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New idea that wouldn't leave me alone.
Chapter start
"Are you sure about this?" Lily Potter formally Evan's asked her husband.
"Sirius is too obvious while no one would suspect Peter," James Potter assured his wife from across the table late one summer night.
Lily sighed deeply and tugged on a strand of her red hair, "I know, but Peter...He's never seemed right to me."
"It'll be fine Lily," James waved off his wife's concern, "Peter's a rat animagus, so he's always given off that feeling," He noticed that his words didn't have the effect he wanted them to have on his wife, "Lils," Lily looked at him with a frown on her face, "It's for the best. It's our only option since Remus might be a spy. I know it's scary, but we need to protect our daughter,"
"I...I know," She sighed deeply and looked towards the window, "It's hard to believe that all this is happening and that we have to rely on Peter,"
James nodded as he stood from his seat and walked over to his wife, "Everyone deserves to have some great deed attached to their name and it's Peter's," Lily leaned into him, "Arya will be fine because of this."
"Alright," Lily finally relented to her husband, "Let's inform Albus,"
October 31st
"James you idiot!" Lily shouted at her husband as they ran towards their property, "I knew we shouldn't have trusted Peter!"
"I know Lily!" James was in fight or flight mode, "Let's hope we're in time,"
Both ran into the house and up the stairs towards their daughter's room, the Order of the Phoenix followed the duo closely with the Headmaster at the front. They reached the door and both felt dread upon seeing that it was blown off it's hinges. They stepped inside and Lily gasped as she ran towards the head of blonde hair lying in front of her daughter's crib, "Jasmine!"
The blonde didn't respond as a pair of black eyes stared forward blankly. Lily let out a small sob just as James murmured, "Lils."
Lily looked up at her husband and stood up quickly to move towards the crib where he stood. Only she began to sob uncontrollably at seeing the scorch marks burned into the wood with no sign of their daughter anywhere. Dumbledore made his way past the door as James held his wife with tears flowing down his face. Dumbledore felt sorrow for the couple's loss, but something felt off about those scorch marks. He waved his wand and the scorch marks flared a bright bluish white causing Albus to gasp. Lily noticed the lights and asked Dumbledore, "What are you doing?"
"The scorch marks felt off prompting me to scan them with my magic," Dumbledore answered as he eyed the marks with calculating eyes, "It seems that they are not a result of Voldemort's magic, but rather the result of an ancient magic invoked by your daughter in order to protect herself. It seems that Voldemort's body was destroyed as a result of that magic,"
"Where is our daughter then?" James demanded causing the Headmaster to sigh.
"Somewhere that even I cannot get to," Dumbledore sighed warily causing the couple to feel a new wave of grief as their hope was dashed, "However," They perked up, "From the magic's residue, it would seem that we may see your daughter again, but only time will tell when and how that will happen,"
The couple were both overjoyed at the news and greatly saddened. While their daughter lived and they would see her once more, they wouldn't be the ones to raise her.
Moments before the Potter's and the Order arrived on the scene
"Leave her alone you creep!" A woman with dark blonde hair snarled at the wizard that had just blown the door off it's hinges, "I won't let you harm her!"
The wizard sneered and merely raised his wand, "Avada Kedavra!" The woman dropped to the ground as he turned his attention to the one year old in the crib, "So you're the child that's meant to defeat me," A head of red speckled black hair raised above the bars and emerald green eyes locked on him, "A shame for your potential to be wasted like this. I could have used you to take over the world," The toddler waved a pudgy hand at him, "A shame it is," He waved his wand, "Die! Avada Kedavra!"
The green curse raced from the wand towards the child. Time seemed to slow as the child saw the energy approach. A part of the child awakened as it sensed the threat to her. The magic deep inside of her flared with the part of the child that awakened to protect her as the words and actions registered with them. A halo of bluish-white energy erupted from the child's body and flew outwards towards the curse that would have killed the child. The magic touched the spell and a small standstill occurred before the spell rebounded towards Voldemort with twice the power behind it. The magic then returned to the child and the awakened part transported the child somewhere safe as it sensed that child was still in danger even if the wizard was gone.
In another part of the world behind a magical barrier
"Damn it!" An angry black haired woman punched the tree next to her, "Why can't we succeed in finding someone with enough to potential?"
"I don't know Nyx," A blonde hair man murmured causing the black haired woman to look at him with blazing crimson eyes, "Nyx-"
"Damn it Chris time is running out," Nyx glared at the man, "If we don't find someone soon, we will all die,"
"I know Nyx," He sighed at his partners bad mood and ran a hand through his blonde locks tiredly, "What exactly do you expect me to do? We can't force them to bond with someone they don't see potential in,"
"I know," Her eyes closed as she caught the tiredness in her partners pupiless cyan eyes, "But what are we supposed to do? The last town didn't have anyone and they're getting closer,"
"We'l-" Chris was cut off by a flash of bluish white light from the side followed by the sound of an explosion.
"What the-" Nyx was cut off by the sound of crying, "Shit is that a baby?"
Nyx ran forward causing Chris to sigh in exasperation before following his partner towards the source of the cry. When they reached it, they both couldn't help but gasp. The clearing was practically destroyed as the scent of sulfur filled the air. Chris was the first of the pair to speak, "Holy shit are those mana burns? I've never seen them burn that kind of pattern. A spiral? Unheard of."
"Chris..." Nyx rolled her eyes at her partner and made her way towards the center of the clearing, "Get the medkit, so we can check the kid,"
"Oh right," Chris took the bag he was carrying off his back and dug inside to grab the medkit.
Nyx reached the center of the clearing as Chris noticed two jeweled statues glowing faintly. She bent down and reached into the large pile of ash that sat in the direct center of the clearing. A small whimper echoed from the ash as Nyx's hands met cloth prompting Nyx to grab a fist full and pull it off. She gasped as she uncovered the child inside. Red speckled obsidian hair laying in a mass of messy spikes. Emerald green eyes with tears filling them. Pale skin and small body. The child was bare of anything save for the cloth she had pulled off of her. Ash and soot covered the child prompting Nyx to grab one of her clean towels to get it off as she growled, "Chris come on! I don't know if the kid has any injuries, so hurry up."
Chris shook his head and grabbed the medkit before heading towards his partner as he decided to deal with it later. An innocent was in trouble and most likely in need of a healer.
Hours later
The two had made camp not far from the clearing in a cave they had passed by earlier. The child was sleeping in one of Nyx's extra shirts on Chris' sleeping bag. The duo were currently sitting together in front of a fire. Nyx stared at the two statues sitting innocently near the fire as they glowed softly. The jackal statue was made of obsidian stone and was glowing a greyish black. The tiger-like statue was made of howlite and was glowing white. Nyx scratched the back of her head and said, "While I'm glad we finally found the one they're going to bond with, where the hell is her mark?"
"Her mark is on her left arm," Chris ran a hand through his hair, "It's hard to see because she's so pale, but I managed to see it while I was cleaning off her arm,"
"So she's definitely one of us, but I've never seen someone like her before," Nyx felt like throwing something, "Not to mention the odd clearing and burn marks,"
"The mana felt like a mix of protective mana and teleportation mana," Chris added with a small frown, "But all of the mana has a link to her,"
"It should be impossible since we can't activate our mana for anything until after we bond with our partners," Nyx's mood was taking a nosedive even though she was happy to have found the person they had been looking for, "Not only that, why would she end up in Crycs forest? The night walkers are about to start migrating here,"
"I know," Chris sighed before looking at the child, "We can't leave her here or in the next town. They would scoop her up in seconds,"
"We're keeping her then," Chris looked at his partner in alarm.
"What?!" He ignored how girly his voice sounded at that moment, "Nyx she's young, we're almost always traveling to either do missions or fight them. We can't care for-"
"Bull shit," Nyx growled at her partner, "Like you said, we can't leave her here or in the next town since it would leave her vulnerable to them. She needs training and we can provide it," Chris opened his mouth to speak, but Nyx continued, "Yeah she's young, but we have enough money saved up from missions to take care of her. The other's can take over the fight until we're ready to return," She then smiled slyly, "Plus, it would let us finally settle down and have that family we've always talked about,"
Chris opened his mouth to protest only to shut it with an audible click as he realized she was right. He looked at the kid and had to admit she was cute. With a sigh, he looked back at his partner, "Fine."
"YES!" Nyx shouted as she jumped up only to stop when there was a low groan from the girl, "Ooops,"
Chris rolled his eyes at his partner with a small smile even as the girl rolled over and fell into a deeper sleep. Ah some things would never change.
End of first chapter
