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Alright everybody this is a sneak peak at the Guardian year three. The first chapter! As you know I am in school and although I am writing, I won't be updating as much as I would wish because I want to concentrate on my homework and stuff. Second year of Collage and most students drop out of my programme at this point so I don't want to do that. Now although I am currently writing the third chapter, I feel although I owe the readers of this story a peak into the third installment and here it is.

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Well here we go!

The Guardian Year 3

Prisoner of Azkaban

Chapter 1

Slowly the sun leaked into the room pushing the darkness away and causing a young girl to wake up. Slowly opening her eyes she looked around before letting a yawn leave her lips. Wincing slightly at the horrible taste in her mouth, she rose from her bed and stumbled towards her bathroom. Grabbing her toothbrush, she put some toothpaste onto it before stuffing it into her mouth and brushing. As her body started too slowly wake up, her mind started to work. Because of that she started to remember, remembered what had happened the night before. Eyes flashing open she stumbled back before slamming her hands onto the counter and spitting out all the toothpaste in her mouth. Screwing her eyes shut she tried to block out the images but it did nothing.

Smock, the stench of fire filled her nostrils as she walked through the smoldering building. The building had been an orphanage where twelve children had resided but over the course of the night, it had been set on fire. The Caretaker of the orphanage, a crazed woman with greying frizzy hair, large crocket nose and yellowing ugly teeth had set the fire. When arrested she had spat on the officer's feet.

"They deserved what they got the little monsters, should have done it yesterday would have gotten another one but instead the brat was adopted!" She shouted clearly under the influence of alcohol.

It brought tears to her eyes, tears that she couldn't stop as they flowed down her cheeks. Children, younger than her, dead, burned in a horrible fire by a horrible woman. Only five children had been saved. A baby, two twin sisters, a young boy of five and a young girl around the age of sixteen who had helped protect them against the fire. Apparently, she had been able to get those four and hid them in a room with a good supply of water and a window. The orphanage woman thought she had locked all the children in their rooms and hadn't known about them. Now over twenty-five souls would be sent to the Gates of Death. At this time, twenty of those crystallised forms were following her. She had seen the bodies. Burned, brutally murdered by a crazed woman who had no right in looking after children. It was horrible, especially to think that she could have ended up in an orphanage just like the others. She felt sad, sad for all the lives lost, all the children who could have been saved if only the woman hadn't been the care taker.

Stopping in front of a small room, she took a deep breath and walked through the door as though it was nothing. But what she saw shocked her into stillness. How could it be possible, there lying on the ground was a crying little girl. The girl was alive, although badly burned and injured. Looking about she tried to find something to warn a person. She had enough power to do that. She could feel the girl holding onto life with a passion and for that, she would save her. At long last, she found it, a closed window. Raising her hand, she made it open causing the smock in the room to be sucked out. Looking at the girl, she could tell she had seen her.

"Scream child they'll hear you if you scream. They'll save you, you will live." She whispered and for the moment, the girl could only stair. "I am the Guardian of Souls, you are not meant to leave tonight, scream child, and scream as loud as you can." She urged and as soon as she told her to, the child began to scream for help.

"Help somebody help me! Please somebody!" She screamed tears falling from her eyes as she did so. Gently kneeling beside her she ran a hand over her hair as the girl continued to cry out for help. Finally, they heard it.

"There's one alive!" The voice was male, and strong yet it was far enough that it would take a few moments for the person to arrive. Crying out the child continued to scream for help until finally the door to the room was banged open and two firefighters ran in and froze at the sight.

"Get me a stretcher now!" A man ordered before hurrying to the child side and kneeling on the opposite side as Rowena knelt. "Don't worry kid, you'll be fine, we'll get you out of here. Now I want you to take a deep breath."

"My name, my name is Athena…" She coughed and the man gave a nod. "Athena Black."

"It's okay Athena, don't worry. We'll get you out of here and to a hospital. I just need you to take a deep breath into this mask for me okay." He urged and the girl did as told as the man placed an air mask over her nose and mouth, giving her fresh air. "Where's that stretcher!"

"Good luck Athena. I just know you're going to make this world a better place." Rowena whispered before gathering the rest of the souls and leaving the still smoldering building behind.

"Oh God." She whispered trying not to throw up as she thought about last night. Slowing taking a deep breath, she gathered herself before looking into the mirror.

Her eyes were a bit dull and she could see the ring of black under them. It was clear she had not slept well last night. Shaking her head, she grabbed her toothbrush and continued to brush her teeth until she rinsed it. Grabbing a face clothe she started to wash her face with worm water before rinsing with cold. Finished she grabbed her brush and brushed all the knots from her hair before braiding it. She silently wondered about Athena Black, before shaking it out of her thoughts it was just better if she didn't think about it at the moment.

Walking out of the room, she went to her wardrobe and grabbed a nice summers dress and some simple white sandals before leaving her room for the dining room. Arriving she found that the table was set with all sorts of fruits and simple breakfast items and that sitting at the table was Cassandra, Narcissia and Mrs. Greengrass.

"Rowena, what are you doing up so early?" Cassandra questioned as she rose from her seat.

"I um, couldn't sleep anymore." She answered before slowly sitting into her normal seat.

"So Rowena, last week of summer holidays what are your plans?" Narssicia asked as Rowena piled her plate with fresh fruit and a chocolate croissant.

"Well Blaise and I finished our homework already so it's pretty much just lazing about for a bit." She answered then flashed them a smile. "Ron did tell me that he and his family would be arriving this week and would be spending the rest of the summer at the Leaky Cauldron. Apparently Egypt was really interesting."

"Egypt, I did go there once." Mrs. Greengrass remarked a thoughtful look on her face. "I think their oldest works in Gringotts there correct?"

"Yes, that's what Ron was telling me." She answered. "He's a Curse Breaker, and apparently they recently found this new tomb that they think is going to be really interesting to learn about."

As the conversation continued with the subject of Egypt, Rowena didn't noticed the worried look sent to Cassadra from Narcissia or how Mrs. Greengrass also looked worried. The three women had noticed her dull eyes and dark rings around them. They were worried but didn't know how to approach it. Eventual though Blaise arrived downstairs and the Rowena's eyes lit up while a bright smile formed on her lips.

"Morning Blaise!" She greeted cheerfully.

"Morning Row, so swimming today?" He asked and Rowena gave a nod of agreement. "Great after breakfast we can go get changed for the pool, you don't mind do you mum?"

"Not at all you two, last week of vacation and everything, you need a good time, swimming sounds like a good idea." Cassandra agreed.

"Great, hey mum what happened to the Prophet we've not been getting it as of late?" Blaise remarked curiously, after all it was normal for the prophet to be at the table at breakfast but as of the last few weeks it hadn't.

"Your father takes it with him in the morning for the past few weeks." Cassandra answered and both Rowena and Blaise took that as acceptable answers not seeing the look Cassandra sent her two friends.

Later that morning when the children were out in the pool playing about the three women stood inside watching from a window.

"Cassandra does Rowena not known about Black?" Narcissia questioned looking rather worried.

"No… we haven't told her, We've been searching for the right way to inform her about Black, we don't even know if she knows anything about him. Not to mention the fact that Fudge doesn't want anybody talking about him to her." Cassandra revealed causing Narcissia to frown as she looked out over the water.

"She must be told Cassandra, she needs to be prepared so that nothing shocked her or pushes her off guard during the school year. She'll need to know everything about Black." Narcissia remarked.

"I supposed it's for the best, and I do agree with Narcissia but something is bothering me. Her eyes this morning, I have never seen them so dull before and the black rings under her eyes." Ellanora remarked.

"I don't know what that's about either, Rowena seldom talks about dreams or nightmares she might have. I can only guess that it was a nightmare she had last night." Cassandra whispered before looking back out at the two children.

This summer had brought great changes in both Rowena and Blaise. Blaise had grown in height and he now was clearly much taller than Rowena yet Rowena had started to develop into a young woman. They had gone out to France on a little girls shopping day to get her some of the products she would need such as bras and other things not to mention she had explained all that Rowena had to know about being a girl. Yet she was comfortable in saying that Rowena was ready for whatever happened during the school year, which had to do with being a girl.

"I'll speak with Christopher tonight." Cassandra stated. "She does need to know."

…

As Christopher arrived home from the Ministry, he blew a breath of relief. Today had not been a good day. Walking into the front door, he made his way up to his room to change from the business clothes he wore into something more comfortable.

"Christopher dear is that you?" Came his wife's voice that had him smiling.

"Hello Cassandra." He greeted as she walked out of a room. "How was your day?"

"Relaxing, although the girls and I spoke about Rowena, we think, we think it would be in her best interest that she is told everything." Cassandra said causing him to sigh.

"We can speak about this later, for now I'll go get changed, where are the children?" he asked curiously.

"They are outside, last time I saw them they were playing in the pool." She answered earning a smile from the Head of the Zabini family. "Well go get changed and we can speak after. We need to figure out what to do she can't just remain clueless and she can't learn from others when we know ourselves."

"I agree but how do we broach the subject?" He questioned.

"Start by explain Black and Death Eaters. She needs to know Christopher, I don't want her to hurt but I don't want her unprepared either." Cassandra whispered a tear falling from her eyes as she thought about the girl that was like a daughter for her.

"Alright tonight we'll talk to her just be prepared for the worse." He remarked and she gave a nod after all it was expected.

Later that night as dinner was taking place, both elder Zabinis were silent and to both Blaise and Rowena it meant that they were worried. Worried about what, it was unknown but they were worried but they were.

"Mum, dad, is there something wrong?" Blaise finally asked which got both adults to look at their son in shock but then they realised that they hadn't spoken all dinner.

"I suppose you could say that, something has happened in the wizarding world, something quite big and not a good something. This something concerns you Rowena." Cassadra started causing Rowena to look up from her plate.

"What happened?" She asked curiously.

"There was a breakout in Azkaban a few weeks ago." Christopher answered causing Blaise to gasp. "A high security prisoner escaped, and is still at large."

"What does this have to do with me?" Rowena asked curiously. She didn't know anybody who had been sent to Azkaban, and she certainly didn't help in breaking somebody out.

"Rowena, do you know anything about the night your parents died?" Christopher finally asked.

"I know that my parents were killed by Voldemort on Halloween but that was all. Why?" She asked worried that she might have needed to know more about their deaths.

"Darling there is no easy way of saying this; your parents were killed by You Know Who because they had been betrayed. Your parents had gone into hiding not long after you were born. They used a spell known as the Fidellius charm, which needs a Secret Keeper. They used a person they trusted with their lives and were betrayed." Cassandra said causing Rowena's eyes to widen in shock.

"There is a reason nobody took claim as guardian when you were orphaned. The only people able to were unable. Your godmother is in St. Mungos and your godfather, your godfather is the one who betrayed you and your parents." Christopher announced and from there, there was complete silence.

"What is his name?" Rowena whispered eyes locked on her plate.

"Sirius Black." Cassandra answered. "He also killed your parents other friend and fourteen muggles." Cassandra murmured worry filling her as she watched the girl closely.

"OH." She whispered causing both adults to look at each other worriedly. "I think… I think I'm going to go to my room right now."

With that, Rowena got up and walked from the room, but as she got out of sight, she forwent walking and ran to her room. Arriving she closed and locked the door before throwing herself onto her bed. She felt confused and angry, angry that nobody had told her this before and confused at the fact that her own godfather could have done something like that. How could he betray his friends in such a way? It just didn't feel right.

"Sirius Black, why did you do it? Why did you betray them, why did you want my parents dead?" She whispered before letting a sigh leave her lips.