After Hogwarts: A New Evil Emerges

Sascha stood on the broken down dock, watching the waves crash onto the beach. The battle at the Market was the worst fuck up she ever had. She lost ten Animals. Ten! She still had numerous Animals. And of course, she was gaining the rogue vampires support. She was steadfastly trying to get the Dementor's on her side, but they were remaining....stubborn. That is if you can call a Dementor stubborn.

During the second war Voldemort had encouraged the Dementors to breed. And breed they did. Before he had risen again there were only sixty Dementors and they were all gaurding Azkaban. But the second war....the second war the Dementors proved to be faster breeders than humans. In the space of two years sixty Dementors expanded into 1000. Another year into the war, they reached 6000. But they lost many at several later battles. Mainly the ones involving the vampires. In the space of thirty years Dementors has diminished from the mighty 6,000....to barely 200.

They were no longer needed for Azkaban. Harry Potter had torn Azkaban down. And then created a larger prison and then had Allesandra put up wards and barriers. The new Wizard prsion was on an island off of California. And was well protected. The Dementors were then sequestered onto barren islands. One of them particular became quite useful to Sascha.

"My Lady?"

Sascha didn't tear her eyes away. "Yes Leopard?"

"We have listed who we lost."

"Who?"

"Coyote, Rat, Bear, Eagle, Sparrow, Minx, Shark, Panther, Owl, Condor, Vulture." Leopard paused. "Do I need to go on?"

"Finish the list Leopard or you will join them."

A sigh. "Ocelot, Lioness, Cobra, and Black Adder."

"Some of my best. Dead. Against the fucking Elite and the Lychans."

"We are preparing the ones we could grab during the retreat..."

Sascha's eyes narrowd. "The ones you could grab? You left some behind? You left some behind that could be indentified."

She could hear Leopard shfit slight, hear him take a couple steps back. "We tried My Lady. Too many Lychans and Agents came into play. We had to get out, before we all died."

Another sigh. "Who did you get?"

"Lioness,Cobra, Coyote, Minx, Shark and Owl."

"Shame. Such a shame." A pause. "Have you contacted the Dementors?"

"They sent a response. They're willing to meet."

"Good."

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MMIA Morgue

Dr Kallen pushed Gabrielle Delacours body back in the freezer and then turned to face the nine new bodies that were going to be identified. Taylor and Hermione did not look pleased to be down here.

"Where's Potter?"

"One of the Agents said Allesandra had Apparated him somewhere else. The same with the Renegade Malfoy. During the battle Sascha and Allesandra had a little one on one. From what he could see it wasn't pleasant."

"Would you be pleased if someone showed you the dead face of their mother?" Harry snapped, pushing through the double doors, followed closely by Ron and Malicia. \

"No I don't think I would. I take it Sascha made herself look like Havannah Taltos?"

"Yes."

"Well then that helps somewhat."

"Excuse me Taylor?"

"Not many people know what Havannah Taltos looked liked. Hell not many people know what many of the old witches and wizards looked like. Portraits weren't around 5,000 years ago." Hermione answered.

"Unless of course you found a way to go into future...not too far mind you, just far enough to find out about oil based painting or charcoal painting of some sort. So the witch or wizard goes into the future, brings back an artist with their supplies and has a portrait done."

Malicia stared at Taylor. "Are you on the mickey?"

Taylor laughed. "Nope. It's been done. Several times. There was an ancient spell that actually brought people into the future. It's recorded in the Book. It was used several times. The portraits,when finished, were protected quite well. Usually stored in temples that were buried within the passage of time and been recently unburied by Muggle archeologists."

"And your point to this is?"

"Potter, do you ever read the archive or treasure findings reports? Do you realize that 95% of the archeologists in the Muggle field work for us? Anything they find that even remotely tied to magic is brought to us. The findings in the Quartermaine-Taltos temple for example."

Malicia perked up at the last sentence. "Wasn't that recently found...what 30 years ago? It got unearthed during the Battle at Blood Hill...the village of the Vampire Clan of Malek?"

"Close. Battle of Blood Hill unearthed the Salazar Slytherin Temple."Hermione corrected. "The Battle at Ravenclaw River, which was at the village of the Vampire Clan of Derajas, unearthed the temple of Quartermaine-Taltos."

"Swallowed anymore history books lately Hermione?" Ron quipped.

"Ronald Weasley. The Second War may of been hard-"

"Hard?"Harry mutttered.

"It may of been hard,"Hermione continued, pretending not to hear Harry, "it may of been unavoidable, it may of been gruesome and in essence of war, but several of those battles ended up bring several pieces of historical value to the Magic community. The temples of the Slytherin, Riverstronna, Ravenclaw, Quartermaine-Taltos, were a few--."

"Hermione, save the lecture and let Taylor finish. Afterwards you can finish telling us how useful the Second War came into play." Harry interuppted.

"Thank you."Malicia muttered.

"I heard that."

"Heard what exactly?"

"Taylor!"

Taylor jumped at the sound of Harry say his name and quickly plowed on. "Yes well. As I was saying, no one had ever laid eyes on the portraits of Havannah Taltos, Nikolos Quartermaine, or in fact young Allesandra Quartermaine, until thirty years ago. So in order for Sascha to even force her features to look like Havannah Taltos...she needed to lay eyes on that very portrait."

Silence. Then...

"So...who's seen the portrait?" Ron asked hesitantly.

"The Muggle Archeologist team...there were 12 of them I think. All in their late 30's. Seven of them are dead. You know how Muggles can be. The rest of them had their minds obliviated after laying eyes on the portraits so they would be of no use."

"And the others?"

"Past Vice Directors and Directors of the MMIA, the top leaders of the AWC, which are only 4 of them and none of them are women and none are Illusioners or Metamorphmagus's. I have seen the portraits...and I am Muggle, so don't think about it. Let's see...our Arhivists, Catalina, Persephone, and .....Lorelia."

Malicia paused. Her purple eyes flashed and Harry instantly knew the way she arranged herself that she was angry. And he will soon be the brunt of that anger. If Taylor said what he had feeling he would say.

"Do you mean to tell me..."Malicia sounded like her mother at the moment, her words quiet,cold and seething, "THAT YOU HAVE A FUCKING DEATHEATER WORKING IN THIS FUCKING AGENCY?!" she finished, shouting the last bit.

Predictably everyone flinched. Well everyone except Harry. He quickly schooled his features to betray nothing. He locked his mind and prepared for his wife's anger to fall onto him. Hermione herself glanced quickly at Harry and then looked away. Ron began to look green. He had been at the receiving end of Mali's temper once. He didn't get out of the St Mungo's for a week.

"She was a spy Malica."Taylor said gently. "She worked for MMIA and the Renegades and agreed to spy for both of us. After the fall of Voldemort she came to work for the MMIA, wishing to work somewhere that didn't require fieldwork or possible death. Archives it was."

"She wasn't a spy at first. She was a fucking DEATHEATER first!"

"Lorelia joined Voldemort out of fear,"Hermione quickly replied, glaring at Harry who was refusing to join in trying to calm his wife. He wasn't going to say a damn thing. So far she hadn't connected him to having Lorelia being placed here. He was going to keep his fucking mouth shut if he could help it. "She joined out of fear. Nothing else. Nothing more. No loyalty whatsoever. Once she grabbed her chance to switch sides she did. She helped the Order in their plans in rescuing you."

Malicia quickly shut her mouth at those words. Harry knew then she would keep silent. Anyone that had been involved with Malicia's rescue had indeed earned some sort of respect from the young woman at the time. Harry let out a quiet sigh of relief but then her purple eyes then clashed with his green ones,evidently showing relief. Damn. He was fucking caught. Her eyes narrowed. ~Later~ she mouthed.

"All right,"She said, her voice now calm, and her body relaxed as she leaned against the cold sterile wall. "Besides Lorelia, anyone else?"

"As far as I know. No one. But I'm sure I will be adding on everyone in this room minus Dr Kallen."

"You thought right."

"Um..I'd hated to interrupt."

"Yes Dr Kallen?"

"I've just finished identifying the bodies with Catalina."the doctor stepped in the goup. "One interesting thing to note, they all had tattoos of animals on them. Same with the Delacour girl."

"Names?"

"Survivors of the Second War. Ones that never fought really. Didn't want to get their hands dirty,"Catalina called out from the otherside. They could hear the tapping of a wand against a board.

"I ask again...names?"

"Pansy Parkinson, Cho Chang, Blaise Zabini, Padma Patil, Theodore Nott, Brighton Carlyle, Cillian Devero, Millicent Bullstrode, and Lawrence Ditrios."

"A lot of former Slytherins in that group, half expected Malfoy's name to come up." Ron commented dryly.

"Not listening."

"Prepare their bodies for burial Dr Kallen." Taylor instructed. "Now would you four like to see the portriats of the Quartermaine-Taltos family?"

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The Archive And Treasure Room
20 Levels Below The Ground Floor

"Ah. Here we are." Taylor pulled open a plan next to large door. "I see someone's already in here. Lorelia. Anyways." he put his right palm on the sensor. "Hermione, your wand in the wand sensor."

Hermione nodded and slipped it in. A few seconds later, Taylor lifted his hand and Hermione took her wand back. The doors then faded away.

"More visitors?" Lorelia's voice was heard faintly as they entered the large crammed room. "Listen if you've coming looking for the Most Forbidden Potions I'm going to tell you one more time the book was destroyed 40 years ago. Now go away."

"Lorelia. It's me. The Vice Director, Agent Potter, Weasley and Mrs Potter are here."

"I'm in the back. Resetting one of these damn wards for the Book."

"Resetting?"

"Some sort of tremor earlier. Upset the balance. Have to rework it."

Taylor nodded and gestured for the rest of the group to follow.

Harry eyed the room, his curiousity gaining even more steam. He had never entered the Archives and Treasure room before, merely hearing about it. From what he could see the room was as large as Allesandra's main dining room. And very high. Several long stepladders were laid against the walls next to shelves.

Many items had stands and wards. Merlin's wand was down here. Arthur's sword. The Three Diamonds of Chantella Demoray, a witch that casted one of the most powerful love spells onto the diamonds. Created a lot of havoc. The Vampire Bible so to speak. The Lychan Code of Honor enscripted on a piece of bark. The Sword that Killed Salazar Slytherin. Rowena Ravenclaws Amulet of Raven Control. The Dragon Beads.

Harry stopped eying the two simple strands of beads that laid on a black cushion. It was locked up in three glass cases, gaurded by about as many wards as the Book. The beads were black,silver,green,gold,white,red and blue. Each one represented a dragon. Each one was taken from a dragon and stringed together to create one of the most deadly weapons ever created. Harry had heard stories about it. He had never seen it. Until now.

"Ah."A husky voice said from behind. "You now see the Dragon Beads. I'm sure you've heard of them before Harry. Especially you Malicia. After all your mother created them."

Malicia joined Harry and stared thoughtfully at the simple looking beads. "What do they do?"

"Do? They can cut,hurt,kill.A simple weapon really. One that took Allesandra over 50 years to create. Each bead represents a dragon that Allesandra had dealt with."Lorelia's recounted. "She them empowered each bead with the powers of heat, ice, and several other elements. A lot of our kind lost their wands to this weapon. She wielded them as a small whip. Once wrapped around a wand, the powers of the Dragon Beads destroyed the wand. A lot of her battles were won with those beads."

"Interesting,"Hermione murmured, trailing a finger down the glass.

"Yes. But we're not here for those,"Taylor said brusquely.

"What are you here for?"

"Portraits. Of the Quartermaine-Taltos Family."

Harry turned around and caught sight of dirty blonde hair turning a corner. "Very well. Follow me."

"Voldemort never told me about the Dragon Beads,"Harry heard Malicia mutter. "My mother certianly knew how to leave her own mark."

A snort. "Yup. She sure fucking did. How many did she kill in order to leave her mark."

Harry and Hermione stilled. Ron never learned to keep his mouth shut.

"Don't be so smug Ron. Former Weasleys had helped you know. Your family weren't always goody two shoes and followed the light."

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Information:


Vampire Clan of Melak- A very vicious clan of vampires. If you watched Buffy, rhen do you remember Angel and Spike when at their worst? Well times that by twenty and add about 2000 vampires like that and you got the clan of Melak.

Vampire Clan of Derajas: One of the smaller clans. Preferred to work on their mental gifts rather than physical.

Dragon Beads- Read the description. Also need a clearer image? Did you see the movie Elektra? Remeber what that girl Abby had in her hands? Those. Only a hell of a lot more powerful...and prettier. :)

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