DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN BEASTMASTER NOR HARRY POTTER THEY BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTED OWNERS
A/n: if any of you don't remember much of the series but remember the movie Beastmaster let me clarify some things for you.
Sheroc the eagle in the movie first met Dar when he walked into his village to find it aflame. It was well after the dog Kodo saved his life. The eagle then became Dar's first companion to vengeance against Mayax. In the Series they have always been friends. They both have some similarities.
For starters both their home villages burned down. They both have to face a king Zed though in the movie he was a good guy and in the series a bad guy. I am basing it more towards the series (minus season three because it sucks).
For Sheroc in the series he had a lover whose name no one knows but they know her only as the Sorceress. You find out towards the end of the series why Sheroc was turned into an eagle though in the series he is known as Sherak.
In the movie he is known as Sheroc because of the noise Dar makes when calling him. Because he is immortal in the series I have made him so and like Dar says he is very wise.
Well anyways enough chit chat and on with the story.
THE MASTER OF BEASTS
Chapter Three: Requiem of a Potion's Master
He did not know why nor does he care but for Professor Severus Snape to start crying like a teenager things have to be to the point of mental breakdown. And this is one of those occasions.
He sat there by the lake sure his eyes dull and blank as he recalled some very painful childhood memories.
FLASHBACK
"Stay still you insolent little brat!" a man around his mid thirties to early forties screamed at a younger Severus as he gave the boy a hard slap across the face. Severus fell to the ground in a bloody heap as he felt his lip split. He then felt a kick to the groin as he fell in pain.
"You came crawling to your mother didn't you the whore you call a mother!" he said pointing his wand at his step-son, "CRUCIO!" he screamed and Severus fell to the ground screaming.
"You want a whore well your going to get one!" he said and then stopped the curse and advanced on his son.
He grabbed the immobile Severus and walked up to his room and threw him in. conjuring ropes he began to tie the boy to the bed. "No!" now Severus was fighting the ropes but the man held him down with a body bind curse and the boy was held still.
When that was done he began to strip the boy and flip him over gagging him in the process. When he did he bound him good and held on to Snape's hair. The man was rather tall with dark brown hair and dark blue eyes but he was not Snape's real father nor will he ever be. This man was a monster as he began to lash out at him again with the same unforgivable curses. Severus tried to run but he was bound to the bed as the man he once called father had his way with him.
He could feel the man force his way in him and he screamed in the gag as the man continued to shove and the poor boy for all its worth cried as tears of pain and sorrow fell down his face. He could feel the man punch him from behind as he continued to heave with each breath.
It seemed like hours till it was over and he was left with a gag in his mouth. Severus was still strapped to the bed as he silently cried himself to sleep after that first time and it was not the last.
END FLASHBACK
Snape gently rocked himself back and forth as the memories came back again and again. He felt like a child and not in control but he could not help it. Seeing Harry like that triggered those memories like a shot to the heart. He continued to cry until a quiet peeping noise made him aware that it was dawn.
Looking up Snape looked at the majestic golden eagle in front of him looking at him curiously. For a man like Snape he was very logical and from looking at the eagle he could tell that it was different. For starters its eyes held much wisdom and looked old very old. It was much larger then a normal eagle about three inches larger or at least a foot he could not tell.
The eagle looked at him with its head upside down and then right again as it hopped towards him. "Go away," he said and a thought came to him. What if it was an animagus? He thought and the eagle only looked at him with clear eyes.
Sheroc looked at the so called man that he had woken up and watched him cry.
It was the first time he had seen someone breakdown like that. He had seen it before but not by just looking at a boy like this. Upon closer inspection the eagle confirmed that the human was reliving his own memories. He then stood there and waited till the human was done. When he was finally acknowledged the human told him a simple
"Go away," if Sheroc had a mouth he would smile.
Snape was surprised when the eagle suddenly shifted slowly and in doing so turned itself into a shirtless man.
Even though the man had no shirt he has long tight leather pants around his bottom that reached to his ankles and hide shoes. His face was angular and handsome even to his senses. His dark black hair sort of reminded Snape of Harry and James but it was closed cropped to his skull with light brown around behind his eye and to the back of his ear that looked like feathers? The thing was not human was the man's eyes.
His eyes were old even if he looked young it was his eyes that told you all. His eyes are older then anything Snape has ever seen before and when he looked down towards his feet he was surprised that as the sun shown on the man his shadow was that of a bird. It was an eagle's shadow but right in front of him was the form of a man.
The man kneeled down towards him, "Are you ok?" he asked in a human voice.
It was young and deep but held a confidence that Snape had never felt in anyone other then Dumbledore, but this man lacked the twinkle that Dumbledore had and it was annoying enough. He also does not carry that know it all air to him. He carries an air of someone who has seen too much that much the man can tell.
Turning his head towards the man he was curious, "Who are you?" he asked,
"I am Sheroc," the man replied,
"You humans are funny beings I had forgotten what it was to be one for so long," he said helping as he gently ran a finger through Snape's hair and then wiped the tears from his face.
"I don't swing that way you know," he said between sobs,
"I know and neither do I but I have a feeling you will need it." He said. As he slowly embraced Snape and his eyes widened in shock as he felt human flesh. Though his shadow and when he looked at the lake he only could see an eagle spreading his wings the feeling of flesh was there though.
"You are not human," he said, "No I am not," replied Sheroc.
"It was you who woke me," Snape came to the realization.
"Yes I could not bear to see a human child become the victim to those cruel Terrons," he said as he let go and gazed into his dark eyes,
"I could not bear it so I woke you from his spell to save him. I knew that he would not have survived if I had not," Sheroc said,
"Why?" Snape said,
"Why?" the man asked again, "I had to I can't stand seeing death be brought on such a child,"
The potions master regarded the eagle with a raised eyebrow as he got up, "Well I have to tend to my potions now so I will be off," he said and when he turned around he heard a fluttering of wings. When he turned his head again the eagle was gone.
TBC
