(A/N): Welcome to my new story! I 'ma have fun with this! This takes place right after Burned and before Awakened starts, in Harry Potter it will be in the first book, on the train. This will have an OC (Piper is not the same as my muse in my last story, just like the name and couldn't come up with another name) but not like, thousands since there are lots of characters to play with in Harry Potter. Plus I have to admit, the speeches I kind of based off the fanfic Dark Alliances. Oh and this is a no flame zone! So read, review, and enjoy.
Disclaimer: I have 13 bucks, a pocket lipstick, and a half eaten Hershey's bar in my purse, not Harry Potter or the House of Night series.
*Zoey*
So Neferet had found a school called Hogwarts, she said there was wizards and witches there, and decided that with my recently recovered soul-shatter and the hate crimes that we would be moving to England, to meet our Wizarding 'partners' of course as soon as she said wizard Damien decided to study them, thus we won't have Damien or Jack to talk to for a good couple of hours.
Aphrodite was doing her own research, but that had nothing to do with wizards. She was checking out the designer clothing there, and of course the twins had followed suit.
And now we were missing Stevie Rae because she was depressed and not really here anymore, but no one could figure out why.
Stark was still recovering from the multiple cuts to the chest, but was recovering fast, so he would be on his feet soon. We would have stayed on Skye if it weren't for Neferet's quick decision to move to England, which was backed by the High Council fully. They thought it would be good to live with the wizards so they would understand us better, like us and be less… discriminating. And to top it off we got a new fledgling to join us who is completely silent and mostly nodded and grunted. She had only said maybe two words to anyone besides Neferet, even though everyone caught her glaring at Neferet in her spare time. The only thing anyone knew about her was when she arrived she changed her name to Piper.
Damien had given me an update about his research and I had learned that they also had vampires in England, but they were the stereotypical type, not like us.
Now because of recent actions our high priestess made, the circle was completely separated. No one even asked me if there was a circle group up, we didn't even think before we were about to leave. I repacked Stark and I's stuff and headed out to get back on the House of Night private plane. I knew the poopie was about to hit the fan.
Ah, hell.
*On the Hogwarts express (no POV)*
"Why does the House of Night sound so familiar?" Hermione said pacing around the car Harry and his friends had chosen as theirs until they arrived at the Wizarding School, Hogwarts. They each got a letter saying another school would be joining them.
Hermione had not found a car, but then found that the car Ron and Harry were sharing had more room left, so they offered her a seat.
Well more like she sat down in the empty seat.
She was now reading the letter, and saying repeatedly that she read something about the so-called House of Night. "What was it? I know it had a moon involved." She seemed to be distressed that she had no idea what was going on.
Harry and Ron found this quite annoying and decided to just make small chat while eating the candy Harry had bought. It would be a long ride to Hogwarts.
*Neferet*
She pretended to be interested in this old bat's speech but really didn't care what the old fool said, but then she did tune in when she heard him say "And now, a word from the high priestess herself, Neferet, who can explain about her school for herself, as I'm sure she would like to." She put on a fake smile and walked up to the podium, shook Albus Dumbledore's hand and started to tell the little misfits about her school.
"My school is from Tulsa, Oklahoma in the United States, we are not wizards, in fact we are an entire different species, we are fledglings and vampyres." As she knew they would the entire dining hall started to scream, yell, and holler things about not wanting to share their school with blood-suckers.
Neferet just stood there and waited for them to settle, even when she wanted darkness to show them a lesson in pain, until Dumbledore yelled over the noise a loud "QUIET!" Neferet smiled a fake smile then said "thank you Albus," before she continued. "We are not your stereotypical vampires, like the ones who live here in England; we are another type, a more civil type. We have religion and a way to control our bloodlust. Any questions?" she waited for a second then picked a random brunette. "What is your name first, then your question." The brunette stood, put her fist over her heart then bowed respectfully, at which point Neferet's smile became genuine. "Hermione Granger. I have read a little about your kind, and was wondering, why are some of the vampyres and fledglings tattoos red? Aren't they all sapphire like yours?" Neferet's smile grew intensely; this was someone asking a real question not something about garlic or something equally stupid. She began liking the girl at once, she did her research.
"The red fledglings and vampyres are not blue because they became a new breed of vampyres, but I am sure the red high priestess would like to explain that all herself. But first to explain the rest of our differences I would like to invite a very special student up here, the most special fledgling in history, Zoey Redbird." The only good thing about saying her name was to see her slap her forehead.
Anything to make that little bitch embarrassed.
*Zoey*
To hell with Neferet.
I know we're arch-enemies, but really? Ugh, I hate her sometimes. Now I had to speak in front of an entire school full of witches and wizards and try and convince them we're not evil and coming to suck their blood. Great.
"Good luck." My warrior had said before I got up to tell a bunch of children we weren't monsters, this ought to be fun.
"Ok, my name is Zoey and I will be answering any questions Neferet didn't get to." I plastered a large fake smile at Neferet while she glared to the point where her eyes were slits. Then I turned back in time to see a bunch of hands raise. "You there, what is your name." I said it politely, but the blond boy looked like I just called him a retard. "Draco Malfoy, don't forget it." I nodded even when I wanted to smack him with an element or two. "And your question?" He sneered at me, "Why are you vampyres" he spat the name as if it was distasteful "here? To drink our blood?" completely floored, I just stared at him until Dumbledore said "Mr. Malfoy, that was a bit out of line, these are guests that I invited. They are here to help educate us of their kind." He smiled warmly at me but it was more the explanation that made me smile back.
When I looked back there was only one hand still up, that girl Hermione, who I instantly liked after her first question. I was grateful she had her hand up and not someone else. "Yes Hermione?" I said kindly. She smiled and I returned it. "Neferet said you're special, how? I mean what is it, some unheard of affinity?" she was really smart, like Damien smart, she had just been sorted into Gryffindor so she was new but she already knew so much about us. "More than an unheard of affinity, an unheard of amount of elemental affinities." I said then summoned all five elements to prove it. Many kids gasped at the elements around the room, but my fledglings and vampyres just smiled. Then Hermione said what everyone was still putting together, "You have an affinity for every element don't you?" I smiled and nodded.
Another hand popped up and I pointed at the red headed boy expectantly and he said "My name is Ron Weasley, I was wondering, who is the red high priestess?" I smiled and looked over at Stevie Rae who stood up and started walking towards the podium; I met her halfway and said "Good luck." Her response was to wink at me.
*Stevie Rae*
I pushed all thoughts of Rephaim away and smiled walking up to the podium. "Good luck." Zoey whispered to me. I winked, I knew what I was doing, and I kinda knew I had to get up there eventually. Then I got up there with my façade of happiness, even though I was miles away from my happiness, my happiness was in Tulsa, awaiting his father's next command.
"Hello my name is Stevie Rae Johnson, a 19 year old girl who loves Kenny Chesney and thinks Lucky Charms is the best cereal, and I am the very first red high priestess." I said with my shoulders strait as if I loved the title I had, but the truth was I didn't care for it like a skunk doesn't care for baths.
"First I think I should explain what in the bubba a red vampyre is." I gulped, explaining this would be pretty hard. "A blue fledgling either goes through the change or they reject the change. If they reject the change they die and stay like that for a few days, then they wake up, and when they do they have red tattoos like the red fledglings here do. You could say they are messed up in the head when they wake up, but if they are here they chose to embrace their humanity so don't worry, the red fledglings here are as nice and sweet as my momma's apple pie, well except Stark, he will hunt you to the ends of the earth if you mess with Zoey." The kids in the audience mostly dropped their jaws and stared at me like I was a zombie coming for their brains.
"We obviously can't reject the change, cant die if your already dead I suppose, and we have a little bit more developed senses and a lot more of strength physically, plus a couple mind tricks, but besides that and our red tattoos were the same as blue vampyres." I finished a little bit lamely.
"Any questions?" Only one hand rose, that girl Hermione's I pointed to her and she said "Can red vampyres and fledglings have affinities?" I smiled, this wasn't a stupid question; this was an actual question. Silently I called earth to me then watched her curious expression grow into a smile. "You have an affinity for earth don't you?" She asked. I smiled and nodded.
"Anything else I forgot? Let me just check your minds a bit." Then I put my hands together in a meditating gesture and the kids roared with laughter. I nodded to Dumbledore and he walked up to the podium to finish the greetings before food magically appeared on all of the tables. The vampyres had their places at the staff table but the students got to choose where they sat between the four house tables. Since I was still considered a student, I sat with Zoey and the rest of the fledglings.
"Hey y'all, let's sit over there closer to that Hermione girl, she seemed really nice." I offered. The group generally agreed so we walked to the table on the far East side of the great hall. When we got there a group of red-headed boys had moved to the other seats and Hermione had obviously saw we were coming so she made room for us, but before we could sit a blond boy approached us.
"Surprise, surprise, the vampyres sit near the mud-blood. They obviously don't have a taste for class." Aphrodite's Chest swelled so much at this I thought her bra would pop, but before she could do anything she would regret, someone smacked the blond boy in the back of the head.
"Sorry, muscle spasm, it happens a lot when I'm around bitches."
Dumbfounded, the circle looked up and into the eyes of the new girl, Piper. She then sat down at the Ravenclaw table next to a girl named Luna Lovegood who was going on about a crumpled-horn-snorcack.
Draco walked back to his table muttering something about his father while we just stared at the new girl.
*Hermione*
What did he just call me? "What's a mud-blood?" I was thinking it but it was Mrs. Redbird who said it.
"A mud-blood is the mean way to say someone is muggle born," Ron explained it to us; he seemed to be the only one who understood what Malfoy had said. "A muggle is someone who doesn't use magic, with a wand that is." One of the fledglings explained to the rest of them.
"I think we should introduce ourselves, so, my name is Hermione Granger." I extended my hand to the group. "My name is Damien Maslin," he shook my hand "and this is my boyfriend, Jack Twist." Jack shook my hand while all of the wizards and witches stopped talking and looked at them. "Zoey Redbird" Then Zoey shook my hand. Then a blond without a tattoo stood up. "My name is Aphrodite Lafont," she looked at my hand then dismissed it. "Sorry about her, I'm Stevie Rae, don't think she's just mean to you, she's mean to everyone." Stevie Rae said as she shook my hand with a smile. "My name is James Stark, but everyone just calls me Stark." The male red vampyre said while shaking my hand. "Shaunee-" "-Erin" two girls said at once, a black girl with long hair and a white girl with long blonde hair. "But everyone just calls them the twins," Jack said. "Darius" a mountain said before gently shaking my hand. "Kramisha" another black girl said, but she had a red crescent, unlike the rest of them who either had a blue tattoo, a blue crescent, or a red tattoo.
Harry stood up. "My name is Harry." Everyone on that side of the table shook his hand (not including Aphrodite). Ron was next, "Ron Weasley." "Fred" George said, "George" Fred followed suit. Of course they weren't fooled and made sure the Weasley twins knew it. "Percy Weasley" he shook their hands in a professional manor. "Neville Longbottom" he seemed to be afraid of them by the way he said his name quickly.
"So who was that girl who smacked Malfoy?" Zoey and Stevie Rae exchanged a look when questioned about the student. "Honestly, no one else has even heard her talk, she's a new student, the only thing we know is her name got changed to Piper when she got here," Zoey said. Suddenly Piper stood up from the Ravenclaw table and walked towards the door with an apple in her hand. Before she got there the door opened and a pie flew at her, she ducked and it hit the floor behind her and in zoomed Peeves, the poltergeist. "What a waste of a pie, but I'll get you next time, no doubt about that!" he said before cackling. "Oh please, I have lived with my five prankster brothers my entire life; you won't be able to hit me like they couldn't," she retorted. Peeves zoomed down and stood upside down in air and smiled evilly. "I think that's a challenge," "Well I think your right about that; I bet you couldn't hit me once if I gave you a month to try and prank me." She got in his face then walked right through him and walked out the door.
"She has no idea what she just got herself into," Fred said. "Peeves will take her out no problem, he has magic." George finished. "But Piper has reflexes of a cat; she's practically built to win." Damien countered with. "Plus, she might have an affinity!" Jack practically gushed. "Ok guys, don't fight over nothin', we should just watch, I mean this could be like watchin' football at my daddy's parties, just cheer them on but not be so competitive." Stevie Rae was valid in saying that but I don't think Fred and George knew what she was saying.
"Hey wait, where are you guys sleeping? You did say you couldn't be in the sunlight so where are you guys bunking?" Ron asked very suddenly. "Well we are going to be in the dungeons of course, didn't Dumbledore tell you or were we supposed to?" Zoey asked looking suddenly very pale. "Actually the prefects already knew that you would be in the dungeons instead of the Slytherins, who will actually be in the Astronomy tower where they had storage rooms for things like, Yule ball and some extra Quidditch supplies; which were magically stored somewhere else." Percy seemed to be very proud of being a prefect. "You're a prefect to? What are the chances, we are to!" Damien said.
"Wow, the house of night has prefects? That wasn't mentioned in the book I read on vampyres." I said. "Oh no, it's just ours, Zoey started it in our circle because of the way she wanted our school to prosper in the future." Damien explained.
"Well that's cool." Ron said with his mouth stuffed with food he had shoveled onto his plate. The twins and Aphrodite looked at him in disgust, not that I can blame them. I just rolled my eyes at Ron, which went unnoticed.
"We have all had an exhausting day, why don't we all head off to our rooms and retire for the night. Wizards and witches first, then fledglings may follow them out to the dungeons." Dumbledore said when desert had finished. It seemed that Slytherin didn't know they were in the Astronomy tower, because all at once they began to protest. They shouted things like 'Oh no, we won't go!' which became a general chant until Dumbledore yelled "QUIET!" he paused. "Thank you, now as I was saying, Slytherin, you will be in the Astronomy tower, because of Stevie Rae and her fledgling's special needs," the twins started giggling, "the vampyres will be underground in the dungeons. Also classes are going to be set up for fledglings at night, witches and wizards are allowed to sign up for them, the same applies for our new fledgling friends, although the only class red fledglings are allowed to take is potions, and blue fledglings probably shouldn't take any outdoor classes, although the exception to both rules is Astronomy, which is a night class. Since vampyres sleep at day you may roam the castle and grounds, but please don't be too loud outside, while the walls in the castle are soundproof, Hagrid's hut is not. And I must warn everyone here, no one, whether they be witch, wizard, vampyre, or fledgling, may go into the forbidden forest. Now, goodnight everyone."
*Zoey*
Dumbledore set all of this for us?!
We were expecting the dorm to look different, but it didn't, besides the fact the boys and girls were sharing a lobby area. Once you were inside there was a kitchen, and two other doors that had a sign that said either boys or girls on them. Those were our dorms, but they were even set up the same!
The TVs were all there, we had the same furniture even, but there was more of it, doubly so, but they were wizards, they could probably make a double of something if they wanted to. I was once again dorming with my BFF, Stevie Rae, and we walked to the door our names were carved into the door. Inside all of our stuff was put away for us.
Our suitcases were stored under the bed, and everything just looked so neat!
Then Stevie Rae and I started blushing, because if our stuff was put away, someone must have seen our embarrassing things, like panties, and bras. We shared a glance, and then we started to laugh breathlessly.
Since everything was put away, all the fledglings decided to go explore the castle. Everyone was lost in the dungeon though, it was like a maze. After many failed attempts to get out, we finally made it out to the main room, all the groups split up and headed their own directions. The circle got together then everyone made a general agreement that since no one else went outside that we should explore the grounds first.
When we got out there we heard guitar music and someone singing, but didn't know what it was. It sounded like it was coming from the trees near the lake. We decided to investigate so we walked that way towards the lake.
"Just know you're not alone… cause I'm gonna make this place your home." It was someone singing that guy Phillip Phillips' first song, Home. We couldn't see the person, but it had to be a girl. Although, I wasn't sure if anyone had a guitar at the House of Night so it had to be a witch.
"Settle down, it'll all be clear. Don't pay no mind to the demons, they fill you with fear." We slowly walked forward curious. "The trouble it might drag you down, if you get lost you can always be found. Just know you're not alone… cause I'm gonna make this place your home." Finally we got close enough to see her and suddenly became shocked because we did see a fledgling, we saw Piper.
"What are you doing out here?" Piper had said it, taking us aback. "We were allowed to explore the castle after dinner; you would know that if you hadn't left ten minutes into it." Then Aphrodite gave her an award winning sneer. "Whatever, just go away, this is a no ho zone." Piper said reflecting Aphrodite's sneer back at her.
Before we got out of hearing range we heard her playing her guitar again and singing another song, but the words were tangled by distance.
"What a bitch, calling me a ho! She's a ho!" Aphrodite started puffing up just thinking about it. "Maybe she's just sad. I mean maybe she misses her family and friends." Stevie Rae suggested calmly. "Yeah, maybe!" Jack said. "Or maybe, she's a jealous bitch!" Aphrodite nearly screamed.
"Be quiet! Remember what Dumbledore said about Hagrid's hut? He said it's not soundproof! So be quiet!" I whispered kind of like a monster.
"Hey you guys, I'm going to go back to the lake; I'll meet y'all at the castle doors, ok?" Stevie Rae said. "You sure that's a good idea with grumpy there?" I said. Stevie Rae smiled and said "I'm sure it'll be just fine." Then she started trekking towards the lake to where Piper sat.
*Stevie Rae*
"If you're here to give me a hard time, you can go back there with your friends." Piper said as soon as I got to the lake. "Actually, I want you to know, I'm here if you want to talk." I stated politely. "Well I don't, so why don't you go back with your friends to the castle and leave me the hell alone." Although she had mean words, her tone didn't exactly have enough venom to pull it off, something I had noticed before, which made me come back.
"I don't believe you actually want me to go, I think you want to talk to me. I want you to know you can." She just stared at me for a little while until she picked up her guitar and said "Whatever," and started to play a melody I didn't know.
Eventually I called earth to me to see if she would notice, but if she did it didn't seem like she cared. "Go to her and fill her with something good." I whispered to the wind. Then I got up and walked back to the castle, truly happy because I had helped someone who really needed it.
*Zoey*
When we saw Stevie Rae she had a huge smile, like she was in on some big secret that no one else knew about.
I wanted in on it.
But that could wait; first we had to explore Hogwarts. We walked in the castle and decided to go up the staircase and explore each room separately. When we got onto one of the staircases, it started moving, Jack had already made it to the top so he wasn't on it but he thought the staircase was falling and started to cry, but that was nothing compared to the mass confusion of the people of the staircase, people were moving, Damien was yelling to stay calm, Stevie Rae and Stark were holding onto my hands, Aphrodite was holding onto Darius for dear life, Shaunee and Erin were hugging and crying on each other's shoulders, and Kramisha was laughing… wait, laughing? It seemed I was the only one who noticed her odd behavior and so I forgot we were falling and focused on her.
"Guys, we aren't falling! We're moving! I noticed it earlier, the wizards were all fine!" Before anyone could yell at her for not informing us before, we heard a cackle above us and someone laughing below. We looked up and saw Peeves upside down cackling, with every hyena laugh he spun, then we looked down and Piper was literally Rolling On the Floor Laughing.
"I wonder if I spit, how long it would take to hit Piper in the head." Stark said from in front of me. "Y'all, that's not very nice." Stevie Rae twanged from behind. "I say go for it, she deserves it." Aphrodite said. "No Stark, don't spit on the poor girl, she's probably been through a lot these past weeks." I said, trying to calm everyone down. "Whatever, have fun bumpkin." Piper said up to us after sobering, and I swear I saw her wink up at Stevie Rae.
"Ha, emo agrees, you are a bumpkin." Aphrodite said from her place next to Darius. "They must have some serious soundproof for everyone not to hear us." Erin said. "Totally." Shaunee agreed.
"We should probably be a little less loud, as in, inside voices." I added. I mean they were being totally loud.
After we toured the school we had about three hours until dinner, so we decided to watch a movie. We decided, after about thirty minutes of fighting with Aphrodite, that we would watch Finding Nemo, one of my favorites, then head up to dinner in the great hall. Stevie Rae was making popcorn, Jack was setting up the movie, Damien and the twins were finding chairs, Aphrodite was checking her face and her hair, Stark and Darius were moving the heavy chairs to the TV and into the right place, and I was finding drinks for everyone. Kramisha was in the dungeon; she didn't want to watch the movie with us so she was making sure she knew her way through the maze, as she called it.
*Neferet*
I already toured the castle before dinner with Dumbledore, the old coot. "Kalona, come out wherever you are," I said baiting him to come out from hiding since we weren't supposed to be near each other, but he was watching, waiting, to see if, or when, I needed him.
Kalona fell out of the tree and stood before me. "I have an idea, go get your sons, collect them, surround the school grounds, but do not enter them. Wait, watch, but do not attack, and do not be seen. This is a command." Before I could say more he flew away, towards Tulsa.
A smile crept on my lips as I thought about how much moving here came to my advantage.
*Kalona*
I hate that sickening woman.
She thinks she can control a force like mine? Never! She has only been immortal for a blink of an eye; I have been immortal for ages! I have to find a way out of this. I will find a way out of this.
(A/N): Wow that was long. I don't think that was bad though, if you did, tell me how to make it better. Bye guys! REVIEW! You don't know how much a review means to the writer until you are a writer. Those who review gets a free hug!
