Shado of the Covenant
Chapter 33
New Beginnings
Shado Umbra floated in the sky above a lush forest in England, that was bordered by a large town that was ignorant of the castle on the hill. She had been given some amazing intel on the school below, and especially of a few talented girls, she wanted for herself.
"Cackles Academy!" she muttered to herself as she looked down on all the girls looking up at her from the large courtyard, worry etched on so many faces, as they felt a small portion of her power. The school lacked tact.
It was an all-girls boarding school, which made her feel happy about checking it out, personally, because it could have more than she was looking for. It only accepted purebloods, but was trying to branch out the past few years, but one of them, was rather special, and had exception before that.
Drifting down, Shado landed with a few dozen girls surrounding her, and looked unconcerned when out of nowhere a dark-haired woman appeared next to her, staring coldly, while the girls took steps back, Shado looked unconcerned and liker she had been expecting the woman.
"Who are you?" the woman drawled coolly. "And what do you want?"
Shado turned to her with a grin, and though a bit on the older side, she still thought the woman was doable, and that was quite the compliment in her opinion as she licked her lips, but most amusing of all, the woman was a virgin in her forties, so Shado saw it as her duty to get the woman laid at least, by a hot young woman, or, she thought that she would deal with it personally. Hopefully, it would loosen her up, and warm her coldness. The woman took a slight step back, as Shado's amazing green eyes lit up with golden light.
"My given name is Ivy Potter," she said to some gasps, though not famous like her sister, they knew of her name by now. "My taken name is Shado Umbra… and I am the Queen of the Covenant of Witches," she introduced herself to more gasps. "And I've come looking for one, Mildred Hubble!" she said coolly.
The woman sighed and rubbed her eyes, as she could sense the truth in the pendant around Shado's neck. "Okay, please tell us what that girl has done now, and maybe we can work something out?"
"Done?" Shado asked in confusion.
"Yes, she is the Worst Witch at the Academy," the woman agreed.
"The Worst Witch?" Shado asked in amusement. "I have come personally to invite her to join the Covenant of Witches," she said to an intake of breath. "I have a couple sensitives… erm, I guess you would call them seers, and they have both shown me Mildred's potential. Eventually, she would be the most powerful witch within your world, but with some nurturing, she could be even better."
The girls watching looked like they couldn't believe her words, but the woman before her, though, she didn't want to hear it, believed it.
"So, you just want her?" the woman replied. "I doubt, she would want to go and join any sisterhood without her two best friends, Maud Spellbody, and Enid Nightshade."
Shado just shook her head. "Of course," Shado agreed. "I wouldn't want to part a young lady from her beloved friends, so they shall be invited with her, but you have yet to disclose your name."
"It's Miss. Hardbroom. Joy Hecate Hardbroom," she replied coolly.
"Well, Professor Hardbroom," she said to the woman's shock. "You are rather talented yourself, if you wanted to join with us," she offered her a card, and she paused in surprise before she took it and slipped it away within her pocket. "I'm also here looking for Esmeralda Hallow," she said, causing the teacher to tense up.
"I'm afraid, Miss. Hallow was tricked into giving up her magic," Hardbroom replied while showing she was disappointed by that.
"I see, but… magic is in the blood," Shado said thoughtfully. "You can't just stop being magical, as sacrificial magic is normally about creating a bind, to undo a bind. In essence, switching the bind," she said thoughtfully. "Can you bring this girl to me?" she asked thoughtfully.
"Yes," Hardbroom answered stiffly. "I shall return shortly," she said, placing her hand over her forehead, "Well met, my lady," she said before disappearing.
"So, you're Mildred Hubble?" Shado asked as she looked over a rather adorable girl with brown hair in plaited pigtails, as she stood with her slightly cubby blonde friend, and black friend with her hair balled into two buns.
"Yes, err, Miss.?" Mildred replied nervously.
"It's Lady, or Your Majesty or something," Maud quickly said to her friend.
"Shado is just fine," she answered. "The choice is of course, yours," Shado said with a grin, as she offered three cards to the girls. "Your mother is just a normal human, right?" Shado asked and Mildred nodded shyly. "Your mother will be a welcomed part of your life, with the Covenant-," she said and handed the cards to the girls
"What kind of Covenant would want her over me?" interrupted a girl with braces and a tight blonde ponytail. Shado just looked the girl over coolly as she stood with a befuddled looking ginger girl, and a confused looking girl with brown hair.
Shado grinned slightly and held up three extra cards. "So, you're Ethel…? I'll take you and your friends, and I'll even take your little sister, Sybil, and her two friends too?" she suggested as she flicked her hand, and three cards became six. "Then, the little sister of Mildred and her friend, just to prove my amazingness," she said as the red head and black girl with her started, as six cards became eight, as they were both the same age as Tabitha and girl friends, so Shado knew they would have fun. "This should be plenty fun, shouldn't it?" she asked as the cards floated to the three older girls, and then a younger blonde and a black girl, and pale girl with glasses and black hair, and the even younger girls. "I always come prepared, ladies, but let me say before you choose to activate the porkeys… love is an amazing thing… try to get along before the time and date of the cards," she said as she turned as Hardbroom returned with an older girl. "Plus, if you don't mean your voles to me and the Covenant, you'll die."
"Let's unseal your magic, Esmerelda?" Shado suggested while the other girls looked worried, and ignored them, and grabbed Esmerelda's left tit through her robe, startling her, and squeezing before she let go, and Esmerelda's magic was back, as energy flowed around her. "Just as I thought. You can't transfer or give up your magic. It's in your blood." Shado smirked as she offered a final card to Esmerelda.
Esmerelda dropped to her knees in tears as she held the card to her chest. "Thank you… I swear myself to you! I am yours My Lady, to do with as you wish. Just please look after my sisters."
Shado lowered herself to her knees, and pulled the girl into her arms, cuddling her tightly. "I would like to be friends with you, Darling," Shado said to Esmerelda's shock, which caused the girl to burst further into tears, with Shado comforting her as she had never had a friend before, and ran her fingers through her new friend's hair.
"It's okay, now," Shado said gently, "but you know what, maybe we could set up a quidditch match between Hogwarts and Cackles, and have some fun during the new year?" she suggested helping Esmerelda up.
"That would most certainly be wonderful," interrupted a plump woman with grey hair. "It is nice to meet you, Lady Shado," she said placing her hand to her forehead. "Well met," she bowed before standing up straight.
"Ditto," Shado mimicked with a bow and hand on her forehead. "I have no idea what that means, but all the magical societies have their own weirdness, set apart from the rest."
The woman laughed. "Yes, they do," she agreed with a smile. "I hear that the sanctuaries had a situation with the Faceless One's recently."
"Oh, yeah," she agreed. "Valkyrie was there, and Skulduggery Pleasant was almost lost forever. But all's well that ends well I suppose."
The woman snorted. "Yes… best to pretend the world wasn't almost conquered by evil gods, but please I am Ada Cackle, headmistress of Cackles Academy. Let me offer you a cup of tea before you leave."
"Of course," Shado said with a grin. "Come along, Es," she said, taking Esmerelda's hand, and following after the woman with Miss. Hardbroom bringing up the rear. "So, Miss. Cackle. If you ever meet Albus Dumbledore, please don't hesitate to kick him in the balls, and call the Ministry of Magic, if he doesn't weasel out of everything, and I'm not holding out much hope on that not happening."
"Agreed," she replied with a chuckle. "When he was younger, he was an idealistic young man… unfortunately, he has lost his way. I can understand that as my own twin had been lost too, many years ago, and I miss her dearly… well, sorry again Esmerelda."
"Living without magic, is horrible!" Esmerelda said as she flexed her free hand as it sparked with energy. "It was like having a limb cut off. Thank you, Lady Shado."
"Don't mention it, baby," Shado replied with a shrug. "Sometimes you have to learn that magic sometimes doesn't mean what it means," she said while pulling the surprised girl into her arms, and causing her to blush, as she held her around the waist. "Also, Miss. Cackle, don't worry about the Supreme Dipshit, and his dipshittedness, as The Covenant has deemed Cackles Academy protected, and under our power! If he has a problem, I will make him rue the day he was ever permitted authority in any way, and, any all-girls school wanted by the Covenant, is granted us, as appeasement," she said as power flooded the grounds, and witches all dropped to their knees in terror, as she drew her staff while holding Esmerelda up by her waist with her hand groping her tight little arse, as she whimpered, bonelessly.
It seemed unreal that Dumbledore could continue having so much power over idiots. The school year ended well, and happy without Dumbledore or that idiot Ronald ruining everyone's good times, and Christmas was great, but the minister was in his pants, and Ronald got back into Hogwarts, and Shado could only sigh sadly that she wouldn't get any fun cross-school quidditch matches, yet.
The old man happened to have weaselled his way straight back into the school. The old man had even tried to blame all of his bitchiness on Shado, and even tried saying that 'if only she behaved like a good little girl and listened to me'.
Even with James and Lily testifying that Dumbledore had enslaved them, no one wanted to listen, and that made Shado angry, and he had signed his death warrant, as the Wizarding World had declared war by siding with the old man, and they were too stupid to realised what they had done, and that went more so when other magical societies cut ties, as they didn't want a war with the new Covenant of Witches.
However, thankfully, not all was that ridiculous, as the Council had folded easily to the Covenant, so didn't bother attacking or bothering Cackles, and the Lady Hallow, had been helping them keep the peace, as three of her daughters had been taken into the Covenant, one of which was given her magic back; so magic would demand her support, and they held no power to stand against Shado.
As for Dumbledore, Shado didn't give a crap about what he wanted. However, it came time for a deal, as she needed to destroy him, and to play him like a fiddle. The old basket case was crafty, if nothing else. He had discovered their ploys to take custody of Ginny behind his back, likely because he would have tried them given the positions reversed. Now Shado knew that despite Molly and Arthur Weasley being big Dumbledore worshippers, somewhere put their daughters' happiness above Dumbledore's 'Greater Good' (of the magical world, of course, as it seemed he couldn't care less about the rest of the world, other magical's or not).
That was what Dumbledore seemed to have prayed on. He made a deal with their 'loving' consent of course, for their daughter's 'happiness'. It was a last-ditch effort to get Shado to join the 'light', but as always, he underestimated their intellect, and overestimated his. They would use the 'deal' to their advantage.
It was quite simple. Shado agreed to continue her stay at the Weasley's during the summer break with Rose, and they got full custody of Ginny. What the old man meant however, was that he wanted them to stay (with Ginny) at the Weasley's for every holiday until they left school, which was only the last year, but still. He still couldn't stand having lost them over the winter holiday with one gallivanting (as he put it) around the world, and Rose hanging around Valkyrie and Skulduggery as she leant some much-needed elemental magic, and detective work, which she loved as it was all great fun when not fighting off bad guys especially.
But what the contract stated was that this summer they were to consider the Burrow, their home, and Shado made sure it was dated, and worded just so. She had had her lawyer draft up the contract, and Dumbledore had even gone over it and agreed.
Shado had to wonder whether the nutter really paid enough attention. She wondered what he would try next when he realised, he had been duped. Well, that was a harsh word when he obviously just skimmed over the contract as expected. He didn't seem to get that other people could be crafty gits too.
It all meant that Ginny was now technically Shado and Rose's sister, or step-sister, or something like that; Ginevra Evans-Potter, and once the paperwork was complete, all would be right with Ginny's world. Shado was happy to pay Ginny's way, which was fine as Ginny needed a new sexy wardrobe, and because Ginny was a proud young cutie-pie, after receiving 'gifts' from Shado and Rose, she eagerly let them do whatever they wanted to her body, so they got to enjoy the new things just as much as Ginny, but they were sure, Ginny was treated twice.
However, it also pissed that loser Ronald off to no end that Shado was getting her way, and staying at their house in Ginny's room, and further that Ginny got new things, which she would have protested about more if Ron's reaction hadn't been as awesome as it was that rubbing her newfound position and 'wealth' in his face was almost as fun as whoring herself out to Shado and Rose, and Esmerelda as she had bought her a few sexy outfits she wanted to see her in too.
Though, Molly Weasley wasn't all that pleased with the arrangements either. She and Arthur agreed to it under the pretext that the old nutter knew what he was talking about when he said 'Greater Good', (and it couldn't hurt that they no longer had to pay for her tuition or school supplies), but Shado was sure even the old man wasn't certain what the 'Greater Good' was any more. He had been screwing people over for so long he had likely lost sight of whatever moral guidelines he once might have used. At least Shado never used those, or any guidelines, but wrung it by heart, and she would always have that.
It had been rather amusing as Shado connected the door with the Covenant stronghold, as they cheated, and a part of the deal was Esmerelda joining them, and Dumbledore only agreed as she was of 'old stock' when it came to magic.
Shado had been rude and insufferable ever since going back to the Weasley's, and she and Rose were having a great time being areshole while Ginny and Esmerelda could only roll their eyes in amusement. There had been many 'spy' charms spammed all over Ginevra's room, just like there was the house, but they got rid of them easily enough with the apartment expansion.
It also seemed to infuriate Molly Weasley that Shado somehow managed to always have pre-ordered food, (magical people were sometimes clueless about how versatile magic was, and Tara was a great cook, even teaching her new friend Ellie while Willow was an expert in sending the care packages each day), so Molly's potions weren't working on the girls as Dumbledore had likely assured her that they would.
Though, Shado sulked a little as she had only made out with their cute Irish neighbour girl once, and only got in a little groping. But she had 'evil' schemes to complete, so she would have to wait a few weeks until the initiation ceremony, or the quidditch as Valkyrie was really looking forward to joining them, and seeing the sport for the first time, and she was a rather sexy and cute hellfire girl, and according to Rose, the girl had a taste for fanny since she, Narielle, and Ginny seduced her that first day Ginny found her.
They only had to 'live' at the Weasley's, not stay their all summer. It was all in the way, Shado's lawyer wrote it, with many loopholes for the girls while leaving everyone else with shackles around their limbs.
Funnily, Dumbledore was arrested a few days before, while at a meeting with a potential spy, as it had been a trap set-up for him, and charges were brought forward, and there was too much evidence, and too many people testifying against him that even the ministry couldn't protect him, and they would have left the Weasley's if it weren't for waiting out the completion of paperwork, and the Weasley's steadfast belief that Dumbledore would get set free as innocent. The paperwork would be finished by the end of the world cup, so they felt okay.
Rose had honestly felt sorry for Mr. and Mrs. Weasley to fall prey to a predator, Dumbledore, like that, and love him and his bullshit more than their whole family, and that was unfortunately without binds. Ginny didn't feel sorry for them as they continued a narrative that it was 'good' that Dumbledore ruled Lily and James Potter to keep Rose under control. Ginny hated that she hated her mum and dad, but she had several amazing adult role models who would hold her, and comfort her, and help her through her loss, as Laurel would especially hold her when she couldn't help but cry. The only two members of her family Ginny realised she had left were Fred and George, and they were twits.
Ginevra entered the room a moment later with a brave, wide grin as she pulled Hermione in with her, closing and sealing the door with her wand, she removed the few charms Hermione told her about and checked for more before removing them too, as it was expected that Hermione wouldn't know about all of them, as anything more subtle would be blocked and destroyed by the apartment within a few hours.
"Hey, Hermione, I hear you've been having a wonderful time with Professor Strife," Rose said with a teasing grin while the dark girls' cheeks blushed bright. "This here is Esmerelda Hallow, and you're both overachievers, so you'll both get along spankingly… I have no idea why I said it like that."
"Anyway, Hermione, don't be so nervous!" Shado reprimanded as she sat up with her smooth legs over the side of the couch as she sat on the arm, and her bare feet on the floor. Shado was wearing a soft light blue summer dress that hung to her mid-thigh, and wasn't wearing socks or shoes, or undies as she moved enough to give Hermione a flash of her bald fanny. Hermione was blushing brightly at that, and wearing black everyday robes to fit in with her pureblood mage 'worship ploy', and the only thing different about her was the silver Hogwarts necklace around her neck, not that Dumbledore was around to give any 'orders' anymore, as Amelia was only too happy to set the basket case up, as entrapment wasn't against the law in the Magical World.
The necklace looked deceptively fragile while it was quite the powerful bit of magic. It was designed to carry memories, thoughts and feelings that mind rapists wouldn't be able to get through. It would show them what they expected, which wasn't much, but the 'truth' as the person wearing it told the person 'peeping'. The trick was that you couldn't tell far-fetched lies or it couldn't keep up, but mistruths were perfect, and then it kept the intruder completely out of the user's mind, which was why Dumbledore was gone, and hopefully gone forever. It cost a teensy fortune to have made, but it was worth every black market yuen Shado spent.
The staff Shado collected from Sunnydale had come in use too when purifying the school. Tabitha (Shortcake) and her best friends Garnet, Alice, Clara, and Aimee were very capable of using the staff as they were still pure of heart, and happily danced around the school in the nude (since it was cleared out of everyone, and everything, except for Shado and Rose who guided them), and though super embarrassed, they looked like they had a lot of fun, getting rid of nasty spells the staff deemed impure or just outright offensive, and had to be nude, as it was tradition, and a good idea to not have their clothes interfere in the process. However, something's were too integrated for them to remove, but at least everyone knew about those things, so they could be avoided until they used more powerful runic methods, which the girls would be delighted by when they were a little older.
Ginny giggled as she flopped down, and cuddling up in Esmerelda's welcoming arms, on her lap, smiling at Hermione and patting the spot the side of her, between them and Shado, while Rose was the other side rolling her eyes as she was cuddling Esmerelda too, as the older girl relished in their attention.
Hermione nervously sat, and Shado gave her a nice soft kiss to the cheek, and giving her a strong hug. Shado knew that Hermione needed to be encouraged. She needed to know they were her sisters. That they would look out for her, and love her, just as much as her girlfriend, Professor Maya Strife would.
"How are you fairing now Hermione?" Shado asked.
Hermione was blushing slightly as she replied, "I think you're right, Dumbledore is insane, and very-and I mean very-naive!" she said. "I can't believe he was so gullible. I mean, I thought he was playing along or something, or something like that, but as soon as he looked into my eyes… I mean before he got arrested again, and saw my lies as truths, then that was it. He doesn't consider me a threat, or wonder what was up with me and the Covenant, or anything. He didn't consider that I was doing it to keep him misinformed, to protect my family, Maya, and you guys-."
"Dumbledore is old-fashioned!" Shado interrupted, shrugging as she knew she would have taken care to protect Hermione's family no matter what, just as Professor Strife arranged during the holiday, as she admitted to having fancied Hermione since she first met her, and Shado, Rose, and Ginny couldn't be happier for their teacher getting their friend to be her girlfriend, as they wanted their sisters to be rife with happiness, and Hermione almost glowed she was in so much love.
Hermione looked to Shado, and she had to admire how one moment Shado, Ivy Potter could look so dangerous, or even a little slutty, and then a change in wardrobe, and make-up, made her into an 'angel'. Though, maybe angel was always the right word, but it was just missing the fallen before it, because Shado was a Fallen Angel, and that was Dumbledore's fault. But Hermione had to admit, she liked the girl like this, if not, both she and Rose would be servants to the 'Greater Good' of the magical people of the wizarding world and never look beyond to the truth.
Hermione wanted to learn. It was what she liked. Books. They were her hobby, maybe she would write a book herself one day. She now realised that there was so much more to the world than just sorcery as she knew it, and her older girlfriend was a good teacher. The magical world hid away from so much more than the muggles. Hermione wanted to meet the Slayer, and her team, and so many other amazing people beyond her world, and would get to during the Joining, and though embarrassed about everyone seeing her naked, couldn't wait.
The slayer was legend beyond legend, right up there with Merlin and Morgana, and their epic battles. The Slayers were heroes that fought demons, so that had to be interesting, and then if all of that was reality then there had to be so much more everyone was missing, and siding with Shado was the right thing because she would get to experience so much, and be a part of a new history.
"Dumbledore doesn't understand," Shado had given Hermione enough time to think for a moment before continuing. "He still thinks in money, magic, and politics. If you have money in your bank that means power to him. If you have magic to burn. That means power. If you have a high position in society. That means power. Then all three together. Its power. But what is more powerful than magic, politics, and money in the bank, which could be used to 'contribute' to someone's elections?"
"Umm… I don't know," Hermione said, frowning in thought before a light went on in her hazel eyes and they widened, "u-using the money to buy… stuff?" she asked, suddenly unsure and feeling stupid for thinking like that.
Shado smirked as she flopped back to half lie on the large and comfy couch, squeezing in with Hermione, and holding her new friend's hand. "Exactly… owning the majority of what your enemy owns grabs them by the arsehole like a fish on a hook! Especially if you can afford to lose the money. If you don't care about the loss. You see they'll always care because you would lose them power by losing them money, but mum and dad took what they would need, and said we can spend whatever we need to destroy the bastards, with the family money, and it is vast."
"But wouldn't that do the same for you?" Hermione asked, looking down at the girl while she was smiling, and snugged to Hermione's side a moment later.
"Ahh, but my dear sexy chocolate Bookworm," she said playfully-mockingly, and Hermione felt the heat in her cheeks as her heart pounded, as she enjoyed that a little too much. "That is the genius of it. You run the company into the ground, or at least make it seem like the company is falling by taking risks with it that they never would. You have to spend a little to make a little, but you have to spend a lot to make a lot, and risk everything to beat down your enemies."
"Then you buy them out for much less than they're worth… chumps change?" Hermione said slowly, as she held her queen gently, and with love in her heart, so much it was near unbearable. "Or they'll be risking bankruptcy, and they would see no choice or lose everything. They wouldn't have a clue you were planning a takeover because they would believe you were like them, but they would be too desperate to wonder why you would offer to buy them out. Then once they're out, you invest more into the company, and your long term 'risk' works out and they're in fanatical straights while you're rolling around, naked in cash. Then they lose all of their power and their 'payroll' comes crawling to you to help with their 'campaigns'."
Shado stretched her muscles while grinning. "Well-well-well, Hermione Granger actually can think for herself, and our darling Professor has been helping you look beyond your silly books, as well as licking your fanny," she said causing Hermione and Esmeralda to blush and squirm in embarrassment, while Rose and Ginny grinned – "call me impressed!" she said while Ginny and Rose broke down laughing while Hermione and Esmeralda's faces burnt a brighter red. It was true that Hermione had been letting other people say what was-was, rather than thinking it over for herself and coming to a conclusion, but not anymore.
"S-sorry!" Hermione said timidly, "I-I just… I never had friends at my muggle school. And I got bullied a lot for being a bookworm. I guess I was kind of broken and Ronald took advantage of that. It's not nice feeling alone all the time."
"You're not alone anymore," Shado said understandingly. She pulled the surprised girl down into her arms and cuddled her tightly. "You have an amazing older girlfriend who loves you dearly, and you have us. Es, here is quite the study-hound too, so I'm sure she would be happy talking about your studies with you."
"Of course," Esmerelda quickly agreed while nodding. "It will be my pleasure to talk magic with you any time you like. There are so many fascinating subjects for which to discuss…"
Hermione felt her embarrassment rise as she could feel all of the love in the 'apartment' for which she had been warned off. She collapsed, curling up in her queens arms with her cheek on her chest, content that after too long she had found her place in the world. Here, she had so many people to rely on, and hopefully, a new friend, she thought, smiling and nodding at Esmerelda and her offer.
"So how was Mrs. Weasley when you got here?" Rose asked, after a few moments while Ginny sat up in her Esmerelda's lap, happily, and grabbed her book about 'mage' of Valkyrie's type, and elemental magic. She was trying to learn some new types of magic. She and Rose had gotten some fire magic working, but that was only because Valkyrie (Stephanie) had been eager to teach them in exchange for some lessons in summoning magic, and Rose was gallivanting around with her and Skulduggery, and learning all sorts too, so she had some catching up to do.
"Oh," Hermione said, startled while Ginny rolled her brown eyes, and sighed disapprovingly, as she knew her mum was totally gone. "She was 'really' eager to see me. I think she thinks that I'll be some kind of wedge between you, Shado, and Ginny. And you were right, the first thing she did was offer me a drink, but I refused and made my excuses promptly before she saw Ginny and forced me to go with her, just as planned," she said. "Oh, by the way, what did you do about Professor Lupin when Dumbledore, got back in, and fired him because he got out about his full moon problem, and him siding with us?"
Shado snorted, laughing, "I made a deal with that idiot minister," she said. "Lupin gets a job in a new off-shoot department for the Regulated Association and Prevention of Cursed Infection. I said the name needed work, but whatever. I gave him the impression that maintenance, and treatment was better than registration and abuse. It would work out as a lot cheaper too, which the taxpayer would enjoy hearing about. We give them Wolfsbane potion, and they don't get pissed off and turn anyone else while out of their minds during the full moon. Then maybe, over time they'll die off of old age and the illness will go extinct, in the UK at least, and maybe other countries will follow suit once word gets out."
"That's good," Hermione said, comfortable within her queens' arms, blushing as Shado was playing with her bum, but pleased with the outcome that her life had finally led to where it was supposed to be, especially with her girlfriend whom had told her to have fun, and have a lot of sex with her friends, and she was embarrassed thinking about that, as Maya was her first and only so far.
Hermione started as Shado's hands slid from her bum, into her robe and onto her panty clad butt, squeezing her cheeks more closely, and she whimpered, as Shado slid her hand up her skirt, and into her knickers to her naked fanny beneath, to find it hot and soaking, so gently rubbed it. Shado started kissing Hermione's ears, each in turn and it sent pleasant shivers down her spine. The queens' tongue trailed within her ear, and her fingers slid into Hermione's tight and juicy slit, along her bare butt crack and rubbing her rear hole.
Hermione gulped as she realised this was going somewhere right then, as it wasn't even night time, but somewhat after twelve midday, and it already felt good. Her girlfriend did tell her to enjoy her friends, and they would get to be together again during the World Cup, as she would meet with them.
It was later that evening, and Hermione woke up when she realised that it was only Ginny, Rose, and Esmerelda's naked bodies keeping her warm. She looked up from where she and the other three were under the covers on the bed, blushing as dirty thoughts flashed through her mind, especially sisters together, and twins, to see Shado fully dressed in beige combat hipsters, brown walking boots, and a white long-sleeved top hugging her tight and beautiful body.
Shado turned to Hermione with a grin on her lips as she as she cracked her knuckles. The window was open waving the empresses black hair in a gentle breeze from the warm air of summer outside.
"L-Lady Shado!" Hermione said quietly, as she squirmed a little as Esmerelda used her tits for a pillow and was suckling one of her nipples in her sleep. "Where are you going? It's still night outside," she said looking out into the dark through the room, as the room was only lit from the moon outside, and the four girls were in the bedroom, cuddled up in the bed, and Hermione wasn't sure what she could do to stop her beloved Shado venturing outside when she should be snuggling her sister, and girl-friends.
"Don't worry, go back to sleep. I'll be back before you wake," Shado replied and Hermione went to protest when Shado leaned over, and kissed her forehead, and Hermione pouted as she was suddenly overcome with a need to sleep, as she felt her eyelids betray her and she was out like a light, groaning internally as she realised Shado made her sleep.
Shado was out of the window a moment later, landing on her feet as she crashed to the floor outside, silently, and she walked with purpose and stopped as soon as she felt she had passed through the edge of the Weasley's furthest ward. There was a large thicket of trees in front of her with some bushes.
"Who are you, and what do you want!?" Shado demanded quietly.
However, no one answered as a small black cat slew out of some bushes, and Shado fired, zapping at its feet, a yellow spark, it stopped. "I'm not stupid!" she said, glaring at the animal. "Don't try my good will any further, as I will kill you."
The cat looked up at her with a glimmer of amusement before it started morphing up, transforming, and moulding into a tan young Asian woman with yellow cat-like eyes, and purple hair framing her face and tied back. She had a defined body and really great boobs, and clean shaven. She was naked, and smirking widely as she eyed Shado up and down.
"You're not alive," Shado stated as fact. "No… you're not human… not in the same way that I… well others are."
"Wow, clever girl!" she agreed whimsically. "There are always legends of people like you. Extraordinary people, and I've checked out quite a lot, girls mostly, but you're the only one who ever spotted me! I don't normally interact with people, especially since I'm not in my gigai, you shouldn't be able to see me, so I'm a little surprised by how powerful your spirit must be! But then you are an abnormality on more levels than just magic. You and your sister have been touched by death and yet you're still alive. I know of some people who would love to study you to find out why!"
Shado clenched her right fist and it sparked with lime light. "If you want me to kill them, send them my way!" she said, frowning as she had always suspected that the killing curse that scared Rose had touched her too.
She laughed, shaking her head. "Don't worry. The one I know is much too lazy these days. I'm Yoruichi Shihōin! I was once a… I suppose you would call me a Soul Reaper, or Angel of Death, and now, I'm kind of banished, or exiled, if they even know I'm here," she said shrugging. "Living as long as I have, I get bored, and hearing about a girl like you makes me curious, to see you, but this time was different-."
"And you're naked, why?"
"Oh, right, can't transform with my clothes on, like mage can," she replied, "it normally gets an amusing reaction, but I guess you've seen enough naked girls that it doesn't bother you, does it my lady?"
"No, I'm enjoying the view actually!" Shado replied. "Though, this is a little disappointing. I had expected a fight. The last god I met was a bitch, probably trying to escape jail as we speak, so she'll come up with something amusing."
"Yeah, Glorificus! I heard about her!" she replied thoughtfully, "would have loved to beat her up a little myself. She sounds like a complete bitch!"
"Complete and total bitch! But she was really hot too! She was stronger, but I was more powerful," Shado commented. "… so… umm… you take people to heaven or something?"
She snorted, rolling her eyes. "I wouldn't exactly call the realm of the Soul Society heaven, far from it, and I can't tell you whether heaven or heaven dimensions exist, as I don't know, but I would have thought so, given that hells exist. However, it's one of those silly mysteries the universe offered up that we would prefer to actually know! But with a little faith, who knows?"
"Ah yes, mysteries!" Shado agreed as she walked around the woman, checking out her tight arse before facing her again. "Like why you're really here. Curious, maybe, but to come all the way from Japan by that accent, seems unlikely just because of a silly rumour."
"Smart and adorable is becoming of you Ivy!" she agreed. "You see I've been looking for someone with magic capable of creating something… new… a new state for a reaper because I'm not sure the arrogant little bitch can handle the coming battle without help, no matter how strong she gets; and the world depends on her winning, as one of her guardians, like you."
"Hmm… sounds like this girl needs me to fuck her!" Shado said with a smirk while Yoruichi laughed. "But I'll have some R and D girls look into something, maybe some kind of… well barrier jacket that uses spiritual energies rather than outright magic would be cool. But if you weren't going to say hello, how did you intend to help her out?"
"Hadn't thought that one through," she replied sheepishly, "but you are incredibly connected, which was why I headed here. Though, why a queen would play so many games just to mess with some old guy?"
Shado shrugged, "somebody has to punish him, and we can't just outright kill him. He is too well sponsored by idiots. It would bring civil war before I could perch myself in control. Order would be lost and innocent people would die; there would be no balance. My people would suffer, and as a good queen I must not allow that by being a crafty little bitch and stripping away his lies and showing his devotees who he really is.
"So, from Japan?" Shado ended and received a nod. "I'm looking for my younger sister. I have intel that Holly was left there, about fourteen years ago. If you find her, inform me immediately, and you shall be given favour."
"If I find her, I won't need anything in return, let's just help each other out… I'll keep in contact!" Yoruichi said before nodding to Shado and slinking away into the shadows, out of sight.
Shado nodded slowly before shrugging, "I like her," she said to herself, "she has a great arse! I'm so glad I had a look, but she could have stayed to fool around a little," she complained, when she started as the woman returned with a sly grin, and made a come gesture, and Shado slipped into the shadows with her where she would get to experience her first goddess, and how tasty they could be.
Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean a certain ex-goddess had managed to break out of that pathetic mage-jail, after she had been tried and convicted. She was infuriated that she had been forced to stay there for so long. She had to rely on what little earth-bound magic she knew just to get out, and without all of her power she didn't know how to live.
How did humans stand being so weak and fragile? She was by all intent and purpose a slayer now, and slayers were strong humans, but normal humans-maybe she should think herself lucky. Though, the 'choice' in clothes at the all-ladies jail (an upside as the UK and other places that used dementor guards dumped men and women in together) were bright orange, likely because they were easier to keep an eye on.
Glory was filthy (even though they were looked after with the basics at the prison), and her hair was knotted with dirt from her daring escape. Some of the tougher prisoners had found out she had tried to destroy the world, and apparently, they would eventually get out to live their lives whether going back to crime or not, and didn't want the world ripped to pieces by some 'stupid' hell-goddess. So, she had had a few attempts at her life, and even one woman attempting to rape her, and Glory had actually considered letting her, as she was rather pretty, but ended up kicking her arse through sheer instinct anyway. It was just fortunate that she still had some strength or she would have been killed, and she was pretty pissed that so many mocked her for having all of her godly power taken, and more so that a mere mage beat her up, which was infuriating, as she hated thinking it, but Shado Umbra was more powerful than her, even in godly form, but still, her power had been suppressed, she knew that even at full power she wouldn't have won.
She had managed to get to New York, and she ventured the back allies of Manhattan trying to find an easy target to rob of some clothes and money, so she could buy herself a decent meal as she had already been chased twice by some police for stealing, and her luck might run out, and even the humans could potentially overpower her, so that wasn't worth it.
Glory had to keep away from the Empire State Building though for two reasons. Reason one was easy enough; the stupid magical side that housed Macusa, and reason two, the biggest reason, the stupid pantheon sitting atop it in their city of gold, hidden from the mortals and mage, as she wanted nothing to do with either of them if she could help it.
Following the odd young woman was annoying. She couldn't bring herself to just up and attack them. She didn't quite understand the stabbing in her chest, thinking about hurting them, and leaving them in a state, naked, or close too. What if some pervert came along and found them, and hurt them worse than she did? She didn't know why she cared before she remembered that she was human now, and they were likely human feelings.
Sighing, Glory decided that if she was going soft on innocent business women, or high school seniors, she could at least steal from a bunch of male criminals, so she did. Taking the money from a drug deal Glory got rid of the contraband and took a man's suit, keeping the money she left all of the dead bodies in the warehouse. She was doing the humans a favour by keeping that crap from circulation and getting rid of some local thugs, pimps, and dealers. No one could call what she did to them wrong, could they? And if they could, she wouldn't care because she might have saved some silly boy or girls life, so they owed her a turn of the cheek or something.
She had done some research back in Sunnydale, and knew that Shado Umbra was a legend in London, and that she stole from the criminals all the time, and took them out. Glory had actually thought about leaving Sunnydale when she saw what the girl could do with magic, as she was ridiculously powerful, but she went ahead with her plans anyway, and lost more than she would have ever imagined.
Glory had gorged herself that evening before spending some of her newfound cash on some more appropriate clothes, and a motel room with a shower to clean up and get a good night's rest, and a lesbian hooker to make her feel; good, and she had the cash for a quality one.
However, after that she kept from making connections, and sleeping was still an alien concept to her, but it was something she found relaxing, and even enjoyable, more so when she didn't have regret and guilt riddled dreams.
Glory had been wandering the streets hunting for evil villains to kick the crap out of or kill since then. She felt strange. She missed the paranormal, which was odder. Manhattan didn't have any vampires. None. And for a huge city was unheard of. She couldn't sense them with her heightened senses. Not even a demon roamed the city. She had avoided the odd mage, and once killed an Olympian monster that was bothering some school kids, but no demons. She wondered what the hell was up with that because she had noticed some really strange things in the city outside of the obvious. She figured it was because of Macusa and the Olympian Gods, but she had a feeling something else was going on too.
Well, she figured that she couldn't slay any vampires to get some money and exercise, but she could still kill criminals, well, the one's the humans wouldn't miss, or thought deserved it. She couldn't go around killing druggies who needed help or anything. That would make the police investigate further than the meagre effort they put in now.
"What the hell is it?"
"It's a monster?!"
Glory was passing through an alley when she heard those words. She looked through the alley where a bunch of street punks were poking the dead body of what looked to be a demon. The dead male had light blue skin. He was smaller than the average human male, and his features were more ingrained like one piece of bone rather than many, especially when it came to the nose.
The dead man's fingers were longer than a human, and his hair was a solid black. Over his body was a small girl, the same species. She was crying. Her hair was a forest green, cut short to her shoulders. Her large expressive orange eyes were full of tears and she had black blood on her hands from the bullet wound that killed her father. Glory could see that the boys had weapons and one carried a gun.
"See, I told you guys' monsters really exist!" the gunman said smugly, "look, they even have tails!" he said, gesturing the girls' tail, long and thin to a point with soft fine green hairs to a feathery-furred tip. The girl looked like (in human years) that she was no older than fourteen and had to watch her own father die at the hands of useless punks.
"Hey man," another said excitedly, "maybe we could make a killing, selling rides on her?!" he suggested, which made the girl back up, wide eyed in horror as she wasn't stupid and knew the horrors, they wanted to inflict upon her.
Glory had enough and broke the man's spine as she slipped through the alley, dropping him to the ground, dead before grabbing the gunman by his neck and slamming the wind out of him, up against a wall. He dropped his gun and looked into Glory's ferocious blue eyes in terror, piss dribbling down his trouser leg.
"Filthy little scum!" she hissed out, and yes, she did know that it was ironic that she would call him that. She tried to kill all humans, but before she never tried to understand them, and technically killing off the Earth was a by-product of getting home. It wasn't personal. She was pretty sure one of the pantheons would have interfered, and stopped the Earths destruction anyway, so she wasn't a complete monster.
Not all humans, were bad. If she was going to call the Earth her home, she might as well make up for the crap she did back in Sunnydale, and that would give her a chance for survival.
"Oh shit, is that The Cleaner!" one of them cried out in horror. That was what the papers called her: The Cleaner. It was a play on words, because she was cleaning up the streets, wiping away its scum, and in doing so she was the number one most wanted criminal in the city, but also a killer the police took the least effort to find. As long as she was getting rid of the lowlifes, they didn't seem to consider her a threat to the city and innocent civilians.
Glory threw the man head first into the far wall shattering his skull open, and he was dead, showing her strength. The young girl looked up at her in awe while the men pulled out weapons from guns to baseball bats, but Glory beat the living shit out of them all, snapping bats and unloading guns where she was, before taking them, and shooting their owner. The men were all dead within a few minutes and Glory looked down at the girl.
"You should leave."
"W-what planet are y-you from?" the girl asked when Glory turned to leave, the ex-goddess turned to the girl, curious. "Y-you're not human, are you?! Humans aren't as strong as you," she said like a question, but it was also a statement. "I come from Segeryarna! We were-were just visiting. Dad was here on business, and I begged to come along. I wish we stayed at home-."
"Not all humans are like this," Glory said, trying to be reassuring as she thought about Shado and Buffy and how they would look after this girl, demon or not. "So… where is this Segeryarna?"
"About forty-point seven light years from Earth!" she said thoughtfully and missing the shock on Glory's face as the world just became more interesting.
"I see, let's go, and tell me about your people?" Glory asked, offering her hand, and after a moment of hesitation, and a quick look at her father's body she took the offer, and Glory led her away.
"S-shouldn't we tell the proper authorities about this?" she asked, "and then they'll get me home to my mom and little sister."
"Authorities," Glory mumbled, "that explains why no demon comes to Manhattan! I was starting to think it was because of the gods or mage. So, tell me, child. Does your home have magic?" she asked, shocking the confused high school girl, as she pulled the girls hood up on her human clothes to hide her alien face as they stepped free from the ally into the hustle and bustle of Manhattan.
to be continued…