THE GODDESS OF WISDOM AND WARFARE
Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry
Scotland, UK
September 11th
2022 A.D.
"Before you even think about asking me a question, let me ask you one!" Albus growled. "what goes Ow ow ow, please don't kill me?"
The knocker didn't make a sound.
"You! Unless you open this fucking door!"
Albus had finally managed to snap out of his trance and had desperately rushed after Aurora. He was now stuck outside of the Ravenclaw common room portal because the stubborn, question asking knocker wouldn't let him in.
"How far can brute force get a person before they have to start thinking?" The knocker responded snobbishly.
"It can get me through this portal!"
"Incorrect,"
Albus sighed. "I really hope that there's no one behind this thing,"
Ravenclaw students screamed and ran as the entire section of the entrance, including the portal was ripped out of the wall. Albus simply floated the massive chunk of wall and stood it against the broken opening while the knocker complained. "Destruction of school property!"
"You had your chance!" He hissed and walked into the Ravenclaw common room. Students cowered behind chairs and tables as Albus walked passed them. "Err...sorry,"
He found the stairs up to the girls dorms but as soon as he started to walk up them, he was hit with something that felt like being whacked with a giant pillow. He growled remembering that there was a barrier to stop men from going up there.
"Aurora!" He yelled. "please, talk to me!"
The frightened students saw their opening and bolted through the broken entrance.
"Aurora! We need to talk!"
There was still no response.
"I'll get through this enchantment Aurora! You know I will!"
Nothing.
"That's it!" Albus raised a shield around his entire body and walked up the stairs again. He felt the enchantment smashing against his gravity barrier, trying to force him back but it simply wasn't strong enough. In fact, Albus's shield felt somehow stronger to him. It was almost no effort at all pushing his way up the stairs until he came to several doors leading in different directions. The enchantment had ceased trying to push him back and he was able to drop his shield and smell the air. He caught a strong whiff of Aurora, Violet and Lynx coming from the door on his left.
He pushed through the door and was immediately confronted. "She doesn't want to speak to you Albus!" Violet said quickly.
"Well, I need to speak to her!"
"She's upset!" Violet tried.
"Of course she's upset! She's pregnant!" Albus's voice was unusually high.
"Look, just give her some time,"
"No! I need to talk to her right now!" Albus moved Violet out of the way and headed to the end of the long row of beds. He could see Aurora sitting on the very last bed with Lynx crouched in front of her.
"Aurora?"
"Go away Albus," She sounded a lot more upset than she had done in the headmasters office but there was still plenty of anger in her voice as well.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean -"
"Yes you did! You meant every word!"
Albus sighed and rubbed his head. "Lynx, can you give us a minute please?"
"No, Lynx stay!" Aurora snapped instantly. "get out Albus!"
"I'm not leaving until we've talked about this,"
"We all heard exactly what you think about this!" Her voice shook.
"Aurora...," Lynx said quietly. "you two need to talk," She stood up and quickly left the dorm with Violet in tow.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Why do you think?!" She snapped. "I was afraid that you wouldn't want it which you clearly don't!"
"I never said that!"
"You said that anyone that is even thinking about having a baby belongs in the loony bin!" She cried.
He walked over and sat beside her but as he did, she shuffled away. "That was before I found out I was about to be father,"
"Yeah, well, your not anymore," Tears started to appear in her eyes. "I'm gonna get rid of it,"
"What?!" Strangely enough, some part of him whispered that it was the smart choice. With everything that was going on, an added pregnancy wasn't what anyone needed right now. Then he suddenly thought about Teddy Lupin who was conceived and born during wartime. He was prick but he wasn't unhealthy or a burden to any of them. In fact, is he actually managed to get his head screwed on properly, he could make a valuable ally.
"You don't want this baby Albus and to be honest, I'm not sure if I do either! I'm not ready to be a mother but I was willing to try if you would be able to help me!" She tried to wipe the tears away from her face but they kept coming. "but you can't so it doesn't matter,"
"It does matter!" Albus said instantly. "Aurora...my life has been 100 miles a minute for quite a while now. With everything else that's going on in the world, everything I'm trying to do, you suddenly turn around and tell me that we're having a baby! How did you think I was going to react?"
Aurora looked away without answering. It was the strangest image to ever pop into his head. He saw himself cradling a tiny infant child that was trying to grab hold of the stubble on his jaw while giggling endlessly. Next to him was Aurora with a look of infinite maternal pride on her face. It made him wonder if it was actually possible...for them to be an actually happy family.
"I'm sorry for saying those things. I'm just...I've stopped a plane crash, invaded the ministry, had a dog fight with the air force, attacked my own family, killed over 20 people and battled a mutant werewolf in the middle of London but this scares the shit out of me!"
"You think I'm not scared?!" She cried. "I'm terrified! I'm carrying your baby while I have to sit back and wait for Athena to wake up and take you away from me!"
Albus put his hands on her face and gently forced her to look at him. "No one is taking me away from you!" His green eyes almost seemed to get brighter as he spoke his conviction. He meant every word. "I love you! I always have and I always will! And as soon as my heart beat starts up again, I'll love that baby as well!"
A tiny jolt of a laugh escaped her tear ridden face.
"It wasn't exactly what I was expecting to come back to. You might have noticed but I was slightly surprised when you told me," He smiled and so did she. Aurora lifted her head and looked at him. There were still tears in her eyes but these ones weren't from sadness.
She wouldn't admit it but it would have destroyed her to have gotten rid of the baby. She had been conflicted from day one, her fear telling her to have an abortion, her heart telling her not to. As frightened as she was, she still couldn't imagine how horrible it would be to loose it.
"I want you to keep the baby," He said softly.
"So do I," A new wave of tears broke out as she wrapped her arms around him and clutched him tightly.
He could taste her salty tears as he kissed her. After breaking apart, he very gently laid his hand on her stomach.
"I'm really gonna be a dad?" He breathed.
"Yeah, you are," She smiled, still trying to stop more tears from arriving.
"Are we having a boy or a girl?"
"I don't know," She said.
"What? Didn't they tell you when you got scanned?"
"I haven't had a scan Albus," She sighed.
"What?!" He shrieked. "but we...I...how do you know it's healthy?!"
"Well...I don't," She admitted. "I've kept this pretty quite Al. Can you imagine what the Cleric's would do if they found out I was pregnant with you child? Only Lynx, Violet and Sophia knew until a few minutes ago,"
"Sophia kn...no wonder she was so eager for me to get back here," Albus grumbled. "we can get Tannis or Draco to have a look,"
"They're not maternity doctors Albus,"
"Well, I know but...," Something struck Albus. "do you know when your due?"
"About April,"
"April...wait! I haven't seen you in months and your not due until -"
"This is going to last 13 months Albus," She said simply.
"13?! Why?!"
"Why do you think?"
Albus was visibly taken back by that. He hadn't even considered the idea that the baby could be like him.
"So...it's defiantly a...,"
"Yes," She nodded.
Albus blew out a deep breathed.
There was a horrible scream from below them. "What is this?!" A stern voice demanded.
"Shit...," Albus breathed. "I...lost my temper with the portal knocker,"
"Yes, I heard," She smiled.
"I better go...fix," He awkwardly jumped off the bed and started to head for the door but then span around and planted a loving kiss on Aurora's lips. "We're having a baby!" A strange feeling of warmth and excitement had taken over his entire body. This is how he used to feel on Christmas morning when he was a child. He kissed her again.
"Go and fix the mess you made, I'll still be here," She smiled.
"Right! The hole! Gotcha!" He headed for the door against but once again span around to kiss her one last time. "I love you!"
"I love you! Now go and put our wall back!" She laughed.
"Okay!" This time he actually did leave, even though he was tempted to turn around again and kiss her.
Cleric's Temple
Location Unknown
September 14th
2022 A.D.
Mathis was busy peering into a microscope in his still very damaged laboratory. He watched the various jelly like proteins and enzymes shift about.
"Well?" Marshall's voice asked.
"Well what?" Mathis asked. "I could stare at this for the next 6 months and still not find anything new,"
"We don't have 6 months. I need to know now,"
"In my honest opinion. I don't think you should do it," Mathis sighed.
"And is that honest opinion professional or personal?"
"Both! Look he's reacted reasonably well to the first injection, lets just leave it there and see what he can do," Mathis tired.
"He's not strong enough the way he is! The Colossus will pulverize him! A second shot at double the dose may be enough to even the playing field," Marshall retorted.
"I not worried about the physical aspects, it's the mental ones that concern me. He was already Schizophrenic before you swapped out all his memories! Another dose could put too much strain on his mind!"
"He's been more willing so far," Marshall said. "give me an honest assessment of what will happen if we give him another dose,"
Mathis sighed. He could see that Marshall had already made up his mind about this. "Enhanced reflexes, muscle mass, reaction time. Hardened tissue, intensified bone density. But there could be side effects! Just like there were to Jack and let's not forget that Albus isn't on his own anymore!"
"He will be when we make a move. Mr. Weasley will make sure of that and besides, we don't exactly have many other options. Give him the shot," Marshall ordered.
Mathis sighed. He picked up a small vial of yellowish liquid and filled a syringe with it. He gave Marshall one final look of doubt before walking out of the lab and down the corridor. He entered the holding cells and switched on the lights.
Inside his cell, Derek Vanguard was doing a perfect handstand using only one arm. Mathis felt a cold sensation wash over him. He had never fully believed in what they did but he'd seen enough to know that they were doing the right thing but now, he wasn't so sure.
They had literally drained Derek's memories out of his head and replaced them with false images to show a long and horrible conflict between him and the Colossus. They had actually managed to reprogram an Anomaly into being their ally instead of their enemy but at what cost?
"Derek?"
Vanguard suddenly flipped himself of his hand and onto his feet. He smiled strangely at Mathis.
"Doctor," He said in a hard Hungarian voice.
"It's time," Mathis said worryingly.
"As you vish," He smiled again.
Mathis cautious entered the cell with the syringe shaking slightly in his hand. Derek's enthusiasm towards being injected with experimental concoctions was worrisome. He turned around and dipped his head forward slightly.
"Err...Derek...there could be some side effects of -"
"Just juice me up so I can go have some fun vith the Colossus!" Vanguard growled.
Mathis sighed and proceeded to inject the needle into the back of his neck, right into the bone. Vanguard gritted his teeth as the serum was pumped into his veins.
Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry
Scotland, UK
September 24th
2022 A.D.
Athena walked into the Room of Requirement carrying a large bag that she dumped near the door. All the DA members had already gathered and were talking amongst themselves.
"Aurora!" Lily called out. "how about Jacob if it's it a boy, Ellen if it's a girl?"
"No!" Both Bobs shouted. "Jacob is a brand of biscuits! We still recommend Robert, don't we Bob,"
"Yes, we do Bob. It's a good strong name!"
Unfortunately this had become a sort of pass time for anyone that now knew Aurora was pregnant. They had been throwing around every name that popped into their heads when ever they saw her. After getting over their initial shock that they would soon be grandparents, both Ginny and Harry had given there own suggestions, but Albus and Aurora were determined to ignore Harry's war hero suggestions.
Oddly enough, baby names were one of the only things that could actually get Harry and Ginny talking to each other. It would usually end with Ginny making a fearsome remark about Harry's genitals and then they'd keep their distance from each other for a few days but at least they were actually interacting again. Ron however was as distant as ever. He was perfectly fine around his children and sister but to just about anyone else, he seemed almost completely emotionless.
Everyone else had been extremely supportive of her and far more excited. Then again, they weren't the ones that would actually have to give birth. Albus however had actually become quite annoying about the whole thing. Every chance he got, he would try and do things for Aurora, almost as if she wasn't actually pregnant at all but sick or crippled in someway. He also ask if she had felt the baby kick about once every 10 minutes despite the fact that the child was still about the size of a lighter at that moment.
"For the 900th time, Albus and I haven't even started thinking about names yet!" Aurora sighed. "if you have to...just...make a list or something,"
"Their just suggestions," Hugo said quickly. "like -"
"Hugo, for the last time, I am not naming my child Ben Dover!"
Hugo looked a little disappointed. He was about to speak when he was cut off by Aurora again.
"Or Justin Credible!"
"Justin Time?" He offered.
"NO!"
"Fine!" Hugo huffed under his breath.
"Can we get on with the lesson now?" Aurora asked, getting slightly annoyed. "good!"
Even though everyone went silent and waited for her to begin, she could see that they were still trying to think up new and original names for her. Of course, they'd have way to much to think about in a few minutes.
"I certainly hope that you guys have been practicing your dueling spells and defensive charms because your going to need them now. In fact, your going to need all of your wits, determination and skill for todays lesson," She smiled.
"We're not doing the buzzer thing again are we?" Scorpius moaned.
"Nope. Today we're playing war games,"
Everyone seemed a little confused by this and waited for her to explain.
"Anyone heard of a game called Capture the Flag?" She asked.
It was mainly the muggleborns that raised their hands. Both Bobs knew what it was as did Lynx and another 7th year.
Aurora waved her wand causing what looked like a projection screen to fall down against the wall. Only the screen wasn't white, it was a complete owls eye view drawing of the Hogwarts grounds. The map had 2 large 'X's', one red, one blue, marked on it. Both were inside the forbidden forest with the red mark not far from Hagrid's hut and the blue mark further in, quite close to where the Thestrals would usually be kept.
"It's a very simply exercise to teach you to be strategic and work as a team," Aurora said. "you'll be divided into 2 groups and your goals will be exactly the same. Capture the other teams flag while protecting your own,"
Aurora walked over to the bad she had brought. "You'll be give one map, one compass and one of these for each member of the group," She pulled out a small gold galleon. "I'm sure your all familiar with how the D.A. Used to communicate when they first got started. Well these coins are slightly different. The Headmaster has been kind enough to modify them for us. You no longer have to right a message on them, now you can talk through them. But, don't do too much talking because a little side effect of the charm is that the other team can hear everything you say. And you might want to change into this stuff." She smiled as she emptied out the rest of the bag. It obviously had an undetectable extension charm on it because about 30 pairs of old and disused Quidditch pads and helmets fell out onto the floor.
The class now looked pretty enthusiastic about this now. They weren't just going to be confined to a class room to practice dueling each now, they'd actually be in an unknown environment, fighting each other like real soldiers.
"Lincoln and Amelia will be patrolling the forest, you probably won't see them but they'll see you," She continued. "as soon as one team catches the others flag, the game is over. You can use all your team to defend our own flag but that won't really help you capture the other teams will it? Feel free to use any and all spells, knowledge and your own creative ideas to try and get this done and I'm sure I don't have to remind you that this is only a game so try not to kill each other," Some of the members giggled.
"Okay, divide down the middle, group on the left will be red, the others will be blue," She watched the members move aside. "Err...Lynx, join the blue team, Bobs join the red," She said trying to even the teams up a little. Violet seemed very pleased that she would be going against her own girlfriend now.
"Hey, that's not fair! They've got all the 7th years!" Hugo moaned.
"Yes and you have 2 extra people on your team," Aurora corrected.
The red team consisted of Hugo, Lily, The Bobs, Scorpius, Rose, Henry Hammings, Neil Bogdon 2 members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and 5 other 5th students. The blues had Lynx, Violet and her brother Ryan, Eric Shmit, one of the Ravenclaw beaters, 6 other 6th years and 3 5th years.
"Now, I'm going to give you 15 minutes to try and organize some kind of plan then we'll be going out to the forbidden forest,"
"But it's raining," Rose said holding a hand up to her hair. It always got frizzy in the rain.
"Oh, I'm sorry Rose. I forgot that they cancel wars for bad whether," Aurora remarked sarcastically causing Rose to glare at her. "blue team can go down into the Great Hall to do their planning," She said handing Violet the map, compass and small bag of enchanted coins.
The team grabbed some Quiddich armor as they left the Room of Requirement. "I'll be back up in 15 minutes," Aurora said. "be ready by then,"
As soon as the door closed they got started. "Alright, they're older than us, more experienced and one of them is an Animagus so we absolutely have to kick their asses!" Scorpius grinned.
"Scorpius! This is suppose to be about working as a team!" Rose objected.
"Exactly," Both Bobs said. "we must work as a team to make them our bitches!"
"Hoorar!" Hugo added.
"Come on Rosey! We're the underdogs here!" Lily said.
"Fine!" She huffed. "that's probably what they'll be think too,"
"Ego can be a powerful weakness," Henry suggested.
The Bobs smiled deviously. "Let the games begin!"
The Forbidden Forest
Although the tree tops gave them quite a lot of cover from the rain, it was still very wet. The muddy floor of the forest was becoming slippery and making it a lot more difficult to move. It also made it more difficult to see and hear anything approaching. The light was all but obscured by the dense forest but they couldn't use 'Lumos' for fear of giving away their positions.
In the center of an open plot of ground, The large red flag was jammed into the dirt. Around it, several red teams members had taken ambush positions. Lily and Rose were hidden behind a large fallen log, while Neil Bogdon was waiting behind tree stump.
"I don't see anything," Henry Hammings voice came from the coin in Rose's hand.
"We'll don't say anything until you do!" She hissed back.
"Rose is right Henry. Maintain radio silence," Bob One's voice said.
"No names! They can hear us remember!" Lily hissed.
"Sorry Lily," Herny added.
Rose and Lily rolled their eyes. They had been teamed with a bunch of hapless misfits. Unfortunately the other team didn't seem to be using their coins at all. They carefully looked over the top of their cover for a second but didn't spot anything.
"Do you think Al will ask Aurora to marry him?" Lily whispered.
"Maybe," Rose shrugged.
"I hope he does! She'd be a brilliant sister-in-law!"
"White Tiger spotted!" Hugo's voice send suddenly. "Sausages! I lost her!"
The sound of spell fire echoed out and there were several flashes of light in the distance.
"No worries," The Bobs happy voices said. "we got her,"
About 150 meters away from the red flag, Scorpius, Hugo and the Bobs were crouched behind a large fallen free. The watched carefully as Violet and 2 other blue team members shot quickly through the area, using the trees for cover.
"They took the bait! Let's Motown!" Scorpius whispered.
"You mean rock 'n' roll," Bob one corrected.
"Whatever."
They quickly shifted from behind their cover ran towards the nearest trees.
"Alright, Hugo, you ready?"
"Why do I have to be the bloody target dummy?!" He hissed.
"Because, no offense, but everyone's expecting you to get shot!" Scorpius admitted and received a nasty look in return. "go!"
Hugo suddenly bolted from behind the tree and ran straight through the forest. Spells suddenly came flying out of nowhere bouncing off the trees around him. He continued to run as fast as he couldn't not bothering to try and work out where the fire was coming from. He jumped over a broken log and ducked down behind it.
Hugo's suicide run had done what they'd hope it would and revealed where some of the blue team were hiding.
Scorpius pulled out his coin. "Damn! I think they got Hugo!"
Back at the flag, Lily and Rose got ready to move. That was the signal that they're own team was close to the blue flag. Lily signaled Neil to stay in his position and continue guarding their flag. She and Rose slip up and ran towards where the spell flashes had come from.
"Henry, get back over here!" Scorpius said over his coin.
Henry, who had been hiding quite close to where Hugo was now crouching suddenly dashed out from behind his cover. He made a similar run to Hugo, charging across the open forest and having spells shot at him from unknown attackers.
As he did, Scorpius and the Bobs ran from their cover and bolted towards the blue teams flag.
Henry managed to get to the fallen tree that they had originally been hiding behind and hit the deck. Unfortunately, he only realized afterwards that Lynx was actually crouching right behind the same tree. She smiled sweetly at him before Petrifying him with a flick of her wand. His limbs locked into place leaving him looking like a human statue on the floor.
The red teams plan seemed to have backfired on them. Lynx had obviously figured out that their fake report that she had been stopped was designed to get the blue team to leave they flag unguarded. But the blues were now moving around and coming right up behind the attacking red team. Lynx dashed out from behind the fallen tree and hooked around trying to move up behind Scorpius and the Bobs.
From her vantage point, Lily could see what was going on. She moved to the left and started heading towards Hugo's current position while Rose attempted to come up behind Lynx and ambush her.
Lily dived and rolled as Violet suddenly came out of nowhere and shot a stunner at her. She dodged the spell and bolted through the trees for a second before stopping and hiding behind a fat stump. She looked around the corner, breathing heavily to see if Violet was following her but couldn't see her anywhere.
Meanwhile, Lynx was almost upon Scorpius and the Bobs. She stayed hidden behind a tree trunk and watched them for a second before taking aim with her wand. Suddenly a spell collided with the truck just next to her leg. Lynx spun on the spot and returned fire at Rose who had managed to catch up with her. Scorpius and the Bobs were alerted to to Lynx's presence and also opened fire.
She was caught on both sides. Lynx suddenly ran out from the tree, jumped and transformed into her giant white tiger form before taking off into the forest. She was 5 times faster than any of them when in her Animagus form and was able to quickly escape the area.
Back over at her position, Lily knew she couldn't stay there. Violet was probably circling around to attack her at that very moment. She took one more look around before deciding to move. Just as she turned to make a run from the tree she was caught by something.
Only this wasn't a spell, it was an icy cold hand that had clamped around her throat and lifted her up against the tree trunk. Standing in front of her was a pale white middle aged man with messy hair and ripped clothes. He grinned revealing a set of yellow fangs in his mouth. A Vampire.
Lily tried to raise her wand and fire but he simply batted it out of her hand.
"Little kiddies really shouldn't wander around the forest!" He said sadistically. "they might get hurt!"
"Not today blood sucker!" Violet yelled, with her wand pointed straight at him. "let her go!"
"And what if we don't?" A second man said after jumping down out of the trees above Violet. She turned to shot but he managed to catch her arm. He laid a hard punch into her chest that sent her flying through the air and smashing down into the mud.
Lily's eyes went wide as 2 more Vampires walked out of the forest. One younger but no less dead looking man and a woman that was already licking her lips.
The vampire holding Lily suddenly threw her onto the ground next to Violet who was still coughing from being punched.
"Dirty pretty girls," The woman giggled. "lets eat!"
She was suddenly slammed through the air and collided with a tree. She jumped back to her feet and hissed.
"These aren't on the menu!" Amelia growled showing her own fangs.
The male that had attack Violet hissed at her. "A human lover! Disgusting!"
"Look who's talking," Amelia grinned. She was right, they were all shabby looking and smelt terrible. Like they had been living in the forest for quite a while now.
"Let's pull that pretty little head off!" The woman screamed and charged at Amelia. She jumped but just as she did, a gun shot reigned out and she hit the floor with dark red blood pouring from her shoulder. She growled.
"Friends of yours?" Lincoln ask, still keeping the gun trained on the woman.
The Vampires seemed to instantly pick up on the fact that Lincoln was an Anomaly and backed away slightly.
"I don't have any friends, you know that," Amelia said simply.
"Student aren't allow in the forest! They're fair game!" One of the males shouted.
"These ones aren't!" Lincoln shot back.
"Actually, I'm tempted to let them bite them just to see what the Colossus does to them later," Amelia laughed.
The Vampires went slightly more pale, if that was even possible. Violet shifted around, still holding her chest and moved in front of Lily.
"She's lying!" The woman hissed as she picked her self up off the floor.
"Am I?" Amelia smiled. "that's his sister," She nodded to Lily.
Suddenly a monstrous roar cut the air and a White Tiger pounced in front of Violet and Lily. The Vampires only had time to be shocked for a second before Aurora, Rose, Scorpius and the Bob's turned up. The sounds of branches being snapped signaled the arrive of several more people coming up behind Aurora.
"Just what the hell are you suck heads doing out here?!" Aurora demanded. "no offense," She added.
"None taken," Amelia said.
"I suggest you take your wounded and leave before we let Lynx use you as a chew toy!" Lincoln ordered.
"Bollocks to that!" Bob one yelled.
"Let's skewer these undead fucks!" Bob two agreed.
"No offense," They both added.
"None taken," Amelia sighed.
"I like to see you try!" The female hissed.
"Fuck you Bella! I'll stake you right now!" Bob one shot back.
"Enough!" One of the Vampires whined. "Look we're just hungry! Ever since the humans found out about us, we haven't had a decent meal in ages!"
"Ahh, poor you," Amelia snapped. "you know, it's people like you lot that give Vampires a bad name!"
"Yeah, go find a slaughterhouse and beg for left overs or something!" Lincoln added.
"We catch you out here again and we'll string you up in the sunlight! Understood?" Aurora scathed.
The Vampires angrily moved off, still glaring at them as they left. Lynx transformed back into herself and immediately went to the aid of her girlfriend.
"Are you alright?!" She asked worryingly.
"I'm fine, I just got the wind knocked out of me," Violet said, pulling Lynx into a hug.
"Lily? You okay?" Aurora asked.
"Yeah, I'm alright," She sounded more angry than anything. She was probably hoping to do some damage to her attacked.
"Alright, game over. Let's get back to the castle," Aurora ordered.
"Wait, who won?" Scorpius asked.
"It was a draw," Aurora snapped quickly.
"I don't think it was," Hugo said happily. He had appeared behind them with a blue flag in his hands.
"That's not fair!" Ryan Finnigan said moodily.
"You went and stole our flag while we we're fending off Vampires?!" Lynx shouted in outrage.
"Hey, I just took advantage of a distraction," Hugo grinned.
The members of the blue team looked to Aurora to try and overrule Hugo's actions but she just shrugged. "Red team wins,"
"What?!"
"Ahh," The Bobs laughed, congratulating Hugo. It was only a few seconds before they broke into song. "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it again!"
Lynx and Violet scathed at Hugo and the Bobs as everyone started heading back to the castle. Amelia disappeared off to go and unpetrify Henry and bring him back to school. The Bobs continued to sing 'War' all the way back to the castle.
"Violet, go up to the hospital wing and get your self checked out," Aurora said.
"I'm fine, it probably won't even bruise!" She moaned.
"Now Violet," Aurora wasn't going to take no for an answer.
Violet huffed.
"What me to come with you?" Lynx asked.
"Nah," She said. "why don't you go get a nice hot bath ready," Violet smiled seductively and pulled Lynx closer to her.
"Mmm, sounds very...relaxing," She kissed her on the lips.
"Please don't do that stuff around me!" Ryan moaned.
"Ryan, don't argue with your sister!" Hugo said with his eyes locked on the kissing couple.
They laughed off Hugo's perverted attitude. Violet headed up the moving staircase towards the hospital wing. Although she knew it wasn't bad, her chest did still hurt quite a bit. Vampires hit hard.
She turned and walked down the corridor but as she did, quick flashes of blue light lit up the whole place. It was coming from the crack in the open Hospital wing doors.
She approached very slowly and pushed open the doors as more flashes of blue light lit up the entire room. Violets eyes went wide as she noticed that Athena's bed was empty. But it was impossible. No Anomaly wakes up after only 3 weeks. At the very least it's 4 or 5 but never 3.
She turned to see a woman, about 5,9 with long wavy, dirty blonde hair standing at the end of the room in front of a large mirror. She was completely naked with her hands held out at her sides and her back turned towards Violet. Her beauty was incredible, boarding on hypnotic.
Suddenly charges of blue lightning appeared in her palms and jumped around, connecting with her fingers like one of those electric balls you'd find in a science museum. Violet was frozen in amazed disbelief.
"You just gonna stare at my arse all day, Violet," Athena looked over her shoulder. "or are you gonna get me some clothes?"