Back in the common room, they found Hermione waiting up for them, "What did he want?" she asked.
"He wanted to let us know that we are not alone in this school, he is a Shadow Guardian as well, now we need to ask you, do you want to be a Shadow Guardian?" Harry asked, "If you say yes, we will tell you what it entails."
Hermione hesitated, "Yes, if you get more power from it then yes I do," she said.
Driv nodded, "Then we have some explaining to do, let's go see Dark Angel," he said and Harry nodded, and vanished.
"Where did he go?" Hermione asked.
"I'm still here, just one of the tricks you learn when you become a Shadow Guardian," Harry said from where he was standing.
"Come on Hermione, I can help you," Driv said, "Hold my hand and I can give you the power." Hermione grabbed Driv's hand and felt a shiver run over her skin. "Once you are in this form you can see others, and yourself but others won't see you." She nodded as she noticed that Harry hadn't moved at all.
"Come on let's go," he said and walked out of the common room, they walked to the dungeons, and to Snape's quarters.
Harry knocked, and Snape opened the door, "Who's there?" he asked, and Harry appeared, "Hello Dark Wraith, what brings you back?" Harry pointed and Driv and Hermione appeared, "Ah, come in please." Snape gestured for them to come in and they followed him in. "So, you were hoping for my help in determining whether or not she is qualified to become a Shadow Guardian," he asked and they nodded, "Very well, Miss Granger how knowledgeable are you with Dark Arts?"
"My knowledge is extensive," she replied.
"My next question, are you able to perform any of them?" She nodded, "Which ones may I ask?"
She conjured a spider, "I have been practicing this since I realized that stunning them won't help, AVADA KEDAVRA!" she said pointing at the spider, which flashed and died. Snape, Harry, and Driv looked into her eyes, she had no qualms about what she just did.
"Dark Angel, may I?" Snape nodded.
"Hermione, I want you to cast the killing curse at me," Driv said. Hermione shook her head, "Don't worry it won't affect me, I'm half-undead," he said and she nodded, pointing her wand at him.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" she shouted and the green ball hit Driv in the chest, and was absorbed.
He looked her in the eyes, she was a little shaken but that's understandable, he conjured a replicate of Lucius, "Now kill him," Driv said and she did with no problems at all.
"I think we have seen all that we need too, Dark Warrior take her the academy, we will wait here," Snape said.
"I've read about the Shadow Guardians even if it was fiction books, it's said that it takes 4 years to become a Shadow Guardian," Hermione said and all three nodded.
"Your first three will be spent in the Shadow Realm, time is so slow there it takes a half an hour to complete three years in that realm, then one year outside of the realm, but we will take all 4 years in the Shadow Realm," Driv explained. She nodded, "Now take my hand and we will go," he said holding out his hand, she took it and they disappeared in a swirl of black smoke.
"So Dark Angel, what was it exactly that made you hate me?" Harry asked.
"Well it was the fact that you were almost exactly like your father, but now that I see this side of you, I wonder what other things have you been hiding from the old fool," Snape said.
"Well, the fact that there was a prophecy that was made after the one about me and Voldemort, that one states that I will become the next Dark Lord and rule this world," Harry said, "Also another thing, is that my magic was blocked for most of my life I tried to figure out why my magic was blocked, I decided to try to find someone to unblock it, but it's too powerful even for most of the Shadow Guardians, I was told the only way to release it is to bond with all 5 of my familiars, I already have my first 3, I still need to find my other 2, so right now I am extremely powerful."
Snape just stared at Harry, "What are your first 3 familiars?" Snape asked.
"A shadow Phoenix, a shadow dragon, and a Shadow Wolf, I was told that my others are Griffin, and a Lion," Harry said.
"Both are the symbols of Gryffindor, I wonder if he was a Dark Lord at heart too?" Snape said.
Harry nodded, "Yea I wondered that too, but then I met him and he wasn't one, he's not happy that I am destined to become a Dark Lord, but he knows that I will rule the world differently than other Dark Lords, even though he didn't tell me how," he said. They sat talking like that for the entire 40 minutes that Driv and Hermione were gone, they reappeared exactly 40 minutes after they had left. When they reappeared all Harry could do was stare, Hermione was dressed in a ladies ninja outfit without the face covering, that left little to the imagination, the intricate tattoo playing above the neckline.
"Gentlemen, allow me to introduce Sinister Angel," Driv said waving towards Hermione, who walked over to Harry. She reached down and grabbed his hand; she then pulled him up so he was standing in front of her. She put her hands on his face and kissed him passionately, which he returned with gusto. "Ok lovebirds we should return to the common room before we are missed," Driv said and everyone nodded. Harry, Hermione, and Driv vanished, "See you later Dark Angel," they all said together and left the room.
They entered the common room and became visable, "Hermione you should change back into school robes," Harry said, and Hermione's outfit returned to her school robes; the neck just high enough to block the tattoo on her neck. She gave Harry a kiss before setting off up the stairs to her dorm.
"You are a lucky man Harry, to have a girl like that stand by you even when you go dark," Driv said, they were both startled by a shout.
"HA! I knew it!" Ron shouted as he jumped up from one of the sofas, "I knew you had gone dark Harry, you would have never stolen Hermione from me otherwise!"
"AVADA KEDAVRA MINEMA!" Harry yelled, Ron dropped, "Dark Warrior would you do the honors, I'm not good enough yet," Harry said and Driv nodded. He entered Ron's memory, and erased the memories of them talking about Harry being dark.
"MINEMA REVERSI!" Driv said and Ron sat up.
"What were you guys saying?" Ron said.
"I was telling Harry that he was lucky to have a girl like Hermione who would stand by him through thick and thin," Driv said.
"Ah, well there is something up with you Harry, otherwise you wouldn't have stolen Hermione from me, you know how much she means to me," Ron said.
"If she meant so much to you why did you treat her like shit?" Harry asked, "You know demanding stuff from her, trying to tell her how to wear her hair, and what clothes she should wear, just so you could show her off."
"I did no such thing!" Ron shouted.
"Oh yea?" Driv said, "Do you remember the words you used the day we met Ron? I do, you said, 'I demand you answer my question Hermione."
Ron's eyes got wide, "You have no proof of that!" Ron said.
"You fail to realize I have a picture perfect memory," Driv said, "And I remember every aspect of that day rather clearly even if I don't remember doing it all myself."
Ron's eyes got wide again, "It still doesn't prove anything!" Ron shouted, "You can't get anything on me, Hermione was mine and not yours, she belonged to me, I had every right to demand anything I wanted to from her!"
CLICK. Driv held up a tape recorder, "Would you like to here what you just said?" he asked, "Because I swear you aren't in the right frame of mind right now to understand what you just said." CLICK, 'It still doesn't prove anything!' Ron's voice came from the recorder, 'You can't get anything on me, Hermione was mine and not yours, she belonged to me, I had every right to demand anything I wanted to from her!' CLICK. "There you go Ron, you say that you don't demand anything from Hermione, yet you just confessed that you can demand anything you want from her," Driv said to a shocked Ron. Ron swung at Driv who just caught his fist, "What did you think you were gonna do Ron?" Driv asked, "Hurt me because you know I'm so much faster than you." He released Ron's hand, which came up and across Driv's face. Driv jumped back holding his face, when he moved his hand Ron and Harry both jumped back. There was a cut on his face but that is not what made them jump. What made them jump was the fact that his blood was black and not red. "There you have found out my secret, are you happy now?" Driv asked, "You now have information on me that you should have never have known!" Driv began to change; he became bigger and grew wings. After the change was over, he was a Shadow Dragon, he roared and the entire tower shook. Everyone in Gryffindor house came stumbling into the common room only to freeze in shock as they came across a big dragon. Hermione was the last one down, she gasped as she realized who the dragon was.
Driv was about to attack Ron when Hermione slid in between them, "Driv take a hold of yourself!" she shouted. The dragon's head continued down and wrapped it jaws around Hermione, she tried to move when she realized what was going on, but it was too late. Driv snapped his jaws closed and open really fast, and then a black swirl became noticeable in front of Driv.
Out of it came a smaller dragon which changed into Jaro, "Driv, change back right now!" he shouted, and Driv looked at him took one step and Jaro raised his hand and a black bolt of energy came out and hit Driv in the chest. Driv screeched in pain as he changed back, "Hurt's doesn't it, the first time you change?" Jaro asked, once Driv was completely changed back.
"Yes, but how did you know that I wasn't in control of the body?" Driv asked and Jaro pointed to Hermione who was gasping for breath. Driv's long teeth had punctured both her lungs, "Hermione!" Driv yelled as he slid over to her, "Hermione, I didn't mean for this to happen, please forgive me and let me try to heal you!"
She shook her head, "It's too late Christian, I only held on long enough to see your face one last time," she said with what was left of her breath, and her eyes slowly closed. There was a flare of magic within the room, and everyone saw Driv begin to glow.
All of a sudden a black shield was erected around him, just as his power exploded, "AHHHHHHH!" Driv screamed in heart wrenching pain.
There was another flare of magic and Hermione began to glow, "Driv there is nothing you can do, stop trying to bring her back!" Jaro yelled.
"Jaro, it's not me!" Driv shouted from within the shield. All of a sudden a dark purple phoenix appeared out of nowhere and landed on Hermione. It cried into her mouth, and scratched itself and let one drop of its blood land on one of the puncture wounds. There was a bright flash and Hermione sat up gasping for air.
She looked around and saw Driv's tear filled eyes, she hugged him tightly, "It's ok Christian, I'm back and don't plan on going anywhere for a long time," she said as she released him and looked into his eyes/With what you did released my magic, like with you when you died my block was destroyed once my soul left my body,\ she told him in his mind/Raven, saw that and when he cried in my mouth it pulled my soul back into my body, then he bonded with me.\ Driv nodded in understanding.
"Jaro can you lower this?" Driv asked, and the black shield disappeared, "Ronald Weasley, I challenge you to a Wizard's Duel tomorrow after dinner!" Driv shouted, "My honor and my secret on the line, I lose I tell the entire Wizarding world what I am, and I will serve you the rest of my life; I win I will tell the world what you are and humiliate you."
"I accept your challenge Christian Granger!" Ron shouted, "One more prerequisite no Shadow Guardian spells." There was a flare of magic as Driv nodded, and accepted the final requirement for the duel.