Shado of the Covenant
Chapter 18
Tourists
Shado had to groan that morning when she woke. It wasn't that she minded little Tabitha crawling into bed with her in the night. The girl had kind of woken her up because she had a bad dream, and Shado let the girl crawl into her arms, and use her breasts as pillows, as the Shortcake had been rather clingy, and it was fairly-difficult crawling out of the bed without waking the sweet little darling, as Shado had hoped to use the shower before the other girls got up, and then sneak off to explore, leaving a note for Tracey and Daphne to look after the cute little first year girls.
However, while using the shower, Shado noticed the hot tub, and after figuring out how to work it, it was on creating bubbles and refreshing the clear water constantly, which was rather amazing, and she would have to find the blue-prints to that magic, as the water was perfectly clear, had bubbles, and wasn't all soupy like your average hot tub would get after a while which would make the water horrible and cloudy. It was no wonder everyone loved Hogwarts with such luxury bathrooms, as the tub had room for her plus ten or more it was so roomy, around, half sunken, and seated areas around the tub to sit back with the water resting just to Shado's chest, probably a little more shallow than the older dorms to keep from accidents, but even still, Shado could sense emergency wards to keep users safe from things like drowning, which was rather thoughtful considering how thoughtless witches and wizards could be.
Lounging back and sighing in delight with her eyes closed, Shado peeled her left one open as she sensed the smiling face watching her from above.
"Good morning, Shortcake," Shado greeted as the girl held her towel and shower supplies, even though the school did supply, most girls would likely have their own too. "If you want to join me in the tub, you need to take a quick shower first…" she laughed as Tabitha had thrown her towel down, and stripped in quick time, dumping her jammies in the hamper (magic was likely the reason it would find its way back after being washed).
Tabitha was rather fast in the shower before she jumped in the tub looking like it was Christmas time, and Shado laughed as she got splashed, and playfully reprimanded the girl into a cuddling before Tabitha was soon lying back next to Shado looking as happy as a girl could be.
"This is so nice, My Lord!" Tabitha said in excitement. "It's such a big bath – I bet the other girls will love it too," she said just as a sleepy Aymee walked in with her towel and cleaning supplies, eyes widening as she saw the tub. "Aymee, you can get in too!" Tabitha called out, "but you have to watch first-…" she trailed off as Aymee was soon out of her jammies and in the communal shower using her soaps to clean up before splashing into the tub, giggling with Tabitha as they played before resting back with large gaps between the three of them as they sat opposite each other.
"I thought, Alice was up too," Aymee said thoughtfully as she looked to the door as the twins slid in with Garnet right after, eyeing the huge tub in amazement, but Clara looked somewhat embarrassed and whispered something to her sister while Aymee and Tabitha explained the shower before tub rule.
"Clara!" Alice said while rolling her eyes. "Don't be silly – we're all girls, and all have girl bits," she giggled. "Our Lord even has actual boobs, and when I get into the tub, them seeing me is like them seeing you anyway, silly, come on," she said while Garnet had already hoped into the shower, and Alice helped her shy sister out of her clothes before stripping, and they showered together where they joined Garnet, Tabitha, Aymee, and their Master in the tub, even though Clara did look so adorably embarrassed, she was only teased a little bit, and started enjoying her soak too.
"This is the life, Angel's," Shado said as she relaxed back, and closed her eyes with her girls happily doing the same.
"My Lord, you're the best!" Alice said as she rested her little head on her twin sisters' shoulder, and Shado hoped she could get to spend some time like that with her own sister to make up for so much lost bonding time.
Meanwhile, a few floors up, in the sixth-year girls' dorm, Daphne Greengrass groaned tiredly as her eyes slowly peeled open. She yawned and stretched as she sat up in her bed. Her covers slid down her slender body, showing her blue PJs of a pair of shorts and short-sleeved top. They had little fairies and pixies fluttering around on them. Her mother liked cute things and she had thought they were cute when she found them, even though they were of a more 'muggle' design, but most purebloods seemed to prefer them, especially girls, as nightdresses could get so tangled, so no one cared who came up with the designs anymore.
Looking to her bedside clock, it was only eight thirty in the morning that Saturday. She would not be able to get back to sleep now she was awake, as she never could. She looked at her covers and sighed. Why did everything have to be so green? It was a nice colour but, everything. It got tedious after a while.
Tracey was still fast asleep in her bed, opposite, and Daphne did not have the heart to wake her just yet. Daphne had been half tempted to pull Tracey into her bed that night and zip the curtains with silencing magic to experience some new 'magic' the way Shado, Rose, and Ginny taught them. Heck, Daphne had been tempted to sneak down to her sister's dorm, since she would have much less trouble from her sisters' roommates than her own, and though she knew on some level having sex with her sister was wrong; they were both girls, so not too much of an issue if they both enjoyed it, and Shado and Rose didn't seem to care and they were twin sisters.
Daphne shook her head as it was too late anyway, and she chickened out, and stretched the kinks out of her shoulders and yawned again as she climbed out of her bed, quiet not to wake anyone. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Daphne looked around the room. It was not the largest Slytherin girls' dorm as it only had five girls in it. That weird Russian girl with the glasses and buck-teeth who was oddly cute, and who's name Daphne butchered every time she tried to say it. Tracey, and her weren't on the best of terms, but they were friendly enough, and then there was that butt ugly Bulstrode bitch, and then Pansy Parkinson, who on thought, might be doable at least.
Daphne and Tracey with the help of some outside forces had made it their mission to get on Pansy's nerves ever since they met her because of the 'status-quo' crap she went on about all the time, and she was annoying. She was really-small, and very delicate looking, and could probably pass for a tall second year, or a third year with little issue. However, whereas that Shortcake of Shado's looked like she could take a few spells, Pansy looked like it would take one breeze of the wind and she would go flying.
It amused them sometimes. If Pansy would just go with it and laugh with them, they would have likely gotten bored, and given up, and it was possible they could have become good friends or something, and then maybe Pansy would not have become such a bitch. She had too much pride, and not enough common sense, like most pure-bloods, and Daphne included herself in that sometimes.
Shaking her thoughts clear, Daphne felt like she should have pranked Pansy just for a few morning giggles, but she was pretty sure Pansy came close to pissing herself seeing Shado's power, so maybe that was too cruel, as her whole world belief was crumbling down around her. Daphne had once written 'cute little pixie' on Pansy's forehead with a muggle marker because she was such a heavy sleeper. Daphne's mum always made sure she had plenty of muggle stationary.
Daphne's mum said that they were ingenious 'things' to help Daphne keep ahead in classes, keeping up with Muggle-born's who did not buy magical world stationary alone (only to pretend they cared about that rubbish). Muggle pens were a lot faster, neater, and simpler to use. Daphne had to agree that they did come in handy, and not just for writing on Pansy's head and making it hard for her to erase.
Though, thinking back to that, Daphne felt sorry for making Pansy cry when she realised why people were pointing and laughing. She was not as bad as she could have been if Daphne and her friends had pandered to her every stupid philosophy of pissing off everyone outside of Slytherin, she met.
Daphne could never be-bothered to go out of her way to be a bitch. That always seemed like too much hassle. It was needless hard work. Not only that but her mum would not be happy, and then she would end up grounded or something when she got home. Her dad. Who cared? He was always a meaningless plebe in her life, and she could barely remember him as he was never around even when he was alive, and wanted nothing to do with raising his daughters, as that was 'woman's' work. He just wanted to make sure his bloodline continued, even though he only ever wanted a son, he never got one.
Her dad was killed when her little sister was six and she was seven. He got on the wrong side of some free Death Eaters or something. He was a jerk. Never cared about their mother from what she saw, nor them either.
It made Daphne quiver in disgust thinking of that. He was a hateful racist jerk. He hated her godmother more than he hated anyone from what she heard while her mother probably loved her godmother more than she probably loved anyone before she was born. That was why Daphne was so accepting of Shado. She was her godmothers' daughter, and though Daphne's godmother was Dumbledore's prisoner by all accounts, Daphne's mother wanted Daphne and Astoria to look out for and love their godmother's daughters.
Shado and Rose's mother was her mother's best friend at school. Daphne's mother was Shado's godmother too-well, one of them.
Running her right hand through her long blonde hair, Daphne stood from her bed. She wondered whether Shado was awake yet. She figured that the least she could do was go and check on her newest sister and hope she was awake so they could hang out, even if they couldn't have a little 'too much' fun because of the first years, Daphne could show Shado to all the classrooms in school or something if she got her to wash up and get dressed and they could meet up downstairs.
Daphne thought about getting dressed first, but it was only a few floors down, and all girls, so it would be fine. Leaving the room, she was quiet. She did not want to wake anybody, and she knew how grumpy Tracey could be when woken prematurely.
Entering the first-year dorm, it was quiet, and only had a dull light floating in from the closed curtains, coming from the early morning sun. Daphne could only stare in surprise as all the beds were empty and she remembered her first day, she woke up early too, so quickly snuck to the bathroom door to check there, and that's where she found them, relaxing in the tub.
Daphne rolled her eyes, but wasn't surprised as she walked through the bathroom and stopped while hovering above Shado. The girls were all staring at her with pink cheeks while Shado had her eyes closed and a small grin on her lips.
"Big Sister?" Shado asked with a cute grin stretching to her lips, as she opened her eyes and looked up at Daphne. "To what do I owe this pleasure…? You going to join us, Darling?"
Daphne was blushing and pouting as she looked over the delightfully bubbly water and Shado's delightfully naked body before quickly shaking her head as she should not think naughty things around the younger girls.
"No… I came to offer to take you for a tour!" Daphne corrected quickly before she stripped and jumped in anyway. "You'll have to remember a lot more places than the other first years. If you want, I could pin a note to Tracey to collect the girls and take them for a wander too?"
Shado stretched her muscles and stood up with a grin. "That's a wonderful idea, Daphne," she agreed brightly, and stole a quick and powerful kiss on her lips before pulling back with her fist years giggling in embarrassed glee. "You go clean up and I'll finish off with the girls, and I'll meet you down stairs in say, half hour?" she suggested while Daphne nodded dumbly, and quickly hurried from the room as she was starting to soak through her jammy bottoms, and couldn't trust herself in there any longer.
Turning to the younger girls, Shado grinned. "You darlings hear that?" she asked with a wicked grin as she climbed out of the tub and grabbed her towel. "You will get a tour of where all your classes will be located by Tracey, so you can go and wake her up once I'm with Daphne and we've ran away," she said with a grin as the girls cheered and enjoyed some pampering from Shado as she helped them dry off, but they could easily dress themselves.
Daphne could feel her heart pounding even more than ever as she finally came down from her dorm room where her best friend still slept peacefully. Though, unfortunately, for Tracey if the onymous sniggering first year girls who just snuck passed had anything to say about that, Tracey would be awake soon. Thankfully the other three occupants of the room would need to have a death wish, if only to think about harming, Shado's first years, which made them Covenant witches.
However, Daphne had more important things on her mind, like impressing, Shado, so she had her hair done up into a neat knot that hung back and up at the crown of her head with curtains trailing either side of her face. She was wearing a plaid black and red skirt that her mother had bought for her from the muggle world, since Daphne had liked it and it was really-cute on her. She had on a tight black tee shirt under some of her nicest black silk robes that she left open so Shado could see her better, black shoes, and some new black sexy underwear her mother got her to tempt any horney temptress like Shado and Rose. Daphne had at first thought her mother was crazy saying such things, but Daphne couldn't stop feeling so horney to be with a queen – an empress of witches – the Leader of the Covenant, and with how beautiful, and powerful, and confident her ruler was, it was no wonder Daphne was so drawn in.
Daphne had managed to get a quick shower. It was cool, which was nice to calm her down quite a bit after seeing Shado naked like that. She could still feel Shado on her; her kiss; her lips; her hand on the back of Daphne's neck, pulling her in with passion and love. Thinking about Shado was making Daphne feel pathetic, needy quivers. She wondered what her mother would say if she could see her thoughts, likely something encouraging as her mother was weird, and had many pictures of Lily Evans and herself together hung in her room where Lily was wearing many cute things with her, and thinking of some of them now, they were quite a bit closer than Daphne would have expected. Though some of the pictures had another girl with them, probably Shado and Rose's other godmother.
It excited Daphne to bow before her empress. She was incredible. The way she could make Daphne feel, and they had only just met, and only done naughty things once, but Daphne wanted – no – she needed more. The way she held her, kissed her, loved her. It was no wonder that her mother had (thinking on it now) had been madly in love with Shado's mother. She would have to ask about that sometime, as she was curious to know whether Lily Evans returned any of her feelings. If she did; it must feel like a nightmare for her mother to watch Lily, so close, yet so far.
Daphne had to take several deep breaths to calm down before she took the last step into the common room. Daphne had not expected to see Shado ready before her, but then she was more practical. There she was in all her perfection. Her hair was still short at the back, and framing her face long to the front over her collar bone and shorter to the sides, hanging just below her ears, but was now the colour of fire, crimson and scarlet, fading down to a yellowish colour at the ends. Though, Daphne knew Shado was amazing at magic, but cosmetic magic on her hair to that degree of perfection only made Daphne worry that Shado was too overpowered, but love it if she was.
Shado was wearing a white armless top that hugged her form perfectly, going around her neck, but only having a lower back to it. She wore a white sleeve on her right arm, held to her powerful bicep by black cord, and a black sleeve on her other arm held by white cord, and hanging wider to her wrists. She wore a tight black skirt hanging halfway down her delicious thighs to the right, but longer down to her ankles at an angle to the left, and hung loosely with a thick black belt. She had on her left leg, a long white sock up just leaving a few inches of flesh on her thighs with a black sock the other leg. Shado wore a black half boot on her left foot with a white identical half boot on her other foot. Then hanging leisurely around Shado's neck on a black cord was a lime and grey pendant that recognised, Shado Umbra as Queen of the Covenant, just hanging to land on Shado's firm bust.
Shado was stunning. Daphne had almost chocked over her Masters perfection, as those captivating emerald eyes were alit with glee, and worse, Daphne almost missed the three boys with bloody faces whimpering on the floor with the other five boys watching Shado with caution and fear while others were staying back, submissive. Shado had knocked down a fourth boy, and started punting him in the gut while he was down and defenceless just as she noticed Daphne, giving her a fast cheeky grin before returning her attention to the boys.
The boys Shado had beaten were all disarmed, wands now little more than kindling. The other boys were shakily pointing their wands at her, terrified. Daphne knew that a few more of the so-called tougher crowd would have started something to try staying on top, but they now knew whom the alpha in Slytherin was. Though, Daphne did wonder how long it would take Malfoy to understand that or die. It must be the ultimate humiliation for boys to lose to a girl, but even more so for pureblood boys, and then add in she was not a pureblood. She was a half-blood that grew up in the muggle world, but she was the Queen of the Covenant, but still, for them.
Humiliation City!
Daphne felt week in the knees as she looked at Shado. She was dressed to please. She was beautiful. She was kickarse. She was awesome. Daphne was biased. Very, very biased. Daphne would love to just spend all day with her face buried in her Masters crotch or arse, or boobs, she wasn't picky, just to breathe in that sweet scent.
"Don't you Muppet-Craps know?" Shado asked her would be attackers when she returned her full attention to the dregs who needed to learn their place. Most of them were older than she was; seventh years mostly, by the look of it, and all of them were bigger than she was.
Shado had not even had a day of magic lessons in the Wizarding World, and she was scaring them more than Snape could, and she wasn't even trying very hard, so Daphne couldn't wait to see what she could do if she was trying, because even last night looked like Shado was just using playful tricks and physical violence.
"If you haven't got game. Don't step on the court!" Shado said with a cool smirk. Daphne could not help but agree with her sentiment there, as the boys were subconsciously nodding their heads.
Then Shado made one slight step forward with her right fist rising and clenched tightly, pointed at them. They grimaced and stepped back as a burst of air blew and twisted around Shado's sleeve like the one swirl of a tornado.
"You boys want to take your… whatever they're supposed to be-," Shado began, looking down at her defeated foes. "And get out of my sight before I decide I'm not going to be very nice anymore?" she declared coolly.
Wow. This was her being nice. Daphne wondered what her being nasty was like. Shado smiled at Daphne, and winked, which lit her cheeks up as the boys put their wands away and quickly dragged off their friends.
"Looking good baby!" Shado said to Daphne once she had made sure all the boys had fled and the others quickly hurried off on their way as they saw what they wanted to, to see that they were right to choose the side that left them pain-free.
Shado pulled Daphne into her arms, and gave her a quick, soft kiss on the lips once they were alone, which she greedily returned, cuddling her.
"Wow Daph! That was cute, and hot!"
They were startled apart by the girl behind them on the stairs. She was smirking at them smugly. She was a year younger. She was wearing blue hipsters with a white blouse and her school robe over, but left undone like Daphne's.
"Astoria!" Daphne groaned as she sighed in relief.
Astoria was smirking as she stole into Shado's arms and took a kiss while they were alone before pulling back.
"Is that anyway to say good morning to your little sister?" Astoria pulled back and stole her sisters' lips in a deep and passionate kiss before pulling back from her giddy big sister and laughing. "Well, that's a much better morning greeting, sis," she said before bowing to Shado. "And a good morning to you too, My Queen," she greeted.
"Good morning, Tori," Shado replied, amused smile on her lips. "Now that is a good, good morning kiss."
"Thanks," Astoria said looking shyer now. "I just didn't think about it, and I wanted to… so… I don't want any regrets, My Queen."
"I'm glad, Tori," Shado said with a smile and stole a quick kiss before pulling back. "So, where are you off to this early, anyway? If you want. I would love to have a sister on each arm taking me on the grand tour, and I'm sure if it's you, Daphne won't mind sharing my company."
Astoria was still smiling as she brushed back her light blonde hair to one side. It was pulled back into a messy ponytail at the crown of her head, held with a silver hair clip
"Sorry, My Queen," she said shaking her head. "I would have loved to, but Music Club has this early meeting. I must go to all of them or they will use a stupid loophole to throw me out. I would have just quit, but I stay just on principle now. They do not like that I am a Slytherin. The only Slytherin in the club in fact. I like singing and play piano. I thought that Music Club would be okay, but they're full of douches.
"Daphne plays guitar and violin-," she continued but paused at her sister's glare.
"I'm not very good with the guitar," Daphne corrected after a few moments as she squished down her blush and turned to Shado.
Astoria laughed at her. "She saw this muggle rock band a few years ago and wanted to learn electric guitar. Mum got her lessons, but she's really-good at violin. Mum gave us a choice when we were younger what we wanted to learn. I keep trying to get her to join Music Club with me. She has a great voice too, so we're more than really sexy sisters," she said snickering as Daphne rolled her eyes and Shado nodded in agreement.
"Daphne sings in the shower at home," Astoria said embarrassing her sister more. "It's got good acoustics in the bathroom though. When we were younger, we showered together all the time and sang. It was fun singing together, but she only likes practising the electric guitar these days. She can only do that at home though. She has to use an acoustic guitar while here as the castle doesn't have power sockets for her amp, and with the way magical's act you have to jump through ridiculous hoops to enchant muggle things to power them via magic."
Daphne was blushing brightly while Shado smiled at her, looking proud. "Good on you, learning something fun," Shado said, taking Daphne's left hand with her right, linking their fingers together before kissing Daphne's hand, and turning to Astoria. "So, sweets. You want us to walk you to Music Club? Maybe I could have some kind words with them? I think Ginny goes to Music Club too?"
"Yeah. She's my only support," Astoria replied, rolling her eyes. "I was surprised she stood up for me all the time with a family like hers. Anyway. I'll be fine walking by myself. Ginny is going to be meeting me before we get there anyway, and Rose might tag along too, as she has done sometimes, but unfortunately, she has no real interest in anything but listening to other people's music.
"Though, you should come and check out the club room during your tour. Don't forget the classrooms, and quidditch pitch too," she said with a megawatt grin and kissing both Daphne and Shado on the lips before hurrying out of the common room with a simple 'love you both, see you later', and she was gone.
"I love your sister. She's fun," Shado said as she quickly captured Daphne's eager lips in a burning kiss.
Daphne smiled as she pulled back from the kiss. "Yeah. She is a great sister. Looks out for me, and I look out for her. I love her to bits, and I'll admit, my own sister sitting on my face is a bigger turn on than I would have ever thought," she admitted impishly with bright red cheeks as she dared speak her mind.
Shado grinned as she tugged Daphne to the exit. They laughed as Daphne led the way through the corridor, back to ground floor. Daphne showed Shado back to the Entrance Hall to start the tour. The huge front doors were open wide, letting in the morning sun and a slight breeze from the morning chill.
Daphne looked to Shado. "Oh… should we go back so you can get your jacket?" Daphne asked quickly. "I don't want you to catch a cold, and I didn't realise it was this breezy?" she quickly said as she looked at Shado, as she was not dressed for the cool weather, but she did not look like it bothered her in the slightest.
Shado looked to herself and grinned. During the trip up from the dungeons, Daphne had taken her arm while she held her hand tightly. "Don't be silly, Daph," she said rolling her stunning green eyes. "My body runs hotter than normal, so the cold doesn't bother me much. Anyway, it is not that cold outside. So, our tour will start out there, huh?"
"Oh. Yes," Daphne was quick to agree. "I figure while it's still so early, and there won't be many people up and out, except a few early clubs. You didn't see the Dark Lake very well last night, and then there's the quidditch stadium and greenhouses."
"Okay," Shado agreed, smiling. "Maybe we can get a good look at that monster octopus I killed that attacked me and the first years?!"
Daphne hid her grimace as she nodded her head. It did not bother her that it was dead. It should not have obeyed whoever's ordered it took, to try murdering Shado, and certainly should have left the other first years alone. The school was probably better off for it anyway. There were enough dangerous things to worry about without a lake monster that turned tricks for the headmaster.
"This way," Daphne said guiding Shado out of the doors and down the stone steps out onto the cobbled stone path that led by the lake, and towards the schools' main gates to the Village of Hogsmeade
"Wow. It's much nicer during the day-," Shado began, but stopped. She then dragged Daphne with her as she charged down to the bank of the massive lake that led into a river, and out to sea several miles away, onto an outcropping of rocks.
Daphne saw what Shado was so eager to see. There were merpeople.
The merpeople looked different to sea merpeople or sirens, as they were better known, and could not leave the water as they could, according to the books Daphne read when she was little. They had light ashen grey skin with long tails like a fish of different colours. There were males who were bare chested, but also female. They wore bikini like tops made from the lake's vegetation. They had odd coloured hair, from green to blue, and large eyes of silvers, blacks, and yellows, and some were carrying weapons.
Looking further, Daphne realised that the merpeople had found the giant squid. It was black and nasty floating lifelessly on the surface, and a lot bigger than Daphne had ever thought. The merpeople had tools, and they were carving pieces of the giant squid off to take back with them into the depths of the lake to their homes in makeshift straw or bamboo cages like backpacks. It would likely feed them for a good time to come. Daphne had never eaten squid before, so she could not tell whether that was a good thing or not, but maybe they really liked it or something?
It took Daphne a moment to realise that a mergirl had swum a lot closer than she would have expected. She had a fangy-toothed expression that was kind of cute and curious. Her hair was long and a wild cosmic orange with dark orange eyes that were somewhat odd and captivating, and swirled out into what on humans would be white, but darker in the centre.
The mergirl suddenly smiled and started waving with her long-webbed fingers. She used her right hand as she held a spear in her left. She was smiling brightly. Her chest was much larger than Shado's, but maybe in-line with Daphne's own, and her body was slender as she was out of the water up to her waist, which was a marvel of strength. Daphne could just tell her tail was a multi-colour of orange, yellow, and red, curving around from her hips.
Daphne took note that the mergirl could not be more than fourteen, or fifteen. Just a year or two younger than she was, maybe. However, Daphne wondered why the mergirl was so eagerly waving at them as she was sure that merpeople did not get on well enough with humans to volunteer to be friendly.
That was when Daphne looked to Shado to see her eagerly waving to the mergirl, blowing her kisses and cheeky winks. The mergirl was surprisingly reciprocating as she swam over, pulling herself up as high as she could on the rocks, and perched her spear out of the way, as though it looked sharp and made to be used, it also looked more ceremonial than an actual weapon they would use in combat.
Daphne grimaced as the mergirl spoke in a screechy tone, lower keyed than she would have thought, but still recognisable as a female sound somehow. Then Daphne grimaced more as Shado copied the sound, and the mergirls bright eyes widened, and she spoke more, and, Shado spoke more, and within ten minutes the two were having an eager chit-chat with Shado sitting on the rocks with the mergirl's fish half in the water, and Shado's arms around her body, holding her from slipping back into the water with the simplest of ease.
The mergirl had her arms around Shado's waist to also keep from falling away as the mergirl happily let Shado play with the orange-yellow ear-fins on the side of her head, and even the gills that were at her ribs, as believe it or not, but merpeople had gills and lungs, even their lake-only dwelling kind. The mergirl seemed to find Shado's ears, legs, and toes especially interesting, and likely 'other-bits' too if Shado was dressed for swimming.
Daphne grimaced, as Shado and her new friend were engrossed in conversation, and the mergirl looked extremely impressed, which from the gestures, likely had something to do with Shado's battle with the squid the evening before. It was after about twenty minutes that an older man with similar colouring to the mergirl swam over, looking whom was likely his daughter over with a roll of his eyes, he screeched something that had more depth to the tone, and Shado frowned and sighed while the mergirl pouted.
Shado spoke to the mergirls dad for a moment before he nodded, and held up a hand with two fingers before gesturing the squid chop job the mergirl was probably supposed to take a shift at, and quickly swam back towards the squid before mergirl and Shado looked at each other, grinned and snickered, and then making sure no one could see, Shado and mergirl were snogging for well over a minute before, Shado pulled back, sucking off her new friends long bluish tongue, and letting the mergirl fall back into the water, and stood, stretching as she called in a screech something that was likely a see you later, or bye as the mergirl swam back to work with her spear once again in hand.
Sighing, Shado pouted as she turned to Daphne. "Her dad said he let her slack off long enough as is," Shado said with a sad shake of her head. "Who knew mergirls were so freaking cute, huh?"
"I didn't know you could speak mermish," Daphne said with a grimace. "You do know that speaking it above water sounds a little like nails on a chalkboard, right?"
"Oh, sorry, Daph," Shado said sheepishly. "I didn't know… it's my gift… language… someone just has to speak another language and I'll pick it up in minutes sometimes."
"That's… wow; that's a really useful talent," Daphne said in surprise. "So… what is snogging a mergirl like?" she had to ask.
Shado snickered and reclaimed Daphne's hand, pulling her close. "Mary would give you a snog if you want, next time. She said she thought you were a really sexy human with your blonde hair, you would be considered exotic by merpeople standards as they don't do blondes much, and bonus, she's curious to see us, sexy human girls naked…" she said wiggling her eyebrows and laughing while Daphne blushed, but the thought excited her. "Girl has no interest in boys, and lesbian mergirls are rare, or our lake just doesn't have that many merpeople full stop. Apparently, they can live in salt or fresh water, and for some reason people keep mistaking female merfolk in the sea, especially for sirens, or as she put it, the bird-folk, or veela, as veela can morph into human form, merpeople can't without outside magical assistance, and even then, that kind of magic apparently has a short time span, and you can't just use it again twice in a row or something silly like that – its magical lore silliness or some such."
"Oh," Daphne muttered in surprise as she had believed that there were different types of merpeople, but apparently, they got that mixed up – well, she did, probably from reading fiction or something, but thinking about some legends, veela as sirens made more sense with their captivating allure magic.
"Well, anyway, where too next?" Shado asked, smiling widely.
"Umm…" Daphne mumbled before internally shrugging. "Well, we can go to the quidditch stadium next!" she suggested while Shado nodded eagerly, and Daphne led the way. "So… what was it like kissing that mergirl?" Daphne could not stop herself from asking again eagerly as she was somewhat horney thinking about stripping for the mergirl.
Shado giggled with a wild look in her eyes. "It was soft, moist, and sweet from the water. It was cool. I could taste traces of fresh water within her mouth, and feel the breath from her gills pushing into my mouth from her lungs. It was a really-unique experience. I liked it. We'll have to arrange a quiet place, hidden out of sight for just the three of us, and enough water to keep her submerged without being too deep so we can have plenty of fun."
"Umm… yea, sure," Daphne quickly said, embarrassed. If other Slytherins found out she had contemplated cross-species relations like that she would become a pariah of Slytherin, until Shado had words with them of course.
"That mergirl was so cute though," Shado continued for a moment before smiling at Daphne widely as they were nearing the stadium. "I really don't get ball sports like quidditch, but Ginny and Rose love the sport – well, Rose just loves flying. I suppose like all sports it's probably more fun to play and whatnot."
"I'm not very good at flying, so I prefer to watch," Daphne replied sheepishly. "You wouldn't have that problem as you can fly without a broom, but I've seen Ginny fly though. She is really-good on a broom, your sister too come to think of it, but I barely care for watching quidditch so I've mostly just seen people flying around the grounds playing catch or just for fun. Though, I think Ginny would make a brilliant seeker or chaser, but I'm no expert, and she didn't want to try-out last year, I guess?"
Shado smiled slightly as they were passing a small hut when a huge dark grey boarhound came bounding out as the door opened. It charged and went to bound up on them in happiness when it paused as a burst of blue lightning produced a white-haired girl in her late teens who growled at the dog with cool blue eyes in jealousy causing it to stop uncertainly and cower back. The new girl was wearing a perfect replacer of Shadow's outfit and made it work just as well, apart from, Daphne noticed it was a mirror image, and three long white furred tails were coming out of a slight redesign in the back of her skirt.
"There you are, Elektra!" Shado said happily pampering the girl and stroking her fingers through her fur like hair. Elektra purred out strange words Daphne just didn't know. "I see, so you and the girls just got here, and… Aqua has just found the lake, and Silva has found a cute little glade, and you wanted to find me first… well, I'm glad you're okay. You have nothing to worry about, as long as you are housed within my domain, you'll be safe," she said as Elektra snuggled to her owner.
"Master, who?" Elektra asked in some broken English, gesturing to Daphne and the dog.
"This is our new Sister, Daphne," Shado interrupted, "and I've never met the dog before."
"H-his names, Fang I think," Daphne said as the strange animal like girl was sniffing all over her and snuggling. "I-its Hagrid's dog, and I hear he's harmless," she said uncomfortable with the white-haired girl's affection.
"Elektra is a Nephelae," Shado said with a shrug, "she's my familiar and pet," she said, amused. "Elektra," Shado called with a click of her fingers, and then in a wisp of white she drifted back and reformed to look more like a fairy, only a little bigger than the largest fairy Daphne knew existed with four fluttering white feathered wings, two at her hips, and two at her shoulder blades, and now bare foot with the socks like they were only leg warmers, and not covering her little feet, but otherwise dressed the same, and looked like a mini-version of what she did, and sat on Shado's right shoulder with occasional flutters of wings to keep balance.
"'Ello, why, if it ain't Ivy Potter!" Hagrid boomed as he came out of the hut while she petted Fang on the head while Elektra pouted a little from her seat on Shado. "Wha' are ya doin' up and about so early?" he asked her in curiosity.
Shado rolled her eyes. "Daphne is taking me on a tour of the school," she replied. "Anyway, what are you doing here? Do you… live in there?" she asked him rudely. Daphne had to hold back from laughing. Shado was the only person Daphne could imagine being that rude to any teacher, even though she likely didn't mean it to come off so rude, she was rather blunt, kind of like a younger and happy-go-lucky version of Professor Strife.
Hagrid did not react so this was not the first time Shado had been rather blunt towards him.
"Yep. This is me, 'ouse!" Hagrid readily agreed, smiling. "You wan' a cuppa tea you two?" he asked, eagerly, which was a surprise considering Daphne was a Slytherin and Shado was ill-mannered, and even more that Shado hated Dumbledore, and she was technically one-quarter Slytherin.
"Nah!" Shado replied, shaking her head. "Daphne-baby was just taking me to see the quidditch stadium, so later!" she called as Daphne eagerly pulled her to follow along.
"Wow!" It was all Daphne could say as she looked to Shado. "I don't think anyone else would have the guts to speak to a teacher like you," she said, near amused by it as they came to the stadium.
"This place is huge," Shado said in surprise as they looked around the stadium and at the Gryffindor team as they were already out training on the pitch.
"I know," Daphne agreed. "Talking about that. You know that Malfoy twit you had to see off on the train?" she asked while Shado nodded, curious. "He bought his way onto the Slytherin team as seeker by buying them all top of the range Nimbus Two Thousand and One racing brooms."
"That's pretty pathetic!" Shado replied with a thoughtful look when a girl on a broom interrupted them.
"I already told you about that!" They were interrupted by Rosette grinning down from a broom at them, and was wearing crimson and black robes with fingerless brown leather gloves that went up her forearms with protections. She was floating near lying on her broom just above them.
"I actually tried to get dad to pull that stunt too," Rose said thoughtfully. "Though, I wanted to buy all four houses' teams brooms, just to undermine Malfoy, but dad wouldn't go for more than buying Gryffindor brooms, and I said I would rather he not buy any then, and quit if he did."
Shado pouted as she let go of Daphne and grabbed the end of Rosette's broom with her left hand while her black-haired sister lay on it smirking. Then Rose started as they shot into the air and only stopped when they were at least half a mile high with Shado hanging onto the end.
"Freaking hells, Shado!" Rosette said laughing as she looked down as Shado let go of the broom and floated up until she was sitting on the air cross-legged, and leaned over and shared a quick loving kiss with her sisters' lips. "I don't think I've ever flown this high before, and you're just sitting in the air like it's a comfortable chair," she said, shaking her head, but leaning over, and petting Elektra's soft furry hair. "Hey there, Elektra, love, I hope you, Aqua, and Silva are doing okay, you and your sisters can come visit me and Ginny tonight if you would like?" she asked, and Elektra nodded her small head eagerly.
"So, what brought you out to visit me?" Shado asked. "I heard you were going to hang out with Ginny at Music Club?"
"I was," she agreed, shrugging, "but our new Captain… she's a slave driver and managed to score some pitch time this morning, and needs a new chaser and seeker for the team… broom not optional, unfortunately."
"You're the Captain, aren't you?" Shado asked as she looked at the C, she missed on her sister's chest.
"Yep," she agreed. "I was trying to get Ginny to join the team too, but she's been enjoying pissing off some idiots in Music Club who don't want to play nicely – but with the way things have been going, everyone is just going to end up quitting anyway, and I'll have MY Ginevra playing chaser. So please, just think about giving playing a try… it's not as fun as racing, but it's still fun to play at least."
"I'll think about it," Shado said with a sigh while her sister squealed in delight, snogged Shado and shot off back to the tiny people below with a call of 'love you, bye', and she was gone back to her team, as if Shado had agreed to play already.
Shado returned to the ground with a sigh.
"Rose wants you to play quidditch with her, doesn't she?" Daphne asked with a small smirk as Shado nodded her head and rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, and I don't really feel like it, but knowing me… maybe I'll give it a try, but I've never flown on a broomstick before."
After that Daphne walked Shado around the castle, showing her where all her classes would take place before they finally reached the Music Club room. Shado seemed to be having a good time, so it was with a grimace that Daphne pulled open the music room door, as she should have guessed that her fun date with her new Lord would not have been completely trouble free, and should have worked that out with the adorable little nymph in fae form riding on Shado's shoulder, and the mergirl, and Rosette Potter, and now this?
There was a fight going on. Inside Ginny Weasley had knocked out a boy with a punch by the look of his bruised eye. She had another two pinned to the far wall with her wand while another had been about to attack her before the door was pulled open and everything paused to look at them in surprise.
Near Ginny was Daphne's sister, Astoria was in a tangle with two girls on the floor, teeth on one of the girls' arm as she was not afraid to bite her enemies. Next to them were a few other unconscious boys and a brown skinned girl with auburn hair with leaves entwined, and silver eyes with a domino mask seemingly painted around her eyes. The girl's tail was like a green vine like whip coming out of her uniform that looked like it was a magical world version of a girl scout uniform with little beret with Covenant patch on the front, and on the left breast side of her robe.
Silva was hissing angrily as she had a halo of green and white light around her as some plants in some pot on the windowsill had lit up and burst out of their pots and ensnarled a few boys and girls in vines while she had a freaked out Hufflepuff girl on her back, held down, and motionless to the smug, unconcerned nymph.
Those trapped by the plants struggled, but looked as if they were not in any pain, other than from bruises forming from where they had been beaten up, and captured. None of the other Music Club members looked like they wanted to go near Silva, as her deep silver eyes swirled with her anger.
"Hey, Gin!" Shado chimed out as if it was perfectly normal to see things like that going on.
Ginny looked over and smiled, letting her captured morons drop. "Shado!" she chimed out pleased to see her. She nonchalantly left her attackers be to give Shado a hug. "Come on Silva, sweety! Tori! Let's leave these morons to their silly little club, and I guess I'll let Rose force me into joining the quidditch team!"
Silva looked at her with a pout before blowing a raspberry at the girl she sat on, and skipping up and over, as her plants pulled back and carefully let her captured students go, an she turned into cute little fae like creature, like how her big sister, Elektra had, only her wings were like twin-green-leaf's each side from the centre of her back as she landed on Shado's head with her legs crossed.
Astoria shrugged as she let go of the girls who jumped her, and stood with her sister and new friends where she would not have to be bothered by morons any longer. The girls she had been grappling had fallen to the floor as Astoria stopped struggling with them to pull away. Daphne thought it was good to know that her sister had been kicking their butts with Ginny, but was pretty sure they only won because of the wood nymph's power.
Shado smirked as she looked in the room, eyes sparkling with lime light. "Ever touch my Sisters again," she said dangerously. She clicked her fingers and a flash of blue light boomed into the room. The windows shattered and exploded-outwards. The club members screamed and cried out in panic before they were left in wide-eyed terror, but the few who had been bound were released to their own vices as Shado cancelled the spells for them.
"And that was me not even trying!" Shado growled out before slamming the door behind her as she was the last to step outside. "You girls shouldn't play with douche bags like them. Stick to our club of-," she trailed off, as she looked like she did not have the correct word.
"Awesome?" Astoria suggested with a grin as she was holding Ginny's hand while Daphne was still holding Shado's after witnessing that cool show of power, as they walked towards the Great Hall so they could hopefully get some breakfast.
"Yeah. I like that. Awesome," Shado agreed, grinning. "Shado Umbra and the Awesome Club of the Covenant of Witches!" she said causing them all to laugh along with her.
Meanwhile, watching as the quartet of girls leave the clubroom corridor with their adorable spirit familiars was Professor Maya Strife. She hid in the shadows of a hidden corridor. Her cool blue eyes were cold as she watched the girls leave. Her eyes lingered on the rear of each of the girls in turn, thoughtful, lingering more on their queen, as she moved her free hand behind her and gave Professor Strife the thumbs up, likely for not interfering sooner, as she knew she would have to try a lot harder to hide her presence from Shado.
"Everything is coming together," Strife mumbled to herself. "These fools make this too easy for My Lord to show her power, and to mark out her territory. Messing with us isn't very healthy," she said as the girls rounded a corner and out of sight.
Strife moved from her hiding spot and walked over to the music room door, and opening the door; the club members all looked relieved before they realised what teacher found them, and saw that cold look in her brilliant blue eyes.
"I do not like to see bullying! This club is not just for Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor!" Professor Strife spoke whimsically with a cold smirk. " This club is over until I've had words with Professor Flitwick, your club sponsor, and made a decision as to what to do about your unkind behaviour. Now, all the boys in this room shall be sharing all their next Saturday with Mr. Filch cleaning the school corridors. All the girls will be sharing detention with me cleaning classrooms! I have some things I could use some servants for, for the day. If any of you are late for your detentions, you will regret it. You will arrive at seven in the morning and will not finish until you are told you can leave. Understand!?"
They were all quick at nodding their heads vigorously. They did not try to blame the others as she made it clear she had seen what happened. She had been waiting for Shado's tour to end here, to observe her. The fight was only an added prize. She found it mildly amusing how stupid some of these people could be.
Strife would have stepped in to stop it before if one of Shado's familiars had not turned up and started flooring them. Then with Ginny's talent she had not needed to when Shado turned up and showed them why messing with a girl's 'Sisters' was a bad idea.
"Now tidy up this mess and repair the glass or I'll have to inform your parents and send home bills for the damage," Strife finished to their horror as she turned and left them to it.
Strife hid her smirk as she was enjoying this. Not only that, but Saturday she would have several girls all day long doing all her work, and pampering her, so she wouldn't have to do anything Saturday. She would have to check out some of the older girls' runology grades. Maybe she could get them to mark up her third year's homework for her if she was lucky enough.
Maya Strife took a walk toward breakfast in the Great Hall as it ran until about eleven on a Saturday as lunch and dinner were later, on weekends. She was surprised she had caught up with Shado and her girls in the Entrance Hall when she heard a loud screech from one of her most loathed bullies. He was bigoted. That was what she hated about him the most. If she could get away with actually-slapping some sense into him, she would have been happyish.
"GINNY!" he roared out at the top of his lungs while Ginny and her friends had reached the bottom of the stairs.
Ginny looked at him, confused. "Ronald, what now?" she asked as the whole Entrance Hall had gone quiet where that small first year, Tabitha stood waiting for Shado and the girls with Tracey Davis and Rosette Potter having happily introduced herself, and holding her small hand with the other Slytherin first year girls crowding round them with little Clara shyly holding Rose's spare hand while Tabitha was near swinging between her two big 'sisters'.
"What do you think you're doing with filthy Slytherins!?" Ronald demanded, fists clenched, vibrating with rage, and he looked like he had just turned to her from raging at Rosette as Rose looked like she was contemplating murder already. "Then that bitch, Potter! She is nothing but evil, and trouble! She attacked a teacher!"
"And I'm giving her a detention for that, Mr. Weasley!" Professor Maya Strife interrupted as she moved to stand behind the girls with her arms folded over her bust. "It was also self-defence, and Professor Snape has been given a warning about drawing his wand on students without just cause. If you don't think detention with me is good enough? I don't care!" she said coldly. He looked up the stairs where she stood on the second to bottom step. "Now. Twenty points from Gryffindor for using such foul language in front of me!"
"B-but!" he stuttered out, enraged. "That bitch-."
"And another twenty points from you for using such foul language in front of young ladies," Strife interrupted to his horror. "Also, another twenty for daring to call a young lady a bitch," she said, hiding her humour. "Also, twenty points for causing a commotion and making a fool out of Gryffindor House. I also believe that a detention with Filtch this Saturday is in order. You will be at his office with his other cleaners at seven in the morning, and you will not leave until he allows you. Understand!?"
"Gutted, dipshit!" Shado said, snickering.
"Understand?" Professor Rose demanded as she ignored the interruption.
"But she just-!" Ronald roared out angrily.
"I don't care!" Strife snapped, startling him she moved around the girls, cold blue eyes glaring at him frostily. "Understand, Mr. Weasley!?" she commanded and Ronald paled as he nodded his head frantically. "Now get out of my sight!" she ordered. He did not need telling twice as he quickly turned and fled from her before she took more points or gave him another detention.
Professor Strife turned to the girls and gave them a nod. "Run along now and get some breakfast," she said before walking passed them and into the Great Hall.
"I think I really like that woman," Shado muttered to her friends. They nodded their heads in agreement while they walked over to join Tracey, Rose, and the first year Slytherin girls where Shado accepted Tabitha's hug as she let Tracey and Rose go.
Tabitha was soon glompped onto Shado's free arm, smiling widely. "That was odd, huh, My Lord!" she chimed cheerfully while Shado could only nod while shrugging. "That boy was being mean to Miss. Rose, and us before he saw you. Why was that boy being so mean to Miss. Ginny if she's, his sister?" she asked, curious.
"Unfortunately, he's just like that, and believes some silly house traits can make you evil," Ginny answered for herself. "He's an idiot, don't worry about him. Let's go to breakfast before they pack it away," she said looking in the hall. "Luna's waiting for us at the Ravenclaw table," she added waving back as Luna waved for their attention, and they were all quick in heading over to begin the rest of their day.
to be continued…