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Authors Note: So just to warn you, that the time frame of this story is set in the twenty first century making it this year currently. I know it doesn't follow alone with the time frame of the actual series, but this is my story and that's how I want it done. If other people on this site and others can do it then so can I. I don't want any reviews saying that something isn't right or accurate with the time line in the book so yea.

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Warnings: Bad Dumbledore, Slight Hermione and Ginny bashing, bad Molly and Arthur. A lot of OOCness in this chapter; and probably farther on in the story so just deal with it. There's going to be a lot of emotions thrown out from all of the characters in this story.

'Thoughts'

Chapter Five:

The room was silent as everyone took a sit like Snape suggested. Malfoy, Zabini, and Nott sat together on the couch; while Ron and Harry sat down on the love seat and Neville in the other winged back chair next to the love seat. No one spoke as they all sat looking at each other, or in the younger generation case which were avoiding eye contact or shooting glares at each other. Annoyed at the silence Snape cleared his throat to get the attention of everyone. "Would you please cease acting like five year old children" he snapped at them piercing each one of them individually with a baneful glare. When he was satisfied that they got the message, for they hung their head in shame he continued.

"We're having this meeting because there is something that you need to know" he stated looking at the boys making sure they understand him. He continued after they all nodded in understanding "Good. Now that you understand, you can thank Mr. Potter for this meeting. If it weren't for him you probably wouldn't have ever gotten the truth of who you truly are." He was going to continue, when he was interrupted by Malfoy.

"What does Potter have to do with this meeting, and what truth about whom we truly are? What's going on?" he rapidly question shooting a suspicious look in Harry's direction. Seeing this Harry rolled his eyes and let out a frustrated huff.

"Oh, grow up Malfoy. And let him explain, before you go jumping to conclusions" he snapped at him. Malfoy shot a glare at him and sneered at him as he replied "Oh, that's funny coming you potter..." he was going to continue until Snape interrupted with a snarl.

"Be quiet both of you" he said pointedly, when he saw them start to protest. "Now, if you're done acting like children can we continue." When they didn't reply except for a nod, he turned from them. "Like I was saying before, you can thank Mr. Potter because I'm going to tell you the truth. You're not who you believe you are. You've been lied to about whom, or essentially what you are" He paused for a moment to make sure they were following along, and to let the little bit of information he gave to sink in.

"What do you mean we've be lied to? What have we've be lied to about?" Zabini asked furrowing his brow in confusion.

"You all have creature blood in you" Snape said choosing to go for the direct approach. He wasn't surprised at the unbelievable looks and crossed the three Slytherins faces, but he frowned at the lack of reaction from Weasley and Longbottom. He could understand why Potter didn't react he is the one to organize this, but Weasley and Longbottom should have reacted. Then it dawned on him 'Of course they wouldn't react. Potter obviously told them about the conversation he overheard between me and Dumbledore. And they wouldn't be that shocked.' He thought to himself.

"Cre…Creature blood, how could that be. You have to be mistaken" Nott said shakily. He couldn't believe that he had creature blood in him. Surely he would have known, because it would have shown up by now it would have come out on his seventeenth birthday, right?

"I assure you Mr. Nott it very much is. I'm not mistaken all of you have creature blood in you, and I'm not the only one who knows. Your families and Dumbledore all know too." He informed them. The sound of a sharp gasp drew the attention of everyone towards the direction of where Harry and Ron was seating. Ron sat there with the most heartbreaking look on his face; it was a look of pure betrayal.

"You were right Neville. I figured it might be true, but I had held out hope that maybe just maybe they didn't know. That Dumbledore had just…" his voice shaky and quiet as he spoke, he paused trying to find the right words tears bream in his eyes. "I don't know. Maybe they were going to tell me, but Dumbledore threaten them not to like he did Snape" he said trying to find a reasonable answer. Snape sighed he had figured that this would happen. He told Dumbledore that people would get hurt, when you lie to them about something as important as this.

"Mr. Weasley I'm sorry…" Snape tried to explain. Ron shook his head not wanting to hear what he knew in his heart was true.

"No, there has to be a reasonable answer to why they didn't tell me. There just has to." He said putting his head in his hands. Harry frown in sadness, it hurt him to see his friend in such pain. He scooted closer to him and wrapped his arm around his shoulders. Neville patted his knee in comfort. All three Slytherins look uncomfortable at the display of emotions from the three Gryffindor's.

"Dumbledore knew about you having creature blood in you, because he knew your families" Snape said pointing at the three Gryffindors. "He had planned to keep it from you, by telling your families that it would be in your best interest that you didn't know about it. He told them your creature blood was that of a dark creature and if you knew about it, you could turn towards the dark side because that's what side your creature is affiliated with." He explained. "I didn't know until last year. When he told me he was going to revel it to you, unless the war didn't go in favor of the Light side. He would have used you to his advantage to defeat Voldemort."

Harry frowned at this and asked "But how would he have convinced our families that it would have been a good idea to tell us, if he told them that we could go dark if our creature blood is out."

Snape snorted at this "This is Albus Dumbledore we're talking about here; it wouldn't have be hard to convince them. He can convince anyone of anything. He has a lot of influence in the wizarding world Potter, if he said the sky was purple people would agree with him." He said with distain in his voice at how ignorant and blind people can be.

"Professor, you said that he knew about their creature blood" Zabini said pointing at Potter and the others. "Because he knew their families, and they obviously told him about it hoping he could help because they didn't know what to do. But how did he know about us. I mean it's not like our families are making friends with Dumbledore, so how did he know." He asked.

"That's because he didn't before yesterday. He only knew about Potter and the others, because like you said they came to him for help. And like in true Dumbledore fashion he manipulated it to his advantage, in controlling three Noble Houses. But he didn't know about you, oh believe me he tried to find out if there were others but none showed up in any of the other light families. He figured that there were some in the dark families, but for obvious reasons he couldn't find out" Snape said. Zabini nodded in understanding at this.

"Well, what kind of creature are we" Malfoy asked curiously. At this Snape looked at Remus, to answer this question. "Professor Lupin, can tell you more about what it is but I know what you're called. Vykélari" he said. Ron frowned at the name it sounded familiar in some way "Vykélari. That name sounds familiar" he said.

"It should Ronald I've talked about it in class before, when we did that section on Ancient Creature." Remus explained. He set a large, old looking book on his lap. The boys leaned in to see the title of the book clearly; the title read The Wizarding World's Most Ancient Creatures. "This is the only book I could find, that gave enough information on Vykélari, all others either didn't mention them or just a small uninformative section. I think this could help shed some light on what we need to know." He said opening the book to a section he had marked. He looked over the page before reading out loud.

The History Behind Vykélari: The Rise and Fall of Vykélari

Vykélari – Half Angel, Half Vampire

Vykélari are creature's thought to be a hybrid between an Angel and Vampire, on count of the many similarities that they share with those two creatures. They are known to have the speed and strength of Vampires, but the wings and markings of an Angel. They have the ability to control the elements around them. They are very powerful and attractive creatures, and can be very dangerous when threaten. Researchers believe they might have been around since the age of Merlin, but no concrete evidence has been found to confirm this. The first sign of Vykélari's existence was around the time of the Great Founders, when a woman in a village outside of Hogwarts birthed a baby boy that had red tribal markings on its arms, legs, and face. A few hours after the birth the markings disappeared, and the parents and medic witch believe it was early accidental magic of the baby. But on the child's seventeenth birthday, when the boy reached magical maturity, he went through a creature inheritance. Taking a blood test, they found that the creature blood was a resistive gene found in the father from a long line of dormant creature blood. Researchers believe that the gene became active again in the child because of the large magic boost gain on its magical maturity.

Soon after the Ministry order a blood test of every family and child coming to age in the village. The blood test revealed that over thirty families in the village had the Vykélari blood in them. The news of this new creature blood spend all throughout Europe and the States, and soon Ministries of every country like France, Italy, and United States started ordering blood test in search for more cases of Vykélari creature blood in child. Over hundred cases all over Europe and the states showed that child had the Vykélari gene in them. Laws were soon made in concern of the new found creature, some laws to protect them and some outlawing them from interacting with regular wizard folks.

Not many wizard folks like the arrival of this new unstudied Creature. With the growing numbers of the Vykélari, brought on a lot of uproar from wizard folks who were against the Vykélari being anywhere near them and their families. Soon violence broke out between the Vykélari and wizard folks, as a wizard child had been attacked by a Vykélari who was defeating its home and family. A group called the exterminators was created and they band together to Exterminate the Vykélari from existence. Over a thousand of Vykélari were killed, the rest that were still alive went into hiding. After that the number of cases showing Vykélari started to dwindle from the hundreds to fifties, until none wear showing up anywhere. Researchers' believe that the gene had went back into dormant, and those that had the resistive gene didn't have enough magic to bring it out. The last known case of Vykélari seen was in 1820 in a small village in Italy. There haven't been another known case in over a hundred years.

With that last sentence Remus paused, and looked up at the boys to see if they were following along. Seeing the shocked faces on all six boys' faces he assumed they were. "So, that tells you where the Vykélari started, and how not much is known about them cause they've disappeared about one hundred ninety-five years ago" he explained.

Neville furrowed his brows in thought "But if they disappeared over hundred years ago, and the last known case was in 1820. How did it show up now, and in us." He asked pointing at himself and the rest.

Remus nodded his head in understanding at what Neville was asking. "Yes, there haven't been another case since 1820; but that doesn't many the gene isn't out there anymore. There could be hundreds, thousands maybe, of people out there with the gene; but it's not show up because either they don't have enough magic to make it dominant or like in your case it was suppressed because your families didn't want it coming out" he explained.

Neville nodded in understanding. "What I don't understand is why didn't they're creature blood be revealed a lot sooner than ours. I mean if Dumbledore was going to use us in the war, I can't believe that Voldemort wouldn't have used them too." Harry said pointing and the three Slytherins. Severus opened his mouth to answer before Malfoy beat him to it.

"Well, that an obvious answer. My father would rather defy the Dark lord, than have it exposed that the Malfoy blood wasn't as pure as he wanted people to believe." Malfoy said sneering at the thought. Snape nodded at this "You're right Mr. Malfoy. Your father would have rather die than have people know that there was creature blood in your line." He snorted at this thought.

"Same goes with my father" Nott said quietly. Zabini shrugged his shoulders "I don't know why my mother didn't. We were neutral in the war, and she takes pride in people saying she has veela blood in her because of her looks" he said in confusion. Ron's eyes widen at this news "You're not part veela" he asked pausing "but you're so…hot" he said in confusion. Zabini's and the others eyes widen at what he said. Zabini shook the shock off before replying, a smirk pulling at his lips "Why, thank you Weasley. I didn't know you liked me so much" he said wagging his eyebrows at him.

Ron's cheeks turned red in embarrassment "No…I..I just thought" he stammered out trying to explain. He flushed even more when Zabini and the others started laughing. "It's not funny" he yelled at them pouting. He crossed his arm over his chest and glared at all of them. Soon the laughter died down, still chuckling slightly Zabini said "I'm just kidding with you, Weasley". Ron glared at him for a few moments, before rolling his eye at him "Yea, yea. Whatever".

"Alright, what else does the book say?" Harry asked Remus. Remus looked down at the book again, before turning the page over. He studied the page a moment the nodded his head, for it was what he was looking for. He started reading out all from the book again.

Vykélari: Types of Vykélari and Physical Descriptions

There are different types of Vykélari. You can tell the type of Vykélari by their tribal markings, found on their arms, legs, and face. The color of their markings also, tell you what element they can control.

Black Markings: If a Vykélari has black tribal markings, then they can control shadows. This power gives it the name Shadow Vykélari or Dark Vykélari. Shadow Vykélari can also control the shadows of other people. They're able to make the person do anything, just by controlling their shadows. The Shadow Vykélari is known to be extremely dangerous, for they can call upon the shadows of hell to do their bidding. Calling upon the shadows of hell, their able to drag people to hell where their souls will be damned for all eternity.

Blue Markings: A Vykélari that has blue tribal markings, are called Water Vykélari because they have the power to control water. Water Vykélari can control any amount of water, from the simplest rain drop to the biggest ocean. They can create tsunamis, which can wipe out entire cities. They are also extremely dangerous, for they can create a bubble of water to go around a person's head, drowning them where they stand. Water Vykélari are also known to be able to create ice, which they have frozen enemies in when they think there is a threat to them and their families.

Brown Markings: A Vykélari that has brown tribal markings, are called Earth Vykélari. For they have the power to control the earth around them. They can control plants around them, to wrap around their enemies to straggle them. When they reach maturity they can also control the minerals that come from the earth, and can control metal. They're considered very dangerous, for they can create metal spikes to impale whom they consider enemies.

Gray Markings: A Vykélari that has stormy gray tribal markings, are called Weather Vykélari or Storm Vykélari; because they have the power to control the weather and bring on storms as they will. They are also very dangerous, for they can create very powerful storms like, Thunder storms, Hurricanes, and Tornadoes. This type of Vykélari can help the Water Vykélari and Fire Vykélari because they can make it rain, which creates water for the Water Vykélari and create Thunder storms, in which produces lighting that the Fire Vykélari can control.

Red Markings: A Vykélari that has fiery red tribal markings, are called Fire Vykélari. For they have the power to control fire. They can create fire balls and breathe fire. They are considered extremely dangerous, because they have be known to burned down hundreds of acres of land when feel threaten. They can control lighting, when they've reached maturity.

Silver Markings: A Vykélari that has silver tribal markings, are called Air Vykélari; because they have the power to control the air around them. They can create powerful wind storms, which have been known to blow down an entire house. They can be very dangerous, for they can suffocate people by taking the air from their lungs.

Physical Description

Vykélari are naturally beautiful creatures, because of the unearthly beauty of the Vampire and the natural beauty of the Angel. They have slim and petite body structures. They have large Angel wings that come from below their necks and out from the middle of the shoulder blades. They have long and very sharp fangs on both their top and bottom teeth. There aren't any dominant or submissive Vykélari, for their all intersex. This means they have both male and female organs, which means they can have babies even if they are bottom in a relationship; they also can produce their own lubrication when in heat or whenever they mate. Not much is known on how the Vykélari look, for there haven't been any over hundreds of years this is just based off of old reconciliation of people who have seen them.

Everyone one was silent as Remus finished reading the chapter. They were trying to absorb the new information which they had just heard. "So how do we find out what type of Vykélari we are" Nott asked.

"I can answer that since I'm the one that saw them before Dumbledore hid them away again." Harry said. "I know I'm a Shadow Vykélari, because I have black tribal markings" he explained. "Ron, you had red markings so you're a Fire Vykélari. Neville, you had brown markings so you're an Earth Vykélari, and Malfoy you had silver markings making you an Air Vykélari. Zabini, you had stormy gray markings so you're a Weather Vykélari, and Nott you had blue markings which makes you a Water Vykélari." He explained pointing at each of them individually as he name off what type of Vykélari they were.

Ron looked in wonder at his hands "I can control fire…that is so cool" he said excitedly. Malfoy snorted at that "Kind of fitting don't you think Weasley. You're element being fire, your hair and power match each other." He said smirking. Ron shot a glare in his direction, before snapping at him "Oh stuff it Malfoy" his voice laced with aggravation. Malfoy's smirk grows and he snickered at him.

"Alright stop messing with Ron, Malfoy" Neville said trying to stop a fight from breaking out. Malfoy just shrugged his shoulder at him, and replied "I'm just making an observation". Malfoy widen his eyes in an innocent look. Neville raised his eyebrow in disbelief at his innocent look.

Snape cleared his throat to gain all of the boy's attention. "It's getting late, you all should start heading back to your dormitories" he said looking at his watch for the time.

Harry frowned at this "Is that it? Can you show us how we look in our creature form." He asked. "Can't you teach us how to work our powers or something." He pleaded when Snape just looked at him. "What were we suppose to do? You tell us about this creature blood then what…just forget about it and continue going about our lives like you never even mentioned it." He shouted standing up. His face was starting to turn red. Snape stared out him for a moment, as everyone else sat quietly to see what happened next.

"What do you want me to do Potter" Snape asked.

Harry sat down again thinking over the question carefully. "I want take the glamour off so that I can see what I truly look like as a Vykélari." He started naming off his wants. "I want you to train us in controlling our powers, if you can…" he paused a moment his brows furrowed in thought "I just want to know the real me" he finished quietly looking down at his hands. It was silent for a moment, before Snape said anything.

"And should I assume, that the rest of you feel this way also" he asked looking at the other boy's in question. Slowly they all nodded their heads in agreement. Sighing heavily, Snape rubbed the bridge of his nose with his pointer finger and thumb. Nodding his head he replied "Ok" he paused, before continuing ignoring the surprised look his lover was giving him from the chair beside him. "But first of all Potter it's not a glamour charm that Dumbledore put on you. It's a very powerful and very dark spell that hides a person's true self, and the only way to break it is with a just as powerful potion, that takes a month to finish and it's going to hurt a lot when you take it. You think you can handle it." He asked staring at all of the boys. They quickly nodded their heads in agreement seeing this Snape shrugged his shoulders "Ok. Once that month is up I'll give all of you the potion and then we can start the training. There isn't much you need to learn; instinctively you already know how to do all of what the book mention. You just have to bring it out." He said.

He stood from his sit, and Remus and the boy's followed his example "Well, you should be getting to your dormitories. I expect you all to be to class on time tomorrow no exceptions." He called after them as they left out the door. "Yes Professor" they yelled back. Snape sighed as he closed the door shut again, and leaned his head against it. He pushed back into Remus when he came up behind him and wrapped his arms around his waist. "Do you think I'm doing the right thing" he asked him.

He felt him nod his head his chin digging in his shoulder as he replied "I do. Those boy's have the right to know who they really are, and not Dumbledore or anyone else has the right to deny them that." Remus pulled back and turned Severus around until he was facing him. "Like I said before I think you are wonderful for defying Dumbledore and choosing to help those boy's" he said leaning in and started kissing on his neck. Severus chuckled when he heard him mumble against the skin of his neck "And it's really sexy too".

Shaking his head slightly he gasped when Remus started sucking on a sensitive part of his neck. "You think everything about me is sexy, you're bias" he said breathlessly. He groaned when Remus stopped sucking on his neck, and lifted his head to look at him. "And am I wrong?" he questioned raising an eyebrow at him. "No" Severus said shaking his head negatively. "Just stating a fact" he finished leaning in to cover Remus's lips with his own.

And there you are the end of Chapter five. So how do you like it so far. Please review so that I know. Well, until next time.

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