Chapter 07

Reviews

Gamelover41592: thank you, glad you liked it

TwinstarDragon: much like i put what i did for salazar slytherin in [death of a human, birth of a vampire, i simply put what i personally believe to be better than what the author of the H.P. series put

blaze 1992: i don't get it. if you mean that the mama bear known as charlie morningstar will remain high;y protective for a long while, then yes

lhlhpjljlhlhlhlhoghxjtHrGsjfKg: you are very welcome. Hopefully.

Umbra Lycan: thank you, and we'll see

Previously

Stolas chuckled a bit at that, before he went over to the children and picked up his daughter, before she cuddled up to her father in her sleep, while vaggie picked up her son, bid stolas goodbye, and harry, vaggie and charlie left for the hotel.

Now

The next day, harry was curious about the ring of pride. So he managed to give his mothers the slip and went to explore. However, alastor managed to find him. He knew that children were extremely curious, and somewhat prone to trouble. So, instead of telling him to get back into the hotel, he told his cousin to be careful and to use his shadows, should he find himself in trouble.

Harry nodded with a smile on his face while alastor chuckled as he rubbed harry's hair, before sending him on his way. Once harry was out of sight, alastor sent his shadow to watch over his cousin, just in case his cousin finds himself in serious trouble.

Outside in the pride ring

Harry was looking around in surprise as he looked at all the sinners in the pride ring, since they all looked odd. He saw that the buildings were all different. Some buildings were shiny and new, others were decrepit and the rest were somewhere in between. As he wandered, the sinners licked their lips, wondering if they'd be able to sell him to valentino. One sinner that looked like a humanoid mantis with hands grabbed harry by the scruff of his shirt and yanked him up.

"Well, looks like i'll get some extra cash by selling you… after i use you, of course," the sinner said, before he licked his lips in anticipation. Freaking out, harry caused spikes to come out of his shadow and impaled the sinner in his legs, torso and arms. This caused the sinner to drop harry in surprise and pain, before both sinner and harry collapsed to the ground.

After managing to painfully pick himself up off the ground, harry looked around him and saw that the grown sinners were leering at him. Whimpering, he vanished with a *poof* sound with some black smoke signalling his disappearance, causing the sinners to cough and hack. When the smoke cleared, they saw their target gone. So, grumbling, they turned and walked away, leaving the mantis sinner on the ground uncaringly.

Elsewhere

In an office, there were three imps. Two were male and the third was female, and they were in a meeting. "Now, how can we get business back up, again?" one of the imps asked. This imp was dressed somewhat fashionably. He had a skull-like design on his forehead and a large portion of his face was white. "Well, it needs to be some kind of an advertisement that sinners can see, unlike that commercial you had run for three hours, blitzo," the other imp said smartly, as he crossed his arms, looking at the first imp challengingly. This imp had white hair with minor sideburns, horns alternating black and white, his tail had two black stripes partway down his tail and was dressed smartly.

"What's wrong with the commercial i had playing, moxxie?" the first imp, blitzo, asked in confusion. The second male imp, moxie, answered. "Not the commercial itself, but where you had it run. It was on a channel that NO ONE watches. So, in essence, you just wasted money on a useless endeavor," moxxie stated.

The third imp of the group, and the sole female of the group, decided to speak up. She had a mane of messy black hair in a sort of bob cut, her horns were mostly black with thin white stripes, had two white spots on her upper right arm, right under a small black heart, her outfit consists of a black cold shoulder crop top with two golden buttons on the straps, torn denim pants and toeless sandals and fingerless gloves. She also had a total of three white spots on her tail, one of which is on the tip of her tail. "Mox is right, blitzo. Your poor spending habits are actually hurting this company," the female imp said.

"Thank you, millie," moxxie said gratefully to his wife, before he issued her cheek. Millie giggled at that (and the show of affection) before blitzo snorted, ruining the moment. "Oh, really, millie? Then how else would we get business, hm?" blitzo asked her, arms crossed as he looked at her, smirking knowingly. However, it was moxxie who answered. "Simply have a commercial run on channels that people ACTUALLY watch, and have an ad printed in the paper," moxxie stated. "At the very least, it would get us more attention than what you did, blitzo," moxxie finished.

Blitzo opened his mouth to retort, but paused when he actually thought about it. "Huh, well damn, moxxie. That's actually a very good idea," blitzo said, giving a rare compliment towards the only other male employee.

There was a *poof* sound, some black smoke appeared and harry reappeared about an inch off the table in the middle of their meeting. "WHAT THE HERE IS THAT?!" blitzo yelled as he whipped out his pistol. Harry managed to get onto his hands and knees, before he looked around and saw he was in a kind of room. He saw blitzo pointing a pistol at him, and harry reasonably freaked out. Chains as black as night came out of harry's shadow, slapped the pistol away from him (and breaking blitzo's wrist in the process) before slapping him out the window (which was closed, btw) causing blitzo to scream profanities as he fell from the office (top floor) until he hit the ground with an "oof" before he let out a pained "ow," from his position in the asphalt, before the chains went back into harry's shadow.

In the room, moxxie was laughing his guts out at seeing blitzo essentially getting bitch-slapped out the window as he curled up in his chair and held his sides in pain. Millie on the other hand, chuckled, before she saw that the child in front of her was scared. So, she tried to approach him carefully in slow steps. "Hey there, little one. What are you doing here?" she asked him calmly. Harry looked at her in fear, but relaxed when he saw that she meant no harm. He sat on the table and curled up, his tail wrapped around him in fear as he wrapped his arms around his legs. "I tried to go to mama, but i messed up," harry said.

Mille quickly wrapped her arms around harry and hugged him comfortingly. Harry was startled, but he relaxed when that was all she did. After a few minutes, a very-much-in-pain blitzo managed to enter the room, covered in bruises and small cuts. When he saw harry, he grew angry and began to yell at him from the door. Before harry could try to flee, millie threw some knives at blitzo that pinned him to the wall, before she looked at her boss in anger. "Blitzo, do you not see that he's scared ENOUGH?!" she nearly yelled at blitzo.

Blitzo, in a moment of clarity, actually looked at harry and saw that he was a child, and he was shaking like his daughter was back when he saw her in the orphanage. "Right, sorry kid," blitzo said calmly. Moxxie managed to get his laughter under control enough to pull out the knives pinning his boss to the wall (he was still chuckling at what he saw the kid in his wife's arms did to said boss) and gave the knives back to his wife, who quickly put them away, without disrupting the hug she was giving the child.

At the hotel

Charlie and vaggie were having a makeout session while getting handsy while in charlie's office, with vaggie sitting on the desk. When they separated for air, charlie had a thought. "I wonder our baby is doing?" she wondered out loud. Vaggie was about to answer, but a loud crash sounded from the lobby, interrupting her. "The here was that?" vaggie asked. "Let's go find out," charlie said, letting vaggie off the desk and they went to the lobby, where the sound came from.

When charlie and vaggie get to the lobby, they see alastor in his partial demon form, looking remarkably like a wendigo, as his eyes look like radio dials as he clawed at the floor in rage, trying to keep himself in check. "Alastor, what are you doing? What's wrong?" charlie asked in concern. "My cousin is missing," alastor managed to get out. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S MISSING, ALASTOR?!" charlie yelled. "He decided to explore the city, and he was safe, for the most part, while i had my shadow follow him as a precaution. He managed to defend himself. But, after he did so, he teleported and my shadow lost him," alastor managed to answer.

Charlie and vaggie were worried about where he could have ended up, but they were happy that he managed to defend himself. "Come on, alastor, we're going to go find him," charlie commanded. Charlie ran out the door, closely followed by vaggie then alastor (once he managed to get mostly under control) followed his cousin's mothers and the three of them ran around trying to find him.

With harry

Harry managed to calm down enough to be mostly normal. "I want mama and mommy," he whispered. Millie managed to hear him. "Well, then, how about we go find them, hm?" millie asked him. Harry looked up at her before he nodded, and the two of them left the building, with harry holding millie's hand.

In another room

A young hellhound girl (about harry's age) wrapped in some bandages was waking up from her dad's couch in the office with a groan, a hand on her forehead. "Ugh, what happened?" she asked herself, as she slowly stood up and managed to stumble out of the room, using the walls as support. Once she was in the main part of the office, she looked around and saw that it was empty, while an interesting scent was there. "Millie? Moxxie? Dad?" the girl asked out loud.

There was a crashing noise coming from the meeting room and her dad came out of the room, looking worried. His face lit up as soon as he saw her awake, before he jumped at her, arms extended. "My precious looney, you're awake," he cried out, just before he wrapped her up in a hug, while being mindful of her injuries. The girl tentatively wrapped her arms around him in return, before she asked what was on her mind, "Where are the others?" in a surprised tone.

"We were in a meeting, earlier," blitzo said, as he released his adopted daughter from the hug, and she did the same. "Moxxie actually had some good ideas on how to get business, before a kid literally poofed into our meeting earlier," he said, before he continued. "Currently, moxxie is getting lunch, while millie is trying to help the kid get to his parents and i was about to start my lunch earlier," blitzo explained.

Loona was about to speak, when she smelled the air, and the interesting scent became clearer. Her eyes widened in shock as it hit her nose. Fire, smoke and lavender? That scent belongs to… the girl thought to herself, before she ran out the door, despite blitzo calling her back. Once outside, she used her nose and tracked the scent of the one that saved her from those bullies. She took another sniff and noticed that it was with millie's scent of fertile soil and blood. He must be with millie for some reason, she thought to herself. She forgot her dad saying that millie was helping the kid find his parents, as she ran harder.

After a few more minutes of running and following her nose, she saw her savior and millie, with millie holding her savior's hand as they walked. Her instincts began to flare at the sight, causing her to snarl at millie for daring to encroach on HER territory. So, with a final lunge (her feet cracking the concrete at the force used) the girl launched herself at the two and, when she was within range of her savior, wrapped her arms around him as both her and him went rolling across the sidewalk until they gently hit a wall, causing them to stop. Once they did, the girl nuzzled her savior happily, calming her instincts.