Chapter 7
"How to you know this… thing?" Lily demanded, gesturing to James.
"Who?" Raelin retorted. "Whoever she's talking about raise your hand."
James raised a curious hand.
"James?" he nodded. "Ah, I see. Well, Val met them when Ranger decided to go over and introduce himself to Remus and I met Sirius, James and Remus in Diagon Alley yesterday when Ranger decided to say hi."
"I see," the Muggle born murmured, glaring at James. "Are you from Romania?"
"You noticed the accent too." Raelin grinned. "I was born here, and raised there, same with all my sisters."
"Who are they?" Peter asked in his squeaky voice.
Raelin pointed over to Vala, who had dozed off in her spot. "That's Vala, and that's Zareh." The young werewolf pointed upwards to her sleeping sister.
Sirius and James looked at each other with wearied glances, recognizing her from the barrier.
"This is your first year then." Lily stated.
Raelin nodded proudly. "Yup, sure is. I was personally surprised when we all got the letter, considering my small disability."
"Yes, very small." Vala muttered mockingly.
"I thought you were asleep." Raelin stated, slightly shocked.
The half vampire smiled slightly. "No, just have my eyes closed."
"What disability?" Sirius asked suddenly, promptly getting smacked in the leg by Lily.
Raelin looked shocked, she had always thought it was very noticeable and they were just being nice to her beforehand. "You can't tell?"
Everyone present (excluding her sisters) shook their heads.
"I'm blind." She said bluntly. The cabin suddenly went very quiet.
"Oh, umm… do you know what house you're in?" Lily questioned.
Raelin smiled, happy that they were taking the news so well. "I do know, but you'll just have to wait and see what the future has in store for you."
"You sound like a bloody fortune cookie." Zareh mumbled in her sleep.
"Thanks a lot, it means to much to me." Raelin replied sarcastically.
"I'm hungry," Sirius complained.
"We've been on the train, like, ten minutes at the most." James replied, annoyed.
Raelin patted her robes, until she came to stop at one of her inside pockets. Reaching into it, she brought out a small bag full of grey berries.
"Want some?" she asked innocently, holding out the bag in front of her.
Sirius practically dove for the bag, taking several of the berries held within and hastily threw them into his mouth, before making a sour face at the taste of them. "Ugh, what are these?"
"Lycan berries," Vala explained, sitting upright and smiling toothily. "They turn you into a werewolf."
The Marauders all turned very pale as Sirius gulped loudly, accidentally swallowing the berries. He looked sick all of a sudden.
Raelin couldn't hold it in any longer, and burst out laughing suddenly.
"What is wrong with you?" Sirius demanded. "You just fed me berries that turn me into a werewolf! I can't live with being a werewolf!"
Raelin's eyes suddenly darkened. "You got a problem with werewolves or something?" she growled, narrowing her eyes at the aura she deemed to be Sirius.
"No, of course not. I just can't deal with being a werewolf myself."
"I was just joking anyway, they just call them Lycan berries because usually only wolves like them, isn't that right Ranger?"
The wolf barked in response, taking several out of Raelin's outstretched palm. He suddenly looked at James expectantly and nudged his knee with his nose.
James chuckled. "You smelt these, didn't you?" the wizard reached into one of the pockets of his robe and took out several dog biscuits. "They're dog treats," he explained, seeing the confused look upon Raelin's face.
"Ah, I see." The werewolf replied, nodding her head.
Ranger quickly, but politely, took a treat out of James's hand. He gave a muffled bark as thanks.
Lily chuckled and reached out, petting the wolf's head softly.
The guide wolf visibly stiffened, but allowed himself to be pet by the redhead. Sirius, being the type of person he was, also stretched out his hand to pet the wolf, but Ranger turned his head to him and growled.
"What is wrong with you?" Sirius whined.
Raelin laughed. "It's like James said before, he has good taste."
Lily snorted. "He's obviously blind in one eye… the one facing James."
Zareh snored loudly and her right foot fell off the rack as the train bumped slightly, almost hitting Peter in the face.
"Is she bothering you?" Raelin questioned, reading the uncomfortable aura of the teen.
"Y-yes," Peter stammered, poking Zareh's booted foot slightly.
Raelin looked up to her oldest sister with an evil glint in her sightless eyes. "Zar, I'm terribly sorry, but I broke your wand."
The sorceress's eyes flew open and she sat up, hit her head off the roof, swore loudly and rolled off the rack, landing on the floor with a loud thump.
"YOU WHAT?" she screamed, frantically searching through her pockets for her wand.
The sides of Raelin's mouth twitched as she tried not to laugh.
Zareh stopped slapping her robes and glared at her youngest sister, seeing as her hand had come to a stop in the pocket that held her wand. "I hate you so much right now." She muttered, sitting down on the floor underneath the window.
"Glad to hear it," Raelin replied cheerily, a broad grin spread across her freckled face.
"Who are all you?" Zareh questioned, looking at the five newcomers to the cabin with a suspicious glint in her uniquely coloured eyes.
"I'm Lily Evans."
Zareh shook the redhead's outstretched hand and looked expectantly at the others for an introduction, which Sirius gave her.
"Sirius Black, at your service, and this is James Potter… and Peter Pettigrew." He added quickly. "Oh, and how, might I ask, is your suicide plan coming along? Got your jumping skills sorted out?"
Raelin and Vala looked horrified as they glanced down to a very embarrassed Zareh.
"I was only joking," the sorceress muttered, letting her hair fall down over her face to hide her blush. "When I get sc– er – I mean, startled, I tend to snap at anyone."
Raelin nodded. "It's true, once she nearly bit me because I was home after dark. With the deadly vampires out and whatnot."
"V-vampires?" Peter squeaked, almost like a rat.
Vala turned towards him. "Of course, we're just lucky we lived far enough away from the Castle Dracula to keep out necks to ourselves."
Raelin snorted, though slightly freaked out that Vala was actually talking. "When's lunch, I'm hungry too and those berries don't fill you up."
"The lunch trolley should be coming around in a bit." Lily replied before James could.
Vala raised an eyebrow and looked back and forth between James and Lily a few times. Ugh, those two like each other so much it's sickening. She thought, rolling her eyes behind the dark sunglasses she had on.
The rest of the train ride was rather uneventful; Lily and James were at each other's throats, lunch consisted solely on chocolate, Remus came into the cabin after assuming his duties as a Perfect with roughly an hour left… boring.
Now, after the train stopped, that's a different story and a more eventful one at that too.
As everyone began to file off the train, Ranger began to get more and more protective of his master, growling at everyone who came a little too close to Raelin.
"Ranger, will you stop it?" Raelin shouted, glaring down at her wolf as he snapped at yet another wizard.
"He's just doing what he was born to do, Rae." Zareh retorted, slithering through the crowd until she finally reached the outer border of the mass.
Raelin glared at her sister too and was about to say something, when she tripped over someone's trunk and landed on the ground with a thud.
"Are you okay, Raelin?" Lily questioned, concern lacing through every word.
"I'm fine." The werewolf replied, trying to stop herself from blushing due to embarrassment. "Ranger, fetch my stick please."
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" a cold voice questioned.
"What do you want, Kuthroat?" James sneered, walking up beside Lily and Raelin with the rest of the Marauder's following.
"Nothing from you, Potter." Nicholas Kuthroat (a Slytherin, whose family was good friends with the Malfoy's) replied. "I was merely greeting the Mudblood who think she's a pureblood, according to Lucius."
Raelin's eye twitched in irritation as she tried to keep her anger bottled up within her. "What did you call me?" she asked in a deadly low voice, which sort of turned into a growl.
Nicholas opened his mouth to reply, when Vala suddenly stepped in front of him, startling him.
"Do we have a problem here?" she questioned, looking straight into Nicholas's eyes, seeing as she was just as tall as he was.
"Not at all, Val. Let's go." Raelin replied once she got her walking stick back into her hand.
Vala gave Nicholas a ghostly smile. "Stay away from my sister, Kuthroat." She said sweetly before walking back over to Zareh with her tattered black robes flying behind her.
Raelin and Lily were also walking over to the two when Nicholas had the nerve to get the last word in.
"Mudblood." He said quietly.
Raelin whirled around at an astonishing speed and stormed over to the aura she knew was Lucius's and punched him in the nose. The wizard fell backwards and nearly landed on a group of second year Ravenclaws'.
"If I here you call me or anyone else a Mudblood ever again, you'll be sorry." The werewolf barked, almost literally.
"Oh will I?" Nicholas dared question as he stood up with the help of a few bystanders (who were of course Slytherins), holding his bloody, and possibly broken, nose.
"Yes you will," Raelin gave him an evil smile. "Because I'm sure your pride has been quite bruised at the moment and you may want to wait until you graduate before calling someone a Mudblood again."
"And why would that be?"
Again, Raelin gave him an evil smile. "Because you just got beat up by a girl, Kuthroat. A blind girl at that too."
And with that, Raelin walked over to her sisters and new friend, and boarded a carriage without another word. Leaving behind an enraged Nicholas Kuthroat and half a platform of shocked students from every year, almost all were afraid to laugh.
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