Her boots tapped annoyingly on the polished floor, her sword clanged, but that was all the noise that echoed through the deserted corridors. She was alone in this part of the fortress, seeing as everyone else was either feasting or something along those lines. She was heading for Locker 3 where she knew Sirius Black was still imprisoned, she'd given orders for him to be fed and watered and unharmed, he may prove to be some use after all, his was tempestuous after all.
"Hello Black," she said slowly leaning against the bars of his cell, her back to him, she was smirking.
"Back again are you? What have you come for this time?" he sneered; she could tell by his tone that he was angry.
"Now what would make you think I came for anything?" she asked, turning slowly, her maniacal smile plastered to her face.
"Will you stop playing word games with me and give me a straight answer?" he demanded struggling against the chains that bound his wrists behind his back.
"Would you believe me if I did?" she asked looking him straight in the eyes, the fire light dancing in his soulful eyes.
"Depends on what you tell me," he replied lowly grinning at her, she smirked back.
"Have you ever heard the term Darkness of the Shadows?" she asked grasping two iron bars in each of her hands.
"Only once, why?" he asked.
"Do you know unto what it referred to?" she asked her grip tightening and her smirk becoming a mysterious smile.
"Something about Magical Gates, I didn't really listen to what Remus was telling me, why what has that to do with you?" he questioned confused.
"Everything Mr Black, absolutely everything," was her reply and he looking confused, bordering on annoyed, "Look at my feet and tell me what you see."
"Uh…you're feet?" she just shook her head.
"Look closer Black, what's missing," his eyes widened and his mouth gaped, she smirked.
"No shadow," he breathed out, "how, what trickery is this?" he demanded through gritted teeth but her smirk didn't fade but something else happened. He took a step backwards, backing against the wall as her hands slipped through the bars of his cell and she proceeded to step right through it, as though it wasn't there.
"Exactly, but it's no trick," she answered stepping so she was pressed right up against him.
"Then how?" he asked looking down, his dark blue eyes locked with her purple ones.
"We; the Darkness of the Shadows, just Shadows among ourselves; are a set of next to immortal beings that are not, how should I put this? Solid matter?" his eyes widened and he made to speak but she put a gloved finger to his lips. "Let me explain, we're neither solid, nor liquid nor gas, but somewhere between, the atoms of which we are made are packed close enough to see but are not dense enough to stop light therefore we have no shadow and can pass through what you would call 'Solid Matter'."
"Then that veil in the Ministry?"
"Is ours, we have gates next to every magical hotspot in Europe, however, we prefer to keep to planetery business, mostly the Silver Alliance but it isn't my place to disclose information about that to you," she said, her hands snaked round his neck to play with the hairs at the back of his head.
She reached up and breathed in his ear, "You're mine Black."
"Over my dead body," he objected glarring at the side of her head.
"That can be easily aranged," she hissed, "if you want to die, but wouldn't that stop your chances of seeing Harry again?"
"You lay a finger on him and I'll," she interupted.
"You'll what, you can't hurt me, anything you do will just pass straight through me," and then he felt it, a horrible chill at the base of his neck running up and down his spine.
"Can you feel that Black?" she whisperred, his eyes closed and he nodded, "do you know what it is?" he shook his head, "that is the feeling of a Shadow as their atoms pass through yours." She began to step away, he slightly missed the warmth but what was more improtant is that she brought her arms with her. The cold in his neck travelled through his back to his chest, ghosting over his heart and lungs making his breath hitch.
Then he saw it, her hands come out of his chest, his eyes widenned and he would have been sick if he'd been a little weaker stomached. "Do you know how much pain we can put mortals like you through?" she asked not moving, "I could freeze your heart, killing you inside out, or I could just rip it out." His face made a disgusted look but he refused to look away from her.
"We make excellent fighters," she walked back up to him, her hands found their way to the sides of his face, "and feelings don't get involved."
"Have you ever felt love?" he asked boldly, her eyes flickerred with amusement.
"I've felt lust, desire, pride, jealousy, anger, protectiveness, posession and many other things," she brushed the hair away from his eyes, "but I have never seen the need for love," their eyes locked again.
He leaned forward, so close, "Tut tut Black, you don't even know my age," she whisperred her eyes half lidded.
"Then tell it to me," he said smirking, his forehead pressed against hers, this was highly irregular, even for him.
"No," she replied.
"Then let me have you once, just once," his eyes glinted mysteriously her smirk bore her disapproval.
"I could loose my job for that you know," she hissed at him.
"Will you risk it?" both their eyes where half lidded, both smirking lazily.
"No, but I doubt you'll accept that answer," she said.
"Damn right I wont," and with that he pressed his lips to hers but was met with only cold, he pulled back, "Why not?"
"If I ever go soft Black, I'll give you three things and that'll be one of them but until then I bid you goodbye," she said as she stepped backwards, passing silently through the bars to his cell.
"Will I see you again?" he asked smirking.
"Undoubtedly," and with that she strode down the hall and away from him.
---Hogwarts---
Hikage walked down to breakfast late hoping to have bypassed one Pansy Parkinson, the girl annoyed her to no end. However, Hikage had no such luck and once again greeted by the sickening site of Pansy clutching Draco's arm and practically drooling all over his shoulder. She pulled out her wand, funny this how Wizard's had to really on such a frail piece of wood, "Accio toast!" she said quietly a piece of buttered toast flew into her hand.
"Show-off!" Pansy sneered, Draco rolled his eyes.
"Slut," was all Hikage muttered before heading for the Gryffindor table where Usagi sat talking to Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil.
"Eww what do you want?" asked Parvati making a motion to cringe in disgust.
Hikage rolled her eyes, "Anything interesting in the Daily Prophet Usagi?" she asked.
"Oh yeh," Usagi chirped happily handing it to Hikage who took it gratefully, one look at the front page told her all she needed to know.
"May I keep this Usagi?" she asked in fake sweetness trying hard to mask the anger in her voice.
"Sure," Usagi chirped, Hikage nodded and walked away leaving the happy blonde to continue her conversation. Once outside the Great Hall Hikage sighed and leaned heavily against the stone wall and began to read the front page article.
'Ministry Uncovers Mysterious Monument!' was the headline.
'By Roger Sycamore'
'The Dark Veil that the Ministry successfully uncovered two years ago which now resides in the Department of Mysteries was discovered to be on of the many portals owned by The Darkness of the Shadows. Little is known about this race or where they come from, the mysterious whispers within the Veil are believed to those of the Darkness of the Shadows.
A low ranking member of the Department of Mysteries, Mr John Hailey, recently discovered several mysterious dials that when put to a certain combination creates a portal for a few seconds unless said dials are held in place, therefore maintaining the portal.'
Hikage growled, this was very important, if the Ministry got into the fortress she'd loose her job, plus she'd never hear the end of it from Argon, the guy had been sour with her ever since she beat him in becoming Captain of the Guard. She knew he'd love to rub any failure in her face with no restraint.
'On the 28th of December the Ministry has decided to open the portal and go through, this surprise attack will hopefully help us gain more knowledge of the Darkness of the Shadows and their intentions.'
"Well, it seems that their idea of surprise isn't well planned, if you want a surprise attack you don't let it be known, after all," she smirked, "who knows who might read it," and with that she swept up to the Astronomy tower.
---Draco---
He came out of the Great Hall just in time to see Hikage ascend the marble staircase and he decided to follow her, she was at the ladder leading up into the Astronomy tower when she stopped and turned. "You really should be quieter, did you really think you'd escape my notice Mr Malfoy?"
"I can try can't I?" he asked walking up to her.
"I would advise you against it lest I see it wise to hurt you," she replied smirking, he was smirking to and she didn't like it, he was too close for her liking.
"What, by choking me again?" he asked as one of his hands went around the side of her neck, his thumb pressing against her wind pipe hurtfully.
"That doesn't hurt Mr Malfoy," she said her eyes locking with his.
"Oh but I know something that will," he said, he had her backed against a wall, one hand on her neck, the other at her waist, her own lay motionlessly at her sides. He tipped her face upwards via his thumb on her chin so that their eyes locked, "You can't hurt me," she hissed.
"Can't I?" the hand at her waist moving upwards and sliding around to her back so he pressed her against him.
"Draco, there you are, look at you, you slut, draped all over him, got off him immediately," came the snappy, whining voice of Pansy Parkinson, obviously she had followed them there.
"With pleasure," she said and graciously pushed Draco away and stepped lightly to the side watching with mild amusement and revulsion as Pansy latched herself onto his arm running her fingers through his hair, he didn't look pleased.
"Stay away from him, he's mine," Pansy sneered nastily, pointing her pointed nose up at Hikage who just smirked as Pansy dragged Draco away. He turned his head and mouthed to her 'I'll get you'.
"Not in your dreams Malfoy," she whispered to herself as she ascended into the Astronomy tower, heading for the largest window and easily scaling the roof to it's pinnacle.
Any normal observer would have though she was attempting to commit suicide especially when she jumped, but she never hit the floor. The air rippled and darkened as a stone ring with many symbols on it appeared, the cavity in the centre giving it the look of a Mint Polo. She chuckled as the empty space turned lazily into a black void which she went straight through.
He robes disappeared to be replaced instantly by her uniform, she chuckled as her boots clicked against the floor, "What took you so long?" a deep voice came from behind her.
"What caused you to wait Argon?" she asked turning to face the dark green hair man with sparkling sapphire eyes.
"Pure infatuation, plus I am under obligation to make sure you get here, I figured you'd use the sixth gate," he said it so casually as he strode up to her and grasped her hand, "Come on."
"Now that is an order worth following," she replied letting him lead to her to where thirty odd soldiers stood waiting, Odin was there to, pale and trembling but he brightened considerably at the site of Argon and Hikage.
"Odin, I want you to take ten of these people away, we wont need that many after all," Hikage ordered detaching her hand form Argon's.
"Yes Captain," Odin said hastily and sped off with ten shadows in tow.
"What are you going to do when we've dealt with the Ministry?" he whispered in her ear running his fingers tantalizingly up and down her sides.
"Go back to business of course?" she replied, too bored to care.
"Will that ever include me?" he whispered, his chin resting on her shoulder.
She sighed, "Let's face it Argon I've got better things to do than look after you," she explained exasperated and then the portal flickered in Gate 9.
"Already everybody, in your ranks, there will be no murder today, just knock them out and don't let them identify you!" she ordered as she strode out of Argon's arms and onto the platform. She smirked as a black and purple headdress began to appear on her head, the metal curling up from behind her ears and snaking around her head under her hair line, a visor slipping down covering her eyes.
Then it happened, the curtain that was leisurely draped across the gate billows and a split appeared down the middle and they were pulled aside.
"And, GO!" she yelled at the twenty or so Shadows leapt through the portal after her.
---Harry---
He'd woken up that morning in a cold sweat, he'd dreamed of the night Sirius had died, he'd been thinking about it a lot lately. He'd gone down to breakfast, practically the only Gryffindor but he was really hungry; he picked at his bacon and rolled mushrooms around his plat. Then Hedwig flew in, a tad early for post wasn't it?
She dropped his daily copy of the Daily Prophet on his lap and landed on his shoulder, "Hey girl," he said gently and stroked her whit feathers causing her to hoot in approval. She hooted again and he nodded holding up some toast for her, she hooted appreciatively, taking it in her claw she nipped him playfully no the ear before flying off.
Then he glanced at the front page and saw a picture of the Veil dead centre and the same article Hikage would be reading some time later. He realised why he'd been having those dreams and one thought ran through his head, "Sirius!"
He ran out of the Great Hall, Dumbledore's eyes twinkled as they followed him. Once outside Harry summoned his Firebolt and invisibility cloak, he didn't know ho he was going to get past the guards but he would damn well if it meant he could have Sirius back.
---Ministry of Magic, Department of Mysteries---
The dials turned and were held in place, two reporters where there with cameras and ere constantly snapping shots as the Veil billowed dramatically. Several Aurors were spread in a wide arch around it, their wands out the tips glowing gently. Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic stood at the back, he was unusually pale but Percy was next to him parchment and quill in hand.
There were a few other miscellaneous people but none of them were prepared for what came out of the Veil. "GO!" came a commanding feminine voice from the ancient hollows and in a flash black, purple, blue and green blurs sped from the veil tackling Aurors where they stood.
Hikage had charged for the one straight in front of her, he had a funny eye that zoomed around, she grabbed his wand throwing it away and sent her hand through his heart; he had fainted because she didn't kill him. Argon had gone for an Auror, pretty weak to him and had quickly disabled him; then he went for one of the photographers sending him to the ground the camera went flying.
It was hit by a spell of some sort and blew up; he turned his head momentarily and grinned at Hikage, who smirked back. But the guy he had pinned down kneed him in the groin, causing Argon to wince and in his moments or carelessness the guy had brought out his wand.
He blasted Argon off him who went crashing into Hikage landing in a very compromising position, his head in her cleavage, "Eww, gross," she shouted pushing his grinning face off and sending a electric dark black ball at the photographer who fell unconscious.
Throughout all this Percy had run off screaming like a girl, Cornelius had backed into a corner but the other photographer had begun to run away.
"Captain!" a green clad shadow called, she turned, "should we pursue them?" he was asked for orders, she smirked everything was going according to her Majesty's plan; humans were so predictable after all.
"No, back to base all of you now," Argon made to leave, "not you Argon, you're going to help me," then she turned to Cornelius walking up to him, Argon close behind.
"Any last words?" he growled smirking.
"I could have you put in Azkaban," Fudge stuttered.
Hikage smirked and her eyes flashed with delight, "I have this sudden urge to laugh maniacally but that's just not me, but I'll answer you one question before I blast you through that door," she jabbed her thumb at the doors out of the room.
"Why have you attacked the Ministry? Are you working for the Dark Lord?" he demanded angry and frightened by the dangerous looking pair.
"One question, the first," she said tauntingly before answering, "you stole our portal, you attempted to invade our privacy, you made the first move on us, we were simply defending what's rightfully ours," she explained and then raised her hand. Blue electricity crackled and purple lightning surrounded her palm morphing into a black ball, a quick flick of her flick of her wrist and Fudge was out the door.
Argon burst out laughing and wrapped his arms around Hikage's middle, "He though we worked for that deluded homicidal idiot." Then a look of puzzlement took over his features, her back was pressed to his chest and he tightened his hold on her, "Didn't you have dealing with him at one point?"
"Dealings with whom?"
"Voldemort!"
"No, whatever gave you that idea?"
"What was his original name again?"
"Tom Marvolo Riddle.
"Oh yeh him, do you remember him?" she nodded before he continued, "That was our first mission together," he sniffed her hair.
"How could I forget?" she smirked leisurely.
"I don't know, and I hope you don't," he muttered biting her ear; she grinned and elbowed him in the ribs.
"Back to base with you."
"Aren't you coming?" he asked looking a bit disappointed.
"No," she replied and flicked her wrist at him as he disappeared through the Veil.
She then walked over to a dark, well shadowed corner, "You can take off the cloak now Potter," she said with fake sugar in her voice. There was no reply, "I'm surprised Moody didn't put up more of a fight, let alone letting you stay here Potter, pity your God-father wasn't here to see it though," she inspected her nails and then tension reared it's ugly head and clouded the room thickly.
"Oh yes, he went through our Veil didn't he, the penalty for trespassing is usually death, pity I wasn't there to see it," there was a tap and her sword was out in no time. Steady as anything and seemingly aimed at thin air, "Now, now Potter, temper, temper," she chided, "Remove the hood Potter."
There was a rustle and a pair of hands appeared form nowhere and lifting an invisible cloak to reveal the black haired head of Harry Potter, acid green eyes ablaze.
"How dare you speak of Sirius like that, he was a great man!" Harry protest eyeing the opal handled sword warily.
Hikage was his height and she placed a hand on his shoulder smirking, "I never said he wasn't Potter, but it was your destiny to see the events that occurred today," he made to speak but she put a loved finger over his lips, silencing him. "You have trials ahead of you Potter, some great, some not, some hard and some that seem too easy," her smirk never wavered, "I know everything about you Potter an I'm warning you, she leaning into to hiss in his ear, "you hurt Usagi, and you're a dead man." A with that she pulled away and began to walk backwards arms outstretched, until she was at the door.
"Take your time Potter, but go back to Hogwarts now, none of them are hurt and there is nothing here for you anymore, go back to Hogwarts Harry Potter, go back where you belong," and with that she disappeared fading right through the doors as if they didn't exist.
Harry shuddered, "Who are you?" he whispered tot eh room full of sleeping people but no one answered, he didn't expect them to anymore.
Eh voila, c'est magnifique btu really, I NEED HELP ON THE PAIRINGS!!!
Hikage x ???
Draco x ???
Hermione x ???
Ginny x ???
Ron x ???
Blaise (Zabini) x ??? - Yes he will be involved if someone gives me a pairing to use!
Any1 say Pansy paring with anyone, let alone anything and I'll stop posting this fic right here and now!
(BTW, Invisble Rain, if you read this and someone does mention Pansy I'll e-mail you developements k?)