Revisited as 17.11.2019 - next 2 hours spent on fixing this chapter. It might not be the best as to do that I would need to write this chapter from the ground, but it is better. If you are able to get through the next 8 chapters then the quality will be a lot better.

Hope that now it is better.

Disclaimer: I own nothing apart from Au elements and OC's, the idea of Hunters is inspired by Hunter: The Witch by Lunarwolf11021 who I asked but didn't get and answer.

Chapter 2. Leaving and Awakening

Order of the Phoenix knew that something was really wrong when Lily rushed out of the meeting. So hoping to be helpful they followed her and apparated to Godric's Hollow, only to witness the aftermath of the battle between Voldemort and Charlus Potter. Many bowed their heads in respect for the fallen Potter. Only a few of them would be able to fight Dark Lord and leave such destruction behind. But let's go back to the events that are currently going on in the Potter house.

After Lily rushed in to find her children and mother-in-law. She left James alone so he could deal with the grief after seeing the dead body of his father. Trying to overcome it, he followed his wife along with Albus Dumbledore who was looking around in sadness. He already came to the conclusion that Peter must have betrayed and sold them out to Voldemort, but for now, he needs to see if the children are even alive.

Coming to the nursery they came upon the sad scene with Dorea Potter lying on the floor, dead. Lily quickly came out of her shock and rushed to check if her babies are alive. James even more grief-stricken decided that his children are now more important and followed his wife.

All the while Albus Dumbledore was observing nursery with a calculating look. Finally, his eyes wandered to the black cloak that was lying on the floor. Slowly walking towards it Dumbledore made a few flicks with his wand and the cloak began levitating, revealing bony wand and some ash under it.

Seeing this Albus's eyes widened, "Impossible, Voldemort would never leave his wand, so that must mean that he is gone, well not forever but nonetheless gone. That gives me time to train the new savior and make sure that he or she won't walk in the darkness. Yes, but there is one visible problem, Potters have two children and it can cause problems. I know that Lily has a sister and she surely wouldn't mind raising a child. Now I only need to get James and Lily aboard with this plan. If it comes to it, I will use a few compulsion charms."

With the plan made he walked to the parents who were currently gushing over their children. He wanted to speak but Lily beat him to it, "Headmaster what happened here my in-laws are dead while the children are asleep. Plus Daniel now got a scar on his hand."

Dumbledore raised an eyebrow at the last part and asked while looking at Daniel, "May I?" Lily only nodded and handed him her son. Albus quickly made some movements with his wand over the boy's hand and gasped.

Lily getting worried that something was wrong questioned the old wizard, "Is there something wrong professor? Please help him," her tone was pleading but he quickly replied to calm her down.

"No, nothing is wrong. It is just that the scar has some dark magic imprint and if what I discovered is true, then Daniel defeated Voldemort and is a first-person to survive the killing curse."

Lily and James just gained shocked expressions and the father couldn't help but ask, "But Headmaster, how can you be so sure, and what about Diana," Albus only walked to him and made the same movements with his wand like he has done with Daniel and said in a grim tone, "I am sure of what happened here because there are no imprints of dark magic on Diana. And I am sorry to bring you the news but I can't even sense a single strand of magic from her, which means that she is a squib or a really late bloomer."

The only thing that he got from children's parents were wide looks of horror and worry. He knew that now was the chance to present his plan and give the girl a chance for a normal life. It will be best for the child to live in the Muggle world.

"There is another thing to talk about," he sighed and put the best grandfatherly look on his face. It will not be easy, but it is for the best, "as both of you probably know, Voldemort is not dead forever, because of that Daniel will need training and full attention," he paused for a second to see their reaction and was pleased that the parents are listening, "your hands will be full and even though I am sure that your friends will help, there is still the matter of your daughter," and there it is, he will probably need to use compulsion charm for Lily to agree as James is too shocked with what happened tonight to think straight.

"What of Diana? We will rise her even if she is a squib," Lily exclaimed, it sounded like Headmaster wanted them to abandon Diana.

"Calm down Lily and let me finish," after firing a compulsion charm the effect took in "you see because she is a squib her life in the magical world would be hard. Why don't help her? You can send her to your sister where she can learn about muggles and go to a normal school."

He sighed as he took in the look of determination on Lily's face, "We can give her the best education when she is with us. I know that my sister hates everything that goes along with magic so there is not a chance that she would take our daughter in," Lily said in a serious voice but he could hear she wasn't even sure about what she has said.

"So she is thinking about it, I need to hurry and make my point before Sirius arrives," thought Albus. He was sure that he only needs one more argument and Lily will give her daughter away, "But Lily you need to remember that she doesn't have magic and it is better for her to not experience it. She will start to hate herself because she doesn't have magic. Do you really want to do it to your own daughter?"

That was it. He could see her resolve crumble, "Good now I just need to leave Diana with Lily's sister. Then do damage control and tell the world about Voldemort's fall," again putting his grandfatherly look he asked the redhead, "So what will it be Lily? I know that you love your daughter, so you should know what is best for her."

Lily only shook her head and spoke, "Alright Headmaster, if you think that it is for the best then I agree," then she looked and James and asked him, "What do you think about this James are you alright with it?" she was tired and you could see that Lily wanted it to finally be over.

James only looked at her with dull eyes and nodded. With a sigh, Lily walked to Dumbledore, gave him her daughter and spoke, "Please professor make sure that she has a good life."

"Don't worry Lily. I will make sure of that," was the short answer of Albus Dumbledore, with a smile he nodded towards both of them and bid them goodbye so they could grief and take care of the dead that was still lying on the floor.

Spinning on his heel, he disappeared with a soft crack before reappearing in Privet Drive in Surrey. Making his way towards the house with number 4 he flicked his wand and created a short roll of paper. he quickly wrote down the girl's name, date of birth and age. He then created a small crib for the baby and put her on the stairs. After that, he knocked a few times on the door and walked away before disappearing with another crack.

After a minute the door opened and in sight came a thin, blonde-haired woman with pale eyes and neck which was way too long.

She looked around the house and seeing nothing she went to close her door only to be interrupted by a cry of a child. Looking down she came face to face with the deepest violet eyes that she has ever seen, the odd thing was that the eyes gave a slight glow.

Petunia Dursley which was the name of the giraffe woman took the notice of small paper and quickly read it. By the end of the letter she snarled and shouted, "Vernon dear come here for a moment," she quickly got her answer with another shout, really it was a miracle that they haven't woken anybody up, "What is it Pet, if it is another of those dealers tell him that we don't want anything."

Petunia only sighed tiredly and shouted again, "It is not that Vernon, please just come here so we can get this over with," the only thing that she got in response was a loud grunt. After almost half a minute a man came into the view and the only thing that could possibly describe him was that he was a walrus in human clothing.

"What is it Pet and why do you have a baby in your arms," asked the walrus.

"Vernon this is a daughter of my sister. I don't know why they left her here but if she is even slightly freakish I won't have her in my house," Vernon after hearing that turned purple in rage and shouted, "You are right Pet, we won't have any of their freakishness in our house. Give me her, I will drive and leave her in the orphanage, let them worry about the freak."

With that, said Petunia handed the letter and baby to her husband and walked back to her house while Vernon got into his car. After 30 minutes of driving the walrus got out of the car, took her niece along with the letter and dropped her by the stairs after ringing the bell a few times. With that done he walked back to his car and drove away never to be seen again by his niece.

After a minute of shuffling behind the doors, they finally opened and out walked a woman in her late forties, she had short blonde hair, icy blue eyes with a stern look on her face while she wore simple black, nightgown. She looked around and noticed the bundle with a baby, quickly walking towards it she spoke, "and what are you doing here alone on such a cold night little one," she raised the child and saw a letter attached, quickly reading it she spoke, "Diana Rose Potter huh? Let me welcome you to your new home, St Matthew Orphanage."

She went back into the building and carried the child to her new room where the other little kids were before getting their rooms with normal beds.

One week later, Potter Manor

It was a nice day in the Potter Manor, Lily and James were eating dinner prepared by house-elves, with Lily feeding her son, "How was your day honey?" was the question coming from the redhead.

James looked at her and smiled slightly, "All good Lils, tiring as hell but with Voldemort downfall everything is going to be alright. Apart from my promotion to head Auror you could say nothing could be better," ended James smiling, both parents never noticed the flaring of their floo. When the green light died down, in walked Sirius Black.

"Hi Prongs, Prongslet, Lily how are you doing on this beautiful day, and where is my Princess?" Sirius spoke in glee. Really nothing could ruin his time right now, he finally could stop running and show everyone something that he didn't dare to do during the war, "I have some news to tell and wanted to see my goddaughter."

James and Lily paled slightly and the redhead tried to answer, "She is not here Sirius and won't be for a while" her tone was nervous.

"What do you mean, you told me that everything is alright with the kids and I could visit them later in the week, so I am asking again. Where. Is. My. Goddaughter," Sirius tone serious but had a dangerous edge to it.

"Calm down Padfoot, there is something that we need to tell you," spoke James trying to calm down his friend.

Sirius calmed down a bit, sat down and said with a warning tone, "You better have a good reason for her not being here or I will not be responsible for my actions."

Lily decided that was a good moment as any to start explaining, "Padfoot we were forced to send her away. Dumbledore told us that she is a squib and with her brother being the Boy-who-lived she would get jealous and start to hate herself for not having magic like her family. I just want a good life for her and if it means sending her to muggles, so she could adapt then we will do it," Lily finished with finality in her voice.

Sirius after hearing what his friends have done just couldn't believe it. How in the world, two of the most wonderful people that he knows could abandon their own daughter to muggles, even if she is a squib.

"Tell me where she is right now so our friendship may survive," demanded Black.

"Come on Padfoot you must be kidding you know that it will be the best for her," tried James, but Sirius was having none of it.

"I repeat, tell me where she is or this is the end," he was sad that it needed to come to that but he just couldn't believe what they have done.

"No Padfoot, no, she won't have any experience with the magical world and this is final," James spoke with finality.

Black hearing this just turned around and moved to the floo, stopping for a second he spoke up again, "I hope that you will have a good day Lord and Lady Potter. Goodbye," with that he threw some of the floo powder, called his destination and disappeared in green flames.

A few seconds later, Black Manor

Angry Sirius Black strode to the living room of his house and sat down on the couch. He took his head into his hands while shaking it left and right, "how could they dammit, how could they," he shouted furiously.

In this exact moment in walked beautiful woman in her early twenties. She had shoulder-length white hair, baby blue eyes, and cute face, she was wearing a dark blue gown that hugged her hourglass figure and nice bust.

She walked slowly to Sirius and asked, "What happened that got you so angry? Before you left you looked like Voldemort could come back and you would still be smiling," she tried to joke lightly but only got sigh in return.

Turning towards his wife he spoke, "It is James and Lily. Do you know what that have done? After Dumbledore told them that their daughter is a squib they send her away, so she could live with muggles and adapt. Phh, loads of bull. But what is the best of it, they won't tell me where she is. Me a sworn godfather doesn't even know where his ward is, it is just so damn pathetic that I don't know what to do."

His wife was left wide-eyed at what she heard. How could a parent abandon their child because they are a squib, she can't even imagine leaving her little Alya. The girl that is the same age as Diana, "I just don't know what to do Emily, I just don't know," with that said, tears started to fall from his eyes.

"It will be alright dear, you will find and bring her here, don't you worry"

Few Days after Diana's third birthday

St Matthew Orphanage while not a bad place to grow up for an orphan one could not say that it was good. No, definitely not, while the kids had their rooms and food to eat, it wasn't much. Plus taking under the consideration that after the old matron Elise Barlow retired the new one, younger didn't care about the children at the same level as the previous one. While she sometimes bought them new things to play with or to read it wasn't much, but the kids don't know any other life so they have never spoken up.

The new matron Ava Lynn was a vengeful bitch at least that's how the older kids called her, and while she didn't physically abuse them. She could punish kids without a reason and don't give them anything to eat during meals. And while children slowly adapted or some were adopted to never be seen again there was one child that got it a lot worse

From the day that she could remember which might not be much because she is still 3 years old, she always knew that she was more mature than other kids, maybe not much but she did not cry when someone took a toy from her and tried to bully her. No, she only glared at them making them go away and leave. She didn't know why but she felt some satisfaction when they backed away.

Anyway because of that she always was a loner, never one to make friends, never one to play with others and never one to talk to others. She preferred to sit around and watch others or go through comics and books that the orphanage got. Even for a three-year-old kid she already could read some simple words. She knew that is not normal but who would call her normal if they saw her dreams.

She dropped graciously form the lowest tree branch and started walking towards the orphanage building. Stepping into the light one could see her height, a whole 3'1" she had long, black as night hair that reached her middle back, her face was that of an angel, a small nose, soft pink lips, and the most endearing part were hers eyes that were of a deep violet color.

The girl sometimes noticed that her pupil was slowly changing from its normal form to a slit, that change occurred when she was angry or glared at someone. This was the moment when her eyes stopped being adorable and began making people back off. For the girl it was a welcome change, she was always different so why not slits for the pupils?

With that, she sighed, stopped thinking of it and walked into one of the bigger rooms in the orphanage. "It must be the only room where walls are not grey," she thought dryly and that was the sad truth, the playroom- that's how kids called it- was the only room colored in a different color than grey. "You know thinking about it, grey would be better instead of a color that looks like vomit," a frown appeared on her cute face when she saw a boy 2 years older than her walk towards her. She quickly fixed her standard glare hoping that he will just go away. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be and after a quick stop, he started walking again.

She just sighed and prepared herself for what's to come, "Hey freak, you already back from your jungle," some kids around laughed at this, "really that's all? Pathetic," was her and few others thought about what the boy said.

Speaking of him, the boy saw that the freak is ignoring him and said, "Stop ignoring me, we both know I am talking to you so speak when I ask you," he shouted getting angry at her lack of response.

She looked at him without any interest and spoke, "huh, you said something? I thought that it was the noise of wind but I can see now that you were babbling again," her eyes held no emotions but if one looked closer they would see some mirth in her eyes.

"You think that you are all high and mighty, you should get out and don't come back to this room again Potter," ah, here it is her name Diana Potter, the loner, freak, abomination, some even call her monster and the best thing is most don't even know why and just go with the flow ,but what do you expect from 3 to 10 years old ( the older kids don't really care).

She knows how she got the title of a loner, freak and abomination because what normal kid acts like her and what with the weird things that happen around her. So she really doesn't mind and just ignores them even if it slightly hurts inside. Damn, she is 3 years old what do you expect from her? To just walk through it like a war veteran, nope, nada, no. But even her indifference is mostly caused by her dreams, God she might have hated them at first but now they are her safe zone, something to fall back on.

With that, she took one of the comics and walked out of the playroom towards the stairs so she could get to her room. Yes her room, because no one wants to be near her when they sleep, so she got a solo room and she is thankful for it because she got at least some freedom.

She walked into her room and laid on her small bed, made herself comfortable and took the comic book, "Bleach well, I am sure that someone of my age shouldn't read this... anyway who cares, this orphanage is one big battle royale so meh," After rereading the whole comic book 3 times she finally dozed off and fell asleep.

Dreamscape

There she is again in the green forests and the wooden village. Where people with wings fight using various weapons against each other in sparring matches, some more friendly others more vicious. But that's not what caught her eye, no what caught her eye was the girl maybe 3 or 4 years older than her with blue hair, face similar to hers and silver eyes. She was walking towards a small building along with other children.

Then her view changed to the one inside said building and Diana saw around 8 children and one adult, he was a tall man with muscles of a swimmer and handsome face if it was not for the scars on it.

The man stood up and spoke, "Okay children, what can you tell me about hunters? Show me that you listened during the previous lesson," the man tone was laced with desperation and everyone could hear it because instantly there was some giggling in the back of the class.

The teachers eyes quickly found the culprit and asked, "Mia I see you got plenty energy, why don't you answer the question," looking with a small glare on Mia the girl fidgeted in her seat and spoke up, "Hunters are a race created by a goddess whose name got lost in time," after answering the question she sat down and looked quite proud of herself.

The man only sighed tiredly and said, "Yes that's true but is it really all you remember?" he asked again, after 30 seconds of silence he sighed again and continued, "Well if no one can tell me I will repeat it for the last time. Hunters were like you said created many millennials ago to fight in the war with demons, after many long and bloody battles our kind managed to close the rifts between our and the demon world called Makai. Unfortunately for us, our numbers went from thousands to hundreds and those that were left decided to split up in groups so every group could take care of their part of the world and stray demons or new rifts. Our race is stronger, faster have better senses than most of the elves and are natural-born warriors. On 16th birthday everyone of us goes through wing ceremony where they grew their wings and are given code names that describe them. Nowadays we still fight demons along with closing rifts, but our numbers are low, demons are gaining the upper hand and that's why I am asking you to take your studies seriously, your life can depend on it in the future."

Most of the students gained determined looks and began asking questions about hunters and their past. The teacher couldn't help but be proud of his students and answered most of the asked questions. Diana wanted to listen more, this was so interesting and she felt like it is where she belongs but instead of hearing the next lesson she just heard someone shouting her name.

"POTTER, POTTER get down right now it is dinner time," ah, the lovely matron and her shrieking. Without giving any answer she got up and walked down for the dinner.

One year later, the Same place

Another year has passed in St Matthew Orphanage and you could say that nothing really changed. Well, maybe for the most of occupants, but one little girl by the name of Diana Potter decided that maybe, just maybe she gets those dreams for a reason and for the past year she tried to copy what she has seen and use it. Yeah she may be mature but she is still a kid, kids have dreams and Diana thought that if she will follow some of the things she has seen, then maybe someone will adopt her. Yes, Diana's biggest dream is to have a family, a family that will love and give her the attention she seeks so much.

Unfortunately in the back of her mind, she knew this will not help her. How skills to be sneaky, steal or be able to throw something with such precision that one time she almost killed a flying bird, "Yep not the best of my moments," she thought dryly, can help her get adopted.

There were other dreams that instead of showing it's normal hunter lessons, presented fights and battles between the winged race and monsters that looked like taken straight from hell.

"Demons," that's what they are. It is interesting that in her dreams the teacher talked about the history of Hunters, how they fight, why they fight, when they get their wings and what they mean, how to be sneaky and steal without being seen, but not one time did he speak about demons, hell they even had lessons how to act properly with different kinds of people.

While Diana knows that those dreams are just that, dreams, she can't help, but wish to be the one fighting or to fly, "be free," how she would love to leave this place where she is only glared at and can't even make a single friend.

That is one of the reasons why she started sneaking away and mapping the area around the orphanage in her mind. She knows she can't do anything about staying there because where she would sleep and eat, yes she might be able to steal some money but let's be serious if someone saw a girl of 4 years walk around the city alone nothing good would happen.

Not only they would bring her back here and then she would be punished but you don't know who will find her and she sure as hell can't defend herself against adults. So, sadly no running away anytime soon.

For now, she just decided to map the area around so she won't get lost on her small escapades. She made a plan to do this maximum 2 times a week ( she doesn't want anybody discovering her). Then Diana would try to steal some money, which wasn't hard because who would suspect such cute little girl of stealing.

After that, she could buy things for herself. Not much and she needed to hide those things in her room, but it was still nice to have something that belonged to you.

She mostly bought books or more comics books to read as they wouldn't sell her knives, "really nothing worked, kinda sad but you can't have everything," she thought with a cute pout on her face, really her lessons in throwing things would skyrocket if she got those knives. Plus it would be the first thing that would let her defend herself.

Anyway now it is time to go to sleep, tomorrow all of them are going to Zoo, "I am still wondering what got into the matron to bring us to zoo, really for such a bitch she is starting to be awfully nice lately. Well, nice to others, not me," she thought with a frown. Yeah, the matron began to act weirdly those past 2 months and even if Diana is not getting any better treatment at least other kids are happy. Oh come on you didn't really think that she will hold a grudge towards 4-8 years old kids, yeah she might not like them but let's be realistic.

With that, she lied down on her bed and drifted off to sleep hoping that it will be one of those nights the hunter dream come as they appear not more than one or two times a week.

Dreamscape

When she could see again, she saw that she was in the same classroom that all of the lessons have taken place in, but this time something was wrong. One, the teacher was different, he was a short old man with a wrinkly face and gray hair, "yey, gray old man, this lesson for sure will be interesting" Diana thought sarcastically. Two, there were no desks for students which was weird itself.

"Come in all of you and take places, so everyone will have enough space for themselves," with that all the kids walked in and sat down on the prepared mats on the floor, " Good, now as you can see your previous teacher Ladon won't be teaching you for the next year. As you have completed your entry course about hunters and their basic skills, now it is time for the next level. My given hunter name is Odin, from now on you will learn from me how to control and bring out your magic just like the wizards and witches around the world are doing but without the need of wands," with a quick wave of his hand the whole building was frozen, the kids looked in awe and Diana was no better, "as you can see this is just a small portion of what you will be able to do if you master the art of magic," with another wave the ice disappeared.

"Now there are lots of methods to feel and bring out your magic but we won't be doing this for some time," most of the kids gained resigned looks but perked up at his next words, "don't worry you will all be using magic soon, but the first thing I will teach you is the art of occlumency. Wizards think that occlumency is simply a part of mind magic that defends you from legilimency and they can't be more wrong. Yes it protects you from mind attacks but it lets you do so much more," he only shook his head at wizards stupidity.

Diana listened to this and was even more in awe. There were wizards and other creatures apart from demons and hunters? Damn, how she wished that she lived in that world. Even if it is only a dream lesson, she will still try to do what the old man says. She always followed the previous teacher lessons so why not now? It might be a dream, but damn... she is still a kid.

Seeing that the old man was continuing she got a hold of herself and started listening, "Occlumency, art of mind magic that lets you defend from mind attacks, create your own mindscape, sort your memories so you will be able to easier remember anything and most importantly it enables you to easily find you magic core and merge with it," he stopped for a moment, so they could all go through the new information and was pleased to see that all of them had looks of understanding, "good, I see you all understand and that's why for the next month all of you will learn and master the art, and I warn you I won't accept anything below perfect," he ended with a warning tone.

Odin then presented them all the steps so if someone wants, they can go ahead. Diana already committed all those steps to her memory in hopes that she won't forget anything. After the lesson ended, she saw the dream fall apart and knew that she is waking up. With a sigh, she closed her eyes and opened them this time lying on bed in her room.

One month later

The last month in Diana's opinion was uneventful. Well, mostly if you take under the consideration the weird creatures she saw in the zoo. While she had fun on the trip, two things kind of freaked her out. First and the most important maybe would be amusing if it wasn't scary at the same time.

Flashback, the zoo trip

The road to the zoo was pretty boring. You could ask why as, Diana always wanted to see more of the world. Well, the answer is quite simple, they used an underground metro... Yep and with that she didn't get to see anything. Sad, but at least she got out of the orphanage. At first, she was fascinated by all of the animals but was slightly put off when most of them ran away the moment they saw her... weird.

Anyway, she got kinda sad because of the animals running away, so she decided to walk around and see if maybe some other animals will be more friendly.

After 5 minutes of walking, she came to a place that was holding some of the most dangerous snakes in the world. At first she was glad that they didn't run away, but then she heard some voices, "stupid humans, look at her watching us like we are some beasts," Diana not knowing what is going on looked around to see who said that, "haha stupid girl," ok, now that was mean, so she tried to respond.

"Yeah?, Even if I am stupid at least I can show my face," she was angry. No one will call her stupid if they can't even show themselves. How can she glare at them if she doesn't know where they are, she thought with a pout.

"Speaker, we apologize for disrespecting noble blood," the snakes spoke together with wide eyes, it is an honor to meet a speaker of their noble tongue so they don't want to make an enemy of her.

"Speaker? Noble blood? What are you talking about and where are you?" she asked with a frown, "could they just show themselves?"

"Yesss speaker of the noble serpent language. We are in the cage before you speaker," with that she turned back to the snake cage wide-eyed, "Damn even hunters in my dreams couldn't speak to snakes. What. The. Hell," not that she is not happy as now she knows that she is not normal and the lessons from dreams might work.

"I see but how can I speak your language? I already saw some snakes and they didn't talk to me," asked Diana curiously.

"They just didn't want to. As to how can you speak our language? That we don't know, we are normal snakes not magical so we don't have this kind of information," this answer left Diana even more wide-eyed.

"Did you just say magical?, Does it means that magic world exists, can you tell me something about it?" she fired off the questions excitedly. If the magic world exists then so may Hunters!

"Yes girl, the magical world exists, but as I said we are normal snakes and don't really interact with the magical world. But if there is one thing I can tell you, is that if you want the information you should follow people in weird old robes. Those are most likely wizards or witches and they may help you," answered the snake hoping to help the new speaker.

"Robes? What the hell is wrong with them, they are wearing robes? What is it, the Middle Ages? What more, maybe someone will tell me that they live in castles? (All around Britain every pureblood sneezed) Now I know why the old man laughed at them," thought incredulously Diana.

"Anyway, thank you for your help noble snakes. I would free you but I don't really know how to, so I guess it is farewell," she spoke with sadness. She wanted to help them, they gave her good news and she will be in debt to them forever, "well, maybe someday."

After walking around for some time in hopes of finding her group, she almost fainted on the spot. The reason? A creature that was standing about 12 ft from her. It would be an amusing sight if it wasn't for the person's face. Before her stood Cyclop taken straight from Greek mythology, "Really what is wrong with today's, first talking to snakes, confirming the existence of magic world and now funny looking cyclops?"

Yeah, it is probably important to take notice of what the creature was wearing. He or she, Diana can't really tell, was clothed in a short pink skirt that you could see during circus performances and over her/his torso they wore ugly looking woolen sweater. Another thing that one could see was that it was not wearing any boots.

Quickly getting her shock under control she slowly backed off all the while wondering, "Why no one is taking notice of this creature, it is just standing there," she thought with slightly wide eyes. But of course her life can't be easy and after she got to another cage which was holding grizzly bears, her heart almost stopped again.

If see studied some of the greek mythology she would know what the beast was but all she knows now is that it looked like a dog with 2 heads, was big, black and had scary red glowing eyes.

With that image in her mind, she ran as fast as she could to find her group. Thanks to Lady Luck nothing more happened on the trip and she safely got back to the orphanage where she ate her dinner and went to sleep hoping for a hunter dream, so it could get her mind off the things that she had seen.

Flashback End

With those events, she decided that if the magic world exists with creatures that come from greek mythology, she needs more information and learn how to defend herself. So it was no surprise that she mastered occlumency in 2 weeks and wanted to merge her magic with the mind so she could train with it. Unluckily instead of the last steps that she needed, she got only more theoretical knowledge. She learned why wizards can't use too much magic without a wand, that magic is mostly your intent, will, and imagination, and with it, you can do anything. But there is one thing she learned that got her to shout in glee.

Flashback to a dream

"Welcome back my students," Odin greeted his class with a smile, they are really getting along well, "Today we won't practice occlumency because I have got a subject which is one of the most important things in your life if you want to be the best of the best. So with that let us begin."

He paused for a moment, took a deep breath and continued, "Like you all know we hunters do the best in the wild where we are free or in the sky where we can use our wings as we want. You also know all of us to possess animal instinct and their senses. And that's what we will talk about today, creatures.

Like maybe some of you know every hunter possesses a soul creature on which our wings are based, soul creature when merged with hunter gives him ability to transform into it and if the creature is a creature of a long life like dragons, phoenixes, thunderbirds or others they give the long life to their partner. But those are very rare and you could say that I am the last of those hunters. Of course, other creatures also give longer life but not like the ones that I mentioned earlier. Apart from a longer life span, each hunter gets some of the abilities of their creature, for example, a kitsune hunter would have an easier time sneaking and controlling element which their kitsune represent.

Learning such transformation is a long way from you, but never forget about it and always remember that some of your abilities may come from your soul creature. It will help you when you will take the last step to completely merge with your partner. Ah, and before I forget, Wizards and witches got something called animagus transformation which enables them to change to an animal which represents them the most. I will say it once and only once, don't you ever try to go through process or you will lose your soul creature that is always more powerful than animagus. That's all on this, we will come back to it in a few months."

Flashback End

Transforming into a creature of legends? Who wouldn't want that and for a 4 years old kid this was something epic. But now she needs to calm down and go to sleep, tonight will be exactly one month when she started learning occlumency and she hopes that tomorrow she will be able to finally use magic.

Dreamscape

"It is good to see you all here with those determined looks. Like you all know today you will make the first big step towards mastering the art of magic. Now I want all of you to get comfortable and go to your perfected mindscape, but let your barriers down so I will be able with little legilimency speak to all of you when you go deep inside your mind," he saw all of them do exactly what he told them and Diana prepared herself to remember every single thing said by the old man and do it when she wakes up.

"Good, you should all be able to hear me now. Right now go to the centre of your mind," he waited a minute before continuing, "now that you are all there I need you to do the same thing which you have done on the outside and focus on getting even deeper inside, don't worry I will know when all of you get it and wait for you all," the dream shimmered slightly, Diana deduced that it worked like a time skip. She then saw Odin continue so she focused.

"Well done I see all of you accomplished it. Now comes the hard and slightly painful part. All of you are now in deep darkness but I know that all of you can feel something around you. Now, you need to focus on this feeling and bring it all before you and I repeat you need to gather every single drop of it and before you start I need to tell you that it will be painful. Starting you won't feel anything but after gathering more than a half, your body will begin burning up and some parts of your body will hurt. The reason for it is pretty simple, what are you doing now is not really natural, you are trying to control all your power and gather it in one place so it will get stronger and your control of it will be easier. With that being said I wish you good luck."

There was another shimmer signaling another time skip and Diana saw the old man speaking again, "I am proud of you all, the process is now almost completed the last thing that you need to do is to go into what you gathered get a tight hold of it. Then will yourself back to mindscape all the while holding tight. If you do everything correctly you will be back in your mindscape and your power will merge with it, signaling it with a glow of your magic around your body."

After 2 minutes all of the students opened their eyes to see the glow that they were giving off. Diana only watched in awe and couldn't wait to do it herself.

End of the dream

Waking up she went along with her normal routine (shower, brushing her teeth, get dressed up, check her occlumency). After that, she went to get her breakfast. Quickly eating it, all the while trying to hide her excitement, she rushed back to her room and closed the door.

She sat down with her legs crossed and focused on her mindscape. Getting there without a problem like it was second nature to her she walked through it.

She modeled it after a castle that she saw in a book. It wasn't too large but just in the right size, it was built with pure black stone, had two towers from which lamps that emitted purple light scanned everything around the castle. They alerted her when they discovered a probe of unknown origin.

Around the caste one could see a large number of creatures of magic or Greek mythology, they were the second defense after the barrier around her mind.

Walking into the hallway she instantly began walking towards her study. All of the other rooms were fakes and traps you go in, but never get out. It is her ultimate defense. Walking into her study she spoke in the tongue of the snakes, "Show me my secrets," the wall behind the desk slowly disappeared showing stairs that led deep down under the castle.

After walking for around 5 minutes, she came into a large room with shelves on which laid books, every shelve had a description which part of her life they represented and every book was another memory of hers. Walking towards the lone table in the center of her library, she sat down and done exactly what the old man said.

Half an hour later she opened her eyes to the vast darkness around her and she could feel the power coursing around her. Following the next step, she focused on it all and started to pull slowly.

After almost an hour she could feel herself burning up and started to notice the pains around her body. Pushing the pain in the back of her mind, she focused even more on catching all of her power. After another painful hour, she opened her eyes to see the vast amount of her black with deep violet speck power. She was left wide-eyed at the amount and couldn't help but remember the old man's words, "the amount of magic you will see mostly depends on the person, but taking your age under consideration it shouldn't be bigger than this house we are in. Don't be sad because as you grow and train your power grows with you, now let us begin," it was one of his last words before they began, but now they just don't make any sense. "This is like five times bigger than the house old man! what the hell!" Diana thought incredulously.

Shrugging, she followed the last step and went into the large orb, grabbed it tightly with all her power and willed herself out, back to mindscape.

Opening her eyes to the sight of her glowing library, she exited her mindscape only to see her body radiating black glow mixed with some violet. She could feel her power coursing through her whole body. Happy with herself she started to feel dizzy. Knowing she will faint soon Diana laid on her bed and blacked out.

One year later, forest near the orphanage

If one were to wander to the big forest some distance away from St Matthew Orphanage they would hear the sounds of trees breaking and heavy panting. That's exactly how we find young Diana Potter.

She had her black hair braided into a ponytail that fell to her lower back, her face glistened with sweat and one could see that she has been working hard by the amount of destroyed stumps and broken tree branches around her. She wore green pants that reached her knees, a blue blouse that was a bit too big for her and on her feet were used black sneakers. She now stood at the height of 3ft and 7 inches and was totally exhausted by her workout.

Still, she can not be more proud of herself. After unlocking magic her dream lessons continued. At first, the old man taught them how to bring out their magic out and then gave many exercises so they could learn how to control it. Two months later after completing all of them he began teaching them simple spells that helped in the everyday life, for example, summoning, banishing, how to create water, cleaning, opening doors, levitation, and much more.

He stated that while a lot of practical magic can be learned from other people, every one of them had their own style and different magicks they excelled at. He taught them how to check what affinity their magic responds to the most. Diana did it herself and she found out that her magic responds to fire (which is violet, what a surprise huh?), wind and darkness.

The problem was that she didn't really know how to train it so she decided to use some ideas from books and comics. She didn't get far as she started on it about 2 weeks ago, but for now, she can use small balls of fire and darkness along with producing some wind, not much but hey it is still something.

Last week she decided that for now she will leave elemental magic and focus on the non-elemental aspect with getting better control over it. That is why she goes to this clearing in the forest every two days and starts with some running to built up her stamina, the old man told them that if you are not strong psychically, you are as good as dead. Diana took it to the heart and the 5-year-old started running, she knew that strength training at her age doesn't make any sense so after some running she sits down and meditates to get a better hold on her magic. Next on her list was levitating things around herself, she saw Jedi in star wars doing that so why not, and it was a very good idea as the more she tried to levitate the harder it was. When she started, she needed to focus on it and now she can do it with a single thought even if the max she can lift is around 50kg. After finishing her train of thoughts she sat down and dozed off, while today's earlier memory showed up in her dream.

Dream-Flashback, after another visit for adoption

Diana was hopeful, today they were visited by a young couple that wished to adopt a child between 4-6 years old. She like always wasn't even excited about this, she knew no one would adopt her so she didn't get her hopes up. But now, after the visit, she couldn't help herself. The woman looked at her like she was the most precious thing on the planet and she could feel her heart beat faster. So that's why she decided to drop on the conversation between the couple and matron.

"I think I and my husband decided to adopt the little cute girl with violet eyes. Diana was her name wasn't it?" spoke the woman with a smile, Diana almost shouted in joy, finally she would have family that will care for her. Unfortunately, the voice of her matron destroyed this hope.

"Are you sure m' am? There are some things that you should know about the girl," spoke the matron with a frown, no it wouldn't do to give the freak a happy life when there are so many better kids, "She doesn't get along with her peers and if they try to approach her she would call them names and make them cry. I know she doesn't look like it but it is true, she is selfish and already started cursing at the age of 4 and that speaks for itself."

"Oh, really? Well that's just unfortunate she is such a nice girl, but if you are telling the truth then may we do another round?" asked hopefully the woman.

"Of course come with me," and that was the last thing Diana heard as she rushed out of the orphanage with tears falling down her cheeks.

"That bitch! Who does she think she is telling lies about me... So that how it is huh? Ok, I see that gettings my hopes up only caused me to hurt more, but no more," with that Diana Rose Potter for the first time felt pure hate, hate for the matron, for the orphanage, for the people that meddle into other life's and for the people that left her here. With that, she started doing her normal routine but with a lot more determination, "I will show them."

End of dream and flashback

She woke up to the sound of a red spike that was flying towards her. Rolling out of the way in the last second, she got up to get a better look at her opponent. It was of the size of a grown-up lion with six spider legs, it's head didn't have eyes but on the sides of it, you could see 2 pairs of gill-like appendages. It also had a big red nose that was constantly trying to find something, a very short neck and from its tailbone came out a blade-like tail.

The most noticeable things were the red spikes on the top of its body, taking under consideration that the rest of its body was black.

The spider-lion growled and rushed at Diana. She quickly gathered as much magic as she could and pushed it towards the creature making it fly through the clearing and crash into a tree breaking it in process. Diana sighed in relief and decided to study it before it got up.

"No eyes, something like gills and large nose, six like spider legs and spikes he can shoot. Well, one thing is for sure, that shit is a demon" she thought worryingly.

There is no way in hell that she will defeat him like she is now, but it is her or death. Preparing herself to use something that was the last skill she learned from Odin she focused her magic into her whole body augmenting it. It will give her the edge until the time that she figures something out.

After the demon got up, it again sent some spikes at her, all the while rushing towards her. Diana seeing this quickly escaped to the left while sending some of her darkness and fire to test the demon's defense.

Unfortunately, it wasn't to be and the demon took it all without any problem. Quickly jumping onto one of the tree's branches she started jumping around the demon trying to disorient it.

After 10 minutes of avoiding spikes and jumping around Diana started getting tired, which could be seen from the cuts on her clothes and bleeding left shoulder.

Diana focused and thought, "It can't see me so if I make a lot of noise around myself and get my scent across this whole clearing I might get a chance to somehow end it," with plan made she first started by tearing some parts of her blouse and began to drop it in different location, meanwhile getting another cut on her leg and almost falling down.

With scent taken care of she levitated a big amount of small rocks in a different directions, then focused on her darkness magic and directed it to her hands to form 2 daggers, to her surprise instead getting two weapons created by darkness she got two obviously real blades which were black in color with a single deep violet line along the blade. They also had a serrated edge, curved handle and sharper edges around the hilt[1]. Not letting her shock get over her, she grabbed both of them in reverse grip with the edges out and with one mental command she dropped all of the stones. The beast paused and began searching for her. Not wasting more time she channeled as much magic into her body as she could and ran at the demon.

Ducking under one of its legs that wanted to take her head off, she slid under its belly and ran her daggers through it making black blood drop on her. The demon then began to fall on her, so the girl prepared for the worst.

Luckily for her in this moment her daggers gave a light glow and absorbed the whole body of the demon. Diana sighed in relief and slowly blacked out. But before that could happen she saw a blue box in front of her with a big text.

Quest Succes!

Defeat your first demon!

Rewards:

-300 EXP

-50 $

-Daggers of Night and Darkness

- + 1 DEX, +1 INT

Seeing this, she fainted with one last thought on her mind, "What the hell."

[1] Look up Daedric Daggers from Skyrim for better visualization.

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