"Sirius Orion Black you listen here! We are having a family dinner all Black's will be present. I expect you on your best behaviour!"
Screeched Walburga Black.
"Jeez women! Way to wail like a banshee, fineee I'll go tell Reggie now."
Sirius said just to escape the cruel clutches of his mother.
Lyra stood their in the back listening.
Today was the day.
She would show she wasn't meant to be stepped on.
No Lyra Black was greater then everyone in that room and they ought to know it.
She would finally stop dancing in the shadows.
She would take control.
"When are they coming Mother?"
Questioned Lyra, coming out of the shadows.
Walburga jumped a bit, surprised the girl was there.
Walburga would never admit it but she was slightly unnerved by her. She would pop up randomly. She pushed those thoughts away quickly replying to get out of Lyra's presence.
"Any minute now. Go sit in the dinning room."
Lyra nodded and quickly sat in the regal room.
Soon the guests had come.
Her cousins.
The only bearable one was Andromeda.
Narcissa barely gave her the time of day, and Bellatrix simply hated her. For what she knew not. Maybe it was because Lyra was prettier than her. Well Lyra was prettier then them all. She had long wavy silk like black hair, and light silver grey eyes. Her pale complexion was a large contrast between her always rosy cheeks and pink pouted lips. She was gorgeous.
As everyone settled down, Druella had spoken up.
"Lyra dear, still no marriage contract? I mean it was expected, no offence of course." She snarked, the other girls snickered under their breath except for Andy who looked on with pity just like Lyra's brothers. The only reason Lyra didn't have a marriage contract was due to her receiving them before her parents. She didn't want to get married. So she hid them. She wouldn't be like them, waiting on someone for their miserable life till they eventually die.
Lyra looked down in faux shame.
Everyone thought it was due to shame, her parents glaring at her.
That was until her shoulders started shaking with laughter. She laughed in such a cruel manor everyone was on edge.
"W-what?" Questioned a slightly scared Druella Black.
Lyra looked up a shit eating grin on her face, eyes crazed.
"Ahh yes, poor little Lyra Black. Middle child. Average. Gorgeous but no brains. Only a Slytherin because of her heritage... correct? I mean that's what everyone says, do they not?" She questioned laughing madly.
Everyone looked at her as if she was mad.
"Lyra stop this behaviour at once!" Yelled a furious Orion.
"Why father it's true, is it not?"
She questioned sarcastically.
"Oh come on, you truly believed that I was useless? Wow what Slytherin's. Are you sure your from the black family?"
Walburga having enough screeched.
"Sit down now you idiotic girl!"
Lyra laughed madly.
"You hurt me? No, no mother dearest. "
As Walburga sent a curse eerily similar to the cruciatis towards her daughter she blocked it with a wave of her finger lazily shocking everyone.
"Sit down you pathetic excuse of a human being."
Walburga sat down quickly frightened, as much as she was mad she was also a Black. She had a self preservation thing.
"It's quite funny isn't it? Everyone over looked me, because surely Lyra Black couldn't be anything more then a stain on the Black family tree. How wrong you were! I was smart. I was cunning. Me! I was! I stayed in the shadows. I watched. I observed. How do you think Cygnus got on the daily prophet for cheating on Druella? How do you think I have no marriage contracts? How do you think Druella's 'habits' got out? How do you think Orion's mistress passed? Or how Walburga's miscarriage got out? Hmmm... ANSWER ME!?"
Screamed a mad Lyra pacing around the table like a predator to its prey.
At this point everyone was in shock.
Weak little pathetic Lyra.
The girl everyone bullied, teased for being born.
Everyone except for Sirius, Regulus and Andromeda of course.
"Y-you couldn't" Exclaimed a frazzled Bellatrix.
"Oh really? Because I believe I just did. I wasn't stupid. I knew that I would be pawned off to a man as soon as I came of age. I'm to great for that. I'm more black than all of you. I did everything on purpose, so I would be underestimated. So I would be seen as weak. I hid my abilities. I was everything you wanted to be, and I played you all." Cackled Lyra.
At this point no one knew what to do.
Sirius and Regulus sat next to one another with a shit eating grin on their faces . Finally Lyra wouldn't be taken advantage of anymore. They once caught Lyra awake one night speaking with Kreacher. She looked so different. She looked scary. When they listened they were shock, she was mad.
"I sat.
I waited.
I would sit at the pure blood balls. I would wait for someone to fess up their secrets. I mean what could little Lyra Black do? I collected everything that I needed. I RUN YOUR WORLD MORONS AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!! YOUR NOT SPECIAL YOUR JUST CHESS PIECES IN MY GAME!! MINE!"
She screamed before her hair colour changed to a dark red, exposing one of her very cherished secrets.
Lyra Black was a metamorphogis.
She laughed before grabbing the bottle of wine that was sat at the the table popping off the cork and walking back wards out the door in a dramatic version worthy of a true Black. Arms wide open drinking from the bottle laughing madly yelling from the stairs as she finally turned around.
"LITTLE LYRA BLACK, NOT SO LITTLE ANY MORE." Laughing.
That's all they heard when she went up to her room.
Laughing.
"Well, that was certainly interesting."
Exclaimed Sirius breaking the silence before running off to owl James about the new development.
As everyone left Orion and Walburga sat in silence.
"Orion, what did we do?" Walburga's voice cracked...she was quite frankly terrified.
"It was not our fault. We couldn't have known."
"She's mad"
"Yes, I'm afraid she has inherited the infamous Black Family madness."
That night everyone had different things to do.
Narcissa to owl Lucius.
Bellatrix to owl her Lord.
Andromeda to sit and think where everything had gone wrong for little Lyra.
Regulus to feel the burden come off his back, finally she would be safe.
Sirius to spill everything to James.
Walburga to sit and drink her sorrows away.
Cygnus to panic about his past behaviour to Lyra, surely she wouldn't come for him.
Druella to owl the other Black family women.
Orion to call a black family reunion.
And Lyra to bask in the fact that she had everything set up.
The game has just begun.
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FanfictionLyra Black, like many of her predecessors found herself to be under the curse of the Black family madness. She had sat back and been quiet as the years went by but it only takes so much before a lion roars. And Lyra Black was a lion.
