Chapter nine where Ida makes yet another friend and scares her father halfway to japan. ;)
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CHAPTER NINE
SINCLAIR
Ida would have been playing peacefully in the dusty basement of Grimmaulds Place 12, and she would have been humming cheerfully to herself while she was doing it. However, she was to buisy being chased by a snake the size of her arm.
Now, Ida wasn't one to be afraid of snakes, she usally got along quite well with them seeing she had never seen one up close, but this particular snake made it quite clear that he wished to bite her toes off.
Ida climbed ontop of the big table that stood in the corner of the room and pulled her legs up with her. She understood why the snake was so mad, by all means, she had accidentally stepped on it's tail, but to her that was no reason at all to get that angry.
She peeked over the table top to see if the angry reptile was still there, and sure enough, she almost lost her nose. Now she was beginning to get angry. She quite liked her nose!
"Go away!" She said rather loudly hoping the snake would find her threatening. The snake, to her surprise, froze in it's movements.
"You can speak to me? How?" Ida gasped, the snake spoke to her. No, she spoke to the snake and it answered. Speaking of answers, it would be rude not to give one.
"I don't know, stop trying to bite my toes!" She said with a hard tone, though she doubted the snake would find a three and a half year old girl intimidating.
"No human has ever spoken to me in a manner I have understood before. And for the record I was going for your ankles."
"...I don't think I am fully human." Ida replied, she had thought about it just the other day, the fact that she was speaking to a snake confirmed her theory.
"Hmfh!" The snake said. Ida raised an eyebrow, this snake was quite rude, but she guessed that was only to be expected.
"Well, if you are quite done trying to bite my toe.. ankles, do you think I could come down?"
"Are you going to step on me again?"
"No, I promise."
The snake moved away so she could come down, she placed her feet carefully on the ground so that she wouldn't step on the snakes long body and sat herself on the floor facing it.
"Do you have a name, Mr. Snake?" She asked, adding Mr. to be polite, she fugired if she was going to talk to a snake, she might as well be on it's good side.
"No. Do you, little one?"
"My name is Ida, do you want a name?"
"A name would not be necessary, seing you are the only human who talk to me."
"A name would too be necessary! What if I was to introduce you to someone, and you didn't have a name?" Ida remarked pointedly, the snake stared at her and stuck out it's tounge.
"Allright then, you may name me." The snake said followed by a sound Ida could only make out as a sigh. Ida thought about it for a minute.
"Are you a boy or a girl?"
"I am male."
With this information, Ida looked at the snake's body. He was really magnificent, she admitted. His skin was black as the night and shone in the dimmed light in the basement. Ida figured he had to be some sort of cobra snake, seeing he had a hood on his neck.
"What about Roger?"
The snake shook his head no. Ida pursed her lips, Roger did not fit him, she agreed. He was way to handsome for that name. It had to be something special, something that fitted him...
"Sinclair." She finally said with a smile, she though it fitted him perfectly, apperantly he thought so too, since he hissed aprovingly.
"Sinclaiiir... I like it, it's a strong name and I shall wear it proudly."
"I am glad you like it!" She gave him a grin worthy of her father, speaking of wich, she should probably tell him about her newfound friend. Or atleast she thought of Sinclair as her friend, even thought he had tried to bite her ankles...
"Do you want to meet daddy?"
Sinclair seemed to think about this before he nodded his head and slithered up her arm. Ida giggled, it tickled.
Once Sinclair was securly wrapped around her arm, she proceded up the stairs, excited to let her father meet her new friend.
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Sirius Black was sitting in the kitchen peacefully enjoying a game of chess with Remus Lupin, who just so happened to come by half an hour ago. He gritted his teeth and moved his queen, Remus was clearly winning and the flee infested wolf had the guts to look smug about it!
Just as he was about to give him a coment that woud wipe the smirk of his face, Ida came in the door and gave the two old friends the shock of their lives.
Ida came though the kitchen doors with a huge smile on her face, ruffled hair and a bloody cobra around her arm. Sirius jumped from his chair making it fly backwards and ran too his daughter, Remus hot on his heels.
"Ida! That snake is poisonus, put it down!" Remus said worried, but Ida just smiled at him and stroke the snaked back.
"His name is Sinclair! I fownd him downstaiws and he's real nice!" She said proudly giving them a toothy grin. Sirius grabbed her arm, his face full of worry.
"You don't understand, cub, it is a very dangerous creature and it will probably bite you if you don't let it go!" He said with a worried frown.
"I won't bite you, Ida, I said so earlier." Sinclair hissed at her, she nodded seriously, turning to look at him.
"I know, Sinclair." She reassured him, petting his back.
Sirius and Remus looked at each other in amazement. Here Ida was, the three and a half yea old daughter of Sirius, speaking pure parseltongue with the snake, and sweet merlin she had befriended it too.
"Only you, Ida, only you." Sirius said with a small smile as he ruffled her hair. Remus chuckled.
"So his name is Sinclair, huh? What's he saying?" Remus asked amused and Ida grinned at him with a certain twinkle in her eye.
"He said that you two awe stupid that thought he would bite me!" She giggled and Sirius and Remus laughed too, though if it was from the fact that the snake had a attitude or that Ida had managed to befriend him, they were not sure.
"Though he did twy to bite my ankles fiwst." Ida muttered under her breath.
...
From that day on Ida rarely went anywhere without Sinclair the snake wrapped around her arm. They ate together, read together, hell, he even slept on the end of her bed to make sure noone hurt her. Ida had found herself a permanent bodyguard.
Sirius had to laugh when Ida would sneak him pieces of broccoli when she thought he wasn't looking. Well, atleast the green vegetable made some purpose, instead of being used as ammunation.
Remus, with his blasted reaserch, had told them that the reason the could talk to snakes, was that she was part Aswang and that due to the Aswang rase's animal transformation, Ida could expect to be able to talk to other animals too. Ida didn't seem to mind much, but Sirius thought it was awesome.
As time went by, Ida had begun to question Sirius more and more about Hogwarts, and Sirius would tell her stories about his own years at school, like him and the Marauders, their pranks, detentions and such. It soon became her bedtime stories and Ida would fall asleep, transform and dream about the day she would go to Hogwarts.
Boy was the teachers in for a treat!
Yeah, short chapter, but I just had to give Ida another friend. We will be seing more of Blaise in future chapters, by the way, so I will not forget about him. What did you think of Sinclair? Was he not awesome?
Sinclair: Of course I was, I'm Sinclair the snake!
Neko: Shut up.
Sinclair: Hmfh!
