Albus Dumbledore sat behind his desk in his office, in front of him sat a glass of well-aged muggle American whiskey and the only light in the room came from the fireplace down the steps in his office, he sat there sipping on his whiskey as he mourned the deaths of Lily and James Potter.

Hearing the sound of a crying infant Albus looked to the right of his desk at the small crib, in which laid an young infant with messy black hair, but this infant was different to every other infant, this one had deep red skin, on his small feet instead of five chubby baby toes were three talons in place of his toes and his ankle joint was much higher up allowing him to run on all fours with ease when he was old enough. From his spine came a tail that ended in three barbs, his hands had three talons in place of his ring middle and index fingers, as well as his thumb. The baby had no eyebrows instead had a pronounced brow ridge that was in the form of a spiked crowning that pushed his fringe of hair upwards. The baby had sharp teeth and luminescent green eyes and had a pair of large bat like wings emerging from its back that it had wrapped around itself like a cloak and finally over his right eye was a deep lightning bolt shaped scar.

"Ah you must be hungry Harry."

Albus smiled at the infant son of two of his best students before summoning a House elf and asking it to fetch something for Harry to eat. The elf returned a moment later with a bottle full of Re'em milk.

"Albus?"

Albus smiled as Minerva and Poppy arrived and stared at Harry before Minerva gently picked him up and rocked him as he feed from the bottle with his tail wagging happily and his wings wrapped around him for warmth "Albus what happened to Harry?"

Albus sighed and removed his half-moon glasses to rub his eyes after finishing his glass of whiskey and pouring another for himself as well as Minerva and Poppy "I arrived too late to save James and Lily. Tom had just tried to kill Harry and failed due to the protection of Lily's sacrifice, but some of the killing curse managed to make it through the protection and in essence kill Harry's human half leaving behind only creature blood. What creature Harry is I do not know, I have never seen anything like it."

"I have."

All three elderly magical's looked up at the bookshelf upon which sat the sorting hat "You have?"

The hat nodded "Oh indeed, but not for almost eight centuries. It is so wonderful to have a Gargate within the walls of Hogwarts once more."

Poppy looked up from her examinations of Harry "Gargate? What is that, I'm not familiar with it?"

Albus shook his head "Neither am I, could you please explain?"

"The Gargate species are said to be as old as the dinosaurs, they are not magical in nature but like humans some have access to magic like little Harry there. Now there are two kinds of Gargate, Gargoyle and Gargoyle Beasts, Gargoyles are like human's in intelligence while Gargoyle Beasts are animal in intelligence."

Minerva shook her head as she continued to rock Harry in her arms "I have never heard of Gargoyles besides simple stone statues."

The sorted Hat nodded "Those statues were created in the likeness of living Gargoyles for a reason."

Poppy clucked her tongue "What reason?"

The sorting hat turned to the window of Albus' office through which the rising sun could be seen "Watch."

Albus and Minerva quickly turned to Poppy when she screamed and rushed to Harry, Albus and Minerva watched in horror as Harry slowly turned to stone "What is happening?! Do something Albus!"

"Don't!"

Everyone looked at the sorting hat "This is natural for Gargate's, during the day when the sun rises they enter stone sleep."

"You should have told us!"

The hat shook itself like a person shakes their head as Minerva placed the stone infant back into his crib "You wouldn't have believed me."

"This happens every day?"

The hat nodded to Albus "Everyday as the sun rises, and when the sun sets the stone will shatter and he will wake up."

Albus nodded as he drained his glass of whiskey again "I see, that is good to know, what did you mean before, has Hogwarts been home to Gargoyles in the past?"

The hat nodded as Poppy and Minerva took the glasses of whiskey for themselves "Oh yes, Hogwarts was originally built by Rowena and Godric as a haven and home for a coven of Gargoyles to live in peace after they made friends with the clan. Several years later Rowena and Godric met Helga and a year later Salazar, sometime later they decided to build a magical school and returned to ask the Gargoyles for permission to use the castle as a school. The coven agreed and the castle was expanded on and made larger. The gargoyle coven protected the castle for almost two hundred years until a Dark Wizard attacked and almost all gargoyles were destroyed during the day along with many students being killed. The survivors when they woke that night tracked down the dark wizard while he was hiding nearby and killed him and his followers before returning and spent their last days in peace here. That was eight hundred years ago."

Albus nodded, even in his slightly drunken state he still absorbed all the information the Sorting Hat gave him.

….

Almost two years had passed since the night the Potter's were killed and Albus found himself smiling as he wandered the halls of Hogwarts at night "Come out come out Hadrian."

Albus could hear the young Gargoyle child giggling several corridors away and could also heard the sounds of movement, he followed the trail that Harry Potter now known to only himself, Minerva, Poppy, Filius and Hagrid as Hadrian of the Hogwarts Clan left as he made his way to the upper floors of the castle.

"Hadrian you had better not be climbing along the roof again." Albus chuckled as he heard the young gargoyle gasp and a thud as he hit the floor, obviously he had been using his powerful talons to cling to the roof "You remember what happened the last time Poppy caught you on the roof."

Albus heard a soft whimper as Hadrian remembered the spanking he got from Poppy when she caught him on the roof before Hadrian jumped up and took off running on all fours up another flight of stairs.

Hadrian was now almost four years old and had grown fast, he had already learned to read and write like a boy twice his age, Hadrian took off running up to the seventh floor. He looked around wildly looked for a hiding spot when a large door formed from the wall behind him. The young gargoyle pulled the heavy door open and ran inside and found himself in an enormous room filled with junk. Hadrian could hear Albus coming up the stairs to the seventh floor as he pushed the door shut and ran inside to hide.

Hadrian wandered around looking at all the junk that had piled up over the centuries, he found himself standing in front of a cupboard of some sort staring at the crown sitting on top of a wig and a bust of a head on top of the cupboard, Hadrian found himself shivering at the feeling he was getting from the crown, it was like something dark was calling to him. He slowly began to back unaware that he was baring his teeth and growling at the crown, but Albus who was standing slightly behind him and to the left was, the elderly wizard watched as Hadrian bumped into another pile of junk behind him and jumped in fright when the pile began to collapse with a loud noise which startled the young Gargoyle.

Quick as a flash Albus had drawn his wand and summoned Hadrian out of the way as well as the crown that set him on edge. Albus knelt down to Hadrian and smiled "You need to be more careful in the future my boy."

Hadrian nodded "Sorry Grandpa, but that crown, it feels bad, really bad."

Albus nodded and carefully handed it to the young Gargoyle who dropped it and began to rub his hands on his black pair of pants that were torn at the ankles "Hadrian?"

"It feels slimy even though I know it's not."

Albus nodded and conjured a stone box to hold the crown "Well I will have to examine it later then, for now we should be heading back. The students will be waking soon and you need to get ready for bed."

Hadrian groaned "But I'm not tired."

Albus chuckled but levitated him upside down smiling as the child giggled as he hung upside down before Hadrian noticed something and began to wriggle trying to get to the ground, Albus noticed and lowered him to the ground where he scurried over on all fours to the pile that had collapsed, Albus looked and noticed what had drawn Hadrian's attention. Sitting there were two white eggs with blue spots on them, both slightly smaller than a watermelon and both beginning to shake slightly as what lay within began to hatch.

Hadrian ran over and managed to pick up one of the eggs and wrap his wings around it to keep it warm while Albus picked up the other "Come Hadrian, we must take these to Poppy."

Hadrian nodded but he was already at the door and on his way to Poppy, Albus quickly followed after him and they made their way down to the infirmary, once they reached the infirmary Albus put down the egg on a bed on the other side of the infirmary and then took the egg from Hadrian and placed it next to the other egg while Hadrian climbed up onto the bed and sat with them while Albus went to wake Poppy.

Hadrian sat watching the eggs twitch and occasionally poked one until a hand slapped his "Hadrian, leave them alone."

Hadrian pouted as Poppy began to examine the eggs, moments later Hadrian watched as the eggs began to crack. And with a final large shake the shells of the eggs broke apart and two Gargate fell to the bed, both infants.

The first was a female Gargoyle, she had rich purple skin with blue membrane in her wings, she had blue eyes and four horn ridges on her forehead, three across her brow and the fourth on the top of the bridge of her nose and she had blonde hair and a long thin tail with a spade like tip. Three talon fingers and a talon thumb, a small spike on each knee and her feet were much more avian then Hadrian's as she would likely stand on the balls of her feet and toes and had a spike on the back of her foot.

The other was a Female Gargoyle Beast, she was small and had aqua colour skin, she had pure white eyes and was canine like in appearance, she had a small stubby pointed tail that would grow longer as she aged, she had bat like ears on either side of her head that were slight membrane and a slight snout and several spikes on the top of her head.

Poppy gasped as the infants looked around "Oh my word!"

Hadrian crawled over and picked up the infant gargoyle and wrapped his wings around her as the female gargoyle beast crawled over and leaned up against him for warmth and Hadrian wrapped his tail around her.

Albus smiled at the sight "I'm glad he won't be alone anymore."

Poppy nodded as an elf appeared with two bottles of Re'em milk, one of which she handed to Hadrian who began to feed the female Gargoyle while the elf feed the Gargoyle Beast.

"Hadrian, I believe your sisters need names."

Hadrian looked up at Albus and nodded before he looked down at the Gargoyle beast and hummed in thought "I got it, Aqua like her skin."

Albus chuckled but nodded "And the young lady in your arms?"

Hadrian looked down at the infant Gargoyle in his arms "Hm, Abby, no, Hm how about Purple?" Poppy shook her head and Hadrian pouted "Okay, then how about Shade."

Albus chuckled "Hadrian she needs a girl's name."

"Okay, then how about Mia."

Poppy nodded as she took the now named Mia from the young boy "I think Mia is a lovely name."

….

Hadrian was now eight years old, he was sitting up on a stone ledge above a courtyard watching as Mia and Aqua played tag. Once they had hatched Hadrian had immediately claimed them as his siblings, from then on Mia and Aqua went everywhere he did, but it was difficult at times for the red skinned Gargoyle as his sisters were very curious, often they watched the students and teachers once they had woken up but before the humans turned in for the night, Hadrian often watched from a distance making sure that the two younger Gargate's stayed out of sight.

Hadrian sat with a leg propped up and resting his arms on his knee and his head on his arms with his wings draped around his shoulder and his tail swinging slowly behind him still only wearing a pair of black pants torn at the ankles and held up by a white leather belt.

Aqua had a small gold ring around her tail given to her by Minerva and Mia was wearing a short tartan skirt and small top "Hadrian!"

Hadrian looked down to see Mia waving at him trying to catch his attention "What."

"Aqua and I want to go exploring in the forest."

Hadrian shook his head "No, it's far too dangerous."

"Aw please Hadrian?"

Hadrian twitched as his little sister pleaded with him and Aqua sat there giving him the dreaded puppy dog eyes but he refused to cave "No. The Forbidden Forest is forbidden for a reason. It is far too dangerous, especially since the sun rises in three hours."

"Aw you're mean Hadrian!"

The young red skinned gargoyle sighed as Mia's eyes glowed red as she stamped her foot and glared at him before she took off running away from him with Aqua following after her, he stood up and flexed his wings before jumping from his placed above the courtyard and glided down through the courtyard and down into the corridor that his sisters ran down. Hadrian growled and his eyes glowed as he lost track of his sisters "Damn it Mia, you and Aqua better not get into any trouble."

Hadrian sighed as he walked to the third floor where he ran into Professor Flitwick "Oh Hadrian, my apologies I didn't see you there."

Hadrian waved away the diminutive professor's apology "No need to apologize Uncle Filius. Have you seen Mia or Aqua, I lost track of them after they took off."

Flitwick shook his head "No I'm afraid I haven't, did you have an argument?"

"Mia wants to go explore the Forbidden Forest and I told her no especially since the day is almost upon us."

"Hm, Mia can be stubborn, perhaps you should go speak with Hagrid, see if he has seen them down by the Forest."

Hadrian nodded and bowed to the Professor "Thank you Uncle Filius."

Filius chuckled "You're welcome, now you need to get moving, the sun will rise in approximately one hour forty minutes."

Hadrian nodded and ran to the window at the end of the corridor and jumped out, as he did he spread his powerful wings and glided around the castle over the great hall towards Hagrid's hut.

….

Inside the hut Hagrid looked up from his breakfast of cooked sausages eggs and bacon when he heard the thud of Hadrian landing in the roof "Come on in Harry."

Hadrian entered the hut and immediately took the sausages that Hagrid offered him and ate them quickly "How many times must I ask you not to call me that."

Hagrid chuckled as he wiped some crumbs from some toast from his beard "No matter how many times ye ask ye'll always be Harry to me. Now besides breakfast what brings ye down to see me?"

"Have you seen Mia and Aqua, they wanted to go exploring the forest and I told them no so they ran off, now I can't find them, have you seen them this morning?"

Hagrid shook his giant head "No I can't say I have. We'll let's go check the forest borders for any sign of them."

Hadrian nodded and followed Hagrid as he picked up his giant crossbow, as they exited the hut Hadrian scratched the boarhound Fang behind the ears as he passed the sleeping dog, the young gargoyle draped his wings around himself like a cloak as he trailed behind Hagrid.

"We have to make this a quick search as the sun will be up soon."

Hadrian nodded and began their search. After just over an hour searching Hadrian was forced to stop his search and return to the castle and his spot on the fourth floor where he slept during the day.

….

Hagrid barged into Albus' office around lunch while he was having a meeting with the heads of house "Professor Dumbledore, we got a problem!"

Albus rose to his feet "What is the matter Hagrid?"

"It's young Mia and Aqua, they've gone missing in the Forbidden Forest."

Minerva gasped while Filius stood "Come Hagrid we shall search for them, perhaps the centaurs will help search!"

Albus nodded and turned to his oldest companion "Fawkes, can you help them search?"

Fawkes let out a comforting trill before flying out the window "Who are these two, Mia and Aqua, I don't recognize the names?"

Albus shook his head as he turned back to Severus and Pomona Sprout "Please forget what you have heard, it does not concern you, I must join the search so we shall continue this meeting later."

The heads of Slytherin and Hufflepuff looked confused as Albus rushed out with Minerva after Hagrid and Filius.

….

Hadrian broke free from his stone shell with a half yawn half roar as he stretched out. Once he was fully awake he looked to his left and saw both Mia and Aqua's spots were empty he immediately jumped from his perch and glided towards the forbidden forest, but as he approached it he saw his family exiting the forest by Hagrid's hut.

He landed heavily with a deep thud kicking up dust as he glared at Mia who was hiding behind Minerva while Aqua whined and walked over to him with her tail between her legs "I'll deal with you later" He then turned back to Mia who was peeking out from behind Minerva "As for you."

"Easy there Hadrian, there is no need to be angry."

Hadrian's eyes glowed as he growled at Albus who looked shocked at his actions "Stay out of this, this is between me and Mia, come here Mia" Mia shook her head scared at her older brothers aggressive stance "I said move!"

Mia flinched as she stepped out from behind Minerva who smiled at her, Hadrian glared at her as she stopped right in front of him, his eyes still glowing "You disobeyed me, I told you not to go into the forest, worse is that Aqua followed you. I told you that the sun would rise but you didn't listen, you could have been hurt!"

"SO! Any wounds would have healed during the day in stone sleep! You're just being a big meanie!"

Hadrian growled and his tail slapped against the ground showing that he was losing his patience "And what if either you or Aqua had been shattered during stone sleep by any number of the beasts that make this forest their home! You would be dead!"

Mia's eyes began to glow red as she glared at Hadrian who was now standing right in front of her and towering over her "Would not, you're just scared!"

Hadrian roared in frustration causing Mia to fall back on her butt and scamper away from him, before he could do anything Albus struck him with a body bind hex but Harry deflected it by using his wings like a shield and turned his gaze on Albus who stepped back at the look in the young gargoyles eyes.

"I told you to stay out of this human!"

Minerva and Filius flinched at the anger in his voice and by the way he spat out the word human "Hadrian you need to calm down, they came out of this unharmed."

Hadrian growled from deep in his chest which set everyone on edge before he turned his gaze back to Mia "Come with me, now!"

Mia jumped to her feet and scurried after her older brother figure with Aqua right at her heels leaving Minerva to look to Albus "Albus, what on earth came over Hadrian?"

Albus sighed "Hadrian is a born leader, he will be the head of the Hogwarts Clan and Mia will quite possibly one day be his second, for her to disobey him and for us to interfere in a clan matter is a serious issue for him, how can he expect to lead the clan in the future if his own sister will not listen to him. I will speak with him once he has calmed down. Minerva would you speak with Mia please, I have a feeling that she will need you."

….

Minerva looked up from her grading of her seconds years homework when the door to her classroom burst open and in ran Mia who was in tears and running on all fours Minerva stood just as the four year old Gargoyle leapt over her desk right into her arms "My child, what's wrong!?" Mia was mumbling incoherently through her tears but Minerva couldn't understand a thing so she rubbed the young girls back as she held the crying girl "Mia, please calm down."

"Hadrian won't speak to me anymore! He hates me!"

Minerva sighed as she continued to rub circles into the poor girls back "Oh my child, Hadrian does not hate you, he just has a lot on his mind, you must understand that one day Hadrian will be a leader, in his mind he cannot be a strong leader if his own sister will not listen to him."

"But I'm fine so why is he still angry at me?"

Minerva shook her head "Because he was scared that he would lose you, while you and he may not be related by blood you are siblings now. He raised both you and Aqua, but in his mind he needs to be strong and that means that he cannot show that he is afraid."

Mia shook her head as she wiped away her tears with the back of her hand "That's just stupid. He's being so stupid!"

Minerva smiled as she sat the young purple skinned Gargoyle down on her desk in front of her "Aye he is being a bit foolish, but he does have a point, a leader must always be brave or those that follow him may lose heart. A leader must be someone that inspires others to do their best and never lose hope. This is something you must learn as well."

Mia looked up at Minerva as the elderly transfiguration professor handed her a cup of tea "Why do I have to learn this Grandma?"

Minerva smiled at the young girl she loved like a daughter "One day you will be Hadrian's second because there is no one besides Aqua that he trusts as much you."

"He trusts me?"

Minerva nodded "Of course he does. And don't you ever think otherwise."

….

Hadrian sat on the top of the astronomy tower with Aqua sitting by his side, the young red skinned Gargoyle sighed as Albus exited the tower and stood behind him "What brings you here Headmaster?"

Albus smiled at the boy "What, no Grandpa, I rather liked being called that."

Hadrian shook his head "Yesterday showed me that we rely on you to much, from now on I will look after them myself. I will be taking them into the forest to hunt for our meals. From now on we must learn to provide for ourselves."

Albus nodded "That is wise, but certainly there is no rush."

Hadrian continued to stare at the moon while Aqua watched him "It's better to learn these things while we are young, I remember the stories you read to me when I was Mia's age about the Agoge from ancient Sparta, I'm going to make it a part of my clan, that all children must learn to survive of the land, it will make us strong."

Albus studied the young gargoyle carefully "Hopefully you won't be as brutal as the ancient Spartans?"

Hadrian shook his head "No, I'm not training for war, I'm learning to survive."

Albus nodded "I'm glad to hear that, now why aren't you speaking to Mia?"

"I'm still angry at her, she put herself and Aqua in danger by disobeying me" the young Gargoyle Beast whined and bumped her head against his leg and Hadrian scratched her lightly behind the ears "Aqua didn't come up with the idea she just followed Mia, what if they had been attacked, especially during Stone Sleep, they would have been shattered."

"And you would have been left alone."

Hadrian's head whipped to Albus and glared at him, his eyes glowing white "I will not be alone again!"

Albus shook his head in sadness "You have never been alone my boy."

"Of course I have! You may have raised me but you are human and I'm a gargoyle, it's just not the same as it is with them, when Mia and Aqua hatched I finally didn't feel alone anymore, I won't go back to the darkness."

Albus looked at the eight year old who was incredibly wise for his age "What do you mean the darkness?"

Hadrian turned back to look at the moon "Before Aqua and Mia it was like I was alone in the dark, there was no one else there, but once they hatched the darkness lifted and suddenly I wasn't alone anymore. I don't want the darkness to return."

Albus placed a hand on the young Gargate's shoulder "Then perhaps you should stop pushing Mia away."

….

As the moonlight hours began to wane Hadrian glided down across the lawns towards Hagrid's hut when he saw lights inside, he touched down just outside Hagrid's hut and heard fang barking "DOWN FANG!"

Hadrian entered as Hagrid opened the door "Come on in Harry."

Hadrian wasted no time "Can you teach me the basics of hunting and building basic weapons like a spear or a bow and arrow."

Hagrid hummed to himself as he finished up his breakfast "I suppose I can, mind me asking why?" So Hagrid nodded along as he listened to Harry explain about his plans for himself, Mia and Aqua as well as future Gargoyles that joined or were born into his clan "Sounds sensible to me, why not. Come back here once ye wake tomorrow and I'll teach ya what you need to know, it should only take the one night to get through everything."

Hadrian nodded his thanks "I appreciate this Hagrid."

Hagrid waved him of "You had best be getting up to your roost, the sun'll be up soon."

….

Harry climbed up the outside wall of the fourth floor tower, his powerful talons easily digging into the stone which magically repaired itself once he removed his talons due to the magic that was imbued in every stone. He reached his roost on the rampart of the fourth floor tower and found Mia sitting there hugging Aqua.

"Come Mia, the sun is about the rise."

Mia looked up at him and saw that he wasn't mad anymore and jumped into his arms and hugged him, Hadrian hugged her back and wrapped his wings around her and Aqua stood there watching just as the sun rose and all three turned to stone as the rays of the sun hit them.

….

"Hadrian I'm tired!"

Hadrian shook his head as he worked, the young gargoyle had dragged Mia and Aqua with him into the Forbidden Forest for their nature training a week ago, first thing they had done was to set up a camp inside a cave and set up traps around the entrance to the cave to protect them while they were in stone sleep. Next they had gathered some wood for a camp fire and too build spears and bows and arrows.

Once they had done that Hadrian lead them hunting in which they were unsuccessful, so far they had only caught a single deer and that was just hours ago, so after skinning it and cooking the meat they ate their fill, once they were done Hadrian began to train, he gathered some heavy stones and using some rope he had brought with him tied a large rock to his tail and used it as weight training by dragging it along behind him as he jogged around the clearing they had set up in to build up the muscles in his tail using his tail to pull the stone closer to himself and then letting it go like weight training for his tail.

Once he had done that he tied a rock to each leg and using a sturdy tree limb began to do some chin ups. Once he was done with that he fashioned himself a set of weights from two stones and used them for a while, while he did this every night after hunting he made aqua train by dragging stones to get stronger and had Mia do some physical exercises.

Hadrian stopped his workout "Okay, that's enough for tonight, if you promise to stick by my side we'll go exploring and map out the area which will come in handy since we will be here for a while."

….

Hadrian twitched as a small group of centaur's surrounded him, Mia and Aqua, Aqua stood in front of the two of them growling, her eyes glowing red while Mia was hugging Hadrian who was covering her with his wings by wrapping them around them.

"What are you doing in our woods creature?"

Hadrian growled at the lead centaur who called him creature "Watch your tongue half breed lest I tear it out!"

The centaurs were outraged at being called half-breeds at released a hail of arrows at them, Aqua was low enough to the ground that the arrows missed her as she leapt forwards and attacked the lead centaur, Hadrian felt Mia tense against him 'This can't be how it ends. I won't allow it to end this way!'

The young male gargoyle felt something rush through him as he closed his eyes as the arrows were upon him, only instead of both himself and Mia being skewered by the arrows only the sound of arrows striking stone meet his ears. Mia opened her eyes only to see that Hadrian's wings had turned to stone, she looked up expecting to see that her big brother had completely turned to stone at night only he wasn't, he was just as shocked as she was about his wings turning to stone.

"DEMONS!"

Hadrian's eyes glowed brighter than they ever had, in the darkness of the night his eyes were two glowing pits, when Mia flinched at being called a demon, his wings turned back to flesh as he pushed Mia aside he charged right past her and attacked the closest centaur slashing at it across the throat with his talons killing it as Hadrian's talons turned to stone as he attacked.

Hadrian spun and lashed out with his tail at the centaur that tried to grab him, as his tail struck the centaur's chest his three barded tip of his tail turned to stone and easily cut through the beings ribs.

Mia saw a centaur aim a bow at her brother from behind and acted without thinking, her eyes glowed red as she threw herself across the clearing slamming into the centaur's side and knocking it over where she racked her talons across its face several times killing it when she clawed down into its neck.

Aqua was bounding around the clearing dodging arrows as the lead centaur tried to keep her at a distance but at the moment the centaur tried to notch another bow but found that its quiver was empty Aqua leapt at him, her powerful jaws easily crushing the centaur's throat.

Hadrian stood there, blood dripping from his talons and the tip if his tail "Mia, take Aqua back to camp, I'll clean this up."

….

Hadrian sat down in front of the fire pit looking at his hand.

Mia took a bite of a piece of meat and sat watching her brother "Any idea what you did?"

Hadrian sighed and shook his head "I have no idea, perhaps I should speak with the Headmaster about the possibility of me having magic."

Mia nodded as she watched Aqua finish her meat and begin to chew on the bone "I guess it's possible since your parents were human magical's."

Hadrian nodded "True, but that makes me wonder how I became what I am."

Mia shrugged "No idea big brother, but who cares how it happened right."

Hadrian looked up at his sister and nodded "Right, I prefer being what I am to a human. Humans just seem so fragile and weak."

Mia giggled "Yep, 'cept Hagrid."

Hadrian chuckled "That is because he is half giant."

"Wow really?"

Hadrian nodded as he wrapped his wings around himself "Yes, he told me his mother was a giantess and his father a diminutive wizard much like Filius."

Mia looked about cautiously as though those they spoke about would jump out at any moment "I think that Uncle Filius might be part Gargoyle."

Hadrian shook his head "No he has Goblin ancestry."

"I see so that's why he's the same size as a goblin" Hadrian nodded as he began to carve more arrowheads from stones he had gathered through the day.

….

Hadrian bent at the waist to avoid a kick from Mia and as he did he opened his wings knocking her of balance, as she tried to regain he balance Hadrian stabbed the tip of his tail onto a log and using his tails dexterity he threw the log at Aqua who was trying to sneak up on him from behind.

The gargoyle beast leapt of the log and came down at Hadrian who raised his left wing across himself like a shield and willed it to turn to stone, only it fail and Aqua ended up tearing through the thin membrane of his wing.

Mia winced at the howl of pain her brother released when his wing was torn up while Aqua whined and tried to slink away but Hadrian shook his head "It's not your fault Aqua, I'm not mad at you, just disappointed in myself that I cannot figure out how to turn my limbs to stone like I did before."

Mia looked at her brothers torn up wing and flinched at the blood "That looks painful."

Hadrian smiled at her obviously holding back the screams "Just a little."

Mia went into their temporary home, the cave they had made their roost and came back out with some bandages and potions that Poppy had helped her brew "These will help until the sun rises, now sit down so I can tend to this."

Hadrian smiled at her and did as she asked "I think you have a knack for healing others, when we return to the castle you should enquire with Poppy about learning healing."

Mia smiled as she rubbed some potions into his torn wing "I already have been, if I was human I would want to be a doctor, as it is I can be something better, I'm going to be your healer, no doubt you will get into a lot of trouble later on in life and it's my job to patch you back up." Mia smiled as her brother smiled at her, a rare thing as he didn't smile often and decided now was the best time to bring it up "Hadrian, can I talk with you about something?"

Hadrian tilted his head back as Mia was behind him indicating that he was listening "When we're older, I'll be your second until someone better comes along."

"What are you talking about? You're my second and you always will be, why would I replace you?"

Mia shook her head "Because I'm not a leader like you Hadrian, you're meant to lead our clan in the future. To do that you need someone strong to stand beside you" Hadrian made to reply but Mia shushed him "I'm not saying I'm not strong, cuss I'll whoop your butt, but I want to be a healer, in the future I want to bring hatchlings into the world."

Hadrian sighed knowing that this was an argument that he would never win "Fine, I'll respect your wishes, but until then-"

"I'm your second. You can count on me big brother" Aqua barked as she licked Mia's face causing her to giggle "Aqua says you can count on her too."

….

Hadrian grunted as he continued his workout, lifting his home made stone weights with both hands and his tail, Mia sat of to the side watching while Aqua was sitting in the mouth of the cave eating some deer they had caught.

"Hey Hadrian, can I ask you something?"

Hadrian grunted as he continued his workout "Of course."

Mia began fiddling with the hem of her skirt "What's going to happen in the future?"

The male red skinned gargoyle shook his head "You'll have to be more specific."

Mia took a deep breath "I mean are you planning to take me as your mate?"

Hadrian dropped the stone weights in shock one of which landed right on his foot "FUCK!" Mia giggled as he hopped around the clearing on one foot "What the hell are you asking me?"

"Well, we are the only members of our clan, and in the future we'll need to take a mate, so I'm wondering if you're going to take me as your mate if we never meet anyone else. I mean technically we're not related by blood."

Hadrian nursed his foot as he responded "I hadn't really thought about it, but I guess that if we never meet any other Gargoyles then I'll be left with no choice, we'll be forced to mate won't we."

Mia nodded "I think so; it's a natural part of us, the instinct to mate."

Hadrian sighed as he put his foot back on the ground "I'm sorry Mia, I wish it wasn't so."

Mia smiled as she worked on the bear skin in her lap "It's not your fault, it's a part of nature, and it's not something we can fight, besides I'm sure I could do worse."

Hadrian scowled at her causing the now six year old female gargoyle to laugh at his expression.

….

Hadrian sat in the mouth of the cave, his talons, tail and the spear held in his left hand were at the ready as a group of centaurs roamed not far from there camp.

"Are they gone yet?"

Hadrian shook his head and whispered "No not yet. Keep your guard up, we have no idea what they what, they could be just passing by or they could be searching for revenge for the centaurs that attacked us several months back."

Aqua growled softly as a lone Centaur entered their clearing and looked around at their supplies "Where ever you are stay hidden, the others will not be kind should they find you especially to the girl as she is younger and frailer. I shall return tomorrow night while the others rest, I mean you no harm, I am merely interested in learning about your kind."

Mia went to crawl out of the cave but Hadrian grabbed her by the tail and dragged her back into the cave where she stayed after he gave her a stern glare "Sit still."

Mia nodded and turned back to the entrance of the cave and watched as the centaur galloped of "Do you think we can trust him?"

Hadrian stayed silent for a moment "I am unsure, we shall meet with him, while we do Aqua, you wait in the underbrush, if I give you the signal you attack him, this will distract him enough for all three of us to take him down."

Aqua whined in agreement.

….

Hadrian sat in the middle of the clearing on a large rock with his spear resting across his shoulder with his arms resting on it, next to him Mia was standing with her own spear. And just as he said he would the same centaur came into the clearing and bowed his human half to them "Greetings, I am Firenze of the Forbidden Forest Colony."

Hadrian nodded his head in greeting "I am Hadrian, head of the Hogwarts Clan of Gargoyles, this is my sister Mia, she is my second for the foreseeable future and if things do not change in the future she will be my mate."

Firenze trotted over "I am confused, if she is your sister why would you take her as your mate?"

Hadrian motioned for Firenze to join him "We are not blood kin, Mia is the last of the original Hogwarts clan that was killed of eight centuries ago, I was brought here as an infant from a separate clan when my kin were killed. If we do not gain more members to our clan then I will be forced to take Mia as my mate."

Firenze nodded "Such is nature. I wonder if you would tell me of your kind, your ways. We have never seen one of your kinds before."

Hadrian nodded "Mia, go get us some food, is there anything you would like Firenze?"

The centaur shook his head "No I am fine thank you."

Mia nodded and pecked Hadrian on the cheek before she took off into the forest with Aqua right behind her leaving Hadrian to stab his spear into the ground and prepare for a long conversation.

….

Hadrian, Mia and Aqua were on guard as they exited they exited the Forbidden Forest because as they did a large three headed dog came bounding at them, Hadrian jumped up onto the middle head and as he did his right hand clenched into a fist and turned to stone as he slammed it into the middle head taking the beast down.

"HARRY! MIA! AQUA! Don't hurt him, he didn't mean no 'arm!"

Mia smiled as the friendly half giant ran over to them, her clothes had gotten too small for her so she had fashioned herself a small leather skirt and a loose leather tunic from dear hide "Hey Hagrid!"

Hagrid smiled at them through his bushy beard as he hugged Mia and patted Aqua "It's good to see ye again, sorry bout Fluffy."

Hadrian looked at the whimpering Cerberus, the young gargoyle had grown and was now slightly taller than an average twelve year old human, and his pants had become too small so now he was wearing a kilt made from bear and dear hides until he could get a new pair of pants "You named a Cerberus Fluffy?"

Hagrid nodded as he walked up to the large Cerberus and patted the middle head "Yep, everyone needs a name don't they. Anyway, it's good to see ye, the past two years have been rather plain without you three to liven things up."

Mia smiled as she threw her spear back into the forest "It's good to be back, the training was cool and all but it's great to be back in the castle, or it will be when we get back to our roost."

Hagrid nodded "Well I won't keep you, but ye should go and let Professor's Dumbledore, McGonagall and Flitwick that ye back, when ya get settled back in come down for a cuppa one evening and tell me about your trip."

Hadrian nodded as he got rid of his spear "We will is the Headmaster in his office?"

Hagrid nodded as he checked the Cerberus' bump on its head "Should be, he's preparing things for the next school year."