Chapter Seven:

Paris, France, August 2017:

The young woman ran over the roof tops of the ancient city and leaped through the air soaring over several buildings before landing on Notre Dame. This was impressive as no ordinary human could do what she had done, and of course she was no ordinary human. She was Delphi Potter, a warrior lady and not one to mess with. Right now the wizard she was after had done some really horrible things and she was going to take him down. He would live, for death was too good for him now. She summoned his wand and walked calmly up to him over the ancient roof. He backed up terrified at the sight before him. Delphi was not clad in robes, she was in urban fatigues in urban print with dragonskin armor. The grey and dark blue helped her blend into the night and what with the very muggle way she was dressed with her face hidden by a ski mask and helmet on her head, the wizard had no idea who he was dealing with.

"You have been very wicked." Delphi said walking up to him, "what did you hope to prove by what you did?"

"Power."

"Oh, yes power, let's hurt the innocent so that I can be powerful." Delphi mocked him, "yet in the end you will still be empty and evil inside."

"Going to kill me?" The wizard snarled, a wizard she recognized as a Nott.

"No, much worse, taking you back to England with me."

She grabbed him and turning on seeing French Aurors tossed them a letter, one grabbed it, bowed and nodded. She took out her portkey and the two were gone in a flash. They ended up in the ministry where she bound Nott and all but threw him at the Aurors. She was an unspeakable and a bounty hunter and so she could walk in and out at her leisure. She did just that and took the small bag of gold that was her reward for this capture. In the bag were 5,000 galleons, not bad for a nights work. She headed out to the small flat she had in SoHo (not cheap but she did not care as she was not paying for it). She removed her helmet, armor, gloves and mask putting them away carefully and put her jacket over a chair. She now had purple hair that was tied in a long plait, she was tanned and hand a woman's athletic body. She had her wand out at once pointed at someone seated in her armchair.

"One would think you would learn to knock." Delphi said wand pointed at the elder Malfoy.

"A good night hunting my lady?" Malfoy replied.

"Stop calling me that." Delphi said walking to her small but well stocked kitchen grabbing a Coke Zero ™ from the fridge. "I would offer you one but I don't like you."

"You are related to my former master, forgive me if I am not interested in you." Lucius said.

"One I am not going to be a dark lady and two though you are a good looking man I am a virgin and not interested in being your consort." Delphi said, "if I marry then I will no longer be a virgin but now, now I have so much power, the right kind."

She turned and looked at the senior Malfoy. He was still very good looking, his long blond hair was still that slivery blond and it was down not tied back like he normally had it in the muggle world. He was clad in an expensive muggle suit in black with a green and silver tie and looked very relaxed. Draco was good looking, but he could not pull off his father's well, sexy danger. Delphi took a few deep breaths to not punch this man and took a seat on her couch. She had loved Hogwarts, had so many friends and family there except for Malfoy. He had found out who she was early on and though not able to say anything he acted subservient to her. It was due to the dark mark and vows to Voldemort but it did not make her happy, at all. She was his mistress and she hated that, she could command all the death eaters and she did not want that. Yet she could find them too, and that was how she got Nott, he knew of her, all the death eaters did but they could not attack her directly. It was why Severus Snape had not grabbed a very muggle firearm and offed Voldemort himself.

"My lady…"

"Will you stop calling me that?" Delphi said, "please just don't."

"I cannot help it, I am bound to your blood, Draco is not strongly bound, he took the mark to save us, I did so willingly the first time. That makes the difference…"

"I am not him or her, I have their blood but I am not going to be your dark lady, understand?"

"Yes, I never expect you to be." Malfoy said, "I would rather you did not. I do like not being tortured you know."

"I know, you need help?" Delphi asked, every few years the wounds given him by Voldemort came back and she was the only one who could heal him, "let's get this over with."

"Please do, and Narcissa sends her good will, you really should connect with her." Lucius said.

"It's hard, I really don't know what to say to her, she is so kind and nice and I don't trust her, or you." Delphi said "you wish I were dark."

"Yes, but you are not." Lucius said.

He removed his coat and tie and took off his shirt and removed the tee shirt under it. It was spelled to keep anyone from seeing the wounds given to him by Voldemort so long ago. Delphi waved her wand and the wounds sealed up leaving his back whole again. He slipped his shirt back on and took out a glass and bottle from thin air and pour himself a drink. He was still in wonderfully good shape and looked so good standing there his chest bare, and Delphi was inches away from punching him. She slammed down her can and with a wave of her wand his shirt was buttoned and her hair was now black as were her eyes, in fact she looked exactly like her mother at that moment.

"What's the matter? Baby Lucy not like it when I do this?" She said sounding like her mother, she was not a full meta like her aunt had been but she was able to change to look like close family and change her hair. "It bitty Lucy can't stay faithful to his wife."

"That is not fair, I was…"

"I know what you were doing." Delphi snapped back to her normal looks, "and I am not impressed."

"Well, you are more honorable than the dark lord ever was."

"Yes, but he never could be honorable, he was a liar, a thief and murdered his own family." Delphi said, "I have the unfortunate misfortune, of sharing his blood. Well that is not all bad, his muggle father was fine enough."

"Muggles are too powerful for us to defeat now." Malfoy said, "perhaps we could work with them to create…"

"No, no new world order, get out of my sight before I turn you into something unpleasant!" Delphi said.

Malfoy bowed and left knowing full well not to stick around when Delphi got upset. She had never tortured him but he had spent an afternoon as a ferret. That had been most unpleasant indeed and he did not want to repeat that. He arrived home and found Delphi was not done with him, Draco had a mirror and closed it as his father came in. Draco did not look amused, but then he was lord Malfoy and amusement never really came with that title.

"Father, why must you antagonize lady Black?" Draco asked.

"Oh she is lady Black to you is she?" Lucius replied.

"Yes, because I am not treating her like she is a dark lady like you do." Draco shot back.

"Draco, think of the children." Astoria said.

"Drawing room now." Draco said and Lucius followed him closing the heavily spelled door behind him. "Everything is your fault."

"Excuse me?" Lucius said, "my fault?"

"The dark lord, you forced me to join him because of your actions. You forced me to bow to that foul thing and you have not learned a thing! Oh you claim to see the muggle as far more powerful than we, but you don't believe it, you think just enough power will do the trick."

"So you are a muggle lover now too are you?" Lucius replied.

"I understand them far more than you seem to." Draco said ice in his voice, "I know the Malfoys are suppose to be superior but tell me father how groveling at the feet of a half blood bastard helped us exactly? You are stripped of all title, I am the lord Malfoy and am still treated with suspicion as well I should be. What have you learned?"

"That I was wrong, but she is going to change the world. I know this." Lucius said, "I must remain close."

"She will change it for the better, not how you want it changed." Draco replied. "I don't know if you have learned father, I have and will do all I can to make the world a better place, even work with muggleborn, as I have."

This was true, Draco had worked with muggleborns, he had created a book that told them how to act and behave in the new world they were in. He still felt that those raised in the magical world had the advantage and rightly so. But no more did he think muggleborns should be excluded from the magical world. He was lord Malfoy and had to adapt to this new world to stay near the top after all.

So yes, Delphi is a warrior. She has spent years, and I mean years of her life learning how to be a warrior. She has to train constantly and though I do not show it here, she is in training much of the time when she is not fighting evil, learning how to be lady Black and preparing for entering the political realm. As for the shifting abilities, I don't see them as rare as JKR shows them. I would think at least half could at least change hair length or color as it suited them.

Anyway, do review please.