L' erede e lo schiavo uniscono come uno
The Heir and the slave Unite as One
James could see Gemini from across the way, and it scared him. It looked as if she was in all of her glory. She transformed, and she stood proudly looking up at the moon, which shone on her at such an angle, that it looked that she could drown in it. Her bow was by her side and an arrow in her other hand.
"Gemini!" James yelled, across the grounds, running towards her.
He then abruptly made a nosedive for the ground, for Gemini made an instinctive move and as fast as lightning, the bow was loaded and aimed strait towards James. When Gemini saw who it was, she immediately, dropped her hands, and yelled over, "Sorry James! You're not who I was aiming for!"
Gemini rose her hand and James can flying over and landed at her feet. "I though you were Mary Sue, Sorry." Gemini said nonchalantly looking back at the moon.
"That girl has gotten us in to deep shit, huh?" James said sitting back down on the ground at Gemini's feet.
Gemini sat down next to him and replied, "No Prongs, I am the one in deep shit, you in about half as much shit I am in."
"You like to say the word shit don't you?" James laughed and he gave a sideways glance at his friend, who was still looking up at the moon.
"Yup. Shit, Shitty, Shit, shit, shit." She laughed looking over at James. "So is this a first. The marauders haven't gone out to see Remus. "
James looked up to the moon and sighed, "Yea, It's the first time the marauders fought."
"Come on then, Let's go." Gemini said, floating up from her spot on the ground, her bow still in hand.
"What do you mean 'lets go'" James laughed as he to got up, "You talk as if you can waltz right in there, with a wild animal.
"Prongs you underestimate me." Gemini laughed as they began to walk to the whomping willow, "I am the heiress of Diana. I have control over wild animals, and if a werewolf isn't wild I don't know what is. It is also said that when a woman dies, she is hit with a arrow of Diana."
"Please don't tell me that you were going to Kill Mary Sue with your bow?" James said stopping dead in his tracks.
"Oh no, I wouldn't of actually killed her, I would scare her half to death, then I would hang her by her perfect blonde hair, and beat her perfect bimbo body, with my nice, worn in boxing gloves." Gemini said dramatically as she continued to walk forward.
"On second though… being shot with an arrow of death sounds a lot less pain full than that." James mused out load, "Gemini, can you…" James pointed towards the whipping branches, "Do Wormtail's job?"
Gemini gave him a dirty look, for associating her with Peter. She held out her hand and the branches calmed. James transformed and hurried though in to the tunnel. Gemini followed in suit, loose her concentration, letting the branches swing again. There in the tunnel stood James, Now Prongs, Waiting for her with a look of impatiens in his eyes.
Gemini looked at him and grinned. "You know James, There is a story of how a boastful prince had a little run in with Diana. She turned him to a stag." - She looked at the obvious look on his face that said 'Hell! I can turn in to a stag!' – "Forever, he was then hunted down by his fellow hunters and eaten alive by his own dogs, that shut you up quickly, didn't it."
Gemini followed James silently though the tunnel until the screams and the moans became clearer and precise. Prongs turned around and gave Gemini a warning look when they got to the door. Gemini ignored this and pushed past him and opened the door.
"Here Remus!" – she whistled three times- "Here boy!"
At her call, the werewolf burst in to the room, but calmed when her saw the Stag and the Heiress. Moony trotted up to them and looked up to Gemini. Gemini knelt down and kissed him lightly in the forehead in between his eyes. "You are not going to believe how much shit I have gotten myself into."
Moony looked up at Prongs, who looked at the door. Moony nodded and began to trot out the door, When out of sight, James changed quickly back and whispered, "Keep you eye on him, some times he gets out of control." He turned back in to Prongs and followed him out the door.
Gemini sighed, shrugged and followed them out of the door, and in to the tunnel where they began their night of prowling.
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Gemini thanked Diana that night for her endurance for it seem the two boys, well Moony and Prongs, where full of energy. Chasing each other, chasing her, chasing poor innocent chipmunks, it was enough to tire anybody out.
"Gu- Guys!" Gemini panted, gasping for air, "Guys, come on, can we take a break."
The stag and the wolf turned around and it looked like they rolled their eyes and sighed. Prongs didn't bother to trot over, he just kneeled down and rested there. Remus on the other hand, trotted over, and sat down next to her and put his head on her shoulder.
"You know what Moony, You make a pretty adorable werewolf." Gemini laughed as looked over to him. "And when you find out why I ran out here and almost shot James with my bow and arrow. You will never want to talk to me again. An- OH SHIT!" Gemini said as she broke out of her rambling and noticed that the sun was slowly filling the sky with light.
Remus started shaking, and Gemini sprang up, "James what is happening!"
James transformed and hurried to Remus's side, "He transforming back."
And he was right. Remus twisted and turned as his body returned to human form. On reflex, Gemini quickly took off her enhancement cloak and threw it over Remus, just before he completely changed back.
"Madame Pompfrey will be at the shack any minute!" Remus said as he tried to get up.
"Remus you have my enhancement cloak." Gemini said, "Now run, leave it under the bed or something, I'll get it later! Now go!"
Gemini and James watched Remus flash from sight as they began to worry about their own luck of getting back to the castle with out getting caught.
"Shit, shit, shit, Oh were are going to get it now!" Gemini said, pacing back and forth, "how are we going to get back in to the castle!"
"Gem, just calm down!" James shouted, then lowered his voice, "Come on, let's just run for it and we can get in right behind Remus, but we have to be quiet. On three we run, one, two THREE!"
And they were off, James and Gemini, running as fast as their legs would carry them, they were almost at the edge of the forest when it hit Gemini.
"James give me your hand!" She said, suddenly, stopping in her tracks.
James stopped, but then slid on the leaves, as he tried to turn around. He grabbed Gemini hand and didn't have time to ask why for Gemini was concentrating with all of her might.
It felt as if the floor was dropped out of them, and if they were practicing dives during quidditch practice, but then as quickly as it started it stopped. James and Gemini opened their eyes and found them selves in the fifth years dorm, on Gemini's bed.
"It's the only place I know by heart!" Gemini hissed, "now get out before somebody wakes up!" she pushed James out of her bed, and watched him scramble out of bed, before she crawled under her covers, her bow and quiver falling to the floor.
Lily peered from her curtains and scowled at Gemini. Then she remembered what Mary Sue had told her. 'Your Best friends Boyfriend, always looks better in your bed'
Lily would get Gemini back for everything she had done. A simple Truth charm should do the trick, right in front of the whole school, so that everybody would know what kind of person Gemini Cielo really was.
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Gemini practically fell asleep at breakfast that morning. Although she didn't want to make matter worse between Lily and James, but she was so tired that morning, that James let her lean on his shoulder. Lily took this as a perfect opportunity to use her Truth Charm on her.
"Hallo Gemini," Lily said sweetly as she sat down next to her and took out her wand and whispered, 'dnimruoyn nisiturteht'
Gemini's eyes glazed over and she looked at Lily with a plain, blank look on her face.
"Now… Gemini" Lily began, "What do you mean you are not supposed to be in Gryffindor?"
"I am a Slytherin, for I am the darkness.' She whispered, in a low monotone voice, "But I am a Gryffindor for I have two sides, in which the light shows.
"A Slytherin, really? Well, that shows a lot. How about this, what were you doing with my boyfriend?"
"We were dueling, I was practicing my wandless magic and he was practicing hexes."
"Oh, really." Lily said her smile falling, "Well, did Dumbledore know of this?"
"Yes, he was the one who told us not to tell you. He told us that we were not to tell a soul, he told us to meet and duel."
Lily's face paled as she looked at Gemini, then to James, who nodded. Tears began to fill Lily's eyes as she asked her last question. "Gemini, did you do anything last night you were not supposed to do?"
At this Gemini nodded. "I went running with a wolf and a stag."
Lily took the spell off of her, crying. "Oh Gemini!" Lily said hugging her friend around the neck, tears rolling down her face. "Why do you have to be so damn dark all the time!"
Gemini grinned sleepily over to James then back to Lily, "Well, Lils, it's in my blood, who am I to ignore the very thing that makes me, me?"
Lily sniffed as she looked at Gemini, "Friends?"
Gemini smiled back at her, "Friends."
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"Now, now everybody, order! Order!" Professor Kettlebaum said as he put a covered cage down and got everybody attention. "Today, I have a treat for you! I have gotten fairies!"
All of the girls squealed as he took the black cover off to show the many fairies in the birdcage. "Now, don't hurt them, they'll come and go as they please, but they are aggressive creatures so do not infuriate them." He warned before opening the cage.
The fairies flew out all at once and immediately and scattered around to the kids. One of the fairies flew by and sat on Gemini shoulder, looking at her in awe. She was small, like the others, but slightly paler. She had silver hair and shining black eyes.
"Hello," Gemini whispered as the fairy flew to her hand, which was held out in front of her face. "What is your name?"
"My name is Luna from Italy, thou art Diana are you not?" The fairy said in a medieval voice, with a thick Italian accent.
Gemini smiled and said softly, "No, I am her heiress, how do you know her?"
The little fairy giggled and said in her squeky voice, "I am a child of the Moon. I was born of shining light; When the Moon shoots forth a ray, Then it takes a fairy's form." The little fairy said, bowing. "When is thou arts birthday, heiress of Diana?"
"June 10th 1960." Gemini said, smiling warmly at her.
The little fairy thought for a moment and then said, "And thou art one of us because thou wert born when the Moon, our mother Diana, was full; yes, our sister, kin to us, belonging to our band, and you shall always be a fairy friend."
"And you Luna, shall always be remembered, to the last Cielo." Gemini giggled as they fairy flew in the air, doing flips.
"Thank you, Heiress." Luna said bowing in midair, she did one last back flip before flying off and finding something else to do.
Gemini laughed softly as she looked around at the other classmates, interacting with the fairies.
Many were surrounding Lily, braiding her hair. This didn't surprise Gemini because she always though of Lily as a lover of all creatures, and animals trust her, even Mischief, who was solely hers and will go to no one else, went to Lily. A very mischievous one stole James glasses as was holding them just over his head and out of reach. Many of the younger one were surrounding Sirius, who was liking all the attention he was getting. Peter was running away from a pair of fairies, who were poking him in the sides with twigs. Remus, on the other hand, was standing by himself, looking around nervously, for the fairies could sense the werewolf in him. Gemini walked over and jumped on his back, in a piggyback position.
"Hiya Moony!" Gemini said playfully giving him a kiss on the cheek.
Remus stumbled forward slightly then laughed, "Hey Gemini."
Gemini jumped of his back and walked around in front of him and grabbed his hand, she failed to notice that the blood rushed to his cheeks. "Come on I want you to meet someone." Gemini said excitedly. "Luna!, Luna di Italia! Where are you!"
"Who?" Remus asked her, still being pulled around by Gemini.
"You'll see" Gemini said over her shoulder. "Ah, there you are!"
"Hello, heiress, thou called upon me?" The little fairy asked, as she sat down in Gemini open hand.
"Yes, I would like you to meet somebody, but for you not to be afraid for he is a close to me." Gemini said softly then tried to think of a term that she would understand, "He is like kin to me, a brother in most ways. So I would like you to see him in the same light as you would see me. Luna, this is Remus." Gemini said as she pulled him forward.
Luna trembled as looked at Gemini with fearful eyes. "Does thou know what your kin is?" She whispered as she flew on to her shoulder, "He is one of the moon servants, slave to our mother."
"Luna, Remus is like my brother. And I show him as much respect and love as I show Diana." This time Gemini noticed that Remus hand got a bit warmer and she smiled wryly, " Trust me, there is nothing to fear in Remus." Gemini said, her eyes boring into the eyes of Luna.
Luna nodded and her cheeks a bit flustered for not trusting Gemini, the heiress of her mother. Luna stood up and peered over Gemini's head at the taller boy next to her. She flew up and landed on Remus's shoulder, still looking back at Gemini uncertainty.
Gemini stood on her tiptoes, but found she could not reach the fairy, she rose off the ground and whispered in Luna's ear, "Look in to his eyes. There you will not see the soul of an wild animal, but of a soul of a boy that I love."
Unfortunately for Gemini, Remus still had his wolfish senses, which included acute hearing, and his face blushed a beat red, for a quick second before Gemini looked back up at him with a warm smile on her face.
"Have fun. You deserve it." Gemini said before sitting down on the ground next to the nearest tree, Indian style.
She put her chin in to her hand and sighed. She was happy to see Remus having fun. She loved Remus, like a brother, but lately she has been noticing things about him she has never noticed before. Like his eyes. They could never lie. She could tell his true emotion just from looking at them, getting lost those pale blue orbs. Then there was his body, he looked scrawny, tall and gawky in his school uniform, out of them, he was slightly built from running as a wolf, and he wasn't that bad looking at all in her eyes. But the reason Gemini loved him wasn't for what everybody saw, it was for what was inside of him. He was the sweetest, selfless, most caring boy in the school. She just wanted Remus. Then it dawn on her, the look of realization spread across her face as her hand shot up to cover her mouth. She was thinking about Remus… and how she loved Remus, her best friend of five years. Her eyes shot over to him and watched him talking and laughing with Luna. He stole a sideways glance at Gemini and his laughter fell. 'Shit" Gemini though to her self as she closed her eyes, "that damn boy can read me as if I was Hogwarts a History! Shit, Shit, Shit, he knows, Oh my goddess he know!, Shit! He's coming over here. Now Gemini, be normal and everything will be ok… what the hell am I saying, I'm not normal! I'm in love with a bloody werewolf! A mio dio! I said it! I am in love with him!"
"Hi Remus." Gemini said, trying to cover the panic in her voice, which she could not do.
"Gemini what's wrong." He said, sitting down next to her
"Nothing Remus, I'm fine." Gemini said smiling towards him.
"Bull shit Gemini.' Remus said seriously, "I was watching you. You were happy one minute then freaked the next."
"Whoa, whoa, wait. You were watching me?" Gemini asked slyly, grinning.
Remus ran a nervous hand though his hair and answered softly, "Yea, a guess I was."
Gemini smiled and whispered back, "And why would that be Mr. Moony?"
Just as Remus was about to answer Professor Kettlebaum dismissed them and Remus sprang from the spot back to the castle, leaving Gemini there, her mouth hanging open.
"Gemini got a crush." Lily said softly in a singsong voice as she helped Gemini up.
"Is it that bad?" Gemini asked sheepishly, "Considering that I just realized it."
"Oh yea, it very noticeable." James drawled, taking Lily hand.
"Peachy!" Gemini said, "Now the whole bloody school is going to know."
"No, I won't tell a sole and if James tells anybody, He won't have any Little James Potter running around, compliments of you." Lily laughed "You got that James."
"Aye, Aye captain." James smiled giving her a small kiss on the cheek.
Gemini groaned, "Why oh why did I have to fall for one of my best friends, how can I bloody tell him!"
"Oh don't worry Gem, I can take care of that." Lily said, grinning as they walked into the castle, "Now you just go back to the tower and make your self pretty and I will work everything out." Lily said pushing Gemini forward who looked back at Lily and James with a weird look on her face before she teleported out of sight.
"So, how are you going to get Gemini, Heiress to the moon, and Remus, slave to the moon, together?" James asked Lily softly kissing her deeply before they stated walking again.
"Oh, a simple game of truth or dare." Lily said simply, "I mean that is the most commonly used way for people to express their undeniable love to each other, it will be perfect."
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Gemini was sitting on her bed, ignoring the three blondes in the room who were going over how to get Alexander DeMonte. Gemini was in a flimsy tank top and a pair of baggy, old sweat pants. She was sitting crossed legged, with an arrangement of bent spoons in front of her. It was plain to see that she was bored, waiting for Lily and James to get back from there after dinner snogging secession. She was able to bend spoons two years ago, but she found it relaxing. When she was fed up of bending the spoons, then flinging them over to Bella, Kai, and Moana, she began painting her toenails, a deep crimson red with her wand.
A very red in the face and disheveled Lily just then entered the room with a wide grin on her face as she sat down on Gemini bed and pulled her up.
"Come on, were going to the guys dorm." Lily said excitedly.
She then noticed the disapproving looks on Bella, Kai and Moana's faces. She turned to them and gave them an equally dirty look and the middle finger, and processed to pull Gemini out of the room.
"Lily!" Gemini whined as she tried to pull up her shirt that was falling off of her shoulders. "Can I please make my self a bit decent before I barge in there with my chest hanging out of my shirt!" she hissed as they reached the boys' dorm and Lily dragged her in.
Lily closed the door behind her and said "Too late Gemini."
Gemini crossed her arms over chest and whispered "Hi"
"Wow G I really like this look on you!" Sirius said with a cocky grin on his face.
Gemini slapped him in the face and glared, as she walked past him and opened his trunk.
Sirius panicked, "Hey G, I have personal stuff in there!" He cried as he picked up the small girl and put her on his bed, thanking god that she didn't find his stash of magazines, "now what do you want?" Sirius asked Gemini, who was floating several inched in the air.
"A shirt." Gemini said plainly.
"Here Gem." Remus said as he threw her a red sweater, "It may be a bit big for you, but it's better than nothing."
Gemini blushed slightly as she pulled the shirt over her head and put her arms though the sleeves. She smiled slightly, it smelled like Remus, like the forest after it rained.
"Now may I ask why I was pulled from my fun of throwing spoon at the three bimbos?" Gemini asked as she pulled her legs up to her chest.
"Because, I am bored." Lily said, still smiling. "And I have thought up of an idea to make me un-bored."
"Oh wonderful grammar Lily," Gemini drawled still looking at her best friend. "Now, what is this thing that would make you 'un-bored'?"
"Truth and dare." Lily said with much emphasis.
Gemini eyes shot open and she painfully remembered her only encounter with truth of dare. She tried not to remember back to her pre-Hogwarts days back in Italy, but it was hard not to. She was once invited to a slumber party from a girl who's mother worked with Gemini's. She was never really close to her; they were at the age where girls are just beginning to notice boys, except for Gemini, she saw boys as a worthy opponent in the boxing ring, which just subjected her to more humiliation from the rest of the girls. At the time though, it was hard for her being the only girl wanting to talk about fighting, rather than boys, She remembered that one particularly horrible party, one night of confessions from the depths of their nine-year-old minds. It was the first and only time she had ever played the game "Truth or Dare", and she still blushes remembering how foolish she had been. She had picked "truth", and had been forced to pick which boy that would be most willing to French kiss. But not only did kissing not prove any point, but she had no idea how the French supposedly did it, being from Italy and all. Confused and embarrassed, she picked up her things and ran all the way home, only to be yelled at by her parents for being so foolish as running though the back streets of their town in the middle of the night.
In short, Gemini detested the game of truth of dare. And it showed in her face when Lily mentioned it. Of course Sirius noticed this and pinched her cheek and said, "Ah, does widdle G not wanna pway Twuth and Dare?"
Gemini slapped him and again and stood up and began to stalk from the room.
"Oh no you don't" James said as he took out his wand and muttered 'Accio Gemini'
Gemini was flung back and crashed in to James. "Are you bloody crazy!" Gemini hissed "you could have killed me!" then Gemini thought for a moment, "On second thought, no you couldn't have, but that is beside the point. Why are you guys so set on me being here for this stupid game!" She whined, looking at James with her round eyes.
"That's it." James said picking her and tossed her over toward Remus's bed where she fell with a flop and rolled backward off the bed. She reappeared a second later her hair all disarrayed.
"What do I look like a quaffle that you can just throw around!" Gemini sighed before falling on to Remus's bed, "I hate being short." She said putting her head in her arms, "Can we please get this over with?"
"Fine then, I'll go first." James volunteered as he turned to Lily, "Love, truth or dare?"
"Dare," Lily purred, smiling.
"Ok then, Guys we'll be right back." James said grabbing Lily with one hand and his invisibility cloak with the other and pulled her out of the room.
"Ok…" Peter said, "Gemini truth or dare?"
Sirius eyes lit up but Peter was quicker, "What are you."
The question rang in Gemini ears and her body tensed up, her eyes darted toward Sirius, who also looked surprised at the answer. She looked back at Remus, who too tensed up and ran his hands though his hair again, a sign that he was either nervous or stressed.
"Wh- What to you mean Wormtail? Um... I'm a witch, an Italian, a boxer, a beater I can go on forever." Gemini said nervously.
"No, you know what I mean, what does Lily know, and James, Sirius and Remus." Peter snapped.
"Peter, you would not believe me if I told you, for you have your god, and I have my goddess. I have no religion right now, but you do, you condemn things that you don't understand, which would be what I am, so it is pointless to tell you. But I will for it might scare you. I am the heiress of the goddess Diana. The mother of Magic, Queen of the witches, Goddess of the moon, Lady of the wild beast and huntress of the destroyer. Wormtail, I am going to be the most respected witch in Italy as soon as my fate is known there." Gemini said, her voice dark and her eyes narrowed.
"That's bullshit." Peter said, not looking convinced.
"Oh no" Remus whispered as Gemini reached for her wand and transformed in front of their eyes, loaded her bow and pointed it strait at Peter.
"Is it so unbelievable now Peter?" Gemini hissed.
Peter backed up on his bed, trebling with fear, "D-D-Dumbledore will here of this!" he shrieked.
Gemini laughed and transformed back again, "Oh but he already knows. Don't underestimate him Wormtail, he know me better than I know myself." Gemini hissed as she sat back down on Remus's bed, her mark glowing dimly the mild darkness of the dorm.
At that point James and Lily burst back in to the dorm, and stared at all of the different expressions in the room. Fright, pain, surprise, and anger.
"What did we miss?" Lily asked slowly as she and James headed towards his bed.
"He knows." Gemini muttered her eyes black, her hands rubbing her temples.
"Well... ok then." James said, "Remus truth or dare?"
At this both Gemini and Remus's heads shot up and stared at James with a 'please don't' look in their eyes. They knew that he must of found out the little 'sparks' between them and what ever Remus picked, truth, or dare, they were both screwed either way.
"Um… uh… well… dare." Remus stammered, stealing glances at Gemini.
An malevolent grin swept across James face as he said, "Remus, it has come to my attention, from my beautiful girlfriend, that you fancy a certain Italian in this room" at this Remus and Gemini both blushed the same color as Remus's shirt that Gemini was wearing. "And it had also come to my attention that the same girl you fancy, fancies you back." At that point Gemini made James hit himself upside the head- "so for you as a dare, you, both the Italian, and yourself, must kiss, in front of us all, for we know both of you and are very good at making up colorful stories and excuses. So come on get on with it." James said, still grinning like a mad man, clap his hand together.
Gemini's jaw was hanging open, and she had the sudden urge to run her ass off. She stole a glance at Remus who looked equally shocked and embarrassed. Gemini took a gulp and turned towards Remus. She smiled nervously, and gave a small shrug. She crawled up to him and whisper in to his ear, "Remus, we either a. make out in front of them. b, I blow some stuff up as a distraction or c, we run for it."
She leaned back to look in to his eyes, trying to read them as he whispered...
Muah hahaha! A super cliffie! HA! I have been dying to do this… well not really but I just want to see what you guys want cos you know I'm sorta kinda stuck in between options here. I am typing away so you won't have to wait long for the next part… but school starts tomorrow ::DAMN!:: so I wont be able to type as much, so I'll be making the chapters shorter…
-ChElsEa-