Previously: They walked to the Floo and disappeared through the flames, their fingers intertwined as they left.
Draconic
"talking"
'thinking'
Shade tripped as he stepped out of the Floo grate and started to fall only to feel two strong arms wrap around him and help him get his footing back.
"Thanks," he said as he leaned against Charlie's chest.
He turned and looked around at the living room, sighing when he saw Blaise chained to the couch with the twins and his siblings standing over him menacingly; while Harry, Hermione, Draco, and Ron were standing off to the side, staring at the twins in shock as Charlie stood next to Shade also staring at the twins. Shade noticed that if he didn't do something quick, Fred was going to rip him a new one so he whistled sharply, flinching with the Guardians because it was way too loud for them.
"Alright, now Fred, George, I know that you want to tear him to shreds but as Victoria's Clan, we get first hit, also you go to school with him so you can just prank him there," Shade reprimanded.
"Oh alright, so after all of you, we can have a go with him?" Fred asked with a menacing glint in his eyes.
"Of course, at school though, tonight, we get to first," Julian replied.
The twins nodded, "Alright."
"Come, I'll show all of you to the guest bedrooms and you three, don't do anything to him until I get back," Shade said before leading everyone to their rooms along with Charlie.
After everyone was settled in their rooms, Shade walked back out to the Living room and growled down at Blaise.
"You thought you could just take my sister did you?" Julian growled out, pulling his head back by his hair.
Blaise snarled and smirked, "Of course, all of you are just animals anyway, made to be used by the most cunning and powerful wizards."
Julian snapped and punched Blaise in the face, making his head snap back sharply.
Shade looked out the window as a large bird landed on their windowsill; he opened the window and pulled the message off of the bird's leg before it flew away.
"See? That must be my mother, she wouldn't allow this," Blaise said arrogantly.
Shade unrolled the parchment and grinned evilly as he read, "Apparently, your mother says, and I quote, 'Do what you will to him. If he has upset your Clan, you have every right in the Creature laws to do as you will, but please, as a person, spare his life.'"
As Shade spoke, Blaise got paler and paler, "N-No, that can't be true!"
-There will be torture in this next scene so if you want to skip it, do so, I won't blame you since I also really didn't like writing this either-
"Well, unfortunately for you, it is. Alice, Shade, I hope you don't mind if I go first," Julian replied, an insane glint in his eyes.
Shade and Alice shook their heads quickly as Julian went over to his trunk; he opened it and looked through his compartments until he found what he was looking for, it looked to be a potted flower.
"Excuse me, Blaise was it? Do you know what this is?" Julian asked, holding the flower up to his face.
Blaise shook his head as Julian continued, "I bred it and the Ministry of Magic has classified it as Flos cruciabuntur somnia, or Flower of Illusions. It's mainly painful illusions though and if even a small piece of it touches you, it will feel like your skin is being boiled."
Blaise paled and tried to get away from the flower that was getting closer to his face as Julian put on a pair of Basilisk hide gloves. He picked up a knife that he had forged himself and gently cut off a bud of the flower. He picked it up and forced Blaise's mouth open, making him eat the flower bud before pulling back and taking his gloves off, waiting for the flower to get to work. Julian smirked as Blaise started shouting; on the outside, he looked fine but if you peeked into his mind, he believed that he was being burned alive with branding irons.
"Painful, isn't it? Sorry Shade, Alice, this flower has a very long time before it stops the illusion, you'll have to wait at least 20 minutes for it to stop," Julian said as he cast a silencing spell of Blaise so that he wouldn't wake up everyone else.
Shade sat down next to Blaise and started to read a book while Alice went to her potions lab to make more potions as Julian calmed down and read a book with Shade. After the 20 minutes were up, Alice walked back into the room after making one of her own creations of potion as Shade and Julian put down their books. Blaise groaned and panted as he wriggled on the couch, trying to get off as Alice approached him with a potion.
"Guess it's my turn, can you guess what this is? No? Well, I'll tell you. On my trip to America, they had made enormous steps in medicine and Potions by mixing both of them together. They would capture or take unicorn blood that was given willingly and put it in potions. I decided to play around with this idea and here it is, the Vita Custos or, Life Keeper. It will keep you alive for the duration of your torture all the way until tomorrow around supper time," Alice said as she poured the contents into Blaise's mouth.
"Wow sis, came up with a new potion huh?" Shade asked, impressed.
"Yep, I hope to send it in along with some of my other potions for my mastery," Alice replied with a smile.
"Well, I guess it's my turn, I've been meaning to test out these spells that M gave me," Shade said, twirling his wand in his hand.
He muttered something as he pointed his wand at Blaise; nothing happened immediately but after a few moments, shallow cuts appeared on his skin. A few more moments and the cuts turned into large gashes everywhere on his body as Shade muttered another spell summoning a bucket of salt.
"I heard that this hurts a lot and I hope this is true," Shade mussed before grabbing the salt and sprinkling it on Blaise's gashes.
He jolted slightly as Blaise screamed and writhed on the couch; he huffed before packing the rest of the salt in, "There, that should do it."
He narrowed his eyes before healing his wounds, the salt still in them though, making it even more painful.
-torture ends here so you can keep reading from here, sorry about that-
Julian yawned before getting up, "Well, I'm going to bed, see you tomorrow."
Alice nodded and headed towards the stairs too, "Me too, you deal with this."
"Ok, good night," Shade replied before facing Blaise, "Listen to me you dick, if you ever even look at my sister again, I will kill you with no hesitation, nod if you understand."
Blaise nodded hurriedly before being unchained; Shade walked him to the Floo, "Now get out of here."
Blaise nodded again before disappearing through the Floo as Shade walked up to his room, just wanting to curl up against Charlie and pass out. He opened the door and smiled as he saw Charlie passed out on his bed, his hair mussed as he rolled onto his back. He changed into his pajamas before crawling into his bed beside Charlie, smiling as Charlie instinctively wrapped his arms around him as he fell asleep.
The next morning, Shade was down in the kitchen making breakfast as all the people from upstairs came down the stairs and sat down in the living room.
Charlie wrapped his arms around Shade's waist and groaned at the smell of the food, "You cook as well as my mother and that's saying something."
"Why thank you, how was your night?" Shade asked as he flipped over some bacon in the frying pan.
"Alright, I heard somethings from downstairs last night..." Charlie said as he put his chin on the crook of Shade's neck.
Shade stiffened slightly as he plated all the food, "Oh..."
"Yep... Don't worry, I know that you were only protecting your family, I would've done the same," Charlie replied with a small smile.
"I know... Anyway, want to help me bring this out to the sleepy herd out there?" Shade said as he put two plates on each arm.
"Sure," Charlie said before putting some plates on his arms before Shade levitated the last few plates into the living room and onto the waiting laps of the starving people in there.
Alice was sprawled out on the couch with Draco as the twins were on the floor, leaning against the couch with Victoria. Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all seated across from the three leaning against the couch.
Ron groaned as he ate the food in front of him, "Wow, this is really good. Even better than mom's cooking."
"Agreed, good job Shade," Fred said slightly distracted.
Shade chuckled and walked back into the Kitchen as an owl flew through the window, landing on the kitchen island and hoo-ing at Shade as he reached the cabinets.
"Well, what are you doing here?" Shade asked as he gently pulled the letter from the owl's leg.
The owl flew away as Shade read the letter, "Oh my gods... ALICE!"
He rushed back into the living room, startling many in there, and almost pounced on her, "You have to read this!"
Alice tore the letter from his hands and quickly read it before squealing and wiggling on the couch, "Oh my gods! I did it!"
"Umm... What did you do?" Draco asked, trying to read the letter.
"I'll read it out loud, Ahem,
Dear Ms. Croferd,
We are pleased to inform you that you have achieved the title of a Potions Master and of two different awards. The first award being the youngest Potions Master in four centuries, even younger than Professor Severus Snape who completed his at the age of 18, you have achieved this award at the age of 15. The second award being given to you if for the invention of not three but nine new potions that have been certified and categorized accordingly. Congratulations and we would like to inform you that you can apply for the Potions Professor position at Hogwarts, we wish you all the best and a pleasant day.
Yours sincerely,
Broderick Bode
Unspeakable for the Department of Mysteries" Alice finished with a smile.
Julian and Victoria were jumping up and down while Shade smiled so wide, it should've cracked his face in half.
"I'm so proud of you," Draco said with a smile before leaning over and kissing her gently.
She blushed as he pulled away and Shade groaned, "Aww it's so cute I'm gonna puke."
"Oh shut up Shade!" she replied before throwing a pillow at his face.
He laughed before catching himself and breathing out, "I'll be right back," before shooting up the stairs into his room.
He came back down with a medium sized box and handed it to her, "Here, I thought that you would like these and I was saving them for a day like today."
She tore the box open and gasped as she pulled out a pair of gray/black soft leather boots that went halfway up her shins. It had black laces going up the front and on each side was a small pouch big enough for a small switchblade.
"Oh my gods thank you!" she replied before launching herself at him to the amusement of the others in the room.
"No problem, I thought you needed new boots anyway," he said with a smile.
"Well, sorry to cut the fun short but I do believe that these people need to head home," Julian said as he gestured to all the hogwarts students in their living room.
"Yea, our mum's going to freak when we get home," Fred replied with a wince.
Ron, George, and Charlie winced with him as Charlie said, "Good luck with that."
"Aren't you coming home?" George asked as Harry, Hermione, and Draco left via Floo.
"No, I will visit this summer but I have to study to get a Mastery in Care of Magical Creatures and I can't do that at home," Charlie replied.
"Oh, well, we'll tell mum you say hello then, see you later Charlie, bye," Ron replied before leaving through the floo.
Fred and George hugged Charlie before leaving through the floo like their brother.
"Well, that was eventful," Victoria said as their living room emptied quickly.
"Yep, I'm going to go to my green house," Julian replied before walking down the hall.
"I'm going to go shopping, want to come sis?" Alice asked, turning to Victoria.
"Sure, I need some new books, mine are getting frayed and torn," Victoria replied sheepishly as they went to go get changed.
"Huh... What do you feel like doing?" Charlie asked as he turned to Shade.
He shrugged but straightened, a smirk on his face, "I know what we can do, follow me."
Charlie chuckled as he followed him through the apartment into Shade's personal room that he used, wondering what they were going to do.
Author's Note: Well, there's the chapter, hope you liked it! I'm really tired of putting an AN at the beginning of the chapters so I'm going to stop. See ya'll in the next chapter, bye!