Harry Potter and the Vampiric Inheritance

Hey guy! I know it’s been a long wait but I kinda lost the thread on this one so I picked up another one my beta and I were going over. But don’t worry it will not be abandoned or anything it just may take time now that Uni has started back up for me. I love this story and have so much more I want to show you from my little world so it will be continued.

thrnbrooke- thank you for reviewing for every chapter ^_^ I hope you like this one!
harrydraco4life- I forgot to mention yes Harry and Draco will get together I just didn’t want it to move to fast (that and things need to fall into place first lol)…I know I might have in the beginning but hopefully the relationship is more believable. Ps thank you for the comments on my other story! I’m glad you like it.

Ok so here it is I hope you like it!

As Harry plunged into the depths of the lake he instantly felt the freezing water hit his chest, it felt as though his muscles where frozen and he had a hard time keeping the little air he had, in his lungs. He swam up to the mermaid that had waited for him and she studied him with a critical eye before slowly making her way towards him.

Harry let her invade his personal space and put both hands softly round his neck. She then lean forward and kissed him on the lips, it would have been a passionate kiss if it hadn’t been for the fact he could tell she wasn’t in to it and neither was he. He could feel his lungs begin to burn with the contaminated air ready to leave him but he didn’t feel any danger, for some reason he felt he knew she meant know harm.

“That’s because I don’t child.” Harry opened his eyes and watched as she lift her hands away and swim back slightly. How was he supposed to communicate with her?

“You could try speaking. You have the ability now. The kiss, as you called it, gave you the ability to speak our language and when I placed my hands on your neck, it gave you the ability to hear us as well as breathe underwater.” She answered while swimming around him. Harry got the distinct impression she was eyeing him up. After taking off most of his clothing he was left in his denim jeans a necklace and a bunch of bracelets.

“Is this permanent? Will I be able to return to the surface?” Harry asked, following her as she began a casual swim towards the village. He needed to stay calm and figure out what she wanted. On the surface he had a deep feeling that he needed to speak with her and Alucard had only confirmed that it would be best so he had dove in after her.

“What if I was to tell you, you could never return to the surface world? That you hand to live here now as one of our pets?” She was weighing him up; could he handle this, did he have a level head to work out a problem? Harry smirked, if he didn’t have a level head there was bound to be an ancestor or two that did and now the bloodlink is fully open he had access to their experiences and knowledge.

“I would say that it was unfortunate; because there is a war going on up there that could very well come down here at some point and I seem to be the only one able to stop it.” Harry saw that they neared some large boulders with paintings on them as simple as cave paintings.

“And that is exactly why I have brought you here. We are a developed species and knowledgeable in our own ways but it is our cousins that are at a level you humans call cerebral, they have made progressions that we have not, developed themselves and what little magic they have.”

“I apologise for the rudeness but what does this have to do with me being down here?” Harry asked as he began to feel, or not feel, his fingers going numb; apparently Vampiric blood will only go so far.

She gave him a smile, at least he thought it was and nodded. Leading him passed small houses built from large rocks.

“Although we are not as intelligent, our cousins keep in touch with us. When you first came to Hogwarts they sent us a large crystal that we did not understand the use of. They told us that when they got in touch again we were to contact you and bring you to the crystal.” She stopped as they got to the front of a large cave that seemed to go underground. They had swum through the village and were now just on the outskirts.

“The last message we got from them was that there was trouble on shore and that children had begun to go missing within their own village. Even their guardian Ceto, was found paralysed just out side the village and they don’t have the power to reverse what the shadows have do to her.

It is vampires that helped our kind sustain out lives in the waters and it was with your kind’s guidance and knowledge that many of us have been able to grow and fend for ourselves.” She nodded to the guards outside the cave entrance and swam into the darkening tunnel. Harry frowned at her but followed anyway.

“What can I do? I mean I only just found out about my Vampiric inheritance this year and I wouldn’t even know were to begin.” There was only a short tunnel before it opened up into a large cavern. In the middle was a large crystal; it was twice the size as Harry and jutted out in three separate directions, glowing all over. She smiled at him and took his hand, placing it on the crystal.

“You must understand that although we keep in touch with our cousins we are not as knowledgeable as they are. When you see them they will tell you what you need to know.” She let his hands go, leaving them on the glowing form and retreated.

“Why do I let myself get into these messes?” He mumbled to himself and closed his eyes as he felt a thick frost covering his entire body and then melt away.

Suddenly he felt warmer and the back-taste of the lake water seemed less stagnant. He opened his eyes and found himself in a domed room. As he looked around the room he could see a mosaic of the mermaid village he had just been in and when he looked at the upper level of the room he could see a mosaic of Hogwarts and the surrounding area of the lake. He still had his hands on the crystal in the middle of the room.

“Welcome, Harry Prince. It is an honour to finally meet you. Your family has done many a great thing for our colonies and it is a great gift my father has presented me in showing the youngest of the Prince clan around our city.”

Harry turned to the voice and was surprised by what he saw; in front of him was obviously a mermaid, that he could tell from the tail. But that was all they seemed to share with the mermaids in the lake. This one was a light golden colour with bright, almost electric, blue eyes, there was no pupil and Harry was vaguely reminded of the alien eyes he had see on fake sightings and old movies. They seemed to suit her though.

And this was quite obviously a ‘she’ as she had a very ample chest that was preciously held in a sort of intricate metal bra. She had on a matching belt also that hung loosely around were the scales of her tail turned smaller and looked almost like skin.

Her hair flowed like liquid copper around her but she had the front braided and woven at the back, looking as though she had half up and half down.

He shook his head when he noticed he had been staring at her.

“I apologise, I have never seen another mermaid apart from the ones in the lake and you…are very different.” She smiled at him and swam over to the mosaic of the lake, placing her hand over where she knew the village entrance to be.

“Our cousins live in very different circumstances. It is very cold there and their skin must be thicker, their food supply, although abundant, is not as varied as ours. Also our waters are open, theirs is stagnant. We come in all different shapes, sizes and colours just as you do young one. May I show you the village before we meet with my father?”

Harry could tell these mermaids were more evolved then their cousins just by speaking to them. They had a wider vocabulary and spoke clearly. He smiled to the mermaid and swam towards her.

“That would be great. Could I ask your name?” She bowed and led the way out of the building and Harry noticed that they too had guards at the door.

“My name is Tsunami and this…is the village under the waves.” She stated as she led him out into what looked like a village square.

The houses, no shops were built directly into the rock face. There were no fancy shop fronts like on the surface but there was signs painted above the entrance that he assumed differentiated the shops. He saw that a lot of the mer-people came from the large crack in the ground. He saw mer-people everywhere, some were shopping, others talked on the streets that were clearly marked out and some where even just floating about above the buildings.

All of the females had different types of tops on, from metal bra type tops to woven boob tubes. Some males were topless others wore waistcoat type tops. It was strange to see them with a form of clothing, but maybe it showed they knew a sense of decency.

“This way.” Tsunami said as she began to swim through the village. With one last thought that at least he had his wand still strapped to his arm from training, he swam after her.

“My people will be relieved to know you have come to help us. We are capable of many things and can see far more than many others but it was magic that was protecting us and it seems that that protection has begun to fail. As you may know our children have been going missing. The great beast that you ancestors made to protect us has also suffered at the hands of the shadowed ones.”

“The shadowed ones?”

“The ones that follow the shadows. We don’t know who they are, they just seem to show up and take our young ones. The first time they came they used magic to quell the beast that guards us and on the barriers surrounding our village and keeping it from the humans view.”

“Has anyone seen them up close; what they looked like or anything that could be recognisable?” He could here Alucard laughing at him inside his head.

# You sound like a proper little detective now. But on a more serious note, it was the Prince clan that came up with the spells to help protect the mer-people in the first place. The Greek mer-people are the most intelligent of them all, they are the ones we worked most with while doing the spells so it’s only natural they regard us so highly. Can you feel that?...Dark magic is around here, but this isn’t your average illegal magic use, can you feel the cruelty running through the magic? #

## Yeah…is that what that is? I could feel something making my skin feel prickly. So will I actually be able to help the beast…Ceto thing then? ##

## Harry what they class as great magic here could be just as simple to the vampires as…unlocking a door. I presume that whoever did this probably only used a stunning spell or something to that effect. ##

“There are many who say they have seemed them and the one thing they all say is that they had a darkness on their arm stronger than they have ever felt before. They all say they could feel it burning the wearer’s very soul.”

“Death Eaters? Down here…Why… what would they want with your children? He could have no use for you in his war…nor could you really be a threat.”

They passed the shops and came to a large chasm that seemed to span as far as he could see in the clear water. As they got to the edge he could see that down the gorge was houses and caves that all had glowing lights coming from them. He could also see the fish and jellyfish swimming around all glowing and different patterns flashing.

He turned to Tsunami with a look of disbelief.

“You all live down there?” She smiled kindly at him and nodded.

“Down there we are kept safe from the many dangers in the open waters and are kept out of sight of the humans. Above us is where Ceto used to glide and keep away wayward magical beings. We will go see my father now. He is waiting for us.”

She began to swim down the gulf and Harry followed behind her, amazed as her body began to glow a soft golden colour the further down they went. He stayed as close as he could get to her as he saw the mer-people come out of there homes and watch as he swam past.

They came to a large hole in the cliff face that was ornately carved and intricately studded with shells and gems. They went through the entrance with a smile at the large burly guards outside.

Inside was amazing. Large crystals stuck out from the walls, ceiling and floors, all glowing with a calm blue light. There were intricate carvings and pictures surrounding each crystal as though it were instructions or stories of each glowing stone.

There was a large boulder that had a soft delve in it as though it was a large piece of clay and someone had sat in it. The out side of the boulder had a simple pattern on it studded with stones and shells every now and then.

In the back corner there was a carved hole and Harry could see a gold glow becoming brighter from inside it. A Large mer-man swam out and surveyed the room. He smiled as he saw Harry and gave him a respectful nod before sitting on the ‘chair’.

He was also gold all over, as were all the mer-people he had seen, but his skin was marred with scars. It was obvious this mer-man must be their leader and he has fought many times for them. Tsunami swam over to the mer-man that must be her father.

“Harry Prince, this is my father and Lord of these waters; Varun.” Harry bowed as best he could while swimming.

“Master Prince, it is with my most gratitude that I welcome you to our village. I will say this bluntly, we are in need of your magic and knowledge. I’m sure you have been told what has been happening to my people?”

Harry nodded and tried not to make a face at the honour he was regarded with. Varun looked away and fidgeted in his seat before meeting Harry’s eyes again.

“It is not easy for a man as independent as myself to ask for help but I am afraid this reaches past my abilities. The beast that protects us has kept many dangers away from us but now…with the magic net broken as well as our beast unable to move, we are at the mercy of any danger that finds us. I assume the reason you are here is because to have agreed to help us?”

# Harry, Draco is trying to contact you but he doesn’t seem to be able to get through. If you wish to speak with him it will have to be you to connect. #

##Alucard I can’t right now. I need to stay focused or I won’t be able to help these people. ##

# I understand and don’t worry, I was a child when my father helped these people start and I can help you through putting the wards back up. #

## Thank you Alucard. ##

“Please show me the beast and I’ll see what I can do.” He smiled at the two mer-people and Varun laughed, leading Harry through the tunnel in the back.

The tunnel turned and broke off in a few places but other than that was pretty straight and they came out into a large crater at least two miles in diameter. The baisen it was covered in a moss of sorts but it was almost as if it was enlarged; surely if he swam through it, it would look like a jungle.

But it seemed to be the bed for the beast as that is where it rested. The three of them swam down to the beast and stopped just short of its head.

Harry closed his eyes as a flash of images passed through his mind; A hand raised towards something…He followed the movement subconsciously and held his hand up to the beast…A memory that was more of the thought came to him, whispering seductively in his ear that he must find the core life force within the creature and then feed his magic through the energy it finds, so it can pick up on the magic paralysing it…So that is what he did.

He felt his magic settle over the beast’s heart where he could sense the core and forced it to twine round the core and seep into it, following the threads that went through the body.

He could feel it! The beast could still breath, think and see. It just couldn’t move!

# Petrificus Totalus was the spell used? It must be a strong one then. From what I gather from the mer-people, it’s been like this for a while. And to even case it on such a large thing? #

## You’re right. But now that you know what to do you can unlock the curse from the inside where your magic is and it should be fairly easy to do after that. Just think about when you have a locked joint that needs to click and force that feeling through the creature’s body. Then draw out your magic and case a simple ‘Finite’ over the body. ##

Harry took a deep breath and did as he was told. He could hear the magic fizzing around the beast’s joints trying to unlock the tendrils of magic the curse had laid down. After a moment he felt his magic move more freely around the body so he pulled it all back and opened his eyes. He clenched and unclenched his fist a few time; not used his magic using it as so a large outlet without his wand. He felt a little off but he knew he didn’t have to panic; it wasn’t because of how much magic he used, it was due to releasing so much magic but then bringing it back to him.

He held his hand up again and, using his thumb, he clicked index and middle fingers.

“Finite Incantatem” He spoke softly and smiled when the beast wriggled and then swam up a few meters.

“Ha! My boy, you did it! Well done!” Varun explained as he began to swim up to Ceto to make sure it was actually alright.

“Thank you Harry. It was Ceto’s recovery that was plaguing my fathers thoughts the most as she is our main form of defence.” Tsunami said putting a hand on his shoulder and smiling as her father came back to them.

“Your welcome,” He said as a reply to both of them, “Please, if you could show me to where I can try fixing the wards. I don’t know how long I have been here but I have a curfew back at school and people will be looking for me soon.” He tried not to sound rude and he must have succeeded as Varun smiled and began to swim down to where the beast had been.

“We kept the main frame of these…wards you call them, down by Ceto’s resting place.”

As they reached what Harry thought was moss actually turned out to be a sort of seaweed and he was right in the fact it was indeed a jungle. There was a domed temple of sorts there that they stopped outside of. There was a large flat wall in front of them that was plain save for some written text in the middle.

## It’s written in ancient Vampiric. It says; ‘He who wishes to cast protection must first have the light. He who has the light has the power to entwine his with his ancestors. Trend carefully for this is Prince’s ground.’ ##

Harry frowned and bit the inside of his cheek; Riddle! Why is it always riddles! He turned and watched as Varun took off the necklace with a pendent of a turquoise Scallop shell he had on and held it in both hands and blew over it.

It was encompassed in silver bubbles that, as soon as the pendent was covered, popped and showed a glowing shell. He gave it to Harry, obviously showing that he didn’t know what to do since it must be done using magic.

## Harry, take the pendent and place it the wall’s engraving of it below the writing and step back. ## Harry did so and watched as the shell’s glow began to throb and then brighten until it was almost blinding to look at.

Harry looked down when he felt magic seeping through the floor. He saw blue dots appear on the floor in a circle about the size of a fist and watched as the blinked on and off again.

He felt a memory pass through his mind and then got the urge to put his hand in front of him above the dots. So he did. He felt the magic seep into his palm and flow up to his fingers then back down and out of his palm. He took it away and watched as the lights stayed on and thin beams came from them all crossing paths just in front of Harry at about chest level and then fold back on them selves creating a sphere. Harry watched as the beams kept folding creating a dense net in the shape of a sphere and then watched as they began to wriggle and glow different colours at different times.

# Are these the wards around the village?” Harry asked while he saw some of them spasm violently then begin to fade in and out.

## Yes and as you can see the ones that are fading in and out are the ones the death eaters must have penetrated to get in. What you need to do is take the ones that are fading out, twist it around your index finger and feed your magic into it so it can be restored and then feed it back into the sphere in a different way than it was. After that you can add two of your own. That way it will be even stronger then before. ##

Harry nodded, seemingly to himself and then searched the bloodlink for how best to do think. On seeing a female hand simply just pick a beam up and begin wrapping one end round her finger in a tight coil until it was all wrapped around, he did the same.

After feeding his magic through his finger to the beam he saw it begin to glow brightly again. He then fed it through a different section of the net and watched as it seemed to wriggle through the rest itself. He repeated this until all the strands where growing brightly.

## Ok. Now. The best way I can describe this is to hold up both hands, fingers apart and feed your magic out from it. ## Harry did so and smiled when it looked like ten little snakes emerging from his fingers.

## Now, think of what protection means to you, what you have seem in this village and the people you have seem here. ## As Harry did this the strands from his fingers began to form connections with the opposite hand, turn blue and start glowing.

## Now, I want you to start crossing them, as many times as you want. The more you do the better protection it is. ## Harry did so and watched as the beams became a flat dense net between his hands.

##Ok, now hold it over the sphere and fold it over, linking your fingers when you reach the bottom of the sphere. When you feel them leave your hand, pull it away. ## He did so and watched as his own wards, or ward he wasn’t sure, was added and began to thread through the rest.

# Is that how its done generally? #

## Most times yeah, well…it was when I was alive, but it varies between families as to what the applicator is; in this case it was the Shell pendent. Usually it is the Patriarch that has it somewhere on their person. Now you need to push the sphere down until your hand covers the area on the floor. It will lock it back into place and push the pendent out of the engraving. ## Harry did so and then picked up the pendent, giving it back to Varun.

“Ok, that’s that done. Thank you for being patient with me. It was my first time and I didn’t know what I was doing.”

## Your never this posh at home, Prat! ## Alucard commented as they began to swim back to the entrance on the cliff face.

# Must be the link reminding me what to do. #

“Child, I can’t thank you enough for what you have done. Please I have one last thing I wish to show you. Then my daughter will escort you back to the crystal.” Harry nodded his consent and followed Varun yet again as the mer-man swam through the entrance of the temple. He looked back as he saw that Tsunami had stayed outside, waiting for them.

In side there was only one room and it was covered in white shells of all kinds. In the middle of the room was a large rectangular boulder that was fairly level on top.

What caught Harry’s breath were the four spinning orbs as big as he was. They span on an axis and then in a sort of orbit around the boulder in the middle. They all seemed to be large bubbles with a different element inside; one had a ball of fire, much like what he presumed the sun would look like up close, another had water spinning in different directions, the air one seemed to have a cloud of sorts inside that was being twisted in different direction and the last was full of loose dirt being twisting around inside.

One the boulder in the middle was a four necklaces and a square wooden box. Each necklace had a black piece of cord and a crystal on it; one was blue the other red, green the next and then white. The box was a dark wood but it seemed two toned.

## That will mean there is powerful magic surrounding it. No Harm though if you’re the person to open it. ##

The box also had silver patterned corners, there was no line indicating a lid, it just looked like a solid block of wood.

“Just before you started Hogwarts I was given a vision by the Oracles. They told me of the war and evil on the surface and of a child who was damned to walk a dangerous path. I was told he would be of the dark race yet grow with the main, learn from the twined and forgive with the light. He would save all of us and I had to play a part in his journey. They told me to give you these and warn you to find them. They told me this would be a test of your strengths and a builder for your weakness and that if you were worthy enough to find them they would help you and guide you in the hard time that await you.”

Harry frowned; a lot of that didn’t make sense…but then the link was providing answers he could contemplate just yet.

“If they wanted to say all this then why not just come to me? Instead of giving you the vision.” Varun smiled and shook his head.

“The Oracles work in mysterious ways. They see all and know all. They have lived their lives and watched as it past. They are gifted with the world for their sacrifices once made and one can not say why they do what they do.

These items only appeared before you got here. It is why I was not there to greet you. They must have thought now was the time for you to have these. We are the only race the Oracles directly link to. The wizarding race have seers, the Elven have the High Priestess and the muggles…well they don’t seem to listen anymore. That could explain why they gave the mer-people this task to inform you.”

Harry wanted to ask more but he could tell he was taking too long now. He remembered Alucard telling him of Draco wanting to talk through the link so he needed to get back.

“I, thank you for telling me this and of the Oracles. I will take these with me and work out what I’m supposed to do next. Is there any way we can keep in touch? If anything else goes wrong or anything?”

“There is a mirror your kind gave us and we were told that if we had a connection to one of you that we could speak with you through any liquid. I assume that mean if you were to look into a bowl of water and ask for one of us we could answer you and if we wished to contact you then we would look through the mirror and the connection would be made in the closes liquid. You are already connection to the mer-people as I assume one of the mermaid in the Lake helped you with the breath and language.”

Harry nodded remembering the kiss the first mer-main gave him. He picked up the necklaces and put them round his neck and picked up the box, wondering how he was going to swim and carry it at the same time. Varun chuckled and swam out of the room and then came back a moment later with what looked like a large piece of seaweed.

Varun twisted and knotted both ends about a third of the way down and then tied it around one of Harry’s shoulders leaving it hang by his waist as though it was some sort of pouch. Harry put the box in and smiled when he swam about and it didn’t fall out. He twisted it so it was more on his back so as not to hinder his swimming and followed Varun outside.

They swam back to the village and Varun wished him luck as he stayed in the room they had first met while Tsunami took him back to the crystal. When they arrived their Tsunami explained he just had to do as before and he would be back in the lake.

“Thank you, Tsunami. It’s been amazing learning about this place and finding out my family actually helped to keep you safe. Tell your father that his people will continue to be protected by the Prince family.” She smiled at him and bowed slightly.

“And you will always have sanctuary with us, Harry. Thank you for you help.” Harry smiled and pressed his hands to the large crystal, preparing himself for the cold and the stagnant taste.

“I see you’re back. There is one for your kind on the shore of the lake, he was making quite a fuss actually. You had better go see what is going on. I hope they were helpful.” The mermaid explained. Harry grimaced at the back taste again and smiled politely at the creature.

“They did thank you and what does this person look like, does he have blonde hair?” Harry asked while quickly swimming out of the cave.

“I think so; the water is doesn’t exactly show the same colours as on the surface. I believe this is where we part. Good luck, Harry Prince.” The mermaid stayed outside the entrance as Harry swam back the way he came past the village and boulder and back up to the surface.

As he broke the surface of the water he instantly felt his breathing and hearing turn back to normal. He took a deep breath and began to move as quickly as he could to Draco, he felt his joints stiffen with the freezing cold but then his Vampiric blood began to circulate to help warm him up and he could move again.

“HARRY!” Draco looked up from where he had been sobbing into the rippling water, splashing just hoping Harry would come back up. His face was red all over, his lips slowly changing from pink to white. His hands wrinkled from staying in the water and had almost no feeling.

When he saw Harry, he got up and tried to run over to him but fell as his legs had gone numb. Harry had caught him and fell to the ground on his knees also. He hand both hand holding Draco by the arms as Draco reached for Harry’s face, still sobbing, tears falling rapidly down his face.

“It’s you! You’re alive! I can’t believe it. It’s you, you’re here and you didn’t leave, Harry you're ok, Harry, Harry…” He flung himself into Harry’s arms and wrapped his hands around his neck not even trying to get his sobs under control, “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, Harry! Please don’t leave! Don’t leave. I can’t stand it. I’m sorry. Please!” Harry had actually begun to think Draco would be sick from the hard sobs wracking his form. He stroked the blonde hair and slim back, trying to comfort the teen.

“It’s ok Draco. I’m here now. I’m not going anywhere…Calm down, love…Shh its ok now.” He whispered. After a few minutes Draco was still crying but more silently and it was only the hiccups that here causing him to move now. He turned his head so it was resting on Harry shoulder.

“I thought I’d lost you…Thought I’d pushed you away for good.” They sat there for a moment just listening to the Lake carry on lapping at the shore and around them slightly.

“I didn’t know you meant this much to me. I thought we would have our fun with each other and then move on like the elders and our fathers say. I didn’t realise until I saw you dive in after the mermaid how much I had let you in, you know. I…I don’t know if I’m going to be able to quit you when the time comes.” Draco whispered, calming even more since Harry had started rocking them.

“Draco…I know it’s only been roughly two months since I found out about all this but…this connection we have…I don’t care if its just a hosts connection but it helped me understand you and I…I like what I see. I want to be with you…I want to be the one to protect you, to tell you everything about me, to trust you with my dreams and my heart. I promise you now I will make this happen for us Draco…I just need to know that at the time, you’ll accept me.”

Draco sniffed, tightened his arms around Harry’s neck and nodded his head.

“Don’t leave me again Harry.” Harry smiled and stood up, pulling Draco up as he did. He pulled the arms from round his neck and kissed each wrist. On instinct he lapped his tongue over the pulse points on each wrist and Draco stretched his fingers when Harry let go and walked over to where his stuff was.

“That just warmed my hands up. Did you know that was going to happen?” Draco walked up to Harry and smiled in thanks as he was wrapped in Harry’s jacket.

“The bloodlink told me that I can heat up part of my body when I need to or choose to. I warmed my tongue and due to our connection I can transfer the heat to you as long as I touch a pulse point.” Harry flipped up the hood on his jacket and fastened it as Draco had put his hands through the arms.

“Did you really have to lick me though?” He asked with a smirk as he watched Harry’s muscles stretch over his back when he bent down to pick up his white hooded jumper. That was when he noticed the green thing around Harry and a black box inside.

“Harry what’s that?” Said teen turned and then twisted to see what Draco was talking about. He smiled when he thought about where he had just been.

“Guess where I’ve just been.” He said coming up to Draco after he put his jumper on, socks and shoes already put back on.

“In the lake nearly killing your self, I saw you.” Draco explained flatly, putting his hands in the jacket pockets. Harry smiled and rubbed his hands up and down Draco’s arms and kissing his nose.

“No. Well yes but then I went somewhere else. I’ve been to Greece; there is a mermaid colony there and they needed my help, that’s why there was a mermaid by the shore today; it was waiting for me. We have lots and I mean lots to talk about. I’m gonna need to talk to Severus, Lucius, Lupin and maybe the old codger. Agh, I have so much to do and at the moment I have no idea if I have the time to do it in.” He laughed as they began to make their way back up to the castle.

“Well could get everybody in the Room of Requirements now. It’s only nine o’clock. Dad will still be talking with Severus, Remus will probably be there. You could get the main Gryffindors and I’ll get Pansy and Blaise. You could at least get some of this off your mind before trying to sleep.” Draco asked as he snuggled up to Harry more when the teen put his arm around the blonde.

Suddenly Harry was taken from his side and engulfed in black feather wings. Severus retracted his wings and tightened his arms around Harry.

“Shit! I thought I’d fucking lost you. You just disappeared off our senses and then I couldn’t even feel you when I reached out when your feelings got too much.” He whispered fiercely into Harry’s hair.

“What is it with you people and thinking I’d got lost?” Harry joked, not feeling as awkward as he thought he might with Severus, no his father, hugging him like this.

Lucius came running up with Remus and they stopped when they got to the boys. Lucius checked Draco over when he noticed the red face and tears swelled eyes. Remus checked the area making sure it was void of creatures, students or professors. Severus let go of Harry but kept him at arms length.

“Where did you go? I could only pick you up on the bloodlink, I can usually pick you up on the link we share being family and pin point were you are but you weren’t anywhere.” Harry sighed and took his dads wrists, making sure he had eye contact.

“I’m fine. I need to talk to you all. I’ll tell you everything. Just let me get Hermione, Ron, Blaise and Pansy and we’ll meet up in the Room of Requirement. There, I will tell all but not until they get there because there is no way I’m telling this story time over time.”

Ten minutes later found the nine of them sat on comfortable chair in the Room of Requirements; the adults looking concerned as to why this needed such a gathering. Hermione looking slightly reluctant to be there, Ron hadn’t said anything and had just followed Hermione-especially sticking to Hermione. Blaise looked ticked and Pansy didn’t particularly seem to care. Draco sat quietly and worriedly since he had noticed the frosty behaviour from Blaise as well as the other two thirds of the golden trio.

Harry was stood up in front of them, box at his side. When he saw the looks he was getting, or lack of from others. He took a deep sigh and looked out over them all again. In that instance he felt too tired and empty to even get up the enthusiasm to tell them all the stuff he’d learnt.

“Ok…Go ahead…” He sighed as he sat down in the chair behind him. Looking at his hands as he heard a chair scrap as someone stood up.

“Do you get off shouting at girls or is it just some new fucking hobby. You had her in tears, man!” Blaise started, just as he did Ron was also calling in.

“How much fucking shit do you expect me to put up with Harry!” Pansy looked up when Blaise mentioned shouting at Hermione and looked to Harry with a scowl.

“Why’d you shout at Granger.” She asked sticking up for a fellow girl. Draco started but he just wanted to know what was happening, he didn’t like being out of the loop.

They all started talking at once. Ranting about other things Harry had done or what not. That combined with the link still giving him memories of past experiences that he couldn’t turn off for some reason gave him a quick and fierce headache.

It all brought back emotions from before he jumped into the lake, all the pain he felt all over. None of them looked like they were over what had happened today. He took a shuddering breath keeping back tears of having so much to do and no one to help.

“I…” Everyone stopped talking and waited for Harry to answer. “Please…I…I can’t do this alone…I don’t want to lose you, but I don’t know what else to do…I’m not…I’m not good enough to handle all this.” He struggled through tears and whispered the last part.

“Harry?” Severus asked seeing and feeling the distress from his son. Harry looked up and finally showed everybody how all this was effecting him. He just couldn’t be strong anymore without people to be strong for.

“I can’t say I’m sorry…I can’t do things differently because…I’m right and I’ll stand by my decision. I just need…forget it…I don’t mind if you want to leave…just…go.” He sighed and lowered his head feeling tear fall down his cheek now. He suddenly felt the exhaustion of the day and then felt the extra added weight when he heard a chair scrap and someone stand up. He couldn’t bear to see who was leaving.

When he felt arms wrap around him he was stunned. When he felt the bushy hair and soft female lips on his temple he let the rest of the tears fall and hugged her tighter.

“I’m sorry, Harry…The rest of us need to grow up a bit more I think.” Harry sighed. At least now it wouldn’t feel as though he was doing this alone and he knew she would be trying to understand him from now on.

“Thank you.” She smiled and went to sit back down wiping a tear away from her eye as she did. Blaise looked confused; his girlfriend was upset at her friend but now she was ok? He shook his head and smiled sheepishly at Harry. If she was ok, then he was ok. Pansy looked over at Ron and when he didn’t say anything she poked him with her nail file.

“We’re cool, Harry.” He said in a flat tone. That actually made Harry smile. It meant Ron was truly ok with him; he just didn’t like showing it in public.

“Right, ok, so When I left the Great Hall…” Harry explained everything he could remember. All the things he had seen and all the magic he had done. He had looked over at his father when he explained the magic and saw the softer smirk he had started to give Harry and he knew that meant he was proud of him.

“So…You went to Greece, took a curse off of a huge beast, repaired wards and added wards to a village, learnt about the Mystics A.K.A the Oracles and their little job for you and brought back what they had given the mermaid to give to you…all in, what nearly two hours?” Remus asked leaning forward, resting his elbows on his knees and sounding amused by all this.

“Yes. So…Oracles?” Harry asked directing his question to the adults. Severus looked at the other two and just got two hopelessly lost looks. He sighed and did as Remus have done; leaning forward.

“Ok…The Oracles are four beings…I presume; no one has seen them before. Each one controls one element and they work together for the earth. It’s said they sacrificed a great deal and were rewarded with an element. This whole ‘see their future thing’ just means that they don’t live in any of the time streams. Before you ask there are three main streams; the past, present and the future and then there is the choices we make in each one.” He paused and waited for the confused looks to go blank again to show that they were listening.

“What seems to be the agreed theory through out the four realms is that there is one from each main race; meaning this is a Vampire, a witch or wizard, a muggle and an Elf. But like I said know one knows for sure. Each race can also be sectioned in to main, twined, light and dark- which is what the mermaid said about you; You were born from the dark, meaning Vampires. You grew with the main, meaning the muggles, learnt from the twined which means the wizarding world since it is the only race that can breed with the others without consequences.”

“What?!” Everyone, including Lucius and Remus stared at him now. With a long sigh he stopped to explain.

“When Vampires mate with muggles the child is consumed by the minion soul before it has a chance to grow with it and even if it did the transformations such as wings and fangs would kill them alone. Vampires and Elves mate and the child is torn apart the light soul of the elf warring with the dark soul of the vampire. Elves with muggles, much like the vampire, the light soul takes over, but then leave the body as it grows too fast for the elven genes. It’s only due to the wizarding general range of magic that lets them mate with any race. They don’t have enough to consume the muggles but have enough to work with the Vampiric genes or Elven genes ok?” He got a round of slow nods, Lucius and Remus trying to act as if they already knew that.

“Right so back to it. The wizarding world is the twined ones and you will forgive with the light, light meaning the Elven race.”

“So wait, I get that I was born from you and mum, vampires. I also get that I grew up with the muggles, I even got the whole learning from the wizards…but forgiving with the Elves? That I don’t get.” Harry said raking a hand through his hair.

“Well…I read that they are a very peaceful race. Maybe they will help you through some important issues your not aware of and help you forgive either yourself or others that you find unforgivable.” Hermione though out loud. She looked to the professors and they slowly nodded.

“That does seem possible. This ‘journey’ your going to be starting could very well lead you to them and in need of their help.” Remus said sitting back.

“Well he will end up there. Don’t you remember what the firsts said? He needs to find the three other guards from each realm if he wants to truly get rid of Voldemort. That means a muggle, a wizard and an elf since he is the Vampiric one.”

“Ok so let me get this straight. Our leader; Harry here, has to go on some sort of quest not only to find these other guards, but also the oracles? So where do you plan on studying, living and killing the Dark Lord in all this?” Blaise asked.

Everyone was quiet for I time; it was true they had so much to do. Harry’s headache began to get worse and he was about to say something about it when Hermione stood up and walked over to the chalkboard that had appeared.

“Ok. This is what is going to happen. Over the next couple of weeks until Christmas we are going carry on; that means no Oracles or Guards research.

Harry, you are going to focus on studying and learning all you can about your Vampiric clan and its powers; that includes strengths and weaknesses. Draco, you and I are going to study and work out what the groups are going to be in the Fraternity and if they will work well. Blaise and Pansy are going to keep tabs on shifty death eater wannabes and potential fraternity members, as well as reassuring the ones that have already joined. Ron, you are going to make sure all the Gryffindor are ok with what is going on in the fraternity and reassuring members about the rumours going round, just the usual ‘no Harry will not kill us all and suck our blood’ and all that.

Lucius and Severus will make a plan for lectures on death eater patterns, such as what they like to cast and how they attack. Then Lucius will work with Remus; one teaching dark spells and such and the other teaching the counters. Severus will be there if Harry needs him and also to inform us of Order meetings, your own Vampire meetings and Death eater meetings, making plans on what to do with the information he gathers from them all so we can have a wider picture. Does that settle what is going to be happening over the next few weeks?” She asked sweetly, turning away from the full chalkboard.

Everyone just stared at her for a moment before Harry started clapping followed by everyone else. With that sorted she made parchment lists for everyone to keep, each one highlighting what each person had to do. They left the room and went there separate ways all still feeling a little confused with all the information but reassured as they had a plan of action.

Right that’s it for this chapter! Pease, please, please tell me what you think! I do read the reviews and I do think about what you tell me!