A New Beginning
By Silverwolves
Silverwolves: Chapter 9! I'm so happy! Eh for all you romance buffs, BEWARE! Muhuhaha! Romance is coming soon, but remember my characters are only like 11 years old so yeah. Any way I don't own HP never will, um yeah enjoy!
Summary: Taking place several years after Harry and his friends leave Hogwarts, this story follows the adventures of a shy werewolf, Caleb Lupin, (Remus Lupin's son), a mysterious vampire named Karmithius Dellon, a energetic half cat demon named Ryoku Leonne, and Akmed Sevmetto a sarcastic descendent of an Egyptian god. This story is about them at "THE PINK HOUSE" Enjoy!
BY THE WAY TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY! OH YEAH!
Chapter 9
Head Cheese, Gifts and Freeze Tag
"Hurry up! Dinner will get cold!" Jemina called.
The kids entered the house, the obnoxiously hot pink house.
Only to find that it was just as obnoxious on the inside as it was on the outside. The entryway was painted a brilliant blue color and several species of plants were hanging from the high ceiling. They quickly took off their shoes and followed Ryoku into the kitchen which was a lemon yellow color, the counters were dark blue and in the center of the kitchen was a large red table with assorted papers piled on top of it. A large pot was on the stove magically stirring itself.
"What are we having?" Ryoku asked Jemina as Caleb, Alu, Akmed, Kar, Vexin and Amme took a seat.
"Head cheese, with Fish and chips and Yorkshire pudding!" Jemina smiled as she stirred sniffed at the pot on the stove.
"And some lovely black tea!" Jemina laughed as she added several tea bags to the large pot.
Ryoku glanced at Kar. She wondered if he could even eat human food. What if he was allergic to it? What if he died? Hold on wait, he is already technically dead.... but....
"Dinner is served!" Jemina set a silver platter with a large chunk of head cheese on it, on the table, and then she passed plates around and set a platter of fish and chip on the table. Finally she poured tea into the tiniest of tea cups and plopped Yorkshire pudding into their bowls.
She sat down and glanced at all of them. "Eat up!" She cried.
(Silverwolves: For those of you who don't know what head cheese is I think it's like a cooked hog's head, with all the eyes and stuff removed. Very nasty.)
Ryoku, Amme and Vexin were quite used to head cheese, fish and chips and Yorkshire pudding. But Caleb, Alu, Akmed and Kar didn't exactly find the meal appetizing.
Kar silently ate the pudding. Caleb bravely tried head cheese and the werewolf part of him actually liked it. Alu ate the fish and chips and managed to eat all of her pudding but didn't touch the cheese and all Akmed could manage was the chips.
"Now if there's one thing I can do, it's making a good head cheese!" Jemina grinned at the kids.
"Can we be excused? I wanna give them a tour of our house." Ryoku asked her aunt.
"Of coarse dear, and show them where to put their luggage." Jemina waved them away.
The kids gathered their luggage and Ryoku led them up a spiral staircase to the second floor.
Five doors and one long hallway later they stopped in front of Ryoku's room.
"I haven't seen my room for so long! It's probably really messy..." Ryoku opened the door. She and her friends stepped in. Revealing a large room painted dark blue. Her bed was enormous, covered in millions of pillows and stuffed animals, a canopy resting above it.
"So this is your room?" Alu said as she ran to Ryoku's bed and flopped down on the soft mattress. "This is amazing!"
"Where do you want us to put our stuff?" Kar asked looking around the room.
"Uh you can just throw it anywhere; me and Alu are sleeping in here and you guys are sleeping in the guest room..."
Akmed seated himself in a large futon and Caleb sat down on a divan (couch like thing) Kar remained standing and glanced at a picture on Ryoku's dresser. It was a picture of a woman, she had long blonde hair, bright green eyes and a smiling face, she was holding a tiny baby girl in her hands, the only strange thing about the picture was that the woman had small grey cat ears perched on the top of her head.
Kar was about to inquire about the picture when Ryoku saw him looking at it.
"Uh, that's my mom.... "Ryoku said grabbing the picture. "She holding me, it was uh, Halloween and she dressed up as a cat!" Ryoku laughed nervously.
Kar laughed inwardly. He didn't believe her. She smelt like a cat, her mother had cat ears, and even her brother and sister smelt like cats. It was obvious, Ryoku had cat demon heritage, and she apparently didn't want anyone to know about it.
The next three days passed quickly, Ryoku took her friends down to the frozen creek and they attempted to teach Akmed how to ice-skate, Aunt Jemina took the kids into town to buy Christmas presents. (They had done a secret Santa thing so they only had to buy one present), and on the day before Christmas, they helped decorate the already flashy pink house.
Jemina lifted Amme up into the air and Amme placed a star on top of the Christmas tree.
"It looks beautiful!" Ryoku commented.
"We make a good team!" Alu smiled. "We should go into business!" she brushed her hair out of her face and glanced at Caleb. He had been looking awfully pale lately and he seemed to always be tired.
"You okay?" she whispered to him.
"Huh? Oh yeah...uh who?" he asked looking around.
"I said are you okay?" she asked him once again.
"Oh, yes. 't be better" he fake smiled. In truth, the full moon was coming up once again and he felt the o-so-familiar weariness overwhelm him.
Later Vexin arranged a game of freeze tag outside. Caleb and Kar declined, Caleb because he wasn't feeling well, and Kar because he wasn't all that found of running around touching people.
Caleb wandered into Ryoku's room and peeked at her calendar.
December 27th is the full moon. He thought about what he was going to do. But soon he found he could barely stand so he sat down on the futon and quickly nodded off.
Kar had been given permission to use the library. He was hoping he could be alone but unfortunately Amme had followed him.
"Read me a story Karry!" she asked.
"No, and my names not Karry, its Kar."
"Please? Pretty please? Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh....." She pleaded looking at him with big brown eyes.
"Fine, just promise to be quite, go pick out a book." He rolled his eyes.
"Yeah Karry!" Amme ran off in search of a book.
She came back with The Night Before Christmas she smiled brightly and handed him the book. Just as he opened it she jumped up onto his lap.
"Read!" she pointed at the book.
"Fine fine, hold on"
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;" he read quietly.
"Louder!" she demanded. "And let me see the pictures, and you have to do the voices to that's how Ryaroo reads!"
He growled.
"The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled down for a long winter's nap,"
"Good!" she exclaimed
"When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the luster of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;"
He paused for a moment and glanced at her.
"Keep going!" she urged.
"Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer and Vixen!
On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Donner and Blixen!
To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"
"As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too."
"And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my hand, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound."
"He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack."
"What's a peddler?" Amme asked tugging at Kar's hair.
"Do you want me to finish the story?" he glared at her.
"Sorry... Karry"
"His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;"
"The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly."
"He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;"
"He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;"
"He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
Kar finished.
"That was a good story! Now read it again!" Amme tugged at another strand of his hair and he refrained from snarling.
He grabbed her hand and removed it from his hair.
"I don't have time to read it again... maybe tomorrow.... "Kar sighed and Amme jumped off his lap.
"Okee Dokee Karry!" she laughed and ran off.
Kar picked through the library books for a while and then gave up, he felt restless, probably because he hadn't had any blood since he arrived three days ago.
He wandered outside. He could hear the Laughter of Ryoku, Vexin, Akmed and Alu, but he walked in the opposite direction. Maybe I'll find a rabbit or something.... he thought. He walked on. Soon he found and a small grove of trees and on the other side was another house.
Muggles... he could smell a man a woman a young child and a perhaps a pet cat. He saw the mother and child were inside the house, probably cooking a Christmas dinner. He couldn't tell where the man was. Then he saw the cat, a dull orange color, it was walking around in the wet snow looking for birds to catch.
He could feel his blood lust take over him. He could here the cat's fast heart beat.
No, I can't.... he thought. Not a house pet. Kar watched the small feline. It had seen him; it curiously wandered over to him.
"You smell like Ryoku" he smiled and stroked its back and it purred. He was in a different world now, he didn't even know what he was doing but he found himself picking the cat up and tracing his fingers along its neck.
He found the artery. He lowered himself. The cat protested loudly as Kar sunk his fangs into its neck.
Dead. In an instant. He dropped the cat on the icy ground. He came back to reality. He stood up.
I just killed their pet cat. He thought bitterly.
Kar drifted back to the house. He didn't bother knocking. Inside, Ryoku and the others were sitting by the fire sipping tea. Caleb had joined them; he was still looking a bit peaky.
"Hey Kar, where were you?" Ryoku smiled at him.
He shook his head.
"Uh do you want some tea?" Ryoku took a good look at him.
His eyes were glazed over, he was trembling and panting.
"What? Oh please no. No. Not hungry. I mean.... I'm...." he rambled and then made his way to the stairs.
"Wow, what's eating him?" Alu asked.
"I don't know he looked weird though." Ryoku went back to her tea.
Akmed stared out the window. He wanted desperately to be in his dog form. He sighed.
"Uh, I think I left my hat outside I'm gonna go get it. He slipped on his shoes and ran out the door without even a coat.
"But.... began Vexin. "He wasn't even wearing a hat...."
Akmed ran as far away from the house as he could. He came along a set of tracks.
He shifted into his dog form, a sleek dark brown grey hound. He shivered a little. Then he caught a scent.
Kar? He followed the tracks. He yelped as a piece of ice caught between his paw pads.
A grove of trees. Leading to a house. But what caught his eyes was the light grey shape that lay on the ground. (Silverwolves: I assumed dogs see in black and white so yeah orange would be light grey...) He approached the thing to find that it was a cat. It lay in a pool of its own blood. Two small puncture holes were indented into its neck.
He sniffed at the poor animal. It smelt like blood, some people he didn't recognize and Kar. That was the most recent scent. He backed away.
Akmed shifted back into his human form.
Had Kar done this to this cat?
He ran back to the house.
He knocked and Ryoku answered the door.
"Find your hat?" asked Alu.
He raised his eyebrow. "What? What hat? Oh that hat! Um, no. Must have uh blown away or something..." he trailed off and slumped down to the ground.
"Okay no one leave the house from now on because if you come back you'll begin to ramble like an idiot!" Alu laughed
Akmed sighed.
That night no one dreamed of sugar-plums.
The next morning Alu was first to wake up. She was eager to give her present to her friends. She shook Ryoku awake.
"Today is Christmas! Up up up!" She shouted.
"Who?" Ryoku rubbed her eyes and peeled her blankets off. Shuddering from the loss of warmth.
"Christmas!" Alu wailed.
"Shut up, lemme brush my teeth first." Ryoku stepped out of bed and slipped on her slippers. (Silverwolves Hehe! I love the way that sounds) Ryoku walked to the bathroom and locked the door and began to slowly slowly brush her teeth.
Alu tapped her foot impatiently on the floor.
Finally Ryoku immerged from the bathroom.
Let's go wake up the guys!
Alu scrambled to the boy's room, thrust open the door and walked inside. Akmed was sleeping on one bed, and Caleb on the other bed and Kar was sleeping on the couch.
Alu went up to Caleb's bed and started to shake him. She giggled when she noticed that he had his shirt off.
"Oh please..." Ryoku walked in and rolled her eyes. She threw put her hair into a ponytail and sat down on a wicker chair.
Alu shook Caleb harder and he bolted up and snarled at Alu and glared at her with livid yellow-green eyes.
"Yikes someone has a temper...." she put her hands up and backed away.
Caleb shook his head. "Oh jeez, I'm sorry Alu I was having a bad dream."
"No problem, I think."
Ryoku helped her wake Kar up who was sleeping like a rock.
And finally Akmed woke up from all the commotion going on.
"Come on! It's Christmas! Let's go open presents!" she called trotting off.
Ryoku and Alu walked down the spiral staircase into the living room. The beautiful tree sparkled proudly, showing off the presents underneath it.
"Lemme go wake up Jem..." Ryoku rubbed her eyes again and went to wake up Jemina.
Soon everyone was down stairs and seated on the couch, floor or love seat.
"So who want's to go first?" Jemina asked groggily her hair in a frizzy bun and her eyes with dark circles under them.
"Oh me me me!" Alu jumped from her seat and grabbed a present.
"A little advise..." Akmed yawned. "Cut down on the sugar..."
"Oh shut up Akmed! You better be nice to me cuz this present is for you!"
She handed him a small box wrapped in bright green paper.
He took it and began to unwrap it, revealing two small books.
"Learning the tricks and trade of Quiddich" he read aloud "And The Quiddich book of Plays" he smiled brightly flipping through the pages.
"Wow this is amazing! How did you know I wanted these?" He grinned again his grey eyes sparkling.
"Duh cuz you told me how much you wanted to learn how to play Quiddich like a pro..." Alu waved her hand around and then grabbed another present.
"Wow! Thank you!" Akmed set the gift aside and pulled a gift out from under the tree.
"This one is for Ryoku!" he handed her a box wrapped in sparkling white paper.
"Oooh! It's so pretty! Can I keep the wrapping paper?" She shook the box madly.
"I don't care just open it!" Akmed rolled his eyes.
Ryoku tore off the paper. Inside the box was a glimmering red cloak.
"Oh wow! Akmed it's beautiful!" Ryoku tried the cloak on. It was a perfect fit.
"It's not just an ordinary cloak though, as long as you're wearing I, nothing can hurt you not even Lord Voldemort himself!" When Akmed said this several heads turned.
"That name is not to be uttered in this house! It could bring him back from the dead!" Jemina clicked her tongue.
"Sorry..." Akmed muttered.
"It's nothing..." Ryoku whispered. "Jemina is just very superstitious..."
"Oh..."
"I want to give my gift now!" Ryoku stood up and cleared her throat. "Mine is for Kar!" she handed Kar a gift wrapped in denim blue paper.
"Kar opened it slowly. Revealing a round silver object with a sharp pint at one end. A flat screen on the belly of the object glowed peculiarly.
"What is it?" He murmured.
"A friend or enemy detector!" Ryoku exclaimed. "Just point it to any person you wish to know about and say "Reveal!" Then the screen will light up and tell you if that person is a friend or enemy! It also buzzes if an enemy is nearby. I bought it at Gizmo's Odds and Ends if you want to return it...."
"No I won't return it, it's cool, thank you." Kar stuffed the strange object in his pocket.
"You're welcome!"
Kar stood up and retrieved his present from underneath the tree.
He handed it to Caleb.
"I really didn't know what to get so Alu helped me." He shrugged.
Caleb opened the box. Inside of it was a large book titled "Learning, Knowing and Mastering Defense against the Dark Arts by Brock Framingham."
"Awesome! This is the book I was trying to convince my dad to buy me..." Caleb flipped through the pages each containing a spell, hex or trick of the trade from Brock Framingham himself.
"I suppose you can guess who's name I drew...." Caleb got his present from under the tree a large silver bag with a pink bow tapped on the front.
Alu took the present and ripped the bow off. She then placed it on her head.
"You look like an idiot." Ryoku smiled.
"You wanna get beat?" Alu held up her fists.
"No thank you, just open your gift before I get the bug spray."
"Oh haha!"
"Shut up you two you're giving me a headache!" Akmed growled.
"Keep your shirts on!" Alu opened her bag, and took out a large box of assorted magical candy, Alu being a sugar nut was inexplicably frenzied by this.
"Oh! Caleb! You shouldn't have! Now I'll be up all night annoying you guys!" she smiled maniacally. "Oh well!"
Everyone laughed.
On the last day of their visit everyone was more or less sad to go. Jemina had given each of them a small box containing a large amount of baked goods. Surprisingly they tasted much better then head cheese.
Akmed remembered the dead cat. He wanted to ask Kar about it but he doubted he would conjure up enough guts to do it.
They called a bus and the whole way there Jemina blubbered about how much she would miss Ryoku. At the train station everyone received a numerous amount of hugs from Amme, Vexin and Jemina. The kids were followed by Jemina, Vexin and Amme until they boarded the train.
Suddenly Kar felt a buzzing in his pocket.
He took out his Friend or enemy detector. It buzzed wildly. It looked at the screen, on it, it read ENEMY. He looked to where it was pointing.
And there out the window waving goodbye to them was Jemina Vexin and Amme.
It was pointing to Vexin....
(Silverwolves: Hey hope you liked this one thank you all for all your lovely reviews! I truly appreciate them and in reply to a few.....)
Komaru Ryu: Kar says he wishes to be let go because he doesn't like having his hair mussed up. Haha, thank you! My wolves say they like you too.
lilacfairy : I have plans for sort of a flashback thing, and Ron and Harry are going to be in it. But I can't tell you what is to become of them yet because it would ruin my plot a bit... but keep reading and you are soon to find out Also Alu's secret will be revealed soon! I have lots of thing planned for upcoming chapters including ROMANCE! Woot!
dark fire chain: Please don't kill me! no I have no plans for Snape and Hermione to fall in love. Actually on the contrary Hermione is in love with someone else in this story, I won't say who though. Don't worry I have a old character reunion at Caleb's house in another chapter. Also there will be a meeting with the marauders. Haha!
Schnebz: What a coincidence! Is the first time I've wrote about them too all at once too.
Melcsi: The mother of Snape's son is a woman I made up. Her name is Agatha Acanthi Rose Guelévuez. She is Hispanic and she is also up in later chapters... something to do with Kar and her and mass murder trials.
Now the moment I'm sure you've all bean waiting for is the nice little chat with my wolves!
Wicca: We're back!
Aiden: Shut up. Go to hell.
Wicca: Been there done that.
Koji: I'm not dead! Hurray!
Aiden: Oh yeah??? We can change that!
Koji: Hide me! Hides behind Wicca
Wicca: Where's Soto?
Koji: HE probably killed him!
Aiden: Who me? I wouldn't hurt a fly. Squashes random fly
Wicca: Yeah right pinhead.
Soto: Hello! Friends! Isn't today a lovely day? Look at the sky....so blue! The grass so green....
Aiden: What have you been smoking weed again dirtbag?
Koji: Seriously and it's in the middle of the GOD DAMN WINTER!
Wicca: No, he just got back from the insane asylum.
Koji: What he go there for?
Wicca: Oh, various reasons.
Aiden: Clears throat Are you dimwits aware that there are HUMANS watching us?!?
Koji: Oooh! Wow! stares at humans sure are ugly creatures.
Wicca: Shoo humans go away!
Soto: And the humans so fleshy.... and the sun so bright.... and the clouds so....
Koji: Someone shut him up before I pulverize him!
Aiden: kills Soto
Wicca: Oh dear! Looks like it's time for you to go no! Do come back.
Aiden: Next time bring food bitches!
Soto: I see a white light!
Aiden: You aren't friggen dead yet you little asshole!
Koji: Okay love ya buy bye! shuts random curtain
Silverwolves: THE END LOVE YOU PEOPLE!