LRAB Chapter 266: Victorious
Chapter 266: Victorious
Chapter 266: Victorious
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9th February 2013, Malfoy Manor
(Jasmine Sayre POV)
I continued my little speech, "You're courting Death because that's who I am, what I am. I'm not some regular witch with delusions of power, I am power, and I was running out of patience. I warned you when I first came in. I told you not to make me go too far. You wanted me to take you seriously, well, congratulations, I am. And now, you'll suffer the consequences."
They were all unable to breathe properly because of the pressure that I was exuding, "What about your sister," Malfoy gasped out.
I snorted, "What sister?"
Suddenly, in front of their eyes, my sister's form suddenly turned into an entire murder of crows that flew around the room and burst into shadows.
Elphias Doge yelled out while panting, his eyes wide, "How is that possible?"
I chuckled, "Darling, you have no idea what's possible," I never get tired of saying that line, "with my sister gone, and with it any illusion of control you thought you had, there's only one question left on my mind. What should I do with all of you?"
Elphias Doge growled at me, "How did you get her out, witch?"
Of course, I wasn't going to tell them. But the truth was quite simple. I just caught the entire Court in an illusion and dispelled the enchantments that bound my sister. I then sent her home through a portal and watched as the rest of the Court smugly pretended to have any leverage over me. The wards barely even stopped me from making a portal. The whole thing took twenty seconds to arrange. It was so simple, so laughable, and these idiots fell for my trap.
I let out a deep chuckle that slowly morphed into laughter. The members of the Court were probably scared out of their minds, confused by my amusement, "You have no idea, do you? Who I am. What I'm capable off. It's so sad, so pathetic. I've always had to be pragmatic, to repress the urge to hurt everyone the way they hurt me, to burn the world for my pain. I could do that, you know? It would be so easy. I live in a world of cardboard, where everything is dictated by a delicate balance. There's always rules for practically everything. I guess that's the price you pay for power and knowledge. I don't even know why I'm telling you people; you probably don't even understand what I'm talking about. But I always did my best to be portrayed as the history books did, to say that I was compelled to do all these things, that I didn't have a choice. But I did, I see that now. I always had it in me, to do all these things. This cruelty, this deviousness, was always in the back of my mind, being repressed by the little illusion of my humanity."
Elphias Doge looked at me begging, "Mercy"
"I told you, I'm all out of mercy. You know, Doge, Dumbledore had a nice little saying, 'there are worse fates than Death'. For the first time, I agree with the man. Because I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to break you, imprison you in your own minds and create a secondary persona that would run your bodies, while you suffer in hells of your own making, of your own memories and demons. I'm going to flay your entire consciousness; reveal to yourselves the monsters you truly are and let you suffer for the rest of your miserable lives. You will be screaming, but no one will know, you will be begging for help, for the release of death and yet no one will grant it to you. I tried to be hands off, so now, you will be my little puppets, dancing to my tune, playing the roles I planned for you. I will make you ruin yourselves, your families legacies, and your ambitions, while you watch. I will destroy you, and the power you cherish so much. And when people come to ask if trying to get to me THROUGH THE PEOPLE THAT I LOVE, is in any way a good idea, you won't even have to tell them anything, just a peek of your broken little minds is enough."
Roxanne Greengrass muttered, "Monster!!!"
I burst out in laughter, "Yes, I am. But unlike you all, I admit it. I am a monster. I have killed so many people that I don't even remember how many. I have massacred entire species, killed off civilizations without even batting an eyelash. I used to think that I was the survivor, the last Daughter of Atlantis. But I'm not, am I? I realize now, in the first time for thousands of years, I'm not the survivor, I'm the winner, the Atlantean victor. I am done playing by the rules if people like you keep testing me. If a show of might and terror is what you wish for, then that's what the world will get."
Nathan sneered at me, "Someone will stop you"
I snorted, "Who could? For that matter, who would save you? No one cares about any of you, they care about your power, and when you lose it, no one will give a shit about some washed up politicians who think that they rule the world. But I'm done talking to any of you, after all, you have your own demons to deal with."
For the first time in a very long time, I let my telepathy go. I enter the minds of every single member of the Court and break through their little Occlumency shields and into their minds. They say that the human mind is complex and in a way that's true, but human beings are such simple creatures. They all have a core, an ambition, a collection of fears and insecurities that they keep hidden deep in their minds. They all deal with it the same way, by suppressing them. To create a hell of their own design, all I have to do is connect their main consciousness into that part of their subconscious and break the connection between their senses and the living world.
Immediately, they all started to beg for mercy, not out of physical pain but from their own memories. I could see it all, from wives leaving them and cheating on them, to their children dying, to losing their gold, and their power, I have to admit that they had a large range of fears and insecurities. I left Nathan alone, and he looked at me defiantly, "Are you going to torture me as well, your own twin?"
"You're no kin of mine, Potter. But I will leave your punishment in the hands of your sister. Believe me, when she's done with you, I'll find an appropriate penance for you as well."
I prepared myself to create a secondary temporary consciousness that I would have programmed for them to ruin themselves before dissolving, but I noticed that Nathan started screaming. It was odd, I wasn't even doing anything to him. He then started to burn, and melt into something. I noticed that the rest of the members of the Court were doing the same.
Oh shit, I felt that their life forces weren't being dissipated but absorbed into a ritualistic array underneath the carpet. I hadn't even noticed that. I couldn't move. I was frozen completely, and I felt ethereal chains coming from the ground binding me as well.
This whole thing was a trap, and whoever was responsible used the entire Court of Shadows as a sacrifice to get to me. What a shit show.
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