Ferinus Consanguinitas

A/N Sorry this took so long, my dad just got back from Iraq and we have been having some family time together before he goes back. I am not to happyh with this chapter and I will probably rewrite it when I'm not so tired, but here it is anyway. Hope you enjoy!
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Harry didn't return Sirius' embrace, he was in shock, the trials of the day were too much and his mind was in overdrive.

"Siri, is that really you?" Remus voice was very quite and he slowly reached a hand out to the man everyone had believed dead.

"Of course its me Moony! Why are you acting so surprised, I only saw you a few hours ago, you were supposed to go distract Harry, but I see how well that worked." Sirius reached out to Remus' hand and used it to pull him into a hug, smashing the werewolf and his godson together in his arms, the present Sirius was holding smashed awkwardly against Remus' back.

"Well now that you are here lets start the party, the cake should be ready soon, would have been done sooner, but Molly decided last minute that she couldn't come and Kreatcher refuses to come to my calls. Maybe the ruddy elf finally kicked the bucket." Sirius was laughing as he pulled the two stunned men into the replica of the common room.

"Now where did James and Lilly run off too? We can't really start the party without them now can we?" Sirius let go of the two men and pulled out his wand, transfiguring the the larger pile of sand back into a couch, Lilly and James were once again in the same positions they were before.
Harry and Remus stared at Sirius as he fixed the chair as well, leaving out its earlier occupant. Both of them studied Sirius as he walked back over to James looking for something on the ground, his hair had grown longer and was now hanging past his shoulder blades, but his beard was neatly trimmed and his clothes clean and in good repair. He wore a black button up, the top three buttons were undone showing off tanned skin and a few tattoos. His black slacks were pressed and only showed a little spotting of white around his ankles from the ever present sand.

"Now where is that snitch?" Harry cleared his throat and held out the small ball to Sirius.

"Ah Harry, thank you, just wouldn't be James without a snitch right?" Harry nodded his head slowly, handing the snitch to his godfather who placed the present he was holding on the table and knelt beside James. He put the snitch back in James' hand before spelling it to stay hovering close to the outstretched appendage.

"You know Harry, this is actually my snitch, the only one I ever caught in a game. James broke his wrist trying to do a Wronski Feint during practice, attempting to impress your mother of course, didn't work by the way, she was furious that he even tried. Anyway Madam Pompfry refused to heal it before the game as punishment for almost killing himself." Sirius was laughing to himself, staring at the sand made flesh image of his old friend. Remus and Harry still couldn't find the words to express what they were feeling, but both had tears running down their faces.

"And since he couldn't play, I took up his position as seeker, against Slytherin no less! I had to fly against my own brother since he was Slytherin seeker that year, well I showed him, snatched right out from under his nose." His voice took on a sad tone and he looked back to Harry and Remus.

"Would you mind if I invited him to your party Harry, I know he was a deatheater, but he tried to leave in the end. Maybe we could actually get along, if I gave him a chance." Remus walked over to where Sirius was kneeling on the floor and wrapped his arms around his old friend.

"Regulus is dead Sirius, so are James and Lilly." Sirius looked at Remus like the werewolf was insane before smiling softly at him.

"I know that Moony, but I'm dead too, so why shouldn't they all be here with me?" Harry stifled a sob and walked to his father's best friends and knelt down next to them.

"Your not dead Padfoot, your here, with us." Harry put his hand on Sirius' shoulder as his blue eyes met Harry's green ones.

"But your not real Harry, none of this is real, I'm just imagining things again, but its so nice, it almost feels real." Sirius reached his arms up and placed one arm around Remus' back, gripping the werewolf's shirt roughly and the other arm pulled Harry close so that their foreheads were resting together.

"It is real Sirius, we are here, me and Remus." He tried to force Sirius to meet his eyes again, but his godfather's body tensed at his words.

"NO." Sirius yelled, pushing them both away as he rose to his feet backing a few steps away, brandishing his wand.

"Your not real, you can't be, cause if your real that means your dead too, that you went through the veil, and you can't go through the veil, cause I was supposed to keep you safe, why couldn't I keep you safe." He sank back to his knees, and his eyes were wet with tears.

"I laughed you know. When that bitch missed, I laughed and then she hit me with a stunner, she killed me with a hex first years could do because I wasn't paying attention and now I'm stuck here, in this hell because of it, because I was too overconfident, to brash, and now this is my hell." Tears were streaking down his cheeks, but kept the wand trained on Harry and Remus.

"Sirius...SIRIUS! Snap out of it, look at me." Harry put his hands up in front of him in a placating gesture and began to ease towards Sirius.

"Harry?" Harry dropped his hands when he reached his godfather, pushed the wand out of the way and pulled the older man into his arms.

"Shh, its alright, I'm here, and we will find a way out of this, don't worry." Harry rocked his godfather like a child as Remus once again turned the images of Harry's parents back to white sand, but left the couch intact.

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Sirius quickly fell asleep in Harry's arms and Remus levitated him to the couch, both men were sitting on the table in front of the couch staring at the sleeping man. Harry once again had the snitch in his hands, the cool metal was a comfort to his overwrought mind.

"Is he real Remus? Is it really him?" Neither took their eyes away, both fearing he would disappear if they did.

"I think its really him. He has been alive all this time, we never even thought about it, never even tried to check. We just left him here, assumed he was dead." Remus was shaking his head, eyes clouded with guilt that he abandoned his best friend.

"But the scroll, his family tree said he was dead."

"That is because going through the shadows cuts your magic off from the other realms." Lyra walked in from the front entrance, she still looked weak and pale, but her eyes were no longer glazed.

"You think we are in another realm?" Both men had forgotten Lyra was even there with them and had jumped a bit when she began talking.

"It makes sense, When I got pushed through the veil, it felt like it does when I go through the shadows. Same voices talking to you, same overwhelming darkness." Harry remembered the first time he was near the veil, the voices that only he and Luna heard.

"Maybe this place is like the opposite realm to the shadow realm. It is never sunny there and this place, well so far at least, doesn't seem to have a night. Hm, I wonder if this world only has women." Lyra mumbled the last part to herself as she looked around the room, cringing a bit at all the red and gold as if it offended her eyes.

"What did you say?"

"Oh nothing, who is that?" Lyra walked around the couch to stare at the man sleeping there.

"That is Sirius Black, now what did you mean by opposite realms?"

"Well I guess if there is a world that is only dark, there is probably an opposite realm that is only light, right? I thought Sirius Black was dead?" Lyra looked to the man on the couch, studying his face.

"So did we, he fell through the veil last year." Harry look down at his godfather with a guilty expression on his face.

"Oh. How did we get here, everything is a bit fuzzy after we talked."

"We could see this tower from where we were so we walked here, well Remus and I did, we kind of had to drag you along."

"Sorry about that" She blushed a little bit, remembering how she held on to Remus and fidgeted with her ripped shirt

"Could you please keep it down a bit, I'm trying to sleep here." Remus smiled at his old friend.

"Feeling better Padfoot?" Sirius opened his brilliant blue eyes looking at Harry and then to Remus.

"So you are really here?" Remus nodded and Sirius gave him a sad smile before getting off the couch.

"And who would this lovely lady be?" He gave Lyra a dashing smile.

"Sirius this is Lyra Rayner, Lyra this is Sirius Black." Harry introduced his godfather to Lyra, she seemed to be searching Sirius' face as if looking for something she couldn't seem to find.

"Pleasure to meet you Mr. Black." She let go of her shit and held out her hand but Sirius didn't move to shake it, instead his eyes were staring at the exposed mark around her naval.

"Your a deatheater." His voice was quiet, eyes narrowing in anger and he drew his wand aiming it at Lyra and firing off a spell before anyone else could react.

"Stupefy!" Lyra was thrown back into the entrance hall with the force of Sirius' spell and hit the stone wall of the tower with a sicking thud.

"Sirius stop!!" Black was walking towards where Lyra had landed, Remus moved in front of him, but was pushed out of the way by his enraged friend. He looked down to where Lyra should have been in the shadows of the corridor, but the only sign she was there was a small splatter of silver specked blood on the wall.

"Yeah, that's what your good at isn't it Black, overreacting and shooting off curses. I supposed it doesn't matter that I am unarmed and offered you no reason to attack me, I guess Snape was right about you." All three men swung around to look behind them. Lyra was standing in the shadows by the stairway, her hand clutched to the back of her head. Sirius raised his wand once more at the dark haired girl, but Harry stood in front of the upraised wand.

"Sirius she isn't a deatheater, she's marked but she is on our side, so please calm down." Remus rushed over to Lyra's side pulling her hand away from her head to look at the wound. He pulled her hair to the side, but hissed in pain as some of Lyra's blood ran over his fingers.

"Harry you wand." Harry gave Sirius one last look before going to Remus' side and handing the werewolf his wand, Sirius following slowly after. Remus cast a healing spell on Lyra's head before cleaning her blood off of his hand, the skin where the silver laden blood had touched was red and blistering.

"Why did her blood do that to your hand Remus?" Sirius asked as he walked over to stand beside his friend, healing the blisters on the werewolf's hand with a wave of his wand.

"Her blood has silver in it Sirius, she is a.."

"Shadow demon?" Lyra looked at Sirius with a very perplex look as Remus cast another spell to clean the blood out of Lyra's hair.

"You have heard of them?" Remus couldn't quite believe that his slacker friend knew about something that he hadn't even heard of before he read the book Lyra gave to Harry, Lyra look quite surprised as well.

"Yeah, Regulus had some notes about them in his room when I searched it." Regulus, his name reminded Harry of his suspicions about RAB and he quickly reached into his pocket and let out a sign of relief as he felt the gold locket still safely stashed there.

"What did they say?" Lyra's voice sounded timid, almost like she had when they asked about her parents when she was still under the effects of the Veritaserum, but minus the tears.

"That the race was extinct, mostly the same stuff that is in the magical creature books." Sirius' blue eyes ghosted over Lyra's form lingering on her stomach before speaking again.

"Hm well if those notes were correct than your obviously not a pureblooded shadow demon." Lyra didn't appreciate those blues eyes running over her torn shirt and clutch the fabric together self consciously.

"What do you mean by that?" Harry didn't notice were Sirius was looking but Lyra did and she wasn't happy.

"Shadow demons have both male and female parts on the inside, but on the outside they are all male, and those defiantly do not qualify to be part of a male body." Sirius motioned with his chin to Lyra's moderately sized breasts, his voice was mocking and a sharp crack resounded through the tower as the Black family heir flew several feet to side, a red welt in the shape of a delicate hand forming on his cheek.

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It took a few minutes to get Lyra and Sirius calmed down enough to be civil to each other. Lyra sat on the chair the false Remus had previously occupied, arms crossed and eyes glaring at the three men who were packed onto the couch. Sirius apologized for his reactions as Harry and Remus explained what Lyra had told them about her Dark Mark. Her refusal to talk about her parents once again set Sirius off, and he began naming off every deatheater he could think of, trying to get a reaction out of the dark haired woman.

"You know something? You kind of look like my dear cousin Bellatrix." His baiting finally hit a nerve and Lyra's eyes darkened, her voice filled with hate.

"That bitch was not my mother." Harry breathed out a sigh of relief, he had never noticed it before, but Sirius was right, Lyra did kind of resemble Bellatrix.

"Was, did someone finally do her in, brilliant, who was it, I'll have to buy him or her a drink if we ever get out of this place!" A bitter laugh from Lyra her voice was overly happy.

"Oh I'm sure Snape would overjoyed to go have a drink with you Black." Sirius eyes widened at those words and his voice was full of disbelief.

"Snivillus killed her? Well damn the greasy bastard actually did something right for once." Harry and Remus flinched.

"Sirius, there is something you need to know."

"What? Is Snape dead? You don't actually think I would be sad over that do you?" If looks could kill Sirius would be dead ten times over at the glare Lyra gave him as he spoke.

"I'll let you three talk, I'm going to see if I can find a way out of this mess. May I borrow your wand Harry?" Harry nodded, holding out his wand to her as she got up from her chair. Pocketing the wand she turned and walked over to the shadows by the stairs, she closed her eyes and after a few deep breaths her body slowly dissolved into the shadows.

"Whoa, I've never actually seen her do that, do you think she can get back to our realm that way?"

"Lets hope so, and hope that she doesn't decided to just leave us here after Sirius' display today." Sirius had the decency to look halfway guilty.

"So what is it you wanted to tell me?" Harry looked to Remus, this was going to be a hard conversation, he didn't think Sirius was really that close to Dumbledore, and he knew they butted heads more that once, mainly over Harry himself, but his death was still probably going to be a major blow. It took around three hours to tell Sirius all the events of the past year, tears of sadness and disbelief were shed. No matter how much Black hate hated Snape, he hadn't thought he would turn on Dumbledore. Sirius would never have trusted the greasy git to watch out for Remus, Harry or himself, but he knew Dumbledore trusted him without question. Towards the end of the conversation Lyra returned bearing gifts, she brought with her some strange kind of cooked meat that had almost a purple tinge to it and a bowl of white fruit that she explained tasted like apples. She had been able to make it to the shadow realm and apparate to a village where she knew a few of the occupants. They decided to lay out their plans to get them back to their realm as soon as they finished eating.

"Sirius, what have you been eating for the past year? Harry asked, chewing on the strange but good flavored meat.

"For the first few weeks I could only manage to conjure a soupy mush, but after a few months I was able to make a pretty nice mince pie. I have been experimenting with other foods lately, though I could never quite get fruit right." He took a large bite out of the white fruit, moaning in pleasure at the taste. Harry grabbed a piece of the fruit as well, biting into the firm flesh, pain lanced through his mouth and he quickly dropped the fruit, his mouth bleeding.

"Harry are you OK?" Lyra walked over to him, picked up the fruit at his feet, and dug something out of the flesh and holding it up to the light. It was one of Harry's canine teeth.

"Well its about time, I thought these would have already come out." Harry was tonguing the spot where the tooth had fallen from, the tang of copper filled his mouth and he could feel a sharp point emerging from his gums.

"Is this caused by that potion you took Harry?" He nodded his head awkwardly as Lyra looked at his other teeth, she grabbed onto the other top tooth and without warning ripped it from his mouth.

"Bloody hell!!! What did you do that for?" Blood was dribbling down his chin and Sirius conjured a cloth handkerchief for his godson.

"If I get all four out then I can do a spell that will force them to drop all the way down, unless you prefer to look like trailer park trash.

"What is a trailer park?" Both Remus and Sirius questioned at the same time.

"Never mind, open up Harry, let me get those other two." He complied and Lyra hooked the fingernails of her pointer finger and thumb under the slightly loose bottom teeth and without warning ripped them out.

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"If you could Mr. Black, I need two pieces of parchment twelve inches in length please." Harry had been running his tongue over his newly elongated teeth for the past hour now, one spell on each tooth and he now looked like a horror movie vampire. He wondered what Draco would think of them, maybe he should get them spelled shorter when he got back. Lyra didn't know that spell since she only glamored her teeth to look shorter.

"What for?" Sirius crosses his arms over his chest and Lyra just rolled her eyes as his childish display.

"So I can give you the apperation points." Lyra snapped out and Sirius flourished his wand conjuring two rolls of parchment out of thin air. Lyra took the two rolls from Sirius and plucked his wand from his hand as well, smirking at his protests. She unrolled them both and placed them on the coffee table, holding the wand to her temple, she pulled out a thread of memory, and let it wash over one sheet of parchment before replacing it in her mind and drawing out a second memory and repeating the process on the second sheet of parchment. Both of the parchments now show colored pictures, one of a forest glade and the other of a tall tower in the middle of a village viewed from the ground looking up towards the tower. Harry recognized the glade as the one Lyra apperated to after she rescued Draco from Voldemort's hideout.

"This is where we will need to go first." She pointed at the picture of the tower.

"As soon as we cross over, Remus will change, we have to get to this spot as fast as we can. I have already spoken to the elders there, they know we are coming and will be expecting us within the hour. They will have the tranquilizers for Remus on hand so we can take him to the glade." She pointed at the other picture. Remus was pale and worried, he was afraid of taking the chance that he would attack the others. As soon as Lyra pulled him through the shadows he would take on his werewolf form. The drugs the shadow demons had were specially formulated for werewolves, but there was always a chance something would go wrong.

"I will probably be too out of it to do much after taking all three of you through the shadows, but the others will help us get back to Malfoy Manor from the glade."

"Alright then, Harry will apperate with you and Sirius will be with me, we can only hope they will be ready, anything else we need to know?" They were all nervous, hoping that this would work, Lyra had never attempted to take more than two people through the shadows at a time and she knew it would test her reserves.

"You will need to cast spell on the eyes of the ones that take you back to the manor, there will be two of them and will have to stay at the manor until I have enough energy to go back and apperate them home, the glade is too far and much to dangerous to travel back easily."

"Why can't they just apperate back?"

"Most shadow demons don't have wands, and only a handful that do have enough power to apperate. And on top of that only a quarter or less of our total population can travel the shadows. Unfortunately those that can both apperate and travel the shadows are not willing to help, but it is understandable, you all mean nothing to them aside the fact I want to help you. We are lucky they are even willing to spare the two that they are to help us get back, otherwise we would have to stay in the shadow realm for at least a week and a half for me to recover enough power to take all three of you back to our world."

"Why that long? I thought you said you could recover in a few days."

"Because the new moon is coming up, and that is when our realms are the farthest apart and the hardest to move through." Remus nodded, his human side always did feel the strongest during the new moon.

"Before we go, Sirius can you conjure up some food and water to leave here?" Harry and Sirius looked at her strangely, but Remus' look was calculating.

"What for, I don't plan on coming back."

"There are more people here, deatheaters, I don't think they were interrogated before they were thrown into the veil, so they might have information that we could use, but without wands they won't last long enough for me to get back here to ask questions." All three men nodded in understanding and Sirius pulled out his wand.

"Fine. But don't think that I will waste good food on them" Sirius conjured up a giant bowl of what looked like really overcooked oats and a few buckets of water. Lyra nodded and all four of them walked to the entrance hall, Sirius wrapped his arms around Lyras and Remus' waist in three way hug. Harry stood behind Lyra and wrapped his arms tightly around her stomach, his arm burning a little where it touched her dark mark.

"Alright, I think we are ready, lets do this." All four huddled in the shadows of the entrance hall and slowly melted into the darkness.


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