Chapter 2: A Visitor to Azkaban

Chapter 2: A Visitor to Azkaban

Katrina was ten now, a tall, thin girl who looked completely out of place in a dull building like Azkaban. Kevin had grown also. He was now twelve, and should have gone to Hogwarts at least two years ago, like Terence and Alexander, and now Jonathan too.

Yet Sirius couldn't let them go. They were all he had left. The dementors had sent Alexander, Jonathan and Terence to separate orphanages, and when they were old enough, to Hogwarts, and it was only by luck that Kevin and Katrina were here with him. Sirius sighed as he watched Katrina and Kevin slide through the bars of one of the Death Eater's cells. They were so thin, and the dementors wouldn't give them food.

As Kevin and Kit walked by the dementors, Sirius noticed that they didn't have any effect on either of the kids. He stared. Neither was pale looking, scared or showed any signs of fright or weakness.

To the contrary, they seemed very excited. Slipping through the bars, both kids flopped down on the bench in the cell and began to speak.

" Hey Sirius! The Lestrangers just taught us a new curse! "

"Pretty soon we're going to go up on the battlements! The dementors can't climb too well, and if they start to come after us, we can always jump off."

" Hey, did you know Kit set the head dementor on fire yesterday?" Kevin asked suddenly.

" You have a wand?" asked Sirius incredulously.

" No. I just sort of waved my hands, and this sort of violet fire streamed out," said Kit.

The sun suddenly reflected off her extremely long black hair, sending an amazing array of amethyst and emerald lights onto the walls. For the first time in years Sirius remembered. Her fangs, her hair, her awesome eyes, they were all traits of two of the most interesting (and in one case, feared) magical beings in the paranormal world, vampires and merpeople.

" That's awesome. So how many curses have the Death Eaters taught you?" he asked carefully.

" All they know," said Kevin with an evil grin. " We can probably commit more murders than Voldemort if we decided to unleash our unknown powers. With us learning necromancy from one of the Death Eaters who was a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, we have many unknown powers."

" Hungry?" asked Sirius, taking the offered nasty looking gruel a dementor guard handed him. Kit made a face.

" No thanks." she said with a yawn. " I'm going to see if I can make it up to the battlements before nightfall. See if those stupid idiots who call themselves dementors can catch me. Besides, I feel like swimming. Coming Kevin?"

" Nah. Food's food and I'm hungry," her older brother replied, helping himself to the mixture.

" All right then. See you later Sirius," Kit called as she slid through the bars and jumped onto the windowsill outside of Sirius' cell. Carefully leaning back, she began to walk up the wall. Sirius shivered as he watched her. There was no way getting around it. His siblings were powerful.

" Kevin," he asked, turning to his brother. " How would you two like to become animagi?"

" Really? We'd love to! I'm sure Kit would love it. You know she loves animals," said Kevin, swallowing another big bite of gruel.

" I'll start teaching you tonight then, after Kit returns, if the dementors don't catch her." Sirius replied.

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Kit stood on the top most battlements of Azkaban Prison. Before her stretched her the entire world.

" What a view," she whispered, watching the sun sink into the purple clouds. With a sigh she looked down. Before her lay a very long jump that ended in the water.

A sudden rustling made her turn. The dementor she had set on fire yesterday was climbing the walls. Kit gasped as he began to advance, his rotting, bloody hands stretched towards her. He was coming closer every second.

Without even thinking Kit leaped from the high battlements, speeding towards the water. At the last moment, she stretched her body out, coming into the water with amazing speed and agility.

Underwater was amazing, thought Kit. But the most amazing thing was that she could breathe! Suddenly she stopped and somersaulted. She gasped. She had fins! Her hair had turned a bit more green than usual, losing some of the purple, and her normally pure white skin had darkened to a grayish color.

Kit surfaced, and looked up at the roof, just in time to see the dementor turn around. With a mischievous grin Kit brought her hand up out of the water and hurled a stream of colored fire at his back, setting his long cloak on fire once more.

Still smiling, she swam all of the way around Azkaban, intending to climb out and reenter Azkaban through the front door.

But what she saw made her heart nearly stop. Cornelius Fudge was walking towards the door. None of the Ministry members knew that Sirius' younger siblings were there, and she was sure the Ministry would send them out to different orphanages, just like they had with her older brothers, to try and squash the " evil" out of them. She shivered, distracting the Minister by setting him on fire, and vaulting out of the water, turned automatically into a human once again.

Slipping quietly past him as he tried to put himself out, she opened the door and dashed to Sirius' cell.

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Kevin paced around Sirius' cell for the eighth time.

" For the eightieth time Kev, she hasn't been caught. I know she hasn't." Sirius said, trying to reassure him.

Just then Kit flew around the corner, sliding through the bars so fast she hit her head. Trying to speak through panting and the throbs of pain she poured out her story.

" Cornelius Fudge. Coming to see prisoners I think swimmingturned into a mermaid" she gasped.

" Cornelius Fudge is here? To see the prisoners?" Sirius asked, panicked. " There's no question about it. You'll have to get out of here fast. Go the same way Kit went. Hopefully whatever you did to turn into a mermaid will work with Kevin. Go now! Take your things. I love you both. Be careful. Take care of yourselves. Don't come back though. Try and find Hogwarts. Ask to talk to Dumbledore. He'll know what to do. Goodbye!" he called, watching them walk up the wall, their coats, the only possessions they had, tucked over their arms. He sighed, trying not to cry. They were so young Maybe he shouldn't have made them go. He knew he'd probably never see them again.

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Kit and Kevin dashed up to the battlements, following the "path" Kit had taken earlier.

" Okay," said Kit, gasping. " Just jump over the wall and you should turn into a merman once you hit the water. I'll go after you, since I know it works for me. Go on, I hear the dementors coming. They can sense our fear."

" I'm not scared." Kevin called, beginning to run toward the wall. As he disappeared over the edge, Kit began to run; knowing the dementor was right behind her. Without looking she jumped.

Kit had forgotten how cold the water was. Looking frantically around for Kevin, she felt herself begin to change. All of the sudden she was seized from behind. Trying to kick or scream, she fought desperately to get loose. A voice sounded near her ear.

" Calm down love. It's just me, Kevin. "

" You're hurting me. I can swim on my own," complained Kit, as Kevin let her loose.

" Which way are we going?" Kevin asked uneasily, looking around at the darkening water.

" I don't know. Where's Hogwarts?"

" Somewhere in England."

" I knew that already, but where in England?"

" I don't know. Let's swim over east. I don't think we should come up to the surface often," replied Kevin.

" Look out for boats." Kit advised.

" Do you suppose since was dad was part mermish, and mom was a vampire, and we can turn into merpeople and walk up walls, that we can turn into bats too?" asked Kevin after about three hours of swimming.

" I don't know. We could try it. Wait here a sec. I'm going to check if we're close to land or if we're going out to sea," said Kit, swimming up to the starry surface.

A few minutes she sped down and grabbed Kevin by the arm.

"Come on! Land is only a bit away. We can sleep on the beach," she said as they swam towards land.

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Meanwhile, back in Azkaban, Sirius was talking to the Minister of Magic. He could tell the minister was afraid of him.

" What do you want?" Sirius asked coolly.

" Er, well, just to see if you were, er" said the Minister uncertainly, settling down in a chair the dementors offered him. He shivered slightly in his pinstriped suit.

Sirius Black looked extremely demented. His hair was long and dirty, his eyes were sunken, and looked extremely sad. Suddenly Fudge felt his heart go out to this poor man, but then he remembered that this man was a murderer.

" Well, young man," Fudge began.

" I'm thirty. I no longer consider myself young," was the monotonous reply.

" I see," said Fudge, raising his eyebrows.

" Well then, I personally began to worry about myself and our magical community, so I came here to make sure you couldn't escape." Fudge laughed nervously, rattling the cell bars with one hand and glancing at the dementors. " As I see you can't, I have decided to read you the magical laws, to make sure you won't do anything like the mass murder you committed before. Law one" With a sigh, Sirius rolled his eyes, and leaned back against the wall, wondering how Kit and Kevin were doing.