"Ahhh! you killed me, you butt head!" Nicole yelled

"He! Told you no one could beat me at halo!" Steven said with a large grin.

" come on it's my turn!" Carlos yelled in a whiny voice

" shut-up you'll get your turn!" Steven yelled.

" Be nice!" Nicole yelled shooting Stevens character.

" HEY!"

" beat ya" Nicole said with a grin.

" ok my turn" Nondai said.

Steven handed the controller to Carlos and Nicole handed it to Nondai.

Steven, Carlos and Nondi were Nicole's best friends, she had grown up with them. She often

considered them her other brothers.

Their was a knock on the door.

" Steven go get the door" Nicole said turning to Steven

" hell no, I ant your slave!" he said turning, crossing his arms.

"Well first off..." she said pointing her finger "for the tenth time ant isn't a word and second

this isn't my house"

He gave a bitter expression and opened the door.

Josh came through the hall way into the living room.

" Mom needs to talk to you...halo!... I'm in" he said plopping himself on the couch

( Johns my younger bro. Looks like a male me)

" bye guys" she got up and walked towards the door.

She could hear the guys say bye and then yelling at John for butting in.

She entered the door to find mom in the living room. Mother seemed to have something on her

mind.

" What's wrong?" she said standing in the hall way

Mom motioned to have her sit.

" your father" she started " he didn't die because of illness"

"What do you mean?"

Nicole sat for a minute.( Numb by Linkin park and Jay-Z starts( instrumental) starts) She was

thinking. She could remember the night vividly.

She was at home with John and her mom when the phone rang. It was dark and storming. Mom

only talked for a minute. She slowly hung up the phone.

"Kids Mr. Heradez is going to come over for a while"

"Mom what's wrong, where's daddy?" I asked

She stared at me for a while " daddy is in the hospital, I have to go visit him"

She walked out the door and Mr. Heradez arrived a minute later...

"we woke up the next day expecting to see dad, but he wasn't their, we thought he come home

That day but he never came back"

" he didn't die like that"

" Then how did he die mom!" she yelled

She combed her fingers through her hair

" We don't even know if he's dead...he was ambushed. We assumed it was Valdemort"

"Who's Valdemort?"

A voice came from the hall " an evil man bent on destroying all who oppose him" I turned to

see a man with a long white beard and an odd looking rob on " no one really knows why, but a

month after your fathers disappearance he disappeared when a spell back fired on him"

" why did he attack my father?"

" we believe it was because he tried to stop him from killing the Potters, the family still was

attacked" mom said.

" so they died?"

"No their was a survivor and this is the same survivor who almost killed him" the man said.

There was a long silence

" dose John know?"

"No I don't wont him to find out till he has to" mother replied.

" Why are you telling me this now?" she asked.

" because we need your help" the man said

Nicole turned to her mother with a confused expression.

" Your father and me are what's known in the magical realm as a Valascers, their trainers of

Magical creatures"

" hold on magical realm? Creatures?"

Mom took a breath " yes you're a witch"

"This must be one big joke your playing on me...ok you win I'm freaked out"

" this is no joke"

"Prove it" I said standing up

" ever scence your fathers death I have had a creature protecting you" she said standing up.

"who?"

"Come, I'll show you"

She took us to her closet door. And opened it to a dark brick hallway

"Come, I put him away, he is vary protective of you" she said with a week smile

We continued out the hall way for a few minutes.

That's when we heard a vary deep and angry growl.

We stopped once it happened again.

Mother held up her hand.

...what is she doing?...what's going on?...

I turned, the growling had stopped.

Nicole turned to face her mom.

"Call him" her mother said lowering her hand.

" call who?"

"Scar"

"Scar!" I said in surprise " he was my guardian?"

...a fat orange cat?...was-my...guardian?...

I looked foreword into the darkness.

She took one final look at her mother

"Scar?..." she said

No noise came back.

Nicole stared into the darkness looking for the cat.

Out of the darkness a form emerged, only it wasn't a the kind of cat she was expecting.

Nicole was thrown to the ground with such force it knocked the wind out of her.

She regained my scenes and looked up, it was a huge beak.

"Scar please get off, I can't breath!" She shouted in a raspy voice thanks to the large bast on top

of her.

The huge beast jumped off.

She stud and dusted the dirt off of her clothes, looking up to see a griffin the size of a large

horse . The small fat cat now had noble brown feathers and large powerful blue eye's.

It had the front legs of a bird, with large claws and long talons. It's hind legs were huge lion

legs with powerful claws bigger then Nicole's head. It had large back wings with the wing

Spain of it least ten feet and covered with long beautiful brown feathers.

" mom...my cat is a griffin" Nicole said in aw.

" umm... yes he is...scar has the rare ability of transformation, we found out when he was born

along with that, he's is a pyro"

I looked at Scar

" come on were going to miss the meeting" mother said walking on words into the darkness

" meeting?"

Nicole ran after her, when she heard scar screech transformed into a hawk and flew over to

her and landed on her shoulder.

" well this should be interesting" I said petting him when she stopped at a large wooden door

down the hall.