Dragon's Promise

Chapter 43

EDITED

Scorpius' P.O.V

I heard Albus whisper softly, "Long live the queen...," Before stepping forwards, away from the crowd. "What are you doing Al?" I hissed and he shot me a sad look before taking another step and holding his head up high. 

"Stop this Delaney. This isn't you." Albus said and she smirked. "Oh but it is Albus. This is the true me. Powerful. Even if you were to kill me, my mortem angeli would still be loyal and would hunt you down and have you die a very painful death. You see, there's an enchantment on their marks. If one of them does something against me or my army they are immediately turned into a pile of smoking ash. That was the problem with good 'ol Voldy, he didn't enforce loyalty. I will never be truly gone until they are." 

"Expelliarmus!" A voice called. I looked in the direction it came from and froze in shock. It was Aunt Hermione. Delaney's wand flew from her hand and clattered to the floor at my aunt's feet. She made a face of mock surprise before letting out a chuckle. 

"I should have seen it coming. A bit of polyjuice potion and an imperius charm. Very clever." Aunt Hermione's eyes narrowed. Now that Delaney was wandless she could be detained. 

"I know what you're thinking!" She said, singing the last word, "She doesn't have a wand! We can take her into custody and lock her up in Azkaban! Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not going to be taken alive. Sorry..." She mocked. Aunt Hermione's eyes flickered to the dagger strapped to Delaney's calf. 

"Accio dagger." She said calmly, and it slid from it's sheath, grazing Delaney's leg causing a cut to appear. She didn't even wince. 

"Come with us. You have no weapons and no means of killing yourself so hand yourself over." Aunt Hermione commanded. 

"Tsk, Tsk. That's far to easy don't you think? Boring! Oh, look at all you little goldfish swimming around in your tank. Adorable." Delaney chided, speaking like she was talking to a three year old. 

"I have a plan for every scenario and this one is by far the most dramatic." She sang, putting a hand under her trench coat and pulling out a British army L9A1 from a hidden belt. 

Delaney proceeded to open her mouth and place the barrel of the gun on her tongue, lifting it only to remind them, "If I die, you will not rest until every one of my mortem angeli is dead. And there's a whole shit load of them. So? What'll it be? Step down? Or?..." She paused to put the gun back in her mouth, "Thall I thoot myseth?" Her tone was mocking and her eyes glinted dangerously. 

Nobody moved for what felt like ages. Silence fell over the crowd, the only noise was Delaney starting to sing, "Tick thock, tick thock..." Aunt Hermione came to a decision and hesitantly took a step forwards. 

"Come with us."

Delaney lowered the gun for a second, looking disappointed. "Aw come on. You guys are boring! But I guess you made your decision." She made an 'oh well' face and  with a sigh she opened her mouth yet again and shot Aunt Hermione a look, raising one eyebrow, sending a silent challenge.

BANG

Delaney fell to the ground, dead. Blood pooled around her head, eyes wide and unseeing, her mouth frozen in a smirk and the gun still clenched in her right hand. Her large, black, wings were spread out on either side of her, making her look like a true angel. A letter fluttered down onto her chest. Silence. Nobody spoke. I grabbed Albus' hand and together we walked over to her body. Kneeling beside her I picked up the letter. The envelope read: 'To Whom It May Concern' I carefully opened it and unfolded the note.

Whoopsies! Looks like I'm dead! Guess your little plan didn't work after all! Have fun dealing with my warriors! Love ya!

Illumina

I guess she really was mad. I handed the note over to Albus, who read it silently before setting it down beside him. 

"Goodbye Delaney."

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And so it began. Attacks happened everywhere, left and right people were dying. But slowly things began to get better as task forces were trained and Delaney's followers were destroyed. It wasn't going to be an easy time to live in, but at least we didn't have to live in it alone.

Wow! Thank you guys so much for reading!!! Unfortunately this book has come to an end. I appreciate everyone who voted, commented, and actually made it all the way to the end! This was my first ever fan fiction book so to have finished it is amazing!  I love you all so much! Also, I still need a cover so if anyone designs one that's awesome! I will give credit of course, I'm not that rude. I may post a short epilogue, but we'll see. :)

~Orchestral Beats

UPDATE: I started a new Drarry book! It's called 'Thestrals and Thunderbirds' Please please please go read it! Also thanks for 20k! I truly didn't think I'd even finish this book so to have so many reads is amazing!