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Chapter 4
After a few hours of having to get through Customs when the sun was just started to set, Hermione, Luna, and Pansy were walking towards the Airport's exit when Hermione suddenly spun around and started scanning the crowd.
"Can you smell that?" She asked with a mixture of excitement and anxiety in her usually calm, smooth voice.
Luna and Pansy stopped in their tracks then looked at each other surprised by Hermione's sudden outburst, then they glanced at Hermione's anxious face and then both took deep breaths in, while trying to ignore the scent of the Muggles' blood.
"Hermione," Pansy whispered distractedly as muggles passing them to get the exit, "There are too many scents for me to know what you're talking about."
Pursing her lips, Hermione nodded uneasily then turned to Luna, "What about you Luna?"
"We're not all trackers like you 'Mione." Luna stated calmly, "There are too many scents."
"Okay." Hermione whispered rocking on the heels of her feet while her eyes flickered across the crowd's bland faces while taking subtle breaths in through her nose.
"Hermione, What do you smell?" Pansy asked uneasily at a rapid pace that was too fast for humans to pick out.
Hermione looked like she was going to cry when Pansy asked that question.
"Harry," She breathed, looking more frantic by the second, "I smell Harry."
"But Hermione," Luna stated calmly over the dying babble of human voices, "He …He's…" Luna couldn't finish that sentence for fear of unleashing unwanted human memories that she'd long forgotten on purpose.
"We don't know that for sure." Pansy said as she tried to calm down both of her closest friends. "He could still be alive…"
"You don't understand," Hermione said fiercely, whirling around to face Luna and Pansy. "I smell a vampire Harry."
At Pansy's gasp and Luna's shaken expression she continued, "They never did find his body…" She trailed off trying to swallow the lump in her throat and ignore the persistent prickling in her eyes as she recalled searching for Harry's body in the Forbidden Forest years ago.
Pansy went over to both Hermione and Luna and hugged them tight. "Do you smell him now?" She asked thoughtfully.
"Closer than ever." Hermione managed to choke out between taking deep breaths –this time to calm herself.
"That's because I'm right here 'Mione." A deep velvety voice said softly from a few feet behind the trio.
Hermione's head snapped up and Luna and Pansy spun at a fast vampire speed and gaped in surprise, shock and other countless emotions at the two hooded vampire males behind them.
"Harry?!" Hermione whispered staring at the male vampires in disbelief.
The one who spoke took off his hood to reveal a perfect, flawless pale face. He had raven black hair that looked untidy but the style suited him, his forest green eyes shone with excitement and when he smiled he revealed a row of pearly white teeth.
"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed loudly before running –at a very fast human speed- towards his open arms and launching herself at him.
"Hello Hermione." Harry whispered in her ear while stroking her dark locks with a gloved hand.
"Ah young love." A middle-aged woman said, after she witnessed the blissful reunion then started to walk towards the exit.
"Oh please." Hermione muttered staring at the retreating back of the woman as she got out of Harry's grasp.
"It did seem like that you know?" Pansy muttered, outwardly unfazed by Hermione's blazing glares towards her.
After staring at the other hooded figure and Harry for some time, Luna finally stepped in front of Harry and smiled, "Hello Harry."
"Hi Luna." He said before crushing her in a hug that would have made Molly Weasley cry.
"It's good to see you again." She whispered in his ear, "You smell like Grass by the way." She added with a grin; she was no tracker but her senses were still excellent.
Harry started to chuckle; it was a heavenly sound to Luna's sensitive ears.
"Good to see you too, Luna." He said as he let her go only to be attacked by a flying blur of dark hair again.
"Hermione, you just hugged him." Pansy said exasperated as she watched the whole exchange from by the wall where she leant and glanced at the time, "Look at the time," She whined, "It's been ten minutes."
"What's the matter Pansy?" Luna asked walking up to her, after glancing at the hooded figure behind Harry.
"I need to hunt." She replied hurriedly. Luna looked at her eyes; they were a dark mocha colour instead of her usual coffee colour.
"Oh," Luna said; she could only imagine what her eyes looked like considering she hadn't been breathing in much ever since they got off the plane, "Hermione!" She called frantically as the ache in her throat got more pronounced.
Luna and Pansy strode over to where Hermione was still hugging Harry. "I heard." Hermione said interrupting their protests.
"Then why won't you-" Pansy's rambling was cut off by a sniff coming from Hermione.
"Did you just sniff Harry?" Luna asked completely baffled.
"Luna, really," Hermione started in a mock-irritated voice, "I have to recognise his scent when I smell it." She finished as she got out of Harry's embrace to put her hands on her hips and stare at Luna expectantly.
"Oh." Luna whispered, "That makes sense."
Hermione snorted; "Honestly, Luna, I think hanging around Pansy has made your head dim."
"OI!" Pansy exclaimed loudly while Harry and Luna chuckled.
"Hermione, it seems that you've forgotten about me in your little reunion." The hooded figure drawled in a deep smooth voice drawing Luna and Pansy's attention back to him.
"Just how could anyone forget you Draco?" Hermione asked while smiling up at her past-estranged cousin.
After a shocked silence, Luna whispered, "Mal-." She stopped when Draco lowered his hood. Pansy's mouth dropped open in shock while Luna just stared at the young vampire before her.
Draco's windswept white-blonde hair seemed to shine in the light of the setting sun. It fell down to his shoulders like Harry's and into his light grey eyes that flickered from Luna to Pansy and back.
"Holy sh…sugar..." Luna said completely baffled staring into Draco's grey eyes.
"Nice save." Pansy said sarcastically still open-mouthed; her eyes never leaving Draco's shiny hair.
"Pansy, close your mouth; you're catching flies." Luna retorted almost without effort.
Pansy closed her mouth and glared at Luna who was smirked at her.
"Ribbit." Harry croaked after a moment of silence, causing himself, Hermione and Luna to burst out laughing while Pansy glared at them all.
"Just like old times." Hermione said wistfully after she calmed down.
"Care to elaborate?" Draco asked after smirking at the highly amusing group.
"Well," Hermione started "Back in Grimmauld Place when we," She gestured towards herself, Harry and Luna –who had both just calmed down, "Were there before my sixth year, it was all…doom and gloom. Then one morning Fleur Delacour comes to visit-"
"The Veela?!" Pansy interrupted slightly confused.
"NO, the milkman," Hermione said sarcastically which sent Harry and Luna into hysterics again. "Yes, the Veela. Well half-veela actually, but the point still stands."
"The mil-milkman!" Harry spluttered in between his and Luna's tinkling laughter.
"Nice one 'Mione." Luna said congratulating the exasperated teenage vampire.
"Honestly, you two calm down!" Hermione ordered both of vampires who were on the floor clutching their stomachs. Hermione gave an infuriated sigh. "Anyway, where was I?"
Pansy glared at her, "The veela! NO, half-veela actually!" She said mocking Hermione's earlier tone.
"Thank you Pansy," Hermione muttered sarcastically while glaring back at the brunette in front of her, "Fleur was visiting Bill, who had previously joined the Order, and it was during breakfast and Ronald-" She spat the name as if it was a deadly swear word while Harry and Luna instantly sobered up on hearing the name of the traitor (who had nearly hit Hermione) and hissed- "who had a …thing for veelas was just starting at her with his mouth wide open, mid-chew as well." Hermione scrunched up her nose in disgust at the memory. "It was …ghastly."
"No table manners at all, that one," Luna whispered in loathing, "And he had the nerve to call me Loony." Harry rubbed a comforting motion down her back while Hermione continued the story.
"Then I said to him 'Ronald, close your mouth!' he doesn't listen obviously. He never did!"
Then Harry continues, "Then I said 'You're catching flies mate!' He doesn't understand but the rest of the room does and starts laughing."
"When they calmed down," Luna continues, "I go 'Ribbit, Ribbit'. Like a frog see? Then Harry, Hermione, and I just burst out laughing and then don't really stop for a while and the rest of the room is just staring at us like we're mad because it's been five minutes and we haven't stopped laughing." Luna, Harry, and Hermione grin at the memory.
"Why didn't you stop laughing?" Draco asked the blissful trio.
"Didn't you hear me when I said 'doom and gloom'?" Hermione asked using inverted speech marks, "It had been the first time we'd laughed in Merlin knows how long." She answered truthfully.
Just at that moment a security guard came over to the group and in a thick Italian accent said, "It's time for you lot to go now. It's getting dark."
"Alright." Hermione said rubbing her throat as she took hold of Harry's gloved hand and her suitcase then, followed by Draco, Pansy, and Luna, walked out the exit and into the cool night air.
"Ah, fresh air." Luna sighed happily as she danced down the dark street in front of the other four vampires.
"Doesn't smell any better." Draco muttered wrinkling his nose from behind Luna.
"Yeah, well that's just you Drake." Harry said into the cool night air.
Pansy almost choked on air as Hermione and Luna started to chuckle.
"Drake?" Pansy asked ludicrously; considering that had been what she had called him from their second to fifth year at Hogwarts.
"We can't use our real names you know?" Harry explained as he turned a street corner. "He's Drake and I'm Harold."
"Yeah, we know." Hermione said as she squeezed Harry's hand, "Just a shock is all." She said smirking at Draco who scowled back.
"So what are yours then?" Draco asked curiously to the three female vampires.
"Pandora." Pansy whispered.
"Mia." Hermione said from in front.
"Lunetta." Luna said clearly, "It's just a variation." She explained at Draco and Harry's questioning expressions.
"Don't you worry that anyone might figure it out?" Harry questioned her from the front of the group.
"Why should they?" Luna asked quietly, "It's not as if they ever called me by my first name back then, with the exception of you two, Neville and…"
"Ginerva and Ronald." Hermione finished icily as she glowered at a lamppost.
"Sometimes by Ginerva and Ronald." Luna corrected, outwardly unfazed as her non-existent insides burned with hatred.
"Whatever happened with those two?" Pansy asked carefully, "All that the rest of the school heard was that there was a huge falling-out between Harry and the Weasley family and that you two sided with him." Pansy gestured towards Luna and Hermione who were looking away from the group to a shabby house up ahead.
"Why don't we go inside," Hermione pointed to the small house that didn't look as if it could hold a group of small children let alone five powerful vampires, "Then we'll all have some of that blood replenishing potion that I made to put off hunting for a few hours until its midnight, alright?" She asked the group as she walked up the steps towards a dark blue door that had only one keyhole. She pressed her wand to the centre of the keyhole and said clearly "Domus Iunctum." This meant House Unity in Latin.
"This is the house that you rented?" Pansy said voicing the question that was on nearly everyone's minds.
Before Hermione could answer Luna said, "Looks can be deceiving Pansy." After running her slender pale fingers through the cracks surrounding the door.
"It's like Twelve Grimmauld Place isn't it?" Harry asked as he stared at the house in front of him. "It's bigger on the inside."
"Yes Harry," Hermione answered as she opened the door with a magical key, "It is, and because of the way it looks-"
"Not fit to house a rat!" Pansy exclaimed bitterly as she stared down the scruffy steps.
"People will ignore it." Hermione explained as she stepped into the dark hallway with Draco, Harry and Luna following her example.
"People who live in these houses." Pansy cried as she stared at the glamorous apartments on either side and across from the shabby house.
"Oh for Merlin's sake Pansy," Luna exclaimed as she dragged Pansy into the hallway and closed the front door, "It's only temporary and anyway," She added upon hearing Pansy's dry sniffles, "It looks better on the inside too."
There was a spacious living room with a hi-tech wide screen TV and designer sofas and armchairs on the outskirts of the room. The dining room –slash- Kitchen held a fridge and freezer, An Oak cube table with six chairs on either side, the counter was full of cooking utensils and various ingredients.
Hermione was leaning on the counter watching the vampire's countless expressions cross their faces.
"Oh don't worry," She said as she watched Luna's disgusted expression after seeing a tin of Caviar, "This is only for appearances sake. You know just in case we do have guests. The real magic's upstairs.
"I used to love this when I was human." Pansy whispered as she stared at the tin of Caviar in her pale hand.
"I know Pansy," Luna said as she hugged her and placed the tin on the counter, "I remember watching you eat it." She said with a grin.
"Oh ha ha, very funny," Pansy muttered sarcastically as she stepped into the dimly lit hallway, "Let's see upstairs then." She said to Hermione's silhouette in the living room doorway.
"Draco, Harry, come on." Hermione said as she raced upstairs to prepare the rooms. "You're going to love this."
"That Television is..." Harry started as he walked upstairs.
"Awesome." Draco finished as he grinned in a very un-Malfoyish way.
At Pansy and Luna's surprised expressions he continued, "I read up on the non-magical world after …I was turned and before I started to travel. How else do you expect me not to make a fool of myself in front of muggles?"
"Um... You had Harry, you know." Luna said as she stood in front of one of the rooms.
"That was only after a few months of my travels when he," Draco gestured to Harry "Tagged along."
Harry snorted; "You're the one that 'tagged along' not me." He argued.
They continued to argue until Hermione came out of one of the rooms. "I've finished. She said standing aside to let them through.
"What took you so long?" Pansy grumbled as she and Luna walked into the brightly lit room.
It was the size of a Quidditch pitch and was divided into two sections; the smaller section held potions equipment and books related to certain potions for vampires. There were also a few desks lined up with quills and ink ready on the desks.
The larger section was what caught the attention of the young vampires; Luna, Harry and Draco in particular.
Six smooth, shiny brooms lay on the side ready to be used. There was turf lining the ground and in the middle was a trunk that held Quidditch and duelling equipment.
"You brought brooms." Luna said excitedly as she hurried over to examine the brooms; she loved flying and had always wanted to be a seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.
"One for each of us." Hermione said walking over to the six sleek brooms that lay side-by-side near the edge of the large section, "And another broom left over."
"I'll hold on to it." Draco said at the same time Harry and Luna said, "I'll take care of it." And "I'll keep it."
Pansy shook her head and laughed, mumbling, "Quidditch fanatics."
"Pansy," Luna said after listening to Draco and Harry argue over the spare broom, "How many times have I had to tell you that I am not a 'Quidditch fanatic'?"
"Sure, sure." Pansy said after sitting down near a sleek broom, "Whatever you say Luna, whatever you say."
Luna sighed and went over to Hermione who had been watching the exchange with interest. "Thanks 'Mione." Luna said giving her a big hug.
"It's no problem Luna." Hermione replied before going over to where their luggage lay forgotten. "Aren't you lot thirsty?" She asked as she took out six big flasks that were full to the brim with animal blood.
They all went over to where Hermione stood and after a word of thanks went to sit in the middle with their flasks of blood in their hands.
"Do either of you have powers?" Hermione asked Draco and Harry as they all sat down on the soft turf and drank their animal blood.
"I'm a tracker, like you Hermione." Harry said indiscreetly.
"What about you?" Hermione asked Draco who shifted uncomfortably.
"Mind control." That was all he said before Pansy's eyes widened, Hermione stiffened and Luna looked away and asked, "You didn't try anything on us did you?" She asked uneasily.
"No," Draco exclaimed in outrage, "And I'm never going to, alright."
"He tried it on me once," Harry said off-handily, "It's not like the Imperius curse," He added as the three females stiffened, "It's different. It feels like the command is your own thought, something like that anyway, and with enough Occlumency practise I could block him."
Hermione chuckled lightly, considering they were all skilled in Occlumency already.
"Right, well I'm the fastest in the group and like Harry said I'm a tracker and can identify any scent as soon as I smell it." Hermione said sincerely.
"As soon as you smell it?" Draco asked bewildered.
"Yes," Hermione answered honestly, "I could smell a vampire Harry at the airport and I hadn't seen or smelt him since the final battle." She finished tearfully as Harry hugged her tightly.
"Right…" Draco said trailing off uncomfortably.
Luna decided to break the uncomfortable silence, "Pansy and I have the most confusing powers." She muttered.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked glancing from Luna to Pansy and back.
"If we combine our powers we can disappear in an instance, like apparition except mistier." Pansy said standing up and holding her hands up as Luna said, "We can demonstrate."
They all stood up and while Luna and Pansy held hands with one hand free, Hermione pulled Harry and Draco towards the middle as Luna held up her right hand towards the trio.
"Ready?" She asked energized from her magic.
"Yeah, we are." Hermione confirmed as she gripped Harry and Draco tighter.
Pansy and Luna nodded to each other, closed their eyes, and then simultaneously opened their minds to each other.
On Three, Luna thought though their mental link.
Three, two, one, Pansy thought and they simultaneously visualised the group including themselves in the living room downstairs.
A light wisp of air formed from nowhere and an opaque silvery-blue mist swept over their pale outlines. Then in the blink of a human eye, the mist surrounded them and they vanished, leaving the mist to dissolve in their vacant room.
As they opened their eyes Pansy and Luna were greeted by the sight of a grinning Hermione and an awe-stricken Harry and Draco.
"That was…" Harry trailed off lost for words.
"Indescribable." Hermione said her grin turning into a smirk at Draco's dazed expression.
"It was painless." He said as he grinned at the duo, "What do you call that?"
"Merging." Luna said simply as she smiled at an ecstatic Pansy.
"That was the first time we've done that with five people, and without having to touch them either." Pansy finished grinning like the Cheshire cat who got the cream.
Then they merged back to the 'Flying/Duelling room' as Harry called it.
"I'm also the strongest." Pansy said grinning at the shocked males, "And I can do something else but I'm not sure what to call it."
"Show us." Harry said grinning; oblivious to Luna and Hermione's smirks.
"Alright but remember you asked for it." Pansy said before she flicked her hands at Harry and clenching her fists strongly.
Raising an eyebrow Harry asked, "Is that it?"
Smirking, Pansy said, "Try to move Harry."
He tried but could seem to pull his arms or legs apart.
"It feels like I'm tied up." He said after nearly falling on his back because of his legs that felt like they were tied tightly.
"Can you let me go now?" He asked pleadingly.
Pansy unclenched her fists and started to laugh at Harry's grateful expression.
"What can you do Luna?" Draco asked her as Pansy stopped laughing.
"I can slow down or freeze many moving objects simultaneously on a normal day." Luna said as she sat down followed by the rest of the coven.
"Whoa." Harry muttered at the same time Draco asked, "A normal day?"
Luna nodded, "The night of the full moon I can do a lot of things, concerning werewolves though."
"Werewolves?" Harry asked interested.
"Yes," Luna asked, "When they are in their wolf forms I can read their minds and control them, sort of."
"What?!" Draco asked very perplexed.
"You can control them?" Harry asked in awe.
"Yes," Luna said, "I can get into their minds and I try to stop them hurting people, muggles and wizards alike."
A sociable silence followed where Harry and Draco stared at Luna in a mixture of amazement and astonishment.
"How come there is six of nearly everything?" Draco asked Hermione while gesturing towards the brooms, empty flasks, broom servicing kits, and flying gloves that lay in the open trunk.
"Well originally Luna, Pansy, and I were going to have two of everything. But now that you and Harry are here that's not necessary anymore." Hermione finished smiling at the two new and very welcome arrivals to her coven.
"Who is going to have the things left over?" Harry asked curiously.
"Hermione." Luna and Pansy said in unison while Hermione looked away embarrassed yet slightly smug.
"Why do you say that?" Draco asked the duo while Hermione smirked slightly.
"Because," Hermione said authoritatively, "I'm their leader." She finished smiling.
After a moment of silence where Harry and Draco looked at Hermione in a new light, Harry snorted; "Figures." He muttered.
"Look Harold," Pansy insisted, "I don't like having a leader but who better to lead us then the smartest witch of her generation?"
"Ravenclaw or not." Luna muttered sadly.
"Are you still on about that?" Pansy asked annoyed.
"She would have been an excellent Ravenclaw and you know it Pansy." Luna said defending her house and heritage from her mother's side.
"Look everyone," Hermione said drawing their attention to her, "You're all talking about Hermione Granger who is long dead, but Hermione Prince has risen from the ashes."
"Risen from the ashes?" Harry asked Draco who shrugged in response.
"Harry, I meant what I said. Listen back in sixth year on the train ride to Hogwarts a Hufflepuff in our year called me 'Granger' and I blew a fuse." Hermione explained to the group.
"Why?" Harry asked confused.
"I thought you might have known Harry." Hermione said.
"I think I know," Luna interrupted, "Because you're not really a Granger, and it's disrespectful to your parents if you keep …on pretending."
"Your parents?" Pansy asked perplexed.
"Both of them, Hermione explained, "The Gangers and the Princes."
"Hermione Prince has risen from the ashes," Draco whispered, "That's what that article said isn't it?"
"Yes," Hermione sighed, "Now I guess it's time to tell you about the Weasleys."
So Hermione, with help from Harry and Luna, told the ex-slytherins all about what had happened after the article came out.
"Ronald didn't trust us anymore," Hermione explained, "But the truth is ever since fourth year after he left us then came back out of the blue, he'd been acting strangely. We found out the reason at Gringotts."
Harry continued, "Apparently Mrs Weasley had been dosing me with love potions for Ginerva ever since that Rita Skeeter article-"
Pansy interrupted, "Sorry for what I said in the article Hermione."
"It's alright Pansy," Hermione said, "Anyway so since fourth year we haven't really trusted Ronald and the final straw was after he had accused me of lying and .. all sorts of rubbish really and I just couldn't take it anymore so I told him to stay out of my life and that I never wanted to see him again. Then he yelled at me and… tried to hit me-" Pansy gasped in disbelief and Draco looked murderous as he stood up and started to pace furiously- "but luckily Harry, the twins and Remus stopped him." Hermione finished with a sigh as Harry hugged her and muttered soothing words in her ear.
"Wait till I get my hands on that Weasel." Draco muttered lividly; no one hurts his family and gets away with it.
"Too late." Harry said with grim satisfaction.
"What do you mean?" Pansy asked hesitantly.
"He's at St. Mungos'." Harry said with a harsh leer.
"What for?" Draco asked slightly nervous at seeing Harry leering.
"Nobody knows." Luna said simply staring at her empty flask.
"Actually Luna, the medi-witches say that under immense pressure his mind is stuck in the past, back in fourth year, he doesn't remember anything past the end of the first task." Hermione concluded.
"Whoa." Pansy whispered.
"That was three years ago," Hermione continued sneering, "It might have changed."
At Draco's raised eyebrow she continued, "He doesn't deserve to live without the guilt of what he, his sister, and his mother have done and said to (and about) Harry, Luna and I." She snarled.
"What. Did. Those. Weasels. Do. To you?!" Pansy asked Luna outraged and disgusted.
"Oh nothing much," Luna spat furiously, "They only insulted my dead father's name with me in the next room, and they were laughing their heads off at some articles from the Quibbler." Luna fumed as she stood up and non-verbally and wandlessly summoned the fastest broom from the line, "This one's mine." She said to the group that had moved to the sidelines to watch, as she got on to the broom's rear and hovered meters from the ground before kicking off, and at great speeds twisting and turning through the large room.
"Oi, wait for me!" Pansy said as she too summoned a sleek broom and kicked off as the others watched from the ground.
After a few minutes, Hermione decided to join in as well as Harry and Draco went off to the far side to wrestle vampire-style.
After half an hour of racing on brooms and on the ground, Hermione decided to bring things to a stop, "Ready to go hunting?" She asked as she disillusioned her hooded cloak and the others followed her example as she clasped her cloak, pulled up her hood and walked out the front door underneath the artificial light of the street lamps and the bright light of the crescent moon.
Two weeks later
Hermione's coven had moved from lively Florence to the bright and beautiful city of Volterra and they were currently enjoying the sights from underneath their hooded cloaks.
"This city is home to the most powerful vampire coven to ever exist." Hermione clarified in a clear smooth voice.
"Powerful yet ruthless." Luna added as she stared at the ancient clock tower in front of her. "At least that's what Vladimir and Stefan said."
"Who?" Draco asked from behind her.
"They're Romanian." Luna said as she gazed intently at the clock tower.
"That would be right." A smooth child-like voice sneered from their far right.
The coven looked at their right to see five hooded figures dressed in cloaks not too different to their own. The only differences were the colours; which varied from smoky grey to an almost black colour and everything in between.
Hermione sniffed the air only to find out that the hooded figures were vampires but thankfully not of magical possession.
"Who are you?" Hermione demanded harshly as she held her head high to stand in front of the coven protectively with Luna and Pansy flanking her sides and Harry and Draco at the back with their wands drawn inconspicuously.
"Interesting question," A figure to the right of the other group said in an equally smooth yet deep voice, "You'll find out soon enough."
The figures advanced towards them at a slow human pace.
"Oh and don't try to run, you're surrounded." The childish voice said to the alert coven.
Harry and Draco looked behind them to see five other hooded figures standing close by.
"Grab them." The childish voice ordered as the hooded figures swooped down to capture the struggling coven. Two hooded figures took hold of one coven member each, "By the way resistance is futile."
As Hermione's coven were lead deep underground at vampire speed, they surveyed their surroundings from beneath their hoods as Hermione tried to get some answers from the hooded figures only to be told; "We know what that you and your coven are of magical descent and we'd like you to help us."
Hermione had asked "Who are 'us'?" Even though she knew the answer and feared it greatly.
"The Volturi." The child-like voice answered from the front as they were led through the sewers and beyond that to an antechamber made of stone that opened into a spacious room where there were a cluster of vampires at every corner.
Three vampires in pitch-black cloaks glided –more like waltzed- towards the gathering near the entrance with a group of vampire guards surrounding them protectively.
The vampire with jet-black hair and milky crimson eyes stepped forward, "Welcome friends, I am Aro." He said in a manner that reminded them of Fudge. One of the figures in a blackish cloak stepped forward and tapped their hand to his outstretched palm. He surveyed the coven for a moment before speaking again, "I see that Jane has informed you of the situation." He smiled and his papery-white skin crinkled even more.
"Situation?" Hermione asked in a harsh monotone, "I don't understand."
"We want your coven to join us my dear." Aro said in a smooth voice, "To join the Volturi Guard; with gifts and abilities such as yours, why waste them?" He explained referring to their powerful magic.
"How do you know of our gifts?" Hermione asked glaring at Aro from underneath her hood.
Aro smiled; "I have my ways." He said simply, gesturing to several large wooden thrones that were in line with the curving stone walls, "Do sit down." He said as he and the guards around him moved swiftly to sit on three thrones in the front of the room. The rest of the guard lowered their hoods to reveal pale and stunningly beautiful features that stood out against the darkness of their cloaks.
Hermione lowered her hood followed by the rest of her coven as she swiftly turned to face Aro with reproachful eyes.
"Do we have a choice?" She asked -referring to being part of the guard- already knowing and dreading the answer.
Aro smiled again; yet this time it was intolerant and impatient. "No, my dear," He whispered harshly, "There is no choice."
A/N: I hope that you like that chapter.
I'm starting school again next week so I am going to have to either update shorter chapters or update less.
Review to tell me what you think about this chapter and about Hermione's covens' powers.