Coronation of the Black Queen by Silently Watches

Author:Silently Watches [Watches, Silently]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N. Tonks, Webfiction, Romance, Harry P., FanFiction, Completed, Adventure, Web original, Harry Potter, Viktor K., Luna L., Harry P./Luna L.
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Published: 2015-09-17T01:00:43+00:00

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Music pounded below her, and Jen narrowed her eyes at the throngs of people dancing to the beat. The more she thought about this plan, the worse it sounded, but what could she do about it now? The stage was set, the cast in position. All waited for the rising of the curtain, and then, at long last, the show could start. Only once it was begun could it end.

Lifting her right hand to her head, she spoke to the small wooden disc tied to her wrist. "Are you in position?"

"We are ready to begin whenever you are, Queen," Priest's calm voice replied, and she glanced over to a low balcony where several businessmen loitered. It was the one location where the wizard's garb would not be considered out of place.

Her eyes moved across the square to the opposite side and landed on a figure outfitted with a long red robe and a mask of the same color. If anyone was going to dress herself as the Red Death, it really should be Jen, but unfortunately she needed to be distinctive while the more experienced black mages blended into the crowd. That meant it was Menagerie who instead got to dress up as Jen's own patron. "Just get on with it already," the prickly life alchemist demanded.

Jen rolled her eyes and turned away from the party spilling out over what looked to be the entirety of the South Bank, her black trousers and hooded jacket blending in with the darkened sky and the Unspeakables' disguising charm hiding her face. Tonight was Halloween: a day of darkness, a night of power. She should be working some grand magic the way she had the previous year, or even just enjoying the celebrations of the Muggles below, but instead she had to look at a couple of rotting bodies.

This was the bait she had planted almost two weeks ago. Immediately following her date during the Edinburgh weekend, she had gone back to Priest and Menagerie's hideout to check on the more experienced hunters' progress, and to her disappointment but not surprise, they had been unsuccessful. Without some way to narrow down the search area, they were looking for one person in a city of nearly seven million, and that just was not feasible.

It was actually Menagerie who had come up with this alternative. Instead of looking for the white wizard, they would make him come to them. Several of the more experienced avatars of the Light had means by which to detect black magic being performed in their vicinity, the Greek witch had said, and so all they needed to do was use some to lure him in. Since she was the one he was looking for, it needed to be her who used the magic.

The bodies lay together inside a circle, one's head facing the other's feet, and though two weeks were enough for their bodies to start bloating and their skin to slough off, she could still identify them

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