A/N: Hurrah!!! Chapter 3 is finally out. Thank you to all the people who reviewed the last chapter. Keep reviewing
Theres no cliffhanger in this but theres a bit of Romance and lots of talking so have a fun read.
Oh yes and please don't flame me even if you think it's awful. Thanks.
Almus Vivicus: Chapter 3: The beginning of a vision
Sirius Black awoke to find himself in a small dungeon with no windows. The walls were grey and dirty and the smell was like that of a rotting corpse. It was a very medieval looking dungeon.
The were chains with cuffs on the walls and a few bones dotted around the place. The ceiling was crawling with bugs and was white because of the cobwebs.
He looked to his side. Sarah Moody was still unconscious. So he got up and walked up to the oak wood door. There were bars across the small window in it. He looked through it. There were four guards outside it. Two of them were Death eaters and the others looked fairly normal, except for the fact that they were extremely pale and ill looking.
Sirius turned back to the dungeon. He tried to wake Sarah up by shaking her. Eventually she sat up suddenly looked around and yelled "Sirius where the hell are we"
"Intelligent as I may be even I can't answer that. We seem to be in some sort of dungeon"
"Well yeah I figured that much out" she stood up and started looking around. She looked out of the small window in the door " Well we know one thing, It's obviously Voldemort that brought us here"
Sirius admired her for that. She was very brave and was one of the only girls he knew who could say Voldemort without having a fit or something "Yep"
- "Don't know who the other two blokes are though" she added
"Well we also know that we're in a castle"
"But Voldemort doesn't have a castle though does he?" she asked
Sirius shrugged and shook his head. They both sat in silence until they heard footstepsin the corridor outside. They both looked up and listened:
"My dear Vlad you obviously do not understand that if I got Slytherin's soul I would be able to fulfill his purpose: Kill all that is or is left of the other founders. I only know about one heir at the moment, which is Draco Malfoy, but when I find the others and I've got Slytherin's soul mixed with my own, I shall be able to kill each and every one of them" It was the voice of Lord Voldemort.
"Well do not doubt me, but I don't believe this a good idea. It could all go terribly wrong"
this voice was unfamiliar. It was a soft voice with sharp twangs in it every now and then.
The voices got nearer to the door "We can talk about it later, in the meantime, I want you to meet someone" continued Voldemort, he pointed at the lock with his wand and said "Alohomora"
The door swung open and Voldemort stepped in accompanied by 3 death eaters, Wormtail and a thin tall man in a black cape, his eyes were black like his hair which was pulled back with a velvet ribbon. He was as pale as someone would be if they had been frozen in an iceberg for 15 years.
Sirius and Sarah stared at them as they walked in
"Well, well, well what have we here? A dog and his bitch" snarled Voldemort.
"Bastard! What the hell do you want?" Yelled Sirius "What are we doing here?"
"Language Black!" said Voldemort walking around the cell "We wouldn't want to start our little meeting of badly now would we?"
Sirius called him a good deal of names until Sarah managed to restrain him.
Voldemort smirked at him
Sirius grabbed hold of Sarah's hand and didn't let go. She held onto it tightly. They both said nothing.
"Well. Now that you've finished with your verbal abuse session ,Black , I would like to introduce some people to you :This useless piece of dirty toilet paper you already know" he said pointing to Wormtail "These are three of my servants Crabbe, Nott and Snape" Snape looked at them hatefully but with a look that told them he was on their side. Voldemort continued "And this is my friend Vlad Von Dracula"
They gasped.
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"AAAAAAAAARGH!!!"
"AAAAAAAAARGH!!!" screamed Draco Malfoy as Ginny Weasley walked into the bathroom "What are you doing here?!?"
She still had her mouth open and was covering her eyes with her hand, Draco looked down and realised that there was a certain part of him exposed. He grabbed a towel and tied it round his waist. Ginny was blushing to the roots of her red hair "Hey, it's allright you can look now I'm covered"
She opened her eyes and looked at him "I cannot believe that just happened to me" she said
"Well it did didn't it?" he said calmly "And you're not exactly wretching or anything are you so it can't have been that awful"
Before Ginny could say anything Harry walked into the bathroom "Ginny what's wrong?" he asked, but then he looked at Draco clasping a towel around his waist and put two and two together, before he could stop himself he had started laughing.
Ginny put her hand over her head and wanted the ground to swallow her up.
Draco was just looking at Harry as though he was a little kid who thought even the word "bottom" was x-rated. He was looking at Ginny as though it was no big deal but she was looking as though this was a reason for suicide.
Draco kicked Harry "Shut the fuck up!"
Harry got up "Sorry Ginny, I shouldn't have laughed but it was pretty funny"
"Oh really Harry? How would you feel if you walked into a room and suddenly saw Hermione naked? Hmm? Embarrassed right?" said Ginny, looking furious.
Harry went red.
"Actually I think he would quite enjoy it wouldn't you Harry?" said Draco sneakily.
Harry started going even redder "Malfoy ,don't you dare say anything else"
But Draco had already said everything because Ginny was clever, and Harry's reaction to what Draco had just said pretty much proved everything "Oh my God! You fancy Hermione!" she squealed "I knew it!"
"I don't think it's just fancying" said Draco "It's more than that isn't it Harry?"
Harry felt like fainting "If you tell anyone else I'll kill you, okay! Please don't tell Hermione! I don't know why I told you in the first place"
"Harry, the only person who doesn't know about it is Hermione so you're lucky in some ways"
"Oh god!" Harry sobbed and fell on the floor.
"Well Harry you shouldn't have laughed" said Ginny "Anyway I'm off to the car" and she walked out.
"Whatever" said Harry "Anyway the cars about to leave so Malfoy you'd better get dressed. And I don't think Ron should really know about this"
"Why not?"
"Well he doesn't really like you that much and if he finds out his sister has been looking at your privates he'll be stabbing you with a toothpick before you can do anything"
"Potter I don't give a shit what that red haired freckly prick thinks okay but I won't tell him. For Ginny's sake"
"Aah. I never new you cared" said Harry grinning.
"Don't bite my ass you four eyed git!"
Harry laughed at him "Oh yeah and before I go please, please don't tell Hermione about this okay" he added pleadingly.
Draco chuckled "Don't worry Potter. Who am I to interfere in your love life?"
"A nosy bugger that's who" said Harry smiling, and he left him to get dressed.
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Lord Voldemort laughed at Sirius and Sarah's expressions when he told them who the tall, pale man in the black cape was "Don't worry he won't do anything to you" he smiled an evil smile and added "yet"
But the man in the cape who was apparently THE Dracula still said nothing, He hadn't even glanced at Sirius or Sarah.
Sirius wouldn't take his eyes of Voldemort for a split second. He held Sarah's hand extremely tightly. He thought Voldemort might curse her just to have her out of the way.
"Do you know why you are here Mr Black?"
"That's what I've been asking for the past 10 minutes you deaf wanker!!!"
"Temper, temper" said Voldemort annoyingly "Getting angry won't get you anywhere"
"Well it got you somewhere didn't it?!?" screamed Sirius "Whenever you felt a bit angry you went and killed someone didn't you?"
Sarah nudged him "Sirius don't make him too furious" she whispered to him "You just saidwhat that moron does when he gets angry "
Wormtail pointed his silver arm at him.
"Mr Black I would advise you to keep your mouth shut for the time being. Now as I was saying, Do you know that your brat of a Godson has my key to killing him with him right now? Do you know who that is?"
Sirius shook his head.
"It is Draco Malfoy. The one person who can get me what I need to kill Harry Potter for certain. I have offered Draco Malfoy more power than he has ever dreamed of. In twenty years he would take my place as the most powerful wizard on Earth. And he has disappointed me in the worst way possible" he stopped shouting and calmed down a bit "Do you know Draco Malfoy?"
Sirius nodded.
"Yes? Well he has left me truly disappointed by leaving me with a whole new set of unnecessary difficulties by flying to your godson's house and told him of all my plans! All of them!!!" He was shouting again " So when I get my hands on that little idiot, if he doesn't do what I say then I may have to force him with torture!!!"
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"What is Draco Malfoy doing here?" Arthur Weasley asked when he saw Draco walking across the Dursley front lawn.
Harry and Hermione spent half an hour explaining and pleading with him before he let Draco in the car.
Hermione got in first and then Draco pushed Harry into the car next to her. Ron sat in the front. Draco and Ginny got in last. Before long they were underway and after about an hour of driving everyone except Draco and Ginny were awake. Ginny had been trying to avoid Draco but found it impossible now that she was sitting next to him.
"So how was it for you?" he asked cheekily
She pinched him "Piss off Malfoy! Look please don't lay into me okay!"
"What? In front of this lot? Never! Maybe when we're alone though!"
"Aargh! I didn't mean THAT!" She said " Malfoy what I'm saying is that I'm really embarrassed about what happened okay and I wish it hadn't"
"I don't think you mind"
"Oh really?"
"Yep." Replied Draco "I think you liked seeing my rather large, rather beautiful…"
"Shut up Malfoy!!!"
He grinned at her " Oh and by the way, I think you've seen too much of me to still call me by my last name, Call me Draco"
"Okay I'll call you Draco DRACO. Now please be quiet about all this"
"Don't worry my lips are sealed" he said, still grinning "And you can seal yours around my impressive…"
"Shut up!!!" she said and hit him over the head.
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Sirius couldn't believe it. Draco Malfoy?!? MALFOY?!? Helping Harry? "I don't think this is the Draco I know. He's always hated Harry! Why would he want to help him?"
Voldemort glared at Sirius "Yes it is the Draco you know. And I ask myself that aswell. Why would he choose helping one of his worst enemies over having all the power he wanted? And the answer is simple: Revenge"
"Revenge for what?"
"His father. He beat him, forced him to do things, hit his mother. Draco Malfoy has every reason to hate his father. And there is another reason that he doesn't know about: he wants to have what he has never had- a normal life" but Voldemort just smirked "But I don't care what he wants. They will be arriving in Diagon Alley soon, and they will want to come looking for you"
They probably will, thought Sirius, but Remus won't let Harry go, and how would they know where I am?
Voldemort told him "If I put a certain spell on the key that only Draco Malfoy can use, it will tell Draco Malfoy exactly where you are"
"But how?"
"Mr Malfoy is the Heir of Slytherin, and this" said Voldemort, holding up a silver key, in the shape of a serpent and encrusted with green jewels "Is Salazar Slytherin's key. It is the only thing that can open the silver orb that contains Slytherin's soul. I cannot hold it without dragon hide gloves because I am not its rightful owner, Draco Malfoy is. He is connected to it, therefore if I put a conductus spell on it, it will show him where you are, and they will come looking for you, without knowing they're walking into a trap."
"But Remus won't let Draco come, Harry will have told him everything by now"
"They can't enter the castle without Draco. Even if he told them exactly where you are, they wouldn't be able to get in this castle."
"Why not?"
"You aren't as clever as you act you know. Only true friends of Vlad's can even see the castle. Slytherin was Vlad's best and only friend. And Draco Malfoy has his blood, so your friend Mr Lupin can only get in unless he is with Draco"
"Okay and how are they going to know that?"
"It's in all the books about buildings and restraint charms"
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When everyone arrived at the loose brick and had walked through the archway into Diagon Alley, they went straight to The Leaky Cauldron, where they had agreed to meet Remus and Narcissa.
They looked around for them and spotted them waving at them from a large table on the other side of the room.
They all ordered their drinks and sat down together. When they were all still Remus started talking "Okay, so now were all here…" but Draco interrupted him:
"Who are you and why do you keep kissing my mother?"
There was a silence. Remus didn't know what to say.
" Draco!" Narcissa started explaining "You know when you told me to go to someone I could trust and that hated your father?"
Draco nodded.
"Well I went to Remus, who other than being my boyfriend when I was at Hogwarts, was also one of Harry's father's best friends"
"Right, and you and him are back together then?"
Narcissa nodded "Look, Draco, it might be hard to understand…"
Draco smiled at her "Mum. It's okay. Really. It was about time you left Dad. And Remus I remember you now, you were a teacher a few years ago at Hogwarts. The werewolf right?"
Remus grinned and nodded at him "So anyway, Voldemort has got Sirius and Sarah Moody. We don't know where, but I'm thinking Voldemort kidnapped them to draw us there so there must be some sort of clue as to where they must be"
But no one was listening to him, everyone was staring at Draco, he had a distant look in his eyes and had turned paler than usual, he started to splutter as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
All he could do was see, he was locked in a position that he couldn't get out of. He could see and feel mountains and forests, houses and cities rushing past him, but then everything went darker, the trees got taller and the air he could feel got colder.
A large stone castle suddenly appeared in the blackness and he found himself in a small cell with two other people, they could not see him or hear him, one of them he recognised as Sirius Black and the other he didn't know.
But before he could do anything, everything disappeared and he felt himself falling into a deep sleep.
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"Draco! Draco!" Draco opened his eyes, the figures leaning over him were blurry but he finally made out who they were, it was his mother and Hermione Granger, and by his side were Harry and Ginny. He sat up.
Remus was reading in a corner. He looked at them all and saw that Draco had woken up "Draco what happened? You went all white and then you fainted after a few minutes"
"I don't know" he answered "I was listening to you and then all these images started rushing past me and in front as if I was flying top speed on a broomstick but faster, there were mountains and houses and then there was this castle and I went into one of the dungeons and there was Sirius Black and another woman but then I fainted"
"Okay Draco, calm down. You said there was a castle and Sirius and Sarah were in there?"
Draco nodded
Remus said nothing and went over to the suitcase full of books he had lugged there. He pulled out a book called " visions and hallucinations and their meanings" and started searching through the pages:
" Well it says here that visions of landscapes and paths usually indicate the way to a place you have to get to, but they're usually forced by whoever wants you to get there by them putting a conductus or navigus charm on something you're connected to. Usually an old bracelet you've worn or a photograph of you" he stopped and thought for a minute:
"I'm guessing that Voldemort put a spell on something you're strongly connected to so you can be drawn there, the question is where is there?"
Nobody said anything except for Hermione "Malfoy why don't you draw the castle"
"Good idea Hermione" said Narcissa and she handed Draco some parchment and a quill.
When he finished drawing he handed Remus the drawing. Remus stared at it for a long time and went and pulled out another book called "Ancient Buildings in magical History" and found a picture of a large castle with several sharp turrets "Is this the castle?" he asked
Draco nodded and started reading the script that went with it, his mouth dropped open.
"Draco has just discovered that Sirius and Sarah are in Dracula's castle"
Everyone looked amazed "But I thought he was just a myth even in magical standards.
"He's not a myth Harry" said Ron
"Harry did you know that Dracula was the first ever Vampire" said Hermione, Harry blushed "He was bitten on the neck by a rabid bat when he was 23 and started craving blood and creating more vampires. No one knows how he worked it out."
"Hermione on top form again eh?" said Remus "Well there's only one problem with all of this."
"Other than the fact that these are two of the most dangerous men on the planet we're talking about?" said Ginny.
Draco looked at her impressed.
"That and the fact that we can't get in the castle without a close friend of Dracula's and the only person who is remotely related to Dracula's best friend Slytherin is Draco. But Voldemort wants Draco to go there so we've got a bit of a problem"
"I'll go Remus, even if it means putting the whole world at stake"
"Well it does mean putting the whole world at stake because if Voldemort gets a hold of you it won't be hard for him to force you to open Slytherin's soul"
"Well then leave Sirius Black to rot"
"That's not what I was suggesting. I think the easiest thing to do would be to make you invisible. That's all we can do"
"Okay so lets get a team together"
Everyone nodded
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So who will the team be??? Not really a cliffhanger just a suspender really. Hope you enjoyed it I don't know when chapter 4 will be out though but keep faith, I will write it
Thanx for reading and pls review. Ta!
