McConn House 2033

Charles DeLanquar and his two sons, Gerald and Zachary apparated in front of the McConn residence wands drawn. Their auror robes rustled in the wind as if mocking their claim to represent law and order.

"Today, we rid the wizarding world of the last Riddle." Charles muttered low. His sons nodded. The gate creaked open and they purposely disturbed the wards set up to alert those in the house of their presence.

"KIARA RIDDLE!" Charles boomed.

---up in the master bedroom---

Ciaran sat up, pulling his wand out as the alarms went off and Charles' voice seemed to grab his attention.

"Kiara." he whispered. "The children."

Kiara felt a deep feeling of dread fall over her and the sound of her cursed last name being called and the alarms of the wards going off at being penetrated.

Kiara nodded and quickly with speed only a fear for her childrens lives could give her, she summond the emergancy portkey desiged solely for that purpose.

"I will tell Tav to take Edan and Rossa to safety" she said quickly dashing to Rossalyn's room first.

"Rossa wake up now.." she said while transfiguring her night cloths into out doorware.

"Mum?... what? what wrong? whats happening?" she she asked.

Kiara kept her voice strong "There is no time to explain.. come" she said picking her daughter up and knocking loudly on Edan and Tav's room.

"Tav! I need you to take you siblings to safely now" she said.

Ciaran hurried downstairs, his striped nightwear blowing behind him as the door burst open, flying toward him. A barely timed protego deflected the string of curses that erupted as he was knocked back as the door slammed into him.

Tav and Edan hurried from their room, their clothes already transfigured by Tav. Having heard his mother, Tav said nothing as he grabbed Rossa's hand and Edan's arm.

"I can't leave you and Da." he stated, his voice calm despite the sounds of the battle going on downstairs.

Kiara shook her head having none of it. "Don't argue with me Tav, You can and you will. Your Father and me will fight better with out have to worry about any of you getting hurt"

That sound of the door bursting opened Kiara's eyes widened. "Go now Please Tav while you still can. I need you to take care of them" she said motioning to Rossa and Edan.

She shoved to Portkey in to his hand. "Go out the back door to the nearest exit of the wards, and don't look back!!"

Not being able to let her husband fight the purgers on his own Kiara turned around and ran to the front of the house. Holding back tears, her wand was drawn and ready to fight.

"Expluso!" a massive wave of energy crashed in the direction of the Purgers.

Nodding, Tav took the portkey and leaned forward to kiss his mum's cheek. Without looking back, he pulled Rossa and Edan into the kitchen and out the back door. Edan was softly crying as they portkeyed away to a safe location.

Charles blocked the energy wave, his magic powerful thanks to both his extensive experience and the help Cedwyn Rosier had been.
"Your children shall be taken and you will be slain." he stated. "The Damned shall be slaughtered!"

Ciaran staggered to his feet, his hand going to his side. The explosion had ripped apart the door as it had hurtled toward him and despite the protego, a splitter of wood had stabbed into his side. Already blood was dripping down his thigh.
"Caro cineri aduro!" he shouted, using the spell his uncle had taught him. A fiery ash swept down from the sky to envelope the nearest purger, who happened to be Gerald. He screamed in agony as his flesh was consumed by flames and changed into ash.

Charles cursed and sent a "Sectumsempra" at the couple.

Kiara eyes went a blaze when she saw Ciaran hurt and heard the spell cast.

"Not if I don't have anything to say about it" she all but growled as she stepped in front of Ciaran and put up a powerful sheild that deflected the awful slashing curse.

Not really careing about unforgivables at this point she riased her wand. "Avadra Kedavra!" she would get more creative later.

Backing up still keeping the sheild up she edged to Ciarans side. "Are you alright love? " she asked worry and fear evidant in her voice.

Charles dodged the Avadra Kedavra with a shield spell and immeadily fired back a Crucio. His son, Zachary did the same.

Ciaran nodded, pulling the wood from his side and casting a shield against the first Crucio. The second hit him in the side and he screamed in pain.

"They all will die, Kiara. Your bitch of a mother is already gone. Your little brats will be next. And now your worthless auror has failed to protect you."

Kiara saw red but her eyes turned black "No!" she stepped in front of Ciaran again and muttered a spell she had been working on that was meant to block out the curiatus.

"Tutus Olympus!" ((translation: Safe Heaven))

A white bubble surrounded them, with runes glowing red around the bottom.

Then wandlessly she sent out curse the forced to enter a nightmare filled coma, followed by several powerful explosion hexes.

"My children with be safely out of your reach I can guarantee you that. The day you get them is the day hell freezes over" she hissed.

Then holding out her hand a blue angry hot fire erupted from her finger tips. With a gesture from her hand as massive powerful fire ball of phoenix powered magic hurdled towards the purgers.

Charles more then anyone, and his son would be the only ones about to feel the scorching heat of it.

Moments after it was cast she went to Ciarans side "Ciaran.... love, Leave while you are still able..... it is me they want.. your hurt...please go to the children" she said, her voice filled with sadness, desperation, and barely suppressed anger at the situation.

Did she believe he would listen to her, not for a moment. She wished he would though. However though she felt herself a bit if a hypocrite, had he told her to leave she would laugh and tell him "not a single chance in hell"

She knew the chances of her getting out of this alive were at the moment less then 50%. But she wouldn't go down without a hell of a fight, they wanted the last Riddle in the bloodline they were going to get her, and oh boy would they.

If either of them hurt Ciaran one more time that would see exactly what they were dealing with. A powerful angry witch, who was a Wife and mother... Merlin pity those who crossed the line and harmed her husband and children.

Charles was able to avoid and block most of the curses, but the fire hit him full in the chest and he staggered backward. His son screamed before dropping into the nightmare induced coma.

Ciaran shook his head. "We are meant ta be together, Ara. Ta the end." He pulled himself up and shook his head as if to clear it. "Ya are me wife, lass. I'll protect ya until me last breath.

He fired off several curses at Charles, who deflected them with shields he seemed adept at conjuring.

Kiara sighed holding back tears before sending out a curse of her own back again at Charles, a curse that caused ones blood to heat up very quickly, it was incredibly painful.


Kiara moved in a defensive position at Ciarans injured side, she will be damned if she let another curse hit him.

"Then we seem to have a problem Love" her voice was tight from holding back her emotions."For you are my dear sweet husband, and I'll be damned if I let anything happen to you.... I mean it" she said as she tighted her grip on her wand

Then she cast another sheild charm bracing for any spells the came there way.

"I love you" she said with a simle, a smile that didn't appear on her face quite as much as it used to. The deaths of Eglantine, Sevastyan and eventally Viper had broken her some what. When before her smiled could be seen to anyone was then reserved for her husband, children, and adopted father only. Even then it became a rarer occerence.

"Only Merlin knows how much" she murmered...

Charles blocked the curse, breathing heavily from his injuries. He shot an killing curse at Kiara and then a fire spell at Ciaran.

Ciaran deflected the fire spell but was weakening steadily due to the blood oozing from his injury. A brief smile split his face though as he heard Kiara's words. Yes... this was the woman he had fallen in love with 15 years earlier...

Kiara had no choice but to jump out of the way of the killing curse, the resonding force of the curse forced her into a wall and she hit her head.

Wincing she rose and notice a stream of blood come down her forehead.

"err, you will not get me that easily", she waved her wand and transfigured a number of bits of rubble into daggers and she charmed them to attack Charles.

Then stummbled her way over to Ciaran again.

Both encouraged and disappointed that Kiara had been injured, mainly since she came back and so quickly, Charles barely deflected the daggers, causing them to shoot back at Ciaran.

The auror dodged the aimed knives and protected both himself and Kiara with a shield.

Using the spare moment in the battle Kiara conjured bandages over her head wound and multipul ones on Ciarans side in hopes of stoping the bleeding.

The Saturn her Pheonix sored above, she talons were out treched as she looked ready to dive bomed Charles.

"No...." Kiara muttered she she tried to focus on her bonded, but her head injury blurred her link with the bird

Then Saturn attacked talons out reached.

Seeing the charging phoenix, Charles conjured a sword and swung it's sharp blade at Saturn. There was an awful smell of burning feathers and a crunch of bone as the sword cut into the bird.

Ciaran, knowing of the link and bond between the bird and her mistress, leapt up into the air to catch it and perhaps save it. Charles swung again, and almost as if in slow motion, the tempered steel met with Ciaran's side. Blood, sweat and pain erupted as the purger slashed Ciaran's side open. A glimpse of bone and the underlying organs and tissue could be seen as he was tossed as some forgotten weed against the wall. He struggled to breath as blood poured from the wound. His head lifted slightly to curse Charles and to see his beloved wife one last time... but his vision faded and soon so did his breathing.

Kiara gasped and grasped her chest as if in pain when the sword killed her beloved Phoenix.

Then she saw one of her worst fears as Ciaran dashed out to catch Saturn and if not a second after she saw the sword hit her husband and she saw him fall that she let out a blood curdling scream and she bolted over to where he lay.

"No! Ciaran, stay with me.... please open your eyes" she pleaded as she tried to heal the wound.

But he had already stoped breathing..... "No... please...you're hurting me.... you said you wouldn't leave me!"

Clunching her fisted she eyes turned black as she turned to face Charles. Standing infornt of her Husbands fallen form.

"You son of a *****..." she cursed, having no one to protect anymore Kiara held no reservations.

All three unforgivalbles came out of her wand, and she advance on him with a transfigured swords and sent out multipule explosion curses one after the other.

She didn't care for her own safety any longer she just wanted to kill him.

Charles felt no joy when he turned to watch Kiara's final moment's with her husband. His own son's dead body lay not far from his feet and his other son would no doubt remain in his coma until death took him. His eyes closed momentarily as he battled with his own inner emotions. Yes, he loved his sons and yet...his eyes opened. He had to go on, take the moment as she was weakened. But then he was unprepared for how quickly the woman recovered.

He was able to shield himself from two of the curses, with the third slamming into his already injured body. As the curses rained down against his conjured shields he cast a fire curse at the furious witch and attacked her with his own sword, Ciaran's blood still dripping down its razor-sharp edge.
"You fight well, Kiara." he whispered, respect in his words. "But like those before you... your time is at an end."

Tears cursed down Kiara's face she didn't bother to block the fire curse, it made her stumble but nothing more.

She blocked is attack with the sword, however it did manage to catch her arm and she started bleeding heavely.

"I know.... but I am going to try my best and bring you down with me!"

Then she cast a curse she swore she would never use.

"Sectumspra!"

Charles' superior strength allowed him the upper hand physically as he swung again and again at Kiara, but the cutting curse struck him several times across the chest and arm before he blocked it.
"You may try, Riddle. But you will fail. They all have." he muttered, staggering back, before charging again with his magically sharpened sword.

Kiara breathed heavily as she took quite a beating under the attack of Charles.

"My... name..... is .......not RIDDlE!" she screamed fighting back with everything she had, ignoring the cuts and slashes she recieved that were bleeding freely.

"It.... is ..Delanquar-McConn!" putting more magical energy into her swing with the sword.

She also drew a dagger and throw it.

Charles cried out as the dagger evaded his defenses and embedded itself into his upper shoulder. His arm went limp as the major blood vessel was severed and the sword clanked to the floor. His other hand with his wand rose to curse Kiara with several potent spells and he staggered as blood poured from the wound.

Kiara seemed to be gasping for a breath now and she all but collaped when Charles cursed her.

"I.... told......you.... you are going down........with me you S.O.B" she said in exsaustion. yet still focusing on Charles, dispite her swimming vision.

Charles yanked the dagger from his shoulder and collapsed against the wall. The proud purger who had burst into the home only twenty minutes previously was now unrecognizable...

"I suppose even the oak falls..." he whispered.

Kiara dropped to her knees, with her remianing energy she cast a disarming charm on him.

"You are nothing but a murderer.... I have never killed anyone up until know you know.... and you are they reason my family was falling apart.

"You are.... no more of a dark...... wizard then me and my children....., you kill with out remorse. I can think of no greater tournment for you" she gasaped out.

Charles sighed, leaning back against the wall. He was now wandless and thus defenseless. And yet he was at peace. His sons and wife would continue the fight and the purging... The empire would continue to grow. The DeLanquars would rule the earth.

Blood ran down the corner of his mouth and he laugh softly.
"And to think... the name DeLanquar is apart of your own..." he muttered, his eyes closing.

Raewyn DeLanquar entered the house, her wand pointed out in front of her. A tall woman, with thick brown hair, she blinked in the dim light and whispered "lumos". No gasp left her lips as she stepped over the bodies of her two sons. Another of her sons and her final daughter followed after her. Lalasa rather roughly rolled over her brother's comatose body, nodding that he was still alive to her mother.
Chaz was the first to notice Kiara and Charles, his youthful face flushing at the sight of his bleeding father.

"Mother..." he whispered. Raewyn hurried forward to see her husband, her heart beating furiously in her chest. Her sons and daughters she could bear to loose... but not her beloved husband.

Hatred fill her eyes and she rose to turn to Kiara. She pointed her wand at the other woman and disarmed her, not even smiling when the smooth wand flew to land in her palm.
"Crucio!" she screamed.