Pure Instinct

Chapter 2

When I awoke this morning, my body felt like it had gotten no sleep at all, I had tossed and turned all night from being both anxious and dreading my return to the pack. It’s been so long since I’ve been there, ever since I graduated from Hogwarts, I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be with the pack. I packed the things needed for my so-called vacation, which isn’t much at all, and prepared to leave what I’d known as home for a very long time. I walked to the edge of Hogwarts’ wards to apparate back to my home village. Lexton is a small village consisting of wizards that usually don’t interact with others outside of their village, except for the occasional traveler. My pack owns an old huge manor that is charmed to look abandoned and in ruins to keep people away, although the inside is very enchanting only third to Hogwarts and Malfoy Manor. Well I guess its time to go back to a life I’d left behind along time ago. The life of a submissive panthium in the pack I was born into.

Panthiums are group creatures. They live in packs usually near small wizarding villages. Panthiums protect the whereabouts of their pack location because wizards are known to capture and sell the beautiful creatures to the highest bidder. They are a kind of shape shifter but they can only shift into the form of a panther. They are considered the most beautiful creatures next to veela. They feed off magical energy although once they find their mate they live off the sexual energy created through the act of mating. They are considered sexual creatures because of this and their need and love of touch from their pack members and mates. Unlike Veela, panthiums don’t have designated mates. Since their packs are divided into submissive and dominant, the submissive finds the perfect dominant to complete them. The submissive are the ones to choose because the levels of submission and domination differ with each panthium and to ensure that a submissive is not being abused the submissive must recognize the dominant as a candidate for mating. If a dominant tries to force a submissive to mate the submissive becomes violent and will attack the dominant until it back off. If you ever come across a panthium that isn’t beautiful, you’ll know that they have had an overdose of dark magical energy. Dark energy is like a high ecstasy drug for panthiums and it’s usually taken in small doses if ever at all, and never over a long period of time. Usually when an overdose occurs, the pack will do a cleansing where the whole pack will gather around and feed off the excess dark energy on the other panthium. This process usually involves a lot of touching of the sexual nature and sometimes even leads to group sex because of how the dark energy makes panthiums feel. How much touching needed depends on how much dark energy has been consumed into the affected panthium.

The wards around the manor still recognized me so I was able to apparate directly in front of the door. I stood before the manor door trying to build up the courage to go in but soon that time was taken from me when the door was opened by a nameless dominant. “Are you coming in or are you going to just stand there all day?” I sneered at him but new better than to talk back to a dominant so I just brushed past him through the door. I turned around to address the nameless dominant when he grabbed me by the throat and growled, “I don’t care how you treat your superiors out there but in here you will respect your superiors.” I froze in fear of what the dominant might do when I heard someone call out to the nameless dominant.

“Michael unhand that submissive!” The dominant called Michael slowly let me out of his grasp and I quickly pulled away and reached for my throat, checking to make sure there was no real damage. Once I made sure there was no damage I turned to find out who my rescuer was. It was an older man with short grey hair, a few inches taller than I, and had an ore of wisdom around him that told me he had to be an elder. “Well if it isn’t little Severus, I haven’t seen you since you graduated from that magical school. What your parents wouldn’t give to see you return god rest their souls. Well what are you doing back here? Not that we don’t miss you, I know your friends still talk about you.” This elder must know me since he talks about me with such familiar ease but I do not recognize him. I walked closer and it all came back to me. Richard McCoy used to be a good friend of my father’s and I used to be friends with his son Damien. Michael walked away glaring at me when Mr. McCoy addressed me with such familiarity, but I ignored him.

“Mr. McCoy it has been a long time and I’m not the same person I used to be. I don’t think my old friends would enjoy the new me too much. As for me returning, I need some help. The person that was acting as my dominant, although not to his knowledge, has passed on and now my instincts have me acting out looking for a dominant. I either need to find a new dominant or find a way to calm my inner creature.” I explained my problem in my professor voice so as not to show my vulnerability.

“You have definitely changed from that care free boy of long ago but do not under estimate friendship as your friends have changed a lot also, although others not so much. Now about this dominant problem there are some ways to calm your creature for a short while so you don’t act so irritable, which is to get plenty of touch from your pack members but that would require you to keep returning here. The other way is just to find a new mate.”

“The dark lord was never my mate. He was just my master I have never found a mate.” I said with disgust at the thought of the dark lord as my mate.

“Well no wonder you have all that extra dark energy basically pouring out of you. How long had the dark lord been your master?”

“Ever since I graduated from Hogwarts.” I said with contempt.

“Well first things first we will give you a cleansing and then you can start looking for potential mates. We have quite a few nice dominants here.” He said in a cheerful voice that reminded me too much of the headmaster.

“What if I don’t want a mate, I’ve done find without one for this long why do I need one now.” I called out to Richard as he started walking away from me.

With his back still turned to me he said, “You cannot deny who or what you are forever,” and continued walking away. I rushed to catch up with him and passed a staircase leading up to the bedchambers. We reached a set of double doors that lead to the main room where most of the pack socializes together. When Richard opened the door and both of us walked inside whispers could be heard, most likely wanting to know who the new comer was. There were hundreds of naked and half-naked bodies doing various things from grooming each other and talking to little naked children running around playing. “Listen up; we are going to be having a cleansing today so please get ready. One of our own has returned and he is in need of our assistance. He is looking for dominant potentials so available dominants be on your best behavior. That is all you may now prepare for the cleansing.” The group of naked and half-naked bodies moved as one gathering their things out of the room to take back their bedrooms.

There were only three males left in the room besides Richard and I. One was about as blond as the Malfoy’s and just about as beautiful if not more. His hair came to barely past shoulders and he had bright green eyes that anyone could get lost in. The one to his right had hair that was as black as night with dark blue eyes that made you want to obey his every whim. He was built more than the other ones next to him you could tell that he was a dominant. The one to his right had waist length red hair with the rarest eyes ever. They were bright lavender that just screamed submissive. The three of them came over and stood in front of me. “It’s good to see you again Sevvie.” The dark haired one, Damien spoke first acting as the leader of the group. I winced at the stupid nickname given to me by my long time friends.

“Its good to see you guys too, but one thing though don’t ever call me Sevvie again.” I said with a frown on my face.

The red head who I knew to be Jason Matthews slapped me on the back and laughed out, “Sure Sevvie.” Everyone started laughing and even I let out a few chuckles.

“Well now that the old gang is back together I suggest you get ready for the cleansing. Severus I have arranged for a room next to Quinn’s for you but it won’t be ready until after the cleansing but I’m sure your friends won’t mind letting you borrow their room to change in.” Richard said then walked out of the room to prepare for the cleansing. Quinn McNeil, the blond of the group, was the first to offer his room since my room would be next to his. We took a trip up stairs to where the bedchambers are and it just happened that our rooms were right next or across from each other. We parted ways and I followed Quinn into his room. The room was nicely furnished with a color scheme of earthy colors. There wasn’t much to prepare but get naked and store my luggage somewhere.

It had been a long time since I’d undressed in front of someone that I felt slightly uncomfortable. I turned around and found that Quinn had already taken his pants off and was completely naked and looking at me. I quickly turned back around and I felt my cheeks get hot. “Do you need some help Sevvie?” Quinn called from behind me. I shook my head and slowly started to remove my robes.

When the last of my clothes fell off my body, I heard a gasp behind me. “Who did this to your beautiful body Severus?” I could hear that Quinn’s voice was full of concern for me. I had many scars that littered my body.

“It comes with having the dark lord as your master. He didn’t take kindly to failure.” My voice cracked slightly but I told myself that I would not fall apart here.

“Oh Severus, I wish I could have been there to help you. We will find you a good dominant to care for you right.” Quinn hugged me from behind and for the first time since I joined the dark lord and even after his death, I cried. I cried silent tears for all the pain I’d been through.

When I finally stopped crying Quinn helped me freshen up so it didn’t look like I just finished crying. We walked out the door and found Damien and Jason already waiting for us. We all walked back down stairs together talking about the past until we got to the main room where the cleansing was going to be held. We stopped in front of the big double door and Damien turned to me and asked. “Are you ready?”

“As I’ll ever be.” I took a deep breath and pushed open the double doors.






AN: Well here is the next chapter I hope you liked it. Please review and tell me how you liked it and hopefully that little explanation will help you understand what a panthium is, since I made it up. ^_^