Thanks for the reviews guys, whoo, this has been a hetic week! I'm glad I had some free time to finish this chapter. Oh well, standard disclamer, If I owned it, I wouldn't have to face my parents when report cards come out, eek! Please enjoy and don't forget to review.
Luna skipped into the building after Angel, a look of sheer happiness on her face. Angel knew he had been out-done by a girl, and he didn't mind at all. If you didn't know better, you'd think he was in love.
They took the elevator, Angel sneaking glances in Luna's direction all the while. Luckily she hadn't noticed, she was back to her thinking.
Angel knocked on the office door, "Who is there?" Sirius asked from inside.
"The Easter bunny," Angel said sarcastically, opening the door. He flopped onto one of the couches, while Don motioned for his daughter to follow him out into the hallway.
"So what did you think of Luna?" Remus asked slyly.
"She's nice," Angel replied absently, not seeing the trap.
"Nice? I think you may think a little higher of her than nice, I can practically smell it on you." Remus said smirking. Angel's eyes darted around, "I didn't mean that you idiot." Remus rolled his eyes, finally catching onto what Angel thought he was talking about.
"Phew….Just was checking," Angel laughed at the look both of the men gave him.
"Huh?" Sirius asked, confused.
"Don't blow a brain cell over it; I'm sure in a few years you will figure it out." Angel mocked; Sirius was still scratching his head though.
"Ok, now since that's over, let's get down to business. Angel, you know how we paid Mr. Lovegood for information and printing false information on us, correct?" Remus asked seriously. Angel nodded; Mr. Lovegood put his and his daughter's life on the line with each article he wrote.
"Yes, he's very brave to do that, not many would risk it." Angel said, placing his elbows on his knees is a thoughtful gesture.
"He doesn't want money for it anymore. He wants us to keep Luna safe, things are getting extremely dangerous, he has received numerous death threats, cursed letters, and had his house and office vandalized many times. He feels Luna's life could be in danger. While she is here, he wants her to learn how to fight, so she can protect herself. He doesn't want a repeat of Diagon Alley." Remus rubbed his eyes tiredly; Angel idly noticed he was getting wrinkles around them from doing that so much and from a lack of sleep.
"Sure, that'd be great. Who'd train her?" Angel asked.
"Well, we were hoping you would, I mean, along with the other new recruits of course, but spend some extra time with her, which I have a feeling you would even if I didn't ask." Remus laughed, seeing Angel blush.
"Ok, I eh…I can do that." Angel stammered, trying to get over his embarrassment.
"Its okay kid, Siri and I defiantly know what you feel. Especially Sirius, he was or I mean, still is, a woman's man." Remus and Angel laughed; Angel could tell that from the start.
Angel led Luna to her rooms after the final arrangements were made. Her rooms were a few doors down from his, right next to Tonk's room. Luna's room was in a light shade of purple with white carpet. She put a bedspread with multi-colored stars on it on her bed, and put up posters advertising the Quibbler and some of her other interests.
The next day Angel, Tonks, and Luna headed down to the training area, Angel had the message relayed to the new recruits last night that they were to be up and ready by 6:00 in the morning.
The new recruits were sprawled around on the ground, even though it was still wet from the morning's dew.
"Attention! Everyone up! Get your lazy asses into gear; this isn't a free for all or a day care." Angel bellowed, alarming Tonks slightly, but Luna had seen this side of him before.
"This is Tonks, you may know her, she's going to help me train you greenies," Angel paused, "and this is Luna, she'll be joining you, and I don't want to hear that you have been treating her badly or you will know what it feel like to run until you pass out, got it?"
All of the new recruits nodded some sending glances towards the new girl under Angel's protection. Luna blushed and joined their ranks.
"I am Angel, you will soon learn how to fight, defend, and many other things, but first you need to get in shape. I've never seen a sorrier bunch of so-called new recruits. I think six laps around the grounds will do it, but stretch first, go it?"
There were some groans and nods, but everyone complied. Some sent Angel evil looks though; he knew he had his work cut out for him.
The first thing they did after they finished their run was learn to meditate. A lot of them snorted at this, they were supposed to learn to fight, not think of happy thoughts. One of the boys, the surly and rude one from earlier, Angel noted, voiced this thought out loud. "We should be learning to fight, not be doing something as boring and pointless as this," The young man stated with a smirk. He seemed to have gotten over his earlier embarrassment, though he still bore the bruises around his neck.
'He didn't cover them completely with the concealing charm', Raiden thought to himself, 'messy spellwork.'
"Will is it? Ah yes, well Will, happy thoughts help you create a Pontrounus. Do you know how hard it is to concentrate on those thoughts when a slimy, smelly, mother-fucker of a dementor is standing over you, ready to give you the kiss? All of the happy thoughts you can seem to pull up so easily, well; they will be gone, sucked form you like water through your fingers. Then where will you be? Oh yes I forgot, a mere shell suffering all eternity without a soul. That sounds lovely, doesn't it?" Angel shot back smartly, "And another two laps for patronizing your Commander. Oh, for that look, you can scrub the toilets on the third floor without magic. I'll supply the tooth brush, so don't worry. Any more? I didn't think so?"
Angel cracked his neck, "Anything anyone wants to get off their backs before we start?" No one said anything, "Good, now pair up, we're going to practice basic spellwork."
Two hours later, Angel released the now exhausted troops and headed back to his rooms to shower and change. He hoped Remus and Sirius would give him permission to take Luna and Tonks into town tonight. Luna needed some clothing because she didn't have much that was suitable to be fighting in except her uniform; he needed Tonks for the whole girl shopping stuff.
"Hey Remus, can I take Tonks and Luna into town, Luna needs some stuff." Angel asked the older wizard who was drinking a cup of coffee at the table in the living quarters.
"Sure, just have them back by their curfew," Remus said, barely looking up from his coffee, which seemed to have hypnotized him from its brown watery depths, or he was in deep thought.
"What's up Remus?" Angel asked, concerned, "Is it old Voldie?"
"No, Angel, there is so much you don't know, you aren't supposed to know, I can't keep it from you. I can't….I won't see you hurt."
Angel pulled up a chair, sensing Remus had to get something off his mind, and paid rapt attention.
"There is a prophecy…..about you. It just came to our attention. It seems you must defeat the Dark Lord, well that, or you will die. It's like this……Kill him or he will kill you." Remus closed his eyes; he couldn't look at Angel after delivering such potentially damaging news.
"So……You didn't know that all ready? Wow, I've known that for years, ever since I began training with Aidan. Just chill Remus; you are giving yourself unnecessary gray hairs. Go out and get drunk or laid or something. Jeez, you look like shit, no offence. Just relax. If I'd known you didn't all ready know, I'd have told you." Angel stood up, clapped the older wizard on the shoulder, and bounced out of the room.
"Huh?" Remus said, simply watching Angel leave, "I wish I knew how that kid's mind works, then I'd know everything."
"I heard that wolf boy!" Angel yelled from the hall. Remus shook his head, Angel's hearing was as good as or better than his, the kid was a walking freak show, in a good way of course.
"Luna, Tonks!" Angel yelled, exiting the building, "We can go!"
The only problem was…..There were no girls.
"Shit," Was all Angel could say before beginning to search. He didn't seem to hear the giggling from the bushes behind him, or he pretended that he didn't.
"Hmmmm, if I was a girl, where would I hide?" Angel said out loud, for the benefit of his two gigglers.
After a few minutes of fake searching, Angel cast a wandless disillusionment charm on himself, and snuck up behind the bush the girls were hiding in.
"Where is he?" Tonks asked Luna nervously.
"I don't know, I don't think he heard us……" Luna was cut off when Tonks screamed; she was being dragged out of the bush by an invisible force.
"Luna! Help me!" Tonks screeched, much to the now invisible Angel's amusement.
Luna grabbed Tonks hand's, only to find herself being dragged out as well. She put up a fight though. When they were clear of the brush, they were hit with a tickling charm, when they finally caught a break in the charm, a voice said, "Say Mercy."
"N….Never, you dinglebat." Tonks managed to gasp out, seeing Angel there in is full grinning glory.
"Fine, you asked for it!" Angel doubled the charm, and Tonks barely managed to gasp, "MERCY, MERCY!"
"Okay, Luna? Do you give up?" Angel asked amused at the response he got, it was a negative. "I'll never give in you dush bag!"
"Fine…..Oh never mind, let's go. I'm letting you off easy. I don't mind jokes as you just saw, but while we are off grounds, don't disappear, all right?" Angel asked, helping Luna off the ground.
"Oh….Sure that was just a joke though. I thought you were a Crumpled Horn Snortstack, woo, that was scary. I think you got us better than we got you." Luna said, brushing off her patch-covered jeans and flowery top.
Tonks on the other hand smacked Angel hard on the head. "Merlin, you scared the shit out of me. Never do that again." She scowled at the patch of mud on the front of her Puddlemere United Quidditch Jersey and her torn jeans. She was about to attempt a cleaning charm when Luna stopped her.
"You better let me do that, you know how you are with cleaning charms." Luna quickly applied the charm, ridding Tonks of the mud, and the three headed down to the garage where they could barrow a car.
Angel straight out told Tonks she would never drive a car with him in, near, or around it until she got proper driving lessons and learned to stay within the speed limit (She doesn't recognize Angel as Raiden because the changes made him look almost un-recognizable and she had only met him once, she just thinks Sirius and Remus had warned him of her driving). She pouted until Angel put the top down (the car was a convertible) and let her choose the station on the WWN (Wizarding Wireless Network).
She and Luna sang along with every song they knew, Angel didn't though, he hated singing anywhere but in the shower where no one could hear him. When he said this, Tonks remarked, "How do you know you are alone in the shower."
Needless to say, that was the end of Angel's singing for awhile. He also kept peaking out of the shower every few minutes to make sure no one else was in there with him. Tonks and Luna got a good laugh out of the paranoia they gave him.
When they finally reached the town, a small wizarding village about fifty miles away from London, they got out of the car and stretched. Angel didn't have time to enjoy himself though, because the two girls immediately ran into the nearest store after yelling for him to follow. Angel shook his head; this was going to be a long trip.
Three hours later, and countless bags shoved into Angel's arms, they retired to an ice cream place and grabbed a cone. Angel had shrunk all of the packages as soon as they were given to him and placed them into his pockets earlier, so carting around bags was no problem. They all relaxed and ate their ice cream in silence.
Luna growled, seeing three girls from her school approaching, "Loony, what a surprise!"
"It's Luna," Luna said quietly, willing them to go away silently, so she could enjoy the rest of her trip.
"Well Loony, I see you've finally made some friends," the girl continued, ignoring what Luna said. "Good for you Loony, and some fine friends they are." The girl raised an eyebrow at Angel, checking him out, and liking what she saw.
Angel sent Luna a look saying, 'stand up for yourself!' but she simply looked down at the ground. Angel could see she had lost all of the self-confidence she had built up over the past few days, so he decided he would jump in before Tonks threw any punches.
"Leave her alone bitch, don't you have something better to do you bean-flicker. Merlin, you'd think your only life is torturing people who are different , well fuck off, tearing Luna down like that isn't right." Angel snarled angrily, the girls looked scared, that was when the girl's escorts, also known as their boyfriends arrived.
"Hey! Get away from my girlfriend, you deatheater!" One of the boys yelled. It was Weasely. The girls were Granger, and the Patil twins. The boys happened to be Potter, Weasely, and a boy named McConnor.
"If I was a deatheater, do you think I would be standing here in the middle of a town, in broad daylight without my wand out? Don't you think I'd be blasting these three dizzy bints to heaven come? Don't you think I'd be blowing you three douche-bags into nothing but dust? Wait, I forgot, you have to have at least half a brain to be a deatheater, too bad, or I'd ask you what you three are doing out in the day light." Angle sneered, making everyone take a step back. His look could easily out-do Snape's worst.
"W…What did you just say? Don't you recognize me? I'm the-boy-who-lived, the hero of the wizarding world, while you're only some sleazy dumbass who thinks he's all that. You are probably a deatheater anyways, this will fix you!" Tyler yelled for his guards who appeared out of thin-air. They were Order of the Pheonix members.
"He said he was a deatheater and he was going to blow us all up!" Tyler exclaimed, clearly they thought this boy could not lie.
"Stop right there you three!" One of the wizards said, taking a step towards Tonks, Luna, and Angel. "You are under arrest for being a suspected deatheater."
Angel grinned roguishly, pushing the girls behind him in case things got messy. "Ha, us deathmunchkins! Sure thing my ass! Now if you don't mind, we have to be getting back home." Angel finished coldly, making two of the members shiver slightly. The Aurror, as it seemed the forward and seemingly fearless individual who was trying to arrest them, boldly stepped, resolute in arresting these deatheaters for 'threatening' their 'savior'.
"I can't let you do that, give up now and we will not have to hurt you." The Aurror raised his wand, and Angel spread his wings.
"I'd like to see you try to take me." Angel laughed, turned, grabbed the two girls, and flew off before any of the wizards or witches in the local vicinity could react. He landed near their car, which they thoughtfully parked in a rather unpopulated area, and drove back in almost complete silence, Angel fuming over how the Aurrors took Tyler's word for everything, Luna for how she was treated and how Angel was treated, and Tonks over everything.
"Well this was an interesting trip….."
Hmmmm...I'm not sure if I want to continue with the trip home, or skip to the other part of Raiden's 'family' who are still at Hogwarts training the fake boy-who-lived. Please don't forget to review!