Disclaimer: Same as before…never changes really…

A/N: Yes again with the bats…evil creatures they can be to me are coming up with more twisted creations.

Title: Silver in the sky, or gold in a grave?

Unknown POV:

Watching the shadow turn, her eyes lit with joy made him smile. So maybe she had learned something here and there about what love really was, she was still along way from forgiving him though. But he cloaked his presence and continued to watch her as she plopped down on the soft earth at that inhuman hour of the dawn and began scratching notes quickly in her notebook. He didn't know how long it had been since he'd first followed her out here but he flinched at the first rays of pinkish light peeking up over the trees, and decided it was time to make his exit and rest until the next night. With her image fresh and clear in his mind he departed to a dark, safe corner of the castle to sleep.

Rayen's POV:

Though she'd been content making the notes of her progress with the most difficult of the three pairs she'd been handed, she couldn't help but feel as though something were off. Sort of a miss really, and that someone was watching her too, snorting slightly at the thought of someone she couldn't clearly make out watching her here she picked up her few things and portal stepped back to the common room to change and get her things in order.

Upon entering the common room from the girls dorms she saw one Professor Snape standing at the bottom of the stairs by the book shelf replacing a few book, the man looked worn from a long night of work and was in a bit of disarray. When he looked up at her she noted that his eyes had dark shadows under them and they seemed so much darker than usual. What almost made her laugh was the shocked look on his face to see her standing there, instead of laughing though she tipped her head to the side slightly and smiled warmly, in a friendly greeting gesture that witches and wizards as well as mortals often use. "Good morning Professor. Did the potion come out well?" She asked quietly still amused by the look he had.

Snape's POV:

He'd heard the footsteps on the stairs and had assumed it to be Draco coming back in to get some small amount of sleep before the day started, but when he looked up and into the face of the girl from earlier he almost dropped. She was standing there, slightly cheery and seeming well rested at the top of the stairs. Already dressed and ready to go really, and that in itself seemed so unnatural that it made even the old potions master uneasy. That was when he had had it, and after her kind greeting shook his head some. "Umm…yes it did. Why are you up so early it's barely five, more importantly miss…" Ok that was right where he faltered. What was that girl's damn name anyway? And he knew he'd heard it somewhere before.

"Vislord…My name is Rayen Vislord, you can call me Rayen though, or Ray like most people do…" She said quietly while he was in thought, causing the man to forget his own question. But he placed the name from somewhere still, big news somewhere. Eh, he'd look it all up later, right now he wanted to know how she'd pulled her little trick last night.

"Right…Vislord…Now then, I have a second question for you. Last night how did you do that?" And he watched the girl pale visibly before looking to and fro around the room. She seemed like she was looking for an escape, somehow to avoid the question. Rather she closed her eyes, and was in a split second gone from the room as though she'd never been there to begin with. That was when Snape made up his mind, and off her was to the library, robes billowing behind him in the unseen breeze. He was going to find out who or what that little girl was.

Unknown POV:

He'd just slipped into the back of the library to rest in the closed off section when a man came pushing his way into there, muttering something about little girls vanishing into thin air and the whole lot going batty. This ofcouse perked his curiosity and caused him to follow the man who sat down before a stack of world and race news papers and began to go through them, that was when he heard the man repeating a name over and over again. As he got closer to the greasy looking old man he could make out the name, "Rayen Vislord." That was the first clue that she was in trouble really, his second was when the man dropped the paper he was reading and on the front cover was the Trail of Fate. Oh yea, she was so in trouble if he didn't cut in right then, and that was just what he did too. Sliding over he grabbed the man's arm and smirked some when the man looked up and almost turned paler than marble around them. "Le…Let me go…"The man stammered, pulling back when he saw the fanged smirk that his captor had well in place.

"I'm afraid I can't do that good sir, you see Fate wouldn't be very happy if I let you ruin what she's sent Rayen to do here. Besides you may thank my little shadow later for the help she'll give you." He said carefully watching how the man's eyes went wide and he struggled to push off the vampire before him. And this again caused the fanged smirk to appear, that was followed by a low growl of a laugh. "Trust me sir if I wanted to hurt you I would have killed you by now. As for Rayen, please just leave her do her job, she isn't here to hurt anyone either." This time the man seemed to calm a bit only to rip his arm from the other's grip and straighten himself.

"Well if she's working for Fate, then who in the bloody nine hells are you, and why are you here?" The greasy man asked a touch louder than he should have. Almost angering the vampire who stood up his full 6'1" height, and snapped his neck with ease.

"I am Sefu, the protector of Rayen as long as she is Fate's prisoner. I'm here to see that she does her job and doesn't escape." Sefu seemed to glare down at the man who for all he was worth glared right back. "And who are you?" He asked in a gruff and icy tone.

"I am Professor Snape. Potions master of this…school." Was the only answer he was given. One the potions master felt himself presentable enough he turned back to the large vampire and sighed. "So if that girl is one of those creatures, then why would I be grateful for any of her 'help'? She's a dangerous creature." He said with a bitter tone to his voice, causing Sefu's rage to flare in his eyes.

"There's another here, like her. And she's not dangerous, if she was this whole place would have burned already. The danger is in the one who doesn't know of his powers yet. And I can't tell you his name without someone realizing his mother's as well." With that Sefu vanished to get some rest since this would be the longest day of his life.

A/N: Well…that's it for ya, I know its short but really it was only to clear out a few minor details and bring Sefu to the mix. Well that's about it really. So until I get a new idea on where to take this these bats can go back to their cave and leave me be!