Author Note: I appear to be back sooner than expected... However the next chapter may take a while... This is the second generation part of the Seventh Son (which I finished yesterday)... This story may take a while to get going, I have a plan for the plot, but this first chapter is mainly introducing all the kids... And I realise there was already a Hunter in magyk, but I don't care, his name is Hunter Heap and that's final, he's named after a boat... ;D... This may be confusing to start with so... stick with me... There are nine new characters in this chapter alone! Nine new Heap children! Oh well, thanks to everyone who read the Seventh Son... I hope you will stick with this one too... ~ARTY~

Oh and I'm going to tack this on the end, even though no-one will probably read it as I already have two chapters after this: Dear Info Guy (I don't know who you are, so I'll stick to your anonymous name) I KNOW THE YOUNG ARMY WAS DISSOLVED! It's a story, it isn't meant to be taken seriously, jeez... And still, Trevor would have existed only have been out of the Young Army earlier, you know... Twisting details is what I do, get over it! Thanks for reviewing to tell me that anyway... ~ARTY~

Chapter 1

It was fifteen years to the day since the great recapturing of the Castle. A lot of things had changed since then but still so many things were the same. Simon Heap and Merrin Meredith were still Sealed inside Dungeon One which had had an antidarke incantation put on it so that they couldn't escape.

Simon's child had been born about three months are his imprisonment. A baby girl called Kayleigh. Simon hadn't found out about his daughter's birth until at least a year afterwards, all along he had feared that Lucy and his child had been murdered during the raid. Kayleigh never knew her father, her grandparents saw to that, she was never told about her father's attempts to overthrow the Castle ten years previously. Lucy Heap had been prevented from telling her daughter anything by a strong charm and young Kayleigh had grown up none the wiser. Kayleigh did not have green eyes and so therefore possessed no magykal talent like her father, Simon would not have been proud. Kayleigh became a scribe in the Manuscriptorium under the supervision of Beetle, who had now been appointed Chief Hermetic Scribe, the highest position he could have obtained during his time there.

Trevor and Hettie Mason-Heap had been married now for twelve years. Trevor had taken his true surname as well as his mother's name when they had wed. They had four children. The eldest was a girl who they named Ria after Hettie's grandmother, Ria was twelve. Ria had blonde hair and bright green eyes; she took after her father in that respect. Trevor had her training as an Ordinary Wizard already. The other three children were triplets, all sons, named Nate, short for Nathaniel, Charlie and Robert, sometimes Robbie. Only Nate had green eyes but all four looked so much like Heaps that they couldn't possibly have been mistaken for anything else. The triplets were ten years old.

Jojo Heap had a daughter called Freya who was immediately drafted in the Wendron Coven after her birth nine years ago. Freya had never known anything except the Forest and occasionally was visited by her city-dwelling uncles and her aunt Jenna, the young Queen.

Nicko Heap also had children with his wife Snorri, a boy and two girls called Felicity, who was eleven, Grace, who was ten and Hunter who was seven and named after a boat that Nicko had acquired in his Boatyard. The children were going to help in the Boatyard as soon as they were old enough and strong enough. Felicity looked a lot like her mother but Grace and Hunter both took after the Heap side of the family in appearance.

Jenna Heap was now twenty eight and the official Queen of the Castle. She had never married and had no children of her own though she wanted them so badly. She loved to spend time with her brothers' children, especially Ria because she was so much like Septimus, she did like Septimus a lot but not enough to marry him. Not yet anyway.

Beetle never married either. He was still in love with Jenna even though he'd never admit it. Then again, most of the men in the Castle had been in love with the young Queen at some stage, even Septimus was still in love with her.

But things weren't always going to be peachy for these nine special cousins, they would soon end up working together to help save the Castle once more, be they scribes, witches, Wizards or just plain apprentices, their lives were about to get a whole lot more interesting.

The story picks back up when Kayleigh asks for the umpteenth time about her father.

"Do you know about my father, Uncle Septimus? What happened to him?"

Septimus paused for a moment to stare at his green ExtraOrdinary apprentice robes which he still had all these years later.

"Your father Simon… I don't know what happened to him… You know about the great war on this day fifteen years ago… He vanished after that…" Septimus lied.

Kayleigh didn't believe him for a second. "Why does my mother never speak of him? They were married. I fail to think he would just abandon his pregnant wife. Was he one of those men that started the war? Is he in Dungeon One? People seldom speak of the men down there, but I have heard of them. One is my father."

Septimus knew the game was up; they could never have kept their secret forever. "Yes, Kayleigh. Simon Heap is your father. We were shielding you. Your father was a criminal who kidnapped your aunt and was responsible for the deaths of your two uncles, Edd and Erik. He is to rot in Dungeon One for an eternity, which is his destiny. We don't want you to feel bad about whom your father is and we don't want him to try and influence you to start another war. Families were shattered by your father's actions as well as those of his accomplice Merrin Meredith."

"So my father is a darke necromancer? I could never follow him; I have no magykal power…"

"Yes, but stranger things have happened before…"

"I would never practice darke magyk; I have been brought up in a stable environment where there is only good magyk. Two of my uncles are the seventh sons. I wish to meet with my father."

"That cannot happen," Septimus insisted. "Your mother is with her family unwillingly, if you see Simon she will take flight. It is not impossible to break into Dungeon One, your uncle Trevor and I managed it before the Great War, but we don't want people to even think about it."

Kayleigh smiled. Her uncle had unwillingly given her an amazing idea. She was going to break into Dungeon One to meet her father. It was not right for a young girl to grow up without a father and Kayleigh was determined that that would not happen to her. But she'd need some help. A lowly scribe could never break into that dungeon; she was going to ask her Wizard cousin Ria for help…