A/n: I honestly didn't expect to get this up this soon. I expected my bunnies to take a vacation again, but I was just so damn excited about what was going on that I couldn't contain it. The bunnies jump and I listen. That's how it works. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, here it is, the sequel to Sirius' Obsession: DESTINY RISE!!!!!!
D/c: I want to go on record saying that anything recognized from the Harry Potter Universe, including but not limited to People, Places, Creatures, and Situations, belongs to the one and only JK Rowling. I simply use them for my own twisted amusement. Thank You and enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 1: Initiation.
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She wasn't particularly tall for her age, not like her two ginger-haired cohorts, but she was average. She had a curtain of black hair that matched her name. Her eyes were crystal blue, something she'd inherited from her father. Her name was Destiny Black.
Her cohorts were tall and lanky for eleven years old. They had vibrant orange hair and identical mischievous smirks. They had blue eyes and crooked smiles, and both bore a bump in their nose from where Destiny had broken them two summers before. Their names were Fred and George Weasley.
"So explain to me again why your uncle wouldn't give you his invisibility cloak." Fred asked as they crept through the halls of Hogwarts. They were four months into term and were finally ready to go on their prankster initiation mission: Retrieve the Marauders' Map.
"Because he said we had to do this on our own to prove to them and to ourselves that we don't need the aids. Anyone can prank when they're invisible, Dummy." Destiny hissed at him. They approached the door and smiled to each other. "Fred, check for Filtch. George, check for Mrs. Norris." She murmured as she approached the door. She moved quickly ducking into the room that held the cabinets containing the records of punishment.
She sighed and flipped quickly through a box labeled "objects confiscated from the Marauders". She smirked as she lay hands on an old piece of paper. She pulled her wand and grinned. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." She whispered.
Words, lines, and patterns spread over the parchment like a spider web. She grinned victoriously as she checked the halls around them for anyone nearby. They were clear. She met up with the Weasley Twins and made they made their way back to the common room with ease.
"Brilliantly done, Miss Black." George said with a sweeping bow.
"Truly magnificent." Fred agreed. "Lets see it, then?"
Destiny grinned and spread the parchment over the table between them. The map was just as her father had described it. It showed everything and everyone in the castle, and where they were, and what they were doing. It gave a detailed map of not only the castle itself but the grounds as well. They had hit the jackpot.
They jumped when they heard stirring on the upper levels of the boys dorm. Destiny quickly tapped the map and whispered "Mischief Managed" before folding it and sliding it into her cloak. Percy tripped down the stairs, not even thirty seconds later.
"What are you three doing up?" Percy asked, staring at them.
"None of your business, Percy." George snapped.
"Go back to bed and mind your own business." Fred added.
Percy's eyes leveled on Destiny. "Destiny, what would your mother think, to know you were up late with a couple of boys."
Destiny snorted. "Idiot." She kissed Fred and George each on the cheek and walked toward the stairs. "I'll see you two in the morning bright and early."
"Sure thing, love." The twins chorused. They smirked at Percy and passed him on the stairs going up to their dorms.
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Destiny woke with a sense of elation. Harry, Cruz, Malkia, and her, she had what they needed, now. They had the Marauder's map back. The Heirloom of the Marauder children.
And she was going home today. It was the start of Christmas break. They had timed the retrieval of the Map with the start of break because all wrong deeds rolled over. If you hadn't gotten caught the Term before, then you wouldn't get punished for it.
She changed into her street clothes for the day, a tee shirt and a pair of jeans, with tennis shoes. She knew that her things would already be on the train when they got down there, but she didn't want to risk the map not making the trip, so she put it in her bag, which she was carrying with her to the train.
Fred and George met her with Lee at the portrait hole. They made their way down to the train on their own, meeting the other first years for the boat trip back across the waters. She smiled and made her way down the train to their compartment. She was so excited to be going home.
"So what do you think your dad is going to say when he finds out that you have it?" Fred asked as they sat down and settled in for the day long trip home.
Destiny shrugged. "I dunno. I'm more concerned about what Aunt Lily is going to do to him and the other Marauders when she finds out. She was never one to condone what they did. In fact, I distinctly remember Daddy telling me several stories about Lily hexing Prongs because of a prank."
"What about your mom?" George asked. "I know that she wasn't exactly Miss Goodie-Goodie. Filtch ranted about her quite a bit that last detention we had with him, remember?"
Destiny nodded. She was one of the few people they wouldn't twin talk with. She was rather proud of that fact. They only made the exception if they really liked you. Their mother and father were the only other two that got the courtesy. The teachers were excluded from the whole equations because it was usually one word answers they were looking for and they knew that when someone was specifically called on, then you didn't interrupt them.
"I don't know what she'll say." Destiny sighed, leaning on the window. "I'm so excited, though."
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The beginnings of the train ride were boring, filled with mindless games and conversation, as well as half baked prank ideas. Now that they had the map, their options were endless, completely disregarding their lack of magical knowledge.
As the afternoon broke, however, their comfortable monotone was broken with the arrival of a burly second year with the same crystal blue eyes Destiny saw every time she looked in a mirror. This was Cedric Diggory. Her half brother.
She fainted uninterest as he stared at her. She wasn't going to give him or his father the satisfaction of knowing that they got to her. She hated that part of her family with a passion, because of what her father had done to her mother.
"Destiny …"
"What do you want, Cedric?" She asked, turning to him with a glare that would have frozen He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in his tracks. Pure and utter loathing wafted off the girl as she stared at the boy that she should have been best friends with.
"Can we talk?" He glanced at the Twins and Lee. "In private?"
"No." Destiny said, remembering her parents' warnings well. Never allow herself alone with Cedric, and if she saw Amos, not to do anything to draw attention to herself. They didn't know what Amos would do in retaliation for his Azkaban stint. "If you have something to say to me, then you can say it in front of my friends."
"Destiny, you're being ridiculous." Cedric said. "Five minutes, that's all I ask."
Fred and George were out of their seats before Cedric could blink, identical looks of loathing crossing their features. "The lady said no." Fred said, his hand already on his wand.
Cedric looked at him dubiously. "You do realize that I'm a year ahead of you and already know those pathetic spells, right?"
Fred smirked, looking above the boy's head. "You might know all of the spells we know, but you don't them." He pointed behind Cedric where Charlie and Percy were standing, waiting for Cedric to get out of their way. Percy was a third year, and Charlie a fifth year. They were glaring at him.
"Is there something you needed, Diggory?" Charlie asked, stepping around the boy and placing his broad frame between Cedric and Destiny. "Cause I don't much fancy having idiots picking on my little sister."
Cedric snorted. "She's not your sister."
"She's as good as." Charlie amended, flexing his considerable muscles menacingly. "Now, say what you have to say and get out."
Cedric glared at him and pulled a package out of his pocket, tossing it to Destiny. "Happy Christmas. Zain's is in there too."
Destiny stared dumbfounded as he turned and walked out of the compartment. She looked at the parcel in her lap and promptly burst into tears. Charlie sat down next to her and wrapped his arms around her, holding her while she cried.
"I should've just talked to him." Destiny sobbed. "He's mad, now."
Charlie shushed her and ran his fingers through her hair. "It's alright, Dezzy. You did what you thought was right. Don't feel guilty for that. You know as well as any of us here that it could have been something really bad."
Percy was perched on the bench across from Destiny. "Charlie's right, Dez. Could still be. You don't know what's in that parcel or who bought it. For all you know, he could be a vessel for his father's attack."
Destiny sniffed again. "You two are so mean. You never let me feel what I want to feel. You always have to go and make me feel better."
Percy smiled and patted her knee. "Just relax, Dez. There'll come a time when you'll have to deal with the great behemoth, and then you'll crack under everything."
"Comforting, Perc." George said.
"You don't know anything." Fred added.
"She's never going to have to deal with him," George claimed, puffing his chest out.
"Cause we're going to be there to do it for her." Fred finished.
Destiny rolled her eyes and poked them both in the stomach, causing them to deflate. "You two are worse than Marauder, sometimes." She settled into Charlie's brotherly embrace and they evening continued in uproarious laughter.
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When Destiny disembarked the train, she did so with trepidation. This was the first time she'd be seeing her family since she left the pervious fall. She'd heard from them, of course, Hedwig being a weekly visitor to the Great Hall, but she was excited and nervous to see everyone at the same time.
When she breached the gate with her friends she saw only her father standing with Molly Weasley.
She screamed and ran over to greet her father with a huge hug.
Sirius smiled as he caught Destiny in one arm, deftly catching the trolley before it flew any further than him with the other.
"Why, hello there, my beautiful angel." Sirius said, smiling at her, smirking.
"Hi, Daddy!" she said, happily. This was easy. She thought the distance would put a wedge between her and her family, and it hadn't. She was still Daddy's Angel.
"Ready to go?" Sirius asked. "Everyone's waiting for you at home."
Destiny nodded, waving to the Weasleys as they made their way out into the parking lot. Sirius loaded Destiny's trunk into the boot of the car and she climbed into the passenger seat, buckling her seatbelt and waiting for him.
Sirius got in and started the car before taking off down the road. He smiled over at her as he made his way through traffic. "So, how was your first term?"
"It was amazing." Destiny said, grinning from ear to ear. "The classes are really great and I'm learning so much." She reached down between her feet and into her bag. "And I have something for you." She said. She pulled out the tattered parchment that she and the Twins had nicked last night. She held it out to him with a huge smile.
Sirius looked at it in shock. "Destiny, is that what I think it is?"
Destiny nodded. "Right where Uncle Moony said it would be." She told him. "We nicked it last night."
Sirius' grin widened. "Good girl. Put it away until we get home. I can't wait to show this to James and Remus." He paused for a moment. "We?"
"Fred, George, and I." Destiny told him. She looked up at him. "You didn't really think that I was going to go solo, did you?"
Sirius smiled and shook his head. "Of course not. A true Marauder always has their comrades to fall back on."
Destiny couldn't stop the mile long grin spread across her features. He was proud of her.
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Their arrival home was little more than fan fair. Everyone came rushing out of the house to greet her with hugs, kisses, and questions. Sirius grabbed her trunk and bag from the car and they all made their way inside.
"It's so great to have you home, Baby." Mina said with a huge grin as she kissed her daughter's cheek noisily. "It just isn't the same without you."
"Yeah, Sissy." Zain said, crawling onto the chair next to his sister. "That helmet you sent was great. I love it."
"I'm glad, Z." Destiny said.
"So, how are your classes?" Lily asked as she and Remus fixed their attention on her.
"They're great." Destiny said. "Professor McGonagall said I was a natural. I transfigured my matchstick from the first lesson on the first try."
"Sounds like someone else we know." Lily said, looking pointedly at James, who shrugged. "What about your potions class."
Destiny stiffened a little. "The class is great. I love it …"
"But?" Mina prompted.
"Professor Snape doesn't like me much." Destiny said. "He's always making a comment about how like my stepfather I am and how 'genetics obviously had little effect on how a child turned out.'" She was quoting directly, they could all tell.
Sirius growled. "I'm going to have a word with old Snivellus."
"No you're not." Mina snapped at him. "You'll walk in there and hex him senseless, making him hate your daughter even more. Lily and I will go."
"Me?" Lily asked, stunned. "Why me?"
Mina shot her a glare. "You're the one that spent the better part of our school years friends with him, Lily, besides the fact that Harry will have to deal with the same thing at the end of next year if we don't nip this in the bud now."
Lily sighed. "Fine."
Destiny started twisting her fingers. "There's something else." She reached for her bag and noted the huge grin on her father's face. "I've got something to show everyone, but more specifically the Marauders."
James and Remus instantly perked up as Destiny drew the Map out of her bag and lay it out on the table. James and Remus couldn't stop the shocked gasps that left their mouths. James drew his wand and touched it reverently to the parchment. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." He said, the phrase sounding only just right on his lips.
Destiny watched in amazement as the parchment reacted differently. It unfolded directly to the dungeons and showed Professor Snape, pacing his study, as well as the remaining students in the dorms.
James smirked. "It will only ever open to what you want for a Marauder." He looked at Lily and Mina. "There you go. You know exactly which suite he's in."
Remus leaned over the parchment with a smirk. "Dumbledore."
The parchment shuddered and flipped to the floor that Dumbledore's office was on. The Headmaster was pacing his study with some speed, as if looking for something.
"McGonagall." Sirius said, smirking with his brothers.
It shifted to the first floor. To McGonagall's office. She was sitting in front of the fire in her room.
"Amazing." Lily said, staring at the paper. "How did you guys manage this?"
James shrugged. "Remus can give you the details. Sirius and I just did the exploring." He pulled the map to him. "Acromantula."
It shifted to the forests around the school. The acromantula hollow obviously displayed.
"You went in there?" Allison yelped. "What, were you suicidal?"
"No, we were with Hagrid." Sirius told her. "We had detention with him and he had to check on the new clutch of eggs to see if there were any that needed wheeding out. He also wanted to collect some venom for Professor Slughorn."
"Never again." James said with a shudder. "Absolutely not."
Destiny glanced at her mother who was smiling down at her. "I take that as a 'don't get detention with Hagrid' warning."
"Good girl." Mina told her, stroking her hair. "You've done well, Destiny. You've brought something to them that they thought lost forever. I'm proud of you."
James, Sirius, and Remus all smiled as they turned to Destiny.
Remus smiled. "Harry, Zain, and the Twins will be the only ones to get it to react the way it did for us, but you are a Marauder, Destiny. You've done what we thought was impossible."
"Last night." Sirius amended.
James and Remus stared at him.
"Last night?"
"Filtch never leaves his office the night before break."
"With the Weasley Twins." Sirius continued, examining the cut on the back of his hand.
James and Remus turned their eyes to Destiny with huge grins. James swept Destiny out of her mother's arms and spun her around. "The next generation of Marauders lives."
"With new blood." Remus added with a wolfish grin of his own. "We're very proud of you, Destiny."
"And because of that," James said, setting her on the floor and crouching in front of her, "We're going to give you this." He flicked his wand over his shoulder and the map flew into his hands, neatly folded and blank. "Until you graduate and pass it on to Harry and the others."
Destiny couldn't contain it. She threw her arms around James and hugged him. "This is the best Christmas ever." She said as he hugged her back. She hugged each of them before remembering the other thing.
She ran back to her bag and pulled out the parcel. She glanced into the other room where they were all watching her curiously. This one wouldn't end so well. She should have started with this particular tidbit. She walked back into the living room and handed the package to her mother. "Cedric gave it to me. On the train. He tried getting me to go with him so that he could give it to me in private, but the Weasleys stepped in and Charlie scared him off. He said that there's a present for Zain in there as well." She paused and looked at her father. "He seemed really upset that he couldn't give it to me in private."
Mina held the package in her hand with a blank stare. Sirius already had his wand on it running diagnostic spells. If there was something wrong, Sirius was the wizard to find it. You didn't come out of a Dark Wizarding home without a few tricks.
He pulled away. "It's clean." He said. He looked at Destiny. "Go ahead and open it."
Destiny nodded as her mother handed it to her, still silent. Destiny opened the package and found two things inside. A bracelette and necklace that looked as if it had been made with a muggle bead kit, and a set of toy cars. She passed the cars to Zain who stared at them in awe.
"Cedric did this himself." Mina said, smiling faintly. She looked up at Sirius. "I think she should send Cedric a letter. I may hate Penny and Amos for what they've done to me. To Destiny and I, but Cedric was just a bystander, product of a twisted union."
Sirius nodded. "What do you think, Dez?"
Destiny looked up at him with tears in her eyes. "I should have opened it on the train. I could have given him a hug and told him thank you in person."
Remus' head snapped up, Allison's followed. "You still can." He said. He looked at Mina. "Penny and Cedric are here. At our front door."
Mina rose, waving off everyone as she took Destiny's hand and led her to the door. Sirius hung just in the background, with everyone else peering through the door.
Mina reached for the door handle and pulled open the oak door to find a very haggered and frazzled looking Penny Diggory, nee Blakely, standing with a very defiant looking Cedric.
Cedric spoke. "Mrs. Black, I know you don't like my family, but I was wondering if maybe I could spend some time with my sister."
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A/n: OH! NO! SHE! DID! NOT!!!!!
Yes, I did.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, I am leaving you with a mother of a cliffy. I hope you enjoy it. (if you can imagine me with a Cheshire Cat grin, then you've got my expression correct).
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