When they made it to Heathrow Vernon was calm enough to not strangle the Freaks on sight. And surprisingly they made it all the way through customs without any problems. As the plane took off Vernon settled down for a nap. When he next opened his eyes he was shocked that they were landing in Zaire already. It had seemed like he'd barely closed his eyes a moment ago. Probably the Freaks.
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Harry and Hallie kept a low profile throughout all three weeks of their stay. They made sure to stay out of Uncle Vernon's way, and they only spoke when spoken to. They didn't want Uncle Vernon to get angry at them. And they were ecstatic that the day before they would leave the beautiful country they were told by their Uncle Vernon that they could go sightseeing with them.
He told them after breakfast that he wanted to speak with them and to go and wait in their room. They looked at each other nervously and then glanced at Aunt Petunia. But she was busy trying to get Dudley to eat his vegetables. And so they went to their room and waited in suspension. They were worried they had done something "freaky".
They heard him coming down the hallway to their room and clutched each other's hands. And prepared for a beating they knew they hadn't earned. And so they were very shocked when he came in and sat down on Harry's bed to look at them on Hallie's.
"We are leaving Zaire tomorrow and you two are going to start getting used to doing chores again. That means I want you both to pack up everything you brought with you and keep it with you all day today. I don't want to catch either of you without those backpacks off. Am I understand? I'll give you both a beating like you've never had if I see you even once without them. Understood?" He asked them. When they nodded back at him stunned he continued. "Good. Have it done in thirty minutes."
Then he stood up and left the room. Leaving behind two very shocked and relieved children behind to ponder why he hadn't even hit them once. He almost looked pleased when he left the room. He didn't even slap them. They looked at each other happy and worried at the same time. Harry started folding all of their clothes that they had brought as Hallie found their stash of food that they always carried with them for when Uncle took away food.
When they were done they walked out into the living room just as Aunt Petunia was about to call them. She smiled at them, pleased she didn't have to call. She noticed they had their backpacks but didn't think much of it. It was the twins after all. They stayed with them all day and didn't make any trouble. She was a little disappointed by that. She wanted them to act more like regular kids instead of slaves.
It also hadn't excaped her notice when during breakfast after the twins left the room he followed them a minute later. She had been relieved that when they came into the living room without any bruises. She knew Vernon hit the twins every now and then. But the twins had never come to her about it and they never had any marks, so she just assumed that when he did hit them it was few and far between. She loved her husband but the children would always come first. Always.
Vernon surprised me last night by saying he wanted the twins to come sightseeing with us. I was ecstatic to hear he wanted the twins to come. They bought some bout tour tickets for that evening, that way they could watch the sunset. As they got on the boat I noticed Vernon glaring at the twins. I looked over at them in confusion. Their clothes were straight and not a stain to be seen, they weren't talking to anyone either. I didn't understand why he'd glare at them. She shrugged it off and turned to the twins and Dudley.
"Alright. I want you kids to go play. Have fun, but don't break any rules though. If you wouldn't do it with me watching then don't do it." She paused to look them over to make it clear she was serious. "Alright. Go on sweets."
She watched smiling as they all went off to play, know that they were to meet back at the off ramp when the boat ride ended. She turned to Vernon and said, "Alone at last Mr. Dursley. What shall we do?"
"I think we should go and dance Mrs. Dursley." He replied with a smile as he swept her off to the dance floor as the sun started setting.
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We were standing at the back railing of the boat as it turned around to head back to port. It was absolutely beautiful here. You could actually breathe in fresh clean air with every breath. Absolutely amazing. We never heard Uncle Vernon come up behind us, and we were too stunned to do more than squeak as we fell to the water below.
We came up and greedily drank in every breath we could. We bobed in the water as we watched the boat drift out of sight quickly. We turned towards the shore and swam as fast as we could. When we made it to shore Harry wrapped his arms around me as I started to shake with emotion. He left us. He abandoned us. I couldn't understand it. Why would he do this? 'I know he doesn't like us but why would he do this?' Hallie wondered to herself. 'I don't understand. I can see him wanting to get rid of me but why Hallie? Why would he do this to her?' Harry thought at the same time.
"We need to find somewhere to sleep for the night. Aunt Tunia will come for us. I just know it." Harry said. "Do you hear me? She'll come for us." Harry tightened his arms around his little sister and steered them towards the trees. We walked in silence for a bit until we found a hollowed out tree. It would be ok for us to sleep in for one night.
Harry got down and crawled in to see if it was big enough for the two of them and found that it was indeed big enough. He called out the opening to his sister. "It's ok. It's big enough for both of us in here. And it will keep us out of the open for the night." Hallie got down and crawled in to curl up with her brother to keep warm in the cool night air. What neither one noticed was the wolf cubs huddled in the back of the hollowed out space.
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Some of you are probably wondering how all of these things fit in a hollowed out tree, huh? You see even though the entrance was indeed a hollowed out tree it had rotted some of the earth below making a large cave.
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The wolves came back from hunting to find the smell of human inside the cave. They all went on the defense and prepared for the worst. They were shocked when upon entering the cave there were two human pups curled up inside with their pups around them. The two legger pups smelt of blood, pain, and illness. Their Lupa stepped forward to smell of them. When she did one of her pups woke up.
'It's ok Mom. They're sick and hurt. So we curled up to help them.' Moon whispered to her mother. We heard a splash and then we heard them come on shore. A little bit latter they found our cave but didn't notice us. We were just going to let them be and wait for you to come back until the female started shaking and shivering. We were worried about them and so I took a sniff and they are covered in blood, sickness, and pain.'
The Lupa, Luna, walk over to the pups and nosed their foreheads. She was assaulted by the smell of tainted magic coming from the scars on their heads. Her pack knew the smell of magic well. For they used to live in a forest near a castle that was a 'school' for magic. They were brought here as an experiment to see if magical wolves could survive in a non-magical forest. And so they relocated her entire pack. They don't mind though. Plenty of hunting here, and we don't have to worry about unicorns.
"What do you think mate? Should we keep them or kill them?" Luna asked her mate.
"I don't know mate. I'll leave this choice to you. It'll be you raising them after all." Her mate River told her as he took a sniff of the twins. "If we take them in though we'll need to get this tainted magic out of them. I don't think they would survive without us though Mate."
She once more took a sniff of the cubs and made a decision. "We shall go with them tomorrow to the city to speak with the snake." She told them. "He will surely be able to tell us more. Now we must sleep. It is far to the city of snakes and I want the cubs to be able to make it."
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When the twins woke up later that morning they were shocked to find themselves surrounded by wolves. But they weren't afraid. After all, they had been asleep and instead of killing them they were keeping them warm. They looked at each other then at the wolves with their heads laying on them. One was a silver color that looked to be female, and she had her head laying on Hallie. While the other one was a dark blue color that looked to be male, had his head laying on Harry. There were about 8 pups laying on and around the 2 largest wolves, with 3 other wolves around the sides.
All of a sudden the wolf laying on Hallie shifted and her claws scraped a wound on her leg that hadn't quite healed yet from their last beating and she cried out in pain. The wolves were instantly up and in defensive positions around them, looking for the threat that wasn't there. They looked at the human pups to see the male curled around the girl petting her hair and whispering soothing words. Gently rocking them back and forth as he gently pulled her into his lap.
"It's ok Lunetta. I'm here, I've got you. Let me take a look. You should've told me it was still hurting you, I could've healed it before now if you had." He quietly chided me as he gently raised her shirt to show the still black bruise that covered most of her stomach and ribs. He gently placed his left hand on her stomach to use his skill. His hand was enveloped in a soft lavender colored glow that spread over her abdomen, he winced in sympathy when they heard 4 pops in quick sucsesion.
The silver wolf that had its head on Hallie slowly crept forward as if she didn't want to startle them. She lowered her head to Hallie as if asking for her to pet her. So she slowly reached her hand out and ran her hand through her fur. She smiled happily at the softness beneath her palm. She looked over at her twin and noticed the blue wolf had done the same with Harry. She giggled as one of the pups that had a black patch in the shape of a star over its eye climbed into her lap and nipped on her chin playfully then climbed back down and started playing with the other pups while barking encouragingly at the twins.
They got down and started playing with the pups and soon forgot they were a different species all together. They just played and rough housed like good pups are won't to do while the adults looked on proudly. They had 2 new pups in their pack.
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About 2 days later Hallie and Harry newly dubbed Raven (Harry), and Lunetta (Hallie) started the trek to the ancient city. Where the twins would be cleaned of the tainted magic in their scars. The wolves were actually a little surprised when they brought home game one night and the human pups didn't even look queasy like the other human pups would in their old forest when they would see them. Instead they merely got some wood together to make a small fire to cook their meat. When one of the pups asked why they needed fire they said, "We can't eat raw meat yet. We haven't eaten in about a week and we really want to be able to keep it down so we don't want to take any chances."
The adult wolves looked at each other and told the pups, "We'll be back soon. We are going to scout, just howl if you need us pups." They turned and stalked out of the cave and wandered into the woods surrounding the cave they had chosen for the night. "If I ever find the one called 'Uncle Vernon' I'll rip his throat out for what he has done to my pups!" Luna snarled.
"Shh, shh. It's alright mate. We will one day get revenge on them I swear it." River told her. "Now let's see about how much farther it is to the City of Snakes."
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A/N: Hey everyone! It's me again! I hope you guys enjoy my newest update and I promise to try and update again soon. Hopefully with a longer chapter. Also if yall wouldn't mind can yall check out the poll on my page? It'd be really awesome if yall would vote.
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