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These next chapter/s will mostly be focused around the shadows/a shadow themselves

Harry wasn't sure if he was dreaming, or if this was real. He was standing on a cloud, looking over to a cliff, where he saw himself and Ginny. The sky was crimson red, an eclipse, the other Harry and Ginny were standing, talking, Harry had Crimson Moon in his hand.

Dream Harry looked up and shrieked in some inhuman language, after several seconds, the other members of the Crimson Shadows appeared before them, but there were seven, instead of four, Harry couldn't see their faces. Then there were hundreds of loud pops as many people appeared, aurors, death eaters, order members, they all had their wands trained on the nine Crimson Shadows.

With a loud cry, the seven leaped out, and started fighting with all they had against the enormous army, blood and limbs were flying everywhere as the Shadows fought with steel and obsidian weapons, all the opposing spells were just bouncing off the vampires, but then they started using reducto curses, aiming at the ground to blast the vampires off their feet. Harry looked over at his dream self, and was shocked to see him drive Crimson Moon into his own chest. Dream Harry's eyes glazed over, as a black light glowed within them.

Dream Harry suddenly looked up and yanked the dagger out of his chest, it healed immediately, then thrust it into Ginny. They both glowed a light as black as the void before being lifted into the air, with a shockwave of black energy, all the wizards and witches were blasted twenty feet into the air, some off of the cliff. Dream Harry and Ginny landed on the ground in a splash of energy, after they both looked at real Harry and smiled at him. Harry woke up with a start.

What the hell was that?! Harry thought as he rubbed the sleepiness out of his eyes. Shit, death eaters teaming up with the order and ministry, was that like a friggin premonition or something. Damn, I better talk to Altair about this, where could he be…? More importantly though…. Where the hell am I? Harry looked around himself, he was in a bed, a very, very large bed, and there appeared to be a head of red hair attached to his chest. Harry sighed in relief, just Ginny, good. Harry slowly got up from the bed, resting Ginny's head on the pillow softly, as to not wake her. Harry made his way to the library, where Altair would normally be. As always, he was sitting in a chair, reading some ancient scroll.

"Altair?" He looked up at Harry and smiled. "So, finally awake, are we? Its about time, you two have been out for a week." Altair smirked at Harry's gapping mouth before saying "Just kidding, its only been two days." Harry let out a deep breath before saying "What, exactly did that thing do to us anyways?" Altair gave him a 'are you a dumb ass?' look before explaining "It pretty much married you and Ginny, which you should have figured out, and bonded you both to Crimson Moon, now you can both wield him." Harry looked confused and said

"Why should I have figured it out?" Altair sighed and said "The name of the thing meant crimson blood oath, after you thought of your feelings for each other your blood combined, blood oath, vows, same thing. Before you passed out did you hear anything?" Harry nodded "I heard, some old voice scream something like 'I belong to you, I think." Altair smiled and said "Yes, that was what we were hoping you would hear, that was Crimson Moon, announcing his allegiance to you, it is yours now." Altair got up and picked Crimson up from a table and handed it, along with a sheath, to Harry. Harry looked at it for a moment before strapping it to his waist, and that's when he noticed he was wearing the same light armour that the other Shadows always wore, strangely, it had no weight, and was easy to move around in. "Oh, and just to let you know, Dumbledore has Charlie and the twins locked up, I don't know where the twins are, but Charlie is being held hostage at Grimmauld place, I do not know why, but since they are locked up, I don't think it would hurt to see why. If you want to go, Julius has offered to go with, just incase." Harry frowned, "but I thought we couldn't die?" Altair bit his lip.

"We actually can die, but its incredibly unlikely that it would ever happen that we just say we cant, the only way for us to die is for a human to stab us, and our mate, at the same time through the heart with a blessed wooden stake in the glow of the twilight hour, that is the only way we can die, it hasn't happened since Dracula, and the only human with the knowledge of the ritual was killed by Julius Caesar, he was fairly fond of his grandfather." Harry nodded "So, is Julius ready to go then?" As soon as he was finished speaking Julius walked into the room with his monster sword in his hand." He smiled at Harry

"Ready to go then? Oh, yeah, and when we get back, you and Ginny get to start your training, fun fun fun, eh." He smiled again "Since I don't know where this place is, you can just smoke me into the house." Harry looked confused "How do I do that?" Julius smiled at him and said "The same thing you did to get to the Burrow, just while touching me, and before you ask, wards don't stop us." Harry grinned and grabbed Julius's shoulder before they both disappeared in a puff of smoke.

They appeared in Sirius's old room, fortunately, this was the room Charlie was being held in. unfortunately, he didn't know they were coming so when they appeared in a flash of smoke, he didn't react very calmly, as a matter of a fact, he screamed. "WHAT THE HELL!!" Julius winced and said to Harry "Get him outta here before everyone comes up, ill take care of the order of burnt chicken, anyone you don't want me to kill?" Harry thought for a moment and said "No, not really. Ill see you back at home." Harry gave Julius a thumbs up before grabbing Charlie and smoking away.

Julius POV:

Well lets see how some of these guys like vampires. With a grin he pulled his giant sword off his back and prepared for a swing, a few seconds later the doors flew open and some greasy haired guy ran in, and got taught a crucial lesson in life, if there's a guy with a giant sword in his hand, turn and run like hell, don't run into him. His lesson ended with him receiving a homework assignment to find out if its possible to become a ghost without a head. Julius then kicked out with his left foot while swinging his sword with both hands, the result of this was a black tall guy, and a old man with a glass eye's heads being severed, and a man with red hair was kicked into the other five people trying to get inside the room. They all flew into a wall, knocked out. Julius shrugged and smoked back to the Deepscorn Hollow.

Deepscorn Hollow, still Julius POV:

Well, that was easy. I wonder what they did about Charlie?

My question was answered as soon as I opened the main doors. Charlie was standing with his mouth hanging open like… actually like me when Lindsey told me she thought she was pregnant. Don't ask. She's not and she never has been, stupid pregnancy test was screwed up….

Back to the point!! He was sitting there gapping like me because I'm guessing Ginny and Harry are explaining to him either what happened or the usual 'traits of a vampire tutoring'. I don't know, ill ask Altair later. What should I do now? Maybe ill go see if Lindsey wants to spar or something, she always does, that's probably part of the reason i had fallen for her….. BUT!! that's a story for another time.

As I walked down the halls towards the training room I thought back to when Altair had first invited us to stay with him.

Flashback:

Lindsey was sprinting. I was jogging. I was always the faster of us, except in combat. We ran through the forest, never slowing, never turning back, they would torture us if we did. We were running from a group of powerful wizards, purebloods who, Over time had formed a organization. Their goal; capture all vampires, since you couldn't kill them, they captured us and used us like cattle, used us to test others in their skill of the dark arts. Me and Lindsey had just escaped one of their hideouts, and we were running, they were following us like a bear following a skilled trapper. No idea of the mistake they were making.

They had captured us in our sleep, so they have no clue who they were dealing with. As me and Lindsey ran into a clearing we both looked at each other, each knowing what the other was thinking, and leaped into trees opposite of each other. The wizards foolishly followed, as soon as they were in the clearing, Lindsey began to throw her charmed knives with deadly accuracy, each one killed or incapacitated all targets.

As they realized where she was, I leaped down, my broadsword in both hands as I slammed into the back of one while simultaneously beheading another. The rest of the wizards turned towards me and in that second, a knife was in two of the wizards' throats, and I brought down the remaining two with one sweep of my sword. I looked around, they were all dead. I turned towards Lindsey and she was already next to me pulling me into a hug. "I thought I had lost you…" I heard her whisper so softly I was surprised I could hear it at all, I felt her tears on my neck.

"Hey, don't worry. We've been together for half a millennium, I'm not quiting on you now." I whispered soothingly into her ear. I rocked her back and forth slowly until she fell asleep. I didn't think she could run like that, so I just picked her up bridal style and set off at a full out sprint. At this speed I covered about 400 meters every 25 seconds. A speed I'm sure many human sprinters would kill to get. And I can run like that for about five hours before starting to loose my breath. Pretty unnatural huh? Well that's a vampire for ya. I stopped once we had reached a small cave, Lindsey was still sleeping. A placed her against a wall so she doesn't roll out of the cave, (it has happened before) and went outside to get some firewood and food.

When I came back with some wood and a mountain lion (dead) she was finally awake. She smiled at me and fed on the lion while I started a fire (and the fire is to keep wolves away, we cant really fight while sleeping, and shifts is retarded) we huddled together in a dark corner of the cave until sleep overtook us. When I awoke I looked at Lindsey and remembered just how young our bodies actually are. We were both turned when I was 14 and when she was 13, our bodies have changed little since then, other than the usual get slightly larger yet super strong muscles part. But for us, it isn't much of a problem, or at least for me. I looked like a 18 year old when I was 14, and got bigger muscles since then, so now I look in the 20s, while Lindsey now looks about 18.

I looked around the cave and saw a man and a women watching us. I immediately leaped up and grabbed my sword and was about two seconds from slicing them, when the man raised his hands above his heads and lifted his chin up as high as he could. I stopped. It was the vampire truce signal. After I calmed down and woke Lindsey and calmed her down, they started talking to us. The man was named Altair, and his mate was Sarah. They were the only members of a clan named The Crimson Shadows, their goal: survive. Me and Lindsey joined them quickly and within weeks, had found and named our home. Deepscorn Hollow.

End flashback:

My memory stopped as I abruptly walked into Lindsey. "Oh, sorry love, didn't see you there." Lindsey just smiled at me and said "Its ok, so… did you want to spar?" Her eyes were glowing with excitement and I just couldn't turn her down. "Alright." I sighed. She nearly jumped for joy and ran down to the training room. I quickly smoked down there, being lazy.

When I got there she was already there hefting her two largest knives, one in each hand. I smiled and drew my large sword which I had earlier named Viagra (you don't want to know) and bowed politely to indicate the start of the sparring match. She attacked first bounding towards me faster than a human eye could trace but I could see her moving in almost slow motion, she was moving both her knives towards me from the side preparing for a scissors cut. I knew what she was going to do from seeing her barley move, and acted correctly. Just as she began to arc her arms I sprinted forward a step to gather speed, and then I slid under her legs. As soon as she turned around my blade was at her throat, a way faster than usual spar. "Dead." I whispered softly. She groaned and said "What the hell! That was the fastest match we've ever had!" I just smiled at her shaking my head and decided to go to bed. She followed me of course, and we both got into bed, both succumbing to the peace of sleep.

Sorry about the long long long long long wait but I like totally forgot that ff even existed for the longest time. Im so sorry everybody!! So I decided to give you a longer than usual chapter. Ill try to update more often from now on, but I make no guarantees