The purpose part 6: And the years passed.
Chapter 24
The next day, Seth waited the end of their first class before talking to Tom. They were adding their last ingredients to a numbing potion. *I need to speak to you, quite urgently and very privately.* Seth whispered to Tom. Tom acknowledged Seth with a nod. *Follow me after this.* Answered Tom. They brough a sample of their potion to Slughorn and class ended. *Don't forget to bring me 30 cm on the properties of Numbing potions by next class, everyone.* Said Slughorn before dismissing the teenagers.
Yaxley and Nott were following Tom and Seth out of the classroom and they walked in the corridors leading to the dinning room. Tom stopped before the doors and addressed Yaxley and Nott. *I need to talk with Seth, we will join you for next class.* They shrugged and went to eat something. Tom looked at Seth intently. *Have you found some secret places within Hogwarts?* Asked Tom while taking the moving stairs, Seth right behind. They were going to the 7th floor. *Some of them.* Seth answered. Tom passed in front of a tapestry showing Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet and stopped. Tom pointed to a wall silently, made a follow move with his hand and a finger on his mouth. Seth knew they were alone since he couldn't hear any heartbeats except Tom's. *Tom, we are alone, I don't hear anyone else's heartbeat.* Said Seth. Tom smirked *Right. I found this room, hidden. But first, tell me one of the places YOU found.* Said Tom. Of course, always something for Tom in return. Seth chuckled. *In our own common room, there's a tiny hole in a wall near the fireplace, and so you put your wand in it and perhaps only responds to certain wands, or wizards, and it opened a very small pathway in our bathroom. I heard the change in the walls, but I am not so sure anyone could have guessed it opened anything because they wouldn't have been able to hear it like me. Anyway, it took me… weeks to clear the long pathway and it goes all the way to a tree in the forbidden forest.* Said Seth. *So, useful for you, pitiful for me.* Sneered Tom. *Fine* Tom pointed at the wall. *That room, you think about what you need and three times you walk around, and a door appears. It seems to show you anything you actually need.* Seth looked at Tom wide eyed. *Anything?* Seth asked. Tom shrugged. Could this be Seth's answer to his problem, without even telling Tom. Seth walked to the wall and touched it with his hand. Seth looked at Tom. *I did say I needed to talk to you, but if what you say is true, then I won't have to.* A flash of anger passed in Tom's eyes. *You tell me, Vulken.* Replied Tom who crossed his arms.
Seth sighed and started to walk around the place three times and thinking about only one thing: a way to get to his home repeatedly and easily. After passing a third time, a door appeared. Seth opened the door and Tom followed him right after he entered. The room looked like a coffee room with two crimson sofas, a table and two chairs and on a wall was a fireplace with floo powder on a shelf. The other walls were full of books of some sort. Tom looked around and eyed the books, then the fireplace. *No forbidden books here, they all look like the ones we have read… and you wanted a way to leave, to your place, perhaps?* Said Tom. Seth took the floo powder and threw it in the fire who turned bright green. He stepped in the fire and the flames licked his body, he turned around looking at Tom. *That's I what I need, right? Vulken's home!* Said Seth as he vanished.
Chapter 25
Seth arrived in the living room at his home. It had worked. He had found the solution, without having to kill somebody else. Servants arrived shortly asking the prince if he needed anything, but he just a hand up in the air and dismissed them. He directly went to the prisoners. Gellert was laying on his bed reading a book when the entrance's door opened. Gellert sat and laid his book on his bed. He smelled the air. *Back so soon? My prince.* asked the old wizard. Seth grunted and unlocked Gellert's cell door with a hand movement. Gellert got up and stepped away from his bed as Seth had walked into his cell. *I said you would be mine if you came back, my lord.* Whispered Gellert as he brushed Seth's hair and laid one scarred hand on his back, pulling the prince closer to his body. Seth grabbed Gellert's head and brought his mouth close to his ear. *I will never let you take me for yours, Gellert.* Purred the prince and he plunged his teeth in Gellert's neck. Gellert let out muffled pleasuring sounds and grabbed Seth tighter to him. He backed away and fell down on his bed, now sitting with Seth on his lap. The prince could feel his mind and body going crazy as fresh warm magical blood filled his stomach. He would never tire of this feeling. It was like a euphoric drug being consumed each and every time. Seth felt Gellert's embrace go tighter around him as the old wizard moaned louder. Grindelwald's member was hard underneath the prince.
He took Seth's head in his hands and pulled him away from his neck only to transfer the vampire's bloody lips to his. Gellert was so dominating. He grabbed the prince again with his arms around and moved him laying down on the bed below him without letting go of his mouth. Blood was dripping from Gellert's neck and onto Seth's face. He let go of Seth's lips only to look into his black eyes. His arms were beside the prince's head, making him hover over him. *So young, so beautiful. Mine!* At that last word, Seth did not take it, and with fury he grabbed Gellert's body with his arms and tail and turned him over. Seth was now sitting on Gellert's groin, hands on his neck. *Never.* Hissed the prince. He let go of Gellert and left him on the bed, frustrated. Seth locked his cell and went to his bedroom to change and clean himself.
Chapter 26
Flames went green from the fireplace in the room of requirement. Tom saw Seth appear and step out of the fire, looking satisfied. *You almost missed DADA class, it is in 10 minutes.* Said Tom. Seth chuckled *As if you cared I missed a class.* Tom smirked *You are right.* Tom threw the book he had in his hand on the sofa. He looked at Seth and noticed his eyes and ears were not charmed. *If you go to class now, they might just think you are not human.* Tom said. William looked around and a mirror appeared, showing him his pointy ears and icy blue eyes. Angry, Seth took a book off the wall and threw it at the mirror which broke in pieces. Seth laid out a yell and threw another book at the already broken mirror. *Years… years of hiding among my own people. Now among wizards. Why?* Seth looked at Tom and pointed a finger at him. *You want to know why I had to go back home, Tom? YOU WANT TO KNOW?* Seth yelled and his eyes went black again. Tom was not moving, but had his wand in hand holding it tightly. *Because I cannot control myself anymore Tom, (…) I can't satisfy my hunger, and seeing all these wizards around me oppressing my family and hearing their heartbeats (…) * Seth stopped talking and fell on his knees, eyes back to normal. *Having you beside me, smelling you everyday, is making me crazy. I try to find solutions to my cravings and I desperately needed to go back to a damn old wizard at home.* Seth sighed and stood up, charmed his eyes and ears and walked to the door but got stopped by Tom's hand on his chest. *How… old are you?* Asked Tom. Seth laid eyes upon Tom, thinking how beautiful he was growing and caressed his cheek with the back of a hand. *Twenty-five.* The prince answered and left for the DADA class, followed shortly by a bewildered Tom.
Seth was looking at the clock mounted on the wall behind the teacher. It literally felt like seconds were minutes. He rubbed his eyes and looked at his book in front of him. Werewolves. He sighed. As if the world needed another creature with a structure. Werewolves were mindless unfortunate wizards who got bitten, because everybody knows muggles just die from the bite, they don't have the magic to contain the curse. His father had told him several times it was deadly to vampires since they can't have 2 curses at once. Psht! Being a vampire is not a curse anymore. At least, not in Seth's eyes.
Seth managed to go back to his home every 2 weeks and went for Lucy each time, not daring to see Gellert again. He also stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas. Everything seemed dull around him, not bringing any joy or purpose. Tom spoke with Seth from time to time, avoiding the moment they had in the room of requirement. The two of them were in their common room with Yaxley and Nott, laying on the sofas. There was also a guy named Orion black who had stayed for the holidays. They were all listening with passion whatever Tom was saying. At a given time, Tom got serious and talked about changing his name. He despised the muggle-ish name he had. He pointed his wand in the arm and wrote his name T-O-M M-A-R-V-O-L-O R-I-D-D-L-E and made a swish of his wand. The letters rearranged and spelled I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. You could see sparkles in the teenager's eyes. That is it! Seth knew it; the flashes, the images he always had in his mind were coming true. It all began with Tom. Seth smiled maliciously. Now it was interesting.
The rest of the year passed quickly for Seth had finally found something worth waiting; The rise of Voldemort. Back home in the summer, he was surprised to find his parents were back. Upon arrival in the living room, he could hear his father speaking loudly in the ballroom. He almost ran to the room and stopped in front, listening. *… cannot continue like this, the aurors stopped listening to us and started killing (…) the ones that were NOT a threat to anyone!* Pleaded the queen. Seth had never heard his mother sound desperate. An uproar started in the room. Seth opened the doors, and everyone stopped talking and looked at who had opened them. Every single vampire except his parents bowed to him. Flamel and Perenelle were not the only wizards present at this time. Three other wizards, 1 female and 2 males were in a uniform with the 3 red droplets arbored on their shoulders and looked at Seth with disdain, not knowing who he was. His father was in full armor, still with fresh blood scattered on his body. His mother did not have her crown anymore and her dress was ripped at several places. Anger filled Seth. *What does this mean, father?* Asked the prince. Nathaniel looked at his son with a grave look. *We might need you sooner than we thought.* Said the King. He pointed at the wizards. *These three were with us since the beginning, but now it is out of control. They are sympathetic to our cause and tried to stop the other aurors (…)* Nathaniel stopped talking. Flamel put a hand on the King's shoulder. *I am sure you are very bored in Hogwarts, Seth, if you join your father, I can gladly show you things along the way.* said Flamel. The other wizards had confused looks on their faces. Seth looked at the vampires around the room with proud eyes, then at Flamel. *I want to know how to apparate.*
Chapter 27
Flamel stood in a room full of mirrors and blue mattresses on the floor, Seth in front of him. Flamel used his wand to draw two circles at a distance of about 10 meters and perfectly aligned. *The principle is this, you have to believe you are in that other circle, you have to imagine yourself that you are in there and (…)* Flamel did not even have time to explain anything else or even the possible consequences if he failed; Seth had apparated right in front of Flamel, who screamed of surprise and jumped. *BOO!* said Seth and laughed. *Well… that was the easiest thing I ever did in my life.* He closed his eyes and poof! He apparated away and poof! Again the in mirror room. *I just went into my room and back here! Awesome! So, what are the rules of apparition?* asked the prince while crossing his arms. Flamel sighed *Not much, you could have splinted your body if you had hesitated with your apparition… guess not then. Rules are simple, there are places you cannot apparate if a charm is in place, just like Hogwarts by example, and you cannot apparate in a place you have never seen before on your own.* Explained the alchemist. Seth nodded *Thanks a lot Flamel.* Seth uncrossed his arms and wanted to speak about his hunger problems to Flamel, but hesitated. Flamel knew Seth too much and already knew something was wrong and patiently waited. Seth scratched his head, his tail agitated. *I… err, you remember to letter I sent about my hunger and thought about solutions.*Began Seth and Flamel nodded. *The solution did not work and I was getting desperate, I actually killed a centaur in the forest.* Nicholas's look became grave. *I suppose you did what you had to and hid any evidences?* he asked Seth, who nodded. *Tom… hmm, Voldemort showed me a room, the room of requirement and Hogwarts gave me means of transport through floo.* Flamel had a weird look and put his hand in front of him as if he made a stop motion. *Wait, who?* He asked. Seth dismissed what he said. *Not important, my… friend helped me get a way back here and so I used G… Lucy as my… solution.* said the prince. Flamel crossed his arms and put one hand on his chin, thinking. *From as long as I have known your parents, they never showed blood rages and seemed fine even with blood in cups, you were the only one who actually could eat food. I think your body needs more either because you are growing into and adult or the magic you need saps on your vampire side, and as for needing to drink directly from the source… good lord be with me… might just be who you are, Seth, and in your mind. Nobody knows what is happening with you, you are one of a kind, I can only make assumptions.* Said Flamel. Seth thought about what he just heard and it made sense. He was lying to himself, countering what he was… he had started to loathe cold blood from his vials, because of how he felt when directly from anyone or anything. Seth nodded several times. *You are right Nicholas, let's go find my father.*
Chapter 28
They had been places to places, cities to cities, from Japan to New-Zealand, from china to Canada, finding blood raged vampires, always at night. Seth saw what his parents were going through and he felt uneasy the first time he had killed a vampire and to Flamel's surprise, with the killing curse. His father had seen plenty of the aurors use that spell so he only thought it was normal for Seth to know it. Flamel held his tongue, shaken by what he saw. After his first vampire kill, Seth learnt fast not to feel for them by seeing his parents in action. He was mainly using the death curse because it was so easy and convenient. The green lights lit up the skies everywhere they went. His father was using a sword and his nails, claw-like, to kill anything that came near him. His mother used daggers. Epic battles were not common. Often, the blood raged vampires were in abandoned houses, in streets and cemeteries. They found them in houses where teenagers feasted on their own parents and siblings. On rare occasions, a wizard had been turned, losing his magic, and roaming the streets but were found by Seth or Nicholas, bringing them back home.
Nicholas and Perenelle had shown Seth all the spells they happened to use and each time, Seth would master them in no time. To feed, Nathaniel and Elena would take anyone who passed their way, never bothering who they were, but not killing them, for that was not their way. Seth had followed in their footsteps, also honouring his friends, the Flamels.
One day, Seth and Nicholas were by a beach and muggles were partying with lots of noises, barbecue smells, and fireworks. *What are they celebrating?* asked Seth to Nicholas. A count down was being heard. *New years* He answered. They were sitting on the sand, the waves almost touching their toes. After the zero was counted, yells and cheers were amplified in the night. Seth wondered how many years it had been; One? Two? *I have a gift for you, my prince… I should have given it to you in the summer for your 30th birthday but we were…. Occupied, weren't we not?* Said Nicholas. 30th birthday? Five years? *It has been five years already? Where has time passed?* Said Seth. Nicholas shook his head. *When you are… immortal, you tend to forget time because it is of no importance.* Nicholas answered while giving a little box to Seth. It was made of an ebony gem and reflected the lights around. Seth passed a hand on it; it was incredibly soft. He opened it like a treasure chest and inside was a triangular shaped blade with decorative beads and feathers, it clearly looked like you could attach it somewhere. Flamel smiled *It's for your tail, sire, I am sure you will never hide it ever again, won't you. The blade was made by the goblins, indestructible and will always stay the sharpest blade you have ever seen. The two golden feathers are from a phenix.* Seth beamed with joy and took the blade in his hands. Seth had stopped wearing his school robes the day he was back from school and had worn his favorite white clothing. Brown laced white sleeveless shirt and white pants with embroidered patterns and family sigil. His tail had always been free since the beginning of the travels. Seth looked at Flamel. *Is there a spell for permanent attachment?* Nicholas responded negatively. *No, you take the strings there and attach it to your tail, then you say Mòre Nùte, it will never fail you.* Seth quickly attached the blade and said the words with delight. After he had said the words, a chiming sound and golden sparks had emanated from the blade for a second and faded. Seth got up and started moving his tail around, getting used to the weight but it was so light he almost did not feel it. He moved his tail and hit his arm in a wrong turn so he stopped moving, thinking he was about to bleed heavily where he was hit but not a drop left his arm. Nicholas chuckled. *It cannot hurt yourself, Seth, No matter what you do, it is bonded to you, Mòre Nùte means dark bond in ancient language.* Nicholas explained. *Well, that is a relief. I can finally practice something else!* Seth said and he started making martial arts moves on the sand while fireworks lit up the skies of Miami.