ethereal - draco malfoy

battle of hogwarts pt 1

We waited outside for a few minutes before Potter, Weasley and Granger flew out of the Room of Requirement, slamming the door closed behind them. After they readjusted themselves, the turned to us. "What now?" Blaise asked, glancing between them.

As they were about to respond, they all three started screaming, holding their heads as if they were in excruciating pain. Daphne, Blaise, Draco and I stood there blankly, staring at them in confusion.

After a moment, they stood back up, perfectly fine. I blinked. "Alright there?" I questioned, tilting my head.  Weasley shot me a confused look. "How did you not hear that?" he questioned, eyeing us up and down.

"They're Death Eaters, Ronald. That message was meant for non Death Eaters." Granger explained. Ron nodded his head slowly, "Oh."

"Alright, you four go fight off Death Eaters. I'm sure they'll break through the barriers shortly. We have to go to Hagrid's hut." Potter said frantically.

"I need my wand, Potter." Draco reminded him. Potter stared at him blankly and blinked. "But you took mine. Back at the Manor." Potter reminded him. Draco jerked slightly and shuffled towards him. "Oh, right. Yeah. Here you go." Draco said stiffly as he took Potter's wand out of his pocket and gave it back to him. After Potter gave Draco his wand back, we nodded to one another and went our separate ways.

We rounded a few corners to see my mum and Cissy at the end of a corridor, looking around. "Mum?" Draco and I asked in unison. They both turned at the sound of our voices and ran towards us. Draco and I let go of each other's hands to hug our mother's before pulling away. "Here." Draco said, handing his mum his wand.

She gave him a confused look, to which he waved his wand in the air, and she nodded before she and my mum both brushed past the four of us and walked away. "We need to find Jack and Theo." Blaise said, looking down a corridor. Draco nodded and we all made our way to the first floor of the castle.

When we got down to the first floor, there was rubble and dust everywhere. The war had begun. We turned a corridor to see a Death Eater dueling a Hogwarts student. I instinctively pulled my wand back and flicked it towards the Death Eater. "Stupefy!"

The Death Eater's body flung sideways into the wall, and the student turned and looked at the four of us before quickly turning and running down a corridor. We continued to walk, dodging spells that were whizzing by us from other duels going on, until we turned a corridor, and I immediately stopped in my tracks.

Parkinson had her wand pointed down at my mother, who was on the floor, screaming in pain. "Go find Theo and Jack." I said to Blaise and Daphne before sprinting towards Parkinson, Draco at my side.

The entire hallway was broken down, rocks and gravel acting as obstacles as I ran down the hallway. People were fighting all around, and I was just narrowly missing them. "Expelliarmus!" I casted from down the corridor, making Parkinson's wand fly out of her grasp.

While she went to retrieve it, I fell by my mother's side and shook her lightly. "Mum." I whispered into her ear, my voice wavering. She was either dead or unconscious. I felt for a pulse, and I almost laughed in relief when I found one. She was crucio'd.

I blinked back the tears in my eyes, too angry to cry, and I looked up slowly to see Parkinson grab her wand.

"Draco, watch over mum for a moment." I stated as I stood up, not even bothering to glance at him. I stepped away from my mum's unconscious body as Draco took my place, and extended my arm.

"I think this duel is long overdue, don't you, Parkinson?" I questioned, my wand pointed at her. She grinned devilishly and extended her wand arm, eyeing me up and down like a predator does it's prey. "Let's hope you can cast spells as well as you can be a slut." she replied lowly before waving her wand. "Stupefy!"

I deflected her spell, making it bounce off of the invisible shield and hit the wall next to us, making dirt and grime pour down over us, Draco and my mum. "As soon as I kill you, I'm going to kill your mum." she growled. I clenched my fist and flicked my wand towards her, "Mobilicorpus!" I exclaimed. Her body froze and I raised my wand up, causing her to float in the air, and flicked it to the left, causing her to slam into the wall.

She stood up after a short moment and flicked her wand in the air, towards me. "Crucio!" she casted, and I dodged it instantly, jumping out of the way and not moving until it hit the wall behind me.

"And then, I'm going to steal Draco. He'll fall in love with me and fuck me every day." she sneered with a grin. I growled quietly and waved my wand, "Confringo!". The spell whizzed towards her, and she just barely deflected it, making it hit the wall and causing the wall to explode.

A piece of rock knocked me in the head, and I ignored the blood dripping down my face as I looked over to make sure Draco and mum were okay. After I did, I turned back to Parkinson and shot spell after spell. "Evanesco! Sectumsempra! Stupefy!" I casted quickly. She deflected all of my spells, and sent more towards me.

"Crucio! Bambarda Maxima! Confringo!" she exclaimed, flicking her wand each time. I blocked the first two with a 'protego', but the last one hit the stone wall beside me, sending shards of rock my way. I ignored the pain in my head and leg, and looked down at my wand arm to see a large piece of sharp rock lodged into my upper arm. I grimaced at the sight and turned back to Parkinson.

"I'm going to slaughter you, and everyone you care about, Parkinson." I hissed. She laughed manically and cracked her neck. "Like I said before. I'm going to kill you, and then your mum, and then I'm going to fuck your boyfriend." she sneered.

"You have always been nothing but a disgrace to the Wizarding World. Your father got lucky that he died; he doesn't have to see how much of a fuck up you are. Cedric probably died on purpose so he wouldn't have to watch after you anymore. You are nothing, Cynthia Morningstar. You were always nothing." she added coldly.

That was all it took. Those words were all it took for me to summon all of the hatred I had for her and bring my wand arm back, ignoring the pain in my arm. "Crucio!" I shouted, flicking my wand towards her. Her body dropped to the floor as she screamed in pain, and I ignored Draco's gasp as I walked up to her, my wand trained on her twitching body.

I approached her and placed one of my boots on her throat, looking down at her before I stopped the spell. She gasped for air as she looked up at me, fear swimming in her eyes, her hands grabbing onto my boot; I relished at the sight.

"Don't fuck with Cynthia Morningstar." I hissed. I brought my arm back and thought about how much I hated her, knowing it wouldn't work if I didn't truly want it to. "Avada Kedavara."

I stared into her eyes as I took her life away from her, watching as the life in them slipped away, and she turned into nothing but a hideous corpse. I took my foot off of her throat, shaking her hands off of it, and walked back over to Draco, who had cured my, now conscious, mother. He looked up at me and helped my mother to stand up, and they both just stared blankly at me. "Are you alright, mum?" I asked, glancing at her.

She swallowed thickly and nodded before bringing me into a hug and kissing my head. We pulled away and Draco stared at me with an indifferent expression. "She deserved it." he said, grimacing as he looked behind me on the floor at her body. I nodded and grabbed his hand, and we all three set out to find the others.