16th century London, England. Slytherin Cottage.
"Why can't we go to Hogwarts mummy?" Phoenix James asked as her mother braided her sister's hair. "Is it because Grandma Ro died?"
"Partly my dear, but also because you are already far more advanced than the third years and your only eight years old" Her mother smiled at her in a way that signaled the conversation was over.
Its how its always been she thought, ever since she could remember, her Grandfather Sal had died when she was four, two months after the birth of her youngest twin siblings Rigel Loki and Vega Evander and since then it was if they couldn't go anywhere without their grandmother. It also always baffled her how different her siblings where, Loki and Evie had auburn red hair, Castor and Katana had pale blonde almost white hair, while her sister Billy and brother Reagan had hair as black as night. Though their hair was different they all had the same emerald green eyes their mother Perenelle has. He mother said that when she was pregnant with them she was blessed by a phoenix and it was how for the first time in history magical triplets where born. Her second pregnancy she was blessed by the ice fae and out came Castor and Katana and her last pregnancy she was blessed by a unicorn. Being blessed by different magical beings made them all different, not only physically but magically.
They all honed different talents, as the first born Phoenix was not only named for the magical being but was also granted the gifts of traveling through phoenix fire, natural legilemency that made it so when ever she saw into someone's mind no matter the barriers or shields she would see their past, their whole past and their present but never their future. The closest she can get is when she was in magical house or building, she could see through the eyes of the portraits by touching a wall. Arcturus Reagan had the ability to see things miles away and carry things five times his weight. Columba William or Billy can memorize anything, directions, names, faces, books and recall them all within seconds as well as reading hundred paged books in seconds absorbing every word as she went. Pollux Castor was given the ability to see up too ten years into someone's future but has to physically touch them in order to do so, as well as survive freezing temperatures in the middle of winter without getting cold. Elara Katana had the power to blow icy wind and freeze anything she comes in contact with. Rigel Loki and Vega Evander or Evie where both blessed with the ability to sense danger miles away but where natural healers.
Besides the gifts they where blessed with, they also inherited gifts from their family. Intelligence, wits and creativity from their grandma Ro, an affinity for potions, alchemy, herbology and Arithmacy from their father Nickolas, affinity for ancient runes, astronomy and charms from their mother and Parseltongue and Parselmagic as well as an affinity for transfiguration from their grandfather Sal.
"What aren't you tell us mom?" her mother stopped half way through Billy's braid and looked into the eyes of her eldest daughter, the daughter she most worried about, the one that one day will have the weight of the world on her shoulders. She gave a weak smile, tears started to build up in her eyes, but she wouldn't dare shed them in front of her children.
"You'll know when you're older my dear, for I fear you are too young to yet have the mental maturity needed for the task you where sadly born into" with that she left, leaving behind a confused Billy and a calculating James.
18th Paris, France. Flamel Castle.
"What are you doing?"
"Ouch" James rubbed the top of her head. Her mother's desk was a lot harder than it looked. "Must you sneak up on me like that Evie?"
"Must you go through mother's things? What in Merlin are you even looking for?" Evie folded her arms and stared expectantly at her older sister.
"Don't look at me like that, we may look the same age but I'm still four years older than you Vega" She sneered at her. "And its none of your business what I'm looking for, go and bug Loki, you have a twin for a reason"
"Well then, I see you're in quite the mood, maybe if you kept your emotions in check and kept from snooping around her things mother might just tell you whatever it is you've been in a deranged craze searching for these past two centuries Phoenix" She sneered back and turned to leave when Billy ran in panting.
"Mothers on her way, I think I convinced her I was you" She took a deep breath. "You need to flash us to the library, now!"
James took her sisters arms and fire flashed them to the history section on the third floor of their library dropping their arms instantly. She began to pace.
"No luck I'm guessing?" James shook her head.
"Wait, Billy knows? Why cant I know?" Billy and James locked eyes and simultaneously rolled them.
"She knows because she's my sister"
"So am I!"
"Not my womb sister though" James smirked, knowing how annoyed Evie and Katana always got when they had "Womb" secrets.
"Well then I think mother would probably like to know, since its her office you where snooping through" With a sigh James relented and motioned for both her sisters to sit.
"Fine, but if I'm going to tell you, I might as well tell everyone else, Tilly!"
With a pop a small house elf with a navy blue dress appeared.
"You girls aren't making more work for Tilly are you?" She leveled the three of them with a glare as they shook their head.
"I was just wondering if you could bring Reagan, Katana, Castor and Loki here, that is if you're not busy at the moment" with a sharp nod Tilly popped away and the sister let out the breath they where holding.
"I swear she scares me more than mom and dad do" James and Evie nodded in agreement. A moment later their siblings arrived.
"Sit, this might take a while" And she began telling them everything she had uncovered.
"Keep in mind most of this I got from mom's mind, the rest from the journal I found that belonged to Grandma Ro" They nodded their heads in understanding. "Well according to the journal it all really starts when Grandpas first wife and his his as well as grandma Ro's husband, aunt Helena's father, get murdered by the muggles who lived in Hogsmeade."
"That's when Grandpa decided muggles where dangerous right?"
"Yes Loki, it is. No interrupting. It's a long enough story as it is. As I was saying they got murdered and Grandfather Sal in his grief never thought he would fall in love again or have another heir so he blood adopted a muggleborn in his house whose parents kicked him out for being magical and renamed him Salazar Slytherin Jr., after a few long, lonely years Grandma and Grandpa fell in love much to the displeasure of Godric Gryffindor who always had a thing for Grandma Ro. Everything seemed for a few years but in reality Godric had been trying to cause a rift between Grandma Ro and Grandfather Sal but all his efforts where in vain because all his attempts just brought them together to the point where mom was born. Around that time Godric got into Salazar Jr.'s head, tricking him into believing that he would be pushed aside now that Slytherin had a true heir. Enraged with jealousy he made a pact to kill mom as a baby, but grandfather caught wind of their plan and banished Salazar Jr., his wife and their unborn daughter from Hogwarts. After that Godric challenged Grandfather to a wand duel, the loser having to leave Hogwarts forever. Grandfather lost as you know and had to leave taking mom with him so that she was safe from harms way. Grandma Ro stayed not only to take care of her students but to also watch over the Slytherin's who where left by themselves. Now I'm going to skip over to when Loki and Evie where born, in between those years not much happened that we don't already know. Mom met dad, they become immortal, they had us, we leaved with Grandpa. Well Salazar Jr. now seventy-two was tired of having his grandchildren rejected from attending Hogwarts and poisoned Grandfather Sal to stop the blood curse he had put in place. Once Grandpa died, Grandma Ro came to live with us until she died in her sleep, of natural causes. But before that you all probably remember she gifted me an egg that was in grandfathers chamber at Hogwarts, Orssana the Basilisk who now guards Grandfathers chamber and in the future will be used as a defense mechanism for Hogwarts."
"Is that it?" Katana wrinkled her nose in disappointment. "That's why we can't go to Hogwarts because Godric will kill us? Isn't he dead?"
"Nope apparently he found a way to extend his life, although no one knows since he faked his death and not even his last living son or any of his grandchildren know" Surprise flashed through all their faces.
"Why would he do that?" James rolled her eyes.
"That's what I'm trying to find out, mother once said I was born with a task, but she has yet to say what it is, I think it has something to do with Godric but I'm not sure"
"Well we wont know until she tells you, for now we should continue as we have, training and doing as dad says, live in the present"
With that all seven Flamel siblings went into different parts of the library each continuing their own personal projects.