Wooden floorboards, walls with the paint peeling off them, and flickering lamp lights swung gently as the members of the Order milled around minding their own business and preparing for the battle ahead. Suddenly, there was a loud bang from the Wands Analysis Department. I rushed over to see what had happened.
Smoke was in the air, and there was a burnt odour in the air. One of the wands we had captured from a previous battle wasn't reacting well to all our attempts to bend it to our will. This was a strange as our Wand Will Benders were the best around. I looked at the offending wand and picked it up. Wisps of smoke were still trailing off it. I waved it and attempted an incantation, but nothing happened. I tried another spell, and suddenly the wand glowed. A angry red ring formed at the tip of the wand and rapidly traveled towards my hand. I could not react fast enough and got burned. I tossed the wand away and somehow it levitated and smashed through a nearby window, escaping into the night. The wand had been booby-trapped.
It escaped the hideout and flew across the sea. Upon reaching the main city, it cast a spell. From tendrils of green and red energy that sprung from the wand tip, a huge vortex of energy coalesced and rampaged through the city. We watched from the hideout across the sea and tried to stop it - casting counterspells and counterhexes. But each time the vortex was hit, it reformed from the snaking tendrils of green and red energy.
By the time we realised what the wand was trying to do, it was too late. The vortex wasn't trying to destroy anything... It was a signalling spell, designed to help the Death Eaters find the location of the Order's hideout. And it worked.
Before we knew it, more than a dozen Death Eaters has descended upon our location, and tore through the house. I was cornered, with 'Nick' (not his real name, but who he felt like) and Nurse (definitely a Nurse-type character, but her essence was Nadia). Backed up against the wall, we crouched in terror. For some reason we were without our wands and were defenseless. The Death Eater took off his mask and going talking on and on about how easily we let them penetrate our defenses and how he was going to kill us all. He paced back and forth as he said this.
I felt 'Nick' nudging me. I glanced down and saw that he was trying to pass me a hand full of Healing Squares. He figured that applying enough would help us to stave off most of the killing and torturing curses the Death Eater so loved to use on their victims. I took about a dozen or so, and tried to pass them to Nurse, but the Death Eater caught me! "Medro cinnar mobis!" and I watched helplessly as I felt my right hand open and the Healing Squares floated towards the Death Eater.
The Death Eater smirked and stood in front of Nurse and uttered something about us being fools for thinking that the Healing Squares would be able to save them. He pointed his wand at Nurse - "Avada Kedavra." Green light filled the room momentarily and Nurse slumped over. He turned to face me. "Seetrasoris" I felt the cold gray energy ooze over me. It crept into my body and I felt myself slowly dying. It was like a slow implosion of death energy. My mind spun and I felt my lifeforce drain away. The only thing keeping the gray energy from completing taking me was the wad of Healing Squares in my mouth, but those were not much help either. I slumped over and blacked out, but not before seeing the Death Eater raise his wand towards 'Nick'.
