Flashback, House of Pain, 1983

For a moment Petunia and Mameha just stood there and looked around them. The room where they had flood in was… Weird, to put it lightly. The whole room was covered in mirrors. The walls, the ceiling and the floor. Scattered around the room were dozen of alchemical and potion making tables. On those tables were cauldrons, knifes, jars of full different ingredients, books and weird instruments that either of them knew or could even begin to think of what they were or what they were used for. And if you were to squint your eyes real hard, you could see huge runic circle carved on the surface of the floor. Neither Petunia nor Mameha knew enough about ancient runes that they could have been able to tell what for it had been made.

"Well… It sure is something different than I expected" Petunia said after a long silence.

"Yes. I expected maybe a some sort of welcoming hall, library or maybe a sunroom but not a laboratory… Nor did I expect the mirrors… Or the floating candle's…" Mameha said little bit of put out by the room where they were.

"Yes, well, we did knew this house have been belonged to witch or wizard before us." Petunia said in shooting voice. "Come, let's go and see what other rooms we will find here, " she continued and started to walk towards the only spot without any mirrors. By the time she was halfway through the room, the door appeared in front of her and opened by itself. For a moment she was stunned but then shuddered and just continue to the next room. Soon after she was joined by her niece.

Rest of the house was equally weird than the first room. They found living room that was more like a cemetery and dozens of tiny cupboard kind of rooms that were decorated for very tiny people. Later they would find out that those rooms were for house elves. They found door that literally would lead where-ever they wanted and a two-way mirror with upside-down room behind it. What they didn't find was kitchen. And because of that, they had to floo back to Gringcotts and ask for Grimblood to explain them why there was no kitchen in the house. For a moment Grimblood looked like he was going to burst in laughter but thankfully he did not. Instead of just explaining them the reason why they could not find the kitchen, he took them to Ministry of Magic and helped them to get three house elves. After getting the ownership of those three house elves, Mameha and Petunia thanked Gerald once again and flood back to their home.

It was a little bit chaotic at first, when Petunia and her niece tried to get use to the house elves but soon enough the elves understood that they would never be punished just because they failed to respond in seconds after they were called. Neither Mameha nor Petunia were cruel to the elves because they both knew what it was like to be in the reserving end of the unnecessary violence.

After settling down to their new home, Petunia and Mameha had gone back to the 1001 Night Dream and purchased the things that Mameha had picked. They did continue their shopping trip in the Alleys. Mameha had decided that he would be best student in Hogwarts and that meant getting all the books he could find on the classes Hogwarts teaches. Plus he wanted to find out the laws of the Wizarding World and the culture as well as the international politics and the creatures rights. By the time they were finished the bookstores in the Diagon Alley, it was already too late to venture other Alleys, so they head back to home where the elves had made wonderful supper for them. They called it a night soon after the supper and went to their respectable rooms.

Petunias room was decorated to fit a princess. The color theme was very light and airy and the woods used in her room were painted white. Her whole room was very fluffy and girly. Lots of lace and silk, huge white marble fireplace and two large windows her bed between them. Petunias room was also the most normal one in their home but she loved her room very much. She had her own private bathroom with large bathtub with lion legs. There was large mirror with sink under it. She had huge walk-in closet for her to fill it clothes and shoes. In front of the fireplace was small sitting area with white tea-table and fluffy carpet. Right over the fireplace was very nice painting of girls in picnic. Being in magical home, the girls in painting were moving around, giggling and telling secrets to each other's. She really liked the painting. She had became somewhat friends with the girls over the few days that they had lived there. On the front of her bed was very elegant white trunk with golden fastenings. Petunia had asked her personal elf, Miffi, to keep her night clothes and extra blanket in there. She had huge vanity table that she had not had time to explore. The girls in the painting had told her that it held secrets long forgotten. She was determinate to find those secrets.

There was all so a small study for her to work in peace. Her study had large window and antic writing table in front of it. There was a perch for owl and couple of armchair with small table between them. She also had quite large bookcase in her study to fill up with books she found interesting or witch she wanted to read more than once. Over all she was very pleased her rooms.

Now, Mameha's rooms were nearly opposite of his aunt rooms. Where Petunias rooms were full of sunshine and light, his rooms were underground with only couple of candle's to light up the rooms. His rooms were more like a private lab mix with elements of death. His main room or more like the room where he spend most of his time had three different workplace. One for alchemical experiments, one for potions and one for him to experiment with other living things, such as humans, vampires or werewolves. It contained a special table from morgue, a dictagill for him to record what he found and table full of different knives, saws, pliers, jars for organs and blood and whole lot more disturbing things you could use to cut, hack, slice or crush limps, fingers or toes. There was also huge collection of poisons from both muggle and wizarding worlds. Mameha was quite giddy for experimenting with those. There was also a gigantic fireplace that filled nearly whole wall it was. The fireplace was made pitch black marble and it glittered nicely when it was lit. Like Petunia, Mameha had his private bathroom filled in the same way that his aunt was, except his main colors were black and silver where Petunias were white and gold. He too had huge walk-in closet but unlike Petunia, he did not need to wait to fill it up with his clothes. All his kimonos, shoes and accessories were already in their own places and he felt very accomplished when he looked around and saw all his clothes neatly displaced. Unlike Petunia, her niece didn't have one but two smaller rooms attach to his main room. One for study/library and one that had been altered to his bedroom.

His bedroom had only one furniture and that was his bed. Now, you might think that is a little extreme when decorating like Spartan but only if his bed would been normal. No, Mameha slept in coffin. That's right, a coffin. He could not sleep in normal bed because it was too open for him. After all he had lived in cupboard under the stairs before they had moved in here so he was used to sleep in small, a little bit cramped space. And that is what the coffin offered. Small place where you could hide from the world. Of course his coffin was made a little bit differently than normal ones, after all he did need air to breath. So when they had bought his coffin, they had asked if it could be modified so he could sleep there when the lid of the coffin were closed. That had got them some pretty weird looks but thankfully the clerk had not asked any funny questions but made small holes in both ends of the coffin. His study had same kind of furniture than Petunia had but in different color.

There had been a small accident, when his personal elf, Tiffy, had woken him up after the first night. He had nearly sliced the neck of her because she woke him up so suddenly. After he had reassured that he definitely had not mean to do that, they agree that Tiffy would place permanent wake up charm to go off in mornings. It would gradually become lauder and lauder until he would open the lid of the coffin. That would stop the charm but if he would not get up and left the room after 15 minutes, the charm would start again and would not quieted until he was out of the room. Very effective, if not a little primitive.

Both, Mameha and Petunia would eat their breakfast in their studies. Both had gotten bird for corresponding and just for companion for themselves. Petunia had bought a copper colored great horned female owl and had named her Virginia. Mameha had looked and looked the owls but none of them had had the spark he wanted. So he had looked the other birds. There had been this beautiful grey colored Cacadu, a crossbreed Fenix and vulture that had been pretty interesting and a small cave bat that could become invisible. But even if he had liked all of those it was another crossbreed that finally couth his interest. A midnight black Fenix with blood red eyes and claws that could easily rip hunks of flesh out of carcass or corpse. The owner of the pet shop told them that the bird was crossbreed between Fenix and Demon. He had not been able to sell the bird as it would attack everyone that went too close it. After hearing that, Mameha knew that this was to be his companion. He venture to the bird and lift his arm to universal perch. The Demon bird looked him up and down judging his worthiness and after five minutes that felt like eternity, the bird flew to his raised arm. He decided to name the bird Devil. After all, he could feel the darkness of the bird.

End of the Flasback