Harry Potter and the Shadow Legion
Part 2
Chapter 10
When they found their orientation again, Charlie got a bright smile on his face as he said, "Welcome to Transylvania."
The only reply came from Harry, "O shit."
The words slipped out of Harry's mouth before he could stop himself and Hermione, Fleur and Ginny looked at him with suspicious looks while the other Weasleys looked at him curiously.
"What's wrong Harry?" asked Molly in a slightly concerned tone.
Not wanting to insult their hosts Harry said quickly, "Ehh nothing. It isn't important I just forgot to pack something at home but I'll ask Charles to bring it later."
Molly nodded in acceptance and the group turned towards Charlie who started leading them into the village and towards the largest building amongst the group of houses.
When they arrived, the doors of the building flew open and a girl with long brown hair came running out. She was of medium height with a freckled face and soft brown eyes. Her hair was in a braid and flying behind her while she ran towards Charlie and yelled, "You're back."
Charlie caught her in his arms and swung her around to absorb the impact of her crashing into him. The girl covered his face in quick kisses and Charlie went beat red when he saw the looks of his family, especially those of Bill and the twins.
Bill had a look of amusement on his face while the twins looked gaping and said as one, "Wow, where can we get one of those?"
The others were all looking in confusion until Bill said, "Hey Romeo, are you going to introduce us to your girlfriend or what?"
The girl quickly released Charlie when she heard Bill and hid behind Charlie when she saw the curious expressions of the others. Charlie laughed at her reaction and said, "Joanna, meet my family. Guys meet Joanna, my girlfriend."
Joanna came from behind Charlie's back and shook their hands as they introduced themselves. When she got to Harry, Hermione and Fleur she hesitated and looked at their lack of red hair. When she threw a look at Charlie he said, "Yes those three are not family but they are the best friends of my sister Ginny."
Joanna nodded understandingly and turned back to the trio to shake their hands too. Harry was last and when she heard his name she said, "Are you the son of the late Lord James and Lady Lily Potter?"
When Harry nodded she added, "Well then I would like to sincerely thank you. Your family is one of the biggest donors for the preserve and singlehandedly supplies half of our funding."
Harry looked surprised at that and said, "Ehh if you say so. I have no idea to be honest. My family fortune is managed personally by Lord Ragnok at Gringotts and I'll get control over it when I turn fifteen but I have no idea what happens with it at the moment, or how much will be left when I receive the key."
Both Bill and Charlie had to grin at that and Charlie said, "Don't worry Harry. Joanna is in charge of all financial matters here at the preserve and she's quite good at it, your family's money is well spent."
Joanna nodded while Bill coughed softly to get the attention of the others. When he had it he said, "I do not know how much is in your family's vault Harry, but I do know one thing. They are amongst the deepest and most secure vaults in the world, meaning that they contain an immense wealth, so I don't think you have to worry about running out of gold in the near future."
Harry blushed at that as he didn't know about the true wealth of his family. All Aurora and Gabrielle had told him was that he was pretty well off and would have to really try to spend even half of his trust fund alone.
Arthur noticed Harry's discomfort and said quickly, "Well let's not stand here talking about boring things. Why don't you show us where we can sleep so we can put away our bags?"
Charlie nodded and he took Joanna's hand before they led the group into the large building that turned out to be the office building of the preserve, in addition to a rather small hotel and showed them all to their rooms.
The limited number of rooms in the hotel forced them to share, so there were multiple people in the same room. Arthur and Molly shared one, the twins had commandeered one for themselves and kicked Ron out when he tried to join them, so he shared one with Bill and Percy. Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny shared a fourth room and Charlie and Joanna had their own apartment amongst the employee quarters.
When they were on their own room, Fleur shut the door behind them and Hermione said sternly, "Okay spill mister, what happened after we landed?"
Ginny and Fleur sat down besides her on the bed and Harry sank down on one of the chairs before he answered. "When we left home last week, mom stopped me for a moment and told me something. That is why I was a bit later than you three.
She said that there was a chance that your parents Ginny, would take us to visit Charlie at the preserve here. They had sent a letter warning your parents not to do so but mom already said that she didn't trust your owl. If we did indeed happen to find ourselves in Transylvania, I had to contact them immediately. I got the impression they were worried about something but couldn't put my finger on it."
Fleur's and Ginny's faces went a little white and Hermione said with exasperation. "If mom told you to contact her immediately and you got the impression it might be about something they worried about, then why didn't you do so the moment we landed?"
Harry had the decency to look a little sheepishly while he answered, "I didn't want to insult Arthur and Molly by immediately contacting my moms when I heard where we were."
Hermione rolled her eyes and said with a very good imitation of Professor McGonagall's thinnest lips. "Get. That. Mirror. Out. Now."
Harry hurried to obey and rummaged around in the pouch on his belt before he withdrew the folded mirror. The crossed arms and angled eyebrows of the trio of girls told Harry that he was in for a world of trouble after he had talked with Aurora so he opened the mirror and hid behind it.
"Aurora." Harry said to the mirror and he only had to wait for a minute before his mother's face appeared in the mirror. Her long hair was braided and she was drinking from a water bottle.
"Hello sweetie, how are you four is everything all right with you and the girls."
Harry nodded and turned the mirror around so Aurora could see Hermione, Fleur and Ginny sitting on the bed in the exact same position as Harry had last seen them. When he turned the mirror back to himself Aurora asked with a little grin, "What have you done Harry?"
before she took another gulp from her water bottle.
Harry got a little red and said, "Well I told them about what you said right before I left last week."
Aurora nodded and motioned for him to continue while she kept drinking, apparently she had been exercising or something.
"Well they were a little upset that I didn't call you the moment we found out that we were in Transylvania and…"
Aurora had been taking another big gulp of water when Harry said this and spit it all out against the mirror and said with clear anger and worry in her voice, "WHAT?! When did you arrive and why in magic's name haven't you done as I said? Never mind that get the girls here NOW."
The girls had been listening and hurried over to Harry before Aurora finished.
When she saw the girls as well Aurora continued. "Listen to me very carefully because this is not something to joke about. I want you to take out your trunks and put on your armor right now, before I say anything else."
Harry and the girls were shocked at the worry and even, if it was possible, a little panic in Aurora's voice and hurried to do as she said. They quickly enlarged their trunks and took out the pieces of their armor before stripping down to their underwear and putting them on.
When they were all four dressed in their armor they saw that Gabrielle had joined Aurora in the mirror and she looked even more worried than Aurora did.
"Okay kids," said Aurora when the four kids reappeared in front of the mirror. "There is one thing you need to know about your situation. You are right now standing in the middle of enemy territory. The only thing protecting you now is the daylight outside.
I want you to take your real wands and put them in your right holsters, this is one of those life or death situations we told you about. Also carry your school wands, combat knives and SILH's with you all the time, even when you go to bed. We will join you soon but there are a few things we need to get first. If you are attacked, fight back with all you have but do not kill your attackers. If you do, it could very well start a war."
Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny were shocked at the seriousness of Aurora and Gabrielle and didn't object but Ginny asked, "What do we tell my family when they ask about our armor?"
Aurora shook her head and replied, "Don't tell them anything if you can avoid it. Just put the clothes we bought for your boot camp over your armor and they'll hide it from the others. If anything strange happens, contact us immediately. Otherwise we'll be there in about an hour. Watch out and in my father's name stay away from the shadows."
They promised to be careful and Harry put the mirror away again before they left the room and found Fred and George with their ears pressed against their door. When Harry opened it the twins fell into the room as they were leaning against the door in their attempt to eavesdrop on them.
Ginny turned red and yelled at her brothers, "WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME WHERE YOU DOING?"
Fred and George mumbled a little and quickly tried to run away but failed when Harry and Fleur grabbed Fred and Hermione and Ginny grabbed George. They dragged the twins into their room and pushed them onto the bed.
Standing in front of the twins they drew their school wands and aimed them straight between the eyes of the twins. "Now what the hell where doing outside of our door," asked Ginny with a angry tone while the twins' stares flicked between their wands.
Fred and George tried to laugh at their sister's tone but the quartet was not in any mood for jokes. The warning of Aurora was still clear in their minds and they were prepared to take drastic measures to find out what they had overheard.
Fred and George stood up and Fred said,
"Okay kids-"
"-this is-"
"-all very-"
"-cute and all-"
"-but we-"
"-are going-"
"-back to our- "
"-own room now."
They tried to walk away but Ginny drew back her sleeves, showing the black metal of her right gauntlet and gave one of the twins a punch in his stomach. George doubled over and sunk back on the bed while Fred looked outraged and yelled, "What in Merlin's name has gotten into you Gin, we were just…"
"SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN." The quartet yelled as one and the sheer force of the magic flowing off of them threw Fred down on the bed next to his gasping twin and closed the door with such force that it split in two.
Fred looked with fear in his eyes at the kids before him and said quickly. "We heard someone yell and were curious to what you were doing so we tried to eavesdrop on you."
"What did you hear?" growled Ginny softly.
"No… not much," sputtered Fred. "only something about being in enemy territory and you guys wearing armor."
"You don't say," wheezed George who was still gasping for breath, "that felt as though you were using a beater's bat."
Ginny revealed her metal gauntlets and showed them to the twins. "This is not a situation to joke about Fred, George. According to Harry's mom, we are all in mortal danger right now so we are a little on edge."
Fred and George paled significantly and Fred said, "Wait you mean the person you were talking to was Harry's mom?"
Harry nodded and replied, "Yes indeed, and since this is something that has my moms scared, I'm willing to believe them when they say we are in danger."
They nodded and George said softly, "No disrespect or anything Harry, but what in Merlin's name can scare your mothers, they're scary as hell themselves."
The quartet nodded and Hermione said, "We don't know exactly, all she said was that the only thing keeping us safe was daylight and we had to stay away from the shadows until they got here."
Fred and George were still looking pale but the quartet finally dropped their wands and put them back in their holsters.
At that moment Bill, Percy and Ron walked past their room and when they saw the broken door, Bill decided to knock. He tapped his knuckles against the door and it fell from its hinges and crashed into the room, startling the quartet and causing them to draw their wands again.
When they saw who it was they sighed in relief and put them away again, "Hey guys," Fleur said with an attempt at lightening the mood, "we had a little accident Bill, would you mind repairing the door for us?"
Bill shook his head softly before pulling out his wand and waving it at the broken door. The two pieces floated upwards, merged seamlessly and hung themselves back in the frame.
Fleur gave Bill a brilliant smile and he had to shake his head a few times to shake of the effect of Fleur's allure, causing her to blush and stammer, "I'm so sorry Bill, I didn't do it on purpose."
Bill raised his hand to stop her and said, "Don't worry about it, we just came to say that mom and dad are waiting for us in the lobby. Charlie and Joanna are taking us on a tour through the preserve."
The quartet and the twins all nodded and stood up before following Bill, Percy and Ron down the stairs.
When they arrived at the lobby they found Arthur, Molly, Charlie and Joanna already waiting for them. Charlie waved them over and said, "Well, the weather forecast is very good with a cloudless sky so we'll have a great time today."
Molly looked curiously at Harry and the girls who were the only ones not wearing shorts and half sleeve t-shirts. "Why did you change kids, the weather is lovely outside, you'll be sweating in no-time dressed like that."
The kids just shrugged in response and made a few non-discernible sounds before they headed outside and Molly decided to drop the matter.
Fifteen minutes later they were walking under the trees towards the heart of the preserve. Harry and the girls were cautiously looking around them, alert for any kind of danger and Harry held the mirror in his hand so he was able to use it instantly if needed.
"Well, well, well, what have we here," a cold voice came from the darkness and suddenly they found themselves surrounded on all sides. Shadows were moving in the twilight under the trees and Arthur, Molly, Bill, Charlie and Joanna all drew their wands before spreading around the others and taking up defensive positions.
The same cold voice as before spoke again and it said, "O please, do you really think those pathetic pieces of wood will do you any good right now."
One of the shadows stepped forward and they could see a man, he was tall about 6 ft 3 and he had long dirty blond hair that hung before his eyes. What they could see of his skin was nearly white and he had long fingers with claw-like nails on them. He wore something that reminded them of a medieval tunic with detailed gold embroidery on it.
"Don't tell me you didn't see this coming Aurora, you know the rules of the treaty just as well as I do. So come out and show me your face before I start ripping apart your minions." That last part was said with a soft snarl and the other shadows started moving closer.
Harry quickly snapped the mirror open and called his mom. The reply was instant, "What is it Harry?"
Harry turned the mirror towards the stranger and he could hear Aurora curse softly on the other side, "Okay Harry listen up, that is Marcus one of the most powerful vampires in the world and none of you stand a chance against him in a wizards duel. You four go Fenrir mode and keep him busy, we just landed and we'll be there as fast as we can but remember, don't kill him."
Harry nodded and after sharing a look with the girls he received three identical nods in return, they all four turned towards the stranger now known as Marcus and stepped between Bill and Charlie, outside of the circle.
"Harry, girls, what do you think you're doing," they could hear Arthur yell at them but they didn't listen to him.
"Hmm what have we here," Marcus mused to himself before he took a deep breath and smelled the air around him. "You four smell like Aurora and Gabrielle, how is that… of course you are their children, ha ha ha ha ha. O if only your mothers were here to watch me tear your throats out. It would break their pathetic little hearts."
Marcus looked calculating at the group and when he saw them all looking scared he yelled, "KILL THEM."
Harry stepped forward when he said this and the shadows stopped just before they got into view. He said a lot more confident than he felt, "My mom told us not to kill you, so we'll do our best to keep you alive, but I wouldn't press my luck if I were you."
There fell a silence between the trees until Marcus started laughing and was soon joined by the shadows around them and he said tauntingly, "O really am I supposed to be scared by four little kids who don't even wands in their hands."
Harry and the girls let out a low growl and leapt forward. To the astonishment of all those present, they changed mid-jump and landed as four extremely large wolfs.
The kids hadn't really practiced fighting in their Fenrir forms so they let their instincts take over and spread out around the Weasleys and Joanna. Whenever a shadow got to close they would charge with their jaws open and snapped them closed inches from the shadows causing them to retreat again.
This went on for about two minutes until Marcus had had enough and charged forward. He drew a sword from his belt and lunged towards Harry, who was the closest one to him.
Harry saw him coming and tried to evade him but one of the shadows stormed forwards and tackled him from behind, leaving him exposed to Marcus' sword.
Hermione, Fleur and Ginny were likewise tackled and held down while the Weasley's and Joanna were surrounded by the shadows, who were all vampires. About thirty of them were surrounding them and they could all see that the situation was hopeless.
Marcus walked slowly towards Harry, who was struggling with the four vampires who were holding him down and tried to escape the approaching sword.
When Marcus stood before him he snarled, "I'll tell your mother about your courage boy, right before I'll tear her head off." He raised his sword for a blow that would cleave Harry's head right off and brought it down fast. The others could hear the wind splitting before the razor sharp edge and were frozen on their spot, not able to do anything but watch as Harry's end approached.
The blade never made it to its target. An invisible hand caught the blade inches above Harry's furry neck and snapped it off as if it had been made of wood. The broken piece of his sword was stabbed through Marcus' chest, before a second invisible fist also found its way towards Marcus' chest and slammed him backwards against a tree, 15 ft behind him.
A second pair of invisible hands threw the vampires off of Harry so he was able to stand again. Suddenly rifle fire could be heard from all around them and the vampires were thrown into chaos by this sudden assault as one after the other was hit and fell down on the ground.
Hermione, Fleur and Ginny managed to escape from beneath the vampires holding them and after a few swipes with their large claws, the three remaining vampires withdrew back between the trees.
The Weasley men were looking on in shock and Molly and Joanna had fainted when Marcus was about to cut off Harry's head. Arthur and Charlie were trying to wake up their respective wife and girlfriend, when their rescuers revealed themselves.
A large man 7-foot-tall, wearing all black with a white skull mask suddenly appeared next to Harry. Seconds later a second man, dressed exactly the same appeared on the other side of Harry. Another few seconds later two dozen men appeared all around them when the disillusionment charms on them were dropped. All were dressed as the first two men and if not for their masks, they were not directly recognizable as Legionnaires.
Each of them wore the same black metal suit instead of the usual grey combat uniforms. They looked remarkably like the armors worn by Aurora and Gabrielle except these looked a lot more modern. They were all wielding large automatic rifles and a whole assortment of other weapons scattered over their armor.
The first one to reveal himself turned to Harry and the girls, who had quickly come to his side after they freed themselves, and removed his mask. "You all right kids?" Ivan asked with a little concern on his face.
The kids had all changed back in their human form and Harry jumped in his honorary uncle's arms, sobbing in relief and thankful for a familiar face. The girls likewise stormed towards Ivan and hugged him in thanks for saving Harry.
"And where are my hugs?" a familiar voice asked from behind them and they saw the second man had also removed his mask, showing him to be Dan.
"DAD." Yelled Hermione and she jumped in her father's outstretched arms before the others hugged him as well.
During all this the Weasleys were looking confused and shocked, though Arthur seemed a little less surprised to see Ivan, Dan and the others around them.
In the meantime Ivan had made his way over to the tree where Marcus lay and shot him point blank in his chest, a few inches besides the blade that was still stuck there.
Harry released Dan and asked, "Where are my moms? They said they'd be here soon."
Dan had a soft smile on his face and said, "They're here Harry but they had to deal with something first. Apparently one of the inhabitants of the preserve didn't take kindly to us invading his domain."
At these words Charlie looked up and asked with concern clear in his voice, "Was it an extremely large male ironbelly?"
Dan nodded nonchalantly and said, "Yea but don't worry, they'll be here soon."
Charlie looked extremely worried at Dan's casual remark and said, "I hope they survive."
The only ones who did not look at him incredulously were Arthur, Molly, Percy, Fred, George, Ron and Joanna. Who also happened to be the only ones who had never seen Aurora and Gabrielle in their dragon form.
Charlie responded to those looks by saying, "That monster moved in about a month ago, killed the ruling alpha male and continued to terrorize the entire preserve. When we sent the extermination team after him he tore them apart, nine are dead and the other six are still in critical."
The Weasleys, minus Ginny and Bill all looked shocked at that but the others seemed still unimpressed.
Dan looked casually at Charlie and said, "Have you ever heard of the 'giant genocide'?"
Charlie nodded and said, "Yea I heard about it at school. One day there where more than five-hundred of them in Britain alone, and the next they were nearly extinct."
Dan nodded and said, "Aurora and Gabrielle are the ones who organized that. I watched them singlehandedly tear apart nearly seventy giants, without getting a scratch themselves. You have no idea what they are capable of."
Seemingly to prove his point they could hear a dragon roar far above them and a voice that yelled, "GET BACK HERE, YOU FAT UGLY BASTARD."
Dan heard something over his earpiece and said quickly, "Clear the area, torch the branches, we have incoming."
As one the Legionnaires aimed their rifles upwards, flipped a switch with their thumbs and started firing towards the treetops, tearing them apart with the Hellfire rounds and clearing a large open area above them about a hundred feet in diameter.
The sun shone through the newly created clearing and they could see the clear sky. A massive dragon, roughly sixty feet from snout to tail was flying over them. He was followed by two small figures with large bursts of fire behind them, one red and one blue.
"Those are my mothers," Harry said matter-of-factly to the gob smacked Weasleys and Joanna.
They could see the figure with the red fire overtake the dragon and cut open its left wing, causing it to start spinning and decent quickly in a spiral pattern. The other figure caught up with it and cut open the other wing, so it was falling straight downwards.
The dragon was heading straight towards them and Ivan said quickly, "Clear the area, pile those bastards somewhere safe."
The Legionnaires hurried to obey and picked up the limp vampires, dragged them towards a spot maybe 50 feet away and piled them up. Ivan dragged Marcus behind him and dumped him unceremoniously besides the pile of his fellows.
Meanwhile Aurora and Gabrielle had stabbed their swords through the wing muscles of the Ironbelly and were steering it downwards towards the, now human free, newly created clearing.
The dragon fell down between the trees, taking several of them with him in his fall, and landed on the forest floor with a massive crash.
Aurora and Gabrielle had jumped up from the falling dragon when it was about a hundred feet from the ground and controlled their descent with bursts of fire from their hands. They were both dressed in full armor and wearing their red-skull masks, making no secret of who they were.
Surprisingly the dragon survived his crash landing and was struggling to get up to attack the humans surrounding him. But before he was able to do so, Aurora and Gabrielle had landed besides him and Aurora jumped on his neck.
Swiftly running up the dragon's neck, she reached his head and said with a growl, "Stay down, you fat overgrown lizard." And with that she drew her swords and stabbed them both down into the skull of the dragon.
The dragon gave one last roar before his neck fell down and his head crashed back on the forest floor. The dragon was still twitching so Aurora pulled her swords towards her, turning the two deep holes, into two deep long cuts.
Red, boiling dragon blood spurted from the cuts and sprayed all around the dragon's head, covering both Aurora and Gabrielle as they were standing on and next to it.
Aurora pulled her swords from the skull of the now dead dragon and swung them through the air to clear them of the blood and little pieces of dragon brain that clung to the blades. She put them back in their sheaths on her back before pulling a large red towel from one of her bottom-less pouches and wiping her mask clean before handing the towel to Gabrielle.
Aurora pulled her mask from her face and threw her hair backwards after wringing it out, which caused a small stream of dragon blood to drop to the ground, and turned towards the Weasleys who were all looking wide eyed at her and Gabrielle.
Gabrielle handed her the towel back after she had cleaned herself and Aurora used it to wipe the blood from her armor before wringing it out and putting it back where it came from. Next she quickly walked towards Harry and the girls and gave them each a tight hug while asking, "Are you okay, Ivan told us what happened. I'm so sorry we couldn't get here sooner but that dragon attacked us as soon as we arrived, so I had to send Ivan, Dan and the rest of the Black Angels ahead to take out Marcus and his lot."
Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny each told her and Gabrielle they were fine while they were hugged and Aurora and Gabrielle turned towards the Weasleys and Joanna, who had fainted again and was lying in Charlie's lap on the forest floor.
Aurora looked at Joanna, sniffed once at the air and swiftly made her way towards Charlie and Joanna and kneeled down besides them. Pulling her gauntlets from her hands she dropped them in her lap and laid her right hand on Joanna's forehead and a few seconds later she put her left hand on Joanna's belly.
Slowly shaking her head, she removed her hands and said to the group of redheads before her, "I'm sorry to say this, but there have been made a number of mistakes today which all could have ended fatally, if Harry had not called me an hour ago."
Arthur shook his head to clear his mind and asked a little confused, "What do you mean My Lady?"
Aurora shook her head again and replied, "We're practically family Arthur so just call me Aurora and I'll explain.
Firstly, you knew who we are, so you could have guessed we might have enemies in some places. While I appreciate the idea to show Harry and the girls around at the preserve, I would have preferred it if you had listened to my warning and kept the kids far away from this place.
We are in Transylvania, in other words, all these lands are under the influence of King Vladislaus, who happens to be the only one who has ever managed to fight a war with us and survive it.
Also Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny are not human anymore, they have certain aspects that cause them to be targeted by any and all territorial beings, like bears, wolfs and tigers, but also vampires and rogue dragons."
Arthur swallowed softly while Aurora continued her rant.
"Secondly, I sent you a scroll detailing every danger and consequence that could accompany a visit to Transylvania, so why the hell did you ignore my warning.
Thirdly, Charlie, if you knew there was a very dominant rouge male dragon running loose in the preserve, why the hell did you think it was a good idea to take the family for a tour of the preserve. That bastard would have attacked and killed every single human he found.
And lastly, you never, ever, bring your pregnant girlfriend anywhere near a living dragon, they can smell a pregnant woman from miles away. The males will try to eat her and the females will kill her to destroy any possible competition for their young."
There fell a deathly silence over the clearing until Molly roared, "CHARLES WEASLEY, IS THAT TRUE?"
Joanna was shocked awake by Molly's roaring voice and tried to sit up but Charlie kept her down while he answered calmly, "I don't know mother. Joanna told me this afternoon that she had been feeling sick for the last week and we had planned to visit a healer tomorrow to find out what was wrong with her."
This shut Molly up for the moment and Charlie turned towards Aurora and asked, "What makes you think that Joanna is pregnant?"
Gabrielle was the one to answer though and she said, "We know that she is pregnant because we can smell it, also we can sense a new life growing inside her. I would say she is about a week along so it is still very early."
The Weasleys were all silent and Joanna looked at Charlie with an expression that was somewhere between hope and excitement. She next turned towards Aurora and Gabrielle and asked on a softer tone, "Excuse me, but who are you and who are the ones that saved us?"
Aurora smiled to Joanna and said, "My name is Aurora Emrys, of the house of Merlin and this is my wife Gabrielle. We are Harry's adoptive parents and also the supreme commanders of the Shadow Legion. The ones who saved you are the Black Angels, our Black Ops team. The giant Russian is Ivan Rostock, their commander and the other one is Dan Granger, Hermione's father."
Dan and Ivan nodded in greeting towards Joanna, as they had already met the others during the Christmas party last year.
Joanna had recovered a bit from the shock and said with a hint of curiosity, "Shadow Legion you say, we have a legend here in Transylvania about them."
Aurora and Gabrielle looked intrigued and Joanna continued. "According to the legend, the Shadow Legion was sent here by the Vatican to bring a halt to the ruthless advance of the vampire king Vlad the Impaler.
After a ruthless war and several extremely bloody battles, the Shadow Legion finally defeated the vampire king and destroyed his army."
"That is a lie." A cold voice with a slight musical tone to it spoke from the darkness.
"They have never defeated me." A man stepped from the shadows, he was dressed in shining steel armor under a black cape and armed with dual swords strapped to his hips. He was followed by an entourage of 12 other armored vampires.
"They have never defeated me. We fought each other to a standstill and reached a truce. Which apparently has been broken."
The man looked with a calculating look at Aurora and Gabrielle. Aurora ordered the Black Angels to lower their weapons, which they had immediately aimed at the unknown man, and turned to the man.
"It has been a long time, Vlad."
Author's note:
Yes, yes I know another cliffhanger I just love writing those but If I hadn't cut it off here, it might have gone on for another five- or six-thousand words and that's just too long in my opinion.
Don't worry though all the questions that might have been raised by this chapter will be answered in the next chapter.
Till next time
Medieval Maniak