Malfoy Invasion

By Cassandra Sisenta

Just a little something I managed to think of. I don't really know where this is going, but oh well. Review people!

Disclaimer: Right, I own Draco Malfoy. I wish!

Prologue

The Summer that Passed and A Glimpse of the New Malfoys

Lucius Malfoy died under the wrath of Lord Voldemort's wand the summer before Draco's seventh year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Narcissa, finally coming free of her husband's Imperius Curse, immediately took off with Draco from Malfoy Manor just as the Dark Lord left, leaving many more of his failure followers behind.

Mother and son fled to Scotland where they sought refuge on the other, more obscure branch of the Malfoy family.

Maximus Ebenezer Malfoy was Lucius' elder brother. He left the manor years before in disgust when he discovered Lucius' ties with the Dark Lord.

Contrary to popular belief, the Malfoys weren't always proprietors of the Dark Arts.

He resided in an old castle in the Scottish Highlands where he started a family of his own. He secretly became one of the members of Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix and did his best in protecting the area he lived in from Voldemort's power.

Narcissa and Draco could never have found a safer place.

But soon, the summer ended and the next thing they knew, Draco's letter from Hogwarts arrived and he had to go back to school.

Draco never really liked studying at Hogwarts. If it weren't for the insistence of his mother, he would have been in Durmstrang, as his father would have wanted.

He however, never felt this much resistance before.

Never before had he never wanted to go back to school this bad.

So many things had happened that past summer and he didn't know if he would ever be able to survive outside of the strong stone walls of his uncle's castle.

For the first time, Draco had really felt safe. And happy.

Maximus was very unlike his father.

He treated Draco like one of his own sons, not a statue made of glass that Lucius had wanted to fashion with his fiery contempt.

That summer had made him human, softened and hardened in different parts of his being.

Would he be able to survive another year in Hogwarts where he would be so far away from this security that he had come to know?

He will, for this time he wouldn't be going alone.

Cringing closed eyes were opened after a moment's hesitance to reveal large, bright blue eyes. These eyes shone with wonder as they darted from one corner to another as if trying to catch something that flew from one side to another. A bright light of delight made the blue orbs sparkle just as a sweet childish voice echoed to exclaim,

"That was AWESOME!!"

"Oh stop acting like a muggle-born, Rizza."

The same blue eyes darted to one corner to focus on an arrogant, pale-faced boy who had an annoyed look on his face.  The boy's proud posture, expensive robes, and distinctive slicked-back, white-blond hair echoed his pureblood heritage. "You're embarrassing me."

The owner of the aforementioned blue eyes, a pretty little girl with long, golden-blond hair stood with her hands on her hips, raising her eyebrow in a very distinctive way as she said, "Sure Juli! Like you didn't think that was amazing yourself!"

The boy sniffed, adding more snobbishness to his looks in the process as he crossed his arms over his chest and lazily fixed her with a look of boredom. "Right, like hidden vortexes aren't common. Please!"

"I saw you, Julian!" The girl called Rizza taunted, sticking her index finger in front of the boy's prissy face with flourish and familiarity that could only come from a sibbling. "Your eyes were actually wide when you managed to get through."

"Was not." He insisted coolly as he pushed at his trolley loaded with luggage toward the steaming red train known as the Hogwarts Express as if he was trying to avoid the girl for some reason.

"Was too." Of course Rizza was quick to follow.

"Was not."

"Was tooooo~oo!"

"I have this urge to denounce you, from this moment forward, as my sister."

"Right! Like people wouldn't notice how much we look alike! Are you forgetting something, Julian? We're twins! Sorry, but you're stuck with me."

"Augh! When will you ever shut up?"

"There they go again." A soft, deep drawl was heard as a tall, male figure wearing black robes emerged from the usual busy crowd of Platfrom 9 and ¾.

White-blond hair glistened in the light as stormy gray eyes followed the two children through the bustling horde of people. He wasn't one of those people you would overlook even in a crowd like this.

It was Draco Malfoy.

Something evidently changed in the Malfoy heir.

For one, he wasn't as pale and as lanky as he used to be years before. His shoulders were broader and he was taller. He had grown into a lean build, all skin and muscle, a Seeker's body. A tan that obviously came from staying long under the sun had darkened him a little, enough to shut the rumors that were spread the year before that he was a vampire.

But aside from the physical and more notable changes, there were more that would have been easily overlooked.

Crabbe and Goyle were nowhere to be found and any traces of the trademark malicious Malfoy smirk were unseen. His confident and arrogant swagger was downplayed into a quiet and contemplative tread that would remind one of a lazy yet alert jungle cat that would certainly attack if provoked.

There was also that strange light in his gray eyes.

Whatever it was, it cast a calm over his fine features like nothing has ever done before.

"I knew Julian's prissy attitude came from somewhere." A pleasant alto voice sounded from beside him and when Draco turned his gaze, he found himself subjected to an amused pair of deep green eyes. "Thanks a lot, Drake."

This comment came from a slender-bodied female with shoulder-length, wavy white-blond hair and a warm, welcoming smile. She was dressed in a classy deep blue dress that fell to her knees and hugged her slender figure. She was very beautiful.

Draco raised her an inquiring eyebrow in response. "What makes you say that, Adriana?"

She smiled as she intimately connected her gaze with his. "Because you're the biggest prat in the family, coz."

"Thanks for that compliment, Adriana dear."

"My pleasure, Draco."

Draco sighed as he followed his cousins Rizza, Julian, and Adriana into the Hogwarts Express.

Oh, his last year will definitely be interesting, if not eventful for them all.