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Disclaimer: Unfortunately, the last time I checked I was not J.K. Rowling therefore I do not own Harry Potter. I own nothing besides the main character and a few other random characters. Even though I do own a few random characters it does not mean that I am getting any money whatsoever from writing this little story. I am writing this to give myself something to do and challenge myself, considering school is far too easy and does not stimulate my mind as much as having complete power over what I write.
Rated: R – For harsh language, mental and physical child-abuse, references to rape, and violence.
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Enchanting Darkness
Chapter 4: Blood and Flames
"What do you think of Hogwarts so far?" Ginny asked as the two girls strolled down the empty corridor toward their dormitory.
Kaida lightly ran her hand along the cold stone walls, "It's brilliant," she answered with a tiny smirk forming on her pale face.
"Is your house big like this?" Ginny asked before she could stop herself. She had been curious to ask the girl about life at the Malfoy manor; however, she was not necessarily sure how she should bring up the subject. She had no idea if it was a touchy subject – she had rarely even talked to Draco Malfoy before. He had barely even looked at the redheaded girl since the incident in Flourish and Blotts during her first year of Hogwarts – she doubted he even knew her name.
"It's not this big – close but not this big," Kaida answered honestly.
Before Ginny even noticed, she was laughing hysterically at the thought of a Malfoy being honest – and even modest.
Kaida jumped in surprise at the sudden noise. "What's wrong?" she asked worriedly. "Did I say something wrong? I know I do not have very much experience having real discussions with people but I really do not think I said anything wrong. Was what I said bad? I've heard Draco and father say some pretty bad things before but – mother's never laughed because of it -," Kaida rambled frantically.
"No – no," Ginny forced out of her mouth while trying to regain even breathing. "It's just that you were so honest with me – your brother probably would've told me that your home is loads bigger then the castle," she said, trying to hold in more fits of laughter.
They stopped walking once they were in front of the portrait of the young boy. Ginny sighed, "Quidditch." The two girls entered the common room and sat down on the couch near the fire.
"Do you play Quidditch?" Ginny asked, staring into the flames. Kaida's smile faded, however, Ginny did not notice for she was far too interested in watching the flames. "No," she answered. "Do you?" she asked. Ginny turned her attention away from the flames and looked at Kaida's pale complexion. "Yes. Well, sometimes," she answered, blushing slightly. "I played last year on the Gryffindor house team but normally I just play with my brothers," she added.
"Oh," Kaida said sadly. "So, you've never played before," Ginny stated amusedly. Kaida smirked, "Yeah." Ginny was beginning to wonder why – Lucius always seemed so interested in Draco playing – why not his daughter as well? "Why?" Ginny blurted out.
Kaida became nervous at being asked so directly. "I suppose – I never – well, I – I just do not play," she stuttered to find the correct words.
Ginny did not necessarily believe Kaida's explanation, it took far too long to be accurate, however, she decided not to push the issue any further since it seemed to make Kaida uncomfortable.
The two girls sat in silence - only the sound of the crackling flames could be heard. It seemed as if the girls had tons of things to ask each other – to learn everything about their new friend but were frightened as if asking too much would mean they would have to answer just as much.
Kaida felt as though she could trust Ginny but she could not be so sure if the petite redhead across the couch from her was really all that trustworthy. The only people she ever trusted were her family and even her father and Draco sometimes lost her trust.
Ginny watched Kaida in amusement - the girl was an utter mystery, however, Ginny wanted to know it all. Ginny's eyes drifted from Kaida's face down to her robes. She could tell the robes were extremely expensive but of course that was to be expected, she was a Malfoy after all.
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Desdemona Blake stepped out of her brand new black Cadillac and walked across the dew-covered grass toward the vast stone manor. Her thick, long, black, curly hair flew out behind her as the ice-cold wind hit against her abnormally pale face. She opened her mouth to some extent to let the ice-cold air hit against her razor-sharp fangs.
She was on a mission from her Dark Lord and nothing was to get in her way. Her mission was extremely vital for the increase of the Dark Lord's power and she knew everything was riding on her shoulders – nothing could possibly go wrong.
She knocked loudly on the enormous wood door until a house-elf finally opened the door and allowed her to enter. Narcissa Malfoy was standing just a little ways down the entrance hall but began to walk down toward the door when Desdemona had entered.
"Narcissa!" she said sweetly. Narcissa smirked and nodded. "How lovely to see you again, Mona," she said without emotion. Desdemona nodded, "Is Draco around the manor? I would like to speak with him - privately."
Narcissa knew all along that the only reason Desdemona was in her house was for a meeting with Draco. She did not mind, however. Narcissa hated this woman with a passion – not only because she was a vampire but also because she was the one to initiate Draco into Lord Voldemort's vampire followers.
"Yes. Just a moment," Narcissa said stiffly as she left the room through a door at the end of the entrance hall.
Only moments later, Narcissa returned except this time she was accompanied by Draco Malfoy. Draco smirked when he saw whom his visitor was – the plan was starting. He knew it and he was glad. All the tiring long months of planning and preparing had finally paid off. Desdemona returned the evil smirk and they walked out of the entrance hall into the sitting room.
Draco took a seat in a large black leather chair near the fire while Desdemona sat down on a couch not too far away. "Hello, my dear," she said to Draco once they were alone in the large dim sitting room. "Hello," Draco said with the trademark smirk still plastered on his pale face. "And, where, may I ask, is your darling younger sister?" she asked.
Draco's spine stiffened – they knew. Oh Merlin, they knew. Draco was not sure what to say. Should he deny having a sister and perhaps be punished or give in and maybe lose his only sibling? Either choice was not very appealing, however, he needed to pick one quickly.
"My sister?" he asked confusedly.
Desdemona giggled evilly. "Yes, dear boy. Your sister – I know you have one. Little Kaida Amelie, or is it not?" she said almost mordantly.
Draco's breathing stopped – he felt dizzy. He needed air yet somehow the air was not reaching his lungs. It felt as if his lungs were going to burst open any moment. The room started to spin and before he knew it – he was unconscious and lying on the hard floor.
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Ginny sat on her bed and watched the stars shining in the dark, but not quite black, sky. She sighed and laid back onto the now warm comforter. It was a very long day. She could not wait to just crawl into her nice warm bed and fall into a great dreamless sleep – if she was lucky enough. Even with her own private bedroom, Ginny still had frequent nightmares about the trauma she faced her first year.
She stretched her arms out over her body and took a few deep breaths. She was about to sit up and crawl into bed when she heard a loud tapping sound at her window. She sat up slowly and looked toward her window – there was a large brown barn owl tapping its beak on the window's glass.
Standing up, she sighed once again – it had become something she was used to since she never got even a little bit of time to herself especially with so many people in her family. She opened the window and allowed the owl to fly into the bedroom.
The owl dropped a letter onto her bed and flew out the window immediately. Ginny closed the window, strolled toward her bed and sat down once again. She fingered the letter in her hands before opening it. She looked at the front and recognized the handwriting right away. The letter was from her best friend, Colin Creevey.
Dear Miss Virginia Weasley,
Your brother, Ron, owled to let me know that you were already at Hogwarts so I would not be worried and looking around frantically for you on the 1 September when I get to King's Cross Station. I was somewhat surprised at that, however. Already at Hogwarts… and why, might I ask, is that? Ah, well, either way, I simply cannot wait to see you tomorrow, my dear. I have missed you terribly over the summer while I have been away in Spain but I have had the most amazing time. I cannot wait to show you some of the photographs I have taken. Yes, some like the ones I took last year too – I just know you were about to ask. Well, I will see you tomorrow.
Mister Colin Creevey
Ginny's lips curled into a large smile as she put down Colin's letter. No matter what type of jokes and rumours people had started about him, Ginny was always there and always his best friend. However, most of the rumours were true – yes, he was gay and yes, he did absolutely love photography. Neither bothered Ginny, even though they seemed to bother a number of others, it was just Colin and Colin was always there for her as well.
She folded the letter up and set it down on her nightstand. She was about to stand up to close her blinds when she saw a dark cloaked figure hovering outside her bedroom window. The eyes of the figure were glowing in a dark blood red. Ginny's breathing halted and her eyes could not look away from the hypnotizing blood red eyes.
The figure opened its mouth, revealing pearly white fangs. Ginny screamed as loud as her little lungs would allow. She screamed and screamed until she was utterly out of breath.
"Ginny, what's wrong? I heard you scream," Kaida quickly interrogated as she ran into the room.
Ginny, who was still sitting on her bed staring out the window, simply lifted up her arm and pointed a shaky finger toward the window before passing out onto the floor. Kaida rushed to Ginny's side and began to shake her rigorously. "Ginny! Ginny!" she yelled into the redhead's ear.
The redhead's chocolate-brown eyes blinked open. "What was that?" she asked in a shaky voice. Kaida looked around nervously while biting down onto her bottom lip, "A vampire."
"But we don't have enough time to worry about that. We need to get to Professor Dumbledore's office immediately!" she said frantically, trying to pull the redhead to her feet while Ginny was still in utter shock.
Once Kaida had successfully gotten Ginny up off the floor and somewhat out of her shocked state, she pulled Ginny by the arm out of their living quarters and ran toward Professor Dumbledore's office.
"What's the password?" Kaida yelled out when they had reached the entrance.
Luckily, at that exact same moment, Professor Snape had walked out of the entrance to the Headmaster's office. "There is no need to yell, Miss Malfoy," he said in a voice that had no sign of hatred in it at all, unlike the voice he always used with every other student. He began to walk off down the hall, robes flying out behind him, however, before he was able to leave completely he turned around, "By the way, the password is 'Pixie Sticks'," he said. "Whatever those are," he muttered to himself, not realizing the two girls could hear him.
"Pixie Sticks!" Ginny yelled before Kaida could even open her mouth. The staircase leading to the Headmaster's office was revealed almost immediately. Ginny ran toward the staircase with Kaida's hand tightly held in hers. She stopped in front of the door, which had a gold-plated sign that read 'Headmaster Dumbledore.'
Ginny knocked on the door and did not stop until the door had opened. The two girls entered the office and were greeted by a particularly old wizard sitting behind a large oak desk. The old wizard had a certain gleam in his eye that made you believe he knew everything there was to know in the Wizarding World.
"How may I help you girls tonight?" he asked.
"There was -" Kaida started, absolutely composed.
"Vampire!" yelled Ginny, still frantic.
"Where was this vampire?" Dumbledore asked.
Before either girl could answer the question, there was a loud banging noise and Draco Malfoy fell out of the fireplace.
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Author's Notes: Thanks to all my reviewers! You are all fantastic! It is so great that a lot of you have reviewed every chapter! That is really great! So, thanks for taking the time out to do that for me, I love getting feedback!
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SickGirl42: Yeah, this is going to be a little scary but I am going through some stuff right now and it is helping a lot to get the dark stuff out of myself. There might be some Kaida romance but I am not too sure. Draco and Ginny? Hmm… you will have to read and find out but there will be some romance going on! Yeah, mittens are cool- except when they are slippery. Oh, thanks again!
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