Chapter 8

Driv dropped Ron off in the Entrance Hall where he took him from. Ron woke as soon as his feet hit the ground, "What happened?" he asked.

"You passed out Ron, you left the Great Hall and passed out," Driv said, "You were out for close to 45 minutes." Ron closed his eyes to try and remember what happened. All he saw was that he left the Great Hall then seeing Driv's face when he next saw anything. Ron nodded to Driv and left, pondering why he felt so weak. Unfortunately, the Professors noticed that Ron's abilities started to drop off after the incident in the Entrance Hall, they talked about it in a teacher's meeting a week after the incident.

"Filius, have you noticed young Mr. Weasley's lack of performance lately?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Why yes I have Minerva, now that you mention it," the diminutive Professor said, "He was doing fine until his incident in the Entrance Hall."

"Incident?" Professor Snape asked.

"Yes Serverus, according to young Mr. Krad, Mr. Weasley left the Great Hall and as soon as he took 3 steps into the Entrance Hall he fell over," the Charms professor said, "Mr. Krad said it looked as if he went into a trance then completely passed out." Minerva sat back with a thoughtful look.

"Well this is discouraging," she said, "We will have to have a talk with young Mr. Krad." 5 minutes later Driv was sitting in the Headmistress' office.

"How can I help you Professor McGonagall?" he asked.

"I heard that you saw what happened to Mr. Weasley about a week ago," she started, "I would like to know if you know of anything that could have caused his downfall in magical prowess." Driv looked thoughtful for a second, then an idea struck him.

"I heard that at the end of his 5th year he had a run in with a brain like creature, is that correct?" Driv asked, and she nodded. "Those creatures are known as Essence Devourers, I have seen similar creatures on my many adventures around the globe. The ones that I have encountered are called Intellect Devourers, they appear to have a huge brain (usually said to appear like a human brain) or brain-like body, slung between four powerful and clawed legs. They feed off of psychic energy, and will feed on almost any thinking being, although the more intelligent the creature is the better. The Essence Devourers, are cousins to the Intellect Devourers, but instead of feeding off of psychic energy, they feed on the Magical Essence of a wizard or witch, and use that essence to float around like they do. They also leave a leech-like probe on the magical core of their victims, and with said probe eventually completely drain their victims." Minerva just stared at her young student in confusion.

"How do you know all this?" she asked, "Those creatures have been being studied by the Department of Mysteries since before you were born." He mentally smirked, he had known about the leech on Weasley's magical core since Diagon Alley, and now it was working perfect in his cover up.

"I have been to many places, Headmistress, during my travels I had a run in with an Intellect Devourer, I almost lost my mind, if I had not been trained in the art of Occulmency I probably would not be here today," he explained, "After my encounter I went to the ministry of the country of where I was attacked and asked where I could get information on the creature that attacked me. They handed me a book that they called a Monster Manual, it had ever single magical and non-magical creature that was a threat in their jurisdiction. They have an abundance of Essence Devourers as well as the Intellect Devourers, so all the information they collected was in that book."

"So all of your information comes from a book?" Minerva asked and Driv nodded.

"Yes, I scanned Ron shortly after he passed out and discovered the leech on his magical core, but as I do not have the ability to remove it nor the knowledge I have sent an owl to a personal acquaintance of mine to come and remove it before he gets any worse," Driv smoothly lied while simultaneously letting the truth of what he said leak through his mind shields so her passive legilmency picked up on it, "Unfortunately, there is no immediate course of action to take to get his magical core back up to where it once was, it will take time, a very long time." Minerva nodded sadly and let Driv leave her office. As he walked down the hallway he chuckled darkly to himself, before calling out, "Bole, I have need of you," the shadow wolf appeared before him. *Yes Driv?* "I need you to show up tomorrow bearing this letter," Driv told him as he shifted into human form, "You will go by the name of Brian Skymt while here in human form and I need you to remove that leech that I found on Weasley." Bole nodded took the letter than vanished. Driv turned around to be confronted by Hermione, and she didn't look happy. "What can I do for you Sin Angel?" he asked meekly.

"What did you do to Ron?" she asked calmly. Driv unconsciously took a few steps back.

"I did nothing, he tried to become a Shadow Warrior and failed," Driv explained, "He has promise to become one just needs to learn to control his anger a bit." Hermione relaxed after his explanation. "But now that he has done the training he cannot take it again, and has lost all magic that he used in his test."

"Well thank you for clearing that up," she said, "Now I want to know more about you." Driv nodded and dragged her up to the Room of Requirement. "How did you know where this was?" she asked bewildered. Driv just tapped his temple and smirked, and she lightly smacked her forehead. He walked past the door 3 times before it revealed itself. They both walked in and sat down in a comfortable looking living room. Driv looked like he was concentrating on something then he looked at Hermione, who opened her mouth to begin asking questions but he just held up his hand.

"Let's wait for Harry and Nachiv to get here," he spoke as soon as he ended his sentence the door opened to admit both Harry and Nachiv. "Ok, we are all here to find out my background, Hermione is here as she is my twin sister, Harry is here for he is my best human friend, and Nachiv is here because she is close to my heart, there is only one question I ask of you, when you ask a question and I answer please wait until I am finished with what I am saying before saying anything, understood?" They all nodded, "Good, now first question." Nachiv raised her hand and waited for Driv to acknowledge her, which he did by looking at her.

"What did you mean by Harry being your best human friend?" Driv chuckled a bit, Nachiv looked saddened by this. Driv reached over and hooked her chin with his finger.

"Don't, it is a natural question as you haven't met them yet," he said as both Bole and Nina appeared beside him, "The black one is Bole, he is a shadow wolf, and the white one is Nina, she is a light wolf, and they are twins, their mother was a shadow wolf and their father was a light wolf." Nachiv nodded but Hermione and Harry didn't look surprised. "Next question." Hermione raised her hand this time and Driv looked at her.

"What happened after they took you from the morgue?" she asked, and Nachiv gasped. Driv chuckled at Hermione's face and shook his head.

"Do not worry about it Hermes, she was bound to find out at some point, but to answer your question I think a little explanation is in order so everyone is on the same page. When Hermione was born, there was also born another born with a stronger connection to magic than she was, as our ancestor Rowena Ravenclaw was a very strong witch but what was not known, was that Ravenclaw was also a Druid. I was born with a natural connection to magic that was fully open as compared to Hermione whose was only slightly open when she was born. Due to this I was born still as my little body tried to control the powers within it, as I was not breathing nor moving I was pronounced a still-born and placed in the morgue." He took a deep breath and let the information sink into everybody. Noticing that it had he continued, "Now, this is where I meet Bole and Nina for the first time, they came into the morgue and attacked the nurse knocked her out and took me. Using their combined powers, they placed a very strong block over my powers it was a delayed block, one that constantly monitored my body's ability to cope with my magic. The block would automatically break once my body was capable to withstand my magic. Now to answer Hermione's question, once I turned 4 Bole and Nina began to train my body the more I trained my body the weaker the block became. I was able to use my magic to great proficiency by the age of 8; as such I still needed to learn spells. Bole and Nina began to take me around the world to learn spells from different people they had met on their travels. The only reason I hadn't returned to England before now was because there was only 2 people they knew from here, me and Albus Dumbledore." Harry's eyes got slightly bigger, "Yes Harry they knew Albus. By the time you met me I was already working on South American spells, Harry, I was just taking a little break away from training to get into touch with some old friends. They asked me to help them win their roller hockey tournament, which is when you met me. Anyway, I trained in different parts of the world learning as much as I could, I went to Japan for a couple years before all the spell training, which is where I met Grand Master Elder Tycraught McKnight, he taught me everything I now know, in terms of martial arts." He gave them a few minutes to accept all of that information. "Anything else you want to know about me?" he asked. Harry raised his hand.

"You said you were half-undead, how does that work?" he asked.

Driv smiled, "Do you remember that dream you had of some guy chained to a wall? Then you heard the words, 'Oops evil snake man hasn't left yet'?" Harry's eyes widened, "That was me. When Voldemort hit me with that killing curse, since my magic hadn't fully settled into my body yet, it combined with the killing curse destroying the block on my magic while simultaneously making me immune to it. So in all essence I am immortal, because all the killing curse does is cause all the internal organs to age rapidly which is why muggles say that the deaths are natural, because technically it is just using unnatural terms. The reason I say I am half-undead is because you can't kill something already dead, you can only re-kill it, basically the only thing that can kill me spell-wise is a highly complicated healing spell."