Compos Mentis

Neros Exla

"Draco, what are you do-"

Before I could even think the next thing I knew he had his hand wrapped around my neck and slowly lifted me into the air. He pins me onto the bookshelf behind me making sure I don't go anywhere.

"D-DRACO! WHA- LET, ME G-GO!"

I thrash my legs side to side trying to break free, I use my small weak hands to punch on his arm that he had me held by. but to no avail, I had no power to him. I try reaching to either of my sides to grab something to use it as a weapon of some sort but my arms fall short of grabbing anything.

I looked right into Draco's eyes and I don't see Draco anymore. His eyes are a pure vermillion with yellow specks mixed in them. He has a crooked smile on his face that looks stretched beyond belief. His K-9's look longer and barbed, almost like some kind of wild creature.

This is not the Draco I know.

I glance down at his other hand and he starts up a cackling onyx fire and gradually brings it closer and closer to my face, while simultaneously heating up the other one that has me in its clutches.

The fire feels sweltering on my neck, charring off my skin by the second he continues to heat it up. The air smells like scorching flesh and cooked blood. The smell of my own flesh burning off is unbearable, I can't do anything but wail in pain.

"AAAGHHHHH S-STOP!! L-LET G-GO!!"

This is it.

I'm dead.

I'm going to die.

This is how I die.

My hair is slowly catching on fire and I feel the blistering heat on my face. My vision starts to darken as I lose oxygen from my trachea being crushed. Was once trying to break free of his clutches I slowly start to lose the energy in me that I once had. My legs start to go limp and so does my drive to live.

Please...please...I can't go like this...please...

Aphrodite, Artemis, Harmonia, Hestia..

For the love of fuck, someone save me...

As I start to think all hope is lost, I can sense my familiar making his way into my study, he doesn't seem to be pleased one bit. I can't see what going on in the room but I can only make out Pepper flying around 'Draco's' head distracting him from his task of killing me off. Pepper lands a good jab into 'Draco's' eye and he ends up dropping me onto the ground. I quickly snuff the fire out of my hair and hold onto my branded neck. Books on the shelves fall on top of me as 'Draco' fires charcoal colored fireballs around the study.

This wouldn't be the first time this place is on fire.

"Thanks, Pepper..."

I struggle to get back on my feet without falling over, I grab one of my crystals that has fallen from the book self and start carving another sigil into my right hand. The pain is nothing to me anymore, when my trachea is falling out of my neck.

I limp my way over to Draco and clasp my hand around his neck. With what little aura and energy I have and direct it into Draco.

"IGNI FERROUE!!!"

A beam of blinding white light stabs right through Draco's body sending his soaring across the room into another bookshelf. Books fall on top of him and I hear faint coughing and hacking from under the pile of heavy textbooks and novels.

He raises his body slowly and hacks up a black and blood mixture into his hands and glances up at me with immense eyes and tries to get up to reach me. Before he can even get five inches within me I take my hand and ran it right across his face with a loud smack.

"WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR DAMN PROBLEM?! Y-YOU A-ALMOST KILLED ME! D-DRACO! Y-YOU...TRIED TO K-KILL ME!"

~END OF NEROS EXLA~