The Bandit Damsels
Dragon's Den
Disclaimer: PLEASE READ THIS. All that you don't recognize are Tigra's characters. Right now meaning Ms. Althea (means Heal, pronounced Al-the-a), Delicia (means Pleasure, pronounced Del-i-ci-a) Malfoy, Divina (means Divine, pronounced Div-in-a) Lupin, Allegra (means Cheerful and Lively, pronounced All-egr-a) Black, and Kalani (means Heavenly, pronounced Ka-lan-i) Kai (means Ocean, pronounced Kia). Also Mr. Karn (pronounced Karn) Drakin (pronounced Dr-a-kin) and Mrs. Cynithinia (pronounced Cyn-ith-in-i-a) Drakin, and their twins, Grag (pronounced Gr-a-g) and Velia (pronounced Vel-i-a).
A/N: THIS IS IMPORTANT TO READ TO UNDERSTAND THE STORY. Sorry that it has taken me a little bit to write this chapter, but school (unfortunately) is a priority. Just want to explain a few things to everyone. Delicia Malfoy can't deal with her grief well, so she just buries it deep down inside and tries to forget it. Ex: When she talks to Sirius about the Bandit Damsels in Dumbledore's office, and when she sends the tea pots on a holiday in the first chapter. If you have any ideas, tell me, and check out my other stuff. So, now, I have stalled long enough. On with the story.
Christmas Time – Dragon's Den Manor
(A/N: I have skipped to Christmas time in Delicia's second year. Draco is dead and now Delicia is at Dragon's Den Manor.)
'I hate it here!' thought Delicia Malfoy to herself. She had just gotten to Dragon's Den Manor. This was the house of her HATED godparents. After Draco, her older brother had died; Delicia had spent the rest of the summer with the Blacks and Harry Potter. When she had returned to Hogwarts, Dumbledore had told her that she now would have to go live with her godparents.
~Flashback~
"Miss Malfoy, your new guardians have asked for you to go to their house for Christmas," Dumbledore had said.
"But…"
"No buts. You should go. Go back to your dorm, and sleep well. I'll see you soon for detention." She had given him weird look. "I assume you will be playing pranks soon. Good night!"
With that Delicia had left the office.
~End of Flashback~
Delicia had grown a bit since the end of the last school year. She was now 4'11", which was a good height for a 12 year old. She had full lips that where an angelic rose colour. Her silvery blonde hair had grown down to her hips, which she had down. Her skin was still a pale porcelain colour. Her cheeks were still a rosy red. She was still slim, but held the same 'Do not mess with me' air around her and her silver eyes still held their sparkle.
Delicia had only met Mr. and Mrs. Drakin once and had hated them. They were Death Eaters. She was living in a house with Death Eaters. She wanted to scream.
"Velia, Grag, take Delicia and her things up to her new room." The children nodded to their mother. Delicia started to follow, when she was called back.
"Delicia, dear, I hope you will feel at home here. I just have on thing to say to you. Neither Karn nor I are Death Eaters. We are spies for Dumbledore. So you don't need to worry."
"But… how… I don't understand?"
"Dumbledore wrote to us, telling us that you were worried that you would have to live with Death Eaters. That is how I know. That is what you were trying to ask, correct?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Delicia, dear," said Mrs. Drakin, laying a hand on Delicia's shoulder, "call me Cynithinia." (A/N: Dazma this is for you.)
Cynithinia was around 5'6". She was rather slim, but you couldn't call her skinny. She had caramel coloured eyes, long, soft, chestnut brown hair, and tanned skin just like her husband and children. Karn was a little taller that his wife, standing at 5'8". He had jet black hair, which was usually tied in a ponytail at the base of his neck. His eyes were a mischief green that sparkled when he was excited. He was well built, with developed muscles in his arms.
The children, being twins at the age of 10, looked exactly alike except for their hair. They both had their father's eyes, but with dots of caramel in them. Their hair was a soft chestnut brown hair with natural red highlights in them. Velia was 4'8" with long hair, while her twin, Grag, was 4'9" with short hair.
"But that is disrespectful!" exclaimed Delicia. She was completely shocked. She had always been taught never to call an adult by their first name.
"Call me and Kran by our names. We hate being call Mr. and Mrs. Drakin. In makes us sound so old. By the way," Cynithinia looked like she had just remembered something. "I have something for you. Come with me. After that I will take you to your new room. I hope you like it. It was designed by your mother and I when we stayed here once as children. Oh I miss your mother so much."
By now they were walking through an upper hallway. At the end was a slim set of stairs leading up.
Delicia looked around. She knew she was going to like this house. The walls were decorated with a welcoming sunshine yellow. The carpet was a rich purple, with blue specks blended into it. There were plenty of bay windows that looked out onto the property. In the distance, Delicia spotted a lake, a quidditch pitch, a large garden, and an even larger pool.
'Oh this place is soooooo perfect. It is so much friendlier than Malfoy Manor. Yuck! I hate that place. Oh well, this is home now. Mustn't think of the past.' Delicia looked around again and saw a portrait with Cynithinia and her mother in it. Her mother, for once, looked happy. 'Gods, I miss her and Draco so much. How am I going to be able to live with them?'
Delicia thought back to school. 'I have only pulled one prank so far this year. I guess the girls are letting me morn. Oh well. New Years resolution #1: Make the hurt less, but remember them. I should probably write this done. #2: Pull more pranks. #3: Complete map, and Animagus potion. #4 Visit the kitchen for the first time this year. Ummm…………'
Delicia was snapped back to reality when Cynithinia asked her to join her beside a trunk. "This is the stuff from your mother's and my school days. We were both in Hufflepuff. I think it's funny that we both ended up marrying Slytherins."
"Oh. How did I get into Gryffindor?" said Delicia as Cynithinia opened the trunk. Inside was a photo album, a few dress robes and lots of books.
"I'm not sure," answered Cynithinia as she slowly pulled out one of the robes.
"This one was your mother's when she was in her fifth year. You should take it with you to school, cause I hear that their will be a ball for everyone later on in the year."
Delicia took the robes from her godmother's delicate hands and instantly fell in love with them. They were a pale blue colour that sparkled in the light. The robes backless and only covered one shoulder so it went in a diagonal line down to just below the right armpit. From there, there was a thin piece of cloth that you would slip your arm trough. It sort of created a sleeve with a slit in it, for it met again at the wrist with a thin piece of cloth. The robes itself was tight until it reached the hips, where if flared out enough so that someone could walk in it.
"Oh… I love it. It is perfect. Are you sure that I can have it?"
"Of course, dear." With that Cynithinia flicked her wand at the robes and they folded themselves up.
"Thank you so much." At this Delicia started to cry. "I miss them so much. Why did they have to leave me here? Why didn't I go with them?" Delicia found herself sobbing into Cynithinia's shoulder.
"I know sweetie. I miss them too. Everything thing will be alright again. Just give it time. Keep crying and let it all out." Cynithinia soothed her, while stroking her silver hair.
~*~
Delicia loved the room that she was in. It was pretty, happy, and colourful. Much unlike the room that had been assigned to her at Malfoy Manor.
Looking at the walls made you feel like you were in the ocean, for the walls were painted water blue, and had ocean and sea creatures on it. The carpet and the ceiling blend in with the walls, for at the bottom of the walls the ocean floor was painted and the carpet looked like the ocean floor. Looking at the ceiling made you feel like you were underwater, while looking up at the sky in the day time. All of the furnisher had ocean creatures as handles, painted, and carved into them. All the furnisher was a different coral colour.
In the room there was an armoire, a nightstand, a vanity table, a little stool with a velvet seat for the vanity table, two bookshelves, a desk, a desk chair, and a king-sized, canopy, four-posted, water bed that had drapes.
The drapes to the bed were ocean blue and had ocean creatures painted on the inside and the outside. The canopy, sheets, pillows (there were over twenty in the room), and cover were all the same as the drapes. The velvet vanity seat and desk chair were also in the same theme.
The bookshelves were filled with the books from Malfoy Manor (not the Dark Arts ones though). On the nightstand was a clock, picture fame (ocean theme) with a picture of her mother and Cynithinia in it, a prank book, and a callo-globe.
The desk was littered (in a neat way) with parchment and quills. The vanity table held lots of make-up, brushes, jewelry, hair things, and perfumes on it. The make-up was mainly blues, purples, reds, and golds, which went well with Delicia.
In the armoire were all of Delicia's clothes that she had. There were also some new things and some of her mother's old (but still beautiful) things. The floor was littered with half of the room's pillows and tons of stuffed ocean animals.
To one side there was a walk-in closet, which was hard to see for the doors were painted like the rest of the room. To the left of it was a set of doors going onto a small balcony. On either side of the set of doors were full length bay windows looking out onto the pool, garden, and quidditch pitch. The curtains, which were currently tied onto the wall beside the windows, were the same theme as the rest of the room.
There was a private bathroom down a little hall that was in the room. It had the same theme. There was a toilet, shower, mini pool-sized bath/Jacuzzi, a sink, and a mirror in it. (A/N: sorry for the long description, but I got carried away. ~Tigra)
Knock, knock. "Who is it?" called Delicia.
"Um… it's Grag and Velia. Come we pewease come in?"
"Sure." Delicia got off of her bed and put Limitless Way to Prank Friends and Your Favourite Foes by Minister Sirius Black and Professor R. Lupin back on her nightstand, which is where she had found it.
The door opened slowly. When it was opened all the way Grag and Velia come in. "Um… do you need help unpacking your trunk?"
"Not really," at this Grag and Velia started to leave, "but I would like it if you both stayed for awhile and we could talk."
"Really?" asked Velia eagerly.
"Yup. Come sit with me on my, I mean, the bed," said Delicia patting the bed.
"But it is your bed," said Grag as he jumped onto the bed. "Can you tell us about Hogwarts? Please?"
"Sure, I'll tell you about everything… except for the sorting ceremony, which you'll find out about next you, since both of you will be trying eleven."
"Yay! We get to learn about Hogwarts." Velia was now jumping up and down on the bed with excitement.
"Calm down or I won't tell you anything." As soon as the words had left Delicia's mouth, both twins were sitting calm on the bed. "Ok, that's better. Where to start? Oh yes. The headmaster, Professor Dumbledore, is very nice, kind…"
For the next two hours Delicia explained to the twins about classes, lessons, teachers, Filch (Yuck!), the houses, and the students.
"I wanna be in Gryffindor because it sounds the best and you're in it," said the twins at the same time.
This caused Delicia to smile at the twins, than hug them. "You guys are great."
Veelia and Grag hugged her back. "Children, its dinner. Will you please show Delicia down?" Cynithinia asked over the callo-globe, which could also call someone not in the house.
"Sure mom," said Velia into the globe. "Come on, let's go." With that they ran down stairs.
"Hey Delicia?" asked Grag.
"Can we call you Deli?" asked Velia.
With this the three of them broke into giggles.
"Sure," said Delicia through her fits of laughter, "if I can call you Veal, Velia, and Grag, Gag or Rag. You pick."
They started to laugh even harder at this. "Sure." "Yeah ok."
"Or Grag, you could be Gag-rag."
They were now laughing so hard that tears of mirth and laughter were steaming down their cheeks.
"I like that."
"Me too."
"Me three," said Delicia.
"You're not allowed to 'me three' Deli," whine Velia.
"I can too!"
"No you can't!"
"Can too!"
"Can't!"
"Can!"
"Can't!"
"Stop it both of you," whispered Grag.
"Why?" both of the girls asked.
Grag just pointed his finger ahead of them. Both of the girls followed with their eye to where Grag's finger was pointed.
Suddenly Velia whispered, "It's not polite to point, Grag."
"Sorry," he murmured.
At the table was none other that the Blacks and Harry Potter.
All of a sudden Delicia started running to the table and screaming, "Allegra!"
A girl with midnight blue hair turned around. She had tanned skin, which had once been a porcelain colour. She was slim, had rosy cheeks, full pink coloured lips, and purple/blue eyes that sparkled. She was around 4'11" and had her hair down, flowing just below mid-back.
Allegra screamed and ran to Delicia. "Del, it is so good to see you. My Christmas had been horrid so far." Sirius and Harry glared at her. "Hermione can over. Ron had to go to France to visit Bill and Fleur. Anyways, I walked in on Harry and her snogging. It was disgusting."
Sirius had heard this and turned to Harry. "Harry when we get home, I think I will talk to you about the birds and the bees."
Harry glared at Allegra. "Um… Sirius, I think that talk is too late. Harry has been snogging with Hermione since they got on the train this year," said Delicia, smiling cheekily.
"Delicia!" exclaimed Harry. He was bright red.
"Yes, 'Arry-Harry?" asked Delicia, while using Hermione's nickname for him.
Allegra burst into giggles. "Harry! Harry! OH! Right there! Yes! Yes!" Allegra said mimicking Hermione. She and Delicia started to laugh really hard. They had tears steaming down their cheek, and were finding it hard to breath (especial Delicia, for she had just been recovering from her laugh with the twins.)
While Allegra had been saying this to Harry, Delicia had been banging her hand on the table (hard). It really did sound like them, except…
"Hermione!" Delicia exclaimed in a low tone. "That feels so good!"
With this Harry, if possible, turned even redder and the girls were literally rolling around and the ground, clutching their sides because they were laughing so hard.
"Allegra! I'm shocked. We're at someone's house. Really, you girls are unbelievable!" Sirius said to the two girls.
"You know you love us!" was the reply that everyone heard from the floor.
"Well, how can I argue with that?"
"You can't," answered the girls.
"Stop laughing, and get up off the floor. Cyni, I am really sorry for their behavior," said Sirius apologizing to Cynithinia.
"It's ok. It reminds me of when we went to Hogwarts, and your friends mocked you and James in the hall." At this she put on a high voice. "Sirius! Sirius! Harder! Harder!" Cynithinia and the girls started laughing.
Sirius, on the other hand, was quite calm. "Well, what did you except? We WERE the Marauders after all."
~*~
Sirius and Cynithinia had agreed to let Allegra sleep over. However, Sirius warned Cynithinia that this was a dangerous thing for her to agree to. Cynithinia had just laughed in his face.
Upstairs…
Allegra and Delicia were getting a tour of the house from the twins.
"This is my room," said Velia pointing to the room three doors to the right of Delicia's room. 'And that one there is Grag's." She pointed to the door opposite of her room. "That one is mommy and daddy's." Now their were at the end of the hall, six doors to the right of Delicia's room.
"Thank you for the tour. Good night," called Delicia to Velia and Grag as they all headed to their own room (with the exception of Allegra.)
Once inside Delicia's room…
"Do you like it here Del?" asked Allegra as they 'got' ready for bed.
"I love it here. The house, the things, and the people (house-elves) are so friendly. Mrs. Drakin gave me some of my mother's old stuff." She spit into the sink. "I have to show you this set of dress robes. There are so beautiful!"
"Really? Than I had to see them."
The girls walked into the room and towards the armoire. Inside were the pale blue robes. "Oh, they are so nice!" exclaimed Allegra as she fingered the robes.
"I know."
"So, what are we 'doing' tonight?"
"I don't know. I thought you would have an idea, Ally."
"I do." She than set about to tell Delicia her plan.
"I love it. We could also do it at school. And we have to right Kalani and Divina about it."
"Yeah. It would be cool to do this at school. And we could make the 'Bandit Damsels' known school wide."
At this they laughed and set out to carry out this plan of theirs.
Around 3:30 in the morning the girls finally got into bed and fell into a peaceful sleep, both thinking about the plan they had just pulled off. It was wonderful.
A/N: Everyone who reviewed last time thx so much! If you have questions, suggestions, or ideas review and tell me! You know you wanna!