Bad Romance

Chapter 121

Chapter 121: Unstoppable Today!

"Delphini!" Lyra suddenly called out from her place behind Cassius.

Bellatrix drew in a sharp breath. What the hell was her daughter doing? Had she lost her bloody mind? Ah well, if so, she'd fit in grandly with the rest of the Lestranges, but right now wasn't the time to embrace one's insanity when it could be a matter of life and death. Bellatrix was turning to Lyra to demand that she shut up this instant when Delphini's serpentine head rose from the struggle with Wulfric.

"I am Lyra Lestrange, Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange's daughter. Bellatrix isn't your mother, but I can tell you who is! I know a psychic and she scried it in her tea leaves. Trust me, she's always right."

Wulfric's huge mongoose jaws snapped onto Delphini's neck as he used the distraction Lyra provided.

Hissing in rage, Delphini's focus returned to Wulfric, as her great serpentine coils began squeezing him.

"Pay attention to me, Delphini!" Lyra screamed. "I am telling you who your damn mother is, and it's rude not to listen to such important information. We all want to know where we come from, after all."

Delphini's head rose again, though this time only partially. She wasn't so distracted this time. She had decided to squeeze Wulfric and listen to Lyra at the same time, multi-tasking.

"She was a Maledictus just like you. She was also your father's pet, which is likewise all you'd have ever been, because the fucker had no soul," Lyra said. "Her name was Nagini, and just as he did to you, he turned her into a Horcrux. She is now dead. So you see what happens to those he...I can't say loves, because he can't do that. He just knows how to use and kill the things he values, because of the way in which he values them! No part of him could ever do otherwise because he is pure evil."

Wulfric's sword arced suddenly through the air, the point of its blade hurtling toward Delphini's eye. Graven had thrown it when Delphini raised her head to regard Lyra, giving the goblin girl a proper target. Her daughter's tactic had worked, Bellatrix thought proudly. Alas, it was wasted, for Delphini's reflexes were faster than Graven had counted on. The snake dodged aside, and the sword clattered to the floor beside her. Delphini's dodge permitted Wulfric the proper amount of wiggle room required to free himself from her coils, however.

The mongoose was hurt though, swaying as he stood, obviously slowed down. "To me," Gellert snapped and Wulfric staggered over.

Screaming curses, Graven summoned the sword to her again as Delphini shifted back to her human self. The goblin girl hurled the sword at Delphini again, and Delphini vanished.

"Motherfucker!" Graven howled.

"My sentiments exactly," Rabastan muttered. Cursing under his breath, he blew a hole in the nearest wall with his blasting rod...evidently to release a bit of frustration.

Gellert was bent over Wulfric, a soft light emanating from his open palms. Wulfric's right foreleg jerked, then he stood straighter. "Just a dislocated shoulder," Gellert said as the mongoose became Wulfric again.

"Thanks," he offered a bit breathlessly, and Gellert nodded.

"There are a ton of people outside," Regulus called. "I can hear them shouting. Delphini is rousing them into some sort of frenzy. They are chanting about utopia and I think about killing us?"

Bellatrix was grateful to have her cousin's vampiric hearing at that moment. It would give them an advantage or two in this situation. Perhaps the choice to ruin his blood by becoming something other hadn't been such a stupid idea after all, she decided grudgingly.