Cassie and Lyssa: Rise of Audentia

Lyssa was standing next to Voldemort, looking over the damage that had been done to Hogwarts as he droned on about how Harry Potter was dead and that now no one stood in his way. She looked at the distraught faces of all the people standing with the school, battered and beaten. She had always tried to imagine what would happen, when she was alone in her room, thinking things over, but it had never looked anything like this. It was far different than she had ever imagined, but eh. She liked things to be different, or else everything would be boring. She shifted lightly from foot to foot, never having been one for standing around. Her eyes were now tracing patterns in the smoke trails that rose into the sky. Overall complete disinterest in the current goingson, and yet somehow still on guard.

Cassie stood their wide eyes and Voldemort appeared holding Harry's lifeless body, he couldn't be dead that was just...impossible. She scowled at Lyssa and looked around with a frown, she had to get out of the grounds but how? The Death Eaters would notice someone walking towards the gate. She smiled slightly and turned into a small black kitten hoping no-one would notice her, she bounded towards the gate which was wide open. Once she got out she returned to her normal figure and disapearated. Her Aunt who had died the year before had left her her house, and as her aunt was a witch it already had some concelance spells and what-not. Cassie got to the house and went around strenghening the spells and adding new ones that she had learnt. Making it unplottible and put the Fideos charm on in making herself the secret keeper. Cassie sat down on one of the chairs inside, she wasn't going to sit here and watch Voldemort take over her world, she had to do something...

A short while later, and Voldemort telling the Death Eaters to keep everyone who was at the castle in the castle while he made (more) plans for the future of 'his' world, Lyssa found herself lounged in the chair in the Great Hall normally reserved for the Headmaster, observing it all although she'd really rather be doing something else, something less boring. She stifled a yawn and turned to her aunt who was in the chair next to her, looking thoroughly pleased with herself. "Take over for a bit," she said. "I'm going to sleep some." Bellatrix didn't say anything, but she did look a tad bit more pleased that she now had the jurasdiction to boss people around. Lyssa got up and walked out, looking around her as she did so.

Cassie frowned sitting in the chair, half the order was dead and the other half Voldemort knew who they were, really when you think about it. The Order aren't much help. She frowning thoughtfully her eyes gleaming, it could work, making another like Order but with a different name. The 'dark' side would never expect it not when they think that Voldemort is ruling the world. Cassie pulled her wand out of her pocket and produced her patronus, it was company at least, if she was going to make her own group she needed two things, a name and people to follow. Flipping through her books Cassie found the name. audentia, it meant Courage in latin. She smiled, people to follow...she wasn't sure if people would follow her but there was only one way to find out. She cast her patronus in the way that she'd learnt to send messages and sent one to Hermione explaining the idea telling her to meet her somewhere and only bringing people she was one hundred percent sure was on their side, oh and not adults, recent graduates was fine. She sent the message.

Lyssa walked up a couple flights of stairs until there was absolutely no one around her at all and then she went into the first teachers' room she came across. It's not like it mattered anyway. No one was going to be using it. She was asleep in a short matter of time, unusually tired from the night's events. Below her, on the lower levels of the castle those people on the 'Light' side who had fought with them and lost were being bossed around by the Death Eaters, and things of that nature. Just before she fell completely asleep Lyssa yawned one more time.

Cassie apperated to the place she said she would meet Hermione and found her Ron and Ginny there. "How did you get of the Carstle?" Hermione asked after casting Muffliato around them. "I know you've cast Muffliarto but lets wait till we get back to my place," Cassie said edgedly. "I don't want to be overheard," She took a peice of paper out of her pocket with the adress and name of place on it. "I could have said it but it's easier this way," Cassie waved her wand burning the peice of paper. The four of them appearated to the place or well Cassie appearated them all there as Ron and Hermione had no clue where it was and Ginny couldn't yet apperate. Once in the kitchen and after getting everyone something to drink Hermione asked the question again. "Im an Animagus," Cassie said turning into a cat then turning back into herself, it's helpful because no-one would pay attension to a cat, how'd you get out?" "Harry's invisability cloak," Ron said. "Now what are we going to do?" Cassie sighed. "I want to start my own organasinaion like the Order but more for younger people, to fight against Voldemort, it has a name. Audentia. It means courage, but anyway, we need people to fight which means we need to get them out of Hogwarts but also no-one can know that it is us, we could get clocks or something I suppose with hoods to put over your eyes, jsut not marsks cause yeah..."

It felt as if it was only ten minutes, but Lyssa found herself unable to just lay about anymore. With a stifle yawn she got up and walked back down the stairs of the school. It seemed that everyone, minus a few, were sleeping. Lyssa ran a hand through her hair and walked out the door of the school and outside. She looked up at the sky, at the moon and the stars, noticing that they were beginning to disappear and that the sun was going to be rising over the forest soon, and then the whole world would be informed that Harry Potter was dead, which was insured to cause chaos of some sort. Shaking her head she went back inside the castle, and walked to the marble staircase where she sat down for a moment, just thinking. After a while she got up, and just started to walk idlely around, not tired anymroe.

"Even those we don't trust enough to join Audentia we still need to get out og Hogwarts but they can't know its us," Cassie nodded again and went into the Caboard to find a royal blue cape with a hood. "Hermione can you duplicate a bunch of these?" She asked the girl. Hermione nodded and did so, soon Cassie was holding ten of them. "That will do for now," She passed Ron, Ginny and Hermione a cloak and put one on herself too, "Over the time we we need to put charms on them so we can make them invisability cloaks not of the skill and power that Harrys does because he's doens't fade these will." She looked towards the others now. "Go into the casrtle and free who you can, the ones that you think could have potensial apperate them to where I met you and I'll dicide, keep the hood down even if you're under the invisability cloak, Ginny you stay with me,"

The castle, even though it was rather bashed up and had broken things everywhere, was nice at night Lyssa decided. The way the shadows from the moonlight fell on things, and lit them different than they were in the daytime was an interesting thing to see. Lyssa walked up all the stairs and soon found herself at the top of the Astronomy tower, just as the sun was starting to rise.

Cassie disapearated Ginny to the place where she had met them first off, "You're going to need to learn how to disapearate," She told the younger Gryffindor, the girl nodded. Ron and Hermione went to the carstle with the invisability cloaks. All four of them where wearing the cloaks the hoods down covering most of their face so that you couldn't see who they were. Ten minutes later Hermione disapearated there with Luna and Neville and two other Ravenclaw boys that Cassie didn't know the name off, she wasn't sure she could trust them yet. Hermione and Ron came back in another ten minutes with Pavati and Padma. "We shouldn'take too many at once because it will be noticed quicker but we need to be careful they don't strengthen the wards." Hermione said. Cassie nodded and after twentyminutes off talking to the six of the new comers she deemed them all safe.

The people in the castle were starting to wake up a bit later, just as Lyssa was walking back down the stairs. She had spent the remainder of the time watching the sunrise and looking around. Upon her entering the Great Hall her aunt Bellatrix looked at her, frowning, and appearing as though she didn't want to give back control to Lyssa. "Who all do we have here?" she asked, walked to her aunt. "Or have you not thought to check yet?" Bellatrix shook her head and Lyssa sighed. "Well then get to it," she said, in a snappish voice, just as there was shouting in the entrance hall. Lyssa scowled and walked in that direction, only to find that one of the Death Eaters was arguing with someone else. "Hey!" Lyssa called in a loud voice that made everyone look at her and go quiet. "What's going on here?" she asked quieter.

Cassie told everyone the adress and once inside the propity breifed them on what they were doing, she still had her hood down because it gave her a sense of safty but those who'd known her for years reconised her voice. She also gave the new comers a cloak and smiled to Hermione saying that they will probably need more soon, She then went around the house seeing how many rooms there were as She hadn't been here in years, there was fifteen rooms including two bathrooms, a study and a kitchen. That was enough rooms for now, but they would need to extend the more people they gathered, they could go down or up or out but Cassie liked the space of land they had because it was good for practising spells and other things like that.

"This idiot here," the Death Eater that had been arguing with the person said, "decided he was going to act all tough and mighty, so I was telling him off." Lyssa looked at the person. "And just who are you?" "My name is Connor-,"he said loudly, and sounding proud about it. "Yeah, don't really care," Lyssa cut him off. She contemplated him for a moment. Then twirling a piece of hair around her finger lazily called Bellatrix from where she had remained in the Great Hall. "Aunt Bella, would you like to show Connor here and everyone else in this room," since there were quite a few Death Eaters and Order members (including non-Order who was just there for the fight), "what happens to people who resist and fight back?" Without even looking at her, Lyssa could tell that Bella was looking pleased. Not bothering to say or do more, Lyssa walked from the entrance hall to the Great Hall. She had more important things to worry about than some idiot being overly brave and stupid; Bella could handle that easy enough, and no doubt would enjoy it. The thought nearly made Lyssa cringe internally. She might be a bit mental, but not that mental.

Cassie spent the rest of the day exploring the house trying to find hideyholes that her aunt had created. Everyone else was resting it had been a long day, Cassie and Hermione had made sure there were enough beds for everyone. Sighing Cassie sat down on a chair, she hadn't really thought about Voldemort since she left the carstle but it all came back to her now. Harry dead...VOldemort had won, she didn't want to think how he would change the world. it Seemed weird that Voldemort had to kill a seventeen year old boy and after that everyone sort of thinks. Oh ok we lost, lets just sit here and watch what Voldemort will do next shall we? It was immeansly stupid.

Lyssa went back to the Headmaster's chair, sitting in it once again. Her eyes closed when she heard Connor scream in the entrance hall, her aunt having obviously started having her 'fun'. Lyssa heard a noise from behind her and turned around to come face to face with her brother. "What the hell are you doing here?" she hissed at him, causing him to shrug. "I figured you'd have already vanished somewhere," she went on. "And I figure you're just a tad bit mental," Draco retorted. "I'm not mental," Lyssa replied, raising her eyebrow at him. "Now just what was it you felt the need to get my attention for?" Draco shrugged, as he often did. "Not too much in particular, just wanted to talk to you for a bit." Lyssa felt confused, as if there was a meaning behind those words. "Well, ok…" Draco gave her a small smile and was about to say something else when something diverted Lyssa's attention from him. "Talk to you later Draco. Right now I need to go see just what the hell Bellatrix is going." Draco didn't reply as his sister got up and walked from the hall again. Instead he merely shook his head. Then ever so quietly he slipped away from the hall and the castle. No one would notice him leaving, and if they did no one would question why. After all his sister was in charge of everything, giving Draco free reign to do pretty much as he pleased.

Cassie frowned thinking things over and diciced that she'd had enough of thinking went to retreive her cloak. Putting the hood over her face she walked out of the wards surronding her house and disapearated. She disapearated outside the wards of Hogwarts as she wanted to guage what she could from a distance, it probably would be much and if need be she could enter the grounds and just hope that Lyssa wouldn't reconise her if she didn't come to close. The Gryffindor stopped in her thoughts as she saw someone else outside the grounds, she lifted her hood ever so slightly seeing that it was Draco. Which side is he on? She asked herself bitting her lip, the Slytherin turned around and noticed her at least he didn't know who she was because of her cloak. Cassie held her wand firmly incase a duel started.

Lyssa walked out into the entrance hall, eyebrows rising at what she saw. "Bellatrix," she said evenly, though she was slightly appalled at what her aunt had managed to do in that short bit of time, "I think you've done enough. Either kill him or stop and let someone else do it." Her aunt scowled and nodded at her and in the next ten seconds Connor whatever his last was, was no more. Lyssa looked at his dead body, head tilted slightly to the side. Then with a slight nod she walked out of the front doors, sitting on the steps to the castle.
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Draco stopped for a moment once he was outside the castle's gates, wondering just what he planned to do next. It had never really occurred to him what to do. He just knew that he didn't belong with all those Death Eaters in Hogwarts, despite that his sister was in there. His attention got caught as someone appeared, not very far away from him. Slytherin instinct told him to be cautious and if need be probably run away, since really he didn't know who he could trust, and who would attack him without notice anymore. He was really just sort of stuck between the two sides, since neither fit him too well. Not to mention that his dueling skills were barely adequate in one-on-one if it ever came down to it. He regarded the cloaked person, noting they had their wand out already, as if they didn't trust him as much as he didn't trust them.

Cassie watched Draco silently, he looked doubtful as if unsure of what he wanted to do, run or confront her, the Gryffindor smiled slightly, she was unsure where Draco's loyalties lay, if she showed herself he could really go and tell the Death Eater and Lyssa and the plan for Audentia would be ruined or well the use of the cool looking blue cloaks both would put a damper on things. She was unsure how to continue but she wanted to find out where Draco's loyalties lay before showing herself, she needed to be sure he was on their side.

Lucy Prince frowned watching as a green light shot out of Bellatrixes wand and killed the boy, he was a Gryffindor in her year. She looked up at Bellatrix wondering how she could enjoy such a thing, Lucy sighed and pushed her hair back, she was unsure what side she was on, she didn't have a problem with Muggle borns, if she was truthful she'd prefer not to be on a side. But maybe that was because she wanted to be on both. The Slytherin fifth year wondered where her Uncle was, well he wasn't really her uncle he was her Mum's cousin but Lucy found it close enough.

Lyssa sat on the steps to the school a little while longer, before deciding it would be best for her to go back inside. After all who knew what sort of chaos would erupt while she wasn't there to make sure all the idiots didn't do anything idiotic. With a sigh she got up, not really wanting to. It was nice being outside, even though it was May and normally she disliked the heat. She was just walking in when she nearly ran into someone else who seemed to either be walking to the Great Hall or outside. She looked at the person, noticing it was a girl who was probably a year or so younger than her.
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Draco ran his hand through his hair, messing it up, but really he could care less at the moment. He was sure his entire appearance was rather disheveled; what harm could messing with his hair do? The silence was really bothering him, because he couldn't figure out his next move.

Cassie smiled again, they would get no-where if both of them stood here waiting for the other to do something. She rolled her eyes slightly knowing that Draco couldn't see it. "What side are you on Draco?" She asked hoping that he wouldn't reconise her voice she needed to figure out how to charm it so it sounded differently when she wanted it to sound differently. The boy jumped ever to slightly as her talking and he looked suspiciously at her. "You can trust me Draco," She said softly pushing her hair behind her ear while still not putting the hood down.

Lucy frowned and started walking outside and walked into someone. "Sorry," She said although not really meaning it, she looked up at the person she had walked into. Lyssa Malfoy, Lucy found it slightly odd that the girl was a Gryffindor her family had be Slytherin for years, though Lucy had picked up throughout the year that she'd be acting more like a Slytherin than a Gryffindor, she sat at the Slytherin table for a while too.

Lyssa shrugged when the girl said sorry. "Whatever you say," she commented lightly. "Who are you anyway, and aren't you a little young to be around here? You can't be of age yet." She raised her eyebrow at the girl.
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Draco looked down at his feet for a moment, jumping slightly and looking up when the other person said something, asked him what side he was on. Their voice told him they were a girl. He frowned for a second. He knew that voice; just whose voice was it though. He couldn't really think at the moment. He looked at her, because he could say her now that he had heard her voice. "You can trust me Draco," she went on. He brushed some hair from his face as it obstructed his vision just a bit. "How can I be sure? How do I really know that I can trust you? There's nothing telling me I can. All I have is your word, and that's not good enough to be honest." His eyebrow rose.

Lucy rolled her eyes at the older girl, she didn't know why but she didn't like her. "I'm Lucy Prince," She said brushing her hair back behind her ears. "And no I'm not over age I'm fifteen, sixteen next August," The Slytherin looked up at the Gryffindor or well former Gryffindor unsure of what to make of her, she didn't trust her, but then when it came to it she didn't trust alot of people. She'd trusted Severus, she trusted her freinds. But none of her freinds were here, they'd left when they were given the choice or rather they'd been made to go as they were underage, Lucy had ducked into a bathroom not because she wanted to stay and fight (because she had no clue which side to fight) but because she didn't really want to leave the carstle and because her brother had stayed back to fight, even though he was a Slytherin he held loyalty to the school even if their parents were on the other side.

Cassie rolled her eyes. "You. Are. Sooo. Annoying," She scowled shaking her head, she didn't want to show him her identity she didn't know whether she could trust him or not. "You are such a Slytherin," She said in annoyance wondering if Draco could tell who she was or not. "Well I don't know if I can trust you and therefor I'm not telling you who I am until I can," She said with Gryffindor stuborness, hopefully he would at least get the picture she was a Gryffindor that might help slightly. She hoped.

Lyssa made a face, studying Lucy for a second as she usually did with people. "I see, so you snuck back in the castle then, because there are no other underage children here, at least not living ones," Lyssa said after a moment, her mind drifting to that one Gryffindor 6th year that had died, Colin something. She made another face. "I would introduce myself as is courtesy, but I expect you already know who I just by the way your staring at me like that." And really, Lyssa didn't like the judgmental look Lucy was giving her.
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Draco stared at the person, trying to identify where he'd heard the voice from before when they started going on about how Slytherin he was. "Well," he said dryly once they had stopped, "you're obviously a Gryffindor…meaning there's a higher chance that I can trust you. So to answer your earlier question of my side, well let me just put it this way. I'm not on the side that made my sister into someone I hardly recognize anymore." He stopped talking then and stared at the person.

"You didn't need to kill him," Lucy said. "Wasn't exactly what I'd call fair," She shrugged. "But then maybe I'm wrong," The Slytherin brushed her hair behind her ear again as it flopped back down in front of her eye. "War," She said shaking her head, "What a stupid excuse to kill people," The girl had really been talking to herself but looked up at the Malfoy. "And yes I know you, and your family, why wouldn't I? I'm a Pure Blood,"

"Obviously," Cassie said with a smile. I'm not on the side that made my sister into someone I hardly recognize anymore. Cassie smiled again and nodded she was pretty sure that that meant that Draco was on the 'light' side, though it would hurt him to be fighting against his sister and the rest of his family. "Brilliant," Cassie lifted her hands to the hood and took it off letting it drop down behind her. She grinned wickedly at the look of surprise on Draco's face.

Lyssa looked at Lucy with an annoyed expression. "I didn't kill anyone, so don't whine to me about it. I didn't really do much of anything." Then she scowled. "Well, let's see, I didn't know who you were, but then I didn't go around too many pureblood families after my sorting since most of the pureblooded families have a tendency to be in Slytherin."
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"Brilliant," the person said taking off their hood. Draco felt his eyes go wide for a moment when he saw that it was Cassie. Then he felt like hitting himself in the face. "Why didn't I guess it was you?" he muttered, scowling and shaking his head. "I was forced to be around you enough over the last few years. Whatever, what exactly are you up to this time, since I'm guessing you've deemed me trustworthy enough as you let me know who you are."