NOTE: sorry it took so long guys. Well here's the new chapter. & I still sadly own none of the characters they belong to JK Rowling.
Innovo Adorior
A New Rise
CHAPTER 8 'A Dark Lord'
That night every one slept, except one Sebastian Snape. He was restless and his scar kept bothering him. It was obviously attached to this dark lord as well. He felt the snake stir in him, needing to strike out and bite. This made him sick to his stomach he could feel the snake peering through his eyes. He closed his eyes quickly and stilled.
The feeling left and he let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding. 'Oh, Great this will be nice to tell the others that I am nthe new dark lords spy amongst them.' Sebastian sighed. He didn't know how he could fix this, he couldn't seem to block it, or expel it from him, only wait it out. How was he going to stop this? He felt the pressure again as the snake writhed trying to reach his mind. It took all his will to keep it from actually succeeding. Right then and there he made a choice. He could not risk his new-found-family by staying here. The snake hissed to him to do harm, to seek revenge, to now that his family was not really his own and that they would never love him.
A part of him that was still left from the Dursleys' believed the voice in the back of his mind. Though part of him wanted to fight and say that was not true, that they all loved him, it was weaker than the one that believed the voice. He gave in. He wandlessly packed a few cloths and left his Snape family signet ring on the pillow with a note to his father. It was somewhat cryptic but he knew Severus would figure it out.
Dear Severus,
I am leaving I cannot tell you where, but you all will be safe now. The snake inside me keeps trying to break loose and nearly succeeded this night. Tell everyone I love them, and hope they have a nice school year. Tell Sirius and Remus I will miss them and tell them not to worry or come looking for me, it will do no good even trying.
Goodbye.
Your Son,
Sebastian Jamison Snape
He folded the parchment and silently grabbed his bag and crept through the door and all the way outside the school. He turned to look at the school, the castle in all its majestic beauty in the night with stars twinkling around the turrets. He sighed turned around and continued off the grounds where he disapperated.
He was in a small cottage. He didn't know where, he only knew it was here because of one of his visions the previous year when Voldemort had attacked the muggle family that used to live here. Now no one did. He cast wards all around his new home to warn him of any visitors, prevent anyone else apperating, and muggle deflectors. He knew no one could break his wards as he was now more powerful than Dumbledore. He walked around the small cottage taking it all in. Two small bedrooms, a nice kitchen, a living room with large windows that opened onto a field and forest, a small bathroom, and a deck around half the house. A small garden graces the front of the cottage and a wood chip walkway that leads to off the grounds.
Sebastian placed his few outfits into the closet in one of the rooms and lies on the soft bed and fell asleep. He was awoken not two hours later by his alarms going off, telling him people were walking into his property.
He cast himself invisible and did the same to his clothes so no one would know of his presence. He went to the living room and peered out the large windows onto the walkway. The only people that could come onto his land were magical. He watched as a group of people walked around the bend and out from behind the trees. Sebastian couldn't believe his eyes.
He hurriedly ran to his room and grabbed his cloths into a bag and slung it over his shoulder. These people he would never be able to hide from. It was his father. Sirius, Remus, Albus, and the Weasley parents were with him along with the old Auror Moody, he could see through Sebastian's invisibility spell with that eye of his. Sebastian sighed, 'I have been doing that a lot lately haven't I?' he thought. Then Sebastian disapperated again, being the only one who could on these grounds, and on his way he took all the wards down. This would be a long night if they kept finding him.
Let's see...Where am I now? Sebastian thought. He looked around when something startled him from his thoughts.
Sebastian got the prickly sense on the back of his neck that someone was watching him. Sebastian turned slowly to look behind him. But all he could see was a mass of black. To be more accurate it was a mass of people in black. At there lead was a single tall man dressed in deep crimson. Sebastian's eyes nearly popped out of his head. This couldn't be! He couldn't be the new Dark Lord. He saw it looked just like him, but he was different.
The one in the mirror had a tattoo...the same as the one in his dream. He looked...more powerful. Sebastian blinked and shook his head. He looked again, still there, but now he noticed it was a mirror he was looking into. There was barely discernable writing around the frame it looked to be all curves, waves and swirls, but when he looked closer he realized it must have been written in Parsel language. So he focused again and read:
Thou of Slytherins' Noble Blood are Chosen to Lead the World, His Cause Pure and Strong, You'll Lead to Their Victory. You have Been Chosen by Merlin's Prophesy Tied and Released from One Prophesy The Chosen Shall Have the Fallen Impersonators Army's and More, a Stronger and Unrivaled Strength, None Shall be able To Fall Him.
Sebastian gaped, surely he must be mistaken. A re-read, and again proved his hopes false. He was the new Dark Lord; those were his army's out there wreaking havoc on the wizarding and muggle world. He backed slowly into the wall behind him and sank to the floor. 'How could this happen? Do I want to do this?' Sebastian shook his head fiercely, 'NO, I do not.'
A little voice in the back of his head seemed to come up in a whispering, conspiring voice, 'ah, you do not? Are you sure? You would be great you know...you wouldn't be harming your friends you know. You'd only be ridding them of the awful muggles, like the ones who plagued your life unnecessarily. This could only help, it's not as if you are supposed to kill them all, just leave no ties with them to the wizarding world. It's simple really.'
Sebastian listened to the voice silently with his scowl fading slowly, it made sense, just block them off, and that's all, no need for any killing. Slowly he began to smile and finally got a look at the place. Done in green and silvers with snakes carved everywhere, 'a Slytherins dream home' he mused all in all he had to admit that it was nice, he seemed to be in a living room. It had a nice sized fire going in the fireplace; Sebastian looked pensively at the fire, a slight frown in his brow.
'Could someone else live here? Where is here anyways?' as if on queue the door to the left of him creaked open. A little nose poked through followed slowly by large, bright blue eyes and long floppy ears; a house elf. It squealed as if shocked and its head snapped back behind the door. Curiously, Sebastian followed it through the door and through the halls.
"Wait!" Sebastian called, and nearly stumbled over the small creature as it actually did stop for him. "Where is your master? Where is this place?" He asked the House Elf looked at him with wide eyes. It blinked rapidly and looked down.
"We is in your island master, and my master is you in fronts of me, sorry master was I's wrong on something master?" It whimpered in a surprisingly unsqueaky voice. She, for he decided it was a female bye its soprano-ish voice, looked completely horrified, probably nothing compared to the look on his face when she told him what he asked to know. Okay, things are getting kinda weird, he thought.
"Okay then...no you did nothing wrong... err I'm sorry, what was your name?" Sebastian asked and nearly jumped out of his skin when the little thing burst out into hysterical sobs.
"I is, you is wanting to knows master? (Sniffle) you wants to knows my n n name sirs...WAHHHhhh You is great sir! I heard of you is noble sir! But you is even betters sir master I is Saydie sir!" It said. 'great another Dobby...' Sebastian thought with a small grin.
"Ahh...Saydie, nice name, now I need to know is anyone else here?" He asked trying to calm the poor thing. It looked at him again.
"Yes master, me and the other house elves... there is the paintings and Master Slytherins' painting, but no one else like you master. No more humans." Sebastian thought on this for a while.
"Please I am Sebastian; tell the others as well, I would like you all not to call me 'master' please. And why aren't there any more humans, does that mean there were some at one time?" He pondered aloud. Again all the little thing does for a while is blink wide eyed at him, 'this could be a problem...'
"Yes master, they was here long ago but the last moved out a few human lifetimes ago. They is tired of living alone and didn't want to bring anyone else here in case theys found out whos we all was. They wanted to protect Slytherins blood."
"I told you; call me Sebastian, or if you can't, sir will do but NOT master, understood? Make sure the others know as well, also thank you for the information you've been quite helpful. Now please, I do not know my way around? And could you help me get something to eat? It has been a long day for me. Maybe you could introduce me to the other Elves later?" Sebastian said calmly and was pleased to see he had gotten through to Saydie.
"Yes mas...sirs. That would be great ideas!" she stammered and lead him off on a tour of the house, which he would later think of as a mansion and then as a castle to rival Hogwarts with its many rooms, hidden passages, magical modifications, high turrets and a sense of home.
Sebastian slowly awoke to sunlight breeching his curtains and spilling across his face and the black silk coverings the elves had brought him to use the night before. The tour was immense the castle seemed to go on forever, he was shown every part of it though and was surprised in the end to find it only three in the morning when he laid down to sleep. The elves were as good of cooks as Hogwarts, maybe better but he decided not to think on that.
He heard a silent pop in the room and looked up to see Tonique, one of the elves he met the night before, standing before him. "Yes?" he inquired.
"Sir, yous bath is ready and cloths is on the shelf in the water closet." He said a bit quietly. Sebastian gave him a large reassuring smile.
"Thank you Tonique, that's much appreciated. Thanks for informing me." He watched as a relieved smile found Toniques' face as he popped away. Sebastian got up and decided to head into the water closet. He had found that all the tubs were like pools to swim in like the prefects bathroom back at the school. He dipped into the bath and swam a few laps then settled down to wash. Finally satisfied he was clean he got out and wrapped one of many fluffy black towels around himself and went to the shelf to find the cloths they said were set out for him.
Of course what he expected was something of his own, but what he found...was not. They were fine robes of soft cotton and seemed like they were tailor made to fit him. All in black except for a red stripe around his middle of the under robe, he thought he kinda looked like his dad. He stopped that thought immediately, it wouldn't lead to any good thoughts...he sighed.
He missed them but he didn't want to risk...wait a moment, he thought, I can't put them at risk by having some Evil Dark Lord after them, because I am the Evil Dark...well, not Evil but yeah...he shook his head and chuckled at himself for being so absurd. He decided he should go back and check up with them soon. Right now he wanted to go check out the library they showed him. It was larger than three of the Dursleys houses put together. Besides, he needed to look up this new prophesy he was bound to...he sighed again truly hating the art of divination.
##Meanwhile##
Severus and the rest of the group searched the house up and down, they knew his magical signature, and it was all over the place. But now, he wasn't here. He seemed to have disapperated without leaving a trail, but that couldn't be done, unless it was over twenty years old, or he was pulled somewhere magically, though neither option was believable at the moment. Severus sat heavily down onto the low couch, tossed his head back and rubbed the bridge of his nose in exhaustion.
"You think we'll ever find him?" He asked to no one in particular, "Do you think he left of his own free will? Or..." he snapped his mouth shut he didn't think it was possible to make Sebastian do anything he didn't want to do. He let out a long weary sigh.
"You know I don't think we'll find him unless he wants to be found. And it was obviously of his own free will; otherwise he would not have set up all these wards queued to only himself." Moody rationalized, "He is a smart boy, and a very powerful one to boot, I would never underestimate what that boy could do if he set his mind to it."
The others nodded at this, Sebastian could rule the world if he wanted to. They all gathered up and went out side the wards and portkeyed home to Hogwarts to discuss the matter of the missing Sebastian Jamison Snape, as well as the likely new 'Dark Lord'.
As they all settled into the Headmasters office, no one knew of a boy who just read of his future in a book of prophesies on a remote charmed island. A boy with messy black hair, and shimmering emerald green eyes.
TBC
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