Fateful Night

It was a late night, deep into the winter months, the barely living trees were swaying in the cold, frosty winds. There was no visible grass as everything was covered in a blanket of snow. There was dead silence on the streets, animals are either hibernating or had found shelter to sleep through the cold winter night. The only sound that could be heard if you listened carefully, came from a wealthy looking mansion in the middle of a suburb.

The sounds were that of screams, curses, hysterical laughter, and screams of some words that's could not be understood by normal people. There were jets of light flying around one after the other, however, none of these things that was happening could be heard by the neighbors. It was almost as if the mansion was separated from the rest of the world.

"How did you break the wards protecting this place!" muttered a man in tears, who was bleeding on the floor, leaning against a damaged mansion wall.

They were in the living hall, or at least what was left of it. There was couple of people standing around the man, there was even more dead bodies littered on the ground. From just one look you can tell that there were two groups involved in the mess, one group, the victors of the horrible fight with just as many losses as the losing side, was wearing long black robes and masks that looked like a skeleton skull. The other group, the losing side with nearly all dead, was simply wearing their nightwear, there was only the man and three children that was alive.

"As expected of the Bones family, all of them are extremely magically gifted. Each battling multiple of us and each taking at least one of us with them" said a man in a mask with a hoarse voice.

"Leave the man to me to have some fun with, you lot take the bodies with you as the dark lord instructed, also take the three kids, remember to not damage any of them, they are needed for his experiment," commanded a woman, taking off her mask.

"Bellatrix the strange," muttered the man leaning on the wall while sitting on the floor. Although he looked half dead, his mind was working on overdrive, looking for an opening to turn the hopeless situation around.

The women laughed in glee and said, "Edgar Bones, or should I say "little Edklings" as your mother use to call you? never thought you would end up like this right? You and your family has been causing the dark lord's plans to fail for far too long, well, no more. A pity your sister, Amelia, is not here, otherwise I would have loved torture her before sending you both to the underworld."

If not for speaking complete sentence, you would think she was a deranged homeless woman. She had long curly hair that was unkept, pale skin that looked no different from that of a corpse due to the all the dark magic she had experimented with. Deep, sunken black eyes that could devour anything that represented good in this world.

"If my sister was here, then the ones standing here today would not be you, Bellatrix." Said Edgar with a hint of pride in his voice. Although their family was not considered a pure-blood family, the entire magical Britain knew of the magically talented Bones family.

"Looks like you still have some strength left of you, Crucio!" the women casted the torturing curse and laughed hysterically in glee at the screams of the man. She stopped when she heard another scream shouting, "STOP, YOU BAD WOMEN! DAD!"

The voice was from one of the survive kids, a little girl of 5 years old who was standing in front of 2 babies as if trying to guarding them. Tears were streaming down her face while looking helplessly and defiant at her family's predicament. The 2 babies, one baby boy and baby girl were little different from each other, the girl was laying on her back and crying loudly disturbed by all the noise that was keeping her up, while the boy was on his stomach, also in tears but not crying, staring at the whole situation as if trying to carve every little detail into his memories.

"Oh look, you daughter is just like you Edklings, trying to be brave," said Bellatrix, then looked at the little girl and said, "don't worry little darling, I'm only making you dad sing, watch now, "Crucio!" She casted the curse again at the man and happily watched the pained expression on the little girl's face.

"Bellatrix, the bodies have been moved, only the kids and he is alive. Finish him off so we can report to the dark lord," said a man in a mask, moving towards the kids. Bellatrix, who did not wish to stop, knew that the dark lord was waiting for their arrival.

"Good bye, Edgar Bones, don't worry, we will take good care of your children, you see, the dark lord has few experiments he would like to try on them," mocked Bellatrix before casting the killing curse, "Avada Kedavra."

But Edgar knew his opportunity had come, that it was now or never, he rendered space in front of him to apparate, he could not apparate outside the anti-apparition shield, be he could move around inside it. Edgar never tried to apparate without a wand, but right now, he did not care. The other end of the rendered space was right behind the Death Eater who was moving towards the children. The green jet of light from the killing curse went right into the rendered space and hit the death eater in the middle of his back, the death eater fell dead right where he was.

Edgar did not wait for others to react to what happened and jumped into the rendered space and appeared right where the kids was, he felt pain coming from his right leg, at a glance he knew he failed and the he left his lower right leg behind. He did not care, he was already cursed and only matter of time before he dies, but he had to get the kids out. He knew the death eater that just died was the one that casted the anti-apparate wards, so Edgar rendered space again, this time, it was going straight to the ministry of magic, where his sister was at. He grabbed the nearest baby, it was his brother's daughter, his niece, Susan Bones, and pushed her through to apparate out of here. Just as he was about to grab his 5-year-old daughter, Cynthia Bones, he was hit by a spell on his back and was sent flying only to hit the wall.

"Damn its Bellatrix, you should have finished him earlier!" shouted another death eater, "Kill him now!"

""Avada Kedavra!"" two voices sounded out. Unsurprisingly, one came from Bellatrix, and surprisingly the other came from Edgar himself. Bellatrix killing curse was pure green jet of light while Edgar's was pure blue. Bellatrix's curse was aimed at Edgar while Edgards spell was aimed at his own daughter. Before he casted the curse, he whispered to her, "I am sorry, my little treasure, your dad is incompetent, but this will be better falling onto his hands. What I truly regret is that I won't be able to do the same for your brother."

The two curses hit their respective targets and both targets slumped into the ground where they were. "NO! Damn it, Bellatrix, you better get ready to explain to the dark lord how, the three children we were supposed to bring back alive ended up in just one!" shouted one of the death eaters who rushed into the room. Bellatrix was about to lash out to the one who talked, but she never got the chance to.

Because at the same time the last baby boy who did not cry, screamed at the top of his little lungs. Magic violently blasted from his tiny body, force so big that it moved scattered dead bodies sliding towards the walls, lifting up the standing death eaters from the ground and smashing them against the walls. Everything came into a silence when the baby fell unconscious.

"Accidental magic? Is it normal for it to be so big?" said one of the death eaters who had gotten back onto his feet. He checked on the baby and said, "it's still alive, there is a named bracelet on him, seems like his name is Kenneth Bones."

"Who care for its name, it probably won't live long. You know the dark lord's experiments are cruel. Forget it, just take the kid and let's leave, the Ministry Aurors will arrive soon," said another.

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