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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Dragon Speak"

Chapter Six

Raven cradled the book to her chest, it was more precious then all of her treasures. "Father." She whispered. Traveling farther into the cave, she moved the rotting prizes over and set the precious treasure down.

Her stomach growled and she moved to the entrance of the cave to see the sun. "Noon, they'll be serving lunch now." She made her way to the castle.

"The monster returns." Daphne spat, running into her at the doors. Pansy was behind her, looking down at the ground.

Raven tilted her head; no one else was near-by. "You call me a monster. Do you think it's wise to provoke said monster?"

"Daphne, please, not now." Pansy whispered franticly to her best friend.

She narrowed her eyes to the green-eyed girl. "Fine. Come on Pansy." She grabbed the girl's hand and started to pull away.

"Pug, stay."

She stopped moving. "I'll catch up with you later Daphne." Her only friend shot a nasty glare at Raven. "Please, don't cause more trouble."

Daphne walked away, mumbling obscenities under her breath while sending back the occasional glare. Raven began to make her way to the great hall again when a soft voice stopped her.

"Master?"

She looked back with bored eyes. "What?"

"Can I move?" She whimpered.

"No, maybe this will teach you to keep better control of your friend. Make something up if a teacher asks." She continued on her way to the great hall, sat down, and piled her plate full of food. However, before she could take her first bite, the food disappeared. Raven growled.

"Would all students please return to their dormitories? Prefects, make sure the groups stay together, anyone not counted for should be notified to the house elves. Sandwiches will be served in your common rooms." Dumbledore said, making his way out of the hall. Snape, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Selwyn followed him. Selwyn caught Raven's eye before leaving.

She assumed they must have found the Cerberus. She smirked at the thought, but frowned when she realized she was going to be forced to interact with the Slytherins.

Pansy came into her view again. "I suppose you have to come now, right?" She said nothing. "I would like to see you in trouble, but it isn't wise. Follow me." As usual, she did.

Once they made their way to the dorms, the prefect started to speak. "Alright, something's obviously happened, remember our rules of Slytherin. We stand a united front, and we don't rat out our own, even if they're lesser than you." His eyes were on Pansy. "Slytherins protect their own." A house elf popped in with the promised sandwiches. "Everyone's accounted for." He sneered at the elf.

It disappeared quickly. Raven came forward and grabbed some food. "I'm surprised you showed up," came Malfoy's voice.

The room went quiet. Even Raven had stopped moving. She swallowed the food in her mouth and turned to face him. "One would think that you would wise up, or did you not attend the event a few months ago?"

He gritted his teeth before calmness took over. "I wish to extend my hand in alliance now and hope we can put the past behind us."

She frowned. Why? What did Malfoy or Raven have to gain? "Why?"

"Power." He said. "Blood can only take you so far, but power is everything." He extended his hand.

She agreed with his statement and took the offered hand. "Rose Dursley."

"Draco Malfoy." He said with a smirk.

"Pug!" Raven snapped back at her after she dropped his hand.

She came running forward. "Yes master?" Pansy spoke quietly.

"Go up to the dorms and find me a suitable bed." She nodded before running off. Raven dug back into the sandwiches, trying to get rid of her starving hunger.

Why was she so hungry? Her stomach was full, but her ravenous hunger continued. "Master?" Came the quiet voice of her slave. "I've found a bed."

She was hungry. "Show me." Oh so hungry.

Pansy had taken her up to the girl's dorm and showed her a bed near the window. "Will this do?"

"It's fine." Ravenous even… "Go sleep in the common room." What she would give to make the hunger end…

Pansy flinched, "Yes, master." She left the dorms.

The other first year girls started to come in. "What the hell?" Daphne screamed. "You can't do that to her!"

She was surrounded. "I can do what ever I wish." Her voice was getting raspy.

Daphne growled. "You think you're so damn special! You're just a first year like the rest of us! You don't even have proper blood!"

Surrounded by food. The temperature dropped to freezing. Raven's eyes turned black.

Daphne backed away. "W-what are you doing?" The other girls ran out of the dorm.

Food, food, food, food! She sucked in a deep breath, tasting the soul in front of her. Delicious. Daphne fell to her knees. Raven glided closer. So hungry.

Daphne started to cry as she re-lived her worst memories. "Please. Don't, please father, I didn't mean too!"

She was almost standing over the girl when more food came through the door. "Expecto Patronum!" She screeched as her senses overloaded and fled to the back of the room. "Get out of here, Ms. Greengrass." She hastily made an exit. He lowered his wand. "What have you done now Raven?" She was as far back as she could possibly be, snarling at the wizard who conjured the patronus. "Stupify." She immediately froze up, her black eyes glaring up at him. Selwyn canceled the patronus and went over to pick her up; he shivered at the contact, her dementor powers were in full effect.

Walking in the common room, the freezing temperatures followed her. "Mr. Flint."

The prefect came up. "Yes sir?"

"Ms. Dursley stayed all night here, while I stayed in the common room. Am I clear?" Selwyn said, looking strait at him.

"Yes sir." He said.

"And get Ms. Greengrass some chocolate." He carried her out of the dorm. He met no resistance when he made his way to the forbidden forest. "Silly girl." He mumbled under his breath. "Though I don't suppose you saw this coming did you? Your father always failed to mention when Lilith lost control in that little journal of his." Her breath became shallow. "I doubt a rat would suit you would it? Maybe a deer or a human… We would have to take you beyond the grounds and apparate though." He looked down at her, Raven's eyes showed hunger. "Human it is." Walking to passed the wards, he apparated away.

They reappeared in a building, one with a bar and tables littered throughout the place.

A woman smiled when she saw Selwyn. "Justus, it's good to see you again, it's been what? Fourteen years?"

He smirked at her, "It has been too long Natalie."

She nodded. "Much too long, no one could ever satisfy me as much as you. They never had the stamina."

His smirked widened. "I would like to speak more, but I came on business."

Natalie pouted, throwing out her bottom lip. "Fourteen years and you don't even come to see this little old succubus? I almost feel insulted."

"Forgive me, but I really need to deal with Raven." He showed her the girl in his arms.

She looked down. "Is this Lilith's kid then? I remember when James brought her over when he brought Lilith to feed. She has grown so much, I half expected her to grow like Lilith."

"She needs to feed. So if you would?" Raven began to drain him of his happiness, even under his spell. She wouldn't last much long under the stunning spell.

"Right." She grabbed a set of keys and headed over to a door. "Any specifics?"

"No males. Preferably a child if you have one."

She chuckled. "Of course not. You wouldn't want her to have a guy's memory. And I don't have children, you know I don't carry them."

"I know you have them, how else did James get them so easily?" Screams came from the cells around them. Raven stirred more at the misery.

She looked back with a smirk. "I don't give them for free. James paid."

"How much?" He was starting to feel weak. She was breaking loose.

"You know I have little use for money." Her smirk held, her eyes darkening.

"I'll pay, just hurry. She's breaking out of my spell."

She nodded and began to walk quicker down to the end of the hallway. Using her hand, she tapped the right spot and the wall opened. "Come on." It closed behind them. "Put her in a cell, I'll be back with a child." He dropped Raven into the cell and stepped out. She came back with said child and put her in there as well. "You can release the spell now, she won't get out."

"Finite," When the spell dropped, so did the temperature. The child wouldn't have her soul long. "When do you want your payment?" He asked her as he watched Raven move with deathly grace.

"Soon, maybe tonight?" He could hear the lust in her voice.

"Tonight's no good, I have to get her back to the school." he saw the little light leave the child's lips.

"You're letting her go to a school filled with children? Do you want to kill them all?" She sighed. "What about tomorrow?"

He smirked. "I'm teaching tomorrow."

She was laughing. "The school stands no chance. This weekend then? The entire weekend since I have to wait?"

"Saturday and Sunday morning, I do have to teach on Monday." He said; the child's body dropped to the ground.

"Friday night too. Do you know how hard it is to get a child?"

"The child is still alive, just soulless, it would still be usable. Not Friday, too risky. Dumbledore might suspect something."

She sighed in frustration, "Fine, Justus, you win, Saturday it is." Natalie looked up at him, a smirk on her lips. "You should go ahead and take her back. I'll clean up after her." He picked Raven up, her aura already draining him. "She's very powerful, she continues to drain when asleep. It's a sign of power among dementors."

"I am aware." He said, adjusting her in his arms. "You forget who I am." She said nothing. "I will see you Saturday, little succubus."

"Until then," She smiled as he left. "Justus Faust."

Raven ached all over and the sun in her eyes irritated her. She growled at the light that dared to shine in the window. Raven suddenly realized she wasn't in her cave. Sitting up in bed, she had not recognized the place at all.

"I'm glad you're awake." She looked up to see Selwyn walking in.

"Where am I?" Her voice was raspy, as if she spent an hour screaming.

He conjured a chair and sat down. "What do you remember?"

She frowned. "Hunger,"

"You had not fed in so long that your dementor half took over." He looked at her, his eyes tinted with red. "You can't starve it, if you do it will turn on you and consume your soul."

"If I feed, my control slips." She said.

He frowned as well. "You lost control?" She nodded. He leaned back into his chair, "maybe it's because you're maturing, it could just be acting up."

"Even so, how am I suppose to hide my eyes? They become black when I feed. Not to mention the temperature drops."

"Leave that to me, I have a few contacts that may know how to hide your aura, as for your eyes, a simple glamour charm should work, as long as you ground it to something, a simple finite would cancel it other wise." He stood. "You must stay in here until I return, going out into the public like this could be disastrous," He walked out of the bedroom, leaving Raven to sleep.

End of Chapter Six