Hello peoples. I am back... and don't you say: "do you have an excuse?" because i do.

Blame everything on my teachers. It's THEIR fault! Their the ones always saying: "And for homework today..." and all that crappy. I hate it as much as you, if you are one of my faithfull reviewers. lalala. Well, are you anctious yet? GO ON, read!

Disclaimer: ZzZzzZzZZZzzz... oh, wut? OH! Hi! You should know this by know! stomps foot I do not own anything you recognise from the HP books, or, in the starting of this chapter, some ideas are from another book from SWEEP, if you read the series.. I own everything else, though, so there.

Waning: ...you should know this too, and if not, you are a pea brain.

You know I love you all, though, right?

Oh, NO, DON'T SUE!

The first thing I noticed was the smell in the air, as soon as I woke up. It did not smell like the usual smelly trashcan, or the... yes, now I knew where I was. But there was another smell in the air too. Something weirdly familiar...

Vampire. There was another Vampire in the room. Opening my eyes excitedly, my smile was wiped from my face, because 1, my neck was hurting. Thank you so much, Oh Stiff Couch. Number 2, there was nobody else except for... the boy. Quickly glancing his way, I found that most of his wounds were healed. Only one nasty big cut was still healing... it was a slight pinkish color.

So this boy was Vampire? He did not look it. He probably didn't know either... tragedy. As soon as the thoughts came, the boy squirmed a little, and then flashed open his eyes and struggled to get up, saying something like an alarmed "Ni!" ...then he noticed me, and stopped doing anything completely. Except breathing, of course, because then he would be dead. We had the largest staring contest known to humanity. I must have been a sight. Tangled black hair, dark as night, pale skin, freckles scatterd across my small nose, purple and black dress with an animated skull...

Well, I guess he didn't really know any better.

Thinking about it, his Vampire senses probably haven't been freely opened until now. Or I would have sensed it last night.

"Who are you?" He finally said. He stood at least three inches taller than me. Brillliant, I was still an Imp.

"I don't know," I answered truthfully, getting up and stretching. He gave me the kind of look that said 'confusion, I don't beleive you, what are you doing here?' So I sighed. This was going to be hard to explain.

"I... my name... er... I don't have... a... name..." This came out of my mouth in a jumble of confused words. "Cant... remember any' thin..."

This seemed to have gone through to him. "You don't have a home?" He asked me, and by she shake of my head, the boy contined. "I... well, my name is Keeth. I never had a mum or a dad, but these idiot people took care of me... and then they left me alone out here, and some nice people brought me here. They said they were my family... actual family." Keeth ran his hand through his messed up spikes and sighed. "But now their gone."

The last words were like stone. Very, very bad words. Words you would know that nobody would ever want to say, and it hit you, like a brick wall. And instead of that brick wall breaking, you did.

And so I did the only thing I could think of.

I hugged him.

But in the end, I really had to tell him everything.

"Bad, bad evil man. He had a big, LONG beard and he left me here. I am Vamper... Vampeer... Vampi... and I don't know any' thin else. You are, too!"

By the word 'Vampi', Keeth's eyes visibly widened. Like saucers. "You mean... Vampires? They aren't real. Wizards are. I am a Wizard, not a Vampire!"

I shook my head no. "Yes, yes. I am. You are, see? Your cuts healed really fast, and mine do toooo. See my teef?" I opened my mouth wide so he could see, the fangs that I knew were there. And I let them grow... long.

"Whoa... their for real? But aren't they evil or something? Vampires? I cant be one, I don't have fangs, see?" But they were there.

They were there and he knew it too.

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I couldn't beleive what I had just done.

I had just given the Dark Lords daughter to Dumbledore. I have just betrayed the trust of my Godson... All for a fool. Now she was missing... now... Potter, nobody knew where he was either. Thank Merlin it hadn't gone out to the press, though. I had that weird feeling in my stomach that Dumbledore knew where Potter was.

He just wasn't doing anything about it.

This was bad.

The Dark Lord was once again gaining power. A lot of power, and quickly. I could feel it in my mark, while he grew still and impatient.

He knew his daughter was alive. She was the Heir of Darkness.

She was also Fated to be born... but that was only scraps of what I had heard. I really didn't know why.

This was terribly bad indeed.

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I really hadn't wanted to stay in that rundown apartment building that used to be my home. That reeked of my family taken away.

So we left. Me and my new friend. We had decided that we could live on our own, but we just had to be careful. We had to be very, very alert. Maybe even travel someplace else, like Scotland or Wales.

"So how have you been living out here again?"

"Rats are good; Bread is bad. Err... dunno."

We had just gotten to where she had been staying. It was really just a hole in the wall, covered in Shadow and Darkness. Surrounded by stinky trash cans. But I found out what she meant by the bread being bad, and it was. The mice loved it though. She had a feild day, but I was a bit queasy. Don't these rats and mice have diseases? So I asked her. It really was kind of funny talking with fangs in your mouth.

"Nooooo... fangs make ever'thin better. Rats maybe have disease, but fangs make it neutralized with venom." She held her hands up dramatically when she got to the word 'neutralized'.

"We have venom?"

"Yes. So when you bite sumthin' they get paralized, and if they have a DISEASE, it gets CURED."

"So thats why I healed faster than normal?"

"Yes."

"Oh."

I was still a bit queasy. Get a rat! All of this was like a weird cartoon show that I had landed in. But Ni was gone. Jake was gone. C.J. was gone. I needed to survive. But... survival was hard to adapt to, when you are in different places... what if it bites me? What if it is all some big joke?

I HATE "what ifs" !

Oh, curse it.

Before I knew what had happened, a paralized rat was pushed into my hand, two bite marks on the side.

People always have to take chances...

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One... Year... LATER!

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Days come, days go.

Days come, days go.

Days come, days go! (A/N: I have the feeling you are asking "what is the point of continuing this stupid sentence? It has no point!" my answer is: "I know it doesn't, but as I am the author of this story, and if I feel particularly hyper and random one day, I will do as I please. Thank you.")

Another day is here. And I haven't found my friend, not even a trace.

As some memories melt in my head, uninportant, some memories stay sharp as a knife, bringing painful memories. Days of the past. One year had gone by, that my one and only true friend was taken from me, into a world that I was helpless. And I hate being helpless.

One year that I haven't found a trace. Ironically, the Potter boy had gone missing around the same time. Nobody really knows why, but said relatives claimed he ran away. I still had the article, actually.

BOY-WHO-LIVED, GONE MISSING?

By: Rita Sceeter

Our savior, the one and only Boy-Who-Lived, has disappeared! His relatives (names not shown) claim that he had ran away nights before. Will the Wizarding world fall into chaos? What will become of us?

Everybody is in a clear frenzy, but as Proffessor Dumbledore clearly stated, "You should be in no hurry. Everything is under control..."

It went on and on. Written on every first page. Dumbledore and some others have gone on a search, but have found nothing (that anybody knows about, anyway). Personally, I thought the article was stupid, and I threw it in the trash. The book I had found on last years Malfoy Manor adventure wouldn't open for me, and I had decided not to tell anyone about it. It clearly didn't want to be bothered.

But what of Kali? I couldn't really go on asking anybody... the world would be in chaos, and not many knew about her. She even said she changed her name constantly, never finding one she though suited her most.

For the millionth time in my life, I was frusturated. As of now, Frusturation would not be an unlickely occurence for none other than Draco Malfoy.

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Throwing water balloons couldn't have been funner. Just go one level up from a building, make sure your not being watched, and... kerplunk! Right on target! Uh-oh... now their talking to the security guard...

"I think we should make a run for it."

"Yeah. Me too... he looks really mad. Like a mad baddy man," said Kali joyfully.

"Hilarious, though... uh-oh, I think their coming up now. Hey, he just saw me!"

"Look down at him and wave!"

"Elevator, or stairs? Which one are they taking, anyway?"

A 'ding!' of an elevator getting to the needed location and the metal doors opening got them running... down the stairs. Which is a little hard for a five and four-year-old, if you come to think of it. But grown people can be a little weird in the head sometimes...

"Where'd they go!"

"UP THE STAIRS, DUMARSE! THIS WILL COST ME A TRIP TO THE DRYCLEANERS, AND I'M LATE FOR A MEETING!"

So... the culprits got away, once again.

But life wasn't so easy, come to think of it. The street life is always hard. Learning how to be a pickpocket is extremely hard, just learning to move your hands quickly and in the correct way, and you had to have an air of innocence around you. Or they would catch you, like they almost did, once...

They had both been lucky that time, but there were many other encounters that had been worse. A LOT worse. Like the guy that had the net and he chased them down into an alleyway like they were stray dogs. They had only escaped when they had blended into the shadows, one lesson only a Magical Being, such as the Dark Elves (Vampires) they were could learn.

They had never been cought.

Yet.

There were many other important things you had to learn. Super-strength as well as eagle-eye sight and great hearing came with being a Vampire, you just had to learn how to use it all correctly. Like say you were a Vampire but you had no experience... or somebody to teach you. You would be in pain with all the blaring noises and your expanded sight would give you one hell of a headache. You might hurt yourself or somebody else with your super-strength.

There were many dangers about being different. Then... there were always the good things, weren't there? A Vampire was mainly a Dark Elf. Not in the Evil way, but more in a night kind of way. Vampires were Of the Night.

Kali and I also found out that she was magical abilities like I did... when I had first thought that Vampires just had the super-strenght and all that. But as you might know, we have a... different kind of magic.

More having to do with the actual nature.

"That was fun," I said, sitting down on the gravel in the dark alleyway.

"It was fun. You are absalOOtely right."

"Tiring though."

"Yup," Kali said.

A newspaper drifted by. These were the times I missed Ni most. I always wore her necklace, and I never took it off. Kali knew all this, of course, but never tried to talk about it. I guess she knows I don't want to, I thought, but she's my only Family now, and I hope we never get separated. Ever, and if someone wants to... I'd like to see them try.

Kali gazed at me then... her purple eyes sparkling and her face beaming. I smiled back.

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I knew I would haveto do it soon.

The girl was with him, and getting in the way with all my plans.

She was a nuisance... teaching him how to be the Vampire he was! The more neglected a child was, the stronger and stronger they became.

And thats just what everyone needed... someone to defeat the Dark Lord, that was rising once again. I would have to make him suffer. So that would have to be... the day after his birthday.

Then he will be back where he was supposed to be all along.

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"Happy BIRTHDAY!" Kail sqealed to me as I woke up, "Happy, Happy Happy Happy Happy HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!"

"Whaaa...?"

HAPPEEEEEEE BIRTHDAY!"

"Hmmmmghrdhfghg... wannagotosleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep..." I had, infact, stayed up until twelve in the morning make a wish out of the sand and dirt/dust on the cemented ground. This was something that I usually did in my 'cuboard'. Plenty of dust to go around. What time was it anyway?

Kali awakened me furthur by a poke in my stomach.

"Hey!"

"Happy Birthday!"

"Ok, ok..." I was, infact, beaming on the inside. I was five now! This was awsome. In front of me, Kali was there, holding up my shoes (they were also Converse) that were sparkling clean, breakfast (A/N: ...guess...), and something that looked like a piece of cake that had been taken from somewhere very quickly but neatly. I looked at it in longing, not noticing it being stuffed into my hands.

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..." I said, as I bit into it. It really WAS good, and I never really had cake before.

"Wanshum?" I said, mouth full, to Kali, who shook her head no. So, after I ate my breakfast and put my shoes back on, I noticed she was holding something else behid her back. She held it out to me, and I saw it was a semi-thick metal chain that appeared heavy but wasn't really at all. It was really cool, and I put it on immediately.

Then I just had to hug her.

"Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu," I said.

"'Welcome!" She said in that cheery-but-mysterious voice. As I admired my chain, I noticed that-

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!" Kali had mysteriously jumped from 10 feet off of the building walls. And TRIED to land on me.

"Hahaha..."

"That was NOT funny! You almost landed on me! Not to mention you were... heeeeeeeeey... how DID you do that...?"

"Wanna know?"

"Duh."

"Catch me."

"Huh?"

"First ya gotsta CATCH ME!" And with that, she leapt off, running down the alley.

I chased after her, but I had a feeling that she wasn't trying very hard to get away.

"Gotcha."

"Heehee... fine."

And she taught me. The whole point was to sink into Shadow and use it as a method of travel. Like Shadow to Shadow. All in all, it was pretty cool, but it took a while to get used to. You had to channel your power into the Shadow, entwine it like thread (not too loose and not too tight), and travel until you found your destination. For once, it was easier once you got the hang of it.

Key words being: Once you got the hang of it.

It took a LONG time for me just to get a firm grasp, but at last, tired and hungry, I was able to go from wall to wall.

"I ache."

"Haha."

"Dumbasrse."

"Idiot."

"Twit."

"Prat! Hahahaha."

"Fine. Ready for dinner?" I smiled.

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Now.

The perfect time to strike.

Fawkes is looking at me weirdly. Almost accusingly. If only I could Speak, and tell him it was all just for the greater good.

But I must leave this very instant. Surely my Weapon would break when I take his friend. The plans all ready.

And as the respected Albus Dumbledore left Hogwarts grounds to apparate, some very accusing eyes followed him indeed.

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Something wasn't right. I could feel it in the air as soon as I woke up.

"Keetheee... get up," I said.

Probably sensing my troubled thoughts, Keeth's eyes opened wide, searching mine.

"Whats wrong...?"

"Dunno. Somethin's in the AIR..."

Keeping our senses open, we started on the topic we most feared talking about, but we knew we would have to face it someday. Today just seemed liket the perfect day.

"What do you remember, Kali?"

"Big, big Red eyes. Then, there was a boy like you, only had hair like... blond. But THEN, there was an uggy man with a very LONG beard and a man with black hair."

"Thats it?"

"Yup. I think the boys name was somethin' like... I dunno. Draco-" I stopped. Something seemed to be pulling me. Apparently, Keeth felt it too.

"What the-"

"OBLIVIATE!"

He had taken us both.

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And for the second time in Albus Dumbledore's life, his Obliviate really didn't quite work at all.

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In two different places, two very different eyes opened at the same time.

A boy found himself in an all-too-familiar cupboard, feeling light-headed, while a girl found herself in something that looked like a cell that held other children.

Other Orphans.

Memories of eachother coming back, both of them didn't like what the near future was holding for them, and if the Obliviate hadn't erased all memories of Magic, they would probably not be stuck in the sticky situation.

This should be called: A New Series of Unfortunate Events but Only For A Time Being: Shadows in Harry Potters Darkened Heart.

But it wont.

And !YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY, becuase I have finished a NEW CHAPPIE! YAY!

As I said before, the lateness is my TEACHERS' faults, becuase they are the ones giving away homework as if it was candy; which it is CERTAINLY NOT! ...and they would probably eat all the candy themselves, anyways.

PLEASEpleasePLEASE REVIEW, AND I HOPE THIS IS A DECENT-SIZED CHAPPIE!

-Niomi