Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or his friends, I do however own, under copyright Rayen, and her friends who you will see through out this story I also do not own Demon in my view or characters from it which are in someway alluded to.
AN: This will be a HPDM story, as well as a GWLL, and a HGRW. Sorry but it makes the story far more interesting. Don't like it don't read it. I'll also tell you by how many reviews I'll update each chapter by cuz why do the work if no ones reading it?
Blah: thoughts
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Blah :telepathic
What the Shadows always say:
The dark clouds had just started to stir over the old castle when the students were arriving. Nothing abnormal about the early evening hours alerted any of the other students of the English school of witch craft and wizarding, not even the out of place looking dark haired girl wandering to and fro looking not only lost but oddly tense. The girl wasn't particularly note worthy, only standing 5'7" she had choppy cut chin length black and burgundy hair. She wore black that blended her into the shadows. But her clothes and eyes stood her out in a crowd if you looked closely enough at them. Eyes the were a bright mix of silver and lavender, dressed in fitted black leather pants and a snug black tanktop. The students all stood quietly at the bottom of the steps at the front of the castle, which from its look alone made the girl fidget. Her eyes darted nervously around at all the face before she managed to take a calming breath and focus herself onto her task at hand, which by the way this day had so far gone was not going to be easy. Making her wonder for a moment what she'd done to deserve a case like this one. She'd been caught up in her own musing so long that she hadn't noticed herself blocking the entry way, and it wasn't until a particularly rude blond boy made this remark that she realized how long she had been in her own world.
"Going to stand there all day or can't you walk into a room?" Came the dry voice from behind her, causing the girl to start slightly and turn to face the speaker. A fairly handsome young man with white blond hair and silver eyes, sneering at her. Smirking some she licked her lips for a quick distraction, "Oh I know how to enter a room, I just wanted to see if you did. Judging by the way you talk I'm seeing that you lack in toilet training though…" With that she quickly spun around and moved to slip into a shadowed corner of the room. As she had she pulled from her pocket a small hand-held device and watching the young man pass her by she made the ID on her first subject. "…Think I'll just call him Falla, since he look like Fallon…" She mused quietly. Turning her attention back to the hand held. "Now to just find the second subject…hmm…he should be with subjects five and six…" Removing herself from her nice little hiding spot she cast a very quick cover charm to make sure she wasn't locked out by the wards or set off any alarms. That wouldn't be good for business, not on the first day.
POV: Draco:
He'd been rather bored the whole trip here, since he couldn't find the golden trio to pick on. The summer had been dull to say the least and Draco Malfoy wanted to liven things up for himself some. His fifth year at Hogwarts was sure to be painful to say the least if he didn't find something to do quickly and now. That's when he saw her, a darkly clad figure standing in the entryway to Hogwarts, and he couldn't pass up messing with someone. He knew he'd never seen the girl before, but the way she was standing there looking a bit dazed if he was right made it all the more fun. As he crept up behind the girl hoping to scare her he noticed something odd in the power she was giving off in waves, but opted to ignore it and make the best of what he'd set out to do. "Going to stand there all day, or can't you walk into a room?" He asked dryly hoping to make the smaller girl jump. He hadn't expected what she'd done though, rather than jumping she'd spun around and faced him with a smug look on her face. "Oh I know how to enter a room, I just wanted to see if you did. Judging by the way you talk I'm seeing that you lack in toilet training though…" Her response in such a calm and almost amused voice caught him off guard, and she sent him reeling when she looked into his eyes and he'd seen the color of hers. That had taken all the come backs in his head and dropped them into empty space. Before he knew what hit him she was gone in a flash, leaving him stunned and confused in her wake, had she had a somewhat Russian accent?.
POV: Harry:
For Harry Potter this day seemed to get worse and worse as he went. First his morning had been rough, with Ron and Hermione pushing at him, pulling on him, generally annoying the hell out of him and catching him in the middle of their lovers spat. He growled mentally and ducked into an unused cabin on the train to Hogwarts, this would be a long year and he knew it. He was only thankful that Draco-the-prat-Malfoy wasn't here and bothering him. As for this trip, he felt he'd be lucky if he'd get even a touch of sleep on the way. Closing his eyes he drifted into a place between waking and sleep only to be rudely disturbed by the door opening and closing again, along with the not so graceful thunk of a body falling into the seat across from him, this caused him to open his eyes and begin to snarl at whoever it was with the stupidity to bother him now. No one knew why but Harry had gained quiet a temper during the summer and was a bit snappy to everyone around him. So when he started to open his mouth to say something at the figure across the small space from him with a book hiding it, the rage was starting already to build. "WHAT are you doing here? Can't you just leave me alone?" He growled at the figure who sat still book still in place. Then there was a very un-Hermione like giggle. "Hello Harry isn't it? I'm Rayen. As for leaving you alone I didn't know I was bothering you." The girl had lowered her book and was looking at him. Strangely enough he felt bad for saying what he had and lowered his head, but before he could utter another word the girl stood, stretched out her back and almost seemed to vanish from the room completely. This caused Harry to think he'd finally lost it and with a shake of his head he went back to trying to get some sleep.
POV: Rayen:
She'd since spied her subjects three,(whom she was now calling fyreball) subject four,(whom she'd taken to calling Nyx) and five and six (whom she'd labeled Sqeeks and IowAd) Thus far though she had not seen subject two whom she'd taken to calling Aubrey after her oh so favorite American vampire. Subject one, Falla was busy being a slight problem for her as he took pleasure in causing others pain and she could clearly see that his Veela side had yet to take power. Oh this would be a very long day. She could only hope the council had pulled through for her on this last round, otherwise she may need to out run a school of witches and wizards. See Shadows aren't well liked in the wizarding world and Rayen knew she'd be no exception. Upon entering the Great Hall she froze seeing all eyes on her, her instincts screamed for her to turn and run for her life, but she knew her charm was holding as she could feel it. The headmaster, and crazy looking old coot was standing in front of the school addressing something or another when she'd entered and gave her a kindly old man's smile before motioning her to come forward.
She'd shaken off the stares she was getting by the time she reached the front and had since replaced her mask of ice that she was famous for in the Shadow Realm. Standing quietly she listened to the old man speaking again. "This is a new student from Russia, her name is Rayen and I hope you all give her a warm welcome. She'll only be with us a year." He turned to her and nodded towards the stool directly behind her. Now had she been paying anything going in the room much mind she would have known why he set a talking hat on her head, but she hadn't thus the voice in her mind gave her quiet a start. "Hello child." The hat said softly in her mind once she'd composed herself again
"Who are you? How'd you get in here?" She snapped starting to close down the walls on her mind in fear of being found out. At that though the hat merely laughed.
"Just the Sorting hat child no need to get upset. Whats said here stays here you know? Though I see that you have a dark secret." The hat got a grave expression on its face and stayed in thought.
"Lovely…I told the council this would never work…idiots sending me in here in plain view…Yes I have a secret I'm a shadow." This statement ofcourse caused the hat to laugh aloud.
"Ah I see here on business then? I never see any of your kind about here anymore."
"Maybe because we aren't welcome in the wizard world anymore…that's a safe bet. Enough of this just stick me somewhere…people may start to wonder if we go on much longer what you know."
The hat knew she was right and with a sigh shouted out into the room , "Slytherin!"
POV: Harry:
Harry had been picking at the small amount of food on his plate when he heard the announcement and looked up to see the pained look on Malfoy's face when he heard the blond boy whine "Not her…" It was enough to almost cause him to laugh, that was until he locked eyes with the girl and caught her winking at him. Tilting his head some he made a mental note that she had what looked like black smoky flames wrapped around her body instead of an aura, and her eyes were the oddest color of warm ash he'd ever seen. Looking down he saw that he himself was starting to have small licks of those same flames around his hands and going up his arms. Panic was setting in when he felt a strange but no less comforting pressure against his mind. "Calm yourself Harry, your one of us but you can't tell anyone that or the things you see. Unless you really don't value your life much child." Was all he heard in a hushed whisper. It had to be her but what did she mean. Now he was confused. "One of us" What could se mean by that? And I can't tell anyone unless I don't value my life…Who is she… Still staring off into space he hadn't noticed until Ron smacked him in the arm that his "friends" were talking to him again.
"Hey mate, did you see her? I mean wow…" Ron commented in a dreamy voice like the twins did when dreaming up new pranks. Harry only shook his head and went back to eating. But every so often he'd look up and watch her just to see what she was doing, but the third time he did he realized she had vanished again. With a snort of annoyance Harry turned back to his meal which he no longer found favorable, thus excusing himself Harry quietly left the Great Hall to head for the dorms. Sleep was starting to call for him again and this time he planned to get a bit of shut eye since his last four months hadn't given him much.
POV: Rayen:
He'd been watching her too closely since she'd said what she had, but there had been no other way since he had started to panic and she really didn't want the building to go up in flames. Her hasty retreat had lead her to a small clearing with a lake like pond, which she promptly fell down beside and produced a small black and white notebook which she started to scratch down notes in. About what she'd seen of all her subjects and each nickname they had been awarded with reasons way. She also proceeded to write a letter to the council of creatures which she summoned a black and grey wolf from within the depths of the forest around her. "Ah Menician, please to see you again my old friend. How have you been?" She asked tucking the folded letter into the leather band about the wolf's left fore leg, scratching carefully at the scruff of his neck and handing her dear friend some scraps of food she'd brought with her.
"I've been well Rayen, the pack does miss you since you left, I even hear a certain vampire misses you too." He slyly said watching her blush some he laughed. Happily taking the food from her hands and devouring it quickly before turning and running away to deliver the letter for her. Leaving her in peace to make her notes and quickly format a plan on how to bring each pair together. Five and six would be easy since they had made note of both their feelings and she figured it wouldn't take much of a push for them to settle things and come back together. Fyreball and Nyx would prove more of a problem to her as they really didn't know each other well, nor did they see the other often. With a sigh Rayen still cursed Fate and the council for this case, when they said punishment, they meant they were just out to get you. Shaking her head of the last thought she went back to working out a plan to bringing those two together. Her final and hardest task would be Falla and Aubrey…This one she was doomed on. Why was it she was playing as Fate's connection? Oh yea…the whole stealing the Gem of Time incident again…Cursing herself for wandering again she turned back to work. Two enemies were really lovers, this was about to get odd and strangely enough interesting as she went about a way short of locking the two in some small space for a month.
Through out her musing she'd failed to notice two sets of eyes on her, one silver the other green. Both watching her every move as well as the other, she was enough to calm their need to fight the other just long enough to find out something about her. Sadly that need didn't like to be ignored, and Rayen was startled by two male voices both on either end of her yelling over her.
"What are YOU doing here Potter?" Came the calm but snide voice from her left, that first made her stop and listen not realizing she was right in the middle.
"I came out for a walk Malfoy, what about you? Can't see you as the type to 'enjoy the view'." The voice to her right was angry and heated, causing her to look up and curse herself aloud for letting herself get so wrapped up that she hadn't noticed them before.
"For all things…What is wrong with the two of you! Are you both stalking me or something! Well are you!" She yelled before thinking better of doing so. Causing both boys to blush and look away from her, Harry was nervous and flinched when she yelled; where as Draco mutter a few words under his breath. "Is there some reason a woman can't sit outside and work on a few things without being bothered, is it a rule here or something or is this how you always treat the new students here!" She was starting to calm down but now she had to chase them both out of there before anything got strange or they figured anything out. When both boys made no move to leave though she snatched her note book and a book bag that no one had noticed before and stormed away from the lake and back into the castle in some small hopes of finishing up her notes in the Library maybe, though at the rate of the day she thought it would be too much to ask for.
Upon reaching the Library Rayen was greeted by blissful silence, much to her pleasure she found a very comfy chair in the farthest part of the room and dropping the bag at the side of the chair proceeded to fall heavily into it and tuck her knees up so she had a place to write on. Removing her notebook she vowed to keep her senses open this time in case of anymore unwelcomed visitors while she worked. And sure enough not more than a half hour into her notes and planning she felt the small aura of the girl she'd taken to calling Fyreball enter the room, not looking up she kept a mental eye on the girl still working out the best plan for her and Nyx since Falla and Aubrey had upset her so that she couldn't think of anything but an unpleasant session of testing her newest spells. She watched the innocent girl gathering books and sitting at the table reading them, this gave her a chance she thought to maybe try and speak with the girl. Since she'd already broken all rules about communicating with her subjects she figured it would at least be helpful. So after gathering her thing sand a few books on magical creatures and herbs she fell into the seat across from the fourth year redhead and smiled kindly. "This place is so big…its easy to get lost in." She said hoping to spark some sort of reaction.
POV: Ginny:
Looking up Ginny saw the girl sit down and listened to her speak, something about the girl though wasn't all it should have been. "Umm…yea it is big huh? I'm…uh…Ginny." Carefully she put her hand out to the girl who somehow became a snake. When the girl's eyes lit up some and she shook Ginny's hand, Ginny couldn't help but blush. She'd never told anyone, not even her family but she was lesbian and she'd had a few girlfriends. The girl in front of her had a sweet smile, seemingly kind personality and a great body. Ginny had to force herself not to stare when the tight tanktop the girl wore slid down and showed some of her tattoos. "Its nice to meet you Ginny, I'm Rayen." The girl spoke softly causing Ginny to suddenly focus on the girls words rather than what she could see. This kept her from noticing Luna Lovegood entering the room and blinking at the sight she found.
POV: Luna:
Luna had always been a little different because she could see the past and future of someone just by looking in their eyes, she could also read minds and was good and channeling auras. So to walk into a room and find two people there when she'd only sensed one was a shock in itself. But when she saw who it was she smirked, that new girl was not human at all and she knew it, no human could block her out so well. What bothered her was the way Ginny was looking at the girl sitting across the table from her. Now it was no secret in Ravenclaw that Ginny was lesbian, nor was it that she had three girlfriends who were all Ravenclaw's. What was a secret though was that Luna was mad for Ginny; though she'd never let anyone know that. Everyone though she was cocky anyway but that would become blackmail. So she couldn't help but glare at the girl, who smiled warmly enough and gave her a small shrug. "Hey now, no need to attack me girly I'm not after her." Was all the voice in her mind said and she saw the girl stand to leave and put the books back, passing Luna as she did so and whispering in her ear. "If I had wanted her she would be mine. But she's after someone else. Someone L.L…" The dark haired girl gave her a disarmed smile before vanishing out of the room with her stuff. Leaving Ginny staring at an empty space and Luna in total shock, with mild glee.
AN: Alright I know this is long and all. But it will get better once I get the plot rolling. As I said above I'll update this story once I get at least five reviews since I need to know at least a few people are reading this and my work isn't a total waste of everyone's time and the space. Also for those who have no clue what a "Shadow" is. They are like vampires only they manipulate the darkness and shadows. Very powerful and violent creatures, from a place worse than hell called the Shadow Realm. No this dose not tie into Recrossing, or any of my other stories that people may know of. This will be a Harry/Draco fic mostly once I get the plot in place, but will also have a lot of Ginny/Luna to it as well just for the fun of it. Ron/Hermione in a few places just cuz I need it for the plot.