disclaimer I don't own Harry Potter.

A.N. There is a little fight in this chapter, and you get to see what Hogwarts is going to be like with Bellatrix in charge.

Chapter 3

It was a nice cool summer night, not a cloud in the sky, the stars shining brightly, surrounding a half-moon. A nice soft wind was blowing in the air.

Up on a large Mansion standing on a porch was a woman with short dark red hair, blowing in the wind and narrowed bright green eyes, watching toward the forest just outside the gate.

"Their late." Said the dark brown eyes, and haired man standing next to her, she snorted.

"Ever heard of Harry being on time, Caleb." Sophia Potte asked, her husband

" Nope." Caleb answered. "I bet him and Ginny got caught up -"

'Caleb." Sophia interrupted him. "Please, I do not want to know that about my little brother." Which only made Caleb laugh. Then there went silent again, another ten minutes past before Caleb broke the silence again.

"Too nice of a night to have to start hunting down Horcrux." He said.

"It has to be done, no matter what the night is like." Sophia said.

"I know that, So So." Caleb replied making Sophia turn to him and glare.

"How many times have I told you not to call me that?" she demanded. Caleb shrugged his shoulders.

"Lost count?" He smirked. Sophia rolled her eyes and turned back toward the woods. They stood in silence for a while, until Sophia spoke up this time.

"Do you think Harry really was the one that killed Malfoy?" Sophia asked. When Draco Malfoy's body had been found torn apart on top of a tower at Hogwarts, it was assumed some dark creature did it, that's what was in the Daily Prophet anyway, but those closet to Harry knew it had been him, even if he never came out and admitted it, he didn't deny it either.

"Yes, I do.' Caleb said. Sophia sighed and looked down. "What's wrong?"

"I'm losing the sweet little brother I use to have." Sophia mumbled. "He's turning into some-"

"He's not turning into anything." Caleb said. "He's still the Harry he's always has been, he's just a vampire's nature to go along with it. I don't know what you're finding so surprising, look how he killed that Adam Wiseman. "

"I know." Sophia said. "But that's-"

"If it wasn't Harry someone in our clan would have killed Malfoy." Caleb said. "He made himself a marked man when he had attacked Ginny, you know that and even you would have killed him if you had gotten to him first."

"I know that." Sophia said. "I just don't want Harry to go all dark and cruel." Sophia had seen it many times, young man or women who are the nicest sweetest people you could meet, but the moment they're turned they can't handle it and they go all crazy.

"He's not going to or he would have by now." Caleb said. "Harry can handle being a vampire, and so can Ginny, if anything, she'll make sure he doesn't step out of line."

"Yeah, I guess I'm worried over nothing." Sophia said.

"You always worry over nothing, Sophie." Caleb smirked, as Sophia smiled a little.

"You've never called me that before." She mumbled, Caleb smiled, stood up and walked over to her and put his arms around her waist she looked up into his eyes as he leaned in and touched his lips to her's.

Past those woods standing on another porch of a large mansion was another red-haired girl. Ginny Potter. She was leaning against a pillar, her arms crossed, and a smile on her face as she thought back a couple of months ago when she became Mrs. Harry Potter.

The Wedding happened on a night like this; no clouds, stars shining brightly in the sky, a half-moon over head. The backyard of the mansion had been decorated with lights, and flouting white candles for people could see, friends, family and clan members were all there, watching as Ginny Weasley married Harry Potter. There was food for the wizards and blood from all kinds of creatures for the vampires, tables with white table cloths lettered the yard, not one seat empty. People danced, laughed and had good time, you wouldn't think there was a war going on, that them and the big guys were about to go head-to-head, and people would die, mostly likely people they knew, everyone's lives were in danger of ending, that's the way it was in war.

But the wedding had given them something to celebrate, to forget if only one night, that leaving their homes or even being at home, everyone's life was in danger of being cures, even killed by Death Eater, Werewolf, or even Voldemort himself. It was good-night, and it was officially the start of her and Harry spending forever with each other.

"Nice night." A voice said, Ginny turned around to see Harry, Daniel and Frona walking out of the mansion. It was Harry who had spoken. "Wish we didn't have to spend it hunting down Horcruxes."

"It'll probably take a while to find one, little lone all of them." Frona commented. Harry had to let Daniel and Frona in on the whole Horcruxes thing, because he was Harry's second in command and also needed a good reason for leaving the house for a few months and putting Daniel in charge.

"Got everything you need?" Daniel asked. Harry nodded and patted the bag that was on his back.

"It's charmed, so it'll hold anything." Harry said, as Ginny faced the front again. "You guys keep a close eye on my brothers and Hermione."

"Of course." Daniel nodded. "We'll make sure nothing happens to them, don't worry."

"Good." Harry reached out and shook Daniel's hand, he went to shake Frona's, but she pulled him in a hug instead, then hugged Ginny, who had turned around to say bye, Ginny then hugged Daniel.

"Everyone is to listen to you." Harry told Daniel. "And you," he added nodding to Frona,"Any problems let me know and I'll take care of them when I get back."

They both nodded. "Don't worry, Harry, we'll be fine, you better go." Daniel said. "You two be careful and take care of yourselves. Don't forget to take time to hunt."

"We won't." Ginny said. She took Harry's hand and they stepped off the porch and walked toward the woods to meet up with Sophia and Caleb, when Harry turned around.

"Oh, and pick some of our best fighters and send them out to hunt down werewolves who are transforming without the full moon." Harry said.

"Already done." Daniel said. Harry nodded.

"Good." He said, turning around and heading into the forest with Ginny.

The first few days of the hunt went alright, they slept in a black tent during the day, and would get up at night and search all the known places Voldemort would have visited, and found nothing. They went to the set where the orphanage Voldemort grow up in was, but found it wasn't there no more and a bunch of high-rise office buildings took it's place.

"We could dig around it." Caleb suggested. "Or we could tear the buildings down, or-"

Sophia rolled her eyes. "Would you be serious."

"It wouldn't do no good anyway." Harry said. "Voldemort wouldn't have hid anything here."

"I guess we'll have to search some place else." Ginny comment.

"Where though?" Caleb demanded.

"I don't know." Harry sighed. "There is a few places I know where Voldemort might have hidden one, but each seems more unlikely then the next."

"Dumbledore sure didn't tell you much did he?" Caleb said. Harry bit the inside of his jaw to stop from saying what he had wanted.

"Caleb, shut up." Sophia snapped.

On the fifth night of the hunt everyone was getting a bit aggravated and was biting each other's heads off. They had to take a time out and go hunt for some blood before they went crazy and attacked each other. Though that did not stop the arguing and none of them got any closer to finding a Horcrux.

On the seventh night, Sophia and Caleb got in a little fight.

"Dumbledore sure didn't give you anything to go on." Caleb had said. And not for the first time while on this quest. Harry's face turned a little red with anger, he was tired of hearing it. "I mean who tells a kid a little bit of information then sends him off to hunt down pieces of some dark wizard's soul."

"You didn't have to come if you didn't want to." Harry said. Caleb rolled his eyes.

"You asked, if I didn't Sophia would have gotten mad-"

"I would not." Sophia said, Caleb gave her a yeah right look. "Okay, maybe a little, but if I knew you were going to do nothing but complain the whole time I would have made you stay at home and came without you."

"I wish you would have." Caleb mumbled. Sophia gave him a hurt, that quickly turned to anger. "Hang on I didn't mean it like that."

"Alright." Ginny stood and held up her hands as Sophia got to her feet and glared down at Caleb. They had been sitting on the floor of their black tent, going through books and notes, trying to find some clue as to where someone might hide a Horcrux. "Let's all just cool down, before we do or say something that we regret." Sophia closed her mouth glared at Caleb one more time, before turning and heading out of the tent.

"You did it now." Harry mumbled. Caleb glared at him.

"Why don't you just shut up." He snapped. Harry frowned, all four of them and been bickering and arguing more and more as the days went all. Maybe he should have just brought Ginny, but he figured he could have used the help, he guessed Caleb wasn't used to spending some much time away from a nice comfortable mansion. Even when he had been sent on a mission by his father the clan leader he stayed at the mansions of the other clans as their guest, and before turning into a vampire his father had been a nobleman in the 16th century so Harry doubted they had lived in a dump, probably a small castle or something.

"You started it." Harry mumbled. Ginny rolled her eyes and turned to head toward the tent when the sound of a growl then a slight scream was heard followed by more growls.

"Sophia!" Caleb yelled, jumping up and almost knocking Ginny down running out of the tent Harry was right behind him.

When they made it outside Sophia was down on the ground surrounded by four werewolves, she was holding her shoulder, which had three large claw marks going from the top, too all the way down to her shoulder blades and was bleeding pretty bad.

When the werewolf drew his claws back again, and this time headed for Sophia's face, Caleb turned into his vampire mode and brought out his fangs and claws of his own and rushed forward, his claws caught the werewolves' arm, as his other hand came around and brough his claws across its neck, nearly slicing off its head, it flew back, then it slowly fall to the ground.

One of the other werewolves went for Caleb, but Harry rushed over and stopped it by raking his claws across it's back, the wolf roared, and turned to face Harry, all to get its neck sliced by a set of claws just like its buddy. After that Ginny jumped into the fight stopping one from jumping Harry from behind and soon, all three were taking out werewolves, when they were done the vampires was the only ones left standing, fangs hanging out and claws drain, and covered in blood with died werewolves at their feet, after a moment or two, the bodies turned back to human.

"Know any of these guys?" Caleb asked. Harry and Ginny both shook their head, which was probably a good thing, neither would have liked to have known they killed someone they knew without knowing it. But then it could be a possibility if they kept running across werewolves.

Caleb turned from them and knelt beside Sophia. "You alright?" She nodded holding to her shoulder and looked pretty pale. "You need some blood, you're losing too much."

"Maybe we should start casting protective charms around our area so we're not caught off guard again." Harry said. Caleb looked up at him with a funny look.

"You think." He said. Harry smirked a little, looks like the grumpy Caleb was leaving and the old Caleb was coming back.

"Ginny and I are going to look for a creature to get Sophia it's blood." Harry said taking Ginny's hand. "Don't let your guard down, more could be around."

"And you two be careful." Caleb said, as he ripped Sophia's shirt open further so he could tend to her wounds, Ginny went back in the tent for the first aid kit and handed him before taking Harry's hand again and heading off into the wood with him.

When September 1st arrived, Rigel and Teddy found themselves for the first time sitting on the Hogwarts Express without their other two friends, the four Gryffinclaws was down to two.

It's so weird not having Lightning and Sassy sitting with us." Teddy said. Rigel snorted, he hadn't gotten over the big fight they had with Ginny and Harry after finding the locket, even after Teddy and Rigel showed their friends they were helpful and could take care of themselves, they still refused to allow them to go find the other Horcruxes with them. Something both had gotten ticked off about. Teddy was over it now, being the happy-go-lucky kind of person he was, but Rigel was still anger about it. And Teddy was sure he was angry about something else too.

"They're the ones who said we weren't wanted." Rigel said. "Let them deal with it."

"They did say that." Teddy argued. "They said-"

"They might as well." Rigel snapped. Teddy fell silent and watched out the window rest of the way there.

When they made it to Hogwarts, they climbed off the train and hopped on one of the carriages.

"Wonder what the Death Eaters have planned for Hogwarts?" Rigel said. Teddy shrugged.

"Whatever it is it can't be good." He said. Rigel nodded in agreement.

"And we're not going to back their lives her easy either." Rigel said, Teddy shook his head.

"Nope." He said. "And we should get some of our other friends to help out."

"Yeah, whoever is brave enough." Rigel said. "We should gather whoever we can and start making plans. A bunch of chaos could help distract them and they won't realize we're spying."

When they finally entered the Great Hall, they were not surprised to see the whole staff table taken up by Death Eaters. Hagrid was even gone, and no Flich walking around mumbling about Peeves.

"We might have made a mistake." Teddy mumbled, Rigel pushed him in the back and made him walk forward to the Gryffinodor table. "Why does the table look different?"

Rigel looked down at the table and frowned. "Because it is black?" He then looked up and all around to see that the House Banners were all gone, and the whole Great Hall was done up in black, behind the staff table was a large banner with the Dark Mark on it.

All around whispers broke out as more and more kids noticed the new decorations.

"This is nuts." Neville Longbottom said. "Why change everything?"

"Because. Neville." Rigel said. "This is no longer the Hogwarts we knew and love."

Neville frowned as Teddy snorted, of course it wasn't going to be the same.

Rigel glared up at the staff table as the newly Headmistress Bellatrix Lastrange stood up, she put her wand to her throat and said a spell to make herself heard over the noise of the students.

"Shut up!" Bellatrix yelled. At once everyone went silent, most with scared looks on their faces. "Now, I would like to welcome all you to Hogwarts School of the Dark Arts. I am your new Headmistress Bellatrix Lastrage, you are to call me Madam Lastrange."

"Mad Lastrange is more like it." Teddy said.

Mumbles and whispers broke out again and only until Bellatrix had screamed shut up, did they stop.

"One more word out of any of you and you will be punished most severely." Bellatrix said. "Now, you have noticed we have all new teachers this year. First, I like for you to welcome Rodolphus Lastrange, who is the new Transfiguration professor, also the depty headmaster, next is Hydra Lastrange who is the new Potion Master, Rabaston Lastrange the new History of the Dark Arts professor, Amycous Carrow the Jinx and Hex Professor, and Alecto who teaches the Dark Arts class, and also Yaxley the new caretaker and grounds keeper."

"I knew it." Rigel whispered. "They turned everything dark."

"Now with that out-of-the-way I shall tell you the rules." Bellatrix then listed off a long list of stupid rules which included, everything from: No talking back, to showing the Dark Lord respect to no one was allowed to mention the name Harry Potter. "Now, you must follow each and every rule, and anyone caught breaking said rules will be punished. Punishments include no meals to being tortured very painfully."

"You may have also noticed there is no house banners. There is a good reason for this, there is no more houses, no more Sortings and no more house points. You will sleep in the same dorms and live in the same common rooms, they are just no longer a house."

"There are also no more prefects or Head boy and girl. However there is a head house." At this Bellatrix pointed to the Slytherins or more like ex-Slytherins. "They are the eyes and ears of the Professors and myself, any wrong doing and we will know about it. This is a new time at Hogwarts, the way it will be from each year from now on, the wizard world is changing, and if you don't like it, snap your wands and go live with filthy muggles. " Bellatrix sat back down without another word. And the food appeared on the tables, or what was supposed to be food.

"What the bloody hell." Teddy mumbled, looking around at the food, with a frown. "This is gross."

"And only us the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws have to eat it." Neville said. He pointed over to the ex-Slytherins, they like the new Hogwarts staff had nice meals like they always had at Hogwarts, but the other three tables had to eat, what they guess was suppose to be soup and sandwiches, but looked more like muddy water and two pieces of bread on top of each other.

"I'm not." Teddy said pushing his bowl away.

"Times are changing." Rigel mocked, making a face, as he too pushed his bowel away. "I guess their plan with us is to starve us to death."

Teddy leaned in and whispered. "We need to be a lot more careful when doing what we plan, not let any Slytherins or Professors see."

Rigel nodded. "Yeah, if we can get tortured for breaking rules, I hate to see what our punishment would be for spying."

Teddy shivered and leaned back in his chair, he looked toward the staff table to see Bellatrix watching him and Rigel closely.

"But that's not going to stop us from making their jobs here hell." Rigel added, glared up at his second cousin.

A.N. Hope that was good, I did my best, the next chapter should get better, and longer.