So here's Snowy Holly for all of you who wished to read it.
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Love, Keta.
Snowy Holly
Chapter 1: Snowy Holly, Cat of the North Winds and Rabbit that Burrows in the Snow
Out of the ground I rise to grace
Nobody knows it's just a phase
Help me I'm out of breath again
Nobody knows somewhere to make it go away
-Phase (Breaking Benjamin)
Underneath a holly tree sits a young snowy haired child with a black shroud wrapped around his tiny body. He rubs at his cheek with the heel of his hand and opens his dual colored eyes; one a luminesant green and the other an icy teal. A soft whispering sound fills the air and black shapes glide towards him. He whisper-hisses back at them and stands up gracefully with an irritated expression on his face.
₰Snowy Holly!₰ one hisses and grasps at his wrist with its own bony hand. ₰You will come inside this instant. The humans mustn't see you.₰
₰Why not, Devourer of Suns?₰ the young boy asks.
₰Because they would exploit you if they saw one of our own's true face.₰ His face droops and instantly the elder feels bad. ₰A letter came for you to day.₰
₰For what?₰
₰A school… for humans.₰
₰Really?!₰ The excitement rolls off of Snowy Holly in waves, and he starts to bounce a little as he walks.
₰Only if Wandering Moon agrees.₰ The boy's smile grows wider, knowing full a well that the female dementor, his other caretaker, wouldn't keep him from anything he really wants if she could help it.
All his life, since his dementor family found him at one and a half years of age, he's been trapped on Azkaban Island with minimal human contact. Sometimes, when he's particularly lonely, he sneaks into the prison to see the Lestranges: Bellatrix, Rudolphus, and Rabastian as well as Sirius Black. He just loves it when Sirius turns into a dog so he can pet him.
So the chance to be with more humans than his usual four convict companions has his young mind practically replacing his blood with dopamine.
As the duo near the middle of the forest, they enter a glade where dementors can show their true faces without fear that a human would learn their secrets. Devourer of Suns takes advantage of this, reaching up to throw back the hood of his shroud and reveals his angelic face. His hair, like all other true dementors is white and his eyes are blue. Black nails peak out from the white jacket's sleeves, now exposed with the other covering out of the way.
With a smile, the two walk inside of the house just over the ridge. ₰Snowy Holly!₰ a young voice calls from a room just off to the right.
₰Wandering Moon!₰ The boy runs inside to the white haired woman sitting in front of a black piano. She gathers him up into a hug and burries her nose into his hair. ₰Can I go?₰
₰Yes.₰ Her tone is droll but playful as she thinks of how she's about to lose the only other person like her. With a heavy heart, she wipes a tear from her green eye and slush from her teal one.
The goodbye ceremony on August 31st was a sight to behold. Every dementor (there's only 67 of them) was gathered to bid farewell to their kit born of human flesh, as well as his companions, Cat of the North Winds and Rabbit that Burrows in the Snow, the two youngest kits.
Live humans who'd committed crimes too terrible to speak of were brought as food; the most tarnished three were given to the leaving trio. Music was let loose into the air and the once Lady of Azkaban got to hold her child for one last night.
The translator rubs against their throats, irritating the trio. Cat of the North Winds growls under her breath and wraps her hand around her twin's. "Cat," he whispers, using the nickname they created upon finding that the twins names were too complicated for the human language, "calm down. We mustn't let our emotions control us, like it did the old ones."
Snowy Holly and Cat shiver noticeably, knowing exactly what Bit is getting at. After all, it's hard not to know what caused the last ice age.
"Fine, Bit. I'll 'cool' down." She yawns, annoyed when the step further onto the platform. "Why are they so loud?!"
"They're humans."
She glares at the youngest. "If I remember correctly, Snowy Holly, you were a human once. Wasn't your name Harmen Posher or something?"
"Harry Potter, Cat."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. It's still a weird name."
"To humans our names would be weird though," Bit says as he takes up the other boy's hand. "We should probably get on the train before it departs without us." Wrinkling his nose at the thought of crowding inside the crimson train, Snowy Holly walks on board with the grace of an angel... or a dementor. Together they find a compartment and seal it up with ice so no one will disturb them.
So all of you that know the Harry Potter seres so well, I know that dementors look nothing like they do in the story but please suspend you disbelief. Mainly because I decided that giving the dementors a human form would make Harry and his friends more at ease later on.
And I will be needing a few more O.C.s. If you can solve this riddle, I will let you name and basically create a dementor O.C. of your own.
Riddle:
Cross out six letters and you'll find a word that we should know. The word must be spelled out in order. SBAIXNLETATNERSAS.
I expect an answer.