1. Dark Mark | Third Task (Fourth Year)
"Stay here?" Cayden asked, looking up at Cedric who is panting.
Cedric looks at Cayden, nodding after a minute of hesitation, giving the invisibility ring back to Cayden who took it and slid it in his right fourth finger. "I'll see you soon, right?" He asked, gulping as he placed his hand on Cayden's shoulder.
Cayden nodded, smiling up at Cedric. "Of course." He said. "You stay here and take care of my brother and Viktor."
Cedric nodded. "I will, you be careful."
"I'll try." Cayden said, and walked towards the cup. He takes the cup by the handle and the ground beneath his feet lurches, the sky shudders, spinning independent of the earth.
A wind rises in a howl and Cayden squints, everything becoming a blur, until he lands heavily in a misty graveyard. The cup flies free from his hand, skittering over the chill ground as the sky rotates slowly to a stop.
Cayden peers through the mist and sees a distant hill, an old Manor and a Gardener's Cottage. Shit, He thought as he stood up, looking at the large stone cauldron several yards away from him. Cayden starts to approach the cauldron, but stands at the headstone with the name 'Tom Riddle'.
Cayden stood, and he suddenly dropped to his knees, groaning from the pain he felt in his right arm. He raised his head and looked at the figure approaching him through the tombstones. The figure looks familiar to him, and when the figure emerges from the mist, he sees that it is Peter Pettigrew with a bundle in his arms.
The bundle stirs in his arms, and Pettigrew jerks Cayden off of his knees and tosses the boy against the statuary fronting of Tom Riddle's headstone.
Stones arms hold over Cayden's body, imprisoning him as the cauldron crackles hungrily. And everything plays out from there. Pettigrew doing a ritual to bring Voldemort back. Voldemort rising up from the cauldron. Voldemort summoning the Death Eaters using the Dark Mark on Pettigrew's arm. Voldemort making some big speech to the Death Eaters before Voldemort turns to Cayden, who had watched through the whole thing with silence.
"Cayden. I'd almost forgotten you were here. I'd introduce you, but word has it you're almost as famous as me these days." Voldemort said. He does another speech about the day he died, about when Lily Potter gave her life away to protect her boys. He stood before Cayden, eyes glittering with fascination as he studied him, his voice a mere whisper. "It was old magic. Something I should have foreseen. But no matter. Things have changed..." He presses the tip of his twin white finger to Cayden's forehead, but Cayden didn't react, filling the Dark Lord with confusion.
Though, back at Hogwarts, Harry gasps in pain, touching his scar.
Voldemort pulls his finger away, red eyes moving to Cayden's forehead that is covered by his hair. He moves the boy's hair out of the way and doesn't see the scar he was expecting to see. "Interesting..." He muttered and pulled back, examining Cayden intently. He suddenly grins, suddenly glee with an idea of what he could do to Cayden.
Voldemort suddenly moves back to stand in front of Cayden, looking into the boy's blue eyes that shows fear at the closeness. "What do you think of becoming a Death Eater, Cayden?" He asked, and Cayden's eyes widened.
"I would never become a Death Eater." Cayden said through his gritted teeth.
"Unfortunately, you won't have a choice." Voldemort said, and pointed his wand on Cayden's forehead, right where the scar should be. "Mentis Regula." He muttered, and grinned when Cayden screamed in agony under his wand. He takes hold of Cayden's left arm and does another spell that he had used to mark the Death Eaters. "Mors Ignis." He said, and observed with satisfaction as the Dark Mark materialized on Cayden's inner left forearm.
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Hufflepuff boy - Cedric Diggory x male oc x Viktor Krum
FanfictionStarted: April 5, 2024 Finished: July 4, 2024 Status: Finished Rewrite: October 13, 2024 Words: 126,459 [Eternal Soul series book 4 of 4] [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2]