~~~~~~~~~~Matt's POV🦁~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat on a patch on grass, about a metre away from the ruins of my home. The emergency wizards and healers were gone. My family was trying to salvage their possessions from the wreckage but I had more important things do to. Spread out infrount of me were all of Lilys maps, I had no idea what they meant. To me it just looked like colourful shapes with lines and squiggles. I needed Lily to show me how to use them. Then, just like a miracle, Harry's car pulled up and parked on what was left of the frount lawn. The drivers door opened and Harry stepped out, then the passengers door opened and Lily stepped out. It was Lily, her red hair flowing about in the gentle breeze and her eyes green and glistening with happiness. I jumped up, disturbing the maps, and ran over to my cousin. As soon as I could reach her I hugged her.
"Oh Merlin! Lily I'm so happy you're alive!" I yelled.
"Yes...Matt...please let go...you're chocking me." She gasped.
"Right, sorry."
I let go and she hugged me back.
"You remember me?" I asked.
"Yeah, of course. All it took was some Weasly magic."
Lily smiled and lightly punched my arm.
"Oh, before I forget," I said, "i've got your maps and I have no clue how to use them."
She smiled wider.
"I've been looking for them. They might just tell us where Stryker is."
I lead Lily over to the maps and Harry went to talk to some of my family.
Lily sorted through the maps for a while, her eyes narrowed and she pushed her hair out if her face. She eventually found the one she was looking for and carefully traced her fingers over every line and mark on it. By now the sun was starting to set again. All the red heads had apprated somewhere else and only Harry Lily and me were left. I took out my wand and created some light for Lily to read by. As the stars finished coming out Lily spoke.
"No! This isn't good! We have to hurry!" She yelled, jumping up and running to the car.
Harry and I didn't question her, we just ran after her and got into the car.
"Malfoy Manner, quickly!" Lily yelled.
Harry stepped on the gas and the car shot off towards Malfoy Mannor.
~~~~~~~~~3rd Person POV~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the Potters residence Sai wondered where her best friend was. Sai had finished unpacking and was nervously figiting with her wand. She was thinking about how far Malfoy Mannor was and if she could walk it. In the end she decided to apperate to the street next to it and just walk the rest of the way. She packed a bag with medical things, both muggle and magical. She stood up and with a whip crack she was gone
From Malfoy Mannor Tash wondered were her sister was. Tash had gone through almost every room and haven't run into her yet, but she did run into Draco. She almost killed him before uncle Ron came in and pleaded his innocence. Tash decided to check the front lawn and saw that her father's car was gone.
"Brilliant, just brilliant. How much time did I waste?"
She sighed and decided to sit on the lawn until she saw the car come back. But before she saw the car she saw Sai.
And from somewhere deep underground Stryker wondered were Lily was. He could only just breathe. He had almost run out of oxygen and was going to choke on his own Carbon dioxide.
'Hurry Lily.' He thought.
Meanwhile Harry's car swerved onto the front lawn on Malfoy Mannor. It ended up spralled in a possion that even Tash would find hard to pull off. Speaking of Tash, she was not happy. Sai waited at the front door, her bag clutched under her arm. And Tash stormed up to the car, her face scarlet. She marched up to the passengers door and pulled it open. Her sister just ducked past her and ran to the door yelling over her shoulder that she could tell at her later. Tash marched up to the drivers side instead, her dad was still sitting behind the wheel.
"Tashaaaaaa... so nice to see you! You're back early," He said.
She put her hands on her hips.
"Don't you Tasha me! I want an explanation...and I want it now!" She demanded.
'Why am I the only man in a family full of girls that are too much like their mother?' Harry thought, before speaking. He gave her a full explanation, not leaving anything out.
"She's too much like you and mum," Tash said.
Harry raised an eyebrow.
"And you're not?"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Lilys POV🐍~~~~~~~~~~~
I just managed to dodge my sister, she was awesome but I didn't have any time for her overprotectiveness right now. I noticed Sai running after me as I reached the door, I pretended not to notice. I had no time to say anything. She followed me through all the secret tunnels and rooms until I came to the place I was certain that this was the place where Lucius kept Stryker.
I was standing in a small room that was connected to a series of tunnels. I stood at the North wall. I took three steps forward, five left, eight right and one more forward. I was standing in the middle of a huge rug that covered the floor.
"Evanesco," I muttered, pointing my wand at the rug.
It vanished but I saw nothing below it.
"Revelio," I muttered, pointing the wand at my feet.
A small trap door appeared under me but it was sealed with some sort of enchantment, which also made it air tight.
I started to panic, I didn't know any defence against object charms. I missed that lesson. I wish Tash was here, she'd know what to do, she majored in Charms. I looked at Sai. She shook her head sadily. She knew everything there was to know about potions and healing but nothing about charms on objects.
So I ran back through the tunnels and eventually came to the front room. I found my sister and grabbed her wrist.
"Hold on, what do you think you're doing? You can't just ignore me and then..." She started saying before I inturrupteded her.
"Tash, I love you and I'll listen to everything to have to say but right now I need you're help, please?"
For a minute she was stunned. My eyes were watering and I think I was starting to cry. My sister nodded. I ran back to the room and pointed to the trap door. Tash nodded and put on her glasses, sliding them up and down her nose, the way she did when she was thinking.
"Humm, this is going to be hard but I think I can do it."
She sat down and muttered some words at the trapdoor, every now and then her wand let out sparks.
After what seemed like hours and she stood aside and curtsied.
I pulled the handle up and saw Stryker. He was covered in sweat and limp and cold. I pulled his body out of the small ditch, he was covered with scars, burns and bruises. I was about to fall on his chest and start crying when Sai basically picked me up and shoved me out of the way.
"Oh no you don't! You've given me and my friends too much drama and stress to die now Mr Malfoy," she hissed as she leant over his body and opened her bag.
I couldn't watch so I ran out of the room and kept running until I reached the back yard. Then I ran into the forest behind the house.
"Curico!" I could bearley hear Lucius yell.
I fell onto the ground, thrashing about in pain. I heard something snap and felt something push into my body. My body was still weak from the surgery and being dead. So this is were the story started.
I looked around me, trying to find the attacker but I saw nothing but trees and black. I blinked but nothing changed. My eyes stung and blood was dripping down my arm. Merlin, how did I end up here? A moan escaped my lips as I rolled onto my side so I could inspect the wound. It was worse then I thought. I knew that I wouldn't last long. I was probity going to die soon. My wand was broken in pieces, lying just out of reach. I moaned agian and lay on my back, looking up at the stars once last time. I smiled. I had cheated death so many times, it seemed like I had lost. At least I got to see my family one last time. And now I could be with Stryker forever, how's that for Romeo and Juliet.
