Teddy Lupin came running in to the VIP section of the campground, panic clearly written on his face. "Uncle Harry! Uncle Bill! Aunt Fleur!"
Kreature, the Potter's aged house elf, appeared in front of the teenager immediately. "Master Teddy what is the matter, Master Harry and the Bill Weasleys have gone shopping, can Kreature help?"
"Kreature I need them here right now! It's about Victoire, she is about to be in a lot of trouble!"
With in seconds Kreature had located the three adults and they ran from the apperation point , outside the secure area, to where the agitated Teddy Lupin was pacing. Fleur Weasley rushed to the young man "Teddy what iz ze matter! Where iz Victoire?"
Teddy handed her the latest edition of the Daily profit, folded to an article by Rita Skeeter, "this is what is the matter and I don't know where Victoire is! We were reading the article and having a laugh at all the stuff she gets wrong, and then we got to the part about us. I've seen Vic mad but never like that! Her face! I could not recognize her! She made sort of a growling sound and disappeared, she has not even had the lessons to apperate!"
Bill had been reading the offending article over his wife's shoulder and had skimmened ahead faster, so he read the bit about his daughter and Teddy supposedly lurking in dark places. snogging and breathing out of their ears. He turned to Harry " Contact Ginny, see if she is near Rita at the moment! I may be wrong but I think Victoire's vela side just reached maturity. Trust me Rita is in danger if it has. I'll bet she has never dealt with a angry adolescent part vela who really does not have control of her emotions!"
As he said that he was flicking his wand every so subtly toward his wife who, Teddy noticed, was making a sound remarkably like the one Victoire had made. She went stiff, dropped the paper and fell in to her husband's arms. "Teddy, Stay here, help Kreature get Fleur inside our tent, I'll get word to Hermione and Angelina, they can help. Once they are here DO NOT GO NEAR THE TENT AGAIN! Trust me you do not want to be there when she wakes up." Thrusting his unconscious wife in to Teddy's arms he followed Harry, who was at a dead run for the apperation point.
Within minutes patroni were flying, chain mail like all over the World cup venue. Hermione, Angelina and Luna were the first to arrive at the Vip camp.
Luna, who had picked up the forgotten newspaper, was the one who assessed the situation first. "Oh my, Teddy did Fleur read this article?" The confused and increasingly panicked boy nodded.
"Vic read it first and she just disappeared, growling, I came here to get help, and Fleur read it, began to growl, then Uncle Bill did something to her, ran away and said for me to get her in here and not be here when she wakes up! Why? What the hell is going on?"
Luna turned to and Hermione, "I'll get the calming draught from our tent, I just happen to have some, Angie you are the only woman here right now strong enough to handle an angry quarter Vela if she wakes up before I get back, Hermione, perhaps you had best fill Ted in on what happens when someone makes Fleur really mad, then I do belive we might need your help in side the tent. Teddy when Bill gets back with Victoire have him send his patronus and I will trade places with him. Kreature we are going to need more women if there are going to be two of them in a rage, especially with one being in her first post puberty rage! I think Hannah, then you had best go to Percy and Audrey, I'm afraid we left the the children, George and Ron with them, in a toy store..."
Hermione, quickly as she could, explained what happened to even 1/8 velas when they were angered to the point of rage while hurrying in to her own tent, a detached part of Ted admired his Aunt's ability to multi task as she offered up the explanation, sent a patronus to Ron and George, and then configured Rose and Hugo's room in the tent in to something that resembled a spa treatment room. With a "Wait for Bill and Vic" she headed toward the elder Weasley's tent.
Strange animal sounds were coming from inside the tent when she lifted the flap, only to silence again as soon as the canvas closed. If he had not been trying to digest what was happening, Ted would have admired the silencing charms built in to the modern wizard tent.
He did not have to wait long, Harry hurried in to camp, Ted was about to ask where Bill was when his godfather reached up in front of himself and pulled away his own invisibility cloak from Bill who was sporting new scratches on his face and, to Ted's relief was carrying a unconscious Vic.
Hannah and Neville, who had just gotten to the camp at the same time as Bill and Harry, assessed the situation rapidly. Hannah took Vic from her father, "Ted is there a place fixed for Victoire?" She asked. He nodded and pointed toward Hermione's tent.
Bill held him back when he tried to follow. "Son. not yet. we are about to find out if you are my daughter's one true love, but even if you had already married not even that bond will protect you at the height of her anger. Plus this is Vic's first rage, we have no idea when the intensity will lessen and let her logic take back over. Stay here with Harry I'm going to find out if I can go to my wife yet." with that he strode toward the tent.
Teddy did remember to tell him what Luna had said. "Luna knows her stuff, smart idea, sending the patronus first, remember when the last time Harry, she nearly broke my arm because I checked in too soon."
Luna soon was in Ron and Hermione's tent and Bill was with his wife. Ted and Harry settled in for, what seemed like a long wait.
Much later that night Ginny was curled against Harry's side in bed. "You know for a split second I almost did not put up the shield around Rita, the stupid cow has no idea how close she came today. Good thing we were in the editing meeting together, all it took was one look at Vic's face when she suddenly appeared in front of Rita and I knew we were in big trouble. I had to agree to let that bug have a bigger role in reporting the final to keep her from pressing charges, even though she was never in real danger."
Harry winced, he felt Ginny's pain and was afraid Rita might. At this point all he wanted to do was get through this without one of his family ending up involved in a police matter on foreign soil.
Ted was feeling the shot of fire whiskey Bill had poured him. His head was reeling, and not just from the alcohol. He now knew what Bill had meant about finding out if he was Vic's one true love. Apparently, even partial velas, when provoked, have rage issues. It is not safe for men to be around them at that time, unless it is their one true love. Teddy was able, with coaching from Luna, to eventually get Vic to calm down enough for him to crawl in to bed with her and wrap his arms around her in a loving embrace. It took a while but she did fall in to an exhausted sleep. Just a bit ago he was able to carry her back to her family's tent and put her in her own bed. Bill had been waiting and that had been almost as scary as seeing the girl you love out of control. But he should have not worried.
Bill wrapped a arm over Ted's shoulders and steered him toward the fire where George waited with a bottle of firewhiskey. "Son Luna says you did a good job. Tomorrow you and I need to find a private place to have a long talk. It appears what I have suspected for a while is true, you and my daughter are destined to be together forever. The girls will sleep most of tomorrow, an incident like this always takes a lot out of Fleur, I suspect it will be the same for Victoire. Welcome to the world of loving a Vela woman, it is a magnificent and scary ride all rolled up in to one. Tomorrow starts your education in what to expect as your move through life. I just have one piece of advice tonight, your love will be what reaches her through the red fog suppressing her reason, nurture that love."