Shado Umbra. No, she reminded herself. She was Ivy Potter – or something like that – she had to hide her not-so-secret identity as a Super Girl. She wasn't sure she was going to remember to answer to her given name, but she had to remember. Though, she had been Shado Umbra for as long as she could remember. Shado had taken her name years back, and now she would be expected to answer to Ivy Potter?
She wasn't sure she was capable of just being Ivy.
That seemed so boring.
She would probably forget about in in a couple of hours.
It was all so messed up. However, on the bright side she had gotten an awesome lap dance on the train by a cute girl, and her tongue got to enjoy a few new flavours.
The train ride was awesome, Shado thought while giddily smiling slightly before she realised, she was making a strange face and restored it to normal. She wasn't sure what she loved most, teaching some cute virgin girls how to enjoy a meal, or tasting their new and delicious flavours.
However, Shado – or Ivy wasn't so sure her next trip in a boat would be so good – well, no it wouldn't as first, she was with first years, and second, it was dark and cold, and finally, the boats didn't look like they were very well maintained, or maintained ever. The little boats the lard-arse, Hagrid expected her to ride in with the other first years looked terrible. The little things needed a lot of Tender Loving Care, and fire before new boats were brought in.
It didn't make Shado feel better when she looked over at the giant guy as he climbed into one of the boats to himself, and it sunk to a point where the edges were mere centimetres – no - millimetres away from being under water, and sinking him.
Shado was the last – well almost last to find a boat as none of the other first years seemed to have any doubts about the boats except a small brunette girl, but then five or six little first years to a boat was still likely half a ton lighter than Hagrid.
The brunette was the tiniest first year Shado could see, as she looked over the remaining empty boat dubiously. Shado couldn't blame the adorable small girl for her scepticism as the small boat looked ready to turn to dust at a light breeze.
"After you, Shortcake!" Shado whispered gently in the small girls left ear as she crouched down to her level more.
The small girl spun round in shock as Shado stood up with a wicked grin on her lips; the girls eyes flowing up to meet Shado's.
"Na-ah!" the girl replied with a few deep breaths to calm down, but her sky-blue eyes were still wide with fear and fright as they scanned the dark around them. "That thing looks like it's going to break in two if a froggy hopped onto it – and my name is Tabitha, not Shortcake!" the small girl said with a pouting glare while using her right hand to point at the decrepit little boat. "Tabitha Lacy!" she added. "And I am not getting in that silly little boat!" she finished off defiantly.
"Do you think I want to get in it?" Shado asked while raising her eyebrows. "I'll tell you what… if the boat sinks or you fall in, I'll make sure to rescue you, deal?" she asked offering her right hand to the surprised small girl.
"How can you save me?" the girl asked as she hesitated. "You're… why are you even a first year?"
Shado rolled her eyes. "It's a long story Shortcake," she replied. "I might tell you about it someday, but trust me… I am super heroic!"
"Really?" Tabitha asked as she realised, she was shaking Shado's hand.
"Totally," she agreed with a wide grin. "Shado Umbra… I mean, Ivy Potter… no. Shado Umbra, at the service of adorable young ladies everywhere. I occasionally save the odd boy too, but that's because I'm a great gal."
"Okay," Tabitha said with a confused smile as she started as Shado helped her into the boat and joined her moments later where they could sit opposite each other.
The boats started moving slowly across the quiet dark lake moments after the last two, Shado and Tabitha finally settled in their boat. They looked out and around them at the dark lake with the massively impressive silhouette of the castle school overlooking the cool water.
"Wow…" Tabitha mumbled as she looked every which way as the half-moon lit the night and shone down on the crystal black lake. "It's so pretty," she said as she turned her smiling face back to Shado/Ivy.
"I guess," Shado agreed while shrugging and looking unconcerned. "So… are you looking forward to learning some magical tricks?"
Tabitha nodded eagerly. "Yeah. Of course. It's going to be so much fun!" she readily agreed. "I hope I'm in Gryffindor. They're all the heroes like all the Slytherins are villains!"
Shado rolled her eyes and laughed. "Who told you that, Darling?"
"The lady who took us shopping," she replied with a confused frown. "Was she lying? I didn't like her at all. She was mean and everything."
"Yes, she was lying," Shado said. "I have a few Slytherin subjects… well, Slytherin friends, and I can tell you that they are very naughty girls… but in a good way."
Tabitha looked confused. "But you said they're naughty," she replied. "And what do you mean, subjects?"
"I'm just that… augh!" Shado sighed. "I've got to stop calling myself awesome. I am much too egotistical. Shado smiled sheepishly as she stopped herself from rambling with a sheepish smile as Tabitha was looking at her oddly.
"So, I should be a Slytherin?" Tabitha asked nervously.
Shado sighed and shook her head. "No, Shortcake," she replied with a soft smile. "Well yes… I mean; that is your choice. You be you, cutie-pie," she said causing Tabitha's pale cheeks to brighten with pink as she smiled in pleasure. "Don't let some bitch on a shopping trip push you into not being open to the idea-"
The boat shook. Shado looked around while Tabitha clenched hold of the sides of the boat. They were all most halfway across the lake, and Hagrid and the other first years were also staring around the lake in concern when another ripple across the water shook and rocked the boats again.
"W-what was that?" Tabitha asked in a small whisper as she looked out over the wake rippling under the boats on the blackened surface of the lake.
"I don't know," Shado frowned as she could feel something. Its presence was immense. "Just stay still and quiet-!"
Kids screamed as a huge wake shook the boats fiercely and the magic powering them along stopped, leaving them floating in the middle of the lake.
"The boats stopped!" Tabitha whimpered quietly as she held onto the boat tightly; her knuckles bright white.
The boats shook again, more violently this time. Kids screamed as the wake rushed faster and faster, not stopping. Shado folded backwards as a huge black tentacle swished out of the lake flowing over her. There was a scream of panic and terror a moment later as the tentacle splashed away back into the lake as the boats settled.
Shado sat back up and stared in anger as that thing had stolen HER Shortcake. "She is not going to die without even being sorted! And she is way too young for tentacle hentai!" she said as she stood in the boat while all eyes were on her as she threw off her jacket and dived into the lake only hearing a cry of alarm from Hagrid before she slipped from sight into the lake.
She wasn't just a schoolgirl under the water as her emerald eyes lit up and allowed her sight to cut through the water.
It was there. It was sinking lower as it swam. Tabitha wouldn't survive the pressure if she didn't drown first. Shado shot down, pulling at the water with her power, commanding it to bend to her will.
Shado pulled back her arms to her sides and kicked her legs as she rocketed down, closing the gap in just a few seconds, she could see the small form grasped in the monster's tentacle.
The octopus? No. The Squid saw her. Stared with beady black eyes as Shado reached it. Shado pulled back and slashed her hands forward, holding the water, it shot forward highly pressurised and it screeched down through the darkness of the lake, and in that moment the squid screeched, as the tentacle holding Tabitha's unconscious form let her go.
The squid shot away and Shado reached out and pulled the small body close to her. Tabitha wasn't conscious. Her heart had stopped beating, but she still seemed to have some mental activity, and her pulse was fading fast.
Shado locked her lips with Tabitha's as gills formed around her bare neck, and for the next minute Shado breathed for Tabitha. Then the small girls' blue eyes flashed open as she tried to pull back. However, Shado kept her lips firmly clamped over Tabitha's, and the small girl didn't fight as she went limp, but Shado spread a warming charm through their connected bodies.
She felt it before she saw it coming from Behind Tabitha. Shado moved them, dodging up and round, twisting like a gymnast, shooting through the water like she was flying through the sky. Shado could hear it, feel it – the malice and anger.
Then they broke the surface of the water a little way from the boats and kept going into the sky for about thirty metres.
Shado pulled her lips back as her gills sank away and Tabitha had enough free space to finally weakly throw up. Shado let her. Moving her so she could empty her stomach back into the water and rubbing her back comfortingly while the monster squid broke the lake surface moments later, reaching up, trying to grab them, but Shado Umbra kept them high enough to stay out of reach.
"Who the fuck released the Kraken!?" Shado muttered while Tabitha was sobbing in her arms and holding onto her tightly with her face half burred in her chest. Shado smiled at her. "I told you I would rescue you."
Tabitha sniffled and shivered while tears ran from her eye. "Y-you can fly."
"It's not as difficult as it would seem," Shado replied with a gentle smile as she kissed Tabitha's forehead, her cheek, her lips, and Tabitha sweetly kissed back and cuddled tightly whimpering.
"Miss. Shado!" Tabitha suddenly screeched as she pointed down over Shado's shoulder, which was the moment the other boats full of kids screamed as the giant squid turned to them and moved closer.
The small boats rocked as the squid drew nearer, and Hagrid was threatening the monster as if it would care. However, Shado dropped down, hovering before the boats, and Tabitha squeaked in surprise as she was tossed into the nearest boat and landed on another small girl. However, they looked up from where they were tangled together to see Shado floating before the beast as it roared and screamed as it swung a tentacle at her.
Shado only watched dispassionately with her arms folded under her chest as the creature drew back when it hit her shield, rippling the burning invisible light.
"One warning, FISH!" Shado said coldly; her voice echoing with suppressed rage.
The squid surprisingly paused and hesitated for two seconds before it attacked. Its tentacles heading to bypass Shado altogether and headed to circle her and endanger the first years further.
Fire ignited in Shado's hands - azure flames. She flung her hands out either side of her and waves of beautiful blue heat melted the creature's tentacles to burnt and melted flesh clumping to float with little blue flames still alight on the lake.
The giant squid roared and screeched in agony as it flailed, rocking the boats before Shado pointed her left hand with two fingers like a gun.
BOOM!
Thunder exploded over the lake as blazing red lightning condensed into a laser beam sliced what remained of the squid's torso in half, sizzling and electrocuting the water, blood coated the surface, as a few fish bobbed up and floated, dead, but the first years could only see the two still pieces of squid floating motionless on the water.
Hagrid and the children had covered their ears at the sound of thunder, and silence followed with a slight ringing in everyone's ears, and stars in their eyes.
Shado turned in the air as all eyes were on her as they slowly removed their hands from ears; their mouths hanging open in awe.
"Whoa!" Tabitha whispered as she looked up at Shado in delighted wonderment.
"You okay there, Shortcake?" Shado asked with a grin as she rocked the small boat a little as she landed on the side and crouched down as the water from her clothes drained away and flowed back into the water.
The other four first years were gawking at Shado in as much awe and admiration as Tabitha as she nodded.
"Good," Shado said offering her hand.
Tabitha expected Shado to pull her up and take them back to their boat, but she just held her hand. It took Tabitha a moment to notice the water draining from her clothes and the warmth flowing back into her.
Once Tabitha was dry, clean, and warm, Shado stood up and frowned as she balanced on the side of the boat while pulling her jacket back on as it seemed to appear out of the dark.
"Some little fucker tried to kill me!" Shado said while glaring towards the castle before turning to Hagrid and causing him to flinch. "Tell that… Dumbledore that if he puts any more innocent children in danger while trying to kill me that I will be very displeased!"
"Dumbledore would never-!" Hagrid defended.
"So, you withdrew the magic from the boats and want me gone by any means necessary?" Shado asked coldly while he shook Hagrid shook his head. "I thought not," she added as she took a breath and spoke – kind of.
Shado's words were like magic dripping through her tone. It was a language no one knew. No one could, would, or would want to comprehend. Then there was a ripple of incoherence and feeling of disinterest, unreality, uncertainty, and things none of them, not even Shado could understand. It was ripples on non-colour within a light and gentle breeze.
"Shado Umbra!" she introduced herself to something.
The magic returned to the boats and they lifted slightly as they returned their course across the lake.
Shado crouched into a sitting position on the side of the boat with the grace and agility of a feline that didn't have a care in the world. She kind of felt uncomfortable with all the confused staring first years but she ignored them. She really didn't want to go off on a rant about how amazing she was or something weird like that."
"Damn," Shado muttered to herself with a sigh as she wouldn't be annoying herself if the kids stopped staring at her like she was a bomb about to blow their minds with amazing feats of magicalness or something like that, and hopefully she wouldn't have to murder any more monsters any time soon.
"Oh look, shore!" she suddenly said startling the kids in her boat as it rocked as she jumped about fifteen feet to land on the pier dock next to the castle and bang on the huge backdoor as it was quite chilly out and the lake had been freezing even with warming charms.
Shado waited a few minutes as the little boats docked up and Tabitha hurried over and snatched Shado's surprised hand and arm, pulling it tightly to her and looking up with a cute little puppy dog pout full of love and admiration. Shado leaned down and kissed the girl's forehead while her fingers clamped a little more securely in Tabitha's hand, and the small girl only seemed to admire Shado more for that as her little cheeks pinkened.
Looking back to the door, Shado smiled slightly as she held her new little sister's small hand firmly before the large door into the castle was finally pushed open to show off Professor Sinistra.
"Hey!" Shado greeted with a wide smile. "Dumbledore's pet octopus is dead!"
Sinistra's eyes widened. "That thunder was you," she said as fact, not a question.
"That bastard thing almost killed my adorably cute little sister, here," Shado answered as she gestured Tabitha as the small girl tried to hide herself shyly behind Shado and not doing a very good job.
Sinistra shivered with everyone, except Shado as they heard and saw the disjointed and unintelligible voice as it passed through them, within them, by them, and around them in every direction imaginable and then some no one could know about, should know about, and would ever know about.
"I shall!" Shado answered as if she could understand that terrifyingly something voice, word, smell, taste, scent, sense of something, everything, nothing, and then nothing was amiss with the world.
The Professor look at Shado as if she should ask a question but was certain she couldn't, so she changed her mind.
"My Lady Shado," she said looking with a low bow, which surprised everyone else, before she looked out over the scared and confused first years before back to Shado. "Mistress… will they be okay for the sorting or should I speak to Professor McGonagall about some need for some… therapy?" she suggested uncertainly.
Shado smiled as she looked back at the first years. "Their experience will build character," she replied before addressing the first years. "This is Professor Sinistra!" she introduced their new teacher. "She teaches astronomy. She is a good person, so if you don't feel you can talk to your head of house – Slytherins especially, I'm sure you can go and see her."
"Of course," Sinistra agreed with a wide smile. "If any of you need anything. I'll be happy to help anyway I can. But for now; you do look to be in fairly good spirits, so I'll let you get sorted into your houses, and see how we go from there," she said as she turned and led the way into the warm and bright hallway.