Chapter 22: Luna's Nightmare

It was a nightmare for the Lovegoods, who also lived near the village of Ottery St. Catchpole.

"Mom? Dad?"

A little girl with dark golden-brown hair walked along a spiral staircase towards the first floor and gently called her mother and father. Her voice was ethereal and clear, reminiscent of the gurgling ice springs in the mountains.

She was wearing a light blue floral dress, revealing fair and smooth arms and legs, her small feet wore a pair of brown plush slippers dotted with several bird patterns.

The soft afternoon sunlight shone into the room onto the silver sequined robe she was wearing. It shimmered like diamonds and made her slightly convex silver eyes even more gorgeous and lively.

"Hm… maybe they are not around, what do you think?"

The little girl stood on the stairs and looked around the empty living room and kitchen. She rubbed her carrot-shaped earrings on her earlobes with her fingertips while seemingly talking to herself.

No, maybe…she was trying to talk to those cute earrings?

"Huh? You said mom was in her room doing some experiments?"

Suddenly, her ears moved, as though hearing something from the air. Her very light eyebrows were raised slightly and a cute smile suddenly bloomed on her little face.

"Then let's go! I just learned a nice dance yesterday; mom should like it."

While speaking, she started to walk down the stairs, quickly walking through the living room and kitchen, like a carefree elf. But soon, her expression became a little distressed.

"There are so many annoying flies today!"

The girl muttered depressively while pushing something in the air with her hands.

"Maybe I will ask mom to use a wand to drive them away later…"

When she walked to her mother's room, she noticed that her door was not completely closed. She could even see her mother immersed in her experiment.

"Mon, your door…"

Just when she was about to remind her mother out loud, a sudden chill appeared and caused the girl's voice to get stuck on her throat, as if her voice was instantly taken away.

Almost at the same moment, a trace of extreme panic appeared on the beautiful face of the girl's mother, Pandora Lovegood…

The spell was out of control.

Manic magic poured out of the tip of the wand, causing the wand to wail unbearably, Pandora's dark golden-brown hair was swept away by the strong wind, her whole body was caught in the turbulent magic vortex, unable to move. She could only feel the magic power within her body thrown into chaos by the out-of-control spell, everything had slipped irrevocably into the abyss.

Dead.

The moment she realized she was going to die, Pandora heard her daughter's childish voice at the door, and she saw the young figure staring at her blankly.

At this moment, the fear of facing death transformed into something even worse: despair. She realized the consequences of her passing, a daughter about to witness her own mother's demise.

What would happen to Luna? Would she become an obscurus? Could Xeno look after her?

These questions only had time to flash through Pandora's mind, without even having the time to regret. This mother used her last strength to miraculously escape from the turbulent magic vortex for a moment and shouted one sentence to her daughter with all her might.

"Luna! Go!"

Immediately afterward, the turbulent magical vortex swept completely through Pandora's body. The life and magical power of the caster were used as the price to quell the out-of-control spell, leaving only a howling wind that blew Luna's dark golden-brown hair.

Everything was over.

"…Mom…"

Luna was still standing in front of the door, everything happened so fast that she had not even the time to react. The mother's body, covered in bruises, fell to the floor, slowly becoming cold and stiff.

"Mom."

Luna's silver eyes were a little dull, she opened her mouth gently, and murmured over and over again, as if hoping the lifeless body on the ground would respond to her call.

Without screaming or hysteria, Luna slowly moved her feet and walked towards her mother. She knelt beside her, oblivious to the fresh blood staining her. She reached out both hands, gripping tightly onto the right hand of Pandora, which had let go of the wand, hoping to warm the coldness of death with her own warmth.

"Drip, drip drip."

In the dead silence of the room, the girl's tears flowed uncontrollably. Big tears fell on the ground, but they could not stop the overflowing blood.

"Mom."

Luna put the cold hand to her lips and spoke feebly, as if saying goodbye to her mother, and also as if she was venting.

"You have not seen my dance yet…"

At this moment, little Luna realized death for the first time, also at this moment, along with a blast of air, a Fiendfyre Thestral ignored the anti-apparition barrier in the residence and appeared directly in front of the girl's eyes.

"Neigh~!"

Seeing Luna, Heizi immediately let out a cry of excitement, before seeing the tragic situation in front of it, and immediately stopped its cry, even its pair of beautiful flaming wings drooped down.

In fact, when Maple was busy and had no time to take care of Heizi, he had allowed it to roam freely in the wilderness. For this reason, Heizi had already met Luna without Maple knowing.

When they first met, this little girl full of spirituality had attracted Heizi since she was the only human other than Maple that was not afraid of its appearance. She was even willing to be carried by it and ran along the grass field…

This was an extremely novel experience for Heizi, since its young body was not enough to carry Maple's eleven or twelve-year-old body, but for an eight or nine-year-old girl, it was just right!

Wonder if Maple would feel cheated if he knew? Hmm… maybe?

One person and one horse played again and again, their relationship becoming closer as time went by. Because of this it could roughly recognize the lady lying in the pool of blood was Luna's mother, which, in its impression, a "weird lady" that liked to do research.

"Wuu…"

Heizi let out a whimper, walked carefully to Luna's side, and lowered its head to rub Luna's tear-stained face, trying to comfort its friend in its own way. As far as Heizi knew, every time Maple encountered this gesture, his depressed mood would disappear.

But today, Heizi realized that this trick was useless, Luna just reached out and hugged its head and continued to sob softly, her sad tears flowing freely and uncontrollably.

"Wu?"

Seeing Luna's appearance, Heizi was at a loss, but it did not dare to break away. It could only flap its wings anxiously and swung its big broom-like tail uneasily.

At this moment, Maple's familiar voice was heard outside the door, making Heizi secretly breathe a sigh of relief.