DWW-Hello! I'm happy to say that no, I am not dead. Although I am sad that it took me this long to get this revised chapter out and it wasn't even super long. I was waiting for a beta, but alas, I have yet to find one/ I should be extremely fast on my updates depending on the reviews I get ;) Constructive criticism is welcome, flaming, however is not. I'll be sure to reply to all reviews! Enjoy!

(WARNING! THIS STORY WILL HAVE SLASH! MEANING MALE/MALE REALTIONSHIP(S). ALSO WILL CONTAIN SOME VIOLENCE, INNAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE/JOKES IN FUTURE CHAPTERS. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED)

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The sky was a light grey as the clouds blocked out the sun, only letting a sliver of sunlight break through. Summer was slowly fading and fall was taking its place. Leaves changed from green into hues of red, orange, and yellow and fell gently onto the ground silently. People talked animatedly as they wandered around to shop or to simply be outside on a nice day as today. However, two other people were too busy running through the streets to notice their surroundings.

"Come on Kailey! If we don't hurry it up, we're going to miss the train!" Kailey's best friend Diamond called to the young queen as the two fifteen year olds raced through the streets to make it to Kings Cross Station. It was straight ahead.

"If we miss it, then it means we've made it just in time," Kailey muttered to herself as they made it to the entrance. She was still feeling slightly pessimistic about this journey they were taking.

"What was that?" Diamond's light brown eyes looked back at her with a glare. Kailey gulped mentally in her head as she felt herself being burned by their gaze.

"Nothing Diamond. Now how are we supposed to find platform 9 3/4?" Kailey asked her as they looked between platform nine and ten, but found nothing.

"I don't know. That Dumbledore guy's letter just said to go to the station, and we'd figure out the rest remember?" Diamond said impatiently as she looked at her watch. The digital numbers showing they only had about ten minutes.

"Next time a stranger comes over and tells you you're a witch, make sure I'm not around to hear it. That way, I won't be invited to tag along," Kailey grumbled. She was referring to what had them in this situation in the first place.

--Two weeks ago--

"Diamond this is pointless. We've been to almost every continent, and still no mates. I'm doomed!" Kailey moaned in distress as she sank farther into the armchair she was sitting in. They were currently in the living room of Diamond's two level townhouse discussing Kailey's current predicament. Kailey wasn't just your average fifteen year old teenager. She was the queen of a different world all together. This world was parallel to theirs, but on a whole different plane with many villages and jungles to make it up. It was called The Hidden Lands and had been forgotten by many people after its previous king and queen had been brutally slain centuries ago and darkness took over, enslaving the good. Apparently, the king and queen had a daughter, but how Kailey had come to be that daughter was a mystery no one knew, even she didn't know. All they knew was that all the occupants of the Hidden Lands were all different creatures that came in many shapes and sizes. Kailey herself stood out from all that since she was a mix of many different creatures, though she appeared human and had grew up in the mortal plane. How she got there was a mystery too. Her adoptive parents can't remember how she joined their lives too.

After her fifteenth birthday, Kailey's powers had started to go haywire, and no one knew why. So she flung herself into books, staying up well into the wee hours of the morning researching her recent flukes and hit the nail on the head. With her having so much power and a heavy mix of different creatures, she needed two mates to balance her out and complete her. If she couldn't find them her powers would slowly diminish until they were no more, and then on her sixteenth birthday they all would return in a large and painful burst, exploding her very being. So if she didn't find her two mates and was accepted by December 23rd, her birthday would become her death day. Since then, Kailey and Diamond had been searching far and wide, but still no luck.

"Kailey, we still haven't been to Europe and Asia, so we know your mates have to be on one of those continents," Diamond said, though her tone was starting to sound slightly desperate at the sign of her friend's quickly dimming hope. Kailey just shrugged and stared at the crackling fire in the fireplace, her thoughts wondering on why she hadn't found her mates yet. Diamond wondered the same thing sometimes.

Kailey was a person you noticed when she walked into a room. It wasn't just because of her status as Queen of The Hidden Lands either. Kailey's straight and thick dark black hair fell about four inches above her elbow and her bangs brushed her eyebrows. Her face had features in between soft and sharp that they seemed to mold together perfectly and her athletic body was a shade lighter than milk chocolate. Though, it was her eyes that seemed to make people stare the most. Her long black eyelashes framed around a pair of captivating sea green eyes that seemed to hold many different thoughts.

"Kailey, please don't give up. You'll find the ones soon. I just know it," Diamond threw Kailey an award winning smile that broke Kailey away from her musings.

"Easy for you to say, you've found your true love," Kailey said, referring to her other best friend T.J. He was a down to earth sixteen year old that spent most of his time working on technology and motor vehicles for fun. His parents were very wealthy and had an important business conference in Washington they had to drag T.J. along to for a week. Hence, the reason he couldn't sneak out and help them look like he usually did. Neither Diamond, nor T.J.'s parents knew about Kailey's double life, or their kid's involvement in it. Kailey smiled at the thought of what they'd say before she brought her legs into the chair so she could curl comfortably into it, "Also, the fact that you're gorgeous." Diamond frowned. Even as a human, Diamond's looks attracted many people. Her hair was soft and a dirty blond that fell to her waist. She had almond shaped eyes that were a light brown, a slender body, and snow white skin. While her looks attracted people, her personality sometimes made them run away. Diamond 

was determined, energetic, sneaky, and so stubborn it felt like arguing with a wall when you argued with her.

"Well you're beautiful too so stop being so pessimistic," Diamond stuck her tongue out at Kailey as she stood up and walked over to a small bookcase next to the fireplace. She pulled out a big piece of paper that the two had gotten used to in the past ten months. It was a big map of all the continents and their cities that the two were using to help find Kailey's mates. All the continents had a big red "X" on them except for Australia, Asia, and Europe. She spread the map out and laid it on the carpet in front of Kailey's armchair. She pulled a red sharpie out of her pocket and lay down on the other side of the map, getting comfortable on the carpeted floor. Diamond took the cap off of the marker and was about to draw an "X" through Australia when the doorbell's ring echoed through the townhouse.

Diamond groaned and stood up, "Who could that be? It's almost midnight!"

Kailey raised an eyebrow, "Diamond, you do forget this is L.A. It's never too late." Diamond waved to her with her one fingered friend at her suggestion of it never being too late. Her bare feet making a soft tapping sound as she walked towards the front door.

What Diamond opened the door to would be what she would later describe as "one of the weirdest thing she had ever seen." There on the doorstep stood an old man. The old man had a long silvery beard and robes that were decorated in loud colors that screamed "Outrageous!" His eyes were a light blue and twinkled under half moon spectacles and seemed to have ages of knowledge in them.

"Well, my dear if it isn't too much to ask, may I please come in?" the old gentleman asked with a small smile on his kind face. Without thinking, Diamond just nodded and stepped aside to give him room. She led the old man into the living room. When they were in the living room, Diamond saw Kailey had put the map away and was sitting in a loveseat on the other side of the fireplace. Kailey tilted her head to the side slightly and gazed at him; her eyes trying to read the smiling old man. Diamond directed him into the armchair Kailey had occupied and walked over to Kailey and sat beside her.

"Now, down to business, who are you?" Diamond asked bluntly. Dumbledore looked at the two teenage girls over his half moon spectacles and answered, "The question is not who I am my dear, it's what am I? Though, whom am I might be useful too? My name is Albus Dumbledore and I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. "

At this introduction Diamond's face seemed to light up, "I've read about your world in Kailey's library! It seems so awesome! Tell me, do you guys really have a Weasley Joke Shop? Did they really invent something called Canary Creams?" Kailey wanted to roll her eyes at her friend's enthusiasm. Kailey had many different books on all the different worlds; she just had yet to read them. Diamond and T.J. on the other hand, absorbed them like sponges.

For some reason, Dumbledore's eyes twinkled even more at Diamond's enthusiasm.

"Well, my dear, you'll have to find that out yourself when you go, now won't you?" he said calmly. At this statement, Kailey too sat up, except she was cautious instead of excited.

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"What do you mean when she goes?" Kailey's body tensed, ready for a fight if needed.

"Well, this visit isn't supposed to be entirely pleasant," Dumbledore's twinkle dimmed slightly, and Kailey found herself feeling sort of satisfied.

"Care to explain?" some of Diamond's excitement faded as she stared at Dumbledore.

"Well three years ago when the book was registering the entire student's letters, there was a mistake. The book skipped your name. It seems as if your powers were being hidden away from the book's enchantments," Dumbledore explained as he pulled out a small velvet pouch, "Though, a recent discovery has led me to believe that the reason you were being hidden were because of your relations with Ms. Muna here." He opened the pouch and took out a yellow candy, "Would you like a lemon drop?"

Diamond shook her head, "No, but I would like to know how Kailey's power could hide me."

Dumbledore popped the candy in his mouth, and the twinkle returned to his eyes, "Well, two students of mine have recently come out to the school with a secret they harbored. It seems that the two have been dating for a year now, and are engaged to be married Christmas day."

"Not to sound rude, but what does that have to do with us?" Kailey asked. She brushed her bangs out of her face and crossed her arms. A sure sign she was getting impatient.

"Well my dear, you see, the two students who have come out to the school were supposed to be rivals from different houses, the most powerful rivals ever to be seen in this time. To some people, this union is a curse, to most people; however, this union is a blessing. If these two young men were strong separated, together their power is blinding."

"You know, when people get to talking about power around me, it never is good," Kailey and Diamond shared a look of understanding. Dumbledore saw it, but chose not to ask. Instead he kept going.

"A few months ago, when one of the boys's had his seventeenth birthday, he started to lose some of his magic. He lost the ability to fly on his broom and last week he could no longer apparate. The other boy is starting to show signs of getting weaker too. He lost the ability to do wandless magic. We have been studying and looking hard to see why, but we couldn't come up with anything. That is, until three days ago."

Diamond looked at Kailey, a huge smile on her face. Kailey looked back at her too, except her look wasn't exactly happy.

"Excuse me Mr. Dim-der...Umm-" Kailey tried to grasp his name.

"Dumbledore," he finished for her.

"Yes, Dumbledore, I still do not see where this is going. I think you're here for more reasons than to invite Diamond to your school."

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"Ah…you are a smart one Ms. Muna so I'll be forward with you. While we were looking for ways to solve the boys' current problem, we decided to take the research world wide. We had a giant magical map that was used to show when there were significantly powerful people in the world. Three days ago a large power spike was detected before it dropped down considerably. Next to it was a showing of a fifteen year old witch who was undetected by any magical school. The person's power seemed to be "protecting" the witch from detection. Now this power spike and the undetected witch had us interested in why such an unusual detection like this has happened, and one of our researchers concluded that the person with the power spike had to be getting weaker for it to drop that fast. We have come to reasons to believe that you may know how to help us save these two young men Ms. Muna," that twinkle was back again and Kailey could only process everything he had told her to ignore its shine. Kailey heard a laugh and looked next to her to see Diamond laughing.

"Diamond?" Kailey's look at her was questioning.

"You know Kailey, there's always a catch behind everything," Diamond laughed again, except this time there was a hint of sadness, "Not once can something good happen to one of us without a catch." Before Kailey could speak, Diamond had gotten up and started to walk up the stairs to her room. Before she had gotten completely out of view, the blonde said clearly so Dumbledore could hear, "I'll go to your school Mr. Dumbledore, just mail me everything I'll need to know." Without waiting for a response, she finished her journey upstairs and a click could be heard as she shut her room door.

Kailey looked at Dumbledore with a blank look on her face, "For some reason I think you wanted this to happen. You knew Diamond would be happy to find out she was a witch and agree to attend Hogwarts. She shook her head at the situation. She had just met this old man, yet he seemed to know what they would do, "These boys must be very important for you to come all the way across the world on a 50/50 chance you could be right."

"Why Kailey, you have no idea," Dumbledore's face became grave, "The fate of these two boys determine the fate of the whole world."

The whole world? It's the wizards business not mines. What if I just let them have their problems and only deal with it until they come to my territory? A clench in her gut told her that was the wrong decision.

Damn.

Kailey sighed, "Fine. I'll try to help you research and save your precious boys. The only reason I'm doing this is so I'll be able to look after Diamond and ensure her safety. Agreed?"

Dumbledore smiled wide and his twinkle was on full blast, "Why Mrs. Muna, I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Kailey! Earth to Kailey! I think I may have found it!" Diamond exclaimed happily, pulling Kailey out of her thoughts. What seemed like hours of thinking was only about a minute.

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"Huh? Found what?" she looked completely clueless.

"Geesh Kailey, where you that deep in? The platform duh. I've been keeping a close eye on people and noticed that a few people would wait until no one was watching, and then walk through a sort of barrier," Diamond explained as she leaned against her cart of supplies. They had been sent to her as a "courtesy" of the school, "See look."

Kailey followed to where Diamond nodded her head almost unnoticeably and saw what she meant. A tall looking man escorting two young nervous looking chestnut haired fraternal twins looked around quickly before the group of three walked swiftly through the barrier, pushing their own cart of luggage.

"Well that's convient," she muttered.

"Okay now that you saw we need to hurry we have about seven minute- AHH!" Diamond cut off her sentence with a yell as she leaned against her cart too heavily and it rolled off at a fast speed towards the barrier.

Kailey took of after it and ran right through the barrier with Diamond right on her heels. The cart headed straight for a big group of carts that seemed to be unattended to and Kailey lunged for it. She grabbed the handle just in time and stopped it an inch away from a disaster.

"That was clo-" before she could finish her statement Diamond ran into her and sent them both toppling forward into the cart, pushing it straight into the other ones.

"Bloody hell!" a strong English accented voice said as Kailey helped Diamond up. Kailey stumbled slightly and tripped over Diamond's trunk, falling into a pair of muscled tan arms that definitely didn't belong to Diamond.

"I'm so sorry I-" Kailey looked up into the greenest eyes she had ever seen in her life before she felt a sharp burst inside of her body and the person holding her gasp then, she felt pain and everything went black.

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DWW- There you have it! The first chapter of HLDF! Hope you enjoyed! Read & Review!

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