Dark Sister

Chapter 13 When Innocence Die's

Before leaving the train station Eden ducked into the ladies bathroom and changed into her Niagara school robes. She then shrunk her trunk and used the floo network to get to Borgin and Burks in Nocturne Alley. The shop keeper looked up as she walked from the floo. "Greetings, Dark Princess. May I be of assistance to you this afternoon," he asked with a greedy glint in his eyes?

"Do you have the item that the Dark Lord ordered," she asked as she dusted the soot from her robes?

"Yes, My Lady," answered Burk as he handed her the velvet covered box.

Eden opened the box to ensure that its contents were indeed what her father had ordered before paying the shop keeper. "You have done well, Burk, The Dark Lord will be most pleased with you this day," she said as Burk rushed and held the door open for her.

"I live only to serve My Lady," said Burk as he bowed.

Eden left quickly through the Leaky Cauldron and ducked around a deserted corner to teleport herself to her father without being seen. She arrived at the front door of the little cottage to see two death eaters standing guard. On seeing her they drew their wands threateningly.

"You idiots must be new. Because nobody threatens the Dark Princess without facing the consequences," she said as she revealed her tattoo to them. "My father will hear of this insult," she said as she glided passed them and into the house. She handed her trunk to her personal house elf and walked to the dining room where her father and the other death eaters were meeting.

She cringed in fear as her normally soft spoken father raised his voice angrily at his death eaters. Voldemort was enraged. He had only a few students to act as spies on Dumbledore and recruiting numbers were in his opinion too low. On seeing his daughter standing amongst his followers he calmed down and beckoned her forward.

"Something displeases you my dear princess," he whispered softly as he wrapped her in his embrace? Eden tucked her hand into the pocket of her robes and handed her father the velvet covered box, before she leant forward and whispered into his ear. "Is that so," he asked softly as he listened to Eden's complaint about the two death eaters at the door?

"Wilks, Avery, You two go and take the place of the door guards. Tell them that I require their presence at once," he ordered. The two death eaters bowed and left the room quickly. "Would you like to take part in their punishment, my Princess," he asked softly as the two offending death eaters entered the room and took the empty spaces in the circle?

"Am I permitted, to do so, My Lord," asked Eden with a hopeful expression on her face?

"You are," said Voldemort as he walked around the circle with his daughter by his side. "It has come to my attention that someone in my ranks has deeply offended my Dark Princess. The two persons responsible will step forward now," he said as he and Eden walked to the center of the circle. The two offending death eaters didn't move from their places.

"Princess, it would appear that the two whom have offended you are cowards. What color represents a coward," asked Voldemort serenely? Eden drew her wand and gave it a gentle flick changing the color of the two offending death eater's robes from black to bright sunny yellow. The other death eaters pushed the two yellow clad wizards into the center of the circle roughly.

"Do you remember what I taught you my dear," cooed Voldemort softly into his daughter's ear?

Eden nodded and narrowed her eyes in concentration. "Perhaps this will teach you some manners, Crucio," she said as she pointed her wand at the offending wizards. Both wizards writhed and screamed in pain. They had never known that such a young girl was capable of cursing two victims at once.