Author Notes:
Ookami: Welcome back everyone!
Neko: Heya peoples!
Ookami: To get us started, I would like to thank all support that has appeared for the story! From ninjahyzo, Sakura Lisel, Daniell28187218 and ethan62789 follow/fav, as well to monstermadcat, Cherrynekogirl414, Bast Misao, Pirate58, pirategirl2, and xxAbaddonxx also following us! Plus Animemangalover24 favoriting the story!
Aza: Not to mention that we got into the communities Female!Potters and Fem!Harry and Tom Marvolo Riddle/Voldemort ! I feel so special for getting in at so young of a fiction!
Neko:... and sorry about the break,but the world was trying to break my mind with a thing every student dreads Finals, but they are all done so i'm free of that responsibility for a bit.
Ookami: Wait, how the heck were you going to classes in the first place? Did you get a hold of a time turner and that's how you pulled classes off with all the shenanigans we have going on? No wonder you have been stressed!
Neko: I'm surprised you just figured it out...I had a bet going on, that you would have found out 2 months ago... darn now I owe Sirius some serious cash...
Ookami: Puns aside, I can't believe that has been going on behind my back. Oh well, as long as you aren't having summer courses and going for two years in a year deal, we'll be fine. We should get to some of the story minutia now.
Chapter 9: Of Family and Changes
Angel:7 Zephora:10 ( September 12, 1997)
Location: Laconi Head Mansion
Angel was standing next to her mother, She was in a nice red dress with a big red bow in the back, her mother was wearing a nice black dress, and wizarding robes over top. Angel looked to her mother curious why they were just standing there and not moving towards the big house. Soon she saw her aunt Jane coming down the pathway to the gate where she and her mother were. As soon as Jane arrived at them they started moving forward, confusing angel even more, but the look on her mother's face made it seem like this would not be a good time to ask questions, so she stayed silent, while cursing at the horrible thing human made called tights, because they were too tight around random parts of her legs. They soon reached the door, and it was opened by what Angel recognized as a house elf. "Mistress Jean has returned! And she has brought young Mistress too!" the house elf had exclaimed, Angel, realized that they were calling her young mistress and she didn't like it, but still chose not to say anything. Soon another person appeared, but this one was a man, who had orangish red hair had, he was followed by another female this one with the same blond hair Angel had, they both appeared to be older than Jean but not by much. " It's great to see you again sister." the male said, "Yes so great to see the wayward child return. But in all seriousness it is nice to see you again little cousin, And Jack will you please stop calling our cousin sister you're going to confuse the young one." The female said. " Fine Marie, but for the young one not for you, so little one what is your name? I'm your Uncle Jack." the male 'Jack' said. " I'm Angel, uncle Jack." Jack smiled at her, before lunging at her into a hug and spinning her around saying something about her being too cute, and that he could just eat her up.
Then a stern sounding throat clear sounded from a place, And Jack immediately froze. Angel looked over his shoulder and found a slightly aged looking woman but she didn't look any older than 65. "Jack praytell what are you doing to my heir?" The woman asked in a rhetorical fashion. " Hello Mother, it is a pleasure to see you again." Jean stated, even though every part of her still wanted nothing to do with the newly appeared woman, also known as the head of the Laconi's. Jack set Angel down and the conversation began.
Annette Marcella Laconi, looked at the newly set down little girl, this was her heir? The girl in front of her had a lot to learn, but luckily, she was still young, and she wouldn't have to go anywhere too influential. She then turned to look at her wayward daughter, to think she left the family, after her mate was killed, and now it turns out that her daughter is the Heir to the whole thing, she married a Muggle for Merlin's sake! But even though she was having these emotional thoughts none of them slid past her mask. "Hello Jean, the pleasure is all mine. And you must be Angel little one, how do you do?" Annette asked, looking down at Angel, with nice words but a cold expression. Angel decided to do her best at a curstie, " I'm very well mam, how are you?" Angel was shaking slightly as she got up something about this woman made her feel uneasy, but not in the way Dumbledore did. A light smile graced the woman's face, " I am doing well thank you. If you will follow me, we shall have our talk in my tea room." with that the woman walked away, heading down a hallway, leaving the rest to follow. Angel sent a look at her mom, she didn't like this, any of this, why couldn't daddy come back? Why did they have to talk to this woman who was nothing like her other grandma was? Why couldn't she just be with Zephy right now? But she followed anyways.
They gathered in a nicely decorated room, with fancy but comfortable looking furniture, Angel sat next to her mother on the couch, next to Jean was Jane. Next to Angel was the redhead, also known as Jack, and next to Jack was his blond sister Marie. Across the table from Angel was her Grandmother. Tea was served for all of them. "Well let's start this off simply, I'm sure you are wondering what My brother, your grandmother, and I are in terms of magical creatures. I myself am a phoenix, my brother is a Fey, and my lady is a fairy as well." Marie stated. Angel smiled slightly. "It is an excellent idea to begin with simplicity, so I will start with this fact. You, dear Angel are part phoenix and part fairy, in our family that means that you are automatically recognized as heir as soon as we, the main family find out. We are an interesting family because, for whatever reason 99 out of a hundred times, we will end up with a person who is either phoenix or fairy, sometimes our blood allows for one member of us to be something else. But the rarest thing in the family, is One being both phoenix and fairy. You are the first to exist in a few generations. Now we are going to teach you everything about being an Heir that you need to know." Annette stated. Angel just nodded not knowing what else to do. Jack saw this as an opportunity to get to know his, "niece" and soon to be Lady. " My Lady, I was wondering if it would be possible that I take Angel on a tour of the grounds while you and Jean have a discussion on all the hard things." Jack said, Annette, shook her head slightly, but then gave her approval with a kind dismissive gesture. As Jack and Angel left Angel heard the words "So, where are you living now?"
Meanwhile, at Hogwarts
Zephora was opening up to people in some ways, though there seemed to be an obvious pattern to it in the twins eyes. She had gotten along with the muggle parents well, but anyone with light cores seemed to cause her fear while grey and dark cores were more likely to be fine with her. They were honestly wondering if she knew any light cores that were good during her imprisonment, or if she knew how to act unscared of those different to her. While with the twins, however, she was respectively indifferent about their cores thanks to the twin's understanding and caring nature. While happy with the development, Zephora's inheritance from her unknown family was a puzzle to most who they discussed it with.
She revealed the pendant to actually be an heir ring, that had appeared one night after Dumbledore was done with her and she decided to never be like him if she left the closet for good. The lady of the shadows, as Zephora knew a comforting voice in the dark as, told her to never let Dumbledore find it and that it would open many new doors when things turned right. The ring itself looked like it had refitted itself to match her, with a darkened silver metal like a winding tail holding the heart-shaped garnet with a family crest that was surrounded by leather wings, presumably dragon. For the past few days, along with their other duties, Fred and George were trying to hunt down the family that she represented apparently. No active family had the crest that they could find, though that didn't include lost merged left far too many questions though for them to be comfortable with. What family could it be connected to? Was there an actual family member waiting for her to be found but just outside of their range? Did Dumbledore look upon her as an orphan and decided her fate like he did with Hari and Tom? The list of questions swirling related to those were innumerable. So, since they figured the family must of come through the school at least once and the heir ring was probably was with one of them at some point, decided to go around to the portraits and tolerable ghosts to see if any of them had a clue where to look for the family line. Many of the portraits seemed to of been too absorbed in their own worlds to of notice the rings of family legacy other than their own. The ghosts were little more help with directing them to other ghosts who would be more likely to point them in a more knowledgeable ghosts. After a roller coaster through the school they finally figured that one of the headmaster portraits might have their answer or they were going to the goblins to get the answer.
After gaining admittance into the office, Fred quickly recapped their knowledge of the heir ring and George went on to describe it. One of the portraits from hundreds of years back seemed to almost perk up as they asked, "Do you have a way to show us? With her history I doubt Zephora was willing to let you borrow it for a moment." The twins looked at the painting with concealed disgust, since it would of been considered disrespectful to your family to lend the ring for any purpose. Fred replied, "No, the ring has remained with the heir it presented itself to, but she did allow us to draw the crest in order to show it others in hopes to find the family name. George, if you would do the honors?" Nodding, George did a quick movement before tapping the parchment in his hands, making the crest on the page appear opaquely over it, enlarged from its ink form. Taking the projected image in, the older headmaster portraits started talking amongst themselves at the recognized crest. Sending off a bang with his wand, Tom was wondering what had gotten them into such a frenzy, "What about this family crest is so special, especially since the newer headmasters seem to not recognize it?" One of the headmistresses shook her head with the reply, "It is quite a story, one that will affect the school in ways the bylaws didn't have stated. Therefor we should wait Till Lady Slytherin has returned to discuss this." Casting a quick tempus the three found her last class was ending within the hour, and decided to talk on the other wards while they waited.
As Hari entered the main office after classes she knew something was up. The twins and Tom were there and seemed glad to see her arrive and all the portraits were talking amongst themselves in a fervor. Hari gave Tom a peck on the cheek before asking, "Okay, what happened that got them acting like this?" Tom inclined his head towards the twins before replying, "Apparently Zephora has been in possession of an heir ring for some time now and the portraits reacted to seeing the family crest, but insisted that we wait for you to return to actually tell us what it means." Arching an eyebrow in slight disbelief of the situation, Hari set off a bang with her wand and asked them to begin their explanation of the family crest.
Clearing her throat, the third headmaster portrait of Phyllida Spore started the narrative with, "Well, during my time as Headmistress there was a new house that gained its political power and standing through the entire household having unusual resistance and strengths against high class beasts. The first Matriarch of the family Desainna came to the school a couple years before her children would attend Hogwarts with an explanation of their strength and how dangerous it could become if they attended the school without some... Safeguards." Antonia Creaseworthy interrupted with, "They were all part dragon! And not only could they use the power of a dragon to their benefit, they could turn into a full sized dragon during their time at the school! In order to keep the children safe, both wizard and half-breeds alike, she suggested that they make a house just for them and have a family member be the head of the house while it was open." Fytherley Undercliffe's gruffing voice intruded the slightly hysterical declaration with, "Well, they weren't the only ones to show up to the school when the first child appeared. Apparently dragon blood attracts other half-breed species to the same place they are going to school, so it turned out beneficial to keep them all together and help them all get an education safely. The family member that became head of house would either teach a class or continue to improve the wards of the school and grounds that was owned by the founders." Edessa Sakndenberg continued where he left off with, "Apparently dragon magic did well to aid the wards and expand the usefulness of the land to keep the students safe. The work on the wards were extensive during the first hundred years, and were something the goblins would admire we liked to think, at least before recent headmasters started to tamper with them needlessly and made them so contradictory." Elizabeth Burke interrupted to continue the tale of the family, "Back to where the family fits into the school, they maintained the wards for the headmasters and ensured no wild beasts attacked the school as well as watched all the students form the Desainna house to make sure they weren't out to destroy the school or Europe either. Part of the reason the half-breed of dragon is so rare is because of the danger they were to society most of the time." Brian Gagwilde, the first headmaster after the founders, took up the explanation from there, "It is assume several of the original evil wizards were actually half-dragons that encouraged the dragon's nature of greed and hoarding while they were still partly human so they could gain the intelligence and experience needed to try to conquer the world. As many of them were killed, the Wofenbane family couldn't confirm or deny that fact. As the first family to specialize in beast containment and elimination, they were the ones to confirm the Desainna family vow to not go down the path of destruction in exchange of protecting humanity from the same threat they were known for. Was quite a surprise when they turned out to be half-breeds as well, however it aided the school further with them finally going to the school for formal schooling." Heliotrope Wilkins took the narrative from there, "With the new house and the family skills working within the school, all of the potential dangers were nearly eliminated and managed to bring more standing to the effectiveness to the school and its staff. Many of the headmasters of the time were as relied upon as Dumbledore had built himself up to be and students found very successful lives that wasn't available when they had to avoid formal education." Brutus Scrimgeour cleared his throat as method of gaining their attention before explaining the ending of the tale, "Unfortunately, with such great history and power appearing from nowhere, it was bound to die just as unexpectedly. There were no witnesses to their demise, but the family that were at the school over the summer during my term suddenly left the grounds with the claim that the family was in grave danger. They never returned, nor did any of their children arrive for school that year. I was forced to put a temporary head of house for the Desainna house until the last one graduated. There were no new members of the house after the year they disappeared, and so the house for half-breeds was closed down, presumably forever, hence why it was never in my notes for the next headmaster. And closed it has stayed, but the arrival of one family member most likely means the house will be used again. The fact that the young Laconi was able to go to and from the school at will to see here is proof enough that more will arrive once she starts her schooling." After several noises of agreement amongst the portraits late Headmistress Phyllida took over the conversation, "She will need to be told, obviously, of her family and the importance it had on the school, but also that she must find the lost house that resides in the school. Only the family could ever remember the location proper for security reasons, so none of us could be any help in finding it. I also suggest she joins the students in the Gringotts trip you have mentioned in order for her to potentially meet her ancestors. The fact she already has the house ring means she must of made the vow related to the family while she was held here by Dumbledore, though it might need to be verified by Gringotts still. Not to mention it would be the easiest way to make her existence made clear with the British government."
Closing Notes:
Neko: Well that was a fun chapter, I really liked it when-
Angel: But I liked Jack more.
Neko You didn't even let me say what I was going to say
Angel:... I didn't steal your time turner...
Neko: I didn't say you did now give it back!
Angel:Fine... I'm going to go play with Zeffy
Neko: Anyways as I was saying I really liked the part when-
Jack: What do you mean you don't like me.
Neko Jack I never said that, you are literally just like a Jack I know from this one dating sim, how could I hate you?
Jack: I never said hate! Typical witch! (Runs off)
Neko: Jack! Come back i'm not even a witch in this life, I'm a Cat! Well I turn into a witch but still, I'm not one in this life! Well sorry readers I have to go catch a drama queen, at least he can cook. (runs after him)
-A little stuffed cat drags a sign on screen, followed by a stuffed wolf pushing the sign-
Sign: Thank you everyone for reading, and sticking through the short break we have had, it was the longest we have had and hopefully will stay that way but who knows. Either way thanks so much for standing by us!
