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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was having a very good day. He got Serverus Snape to be the Defense Against the Arts professor by blackmailing him, made an anonymous vote in the Wizengamot to prevent werewolves getting a proper job, kept the mother hen of the Weasley clan quiet for a couple days. All in all a good day for the worst Headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen.
As he sat back in the overly large chair behind his desk, he failed to notice a disapproving Sorting Hat with the name of Timothy and a sad phoenix perched on his stand as the fireplace turned green and a red headed bottomless pit stepped through and greedy young fan girl following him, a scowl on their faces.
"Professor you said you'd have my payment from Potter's vault today." Ron plopped himself down on the chair facing Dumbledore.
Ginny rolled her eyes at her brother, "And I need the go ahead to start sending My Harry his love potions and Mudblood Granger her jealously potions."
Tim the Sorting Hat leaned forward slightly, watching the interaction with interest. Dumbledore sighed, then put on his grandfatherly smile to cover up his irritation, put pushed forward a bowl of lemon drop dose with a loyalty and compulsion charms, "Lemon drops?"
Ron nodded eagerly and popped one into his mouth, Ginny took one hesitantly but still put it in her mouth.
"Well Mr. Weasley, I have tried to access the Potter accounts but for some reason the goblins wouldn't let me in this time, so your payment will have to wait. Miss Weasley, go ahead and start sending the potions to both the Mudblood and Harry." Dumbledore said with a smile tugging his lips.
Tim scowled as Ron asked stupidly, "Can I finally try and bed Lavender Brown? I know I said I wanted Granger in the beginning, still do. Probably will play her for a little bit use her for my homework and my needs then throw her to the curb for Lavender, do you think I could?"
Ginny sneered, as Dumbledore looked particularly evil at this bit, "Exactly, break Granger's spirit, in that breaking Harry's. Harry will go running into your arms, Miss Weasley. Before he dies at Voldemort's hand give him a good dose of love and lust potion. When he makes you pregnant, he'll be forced to marry you out of his honor. After he dies, the fortune and fame will be in our hands."
Ginny cackled cruelly as Ron stared out into space thinking of Lavender Brown and her….assets.
When the two Weasleys left and Dumbledore went to find blackmail on Slughorn, Tim the Sorting Hat called out, "Jeanie!"
A small female house elf with pale peach skin, overly large ears and bright grey eyes squeaked, "Yes, Mr. Sortie Hat? Yous called for Jeanie?"
The old worn hat chuckled, "I did. Are the portraits all in place for the Founders return to Hogwarts?"
Jeanie nodded eagerly, "Yes, Mr. Sortie Hat. Jeanie's been in contact with the centaurs, goblins, fairies, the elder elves of the North and any of the magical creatures that yous have told me to do. They has all said that they would meet on the Alls Hallow Eve just like you requested."
Tim nodded and Fawkes looked at the duo in interest and sang a short hopeful melody that instantly lifted the room's spirits since it hadn't been heard for a while. The Sorting Hat chuckled happily, "Of course my old friend you can join us, hopefully you'll be able to bound with one of the heirs when the meetings taken place."
The phoenix squawked happily and ruffled his feathers. He had been long since disconnected to his former master, Dumbledore, but was forced to stay due to curses inflicted on the fiery bird. Maybe he'll finally be free from the hell he was forced to live in everyday.
Previously: The duo didn't even notice that the tour group was at the door way, in various states of shock, pride and approval. "I should go change or at least put my trench coat back on to cover the scorches in my tank top, shame about it really. I liked this one." Nala nodded and asked, "Feel better?"
As they turned to face the door she smirked, "Much, thanks-" She stopped what she was saying when she noticed the group of eighteen.
The smirk fell off her face, and she cursed under her breath as she grudgingly stepped towards them.
Now:
Hermione turned to Andrea so she didn't have to look at her father's face or any of the immortals as Nala had a staring contest with the other familiars, "Sorry, trying out some strategies that me and Nala have made in the spare time," She looked around the room with a quirk of an eyebrow, "Personally I think we did pretty well still need to work on our telepathic communication so I don't have to yell out and give away anything."
She bit her lip as she watched the others get out of their trances of shock, pride and approval. Ares asked with a smirk, "What happened to researching in the library sweetheart?"
A faint pink blush made its way onto her cheeks out of embarrassment rather than the endearment Apollo and Harry were thinking of. Neither was too happy with their thoughts for completely different reasons as she replied, "Technically I was still researching, just not in the library." It was her turn to smirk, "Had to collect data somehow."
Luna asked in a rather serious expression, "What was the Simba thing you were talking about?" When others gave her a weird look she explained, "Shaylee heard Nala talking about it and relayed it to me." They nodded and turned their attention back onto Hermione.
"I'll talk that over with you another time, maybe I can remodify it so it can include the both of us and Shaylee and Nala." Shaylee and Luna nodded their heads as Lady Slytherin asked, "What are we doing now?"
Harry stepped forward, "Just about to go over schedules for the next however many years the immortals are staying in The Trunk."
Hermione nodded and looked down at her shirt with was still covered in scorch marks, "How about you go to the lounge and start talking, I'm going to go change. Don't really feel like smelling like smoke and fire to be honest." She gave them a shy smile before walking off to her room, the mask of calm slowly falling from her face as she made her way out of the room. As she exited the training room they all saw the single lone tear falling from her golden eyes.
Harry felt his heart ache for his best friend, he knew most of the anger was out of her system, though he was pretty sure a fight was going to happen between her and her father before the week ended, all that was left for the moment was hurt and the feeling of not being wanted for so long.
Lyall and Arthur blocked Nala's path from following Hermione. Arthur nudged Nala's head with his snout, "Don't follow her Nala, give her space."
Nala's eyes flashed as she struggled away from them, "Don't tell me what I cannot do, Arthur. I need to follow my Mione."
Lyall howled at the two, causing the duo to pause as he growled out in a menacing authorative voice that he didn't usually have, "You will listen to us Nala! I am the alpha of our pack, don't undermine me. You will not go after Hermione."
Nala looked at him shocked for a minute before glaring at him, letting out a frustrated roar coming out of her. She stalked to a Dumbledore dummy and attacking it viciously.
Artemis leaned over to Luna and whispered, "Is this normal?"
Luna smiled at the auburn haired goddess, "Not always, only when Lyall is asserting his place as alpha of the pack of Special familiars with Arthur backing him up. Nala isn't always one to comply and since she can't take on the alpha she takes on a dummy."
Artemis nodded with a small smile on her face. Harry whistled, "Lyall time to head back to the lounge."
The large wolf nodded and howled one last time at Nala before heading off with Harry. Neville didn't even need to call out; Arthur just padded his way over to him and walked out.
Shaylee rolled her blue eyes and muttered, "Such drama queens." The red shouldered hawk flew over to Hephaestus' shoulder.
The god of the forge looked amusedly at the hawk, his voice a deep baritone, "So you're the one who sits back and watches everything happen, eh?"
Shaylee nodded and said, "Well I am the familiar of Lady Ravenclaw, its expected I'm intelligent."
Luna repeated what she said, trying to hold back her laughter. The immortals and trainers had no problem laughing as Shaylee looked a bit smug.
Hedwig said from Athena's shoulder, "Well come on, we need to go to the lounge before Hermione starts asking questions then it's going to be a lot more awful for the ones who fought when she was gone."
Everyone but Shaylee, Luna, Andrea and Nick jumped when they heard the snowy owl talk. Aphrodite asked with large eyes, "Did that owl just talk?"
Hedwig rolled her hazel eyes, "Who else would've spoken from Athena's shoulder? Nala?"
Nala looked up from the Dumbledore she was mauling at the mention of her name before laying down with her paws over her snout whimpering at not being able to go to her companion.
Aphrodite asked, "A more important question is why would Hermione start asking questions?"
Andrea grimaced, her dark brown hair turning a bit paler as did her skin, "Because she can always sense when there's an argument going on or some type of rift, anything of that nature really. I don't want to face her anger at the moment," The metamorphmagus gestured around the now destroyed training room, "And I don't think anyone else would like to either."
Hermes commented with a grin, "This place just keeps getting odder and odder." He beamed, "I like it. Now let's listen to the talking snow owl and go to the lounge."
Zeus muttered, "I never thought I'd ever hear that."
Nick smiled sympathetically, "You get used to it. We're a family around here, an odd family albeit, but a family nonetheless."
As the group walked out of the training room absorbed in a peaceful silence, Nala followed the group sullenly.
The group entered the lounge and just as someone from the original group of people who entered the Trunk was about to continue as every sat comfortably on the large L-Shaped couch, Hermione entered instantly recognizing the tension between Nala who followed the group of the new and old trainers and the lone Lady Ravenclaw, Arthur and Lyall.
She replaced her forest green tank top with a dark purple tank top with thin straps that is shorter in the front then longer in the back that went well with her pervious outfit of ripped dark washed skinny jeans and brown buckled boots that came just below her knee. Her weapons still in place from before.
She simply rolled her eyes at the three familiars, "Really Arthur, Lyall, Nala? Know what, I don't even want to know at the moment." She turned to Nala who looked anywhere other than her companion, "And you, I will talk to later." Without facing the other two animals she called out, "Same goes for you two over there,"
Arthur and Lyall laid down with a huff, Shaylee snickered at the now busted Specials. If the snowy owl could smirk she would've at that moment, "Told you so."
Aphrodite looked shocked, "I didn't think you guys were serious!"
Hermione smiled gently at the goddess, "Oh but they are, who do think always defused the fights between anyone in the Gryffindor house? I always know when something's not right, anyways, Luna care to fill me in?"
The blonde nodded and stood up whispering in the brunette's ear as everyone talked among themselves.
They all paused when Lady Slytherin snorted, "You have got to be kidding me, Lulu."
Harry raised an eyebrow at Neville who mouthed, 'Lulu'. Luna smirked, "Nope, I'm as serious as I am about nargles."
Hermione bit her lip to keep from laughing as she faced the group, still avoiding her father's gaze, "So care to get started with the schedule?"
Nick leaned forward, "First I have to ask what are you going to be teaching?"
After a while of Hermione avoiding talking to her father and arguing over time slots the schedule turned out like this:
YEAR 2
7.00am – Get up and ready.
7.30am – Breakfast
8.00am – Physical and Familiar training with Andrea and Artemis
10:30am– Art of Deception and Power with Zeus, Hades, Hermes and Aphrodite
12.00pm – Lunch
1.00pm – Healing, Plants and Potions with Apollo and Demeter
4.00pm – Elemental Basics with Poseidon, Hephaestus, Zeus and Demeter
7:00pm – Dinner
8.00pm – Weapons and Strategy Training with Ares, Nick and Athena
10.00pm – Relax
11.00pm – Lights out and Bed
The second year was going to be interesting.
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