Chapter One, Mystery's Disappearance's
It's evening within the isles of Avalon. Upon the highest hill of Avalon stands an ancient castle. Within this castle is Godwin Le Fey holding a gorgeous silvery sword beautifully decorated with gold and gemstones as he faces off against his mother and her wand point towards him which spit out a bright purple spell which came twisting towards him, raising his guard and turning the flat of his blade towards the flame.
"shield me" he muttered, and one of five runes symbols upon the blade lit up and the flame broke apart before an invisible shield wall. Meanwhile watching keenly is the painting of the beautiful Morgan Le Fay, at one end of the hall. Along with the handsome painting of King Arthur who also watches on the other end of the hall.
"Well done boy I think you're getting the hang of it" congratulated Arthurs painting.
"It's hardly a dangerous spell. I think he'll struggle in real dangerous situations, if he doesn't put more effort into it," said Morgan painting.
"He's my son, I will not use anything more dangerous until I know he can handle it. Not that I think we should be doing this in the first place. Godwin dear let us forget all this and leave the search for your brother to the proper authority" his mother pleaded.
"The proper authorities are not searching Hogwarts, they think he ran off after being expelled. If he's anyway He'll be there looking for the cause vaults in Hogwarts" he said, his voice volume rising.
"And what of this ice knight you told me off. If this knight is guarding this vaults I doubt he'll be a normal knight, and I doubt you can handle this on your own"
"Were been thought this mom, I have friends who can help me and I need to find the entrance first anyway, me and Rowan are no way near finding it"
"Your friends are no older than you are, you are all too young for this!"
"Well we're doing whether you want me to or not, you can't control me when I get to Hogwarts!" he yelled, after hearing this Morgan Le Fay painting giggled.
"You've become more rebellious since you enrolled in Hogwarts. Just remember I can pull you out of Hogwarts!" Godwin stormed out of the hall without a word.
"He's growing into becoming a man, you can't watch over him forever" Morgan paining said.
"I was not much older when I became king," said Arthurs painting.
"Did I ask for your advice?!" she yelled, "I will not lose him like his father and brother!" and she soon stormed out of the hall right after.
During the night or so that followed the tempers cooled off and the next day, as their house elf dale served them breakfast within the great hall.
The two of them ate in silences.
"Slept well?" his mother asked as she looked up at him.
"Yeah" he said with a weak smile.
"Listen, I understand you want your brother back, I want your brother back, but I can't lose you, I will not be able to handle that '' there were a few monuments of silence and Godwin remembered the disembodied voice that shook him to the core last year.
""I get that but, I can't stop myself mom… I, I didn't tell you this but, during last year. I heard my brother's voice in my head. It happened when I was investigating his disappearance. I don't know what that means but…"
"You what?, You've been hearing his voice?" She said, dropping her fork.
"Yes" his mother rose up from her chairs and went around the table to sit next to him, as tears trickled down from his eyes.
"It could be already dead and that is his spirit, willing you on. Motivation enough to keep going if he wants you to go on '' said Morgan painting.
"Morgan that not helping" scolded Arthur painting
"Like you weren't thinking the same thing" Morgan snapped back, Godwin held his mom and he leaned his head onto her shoulder, a handful of tears tracking down from his eyes.
"Alright" She said after sitting there for a few monuments, "I'll let you go if this is what you need to help you adjust. You will be taking Excalibur along with its bag, but look after yourself Godwin. Remember the sword is not a plaything, you should only use it if your life or a friend's life is in danger. If I hear you've been playing around with that sword, I will pull you out of Hogwarts and I mean it"
Later on that week they went to Platform nine and three quarters and alongside Godwins friend: Penny; Ben: Rowan and all their family together and ready to see their children off to Hogwarts. Saying their goodbye to their families and entering the Hogwarts express together where they came face to face with a violet eyed witch, named Merula who had a dragon pendant dangling around her neck.
"Le Fey… you've gotten bigger, been working out?," her eyes sized him up, then her eyes darted to ben and back to him "it's a shame a pure blood like you still keeping the same Mudblood company"
"Yes and Merula, for the love of Merlin please stop using that word" he said, his arms folding.
"Why don't you make me Le Fey!" she said, walking up to him and staring him down.
"Can't be asked, are you going to get out of the way?"
"No, you'll get out of my way!" Merula said and pushed past him, his friends split apart to let her thoughts.
"Horrid women, I can't believe she uses such foul language" Penny whispered to them as they continued forward.
"Are you ok Ben?, You look on edge?," Rowan asked,
"Don't mind Merula Ben, just remember, her bark is worse than her bite" Godwin said
"Yeah, I'm fine" Ben said, rubbing his waist, the group of them found a compartment together. The train steamed out of platform nine and three quarters.
It was a nice quiet journey as they enjoyed the trained ride to Hogsmeade station. From the station they traveled to the hundred horseless carriage outside the station. Ben however had vanished from their sight by time they got to the carriage.
"Hey, Have you seen Ben? Where has he gone?" Rowan asked, suddenly noticing Ben was missing.
"He was with us when we left the train?, That's a strange thing, I hadn't noticed he was gone?" Godwin said, looking around.
"He probably wanted some alone time, or went with other Gryffindors, we'll meet him at the grand hall," Penny said, as Godwin helped her get into the carriage.
"Thank you Godwin, such a gentleman," Pennys said, flashing a smile as they sat down together within the carriage.
The carriage began to ride on its own and took them on a rumbling ride towards Hogwarts. They were taken before the great gates of Hogwarts, which was guarded by magnificent statues of winged boars. Then took up a sweeping drive Hogwarts came into view.
Their carriages brought them before the great oak door and alongside their fellow students made their way up the steps into the castle and from there made their way to the great hall.
The Great Hall was packed with students, all of them being seperated into the four tables each belonging to one of the four houses of Hogwarts. Rowan went to Ravenclaw, Penny Hufflepuff and Godwin went to Slytherin.
Godwin eyes scanning the teacher table as he sat down upon his table and saw that there was a new defense against the art teacher, he looked over at his perfect Fliex.
"What happened to the dark art teacher?"
"Don't know we seem to go through them like chocolate frogs, I'm sure dumbledore will tell us" just as everyone became settled, the first years entered the great hall and were brought before the sorting hat who sung a song for them, then they were split betweening the four houses.
Liz tuttle to Slytherin, diego capian to huffpuff, talbott winger to ravenclaw and many others were sorted. Then Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts stepped forward to begin his start of year speech.
"I regret to inform you all that the last dark art teacher Blackwater had to quit because of personal issues at home. So today I introduce to you our new defenses against the dark arts teacher Miss. Mercury," this was followed by an applause by the student, then dumbledore continued. "I will remind you all that the forbidden forest is out of bounds and along with the village of hogmead which is also out of bounds to everyone below third year, if your interested joining the quidditch teams, please talk to your house prefect and they will tell you all you need to know, now enjoy the feast!" the vast array of food appearing before them and the student tuck into the feast.
"Godwin, I have been to see the Gryffindor table, none of them have seen Ben, he didn't show up to the feast!?" Penny said, coming over to see him five minutes into the feast, he sat up from his table.
"Are you sure?, best ask around more before we assume anything" The two of them split up and asked some of the students at the other tables.
Charlie Wesley mentioned, seeing him in the courtyard studying, Hagrid told Godwin he last saw him wandering around the edge of the forbidden forest which was odd for Ben, who was scared senseless of the place, might have been mistaken identity?. Either way no one seemed to know where he was now, during he asking around he found himself approached by professor mcgonagall
"What seems to be the matter, Mister Le Fey, should you be enjoying the feast?"
"It's Ben Cooper, miss, we can't seem to find him?"
Professor McGonagall eagle eye scanned the hall before returning to him.
"I'll look into it, they could be a perfectly harmless reason for his disappearance, now please sit down and enjoy the feast" he returned to Penny shortly after they agreed to return to their tables. Later on the perfect would take the house to their dorms, upon reaching the Slytherin dorm, Merula approached Godwin.
"Any luck finding that Mud-blood?" She asked with a smug grin.
"What do you know about it?",he said with a tone of irritation.
"I know a lot more than you, sometimes when people are missing, they are exactly when they are supposed to be," she said, the grin spread into a wide smile.
"Merula, what do you mean by that exactly!?" Godwin said, eyebrows furrowing.
"Things are happening at this school that you could never begin to understand. If you're not careful Le Fey you could end up getting yourself killed"
She was speaking in riddles, Godwin was sure she was just messing with his head, there was no way she could know anymore than him.
"I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with these riddles Merula, I'm not playing mind games with you!" he said sternly
"Fine, don't say I didn't warn you" Merula said and walked off in the next couple of days there was no sight of Ben. Then within one of his Transfiguration lessons, Professor Mcgonagall pulled him aside.
"Excuse me Mister Le Fey, there are a few things I need to talk with you about" Godwin looked over to rowan.
"Go ahead, I'll meet you later." Godwin said then went back to his seat.
"What do you want, Professor McGonagall?" she sat down next to him with a stern look upon her face.
"This is about Mister. Cooper disappearances and your ill advised trip to that corridor last year. Did anything strange happen, did you see any signs, or anything that could be a threat to the school" Godwin went to open his mouth but the words fell short, he wanted to tell the teacher as little as possible about his plan, since they did not approve of his search for his brother "Mister Le Fey, please this is a friend of yours" professor mcgonagall added.
"Alright, but honestly I can't see it helping you but, we found this runic language and Rowan translated it as the knight standing guard over vanishing staircases and… I may have had visions" he said, deciding to leave out the part where also heard voices within his head.
"Visions, what of?" She asked, with a tone of concern in her voice.
"A knight and a staircase, the knight was standing guard over a door seemingly made of ice and also visions of dragons, giant spiders and somethings I don't understand"
"I see, thank you for telling me about this, I'll take this information to Dumbledore at once. Now please for the love magic, stay away from the vaults. Leave the search for your brother to the proper authorities, Mister Le Fey"
" I wouldn't take an unnecessary risk," he said as she shook her head and sighed.
"I fear for you Mister Le Fey, this is something else I wanted. You've been doing very well in transfiguration so I wanted to offer you advance class if you interested"
"Of course," he said with a smile.
"Good, I'll inform you later on when the lessons are going to take place" then allowed him to leave.
Godwin temporarily dropped any plans to look for the vaults so he could look for Ben instead with the aid of Penny, Charlie, Tonk, Rowan and together to scan the whole castle for most of that week, but when the weekend came they could throw a proper search without lessons getting in the way, that saturday however they found nothing and Ben's disappearance was beginning to weigh down on him.
The next day Godwin was having his breakfast, his thoughts fixed on the cursed vaults and the disappearances of Ben and his big brother.
"Hey Godwin!" Penny said, sitting by him upon the Slytherin table.
"What's wrong?" she asked, seeing his long frown and the sad look in his eye.
"Well, first my brother disappeared last year, now Ben, I'm starting to think I am cursed " Penny rubbed his back.
"Oh Godwin, don't you dare think like that!, you know I think you need to take a break, Ravenclaw having a friendly against Slytherin today, let's watch together!"
"I don't know I have homework to do and have not even started looking for the vaults or big brother" she grabbed him by the hand.
"I insisted, you need to let go and relax for a bit, please Godwin" she said with wide pleading eyes, he sighs in defeat.
"Alright, one game couldn't hurt'' she gave him a swift hug.
"Can't wait, I may be a Hufflepuff but I'm a big fan of Skye and her father's teams, I can't wait to see her in action again!" she gushed "I got an idea, let's see if any of the others can come!" she said, clapping her hand together.
Later that day they went with Rowan, Charlie and Tonks, the player proudly wearing their colours Slytherin green and Ravenclaw blue. The player where upon there brooms speeding across the stadium like jets with the match in full swing!
The Slytherin were on the assault, when a bludger slammed into the head of the attacking Chaser. The ball free falling as it dropped from the chase hand.
"YES!" Tonks yelled, fist pumping into air.
A Slytherin female chaser came swooping down catching it mid-air. She pulled her broom up and speed towards the goal,
"Beautiful catch, Skye!" yelled Godwin, the Ravenclaw players came racing toward her, she swooped under the first player and twisted past the second with the goal in sight. She threw the ball which ripped past the keeper and went into the second highest hoop.
"That's it, That's a hat trick of fifty pointer from Skye, she is on a roll today!" said the commentator.
"Yes, 430, to 280, take that!" Godwin said with a bright smile, as new Slytherin joined the match, while the player taken out by the Bludger was seen to be on the field below.
"Whatever, this match ain't over yet, we're going to come back!" Rowan said.
"They better hurry, time is running out!" Tonks said.
"Too bad about that poor Slytherin player, I hope he's ok" Penny said.
"I think the Slytherin beaters are slipping a bit, they should have been on that bludger, '' Charlie said.
"Look!, the seeker's have spotted the stitch, Come on!" Cried Rowan said
While everyone's eyes were locked onto the seekers, Godwin However was looking around for Skye, when he saw Bludger whacked by a Ravenclaw beater named Rath and it was heading right towards Penny!.
"DOWN!" Godwin screamed and grabbed hold of Penny, putting his back in the bludger path while ducking head onto Penny's shoulders. Her hands cling to him, he winces preparing for the blow, A blow that never came.
"It's ok, Godwin" Rowan said, shaking his arm, he let go of Penny and turned around.
"What happened?"
He saw Skye, flying away from them, throwing a bat back to one of the Slytherin beaters.
"I've never seen anything like it! She was so fast, Skye stole the beater's bat and saved you, just in time" Tonks said.
A wide smile spread along his face, he was saved by his favorite player and didn't get a bludger to the back, Penny hugged him.
"Thank you Godwin, that was very brave of you!", she said, a wide ginn on her face.
"Better my back, then your face" he smiled and returned a single armed hug.
"The Ravenclaw keeper caught the stitch that gave a hundred and fifty points to ravenclaw with few monuments left in the game.
Yes! our seeker caught the stitch! where drawing 430 all now" the seeker returned the stitch to Madam Hooch, who a few minutes later blew her whistle signaling the end of the match.
"Just a friendly, we kick your ass next time" Godwin said with a smirk, to Rowan.
Later that day Godwin went to the hostapull wing, in hope to see Skye there, as She would likely be visiting the injured Slytherin Player.
When he arrived at the hospital wing and waited for Skye to finish talking to her friends, before he approached her.
"Hey sorry to interrupt you but I really wanted to thank you for saving me and my friend in that last game" She turned to him and sized him up.
"Um…. Oh yeah, I remember you, no problem" Godwin glanced over to her bedstrickend teammate.
"Is he going to be ok?",
"He is ok, but knocked out, not sure when he'll wake up, it could be awhile before he'll be cleared to play again. if you want to return the favor feel free to show up to try outs, we lost a lot of good players last year" Skye, went off with the rest of the players
When he mentioned what happened to Penny later on that day during dinner, her eyes lit up with excitement.
"trys outs, you must give it ago," Penny said, drumming the table.
"I would love to, but I'm really not sure if I have time and there would be alot of people who could be better for it, I'm only second year,"
"Oh come on Godwin, you never know if you don't give it a shot, and just think, if you joined up in second year, by seventh, you could be the best player on the team!" Godwin imagined being one of the many players, hearing the many housemates cheering him on like they do with Skye and smiled.
"Alright, maybe I could at latest give a shot"
"Hey, you know Andire," Rowan said, sitting next to them.
"Yeah sure, what about him?" Godwin asked.
"He saw Merula with Ismelda and Barnby Lee, and they seem to be up to something, though he couldn't get close enough to find out what" Godwin wonder if it has anything to do with the cursed vaults, he had been wasting too much time, she could be close to finding the vaults, he was wondering if he should start looking into the vaults, when…"
"Guys, I got something!" Charlie Wesley said, running over to them, sitting down on their table, pulling out a piece of paper.
"I found this, it was under Ben's bed" Godwin took a look at it but it seemed to be nonsense.
"I can't make heads or tails of it, what do you think Rowan?" Godwin said, passing the note to Rowan.
"Hmm, looks like some kind of code", Rowan said, giving it once over.
"Do you think you would be able to crack it?" Charlie asked.
"It may take awhile but I'm sure I can '' put their note away for later, spending dinner with them, Godwin notices Skye, sitting upon the same Slytherin table and with the conversation he had with penny frash on his mind, he comes to a decision to go to the try out. It would be nice to get advice from Skye, he wasn't bad at flying but only had a year experiences with flying from his year one lesson.
"Give me a second" he said to his friends, then getting up, he sat next to Skye upon the table.
"Do you want something?", she asked, giving him a sideways glance.
"I want to train for the try outs and um, would it be ok if I can get some training form you" there was a pause.
"well would love to but I got an Charms test coming up and I really need to focus on that",
"Well I could help you with that if you like, I'm one of the best charms students in my class?",
"Alright then, how much about quidditch? and how's your flying?",
"Well my favorite team is Caerphilly, I've seen a lot of their games and I know all the rules. but I only learnt how to fly last year, cuz my mum was heavily strich with me using magic as I was growing up.",
" I've also heard you have quite the talent in charms, and seen you tutor some of the other Slytherin students,... alright then"
"Well when is your test?"
"Well that would be tomorrow, '' she said, giggling nervously, Godwin gasped.
"You don't leave me with much time, we will need to start straight away", he said edgerly
"Meet me at the quidditch stadium, after I had my food" she insisted.
Meeting Skye in the Hogwarts quidditch stadium they had a great view of the beauty of lush green fields and nearby forest.
"So what makes you wanna study here?" Godwin asked.
"I feel most at home here, not to mention it's far quieter than the library, let me get the pages I need to work on" she started ripping the pages out of her book one by one, Godwin pausing giving her uncertain look.
"What are you doing?"
"Getting the pages I need to study, no point going through it all" she said with a shrug.
"Well ok, your book I guess" Godwin said chulcked, some of the pages she ripped out flew into the air
"Bugger!" she cried, while the pair of them got up and rushed to gather up the pages .
"You need to be more careful, if you're going to do that?" Godwin said, catching the last of the pages, as he handed over the pages she gave him a smirk.
"Smashing, You got a good reaction there" The two of them studied away within the heights of the stadium.