The Savior

45. Tragedies of War

"NOOO!" Victoria screeched as she watched Professor Moore falling in front of her. His body limp as he hit the ground. Her eyes stung with tears as she looked down at him and back up to Renee who stood in front of her with irritation and anger painting her features.

In an instant the space around them shifted. Confusion turning to fury burning through Victoria's body as the wind picked up around them. She couldn't believe her eyes. The girl who shared her snacks on the train. The one who defended her daily against others harsh words. The girl she shared some of her darkest secrets with now stood before her with hatred pouring out of her.

Where had everything gone wrong? When did Renee change? Or had she always been this way? Was there always a sort of resentment she never noticed? It didn't matter because now she saw the girl no longer a friend but a murderer. Renee wasn't the bustling brunette with the charming smile and can do attitude. She was someone darker and Victoria couldn't let her continue like this.

And as the wind whipped around them faster and faster the trees and buildings blurring in smearing colors the ground shook. Victoria watched as the ground melted into something soft and sticky. The sight of a green spell making its way toward her again before she dodged it the wind finally ripping Renee's wand from her hand. Her lips disappearing muffling the screams as the sludge of earth sfarted crawling up her body keeping her from moving. She wouldn't allow the earth to keep her atleast not yet.

"I want you to watch as I kill him. I will turn him to dust and watch him return to the earth. And then after watching everything you believe in melt away I will watch as the earth swallows you whole and kills you slowly." Victoria gritted through her teeth her face stone cold with barely contained rage. The wind slowing as she stepped away. Voldemort couldn't be far and she was ready to finish this.

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James was racing time it felt like. He had lost sight of Victoria and it felt like he couldn't breathe. Everyone was fighting paired off protecting one another but she had strayed off on her own and he didn't like that.

So James ran. He ran and ran and ran until suddenly the air had been knocked from his lungs. Victoria had stood with her back turned to him Voldemort across from them. The pale distorted cold man glanced at him briefly a shiver running down his spine at the act.

"Vic..". James called out concern evident in his voice.

"James.." Victoria sighed somewhat in relief but fear still evident in the way her shoulders tensed. "Go to the others. I don't want you to see me like this." She whispered giving him a small pleading glance over her shoulder at him.

"No please.."

"Please"

James just nodded and ran. He ran faster than his legs could carry him in search for Sirius and Remus. What he hadn't expected upon his return retrieving his friends was a black wall.

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"How romantic to send off your lover and spare him the pain." Voldemort spoke an air of confidence and humor surrounding him as he looked her up and down. The fight had gone on long enough. Her face bloodied and bruised. A large gash decorated her eyebrow blood falling in to her eye undoubtedly.

"It's not romance it's mercy. I've accepted my death as long as it results in yours as well." Victoria spoke calmly. She hated to admit she felt a tiny bit of fear. She had tried not to use her ability but too many death eaters had involved themselves in protecting their dark lord. This had to be one on one.

"I can't die my dear" his whispered with a smirk. He had been waiting to see her abilities in person hoping to put his research into practice. He felt confident in his chances. After all a child couldn't possibly best him.

"Can't you? I mean even with a horcrux it is only potential immortality not true immortality Tom." She quirked an eyebrow at the man. She saw the way his confidence wavered at her remark. That was all she needed. A slip up to get into his mind.

"Well when you have as many as I do it's almost inevitable. Aft-"

"Have you checked on your horcurxes recently?" She asked cutting him off. A look of corner dancing across his features. Dumbledore was destroying them as they spoke. This small black room though had kept him from noticing.

"Tell me Tom." She smiled as the room shifted to the small orphanage bedroom he had as a child. "Do you miss it?"

He looked at her confused and irritated.

"I mean do you miss not being so full of hatred? I mean I guess you were always so full of hatred after all your mother was a whore and your father hated you. Not that I could blame him really." She smiled watching the man before her lung his wand at her in rage before she disappeared in thin air.

Tom whipped around in search of her only finding himself now in a room with his younger self hiding in a closet. His father screaming and throwing things in the other room.

"It's interesting knowing you felt fear at some point. I mean we know you could never love due to your mother's use of the love potion but I had naturally assumed it'd be impossible for you to feel anything in that frigid lump you call  a heart." Victoria pranced over next to him his wand turning to ash in his hand. His face panicked as he attempted to school his features. The feeling of tree limbs climbing up his legs forced him to kneel.

"Let's see if you feel fear now." Victoria said mostly to herself as the space disappeared and the gruesome battlefield returned. Her hand gripped his head digging into his skull. He cried out in pain the sound echoing across the grounds. The fighting frozen as they turned to see the dark lord on his knees.

"Let it be known here today in this moment that you Tom Riddle have lost. You will be nothing more than dust and memory at my own mercy. And anyone who dares to pick up your mantle shall face my wrath tenfold." She spoke clearly and quietly yet her words could be heard be every ear connected to a beating heart. Her fingers dug into his skull. The sound of cracking and breaking bone so loud but not louder than the sound of screaming as he his head crumbled as brain matter, skin, and bone slipped between her fingers. His body falling forward as the tree limbs started to climb up his body more. She wasn't done yet though as she made eye contact with Renee not too far from them. The brunette had tears in her eyes as the earth continued to swallow her. Victoria maintained eye contact as she dug her foot into the mess of brain and bone of tom riddles head. Before watching him melt into the ground. Renee slowly being swallowed up entirely shortly after.

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Authors note:

I'm so sorry it took so long to come back to this y'all. My daughter is 9 months old, I graduated with my bachelors and I bought a house. I also have finally found a remote job and will be starting that soon. Life has been incredibly busy but i just felt so guilty for never finishing this. I will be releasing the epilogue either later tonight or tomorrow. Again I'm so sorry it took this long and I hope it didn't disappoint too much.