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cheekymonkey31: Thank ya very much. I wanted to write an original fanfic… not that I've really read any HP fanfics (my mum would kill me) but I try.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I'll try and get the next chapter posted ASAP and I'm still looking for a better title!

For clarification:

Words usually means thoughts, but not always

Words usually means letters and/or spells

Words usually means either a change in date/time/place

And just so you guys aren't confused, Zareh is nearly seventeen, Raelin is almost fifteen and Vala is near sixteen. Oh, and, when I say football; it means football in European terms and soccer in Canadian/American terms, K?

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Chapter 1

The three sisters waited three days for their father to return to their house, but he never did. Zareh managed help her sisters to the nearest road with a few of their belongings, where none other than the leader of a vampire clan spotted them. Drake, the leader, pitied the young outsiders and took them back with him to Transylvania, where they lived in peace – sort of – for the next ten years of their lives.

August 15, 1976: four a.m.

A figure crept through the bushes near the middle of the vampire village with a crossbow and many other items on their persona.

Little did they know, they were being stalked through the trees, by at least a dozen vampires, only one was to move in for the kill though.

The vampire slayer loaded their crossbow and took aim at a younger vampire in the middle of the courtyard.

There was a swooshing sound behind them and a low growl. The slayer's eyes went wide and their breath went short as they slowly turned around.

"You're new at this, aren't you?" Drake questioned in a thick accent. "Because if you weren't, then you would know that you should never enter a vampire clan without backup."

He bared his fangs and lunged at the unfortunate victim.

"They never learn." Raelin stated, walking towards the vampire.

She still had the same curly blond hair that went a little past her shoulders and hazel eyes. The werewolf was a little taller now, nearly five foot five and Ranger was still ever present at her side.

"No they don't, Raelin. Where are your sisters?" Drake questioned, tossing the body he was holding aside.

"Zareh is probably up in the tower, reading another book." The werewolf stated, stoking Ranger's head as she began to walk towards the village. "And Vala is right behind me."

As if on queue, the half vampire walked out of the shadows of the surrounding forest and into the light of the torches lining the street. Vala was still the same, though her hair was now waist length and she was nearly six foot two. She had barely talked for nearly ten years, ever since that day when her mother was killed.

Even though Raelin was surrounded by vampires with the same red auras, she could always tell who Vala was, only because her left hand wasn't red; it was green. No matter how hard the sisters tried, neither Raelin nor Zareh could get her to talk about whom killed their mother all those years ago. Vala always wore black gloves with the fingers cut off in the middle so no one could see what the Death Eater had drawn on her hand.

Right now, all the vampires were coming back from their nightly hunt. Vala had on black boots that went nearly to her knees, a pair of blue jeans and a tight black T-shirt with a low-cut back for her wings, with her hair up in a loose bun.

Raelin was wearing normal clothes, a long grey skirt and a green T-shirt with her hair hanging loose over her shoulders. She was tapping her walking stick out in front of her, watching out for holes in the cobblestone road as they walked towards their house; a large, spooky-looking, Victorian style home with a tall tower in the east wing, where Zareh spent a lot of her time.

"Have a good sleep, my daughters." Drake said, bowing slightly to the two sisters before heading towards his own home.

The vampiric leader had taken to calling the three his daughters, since he had no children of his own.

"'Night father." Raelin replied cheerily, where as Vala just nodded her head.

The half vampire opened up the door and stepped inside, helping her blind sister in too.

"You really ought to start talking again, Val. You had such a pretty voice." Raelin stated suddenly, looking up at her much taller sister.

Vala raised an eyebrow and shook her head as she walked up the large staircase in the middle of the entrance.

"What?" Raelin asked, reading her sister's annoyed aura. "It's true! Last time I heard it was, like, two years ago. And that was only you saying hello to our new vampire guests in the village. Talk woman!"

Vala couldn't keep the laughter to herself anymore; she opened her mouth and laughed loudly.

Raelin sighed and nearly tripped over a loose board on the last step. "Well, it's a start. Haven't heard you laugh since we put spiders in Zareh's bed, like, a month ago."

"And I'll kill you two if you do it again." Zareh stated sweetly as she walked down the winding stairs to the tower, looking exactly like she did ten years ago, only around five foot four now. "To bed, both of you. I don't see why you're up all night, Rae, it's not even a full moon!"

The youngest crossed her arms and huffed. "I can do whatever I please, Zar."

Zareh looked down at her sister's wolf. "Ranger, if you don't get your master in at ten o'clock from now on – a full moon is an exception – I will take you to the vet and you know what will happen there." She never had to finish her threat as the wolf's brown eyes went wide and hid behind Raelin, whimpering like a puppy.

Raelin rolled her sightless eyes and placed her right hand on a raised piece of the wall. "I don't know about the vampire and sorceress in the family, but I am dead tired. Night." The werewolf followed the wall and gripped Ranger's leash tightly in her left hand, disappearing into the shadows of the dimly lit hallway.

Vala chuckled slightly and walked silently into the shadow of the torch, melting into it and shadow-porting to her bedroom. Zareh scratched her head and sighed, walking towards her own room to sleep away the last few hours of darkness.

Next Day…

Vala woke to the sound of birds chirping outside her window, and little vampiric children (who could stand the sun still) were outside, playing football. The half vampire opened up one eye and glanced beside her at the clock, which read five o'clock p.m.

"Val!" Raelin's slightly high-pitched voice rang throughout the old house. "Zareh says it's time to get up!"

Vala groaned and pulled her pillow over her head, snuggling further into her covers. She heard the angry werewolf stomping up the stairs with her wolf at her side.

The door's hinges creaked slightly as Raelin burst through it. "Up, up, up!" she shouted, snapping her fingers and pointing in the direction of her sister.

Ranger understood this gesture and ran over to the four-post bed, pulling off the covers with his teeth. Vala groaned and shoved the pillow farther down onto her head, muttering inaudible curses at her younger sister.

"Come on, Vala." Raelin whined, using her walking stick to guild herself over to the bed without tripping over anything. "Zareh got something today while we were asleep and has called an unofficial family meeting in the kitchen."

Vala sighed and got out of her bed, dragging herself over to her dresser.

"I'll meet you downstairs in a few minutes." Raelin stated.

She took Ranger's leash and closed the door behind her. The half vampire rolled her dark eyes and took out a few articles of clothing: a long black skirt, a blood red sweater with a low-cut back for her wings and her high boots.

After a quick bath in her own tub, Vala raced downstairs while brushing her long, dark hair to rid it of the tangles it held within it.

"So nice for you to join us." Zareh stated sarcastically as she sat at the head of the table with Drake sitting to her right and Raelin actually sitting on the table to her left.

Vala grinned broadly, showing her longish fangs as she sat on the table beside Raelin.

"So what's this about?" Raelin demanded, getting straight to the point.

Zareh looked sharply at her sister before setting a single piece of paper upon the table. It read as the following:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL

of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,

Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)

Dear Miss Zareh, Raelin and Vala Knight;

I am grateful to inform you all that all three of you have been selected to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Even though you three have never attended a magical school beforehand, I am sure you will not have any trouble starting off in the years you would be in this school year. Term begins on September 1. Please write back as soon as possible with all of your responses and give it to the owl. We await your owl no later than August 20. Hope to see you soon.

Have a Good Day,

Albus Dumbledore

Headmaster

Once everyone had read it (Zareh reading it lowly for Raelin), Drake spoke.

"You three should go, both your mother and father went to the school."

"I think we should take it too. I've read a lot about it since I got it this morning." Zareh stated excitedly.

"I heard about it from our parents, and have no doubt in my mind that you're going to get into the Ravenclaw house. It's for all the really smart people and stuff like that." Raelin stated with a sour look on her slightly pale face. "I'm game for it, so there's my two Muggle cents into the conversation. Now, if you will excuse me." Raelin leapt lightly down onto the floor and took Ranger's leash in her hand. "I'm going to go play football with the young people."

Once the young werewolf was out of the room, Zareh turned her gaze to her half sister.

"What do you think, Vala?" Drake questioned. It was plainly obvious that he favored her because of what blood ran through her veins.

The half vampire smiled slightly as she read over the letter once more before nodding in agreement.

"You can go play outside with Raelin if you want, Val. Count Drake and I just have to go over a few things before we make our final decision." Zareh instructed, nodding her head in approval.

Vala ruffled her wings a bit before walking out of the house into the crisp, night air of late summer. The near sixteen-year-old took a deep breath in and let it out slowly, letting the warm breeze brush against her pale skin and play with her hair.

"Countess Vala, are you joining us?" Demetri, a near fourteen year old half vampire, asked, as he threw the ball at the older girl's head.

Vala chuckled as she caught it and threw it back at him, while giving him a look that clearly said: Don't call me Countess and sure.

"We get Vala!" Demetri yelled to the other young vampires as he ran back over to the group.

"That's now fair!" a little ten year old pureblooded vampire whined, stomping her foot on the ground. "You get both Raelin and Vala."

"Fine, you guys get Raelin." Demetri replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

The werewolf pretended to look hurt. "You don't like me?" she questioned. "It's because I'm blind isn't it?"

Demetri's eyes went wide in horror. "I am so sorry, it's not that at all, I just–"

Raelin laughed loudly. "I was just being sarcastic, Dem. Learn my ways of speech. Vala, use that spell to make the ball visible to me, I can't see it at the moment so I won't know when to duck if it comes flying at my head."

The half vampire rolled her eyes and took the ball from Demetri, tapping with a single finger as she said the incantation inside her head.

"Thank you." Raelin replied in an airy, very thick accent, overlapping her own British/Romanian accent.

She tossed the ball over her head to another one of her team members down the field to start the game.

"Hey!" Demetri called. "That's cheating!"

Raelin smiled sweetly before running after the bewitched ball. "I like cheating." She stated simply.

Vala grinned evilly and ran after Raelin who was just about to kick the ball further up the field and stole the ball from her younger sister. The werewolf growled and went to kick the ball away from Vala, but the half vampire kicked the ball up into the air and flew up after it.

Raelin growled in frustration. "Now that's cheating!" she whined, trying to jump up and take her sister down.

"Raelin, Vala!" Zareh's voice rang through the field as the sorceress walked over with Drake following.

Vala dropped the ball back into the game and flew over to her older sister, folding her feathered wings behind her as she landed. Raelin walked over with Ranger's leash in hand, grumbling all the way about how Vala cheated and she didn't.

"Pack your bags girls," Zareh stated, smiling widely.

Raelin's sightless eyes went wide. "You mean…?"

"Yup, we're going to Hogwarts."

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