Chapter 6- The Carpathians

Harry laid on her bed quietly with her eyes closed. She let her senses spread, a thing she did daily, and was surprised to feel a powerful presence hovering over her.

Harry's eyes flew open as she pushed herself up, and she found herself starring at a nose. Harry blinked, she had seen this nose before, but where? Harry's eyes absent mindedly drifted upward and met the pale orange eyes of Tiberiu.

She could feel his breath blow gently across her cheek and she slowly tipped her head back, making their lips scant inches from each other. Harry's breath caught in her throat. Tiberiu leaned closer and Harry's lips parted ever so slightly.

BANG!! BANG!!

Harry nearly jumped out of her skin, her hand flying to her heart. "Potter! Get Up! I've had enough of your lazing about!" Vernon shouted. Harry's eye twitched. Bleeding Hell! If that A-Hole had wait just a Few minutes more, she probably could've gotten her first kiss from a boy, seeing as she already got a kiss from Cho in fifth year.

After confirming that she was in fact awake now due to his screaming, Vernon stomped his way downstairs.

/You've kissed a girl before?/ Tiberiu asked in amusement.

Harry blinked again as she looked around the room. Where the hell had Tiberiu disappeared off to? And where did that voice come from? Harry didn't think it was spoken aloud.

/Look down Little Star/ Tiberiu said with amusement lining his voice.

Harry looked down and her eyes met the little dark eyes of a little kitten. Harry's eyes narrowed.

"Tiberiu?" she asked in disbelief. The kitten meowed and purred happily. She could feel the twitch coming back. It wasn't the fact that Tiberiu, who was very handsome and dangerous looking, had the animagus form of a cute cuddly kitten, but the fact that said kitten was currently down her shirt, snuggling between two things even she hadn't gotten used to, and looked quiet comfortable there.

Harry picked the kitten up by the scruff of it's neck and looked at it sternly.

/What?/ Tiberiu asked innocently, before disappearing and reappearing next to her. Harry turned and folded her legs.

"You have the animagus form of a kitten?" Harry stated more than asked.

"What's an animagus?" Tiberiu asked in curiosity.

"It's the ability a witch or wizard has to turn themselves into a animal that best represents them," Harry explained as though he should have known that.

"Wizards?" Tiberiu repeated. Harry stared at him in horror.

"Don't tell me that you aren't a wizard, you can turn into a kitten for Merlins sake!" Harry exclaimed. Tiberiu looked surprised by Harry's out burst.

"No I'm not a wizard," He said simply.

"But you can turn into a kitten, don't tell me you don't believe in magic," Harry repeated

"It's not that it's just I had thought that wizards had died out that's all and I can turn into any animal I want," He said before turning into a hamster and back again.

"What would make you think that?" Harry asked, mentally telling herself to ask him how he had done that later.

"Well when I was younger there had already been very little wizards. But the few that were around sometimes took on apprentices, like a boy who had been a few years younger than me, Julian Savage I believe his name was, was apprenticed to a wizard. And then there was a well known family who practiced magic's, by the name of Dragonseeker, but I think that family died out, though I can't be too sure, I haven't been around that area in a long time."

"Tiberiu... How old are you?" Harry asked suddenly.

"I'm in my late eight- hundreds, early nine-hundreds, I think," Tiberiu mused, trying to do the math. Harry blinked, she had known that Tiberiu was a bit older than she was but she didn't think he was That old, but for some strange reason she believed him.

"Your like six times older than my Headmaster." Harry said after a while. Tiberiu raised an eyebrow.

"And?" he asked.

"I don't know if I should be dating someone older than me by that many centuries." Harry teased. Tiberiu smirked sinfully.

"Dating?" He purred in her ear hotly. Harry mentally cursed her slip of tongue, all the while trying to get her self to stop blushing.

She squeaked when he pulled her on top of him, but didn't pull away, they had grown quite close in the two weeks of knowing each other, she couldn't help but feel it was natural when they flirted with each other, that they had become so fond of one another. She could honestly say she didn't care.

"You said that you were some where at the end of your eight- hundreds, how do you do it?" Harry asked, both teasingly and curiously.

"I'm from the race by the name Carpathian."


Anastasia flipped her long black/blue hair over her shoulder and grinned at one of her best friends, Desire, who had long red/gold locks she had inherited from her mother Tempest, and obsidian colored eyes that she got from her father, and one of Anastasia uncles, Darius.

"Do you think our fathers and uncles will have heart attacks?" Desire asked in amusement.

"Of course they will and if they don't then they might try to kill the boys," came a voice behind them. Anastasia and Desire turned to greet their other best friend, and the last of their trio, Vixen Marten, who had long honey blond hair and pretty sky blue eyes.

"Well we're going to have to make sure they can't, I would actually like to have a chance to have kids and that can't be done if daddy decides to off my life mate," Anastasia said dryly. Desire and Vixen snickered before dragging her off to meet the others.

The Daratrazanoff brothers all sat in the front with Falcon, Mikhail, Sara, Raven, their life mates. Lucien shifted uneasily, he didn't have a good feeling about this 'show' his nieces and the other fleglings(1) had put together he glanced at his twin Gabriel and knew that he was just as uneasy. Lucien was almost happy he and Jaxon had decided that they didn't want children just yet, seeing as they seemed to be just a little too much trouble now.

He was the only Daratrazanoff siblings who didn't have a kid yet, even the baby of their family Desari had a little girl, Dara, who was currently six and she and Julian had to always be one step ahead of the little one (though it never seemed to work). But that was okay, Lucien and Jaxon could wait a few more years, maybe decades if Jaxon got her way, (his lady cop was still a little afraid to have a family of her own) to have a child.

Lucien's attention was drawn to the make shift stage the fleglings had created and noted that the ones preforming had already taken their places.

"We will be putting on a show for you-" Anastasia started.

"So turn off all of you cell phones and any other electronics you may have-" Desire continued, grinning.

"And relax and enjoy," Vixen finished.

(Scandalous: By- Mis-teeq)

"So, so, so scandalous

You know you wanna sing with us (baby)
That's why you know you should be scared of us (baby)

You know you wanna sing with us (baby)
That's why you know you should be scared of us (baby)
Non stop looks to kill
Straight talk sex appeal
One touch gives me chills and we ain't even close yet
Rough neck all around
Inking all over town
Show me how you get down
Cos we ain't even close yet

You got me feening and you got me feeling weak
Listen as I speak cos I'm careful as I creep
You got me going crazy and you know I can't sleep
No fortune your moves and you hypnotize me
You got me trembling like a little baby girl
You're so special, you're like diamonds and pearls
You got me spinning and you got me in a twirl
You're my number one baby and you come to rock my world

You're dangerous
Just get it up
The way you move so scandalous
It's all about the two of us

A one night stand just ain't enough
I need some stimulation baby
A little conversation maybe
You got me spinning 'round like crazy
There goes my baby

Scandalous (baby)
So scandalous (baby)
Scandalous (baby)
So, so, so scandalous

Hot stuff, head to toe

Where you go, no one knows
You smile playing the dough and we ain't even close yet
Solid as a rock
How many ways can you hit the spot?
Show me what you got 'cos we ain't even close yet

You got me feening and you got me feeling weak
Listen as I speak cos I'm careful as I creep
You got me going crazy and you know I can't sleep
No fortune your moves and you hypnotize me
You got me trembling like a little baby girl
You're so special, you're like diamonds and pearls
You got me spinning and you got me in a twirl
You're my number one baby and you come to rock my world

(The boys started dancing with them)

You're dangerous
Just get it up
The way you move so scandalous
It's all about the two of us
A one night stand just ain't enough
I need some stimulation baby
A little conversation maybe
You got me spinning 'round like crazy
There goes my baby

Scandalous (baby)
So scandalous (baby)
Scandalous (baby)
So, so, so scandalous

(The boys disappeared)

A little conversation goes a long, long way
Show a little patience
That you are here to stay
So show me that you're game oh

(Before reappearing and jumping back in)

You're dangerous
Just get it up
The way you move so scandalous
It's all about the two of us
A one night stand just ain't enough
I need some stimulation baby
A little conversation maybe
You got me spinning 'round like crazy
There goes my baby

You know you wanna sing with us (baby)
That's why you know you should be scared of us (baby)
You know you wanna sing with us (baby)
That's why you know you should be scared of us (baby)"

All of the Carpathian males looked horrified, those lyrics had been terrible! Their life mates however looked highly amused. "So how did you like our song daddy?" Desire asked Darius. Darius looked at his daughter in disbelief. The girls fathers glared at the boys who had been dancing with them. All of the boys shrank back in terror, knowing that They were going to get in trouble even though they didn't do anything.


"So you mean that your race are like vampires?" Harry asked.

"No vampires are the undead, they were once warriors of the light who give into their inner demons when they either can't find their life mates in time or when they make to many kills without having a life mate and give into the false power those kills give them," Tiberiu explained.

Tiberiu continued to explain to Harry about how the Carpathians had been in existence from the dawn of time, how they could control the elements and become one with nature, how they had to drink blood to survive, how they couldn't venture outside when the sun was at it's peak, only when the sun had not come up fully or when the sun was just about to set and how they usually slept under ground because the earth gave them nutrients, the richer the dirt the better. He also explained how he could transform into different animals and how he could teach her because he had a strong feeling she was Carpathian as well.

"Do you think you have met my parents?" Harry asked, trying not to sound too hopeful. Tiberiu looked at her hard.

"What?" she asked unsurely. Tiberiu sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"I have this feeling that I have met at least one, but I don't know who it might be... but don't worry Little Star I'll help you find you real parents," he reassured her. Harry smiled at him before letting her head rest over his heart again.

"Thank you."

Every thing was quite before, "You know you never told me that interesting story of you kissing this Cho girl," Tiberiu mused aloud. Harry's face turned pink again.

'Damn I thought he forgot about that!' Harry thought.


(1) Flegling- A Carpathian not yet of age.(Which is 200 yrs old)