THE BOYS WHO LIVED
CHAPTER 06: BLOOD OATHS AND FIRST LESSONS
It was the very next day that Neville and Harry were released from the Hospital but Hakkai was moved to the school facilities where she will be monitored more closely byschool staff. As the days went passed nothing out of the ordinary happened. Sean and his gang are still recovering from the brutal attack, and are receiving therapy for his homicidal nature. As for the boys they are still struggling with music class.
"BLOODY HELL!" Ron yelled as he threw down his sticks and they shattered instantly on the ground. "We have been trying for weeks and we still have not figured out how to play or anyone to teach us!" he then stormed towards the door when suddenly.
In the hall stood Hakkai dressed in her usual attire looking better but still clutched her stomach. "What are you doing out of bed Hunter?" Draco asked, "I heard you play from down the hall, and to me you suck," she said smirking as she sat down on one of the desks far away. "Oh yeah then if you are so smart then you play," Ron answered hotly, and Kai smirked as Ron handed her a guitar, "I do not want to play with a piece of crap," she said as she looked at the broken instrument. Walking towards the drums she sat down behind them and produced out of thin air a pair of fresh sticks and looked for a set without holes finding none she walked towards a desk on the other side of the band room and found a roll of duct tape and began to tape up the drums with holes.
She did so with such precision that Harry had to ask himself if she did this before. When Hakkai was done she slowly sat behind the chair and tested the drums. Satisfied with her work and slowly picked up the pair of sticks and slowly began to beat a rhythm on the drums to test them out. With satisfaction she began to beat harder into a rhythm that captivated the boys. She played with enthusiasm as she struck the instrument with all she had and each beat became a steady rhythm some wild, and some tame. She held their attention for a while as she beat the drum and eventually it came to an end.
The group stood stunned as Kai got up and looked at them with a cool gaze. Picking up the guitar she inspected the least damaged one and picked at the cords but found them too damage to do anything. Shaking her head she put the guitar down and moved to the keyboard and inspected it but found that it too to be a piece of junk. "First lesson find new instruments," she muttered to herself. They stood there when she came up to them, "How did you do that?" they asked at once and Kai smirked, "I learned how to play different instruments back home in America." She said smugly.
The group looked at her in awe, "You learned how to play back in America? " Ron said surprised and Kai nodded, "Of course what else was I to do in a penitentiary," Kai said with a smirk. "Um you were incarcerated?" they asked, "Duh!" said Dean, "Remember what Eddie said!" he said looking frightened as they gazed at an amused Kai.
Hakkai paid them no heed as they looked almost deathly pale. "Of course everyone knows my life through Eddie the slasher fan," Hakkai said and they gave her confused looks, "What? I am aware of what that bastard says about me," she said her voice sounded almost hurt but she shrugged, "Of course the reason I learned to play in America is of course you know that I am an American." She said her gloved hands knitted around themselves as she gave them a fierce look her amusement gone. "Of course the real reason why I am here is to discuss the matters that happened at the hospital." She said and the others gave each other knowing looks, "But we will not discuss it here follow me," she said and walked out of the room.
They followed her down the hall towards the dormitories. As they walked towards the girls dorms Kai suddenly took a left and headed towards a separate dorm away from the others. She then turned a sharp right and headed towards the outside. "The school thought it would not be safe for me to be in the dorms here so they placed me elsewhere," she said and headed towards a set of stairs and opened the door. She slowly down the stairs and down a long passageway lit by various lights. "This school was built in the height of the Second World War and so built this shelter to protect the students, but it has been converted to my dormitory as a ways of keeping their precious students safe." She said as she reached the entrance. "Of course they have ventilation shafts and other means of air also they have a place where I can be released in the woods," she said looking like an animal. "Why are you leading us here?" asked Harry, "Because I want to know more without disturbance," Kai replied, "Your not going to torture us are you?" asked Seamus and Kai smirked as she opened the door.
When they went inside it looked more like something out of a Jules Vern novel. The room had plants everywhere with a fountain in the middle and an actual river that flows through it. There is a pool in the center with a bed off to the side and a table for studying. Cages littered the walls on some side and animals flew around here and there. All in all it looks like a forest of a fantasy novel. "I see you brought guests Kai" hissed a voice and Harry looked down to see Quick Strike the rattlesnake in one of the trees his face as impassive as always. The snake flicked his tongue out at Neville and the boy backed away, "I remember that snake!" he said and the snake only slithered on his arm as the boy sweat frightened. "He won't bite," Hakkai said as she stroked the snake, "His name's Quick Strike and he is a crossbreed between a Mahabi Rattlesnake, a King Cobra and something else I don't know," she said, "I remember him killing a mouse without biting by using his gaze I thought that was quiet amazing, and so told him to only do it at meals," and Harry turned on her, "You mean Quick Strike is part Basilisk!" he said, "Basilisk?" Kai said and Harry smacked his head with his hand.
"That is right you are a Muggle," he muttered, "What pray tell is a Muggle?" Kai asked her voice growing cold, "A Muggle is a non magical person," a new voice interrupted them and they turned to find Hermione waiting for them. "Ah I seen Crookshanks showed you the way," Kai said smugly, "Yes and I also gotten your note," Hermione said as sat down on one of the chairs that they did not notice before. "Good now that you are all here," Kai said and closed the door.
The door closed with a bang and a locking mechanism worked to lock the door, "Is that necessary?" asked a nervous Neville, "Yes when containing an alleged psychotic killer," Kai said in amusement and Harry being the leader of the group looked at her, "Why did you bring us here?" he demanded, "If you wish to learn my secrets as well as I learn yours you must do a little ritual for me," she said.
The group looked at her with strange expressions on their faces, "A ritual?" asked Ron, "Yes a ritual it will show me if you are willing to spill without anything leaving this room," Hakkai replied and they looked at her strangely as she walked further into the jungle. She led them to a clearing in which felt rather cool instead of humid and hot. "Stay here," she ordered and disappeared only to reappear with what looks like a bowl and a knife. The dagger was a rather odd shaped one. It looked strange but Harry could tell it was not of this country. The blade itself looked far stronger then any normal knife his aunt uses but when he read the strange kanji on the side he knew it was from Asia. There was a Chinese dragon carved on the side of the blade as Kai approached them. "I will need your blood," she said and the others blanched, "You are going to do a blood ritual?" Seamus said pale. "Yeah and is there something wrong with that?" Kai said and Seamus shut up his face gone pale under her gaze.
Kai then walked up to the center of the group, "I need you to get into a circle and cut your hands with this knife," she said and the others looked at her as if she were crazy. "Do it!" she said and then Draco hesitantly took the knife and slit his hand with the sharp blade. He winced in pain as blood began to pour from it into the bowl in Kai's hand. When she had enough she walked over to the next person and they did the same all the way through. Kai then slit her own hand and watched the blood flow. "Before I help you, you all will have to take a blood oath. This oath is a reminder to all of you that what goes on in this room remains here and does not leave. We share all secrets even some as stupid as sleeping with a nightlight," she said and saw some confused looks on people. Rolling her eyes Hermione then repeated something so they understood, "What Hakkai is saying is something as embarrassing as playing with yourself," and most of the boys blushed and some blanched.
"Are we clear on that?" Kai said her voice became more prominent but her American accent is not like the last time. Her voice this time was of someone not of the stereotypical American with the cowboy hat. Harry was confused at this accent and saw Hakkai's eyes bore into his. She then walked up to him and grabbed his hand and with the knife in her hand she slit his wrist pretty deep. Harry winced as she cut pretty deep. She then walked around to each and every one of them and did the same thing. Everyone watched in horror at the blood flowing freely before Hakkai cut her own wrist and they watched as her blood flowed to the ground. "Now shake hands with each other," she said and the others reluctantly did so and watched as their blood flowed when mixed, "Isn't this a way to get A.I.D.S.?" said Seamus, "It is a way but in this case I think you're clean," Hakkai replied in a very military fashion.
The others gave her skeptical looks as she then took blood from them and marked each and every one of them with marks that they instantly recognized as various scars on their bodies including the dark mark. "How did you know about that one?" asked Dean, "That is my secret," Kai answered and walked in the front of them. As she did she pulled up a lighter and heated up the knife and pressed it to his wrist the end of the blade on his hand. Harry tried to keep from screaming as tears streamed down his eyes. When he looked the bleeding stopped as she proceeded to do the same to everyone else.
When everyone stopped whimpering it was Draco that screamed, "What the hell was that for bitch!" he then glared and Kai then smirked, "You have just passed a test that very few pasted. You see that oath you just took is unbreakable and if you so ever say a word outside this room then Quick Strike will find you and kill you outright is that clear?" she said. "How will he find us even if we are miles away, "You now have my blood in your veins and for a hybrid he can tell my essence from others," she said smugly.
Hakkai was true to her word as she led them deeper into the compound. "Wow this place is huge!" exclaimed Hermione, "Of course it had to accommodate everyone in the school," Kai said as she walked further into the building, "It still can accommodate people it is just that it has been made for me," she said, "It feels like you are a zoo animal here," Hermione said, "In a way I am," Hakkai said, "Zoo animals are my specialty," she said in mock amusement.
The rest of the time in the room was left to discuss what Hakkai had seen in the hospital. According to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, Dean, Seamus, and Neville they are all wizards (or witch in Hermione's case) and explained the magical world to her. In return Kai explained why she is in a British school.
It turns out that Hakkai can't remember much of her past. She remembers all the times she has been incarcerated and broken out killing lots of people in the process. Hakkai was incarcerated for numerous crimes from Murder toterrorism and because she is a minor and did it accidentally her country could not truly pull down the laws that they normally do for Terrorists. It seems that when ever her dark mark burns Hakkai would feel a wholelot of pain so much pain in fact that she kills without reason. That and the fact that she has been living on the streets since she was nine years of age. Kai does not remember much of her age because when her parents died they left her with practically nothing but a couple of books.
Hermione picking up one of the books and was surprised by the title. Dark Rituals and Guide to the Dark Arts Draco also saw the title and gasped. "Your parents left you this?" Draco asked and Hakkai nodded, "This is one of the rarest books on the dark arts in the world. Father was spending thousands of galleons to get a hold of one of these." He said and Hakkai looked at him with wide eyes, "You mean the ritual I just did from that book was a real magical ritual?" she said confused, "How about we make a deal, we teach you about the dark arts and magic and you teach us about those so called garbage called music?" Dean said and Hakkai smirked.
"Deal!"
TBC