The Next Generation

[Ms. Elsewhere]

Geneve smiled a wicked smile. She stepped forward and punched Liam in the stomach, winding him. He bend over, clutching his chest, unable to breathe. He fell to his knees. Geneve pulled a viale from out of her cloak. She knelt down beside Liam, paused for a moment and then grabbed his face in her hands.
"Breathe!" she said, holding his cheeks between her left hand, and the viale with the other. Liam gasped, and then as he managed to breath out, something escaped from his mouth - it was green and purple and orange and it swirled like smoke. It rolled into the bottle and Geneve used her thumb to cork it. She let go of LIam's face roughly, and he fell to the ground.
"Weak little boy." she scoffed. "You'll never master your magic if you leave yourself so open like that. But of course. It's not your fault. You think too much with your heart." She stood up. Liam rolled over onto his side, fumbled for his wand, which Geneve promptly pulled out of his hand when he retrieved it.
"Now don't be like that. Shhh.... lay still. I have to modify your memory." And Geneve pointed Liam's wand at him.

[*Riley*]

Liam pulled hr wand away, and stole it, she was defenceless

'Expelliarmus!"

Geneve flew through the air and landed face down.

"Oh your going to regret that"

"I don't think so."

[Ms. Elsewhere]

"But not today." she said, and she stood up. Then, she suddenly fell to her knees, clutching her throat. "No not yet!" she groaned. Liam watched as Geneve's face started to bubble. He started to back away, horrified. Geneve covered her face, and in a moment she revealed it again; but it wasn't Geneve. It was a pale faced woman with blonde hair! The woman stood up, a good foot taller than Geneve would have been, the robes on her body hung like a small dress and the top was pulling apart from the width of her shoulders. She scowled at Liam, straightened up, and in a moment, she had disapparated, leaving him completely confused.

[Ms. Elsewhere]

The woman reappeared in the room where Geneve had been held captive. Her father was sitting next to her; they had been talking. The man stood up when the woman arrived.
"Did you get the Veela magic?" he asked, surprised to see her so soon. The woman took out the viale of swirling smoke. The man turned to look back at Geneve, then back at the woman. "I've added the blood to the potion. All we need now is what you have, and what the others have been sent for; Valencia's magic. Give it to me. " he said, taking hte viale. "I will add this to the potion."

[choki]

As the debris and smoke cleared from the fallen wall, Nikolaus turned to see the young boy he had just 'rescued'. He had a stunned face but other than that, the boy was well and sound.

Nikolaus then turned his attention towards the others, where he saw an older witch standing over the young boy. Before he could act, the woman had disapparated, leaving the poor boy in shocked. Thinking it would be best not to frighten the kid further, Nikolaus left him alone. "He will be much safer out of the war zone."

With that, Nikolaus disapparated with a loud crack, and reappeared in between Galena, Valencia and the two cousins of the latter.

[DucksRMagical]

Galena let out a shriek as Nikolaus apparated next to her. One of Valencia's cousins took the opportunity to curse her while she wasn't paying attention. The curse hit her in the arm and it started bleeding profusely.

"Damn," she muttered, while shooting another curse at Valencia's cousins. "What have you been up to?" she asked Nikolaus without taking her eyes off Valencia's cousins. She was a bit suspicious about Nikolaus. Why did he just apparate next to her?

[FawkesthePhoenix]

Valencia elbowed Nikolaus out of the way as a curse shot straight toward them.
"Make yourself useful or atleast get out of the way!" she hissed. Her cousins were advancing.

[choki]

Valencia's cousins smiled seemingly at Nikolaus as they advanced. Like before, their curses avoided him. Had their guess be right all along - that the stranger man in furs was one of the bad guys after all? His behaviour was suspicious at times but he had not done anything to them...yet. Their train of thoughts were interrupted when all of a sudden, he acted.

Taking a big stride forward, he swirled around and faced the two witches. Galena appeared a bit surprised but quickly regain her composure while Valencia was all ready to curse him. However, he was much swifter than both of them. But Valencia was not going to go down just like that. She braced herself for any curse from Nikolaus and at the slightly later moment, casted a stunning jinx. As expected, his curse hit them first but instead of feeling any sort of pain or discomfort, they experienced a weird tingling sensation akin to being wrapped around by an invisible cloth.

Nikolaus saw Valencia's jinx coming and thought of nothing about it. He was already being protected by his own magic and surely it was going to be deflected like the rest. He was about to turn around to face the cousins when he was hit by the jinx squarely on the chest.

"Not again...how she did it" was all that he thought of before losing conscious and hitting the snow on his back. Valencia's spell had once again forced its way through his own protective charm, a feat only hers ever did.

Valencia's cousins, amused by the short and brief interruption, carried on their attacks. But now, their curses were being bounced off from the intended target, the same as it did, when they aimed at the man in furs.

[*Riley*]

Liam was shocked and horrified.

When the lady took his magic it felt like she as making him swollow fairy floss, he suddenly felt very weak and slumped down next to Arthur waiting for help..

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

"Get away from me..." Arthur mumbled and stumbled away from Liam.

[Ms. Elsewhere]

Suddenly, in the side of the house, a horrible scratching sound echoed out into the air. A single word etched in fire covered the entire wall. "Return" it said. The cousins stopped attacking, ran out of the way, and a moment later, disapparated.

They reappeared in the house where Geneve had been taken.
"What's the big idea, calling us back??" yelled the woman of the two cousins.
"Ya! We were getting close! Her magic is so strong, it even penetrates protective spells! She will be stronger with it!" the man said frantically.
"Enough!" shouted the woman who had previously posed as Geneve using Polyjuice potion. She had redressed into long, deep red robes, and her blonde hair was tied back in a plait and red ribbon. She ducked down to the floor and drew a circle with chalk. She placed 4 candles around the circle. "We must start now. The potion is ready with Valencia's magic. Geneve can battle her herself, and steal it when the time is right. You will need to tie her up, now. Bring her to the circle, it's time to start the transformation." the woman turned to Geneve's father, who paused only for a moment, before wrenching her up from the couch by her wrists and dragging her across the room. Geneve screamed.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Arthur peered out from under the rubble. All was silent.

[Ms. Elsewhere]

Geneve's father covered her mouth to stop her screaming, but she still fought and struggled against him. He set her down in the circle, the others already positioned at each candle. They were black candles, and their light wasn't orange, it was deep green. The blonde woman grabbed her and bound her arms behind her back, and then her ankles to her arms. Geneve lay on the floor breathing heavy from struggling. The woman lifted Geneve's head, and plugged her nose. She squeezed Geneve's mouth open and poured in a dark potion down her throat. Geneve coughed, spraying the woman in the face, but a fair amount got down. She gasped and gagged; it tasted like blood. She couldn't speak, she couldn't see, all she could do was listen to the chanting and feel her stomach contort in pain.

[DucksRMagical]

Galena stopped dueling as soon as the cousins disaparated, but she did not lower her wand. She stared at the word 'Return' etched in fire before turning to Valencia.

"What's going on? Where did they go?" she asked.

[FawkesthePhoenix]

Valencia was white. "They're going to start bringing Voldemort back. They still need my magic, but if they got the others......." Valencia trailed off. Then she stalked off purposefully towards the house.