Siege of the Sues

"So how goes it?"

Wormtail spun around to see his master standing behind him. "Er, it goes well, my Lord. We're just doing some planning." He waved vaguely at the roomful of girls packed around a table covered in maps.

Voldemort surveyed the situation critically, noting that most of the girls were busy reapplying their makeup. "I see."

"No, no, my Lord, look," Wormtail sputtered. "We've only had a few losses so far, and only one really significant one. I dispatched Rowena to take her rightful place as the Girl Who Lived, but apparently along the way she was--"

"DADDY!" A girl in a low-cut black dress sprang up and embraced Voldemort. "Daddy! It's been so long since I've seen you!"

"I am not your daddy," Voldemort attempted to inform her as she clung to him. "And why in the hell do you have wings?"

"You know, Daddy," she giggled. "Mum's a gryphon!"

Voldemort finally managed to shove her away. "Trust me, I never even looked at a gryphon that way."

"But Daddy..." The girl's lower lip trembled.

Voldemort sighed. "Well, there was that one night, when I was really drunk in Vegas..."

"Yay!" The girl clapped her hands. "Can we go shopping now, Daddy?"

"Sure! You want some new shoes, honey? Let's go buy you some new shoes."

"Yay! Can they be evil shoes, Daddy?"

"Of course. You've got some big evil shoes to fill." Voldemort put his arm around her and turned to Wormtail. "I'm taking my little girl shopping--what was your name again, honey?"

"Keira! You're so silly, Daddy!"

"Yes. I'm taking Keira shopping, so you just, well, stay and plan and whatever." The two walked off arm in arm.

It took Wormtail almost a full minute to recover from the shock. He turned back to the roomful of girls with a new respect in his eyes. "You guys can do stuff like that?"

"Wait til you see what I can do!" the girl nearest him yelled. But she was interrupted by the sudden reappearance of one of Wormtail's scouts, a girl dressed all in black. Wormtail was pretty sure her name was Mione, but there seemed to be so many with that name...

Mione's face was streaked black with tears and at least the first five layers of eyeliner. "You guys...you guys...it's so terrible..." Overcome with sobs, she held out her hand. Wormtail peered over to see that she held a charm necklace with a little kitten wearing a bow.

"What is it?" he asked, taking it from her. The rest of the girls collectively gasped. "Cassie!" one of them wailed.

Mione nodded sadly. "Cassie's been...flamed." She held her head a little higher. "You know what that means, don't you?"

"REVENGE!" the girls screamed. Wormtail covered his ears.

Mione smiled at the charm sadly. "Yes. We will have our revenge, on the girl who claims to be me." She put the necklace on. "I will wear this in memory of Cassie!" she yelled. "We will track this girl down and FLAME HER!"

"FLAME HER!" the girls echoed before stampeding out the door, Mione in the lead.

Wormtail uncovered his ears and glanced around the room. Only two girls were left, a pair of smiling blond twins in the corner. "Why are you two still here?" he asked weakly.

"I'm Serena, and this is my sister Serenity," one of the girls said. "We decided to stay behind because we have, well, a very special power that we think will help you quite a bit."

"You're actually more concerned with taking out Potter than with your makeup, or avenging Carrie what's her face?"

The other girl grinned. "Serena and Serenity Malfoy, at your service."