Author's note: Hi everyone, I am really sorry that this took so long. I was having some major writers' block! I hope you enjoy it, please let me know what you think. I will try to get the next chapter out just as soon as I possibly can, thank you so much for continuing to read!! And now, on to:

Chapter 15: Pegasus' Secret

The rest of the week seemed to fly by to the Gryffindors. Before she knew it, she was waking up Saturday morning and heading down to breakfast with everyone, before the boys left to get ready for their match. Celia was so excited. She knew all about quidditch now, but this was going to be the first match she had seen. She was beaming.

She and George had been as brother and sister ever since that night, and her relationship with everyone was more natural now than ever. She found it surprising that morning at breakfast to realize that she had only known these people for a month.

"Is it just me? Or does it seem like we have known each other for way longer than one month?" She asked, not really to any of them in particular. Hermione seemed to ponder the idea, as though she were just as surprised,

"Well, technically, George and I have been stalking you for much longer, so I don't think we count." Fred said putting his arm around her as though trying to be suave. This earned a laugh from the whole table and they were in high spirits all the way through the meal. Finally, the boys took their leave, and headed down to the locker rooms with the rest of the Gryffindor team. Celia, Ginny, and Hermione saw some members of the Hufflepuff team getting up as well.

In a few minutes, the girls headed down to the pitch in order to get seats so that they could see everyone.

"…so really, Ron's a little nervous…it's his first game and all, he doesn't want to let Fred and George down. I think he really feels like he's the least talented in the family…" Hermione had been telling Celia and Ginny, "I really hope he does well…" Celia smiled at Hermione.

"Well, we'll cheer him on anyway! Real loud so that everyone will hear!" Celia said dragging out the word 'real' and punching the air above her. She was in a really cheerful mood. Ginny laughed, and with just as much energy said,

"Yeah!" and the two girls high-fived, and started laughing. Hermione joined in as well and the three of them took their seats.

"Hello everyone, and welcome to the first quidditch game of the season: Hufflepuff versus Gryffindor!" The stands erupted into cheers, except for the Slytherins who, it seemed, only showed up in order to jeer at the other houses. "I'm your commentator Lee Jordan! The players are entering the pitch, here comes the Hufflepuff team," The crowd cheered and Lee said something about their newest players.

"Oh no! Ron's going to go beet red when he hears his name!" Ginny said, still laughing.

"We have to cheer over the Slytherins!" Celia told them, Ginny and Hermione nodded.

"…And here comes the Gryffindor team with its new captain Angelina Johnson and its newest addition to this team, Ron Weasley!!" The girls erupted into cheers, and it sounded like the rest of the house, inspired by their energy, joined in. Celia could see the rest of the team saying this and that to Ron, and when he flew by, she could see that although he was, as Ginny predicted, beet red, he was also beaming. Lee was continuing, "…That brings the Weasley count up to three and so far every Weasley that has come through the school has played on the House team…well, every boy anyway, sorry Ginny-"

"Jordan you are supposed to be commentating on the game not giving us a lesson on genealogy!" The girls heard Professor McGonnagall's voice scold him and they broke out into laughter.

"Has every member of your family really played on the house team?" Celia asked Ginny.

"So far, yeah," She answered.

"That explains what Ron's so worried about." Celia commented. And the commentary went on.

"Sorry Professor, the players are taking their positions. It looks like Madame Hooch is giving them the rules on fairness, the snitch is released, and it's gone…" Celia heard a whistle being blown and suddenly the commentary got really fast.

"The quaffle is up, Gryffindor in possession, Johnson, to Bell, back to Johnson, Spinnet, Spinnet rushes for the goal, she fakes and tosses back to Bell, who scores! 10 points to Gryffindor!" There was an intense amount of cheering again from the Gryffindor side, and half of the Ravenclaws. Most of the Slytherins were booing though. Lee was now commenting on the Hufflepuff team's advancement,

"Oh! A close call there, but a nice save by the Hufflepuff beater! She passes, dodges a bludger, whoa that was close! She shoots….A brilliant save by Weasley!" The girls exploded into cheers. Hermione was absolutely beaming that Ron had been able to stop the first shot. It would be much easier now. "Ok, Gryffindor in possession, no now Hufflepuff, Hufflepuff is really putting up a fight this year! Hufflepuff tries to pass, a perfectly aimed bludger by Fred, no George…wait that is Fred! They switched uniforms on us! Alright then, a perfectly aimed bludger by Fred Weasley and the quaffle is back in Gryffindor possession." Fred had aimed the bludger so that the Hufflepuff chaser would have to duck, just as the quaffle was leaving her hands, messing up her aim entirely, but not hitting her.

"Ok, Johnson to Spinnet, back to Johnson…the Hufflepuff chaser is rushing her… Angelina's dropped the ball! Oh wait, that was a pass, Bell was flying right beneath her, excellent play, Bell moves up the pitch…she shoots! Another 10 points for Gryffindor! Hufflepuff in possession, they are moving up the pitch, pass, pass shoot, whoa watch out for the bludger! Hey that was cheap!"

"Jordan no favoritism!"

"Sorry professor…despite the er- well despite everything, that was a brilliantly executed play by Hufflepuff, they receive 10 points and Gryffindor is back in possession…no sign of the snitch yet…" The Hufflepuff beaters had been hitting a bludger back and forth up the pitch following up their chaser, before the chaser shot, they fired the bludger down in Ron's direction causing him to need to dodge it and giving the chaser a free shot…it was a pretty good play.

"Gryffindor is in possession…shoot…oh rough luck, er- I mean I great save by Hufflepuff." The game went on for a while, with both teams doing rather well. Gryffindor was up by about 40 points when Harry suddenly accelerated towards the goal posts.

"Potter is speeding up! He may have seen the snitch!" Seeing Harry go rush off, the Hufflepuff seeker got on his tail and soon the two of them seemed to be following some routine of their own. They were both turning the same ways, but the snitch was barely visible from this far away. "They are chasing after the snitch as the game goes on above! Hufflepuff in, no Gryffindor, back to Hufflepuff, pass pass, Johnson intercepted, oh she lost it, Hufflepuff shoots…..Another excellent save by Weasley. He passes it out to Spinnet, she takes off, whoa close one there, shoots, oh too bad…"

"Jordan!"

"Er- to bad more people couldn't see that amazing save I mean!" Celia couldn't help but laugh at the ongoing battle between Lee and Professor McGonagall.

"The seekers zoom left, right, lower, left, whoa they have moved in to a vertical ascent, right, left, Potter reaches out, watch that bludger! That was close! Potter regains control and dives, he's coming down pretty fast…he's still diving, whoa he barely pulls out of it, he is practically in the ground now, up a bit, speeds up, oh nice check…ok the seekers are neck-and-neck…Potter reaches, almost they both grab…someone's got it! It's Potter! Harry Potter catches the snitch for one hundred and fifty points to win the game!"

The stands exploded in cheering so much that the Slytherin team could no longer be heard. The teams were shaking hands now and the stands were clearing in order to go congratulate the team. The girls got up as well and headed down to the pitch.

"That was great!" Hermione yelled to Ron when they got down there!

"Yeah! You were awesome!" Celia added. Ron looked very red, but he was beaming.

"Thanks." He said, trying to sound casual.

"Hey, I did a good job too." George said coming up behind the girls.

"Yeah what about us?" Fred added. Celia smiled,

"You guys were great too, I was so glad that your bludger didn't hit that girl!" Celia exclaimed, talking to Fred.

"Yeah, well there was no real need to hit her; I just needed to throw her off is all. No need to split her head open." He answered. Harry had come over now too

"Ron that was a great game! You were brilliant!"

"Brilliant catch Harry, really." Ron answered. Celia nodded in agreement. The whole game had been excellent.

Finally, the boys went to the locker room for a team talk and to change, and the girls headed back up to the castle and would meet them there.

The Gryffindor common room had turned into an all-day victory party, though a lot of the fervor died down after the butterbeer was gone. Eventually, it was only the team and Hermione, Ginny and Celia that were left in the room, and a few diehards like Lee.

"That was really amazing." Celia said, now for the 10th time. Though her energy was diminishing somewhat. The group had moved over to the couches near the fireplace and they were all just sitting around the room. Harry and Ron started talking about something and Fred and George joined in. Celia remembered listening to the sound of their voices as she drifted off to sleep.

"So…you have finally arrived. Step forward Alana. Alana."

"Celia, Celia, wake up," Someone was shaking her gently. "Celia." Celia opened her eyes and saw Fred leaning over her. The room was empty except for him.

"Huh? What's going on, where is everyone?" She asked groggily.

"You fell asleep," He told her. "Everyone headed up stairs already, it's past midnight."

"Oh." Celia said, nodding. She sat up and Fred sat next to her on the couch. She couldn't get it out of her head. 'Who's Alana? What was that all about?' She wondered.

"Alright?" Fred was asking her. She must have zoned off.

"Hmm? Oh, yes I'm fine, it's just that…well…while I was sleeping I heard a woman's voice in my head, and I am trying to make sense of it."

"Well, what did she say?"

"She said, 'So, you have finally arrived, step forward Alana.'" She took a glance at Fred. "Yeah, I know, that was my thought exactly." She said, laughing at the look on his face. "Maybe I am just spending too much time focused on that legend. I don't know why, but for some reason- I feel as though, it's like I am drawn to it or something. I dunno, does this make any sense?"

"Sure, I guess…ok well no actually, you sound a bit mental, but that can be fixed." Celia couldn't help but laugh at that. It was true, she sounded crazy, even to herself. But there was something about it that drove her curiosity. And that wasn't all, she felt as though the others had to know about it somehow.

"What a week it has been." Celia said aloud. "With Harry nearly killing himself, then me nearly killing myself, and then those dreams…and Malfoy! What was that all about?"

Two things from those sentences caught his attention, first was the mention of the dreams, and second was the mention of

"Malfoy? What the bloody hell have you been bothering with that ol' git for?"

"Well, he's nice to me…well until recently anyway, he was in the hospital wing that day that I healed Harry, and I was having this horrible dream and he heard me talking in my sleep and woke me up and all…but then, I just mentioned the muggle world, just mentioned it, and all of a sudden he looks at me as though I've got troll snot coming from my eyeballs and leaves the room muttering!" Celia got angry again just thinking about it.

"You come from a muggle family, that's his problem. They're all the same, that sort; think they're better than the rest of the world just because they've got 'pure blood.' Can't stand the site of anyone less than that, they think they ought not to be here. He's a stupid git Celia; don't let him get to you. Back in my 3rd year he had Ron puking up slugs because he tried to defend Hermione after her called her a mudblood."

"What?"

"Yeah, that's right, wasn't really his fault though, Ron's wand was rubbish, backfired on everyone, drove the Defense of the Dark Arts professor mad."

"Mad? Why? Was it that bad in class?"

"No I mean really mad, he tried to obliterate Harry and Ron's memory, only he was using Ron's wand, and he got the brunt of the spell instead." Celia went into hysterics. Fred smiled at her. "Don't let that git get to you, come on, you ought to get to bed." Fred said standing and reaching down to grab Celia's arms. Celia let Fred pull her up, and then she realized that she had in fact been lying down for quite some time as she got a little dizzy and stumbled forward into Fred. He caught her and for a moment they just looked at each other. It seemed as though it took a minute for the two of them to realize how close they were just then and Celia moved away a little feeling her face flush. She chanced a glance at him and noticed that he had a strange look on his face. He was looking at her differently than usual. Celia found herself unable to look away from him, and then unwilling. Fred smiled at her.

"Goodnight Cel." He said. Celia smiled back at him, a little thrown off by her feelings and somewhat disappointed, but she smiled none the less genuinely because she knew that she wasn't the only one who knew that something had just passed between them. A silent sort of appreciation.

"Goodnight Fred." She said, heading up the stairs to bed.

Sunday morning, Celia slept in. When she finally woke up and went down to the common room she noticed that a fair amount of people were awake. Hermione and Ginny had both already gone down. Ginny was still in her pajamas while Hermione had gotten dressed in some casual clothes. Ron and Harry were sitting on the floor, both still wearing pajamas, playing a game of chess and no one had heard from the twins yet.

"'Morning sleepy head!" Hermione called when she saw Celia come down stairs. "What time did you finally come up last night?"

"About 1:00." Celia turned and saw Fred and George coming down the stairs, they also were in their pajamas.

"Honestly!" Hermione began. "Am I the only one who remembered to get dressed this morning?" She said somewhat teasingly.

"If you can call those clothes." Ron retorted. "Check." Celia giggled. Hermione had in fact gotten dressed, but she was wearing sweat pants and a tee-shirt. It was something she could have worn to bed. Her hair had been tamed though, so she had obviously put some effort into it, opposed to everyone else. There was a loud sound of clay being hit and broken. Celia jumped slightly and looked over in the direction of Ron and Harry. One of the white knights had just been clobbered and removed from the chessboard. Celia's eyes went wide as Ron's bishop dragged Harry's knight off the board and took its place.

"I had to do it," Harry began, almost sounding apologetic and speaking to the knight in question. "There was no other way to save the king. Queen to F3." Celia's mouth dropped as Harry's queen moved over to Ron's bishop and beheaded it. Ron flinched.

"Sorry mate," he said to the headless chess piece "I honestly didn't see that one coming. You're getting pretty good at this Harry."

"What kind of a chess game is that?!" Celia asked, no longer able to keep her mouth shut.

"See? I told you it was barbaric!" Hermione toned. "'That's wizard's chess'" She added, mocking Ron, who made a face at her. Celia laughed at them and moved closer to the board to watch the game. Harry's queen went on to take Ron's knight and then his face blanched as though he had just made a horrible mistake.

"I can't believe it! You tricked me! You tricked me and I fell right into it!" Harry complained as Ron's remaining bishop took Harry's king. Ron was beaming.

"Never ever use that strategy again Ron!" Hermione said. Celia turned to see that her face had also gone white.

"Um, ok I know I'm new to the wizarding world, but is there any reason why that move is so horrible?" They all fell a little silent, and then Harry spoke up.

"Well, if someone was say, standing in the knight's square when the queen took it out, they might be in considerable danger er- health wise." He said, glancing at Ron. Celia looked around the room. Ron was looking down, Hermione was looking at Ron. Ginny looked like this was a story she'd only heard, and it wasn't one she liked to think about. The twins were looking at their brother as though proud, while Harry looked as though he felt somehow to blame.

"But -"

"It happened if first year." Ron started. "There was, well let's just say it was really important that we get passed this chess game, and the fastest way to do that was to sacrifice a knight."

"It happened just like the game we just played." Harry continued. "Only Ron was standing in the knight's square, so, the queen hit him instead of just a chess piece."

"And Ron's fine now, so can we not talk about it. I don't want to remember." Hermione toned in, looking very much like it was a memory that still frightened her.

"Fair enough." Celia said, "Why don't we all head down to breakfast?"

"Yeah, I suppose it's time we all got dressed isn't it." Ginny agreed getting up to head to the dorm. "Coming Hermione?" She said, teasing. Hermione made a face at her, and when Celia and Ginny were a few stairs up, appeared at the bottom and followed them. For the rest of the day, the Gryffindors relaxed and got their work done for the start of another week.

That night, Celia had another dream. It wasn't as easy to follow as the last had been though. This one was in the present time, and she and all her friends were in it. She couldn't see them, but she was aware of their presence. There was not much else that she was aware of. The dream was in scattered bits of screaming and green light.

"Now Alana!"

"Foolish Child" "Expelliarmus!"

"Avada Kedavra!"

"Celia No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Celia woke up in the middle of the night with a start. 'That name again!' Celia thought. 'Who is Alana? And who was that voice?' She knew that it had to do with the legend, and that the Alana from the dream was the same Alana from the legend, but why? Why was she having these dreams? Pegasus flew in the window and onto her lap as she lay in bed. Celia pet her absent-mindedly. 'I don't understand.' Celia thought.

'You will…soon, you will understand.'

The voice was only in her head, she knew that, but still it urked her. She looked at Pegasus as she sat on her lap. The phowl was looking directly into her eyes. "What are you trying to tell me Pegasus?" She asked aloud. There was yawning from the bed next to her.

"Celia, who are you talking to?" Hermione asked. Celia broke her eye contact with Pegasus to answer Hermione.

"Oh, just Pegasus. Sometimes I feel like she can understand me." For a moment, Hermione looked like she thought Celia was mental, but then she shrugged.

"Well, you remember what you told me about what Hagrid said; phowls can sometimes have that kind of relationship with their owners can't they?" Celia nodded and continued to get ready not thinking about Pegasus.

Celia and the others went to breakfast and then headed off to their classes for the day. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Celia walked to History of Magic, and on the way, Celia caught eyes with Draco, he scowled at her and she saddened and turned away. The 3 went through History of Magic, Transfigurations and Herbology and then split ways when Celia headed down to Care of Magical Creatures with the twins.

"Good afternoon!" Hagrid started cheerily. "Today, we are going to be startin' somthin' new. We're startin' jobberknolls," There was some talk among the students. "Troublesome little devils, but they're alrigh'. Now, the thing about jobberknolls is they never make a sound from the time they're born for their 'ole life. Then right before they die they let out a long yell, and that's when they repeat everything they've heard up to that point. Now, I want you all to form groups, and I'll go get them." Hagrid walked around to the back of his hut, and Celia looked at Fred and George. It was pretty much a given that they would be in the same group, but no one knew how big of groups Hagrid wanted formed. Hagrid was now coming back around the house carrying 2 very large crates. Inside the crates seemed to be levels, and on each level were rows of nests.

"Um- Hagrid, are we going to be keeping these er- all year?" One of the more brave students asked.

"O'course not!" Hagrid answered, many students seemed to calm down. "They won't be living that long, these one's have a pretty short life span. But you will have teh keep good care of 'em until then," The surrounding students looked as though that was not the answer they'd been hoping for. Celia assumed that there were quite a few secrets that people didn't want getting out. "Alrigh' then, we've got quite a lot of them, and the jobberknolls get on better if they develop a stronger relationship with their caretakers so there'll be two to a group only, and you two can't go pairing up" he said, pointing to Fred and George. "that's the last thing they need, prolly give the poor souls a complex about it…alrigh' if you've got a partner come get your bird." Hagrid went on. Some pairs of kids were already set so a line was starting to form near the birds. Celia looked back and forth between Fred and George.

"Well, I don't mind either one of you, so you'll have to fight amongst yourselves over it." She said teasingly. In the end, George ended up pairing up with Lee and Celia paired up with Fred. Once everyone had gotten their birds they settled down while Hagrid went over the proper care of the jobberknolls.

"Well, this ought to be interesting." Fred said as the group of them walked back up to the castle for lunch.

"I'm going to go bring this up to the dorm; I'll meet you guys in charms k?" Celia said once she finished, taking hold of her and Fred's jobberknoll. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all nodded and Celia headed up to the room. When she got into the room there was a woman sitting on her bed. She had silvery hair and was wearing a white dress with silver glitter on it. Celia stood amazed of the woman, but more amazed of the fact that she knew who it was.

"…Pegasus?" The woman nodded.

"I have been watching you Alana…it seems you truly have arrived. I wanted to be sure before I came forward; sure you were truly able to take your place."

"I don't understand." Celia said, still surprised that this situation didn't shock her.

"Yes you do. You understand more than you think. Close your eyes and search yourself. You know who you are…"

"…Alana." They both said together. Pegasus continued. "That's right; you are her, the child that everyone was waiting for." Celia slowly sat down on the bed. "When I was sent to you and saw how you had managed to find the descendants of the Aude I thought then that you were the one, but I wasn't sure. When you healed that boy I knew you were capable. But I wasn't completely sure that it was you until you had the dreams." Celia sat in wonder of what she was being told.

"So then, the Weasley's…and Harry and Hermione…" Pegasus nodded.

"They are each descendants of the Aude Arlene. The group of witches and wizards who sought to find you and assist you in the fight against the dark wizard. But you didn't come in their time, and their spirits were passed on through the ages until the day that you arrived. And now, that day has finally come." Celia took it all in. She was the savior, and all her friends were the descendants of those who were destined to help her.

"Okay…what about you? Who-what are you? Are you human?" Pegasus smiled.

"No, not really. As you know, my kind is a mix of owl and phoenix. Many phoenixes have the ability to take a human form. I am descendant of one such phoenix."

"So, you really are a bird then? That's amazing!" Pegasus smiled a knowing smile and Celia wondered just how much her pet knew. Celia got the feeling that she meant to tell her something more. "So what happens now?" Celia asked. "I mean, being Alana, don't I have to battles the dark wizard?" Pegasus put her arms on Celia's shoulders.

"All in good time Alana, thing have not yet all fallen into place. You just continue doing what it is that you do. When the time comes that you are needed, you will know." Celia nodded. She had some more questions but she didn't have time to ask for Pegasus had begun to shine so that Celia could no longer look at her. When she reopened her eyes, she was a bird again.

"I will be watching over you…Alana." Pegasus said, sending the words right into her mind. And then she turned and flew away. Celia watched her leave and then realized that she was horribly late for class. She gathered her things and made sure her jobberknoll was in a place where it wouldn't get hurt and sprinted to Charms. When she got there, it was relatively empty. Harry, Ron and Hermione came in behind her.

"Wow, Celia you beat us here…whoa you didn't have to run you know; you still had plenty of time before class when you left." Celia stared at them flabbergasted.

"But - I - what time is it?" Hermione told her the time and she was amazed.

'That's not possible.' she thought. 'That's only 5 minutes after I left, but I was up with Pegasus for at least 20! "Pegasus! Did you do this?" "I told you I would be watching over you. Have fun in class Alana." ' Celia stood for a moment in shock. When she finally recovered Hermione was giggling.

"Come on, Celia," she said between laughs "let's go sit down."Celia nodded and followed Hermione to her seat. She was unable to focus for the rest of her classes that day.

A/N: So what did you think? Thanks to FlyingPurpleCat, Puck Silverbreeze, Frisbee400, Prongz, Safarii-Phoenix, and David M. Potter for your reviews I hope to get the next chapter up really soon. Please review!!

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