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CHAPTER 7
Gregorovitch's main shop was in Bulgaria, however he had another shop in Gorky, known later as Novgorod, just outside of the city. I made the journey with my father and grandfather by side-apparition. The shop was located in a very small wizarding alley near the Volga river.
The shop was always open, Gregorovitch had a hired assistant and he constantly apparated back and forth from both shops whenever a customer would ring the bell at the front desk.
Fortunately that morning, we were the only customers. Of course I knew the reason why, my father and my grandfather were very cautious when going out in Russia. They were known here, especially my grandfather. Though creatures were treated poorly worldwide, the Russian Ministry did not take too kindly to us. Very few creatures were allowed jobs, such as Afanasi, but even then, they did not know that he was a vampire. When there was a crime, we were always blamed first and as a result, the public eye has looked down upon us further and dark wizards have gotten away with more crimes.
"Karl!" Edik said, grinning. "Ring the bell, boy! We need to purchase a wand."
Karl, the shopkeeper was a rather attractive young man with sandy brown hair and blue eyes. He wasn't much older than Audrey, and he was staring right at her.
Audrey blushed and turned away for a moment. Isaac and Edik were pacing in the shop waiting for the wandmaker. Karl winked at Audrey when they weren't looking and she returned it with a smile.
Crack.
"Ugh, I knew you old hags would be back to bother me!" Gregorovitch boomed, dusting himself off.
Edik and Isaac gave the man a very stern look, both of their eyes going red. Gregorovitch returned it with a glare. The three men broke composure and began to laugh.
Audrey wore a perplexed look.
"And who is this?" Gregorovitch said with a smile, looking at Edik. "The last grandchild?"
"The very one." Edik replied with a grin. "This is my Audrina."
"Your Audrina?" Isaac said, giving his father a look.
"Well you are from him." Gregorovitch pointed out, looking from Isaac to Edik.
"Don't boost his ego further, Gregorovitch." said Isaac.
"Fine, fine." Gregorovitch held up his hands. "Let's get this lovely young woman a wand, yes?"
I was a little nervous; Jacques had told me he nearly blew up the store when he was trying out wands. But of course, nothing went as wrong as I thought it would. After trying about twenty wands, Gregorovitch had an idea…
"Your wife donated a few hairs to me many years back; I still have one wand left from then…perhaps…" Gregorovitch trailed off, he began searching his shelves.
"Grandmother donated some hairs?" Audrey asked.
"Your grandmother is veela, Gregorovitch practically begged her." said Edik, throwing his hands in the air. "I thought he was trying to steal her away from me, he'd come every day to the palace begging. I kept kicking him out."
I knew that my grandmother was a veela, but seeing as I had always known her as being much older I never really thought about it much.
"Oh I only wanted some hairs, Edik! It's not my fault you married a veela. Every man in town wanted her, and surely you remember her crazy father?"
Isaac laughed, remembering his grandfather and namesake. He was a pure blooded powerful wizard to most, but he was also a closeted werewolf. Isaac had always heard stories of how insanely over protective his grandfather was of his mother.
Audrey tried the wand and red sparks shot out, a powerful windswept her hair back.
"Ah! Perfect!" Gregorovitch cried. "I am sure Anastasia will be most pleased."
"Oh she will be, and she probably will not shut up about it for the rest of our lives." Edik moaned, thinking of his wife gloating.
The three thanked Gregorovitch, purchased the wand and quickly set back to the palace, for none of them had had breakfast yet and Edik was complaining.
"You are ridiculous." Isaac said, as the three were walking through the front gardens up towards the entrance to the palace.
"I am not ridiculous!" Edik whined. "When you're as old as I am you need your nutrition, Isaac. I have a rapid moving metabolism."
"So do I." Isaac hissed. "And I do not complain!"
"It gets faster as you age, son." Edik said, having the final word as they entered the dining hall.
"It's about time!" Hans yelled.
"Yeah you only took forever." said Jacques, eyeing a plate of eggs hungrily.
"Sorry boys, your uncle Isaac talks too much." Edik said.
"I talk too much, you and Gregorovitch were going on for hours."
"It was only forty five minutes, Dad." Audrey said pointedly, Edik high-fived his granddaughter.
"Obviously, Audrey knows where to side." Edik said, grinning at his son.
"Oh please." Isaac scoffed.
"It's-" Edik didn't get to finish. Anastasia had just walked in and cut him off.
"Oh will you two be quiet? You're like an old married couple." She said, making her was to the table and sitting between Edik and her granddaughter.
"Ew." said Pavvel, sticking his tongue out thinking of that.
"Shut it, Pavvel." Isaac said, grinning.
"Can we eat now?" asked Peter.
"Of course, dear." Anastasia replied.
"THANK MERLIN." said Hans and Jacques together.
"You both are weird." Audrey said, laughing.
"Audrey, tell your grandmother what type of wand you have." Isaac said, a devilish grin on his features.
"Don't do it." Edik groaned.
"Yes, do it!" Isaac smirked.
"Nana, I have one of your hairs in my wand!" Audrey exclaimed, giggling.
Anastasia jumped up from the table and turned to her husband. "HA! EDIK! I WON THE BET!"
"Bet?" Audrey asked.
"She and Pop bet on it when Airleas was pregnant with you." said Sophia.
Audrey laughed and watched as her grandmother danced around her grandfather, a huge gloating smile on her face.
