[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
That City.
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"What is this?!"
Voldemort's voice approached the edge of the building where he stood, one of only 20 floors tall while the town was small, with only 10,000 inhabitants.
His gaze returned to the center of the city with a premonition that something was wrong there, while he felt screams and explosions from the battles, but it was different from something.
His trained ears seemed to hear the suffering of his own werewolves and the men who followed him, as his eyes dropped directly to the hand where he bore the mark of death.
'They are dying…?' He felt the death marks beginning to lose strength throughout the city.
Then a ray of fire flew into the sky and continued being fired as it began to hit brooms in the air at the edge of the city.
Other sounds began to come from all corners of the city and Voldemort was certainly confused.
Behind him were at least two dozen bodies of aurors he had just fought, defeating them all without hesitation and mercy as he took all their lives.
Near where Voldemort stood, a man in a cloak and hood, hiding his face with a mask, was fighting two aurors at the same time. He was being attacked constantly, but quickly turned the tide of the fight when he began to attack with Avada Kedavra and killed one of the men, while the second was easily killed soon after being left alone.
"Abraxas."
He heard his lord calling him as the Malfoy man approached the Dark Lord in the next moment.
"I need to send you down there. I want you to tell me exactly what is happening here... someone is killing our wizards... I need to know if it's the Ministry..." Voldemort requested.
As Abraxas was about to answer, suddenly they felt something coming toward them. At the same time, they turned and spotted 10 brooms flying in the air toward them, all of them aurors preparing their magic.
"We found him! We have permission to neutralize!!"
One of the aurors informed as they quickly began to prepare their spells, but didn't even see the green ray flying toward them in an instant.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!!"
The leader was hit immediately as the green ray passed through him, killing him and advancing in all directions, a green line began to spread through all the wizards on their brooms creating a line passing through them all.
Then, all the brooms began to lose speed and started to fall down as the bodies detached from them, falling like dolls, all already dead.
At the same time, the ray ceased a moment later as Voldemort's wand, which had cast that death spell, killed 10 people in an instant, with his death magic piercing through all the enemies.
It was a terrifying magic in the hands of the dark wizard, capable of eliminating countless people with a single strike, no wonder he bore that title and even noble families had to kneel before him.
"The most powerful death magic of all, my lord..." Abraxas praised with admiration written on his face upon witnessing it.
"Yes... but let's put that aside, I can take care of myself, I need you to go to the city now." He demanded.
And before Abraxas could respond, once again they were interrupted as someone appeared near them with apparition.
"AH!!"
A groan came as blood immediately flowed upon the body falling to the ground.
It was one of the Death Eaters, missing an arm that had been cut by some blade and was in hemorrhage. His gaze returned to Voldemort with pain and fear.
"My lord!! We're being attacked by creatures made of shadows!!" He said.
"Shadows?! Are you saying it's the same one that attacked the Norton family and also the Nott family?" Voldemort asked in a serious tone.
"Yes!!! He has strange creatures with him! Please help me!! It hurts so much!"
The man, who didn't seem to be more than 30 years old and belonged to some noble family, had come here to deliver this information while he spoke in fear and pain.
"Alright... my loyal companion..."
Voldemort was about to help him, when suddenly, he felt something in the shadow beneath the Death Eater.
It opened two blue eyes and began to take shape, forming a sword before charging at Voldemort, who was caught by surprise by this, so much so that neither he nor Abraxas beside him could react.
"AHH!!"
Voldemort managed to dodge the sword from hitting his heart, as he ducked and moved away so it would strike his shoulder instead, reacting quickly to avoid further injury.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The shadow, along with the wizard also surprised by the shadow's appearance, was struck, with both dying right there, while the shadow vanished from being too far from Severus Snape.
"My lord! Are you alright?"
Abraxas approached in concern.
"Ahh!! He hurt me... What was that?!"
Voldemort growled as his shoulder began to bleed rapidly and pain was something he hated.
But he quickly began healing his shoulder, filling the hole in his flesh created by the shadow's sword with metal, stopping the bleeding.
"This..."
Voldemort turned his attention to the last remnants of the shadow vanishing, leaving behind only the Death Eater, dead.
"Abraxas, find out who's behind this immediately. That alchemist is here! I want to know exactly where he is, because I will kill him myself!"
Voldemort spoke with hatred, having felt pain, and that man was the one responsible.
"Yes... I'll return shortly!"
Abraxas Malfoy said, disappearing with apparition.
Voldemort left the corpses behind and looked toward the city, hearing more animalistic sounds growing louder and louder, and men seeming to die from those creatures.
"I swear... I swear I'll kill him in the worst way when I find him."
Voldemort spoke angrily as he wiped the blood from his clothes before fixing them again.
At the same time, a little nearby, three Muggle families were in a terrifying situation.
They all cowered with five hooded people in front of them, holding small wands. They were four men and one woman.
"Please, don't kill us!"
The man murmured, trembling while holding his children. He couldn't believe anything that was happening that night—everything was normal, then chaos spread through the city with monsters and hooded people killing others.
He and his family had been dragged from their home after one of those masked men broke in and were forced to this house along with the other two families, by those five people, after witnessing them kill two entire families who refused and tried to run.
Never in their lives had they seen people casting green lightning from those wands, or even doing all kinds of… what they hadn't believed in until then — magic.
"Well, we've got everyone here. Your parents want you to do your part tonight. So I'll be supervising you as you act against the Muggles.
I want to see each one of you show cruelty and torture them. If any of you fail to do so the way a Death Eater should, you'll be in serious trouble. Are we clear?"
The oldest man with the mask there spoke, while the three male heirs and one female heir of their families nodded.
They had all finished Hogwarts last year. They were already over 18 years old, taking on this role as those who would inherit their families.
"Yes."
The young woman said immediately, as she prepared the pronunciation of her magic.
"You look tense, Lucius. Could it be that you're not ready to become a Death Eater?"
Someone beside him teased.
"Of course I am, Nott...."
Lucius murmured behind his mask, but obviously, he was quite nervous. Even coming from the Malfoy family, he had never killed anyone before, and that worried him a little.
"Alright, enough chatter, you two, let's begin."
The older man spoke, asking the heirs to get ready, while he saw the families cowering. All of them, while the younger ones trembled.
"Please, don't hurt us!"
Another man tried to shield everyone there.
"I want to see that same face while I'm torturing you."
The girl stepped forward with a malicious smile.
"Please..."
The woman hugged her children.
"This will be interesting, I'll go first!"
The girl, as a Death Eater, didn't care at all about compassion.
She could finally be ahead of Bellatrix Black — the girl she had always envied and longed to surpass at Hogwarts. This was her chance.
And the moment she started to spin her wand, with it glowing in a green beam, ready to use the Cruciatus, she pointed it at the family.
But something seemed wrong...
Only, at that very moment, the wand didn't cast her Cruciatus curse.
Everyone who had been watching the family, expecting to see them suffer, grew confused and turned their eyes back to the young witch, who was still standing there, frozen, paralyzed, pointing her wand forward.
"Hey, what is this?"
The young man from the Nott family asked, not understanding.
Until... lines of blood began to pour from her neck.
And everyone was stunned as her body collapsed to the ground, falling to her knees... as her head was removed from her neck.
"Who killed her?!"
Lucius murmured, terrified, as he looked to the side and saw a massive shadow standing there with a bluish metal sword and in black armor. It had been behind them the entire time.
However, being more experienced, the oldest among them quickly pointed his wand, casting a spell to destroy whatever that thing was.
But his hand was cut off in the next second before he could cast his magic, as the knight moved at a speed he could never defend against, being so close to the shadow.
And before he could even scream in pain, his head was struck by the sword, making a diagonal slash as blood sprayed everywhere.
"What is that?"
Another young man, standing between Nott and Malfoy, said, frightened.
Quickly, Igris advanced, cutting down one more — the other young man nearby.
Only the young Nott and the young Malfoy remained.
They trembled, quickly pointing their wands, while the knight ignored the Muggles and prepared to advance and kill these last two.
"Stop."
Suddenly, a voice emerged, making the knight stop immediately, while the sounds of footsteps were heard — along with the groans of fear and terror from the family, seeing severed bodies and blood spilled everywhere.
The young men immediately backed away behind him, as they saw someone approaching, wearing a dark cloak like theirs... but different.
"What do we have here?"
The person spoke in a distorted tone.
"The voice... it's him...!"
The young Nott was terrified, recognizing him already, knowing from the knight's shadow who it could be.
"Avada Kedavra!"
Then, by instinct, he cast his spell, seeing the same man who had terrorized his family.
But he vanished, and the spell passed through him, hitting only the wood, having no effect.
"Well, it seems you really are hopeless, Mr. Nott. Your life ends here."
Snape said, and in the next moment, he cut off young Nott's head — the heir of the family — making him barely able to believe he was dying. As he automatically dropped his wand and collapsed to the ground.
Lucius Malfoy immediately took a step back, raising his wand, looking fearfully at him... and at the knight beside him.
"Are you afraid, Malfoy?"
Severus asked, with a certain amused tone.
"Don't kill me!"
Malfoy begged.
"Don't worry. Let's just say you've helped me in the past... even though it was mostly for your own benefit, you still helped me. Because of that, you'll survive tonight, since there's no blood on your hands from these people...
But the next time we meet on the battlefield... I will kill you.
Now clean up this mess and let the family use this place as shelter. If you hurt any of them, I'll come after you, and there will be a shadow here to check on that...."
Snape said, moving forward, leaving Malfoy behind, frightened, as he walked away from the scene.
"What was that...?"
Malfoy still tried to process what had happened there. Unable to fully understand the meaning of those words, he was now alone with the families and four other corpses.
That objective was still... none other than Voldemort.
-------------Nexts Chapters ----------------
Chapter 195 - News about the chaos
Chapter 200 - The tournament.
Chapter 210 - The Truth.
Chapter 219 - The Duel between Severus Snape and Voldemort.
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