I bounced happily out the door of the throne room after Aro had given us the final instructions for the trip we were about to take. I heard Jane sigh in annoyance from behind me and saw she had rolled her eyes a few times. She wasn't too happy Aro had ordered that I join them on their trip to Britain.
"I need to go to my room and pick up a few things before we leave," I said to the others as we walked down the hall.
"What could you possibly need?" Jane said in annoyance.
"That, dear Jane, is none of your business," I replied.
"Stop being so mean!" Alec said angrily.
I stopped and turned sharply, "Excuse me?"
"Uh oh," Felix mumbled.
"Are you telling me to stop being so mean? Are you fucking kidding me? Your annoying little sister has been a bitch to me since I walked in this place. So, why don't you tell her to grow the fuck up and stop pouting like a little bitch. Sorry sweetheart, there's a new witch in town and she's not going to sit back and take your shit. Stop being a spoiled little bitch and deal with it!"
"Please, don't act like you're such a victim," Alec spat, "What you did to her in there was cruel. If anyone is being childish its you!"
I scoffed and rolled my eyes, "I didn't even begin to be cruel. Setting her clothes on fire would've been cruel. Setting her clothes on fire and letting them burn, disintegrate and fall to the ground in ashes leaving her naked in front of everyone would've been cruel. She tried to torture me. She got what she deserved."
"I should've killed you when I had the chance!" Alec spat and stormed off. Before he could get far away, I stopped him, freezing him in his tracks.
"You're just mad because I pretended to be a stupid little human girl and made you think I wanted you," I said through narrowed eyes as I stared him down. "My body used its natural defenses to save itself. Get over it! I didn't mean to do what I did, it just happened! Shit like that happens when someone thinks they're going to die. Accept it and move on!"
"You can't even say you're sorry!" he yelled. "You pretend to be all nice and innocent, but you're not. You're cruel and evil like the people you ran around with!" And that was when I blew a fuse.
I growled and ran at Alec, pinning him against the wall with my magic as I did so. I put my hand around his throat with one arm and summoned fire with the other.
"How fucking dare you compare me to those people!" I yelled. The air became charged and the wind was blowing my hair around. Light bulbs in the hall burst and the walls started to shake. My throat burned and the front of my gums stung. "I'll fucking kill you and your bitch sister right now!"
"Michelle," Demetri said nervously, "I think its time to calm down."
I turned quickly towards him and hissed, "You know I can't do that! You know Demetri!"
"Oh my god she has fangs," Felix said in shock.
"Michelle," Demetri said sweetly, "please let him go. Calm down you're going to cause the building to collapse. You've shattered all the lights in the hall. Get rid of the fire. Let him go."
I took in a sharp breath and let Alec go. After hearing Felix's comment, I reached up and felt my teeth. Two, long protruding fangs had replaced two of my teeth. The room stopped shaking and the wind stopped. I magically replaced the lights, then ran into the arms of Demetri. My ideas to mess with Felix's head were gone. I couldn't pretend. I needed Demetri's comfort.
"There, there," Demetri whispered into my ear as he rubbed my back, "everything's going to be okay."
"Sure," Felix sighed, "I just had to leave the room and not be there when she woke up."
I laughed a bit and smiled, "There's a whole lot more to it than that Felix, sorry."
"Okay," he nodded, "I understand. Congratulations Demetri. Now, can we please discuss the fangs?"
"I think there are more important things to address," I said with a sigh. "Jane, Alec, please come to my room with me. I think its time we talked."
I sighed to myself as we walked. I could draw out this feud a bit longer, but I needed to be an adult about it. Alec turned me, and now he hates me. I feel like we need to have a good relationship, and all of that can only come together if I bury the hatchet with Jane. I didn't like her, she was a brat, but we all were going to spend an eternity living together. So, I had to do what I had to do.
When we reached my room, we went in and I started gathering the few things I needed. I already had my wand, but I need my key to Gringotts. I got a small potion kit, just in case, my diary, my peacock quill, and a few changes of clothes. I put in my broomstick just incase I needed it, I could fly without it, but still you never know. I went and stuffed it all into my enchanted bag, closed it up, and tied it into the inside of my robe.
"It's quite a shame you two were turned before you two could learn any magic," I said as I turned towards them. "My ancestor founded a school, along with three others, sometime around your turning. Although, you would've never been in our house, probably not even allowed into the school. My family isn't a big fan of mudbloods."
I sighed, "All that pureblood shit is crazy. Other old families would commit incest just to keep a line pure. Hell, I'm sure they're still doing it. I was lucky to be turned and not look for a pure blood husband to have little pure blood children with. I never wanted kids anyways. I just hate that I cannot finish my studies.
"Anyways, the two of you could have been something if those muggles didn't burn the two of you at the stake. Those times were hard for our kind, muggles persecuting witches and wizards for their magic. Of course, the really powerful ones got away, but not everyone could escape their hands. I don't know what's worse, those times or these.
"There's a war going on in my world. Anyone who sympathizes with muggles and mudbloods and the mudbloods themselves are all finding themselves dead and/or tortured. I've watched it happen, and while it could be pleasing to watch at times, part of me was screaming out that it was wrong. It's dark, very dark. I'm just glad I never took the mark. I was supposed to, eventually, but that was all a lie.
"Really, what I'm getting at, I know what's it like to be wanted dead. If I wasn't as gifted as I am, I would've never made it out of that house. I'd be dead, really dead. I know what I did to you was mean, Jane, but you were trying to torture me using your little power. You're so full of yourself. You think you're everything around here. You needed to be taken down a notch.
"And let me make it very, very clear. If you ever, and I mean ever, try anything like that again, I will torture you. And if you're stupid enough to try it after that, I won't hesitate to turn you to dust, got it?
"Alec, as for you, I'm sorry. What happened shouldn't have happened, but it did. It meant nothing, I'm sorry. Get over it and move on."
"What I said was uncalled for," Alec sighed, "I'm sorry I said I should've killed you. I'm sorry I compared you to those people. I got my feelings hurt, I admit it. Plus, you tried to hurt my sister."
"Well, she tried to hurt me first. Whatever methods I use to fight aren't my fault. I've always favored psychological warfare," I replied with a smirk.
"Can we go now?" Jane asked in annoyance.
I sighed and rolled my eyes, "Fine, have it your way Jane, but I'm warning you. Next time you piss me off, I won't hold back."
"Okay," she said in annoyance, "I got it. Let's go."
I rolled my eyes and shook my head as I followed them both back out. Demetri and Felix were waiting for us outside the door. Demetri grabbed my hands and laced his fingers within mine. I looked up at him and smiled and he just smiled back.
"So, how are we traveling?" I asked them all as we walked towards an exit.
"We walk," Demetri replied.
"You're kidding," I sighed, "Right?"
"Vampires don't get tired, Michelle," Felix added.
"And apparently they've never heard of cars either," I said in return.
"We're faster than cars," Alec said.
"And my methods of travel are even faster than that," I said.
"Well, some of us weren't born witches who have the power to appear and disappear at will or fly on brooms," Felix said.
"Actually, you'd be a wizard," I said mockingly.
"Smartass," Felix mumbled.
"More like bitch," I replied with a smile.
"At least she admits it," Jane whispered.
"Heard that," I said cockily.
"You were supposed to," she smiled back sarcastically.
"Well, let me ask you this, do we walk on water?" I said
"No, we swim," Demetri replied.
I shook my head, "Oh no, no! I don't think so. I'm not getting this wet. We'll go my way."
"Your way?" Felix asked nervously. He and Demetri had read some of my books, so they knew about apparating and disapparating.
I giggled, "I haven't got an apparation license, so I can't do that. I have my own way, very similar. Just trust me. Join hands and whatever you do, don't let go."
"I don't know about that," Felix said nervously.
"Shut up, take my hand, the rest of you join together, and just do what I tell you!" I said in annoyance.
Felix nervously grabbed my hand, Demetri had the other. Jane and Alec nervously grabbed theirs and we formed a circle. Before they could change their minds we vanished, and seconds later we landed in some woods in Britain.
"Oh, I think I'm gonna throw up," Felix said.
"You can't throw up, you idiot!" Jane replied.
"Where are we?" Alec asked.
"Shh!" I said as I walked forward to the top of the hill that looked down on my, now former, house. As I looked down, I could tell there were some Death Eaters guarding it. When the wind blew our way I could smell them. For once, my thirst really made itself known.
"Where are we?" Jane hissed.
"English countryside," I whispered in reply. "And that used to be where I lived."
"Why are we here?" Alec whispered.
"There are some things that were protected here I couldn't summon thanks to my own idiotic protection spells over them. I have to get them."
"There are people," Jane said.
"Yeah, I know," I replied, rolling my eyes. "I am getting my things, and then we can go do whatever Aro sent us here to do. After that, I have a bit more business to handle before we return to Volterra."
"But what about.." Jane said before I cut her off by walking away.
There were two outside the door, waiting to see if I would ever come back. The last thing they saw was me standing before them with glowing red eyes before I snapped their necks. I decided killing them silently would be the best way before I really made my presence known. I dropped another outside my bedroom door before I went in to find the other guard waiting.
"Don't move!" I hissed as they pulled their wand out at me. They didn't listen and tried to hit me with a killing curse. I swatted it away and they stared at me in shock. They went to try to summon some others but I stopped them and slammed them against the wall.
"Felix," I said as he came into the room with the others, "Don't let that piece of shit move a muscle!" I took his wand away and carried it with me over to the safe in my room.
I opened the safe and took out the things I needed from the inside. I cleaned out all of the money and jewelry that was inside. I got the book documenting my family history and all the prophecies ever made about me. Finally, I took the moonstone cuff bracelet my great great grandmother left me. I put the bracelet on and put everything else in my bag. I, then, turned my attention on the wizard who was guarding my room.
"Where are my parents?" I asked the wizard as Felix and Demetri held him by each arm.
"I don't know!" he said nervously.
"Where is Bellatrix Lestrange?"
"I don't know!" he said.
"Well, in that case," I said as I summoned a knife, "you're useless."
"Please! Don't kill me!" he pleaded.
I let out a tiny laugh and smiled, "Tsk, tsk, you know I can't let you go. You've already seen us, you can't live."
"I won't tell anyone I saw you! Please, just let me go!" he begged.
Jane let out a tiny laugh herself, "It doesn't work that way."
I looked back at her and smiled, she smiled back for once. "Give me your arm," I said as I turned back to the wizard whose name I didn't even care to know.
He gave me his unmarked arm and I ran the knife down it as he screamed out in pain. My throat burned terribly, but I couldn't drink yet. I covered my hand in his blood and wrote a message on my bedroom wall. I wrote out the words 'I'm neither dead or alive, but I will be there when it's your time."
I turned my attention back to the guy again. He was fading away, but I had one more use for him. I gave him his wand back as he stared at me in wonder.
"Summon him," I ordered.
"But.." he whispered before I cut him off.
"Summon him!" I yelled. He took his cut arm and shakily touched the dark mark on his arm that would summon Voldemort and his minions. I only had seconds then, but I had one more thing left to do.
"Tell the dark lord I said hi," I said with a smile before I rammed my hand through his chest and pulled out his heart. The last thing he saw was he holding his heart in my hand before he fell to the ground. I licked the blood off my hand before I ordered the others to take my hands again.
"What the hell just happened?" Jane asked as we landed.
"I mean, its pretty obvious what happened," I replied.
"The message, you telling him to summon him. Go ahead, explain!" Jane ordered.
"Don't worry about it Jane. They won't know I'm a vampire, if they think I am it's the other type. You have to trust me a bit. I had to leave a message. It was fun. Admit it, you enjoyed it yourself."
"You didn't even kill any of them by drinking their blood! How did you do that!?" she demanded.
"I had a taste," I shrugged.
"Michelle," Demetri spoke up, "You should've torn all of them apart, but you didn't."
"It was tempting, I know, but I took a personal vow to myself after being turned. I will not shed a magical drop of blood to feed on, and neither will any of you or the others. It's not a good idea, and you all will have to trust me on that."
"That was incredible, I've never seen anything like it," Alec said.
"Newborns have zero control," Jane added.
I shrugged again, "Guess I'm different, then. Doesn't surprise me. And the fangs are wicked awesome."
"Finally you bring up the fangs," Felix says.
"I think its my family's blood. I can talk to snakes, you know. It's a Slytherin thing. So, I guess the fangs came along with it," I replied.
Jane sighed and rolled her eyes, "Is there anything you can't do?"
"I can't lick my elbow," I replied with a cocky grin. "No one can."
"And you say I'm full of myself," Jane rolled her eyes again.
I rolled my eyes mockingly, "I'm not perfect Jane. I never said I was."
"Well, I say you are," Demetri said with a smile.
I laughed and playfully pushed him, "Oh hush."
"Can you please explain to me why you two are looking at each other with these 'I love you' googoo eyes?" Felix asked.
I giggled and shook my head in embarrassment. Demetri just laughed and I punched him in the stomach. The diary having the charm put on it did have a story, a very, very old story.
I sighed very loudly, "The diary."
"Woah, woah, what? The diary?" Felix said.
Demetri laughed, "Yes, the diary."
"The diary that shocked the shit out of me?" Felix asked. Demetri nodded in return. "Oh, please do explain," Felix demanded.
I sighed and buried my face in my hands, "I can't! It's embarrassing!"
"Just tell him," Demetri said.
I whined and buried my face in Demetri's chest, "Ahh! Do I have to?"
"This should be interesting," Jane smiled.
I grunted, "Ugh! Fine! But no laughing!"
Jane let out a tiny laugh, "Sure, no laughing."
I rolled my eyes and began, "A few years ago over the summer break, a friend and I were hanging out at her house back in the States. We were watching some muggle movies about muggle fairy tales, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty. Us being little girls spent days dressing up like princesses and talking about finding our prince charming.
"So we were messing around and I, jokingly, put a charm on both of our diaries. The charm, of course, protected the diaries from any readers, as any charm one would put on their diary or journal do. But, there was one exception. Only our one true love could open and read it. We even wrote it inside them
"I never thought it really worked until some of my housemates got a hold of it. Well, they diary shocked the living hell out of them, and I found that the charm worked."
Jane let a laugh escape and tried to cover it as soon as she did. She laughed, "I'm sorry! I can't help it! You know its kinda funny. Besides, I know Felix tried to get in it. I just wish I could've seen his face!"
I couldn't help myself, I laughed, "Oh the things we do as little girls these days. It's just embarrassing that me, a pure-blood heiress of Slytherin watched muggle things! I never told anyone the true story. No one at school knew about my half-blood friend in America that had a mudblood mother who she, sometimes, visited. Of course, I went with her one time, and that's how it happened. You do something to watch and make fun of muggles, then get pulled in with those ideas. Sure, witches and wizards have all of that, too, but muggles are way crazier."
"Okay," Alec said, "What the hell is a muggle?"
I laughed, "Non-magical people, humans. I guess you could consider vampires muggles too. Felix for example."
"Hey!" Felix shouted.
"What?" I laughed, "It's true."
"I'm a vampire, and I will eat these stupid little muggles you speak of," Felix said as a matter-of-factly.
I giggled, "And that's why, from now on, only humans are muggles, vampires are vampires, wizards and witches are wizards and witches, and any in between are just in between."
"One more thing," Felix said.
"Yes?" I asked.
"What is a mudblood?" he replied. "It's not in any of the books, so what is it?"
"A mudblood is a witch or wizard with muggle parents," I replied. "Their blood isn't pure. Of course, one born of a mudblood and a witch or wizard is known as a half-blood. Then, there are the purebloods like me."
"Very judgmental you wizard folk are," Felix said.
I sighed and rolled my eyes, "Tell me about it."
A/N:
Hello again! Hope you're enjoying it. I have to clarify a few things so there's no confusion and all. Obviously, you see there was a confrontation between Michelle and the witch twins, as some call them. It's going to take some time before Jane comes around, but she's slowly starting to accept the fact that Michelle's not going anywhere.
I decided to create a little back story with the diary, as you can see. I know it seems like the diary is old and would probably be written in a lot, but I decided that Michelle didn't really start using it to write in until recently. There isn't much to say about the friend in America, just that to me, the Americans aren't all about blood purity like the ones in the old world. Plus, Michelle isn't as bad as the other pure blooded witches and wizards, especially the ones in the Slytherin family. The blood line had been diluted over the years and hidden, but it came out a lot in Michelle...
Which leads me to the fangs. I knew from the beginning I wanted my vampire to have fangs. It fits in well with the Slytherin bloodline. Voldemort's snake like look was explained by the Slytherin blood in his bloodline, so the fangs in Michelle are explained by her link to the Slytherin bloodline. They do retract. They come out when she's angry or hungry, of course.
I explained a lot about the wizard lingo and blood. I wanted to go ahead and get that out of the way, so the vampires know what the hell she means when she says those words. Its going to take a long time to adjust to not talking with those words, if she ever does stop. I, also, wanted to show a bit of a connection between Jane and Alec and Michelle. No, they are NOT related. Jane and Alec are a witch and a wizard. They lived a long time ago, though. For me, in that time, they didn't have the system they do in the present day to acknowledge the birth of a witch or wizard (all of this information I got about the magical quill on pottermore, if you're wondering). So, since it wasn't around, and they lived around muggles, and they are mudbloods, no one knew. So, since no one knew, Jane and Alec were not able to go to school and learn how to use and control their magic. Because of that they lost their powers and gained the single power this breed of vampire may gain after they are turned.
Anyways, that's all I can think about that I wanted to tell you all. I hope you're enjoying. Please, please, please leave me some nice reviews! If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask. I hope to get the next chapter to you as soon as I possibly can. I'm working on three fics right now and I keep bouncing back and forth between them all.
Also, I have to say happy holidays to you all. Merry Christmas, if I don't update before then and if you celebrate it. Happy Hanukkah to all the Jewish readers. Happy Kwanza if you're into that holiday...and whatever else that you may celebrate! I hope I have another by the new year but if not...Happy New year...
Finally..if we don't make it to these days and all die in the apocalypse...thanks for reading my shit! Fuck you Myans for telling us all when we were going to die...fuck you very much! ^_^
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