Cassie and Lyssa: Rise of Audentia

"Slytherin aint that bad," Lucy said with a frown. "People seem to think that there never was a dark wizard who didn't come from Slytherin means all Slytherin's are evil," Lucy had to hide a smile as she talked. "You would know that though, because of your brother, I don't see much wrong with Gryffindor either, I just don't want to be one,"

Cassie smiled wickedly. "Hello Draco, and yes you should have," The Gryffindor smiled again. "Well I think I can trust you but you never know, won't it be hard to be on the other side to your sister and parents...? Sort of like how Lyssa used to be," Cassie sighed. "Anyway, I think I can trust you but I'm not talking here because it's quite easy to get over heard," She held out her arm. "take my arm Draco,"

"I'm sure it's not that bad," Lyssa retorted, getting annoyed with this teenager. "Really, none of the houses are that bad. People over-exaggerate things too much." Lyssa sighed. "Look, not that this hasn't been…enlightening, but really. I do have better things to do than take to some teenager. Thanks for relieve my boredom for like 5 minutes."
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Draco made a pained face at the mention of how his sister used to be. "Yes, it'll be hard," he nearly snapped, "but I suppose that's how it has to be." He looked at Cassie for a moment when she extended out her arm to him a bit, but moved forward and did ask she said anyway. What other real choice did he have?

Lucy scowled slightly at being called a teenager, sure she was one but she didn't like getting called one, she watched the Gryffindor Malfoy walk off and wondered what to do next, she sort of wished she had left when given the chance then she would be able to do something at least instead of being stuck in a hall. She wans't even certain her brother was still on the grounds he could possibly have left half way through the fight or at the end of it, the Slytherin sat down on the stairs watching the people around her.

Cassie disapearated her and Draco to Headquaters. This place needs a name She thought. "Draco this is Headquiaters I suppose for want or a better name," She shrugged and led him inside. "Cassie?" A voice called. "Hello Hermione," Cassie said walking into the kitchen. "Hello Draco," Hermione said smiling softly, "We can trust him," Cassie said. "Where's Ron?" She asked cause he would probably flip. "Upstairs," The Gryffindor nodded. "Draco welcome to Audentia, I suppose, our own organisation to fight the Death Eaters,"

Lyssa walked away from Lucy, not really having anything to do in mind. She didn't have anyone to talk to around. Her mind wondered to where Draco had disappeared to, but she dismissed the thought after a second. He was prone to disappearing for undetermined lengths of time anyway.
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Draco looked around the house he found himself in. "Granger," he said back to Hermione's greeting, nodding his head at her, but doing nothing else. He figured if he was going to be around these people he might as well at least be polite. "So you've started your own organization to fight Death Eaters, huh?" he commented when Cassie explained what was going on. "Why? Why not just go on using that other group?"

Lucy frowned again anf flinched as some person got hit by a spell some idiot or a Death Eater had cast. She knew most of the Death Eaters because most of them were purebloods wanting to eleminate the Muggle borns. She didn't see the point, if you continued killing Muggleborns and Muggles soon the whole human race would die out then no-one could be magical.Her family weren't Death Eaters but they supported the cause well except for her brother who had pretended to then stayed back and fought...unless he was on the other side and stayed back to fight for the Death Eaters, Lucy bit her lip and glanced around trying to see her brother.

"The Order?" Cassie asked raising her eyebrow. "Half are dead and the Death Eaters know who the other half is, so really that don't have too much of an advantage," She stiffled a yawn. "And the Death Eaters wont be expecting another group to pop up so we have a slight advantage there," She walked around the kitchen getting herself a drink. "Want something?" She asked Draco. "The order won't let us fight anyway, they say we're too younge even if we are overage, it's stupid."

Lyssa went back to the Great Hall where she seemed to be spending a lot of her time the last day or so, just in time to see an owl fly in, something attached to it's leg. It was Persephone. The owl landed on Lyssa's shoulder and she took what the owl had. It was a copy of the Prophet and taking up most of the front page were the words: LORD VOLDEMORT WINS. Lyssa looked at it for a moment.
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Draco shrugged at Cassie. "I just figure it would be easier to work from a pre-established group, rather than completely starting a new one. Although, you do have a point about the advantage of surprise." He shrugged again, looking around some more. "So how do you plan to get members for this group?"

Cassie nodded. "Yes I do," A few weeks passed and Audentia managed to get a large portion of the six and seventh years (who had been deemed trustworthy and were on our side) to Headquaters. She still hadn't figured out what her aunt had named the place. There was at least five people from each house (including SLytherin) which Cassie was gratful for because it sort of evened it out, you still got the remarks on houses but it was more of a joking way then it had been at schooling, a few people found it highly amusing that Audentia meant courage which was a Gryffindor trait, a few SLytherin's did not but the name fit, they were being couragous. Training was going quite well and alot of people had improved their spellwork, we had a group of people that led a 'department' that helped with the protective charms and that sort of thing. Cassie taught a few people some healing spells but she didn't know an awful ammount. Cassie found it amusing that the wards to Hogwarts weren't tightened till a month after and if you could get past the idiots called Death Eaters at the gate you could still get into the school. Prebhaps Voldemort didn't think that anyone would cross him.

Lyssa found herself bored after just a couple days at Hogwarts, and that made her increasingly dreadful to put up with. Without a word to anyone she had gone back to the Manor, and had taken to helping Voldemort with his plans as to what to do with people who still resisted him taking over instead. In just that short time it felt as if the world itself, and not just the things in it had darkened. It was quieter now.
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Over the next few weeks Draco settled in with all the people in the Headquarters for Audentia. And he was also starting to realize just how much of a prat he had been in the years before. He also realized just how much his skills with magic lacked. He had started working on fixing those two things. He worked diligently, since he was actually quite behind the people who had been in Dumbledore's Army at school, and had been trained by Harry. And he also worked on being politer to everyone, including the Muggleborns he had for so long disliked. It felt nice, actually.

Cassie smiled as she watched Draco work harder then he had ever done at school, she didn't know what had caused the change but she liked it, their group was getting bigger as they got more people out of Hogwarts never showing who they were unless they knew they could trust them. She wondered if the Death Eater's realised that people were disapearing right under their noses, probably not. Hermione created think black anklets that glowed the colour of the cloaks when they needed to get to Headquaters, Cassie thought they would be useful. What they needed was someone in the Death Eaters ranks but no-one really had the skill to deseive Voldemort and to get well enough into his ranks to any good.

Most of the spells Draco was working on learning he picked up fairly quickly, but there was one that was going to give him problems the minute he learned about it. The Patronus Charm. He wasn't completely sure he had a happy thought strong enough for it. He had gone through every thought he could think of and none produced more than stupid silver vapor. He frowned and leaned on the wall, looking almost as if he were pouting when Cassie walked over to him.

Cassie had started teaching people the patronus charm as once they mastered it it was a good way to get messages to and from members because you couldn't fake someone elses patronus. She didn't really care that Dumbledore had usedthe idea in the Order she was using it for Audentia. The people who had been in the DA got it quicker then others as Harry had started teaching that when he was in the DA. Cassie smiled slightly walking over to Draco who seemed to be having a problem. "Happy thoughts Draco," She said. "Cause I have no clue what you are thinking but I don't think it's happy," She frowned. "Do you have anything from when you were a kid? Playing with Lyssa or soemthing like that?" It was weird at Hogwarts she would have been boasting (or so would others) about being able to do it when Slytherin's or well Draco couldn't, she was pretty sure she had in their sixth year as well.

Draco scowled at her. "I've gone through every happy thought I can think of. None of them are working," he said, forcing himself not to snap at her. She was just trying to help after all. "I can't think of anything else. I'm out of ideas." He ran his hand through his hair. Then suddenly Draco had an idea. He concentrated on his idea and then said, "Expecto Patronum!" His eyes went wide when a shape, an actual shape, came from the tip of his wand. And then his shoulders slumped. "Tell me that's not a ferret."

"If you can't think of something Happy that's happened think of something that will make you happy," Cassie said. "No it's a Weasle," She grinned. "It would be amusing if you had a ferret though," "Who said Weasle?" Came Ron's voice from the other side of the room. "None of your buisness Ron," Cassie replied shaking her head. The next month passed quickly and in which everyone could at least produce a Patronus if not make it a message one. Walking into the kitchen one morning Cassie stopped seeing a patronus appear in front of her. "Death Eaters in Hoporgi," Came the voice of Mitchell a six year Ravenclaw, Cassie nodded and activated the bracelets. "Don't do anything stupid till we get their mitchel," She muttered. Luckily a large portion of Audentia was already at HeadQuaters. "Ok everyone the Death Eaters are in Hoporgi," She said. "A small town actually not that far from Hogsmead," A few people portkeyed in at that moment as the bracelets if you knew the password (and not just saying Portus) would allow you to portkey into base. Cassie quickly breifed everyone on what they were doing and left the younger boy (A Hufflepuff called Charlie to tell other people if they came where they were," Cassieleft the grounds and disapearated with a pop.

"Weasel, ferret, same thing," Draco muttered scowling at the floor with a frown. "Stupid rodents." Over the next month Draco caught up with the people that were ahead of him from being in Dumbledore's Army. He was just going through all the spells when his bracelet turned blue. He left the room he was in and walked to the kitchen where Cassie was standing, watching a Patronus disappearing. Other members were coming in too. "Ok everyone the Death Eaters are in Hoporgi," she said. "a small town actually not that far from Hogsmeade." Draco frowned at that.
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After a while things had started to calm down and Lyssa found herself with more free time on her hands than she liked. On one particular day she was reading a book from her personal bookshelf in the Manor's library when Voldemort came in the room. "How would you like to lead a group to take out a resistance group?" Lyssa looked up from her book. "Better than sitting around here all the time," she commented airily.

Cassie disapearated to the town and flicked her wand which changed the tone of her voice, she dicided it would come in useful. Suddenly she realised her hood was down and put it up quickly, Waiting for more people to disapearate before going into the town she quickly revised the spells she knew and wished that she could non-verbal them, something to practice when they got back. Audentia slowly approached the town their wands raised, "Stupefy," Cassie muttered softly throwing the spell at a Death Eater who was facing away from her, Audentia managed to knock out two Death Eaters (and get someone to take them back to HQ where one of the other groups that looked over Death Eaters that they captured if they ever got any) before they managed to realise they were there. Then it got abit harder and hexes and curses were flying everywhere.

Lyssa closed her book and replaced it on the shelf. "So who's all going to be going?" she asked Voldemort. "They are all in the drawing room, waiting," he replied walking from the library. Lyssa nodded at him as he did so, getting up herself and walking to said room. Upon entering she quickly took note of all the people in side. It was actually quite a small group compared to some of the other times something like this had happened, though the occasions were rare. With a shrug at all of them when they looked at her she said, "I suppose we should get this over with already." Then within the next ten minutes they were all in the town. Lyssa didn't even bother finding out the name of it, not like it mattered. She looked at the Death Eaters. "You know what to do, so have at it." The Death Eaters nodded at her and set out into the town, seeking out the resistors. Lyssa watched, keeping her face calm with practiced disinterest. She had seen this happen a few times before, but she wasn't mental enough to help. Her head turned, attention diverted when she felt something in the air change. Something was about to happen; she could feel it. Her hand tightened on her wand as the light from a spell went past her line of sight. Someone was definitely here.

Cassie was thankful for another charm on the hoods so that they couldn't be put down unless the person who wore it allowed them to be, if not for that charm it would have flipped off when she first started dueling the Death Eaters as dueling Death Eaters isn't exactly easy. Cassie wondered how many Death Eaters there were and if Lyssa was there as she fired another hex at a Death Eater turning around a corner, the hex missed and the Death Eater fired one back which Cassie deflected casting another spell. This duel continued till someone came up behind the Death Eater and hit him with a stunner. "Thanks," Cassie breathed scanning the area for more Death Eaters, The Death Eaters had to be here for a reason and she wanted to know what that reason was, if it was just raiding a Muggle Villaige or soemthing else, the villiage had a magic scense to it that told Cassie that there were witches and Wizards living there. She ducked suddenly as a green light flew overhead.

Lyssa ducked back into an alley of the town, hidden from most angles, calculating the possible outcomes of what was going, and most importantly trying to figure out who the hell these people were. It was obviously not the Order; they didn't have such a good sense of outerwear. Her hand clenched her wand tightened. It wasn't too far a shot to say that they were outnumbered. She watched with a frown, as a Death Eater she didn’t know yet got stunned. After a moment longer she had decided. The Death Eaters were skilled but so were these people and there were more of them. If the fight continued they would most likely lose. She stepped to the mouth of the alley, and out of the shadows. "Pull out!" she called to the Death Eaters before Disapparating. If they didn't hear her, well that was their problem. She appeared back at the place they had left from to begin with just as her aunt did. "What was that about?" Bellatrix hissed at her. "Would you rather have stayed and lost?" Lyssa questioned back. "Because if you would think about it that's what would have happened. Our numbers were too small to win. They had at least double." As she spoke (and Bellatrix pouted) more of the Death Eaters showed up. Lyssa counted five, not including Bellatrix or herself. Four were missing. Just great...

Cassie smiled softly as Lyssa called for a retreat, so she was here. Cassie turned to see Audentia standing their unsure of what to do next, the Death Eater's had vanished. Both Ron and a six year Slytherin had their wands pointed at stunned Death Eaters just in case the stun stopped. That took their count up to four which was quite good for a days work. "Ron, Frazer," She said adressing the two. "Take those two back to HeadQuaters and give them to Ginny, she'll know what to do," The boys nodded and set off their braclets portkeying them back to base. Cassie did a quick headcount and it turned out they hadn't lost anyone, Cassie nodded. "I want to find out why the Death Eaters were here," She told the rest of the ground. After looking around for half an hour they found that the Death Eaters had been after a group of Wizards and Witches who had long since fled the scene. "Lets go home," She muttered activating her portkey and signaling others to do the same.

As soon as she got back inside the Manor Lyssa went to her room and locked the door to it so that no one could open except her. She wasn't in the mood to put up with anyone at the moment. She fell back on her bed, arms behind her head, looking up at her ceiling. Those people…. It was going to bother her until she knew who they were. There had been no news of a new, large group, and most definitely not about any with blue cloaks.
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Draco had spent most of the short time they were fighting the Death Eaters focused on using the right spell at the right time since his dueling wasn't completely great yet. It barely registered to him that his sister was even there, even after the Death Eaters had all Disapparated, minus the ones that had been stunned. Back at HQ he sat in one of the many kitchen chairs, resting his elbows on the table. He had already been tired from all the work he was putting into being better at dueling, at reaching the same level as a lot of the others his age were at. That little bit of action had just made him more tired.

Cassie frowned slightly back at HeadQuaters. "You guys did wonderful," She said to them. "For people barely of age and not even of age that is more then anyone could expect, we managed to get four Death Eaters and escape without any major casualties, well done, relax for the rest of the day," She smiled at them and ran a hand through her hair before going up to her room, it had always been her room when she'd visisted her aunt when she was younger. Cassie spent the next few days working on non-verbal then she and Hermione tried to teach it to the others, it was a difficult feat as she could bareley do it herself and she hadn't praticed it since six year, she wasn't sure she'd learnt a thing in DADA or Dark Arts this year except even the the best of people can turn out bad.

Lyssa scowled as someone knocked on her room's door. She ignored it and closed her eyes. She still wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone. The next few days she spent a lot of time in her room, but really no one thought too much of it. She was always like that after going out. after a bit though she always got back to normal.
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Draco spent the rest of that day in his room, relaxing for the first time in a while, although his mind was telling him that there was no time for that and that he was falling even more behind the others. He pushed that thought away; cursing his pride for telling him he always had to be the best at everything. He also blamed his father for that, since he had been taught when he was younger that purebloods were always the best. Being here was enough to disprove that thought. With a sigh Draco got up and got back to work.

Cassie dicided Snape really hadn't been much help when they first learnt how to use nonverballs, she shook her head and kept practising while encouraging others to do the same. They were getting better she had to admit it was as if the fight with the Death Eaters had made them more determined. She wondered what the Death Eaters had thought about another group difying them Voldemort probably wouldn't be happy, not in the slightest. He had gotten enough trouble from the order, she wondered where the Order was and what their Headquaters was, she wanted to become Allies with them but it's not as if she's going to send an owl saying just that with the fear it would get intercepted or something of the sort, and although she knew that they were on the same side she wasn't exactly sure if she could trust them, well she could trust them but shecouldn't really trust them that most of the group was Underage and who they were.

After a few days of skulking around her room, Lyssa had finally gone back to her normal self. No one really paid any mind to it. It was normal. For some reason, going out always bothered her. Or maybe it was because that after she came back she always had to talk to Voldemort, since she was the only one he really went to for details over what had happened. Lyssa wasn't the kind to over exaggerate things, or try to make herself look impressive to him. She easily told him why they had failed in taking out the group they were aiming for; that there was a new group out there fighting back. In fact, she almost seemed bored about it.
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After a couple of days just working on basic defense and some offensive spells, Draco began working on harder ones. He had to get stronger if there was the chance they would be fighting the Death Eater again. He had barely been able to handle it last time. So, he was outside practicing one day, until he had just about worked himself to exhaustion. He sat down hard on the ground with a tired sigh, and leaned on the wall of the house behind him.

Cassie spent the next few days outside, it was nice to practice in the sun, frowning she saw something glimmering in her periferal vission, she turned to see a patronus, bounding up to her. Cassie frowned as the patronus gave the details of another Death Eater raid. Setting the bracelets off she ran into the main room of the house where people gathered. "Everyone there is another Death Eater raid thingy," She said once the group that went off to fight was there. "Hawksford. Just do as well as you did last time," after making sure she had her hood on and had disguised her voice Cassie disapearated to the town with a pop.

The Death Eater's weren't any better then last time, Audentia managed to get a few before they started being noticed, you would think they would learn from their mistakes but obviously not. Cassie ducked a red light and fired one back wondering if Lyssa was here this time or not.