::~//~::
Behind the dog stepped out a girl, right before the circle closed into nothing.
The girl had similar attributes to Gem. She had the same black hair, although hers was an inch or two past shoulder length and heavily layered. It also had what looked like red, yellow and natural blue highlighting it. She had the same pale skin (although hers had a few very light freckles giving her an innocent look.) and the same shaped eyes. She was about 5'6", looked 16 (as apposed to how Gem looked 19 or 20.) had Turquoise eyes and her shoulder width was slightly larger than Gem's.
She wore the same type of cloak Gem had worn on her and had on tight black (what looked like leather but most likely wasn't.) pants and a somewhat loose, three quarter sleeved bright red blouse.
All attention left this new arrival when the black dog took a look around, sniffed the air around him and suddenly bound after Snuffles, growling dangerously. It didn't take very long until the new dog had landed on Snuffles, capturing him beneath him.
Remus Lupin's breath caught as he looked on in fear. The new dog probably would have ripped Snuffles to pieces had it not been for a strong commanding voice.
"Maximus! Heel! Now!"
Maximus immediately stopped his attack and stopped growling and bearing his teeth and could probably be said to look like a very friendly dog. It was only when Maximus troliped (what a happy word) over to the owner of the voice, that he realized it was Gem who had the command over a viscous dog that just came out of a portal from who knows where.
'So, she really isn't a muggle.' He thought to himself
Everyone sat (well, they all didn't sit.) in silence for a few minutes, all the while, Gem studied Snuffles closely.
"Change." She said to Snuffles directly, breaking the silence. He just tilted his head to the side. She glared at the dog then growled herself.
"Either change back to your original body now or Maximus will attack you, and then, if your still alive afterwards, I'll get you fixed."
Well, the getting fixed part did it. Now, where Snuffles was a second ago, now stood a tall man (a few inches taller than Gem, about 6" or so.) He had deep indigo eyes and black hair that partially hung into his eyes. (It was somewhat long, like chin length, maybe shorter.
Gem humphed triumphantly. Then she noticed all the odd glances she was getting.
"Yeah, yeah. Maximus return!" Maximus took a running leap and disappeared into thin air.
"Alright, if everyone will come inside, I'll explain as much as I can."
::~//~::
In the kitchen of the Lupin house sat five people around the table, all looking at a black haired woman, Gem.
"Alright. You've heard of alternate dimensions and parallel worlds, I hope. Well, magic in this world comes from a world parallel to here. Najilka (Na- heal-ka) is the world's name. Almost 100 generations ago the people of my plane begun to move here. Some were forced to keep the balance."
She was interrupted by Dumbledore, "What balance?"
"All balance," she answered. "Good and evil. Light and dark. Left and right. Up and down. You get the point, I hope. Well anyway, some were forced here to keep the balance, others just decided to live here because some of the values of my home aren't used here. Because here you are able to choose between good and evil, and because here, everyones life is ultimately their own choice. Unlike people here who use wands, where I come form we don't, but many cant. We instead use a more elemental magic. Each person has a ruling element, but in Najilka, even non-magical beings have the ability to do magic. I don't know.it's hard to explain. You can use the magic around you instead of the magic in you. Don't ask. My family name is Shadow. This is my younger sister Ember."
She gestured to the younger girl.
"Is there else you want to know?"
It was Sirius (She found out the man who was a dog's name was Sirius Black.) who asked the next question.
"How did you know I wasn't a dog?" Frank and to the point.
"Well, from the beginning I could tell there was something odd about you, you just didn't act like a dog should. At first I just acknowledged it to this world, assumed that that was how animals behave here. Assumptions are dangerous. Then when Maximus attacked you, I knew you weren't a dog. He attacked you because you were being deceitful towards me. It wasn't too hard to figure out after that."
Dumbledore, who was being ever so quite during this exchange, decided to speak up and ask question of his own, but not one that you would expect someone to ask a person from a parallel world. No, he asked quite normal questions, as if he was meeting a new friend. (The questions have more meaning then he would make them seem.)
"Gem, two last questions and this exchange will be over. One, what is your status, and two, what is your and Ember's age?"
Remus and Sirius had absolutely no idea what Dumbledore meant by status, but they weren't going to show that they didn't have the mental capacity to have a intelligent conversation.
"I am an enchantress. I know no better word of explanation that you would understand in this world. Ember would be a sorceress, as she has not yet passed the physical age of maturity and has not had judgment passed over her. Age? That is a hard one. In your years, I would be five years older than I appear, as I spent that long ion the 13th dimension of hell, where aging (progressing) does not take place but time moves parallel to here, although it is an alternate dimension. But in my world, time moves not in the same way. So let's just say I'm old enough to be considered wise and young enough to still have a child's curiosity without previous prejustice. Ember is four of your years my junior and still a child as she has not yet completed her magical education. Now I have a last question for you. The wards around this place, they are very strong. Must have taken at least 8 very powerful witches or wizards and one or two sorcerers or sorceresses. Why are they here?"
And so they told her about Sirius, his long, unjust, imprisonment in Azkaban, how he got out and so on. You get the point.
"Oh, I get it. And these wards have been up for how long?"
"About three weeks now."
Replied Albus Dumbledore. And o they went, passing around information. (She forgot that she had said one last question.)
"Well, yeah.okay. Ember."
Gem gestured with her eyes to a door on the other side of the room.
" 'Aight." This was the first time anyone had heard Ember speak.
::~//~::
Ember and Gem got up from the table and went into one of the other rooms.
"Alright Em, what could be so important that you would risk my safety to come here?"
She gave her sister quite a sharp look, one that could probably rival Severus Snape's, and awaited an answer.
"Damien." Ember said bluntly.
Gem's hard face melted away and the slightest amount of concern showed through.
"What happened to Damien?"
"He's been taken for judgment."
"HE WHAT!?!"
::~//~::
Remus Lupin watched as Gem and Ember left the room and made sure they were done before speaking.
"She's not telling us everything." He stated.
"That much is obvious. She distinctly skirted around the subject of who she really is and why she is here." Sirius said.
Dumbledore then decided to add his two cents to this conversation. (Although he probably has more cents then that.)
"If she doesn't answer something, we can only presume that she has a good reason not to. Perhaps safety reasons. Do not pressure her to further reveal herself and perhaps she will."
Both of the other men nodded in acceptance to the elder man's words.
"She seems to have a."
But they never found out what she seemed to have as a loud 'HE WHAT!?!' echoed through the house.
Remus and Sirius got up and ran towards the door that Gem and Ember had exited. When they looked in, they found out that it was Gem who had yelled and that surprised them, as Gem had always seemed so composed, but now she seemed positively stressed.
Sirius looked somewhat concerned (Whether it be for Gem's well being or his own, no one knew) and Remus just appeared curious.
::~//~::
~EclypsCC1~
Chapter notes:
first things first. This was the last chapter that was a repost. After this it is all new stuff.
Okay, I desided that Ember was a bit too much like Gem so I changed her personality around a bit (Although none of you know her personality yet, Not even I, the all powerful writer and creater, know the full extent of her personality yet. Okay, I'm getting a bit off track.I said before that her hair was a bit like Gems, and I don't relly feel like going back to change it, well, her hair is a mixture of frost blond (almost white, but with that slight yellow color) Silvery blue (a light sky blue that is tinted into the silver) and fire red (actual red, not that nasty orange color or browney red color) And, like Gem has the whisps if silver spread very slightly throughout her hair, Ember has black spread throughout her hair.
Um.the last section of this chapter was previously dedicated to Siriuslyinlove.
I just wanted to tell you that if something weard comes up it wasn't me.you see, Gem resides in my head and tends to take over when ever I start write.
~Interlude (The crazyness that is my mind)~
Gem- Hey, I don't take control whenever you start to write. I always rule!
Cierra(That's my name)- Shut up Gem, this is my story!
Gem- but didn't you just say that I take over when you begin to write.
Cierra- I did, but that isn't what I meant.
Gem- Then what did you mean?
Cierra- I meant that.umm..AH! Your confusing me!
(Don't worry people, I'm not schizophrenic.)
(Yes, I am.)
Thanks to jayjay6000 for reviewing
~CiErRa~
Behind the dog stepped out a girl, right before the circle closed into nothing.
The girl had similar attributes to Gem. She had the same black hair, although hers was an inch or two past shoulder length and heavily layered. It also had what looked like red, yellow and natural blue highlighting it. She had the same pale skin (although hers had a few very light freckles giving her an innocent look.) and the same shaped eyes. She was about 5'6", looked 16 (as apposed to how Gem looked 19 or 20.) had Turquoise eyes and her shoulder width was slightly larger than Gem's.
She wore the same type of cloak Gem had worn on her and had on tight black (what looked like leather but most likely wasn't.) pants and a somewhat loose, three quarter sleeved bright red blouse.
All attention left this new arrival when the black dog took a look around, sniffed the air around him and suddenly bound after Snuffles, growling dangerously. It didn't take very long until the new dog had landed on Snuffles, capturing him beneath him.
Remus Lupin's breath caught as he looked on in fear. The new dog probably would have ripped Snuffles to pieces had it not been for a strong commanding voice.
"Maximus! Heel! Now!"
Maximus immediately stopped his attack and stopped growling and bearing his teeth and could probably be said to look like a very friendly dog. It was only when Maximus troliped (what a happy word) over to the owner of the voice, that he realized it was Gem who had the command over a viscous dog that just came out of a portal from who knows where.
'So, she really isn't a muggle.' He thought to himself
Everyone sat (well, they all didn't sit.) in silence for a few minutes, all the while, Gem studied Snuffles closely.
"Change." She said to Snuffles directly, breaking the silence. He just tilted his head to the side. She glared at the dog then growled herself.
"Either change back to your original body now or Maximus will attack you, and then, if your still alive afterwards, I'll get you fixed."
Well, the getting fixed part did it. Now, where Snuffles was a second ago, now stood a tall man (a few inches taller than Gem, about 6" or so.) He had deep indigo eyes and black hair that partially hung into his eyes. (It was somewhat long, like chin length, maybe shorter.
Gem humphed triumphantly. Then she noticed all the odd glances she was getting.
"Yeah, yeah. Maximus return!" Maximus took a running leap and disappeared into thin air.
"Alright, if everyone will come inside, I'll explain as much as I can."
::~//~::
In the kitchen of the Lupin house sat five people around the table, all looking at a black haired woman, Gem.
"Alright. You've heard of alternate dimensions and parallel worlds, I hope. Well, magic in this world comes from a world parallel to here. Najilka (Na- heal-ka) is the world's name. Almost 100 generations ago the people of my plane begun to move here. Some were forced to keep the balance."
She was interrupted by Dumbledore, "What balance?"
"All balance," she answered. "Good and evil. Light and dark. Left and right. Up and down. You get the point, I hope. Well anyway, some were forced here to keep the balance, others just decided to live here because some of the values of my home aren't used here. Because here you are able to choose between good and evil, and because here, everyones life is ultimately their own choice. Unlike people here who use wands, where I come form we don't, but many cant. We instead use a more elemental magic. Each person has a ruling element, but in Najilka, even non-magical beings have the ability to do magic. I don't know.it's hard to explain. You can use the magic around you instead of the magic in you. Don't ask. My family name is Shadow. This is my younger sister Ember."
She gestured to the younger girl.
"Is there else you want to know?"
It was Sirius (She found out the man who was a dog's name was Sirius Black.) who asked the next question.
"How did you know I wasn't a dog?" Frank and to the point.
"Well, from the beginning I could tell there was something odd about you, you just didn't act like a dog should. At first I just acknowledged it to this world, assumed that that was how animals behave here. Assumptions are dangerous. Then when Maximus attacked you, I knew you weren't a dog. He attacked you because you were being deceitful towards me. It wasn't too hard to figure out after that."
Dumbledore, who was being ever so quite during this exchange, decided to speak up and ask question of his own, but not one that you would expect someone to ask a person from a parallel world. No, he asked quite normal questions, as if he was meeting a new friend. (The questions have more meaning then he would make them seem.)
"Gem, two last questions and this exchange will be over. One, what is your status, and two, what is your and Ember's age?"
Remus and Sirius had absolutely no idea what Dumbledore meant by status, but they weren't going to show that they didn't have the mental capacity to have a intelligent conversation.
"I am an enchantress. I know no better word of explanation that you would understand in this world. Ember would be a sorceress, as she has not yet passed the physical age of maturity and has not had judgment passed over her. Age? That is a hard one. In your years, I would be five years older than I appear, as I spent that long ion the 13th dimension of hell, where aging (progressing) does not take place but time moves parallel to here, although it is an alternate dimension. But in my world, time moves not in the same way. So let's just say I'm old enough to be considered wise and young enough to still have a child's curiosity without previous prejustice. Ember is four of your years my junior and still a child as she has not yet completed her magical education. Now I have a last question for you. The wards around this place, they are very strong. Must have taken at least 8 very powerful witches or wizards and one or two sorcerers or sorceresses. Why are they here?"
And so they told her about Sirius, his long, unjust, imprisonment in Azkaban, how he got out and so on. You get the point.
"Oh, I get it. And these wards have been up for how long?"
"About three weeks now."
Replied Albus Dumbledore. And o they went, passing around information. (She forgot that she had said one last question.)
"Well, yeah.okay. Ember."
Gem gestured with her eyes to a door on the other side of the room.
" 'Aight." This was the first time anyone had heard Ember speak.
::~//~::
Ember and Gem got up from the table and went into one of the other rooms.
"Alright Em, what could be so important that you would risk my safety to come here?"
She gave her sister quite a sharp look, one that could probably rival Severus Snape's, and awaited an answer.
"Damien." Ember said bluntly.
Gem's hard face melted away and the slightest amount of concern showed through.
"What happened to Damien?"
"He's been taken for judgment."
"HE WHAT!?!"
::~//~::
Remus Lupin watched as Gem and Ember left the room and made sure they were done before speaking.
"She's not telling us everything." He stated.
"That much is obvious. She distinctly skirted around the subject of who she really is and why she is here." Sirius said.
Dumbledore then decided to add his two cents to this conversation. (Although he probably has more cents then that.)
"If she doesn't answer something, we can only presume that she has a good reason not to. Perhaps safety reasons. Do not pressure her to further reveal herself and perhaps she will."
Both of the other men nodded in acceptance to the elder man's words.
"She seems to have a."
But they never found out what she seemed to have as a loud 'HE WHAT!?!' echoed through the house.
Remus and Sirius got up and ran towards the door that Gem and Ember had exited. When they looked in, they found out that it was Gem who had yelled and that surprised them, as Gem had always seemed so composed, but now she seemed positively stressed.
Sirius looked somewhat concerned (Whether it be for Gem's well being or his own, no one knew) and Remus just appeared curious.
::~//~::
~EclypsCC1~
Chapter notes:
first things first. This was the last chapter that was a repost. After this it is all new stuff.
Okay, I desided that Ember was a bit too much like Gem so I changed her personality around a bit (Although none of you know her personality yet, Not even I, the all powerful writer and creater, know the full extent of her personality yet. Okay, I'm getting a bit off track.I said before that her hair was a bit like Gems, and I don't relly feel like going back to change it, well, her hair is a mixture of frost blond (almost white, but with that slight yellow color) Silvery blue (a light sky blue that is tinted into the silver) and fire red (actual red, not that nasty orange color or browney red color) And, like Gem has the whisps if silver spread very slightly throughout her hair, Ember has black spread throughout her hair.
Um.the last section of this chapter was previously dedicated to Siriuslyinlove.
I just wanted to tell you that if something weard comes up it wasn't me.you see, Gem resides in my head and tends to take over when ever I start write.
~Interlude (The crazyness that is my mind)~
Gem- Hey, I don't take control whenever you start to write. I always rule!
Cierra(That's my name)- Shut up Gem, this is my story!
Gem- but didn't you just say that I take over when you begin to write.
Cierra- I did, but that isn't what I meant.
Gem- Then what did you mean?
Cierra- I meant that.umm..AH! Your confusing me!
(Don't worry people, I'm not schizophrenic.)
(Yes, I am.)
Thanks to jayjay6000 for reviewing
~CiErRa~