The Malfoy Twins And The Quest For The Amulet

Prologue: Two Girls, One Quest

Allegra Malfoy sighed as she stepped out of her dormitory and out into the Slytherin Common Room. It was late afternoon and the students usually had a three-hour period between the end of classes and supper. The sixteen-year-old student sat down on the couch and decided to start reading for her Potions class.

"Hey, Malfoy," an all-too-familiar male voice said behind her.

Without flinching, Allegra replied sharply, "What´d you want, Firecross?"

Without missing a beat, Zack Firecross, her twin´s mortal enemy, told her, "For your twin sister to lay off."

"You know I don´t have a problem with you, Zack, but I can´t help you if you rub my twin the wrong way. Remember, in many ways, we´re identical but in many other ways, we´re polar opposites."

Zack joined Allegra on the couch and said, "Thanks for the warning. Didn´t know you cared."

"I don´t...I just think you ought to know what you´re in for. While I´m known for my stability, Amelea´s a very volatile girl. Anything could happen with her. The only thing that´s predictable about her is that she´s unpredictable, if you get my drift."

"Yeah, I get it..." the dark-haired boy replied as he began to read his own Potions book.

"Besides, I have bigger fish to fry. I don´t have the time to worry about your sorry arse," Amelea pointed out.

Allegra didn´t really socialize with the other Slytherins. They seemed unintelligent and lame, although her father came from the same House. Despite the fact that her Slytherin-like qualities were dominant in her personality, she preferred the company of Gryffindors like her twin sister Amelea. She, her twin and Rebecca Weasley, a friend of hers and Amelea´s, were the Rebellious Trio of Hogwarts, refusing to conform to the rest of their Houses and socializing with everyone except the Firecrosses, the snootiest, nastiest and meanest of Hogwarts. They basically hung out with whomever they wanted and were not limited by their House loyalties. She remembered being a first year with Amelea and meeting Rebecca and it brought a smile to her face.

"Is that a smile I see from Slytherin's resident Princess of Darkness?" Zack asked as he looked up from his book.

"No, it's just your imagination playing tricks on you," Allegra replied as she stood up and headed for the Portrait Hole, her face reverting to its sullen expression.

"Where are you going, Allegra?" Zack asked.

"The owlery," she replied as she walked, not bothering to turn back.

~*~

Amelea was in Gryffindor Tower with a few of her housemates, in the girls´ dormitory. With her were Kiara Granger-Weasley and Amarah Smythe. They were talking about boys instead of doing their homework. It was a welcomed distraction, not only from the schoolwork but also from a very big problem.

"Okay, so I think that the cutest in Gryffindor is Mark Wood," Amarah confessed, "Then Drew Potter, of course!"

"Mike Weasley...definitely cute!" Amelea said, "Red hair's a turn-on..."

"You like Andrew Potter and Michael Weasley??? You like my cousins??? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!" Kiara exclaimed, looking absolutely horrified.

"No," Amelea corrected Kiara, "We don´t have any romantic interest in them...we just said they were cute..." Summer nodded in agreement.

Amarah shook her head and declared, "If there´s anyone who´s cute, it´s Jay Barringer!"

"That´s too weird! He´s like my brother," Amelea said.

"The Jay thing, it´s not any weirder for you than if it was Mike for Kiara," Amarah pointed out.

"It´s weirder with Mike!" Kiara said, "Besides, he´s my first cousin...you guys are just distant cousins."

"His grandmother and my grandfather are cousins...that still makes him related to me!" Amelea said.

"If there´s anyone that´s good-looking around here, it´s Zack Firecross," Kiara stated, much to the dismay of everyone else in the room.

"Kiki, he´s the spawn of the devil!" Amelea exclaimed, "How could you say that?"

"It´s easy...just repeat after me..."

Amarah quickly cut Kiara off as she said, "Never mind. Don´t say it again. Amelea´s right. He´s a Firecross. A pureblood Slytherin...he doesn´t associate with us Gryffindors. That´s no big loss for us. Besides, I hear he fancies someone already. He could get any girl in the school. It´s not like Kiki over there could stand a chance."

"HEY!" Kiara called out as she slugged Amarah with a pillow.

"She´s right, just forget about him...and don´t say his name in my presence again," Amelea said, "Besides, we have Potions work to do."

There were several moans and groans from Amarah and Kiara along with mumbled words like `party pooper´ and `loser´. Despite their discontent, the girls began to work on their homework.

We'll see how long this lasts, Amelea thought bitterly.

~*~

Right before dinner, the twins met in the Entrance Hall. They both sat on the bottom step of the Main Staircase.

"Aunt Joey's owl...this doesn't seem right," Amelea said, "She seemed panicked."

Waving the envelope like a fan, Allegra replied, "Yeah, scribbled quickly instead of neatly written...what's up with that? And the whole 'Stay in the castle, don't go to Hogsmeade' thing? Something definitely doesn't fly here."

Just then, Kiara walked over to them with a black envelope.

"This came for you two in the owlery I thought I'd deliver it to you," she explained, handing the black envelope over to Allegra.

Amelea smiled at her housemate appreciatively while Allegra looked at the second letter in her hand suspiciously.

"Thanks, Kiki!" Amelea said, "I'll catch ya in the Great Hall soon...I just have to talk to my sister about something."

Kiara nodded and disappeared behind the two large doors leading into the Great Hall.

"Now, about this letter..." Allegra said looking at the black envelope, "This doesn't look like a typical letter. Maybe this has something to do with why Aunt Joey's so freaked out?"

Amelea sighed. "Maybe someone likes to use extreme Muggle stationary and red calligraphy ink?" she commented as she looked at the way the letter was addressed.

As she tossed the envelope to her twin, Allegra said nervously, "You open it!"

Amelea's lips curled, forming a smirk familiar to everyone at Hogwarts. Their father once described it as a combination of his famous smirk and their mother's bright smile.

"A letter's making you nervous, Al?" Amelea said softly.

"No!" Allegra denied vehemently, "Just open it!"

Amelea did as Allegra said and opened the letter. Her sky blue eyes grew wide and she bit her lip. Without saying a word, she passed the letter to her twin, whose face remained expressionless as she read but within the depths of her grayish-blue eyes, there was fear.

"Watch where you go
Watch what you do
I came for your parents
Now I'm coming for you
If you think you can play the hero part
Here is a challenge not for the faint of heart
Bring whomever you desire
I will see to your destruction
Sneak out of the castle
And meet me at midnight
In the center of the Forbidden Forest
For tonight is your ultimate test"

Allegra muttered a few curse words under her breath and told Amelea, "We've got a little bit less than six hours...what are we gonna do?"

"I don't know, you always came up with the plans," Amelea replied with a shrug, "What can we do?"

"Well...I've been known to skip meals so I'll go to the library to check something out that might help us while you have dinner...you have too many friends that'll miss you and we don't want anyone suspecting anything right now."

"Allegra...you gotta eat something!"

"I'll be fine, Amelea! Now GO!!!"

Allegra pushed her twin sister in the direction of the Great Hall's entrance. Amelea began to walk in, looking nonchalant and cool. Summoning her rucksack, Allegra went in the opposite direction and headed for the library.

~*~

Amelea quickly walked over to the Gryffindor table and slipped into her seat between Summer and Kiara, across from Amarah, Christopher Brady and Katia Starrwinger. She scanned the immediate area and found that her friends were all deep in discussion. Chris and Katia seemed like they were laughing about something, Amarah and Summer were eating but had these intense looks on their faces, which only happened while they were communicating by telepathy. Further down the table, she found Andrew with his cousins, a few of them were friends of hers and Allegra's. Kiara was right there with them, talking about Quidditch among other things.

"Hey, Malfoy, you're late!" Jayson Barringer said from a few seats away.

Amelea looked up at him and smiled, shaking her head. She began to serve herself and eat, not particularly caring to join into any of the ongoing conversations.

According to his mother, the great former Quidditch player and Charms professor at Westminister School For Underage Witches and Wizards in France, she had been the first Malfoy ever sorted into Gryffindor. It had been weird at first, especially since her father used to hate the Weasleys, especially Kiara's father. She adjusted and became friends with the Weasleys at Hogwarts with her. Her twin seemed to make the same adjustment, making friends with Gryffindors and such. They were a new generation of Malfoys and they wanted things to be different. So did the Weasleys.

"Hey, Amelea, where have you been?" Amarah asked as her face relaxed and she broke the telepathic link with Summer.

"Talking to my sister," she replied between bites, "We had to discuss a family thing."

Summer smiled and chimed in, "Is everything all right?"

Amelea nodded, smiling brightly as she chewed. "Everything's all right, I think," she replied, her stomach feeling a little queasy because it was a far cry from the truth.

The meal went on as usual but the young blonde witch knew that something was going to happen soon that would change everything for everyone she cared about.

Please just get Al and me out of this mess, she prayed as she ate, hoping it would ease her troubled mind.

~*~

Allegra scanned the History section of the library, looking for the book called 'Legends of the Wizarding Past'. She found it and took it to a table nearby. She put her book bag on the ground by her chair and placed the old book on the table. She sat down and opened the book to the table of contents, looking for 'Starlight Amulet', her mother's only method of protection from the Dark Lord. She scanned down the list and found what she was looking for. She turned to page 397 and began to read. She took her wand, summoned her quill and parchment from her bag and took notes, since she was too lazy to bend over and get it with her own two hands.

What the hell is this? she thought to herself as she wrote, The Starlight Prophecy...The Crystal Tracker Spell...wow...methods of failure?

~*~

Later on during the meal, Kiara glanced over at the Slytherin table, more specifically, at Zack Firecross.

"Hey, you think your sister could hook me up?" the slim redhaired Weasley asked Amelea.

The blonde girl gave Kiara a horrified look and replied, "Why would you want that? That guy's pond scum!"

Bianca Weasley piped up, "Sure, but he's got a bod like a god!!! Oh, what I wouldn't do to see the man under the robe!"

Andrew glared at his younger cousin as Shawn, another cousin, said, "Bite your tongue, Bianca! You're too young to be speaking like that!"

"He barely qualifies as a man," Anna-Elizabeth Weasley commented from farther down the table.

Gabrielle Longbottom, a good friend of Bianca's, sighed and stated, "I hear it's not the size of the package that counts, it's what you do with it!"

"So Gabs, does that mean you'll date me?" Ian Firecross called out from the Slytherin table.

"NO!" Gabrielle yelled back.

Ever since Kyle Wood spread the rumor that Ian's 'package' was small, he had a hard time with the ladies. He tried to get back at Kyle but his older brother Mark always came to the rescue.

"You know what Muggles say about guys with big feet?" Shawn asked jokingly.

A chorus of people at the Gryffindor table replied, "No!"

"Sorry for asking," the seventh year Gryffindor said, "I thought you knew."

"I know!" Nicole Boot replied from the Ravenclaw table.

Anna-Elizabeth, who was a friend of Nicole's, smiled knowingly.

"So what do the Muggles say about guys with big feet?" Mark pressed on.

Anna-Elizabeth and Nicole nodded at each other and announced in unison, "They have big dicks!"

Everyone from second year and up erupted in giggles. While all the chatter and the laughter went through one ear and left the other, Amelea was hoping Allegra came up with some answers...

~*~

Zack Firecross observed the Gryffindors sitting across the room. One of them caught his eye. Amelea Malfoy was a challenge. She was tough, sharp-witted, beautiful...and a halfblood Gryffindor. There were a few problems with that. His father hated the Malfoys and considered them as inferior to the Firecrosses as any Muggle-born witches and wizards. The fact that his father worked for the Dark Lord was a possible turn-off as well. She always considered him her rival. He stood for everything she was against. That always caused problems.

That evening, he noticed that a spark was missing from her eyes. She seemed distant, distracted...and he knew exactly why.

Good job, daddy dearest! he thought bitterly, Way to go, you power hungry bastard! To think that I'm next in line...

He contemplated tattling on the Malfoy twins. If Professor Snape caught them sneaking out, they might have detentions but they'd still live...

Where the hell's Allegra? I have to tell her this, he thought as he scanned the table.

"Hey, Zack, what's up with you?" Kathryn, his older sister, asked.

He quickly blinked and replied, "Nothing, Kat...I just remembered I...I forgot something in the library!"

The young blond student grabbed his book bag and bolted out of the Great Hall.

~*~

Allegra was getting caught up in the Legend.

"In case of extreme emergency, the Heir of the Amulet has the power to track it down across time, find a safe time period, take the Amulet from there, travel with it to take it back to the present time and return it after its purpose has been served. If the current owner's predecessor has passed on, the Amulet will multiply in the hands of the current owner during the specific time period..." she read to herself.

"The Almighty Allegra Malfoy's too good to eat in the Great Hall?" a smug voice said behind her, interrupting her reading.

Allegra turned sharply to face Zack and replied, "You're damn lucky I'm not Amelea! She would have cursed your sorry arse before you could move a muscle."

"Listen to me, Malfoy," he said firmly, avoiding the coldness in her voice and the intense look in her eyes, "You need to hear me out here. This is important."

"Nothing's important coming from you," Allegra shot back as she scribbled notes onto her parchment.

Zack sat on the chair next to the one Allegra was sitting on and glanced at her notes.

"The Starlight Amulet? You aren't seriously thinking of...trying anything, are you?" he asked her.

"It's none of your business, really. Why do you care?" Allegra snapped, still focused on writing her notes.

"But I read that only the Heir can..." Zack began to say but stopped when he began to put two and two together.

"Yeah, genius," Allegra told him sarcastically, "Amelea and I are the Heirs. The Amulet's been passed down from mother to daughter on our mother's side of the family....my mother's had it since her mother died and when she dies it goes to one of us."

"So this is the test for the two of you, huh? Like your mother escaping the Dark Lord?"

Allegra dropped her quill, turned to face Zack and repeated her earlier question with more intensity. "Why the hell do you care? Your father works for the enemy and he's probably gonna kill my mother!" she said harshly.

"Get your scrawny arse out of my sister's face, Firecross," Amelea's firm voice came from in front of Allegra and Zack.

Zack looked up and replied pointedly, "If isn't the other half of the wonderful Malfoy duo. Would you believe I was actually gonna offer to help? Maybe if you decide to treat me better..." The blond guy began to stand and leave but was intercepted by Amelea.

"Don't mess with me, Firecross," she hissed as she stood face-to-face with her rival, "You can't even begin to imagine the world of pain I can cause you if you do anything to me or my sister."

"Is that a threat?" Zack asked lightly.

Amelea shot back sharply, "No, it's a promise."

Allegra, who was still sitting down, watched the whole confrontation while she began to gather her notes and stuff them into her bag.

"C'mon, Al," Amelea called her twin as she walked out of the room.

As she bolted out of the room, Allegra quickly replied, "Right behind you, Lea!"

~*~

The twins walked around the castle, trying to figure out where to go to review their plans. By 7:13PM, the pair ended up inside a broom closet.

"Lumos!" Allegra whispered, pointing her wand at her notes to show Amelea.

Amelea looked over everything and whispered, "Wow..."

"Time travel, huh? I think that's wicked!" Allegra told her twin.

"This looks really risky if you ask me," Amelea said, "What if we change the course of our family history? What if..."

"That's a risk we'll have to take to get our Mum back, right?" Allegra cut her twin off with a fierce tone of voice.

Amelea nodded and replied quietly, "Yeah..."

"This is really quite interesting, though, isn't it?"

"Twenty-five years...that's a significant amount of time, nine year before our birth."

"Yeah, and Aunt Joey's in her fifth year too! We could fit right in with her class!"

Amelea just kept nodding and smiling.

"That's it then? You don't have anything to add?" Allegra asked her twin.

"Nope," Amelea told her, "We just sneak out and avoid Peeves...I could try to get Drew's invisibility cloak but I don't really want to get caught in the guys' dormitory."

"Nope, that's fine, we can do without it," Allegra agreed.

Amelea asked, "Is this a total secret or what, Al?"

"Yes...not a word to anyone...this is all about us right now, Lea...you can leave a note for Jay. He'll cover for us."

"Right...are you sure we can't bring help? Drew's got his invisi -- "

"No," Allegra cut Amelea off, "Just us. We can't endanger anyone else."

With a sigh, Amelea nodded in agreement.

The twins left the closet and headed for their respective Houses.

~*~

The Slytherin Common Room was full of people, doing various things, from studying to doing homework to talking.

In one quiet corner of the room, Zack was sitting at a table, trying to study for Potions. Somehow, he couldn't focus.

"Having troubles with Potions?" Kathryn asked him as she joined her kid brother with her own schoolwork.

"Nope," Zack replied distractedly, pretending to read his notes, "I'm gettin' by Snape's class okay..."

"Something on your mind, bro?" Kathryn went on.

"Nope," Zack replied again, "I'm just fine."

"Yeah, well, there's a problem if my little brother wants to study more than he wants to talk to another human being," the eldest Firecross commented.

Zack merely rolled his eyes at her before going back to his act of reading.

"Fine, be that way," Kathryn said, finally giving up on her brother.

Allegra entered the Common Room quietly. As she walked down the stairs to the dormitories, she felt someone follow her with their eyes. She glanced over at Zack's direction. She found him studying. With a sigh, she went to her dormitory to mentally prepare herself for hers and Amelea's quest to fulfill the Starlight Prophecy.

~*~

Amelea was sitting by the fire, reading an old Muggle novel called 'Anne Of Green Gables'...or at least, attempting to read it. With all the noise in the Gryffindor Common Room, she could barely hear herself think.

In another part of the room, Trevor Maltzar, a Muggle-born sixth year that was friends with Mike Weasley, was leading a rather noisy game appropriately called 'The Penis Game'. Each person playing had to say 'Penis' with a straight face. The next person has to say it louder than the last person does and it goes on and on and on...until someone can't keep a straight face and cracks up. That person was out and the game goes on.

By the staircase leading up to the dormitories, Aaron and Anastasia, two more Weasleys, were teaching Jessica Lynn Wood 'The Song That Never Ends'. Soon, Jessica challenged the two Weasleys to see which one of them would sing the song the longest.

A group of fourth years were packed in another corner of the room, near where the fire was, talking and giggling. Amelea could hear every word the girls were saying, not just because she was nearby but also because they were loud.

"KYLE!!!" Bianca yelled across the room so that she could be heard between 'The Song That Never Ends' and the screams of 'Penis'.

Amelea's eyes quickly narrowed in on Kyle Wood, who was playing Wizard's Chess with his older brother Mark.

"What?" he yelled back.

"What's the average length of a guy's penis?" Bianca asked him, still yelling.

"10 inches!" came the answer from Mark.

Amelea watched as the fourth years erupted into more giggles, Kyle scrunched his face in disgust and the other sixth years sniggered before heading to her dormitory.

She entered the room she shared with Kiara, Katia and Amarah and headed straight for her bed. She read more of her book, hoping it would calm her somehow.

"Amelea, you okay?" Katia asked her.

Kiara gave her a worried glance and Amarah smiled lightly.

"Yeah, I´m fine, you guys!" she assured her roommates.

~*~

Later that night, Allegra tiptoed out of her dormitory, wearing her black school robes under her forest green cloak and her long honey blonde hair up in a high ponytail. She walked quietly past her roommates´ beds and out through the exit. She quietly walked down the stairs that led to the Slytherin Common Room. She glanced around in case there were people there but to her relief, there weren´t any students there. She headed for the Portrait Hole and out of Slytherin Dungeon, towards the Entrance Hall to meet her twin sister. She walked confidently out into the halls, her wand in hand.

Dirty blonde Amelea, wearing her black school robes under a red cloak and her hair in two braided pigtails, walked past her own roommates and out of her dormitory. She carefully walked out of Gryffindor Tower through the Portrait Hole. She glanced around and made sure there weren´t Prefects or other students around. She sighed in relief as she headed for the Entrance Hall to meet her twin sister. She checked her pocket to make sure her wand was still there.

Just up ahead, a female voice said, "You ready, pigtails?"

The dirty blonde walked over to the source of the voice and replied, "As ready as I´ll ever be, Al..."

The honey blonde sighed and asked, "You backing out, Lea?"

"Of course not," was her sister´s reply, "We have to save our Mother!"

"Did you leave the message for Jay?"

"Uh huh...but I wish we could tell him about this."

"No, we can´t. He´ll want to protect y...us and shit. We don´t need that right now."

"What about Drew, or Kiki or Becca?"

"No, Amelea, we can´t put anyone else in danger!"

"You don´t have to pretend you´re so tough, Allegra..."

"I´m not pretending!" she shot back, then added after a pause, "Let´s just do it, alright, Amelea?"

"Right! Let´s go kick some Dark Lord butt!"

The twins walked out of the castle and walked down the steps.

Simultaneously, they took their wands and whispered, "Lumos!"

Both their wands lit up and they used it to help them see in front of them.

"The Forbidden Forest, right?" Amelea whispered as they walked across the grounds.

"Yep," Allegra whispered back, "You know, that´s the same forest Uncle Dunk and Aunt Joey explored in their first year..."

"Yeah, they fed Brielle´s dad´s frog to that Whomping Willow thing," Amelea said with a light chuckle.

The girls grew quiet as they continued their trek through the grounds. Once they got to the border between the Forbidden Forest and the grounds, they stopped. They pointed their wands at each other´s faces.

"Are ya scared?" Allegra asked her sister, her voice slightly quivering.

With a shaky voice, Amelea replied, "No. Are you?"

"Of course not," Allegra shot back, her voice shaking slightly more than before.

"Are you sure it´s a good idea to do this? I should have told Jayson to come along with us. This is dangerous!"

"No!" Allegra hissed, "It´s our Mum, we´ll save her!"

"Hey, Jay´s Mum´s our Mum´s best friend and our Dad´s second cousin, I´m sure she´ll help us!"

"Amelea, enough stalling. We have to do this. I could do it alone if you´re too scared..."

"No, you couldn´t, Allegra. That´s not the point!"

"You know what the point is, Amelea??? To save Mum, that´s the point! I mean, the grownups can only do so much. We have to help."

"All right, we got each other´s backs on this, right?"

"Of course...and you´re right, I couldn´t do this alone."

"Of course I´m right. Let´s do this before I change my mind and run in the opposite direction."

Allegra led Amelea towards the middle of the dark Forbidden Forest, only their wands lighting the way.

"Do you think he´s gone and killed them already?" Amelea asked with a grim tone of voice.

Allegra pointed her wand quickly at her twin before pointing back in front of her. She couldn´t answer the question; she was too terrified to even think about it. She wasn´t about to let anyone see it, even her twin sister.

"I asked you a question," Amelea stated pointedly, "Why aren´t you answering me???"

"Because..." Allegra replied.

The pair stopped where they thought the center of the Forbidden Forest was and looked around nervously.

"He´s a no show," Allegra pointed out coldly, "So much for that offer!"

Amelea sighed and pointed out, "I wouldn´t count him out. He could have a few tricks up his sleeve. We can´t let our guard down."

"And I thought you were all for a diplomatic solution..." Allegra teased to lighten up the atmosphere.

"And you are?" Amelea shot back edgily.

"Never was..."

"Well, it seems as if this is your type of situation, huh?"

"Yep! Fight, fight, fight!"

"Don´t joke. I know there´s no diplomatic way to settle this with the Dark Lord, it doesn´t mean you can enjoy yourself. This is a serious matter."

Sighing, Allegra replied, "You´re right."

The twins heard footsteps behind them. They turned around to face a dark cloaked figure.

"You´ve finally come," a dark voice said, coming from the dark figure, "I hope you haven´t grown up to be fools like the previous generation of Malfoys. Your father turned down the power; he turned away from the Dark Side. He married a Mudblood and compromised the purity of the Malfoy blood. You are not worthy of the name."

"Don´t call our mother that! He did the right thing!" Amelea pointed out, "That makes him that much better than the likes of you!"

Allegra added, "And being a halfblood is cool! There´s no difference between us and Drew Potter, who´s born to pureblood parents. Besides, we´re ten times better than scum like you!"

"Such arrogance, such defiant tones of voice! It´s all too familiar to me...you are definitely your father´s children. There was a time when the Malfoys were known for their talent in the Dark Arts..."

"I don´t really think this is the time for a lesson in our family´s history," Allegra commented sarcastically.

"Well then I guess I should send you straight to your death!" the low evil voice said.

"No!" Amelea exclaimed in a terrified voice.

"I suppose I can make you a deal..."

Amelea looked at Allegra and they replied at the same time, "We never make deals with the Dark Side!!!"

"You aren´t going to hear me out? Even if it´ll save your Mother?"

Allegra and Amelea looked at each other again, at a loss for what do or say to their enemy.

Finally, Amelea spoke up and said indignantly, "You´re lying!"

"Not at all, child," the cloaked figure said, its voice making both girls shiver.

Allegra stared him down with her wand brightening the space before her.

"Why don´t you come out from your cloak and show yourself?" she said forcefully, "Or are you scared of a couple of teenagers?"

"I´m not scared at all," the voice replied, "Be careful what you wish for...you might not live to see your sweet sixteen birthday."

In once last act of defiance before her fear kicked in, Allegra said, "Try me."

"I´ve had just about enough of your family," the man said menacingly as he advanced towards the two girls. For every step the evil man took forward, Amelea and Allegra took one backward. "I´ve been sent to weed out the weak and pick out the strong ones. My Lord will take over the wizarding world..." he went on as they moved, "My mission starts with eliminating all of my Lord´s enemies´ and their children."

"You know, you should work out your problems in a adult way," Allegra remarked in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way, "No need to take it out on us..."

"SILENCE!" the man bellowed as the twins fell back from walking backwards.

"Uh oh," Allegra whispered under her breath.

Amelea sighed. She knew that eventually, her twin´s ability to rub people the wrong way would get them in trouble.

"So, where are your friends when you need them?" the man said, looking down at them sitting on the ground. He continued without waiting for an answer, "Oh well...I had planned to kill you all in one shot since you typically stuck together but once they realize you're in trouble, they will come. Then I will have you all right where I want you."

The Death Eater pointed his wand at them, ready to use the killing curse. In a panic, Allegra grabbed Amelea's hand with her free one and pointed her wand at their linked hands. She whispered under her breath, "Glow of the Starlight Amulet, lead us to your sheltered time!"

With a cloud of smoke, the pair disappeared.