod to the boy.
"So am I." He sighs and then I glance at Greta's mum.
She looked seconds from death. Greta's brother must've seen it too because he looks at us, tears in his eyes. "I don't know healing spells. Please help my mum. You guys looked invincible... Please." He begs us, and Tom looked ready to smack someone's head into a wall.
Not his, of course. That would ruin his perfect face.
"Wow, you even think like the boy now? Just marry him and be done with this drama." Abaddon scoffs from my head, making me internally glare at my demon.
"Dumbledore I swear if you even think of-"
I give him a look.
"I despise you. Did you know that?" Tom snarls at me.
"I'm aware." I roll my eyes and hold out my wand. "Place her on the ground. We'll try our best." I state, and Tom glares at me.
I enter his mind through Legilimency.
Come on!! We can try the Necromancy again!!! I was literally squealing.
"Get out of my head." Tom snarls, raising his wand at my neck.
"Well?" I ask, and his mouth turns up like he ate something sour.
"Fine."
His answer has me smiling.
We both raise our wands.
How exactly did we do Necromancy before?
"Dumbledore, I will wring your neck here and now!" Tom marches towards me, fulling intending to uphold his promise.
Ms. Ollivander starts choking up blood.