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Hiss hiss parseltongue!

"Talk"

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Semi-Important A/N: The chapters are going to get longer with more happening, but the updates are going to be more spaced-out. In reality, I could have split this chapter into two or even three chapter, but I want to be able to sort through my documents still. Yes, I know that this chapter is hectic and may be slightly confusing. I tried to put the fluff down to the minimum but the whole mate thing and family thing is important in the near or distant future. Haven't gotten quite that far yet... Sorry, I had to get it over with and this seemed the best way. -Hides-

Happy Halloween from America!

Chapter 38

The Irony

Voldemort's lips twitched into a sinister smirk when an unknowing, traitorous Igor Karkaroff entered the room. He was the follower dumb enough to offer to be the test subject to test the trio's strength in an attempt to clear his name. He looked up where he saw a small glint of blue in the support beams that he knew was his son's eyes. Voldemort was basically letting them do whatever they wanted to the former headmaster of Durmstrang.

He and his true Inner Circle—he had tricked the traitor into thinking he was in it still—were sitting behind a protected wall that should shield them from spells and hide them from Karkaroff's view. In fact, Potter was checking the strength to make sure no one was accidentally killed by a spell. He was muttering what seemed to be spells rapidly under his breath as if looking for something. He obviously found something wrong or room for improvement.

Potter turned to him with a small twitch in his eye, "Sir, if you're going to try to cast wards that are supposedly intended for keeping out dangerous spells meant and created for the purpose of maiming or killing, I hope you that you are good at ducking. If I hadn't checked them, sir, you probably would have all died. Now isn't that a pleasant thought?"

"Potter…"

"Yes, sir?" the mage innocently asked.

"Aren't you supposed to be out there?"

"Nope, Dan and Ren want to do this one weird spell that I can't do because I don't have the balance to do it and it always makes me dizzy to the point I'm about to throw up."

Voldemort's attention was taken by Dante gracefully dropping down and landing in a predatory crouch. Potter leaned against the wall with a smirk.

"M-my Prince… W-what are y-you doing h-here?" the man stuttered out. Serenity was standing behind him as both started to circle the man with predatory grins as the man's wand flew into Potter's hand as he stepped in front of the wall. Potter made a tisking sound under his breath as the boy shook his messy black hair as if he was lecturing the man. "I don't think so." Everyone was shocked as Potter snapped the wand in half with a menacing smirk.

Voldemort was watching closely as the two started to move faster and faster. Voldemort's eyes widened when all of the sudden it seemed like clones of the veela and vampire had appeared. Whatever they did stopped when Karkaroff fainted in shock.

"What a wuss…" Dante muttered as he kicked the man. Serenity snorted as she leaned down and muttered something.

Karkaroff shouted in pain as he was woken up. Potter rolled his eyes as what seemed to be a yellow whip appeared from his hand and knocked the man into the ceiling. Dante did the same thing and caught him.

"…I almost forgot how fun it is to play catch like this," Potter said as he threw the man onto the floor. Serenity snatched the man with her own beam-thing and let him dangle in the air.

"That was the most malicious game of catch I've ever witnessed and you didn't even include me!" Serenity whined as she dropped him on the floor and he landed on his head.

"Oops… there goes his sanity…"

Danny rolled his eyes at his darling girlfriend. God they could be so warped sometimes… no matter how much fun it was slamming that dude into a wall.

"…I'm bored," Harry said as that random guy that looked kind of familiar Voldemort wanted them to pretty much beat up was unconscious again. Lightning formed in his hand as he struck the man in hopes of waking him up. His eyes widened as the poor man sat straight up and was about to pee himself.

Harry felt really bad about this, but he didn't have a bloody choice because Master Voldie (Harry was now officially in love with loopholes even though one got them into this mess) ordered it. He absentmindedly hung the man upside down by his ankle in a rather bored fashion. This was wrong and way too easy. It was a bloody insult to their magic!

"This is a bloody insult!" Harry yelled as he randomly shot his anger out at the poor wall-shield… thing and watched in fascination as the lightning bounced off the shield. He has such a low attention span sometimes that it wasn't even funny.

Danny walked up to Harry and whispered something in his ear. Harry smirked and turned back to the terrified Karkaroff.

"If it makes you feel better, I've had a bit of practice since I accidentally killed Umbridge."

Voldemort leaned forward in anticipation. He could tell that Potter was about to just finish it because it seemed they were getting bored.

"Dreno," Potter said as a familiar jet of bright green light that was the color of the boy's eyes hit Karkaroff. Everyone was watching him closely because this was by now an infamous spell.

A light yellow smoke that was the same color as puke floated out of the man's body and into Potter's hand. "I have no idea what to do with this," Potter decided and wandlessly banished whatever that was. Dante laughed as he firmly punched the man in the head and knocked him out.

Serenity raised an eyebrow. "Shouldn't you have at least seen if you actually did it right, Harry? I mean last time you killed someone and then you paralyzed someone. You should have seen what you did this time. And what possessed you to banish someone's magical essence?"

"No, my darling sister, the question is what took over my commonsense when I did that. Danny must have taken over my brain or something because I have no idea why I thought that was a good idea…"

"Hey!"

"Hay is for horses."

"That line is so old, you always say it too!" Danny whined as Serenity smirked at him. Harry snapped his fingers and a loud thump was heard. He dropped Karkaroff from his magic.

"I really do pity him…" Danny muttered. That had to hurt badly…

"What was up with his essence? I mean, it looked like puke in gas form!" Serenity said as she kicked him.

"Everyone's different, Ren," Harry calmly reminded as he checked for a pulse and the Dark Lord emerged. "He's still alive…"

"Potter, what did you do?"

Harry looked up before replying with no emotion in his voice, "Drained him of his magical essence. Hope he wasn't important because he's a squib now at the best. I can't tell if there were any other effects though it didn't look or feel like I got any Chaos energy by mistake…"

Voldemort was trying to figure out what Chaos energy was. It was definitely a mage term and that was all he knew.

Nagini slithered past him in hopes of seeing what she called his hatchling. Voldemort noticed what his familiar was doing a little too late when his ophidiophobic—someone scared of snakes—son froze in fear and backed away with a whimper.

Nagini, stop. My son is scared of snakes for some odd reason.

Potter looked up at him when Voldemort remembered that the boy was also a parseltongue.

Danny got bit by a snake when he was six. He's been terrified since because he was in the hospital for a week because it was a poisonous snake.

Voldemort raised an eyebrow as Potter shrugged. That explained quite a bit…

"You're hissing about me, I just know it…"

Danny laughed as he watched Serenity get her hair yanked back by one of Father's minions. He was holding her still in a rare act of kindness that was mainly brought on by wanting to see her get tortured by the means of a crazed woman wanting to use her as a Barbie doll.

"Ow!" Serenity yelled when the brush hit her ear. Danny rubbed her back soothingly. He was sitting next to her on her bed with an arm wrapped around her waist.

Lucius Malfoy had already yanked his hair back into a ponytail again. Both of the male Malfoys were trying to tame the beast known as Harry's hair again and seemed to be succeeding by the shouting he was hearing.

Father was dragging them to an Inner Circle meeting and introducing them as his heir, advisor, and Danny's right-hand.

"Fine! I'll take the effing Hair Growth Potion! Just stop trying to rip my head off!" they heard Harry shout.

Serenity and Danny exchanged looks at that. "…I am not even going to ask," Serenity muttered when the random female Death Eater started to braid her long hair into two plaits. Danny moved his arm and grabbed her hand gently. This could make or break their plan of tricking Father…

"Ow…"

Danny soothingly rubbed her arm. He was glad that his hair was easy to tame at the moment by the sounds from the room Harry's in…

"Come on, Vix. I think you can deal with your hair being tugged a little. How many times have I done that to get your attention when we were little?"

"Too many and that really hurt when you did because you always pulled my hair so hard!"

"Sorry…?"

"You better be dearie."

Nacrissa raised an eyebrow at the exchange between the Prince and his girlfriend. At least she wasn't making wise comments every five minutes by the presence of her boyfriend… Instead, she was lightheartedly bickering with the Prince.

The Prince flinched when Potter made a loud sound that indicated pain. "Er, I am going to see if he's okay, 'kay Ren?"

"Don't call me that, Dan."

"Fine, Renny."

The veela glared at his back.

Danny poked his head in to see Harry with hair that was longer than his own in the back but shorter in the front. "Ow, did you have to accidentally hit me in the head with the brush, Draco?"

"Are you okay, Jamie? I heard ya screech from the girls' room. Where did Weasley get off to anyways…?"

"I think I saw her hiding by the bookcase…"

"Okay then…"

"I have no idea why she picked there of all places, my Prince."

Danny bit his tongue to stop himself from correcting them. "Ow!" he yelled when he accidentally bit his tongue with his fangs.

"Okay, note to self: Don't bite tongue with fangs…"

Harry laughed as his hair was brushed back into a neat ponytail. "Okay, I got to go bug Ren now!" Danny chirped.

"My Prince, you need to button your shirt."

"What…? Oh, oops."

Danny looked down at the deep red shirt he was forced in. He forgot to button the first couple of buttons again. "You would think Serenity would point that out…"

Harry laughed as he jumped off the bed. "I don't think Serenity minds seeing your chest exposed. In fact, I think she likes it."

Danny blushed as the Malfoys withheld their laughter. The vampire glared at his best mate and buttoned his shirt.

"That was my ear, lady!" they heard Serenity yelp. The two mages glanced at the other as Danny threw an arm over Harry's shoulder. "Come on, we got to save Ren from the wicked hairbrush."

"I think we do…"

"Stop hitting my frigging ear or I'll bite you!"

"I think we have to save Mrs. Malfoy from Ren actually…" Harry said.

"Is that who that was? I suck at names!"

"I know, mate, I know."

The two raven-haired teens stuck their heads through the door to see Serenity glaring at the brush that a slightly-scared Nacrissa Malfoy was holding. There was a single plait and a lot of loose hair meant for a second plait.

"Sis, you need to calm down," Harry said as he slid to her left and Danny on her right. Both boys threw an arm around her shoulder. "Mrs. Malfoy, isn't there a spell that does the same thing that you're trying to do? Because she does bite, I know that from experience and she bit Danny a few days ago or so."

Serenity innocently grinned as Danny made a face at that. "Dearie, you were trying to wake me up when I was comfortable, what did you think I was going to do?"

"Oh, I don't know… maybe wake up?"

"I was tired!"

"You bit me!"

"I know. That explains why I suddenly was dreaming about chicken fingers though…"

Harry carefully edged away from her and fell off the bed. "Ow… floors are hard."

"No really, mate?" Danny sarcastically said as Serenity's hair was magically braided. Black ribbons tied into bows held the plaits in place.

Harry shook his head as he got up by the way Danny was staring at Serenity. It was most definitely the fact that she was forced into a form-fitting, revealing corset. Danny gentley picked her up placed her on him. She poked him, but she didn't move.

"Close your eyes," Nacrissa instructed as she started to put dark eye shadow on the scowling veela.

"Look up and don't blink."

Serenity blinked when the woman finished a few times as the female Malfoy put claret lipstick on her full lips.

"Done."

"Finally!" Serenity said as she hopped off Danny's lap to the vampire's dismay. Danny followed her out of the room with Harry laughing quietly at the pair.

Serenity found her contacts yesterday night in her contacts case, right where she left them before. She declared that she had a blonde moment and therefore had an excuse when Danny started to tease her about it.

Harry calmly grabbed the sweater-jacket that she left on the bed because Serenity was going to be complaining that she's cold any second now.

"Here, now don't start complaining your cold," Harry said as he threw it at her. "Thanks Har!" she chirped as she pulled it on.

Danny laughed as he picked the girl up as Voldemort walked into the room. "Danny, put me down pleases!"

"Nice grammar, sis."

"You're just jealous."

"Of what? Having crappy grammar?"

"Yes! Ha, ha! My grammar sucks and yours doesn't!"

Voldemort blinked and muttered, "I am not even going to ask."

Danny placed the girl down and backed away slowly. "I am not here and I do not know you…"

"Yes you're here and I'm pretty sure you know us," Harry said as Serenity jumped on the couch arm with her bare legs swinging.

"Oops! I forgot to grab shoes!" she chirped.

"Sir, you didn't by any chance have the house elves spike something with drugs, did you? Because last time I saw her like this was when she was really sugar high… Or when she was thirsty and grabbed my coffee and didn't know it was coffee until a little too late…"

"A little? You two were so high you developed another personality and deemed yourselves the Lord and Lady of Coffee, which was one of the five times you've done it. But have you stopped drinking coffee, no."

"You're just pissed that we tied you to a post."

"You bloody shoved me in your pocket earlier this year when Weasley gave you coffee when you were already hyper from lack of sleep and then what do you do? You bully a house elf into giving you more caffeine. I shudder what would've happened if I didn't knock your lights out when I tricked you into untying me…"

"I said I was sorry and you made a pit of marshmallows appear under my feet and I fell in! I will never look at the Room of Requirement the same way again…"

"You are aware that you bloody deserved it because you kept tying me up, shrinking me down and then shoving me in your pocket, threatening to hang me upside down over a pit of neon-green marshmallows-." That was as far as he got before Serenity started to crack up as she reentered the room.

"And that's why Harry Potter shouldn't have caffeine, folks!" she chirped.

"What are you on?"

"The floor!"

"No, really?" Danny and Voldemort muttered at the same time, again.

"That is really creepy," Serenity said as she bounced on her heels—still barefoot I might add. She was holding a pair of stilettos in her hand that she was swinging around.

Danny sighed and picked the girl up to her protest and sat her down firmly on his lap with her arms pinned to her sides. The younger wizard took her shoes and put them on her feet for her because by the way Serenity was acting, it was probably going to be a tad until she did it herself.

"Danny…! Let go of me!" Serenity whined. "You need to calm down, Vixie."

"I don't wanna!"

"Sis…" Harry said in a warning tone as he sat next to him.

"You can't make me!"

"But I can," Voldemort drawled as he pointed his wand at the hyper girl. He quickly cast a few Calming Charms at her as his son held her still.

"I really got to get off the sugar…" The boys gave her looks that said, "Thank you, Captain Obvious!"

Voldemort rolled his scarlet eyes before saying, "Stand up."

They stood up.

"Put your hands behind your backs."

They put their hands behind their backs.

Voldemort smirked again and cast a spell that put shackles on their wrists. They needed to know that they were still his prisoners until they took his mark. It's been over a week now, and things had gone much better than he hoped. The only one who wasn't well on the way to being fully converted and loyal was his own son, but he has one major weakness: his friends. Potter and Serenity were close to giving in and he knew that Dante was not going to abandon him and take his rightful place as the dark heir. He would make a lovely dark lord with the veela as his consort and advisor and Potter as his right-hand.

'I need to figure out how to get him over his fear of snakes and house elves, mainly house elves because that is just ridiculous. Dawn is also pretty sure that Dante and Serenity are mates… How the hell you test that is past me.'

"Heads bowed, mouths shut."

They lowered their heads in a way that would seem to be respect and submission if they weren't forced to do it.

Voldemort flicked his wand and black blindfolds covered their eyes. He realized that he had been taking a risk of letting them know their way around the manor currently; he would have to wait until there was no way that they were escaping when they received his mark and another piece of Imperio Metal as a new accessory.

He calmly cast the Confundus Charm on them as the Lucius and Draco Malfoy led Potter and Serenity out of the room. He gripped his son's shoulder and calmly led the tall vampire to the throne room.

"This way son," he calmly said as the boy slightly swayed from the spell. Voldemort was just barely able to stop the currently disabled boy from running into the wall. Maybe he shouldn't have confunded them because Dante was walking as if he was drunk…

It took a while, but they eventually reached the throne room where his Inner Circle awaited.

His followers watched in mild amusement that was well hidden as he shoved his son into the throne and re-secured his wrists to the arms of the throne. Voldemort undid the Confundus Charm and took off the blindfold.

"What the heck did you do to me?"

Voldemort didn't have to answer because Serenity was just shoved in his lap. Dante's pale, slender arms were shackled in front of him and around the veela after they were released from the throne.

"Wrap your arms around his neck," he ordered.

Potter stared at him when he was shoved inside. "Sir, please tell me you're talking to my sister and not me."

"Potter, I'd rather not have you clinging to my son's neck."

"I'm just going to assume you were talking to me then," Serenity stated as she wrapped her arms around his neck gently and leaned her small head on his chest after the blindfold and cuffs were removed. Her small wrists were tied together with rope shortly.

Voldemort grabbed the former Golden Boy, removed the shackles and blindfold, positioned him behind his son's throne, and watched with satisfaction as a chain came out of the Imperio Metal on his wrist, securing itself to the throne. "That is creepy…"

Dante looked up at him and said, "Hi Jimmy!" Potter rolled his bright emerald-green eyes and asked, "What have I told you about calling me that?" "Not to," Dante said with a small smile.

"Where you got Jimmy out of Harry is past me," Serenity calmly said.

"His middle name is James and some people named James go by Jimmy so there! I'm smarter than you!"

"Keep dreaming,"

Voldemort glared at them half-way through the meeting because they didn't shut up once; he continued the meeting after saying, "Shush, if you're going to talk whisper."

"Sorry, sir."

"Sorry, Father."

Voldemort rolled his eyes as whispers were heard behind him. 'Teenagers…' he thought. He sighed as his Inner Circle's children walked in to be marked—well, the ones that were over the age of fifteen that is.

The only teenager that didn't show was Blaise Zabini, but Voldemort knew that the boy took after his deceased father too much for the boy to be really interested in the war in general.

Voldemort saw Dawn bite her lip from the corner of his eye when Pansy Parkinson seemed extremely put out at the sight of Serenity snuggled up in Dante's lap. The veela gave a cruel grin in the girl's direction and kissed his son on the lips. Merlin, she could hold a grudge… Parkinson's lip quivered slightly as Dante cheerfully returned it. Potter closed his eyes in a way that told the Dark Lord that his future general and his son's right-hand did not like seeing them kissing in front of him.

Dawn gave the kissing couple a look that said to pretty much stop it now. Potter was the only one who noticed and whacked both of them on the head. Dawn muttered something to the boy and he just nodded in return. The other two glared at him.

Danny, Harry, and Serenity flinched when jolts of pain hit them from their wrists. "Stupid bracelet…" Serenity muttered quietly as Danny rested his chin on her head. "I second that, darling."

"You two disgust me."

Their eyes were forced up as Voldemort snapped his fingers.

Theodore Nott was still getting over the fact that Harry Potter is, well was more like it, Occultus Levis, but here the boy was chained to the Prince's throne and known as the heir's right-hand and second.

Three pairs of vivid eyes looked at his Lord when his Lord snapped his fingers like obedient puppies.

He glanced and saw Parkinson was still staring at the Prince. 'You would think she could tell by the way Phoebus was making out with him that he was taken… and not to mention the fiasco a few days ago.' he thought.

Indeed, the veela was curled up in the vampire's arms happily and seemed unaffected by the bounds securing her wrists. Theodore almost lost control of his emotions when she somehow poked the metal bar securing the Prince to the throne. Did Parkinson really think she had a chance for his affection when her biggest competition was her? Besides, Theodore knew for a fact that the Prince had to be around the age that he would start searching for his mate. In fact, it was odd that he was still romantically involved with Phoebus… Unless she was his mate by some freak coincidence…

Theodore glanced at how well they got along considering that he knew for a fact that vampires start getting obsessive at sixteen and normally withdraw from romance with others a few months before.

…it made sense considering whatever the veela tried to do to his fellow Slytherin; it didn't seem very benevolent …or legal. Malfoy said that the Prince was extremely protective of the veela to her amusement and annoyance.

Theodore snapped out of his thoughts when he and the others were called forward to be marked.

'This is boring…' Harry thought as he watched his Slytherin classmates all get marked except Blaise Zabini oddly enough… Danny and Serenity had both fell asleep after watching Parkinson whimper at the pain and almost started to bawl like a little babe.

How the heck no one noticed their snoring was past him, but they were actual mainly quiet—minus their snoring—while asleep. Harry was a little surprised that no one bothered to wake them up. They normally would have been talking or bugging each other or him.

Harry looked away when a few missing Ministry officers were led in. 'Now I know where they got off too…'

Harry knew that the only reason why Voldemort wasn't making him watch was that his identity would be revealed. In fact, he and his friends were ordered to go to the library before whatever spell that was on the officers was lifted. Well, they left after Danny and Serenity were woken up that is…

Draco glanced at the younger teenagers before him. Yes, he knew that he had been wrong about Potter, but not that wrong. The whole Karkaroff thing was… well he wasn't sure how to describe it.

His father was next to him and urging the blindfolded rebels forward and to their Lord's library. It was kind of funny because Father had tricked them into thinking there were three of them instead of two by prodding the Prince in the back with a stick in his left hand and Potter with his wand. Draco had his wand pointed at the Prince's veela's neck.

"Sis, I'm not Danny; Danny is on your left."

"Sorry, Harry!" Serenity chirped as she let go of his arm and blindly grabbed the Prince's waist.

Draco had to admit that he found the spell that his Lord used on them amusing—he made it so that only he could removed the blindfolds over their eyes and now the rather clingy veela was trying to grab the Prince and missing almost every time.

The Prince laughed and calmly grabbed her arm.

"How did you do that?!?" she demanded.

"Vampire, silly, I have enhanced hearing and sense of scent. I can smell ya and hear ya shuffling around. Plus you're hand was kind of hitting my stomach..."

"Oh…" she muttered as she tried to figure out where the Prince's arm was so she could lean on it.

The Prince laughed again but a little louder as her head hit his back and somehow he snatched her in his arms. How the heck he managed to pick someone up while blindfolded was past Draco…

"Holy crap!" the veela squealed as the Prince pecked her on the nose.

"That was my nose, dearie."

"What are you two doing?" Harry asked quite calmly. Draco now had proof that he was the calm one… It always was the quiet one…

"Danny somehow picked me up when I couldn't even find his arm!" Serenity whined as the Prince smirked—not that his comrades knew that of course.

Draco realized that he still had his wand out and was pointing it at the air. 'Thank Merlin that they're blindfolded… I am willing to bet that they would have never let me live that down…'

'You pointed your wand at the air?!? And people say I'm scattered brained!' the Prince cracked up in his head. The Prince would be the Prince no matter what the situation he was in…

Draco sighed in relief as his Lord's library came into view. He opened the door up as Father guided them in.

Draco pushed them down on the couch. "You're on a couch and my Prince, Potter is next to you on the… left." Father gave him a disapproving look when Draco needed to quickly check his hands to see which side Potter was on.

Draco left with his father and saw Serenity slide between the two boys.

"This sucks… I don't like not knowing where I am!" Serenity whined as she gripped who she thought was Danny.

"I'm not Danny," Harry stated as he slid her hands off his arm. "Sorry… I can't see, I can't see!"

"We know, Vix," Danny drawled as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "How can you know what you're doing?" Serenity whined/commanded once again.

"Do we really need to go over this again?"

"No," Harry cut in as he tried to find a way to remove the blindfold. "Why do we need to be blindfolded in some random room that they probably locked us in?" he asked no one in particular.

"Father didn't feel like shackling us again and just made it so that we could take the blindfold off," Danny calmly stated as he lightly kissed Serenity somewhere on her face.

"That was my forehead…"

"There are worse places, Vixie," Danny reminded the girl wittily as he definitely kissed the top of her head by the hair. Serenity stuck her tongue out and felt for his neck. Danny rolled his eyes, grabbed her small arms, and wrapped them around his neck for her.

"Thank you very much," Serenity said as she leaned against his chest.

Danny felt a weight against his left shoulder and heard deep breathing that was too deep to be Serenity, plus she snored. "I think Harry's sleeping," he whispered to Serenity.

"How do you know that?"

"I think he's using my shoulder as a pillow…"

"That makes sense…"

"Good."

"I think I'm going back to sleep…" Serenity randomly decided as she nestled into Danny's chest. Danny gave a small laugh and loosely held her as he felt the weight on his chest become heavier. Serenity's soft snoring reached his sensitive ears.

"…if you can't beat them, join them," Danny decided to himself as he closed his eyes. 'Good lordy, Ren snores loud...' was his last thought before he fell asleep again.

Dawn left in disgust as she headed towards the library. She hated her husband's initiation process and she was a frigging vampire for Carmilla's(1) sake! Don't get her wrong, she loved Tom and all, he was her predestined mate and all, but she strongly disliked some of the things he did. Dawn had screamed at him when she first found out he was planning on using Imperio Metal on their darling Disaster and his little friends, but she didn't blame him now that she saw how they acted… And to think Mamma said she was rebellious as a girl…

Speaking of Mamma… she really needed to visit her family… They were forced to flee when the Order of the Phoenix and one of the Ministries attacked her homeland. She was fortunate enough to have most of her clan and immediate family still alive. In fact, she should introduce Dante to his half-brother sometime… She hasn't seen Leon in two weeks… Don't even ask how she managed to have a child with her childhood sweetheart when they weren't mates. It involved a lot of pain and some of the Muggle's methods…

'I wonder if Leon has gotten the guts to approach that girl that seems to be his mate…' she mused. She had no idea how she would have coped when her best friend and first husband, Lukas, was slain without finding Tom, her true mate, at that time…

Her first son, Leon Felix Lamia, was twenty-four and still looking for his bloody mate. She was close to positive that Serenity was Dante's mate by the way they interacted and the fact that her son seemed in love with the veela. Most vampires normally did fall head-over-heels with their mate once they met at a certain age. Their four month separation could have easily sparked his desire and love for her. He actually allowed someone to cling on him when she knew for a fact that he normally wouldn't have even bothered with pursuing a relationship with the veela.

She knew exactly how to prove it too, but she wanted to talk to Potter first because there were a few other sure-tell signs that only someone as close as he was to both of them would see…

Dawn entered the library to see a truly adorable sight; the three teenagers were sleeping on the couch. Potter was leaning on Dante's bicep, and he was leaning his head on Potter's head. Serenity was buried in her son's arms with his arms wrapped protectively around her. 'And to think Tom is actually wondering why I think they're mates…'

Dawn pulled the camera out that Tom gave her years ago and immediately regretted giving her that. She snapped a few photos with the flash off with a small smile. 'This is definitely going in the photo album…'

Dante's head jerked upright suddenly and she saw his slightly pointed ears perk. He heard her and most likely the snapping of the camera.

"Who's there?"

"Really, Dante, you need to calm down."

"Mother…?"

"Yes?"

"Oh… Excuse me for being blindfolded… can't see…"

"I managed to figure that out myself."

"What was that snapping noise…?"

"My camera," she calmly replied with a smirk at the panicked look on his face. "You three looked so adorable that I couldn't resist," she said in a mocking tone as she carefully pocketed her precious camera. Dawn laughed as her son blushed.

"…did not."

"How old are you again?"

"Fifteen."

Potter jerked awake and muttered, "Why is everything so dark to the point I can't see?" He was not awake quite yet…

"You're blindfolded, smart one," Dante said.

"What…? I thought I fell asleep in Potions again…"

"You don't even take Potions anymore, remember? You didn't get a high enough score on that big exam thingy."

"Big exam thingy?" Potter said with a bit of amusement in his tone.

"Why do I need to know what your tests are called?"

"Serenity said so."

"When did she say that?"

"Uh… February thirtieth," Potter said with a smirk. Dawn found herself holding back laughter once again when her son fell for it.

"Oh… damn."

"Language, Dante. And you are aware that there is no February thirtieth, right?"

"What…?" Serenity slurred as her head poked out from Dante's arms.

"Ren, Harry said you said that I needed to know what his exam things were called on February thirtieth, did you really say that…?"

"Danny, don't call me that. There is no February thirtieth, stupid."

"What? What do you mean that there is no February thirtieth?"

"There are only twenty-eight days except in leap year which has twenty-nine," Dawn calmly said as her son swung his fist in Potter's direction. The boy ducked down very low. Dante accidentally brushed his fist against the veela.

"Danny that was me!" she said as she whacked him on the face miraculously. "Sorry, Vix," he soothingly said as he held her to his chest. "Your chest is hard…"

"Okay then…"

Tom entered the room and raised an eyebrow. Dawn shrugged at his questioning gaze. She mouthed, "You don't want to know."

He rolled his scarlet eyes and walked over to the teens. Only Dante noticed his presence.

"Father, will you please remove the bloody blindfolds? We're in the library for Morgana's(2) sake!"

"Did you just say Morgana?" Tom asked with a bit of bewilderment.

"Yeah…"

Tom raised his eyebrow again and removed the blindfolds. "Hey! I can see!" Serenity chirped. "Good job, sis," Potter sarcastically replied. She managed to slap him before Dante pulled her back. "Dearie…"

"Sorry, Vix, I am not letting you beat Harry up for his sarcasm."

"Danny…"

"Nope, not going to happen."

"Dante," she said in a warning tone.

"No."

She was about to go on but Dante kissed her on the lips and efficiently shut the blonde up. How he knew how to shut people up when he was unable to was past her and he was her frigging son!

'It's now or never…' she thought as she stood up and whispered what she was planning on doing into her mate's ear. The Dark Lord raised an eyebrow but motioned for her to go ahead.

"Dante, I need to talk to you," she calmly said as the younger vampire stood up after prying his girlfriend off of him. "Don't leave me…" she jokingly whined as he laughed in amusement. Dawn led him to a spare room that wasn't really used for anything.

"Mother, please tell me you're not giving me The Talk…"

"Do you want me to lie?"

Dante lost the little skin pigment he had.

"Sir, do you now what she wanted…?" Harry cautiously asked. He could tell by the Dark Lady's face that it was going to be awkward.

"I don't think you want to know, Potter."

"So he is being given the Talk…"

"Poor, poor Danny…" Serenity muttered as Harry vehemently agreed.

Voldemort nervously glanced at the door when a loud masculine, "What?!?" was heard.

"I supposedly have a bloody soul mate?" Danny snapped.

"Yes." How was she so, so, so calm?!?

"But, but I just finally got a girlfriend—who may I mention I've been crushing on for years—and you're expecting me to suddenly dump her in search of some random female that I don't even know?"

"No…"

"Mother, what you're saying is sounding like that to me."

"Dante, I think she may be your mate… I have never heard of a teenaged vampire having a "crush"… You just don't know anything about our culture… Most vampires your age or even younger stop being attracted and romantically attached to others. You are aware that it is not normal for teenaged girls to attempt to kill people for just staring at their significant others, right?"

"Uh… no… I slammed Malfoy Jr. into a wall because he kept staring at Serenity…"

Dawn resisted the urge to exasperatedly sigh. "Did you honestly know where Potter was while blindfolded?"

The boy seemed a little sheepish and muttered a barely heard, "No…"

"Did you know where Serenity was?"

"Yes…"

"Is she truly the only person you listen to on your own freewill without outside interference?"

"Wait a sec… My brain has to figure out what you just said… Uh… yes…"

Dawn laughed and shook her head. "I thought so. It's rather obvious by the way you let her hang on you."

"Not uh! Normally I pulled her on my lap and she can't get out of my arms 'cause I'm stronger than her."

"You keep telling yourself that, Dante."

"Okay!"

"I was being sarcastic."

"Oh… I knew that!"

"Back on topic, how did you feel when she was first captured?"

"Mother, you're starting to sound like one of those shrinks Harry dragged me to."

"Answer the question."

Dante looked down in embarrassment and Dawn just barely heard him mutter, "Like my heart was going to rip in two…"

Dawn was convinced right then. "Yes, I believe that settles it. You don't have to worry about having to break up with Serenity for your mate because she is her."

"Stop talking in pronouns!"

Dawn gave him one of those looks as she noticed that he was trying to conceal his blush. "What is with you and your father and trying to hide your emotions?" she asked in annoyance.

Danny was a little nervous when it seemed that his mother was about to start to rant about who-knows-what.

'Good lordy… She actually thinks Serenity is my frigging mate? I'm not even sixteen yet and I don't want to think about having children. Hell, I don't even think I want children… How am I supposed to tell her that if it is true by some freak incident? Why did she have to make me go through this now? Just because I'm a little overprotective and I tend to worry about her when she isn't in my sight doesn't mean I'm getting obsessive like it's supposed to eventually happen. …does it?'

'You're in denial.' Danny's head jerked up to see his mother smirking at him. "H-how-?"

"I'm your mother. Of course I can access your head."

"I'll sue you."

"One, you can't because what I'm doing is perfectly legal, two I doubt Tom would let you leave if he found out what you wanted to do."

Serenity and Harry glanced up at to see a rather smug Dark Lady and an embarrassed Danny. He blushed when he saw Serenity for some reason and it only deepened when she hopped in his lap. "What is it, dearie?"

Danny scowled at his mother at the smug look on her face. "I am not in denial Mother!"

"Yes you are, Dante."

"Not!"

"Are."

"Not!"

"Are."

Voldemort gaped at them in a way that he did not foresee his son and wife bickering over something.

"Dawn, you sound like a toddler."

Voldemort backed off at her red-eye glare. "Dante… other room now and you know what I want you to do."

Danny mocked her but stood up with Ren in his arms.

"Danny… what's going on?"

Harry raised an eyebrow as they left. "What is going on, sir?" he calmly asked the Dark Lord. "I was wondering that myself…"

Dawn rolled her eyes as the Dark Lord and the gray wizard stared at her. Potter was staring at her because Tom was staring at her.

"Potter, can you answer some questions first so I'm positive and if by some odd chance I'm wrong, I can stop Dante from making a fool out of himself."

"…sure."

"How exactly did Dante react when Serenity was kidnapped?"

"He was drunk, he was a mess, and he was crying for the very first time. I have never seen him cry since then or before then and I've known him since I was four and friends since I was five. Yet he somehow completely forgot about it the next day. I think that is from his head injury when he was chasing me before we were friends and I found myself on top of the swing set due to the wonders of accidental magic. He thought it would be a good idea to try to climb up and he fell when he was really close because it was icy and he sort of slipped. Do you know how weird it is to have someone who was trying to beat you up to suddenly declare you his second best friend?"

"Yes actually. Don't even ask, Tom. Was there anything else? Any random confessions of love that were soon forgotten when she wasn't in his presence?"

"Yeah… same day actually… Didn't remember or at least acknowledge it until he was teasing me about my so-called-best-friend having a crush on "Occultus Levis" and I teased him right back."

"Hm… there goes the little doubt I had…" Dawn muttered. "Merlin, please tell me you're not thinking about that again. He's fifteen, Dawn."

"So? That is a perfectly reasonable age."

"Don't I have a stepson who's eight or so years older than him and he isn't thinking about it."

"Actually, Leon is. He just doesn't have the guts to confront her yet."

"Danny has a half-brother?"

"Yes."

Tom was by now muttering something under his breath that was probably about his dislike to some aspects to vampire culture. 'Mortals…' Dawn thought as her husband's stupid familiar showed up.

"What is going on?" Potter pressed again. Dawn didn't agree with her son's choice in a best mate, but the last remaining Potter was extremely loyal and was genuinely concerned about her son.

Tom was paying more attention to the snake and hissing. Potter seemed to understand what was being said. Dawn didn't remember if he was a parseltongue or not…

"I think Serenity is Dante's mate," she calmly answered. Potter didn't seem all that surprised. "I knew that they got together too easily and moved very fast for the small amount of time they were officially "together"," he muttered under his breath.

"How long…?"

Potter snorted and stated, "I shoved a chair under the door knob and trapped them in Ren's room because I was so sick of them blushing and stumbling around each other and there wasn't any closets to shove them in like I really wanted to… Danny immediately figured out what I was up to and started flirting with her until his mouth ran away and he blurted out his feelings, I think anyways. They got together the day you kidnapped Danny and I." Dawn noticed the resentment and anger in the last statement.

Potter suddenly gaped at the snake as Tom smirked. "Sir, that was not very nice. What would happen if I told her what you just said…?"

"Don't tell her," Tom sharply ordered as Potter made a face.

Two teenagers entered the room with matching blushes. Dawn let her victorious smile show through when she saw how tightly Dante was gripping the veela's hand.

Dawn was slightly worried about the girl's heritage. Normally, a vampire's mate felt the need to be near the other also, but veela were immune to it. She knew that the veela hybrid was going to have to be watched carefully to make sure she isn't just playing with Dante. Dawn doubted the petite blonde would, but it was always best to be cautious.

"Well, there goes my lifetime belief that fate is a bitch…" Potter muttered as her son's mate curled up next to Dante.

Dante just stuck his tongue out at the amused, youthful wizard as he pulled the ribbons out of the veela's hair and pulled the thick braids out.

"Ow! Danny, that hurted!" she whined.

"Sorry, Vix," he muttered as he ran his hand through her now wavy hair. "A little higher… My head itches…"

"There?"

"Yep!"

Harry snorted as he watched Serenity lean into Danny's touch. He heard an odd sound coming from her and Danny seemed shocked also.

"Are you purring?"

Serenity blushed but didn't stop. She probably couldn't help it. "Ah the wonders of veela," the Dark Lord muttered. Danny's mother glared at him ferociously and Voldemort seemed a little… pale.

"Father… please leave your perverted thoughts that are being created my mate to yourself or your bloody snake that is staring at me like it's going to eat me!" The last part was squeaked out as he stopped running his hand through Serenity's hair to her discontent. She started to laugh with Harry though when the vampire pulled his legs up and stared at the large serpent in fear.

"There are no such things as snakes. There are no such things as snakes. There are no such things as—SNAKE!"

Danny jumped over the couch and crouched behind it in fear. Harry was by now a little concerned when Nagini followed Danny. The female snake was damn determined to sniff Danny—her master's "hatchling". Danny was whimpering as Voldemort got up and was trying to get the snake to back off. The snake was insisting that she must see Danny so she can protect him and all that rot. It was terrifying poor Danny.

Danny jumped back on the couch and hid behind Harry and Serenity. "Sh… It's okay, dearie," Serenity whispered in his ear as she wrapped an arm around his neck. Harry was surprised as Danny started to visibly calm down.

"Snake…" Danny muttered as Harry lightly felt Serenity's charm start to drift. He just barely noticed whenever she did it these days—just enough for him to briefly glance at her before going on. The Dark Lady whispered something in Voldemort's ear that made him quickly exit the room with the snake reluctantly trailing behind him.

Harry realized what she was doing; she was calming him down in the most efficient way she could think of off the top of her head.

"Vixie…" Danny muttered as he firmly gripped the veela and pulled her on his lap. Harry's shoulders shook with silent laughter when Lamia pulled a camera out and snapped a few pictures with a smirk.

Serenity shyly smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "I love you…" he whispered.

"Really?" she innocently asked. Ah, her real motive comes out at last!

"Yes, with all my heart…"

Serenity charmingly smiled again and quickly pulled her charm back in as Danny blinked a few times and suddenly vividly blushed.

"Did you mean that?" she innocently asked with a bright sparkle in her eyes. Danny's cheeks turned an even brighter, but whispered something in her ear. She smiled and whispered something back that made Danny kiss her on the nose. Serenity yawned and rested her head on his chest.

Danny gave a small smile as he looked down at the now sleeping girl in his arms. Harry raised an eyebrow as Lamia stated, "I told you so."

"Out with you two," she stated as she snapped her fingers by the door.

"Mother, there are three of us."

"She's asleep."

"So?"

"She can't listen and I'm assuming you're just going to carry her back."

"…"

Harry stood up and waited for Danny to get his bum up. "Come on, mate," he whined.

Danny poked his tongue out at him—surprise, surprise—and stood up with Ren sleeping soundly in his arms. "Vix now officially snores and purrs…"

"Veela tend to do that, Dante."

Harry rolled his eyes as he walked out of the room. He mentally went through the directions to get back in his head, 'Left, right, straight, right…'

Finally, they got to the room. Harry scowled before just barely muttering "Darkness triumphs."

"They just made that the password so they could see or well hear us say it, didn't they?" Danny whispered as the door appeared. Ginny seemed to be in the loo luckily.

Danny gently placed Serenity on the couch and sat down next to her; he rolled his eyes when she grabbed his waist and muttered something about teddy bear. Danny gently lifted her and let the snoozing veela use him as a pillow/teddy.

Ginny walked out of the bathroom and stared. "When did you get back?" she softly asked; she noticed that Serenity was sleeping.

"Just now," Harry replied casually. "Guess what?" he added with a smirk.

"What?"

"Danny has a soul mate!" Harry said in a sing-song voice.

"And I'm going to tell her that your teasing us when she wakes up and she's going to kick your sorry arse," Danny snapped back in the same tone.

"Oh shit, you're right!"

"Soul mate?"

"Vampire thing… You should pity me because I just heard the Dark Lady's version of the Talk! Bleh, it just means she's the only one I can have children with… The irony…"

"The world's doomed."

"Shut up."

"Make me!"

Serenity groaned and sat up; she sleepily rubbed her eyes. "You two are loud…"

"Sorry Miss Purry."

Serenity blushed. "I can't help it that you made me purr, Danny!"

Danny smirked and started to run his hands through her thick hair again; the smirk grew wider when she started to purr again to Ginny's shock.

Serenity closed her eyes and continued to purr in pleasure as Danny stopped messing with her hair and he instead started to gently stroke her face. "You are so cute while purring, Ren."

Serenity glared at him and his stupid hand. "You're going to give me zits!" she managed to get out before Danny rolled his eyes and just picked her up. He rubbed her back; it seemed that he just wanted to make her keep purring.

"Danny, stop teasing Serenity and making her purr her head off. She can't help it that her species purr," Harry said in Serenity's rescue, but he failed because Danny simply held the poor veela closer and tightly gripped her. Harry got Danny to stop making her purr, but he couldn't get Danny to let her go. "My mate," Danny stated as he tightly gripped her.

Serenity scowled and slapped Danny across the face. "I am not a possession, nor do I appreciate being tightly gripped like a stuffed animal. Let go, Danny."

"I am not treating you like a possession! I'm trying to annoy Harry but you're not letting me!" Danny proved his point by letting her scoot off his lap and on the couch.

Ginny raised an eyebrow at Harry. "…don't ask. They are always like this."

Ginny was suspicious and wary by now. She saw how they had left the room. They didn't fight. They were perfectly obedient. They were listening to You-Know-Who and obeying him…

'What is going on?' Ginny thought.

This is where the next chapter should've started, but oh well!
It was a mere two weeks until they would be forced into Voldemort's ranks and their plan was working, but a little slower than Harry would have liked. Voldemort had actually started to seek Serenity's advice even though he knew that she was lightly mocking his intelligence by pointing out well-known events in world history that had happened in similar ways with the statement, "History repeats itself, sir," almost every time. Funny thing is that her statements were true if you thought about it. Voldemort asked for Serenity's advice more and more to the point Harry was starting to expect he was just keeping her mind busy so she couldn't think of ways to escape.

Not like that stopped her and Harry… Too bad that all of their plans were either found out, unwittingly stopped, or some other way for them to not work except for Harry's original one—even that may not work though because it relied heavily on chance and Ginny's ability. Danny had stated that she knew something was up which didn't help at all.

Harry was now sitting on the couch reading some book Voldemort let him read that was in parseltongue. Danny supposedly had some relatives on his mother's side and the Dark Lady was dragging him there. Serenity was being dragged with him because it was by now frigging obvious that she was his mate.

Ginny was staring at the squiggles oddly. "Wow, Harry, there's a book that Hermione can't read!" Harry tried to stop himself from flinching at the mention of his supposed best female friend.

"Are you aware that Granger, Weasley, and that one other kid—Longbutt wasn't it?—are now apart of the Order of the Flaming Flamingos?" Serenity calmly said as she walked out of the girls' room. "I think you mean Longbottom, sis."

"Who gives?"

Danny raised an eyebrow at them as he emerged from Harry's and his room.

"Wow! They actually let you wear something that wasn't dress clothes!" Harry said in a sarcastic shocked tone.

"I have no idea why people are always raving about "Designer Jeans" these things are bloody weird…"

"That's because you're used to wearing worn out, broken-in jeans that you keep until you completely and utterly outgrow them, dearie. Plus most of your jeans were really old, stolen, and very baggy. You're just not used to jeans that fit you right."

Danny stuck his tongue out at her as he pulled up the dark blue jeans again. Lamia entered the room and calmly asked, "Ready?"

"Er… I have to use the loo real quick, Mother," Danny said and went inside the bathroom. Serenity shook her hair that she had put up in a high ponytail. "Why is he always like this…?" she muttered as she kissed Harry on the cheek. "Now be good for Weasley or else," she mockingly threatened. Harry laughed as Ginny blinked. "I do not need a minder, let alone someone younger than me!"

"Yes you do."

"Harry, don't bother arguing with her," Danny said as he emerged from the potty and wrapped his arms around Serenity. "You're only saying that because she's your mate and now I'm going to be permanently outnumbered in arguments!" Harry sniffled.

"No, it's because I'm right and you're wrong, deal with it, bro."

Lamia rolled her eyes and said, "You can come willingly, or I can drag you. Which one would you prefer?"

"Fine, we're coming, damn it…" Danny muttered.

"Language, Dante."

Danny rolled his eyes and followed his mother with Serenity holding his hand. Harry laughed when she mouthed, "Save me!"

Danny held Serenity closer as he looked around the small town Mother warped them to. Serenity seemed to be a little scared though it was probably because there were a bunch of vampires with his coloring. It was his clan…

"Danny… there's a butterfly and it looks like it's going to eat me!" He sighed and looked to see a little blue butterfly innocently flying past them. Serenity whimpered and actually hid behind the vampire hybrid when it flew by.

Leon Lamia was waiting for his mom who was supposedly bringing his half-brother and his mate. His light teal eyes looked up when he saw Mom appear with who was definitely little Danny who wasn't so little anymore. He knew what was going on and he knew that his brother was Tremo Caligo. That was probably why he wasn't surprised to see a petite blonde holding his brother's hand.

Leon was surprised though when she suddenly seemed terrified and hid behind his little brother as a butterfly flew by them.

Leon stood up and approached him mother. "Maman!" he called out in French.

Dawn smiled when her eldest son ran towards her. Dante was soothing his mate because she gets spooked by butterflies. She thought her son's fear of house elves was odd, but a fear of butterflies was more than a little ridiculous.

"Hello, Leon. Have you at least talked to whats-her-name yet?"

"Stop meddling in my love life, mother."

Dante was staring at them as he carefully picked the veela up. "Dante, get over here," she said calmly. He stiffened, but walked up to her and Leon. You could see the anxiety and paranoia in his silver-tinted, sapphire orbs. His mate was gripping him for what seemed to be protection. Dawn felt slightly bad for the girl who was almost completely unraveled. This was the first time she had been outside of the manor since August.

Dawn sighed and whacked both of her sons on their heads by the way they seemed to be sizing each other up. "You two are brothers, not enemies."

Danny glared at his darling girlfriend when she started to laugh. "Shut up, Ren."

"Don't call me that."

The person who was supposedly his half-brother seemed mildly amused.

"Fine, Itty."

"If you ever call me that again I'll bite you."

"I'm the vampire, darling, not you."

"That doesn't mean I don't bite, dearie."

"I know that. You bit me two, three weeks ago or so."

"…sorry?" Serenity innocently said with big eyes.

"Ren, you're too adorable to hurt. It'd be like kicking a puppy."

"Gee, thanks."

"Take it as a compliment, darling."

The other male vampire gaped. "That is not fair. My little brother found his mate before me and I'm eight years older."

Mother raised an eyebrow. "It's your fault that you're refusing to talk with the girl you think may be your mate. Those two were already dating when I first noticed signs."

"Who the hell is that?" Serenity cut in.

"Where do you two learn such language?" Mother snapped.

Danny raised an eyebrow. "You pick up some things when you live on the street for two frigging years," Serenity snapped. Danny quickly tried to soothe her temper. This was not the time for her to lose her explosive temper.

He readjusted her so he could rub her back in hopes of calming her down. He had temporarily forgotten that she purrs until a soft rumble was heard.

"Dante, Leon. Leon, Dante," Mother said. "Dante, please stop making Serenity purr. It gets distracting."

"Sorry?" was his innocent response.

"Danny, put me down."

"What if I don't want to?"

"Are they always like this…?" the Leon person said to Mother.

"Actually, they're behaving rather well…"

"…I'm scared now."

"I don't really blame you. You'll get used to them."

"Says who?"

"Me."

Leon had led them to his house and was now having a staring contest with his brother. Both of them blinked when his brother's mate tilted her head to the side innocently and clapped her hands between their faces.

"Stop staring at each other, it's creepy…" the veela whined. How the heck Danny landed with a veela hybrid was past him.

"Will you two stop it already?" Mom finally snapped.

Leon opened his mouth but closed it when Danny simply said, "No," with a shake of his shaggy, streaked, ink-black hair.

"Danny, if you're not going to say something semi-nice then don't say anything at all."

"Yes, master…" was the sarcastic response.

"The advantage of having the most annoying person wrapped around my finger…"

"I am not wrapped around your finger!" Danny snapped back.

"Really?" The veela might have said more but his darling little brother started to tickle her relentlessly.

"S-stop!"

"Nope."

"S-sorry?"

"Not stopping still."

"P-please?"

She was scooped up in his arms and placed in his lap as Danny finally stopped tickling the poor girl.

"Thanks…"

Mom groaned in exasperation at this whole thing. Leon hid his flinch when he realized that she was not happy with his brother's refusal to talk to him period and instead pay more attention to his very attractive mate.

"You're going to make me regret dragging you here, aren't you Serenity?" Mom said with a small twitch in her eyebrow.

"Hey! I know where Danny gets that twitchy eyebrow thing now!" she chirped.

"That's Serenity for "You ain't seen nothing yet," Mother," Danny clarified.

"No, it means 'you haven't seen anything yet,' dearie. Your grammar sucks. Ain't isn't a word by the way."

"Do you really think I care these days?"

"No."

"Will you two stop it already?" Leon finally snapped.

"Wow! You can talk!" the veela sarcastically said.

"Ren…"

"Yes, dearie? ...and don't call me that for the billionth time!"

"Would it kill you to cut down your sarcasm?"

"It quite possible could."

"Dandy…"

Leon was going to say something else, but his maternal grandmother entered without knocking, as usual.

"Dawn!" Grandma happily said and hugged Mom. "Hello Mamma!"

"Hello, Leon," Grandma said to him. She gasped when she saw his brother and the veela wrapped in his arms.

"Danny…" she whispered in shock.

"Who are you and how did you know my name and let alone what I go by?" Leon was slightly concerned about his body language. It was as if he was a warrior in the midst of mêlée.

"I'm your grandmother and Leon here started to call you Danny since you were little and you would throw a fuss if someone called you by the dreadful first name your father gave you."

"Wow, Danny! You were a pain even when you were a little babe!"

"Serenity, have someone ever told you that you get annoying after a while?"

"Yes, your father did this morning."

"I am not even going to ask…"

"Good idea."

Leon felt a sense of foreboding by the way Grandma was staring at the veela. He knew why, of course. Grandma was old-fashioned and she believed that all non-vampire mates should be bonded to the vampire, kept as a pet, or both. Grandma was one of the two to three elderly that were trying to pass a law that forced veela in particular to be bonded at least and turned into a pet for life at the first sign of unfaithfulness or deceit. Of course she's going to be irked that her long-lost grandson's mate is half-veela.

Grandma stared at the by now slightly scared blonde before cracking a small smile. "She's his mate, isn't she?"

"Leave her alone," Danny snarled as he held her close and his eyes flashed a demonic red. "C-can't breathe…" The youngest vampire quickly let her go. "Why are you always choking me?"

Danny's lower lip stuck out when the petite veela slid off his lap and next to him. "Believe it or not, dearie, but I don't want to sit on your lap twenty-four seven."

Leon bit his lip carefully—he didn't want to bite his lip with a fang now—as Danny's blue eyes widened and grew a little watery.

"Don't you pout at me, Danny."

He scowled but wrapped an arm around her gently. "Oh fine…"

Leon saw Grandma smile happily when the girl wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned against him.

"I win," the girl said before pecking him on the lips. He put his hand on the back of her head and deepened it greatly. "Hey, no Jamie around to make gagging gestures." The mischievous chirp didn't calm Leon's nerves at all. His brother screamed mischief.

"…he really needs a girlfriend."

"He's slightly antisocial though in real life…"

"Didn't you say that that one bookworm is starting to fancy him?"

Mom shut them up by knocking their heads together forcefully. "There goes the few remaining brain cells I had left…" his brother muttered before closing his mouth.

Leon rubbed his temples when he heard his door being thrown open again. "Hey, Lee! Do you want to hang out or something? Oh, hi, Mrs. Lamia," one of his friends innocently added. Leon knew that his best mate was gaping at the tanned veela in a sea of pale brunettes.

"Why hello. I don't believe we met," his friend said. Leon's respect of his intelligence dropped a few notches by the way he was flirting with the veela even though she was snuggled in his brother's arms.

"Jack, leave my brother's mate alone."

"…brother? I thought your brother was dead!"

"Well so are you. At least I'm only half-dead…" Jack had left such a great impression on his little brother…

Jack snorted at the younger vampire. "You got spunk, kid. I gotta give you that. Jack Vipra, and you are…?"

"Danny Riddle," was the quiet response as Mom gaped at how calmly Danny shook Jack's hand firmly. "Stay away from Serenity," he snarled. Who Leon now assumed was Serenity slapped him across the face.

"Do we need to go over this again, dearie?"

"You are not my possession and I am not allowed to threaten innocent bystanders and blah, blah, blah or else you will cause me physical pain that I would not like."

"Close enough… Really now, the worst I would've done was throw a fireball at you, again."

"I can't believe you find the fact that you gave me second degree burns funny!"

"I don't think it's funny. I think the fact that you think that poking your scars from that is a good idea."

"Why did I befriend you those thirteen years ago?"

"No clue, remember? I was two."

"Oh right… I don't really remember either…"

"I'm not surprised. Do you even know what you ate for breakfast today?"

"Blood."

"Ew…"

"You are aware that you're surrounded by vampires and you're in a vampire village thing, right darling?"

"Am now!" she chirped with her honey eyes sparkling vividly. Jack was staring at Danny before realization dawned on him. "Y-you're Tr-tremo Cal-Caligo…!"

"What was I on when I let you come up with my codename?"

"I don't know. You're the one who let me. You were probably desperate 'cause didn't we get kicked out of, like, every library in town?"

"…yes."

"That's probably why then. Why? Don't you like it dearie?" Leon exchanged looks with Jack when the veela's eyes widened and she adopted a hurt expression that was obviously false.

"Sure!" …and he fell for it.

"You are so gullible sometimes…"

"Hey!"

"Hay is for horses for the billionth time. I swear, either you're secretly part horse and never told me or you're secretly cheating on me with a pony."

"…I didn't need that visual," Jack muttered.

Danny laughed at that. "She always comes up with… ahem… interesting visuals like that."

"Imagine all the ones I get. It's my head."

"I can because I've seen some of them when I noticed you were holding your head and talking to yourself. You will get my therapy bill in the mail."

"I would think you were serious if it weren't for the fact that you're actually on the list that shrinks keep that tell them who to not bother with and just call the people who take crazy people like yourself to those mental wards."

"It's fun driving shrinks out of their minds though!"

"You need a new hobby," Leon drawled. Ha! He finally got a word in.

"Drawing is a hobby, so there!"

"Are you getting high off your own insanity again?"

"No, that's Jamie's thing."

"…good point. Wasn't he muttering about the voices the other day?"

"I was definitely not making my voice sound different and sending telepathic thoughts to him, nope not me."

"You know that Jamie has been worried that he's been hearing voices since we found out that there was a snake in our pipes! He could hear it hissing but he didn't know where it was coming from. Do you really want your best mate to think he's insane?"

"He's already insane, so why does it matter?"

"Like you should be talking, my darling drunk three-year-old," the veela drawled.

"I like talking, it's fun."

Leon gave in and started to laugh with Jack. The laughter increased when they flipped them off and got firmly cuffed by Grandma and Mom.

"Potter," Lucius Malfoy said as he entered the room. Ginny and Harry looked up from their game of chess. Ginny was trying—and miserably failing—to teach Harry how to be a better player.

"What?" he snapped.

Lucius rolled his eyes and dragged the boy to him with his wand. "The Dark Lord requires your presence."

Lucius grabbed his wrists and forced him through the door. The blonde let go of the younger wizard's wrists when they were out in the hall.

Harry rolled his eyes and headed towards the library. He already knew that this was going to happen.

Harry knocked on the door sharply but entered before getting permission. Voldemort already knew he was coming so did he really need to wait?

"Potter, why did you knock but barge right in anyways?"

Harry innocently replied, "Must have picked up one of Serenity's habits, sir."

Voldemort rolled his eyes and tossed a stick at him. Harry ducked. "Why did you throw a stick at me, sir?"

"…that was your wand, Potter."

Harry's mouth formed an 'O' as he made his stick come to him. It was so weird having it in his hand after three weeks without it… He twirled his wand in his hand.

Voldemort snapped his fingers and Harry immediately met his eyes.

"I must say, you are one of the last people I ever thought would be standing before me and under my complete command. No matter if you were forced into it or not."

Harry stayed silent as his face became void of all emotion.

Voldemort's lips twitched into a triumphant smirk at the way Potter's face blanked just like he wanted him to do. The boy knew that emotions could be weaknesses… Potter could be great. It was such a pity that it took a few years for him to break away from the old fool. Voldemort knew that Potter was not a light wizard or a dark wizard; he was most likely a gray wizard. The Lord of Darkness knew for a fact that the former Golden Boy had looked into the Dark Arts by some of the books that were in the boy's possession.

"Out of curiosity, where did you find that book on the Dark Arts written in parseltongue? I haven't seen it before and it was one of the better books I have read on the subject."

"…Danny stole it from some library as a birthday present, sir."

"I am not surprised…"

"Don't blame you, sir."

Voldemort snorted at Potter before clearly ordering, "I'll let you have your wand but no hexing, trying to escape, or pranks."

Voldemort was rather amused that the boy was more put off by the no pranks and hexing part. It was as if he hadn't even thought about escape… The wonders of Imperio Metal, threats, and powerful prisoners who were mentally unstable…

"Come on, sir! Can't I hex Danny if he gets on my nerves?"

"No."

"Damn…"

"You'll live," Voldemort said in hopes of distracting him enough to check his mind for escape plans…again.

"Stay still," he ordered sharply when he saw that his son was unwittingly protecting the other boy's mind once again.

Voldemort reached out and touched the scar—he found himself inside the boy's mind.

Random little thoughts that Voldemort didn't need to know came first.

A flood of strategies reached Voldemort at a fast race. Attack plans, spell combinations, random bits of information about major buildings, towns, and landmarks that Voldemort tried to memorize, a style of dueling that seemed to be Potter's own design that he was developing that impressed the Dark Lord greatly, plans of what they were going to do, information about the Order that Potter had collected, blackmail on almost every person that Voldemort could think of that the boy had contact with—himself included, and the most shocking piece he found with that group of memories was that Potter had inherited the Order's headquarter… None of this would help him figure out if Potter was up to something, but could be helpful for a future date when the Potter was completely under his control and perfectly loyal and obedient. …he had to figure out where Potter hid some of those photos.

Potter was glaring at him in a way that he could tell that he knew exactly what was going on. "Get out of my mind," he snarled, but took in a sharp intake of air as Voldemort smirked and made pain come from his scar.

"Potter, shut up and this will be over before you know it. I am your master and therefore I have a right to your mind because it belongs to me now."

Potter backed off though his eyes were still spitting fire slightly.

Voldemort triumphantly smirked and continued searching.

…he almost stopped when he found what seemed to be two portals. He was about to explore the red one when Potter interrupted, "Sir, I doubt you want to visit your own head."

'So that's where the link is…' Voldemort mused. He had a brilliant idea. He closed his eyes and concentrated on the portal and attempted to strengthen it so his hold on the boy's rather brilliant mind was strengthened. He could feel a prodding which he knew was him trying to break into his own mind and widen the link. It was working.

Potter flinched and struggled to move away from the pain. "Stay still," Voldemort muttered and grabbed the Imperio Metal on the lad's wrist with his free hand.

Voldemort stopped and manipulated it so that he could enter the boy's mind freely with the last Potter only being able to send thoughts like he already could while nearby—all Voldemort did was widen the range.

Voldemort started to poke into the other portal to someone's mind until he saw an identical shield that he had broken to get inside Potter's mind, only much more powerful. There was a small hole that allowed access but there was an odd shield that he couldn't break. He had found a way into his son's mind if only he could break the weaker shield that seemed to be keyed to Potter's signature by the bright green color with a few flashes of yellow.

Voldemort didn't even try because he doubted he could break his vampire son's natural shield and the fact he didn't want to know what goes on in his son's head in the first place.

'GET OUT!' he heard.

'Not happening, Potter,' he drawled back.

'Get out of his head,' he heard a deeper voice snarl.

'Dante…'

'I don't appreciate you using my link-brother's head to get into my own, father dearest.'

'Link-brother?' Potter amusedly asked.

'I made it up on the top of my head, so there!'

Voldemort was suddenly thrown out by an unknown force that seemed slightly familiar.

He stumbled backwards in shock. "What was that?"

"Danny," was the nonchalant answer.

Voldemort scowled but he couldn't find any escape plans that he had already stopped. "Why didn't you mention that you own the Order's headquarters?" he demanded.

"You never asked sir, plus it is good blackmail if I got found out by them. I wonder what happened to that house elf…"

"How did that link form?"

"No clue sir, it's been there for years. I thought I was going insane when I heard Danny's voice muttering about peanut butter of all things in my head."

"Who all knows?"

"Danny of course, Serenity figured it out somehow, and you. I think Dumbledore noticed it somehow. He must have been trying to pry into my head again… He asked if we had done a bonding ritual or something… That's a good idea now that I think about it… got to read up on those."

"Do you know anything distinguishing from it?"

"We can engage in telepathic conversations no matter where we are and the others position, feel the others emotions while in close range, share occasional dreams, sometimes wind up in some weird room if we fall asleep at the same time which I think is where our minds meet, we have this odd tendency to know what the other's going to say to many people's annoyance to the point we're always finishing each other's sentences, and we know each other's general area, sir."

"That explains a bit…"

Potter smirked in mischief. It seemed the only emotion that the boy showed in front of him was mischief these days. The lad had a lot of it too...

'And to think that he actually is wondering why he has the word 'Imp' branded on his wrist…'

Voldemort always felt a bit of victory when the dark-green letters were shown. They belonged to him and those few letters proved it.

"How did you find out about that incident that happened during Dante's birth?" he suddenly demanded.

"I got dragged into one of your dreams again and lo and behold! You were having a nightmare about madam's labor."

"Potter, do not mention that incident in front of me again."

"Yes, sir."

Voldemort smirked before engaging the boy in a mock duel out of personal amusement. The boy was an unpredictable, yet vicious dueler. Voldemort already knew that by previous raids and watching him ridicule one of his newer followers. The poor fool was in the Infirmary for a week… Voldemort just barely ducked a large anvil that the boy had conjured discretely and then levitated over his head quickly without his wand while sending minor jinxes—he levitated it wandlessly, not conjured it.

"Stop."

Potter made a face and Voldemort turned around to see a mutant rabbit behind him that was about to pounce on him.

"A rabbit, Potter?"

"What? Sir, do you really think an auror is going to expect me to sick a bunny on them? I don't think so!"

"It's the fact that you made it pink with orange stripes that's disturbing me."

"Eh, you have a maniacal vampire with unlimited access to your head and see how you come out, sir. Danny's former shrink said that we were very special!"

"Potter, I doubt they meant the nice version."

"Who cares? She's in some mental ward now and suffering from an extreme case of Prolonged Danny Exposure."

"Potter, did you take your meds?"

"I don't take meds, sir. I think you would have known if I did along with the rest of the Magical World. Your darling son needs them more than I do anyways."

"What are you two talking about?" Dawn calmly asked as she leaned against the doorway. Dante and Serenity were behind her and staring at the rabbit that Potter had forgotten to get rid of.

"…why is there a pink and orange mutant bunny wabbit?" Serenity carefully asked. His son whispered something in her ear when she said 'wabbit' instead of 'rabbit' that made her flick him on the shoulder.

"Oops…" Potter muttered and got rid of it with a snap of his fingers.

Dawn and Dante raised identical eyebrows. It was little moments like these that made him wonder why no one even thought that the younger vampire was their son.

Harry calmly walked into the room with his hand on his wand. "Hi Gin."

Ginny glared at him vividly. "Shut up, you Death Eater!" she snarled.

Draco spilt the beans in hopes of getting her to switch by showing that the Light was doomed with those three under the Dark Lord's command during his duel with Master Voldie-Moldie. Lucius walked in displeased and calmly stated that his son couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Harry rolled his eyes and twirled his wand around. Ginny watched it in shock. "You should really be glad that I was ordered not to hex or prank anyone, Gin-Gin. I am rather insulted by the fact that you're ignoring the fact that we're being forced into this by the lovely means of Imperio Metal." To prove his point, Harry rolled his sleeve down and let the metal shine off his tan wrist. He made sure to hide his lovely first mark.

Ginny glared at him again.

"I'm going to laugh if your face gets stuck like that," Serenity said in all of her faux innocence.

Ginny glared at her which made Danny glare at the redhead who made Serenity slap Danny for not being nice which made Ginny stop glaring because she was gaping at them. Are you still with me?

Harry rolled his eyes and flicked his wand onto his wrist with a spell. Who needs a holster when you can cast a spell that does the same thing?

'Bedroom?'

'Bedroom,' Danny confirmed as he grabbed Serenity's hand and gently pushed the girl in front of him. Harry rolled his eyes when Danny flipped Ginny the birdie when Serenity wasn't looking. Harry slammed the door shut and quite a few charms were cast on it to insure their privacy.

"So, did you guys have fun?" he randomly asked as he jumped on his bed. "It could have been worse and it could have been better," Danny replied.

"His grandparents don't like me!" Serenity chirped.

Harry motioned them to continue that little thought.

"My grandparents are old-fashioned I guess. They believe that any mortal mate should be immediately bonded to the vampire and veela should be bonded especially. My grandmother especially is not happy that we haven't even thought about being bonded."

"I'd rather wait until I'm of age before being literally married forever to someone."

"You're making it sound like it's a bad thing," Danny said with a bit of hurt in his voice.

"Danny, it's not you. It's the fact that I'm fifteen and your bloody relatives are trying to talk me into bonding with you. She backed off when she found out that I was younger than you, but I doubt that it's going to last…"

Danny smiled, scooped her up and showered her head with light kisses.

Harry rolled his eyes and asked, "What did you think of your half-brother?"

"Want to take his place? Leon seems a little… boring. It might be because Vix and I wouldn't stop bickering though. He seemed a little triumphant when he finally got a word in. His friend actually flirted with Vixie until he was told that she was my mate! I am not treating you like a possession!"

Serenity smirked and poked him in the chest. "Oh, and Harry, you weren't hearing voices the other day. Danny was messing with your head again."

Harry glared at Danny as the vampire stuck his tongue out at him. "Are you trying to make me think I'm insane?"

"Yes."

Harry threw a pillow at him, but hit Serenity.

"Sorry sis!" he managed to get in before ducking the pillow Serenity threw.

Danny laughed, but he got hit in the face with Serenity's pillow. "Why you little!" he said as he chased her around the room with a pillow in hand. Laughter filled the room. Harry ducked and ran into the main room and knocked Ginny over who was trying to eavesdrop.

Harry blindly threw his pillow and hit Serenity in the back. Danny had just pinned her down and was tickling her relentlessly. Harry smirked and started to hit Danny with a pillow. Danny's eyes sparkled with mischief as Harry found black restraints holding him down on the ground next to Serenity.

"I win," the vampire smugly said. He hit Harry on the head with a pillow, scooped Serenity up in his arms tightly, and removed the bonds on Harry. Danny had sat down on the couch with a whimpering Serenity.

"Danny…" she whined with her eyes starting to widen in a way that said, "I'm cute, obey me."

Danny rolled his eyes and made the restraints holding her wrists still disappear after holding her close to his chest. "Got you," he whispered.

Serenity pouted but accepted the fact that Danny wasn't letting her go anytime soon. "Good for you," she mumbled as Danny pulled her ponytail out and ruffled her hair. Harry plopped down next to them as Danny started to rub her small shoulders. "Why do you keep trying to make me purr?" she managed to get in before she started to purr again.

Harry stood up to grab a book when Ginny tackled him from behind and snatched his wand. "In-in Incarcerous." Harry pretended to be shocked when ropes wrapped around his thin body. The spell was done rather well considering that it wasn't her wand that she was using.

Danny let go of Serenity and stalked over to Ginny in record time only for Ginny to tie Serenity up and pointed Harry's wand at her neck. Danny immediately stopped. "You wouldn't," he snarled.

"Try me. Give me the password or you'll see what I managed to pick up from Potter."

"There's one itsy bitsy problem with your request. I don't have the password. I only know the one to get in, not out."

Ginny glared at the vampire and muttered a spell that impressed Harry. It was a version of the Incarcerous spell but created chains instead of rope. She seemed thoughtful of what to exactly what to do now that they couldn't really do anything to her knowledge.

'This is too perfect!' Danny chortled in Harry's mind. Harry knew that Danny could break the poorly crafted chains and Harry could burn through the weak rope, but Ginny seemed determined that Voldemort was not going to have them.

"What are you doing?" Serenity demanded when Ginny pointed Harry's wand at Harry and shrunk the already small boy down. She smirked and dropped him in her robe pocket. Serenity and Danny tried to scoot away, but made it so that she could shrink them at the same time by accident. Serenity squeaked when a large hand snatched both of them up and dropped them into the witch's pocket with a small thud.

"…I still don't know the password," they heard her mutter from within her pocket.

Ginny slapped herself on the head. She didn't know the password. She could probably just summon her wand and shrink her trunk. Ginny just had to get off the grounds where Riddle and co were out of Voldemort's control.

"Uh…"

'It's probably something corny because the one to get in is 'Darkness Triumphs'. They have no creativity…' she heard Riddle murmer in her head.

Ginny muttered, "Darkness triumphs," and laughed when the door appeared.

She picked up her little passangers who gaped at the door. "I feel like a moron…" she heard a slightly squeaky voice mutter. She dropped them back in and muttered, "Accio wand!" She pocketed Harry's wand in her other pocket and snatched her own. "Wait… there's tracking charms on the wands!"

'Serenity took it off Harry's over the summer,' Riddle answered matter-of-factly. Ginny pulled out Harry's wand. It didn't work as well, but there weren't tracking charms supposedly. You-Know-Who probably wouldn't have left them on in the first place for safety measures...

She quickly shrunk her trunk and placed it in her pocket with her wand. Ginny froze when Harry's snake slithered up to her and started to angrily hiss. She paled as it slithered onto her arm and calmed down. 'Should I be nice enough to grab the traitor's stuff…' she mused. Ginny realized that You-Know-Who would take advantage of some of Harry's rare books that he had with him. She summoned his books and placed an invisibility spell on herself.

Ginny cautiously crept out of the door and looked around. She had no chance of getting out.

'There's a door to your left with sunlight streaming through, smart one.'

'Why are you helping me?'

'Father said I'm not allowed to try to escape. He said nothing about giving hints to the person who just bloody trapped us in her pocket. Loopholes… the user's best friend and the victim's worst enemy…'

Ginny gaped at the wards surrounding the door. 'Ah crap…'

She realized though, that there was a book on wards in her pocket currently. She opened it up quickly for she didn't have much time. Thankfully, the Dark Lord had gotten cocky and thought that escape was impossible, so there were no guards.

Ginny had a feeling that a certain trio had been setting her up because Harry had oh-so conviently started to teach her basics about setting up wards and showed her how to take them down. She just needed to… woah. Ginny gaped when the wards suddenly seemed to be magnified and she could see the little threads that were woven together to protect the door. She immediately knew why when she heard innocent whistleing in her head.

Ginny was able to rather easily break the wards. It's not that hard when you could see all the little parts and all you had to do was break a few of the main threads.

Ginny paled when she heard footsteps in the distance and wrenched the door open and started to run as fast as she could. '…do I still have the broom that Harry got me for as a birthday/Christmas present?' she thought to herself.

She hid in the surrounding woods and shuffled inside her normal sized trunk. She still had it… She pulled out her Nimbus--it was an older make but still a broom and better than what the school provided.

Ginny mounted her broom and flew as fast as she could. She had never flown as fast in her life…

'You can stop now, you know…' Riddle muttered in her head fifteen minutes later. 'How do you know that?'

'We could feel the pull from the Imperio Metal gradually weakening. None of us can feel a thing now. We're out of Slytherin Manor and far away. The pull disappeared ten minutes ago anywho...'

Ginny saw a wooded area and carefully landed. She pulled the trio out of her pocket carefully and cautiously resized them. Ginny was positive that they had set her up when Riddle snapped the chains and the other two muttered something and the rope fell and was extremely frayed.

Harry's wand was snatched from her hand from seemingly nowhere and landed in its owner's outstretched palm. "Thank you very much," Harry drawled. He hissed something and the snake got off of her, thank Merlin, and wrapped around Harry's bicep.

"All according to plan…" Serenity muttered as she wiped nonexistent dust off her jeans.

"Y-you set me up!"

"Actually, I was going to "accidentally" leave my wand on the table with hopes that you would take it and attack us, but you did it all on your own. Not bad spellwork either considering it wasn't your wand and you can't use yours because of those gay tracking charms…"

"How long do you think it's going to take Voldie to realize that we're gone?" Serenity asked with mischief in her eyes. "Ha! We can insult him again!" she chirped randomly.

Riddle smirked and kissed her deeply on the lips.

'POTTER!' Harry suddenly heard. "He just noticed…"

"How do you know that?" Serenity asked with caution in her tone. Harry knew that they were all going to be rather paranoid after this.

"He strengthened the link from my scar…"

"Crap… We got to get out of here," Danny decided. "Sorry, Weasley, we'll have to take you to Headquarters for now. We have to figure out what the hell we're going to do…"

"Headquarters…?" Ginny said with a bit of fear.

Harry rolled his eyes and said, "God, you've been there twice before but you just didn't know it."

"You mean that that house that you stayed at was…?"

"Yep, Dumbledore has checked our wards so we know it's safe there!" Riddle chirped with his trademark mischief.

Harry pulled Ginny a little closer to him as Danny picked Serenity up gracefully. "Are you okay taking Weasley, mate? I am only willing to risk taking one person at a time... You know it's been a while since I've warped and I'm probably a bit rusty.

"Okay," Harry replied. "I'm going to Apparate us the mage version which is safer, quieter, but a bit brighter. No, I am not telling you the name because it's frigging corny…"

Harry gripped her arm and watched as Ginny gaped as the shadows gathered and the other two disappeared. Ginny saw a bright flash of lightning-like light and an odd feeling that she couldn't describe. They were in a familiar room.

"We're back!" Riddle chirped and Ginny gaped as hoards of teenagers and kids ran in in shock.

"And to think we were about to say you were dead or flipped sides some random teenager muttered as a few others quietly agreed.

"Gee, thanks," was their sarcastic reply.

Voldemort cursed when he saw Potter leave with Weasley. His son and his mate had already left. Dawn placed an arm on his shoulder and whispered, "Calm down love, think on the brightside, the next time they're in your range, the Imperio Metal will once again take effect…"
Lord Caos smirked as his little rebels once again weaved a web of lies and deceit to trick Wolf's father into trusting them to the point that they had the oppurtunity to escape. 'He has had his chance, now it's my turn.'

He summoned the rest of his Elite. Caos overheard Wolf's and Raven's plans to go to Diagon Alley, England tomorrow…

Immediately, five flashes of light appeared as the five mages kneeled and looked up at him. "How may we serve you, Father Caos?" they said in perfect harmony like they were trained to do.

"I need two of you to approach Raven and Wolf tomorrow in the Middle Realm."

Fire Fox and Water Serpent stepped forward with deep bows. "Good… I expect you two at 10 o'clock in the morning tomorrow. Are we clear?"

"Yes, Father Caos."

Footnotes

1. Carmilla is some vampire... I forget now. Just know that it is a random female vampire, okay?

2.) ...Danny's a mage so he wouldn't like Merlin much, so I picked Morgan Le Fay :-P

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