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Late night strolls

The first night back at Hogwarts saw Calla unable to sleep. She tossed and turned for awhile before deciding to go spend the night in the room Candy Pop had been given. She got out of bed and moved over to her trunk. She might as well use this a chance to check out what the Invisibility cloak could actually do and see if it would be something she would actually use. She made sure Vivian was asleep before creeping out of the room and heading down the stairs. She had to wait a few minutes before she could leave due to one of the perfects coming into the common room, but she didn't exactly mind it.

Dodging around ghosts, professors, and the like, Calla had almost reached Candy Pop's room within thirty minutes of leaving the common room. She had to duck into a room as two professors walked passed and inwardly cursed when they closed the door. She would need to wait a little bit before leaving otherwise they would hear the creaky thing open. Looking around the room, she suddenly felt some kind of energy emanating from the corner of the room. She hesitated for a moment before deciding to kill some time by checking it out. Moving towards the source, she found whatever it was covered by one of those dust clothes. Reaching out, she tugged the cloth free and immediately felt her eyes widen.

A beautiful mirror that had to have been carved by some kind of immortal being sat in front of her. It's reflective surface like a pool of silvery moonlight given solid form. Surrounding the reflective surface of the mirror and supporting it, a frame of what looked like liquid gold. It shimmered in slightly in the darkness which seemed to lighten up as she drew closer to it. Words were written on the frame though she didn't recognize them to belong to any language she currently knew. Calla found her eyes drawn to it's surface as she stepped closer only to feel confusion run through her. What should have been her reflection was someone older, the teenager couldn't have been more than eighteen.

She looked a lot like Calla only older. She wore something that looked like a gothic-lolita mixed with a kimono. The sleeves bare the resemblance to a butterfly's wings with dark purple, mist-like patterns followed by a blackish-blue color and tipped with white. She had on a pale purple corset intertwined with dark blue strings and lined with black rose-like patterns. She wore a medium, puffy skirt with the color of pale purple, dark blue, and black with frilly ends. Finally, her outfit is completed with black socks with renaissance flairs on the top, and black high heels with dark blue soles and ribbons. She wore her hair long and flowing for the most part save for the two braids on either side of her face. Wrapped around the ends of the braids were a pair of white ribbons, they settled lightly against her chest.

The older version of her was sitting at what looked like a garden table only it was covered in blood. Calla was started to realize that her older version's eye were pupil-less and gold with a black background. The older version smiled at her as a hand settled on her shoulder and Candy Pop appeared. Candy Pop smiled at her and waved before turning into Night Terrors. The demonic entity smirked at her revealing sharp fangs as his tail coiled around her older versions right arm. Jason appeared next with Lily and both smiled warmly down at her. Every single one of them looked like they were covered in blood.

Calla jumped as she felt arms wrap around her and immediately began to panic until she heard Night Terrors' speak, "Calm down, Doll. You know I won't hurt you."

"N-Night?" Calla looked up at him and saw him scowling at the mirror, "W-what is that thing?"

"The Mirror of Erised," Night Terrors glared at the mirror, "An object created by a demon to ensnare his prey and absorb their souls for later use,"

Calla felt sick for even thinking that the mirror could be beautiful, "Why is it here?"

"I do not know, but the goat has a lot to answer for," Night Terrors turned her away from the mirror before picking her up along with the cloak, "We will be finding out later,"

Night Terrors began leaving the room and she asked, "How did you know I was in there?"

"The necklace alerted me that some demon was attempting to posses you," Night Terrors answered as he made his way towards Candy Pop's bedroom, "What I want to know is what in Heaven were you doing in there?"

Calla felt embarrassed as she said, "I couldn't sleep, so I decided to come down and see if Poppy would let me sleep with you two. I decided to test out the cloak as well since I hadn't had a chance to do so before," She wrapped her arms around his neck, "I ended up hearing some patrolling Professors approach and since the door was partway opened, I decided to hide in there and well, I think you can guess the rest."

Night Terrors opened the door to the room and walked inside before closing it with his tail. He set her down on the bed and placed the cloak down before saying, "Never go looking for the mirror again."

Calla nodded as Night Terrors laid down before pulling her to his chest, "Night, what does that Mirror do exactly?"

"It shows your hearts deepest desire. What did you see?" Night Terrors asked as she shifted to get comfortable.

"An older version of me," Calla explained the image she'd seen earning a low hum from him, "I-is it possible?"

Night Terrors was silent for a few moments before saying, "Yes, but only time will tell if it happens."

Feeling happy, Calla relaxed and slowly fell asleep, "Cool."

Candy Pop wasn't expecting to wake up with Calla in hide bed or to hear about what had happened last night. He didn't know what was more alarming about the situation: The fact that the mirror was inside a school of magical children, the fact that the demon that owned it actually allowed it outside his possession, or the fact that Calla had encountered it. Jason was not going to pleased even if he managed to get rid of that stupid mirror. He wondered just what the hell had happened to this school for everything that had happened this year to occur. It sure as Heaven hadn't been like this when Lily was going to school here.

He decided to address the issues that he could take care of right now. Calla needed to be returned to her own bed which wouldn't be too hard since he could teleport them both there. Once he did that, he could focus on the mirror issue. It had to go though where the hell he would put it was the question. He would have contemplated destroying it had it not been for three facts. Fact one, the mirror was indestructible due to it being tied to the demon that created it and the souls that power it. Fact two, the demon that created it would be pissed at him and might come after Calla in revenge since she'd the only one close enough to him that can actually die. Fact three, Slenderman would kill him if he destroyed the mirror before the faceless entity to see it. And Candy Pop had an answer to his original question, he wondered if he could get another vacation out of the faceless entity by giving him the mirror.

Calla was confused to find herself in her dorm room before deciding that Candy Pop had probably taken her back at some point last night. Yawning, she got ready for the day and woke up Vivian before getting her stuff ready for the first day of classes after break. The day ended up turning out to be fairly normal with Toby keeping his fire starting habits to a minimum much to the sadness of one Gryffindor first year by the name of Seamus.

Until April, Calla's days were rather normal. She'd get up not long after dawn, go for a run if the weather permitted, return to her room to shower and get ready for the day, wake up Vivian, check her bag to make sure she had everything, feed Shukaku, go down to breakfast, go to class, eat lunch, conspire with the twins, go to class, eat dinner, and go to class if she had Astronomy. Night's were spent either playing pranks with the twins, spending time with Candy Pop and Toby, working on her sneaking skills, or star-gazing during the rare moments that Night Terrors took control.

The normality was ended when she received a note from Hagrid and discovered that he was going to attempt to raise a dragon in his wooden hut. The dragon was all kinds of ugly when it hatched and Calla wasn't allowed anywhere near it because Jason would be angry. She did manage to convince Hagrid to send it off to Romania with Ron's brother. Somehow, she ended up being one of the ones that were responsible for sending the dragon off at midnight which with her luck ended up being found by Professor McGonagall alongside Ron, Vivian, and Hermione after Pansy Parkinson somehow managed to find out what they were going to do and got them into trouble.

Candy Pop was furious though not at Calla. She was just trying to help a friend though she should've just asked them for help getting rid of the dragon. No, he was furious at the teachers of Hogwarts for thinking not only was it a good idea to take way too many points away from children that hadn't been caught doing anything before, but also to give them a detention in the Forbidden forest. Jason was going to go postal and he was planning on helping him kill all the idiots responsible for this mess. Night Terrors was stalking through his mind like a caged beast and Candy Pop was this close to letting his demonic side out. Night Terrors hissed at him, "Why not let me out? I'll make them regret ever thinking of letting our Doll anywhere near that forest."

'We can't risk blowing our cover,' Did he ever mention how much he hated being the voice of reason sometimes.

"Fuck our cover! Our Doll could get hurt in that damn forest!" Night Terrors shouted at him, "Let me take control!"

Candy Pop almost gave in only for Calla to call for his attention. He looked at her and immediately felt a stab of guilt at seeing the tearful look she was giving him, "What's wrong, Little One?"

"I know that what I did was wrong, but I had to help Hagrid," Calla sniffed lightly, "I'm sorry, Poppy. Please don't be mad,"

Candy Pop pulled her into a hug and shushed her as he said, "I'm not mad at you."

"Y-you aren't?" Calla looked confused as he wiped away her tears.

"I am mad, but not at you," He told her, "I'm pissed at your teachers for thinking that wandering around at night deserves such a harsh punishment," He sighed deeply as his anger began to fade to a low burning feeling, "Jay is going to be furious when he hears about this,"

Calla's eyes widened and she began to panic, "What am I going to do? I promised Papa that I would stay out of that forest until next year."

Candy Pop frowned softly. They wouldn't be able to stop the teachers from forcing Calla into doing that detention. It was occurring far too soon for that to happen. Night Terrors spoke up, "Give me control on the night of her detention, I'll follow them and make sure she doesn't get hurt."

'Do you promise to not attack the teachers and stay out of sight?' Candy Pop admitted that it was the best idea they had at the moment.

Night Terrors huffed, "Yes even if I want to rip them all apart. I will behave."

Candy Pop mentally nodded to Night Terrors before saying, "Night will follow you into the forest and keep you safe. Just don't give into your urge to find whatever's drawing you into it."

Calla looked a bit reluctant, but agreed, "Alright."

"Jay will understand, but I need to know why you didn't ask us to help," Candy Pop let go of her and pulled Calla to sit down in one of the chairs inside the room while he took one of the others, "You know we could have helped and would've gotten that dragon where it needed to go with ease,"

Calla grabbed a section of her long bangs and began braiding it which was a nervous habit she'd picked up from Candy Cane, "I thought about it at first and was going to tell you, but then Ron got bitten by it. We were suddenly rushing around trying to convince Hagrid to let us send it off with Charlie that it slipped from my mind. I'm so sorry, Poppy."

Candy Pop sighed deeply feeling a bit drained, "Try not to do it again if something like this happens. I'm just glad you stayed out of biting range otherwise I would've killed it."

"I knew Papa and everyone else wouldn't want me to go near it once the dragon hatched, so I explained to Hagrid that it was better that I didn't come near it," Calla grimaced lightly, "It was even uglier than that demon was back when I first met Night,"

Candy Pop grimaced at the mention of that demon and was glad that Calla hadn't been able to see the carnage of what Night Terrors had done. He still hated himself just a little bit for allowing her to be taken from him. He would admit that Night Terrors' words from that Christmas morning did make just how much pain and suffering the demonic entity had inflicted on that demon seem a little more reasonable though he shoved that thought as far down as possible. He still didn't believe that Calla was his mate especially since she was far too young. He resolutely ignored Night Terrors' comments on his thoughts as well.

Calla heard Night Terrors grumble a bit as she walked with Vivian and the others towards Hagrid hut. She heard Pansy whimper a bit as Filtch said something about werewolves, "There are werewolves in there?!"

"No there aren't," Calla rolled her eyes as the girl jumped slightly at the sound of her voice, "The wards keep out all manner of 'dark' creatures unless brought onto the grounds by the Headmaster. Even if there were any in the forest, it isn't a full moon and very few weres outside of those of alpha class can transform outside of the full moon," Pansy seemed to relax, "Of course, there is more dangerous things in that forest not to mention a herd of Centaurs that don't exactly like most humans,"

Night Terrors chuckled and squeezed her waist lightly with his tail showing his approval of her words. While it might have been mean of her, Calla didn't like the inbred witch that had gotten them all stuck doing this in the first place. She would rather be doing her homework, practicing spells, or enjoying herself with her friends. She could be listening to Toby and Candy Pop talk about their jobs though it would mostly be Candy Pop since she'd heard about almost all of Toby's jobs by now. She was definitely going to be getting the pug faced girl back and make her regret even thinking about getting her in trouble. She still didn't know why Pansy had done it either. Night Terrors spoke as they drew closer to Hagrid's hut, "Perhaps I should play a few games with her."

Calla tapped his tail using Morse Code, 'Don't, I'm already planning on pranking her to hell and back. Maybe if her reason for getting us into this mess is as stupid as I think it is.'

Night Terrors let out a soft rumble of laughter, "Very well, Doll. I will behave for now."

Calla rolled her eyes before stiffening as Fang began barking at them from inside the hut after Filtch began banging on the door. Night Terrors pulled her against him and let out a soothing rumble which helped her calm down. She really needed to get rid of her fear of dogs especially if she wanted to go on that trip to hell that Candy Cane had promised her a few years ago. After all, Hell Hounds were all over the place down there.

Hagrid calmed down Fang and pulled open the door. He walked out carrying two lanterns already lit and Fang leashed. Hagrid frowned at Filtch, "Get goin'."

Filtch sneered at Hagrid before taking off back towards the castle. Calla looked at Hagrid as she asked, "So what are we doing exactly?"

And then she found herself walking through the forest with Fang and Pansy looking for something that was attacking the unicorns.