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Previously:
Of course elsewhere in the villa maniacal laughing could be heard as the source of laughter signed away the plans that made a certain violet eyed blond chaperon for a school trip to England. Dominus grinned in glee as he thought of other ways to make the blonde's life miserable. Aurorus was right the three royal vampires did have an agreement to make his life hell after all he made the best entertainment.
After Aurorus had seen fit to make the twins clean up all of the paints and feathers Cael and Terra refused to speak to one another… well Terra refused to speak with Cael since she couldn't do so without getting angry just yet. Cael though didn't get that message though and continued to pester his sister.
"Oh come on Terra it wasn't that bad. It's not like it was permanent or long lasting and besides the picture got ruined," Cael said trying to get his sister to speak to him. Since they were the only kids in the villa it got lonely when they stopped talking.
Terra glared at him, "Why don't you go get your stuff we're leaving for school in 30 minutes."
"Aww Terra don't be like that it was a joke and need I remind you about the bunny ears," whined Cael trying to get his sister to lighten up.
"Cael if you want to retain the ability to have children I suggest you leave me alone," she growled out stalking into her room and slamming the door in her brother's face.
Cael paled considerably and ran off to his room to let his sister stew… and save his pride.
Finally the stupid monkey leaves. Terra thought and looked around her room. It was a fairly large room with its walls and ceiling painted in a swirl of oceanic colors. Her bed and desk were a dark wood Victorian styled set. There was also an easel and blank canvas near the window that reached from the floor to the ceiling. Her other artwork hung from the walls and were scattered on her desk along with her poetry journals.
She sighed as she looked at her journal; it was ruined. Her idiotic monkey of a brother never thought of the consequences of his pranks… okay so he thought about them most of the time but this time he didn't and it made he frustrated. She frowned at the book; Cael was going to get her a new one and he was going to pay dearly when they got to school. She smiled evilly the girls were going to love having the excuse to start the war early this year.
Cael left his sister and ran to his room two doors away from Terra's. He shuddered at his sister's threat fully aware that in her current state she would follow through without remorse. God his sister was scary sometimes. I pity the fool who really pisses her off. He thought entering his room and promptly tripped over a quaffle.
"Oww…?" he frowned it was a good thing no one had seen him. He rubbed his head as he got up and looked around his room. Maybe it was time he cleaned up a bit. There were quidditch supplies all over the place. Flying all over the place he amended as he dodged a snitch that flew right at his head. His bed was a mess of pillows and blankets and his desk was covered in schematics (doodles) and quills. Clothes that he wasn't taking to school shared the floor with his extra quidditch stuff. There were also books (about quidditch or pranking) all over the bed and the floor. And Terra complained that never read anything. The only thing that didn't seem out of place (which in his black hole of a room meant it wasout of place) was his still un-shrunken school trunk.
Yep he needed to clean his room… but maybe later he needed to leave now before Terra decided retribution was in order. He hoped this didn't mean the war was starting early; he was already on Aurorus' bad side he needed to lay low for a bit. He quickly shrunk his trunk, pocketed it, and ran off towards his Uncle's office.
Unfortunately, after exiting his room he ran straight into his rather irate sister.
"Oomph!?!" he backed up and looked tentatively into angry green eyes.
"Uh ha ha Terra sorry 'bout that you know trying to get to Uncle's office before—" he rambled looking anywhere but at his sister.
"Cael let's go we're gonna be late," she said grabbing her still rambling brother by the arm and towing him all the way to their Uncle.
He followed a bit cowed at her indifference to the situation. Surely she couldn't have gotten over it that quickly, could she?
Terra smirked at the confusion her brother was feeling right now; all she had to do was make him feel safe then she would strike and revenge would be hers. Oh she was going to enjoy messing with her little monkey of a brother… like always.
They arrived at their Uncle's office several minutes later (The villa was so big it took forever to get anywhere unless you ran... at vampire speed). The twins entered and walked over towards their Uncle.
"Ahh Cael, Terra good you're on time how has your day been?" Dominus smiled at the twins and gestured for them to come forward.
"It was…ok Uncle unfortunately Roary didn't get as frustrated as I thought he would with the prank," relied Cael glancing at his sister for any sort of negative reaction.
He was lucky she merely frowned for a second before looking blankly at the papers on Dominus' desk.
"Hmm, we'll simply have to try harder now won't we?" Dominus mused gazing at Terra assessing her a moment.
She looked up feeling his gaze and smiled innocently, "Of course Uncle dear Roary won't know what hit him!" Cael looked at her nervously unsure who she directed that sentiment towards more him or Aurorus.
Dominus smiled despite the slightly murderous thoughts of his niece; he had raised such good children. They were always willing to help him with his torture of dear Aurorus. Now on to the pressing matters: sending his precious children to school was always difficult; he missed them dearly when they left. After all they were his good little minions… err helpers when it came to Aurorus torturing.
Speaking of Aurorus said blond just walked into the office to see the demons… I mean twins off to school.
"Oh Aurorus good you're here, I need to speak with you after the twins leave for school," Dominus said smiling sweetly at the blond with a strange glint in his green eyes. Said blond shivered in dread of what Dominus wanted to speak to him about. Perhaps he should resign already before the vampire got him killed.
"Now on to the children, Cael, Terra be good and try not to get into trouble, and remember eat your blood pops, now your carriage will be leaving in 10 minutes so out you get," Domnius said shooing the twins towards the fire place.
"Aww but Uncle we want to know you're going to say to Roary," they both whined pulling the innocent we're-twins-and-twice-as-cute-when-we-pout look perfectly. Dominus paused pretending to think about it but then threw the floo powder into the fireplace, shouted a destination, and pushed the twins into the green flames.
"You know you may have just sent them to some dark alley somewhere if you didn't say the destination right," Aurorus commented watching the green flames die down.
"Oh ye of little faith," Dominus replied then added, "if I did send them to some dark alley somewhere I'm sure they would be just fine after all they're vampires who would mess with them."
"…"
Elsewhere in Europe Albus Dumbledore sneezed in his round office filled with shiny silver instruments that screamed "I have ADD".
"Owww," Cael groaned as he lay where he landed upon exiting (falling) out of the floo.
"Cael get your unusually fat ass off of me," a voice hissed from beneath him.
"Oh ha ha ha sorry Terra didn't see ya there," he laughed nervously getting to his feet and holding out his hand to help his sister. She ignored it and got up brushing the soot from her clothes.
"Are you determined to live a short life Cael or are you just unnaturally clumsy for one of your status?" the irritated raven haired girl demanded crossly. Cael just grinned nervously and examined his surroundings. They had arrived in an odd little French restaurant along the shopping district in Paris that was the equivalence of London's Diagon Alley (not that the twins had ever been to Diagon Alley, Aurorus would've blown a gasket if they had). It had pictures of doves everywhere; it even had several clocks that had doves instead of numbers. And the birds were flying everywhere making the twins a little disorientated. It would've been interesting if they didn't get motion sickness from watching the birds always moving.
"Well at least we landed in the general vicinity of the right place," he said trying to divert his sister's ire to something else. She glared at him a final time before striding out of the restaurant. Cael sighed and followed her; he felt so unappreciated.
They walked out onto the busy French street not bothering to take in the sights and sounds. They had often frequented the street (the residents refused to call it an alley like in England) in their endeavors to make Aurorus have a mental break down. It was always fun to see how far they could go before getting in trouble and their Uncle always sided with them. Well most of the time Dominus sided with them. There was maybe one time where he didn't and that was a time the twins refused to remember.
"TERRA!! CAEL!!" an accented voice shouted over the noise of the crowds. The twins both turned to see their friend Claire de Lune run up to meet them. Claire was a good friend of the twins particularly Terra. She was also part wood elf as most of the students attending Beauxbatons had creature blood in them. Claire was also native to France unlike Terra and Cael who moved there when they were eleven. They had met her along with the rest of their group of friends in their first year and had been inseparable ever since.
"You two need to hurry the carriages are going to leave soon. How was your summer did Aurorus finally retire. Did you see the news about Sirius Black last month. He escaped you—"
"Claire stop, take a deep breath and ask one question at a time," Terra interrupted having grabbed her friend by the shoulders. Cael laughed next to them and started to lead them to the carriages a short way down the street. Claire did as she was told and asked again, "How was your summer, you hardly wrote."
"We were grounded for a bit of the summer no thanks to Monkey King1 over there," Terra replied smirking at the indignant look her brother gave her.
"Hey! I am not a monkey! A king most definitely, but I am not a monkey," he huffed as they neared the line of Pegasus drawn baby blue carriages. Claire laughed and dragged them both to a carriage near the back of the line.
"Well if that's all then did you hear about Sirius Black?" she asked excitedly as they entered the carriage.
"Of course they heard about Sirius Black the whole world knows about him even the muggles," a male voice drawled out from the window seat in the carriage. There were three occupants inside already: Ryan Wolfe, Scott Miles, and Gabrielle Delacour.
Claire frowned and pouted, "I didn't ask you Ryan, I asked Cael and Terra."
The boy in question raised an eyebrow (much like Aurorus had) and remarked, "Whatever you say de Lune." Ryan Wolfe2 was another of the twins group of friends. He was as his name suggests a werewolf, but he was born a werewolf, and unlike bitten werewolves he could control the change.
"Well contrary to belief we actually have not heard about Sirius Black, who is he?" Cael asked curiously sitting next to Gabrielle who smiled in greeting to the two vampires. She was part veela and you could tell from her platinum blond hair and the way all men looked at her in awe. She was also a native to France.
"He's an escaped convict from that English prison Azkaban, the one with the Dementors," Scott supplied to keep Claire from rambling off all kinds of redundant "facts" about the man. Unlike Claire and Gabrielle Scott Miles was a native to the U.S. whose parents decided France would be the best place for their only son to learn the facts of life. He was also part fox demon and his fox traits constantly showed in his tendency to get into trouble and prank every living being in sight.
"Really, I thought Azkaban was supposed to be impossible to escape from because of the Dementors," Cael said as Terra took her seat next to him and Claire sat by Scott near the door.
"Yeah it supposed to be but you know how the English wizards are," Gabrielle commented off handed as the carriage began to move.
"Hey I resent that me and Terra are from England!" Cael said in mock outrage.
Claire smiled at him, "Ah but you learn in France therefore you are both French Wizards not English ones."
Cael pouted and the others laughed, except for Terra of course; she was still mad about the whole paint and feathers prank. Cael glanced at his sister nervously and edged closer to Gabrielle just to be safe.
"I'm still concerned about this Sirius Black they say he was the Dark Lord's right hand man," Claire said getting over her laughter at how cute Cael could be when he tried.
"It doesn't really matter the Dark Lord was only concerned with England, so Black won't come here," Terra commented sullenly ignoring her brother's attempts to get away from her. Ryan raised another eyebrow at the twins' antics and Terra's lack of reaction to an escaped convict.
"Not even curious about how the man escaped Terra?" he asked trying to see if she knew anything.
"Not really it's not like we're going to England this year or anything," she said looking out the window.
Oh how wrong she was as they would all find out at the welcoming feast at school.
Another chapter in less than a day I know but this'll probably be the last chapter for a while. I hope it's ok and you all tell me what you think of the story.
1 im fairly certain that's what Ryoma calls Atobe in Prince of Tennis but correct me if im wrong
2 i watched a few episodes of CSI: Miami and thought the name worked well with the character i wanted
also on another note I haven't decided if Dumbledore is going to be bad or simply misguided cuz i think his decisions concerning harry in the books and movies was really wrong
I can already say Tom's going to be good but whether he was controled or framed I haven't decided yet either
And again please review and tell me what you think
until next time