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Chapter 3

Intruder or Brother?

Only Ice, Emily and the forest creatures knew that the oldest breeds of dragons still existed. The wizarding world (and once, long ago the Muggle world) had rumoured that the White Whispercone's, Black Bronzon's and the fearsome Black Vipertooth dragons had once scoured the earth. Those who believed the stories claimed that they were now extinct. How mistaken these ones were.

Ice and Darlas were walking through the forest after seeing a unicorn born. Ice gave him the name Stargazer. On the way home Ice had a feeling that something was wrong. She stopped walking and Darlas paused just behind her.

Slithering toward them came a snake. Darlas quickly hid is the dense bush beside Icy. Waiting. He could see and sense that this was no normal snake. It had magical powers. Darlas' eyes dulled to a hazy orange colour.

Icy faced the approaching snake, holding her talisman necklace in front of her, ready to strike if necessary. She glazed into his eyes and saw eyes that were green with a hint of blue, much like her own, looking directly at her. Memories of feeling that she had a brother somewhere out there searching for her made her feel uncertain.

"Stop! Turn around and go the other way. You do not belong here. Go now ... or else..." She spoke venomously in parceltongue.

The snake stopped dead in its tracks; it had never been talked to in Parceltounge or snake language like that before. The snake suddenly transformed into a human. "Who..." was all he had time to say before her dagger was being pressed against his throat. It didn't cut the skin but it burned, or at least felt like it to the boy who had just transformed.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" She spoke in her coldest voice. She knew that Darlas was watching her, trying to decide if this boy was good or evil. In reality, Darlas was trying to decide if this was the boy from the prophecy.

The stranger stood his ground, unmovingly. He had been exploring this forest for years, trying to find his sister that had been abandoned as a baby. He wore a deep green robe with silver glinting off it.

She pulled the dagger back just enough to allow him to speak.

"My name is Slazar Slytherin, and I can come in here if I want to. Why are you here? You don't go to school; I would have seen you. You remind me of someone... I lost. What's your name?"

Ice closed her eyes and concentrated on tracing his words, were they true in his heart?

She opened her eyes and backed away from him holding her dagger ready. What she had felt had scared her. He had been telling the truth, but his heart was dark except in its core.

Darlas felt her shock, felt her grasping mentally for control. "Is he bad? Are you OK?" he voice spoke inside her head

"Yes to both. His heart is outwardly dark, but there is much good in him. Yet I feel as if I've known him before. How can that be?"

Darlas didn't answer her. He didn't trust himself not to spill the whole story.

Ice looked to the boy before her in pity. She had just guessed who he was, and how she knew him. "You're looking for your sister."

Salazar was shocked. She had made a statement, not asked a question. Did she read his mind? Was that why she had backed away? What else did she know?

Slazar couldn't answer and of his questions so he simply said, "How did you know?"

Ice shrugged her shoulders. She didn't want him to find out more about her. At least, not yet.

"Tell me about her" she asked him as she put her dagger away and sat down on a fallen tree trunk.

He thought about it. Since no one knew about his sister, he couldn't talk to anyone about her. He knew that he trusted this girl, although he didn't know her. So, he told her. He told her everything.

"I remember when I was about five, we were in her room. I loved the way her eyes lit up as she played with my owl. She couldn't say his name right. She kept saying sick instead if slick. It was her first word. I couldn't believe it. But when slick flew out of the room, she started to crawl after him. Then I saw that she had a tail. I couldn't believe it. I called out to mother. When she saw my sister with a tail, I asked her why. She just shooed my away. After a long time..."

Salazar trailed off. But flashes of memories were playing in her head. She had to know what they meant. She forgot that Darlas was listening and concentrated on coaxing Salazar, not that he needed much.

'Go on..." she encouraged.

All those years he grew up, all he had to talk to about her was his pet snake. So he continued.

"After a long time, my mother found me and said to me "Get your sister a blanket please. Then come with me." I didn't know what we were doing. We took a portkey to the edge of the forbidden forest and walked into its centre."

"It took hours. I still didn't understand what we were doing. Ma wouldn't tell me. Once we were deep enough, she found a cave. She took her off me, laid her down and walked away."

"I had to follow her. What else could I have done? If I had stayed, I would have died trying to get out. I asked her over and over why she had done it. All she ever said is that she was different from us. I swore that one day I would find her, even if it meant that is was her skeleton. At least I would know."

Salazar was crying by this time. But he had to go on. "I remember when she was a few weeks old, that she kept changing into any animal that had wings, or tails. One time she turned into a pale blue dragon. At least that's what I think it was."

"She only had wings and a tail, but she looked amazing. She was floating in the air. She screamed in some strange language. I guess mother thought she was dangerous and that's why... she left her alone... in the middle of a forest."

"I hatted her for it and still do. But there was nothing I could have done. And even now all I can do is search. It could already be too late."

Salazar had started to get control of his emotions again.

Ice stood up, walked four steps over to him and hugged him. They stayed like that for a long time. Once they had eventually separated, she stepped back a pace and said, "It's not to late Saz." She stepped further away from him and stopped.

She was about to say something else when...

"ICY! "Emily screamed to get her friends attention and ran into the clearing, unaware that her brother Godric had followed her.

Icy ran over to her and said "Ra, what's wrong. Are you OK? Why are you so upset?"

She knew that whatever it was, it was big. Emily never got this upset. Never.

Emily focused her attention on Salazar and with a look that could kill the sun. "What are you doing here Salazar?"

Obviously though she didn't want an answer because she looked directly at Ice and said, "Icy, you shouldn't talk to him. He's the one I told you about!"

Ice gave Emily a clueless look and said to her, "It's OK RA." (Short for Kuraphoenix; her nickname) "Salazar was just telling me... his tale. She glanced at him. They all knew she wasn't saying something, but only two of them knew what and only one knew why. "Who's that?"

Emily knew that Icy had found out something big, and that was why Ice had just told a bit of a white lie to her. Emily would find out about it later though. The only problem would be to stop her pain in the neck from trying to follow her, as he had tried to do for the past few years.

Godric, her brother burst into the clearing, focused entirely on her and with a lot of anger to vent.

"RA!" said Godric moving into lecture mode after catching his breath for a few seconds. "What are you doing? You could get expelled for coming out here. You could get hurt or die or something. Is that what your after?"

Lucky for her, he could never stay mad with her for long. He loved her too much. "Why didn't you stop running when I called to you, you silly thing". He moved closer to her so he could give her a forgiving hug, then came to his senses and looked around.

His eyes gazed at Ice. Godric Griffindor's eyes shone out to Icy with the same goodness she saw in Emily. These very same eyes narrowed in detest as he saw Salazar sitting down on a log.

Deciding it was best to ignoring Salazar for the moment, Godric said to Ice "Who are you and what are you doing here? Your not are student... are you."

"No I'm not a student. And why I'm here is none of your business." She turned and whispered into Salazar's ear. "I remember Slick, I can remember you crying when I fell on top of him and broke his leg. Mum told you off for leaving his cage on the ground where I could open it."

"WHAT?" He said breathlessly as she stepped away from him, " You're my sister?!?!" he whispered.

"You should all go back. It's past curfew." Ice exchanged looks with Emily who gave her a sharp nod. She understood. Ice would explain everything tomorrow. But for the moment, everyone needed a good night's rest and some space to thing over what had happened.

Ice put two fingers together and whistled a high note. Emily did the same and whistled a slightly lower note. In seconds, Star-Flyer and Joe bounded up to Ice and Emily who were now standing side by side. She waved her hand over her pocket and once again pulled out a sugar cube. One each. Ice and Emily laughed. Then grew serious. "Escort them to the school please." Spoke Icy.

"Godric, Salazar, move. NOW." Emily walked over to Salazar, grabbed his hand, pulled him over to Godric who's hand reached out to hers and they walked back to the school like the three of them use to in the days of friendship.

Darlas came out of hiding and looked at Ice, accessing her. He saw the anguish on her face.

Uncomfortable at his scrutiny, she placed her hand on his scaly cheek and said, "It's nothing." She took off her cloak and sprouted wings. It didn't hurt anymore. Practice paid off.

Salazar looked behind him to get one more look at Icy. He nearly fell over when he saw a dragon. Especially the rear black Bronzon. He's eyes took in the fact that she was talking in Draconian, the same language that she spoke as a baby. He was desperate to find out more about the dragon that seemed to be looking after her.

He saw her sprout wings and fly up over the forest. With the dragon close behind.

Emily pulled his arm down sharply when she noticed him looking back. She took a glance behind at the same time just to see if he had seen anything. She saw Darlas and Icy flying towards the caves.

Emily was angry. Now Salazar had seen the dragons, or one of them. But if he told...

'If you ever tell any one about my family you just saw flying away, I will curse your very soul.' She said to him.

Godric chanced a look at his sister when he heard that and saw the truth of it on her face. But, what did she mean? family? She did seem close to the girl... but what did she mean by flying away? No one can fly...There was only the girl... And the unicorns... That he could see... He looked back only to see a dragon flying over the trees.

He had been shocked like Salazar, but he hid it better. Although not well enough to fool his sister. Emily felt his movement and looked up into his face.

Emily looked into his eyes and saw that he had also seen her family. He saw that the rules applied to him were the same as the ones that apply to Salazar. If he told anyone, she would curse his soul. She, who loved him, would curse him if he were the cause of harm to her family, or those whom she loved so much they were family.

Salazar saw this exchange and his heart lifted. Emily, whom he loved, was judging him by the same standards as she judged her brother.

When the unicorns left them and they all went their separate ways; Salazar made a mental note.

'Note to self: Tell mother that I found her.'

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