Of Magic, Fire, Blood and Ice

12

Rage, it was the only emotion she could focus on. Dudley and Draco had gone to Hogwarts but Rayne did not stop, she coaxed Lilyanna to keep on flying. Rayegal too had stopped at Hogwarts to be near Jon but Rayne wanted to be alone. Sitting on top of the dragon, with tear stained face she was the epitome of misery.

The dragon landed on a beach. Rayne sat on the white sand and stared at the waves, all she saw were the faces of her parents, aunt and uncle and the Malfoys. She blamed herself for their death. They became collateral in the war between her and Voldemort. Rayne had expected that her loved ones would be targeted but she had overestimated herself and underestimated the enemy.

Looking at the stars she overcame with the crushing realization that in a matter of hours she had lost half her family, her aunts who were connection to the both sides of her family and her uncles who had helped in guiding her in life. Rayne feared that Draco and Dudley would hate her; she was the reason for the death of their parents. A world where Draco and Dudley hated her was unfathomable to her.

She leaned on Lilyanna; she curled around Rayne and shielded her from the chilling breeze. Lost in her memories, she failed to notice the change in the weather, the clouds gathered above her, thunder and strong winds accompanied them but Rayne was lost. She curled into herself; with her arms warped around her knees she let her tears loose. Her sobs echoed in the silence. As her tears fell so did the rain, Lilyanna shielded her from the rain with her wing. She soon exhausted herself to sleep.

Jon was worried, it was the last task of the tournament and Rayne had to face unknown number of obstacles. Sirius and Arthur were sitting on his sides; both of them had a tense look on their face. The Dursleys and Malfoys were sitting in the teacher's stand along with the rest of the Hogwarts staff; Sirius had joined them there too.

As the minutes turned into hours, the audience began to become restless. The first Champion to get out of the maze was a blonde girl; she was followed by the other two Champions, only Rayne remained in the maze. Jon had a bad feeling, as he looked around he saw the Dursleys and Malfoys being led to the castle by a strange man with a wooden leg. He didn't pay much attention to it, suddenly he fell to the ground holding his chest as he felt as if he was burning, it was the rage of the dragons, Jon felt the rage like he had never before, the dragons were angry and they were looking for Rayne. Rayne was in danger. Jon was lifted up by Arthur; Sirius was looking at him curiously. Jon manages to meet his stare and rasps out a single word Rayne.

Jon sees for the first time how much power her name has as in a minute Sirius had managed to gather an impressive number of people ready to head to the maze to look for her. All activity was halted when two silver animals come flying, a Dragon and a flying horse. The Dragon stops in front of Severus and then he could hear Rayne's voice.

'Little Hangleton Graveyard. Voldemort. Hurry.'

Five words and pandemonium begins. The flying horse stops near Sirius; in Draco's voice it too relates a message.

'Kidnapped by Polyjuiced Moody, Mum, Dad and Dursleys killed by deatheaters. Need help, please hurry.'

This snaps everyone into action. Sirius and Severus lead the charge and along with various wizard law keepers they make way to Little Hangleton, Jon tries to make them take him with them but they do not relent, he would be greatly outnumbered in a magical fight.

He sits with Arthur and waits for them to come back, as time passes, he begins to worry, he could still feel the dragons and their anger but along with anger he felt heartbreaking sorrow. None of the students had left the maze as they feared they might be attacked on the way to the castle. The magical maze had stopped moving and had lost the eerie look it had earlier.