PadfootItachi: heh…it's been a while hasn't it? Well there is a very good explanation…you see there is this fat Mexican guy right…well his kind of hates me…he is also my manager at Sears…and I was working none stop…but yea Happy New Year everyone! Oh and I quit Sears so yea more time for updates lol
Disclaimer: See previous chapters
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"Never try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon"
-Rubeus Hagrid
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"Yuriy's right, I've been such a coward," Korimi said quietly. "I mean, what is the past anyway? Just a bunch of memories right? Experiences that have happened and there is no way you can go back and change them. Yet somehow I continue to let my past chase me and control my decisions."
In attempt to comfort her Sirius said, "Well, by the look of it, your past wasn't exactly pleasant." He paused and thought carefully on his next sentence. "Er…well…it's not like you didn't look a bit…" he trailed off, not able to find the right words.
"Bitchy?" Korimi provided with a small smile. "Yeah I know. But in the Cathedral, you had to kind of be like that to survive."
Sirius looked at her curiously. "Cathedral? How do you have to be touch to survive in a Cathedral? Isn't it supposed to be this holy place or something?"
Korimi grinned and looked into the fire. "Well that's the irony I suppose of the place. A Cathedral is supposed to be a place of worship and holiness, but the cathedral I was in was nothing short of a hell on earth." Her grin slipped off her face, a haunted look taking its place. "I saw, and experienced some of the most horrible things. The guards raped pretty much anyone they saw whenever they were feeling particularly lustful. It didn't matter where you were, hell, if you were in your room they would just come in."
Sirius looked at her in surprise. How could a place so horrible exist? He leaned on his knees with his elbows and stared into the fire as well. "Man, and I thought my life was tough at home."
"Come to think of it. You never told me about your family," Korimi said thoughtfully.
Sirius shrugged. "Sure I did. I told you I was disowned and that was that. You never asked for details. Besides," he looked at her. "Don't you think it's a bit hypocritical to be bashing me about not telling you about my past when you haven't even started with yours?"
"Alright, alright, point taken," she conceded. "Anyway, you wanted to hear about my past, so I'll tell you, I guess. Just don't interrupt or I may change my mind."
"Fair enough."
Sighing, Korimi began. "Mother was human, and a witch obviously. Father was a demon, pretty powerful too from what I remember, but Alex's father was even more powerful, so of course, he controlled most of the things that went on in the demon world, especially Russia."
"You didn't exactly fit in, I take it. Being a half demon," Sirius commented, remember the first memory.
"Heh, not exactly," Korimi continued to smile, but her eyes saddened. "But for some reason Alex just openly accepted me. No questions asked. One time I did ask him why he was my friend and he simply told me to shut up and not worry about it. He told me that he was my friend because he liked me, and that was all I needed to know. Bloodlines didn't matter to him."
"A lot of insight for a kid."
"Alex was known as a prodigy," Korimi shrugged. "Besides, his father raised him to be like that. As power hungry as Boris was, he defiantly knew how to raise his kid."
"So how did your best friend become a malevolent bastard?" Sirius asked with a slight hint of bitterness.
"People change. I'm not sure if it was me who changed or him. I just remember that as I got older, Alex became more powerful and aggressive, not to mention over protective of me. The day after his eighteenth birthday he boasted about how many humans he killed the night before."
"What--?"
"One a demon's eighteenth birthday we officially become of age and our powers become fully developed. The price we pay…or humans must pay I should say, is that we have to kill eighteen humans, one human for each year we have been alive. You see, our demon spirits become week on our eighteenth year if life, and we have to replenish their power with blood."
"Demon…spirit?"
"Each demon, when born, is given a guardian. Keizer, wolf of black fire, is my spirit. Yuriy has Orion, the white wolf of ice, and Alex, has Sasori, the wind and air tiger…for a few examples.
"Come our eighteenth birthday, our spirits need blood, human blood to be more precise."
Sirius nearly choked. "Human blood? Human--?"
"Demon need the blood of all eighteen humans or we die," Korimi continued as if she had not heard him. "Yuriy and I are both only half demon so—"
"Yuriy killed--?"
"What else was he suppose to do?" Korimi shot at him. "Die and leave me behind? He was the only thing I had back then. He wasn't about to die for the sake of a few humans and leave me behind to suffer alone. However, as half demons, Yuriy and I didn't transform on our eighteenth birthday as normal demons do, and we only needed nine humans."
"Only nine?" Sirius looked at her incredulously. "Korimi, you-!"
"Yeah I killed nine people the night you and everyone else saw me transform. Keizer took over…you don't realize why I only went on one night time stroll with you guys on the full moon. Every time I transform into a wolf, I am in the demonic form of Keizer. It took all I had just to keep him in check."
Sirius had wondered why she had only gone with them once, every other time they had asked he to go with them she declined, giving them some lame excuse. "Korimi…" he breathed. "You killed nine people?"
"Did I stutter?" Korimi said, somewhat annoyed. "I told you I—"
"Okay, so you didn't have a choice! But that doesn't make it okay!" He was standing up now, and looking down at Korimi angrily. "Do you realize the people you killed—?"
"This is exactly why I kept everything a secret from you and everyone else. As a human, you could never understand the need of survival for a demon…our drive to survive is one hundred times strong than that of any human."
Sirius was speechless, as he stared down at her. Turning away, he looked out the window. He couldn't change who Korimi was, and he couldn't bring back those who died. The best thing he could do was try and accept it and move on; it's not like he knew the people she killed or anything and the killings didn't draw any sort of attention either. Sighing, he leaned down and kissed her. Pulling back, grinned. "I love you, you know that?"
Korimi stared at him, trying to see any sort of anger or hatred in his eyes, but she couldn't find any. Raising an eyebrow, she said, "Is that it?"
Sirius smiled faintly and sat next to her. "Yeah," he leaned in to kiss her again. But Korimi stopped him, putting two fingers on his lips.
"I hope you know you are insane, and that I haven't even begun to tell you what has gone on in my life."
Sirius removed her fingers from his lips and laced their hands together. "Yeah, but I think I can deal with it." He kissed her again, deepening it into a more passionate kiss.
Without warning, Korimi was roughly yanked back, breaking their kiss.
"YURIY!" Korimi yelled, glaring at her brother, who had her by the back of her collar.
Looking up, Sirius met with a pair of possessive ice blue eyes. "I thought you said I could kiss her!"
"Yes, well that kiss was a bit too far for my taste," Yuriy replied calmly, not releasing his hold on his sister. "And if you value your life Black, it'll be my taste you will be following when concerning my sister."
Korimi rolled her eyes and attempted to free herself from her brother, only to fail miserably. "C'mon Yuriy!" Korimi growled. "Let me go already!"
"No, I don't think so," Yuriy replied, dragging her out of his living quarters with Sirius following behind them, laughing as the two siblings bickered all the way down to the Great Hall.
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"You're making a habit out of coming out here," Yuriy commented lightly, as Sirius walked up to him that evening.
"Do you mind?" Sirius asked, leaning on the paddock fence.
Yuriy shrugged and cut the twine that held together the hay for the horses. "Not really, I suppose I'm just not used to having company while I work, though with you always showing up I don't know how I'm not used to it by now." He took a few flakes of hay and tossed them into numerous different piles around the paddock, where the horses waited eagerly for their after dinner snack.
"Anyway, I suppose you want something? Unless you all of the sudden you prefer my company over my sisters." He cast a glance over at Sirius and grinned. "Though I find that highly unlikely."
"Uh, yea." Sirius looked at the redhead uncertainly, as he perched atop the fence and idly picked a piece of his red ponytail. "I was kind of wondering if you could tell me more about Smith and Malcev. Korimi told me a lot of things already but—"
"She wants me to tell the rest of it?" Yuriy raised an eyebrow inquiringly. Sighing, he closed his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest. "I suppose it's only fair. It's not like you're asking much."
Sirius smiled at him gratefully. "Thanks, Yuriy."
"Hn." Yuriy jumped down from the fence and beckoned Sirius to follow him. They walked towards the small barn that was used for small animals and sat on the roof.
"I actually just saw Malcev a month or so ago before I came here. Needless to day I think once he found out I was gone he was probably pissed. Then again, his temper was already a bit short because of the night he tried to take Korimi one night and a few punks stopped him." He grinned knowingly at Sirius, who returned the grin.
"So, why would he be mad?"
"I'm powerful." The redhead shrugged. "I'm not trying to sound vain or anything, but it's that simple. He's hungry for more power than he can control…half demons usually aren't powerful at all. In fact, a normal half demon is relatively weak to a full-blooded demon…I'm simply one of those rare cases. My demon side overrides my human side. As a result, my magic isn't exactly up to par with Korimi."
"What about, Korimi?"
"What about her?"
"I've seen her train a few time. She looks incredibly strong."
"Well, yes, because you're human," Yuriy answered simply. "Don't misunderstand me when I say a half demon is weak compared to a full demon. A half demon…Korimi for example, could easily destroy an entire human army without so much as breaking a sweat."
"Does that include wizards?"
Yuriy shook his head and grinned again. "Well, magic complicates things a bit."
Sirius nodded and looked up at the sky. "So, what does Smith have to do with you two?"
"Ivanov? Hn, she was in the Cathedral with us. We never got along very well. Korimi and Malcev gave her hell because even though she was a full demon she would lose to Korimi every time they sparred."
Thinking back to the memory Sirius nodded in understanding. That much he already knew. What he didn't understand was how she was able to do magic. "So, demons can do magic then?"
Yuriy shook his head. "No. But they can obtain magical blood without being born with it."
Korimi's words rang through his mind from their previous talk this morning. 'Demons kill humans for their blood…'
"Drinking it?" He guessed.
Yuriy nodded in confirmation. "I don't know who Ivanov got her magic from, because Korimi and I were living in the U.S with out parents at the time. But as far as I can tell, she was given a dose of magical blood then sent here to England and come to Hogwarts for some reason when she was 11."
Sirius couldn't believe what he was hearing. Elizabeth Smith, a demon. Apparently her name was Tasia Ivanov. For some reason it was hard to imagine her anything except the evil bitch that hung around Snivellus.
"So what about that bastard Malcev?" He asked, unable to keep the bitterness out of his voice.
Yuriy looked at him, and gave a faint smile. Of course Sirius hated Malcev, after what he had witnessed that night Malcev tried to force Korimi to return to Russia, he had good reason to hate the man. Looking back at the night sky, he said, "He and Korimi were inseparable. They have known each other since they were three because of our parents numerous dinner parties. But they didn't really know each other's names or anything, that didn't happen until he saved her from a group of bullies in the park near the house where we lived."
"Yeah. I saw the memory," Sirius said softly.
"Not surprising. Korimi still cares a lot for Malcev believe it or not. I would expect her to show you a time when he was still a decent guy." Yuriy closed his eyes and opened them slowly, a sad look passing over his features. "Malcev once promised Korimi that he would protect her no matter what, and he said one day when he became the most powerful demon in the world, they would get married and he would always protect her. He was only about nine or ten I think. So Korimi was about six or seven. So you can imagine it was kind of like mere child's play at the time. So of course Korimi went along with it…as they got older, things changed and Malcev really began to fall in love with Korimi."
"How the hell do you think he loves her?" Sirius asked incredulously. "He nearly raped her and--!"
"I know," Yuriy interrupted. "But what you don't understand is that Korimi was the only person that was truly his friend. Everyone else simply saw him as Boris Malcev's son and wanted to be friends with him because they were afraid of his power."
"That doesn't give him an excuse to go and try and make Korimi's life hell! If he really cared about her, would he want her to be happy no matter what? Even if she despised his every being?"
Yuriy nodded in agreement. "Yes. But Alex is afraid of losing what he held most precious to him. So he turned to control instead of doing everything he could to make Korimi happy."
"You sound almost sympathetic," Sirius muttered.
Yuriy gave him a small smile. "I always see the better side of things I suppose. Korimi tells me it's one of my flaws."
A chill ran up Sirius's spine as he realized how dark it had gotten. The wind was beginning to pick up and he could see a few clouds beginning to cover the crescent moon.
"I think we should head in," Yuriy said, standing up.
Sirius reluctantly stood with him. He didn't want to go; there was still so much he had questions about. 'I'll just figure things out along the way from now on I guess,' he thought to himself. Now that Korimi finally opened up to him, he had a feeling that would be more willing to answer whatever questions he asked.
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Wow this update took forever. And I know,there isA LOT ofdialogue in thischapter. But hey, neededexplainations lol.Anyway, if anyone has some questions that you don't think will be answered later then please ask them and I will do my best to work the explanations into the story. REVIEW PLEASE!
