And Now for Something Completely Different

Chapter 5 Blast from the Past.



Clank!



“What was that?” Cain, who was driving, asked DG.



She and Cain scrambled out and saw the Axle was broken. He poked his head into the back where the other three were sitting close together to conserve heat. “Axle’s broken we’ll have to walk from here.” Harry groaned.



They wrapped up in anything they could and Harry told them he wouldn’t be able to cast anything for a while. He needed his energy to walk. “I’m just not all that powerful you know.”



Glitch hummed as he walked. He said the vibrations kept his zipper warm. Harry thought that he was just to cold to talk incessantly.



Finally they reached the base of the cold mountain and DG started rattling off riddles. She took Cain’s shovel and started hitting the ice where it was the thinnest, mumbling about ice queens. Cain cursed when the ice fell and there was a door behind it. Harry held Glitch back when he moved to push DG out of the way and open it. This was for her to do. She stared at it for a while before slowly bringing up the hand with the burn mark on it. Her eye’s widened when it started glowing and the doors creaked open. “Huh, that was cool.” Harry remarked.



They entered into a long dark blue hall. Cain and Harry checked all the dark corners for people, but DG and Glitch immediately went right up to the front. There was a picture of Glitch starting down lovingly at a woman in a chair. Harry tried not to growl. His Glitch shouldn’t be looking at another like that. “Hey that’s my mother.” DG said confused. She turned to Glitch, “You knew my mother?” “Hah, I told you I wasn’t a criminal.” He yelled in Cain’s direction. Harry noticed him wince, “yea, I believed you zipper head.” Harry smiled.



DG ran up the stairs and Harry and Cain frowned. How were they supposed to keep her safe if she kept running off? They headed up after them but Harry stopped half way up. There was a grim etched into the wood along one of the walls. He looked up to Cain, but he had kept running. He pushed on the dog etching and that section of the wall moved to the side. He stepped through.



Inside was a work room. There were odds and ends, bits of construction he couldn\'t identify. He saw pictures of Sirius, older with two little girls and DG’s mother. Huh. So his godfather was DG’s father? One picture he picked up and ran his finger down the side. It was Sirius, and his mother and father, or who he’d always thought was his mother and father. Lily had her hands in her shirt holding it up to show off the baby bump. He set it back down. He needed Raw.



He ran up the stairs and watched from the door way as Glitch tried to remember why this covered up bedroom was familiar. “nope” Glitch turned to see him. “Harry” He shook his head and smiled. He was sure this particular ritual was going to get them in trouble, but for now it was worth it to see that smile. He could tell it affected Cain too. “I remember you!” He laughed, “You promised” Glitch frowned at the shortened response but Harry shook his head and kept his smile. He was glad Glitch hadn’t tackled him. “Where did you go?” Cain asked.



“I found my godfathers work room I think, I need Raw to come with me and check it out.” Cain nodded and gestured to Raw and DG with his head. They were watching a vision on a mirror. The queen woman, DG’s mother, was singing to the littler of the girls from the pictures in Sirius’ work room. “That’s you DG. I knew you too.” Glitch told them. A few things clicked, Sirius was DG’s father. Which made her Harry’s GodSister? The scene changed and the older of the girls came in, but she looked different, darker. Not the smirking girl with the mischievous eyes in the picture. “Azkadelia’s my sister?” DG asked. Harry’s mouth gaped open when she tried to kill her sister, chanting prophecy, “The Majestic Queen of the O.Z. had two lovely daughters she, double eclipse, it is foreseen, light meets darkness in the stillness between, but only one and one alone shall hold the emerald and take the thrown. Only one daughter can gain the thrown.” A dark magic came from her hands and choked the life from DG. Glitch grabbed Harry’s hand. The Queen gave up her life force to bring DG back and whispered the location of the emerald and that she’d have to make her leave.



When it was done and they’d had a moment to gather their thoughts, Harry asked them to follow him. He led them to Sirius’ work place and asked Raw to tell him what he could see. He waited until the viewer caught his breath and then Raw put his hand to a mirror on the wall. They watched as the older daughter planned a prank on the door to the office. When Sirius walked in, he was hit with pink powder that, when cleared, turned him into a cat man. Harry laughed. Glitch asked him, “Is that your Godfather?” “Yea,” it was odd watching Azkadelia play and laugh with Sirius after they’d watched her kill DG. They could all tell this Azkadelia was younger, but still. What happened to the sweet little girl they saw now? DG asked about it, but no one knew what to say. It was obvious, watching Sirius and the girl play, that they’d loved each other and had a similar relationship that DG had with the Queen. Harry frowned and wondered if being married to the Queen made you the King. He asked Glitch but Cain replied, “No, the O.Z. has always been ruled by the women. Your Godfather would have been the Queen’s Consort.” Harry snorted; oh Sirius must have loved that.



Just as the mirror darkened they heard a husky female voice say, “Mother and father never could leave well enough alone.” They all whirled around and Harry gasped. This was the older girl from the mirrors, but he could feel the evil aura around her. She blanched when she saw him and backed up a little holding her stomach. Suddenly she threw her back strait and from then on ignored his presence entirely. ‘What the fuck was going on?’



“Azkadelia.” Said Glitch and Cain growled at the emergence of Zero and his troop. Harry put a restraining hand on Cain’s arm. He was weak he couldn’t take them all right now. He looked for some kind of weapon while Azkadelia played with DG. DG had the location of the emerald, and the witch wanted it. “How can I tell you what I don’t remember?” DG asked her. Azkadelia smirked and tossed her a container that seemed to hold their mother. Harry could tell that the woman wasn’t in it though. The witch put on an innocent face when DG asked what she did with her. “Put her away, for safe keeping, like any good daughter would.” Her face hardened and Harry got a glimpse of something else, someone else. “Some where you’ll never find her.” DG threw the container on the ground and they all tried to make their escape during the ensuing chaos. Cain got caught and Harry had to leave him to fight it out on his own, tearing his heart out in the process. Glitch cried out, but Harry pushed him onward. They’d come back for him.



They ran down the stairs and Harry heard the witch say “wait”. He didn’t know what evil spell she was going to cast so he yelled at them to run faster. He was hit in the back by an animal of some kind, its claws digging into his flesh. Two others played with Glitch and Harry yelled at him to run, but one got him too. Three landed on him, tearing at his flesh. Harry growled but he couldn’t throw off the animal holding him down. The flying monkey things trapped Raw and he called out for DG or Harry. He was terrified. The witch said to “bring him”. DG was gone from Harry’s sight but if he couldn’t fight the flying things, she had no chance. He heard her scream, but was distracted by the sound a gun shot and of breaking glass from above. Glitch screamed and Harry knew he heard it too. The monkeys playing with Glitch left, all but one that waited and bashed his head against the marble floor. They brought DG and Raw to the witch, the one on him picked up his head and smashed it into the floor. He lost consciousness.