Founder's Child

A/N: hey, Bluejello, I don't know where that quote comes from, I've heard it so many times in TV shows and movies that I can't remember anymore. Ok, I don't have anything else to really say, except, thanks for the great reviews, and: happy reading!!!

~*~Friday Night, October 16—Hogwarts~*~

"The prophecies are true,

The children are coming,

To take what's rightfully theirs,

Not a soul among them,

'Cept the Slytherin girl,

"Daughter of Salazar,

Love of the Gryffindor,

Evil is searching for

The four demons of Hogwarts,

Children of the founders

"Dancing in the moonlight,

Singing the songs of their parents,

Power of truth an' power of love,

In the night her power shall rise,

As her soul is lost forever," Destiny sang softly from the Astrology Tower (the only place that hadn't been blocked by the spell) luckily there weren't any classes so early in the evening.

"I've never heard that last verse," Dumbledore said steeping out onto the platform-like tower. "How were you able to get up here, the spell should have blocked you."
"You haven't it, heard well they've been singing that last verse since the whole song came out. It must have gotten lost from the child's skipping rope song," Destiny said with a laugh. "As for the spell. No one back then could perform a complete dome spell, only a partial dome, the very tip not accounted for."

"I've tried to fix that over the years-," Dumbledore started.

"But your magic isn't powerful enough to change the founders' original spell, I know, I've altered it slightly every decade since the founders were all gone. The tip that hadn't been accounted for is now the entire covering piece," Destiny said with yet another small laugh, before turning serious. "You don't know how important it is that I get inside."

"It doesn't seen like you've tried to explain yourself either," Dumbledore said as a look of almost happiness passed over her face. "So I still cannot let you in."

"There's a whole book on the prophecy that's about to take place, hold on I'll get it,' Destiny said holding out her left hand towards the door into the school. "Acco Book of Merlin's Demon Prophecy."

A banging sound could be heard as if something were trying to ram it's way through the shut door. Destiny made a swift motion with her right hand making the door fly open, just in time for a book to come flying into her open hand.

"Read this by the 23rd, I'll be back to talk to you," Destiny said her face hard and serious. "It's very important. Merlin was right about everything."

With that Destiny suddenly turned into a phoenix and flew off into the forest, turning back into her ordinary form just before hitting the ground right outside the forest, and vanishing among the leaves, the silver of her sword once again shining in the moonlight.

~*~October 17—Morning—Hogwarts~*~

"Ah, there you are professor," Dumbledore said coming up to Spike, who was in one of the dungeons keeping away from the sun.

"Yes, the dungeons are a great place to hide from the sun," Spike said putting out the cigarette that he had been smoking.

"I was wondering if you'd do me a little favor," Dumbledore said (a little OOC I know, but it must be done).

"What?" Spike asked trying to be polite.

"I would like you to tell your DADA classes to be careful of animals, there's someone out there that can change into any animal at will, and they should be careful of her," Dumbledore said.

"Sorry, if you're talking about Destiny, I can't help you there," Spike said quickly. "She's pure good. That bloody soul of hers has stopped her from doing anything evil."

"She's in the forest," Dumbledore stated.

"The new hellmouth," Spike said with a laugh. "She's always hated those things, I feel bad for her, the stupid Watcher's Council is making her keep up her slaying duties, even though she's dead. Actually, I don't feel that bad for her, I'm the one they forced to be her bleedin' watcher."

Dumbledore wasn't quite sure how to respond to this.

"Don't worry where my loyalties are they're just where they should be," Spike said walking across the room, picking up the pack of cigarettes that he had left there an hour ago, only to light a new one.

"And where is that?" Dumbledore asked his face suddenly going straight and emotionless.

"Well, they bloody aren't with you, no offence or nothing'," Spike said sitting down in one of the few chairs in the almost empty room. "But it's not like they're with the Dark Lord or anything that wants to get rid of all the non-demons of the world, either, or destroy it for that matter. I like this place, I don't want to spend eternity in hell. I mean they're walking around like bloody happy meals with legs just waiting to be sucked dry. I like it, I don't want to destroy it."

Dumbledore was going to say something, but Spike started talking again before he could.

"Wait a minute, I've said that to someone before," Spike said trying to remember who he said it to. "Oh, yeah, I said that to the slayer, when Angelus wanted to open up a vortex to hell. I said the happy meal part, not the whole loyalties thing. It was actually quiet funny. You have no idea what I'm going on about do you?"

"No, actually I don't," Dumbledore said shaking his head.

"That's ok, what I'm trying to say is that if I had to choose between Destiny and the entire wizarding world, hell it'd be her," Spike said with a laugh. "I don't have any reason to bother with the wizarding world, not like it's done anything for me. I've got better things to do with the rest of eternity, like getting rid of this bloody chip in my head. I don't like the fight anymore, maybe a battle or two with the slayer, but not for something as big as the world. There's one more battle, the one that Merlin prophesized so long ago. Then, once that's over, I'm out of here. That's the only reason I even came back to this damned world. I'm gettin' out of here, take Destiny with me, get together a new group of vamps."

"One more thing," Dumbledore said.

"And what's that?" Spike asked so quickly it startled Dumbledore.

"The slayer is going to come and teach here after Christmas holiday. Thought you'd like to know before she came," Dumbledore said before leaving.

"One more bad thing to add to this awful day," Spike said as he started, yet another, cigarette.

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Hey. Here's today's chapter. Sorry it took so long.

Gaz