A/N: as always I own none of the characters besides Noah, Blue, Alyssa
The lyrics are from by 'Prophetic Revelations' by Pestilence
Thanx for all the reviews ppl, you all rock! I didn't do this chapter from Draco's point of view because it's already like 11 pages long and there isn't much else left for him to do or say that helps the storyline lol
Chapter Three– Four of Six
Immortal ones watch chaos prevail
Decades of darkness will come
Taking over the lives on earth
There will be none
Truth for the quest
Not to reach by the mind of men
Prophecies for a dying race
Fear of the predictions from then
"Noah, I'm totally clueless; what's this homework for Snape meant to be about?"
Noah looked up from his seat next to Ginny at the Griffindor table and shook his head. Leaning back in his chair and dropping his quill down onto the parchment with his hands over his face, pressing the heels of his palms into his eye sockets.
"I'm not helping you with your Potions essay." He mumbled dropping his hands and squinting over at Ginny.
Ginny's brow creased and she looked across at him as he ran a hand through his ruffled hair making it stand up on end.
"Why not?"
He shrugged his shoulders, slammed his Potions book closed in frustration and shoved his half-written essay away in disgust making Ginny jump and a second year sat alone studying a little further down the table look up in surprise.
"'Cause I don't understand it any more than you do."
Ginny sighed and looked down at her paper; she had struggled for two days and had finally managed to scrape together the three rolls of parchment needed for her Potions essay but she had no idea whether it was even on the right thing.
Noah sighed and glanced longingly across the room and out of the window at the Quidditch pitch across the grounds where a group of Griffindors had taken over the pitch for the day and were joking around before the start of a new school week tomorrow. Rindy, Mason's sister from the year below them sniffed from Ginny's left and she looked up at her, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"How are you feeling?"
Rindy shook her head, gazing blankly at her hands entwined in her lap. Her eyes were reddened and puffy and her face blotchy from all the tears she'd shed over the last week.
"Why did he do it? I just don't understand..." She trailed off and Ginny felt her stiffen as a group of Slytherin girls walked by whispering loudly enough for them all to hear.
"I heard she walked in on you."
Rindy's hands tightened their grip on her clothes and Ginny's hand bit into her shoulder as she gripped it harder, her face flushing in anger.
"Can't have been nice."
Tears built up in her eyes again and Mason, sensing his sister's misery and knowing there was nothing he could do besides pummelling the cause to a pulp, glared at the girls.
"Who cares, she didn't deserve him anyway, I can't help it if he was attracted to me can I?"
Ginny's sorrow for her usually upbeat friend turned to blind cold anger and she looked up at the girls, her eyes a blazing bottle green and seeming to throw off angry sparks. She could feel her new strength building inside her and she used all the force she could muster to keep it down.
"Hey whores, why don't you go work a different corner?" She snarled, shooting daggers at the girls with her eyes as her nails lengthened and turned a dull black colour, a sure sign her temper was rising and she was pretty sure her pupils would change to vertical slits if she carried on.
Lowering her eyes as the three girls gave her a filthy look and flounced off still muttering she watched her nails slide back under her skin and her breathing steadied.
"Why her? I know she's a Slytherin but she was supposed to be my friend."
Shaking the last of her extra energy out of her head Ginny turned to look at Rindy, unable to think of anything to say so she didn't say a word, Mason and Noah looked at each other uncomfortably; situations like these weren't their strong point.
"Rindy?" A voice spoke softly to the top of Rindy's head and everyone looked up; Ginny only just grabbed the back of Mason's shirt before he leapt on the owner of the voice.
A tall, burly blond boy was standing looking incredibly awkward with his hands thrust into his pockets, his eyes on the floor and the colour building in his cheeks.
"I can't talk to you..." Rindy began before giving a sob and leaping to her feet, racing blindly towards the common room with Mason hurtling after her, insane with worry.
Ginny felt her anger building again and she took long silent deep breaths to stop herself from changing.
"Get away from her!" She snarled.
He looked over at her in surprise, assessing her with his eyes warily as her own flashed dangerously. She could feel the Change her anger brought beginning and she fought desperately against it, Changing in the centre of the Great Hall would not be a bloody good move.
"I mean it, don't make me hurt you."
He smiled nervously; well aware of how good she was at Fencing Class and not liking the look in her scorching eyes at all.
"You wouldn't dare." He muttered, casting a wary glance at Noah who was staring from one to the other, his body tense in his chair as he prepared himself to physically knock the boy out of the way if Ginny began to Change and she would definitely kill him otherwise.
"Try me! Look just leave her alone." Ginny growled, balling her hands into fists and glaring up at him, her long nails cutting into the soft flesh of her palms and drawing blood that trickled down her wrists.
He opened his mouth, closed it again then re-opened it before looking up at her, his eyes were blank but Ginny was sure he had hold of his wand in his pocket just in case.
"I just want to talk to her."
Ginny's mouth dropped open in surprise; he couldn't be serious, she got slowly to her feet, still forcibly restraining herself from Changing as she had been steadily learning to over the past week since her first Change on her birthday.
"Well you should have thought of that before you hooked up with one of her best friends! Jackass." She hissed, her eyes growing slightly in her face, not enough to be noticed unless you were looking for it but enough to unnerve Noah, and once more throwing off sparks as her skin began to take on a lighter shade.
The boy looked at her almost in shock, he didn't seem to be able to find anything to say to her so he shrugged and walked off, not looking back.
"Wow, how depressed do you two look?" Alyssa said, cocking an eyebrow up at the pair of them as Xander and herself dropped down into seats opposite them.
Ginny shook her head at her, slouched back into her seat and closed her eyes as her nails retracted and her eyes returned to normal. She dropped her pen onto the table and glared at the stupid essay still lying there innocently.
"Hey Ginny."
A shadow passed over the four friends and Ginny flushed as she looked over Xander's head at a grinning Pike. Not that she'd ever admit to anyone ever, but she had an enormous crush on the handsome Ravenclaw seventh year and had been trying her hardest to make him notice her without drawing too much attention from her friends but they still knew anyway; it was practically common knowledge.
"Oh, hi."
She replied in a would-be casual voice but Noah was nudging her and Xander kept winking at her every time she looked up so she couldn't calm herself down enough to act untroubled by his presence.
"I was thinking of heading out to Hogsmeade, just wondered if you wanted to come?"
His voice was steady and his face calm but Ginny could see the tension in his eyes and she opened her mouth to say yes before her eyes landed on her essay. The smile dropped from her face and she mumbled resentfully;
"I'd love to, but I have to finish this essay for Snape."
Pike's face fell slightly before he controlled himself and grinned back at her, shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh well, maybe next time. I'm not leaving for a few minutes anyway so if you finish early, I'll be in the Entrance Hall."
Ginny's heart leapt as she nodded and watched him walk away, noting how many girls watched him as he went past. Once he was safely on the other side of the Great Hall she dropped her grin and let her head fall onto the table, banging it once or twice.
"Ginny? What are you doing?" Alyssa cried looking at her as though she feared for her sanity, she quickly grabbed someone's owl from the table as it landed on Ginny's essay and handed it to its owner who was a blushing first year stammering as she stared at Noah in awe.
"Oh what if he never asks me again? If he doesn't I will have to kill myself, you realise this don't you?" Ginny replied, her voice muffled as her head was still face-down on the table.
Alyssa looked at the top of her head and at Noah, still gazing out at the Quidditch pitch with such longing on his face she would have thought his favourite team were playing out there, she shook her head and held out a hand before them both.
"Huh?" Noah made a funny noise at the back of his throat and looked at Alyssa warily. Ginny raised her head and looked from Noah to Alyssa.
"Give me your essays; I'll look over them and check you haven't made any major stupid mistakes. There's no way you'll ever do any more on them now."
Though she was trying her best to hide it, there was a glint of amusement in her eyes as they both dutifully handed over their essays.
"Go on then."
Ginny looked up in time to see Pike making his way towards the door away from his group of friends and she began shoving her things into her bag.
"You..." She began, looking over at Alyssa who had already scribbled some changes on Noah's essay and who now looked up. "Are a brilliant person. And one day, people are going to write stories about you!"
She leapt to her feet, kissed Alyssa on the cheek and dashed out of the Hall, catching up with Pike just as he was about to leave through the huge front doors thrown wide open. Hearing her call his name he turned and grinned at her, leaning against the wall outside as he waited for her to catch up.
"I thought you had an essay to finish?"
Ginny smiled and shrugged her shoulders waving a hand vaguely at the wall where the Great Hall was before falling into a steady pace walking along besides him. Easy chatter flowing between them as Ginny somehow managed to control her blushes and keep her hands from shaking at his close proximity.
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They spent the day laughing and joking around; flitting from one social group to another so fast Ginny's head was spinning by the time they returned to the castle. She didn't try and resist him when he gripped her hand as he walked her up to the Fat Lady's portrait. At the end of the corridor he stopped and spun her around, backing her into the wall with one swift move.
When he lowered his head towards hers she leant up slightly so their lips made contact quicker, his hands creeping to pull up her shirt as he pressed her against the wall. Her eyes flew open when he made to rip her shirt open with one hand and his other sneaked up her skirt and she pushed his hands away, only just able to breathe as his lips attacked hers. She broke away and his lips moved down to her neck, biting into her skin in a harsher way than she had ever felt before.
"Pike stop!" She mumbled, shoving him away from her in increasing urgency as he pinned her arms to her sides with his large strong hands.
She began wriggling like a wild cat, feeling the heat of her angry vampire blood bubble inside her and she tried desperately to control it. He must have felt her skin heat up rapidly because let out a muffled cry and moved away from her swiftly, his lips swollen and bruising from his attack on her neck.
"Get away from here." She snarled, feeling the heat drain as fast as it had come from her skin as it faded to a pearly white, her freckles temporarily disappearing as she felt every hair on her skin rise up.
She gave a half-gasp of shock when Draco stepped out from the shadows and dragged Pike away, shoving him down the stairs and hissing at him to get going and never to mention what he was seeing to anyone or he'd have the whole of Slytherin on his ass.
Ginny's body convulsed and her cloud of blood-red waves whipped about her face as though she was caught in a storm. She felt her eyesight cloud over in a haze of fiery red and swirling black and knew she was too far into the Change to stop herself now. Slowly her eyes flickered open and she stared at Draco through changed eyes.
A cloud of red and black mist seeped around her, blocking her view of anything and preventing anyone from seeing her as she spun around and around with her feet raised slightly off the ground.
Her pupils were two diagonal black slits in a haze of red with what looked like miniature orange waves crashing around in them. They settled after a few seconds and returned to their normal pale green colour even as her pupils remained slits and sparks flashed inside them as they widened and grew in her face until they were nearly twice their normal size. She flexed her fingers and glanced down at her white skin, it had taken on a faint red tinge and was tightening slightly as her muscles stretched and grew beneath her skin.
His eyes snapped down to her hands which were now at her sides, the fingers looked twice as strong as normal and had grown a little, her nails curving over slightly and fading into a dark red colour. Her mark pulsed as though her entire heartbeat had shifted to that one place before returning to normal once her Change was complete.
She examined the shield that had shot up around her as it melted away, rather like a heat haze you see on hot days, he felt desire stir inside him; but not just any desire it was the Call of one vampire to another of the opposite sex and it sent thrills of excitement through his body.
She let out a little gasp of surprise when she looked down and found herself clad not in her outfit from this morning, but in a long amber coloured dress with wispy sleeves that dated back to a time she couldn't begin to try and figure out. She had no doubt that it was the dress her ancestor had worn all those years ago and she felt power rippling off it and seeping into her body.
Draco, however, was thoroughly confused about the dress. When he Changed he stayed in his own clothes, so what was all that about? To his surprise his own Change began before he had called for it. He had been in control of his own Changing's for month, learning almost immediately how to sense its oncoming and prevent it.
But this time he felt his senses sharpen and his body begin to quiver without telling it to at all. He lifted off his feet in the cloud of green and blue that had surrounded him and concentrated on not throwing up as he whirled around faster than when travelling by Floo powder. His eyes were the first to Change and Ginny watched as they closed for a split second before darting open to reveal a chaos of dark blue, black and green swirling around inside them as though a thunderstorm was playing out in his head before fading back to normal scornful grey and she felt a slight relief that she couldn't explain at the sight of those mercury orbs watching her watch him. The pupils lengthened to diagonal slits just like hers and his skin took on a pale blue shade while his lips and eyelashes turned a very pale green.
His nails lengthened to the same size and shape as hers but his turned a dark green colour and his screening was an icy blue colour that gave out salty waves colder than those a Dementor brings. His hair was rippling slightly around his head as though he was under water, she wasn't sure she liked the effect but she pushed the thought away as it returned to normal as hers had mere seconds before.
She watched curiously as his muscles grew and she suddenly noticed that his eyes were the same shape as an eagle's and were slightly bigger than hers, as were his nails, his fingers and his height as he had grown. Realising that must be the difference between a male and a female of the Six and she found herself wondering if he'd grown everywhere.
As the smoke screen surrounding him faded just as hers had the temperature in the corridor returned to normal as did both their skin colours. In fact the only evidence left that they had Changed was their nails which were still slightly longer and sharper than normal even though they had returned to their normal colour, and their eyes which still contained two diagonal slits in each one.
"Oh no! Not in the corridor again Draco you stupid twat!"
Slowly the two of them turned to look at Blue who had just mounted the stairs and was staring at them both reproachfully. Ginny watched him slightly stunned, wondering how he wasn't at all surprised to see two vampires in full demonic mode in the middle of the corridor at nine o'clock at night.
"Whoa, Weasley! I didn't know you were one of the Six too; I knew you were part vampire of course but One of the Six!"
Ginny's anger was slowly fading but her heart was still racing with the sensations Draco's aura was sending rippling through her body. She cocked her head to the side as she studied Blue who was busy dragging Draco down the corridor, he turned to look at Ginny as Draco wrenched out of his grasp.
"Maybe we should sit down."
Draco's voice was like being underwater, muffled slightly and rippling but it sent shivers of lust rushing down her spine nonetheless. Silently she followed the pair of them as they stalked down towards the dungeons, swerving to the left just outside the entrance and stopping outside a blank stretch of wall.
"What are we doing here?"
Ginny was shocked when her voice crackled like a bonfire and her eyes widened; she hadn't known the Change would alter her voice as well. She was starting to feel slightly resentful towards her parents and Dumbledore for not telling her the full effects of the Change. Neither of the Slytherins replied as Blue drew a line down the bricks with his forefinger and pressed in the two bricks on either side. He slit open the tip of his finger with his nail and Draco could the same, the pair of them mixing their blood before Blue placed the bloodied finger on the wall and traced the password across the original line which was now glowing with a vibrant white light.
Ginny could just make out the words which shone like the first line before it faded into the wall and the bricks melted away leaving a high archway built of the same bricks; The Ancients Will Prevail.
Ginny snorted and raised a mocking eyebrow as the two of the led the way through the archway, turning to stop and look at her as the archway faded back into a wall.
"Original password."
They looked at each other before continuing on down a dark hallway, the torches lining the wall springing to life as they passed and extinguishing themselves once they were gone. Ginny turned to look at the archway, only slightly surprised to see that the bricks filling it were vaguely invisible; she could still see the corridor through which they had come but it was hazy.
Following them along the hallway she found herself in a huge room in what seemed to be a tower; this she couldn't understand as they hadn't gone up any stairs at all. She shrugged it off, reminding herself she was in a magic castle and slumped onto one of the plush black sofas in the centre of the room.
"What is this place?"
Her voice was still crackling but not as much and she was slowly changing back to normal, as was Draco. But their eyes still remained the same strange shape and it unnerved her slightly having to look into those enlarged pools whenever she glanced at him.
She swallowed hard when he sat down next to her and his scent filled her nose. He had the most enticing smell; sharp and bittersweet, light and spicy, entrancing and unsettling, trying to find something to compare it with she settled on night. She had the idea that could night be transformed into a scent, it would be all his and exactly how he now smelt to her.
"This is a place only the three of us know about. It was built by the Six before the Final Battle and can only be accessed by those with the Six's blood running in their veins."
Blue's voice was enchanting, the deep lull of it making it all sound wonderfully peaceful and romantic. Not really caring about where she was right then she turned to Blue about to ask him more about these Six but he was already speaking, as though he could read her mind.
"There are Six Protector's obviously; Air, Fire, Earth, Water, Ice and Electricity. Judging by what we saw back in that corridor you must be the One of Fire. Draco here is Water and I am Electricity."
Ginny raised an eyebrow at him but did not interrupt, sensing there was more to come. She could feel Draco's eyes on her and was only just keeping herself from leaping on him; Blue's explanation was a welcome distraction.
"Now where the other three are we're not sure yet. But we're pretty positive they're around Hogwarts, one of them has only just received their powers, and the others are waiting."
Blue slouched down onto one of the huge black cushions on the floor and stretched his legs out, arching his back like a cat as he stretched and keeping an amused eye on Draco who was watching Ginny with an animal – like hunger.
"So what's so special about being One of the Six?"
She asked, carefully avoiding looking at Draco and keeping her full focus on Blue who looked up at her with ill concealed contempt.
"God, didn't your parents tell you anything?"
Ginny narrowed her eyes at him but bit back the sharp remark that balanced on the edge of her tongue. He shook his head and lay down flat across two of the pillows, his hands resting on his stomach in exactly the same way as hers sometimes did when she was relaxed.
"Being One of the Six means that you have normal vampire powers, such as the strength the extra sense etc etc, but you also get advantages as well."
He paused for dramatic effect and the room crackled with tension as Ginny unconsciously leaned forward in her chair in anticipation.
"You can heal yourself immediately whereas normal vampires have to heal over night. You have some telepathic ability connecting you to the other Five and naturally you have all control over your own specific element."
Ginny creased her brow and looked at him curiously, only just following where he was going with all this as she leant back against the back of the sofa and pulled her legs up under her so she was curled up slightly like a cat.
"What? So I can control fire?"
Blue's eyes widened in amazement and he sat up slowly, his gaze flickering over to Draco who was now entirely out of the change and was watching the both of them with a slight smirk playing over his chiselled features.
"In a way, you can create small amounts of fire by yourself but you can manipulate any fire within a five mile radius if you're far enough into the Change at the time. Of course you have to learn to control all this which is very difficult as elements are powers of nature and don't particularly like being controlled."
Ginny sighed and conjured a few bottles of Butterbeer, tossing one to Blue and then handing one to Draco, their hands briefly making contact and shooting sparks up her arm before she pulled away and averted her gaze.
"Do you know who the other Five are?" She asked curiously, taking a sip of Butterbeer and leaning on the arm of the couch, as far away from Draco's tempting smell and shiver-inducing body heat as she could.
"Not personally, we know that there are three men and three women, so there are still two girls and one guy on the loose somewhere in school with no idea how powerful they could be."
He shrugged vaguely and went back to drinking his Butterbeer leaving the room in silence for a moment.
"How do you now so much about this?" Ginny asked suddenly, preventing her blushes from showing but her now normal eyes lowering when Blue looked up at her.
"I received the Mark on my sixteenth birthday just like you and Draco, but my birthday was three months before his so I had more time to learn to control it and to read up as much as I could on the original Six."
Ginny accepted this and lapsed into thoughtful silence once again, absently twirling a lock of hair around her finger as she chewed her bottom lip.
"So what happens when all Six of us receive our Marks and can control our power and stuff?"
Both boys turned to look at her with blank faces, only Blue's eyes betraying how impressed he was at her question.
"We're not sure yet, we know that when our powers are combined we can create this enormous amount of energy or something. We haven't really gotten that far with our research yet."
Draco spoke for the first time since they had entered the room and Ginny turned to look at him reluctantly, coming to an almost instantaneous decision and blurting it out before she had time to think;
"I want to know what it's like."
Again the two Slytherins exchanged a look before turning back to her with similar sneers on their faces as she gazed boldly back at them, not a trace of emotion on her face.
"What what is like?" Blue asked gently, something bordering on excitement building in his eyes as Ginny stammered her reply.
"Everything, I want to know how to do everything."
The boys looked at each other once more, seeming to be communicating through telepathy as she sat there impatiently.
"Well? Are you going to help me or not? This new stuff is scary and the last thing I need is a pair of little boys on a power trip pretending they can help when they can't."
Her outburst seemed to impress them and Blue nodded at Draco who turned to Ginny, that same look of hunger still burning in his eyes and she had the idea that he was controlling his urges just as much as she was lately.
"Fine, meet us here tomorrow night after dinner. And Ginny..."
Ginny froze in the act of getting to her feet when he used her fist name and she turned around slowly to look at him.
"Don't tell anyone."
Ginny rolled her eyes, her reply coming out harsher than she had intended but neither of them seemed remotely bothered by her sharp tongue and stinging wit.
"I'm not going to go blabbing it around school that I'm some kind of vampire aristocrat who is voluntarily spending time with you two to learn how to control herself am I? God were you always this stupid or did you take lessons?"
The pair of them got to their feet and headed towards the door, vanishing their Butterbeer bottles with an identical flick of their wands.
"We took lessons of course."
Blue replied cheerfully, opening the heavy wooden door she hadn't noticed when they had first entered and waving her through.
Despite herself Ginny laughed and followed him down the corridor, thinking how jealous Frankie would be if she knew that she, Ginny was going to be spending most nights a week with Blue and Draco the two most shaggable guys in the whole of Hogwarts.
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Upon reaching Griffindor Tower Ginny danced up to Noah's room and threw herself on top of him, not caring that it was well past midnight and every other occupant of the room was snoring in varying degrees of noise.
"Noah!"
She hissed, shaking him awake and sneaking under the covers with him as they did whenever they wanted to talk, performing a quick silencing spell on his bed and pulling the quilts over their heads.
"Whaissit?"
He mumbled, turning under the quilts to look at her beaming face. Without wasting any time she told him everything that had gone on that night, physically clamping a hand over his mouth and pinning him down to the bed when she reached the part about Pike.
"Sssh! Let me finish for god's sake!"
He quietened down immediately but his eyes still burned with fury before widening in surprise when she told him everything Blue and Draco had told her.
"Gin... about these others... did he mention who they were?"
He felt Ginny shake her head on the pillow next to him and he wriggled around, lighting the end of his wand and bared his stomach to her. It was a very good job she had put a silencing charm on his bed because her shriek of shock would have woken half of Griffindor Tower.
"Noah, why didn't you tell me?"
She hissed, slapping him on the arm reproachfully and glaring at his tousled form as he looked down at his bare chest sheepishly.
"I was going to when you told me about yours but you never told me what happened when you Changed so I figured I must be something else as I go all weird."
Ginny put her hand on his arm telling him silently that he was forgiven and he grinned slightly.
"We'll talk about it in the morning, ok?"
He nodded and she made to get out of the bed before diving back under the covers.
"I'll talk to Blue and Draco... Merlin! I'm calling them by their first names now! Err yeah I'll talk to them about giving you training lessons as well if you want."
She felt his hesitation and she shook her head;
"It was just an idea, think about it."
She gave him a quick peck on the cheek before slipping out from under his sheets, taking the silencing charm off his bed and creeping back to her room as quietly as she could so as not to wake the others and have to do some quick thinking as she didn't really have a legitimate excuse why she was only just getting into bed.
The lyrics are from by 'Prophetic Revelations' by Pestilence
Thanx for all the reviews ppl, you all rock! I didn't do this chapter from Draco's point of view because it's already like 11 pages long and there isn't much else left for him to do or say that helps the storyline lol
Chapter Three– Four of Six
Immortal ones watch chaos prevail
Decades of darkness will come
Taking over the lives on earth
There will be none
Truth for the quest
Not to reach by the mind of men
Prophecies for a dying race
Fear of the predictions from then
"Noah, I'm totally clueless; what's this homework for Snape meant to be about?"
Noah looked up from his seat next to Ginny at the Griffindor table and shook his head. Leaning back in his chair and dropping his quill down onto the parchment with his hands over his face, pressing the heels of his palms into his eye sockets.
"I'm not helping you with your Potions essay." He mumbled dropping his hands and squinting over at Ginny.
Ginny's brow creased and she looked across at him as he ran a hand through his ruffled hair making it stand up on end.
"Why not?"
He shrugged his shoulders, slammed his Potions book closed in frustration and shoved his half-written essay away in disgust making Ginny jump and a second year sat alone studying a little further down the table look up in surprise.
"'Cause I don't understand it any more than you do."
Ginny sighed and looked down at her paper; she had struggled for two days and had finally managed to scrape together the three rolls of parchment needed for her Potions essay but she had no idea whether it was even on the right thing.
Noah sighed and glanced longingly across the room and out of the window at the Quidditch pitch across the grounds where a group of Griffindors had taken over the pitch for the day and were joking around before the start of a new school week tomorrow. Rindy, Mason's sister from the year below them sniffed from Ginny's left and she looked up at her, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"How are you feeling?"
Rindy shook her head, gazing blankly at her hands entwined in her lap. Her eyes were reddened and puffy and her face blotchy from all the tears she'd shed over the last week.
"Why did he do it? I just don't understand..." She trailed off and Ginny felt her stiffen as a group of Slytherin girls walked by whispering loudly enough for them all to hear.
"I heard she walked in on you."
Rindy's hands tightened their grip on her clothes and Ginny's hand bit into her shoulder as she gripped it harder, her face flushing in anger.
"Can't have been nice."
Tears built up in her eyes again and Mason, sensing his sister's misery and knowing there was nothing he could do besides pummelling the cause to a pulp, glared at the girls.
"Who cares, she didn't deserve him anyway, I can't help it if he was attracted to me can I?"
Ginny's sorrow for her usually upbeat friend turned to blind cold anger and she looked up at the girls, her eyes a blazing bottle green and seeming to throw off angry sparks. She could feel her new strength building inside her and she used all the force she could muster to keep it down.
"Hey whores, why don't you go work a different corner?" She snarled, shooting daggers at the girls with her eyes as her nails lengthened and turned a dull black colour, a sure sign her temper was rising and she was pretty sure her pupils would change to vertical slits if she carried on.
Lowering her eyes as the three girls gave her a filthy look and flounced off still muttering she watched her nails slide back under her skin and her breathing steadied.
"Why her? I know she's a Slytherin but she was supposed to be my friend."
Shaking the last of her extra energy out of her head Ginny turned to look at Rindy, unable to think of anything to say so she didn't say a word, Mason and Noah looked at each other uncomfortably; situations like these weren't their strong point.
"Rindy?" A voice spoke softly to the top of Rindy's head and everyone looked up; Ginny only just grabbed the back of Mason's shirt before he leapt on the owner of the voice.
A tall, burly blond boy was standing looking incredibly awkward with his hands thrust into his pockets, his eyes on the floor and the colour building in his cheeks.
"I can't talk to you..." Rindy began before giving a sob and leaping to her feet, racing blindly towards the common room with Mason hurtling after her, insane with worry.
Ginny felt her anger building again and she took long silent deep breaths to stop herself from changing.
"Get away from her!" She snarled.
He looked over at her in surprise, assessing her with his eyes warily as her own flashed dangerously. She could feel the Change her anger brought beginning and she fought desperately against it, Changing in the centre of the Great Hall would not be a bloody good move.
"I mean it, don't make me hurt you."
He smiled nervously; well aware of how good she was at Fencing Class and not liking the look in her scorching eyes at all.
"You wouldn't dare." He muttered, casting a wary glance at Noah who was staring from one to the other, his body tense in his chair as he prepared himself to physically knock the boy out of the way if Ginny began to Change and she would definitely kill him otherwise.
"Try me! Look just leave her alone." Ginny growled, balling her hands into fists and glaring up at him, her long nails cutting into the soft flesh of her palms and drawing blood that trickled down her wrists.
He opened his mouth, closed it again then re-opened it before looking up at her, his eyes were blank but Ginny was sure he had hold of his wand in his pocket just in case.
"I just want to talk to her."
Ginny's mouth dropped open in surprise; he couldn't be serious, she got slowly to her feet, still forcibly restraining herself from Changing as she had been steadily learning to over the past week since her first Change on her birthday.
"Well you should have thought of that before you hooked up with one of her best friends! Jackass." She hissed, her eyes growing slightly in her face, not enough to be noticed unless you were looking for it but enough to unnerve Noah, and once more throwing off sparks as her skin began to take on a lighter shade.
The boy looked at her almost in shock, he didn't seem to be able to find anything to say to her so he shrugged and walked off, not looking back.
"Wow, how depressed do you two look?" Alyssa said, cocking an eyebrow up at the pair of them as Xander and herself dropped down into seats opposite them.
Ginny shook her head at her, slouched back into her seat and closed her eyes as her nails retracted and her eyes returned to normal. She dropped her pen onto the table and glared at the stupid essay still lying there innocently.
"Hey Ginny."
A shadow passed over the four friends and Ginny flushed as she looked over Xander's head at a grinning Pike. Not that she'd ever admit to anyone ever, but she had an enormous crush on the handsome Ravenclaw seventh year and had been trying her hardest to make him notice her without drawing too much attention from her friends but they still knew anyway; it was practically common knowledge.
"Oh, hi."
She replied in a would-be casual voice but Noah was nudging her and Xander kept winking at her every time she looked up so she couldn't calm herself down enough to act untroubled by his presence.
"I was thinking of heading out to Hogsmeade, just wondered if you wanted to come?"
His voice was steady and his face calm but Ginny could see the tension in his eyes and she opened her mouth to say yes before her eyes landed on her essay. The smile dropped from her face and she mumbled resentfully;
"I'd love to, but I have to finish this essay for Snape."
Pike's face fell slightly before he controlled himself and grinned back at her, shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh well, maybe next time. I'm not leaving for a few minutes anyway so if you finish early, I'll be in the Entrance Hall."
Ginny's heart leapt as she nodded and watched him walk away, noting how many girls watched him as he went past. Once he was safely on the other side of the Great Hall she dropped her grin and let her head fall onto the table, banging it once or twice.
"Ginny? What are you doing?" Alyssa cried looking at her as though she feared for her sanity, she quickly grabbed someone's owl from the table as it landed on Ginny's essay and handed it to its owner who was a blushing first year stammering as she stared at Noah in awe.
"Oh what if he never asks me again? If he doesn't I will have to kill myself, you realise this don't you?" Ginny replied, her voice muffled as her head was still face-down on the table.
Alyssa looked at the top of her head and at Noah, still gazing out at the Quidditch pitch with such longing on his face she would have thought his favourite team were playing out there, she shook her head and held out a hand before them both.
"Huh?" Noah made a funny noise at the back of his throat and looked at Alyssa warily. Ginny raised her head and looked from Noah to Alyssa.
"Give me your essays; I'll look over them and check you haven't made any major stupid mistakes. There's no way you'll ever do any more on them now."
Though she was trying her best to hide it, there was a glint of amusement in her eyes as they both dutifully handed over their essays.
"Go on then."
Ginny looked up in time to see Pike making his way towards the door away from his group of friends and she began shoving her things into her bag.
"You..." She began, looking over at Alyssa who had already scribbled some changes on Noah's essay and who now looked up. "Are a brilliant person. And one day, people are going to write stories about you!"
She leapt to her feet, kissed Alyssa on the cheek and dashed out of the Hall, catching up with Pike just as he was about to leave through the huge front doors thrown wide open. Hearing her call his name he turned and grinned at her, leaning against the wall outside as he waited for her to catch up.
"I thought you had an essay to finish?"
Ginny smiled and shrugged her shoulders waving a hand vaguely at the wall where the Great Hall was before falling into a steady pace walking along besides him. Easy chatter flowing between them as Ginny somehow managed to control her blushes and keep her hands from shaking at his close proximity.
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They spent the day laughing and joking around; flitting from one social group to another so fast Ginny's head was spinning by the time they returned to the castle. She didn't try and resist him when he gripped her hand as he walked her up to the Fat Lady's portrait. At the end of the corridor he stopped and spun her around, backing her into the wall with one swift move.
When he lowered his head towards hers she leant up slightly so their lips made contact quicker, his hands creeping to pull up her shirt as he pressed her against the wall. Her eyes flew open when he made to rip her shirt open with one hand and his other sneaked up her skirt and she pushed his hands away, only just able to breathe as his lips attacked hers. She broke away and his lips moved down to her neck, biting into her skin in a harsher way than she had ever felt before.
"Pike stop!" She mumbled, shoving him away from her in increasing urgency as he pinned her arms to her sides with his large strong hands.
She began wriggling like a wild cat, feeling the heat of her angry vampire blood bubble inside her and she tried desperately to control it. He must have felt her skin heat up rapidly because let out a muffled cry and moved away from her swiftly, his lips swollen and bruising from his attack on her neck.
"Get away from here." She snarled, feeling the heat drain as fast as it had come from her skin as it faded to a pearly white, her freckles temporarily disappearing as she felt every hair on her skin rise up.
She gave a half-gasp of shock when Draco stepped out from the shadows and dragged Pike away, shoving him down the stairs and hissing at him to get going and never to mention what he was seeing to anyone or he'd have the whole of Slytherin on his ass.
Ginny's body convulsed and her cloud of blood-red waves whipped about her face as though she was caught in a storm. She felt her eyesight cloud over in a haze of fiery red and swirling black and knew she was too far into the Change to stop herself now. Slowly her eyes flickered open and she stared at Draco through changed eyes.
A cloud of red and black mist seeped around her, blocking her view of anything and preventing anyone from seeing her as she spun around and around with her feet raised slightly off the ground.
Her pupils were two diagonal black slits in a haze of red with what looked like miniature orange waves crashing around in them. They settled after a few seconds and returned to their normal pale green colour even as her pupils remained slits and sparks flashed inside them as they widened and grew in her face until they were nearly twice their normal size. She flexed her fingers and glanced down at her white skin, it had taken on a faint red tinge and was tightening slightly as her muscles stretched and grew beneath her skin.
His eyes snapped down to her hands which were now at her sides, the fingers looked twice as strong as normal and had grown a little, her nails curving over slightly and fading into a dark red colour. Her mark pulsed as though her entire heartbeat had shifted to that one place before returning to normal once her Change was complete.
She examined the shield that had shot up around her as it melted away, rather like a heat haze you see on hot days, he felt desire stir inside him; but not just any desire it was the Call of one vampire to another of the opposite sex and it sent thrills of excitement through his body.
She let out a little gasp of surprise when she looked down and found herself clad not in her outfit from this morning, but in a long amber coloured dress with wispy sleeves that dated back to a time she couldn't begin to try and figure out. She had no doubt that it was the dress her ancestor had worn all those years ago and she felt power rippling off it and seeping into her body.
Draco, however, was thoroughly confused about the dress. When he Changed he stayed in his own clothes, so what was all that about? To his surprise his own Change began before he had called for it. He had been in control of his own Changing's for month, learning almost immediately how to sense its oncoming and prevent it.
But this time he felt his senses sharpen and his body begin to quiver without telling it to at all. He lifted off his feet in the cloud of green and blue that had surrounded him and concentrated on not throwing up as he whirled around faster than when travelling by Floo powder. His eyes were the first to Change and Ginny watched as they closed for a split second before darting open to reveal a chaos of dark blue, black and green swirling around inside them as though a thunderstorm was playing out in his head before fading back to normal scornful grey and she felt a slight relief that she couldn't explain at the sight of those mercury orbs watching her watch him. The pupils lengthened to diagonal slits just like hers and his skin took on a pale blue shade while his lips and eyelashes turned a very pale green.
His nails lengthened to the same size and shape as hers but his turned a dark green colour and his screening was an icy blue colour that gave out salty waves colder than those a Dementor brings. His hair was rippling slightly around his head as though he was under water, she wasn't sure she liked the effect but she pushed the thought away as it returned to normal as hers had mere seconds before.
She watched curiously as his muscles grew and she suddenly noticed that his eyes were the same shape as an eagle's and were slightly bigger than hers, as were his nails, his fingers and his height as he had grown. Realising that must be the difference between a male and a female of the Six and she found herself wondering if he'd grown everywhere.
As the smoke screen surrounding him faded just as hers had the temperature in the corridor returned to normal as did both their skin colours. In fact the only evidence left that they had Changed was their nails which were still slightly longer and sharper than normal even though they had returned to their normal colour, and their eyes which still contained two diagonal slits in each one.
"Oh no! Not in the corridor again Draco you stupid twat!"
Slowly the two of them turned to look at Blue who had just mounted the stairs and was staring at them both reproachfully. Ginny watched him slightly stunned, wondering how he wasn't at all surprised to see two vampires in full demonic mode in the middle of the corridor at nine o'clock at night.
"Whoa, Weasley! I didn't know you were one of the Six too; I knew you were part vampire of course but One of the Six!"
Ginny's anger was slowly fading but her heart was still racing with the sensations Draco's aura was sending rippling through her body. She cocked her head to the side as she studied Blue who was busy dragging Draco down the corridor, he turned to look at Ginny as Draco wrenched out of his grasp.
"Maybe we should sit down."
Draco's voice was like being underwater, muffled slightly and rippling but it sent shivers of lust rushing down her spine nonetheless. Silently she followed the pair of them as they stalked down towards the dungeons, swerving to the left just outside the entrance and stopping outside a blank stretch of wall.
"What are we doing here?"
Ginny was shocked when her voice crackled like a bonfire and her eyes widened; she hadn't known the Change would alter her voice as well. She was starting to feel slightly resentful towards her parents and Dumbledore for not telling her the full effects of the Change. Neither of the Slytherins replied as Blue drew a line down the bricks with his forefinger and pressed in the two bricks on either side. He slit open the tip of his finger with his nail and Draco could the same, the pair of them mixing their blood before Blue placed the bloodied finger on the wall and traced the password across the original line which was now glowing with a vibrant white light.
Ginny could just make out the words which shone like the first line before it faded into the wall and the bricks melted away leaving a high archway built of the same bricks; The Ancients Will Prevail.
Ginny snorted and raised a mocking eyebrow as the two of the led the way through the archway, turning to stop and look at her as the archway faded back into a wall.
"Original password."
They looked at each other before continuing on down a dark hallway, the torches lining the wall springing to life as they passed and extinguishing themselves once they were gone. Ginny turned to look at the archway, only slightly surprised to see that the bricks filling it were vaguely invisible; she could still see the corridor through which they had come but it was hazy.
Following them along the hallway she found herself in a huge room in what seemed to be a tower; this she couldn't understand as they hadn't gone up any stairs at all. She shrugged it off, reminding herself she was in a magic castle and slumped onto one of the plush black sofas in the centre of the room.
"What is this place?"
Her voice was still crackling but not as much and she was slowly changing back to normal, as was Draco. But their eyes still remained the same strange shape and it unnerved her slightly having to look into those enlarged pools whenever she glanced at him.
She swallowed hard when he sat down next to her and his scent filled her nose. He had the most enticing smell; sharp and bittersweet, light and spicy, entrancing and unsettling, trying to find something to compare it with she settled on night. She had the idea that could night be transformed into a scent, it would be all his and exactly how he now smelt to her.
"This is a place only the three of us know about. It was built by the Six before the Final Battle and can only be accessed by those with the Six's blood running in their veins."
Blue's voice was enchanting, the deep lull of it making it all sound wonderfully peaceful and romantic. Not really caring about where she was right then she turned to Blue about to ask him more about these Six but he was already speaking, as though he could read her mind.
"There are Six Protector's obviously; Air, Fire, Earth, Water, Ice and Electricity. Judging by what we saw back in that corridor you must be the One of Fire. Draco here is Water and I am Electricity."
Ginny raised an eyebrow at him but did not interrupt, sensing there was more to come. She could feel Draco's eyes on her and was only just keeping herself from leaping on him; Blue's explanation was a welcome distraction.
"Now where the other three are we're not sure yet. But we're pretty positive they're around Hogwarts, one of them has only just received their powers, and the others are waiting."
Blue slouched down onto one of the huge black cushions on the floor and stretched his legs out, arching his back like a cat as he stretched and keeping an amused eye on Draco who was watching Ginny with an animal – like hunger.
"So what's so special about being One of the Six?"
She asked, carefully avoiding looking at Draco and keeping her full focus on Blue who looked up at her with ill concealed contempt.
"God, didn't your parents tell you anything?"
Ginny narrowed her eyes at him but bit back the sharp remark that balanced on the edge of her tongue. He shook his head and lay down flat across two of the pillows, his hands resting on his stomach in exactly the same way as hers sometimes did when she was relaxed.
"Being One of the Six means that you have normal vampire powers, such as the strength the extra sense etc etc, but you also get advantages as well."
He paused for dramatic effect and the room crackled with tension as Ginny unconsciously leaned forward in her chair in anticipation.
"You can heal yourself immediately whereas normal vampires have to heal over night. You have some telepathic ability connecting you to the other Five and naturally you have all control over your own specific element."
Ginny creased her brow and looked at him curiously, only just following where he was going with all this as she leant back against the back of the sofa and pulled her legs up under her so she was curled up slightly like a cat.
"What? So I can control fire?"
Blue's eyes widened in amazement and he sat up slowly, his gaze flickering over to Draco who was now entirely out of the change and was watching the both of them with a slight smirk playing over his chiselled features.
"In a way, you can create small amounts of fire by yourself but you can manipulate any fire within a five mile radius if you're far enough into the Change at the time. Of course you have to learn to control all this which is very difficult as elements are powers of nature and don't particularly like being controlled."
Ginny sighed and conjured a few bottles of Butterbeer, tossing one to Blue and then handing one to Draco, their hands briefly making contact and shooting sparks up her arm before she pulled away and averted her gaze.
"Do you know who the other Five are?" She asked curiously, taking a sip of Butterbeer and leaning on the arm of the couch, as far away from Draco's tempting smell and shiver-inducing body heat as she could.
"Not personally, we know that there are three men and three women, so there are still two girls and one guy on the loose somewhere in school with no idea how powerful they could be."
He shrugged vaguely and went back to drinking his Butterbeer leaving the room in silence for a moment.
"How do you now so much about this?" Ginny asked suddenly, preventing her blushes from showing but her now normal eyes lowering when Blue looked up at her.
"I received the Mark on my sixteenth birthday just like you and Draco, but my birthday was three months before his so I had more time to learn to control it and to read up as much as I could on the original Six."
Ginny accepted this and lapsed into thoughtful silence once again, absently twirling a lock of hair around her finger as she chewed her bottom lip.
"So what happens when all Six of us receive our Marks and can control our power and stuff?"
Both boys turned to look at her with blank faces, only Blue's eyes betraying how impressed he was at her question.
"We're not sure yet, we know that when our powers are combined we can create this enormous amount of energy or something. We haven't really gotten that far with our research yet."
Draco spoke for the first time since they had entered the room and Ginny turned to look at him reluctantly, coming to an almost instantaneous decision and blurting it out before she had time to think;
"I want to know what it's like."
Again the two Slytherins exchanged a look before turning back to her with similar sneers on their faces as she gazed boldly back at them, not a trace of emotion on her face.
"What what is like?" Blue asked gently, something bordering on excitement building in his eyes as Ginny stammered her reply.
"Everything, I want to know how to do everything."
The boys looked at each other once more, seeming to be communicating through telepathy as she sat there impatiently.
"Well? Are you going to help me or not? This new stuff is scary and the last thing I need is a pair of little boys on a power trip pretending they can help when they can't."
Her outburst seemed to impress them and Blue nodded at Draco who turned to Ginny, that same look of hunger still burning in his eyes and she had the idea that he was controlling his urges just as much as she was lately.
"Fine, meet us here tomorrow night after dinner. And Ginny..."
Ginny froze in the act of getting to her feet when he used her fist name and she turned around slowly to look at him.
"Don't tell anyone."
Ginny rolled her eyes, her reply coming out harsher than she had intended but neither of them seemed remotely bothered by her sharp tongue and stinging wit.
"I'm not going to go blabbing it around school that I'm some kind of vampire aristocrat who is voluntarily spending time with you two to learn how to control herself am I? God were you always this stupid or did you take lessons?"
The pair of them got to their feet and headed towards the door, vanishing their Butterbeer bottles with an identical flick of their wands.
"We took lessons of course."
Blue replied cheerfully, opening the heavy wooden door she hadn't noticed when they had first entered and waving her through.
Despite herself Ginny laughed and followed him down the corridor, thinking how jealous Frankie would be if she knew that she, Ginny was going to be spending most nights a week with Blue and Draco the two most shaggable guys in the whole of Hogwarts.
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Upon reaching Griffindor Tower Ginny danced up to Noah's room and threw herself on top of him, not caring that it was well past midnight and every other occupant of the room was snoring in varying degrees of noise.
"Noah!"
She hissed, shaking him awake and sneaking under the covers with him as they did whenever they wanted to talk, performing a quick silencing spell on his bed and pulling the quilts over their heads.
"Whaissit?"
He mumbled, turning under the quilts to look at her beaming face. Without wasting any time she told him everything that had gone on that night, physically clamping a hand over his mouth and pinning him down to the bed when she reached the part about Pike.
"Sssh! Let me finish for god's sake!"
He quietened down immediately but his eyes still burned with fury before widening in surprise when she told him everything Blue and Draco had told her.
"Gin... about these others... did he mention who they were?"
He felt Ginny shake her head on the pillow next to him and he wriggled around, lighting the end of his wand and bared his stomach to her. It was a very good job she had put a silencing charm on his bed because her shriek of shock would have woken half of Griffindor Tower.
"Noah, why didn't you tell me?"
She hissed, slapping him on the arm reproachfully and glaring at his tousled form as he looked down at his bare chest sheepishly.
"I was going to when you told me about yours but you never told me what happened when you Changed so I figured I must be something else as I go all weird."
Ginny put her hand on his arm telling him silently that he was forgiven and he grinned slightly.
"We'll talk about it in the morning, ok?"
He nodded and she made to get out of the bed before diving back under the covers.
"I'll talk to Blue and Draco... Merlin! I'm calling them by their first names now! Err yeah I'll talk to them about giving you training lessons as well if you want."
She felt his hesitation and she shook her head;
"It was just an idea, think about it."
She gave him a quick peck on the cheek before slipping out from under his sheets, taking the silencing charm off his bed and creeping back to her room as quietly as she could so as not to wake the others and have to do some quick thinking as she didn't really have a legitimate excuse why she was only just getting into bed.