"So what exactly did you call me here for again?" Lucy said as she stepped catlike into the sun-filled dungeon, not bothering to admire the huge murals of the four founders on each of the walls and the elegant painting on the ceiling of the four house animals warring over themselves. She chanced without interest a stare in the direction of Alexa and Lily, seated cross-legged on the floor and watching her enter. Both of them had dressed down in jeans and flip-flops, as well as t-shirts from a Muggle company titled Dickies. Lucy herself bore a similar look. Her sandals slapped on the floor as she walked, finally coming to a halt in front of the two girls.

"I told you. We've got a new recruit." Lily reminded her.

"Well...a possibility. But a good one." Alexa added.

"Grand." Lucy mused. "Well, where is she?"

"Dunno. I talked to her in Charms and haven't seen her since." Lily replied.

"Was she supposed to be here already?" Lucy shot back.

"Well...yes..."

"She's not, though, is she?"

"Have a little faith." Alexa broke in. "She'll be here."

"Hope she can duel." Lucy growled, sitting down beside them and tucking a strand of blonde hair behind one ear.

"Here." A confident-sounding voice called from the other corner of the room.

All of them looked up. The girl was tall with long hair, which she quickly swung up and captured into a ponytail. She wore a tube top which glorified some foreign Japanese manga character and a pair of tight sweatpants, and had already kicked her own flip-flops off. Her toenails were dark purple, as well as her fingernails.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance." Lucy stood up, a wry smile on her face, an eerie satisfaction. She extended a perfectly manicured hand to the girl.

"Pleasure's mine." The girl stated simply, smiling in a similar fashion as she shook Lucy's hand, seeming quite sure of herself. This surprised Lucy a little.

"I see you've already met my friends, a.k.a. the other Angels." Lucy replied. "Lily, and Alexa." She motioned to each of them in turn.

"I'm Xavia. Gryffindor." The girl said to her.

"Lucy Malfoy. Slytherin." She noticed Xavia take a tiny step back. She smiled. It had been wise of her to shake with the hand on which she wore her diamond.

"So..." Lucy continued. "I understand you want to join the Angels, hmm?"

"That I do." Xavia replied. "Why, do you have some horrendous test planned for me to prove that I'm worthy or something?"

"Perhaps." This one sounded cocky, Lucy thought. She'd soon calm her down.

She turned and strode to the center of the room, withdrawing her wand. As the most powerful and original First Angel it was her duty to go through the motions of the ceremony. She raised the wand and cast the spell to begin.

A magnificent and beautiful girl appeared in the air, as though they were watching a slide show of sorts, or a movie. "The first of the Angels." Lucy began. "At first she acted alone, and died a horrible death that stripped her of her beauty." She tapped her wand and the scene changed to four girls walking through the halls of Hogwarts.

"The four founders decided that one girl could not act alone. Besides, none of them could agree on what kind of girl they could possibly choose for such a role. So they granted her friends, comrades in the fight against evil." Suddenly the scene was paused and one of the girls withdrawn from it, exactly as she was. "One would always be more powerful and beautiful than the others, but also equally as humble, so that it would be impossible to distinguish her from the rest." The girl was placed back into the scene and it changed again. Now it showed the four holding hands and forming a square, combining their powers to fight a crowd of Death Eaters all around them.

"Each of the four founders chose one girl that they felt worthiest to hold the title of Angel." Lucy broke from her monotone speech for a moment and turned to face the others. "It is supposed to be one girl from every House, but each of us has still been chosen and probably knows by which of the Founders by now." She came back to her legend.

"And now we have four again. It has always been so, no more, no less. So it seems Xavia has been delivered to us." She flicked her wand and everything disappeared.

"So." She glanced at Xavia and walked a slow full circle around her, taking in everything. Finally she stopped and met the girl's eyes, smiling and extending a hand.

"It's simply lovely to have you in the group." The other two gave her a short round of applause and Lily piped up.

"So, what's this business with you and Sirius making eyes at each other, hmm?" She smirked, and all of the girls burst into laughter.

"Well...I don't know...he's...he's cute, that's all." Xavia said, slightly more shyly than before.

"Well, we already took notice of that." Lucy added, and grinned at her.