An Angel's Duty
Authors Note: This is a story to go along with my best friend Gryffindor Angel's stories Angel Order and The Darkness That Binds. In takes place during the first five chapters of The Darkness That Binds. It is a stand-alone story but it may help to read her stories first to understand this one a little better. Also when you see a quote within two "~" symbols that is something that is being said telepathically and a quote within "**" is a persons thoughts.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the other characters and places created by J. K. Rowling I'm just borrowing them for a short time. I also do not own Lenna Dumbledore or Charity Black they are both owned by Gryffindor Angel and the rest of the Angels (with the exception of Jammar Potter) were a joint creation by the two of us.
Chapter One: Upon the Pain of Death
"All may not be as it seems. The Angels need to look beyond."
The day was dark and the sky above seemed ready to burst forth the storm it was hiding. It all seemed to mirror the feelings of those inside the school. Breakfast had yet to begin and still most of Gryffindor students were all quite upset knowing that their friend would not be returning with them this year, as they all sat gathered down in the common room.
"I can't believe that Professor Dumbledore wouldn't even let his own daughter back. She may not have made all of the right choices but she's always done what she thought was best for her friends and family." It was Jammar Potter saying these words sadly about her best friend. She had suffered quite a bit since the end of the last term. Her normally bright strawberry blonde hair with the tight ringlets now seemed dull and the curls limp, her violet eyes normally glowing brilliantly were now dull and lifeless.
She had lost three of the people that mattered the most to her. Her twin brother and his best friend had taken off into the Forbidden Forest after each having used an Unforgivable Curse. And then that same day her best friend turned to Lord Voldemort's side thinking somehow she could help Harry and Ron.
Jammar trusted Lenna Dumbledore with her life and knew that she'd do whatever she thought was best for her friends and family. She also knew deep down that there was no way that Lenna could truly become evil, especially after having seen her only a few weeks before.
Lenna had tried to get her Father to let her back into Hogwarts but he would not allow it, for some reason that Jammar could not understand. Jammar was not there for the meeting with Professor Dumbledore although later Lenna had set up a test for the Six Arch Angels.
Angels…it's something that Jammar never used to believe in although deep down in her heart she knew that they existed but it wasn't until her first year at Hogwarts when she truly became to believe. Jammar Potter was the Angel of Love, and her best friend Lenna Dumbledore was the leader of the Angels, being the Angel of Life. The only other Angel that Lenna had managed to find in that one year at Hogwarts was Charity Black, Angel of Peace. The only problem was with Lenna now gone and Charity gone to help the Aurors that it had left Jammar in charge of finding the other 5 angels.
That fateful day Jammar learned the identities of the remaining Angels although Lenna had given her many clues in the year before she know knew exactly who they were. Lenna had stood outside of Gringotts Bank, where a crown soon grew around her as she stood in her silver, angel form. She had called the Angels forth and put them to the test to save some of the children in the town from a meteor shower that Lenna caused. The six Angels stood in a circle surrounding the children, none knew what to do, a child had yet to be hit but how long would that last for. It was Jammar who stepped in first spreading her tender, blue wings out to cover the children. That was when Lenna had called it all of and vanished.
It was now almost two weeks later and Jammar had yet to hear from or see Lenna again. **Why is it that you do this to me Lenna? Why leave me in charge? I am not strong enough and I have not yet been trained properly.** Jammar thought to herself.
Suddenly Fred Weasley burst into the room the worry etched on his face. Jammar looked up to see that he was carrying Star, Lenna's faithful owl. Normally she would be happy but Jammar could see the blood that had dried on Star and so assumed the worst. She sat still and watched as Fred and Ginny each read the letter Star had brought them silently before George read it out loud to the room.
The news that Star had brought them was nothing that anyone would ever want to hear about one of their friends. Lenna Dumbledore had killed herself. Jammar could here Hermione start to say something as Jammar walked out of the Gryffindor Common Room and up to the highest tower in Hogwarts. It's a place Lenna herself had been known to go when something was bothering her and Jammar somehow knew that she would find solace there.
As Jammar stepped into the tower the storm that had been threatening to unleash all of the day finally did so. Thunder crashed and lightning lit up the room causing it to have an eerie effect. The room was void of anything that unlike most of the rooms in the school. Every room seemed to hold something whether it was visibly apparent or held a secret by the founders of the school. "Where is you secret," Jammar whispered to the room.
"Lenna found you out didn't she? I can feel it. Now it is my turn. This is a room for the Angels, for their leader to be exact. Well that responsibility falls to me now. Lenna is dead and Charity is off helping the Aurors. Neither can be of any help. I need to figure this out," Jammar said allowed looking quietly around the room.
~Angels! Do you hear me?~ Jammar said telepathically, to every Angel her mind could reach out to. ~The time has come when you are needed. No matter what the fates had in store for you, you are all needed now. I shall find each of you and one by one I shall now be the one to train you, at least as much as I am capable of.~
Jammar went back to looking around the room, and as she did so her senses seemed to become stronger. She could now feel each of the Arch Angels. The thing that scared her the most is that she could feel two more Angels than she was meant to. **My senses are just awakening. I am sure that they are mistaken. I shall focus on and find only those five Angels that I know about. It will be up to the fates whether I am to meet or know about the other two.** she thought to herself as a gleam on the other side of the room caught her eye.
Walking up to where the gleam had come from Jammar saw a little silver angel. "The Angel of Life," she whispered. Slowly as she was looking at the silver angel embedded into the wall it began to change to royal blue.
"What!" she exclaimed. "This has to be it. It would change to my colours, the blue of the Angel of Love if it wasn't what I was looking for," she said allowed now wondering what it was she would have to do to find the truth behind the small little angel.
Jammar tried for what seemed like hours to find the secret behind the little metal angel. She had tried everything she thought of and decided that it was time to give up. All of her friends up in the Gryffindor Common Room would be wondering where she was.
She turned on her heel and headed for the door.
~Does the Angel of Love give up so easily,~ Jammar could hear the voice of Lenna ringing in her head.
~Lenna, how am I hearing you?~
~As my Grandmother communicated to me I now do for you. Find them. Train them. It is your duty now, but you can do nothing if you do not find the secret to that Angel.~
~Can you offer me no help?~ Jammar questioned almost angrily. ~You hated it when your Grandmother did such things to you so don't you do this to me. Help me Lenna! I am going to have a hard enough time doing all of this without you, don't just leave me clueless on this as well when obviously you can help me.~
~All you have to do is look deep within you. You will find all the answers there, even those you are not meant to know are hidden within you my friend. Now it is time for you to return to your friends as you had planned. Come back later when you know the answer,~ Lenna's voice echoed softly in Jammar's head before she could feel it fade.
"I don't know why you do this to me Lenna, maybe it is just another phase to my training," Jammar said aloud before finally leaving the little room and heading back to her house.
**I'll figure it out no matter what it takes. Lenna I won't let this world be destroyed because of what you did.**
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Well that's it for Chapter One. I hope you all enjoyed please read and review…the more reviews that I get the sooner I will update…motivation is my best inspiration and my best motivation is the reviews I get whether bad or good. All I ask is if you're going to tell me that my story sucks let me know why so that I may improve it.