WARNING: VIOLENCE AND BLOOD

Saturday, 7th November:

QUIDDITCH PITCH:

It was Artemis and Draco's first quidditch game today, unfortunately, Blaise couldn't commentate again, because he had got himself a 1 year ban after the last year.

He did promise to his cousin that he would somehow get the mic from Lee even if he was going to get into trouble.

He was in the stands with Daphne and Theo, the latter was only there to support Artemis, not caring about the Malfoy wizard's performance in the slightest.

Artemis wore her hair in two cornrows like she usually did when she trained.

She had been successful in creating a new healing spell, but she hadn't tried it out on anyone yet, but she knew that one of her teammates was going to get hurt so wouldn't have to wait long.

"Alright, huddle up you lot!" Flint calls from outside the locker rooms. The witch joins the group, ignoring the looks she got from Graham, Marcus whacks his head, making him focus.

Draco emerges from the room, his best friend could tell he was nervous since his father would be in the stands today, "Alright, alright! I'm here" he says as he walks outputting his fingerless gloves on. He stands next to Artemis 

"Now that we're all here, you know the strategies correct?" Flint asks, the team nods and he turns his attention to the two first years,  "Good luck, especially you two" he grins as he points at them.

The best friends lock eyes, "Don't kill anyone out there Arty." he teases, but he's being serious.

"No promises D."

The team mount their brooms and fly out onto the quidditch pitch, hundreds of people in red and green cheering, Artemis notices her uncle in the stands, he looked content but also proud.

Theo and Daphne scream their friends' names, while Blaise is nowhere to be seen.

Madam Hooch blows her whistle, both the Gryffindor team and Slytherin team come down and circle her "I want a nice, clean game."

"From all of you," she says, eyeing Slytherin.

Artemis narrowed her eyes, Subtle miss, very subtle.

Hooch opens the trunk, the two bludgers and the little golden snitch fly out, she takes the quaffle and throws it up in the sky. And the game begins.

Artemis, Pucey, and Flint pass everyone to grab the quaffle first.

Pucey quickly grabs it and flies over to the Gryffindor rings and scores "TEN POINTS FOR SLYTHERIN" Lee Jordan shouts.

Artemis makes a goal and she continues to fly around, she looks over at Draco and sees him talking to Potter "ALRIGHT THERE SCARHEAD?" he shouts.

Angelina Johnson now has the quaffle as she zooms over to our rings with Flint right behind her as he punches it out of her grip and he quickly snatches it, Artemis and Draco are on both of his sides, all three of them fly at the same speed.

Derrick, Bole, and the Weasley twins swing bludgers everywhere as we try to dodge them.

Flint throws the quaffle, quickly Angelina snatches it back and Artemis appears behind her in a flash, so fast that she surprises herself,  she punches it out of the Gryffindor witch's grip and snatches it, and zooms over to their rings.

Artemis grins as she notices Wood, who's flying right in front of the rings, but his attention is elsewhere.

Suddenly a bludger comes and whacks him and he falls onto the sand below the rings, Artemis throws the quaffle through the rings and starts laughing at the fallen keeper.

"ANOTHER 10 POINTS FOR SLYTHERIN, COME ON GRYFFINDOR HURRY UP" Lee comments, but the mic gets snatched from the boy's hands.

Blaise takes the mic and runs over to the Slytherin stands, causing their cheering to get louder, "COME ON SLYTHERIN, KIL- BEAT THEM." Daphne chuckles, while Theo is holding onto his stomach, trying to contain his laughter.  "SLYTHERIN IS AHEAD 90-30"  The Zabini wizard announces.

The boy has to keep moving around before the professors catch him. From the stands, Lucius rolls his eyes at his godson's behavior but doesn't expect any less from him.

"Potters got himself a rogue bludger" Adrien points to the bludger that keeps chasing him, Artemis continues to fly as she hears wisps near her before it appears by her best friend, she groans as she realizes that he isn't focused.

"TRAINING FOR THE BALLET POTTER?" Draco laughs, not noticing the snitch near his head, Potter spots the snitch behind the boy and quickly goes after it.

"DRACO STOP MESSING AROUND AND GO." She yells and points at the snitch, Potter not too far behind it. She prays to Merlin they don't lose.

Draco quickly realizes and zooms behind Potter, quickly reaching him. They follow the snitch into the sides of the pitch as a rogue bludger follows them.

The violent ball hits the foundation of the stands as it follows the two opposing wizards.

The quaffle comes towards the Slytherin wizard, she serves it as it was about to hit her face, she maneuvers on her broom, she begins to fly after the ball, before catching and throwing it from a distance through the Gryffindor hoops, winning more points for the team.

Blaise grins as at his cousin's performance, "WHEN I SAY SLYTHER, YOU SAY IN." he shouts into the mic, as he finds refuge by a bunch of Hufflepuffs.

"SLYTHER." he starts

"IN." The Slytherin fans finish, some Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws join in.

"SLYTHER," he repeats,

"IN." The stands finish.

He laughs into the mic, oblivious to the Hufflepuff girls and some boys sending him hearty eyes. The Zabini wizard starts running through the stands again, but a pale hand grabs him, causing him to stop.

The young wizard locks eyes with his Godfather, the older wizard is wearing a sour expression, "Blaise Hunter Zabini," the 12-year-old's eyes widen at the use of his full name, "stop running around, you are going to ruin your attire in front of these blood traitors, your mother will be very angry to hear about this."

"But uncle I'm-"

"But nothing."

"Please let me embarrass the Gryffindors one more time," he pouts and Lucius leans back in disgust at the look on his godson's face, "as an early birthday present."

The Malfoy wizard contemplates for a second and lets the boy go, "fine."

"Thank you." he chuckles as he runs away, Lucius fights off a smile.

Meanwhile, under the stands, the two enemies are chasing through, avoiding the possessed bludger, they both almost hit many wooden poles as they try to reach for the snitch, 

From the pitch, Artemis continues making more goals, as the opposing team has few players, she knocks Angelica onto the ground after punching the witch off her broom.

The Gryffindor fans look down in sadness.

Gasps come from the stand at the sight of the two seekers bursting through the tents, rolling off their brooms and onto the floor, Theo laughs at the Malfoy wizard's pain, not caring if he's injured.

The bludger tries to hit him in every place possible. Both teams go to assist each player, Draco slowly un-clenches his fist as he groans in pain.

"MY BEST MATE DRACO MALFOY HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH" Blaise announces. The whole Slytherin side erupts in cheers as Draco lifts it in the air, "SLYTHERIN WINS." he shouts as he runs out onto the field, accompanied by Theo and Daphne. Draco lowers his hand as holding the snitch then slumps back down in pain "SUCK MY SERPENT GRYFFINDOR." He drops the mic.

The Slytherin towers cheer and shout, proud to be a part of the house, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws join regardless of the looks they are receiving from the Gryffindor.

Lucius wears a proud smirk, not attempting to move to check on his son.

Artemis gets on her knees and checks over Draco, "I'm proud of you D."

He lazily smiles at her, "You too Arty, I always am." he groans in pain, the witch has to hide her smile as she thinks that she could use her new spell on him.

The Slytherin team started cheering and laughing at the Gryffindors because Potter's arm no longer had bones left in it.

"Miss Artemis, Move out the way please," Hagrid says as she moves to the side as he scoops up Draco, who is dramatically groaning, and takes him to the hospital wing, his friendship group following closely behind.

The next day Draco was all healed up, The group spent the day in the Seramore room, congratulating Artemis as her spell worked on Draco, despite him not being in too much pain.

Iniunium Sanitatem. It increases the healing process by 50%. Artemis made the group promise not to tell anyone about the spell.

She wanted to choose the right time to reveal it to other people.

They started to play UNO, but that obviously didn't go well, Artemis had to use her new spell multiple times due to the scratches inflicted by Daphne on Draco and Blaise.

***

Thursday, December 17th

GREAT HALL:

It had been a couple of weeks since Blaise's 13th birthday, the group chose to spend his special day in Mente striae.

Draco and Theo avoided each other and when they did make eye contact they just glared.

Although they were having fun, their disappearance didn't go unnoticed, Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle had been talking about their missing housemates loudly, getting the attention of the Golden Trio.

The next day Hermione tried questioning the Seramore witch about where she kept going because she thought that Artemis is the heir of Slytherin.

Artemis had to stop herself from laughing as well as slapping the girl, she didn't respond to the muggle-borns questions so ignored the girl but did tell her to be careful that she didn't get petrified.

Hermoine shivered at the girl's words and took them the wrong way because she ended up telling her best friends that the pureblood witch was the heir, Harry didn't believe it due to his beliefs that Draco was.

They promised each other to keep an eye on the entire pureblood group.

Today, Lockhart decided to start a dueling club as a way to distract everyone from the fact that he has no talent.

"Can everybody see me? Can you all...hear me?" Lockhart smirks. Theo faked gagged at the sight, wishing that the man just taught them all in a classroom.

"And suddenly I wished I was blind!" Artemis groaned and dropped her head onto Draco's shoulder, he throw his arm around her, they ignored the looks they had gotten from their peers.

Daphne was distracted by Blaise's rings, loving how shiny they were. The Zabini boy let the witch take a ring off his hand and place it on her finger, snorting when they realised it was too big for her.

Artemis knew the club was going to be pointless since the man couldn't teach in a classroom, so what would a bigger setting do.

"I have Professor Snape here to assist me" Lockhart continues while Snape emotionlessly walks up the stage. He didn't want to be here.

"Give us a smile sir," Theo called out, making students laugh, the raven-haired professor glared at the boy, who only looked around acting like he didn't say anything.

Lockhart continued, "Now today I will be teaching you how to block spells,"

"Which he won't be able to do", Artemis pretended to cough, getting a laugh out of some of her classmates.

"Hopefully he gets his arse handed to him," Theo grins at the thought.

Blaise leant over to his friend, "Rumour has it that Lockhart is in love with Snape." They started to laugh and turned to the other second years and started to spread lies.

"Let's hope Snape teaches us something," Draco mumbles, looking down at Artemis, she smiles up at him and then looks back at the stage, his eyes lingered on her face before looking at the scene.

"1.2...3-" Lockhart starts.

"EXPELLIARMUS" Snape shouts and suddenly Lockhart is thrown across the room landing on his back

"Looking good professor," Artemis comments as the whole room laughs at Lockhart. "I thought you were supposed to block it."

"Yes well, that was just an example of what not to do" Lockhart groans as he quickly gets up and continues with his arrogance, walking back to the man, "But it was pretty obvious what you were about to do Professor Snape"

"Then why didn't you block it then?" Artemis tilts her head, Draco pulls the witch back a bit, noticing her change in tone, Lockhart avoids her piercing gaze, slightly uncomfortable with the look in her eyes.

"Because he's in love with Snape", a wizard shouts from the other side of the room causing more laughter to erupt from students, Blaise and Theo's fists bump each other as Snape grimaces at the boy's words.

He clears his throat, "Perhaps it would be prudent to first teach the students to block unfriendly spells, Professor."

"An excellent suggestion Professor Snape! Uh. Let's have a volunteer pair." Lockhart stutters, still feeling the Seramore witch's gaze on him.

"Potter and Weasley, how about you?"

"Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest of spells, we would be sending Potter to the hospital wing in a matchbox" Snape sneers.

"Preach." Blaise comments, the redhead glares at him. "Don't let him do it, sir, he'll kill us all." he exaggerates, laughing at the scowls coming from the golden trio.

"Settle down Zabini."

"Well then, how about Potter?" Lockhart grins at the boy and he walks over to the stairs.

"Might I suggest someone from my house, Malfoy" Snape shrugs as he turns around and signals for the Slytherin wizard to come up

Draco grins but Artemis groans as he gently moves her head from his shoulder, "Don't kill him D."

He winks as he gets on stage, "No promises Arty." she smiles.

"You guys are so in love." Daphne appears next to her friend, linking pinkies with the girl. She watched the entire exchange with a smile on her face, giggling when she notices the Jealousy in Parkinson's eyes.

"Shut up Daph."

"FINISH HIM!" Blaise shouts, receiving a glare from Snape, telling him to shut up, Draco confidently walks on stage followed by Potter, they both grab their wands out of their pocket.  Despite his angst towards the boy, Theo still wanted Draco to win.

"Wands at the ready" Lockhart starts, the two in unison put out wands up to their faces.

Draco grins, "Scared Potter?"

"You wish," Potter responds.

They walk their separate ways "On the count of three cast your charms to disarm your opponent. Only to disarm!" Lockhart explains.

"One...two-"

"Every Statum!" Draco shouts as his spell hits Potter, throwing him back and landing on his side. He may have been cheating but oh well. He received glares from Gryffindors and grins from his house. He found the spell whilst studying with Artemis. 

The brown-haired boy gets up and shouts, "Rictumsempra!" Draco gets hit and flung back all the way where Snape was,  falling on his arse. Theo can't help the small chuckle that leaves his lips, neither can Blaise.

Karma for being rude to Theo. Artemis shrugs.

Snape quickly picks him up and pushes him  "Serpensortia!" Draco quickly says, causing a serpent to shoot out of his wand Everyone freezes as the serpent slithers over to Potter and Draco proudly smirks as everyone watches.

For some reason Artemis finds herself analyzing her best friend's, liking the confidence on his face. She tries to regain her composure and shakes her head of the odd thoughts. 

"I'll get rid of it Harry" Lockhart confidently says as he walks towards the serpent.

"Here we go," Artemis mutters to the blonde witch.

"Alarte Ascendare!" The serpent then gets flung in the air then comes back down unharmed. Lockhart, who expected for the serpent to disappear, looked around the room as people murmured all around him. Potter slowly walks up to the serpent and starts hissing and almost speaking another language.

Artemis narrows her eyes, "Parseltongue" she whispers to friends,  Blaise and Theo push themselves in front of the girls. The hisses sound familiar to the older witch, she couldn't remember where she had heard it before, a shiver went through her body.

The serpent then turns its attention to a Hufflepuff kid in the crowd and slowly gets closer and closer, while Potter hissing the same phrases over and over again, almost looking like Potter was telling the snake to attack. Snape then moves us aside "Vipera Evanesca," he says and the snake disappears as if it was burning The whole room is silent.

"What are you playing at?" The Hufflepuff says, Potter looks confused looking around the room, all of the students were staring at him.

"Well um..you are all dismissed" Lockhart stutters

Draco notices Artemis' face and quickly gets off stage and joins his friends, he checks over her and grabs her hand, as Blaise and Theo get Daphne, they walk out of the room and go towards the astronomy tower.

"You know he just spoke Parseltongue right?" Artemis whispers to the group.

They all look at the girl, Theo speaks up first, "What the hell is that Temi?"

"The language snakes speak, only the heir to Salazar Slytherin can speak it " she explains as they go around a corner,

"No way that mediocre Gryffindor can speak it like maybe Dean could but not Potter," Daphne exclaims, receiving odd looks from Draco and Blaise.

Artemis, Theo, and Daphne share a knowing look, they smile quickly before the Seramore witch continues, "you could learn the language but it's a rare and ancient ability, which is why only Salazar's heirs inherit it." she still felt weird after hearing Harry speak it.

"So what are you saying Arty,?" Draco asks.

Theo scoffs, "That Potter is the heir dumbass." They glare at each other. The other three groan, knowing that they're about to start arguing. They all stop walking.

"Shut up Nott." Draco sneers at the wizard,

"Piss off Malfoy." Blaise gets between the two, despite wanting them to fight.

Draco continues scowling at Theo, "It was just a question."

"A dumb question." He laughs.

"Bug-eyed Prick."

"Ferret looking fool."

"Stop," Blaise, Artemis, and Daphne shout in unison, snapping the other two out of their malicious gazes. Artemis grabs Draco's hand, pulling him so they can walk in front, whilst Daphne drags Theo away bringing him back so he can walk with her and Blaise.

They make their way upstairs, continuing the conversation.

"Remember when the sorting hat wanted to put Potter into Slytherin?" Artemis continues.

"Yeah, and the stupid fool begged not to be," Blaise says

"We're better off without him," Daphne adds and they nod in agreement.

"No one in the school can speak parseltongue '' Artemis realises, "but he can, he may not be the heir but that's weird."

"That's suspicious," Blaise adds.

"So he could have been the one to open the chamber."

"Isn't he friends with a mudblo-" Draco cuts himself off, shrinking back at the glares he's receiving from his friends.

"Muggleborns". The four say simultaneously. The Malfoy wizard puts his available hand up in faux defence.

"I'm surprised you can't speak it, Missy," Theo speaks up, Draco reluctantly agrees with the boy.

"Same."

No one notices the twitch in Artemis' eyes, "I honestly thought you opened it." Blaise blurts out. They all start to laugh.

She looks at her cousin "I thought you did." The thought of Blaise opening the chamber as a prank did go through her mind.

"I thought it was Draco." Daphne gestures to the grey-eyed boy, he shrugs, it wasn't the first time he heard it.

"I thought it was Daphne." Theo looks at the blonde witch, she gasps, but then nods understandably, she knows her reputation of being a bitch. "Did anyone think it could be me?" the Nott wizard asks as they nearing towards Mente striae.

"Once or twice."  They continued to laugh as they entered the room.

***

Friday, December 18th

LIBRARY:

The term had finished but Artemis' period had started today.

She was not in a good mood, she was already anxious since her annual nightmares were about to start and she wanted to avoid sleeping but that's the only thing that gets her through her horrendous menstrual cycle.

Unlikely for the boys, Daphne had also synced with Artemis, so they had been walking on eggshells around them.

The entire group stayed for Christmas this year and the faculty members weren't too happy about this.

The boys had decided to spend their day in the girl's room as they had loved the space and aroma. Daphne was busy doing her nails and even painting Blaise and Theo's too, while Draco was sitting on the Seramore witch's bed reading one of the Grimms brother's fairy tales that Septrim had sent for Christmas.

The Malfoy wizard was so irritated that Artemis decided to go to the library, he offered to go with him as there was another attack Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly Headless Nick were petrified. He knew that she was one of the students who were least likely to be attacked or hurt by the perpetrator but that didn't mean he wouldn't worry.

She wanted to go to the restricted section, Snape had already written her a note so she could go through the section freely.

She loathed her DADA lesson yesterday and she needed to learn new spells because she didn't want to fail the class, and Snape didn't want one of his favourite students to fail either.

She wore one of Draco's jackets as she strolled through the school, a blizzard covered the campus and disrupted a herbology class of the term, not like witch cared, she hated the feeling of the bugs crawling around when she was in the lesson.

The plants that were in her family room had a charm on them, so they didn't attract any insects which Artemis was thankful for.

Draco's jacket was a little big for her, it appeared that she was seconds away from drowning in the fabrics, she didn't care though, she was warm and the dark colours matched her outfit.

After she arrived at the library, eyes turned to her as she strutted through, she showed her note to the librarian and made her way to the back of the room.

She caught the looks of Pansy and Millicent, she rolled her eyes at their glares, which only aggravated them more.

Artemis removed the rope that divided the room and skimmed her fingers over various books, she felt the allure of the darkness that was falling from the materials. It was like the magic was seducing her, taunting the light emitting from her soul, dragging her into the darkness...

The sound of someone dropping a book snapped her out of her trance, she shivered at feeling, almost captivated by corruption.

She quickly composed herself and grabbed a book, ignoring the tingle flowing throughout her body.

As she was about to leave the room when she was stopped by two witches; Pansy and Millicent.

They tried mirroring Artemis' confident body language but failed. The brown-skinned witch raised a brow, waiting for them to speak up.

Pansy narrowed her eyes, "Well If it isn't the princess of Slytherin."

"I prefer queen but semantics." Artemis waved her off, Millicent scoffed.

"I was being sarcastic." Pansy sneered.

"I know, I just don't care, Darling."

The Parkinson's witch's nostrils flared, "Don't call me that."

"I was going to call you a peasant but that's insulting to peasants don't you think?" Artemis sighed, she didn't have the energy to fight but that didn't stop her from being petty.

Her gaze drifted between two witches, not so subtly analyzing their fashion sense, she would give them a C for effort, but she isn't in the mood to be nice.

"You think you're all that," Millicent spoke up for the first time. The Seramore Witch was a bit taken back, she never heard the girl's voice before, she would rather listen to nails scratching against a chalkboard.

Even Pansy's whiny voice was better than that...sike. 

"I don't think, I know but okay..." Artemis spoke with a bored tone. She was hanging around Professor Snape way too much.

"You walk around like everyone wants to be Artemis Seramore."

Artemis grinned, "Well not everyone can be." her brown eyes darted between the two, "not even you two."

If looks could kill Artemis would be 6 feet under, but she's a Seramore, they live between life and death, so their envious looks didn't faze her.

Pansy boldly stepped closer, leaving Millicent to stand in her shadow, "Why on earth would we want to be you?"

"Well let's see," Artemis tucked the book under her arm and started listing, "I'm beautiful, a bitch, a billionaire who is also black, I'm a quadruple threat, so I can see why you're envious." she chuckled at their attempts to look threatening, wishing she had a camera to capture the moment.

"We're not." They said in unison. If only they sounded convincing.

Artemis dropped her smile, her eyes hardened, "Oh really then why did you decide to corner me when I'm by myself, you think I'm weak?" she stepped up to Pansy, invading her personal space, "You two think you're strong because it's 2 against 1?" She gripped her book tightly, wishing she could batter them with it, but she didn't want their jealous energy all over it, so instead she placed it on the nearest desk, making them both flinch at her sudden movement, Artemis put her hair up in a ponytail, surprisingly the other witches didn't think anything of it. "that's adorable, honestly."

"Shut up Seramore.'' Pansy words caught the attention of some of the students in the room, their eyes widened at the scene, stopping whatever work they were doing and becoming entranced at the altercation.

"Or is it because you have an obsession with Draco?" Artemis taunted, she knew that her best friend didn't want anything to do with the girl, everyone did.

"You don't deserve him." the bob-wearing bitch blurted out.

"Oh and you do?" she pouted, trying to contain the laughter that was threatening to leave her lips.

"Yes I do." even Millicent avoided eye contact, unsure about her friend's statement.

Artemis raised her hands in faux defence, Pansy flinched slightly, "Woah I didn't know how demented you were until you said that Parkinson."

"You don't even care about him." this statement made her blood boil, no one knew the full history between her and Draco.

"I care more than you will ever know." Artemis snarled, the onlookers were watching in anticipation. 

Pansy ignored the pang of jealousy and decided to change the topic, "You think because you won some prize for discovering a cure." she laughed. Her peers looked at her like she was crazy.

"And what have you discovered darling?" Artemis'  finger traced the girl's jaw, Pansy shivered at her touch gulping back the panic that spread through her body, slapping her hand away making the brown-skinned witch snicker, "That harassing my best friend won't get him to like you, or is it that you will never be on my level?" she cocked her head to the side, "Now if you excuse me I'm going to go back to chill with my friends  while you sit and think about all the ways you can embarrass yourself trying to copy me, okay?"

Pansy looked back at Millicent, she hesitantly joined her friend,  standing in Artemis' way. Some students gasped and stood up, coming closer to the girls, while some others stood with their hands covering their mouths.

Thank god I wore my rings today, Artemis played with her fingers, leading them to think she was nervous.

"I just think you're jealous of us Artemis," Pansy said with newfound confidence. Some second-year students cringed.

Artemis grinned widely, "Oh really, how?"

Hearing some laughs from behind her, embarrassment crept through her body, "Because you can do whatever you want, but at the end of the day you still won't have a dad." Pansy blurted out.

The whole library went silent and Artemis' grin dropped, her eyes darkened.  

In the blink of an eye, she drew her wand "Petrificus Totalus". She sent the spell to Millicent, the brunette dropped to the floor paralyzed,  "If you came here to fight me at least make it fair darling." she let out a manic laugh, turned to pansy, and quickly tucked her wand into her sock, "I won't even waste my magic on you bitch."

Pansy made a fist, causing the Seramore witch to laugh louder, attracting more attention from the room.

Pansy threw her fist forward, missing as Artemis swerved and hit the girl's stomach, causing her to topple over.

Artemis pushed her to the ground and threw a punch straight at the dark-haired girl's nose, breaking it instantly, people cringed at the sound.

"You dare talk about my father, " she tugged on the girl's hair, ripping some follicles from her scalp, Pansy screamed in pain, "Keep screaming you, pug-faced wench." Artemis scrunched up the hair and shoved it into the girl's mouth, making her choke.

The librarian gasped, only now noticing the ongoing fight, and ran out of the room, scared for her life.

Artemis' peers started chanting and shouting for her, others were making bets.

"Hit her, Artemis!"

"Ruin her."

"No one disses a Seramore and gets away with it."

"She is so fit."

She ignored the voices that surrounded her, "You know my mum used to tell me that she used to beat your mother up back in school, let's just call this poetic justice," she shoved the hair further into her mouth,  "or the circle of bloody life." she held pansy's mouth shut until she swallowed her own hair, "good girl." The hard-faced girl tried reaching for the Seramore witch but Artemis grabbed her hand and bent a few fingers back causing her to whimper so they broke, "and when I'm done with you, your life will be very bloody indeed."

The other students were gasping at the scene, shocked at how strong the Seramore witch was, they all knew she had brains but not the brawn.

Some Slytherin students ran out of the room, running to their common room, searching for Draco, Blaise, Theo, and Daphne.

Hufflepuff boys were gushing over the superior Pureblood witch, some Ravenclaw's girls did the same.

Even a few Gryffindors found themselves wanting Artemis to win, based on their hatred towards Pansy.

"You ruined my day, so it's only right that I ruin your life." Artemis kept throwing punches, her ring-clad fingers only caused more pain, blood was pouring from the cuts forming on Pansy's face. Artemis didn't care that she had broken her hand from the brute force, she continued to go, "you ever talk about my dead dad again, I'll make sure you join him."

Artemis got up, everyone moved out of the way, she transfigured a random book into a bludger, her chest heaving up and down in anger,  she tampered with the ball, causing it to erratically fly throughout the room, students ducked as it ran and destroyed some isles.

Artemis' eyes looked almost as dark as her hair, her fists still clenched as blood continued to drop off of them. 

"Intense." A Hufflepuff student muttered.

She looked down at her bloodied fist, ignoring the groans that fell from Parkinson's mouth. She muttered her healing spell, wincing as her bones healed at an accelerated pace.

Artemis sees the damage that the bludger is causing, she waves her wand, "Finite Incantatem." She says through a clenched jaw and the ball explodes as Snape bursts through the door, along with her friends and a few other Slytherin students.

Her group ran to her immediately, checking over her appearance, while Snape scanned the room.

They looked at the two witches on the floor, Theo and Blaise snickered, while Daphne hid her face in Artemis' back, hiding her laughter.

Draco's grey eyes travelled from her mesmerizing face to his jacket on her body, he smiled ignoring the fluttering in his stomach. "You okay?"

She nodded, even though her eyes were tearing up, he knew she wasn't, "Sorry I got blood on your jacket."

"...Is a sentence that I have never heard before," Theo says, some of his peers chuckle, but stop when Snape gives them all a pointed look.

The raven-haired professor's lips twitch, threatening to curl up, "Miss Davis please escort these two students to the infirmary immediately," he then locks eyes with Artemis, "Miss Seramore would you like to explain what happened here."

"It was a rogue bludger, sir," she says instantly, her friends look away, trying not to laugh, knowing it was a lie.

He sighed tiredly, "A rogue bludger?"

"Yes sir, a rogue bludger," she repeated firmly.

He noticed the sorrow in her eyes, but chose not to comment on it, "And if I asked any of these students, would they back your story? " He turned to them, they all nodded without hesitation, scared of what she could possibly do to them.

"We saw the bludger sir."  A Ravenclaw girl spoke up, subtly winking in her direction, Artemis' felt flustered.

A first-year Gryffindor student, "It was crazy."

"Thank god Artemis destroyed it."  A Hufflepuff girl spoke up.

"Probably the same one that hit that Henry guy." Another Hufflepuff added.

"Yes, sir I was scared for my life." Theo looked down, pretending to be terrified.

"Same," Blaise added on.

Snape snapped his gaze to the two Slytherin boys, "Theodorus and Blaise,  you two were not even there." Theo cringed at the use of his full name, his friends snickered, Draco cackled.

Blaise threw his head back in laughter, "Wait, that's your full name?"

Snape locked eyes on Seramore witch, his eyes widened when he noticed that her gaze was on him the entire time, "Well if that's all," his piercing eyes scanning the students surrounding him, "then go back to your studying." his voice rose making everyone rush back to their seats, "and since you so bravely destroyed the bludger Artemis, 20 points to Slytherin." Snape swivelled, making his designer robe hit some students as he left the room.

Whispers and giggles started up again.

The purebloods left the room immediately, "I thought I told you not to kill anyone." Daphne commented, linking her pinky with her close friend.

They all noticed that her aura was darker than usual, they were worried and a little bit scared.

"I'm on my period, sue me." she mused staring straight ahead,  the group laughed.

Artemis didn't notice how her friends shared a look, promising to take care of her for the next couple of days.

Draco threw his arm around the girl's shoulder, Blaise did the same to Daphne, Theo separated the girl's pinkies and linked his arms with them, as they walked to their headquarters.

But what they didn't notice was a certain redhead witch lurking in the shadows.

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a/n:

I cant write quidditch scenes for shit, really and truly I only wanted Arty on the team because I wanted to expand her skill set.

Smack-a-bitch by Rico Nasty inspired the last scene.

Not me realising that the name of the family room is similar to the Zabini/ Seramore fashion line's like it wasn't intentional.

Out of the pureblood 5, who is most likely to open the chamber and for what reason?

Watching Fez fuck up Nate just inspired me to write this scene. like I said I wrote this entire act back in January.

I want to say that Artemis tries to avoid conflict but that would be a bald-faced lie. You could blame her outburst on many things:

- Her period.
- The anniversary of her father's death.
- The fact that she's subconsciously lived up to the meaning of her family name.
- Her trauma/nightmares

You guys will be going back in time for the next chapter btw...