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Sorry it took so long to review. It was one of those Speak of the Devil things. I mentioned Murphy's Law and the disk i had the whole next three chapters on decided to unformate itself. Once again, sorry.
"I DUN WANNA GO!" Came the deafening howl from the candle lit bedroom on the second floor of the mansion.
"TOUGH!" Was screamed back at the exact same volume.
"LEGGO!"
"NO! IF YOU HAVE ANY LOVE FOR THIS FAMILY, YOU WILL LET GO RIGHT NOW!"
"BITE ME!"
"FINE!"
There was a scream that was more shock than pain, quickly followed by a thud and a yelp as a bare foot connected with a pale golden face.
Alucard and Nazhuret lounged by the fire as they had all those years ago, only they now lounged in Chaosti's bedroom, watching in tolerant amusement as the two landed on the floor with a thud.
The two turned as the sound of a door opening in the hall reached their ears. Moments later, their attention was rewarded with Loup screaming down the hall, "SHUT THE SODDING HELL UP, ALREADY! SOME OF US ARE STILL TRYING TO SLEEP!" The door down the hall slammed shut.
Chaosti lifted his head and glared at Satu, still lying on his back. "Yeah! If I don't catch that stupid train, I can go back to sleep and we will never speak of Hogwarts again."
Satu sat up using only her back and stomach muscles (AN, and trust me, it's hard to do that without pausing, swaying or bunching over) and stared down her nose at him. "You will get on that train, you will go to Hogwarts and you will spend the year there unless the rules I set down are breached. Kupo?"
One of the males snorted. She thought it was Nazhuret.
Chaosti just sat up and gave the males a 'Pity Me' look.
Naz looked at him a moment before laughing and patting one of the lounging armoured cats beside his couch. Alucard gave him a sardonic look and saying; "Sorry, boyo, I'm with her on this one. It's for your own good, not to mention ours."
Chaosti gaped for a moment, feeling mortally betrayed by the one person who had always taken his side in every argument and even covered up for him when he'd walked in on Chaosti trying to get rid of any evidence that he'd just smashed Mama's urn full of an old friend's ashes.
"BUT PAPA!-"
Alucard's face hardened. "No 'buts'. You are going. Is that clear?"
Chaosti sunk in on himself with a dark look. "Yesss." He hissed in a mix of English and Parseltongue.
Any trace of hardness vanished from the white haired vampire's face and was replaced by the usual vague disinterested look he wore most of the time. "There's a good boy. You should probably be overly affectionate around now since you won't be seeing us again until December holidays."
Chaosti looked at the ground, feeling sick and fighting not to cry. "But I dun wanna go..." he whimpered from behind his curtain of hair.
Satur moved up and hugged him. "I know, baby." The little boy with the poison green eyes and long, inky dark hair whimpered and curled deeper into his mother's arms.
All three vampires felt like they'd just kicked a puppy.
"-Don't forget to write, report any breaches of the rules and for Lupa's sake, don't let your cats eat anyone." Chaosti gasped and nodded as he and Loup dashed down the platform of Kingscross Station towards the barrier that led to Platform 9¾. The clock read 10:56am.
Loup reached the barrier and dragged the baggage carrier loaded with the trunks full of his cloths and school stuff through without slowing, Chaosti bolting through moments later with the covered dragonet cage and the sub-space pet carrier holding the chosen cats, Nighteyes, Brighteyes and Blighteyes.
"Hurry up!" Loup screamed from ahead as she disappeared into a carriage to dump his trunks into a compartment with two other first years, before coming back and grabbing the pet-carrier while Chaosti grabbed the cage.
The two shoved the trunk in the over head compartment and put the carrier and the cage in the corner before Loup gave her godson a hug, a kiss on the cheek and a "If you're gonna get revenge, don't do anything permanent or obvious." She was out the door and off the train seconds before the carriage doors closed.
Loup stood outside the window, sniffing and waving as her little ankle-biter suddenly realised this was actually happening and gave her the patent 'How-Could-You-Do-This-To-Me' look.
Chaosti Jakluel Frost was not sulking. He was brooding.
And yes there is a difference, thank you very much. Sulking was what little bratty kids do (AN, cough, cough). Brooding is the past time of refined, mature adults with too much time on their hands.
"Yo."
Chaosti blinked and actually notice the other two first years. He'd known they were there but it hadn't really registered in the rush.
The one who had spoken was taller than the average ten/eleven year old, a nice and natural snowy pale complexion, artist's hands, lean and slight build, heavy lidded violet eyes ringed by thick black lashes and…well…the top half of the boy's shortish hair was white but the bottom appeared to be a black as dark as Chaosti's own locks. He was wearing muggle clothes so he probably wasn't a pureblood, but then, stranger things had happened. Though, Chaosti, who was also in muggle attire, had to admit that this kid had style. He wore ratty black jeans, big black combat boots, a pale violet singlet with an unbuttoned white business shirt with the sleaves rolled up over it, suicide bands and numerous silver pendants held around his neck by strands of black leather. For some reason, he reminded the vampire's child of Alucard.
When it became obvious that he expected an answer, Chaosti nodded and responded in kind. "Yo. Where're you from?"
"We're from Germany but we just moved to London last year. I'm Theo Moon and he's my cousin, Lex Moon. Where're you from?"
Green eyes blinked as he realised that it was the other child who had spoken. He thought it was a boy, but it was kind of hard to tell given their sex. Theo had long loosely curled butter blond hair almost as long as Chaosti's waist-length black sheet, peach skin, a pointy little face dominated by huge gemlike sky blue eyes that held a cheerful twinkle that no one had a right to possess. Theo was small and delicate, petite, but they were pretty much bubbling with energy. Like the pale boy, Lex, Theo was dressed in muggle clothes, only brighter. He was wearing hiking boots plastered with flower power stickers, knee high rainbow socks, khaki short-short, a white tank top, a bright pink jacket lined with sheep wool, plastic vending machine flower rings and a red velvet hat with a big plastic sunflower on the front.
Theo looked like a pixie on holiday next to the pale Lex, who looked like a sidhe going to a gothic rock concert.
Chaosti realised he had been caught staring when Lex snickered. He shook his head. "Sorry. I'm Chaosti Frost and I'm from wherever my parents decide to spend their time. At the moment, I'm legally citizen in England, Egypt, Japan, Australia and America."
Theo made to speak but Lex got there first. "Frost? Any relation to Alucard Frost?"
The 'Boy-Who-Wouldn't-Die' nodded. "He's my father." He raised an eyebrow inquiringly. "You've met?"
Lex laughed, a low dark sound. "Once. Fudge's terrified of him. I quite like him, myself. He's a vampire, isn't he?"
Chaosti went rigid. "Who told you that?"
Lex gave the boy in black leather a strange look. "You mean people don't know?"
Chaosti snorted, his lip curling in bitter disgust. "Of course not. If people knew he was a vampire trying to take part in politics, they'd have him arrested and executed on some trumped up charge without a fair trial. Not to mention I'd go into Ministy Custody to be questioned as to whether he'd used me for blood. Which he hasn't." The look of embittered frustration on the child's face was enough seal the lips of his two new…allies.
There was silence in the carriage for several hours, in which both Theo and the emotionally exhausted Chaosti fell asleep.
Lex remained awake as the trolly lady came and went, seldom taking his gaze off either his cousin or this emotionally fragile child who obviously needed constant emotional support.
Alexandrian Tauro Moon decided then and there that he would look after Chaosti as well as his cousin. After all, they weren't that different, really.
Quote: Do not interfere with the affairs of Youkai Lords, for you are crunchy and taste splendid with A1 steak sauce. -From some random InuYasha fanfiction i read.
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