History and Family.

Part 1 of what happened between the arrival of Muse academy and the first task.

Maria walked through the halls of Hogwarts with the seven Slayers and Hogwarts trio in tow.

"Where are we going again?" Draco asked.

"When I was at Hogwarts my friends and I were our own little group of pranksters," Maria said. "We made our own lair in one of the abandoned rooms of Hogwarts. I'm hoping that it's still here so that we can use it as a base. We had an enchantment on it so that the only way to find the door was to have a special amulet that each of us had, though I don't know if the enchantment hiding the door will have held up, it has been three centuries or so."

"You know, sometimes I forgot that you're that old." Aria said.

"Wait a minute," said Fred.

"The hidden lair sound familiar." said George.

"What was the,"

"Name of your group?"

"The Vagabonds." Maria answered.

Fred and George looked stunned, they suddenly dropped to the floor and grovelled.

"We are among a pranking goddess." both of them said.

"Has my group really become that infamous?" Maria asked.

"I think so." Vida commented.

Fred and George stopped grovelling and stood up.

"When we found out about you in our first year we spent a lot of time trying to find your lair." they explained.

Maria laughed. "Well then, your search is over."

Maria reached into her ever-present satchel and pulled out a silver amulet, she put it on and then reached out to the wall as if grasping hold of an invisible handle. The others blinked as a door suddenly appeared as it opened up to reveal a room.

"Come on." Maria said as she walked into the room with the others following. "Don't worry about any dust, it's been under a stasis charm since I became a Muse."

"Whoa." was all they could say at first.

The room was quite large and quite a sight to see. The room was divided into four sections with each section themed after one of the four Hogwarts houses, the ceiling was themed after the Great hall and had been charmed to look like the night sky with glowing orbs lighting up the room. The Gryffindor section of the room was a training area with mats, simple weapons and training equipment. The Hufflepuff section was a lounging area with a fireplace, very comfy looking seats, a small kitchenette and a portrait of all four of the Vagabonds hanging above the fireplace. The Ravenclaw area was the library area with shelves lined with many books, a few desks and a few art materials. The Slytherin was the planning area for all the pranks, the shelves were lined with pranking supplies, a large desk was covered in plans, and there was a large book on a podium entitled 'History of Vagabond pranks'. At the very centre of the room was a large model of Hogwarts that was fixed to the floor and four mannequins dressed in the clothes that the Vagabonds wore when pranking, and there was a door on the far right wall.

"George, I think that we died and went to heaven." Fred said in awe.

"My too, brother."

"You guys made all of this when you were still in Hogwarts?" Vida asked sceptically.

"Yep, we spent a lot of time on it and it did help that all of us came from rich families. In fact, we started in out first year and only got it finished about a year and a half before we had to leave Hogwarts. I'd say our biggest achievement would have to be the castle." Maria said, pointing to the model Hogwarts in the middle of the room.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"Come see."

Maria went over to the castle and removed one of the layers and walls.

"This is where Sirius got the idea for the Marauder's map in the first place." she said.

Walking along the miniature halls of Hogwarts were tiny white figures representing everyone in Hogwarts, each with a name tag floating above them to identify who they were.

"Amazing, how did you make it?" Hermione asked.

"I can't remember, but the plans for it should be somewhere on one of the bookcases." Maria answered.

Draco walked over to the Vagabond outfits and examined them.

"You really wore this?" he asked, examining one of them.

The Vagabond outfits looked like traditional highway man dress, with white shirt, brown vest, brown trousers, black boots, three point hat, mask, and a cape based off the house the Vagabond was in. The Gryffindor one had a red cape with gold trimming, the Slytherin cape was green with silver trimming, the Hufflepuff cape was black with yellow trimming, and the Ravenclaw cape was blue with grey trimming, and the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff outfits were made for females.

"Not that one," Maria said, seeing that Draco was fingering the Ravenclaw outfit. "The Hufflepuff one, see?" she pointed to the portrait.

The portrait of the Vagabonds had them in their outfits without the masks all smiling together.

"The other girl was Nimue, the Gryffindor was Jack and the Slytherin was Tomas." Maria said.

"What happened to them?" Neville asked.

Maria looked sad. "Time. All of them aged while I was a Shapeshifter, age holds no meaning for me. That's why I became a Muse, the very slow aging thing that comes with being a Muse has no affect on me." she then smiled. "Anyway, let's not be sad about the past, I had good times with them and that's all that matters. Now, through the other door is the bedroom where we sometimes slept."

The other smiled at Maria and how she handled everything.

Fred and George went over to the Vagabond book to read up on all the pranks that the Vagabonds did during their rein at Hogwarts.

"Oh the ideas." they said as they read some pranks from the Vagabond's forth year.

Hermione settled down near the twins after grabbing one of the books off the shelves. Neville went over to a cabinet in the Slytherin area labelled 'plants' which contained the seeds of various plants that could be used for pranking. Draco was near him looking over the plans that had been left out on the large desk. The Saxton triplets were in the Gryffindor area checking out the various equipment there. The Black twins went off to the bedroom area to see what they could find. And Maria sat down on one of the comfy seats in the Hufflepuff area, with a wave of her hand the fireplace was giving off a gentle glow from the fire that was suddenly there, and she looked up at the portrait of her and her old friends, like this she could almost fool herself into thinking that she was back in simpler times when her friends were still around.

Ginny Weasley walked down the halls of Hogwarts alone, she didn't feel like being with anyone at the moment, and all because of her brothers. The last she'd ever seen of her older twin brothers was when they told her that they'd send her home a Hogwarts toilet seat the year before she was scheduled to go to Hogwarts herself, after that all she heard of her brothers was word-of-mouth. Only a handful of weeks before her brothers would have returned home she heard about Fred and George turning into Imps or something and then pulling a disappearing act, not long after each of the family got a letter from them and all but her mother and brother Ron had been understanding while Percy remained indifferent to the matter, her mum took her letter off her before she could read it and told her right out that her twin brothers were dark creatures and that she wasn't to have anymore interactions with them. Everything was different after that, the school year ended and only Ron and Percy returned, her parents argued over it with her mum wanting to disown Fred and George while her dad remained firm and wouldn't allow it, from what she managed to get from Bill and Charlie when they visited she at least knew that they were somewhere safe.

After that Ginny wished that she could join her brothers wherever they were, even if it meant the same treatment they got, they were her favourite brothers as they were the perfect balance of protective and encouraging and never used their status as big brothers against her like Ron did. She also wished to join them to escape Dumbledore's plans, she never told anyone that she had overheard him and her mother talking one night when she snuck down for a glass of water.

(Flashback)

Ginny crept downstairs mindful of everyone of the stairs that made a creak when stepped on, she was only going down for a glass of water but she'd bet her mother wouldn't be happy with her being awake at this time of night. Once she reached the bottom she was about to go to the kitchen when she heard voices from the living room, her curiosity got the best of her and she listened in.

"I'm afraid the worst has come to pass, Molly." she heard a voice that she recognised as Dumbledore.

*What's Dumbledore doing here, are one of my brothers in trouble, am I in trouble?*

"What is it, Albus?" she head her mum say.

"It seems a family of dark wizards, the Saxtons, got to the Potter twins before they came to Hogwarts and have poisoned their minds."

"Oh no!"

"They sent their triplet girls to Hogwarts with the twins, I didn't know the reason until recently, they must have been trying to get them to go to a school outside of my power. When I returned to Hogwarts it seems that the Saxtons used the danger to convince the twins' adopted mother to move them, I think that they may have even set up the events."

"Where are the poor twins now?"

Dumbledore sighed. "I don't know. I tried to talk to the triplets to convince them to join the light but the roots of their aunt and uncle proved to deep, I believe that they were also Fae considering the barriers that had protecting their minds."

"You tried to read their minds?"

"I had to, I needed to find out what the Saxtons had planning and if I could save the triplets."

"You did what you could, Albus."

"The most important thing now is getting back the twins, and once we do we'll need to control them considering how mush the Saxtons must have poisoned their minds by now."

"How?"

"I believe that Ron and Geneva could help, if the twins got in relationships with them it would give them reason to join the light. And once they marry it will also give you access to the Potter fortune and a better way of living."

"But what if the Potter twins don't want that sort of relationship with my children or already have someone by the time you get them back? And Ron already didn't become Harry's best friend like planned."

"Nothing a few potions and charms won't fix, it's all for the greater good."

Ginny didn't stick around to hear anymore or risk getting caught, forgetting the water she snuck back upstairs and back to bed.

(Flashback end)

At first Ginny had liked the plan of getting to marry Harry, she would get to live out the fantasy that she shared with many other girls, but then she realised the wrongness of it all, Harry would be forced into loving her and she didn't want that, she wanted someone to want to marry her for who she was, not to mention Matilda would be forced into marrying Ron and she wouldn't want to force that on anyone. Ginny had planned on telling someone until she realise that no one would believe her, she was just a little girl and he was the great Albus Dumbledore, she'd just get laughed down. So for years she kept quiet about what she saw.

What Harry and Matilda's names came out of the Goblet she had been shocked and worried for them as they would have to compete in a life-threatening tournament against their will, but then she saw the bright side, she could use this as an opportunity to warn the Potter twins of Dumbledore's plans and even escape like her brothers did; she was sure that the Potter twins being friends with her bothers was no coincidence. But then Ginny had gotten the shock of her life when from the Muse academy sky-ship came her missing brothers, she recognised them despite how much they had aged and that they now had horns and spaded tails, and she had been angry when she saw Ron insult them, she saw the hurt in Fred and George's eyes, but then she smiled when she saw a set of triplets that she strongly suspected were the Saxton triplets comfort her brothers and the one with white hair and fox features stick up for them and threaten Ron. But when Ginny tried to go over to see her brothers and warn the Potter twins she was stopped by Ron who threatened her not to go near them and dragged her away, the next day she got a letter from her mum stating the same and a visit from Dumbledore 'warning' her that her brothers were too 'dangerous' to go near.

So Ginny walked down the halls of Hogwarts debating with herself whether to go against the will of her mum, brother and Dumbledore and do the right thing, or play it safe and stay away. Someone then coughed, gaining her attention. She looked up to see one of the Saxton triplets leaning against the wall, she had light-blond hair down to her waist and that covered the left side of her face, the eye that was visible was a deep blue, atop her head were a pair of red fox ears and coming out from behind her was a red fox tail with a white tip, and she was wearing muggle clothes that consisted of a black shirt, blue jacket, red trousers, and a pair of white trainers.

"Um, hi." Ginny said nervously.

"Hi." the triplet said in a voice full of confidence and a tone that could make anyone trust her. "Name's Vida Saxton, you're Ginny Weasley, right?"

"Yeah. How'd you know?"

"Your brothers told up all about their favourite little sister." came another voice from behind her, Ginny found herself wishing to listen to it forever.

Ginny turned to see another one of the Saxton triplets, this one had short red hair in a bob-cut and brown eyes, she also wore muggle clothes, she wore a blue spaghetti-strap top, kaki shorts, black high-heeled boots and a golden necklace around her neck, her minimal clothing really showed off the red tribal tattoos that covered her body. Ginny found herself staring at the girl, she wasn't that much more special than her sister yet she was somehow more alluring, then Ginny recognised her as a Siren from how much her mum ranted on about how were they were evil because of their allure.

"I'm Aria." the Siren said. "Sorry about my allure but you get used to it when you hang around me enough, you're just lucky I'm wearing this to block most of it out." she motioned to her necklace.

Ginny looked around and sure enough the final triplet was also there, with long black hair that reached her ankles and brown eyes like Aria, majestic white wings sprouting from her back, and wearing a purple t-shirt, a denim skirt that went to her knees, grey tights, red converse boots, and a red neckerchief wrapped around her neck. The Angel said nothing but gave off an impression that she wasn't one to be messed with.

"What do you want?" Ginny asked.

"We just want to know your opinion on your brothers." Vida said.

"What?"

"We want to know if you're okay with Fred and George being Imps." Aria clarified.

"Oh, I'm fine with it, but my mum and brother isn't."

"Who cares what they think, it's your opinion." Vida said as she pushed off from her position from the wall. "Come on then."

"Where are you going to take me?"

"To see your brothers, silly." Aria said, gabbing hold of Ginny's arm and pulling her along.

"Aria let go of her arm, we shouldn't force her if she doesn't want to see her brothers." Ginny heard the monotone of the Angel triplet.

"Sorry, Layla, I just got carried away." Aria said.

Aria released Ginny's arm and skipped to the front. Ginny was wary of going with the triplets but their word made her make her mind up and see her brothers consequences be dammed. Aria led the way at the front, Vida walked next to Ginny and Layla walked just behind them.

"So, how long have you known my brothers?" Ginny asked.

"More or less since we started our first year hear before we left." Vida answered. "They were really good guys. We also helped them with them becoming Imps."

"Really?"

"Yeah. We knew they'd get discovered and wouldn't be welcome so we gave them the means to get to somewhere safe, at Muse academy."

"Thank you." Ginny said. "Without that I don't know what would have happened to my brothers."

"Well, your welcome." Aria said. "We're here by the way."

Ginny hadn't realised she and the triplets had made it outside and under the sky-ship until Aria had said that they arrived.

"Ginny?" she heard the duel voices that she had longed to hear for so long.

"Fred! George!" Ginny launched herself at her brothers and gave them the biggest hug she could.

"We'll leave you three to get reacquainted." Vida said and she and her sisters boarded the ship and left the three Weasleys alone with each other.

"Thank you!" Ginny called up to them.