"Hello, Black Mask," Luna said dreamily. "That didn't hurt, did it?"
Alex's jaw dropped.
The would be rapist was tied up in a chair, bound, gagged, and struggling helplessly. The ghost was nowhere to be seen.
"N-No, Blue Mask. I'm fine." "Excellent." Luna beamed. "Now, then," she turned to the still struggling man in the chair and leaned in close to his face, "let's see if the bad man can be helpful."
The man's eyes fixed with Luna's blue-mask eyeholes. He started convulsing in the chair, moaning into his gag, and Alex couldn't help but remember when Luna had battered down her own occlumency barriers at her birthday party.
A few seconds later, the man conked out and Luna straightened. "The stake is one floor up on the bedroom desk. There are no defences around it."
Alex nodded and made her way upstairs while Luna covered the bald pervert. She opened the door and found the old ghost hovering over the bed. The ghost sniggered. "Vicious little fuck toys. Damn, I so wanted to watch my apprentice fuck your beautiful, creamy—"
Alex forced down the rising bile, grabbed the bone-made stake on the desk and bolted for the door. The faster they got out of here, the better.
Alexandra Black, now back in her good-old-young body — a body that didn't have to deal with perverts or rapists or even its own damn mind constantly shoving embarrassing thoughts at her every second of its existence, pulsed raw magic into the ritual hallow and took a deep breath.
"Death who takes all, through the power of wand, stone, and cloak, hear your humble servant."
The deathly hallow painted on the floor in chicken blood started to glow. Alex raised her hand sickle and stuck the blade into yet another dead doxy. On the other side of the room, Luna silently watched.
"Death who takes all, I offer you back that which the three brothers took. To raise this container of a soul that you now possess. To bind its magic back to the aether, and to your humble servant."
Alex stepped out of the hallow's boundaries.
The dowel, cloak, and stone all started to glow.
The doxy started to glow.
The magic swirled through the space, met the dementor bone stake laying towards the centre of the hallow, rushed to the pointed tip, and arced a tiny and silent bolt of lightening towards the doxy.
Alex's eyes narrowed.
The doxy's eyes glowed yellow.
Right. Now, Alex, focus — All your will power. Alex stepped forward, let her magic flow out of her and over the doxy.
The doxy made to move, but stopped, clutched its head, and let out a silent scream. Moments later it was all over. She may not even be a Hogwarts student yet, but the tiny doxy was nothing in comparison.
The inferius doxy flittered over to where she stood, and, with a simple mental command, stood to attention on her shoulder. Alex grinned. It was official. She was a necromancer.
The Black Witch of the North crossed her legs on her throne and imperiously surveyed her court. On the right hand side, her most fearsome warriors, commanded by General Teddy 'one-eye' Fluff and Wolf Plushy Bark-a-lot, stood assembled and ready to lay waste to her foes. On the left hand side, her most trusted political and magical advisers, Merlin Dolly and the ever faithful Metamorph Dolly, sat ready to give complicated and complex advice on all kinds of important things.
On her lap, lay her loyal and vicious beast, Amethyst the Panther, currently shrunk down to the size of a ten week old kitten and purring under her scratching fingers, but ready to grow to full size and pounce at a moments notice.
And around her, like whelps around a mother dragon, flittered her brand new bodyguard the doxy trio, the most feared elite combat unit this side of the veil.
The Black Witch of the North leaned back in her throne and laughed. "Muhahaha! Now no one can stop me! Not even that accursed Boy Who Lived!"
Just then, the door to her throne room banged open and a lone witch entered.
"What is this!" "Who dares barge into unannounced?"
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The intruder smiled brightly. "I am Gray Witch Radish Rings. I am here to guide you, Black Witch of the North." "Guide me?! I need no guiding! I am more powerful than you can ever hope to imagine! Did The Boy Who Lived put you up to this?!"
"Oh, I do not serve him. I serve a power far greater and far, far more handsome."
"Enough of this foolishness! General Teddy! Attack!" The Black Witch of the North jumped up from her throne—causing Amethyst to jump down and scamper away—picked up General Teddy and threw him at Radish Rings who stepped to the side and let the General sail past her.
"What?! You defeated my best general!" She scowled. "No matter. General Wolf! Attack!"
General Wolf joined General Teddy on the floor behind Radish Rings. "You see, Black Witch of the North?" Radish Rings smiled her dreamy smile. "You still have much to learn."
"No! Enough is enough! You will now face my true power!"
The merciless doxy trio flittering around her head zoomed forward towards Radish Rings. The gray witch's fingers all glowed white and all three inferi were banished away and pinned against the wall by an invisible force.
The Black Witch of the North fell to her knees. "No. It's not possible. What power is this? How can you possibly do these things?"
"I have these powers because of the power I serve." Radish Rings released the inferi from her wandless banishing spell and the undead fairies zipped back to their mistress. "And, what power is that?" The Black Witch of the North got to her feet and stepped towards Gray Witch Radish Rings.
"My lord, of course. The Gray Lord — Lord Slytherin."
"Lord… Slytherin…" The Black Witch of the North tried the words on her tongue for taste. "And this Lord Slytherin wishes to… guide me, does he?"
"Yes!" Radish Rings jumped up onto the throne room bed and bounced up and down. "Prove yourself worthy to my lord and he shall grant you ultimate power!"
The Black Witch of the North's gaze firmed. She turned away and pumped her fists down hard. "Fine! I will prove myself to Lord Slytherin!" She whirled around at Radish Rings again. "But, you're going to help me, Gray Witch!"
"Yay!" Luna jumped off the bed and hugged her. It really did feel kind of nice.
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