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Dympna Bella-Donna

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Dympna had been watching from the tallest window in the Manor. She had seen what Petite did for the intruders but she wasn't all that mad. She had done the rules and regulations for maze a long time ago and it seemed like they followed all of them. Now she had to get ready for battle. She walked way from the window, her robes bellowing behind her. "Eir grab my treasures and take them away. Let no one find them." She shouted at her useless brother. Dympna's aura seemed to blow apart everything as she walked down the stares. She could feel the eyes of the children that didn't quite make it follow her from the pictures.

Dympna's heeled boots clicked as she stepped onto the landing of the first floor. Here she trained her eyes on the front door. She was waiting for them. The Rouges failed to stop them but she would add their corpses to her gardens. It would be a reminder to all who want escape her household that no one would never come to save them.
 
Eir heard Dympna and bowed to her knowing he would have to save the children. he grab all of them and used a portkey that was made for a fast leaving. he could see most of the children crying and confused. he said " children its time to go" as he watch dympna. he grouped the three children and they disappear into the day but touch the nasty brush which was the portkey
 
"No were going onward, no more distraction. If she gets in the way whoever the hell she is I'll deal with her alone. You three will go on to battle Bella-Donna, I just want this to be over with" Maya said to the group. She was tired and her body wounded to be sore. This had to end soon, she didn't think mentally she could take much longer. It was the unidentified will power that made her go through with this, to prey on Bella-Donna like she was an animal meant to be hunted. They were nearing the end of her hunting season, meaning if they didn't get her now she will go on torturing more children. And what will happen then, they would've have to return? Lose a few more aurours, over my dead body Maya thought. She pulled out her wand and marched on forward, staying close to them as their backside disappeared into the fog.

Lucky they had appeared close to the manor without any issues, the maze did move but they moved along with it, staying to every path that cross them. Maya looked at each and one of them, could this be the ending of their search, have they finally made it? Please for Merlin sakes this be it. Maya used her wand yo detect any humans nearby, she found that there were loads but they soon disappeared as the wands light grew dim. Maya stood searching inside each window, before she went inside with a blasted curse shouted at the door. The material of the door blasted open after the third try, Maya was frustrated she was determine to get rid of the b!tch once and for all.
 
Many different opinions were thrown on the table but eventually Maya was the one that decided what they should do. Leonzio agreed with her plan and nodded to show his support. Better tha following his again. Now it was a swamp, who knew in what kind of trap he would ran the team if he was going to lead the way.
He casted a concerned look at Maya. She seemed exhausted mentally and probably she wassharing the same frustration with him. He hoped that all four of them were going to survive. He had promised that to himself, that he was going to protect the rest of his colleagues. Soon the labyrinth of trees and vines gave its way to a clearing with a large manor in the center. They had succeeded the maze part, managing to overcome the obstacles that Bella-Donna had set for their arrival.

Leonzio frowned as he was trying to imagine what could be dwelling behind those walls. To him, it seemed like a second round for the maze but this time its walls were going to be stone walls, pillars and dead people's portraits. He watched as Maya was casting a spell to spot the presence of humans in the building. There were several auric, scarlet glows. Most of them were smaller figures, fitting those of little children but istantly they vanished as if they had apparated. Leonzio wanted to compliment Maya's entrance style. He loved tough chicks but it wasn't the right time laying back and losing their concentration. He drew his wand, his clothes still dirty but he didn't care. Bella-Donna was going to be a formidable opponent and he was going to use his best of his knowledge. As they were entering inside her fortress, Leonzio was recounting the spells he could use against her.
 
Oh my goshness, soooooo sorry guys, i didn't realise how much i had missed...
Alexia cringed as Maya blew the door of its hinges. They were all physically and mentally drained after everything they had been through and Lexi was sure that she was only just hanging on to her wand. The book had been used alot by now and she was sure they might need it again so she clung to it with her life. The things she had seen in the last few hours were starting to catch up with her. Maya was tired, Zac was tired, Leonzio was tired. Infact they were all very tired. Lexi wasn't sure what was going to come of this day, but by Merlin she was not going to let BellaDonna get away. if she got away, innocent children everywhere were going to be in trouble. Something bad was brewing, she could feel it.

Lexi followed Maya and Leonzio inside. She walked straight forward, looking through all the corridors as she passed them. She knew they shoudl sty together but there wasn't much that could be done. This place was huge and she knew they had to find her soon. They had been on their feet for hours. This was taking longer then expected. She didn't even know what time it was, but she felt like she had been her for days. She figured it must have something to do with the magic present in this place. Even now she could feel the power mixing with her own. Draining her. What the hell kind of person was Bella Donna anyway?
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Dympna watched as the blond in the group blew her door to pieces. "I will have to make you pay for your rudeness. But then" Dympna summoned what seemed like the very shadows from the walls to attack them. "You are never going to make it out of this house alive." She finished sending the shadows froward before her. She cast two more enchantments so that the images in the pictures on the walls seemed to come out of them. The images where not really children though they looked very much like who they used to be. They where doppelgangers, her own breed of inferi that could be made based on pictures instead of the actual corpses. The second was a protection spell for herself. Dympna had not been lying when she said she was not going to allow them to leave here with their lives. They had disturbed the lands and then damaged her home. They where planning to take her treasures away which she could not allow. Never mind that there where children in the basement who were half starved and looked as though they had gone through hell and a half. They where not her treasures though. Zeal, Poppy and Violet where the only ones that had earned that title.

Dympna was very old though she didn't look it. The house itself was like a sponge for magical energy. She looked at the three there and wondered exactly how long this was going to take. She needed to have Eir prepare dinner while she finished up another round of tests for the children. They would grow into beautiful creatures for whom the world lay down their lives for and Dympna would be behind them in all that they did. She would never admit that this was her aim though, no Dympna wanted to see the world become a better more pure place and if she had to bend a few of the laws of nature to do it so be it. Now here came the narrow minded to destroy all that she had worked for. The arrogance more than anything she could not forgive.
 
The huge manor appeared in front of them, Zac was still wondering why the woman that they met earlier wasn't lying, she had reasons to kill the aurors yet she spare their lives. Perhaps something big was about to happen, something that was far from pleasant. Zac continued walking with the groups, he let the rest lead the way as he stayed on the back, defending the group in case someone or something attack them from the back or the sides. Keeping his eyes on the darkness behind them, Zac heard an explosion and continued walking to the inner part of the manor. It was his first experience, dealing with a dangerous mad woman, he had heard her name before from Veronica White, the ex girlfriend of his. Perhaps this was the reason why Veronica didn't want to talk about Bella Donna. She was crazy, lack of natural love, lunatic.

Soon shadows began to appear in front of them, honestly Zac wasn't sure what it was but after seeing the movements of it he knew what it was "Inferius" He said as he took his wand out pointing at the creature. What kind of a mad person inferius in a place where little children live? What if these creatures attack the kids? Clearly this woman wasn't worth to live, she was meant to die or locked up in Azkaban. With a wand pointed at the creature of Dympna Bella-Donna's Zac shot a spell penetrating the creature. He wanted to cause no harm at it, if they wanted to burn it to die they could but Zac wont be the one who cast the spell. "Mind games" He whispered as he eyed the group, figuring out what they were going to do. Find Bella Donna or the left over victims or...?
 
Leonzio stepped forward, standing next to Maya as Bella-Donna emerged from the shadows in the end of the long chamber. The time had arrived to confront the schizophrenic murderer and make her pay for her macabre crimes. As her voice echoed, promising that she would make them suffer, shadow crawled off the stone walls and launched like dark hands, ready to strangle them and drown them into darkness. As blackness was growing closer, the pictures of the potraits hanging on the walls came to life. Leonzio could swear that the creatures jumping off the frames on the walls, looked like inferi but they were something else that he was encountering for the first time in his life. Probably, another monstrosity of Bella-Donna's obsession. He didn't waste time. He stepped in front of the rest group, blocking the shadows that were growing in shape and the corpses.

He held his wand horizontically, one hand on its tip one on the handle.
A circular glyph of pure light carved on the floor under his feet and brightness flowed out of it accompanied with a warm breeze that stroked his dark hair. "O holy water, rain down your power on us!" he started chanting concentrated and focused on the element of light. "Pluvia sancti!" his voice echoed against the stone walls and he pointed his wand on the ceiling above them. A rain of light fell from the ceiling like miniature meteors of light, crashing on the corpses, on the shadows and on the magical barrier that Bella-Donna had casted around her. The beams of light that were missing their targets and were hitting the stone floor, were dissolving into sparks and smaller rays of light, covering the entire battlefield.
"Destroy the portraits!" he suggested his colleagues as the rain of light continued pouring down, dissolving the shadowy hand that was closer to the group with a thud. If the rest of them could destroy or burn the portraits, there will be no more corpses to be animated out of them. He hoped that he could buy them some time with his spell but he wasn't sure for how long the holy rain was going to keep falling.
 
Maya stood her grounds pleased with her entrance, the moment lasted but a second before Bella-Donna put forth her attack. There was no way in hell she was going to surrender easy. Looks like that's how Bella wanted to play with them, to think they've encounter all her tricks, Bella had some more under sleeves. Her counter attack were manifest inferius swarming out of the picture, Maya stood shocked though her face betrayed her inner feelings. She watched amazed at Leonzio and Zac's first to attack back, fighting off the inferious like creatures, Maya stood back, she couldn't think of a spell, really she was shock to see the monstrous of these creatures trying to over cloud them, Maya stepping back to the door's boarder almost defeated after so many hours of trying to drive out all these experiments out of that maze's hell. Almost like she was giving up, almost felt like she couldn't do it anymore. Though she paused, she heard a scream somewhere inside the house, some sort of scream, sounded so much like a child. Where there actually more of them there? Maya put forth her feet, she glared at Bella when the creatures were drain down by the holy rain. Maya used her wand and shouted "Deprimo, Deprimo, Deprimo!" trying to blast a whole in the life source of those pictures, Bella can't get away with this, Maya will not let her.

"Lexi come on, we need to get her!" she shouted between spells, this became personal. Maya had once taken care of a child, Pixie was her name, if Pixie had been one of those children, Bella wouldn't be recognize by the time she was done with her. "Come on Bella, come out and fight, you have the courage to disturb little children, but you won't fight anyone of us! Don't be a coward and fight like the monster that you are" Maya shouted her taunts at the woman who before them stood at the top of the stairs.
 
Dympna watched with intrest as they fought off her creations. The pictures on the walls provided an image for her deranged shadow creatures to take. Dympna over the years had learned a certain mastery over shadows but she couldn't make them take too solid of a shape. They would have the edge of a blade for only a second in time, enough to slit a throat then go back to their non-comporial form but with a base to take a shape from the shadows could retain matter. She was laughing at wasted effort to fight them off when the blond intruder started to destroy her the pictures of her former babies. She screeched then flew to the top of the stares to face off of her. "I was right there the whole time poppet but now I'm right here. How dare you destroy my home?" She yelled before waving her wand in what seemed like an intraquet fashion.

She shot a spell that the blond Auror which if it hit her would turn her into stone. She was already thinking of who to add her to the garden where she liked to let her children play. She The rest would be come decoration for the house too as a reminder to all others who wanted to come and try and take her home and research from her would look upon them and know the meaning of the word fear. Dympna aimed another attack down at the men but before the incantation went through her head she was hit with something powerful. It was not the holy water that one of the men had brought down on them ruing her carpets.
 
Maya dodge the said spell aim in her direction, everyone else pretty much was in another spot of the ground, the said spell must've bounced and hit some part of the house. That did not stop her from retaliating back at Bella. Maya was determine to get this b!tch down, so was everyone else. everyone here was determine to bring this woman down, she must not go on torturing children any longer. "STOP! STOP BELLA YOUR NEVER GOING TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!" Maya shouted at the woman, her voiced and shouts could be heard all throughout the house, did it mean this place was deserted? Maya hope not, she didn't want it to be to late, she wanted to believe there was still hope for the children. That they were still alive and nothing horribly has happen to them. Maya shot out another spell and it hit the woman dead in the chest, she never really had perfect aim, but she had known under stress and under all these emotions, Maya had to get her. And she did. Bella fell down the steps and was stone as still right on the ground in front everyone.

Maya sighed in relief, she held back so much emotion, so much of it was just to much that she felt a tear roll down her eyes. "It's over Bella, if you can hear it's over for you for good. You understand that?" she looked in her dark etched eyes, this woman had no soul, this woman belong in hell, Maya had the feeling to stomp on her to death, but she wouldn't tarnish her reputation because of a horrible woman like Bella. Maya left for them to handle Bella, while she detoured the house to see if anyone else had survived. She went out in the back, scanning the place, it was filled with weeds and an awful lot of different flowers. Maya was shock to think Bella would grow flowers with the dark circus she had around here, Maya searched the area, she also smelled something wrong. Awfully wrong, it was horrible the smell, Maya looked to the sunflower where the book had a picture drawn of it, and there laid several bodies of children all preserved sort of like a doll gallery dead. Jade Clow happen to be one of them. "This is so wrong, so wrong. Someone come out here! Look at what she did to them!" it was to late they were all dead and gone.
 
It was done. Everything they had worked for and in the end, the children they had worked so hard to save were gone. She looked at Bella-Donna as she died. It was almost like slow motion. She saw the spell leave Maya's wand and hit Bella-Donna. She saw the woman fall down the steps, her eyes as black as the night itsself. Alexia walked closer to her and bent down to examine her. Just to be sure she was infact dead and not somehow pretending she was. She felt for a pulse and watched as Maya left them in search of something else. She looked at the others and instructed them to dispose fo the body. They had lost some good people this night and she was not about to lose anymore, even if Bella seemed dead, there was no way she was goning to leave her, there, just to be on the safe side. This was one of the hardest missions she had ever done. She had never expected to be like this before, but now that she was, she wasn't sure she liked it. Not. One. Bit.

Alexia followed Maya out of the room and further into the expanse of house. The headed out the back and Lexi was surprised to see some flowers. Except on closer they were not only flowers, but bodies aswell. The sight of them brought many tears to Lexi's eyes. Those poor children. The bodies looked up at her as if they were still alive, but that wasn't possible, they looked as though they had been threre for far too long already. Lexi kneeled infront of them and held her hand out to one of the bodies. But she didn't touch it. She knew it would do no good and she didn't want to touch them incase they had some sort of spell on them. She looked at Maya and sighed. They had not saved them. "That evil b!tch did this to them." She whsipered standing up. "Thats... thats just... wrong." There wasn't much else for her to say.
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Ruby had been under the influence of a punishment for a while now. She was skin and bone by choice and by harshness of what she had been forced to drink. Ruby came up from basement to see the voices that she heard. She saw her mother on the floor, seemingly dead but she knew better to assume that it was over just like that. Ruby saw the people that had done this to the woman they where all forced to call mother. She took the sleeve of the blond one "This is where those that where not strong enough rest. The sunflowers be their roof, the dirt below their room and bed. Down below is where those that need work are kept." She said pointing at the door back inside. She meant the basement. Even with that little bit of information she had done wrong. The marking on the nape of Ruby's neck flashed the young Beauxbaton collapsed in a seizure like fit.

She had not said anything that would get her killed but she would be in pain for the next few hours because of Bella-Donna's curse. Ruby had meant the basement. The children that where still alive where in the basement where Dympna's lab was. There where a few tied up there because of the spells and enchantments that had been placed on them had driven them wild but the rest where in the cage that was there to keep them until the Soul Children decided that they where worthy to join the house, whom they knew took great pleasure in tormenting them with the knowledge that they would never be ready. Ruby's words had carried down the open basement door but none of them called out for help not wanting the same fate af Ruby Clow.
 
The golden rain ceased and Bella's shadows disappeared under the blinding light. Her body collapsed on the floor after receiving Maya's spell straight on her chest. Leonzio wasn't convinced until he poked with his foot her lifeless body. It seemed that it was finally over but what about the captive kids that were enduring her sadistic experiments and tortutes? Unlike the rest of his colleagues. he prefered to stay by the body as if Bella-Donna was going to ressurect and escape. He heard Maya's and Alexia's voices outside but he remained there. He waved his wand and a transparent, yellow, glass coffin enclosed Bella's corpse, sealing it from the outside world. As he was casting another spell to levitate the coffin for easier transportation, he noticed the girl, emerging from the shadows of the basement. Baffled he scratched his forehead as the girl followed Alexia and Maya outside.

He hesitated, thinking of following her outside. Maybe she was a new thread and his colleagues were going to be in danger again. On the other hand, the basement raised suspicions to the auror. What if the girl just managed to escape and there were more children down there, waiting patiently for their freedom. Unwillingly, he left the coffin behind him hovering and used his wand to cast light on the stairway that was leading down to the basement. "Maya, Alexia, Zac. I think that there's more down here!" he called them over. After the vast maze, it would be foulish to descend downstairs alone. The place was making him nervous and he couldn't trust even his shadow as soon as he was still into Bella's liar.
 
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