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When everyone left to rest before dinner Apollo followed Hermione to her room. She noticed, but didn't try to bother trying to shake him off. (I mean, c'mon how do you lose a god?)
So she just walked on, she told Nala through her mind, "Nala, I'm going to ask you to please leave me and…. my father alone for the time being."
Nala winced slightly over the formal tone, knowing not to argue with her when her human companion was like this so she padded her way to the pool area where Shaylee was at, giving Apollo a warning look while baring her teeth as she did.
They made it to her Slytherin decorated room complete with emerald bed spread, silver head board, light green walls, a large enchanted window to give her whatever view she wanted, a floor to ceiling bookcase filled with books and a silver archery stand. She kept her back to him as she looked through the multiple books in her room.
Apollo growled, finally fed up with her cold shoulder, "Hermione, look at me. We need to talk."
Lady Slytherin's back stiffened, "Excuse me? Do not tell me what to do. You may be a god, but right at this moment you have no say in what I do." She quickly waved her wand so her room was soundproof for the moment, she had a bad feeling this was going to be loud.
Apollo ran a hand through his dirty blonde hair, "Look, you don't understand the situation-"
He got cut off by Hermione rounding on him, her face expressionless, "I don't understand the situation." Her tone cold and sharp, "I do not understand the situation." She chuckled, "I understand the situation perfectly well, you LEFT us, and you haven't tried any sort of communication with us. I have been lied to my whole life and now you just waltzed back into it?" Hermione steadily walked to him her voice growing with each step the silver and green glow surrounding her, "Do you know I was bullied my entire life just because of my blood and the way I acted and looked, I thought I was a muggleborn. But no I'm not, I'm a bloody demigod and a DESCENANT OG MORGANA!" She took a shaky breath, "When I found out who I am, I cried myself to sleep for weeks because I know that you never cared about us in the slightest sense to even make contact with your daughter! Did you even care about my Mum? Or are there more just like her-"
Apollo yelled at the top of his lungs, "ENOUGH!" He took a deep shaky breath, taking in the look of his daughter with tears running down her face, her cheeks flushed from her ranting, the green and silver retreating around her form.
Softer this time he said, "Enough." He ran a hand through his hair again, "I love your mother, you have no idea how much I do. But I couldn't stay because of ancient laws that forbid me from staying with you your entire life. Yes there were others like her, I loved them but they all faded away in comparison to Rae." He started pacing, just like Hermione does when she gets frustrated over something, "Trust me Mya, if I could have stayed then I would've. But if I tried to then you would've… would've died." Apollo choked at the mere thought of it, "You're the only girl I've had in all the children I've had. All my other children are boys for some reason."
Mya shook her head, trying to process it all, "A-Apollo, Godly Father, I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be calling you right now, but what I am sure of is that it's going to take some time for us to really adjust to all this. And so we don't make things awkward, let's just train. Harry, Luna and Neville need all the support they can get with everything piling on top of their shoulders and they doesn't need my…. family issues to add to the load."
The God of the Sun looked at his only daughter with the same golden eyes as his own, she shuddered as she actually looked into them. Pain, depression, anger, sadness, guilt stared right back at her. Her heart clenched tightly as he nodded slowly and planted a feather light kiss on her hair line before walking out of her room. Where she proceeded to lie down on her bed and stare at the ceiling with his eyes haunting her.
During that night not too far down the hall, was a boy with light brown eyes and long-ish brown hair that tossed and turned, not able to sleep he went to the Occlumency room. It had been his ritual whenever he couldn't sleep since he arrived in the Trunk. No one, not even his familiar, knew about this and he hoped it stayed that way. He got to break away from the training and the feelings he started getting for a certain Lady Ravenclaw.
Neville shook his head and sighed, it wasn't the time to be thinking of these things. He had to focus on relaxing for a while.
When he got the room he inhaled the cherry blossom scent deeply before calmly sitting on a yoga mat and got into his meditation position. He envisioned himself in the middle of a forest, surrounded by trees, plants and so very diverse wildlife. A few wolves howled in the wind, crickets and bird created breath taking music in the autumn trees and leaves. Reds, yellows, oranges, greens and browns made a picturesque scene that any painter would be jealous of. This was the perfect place for him, just being near the earth and plants calmed him down immensely, then a soft voice said behind him, "A lovely place you created."
Neville calmly turned around to see Luna there sitting on top of a large boulder, smiling gently at him, "Thanks, this is the only place I can go for some peace and quiet since the Trunk's visitors have expanded."
The blonde younger girl chuckled, a sound that filled the boy's heart with something he didn't know, "The heliospurts are certainly revolving around Hephaestus, my father wrote all about them in his last article."
Neville nodded, he read about the creatures that Luna talked about so he wouldn't always have to look at her in confusion, "Most likely because he's the god of fire." He lifted an eyebrow amusedly, "Want to tell me how you got into my meditation realm?"
Lady Ravenclaw let out a tinkling laugh, "I may not want to, but I shall." The brown haired lad smiled and shook his head to himself as she explained the simple process of following him and entering his thoughts. She was always extraordinary to him.
Luna leapt off the boulder and sat down beside Neville, gently grabbing his hand as they laid back gently watching the sky together, both wishing this could be the eternity they hoped for.
The months flew by in the Trunk. The agreement still stands that Sundays are free days to whatever they wished so the Heirs were glad for that.
The lessons were interesting and showed everyone where their strengths lie, though each and every single one of the four excelled in everything. Luna seemed to be most at peace with the healing and potion lessons and revolved around that and the elements taught by Zeus, Poseidon, Hephaestus and Demeter she tuned in more with Poseidon and the ability of water. She grew more beautiful as the days past and her airy quality diminished rapidly, but she still had her moments. Quickly she formed a friendship with Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes.
Neville took great leaps and bounds through his studies, but honed in more with Potions, Physical Fitness and Plants, staying in tune with the ability of the Earth element and Demeter, who was obviously quiet pleased that someone respected the wildlife as much as she did. The Heir of Hufflepuff out grew his baby fat, becoming very handsome, and became the brawn and tallest of the four, his nervousness disappeared as he gained his confidence. He found friends in Demeter and, surprisingly, Hades.
Harry passed with flying colors on basically everything, though he topped everyone in Weapons and tied Neville in Fitness. He could even take on Ares if he wanted! When it came to elements immediately he formed a connection with Zeus and his ability over weather and the sky. But this included a magical storm called a FireStorm that was basically a destructive force of fire that appeared in the shape of a storm. Harry grew out of his lanky form, though still lean and lithe, became more muscled, his leadership improved greatly and he became incredibly enticing through his looks. He found friends in Poseidon, Ares and Zeus.
Hermione breezed through all the classes, her top courses are Art of Deception allowing her to channel her inner Slytherin more easily and Strategy Training. Her element that she toppled was fire that reflected her personality, working with Hephaestus diligently. Her temper cooled down to where she could school her features with the art of a pureblood, her looks were a bit above Luna's and she became even more calculating, driven and passionate about almost everything. She easily befriended Artemis, Athena and Hephaestus.
Andrea and Nick would often smirk to themselves as they watched everyone train or look at certain couples and mutter to themselves how they can be oblivious at times. Lily just laughed at her two friends while James and Sirius taunted the kids about the obvious attraction, just causing more confusion. Andrea now always had her dark hair streaked with the same shape of red as Lily's in honor of her.
Apollo and Hermione were barely speaking with each other, being polite when they were around the others. The golden eyed girl could hardly stand to look the god in the eyes, afraid to find what emotions would be in them, especially the heart breaking ones she saw the last time she looked into his eyes.
Harry was now sitting in the lounge talking with his parents and Sirius, they told him of stories from their days in Hogwarts, the pranks they pulled and it never ceased to amuse him. Though he still longed for a life with his parents and Sirius, he knew he had family in the Trunk that included the other Heirs and the trainers. So for the most part his was content and at a wary peace that he knew wasn't going to last long. You have no idea how much he want to get revenge on Albus, Molly, Ginny and Ron; the people who betrayed him and used him simply for the sake of greed and power. He shrugged to himself mentally as James described in detail the time where he turned Snape into a bat for Halloween, oh well it's not like he had to deal with the Ministry and Death Munchers out to get him the emerald eyed teen thought sarcastically. Since their training on defeating the Death Nibblers were already up to par; Zeus, Ares and Hades have been giving him private lessons on politics of the Wizarding World since he was the only one left behind due to Neville and Luna being from pureblooded families knew all of it and Hermione already did her research on it. Quickly he tried to pick it up, but somehow he couldn't just keep it in his brain. He was about to give up hope when Aphrodite suggested that there were some magical blocks on his magic core and mind. Athena, Artemis, Hades and Zeus quickly began muttering among themselves, composing plans and strategies about this and how it was most likely the work of Dumbles. Luna and Neville talked with Hermes, Apollo, Poseidon, Hephaestus, Demeter and Ares about other things trying not to give any more of the spot light onto Harry than needed. While Hermione walked to his side, intertwined her hand with his and laid her head on his shoulder, whispering sweet-nothings into his ear. Andrea's hair turned a dark red as she glared at the wall across from her as Nick tried to calm her down.
It was eventful to say the least.
He was shaken out of his thoughts as Lyall jumped on him. If the reddish-brown wolf could've smirked he would've, "You really need to work on your senses because right now they suck!"
Harry rolled his eyes as James and Sirius snickered at him, "Laugh it up you two! You never know what I might do to get back. I am after all a Marauder's child."
Sirius smirked, "What would you do to a portrait, pup?" They all felt a pang of the ache not to be near each other in the flesh, but the portraits and the Heir shook it off continuing as they had before.
It was Harry's turn to smirk, "I'll let Luna, Athena, Hermione, Demeter, Artemis and Andrea loose on you."
They quickly blanched and fell to their knees begging him not to do it. The statement of they were terrified would be an understatement. Not only were they dealing with the Heiresses of the Wise and Cunning, they were also dealing with three goddesses and a metamorphmagus that should never be crossed under any circumstances. There was also another that was fear by them, Sophia Ring: Another friend of the older generation who was the epitome of bad ass and danger, even though she was in Ravenclaw when in her Hogwarts years. And all the males in the trunk were sure of every single one of these females got together it would most likely be the end of the world; even the immortal ones were scared! They all could be that scary.
Lily mock-scolded her son, "Now Harry, don't threaten your dog-father and father a heart attack with the women of the Trunk," Her serious expression cracked as she snickered, "Wait for them to actually be in here when it happens."
The Heir of Gryffindor snickered along with his mother while Sirius and James pouted. Just then Hermes, Athena, Hephaestus, Hermione and Neville walked in talking among themselves… well debating among themselves. He only caught half the conversation as they entered,
"-it might work Hermione, but the functions of technology and magic still won't coincide with each other."
"Well I believe that you Hephaestus, haven't tried to try and make magic and technology work together before so you can shove that up your-" The last part was muffled, as if a hand covered her mouth.
"Now, now, Mione, no need to piss off him; but I honestly have to say I agree with him. Even if we tried to get some magical plant extracts into it to help, it won't work."
"Well it's never been tried before by the Heiress of Slytherin and the Goddess of Crafts now has it Neville?" Athena had a smugness in her voice that Harry could tell that she knew victory was on the horizon.
"Urggggg! Really? You licked me Mione?!" The immortals snickered.
"Next time don't put you hand over my mouth then. But back on topic. Hermes do you think you'll be able to fuse the phone and a simple binding spell on it?"
He scoffed, "I'm hurt, sweetheart that you don't rely on my ability to do something as simple as this." There was a sound of a hand colliding with a head.
"Geez! You women are violent!" Then came the sound of Athena and Hermione high-fiving each other as Hephaestus full out laugh in his deep voice at them.
Harry eyed his father and Sirius who begged silently not to do anything that would involve them being hurt. He snickered silently to himself and made himself known, "So what are you fighting about?"
All five heads snapped towards him. Hermione drawled, "Well, an idea popped into my head about cellphones mixing with magic, sort of like an instant Floo for the wizarding world that could do multiple other things such as bring portraits to the screen so that people could talk to them. I brought it up to Athena when these three overheard us."
He raised an eyebrow at the idea, it was ingenious. Not many other witches or wizards would come up with something like that because they have their heads too far up their arse. That and it would be a brilliant way to communicate with his parents without the actual portraits.
Harry nodded as James looked on curiously, "What if we combined the Marauder Map along with it, so we know where anyone is while the kids are in Hogwarts."
Neville's eyes lit up as an idea popped into his head, he turned to Hermione with joyous filled eyes that sent a flare of jealousy through Harry, "Mia, what if we created a television with this for in here since I'm assuming that we're going to be here often after we're let out. We make the telly a spying device so when in here we can look on everyone we need. We could just say the thing we need to locate, or have a…. what's it called again?"
Hermes replied helpfully, he was buzzing with excitement along with everyone else in the room, "Remote."
Neville grinned, "That's it, a remote or have a guide or index for us to keep track of." Athena beamed with excitement at the prospect of the idea.
They all looked toward Harry in question of what he would think, seeing him as the leader of sorts, the emerald eyed boy said with a smile, "Brilliant. I say go ahead."
The Slytherin Heiress was radiant as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him fiercely, Harry inhaled slightly the unique scent of books, cinnamon, honey suckle and something purely Hermione. He was disappointed when she let go of him and went back over to the others and rambled off ingredients, spells and more ideas to the project.
Lily snickered slightly at the sight of his face, "Oh son, you have it bad." All he did was look at her confusedly as the three remarkable people in the portraits laughed their arses off at him.
Hello all my faithful readers! I apologize on so many levels for not posting this sooner. It's just... well school started up obviously and I've struggled to adjust to the new school with new people I needed to get acquainted to and not the mention the damn HOMEWORK! So I am so very sorry about the long term delay of this chapter and I promise to write as much as I can.
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