The Savior

38. Victoria and the room of requirement

September passed in the blink of an eye and October wasn't slowing down either. Fifth years were about to start receiving their soulmate letters and most sixth years could be seen cuddled up in their own pairings. Victoria and her boys were no exception to that. Most of their days consisted of sitting in silence studying. Ever since the dream and her small tour she had become quiet leaving the three boys nervous. She was still writing music and sending off small random demos for her dad. Her grades were great.

Mentally Victoria was a wreck though. She barely ate anymore. Sleep was a terrifying task, and she couldn't get out of her head. The dream seemed to strike a certain level of fear into her. That was why instead of meeting with any of her boys or her friends she sat in the room of requirement again. She seemed to be there almost every night since school started. It was one of the few places she could let her mind run wild without real consequences. 

As she stepped through the doors of the room it was small and dim. The room could turn into anything with enough focus, but she didn't need to exploit the rooms magical abilities she needed to test her own. That's exactly why she requested the small dark room. The dim lights showed nothing much outside of a small couch in the center of the room. 

She took a seat on the small grey couch as she looked around seeing nothing but darkness. She quickly closed her eyes bringing herself back into a state of calmness before opening her eyes again. The room was quiet, and it still looked the same which was good. She didn't want it to change yet. As she stared into the darkness surrounding her, she gripped her wand as she started to imagine Tom Riddle and his death eaters. The room shifted and all of a sudden it was like she was back in her dream except this time she was sitting right at the other end of the table. The best part about shifting is the people you create don't know you exist. Unless you wanted them to, and she wanted to try it, but she was scared of what would happen. 

The conversation between Regulus and Voldemort played out again for the hundredth time as she sat and watched. After she had been angered enough the room shifted again. She was no longer sitting in Malfoy manner. She was now standing in the woods behind her house. It was the same woods Remus and her would play in as kids until they came to Hogwarts. She grabbed a handful of dirt feeling it run through her fingers as she started to walk between the trees. She could hear the running water of a river nearby and was walking toward it as she was mentally trying to prepare herself. She knew the next image she displayed would require her to react and she had been building up to this for weeks. Taking one last deep breath before rinsing her hand in the lake she had approached she turned around now face to face with a death eater. 

The room was no longer wooded and glowing with the moon and stars. It was dark and dusty and cold. The death eater was tall as he towered over her with its half skull like mask hiding his identity. Before she could even think the death eater shot a spell at her knocking her to the ground flat on her back. She coughed trying to catch her breath as she heard his boots start to creep toward her. Gripping her wand, she swung around bringing herself into a crouched position shooting a spell at him before she stood up. As the death eater stumbled, she started to run. She didn't know where she was going. She was just running into nothing but pitch-black darkness, but she didn't have time to think as she heard him gaining on her. 

Deciding she needed to use this stupid shifting to her advantage she turned around freezing him temporarily, but she knew it wouldn't hold long. She closed her eyes imaging the woods again when she felt a slicing pain on her stomach. 

Her eyes popped open as she groaned in pain seeing the death eater stomp toward her. She breathed a sigh of relief to see all the trees and the faint sound of howling in the distance though. She looked around the clearing seeing the death eater look around for the sound that had just been rattled off before looking back at her. She tucked her wand back into her pocket and raised her hands in surrender. Kneeling down as he started to approach her.

 The sound of running got closer as the death eater walked cautiously. She watched behind him as multiple animals approached. A stag, dog, and wolf all emerged from the tree line creeping up on the death eater causing her to smile. It wasn't actually James, Remus and Sirius but in her mind it basically was. When the death eater turned to look behind him Victoria shot up from her kneeling position kicking him in the back forcing him to stumble forward into the animals. Without a thought for the three animals hoping they'd be smart enough to move she raised her hand picking up a large boulder. She swung it in the air gaining momentum. The death eater started to stand up again when she swung it one last time into him crashing him into a large tree. Once all movement had stopped, she approached the death eater to find him lying there perfectly still between the boulder and tree. She checked his breathing before calling it examining his crushed body and blood pooling on the ground beneath him. 

Unfortunately, not all of the blood on the ground was the death eaters as a shooting pain shot through her stomach. It was the same injury from before when the death eater sliced her stomach open. Her shirt was covered in blood as she touched it causing her to hiss in pain. The amount of blood pouring out of her unhealthy as the edges of her vision got fuzzy and the world blacked out.