COVENTINA'S MIND HAD GONE BLANK WITH SHOCK.

Anastacius shivers, he was not scared
of many thing. But he was scared of Coventina's rage.

Who was not?

Human was nothing more than pest in his sister's eyes yet she treated animals as her own. Coventina may be able show emotions but that merely because she is able to get to know new things.

If they haven't left the orphanage, Merlin know what the Heiress of the Dead would have become.

The three of them stood transfixed with horror under the Invisibility Cloak. The very last rays of the setting sun were casting a bloody light over the long- shadowed grounds. Then, behind them, they heard a wild howling.

"Come on," said Antares, they set off back toward the castle, walking slowly to keep themselves hidden under the cloak. The light was fading fast now.

By the time they reached open ground, darkness was settling like a spell around them. "The rat, keep still," Antares groaned, clamping his hand over his chest.

Aurelius chuckles.

He-more than anymore know that Antares dislike filthy things. Rat was
one of them yet he agreed to grab the rat because his Goddess told him to.

The rat was wriggling madly. "I am going to kill that useless ugly stupid rat-!" Scabbers was plainly terrified. He was writhing with all his might, trying to break free of Antares's grip.

"Sorry, Peter but the older you deserve to die for his betrayal." Remina told her friend. It was not over yet.

But Coventina had just seen─stinking toward them, his body low to the
ground, wide yellow eyes glinting eerily in the darkness─Crookshanks. Whether she could see them or was following the sound of Scabbers's squeaks, Coventina couldn't tell.

"Crookfish!" Draco pointed at the cat while mistaking his name "That's the mudbl─...muggleborn's cat! But the cat was getting nearer─ "Stupid cat-!"

"Is not it Crookshanks?" Emrys asks, utterly confuse because of his younger cousin.

"It is, Draco is merely too stupid to even remember a simple name." Aurelius replies to his lover, his tone firm yet carried a sense of gentleness.

Quiet surprising for a narcissic.

"I heard that!" Draco growls.

Too late─the rat had slipped between Antare's clutching fingers, hit the ground, and scampered away. In one bound, Crookshanks sprang after him, and before Coventina could stop him, Antare had thrown the Invisibility Cloak off himself and pelted away into the darkness.

"Catch him!" Coventina said firmly before following.

"Coventina giving the orders as the leader, Antares is her loyal servant
and Draco is just...Draco." Rabastan tilted his head.

"Stop making fun of me!!"

Draco looked at tree then followed at a sprint; it was impossible to run full out under the cloak; they pulled it off; they could hear his feet thundering along ahead and his shouts at Crookshanks.

There was a loud thud. "Gotcha! Get off, you cute kitty─"

Draco and Coventina almost fell over Antares; they skidded to a stop right in front of him. He was sprawled on the ground, but Scabbers was back in
his pocket; he had both hands held
tight over the quivering lump.

"Stupid rat." Antares mumbles with a cold glare toward Peter who shrinks.

But before they could cover themselves again, before they could even catch their breath, they heard the soft pounding of gigantic paws.... Something was bounding toward them, quiet as a shadow─an enormous, pale-eyed, jet-black dog.

The Marauders narrows their eyes toward each other, giving a side eyes.

Coventina reached for herwand, but too late─the dog had made an enormous leap and the front paws hit him on the chest; he keeled over backward in a whirl of hair; he felt its hot breath, saw inch- long teeth─But the force of its leap had carried it too far; it rolled off her.

Dazed, feeling as though her ribs were broken, Coventina tried to stand up; she could hear it growling as it skidded around for a new attack. Draco was on his feet. As the dog sprang back toward them he pushed Coventina aside; the dog's jaws fastened instead around Draco's outstretched arm.

Narcissa was frozen in her seat. Her
son was being ripped apart by a dog!

Coventina lunged forward, she seized
a handful of the brute's hair, but it
was dragging Draco away as easily
as though he were a rag doll─Then, out of nowhere, Coventina was knocked off her feet again. She
heard Antares groaned too.

"He is a rag doll." Aelora states with
a smirk upon her pretty pink lips.

"Fuck off, Nikova."

Coventina groped for her wand, blinking blood out of her eyes "Lumos!" she whispered.

The wandlight showed her the trunk of a thick tree; they had chased Scabbers into the shadow of the Whomping Willow and its branches were creaking as though in a high wind, whipping backward and forward to stop them going nearer.

And there, at the base of the trunk, was the dog, dragging Draco backward into a large gap in the roots─was fighting furiously, but his head and torso were slipping out of sight─

"Draco!" Coventina shouted, trying to follow, but a heavy branch whipped
lethally through the air and she was forced backward again.

Lilia gasps, her eyes went to her grandchildren.

"We are totally fine, grandma!!"

"Not mentally-"

"Coventina!" Thanatos glares at his descendant who naturally glares back
at her ancestor.

"I will find a therapist." Achilles mutters.

"For Morty." He adds.

"I hate that duo of father and daughter." Thanatos looks so defeat that Regulus pities him.

All they could see now was one of Draco's legs, which he had hooked around a root in an effort to stop the dog from pulling him farther underground─but a horrible crack cut the air like a gunshot; Draco's leg had broken, and a moment later,
his foot vanished from sight.

"I AM TOO YOUNG TO DIE!!" She heard him shouted dramatically in such panic situation. She wanted to kick him.

"Not anymore." Antares smirks lazily, narrowing his eyes at his cousin. "The next time you piss me off will be your last breath." He threatens.

Only a few knows that he was being serious. Antares Black doesn't say
empty threat.

"Those kids know the meaning of tension." Pandora whispers softly.

Another branch whipped down at them, twigs clenched like knuckles. "If that dog can get in, we can," Coventina panted, darting here and there, trying to find a way through the vicious, swishing branches, but she couldn't get an inch nearer to the tree roots without being in range of the tree's blows.

"Maybe we should just go back and come for Draco another day in ten years?" Antares suggested. "Go to hell, Black."

"That's where I came from, ma belle." Antares whispered from behind.

"I am pretty sure that I will have to push you for at least hours before you come on Earth." Remina raises one of her brow.

"That many?" Sirius looks at her dumbfound.

Crookshanks darted forward. He slithered between the battering branches like a snake and placed his front paws upon a knot on the trunk.
Abruptly, as though the tree had been turned to marble, it stopped moving. Not a leaf twitched or shook.

"He's friends with the dog," said Coventina softly. "I've seen them
together."

"A cat and a dog?" Dorcas snorts.

"What wrong with it?" Regulus looks at her coldly.

"Yeah! What wrong with it?" Sirius sticks out his tongue mocking the Slytherin girl.

"Damn brothers."

They covered the distance to the trunk in seconds, but before they
had reached the gap in the roots, Crookshanks had slid into it with a flick of his bottlebrush tail.

Coventina went next; "Lady before the gentleman." Antares had said.

"Tsk, say the ono who had said. I quote 'You are mine and I take what's mine even if it's by spilling blood.' hm?" Coventina whispers.

"Oh darling, I never claimed to be a hero in your story." Antares played
with her hair locked.

"Nor have I claimed that my love was pure." Was left unsaid by the cruel Prince whose eyes glowed only for his sweet salvation.

She crawled forward, headfirst, and slid down an earthy slope to the bottom of a very low tunnel. Crookshanks was a little way along, his eyes flashing in the light from Coventina's wand. Seconds later, Antares slithered down beside her.

"This way," said Coventina, setting off, bent-backed, after Crookshanks. "It's marked on the Marauder's Map but it goes off the edge of the map, but it looked like it was heading for Hogsmeade..."

"Marauder's Map?" Antares raised
an eye brow clearly interest. "Our parents." was the only answered he got from Coventina.

James grins proudly, he then humms softly. He wonder how Coventina would look with glasses.

They moved as fast as they could,
bent almost double; ahead of them,
Crookshanks's tail bobbed in and
out of view. On and on went the passage; it felt at least as long as
the one to Honeydukes ad the tunnel began to rise; moments later it
twisted, and Crookshanks had gone.

Instead, Coventina could see a patch of dim light through a small opening.
She and Antares paused, gasping for breath, edging forward. Both raised
their wands to see what lay beyond.
It was a room, a very disordered, dusty room.

Paper was peeling from thewalls; there were stains all over the floor; every piece of furniture was broken as though somebody had smashed it. The windows were all boarded up.

"Someoe do not know the meaning of clean." Walburga scoffs at the sight of such unclean place.

"Not everybody have the miney to have clean place, Lady Black." Euphemia rolled her brown eyes with her lips forming a pout.

Sirius chuckles, his mum was the totally a saintess for those who need help and love.

"Antares," she whispered, "I think we're in the Shrieking Shack."

Antares looked around. His eyes fell on a wooden chair near them. Large chunks had been torn out of it; one of the legs had been ripped off entirely.
"Ghosts didn't do that," he said slowly.

At that moment, there was a creak overhead. Something had Moved upstairs. Both of them looked up at the ceiling. He raised his eyebrows at her.

"We can still leave─" "Shut up."

"You really wanted to to leave me there?!" Draco gasps.

The betrayal shall be remember by the ferret.

"Yes and?"

Antares pouted. Quietly as they could, they crept out into the hall and UP the crumbling staircase. Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust except the floor, where a wide shiny stripe had been made by something being dragged upstairs.

They reached the dark landing. "Nox," they whispered together, and the lights at the end of their wands went out. Only one door was open.
As they crept toward it, they heard movement from behind it; a low moan, and then a deep, loud purring. They exchanged a last look, a last nod. Wand held tightly before him, Antares kicked the door wide open.

On a magnificent four-poster bed with dusty hangings lay Crookshanks, purring loudly at the sight of them. On the floor beside him, clutching his leg, which stuck out at a strange angle, was Draco.

Lucius snickers.

"That's your son." Abraxas reminds
him. "I know." He replies.

"That's your son." Lilia reminds Abraxas.

"I-I know."

Coventina dashed across to him. "You okay?"

"Where's the dog?" "Not a dog," Draco coughed. "This is bad, we need to leave! It's a trap!" "What-"

"What?"

"The dog. He's an Animagus." Draco was staring over Coventina's shoulder. Coventina wheeled around. With a snap, the man in the shadows closed the door behind them.

"An animagus?"

A mass of filthy, matted hair hung to his elbows. If eyes hadn't been shining out of the deep, dark sockets, he might have been a corpse. The waxy skin was stretched so tightly over the bones of  his face, it looked like a skull. His teeth were bared in a grin. It was Sirius Black.

"WHAT HAPPEN TO MY BEAUTIFUL CURLY BLACK HAIR?!" The man in person shouted horrified. His hands were all over his hand.

"Is that the only thing that you care about?!"

"After my future wife? Yes." He replies.

Antares crosses his arms, he was forgetten. What a shame. He was sulking in a chubi form in Coventina's way of thinking.

"Cute."

"Quick question, are you an animagus at the moment?" Amelia Bones quickly asks Sirius.

"That's a secret." Sirius grins.

"Expelliarmus!" He croaked, pointing Draco's wand at them. Coventina and Antares wands shot out of their hands, high in the air, and Black caught them. Then he took a step closer.

His eyes were fixed on Coventina.

"I can adopt Antares." Achilles shrugs.

"NO!!"

The Laskos Heir pouts, it would have make Antares become Coventina's adopt brother then they wouldn't be together.

"My sweet schemes." He too had started to sulk.

"I thought you'd come and help your friend," he said hoarsely. His voice sounded as though he had long since lost the habit of using it. "Your mother would have done the same for me. Brave of you) not to run for a teacher. I'm grateful... it will make everything much easier...."

The taunt about her mother rang in Coventina's ears as though Sirius Black had bellowed it.

A boiling hate erupted in Antares's chest, leaving no place for any type amusement. He want his wand back. Right now.

Antares sighs. He wonder if the hatred of his younger self was really for his father. Why would he hate him? Merlin, he just want to rest forever with the love of his life.

What he was doing, he started forward, but there was a sudden movement on either side of him and two pairs of hands grabbed him and held him back.

"Black, don't do anything stupid." Coventina warned him softly. But for the time, he didn't want to listen to her.

"That's a-a s-shock!" Evan fakes his stuttering.

"Oh. My. God." A student exclaims dramatically.

Something flickered in Black's shadowed eyes.

"Which one?"

"What now? You are here to kill us?" Draco raised an eyes brow. "Kill me lasly please? With less pain too─" Coventina shooted a glare of disbelief at Draco.

"You are still alive thanks to Coventina." Aerys smirks.

"So are you." Draco spats.

"Aww, the dragon is finnaly spiting out his fire?" Aerys taunts.

"I don't play with snow white." Draco grins.

"You bastard! Do I look a helpless girl that fall in love with one kiss?!" Aerys pouts angrily.

"E-euh no."

"There'll be only one murder here tonight," said Black, and his grin
widened.

"You are scaring the kids."

"Uncle!" Sirius was so offend that he want to hide in Remina's neck.

"Why? Hm?" Antares spat, trying to wrench himself free of Coventina's gentle yet firm hold. "Didn't care last time, did you? Couldn't even come to visit your wife too hm?"

Coventina stayed quiet, watching the interaction while biting on her lower
lip almost like in an anxious way yet
she had long ago abandoned such emotions has not she?

Sirius frowns, he would never abandon his family! He rather die a painful death.

"Have to agree with her, Emotion can be a bother. Many would prefer to not feel it." Regulus thinks to himself.

"Give me back my wand!" Antares hissed, and with a small effort he
broke free of Coventina's restraint and lunged forward - He had forgotten about magic, he even
forget that this man was his father.

"Did I hurted you?" Antares asks Coventina in a low tone.

"No." How she would love to say never but it would be a painful lie.

Whereas Black was a tall, full-grown man, all Antares knew was that he wanted to hurt his father as badly
as he could and that he didn't care
how much he got hurt in return- (which would be impossible) Sirius Black didn't raised his wand in time.

One of Antares's hands fastened over
his wasted wrist, forcing the wand tips away; the knuckles of Antares's other hand collided with the side of Sirius's head and they fell, backward, into the wall.

"Ouch!"

"That's what I call daddy issues." Blaise points out shamelessly.

"Say the one whose mother changed men after wedding?" Antares smirks.

"Well she is kinda cool for that." Daphne shrugs.

"I agree!"

Sirius Black was sprawled at the bottom of the wall. His thin chest
rose and fell rapidly as he watched Antares, his wand pointing straight
at Sirius's heart.

Draco tensed, Coventina was helping him recover while giving glaces to Antares's rage that was suffocating them. Heat was getting even hotter.

"Going to kill me, Antares?" he whispered.

"The Black really have a way of being dramatic don't they?" Gideon whispers with a grin. His twin brother nods.

"Maybe? But then again I don't hate you. Nor do I want you dead." He whispered back harshly.

Remina sigh, she was relieve.

Before either of them could say another word, something ginger streaked past Antares; Crookshanks leapt onto Sirius Black's chest and settled himself there, right over Sirius Black's heart. Black blinked and looked down at the cat.

"If it was a black cat, I would have mistaken it for Regulus." Andromeda's soft voice calm her daughter's worries.

Now that she had said that, many turned to look at the Black brothers.

"Get off," he murmured, trying to push Crookshanks off him. But Crookshanks sank his claws into Sirius's robes and wouldn't shift. He turned his ugly, squashed face to Antares and looked up at him with those great yellow eyes.

"Leave the cat alone, Antares." His eyes went to his goddess, he slowly
let go of his father and stood up properly.

Antares squeezes her thigh tight enough  to make her squirm. The tighter his hold get, the harder Coventina bite her lower lip to hold back a moan. Merlin, how he love that sound.

Running his hand through his hair, Antares punched the wall angrily. "Fuck─I need a drink!" He yelled angrily.

"Good idea!" Alphard supports.

"Shut up!"

"Good Merlin, I am alive!" Draco grinned.

"Not for long.." Coventina whispered.

"Who do everyone want me dead? I am a pretty boy." Draco sulks at his turn.

"Aww, a dead pretty boy is more Lana Del Rey code."

And then came a new sound -Muffled footsteps were echoing up through the floor- someone was moving downstairs.

"SOMEONE SAVE OUR ASS! MY UNCLE WENT CRAZY! MY COUSIN IS ANGRY! MY FRIEND WANT TO KILL ME!!" Draco shouted loudly.

"You just gave another reason to kill you." Pansy who everyone had long forgetten about says.

"At least I am love."

The door of the room burst open in a shower of red sparks and Coventina
wheeled around as Professor Lupin came hurtling into the room, her face
bloodless, her wand raised and ready.

"My bestfriend is hot." Marlene chuckles.

Her eyes flickered over Draco, lying
on the floor, over Coventina, cowering next to the door, to Antares standing there with his wand covering Black, and then to Sirius Black himself, crumpled and bleeding at Antares's feet.

"Expelliarmus!" Remina shouted.

"Husband and wife are the same with the same first spell."

Antares's wand flew once more out of his hand; so did the two Coventina was holding. Remina caught them all deftly, then moved into the room, staring at Sirius, who still had Crookshanks lying Protectively across his chest.

Antares stood there, feeling suddenly empty. Why was he so angry? This was not the man that Antares was suposed to be angry at. Why is he even angry? His memories were hurting his mind.

"Merlin, stop hiding so much."
Coventina mumbles in a softly tone but Antares know that it was not possible─ at least not yet.

Then Remina spoke, in a very tense voice. "Where is he, Sirius?"

Coventina looked quickly at Remina. She didn't understannd what Remina meant. Who was Remina talking about? She turned to look at Sirius again.

Sirius's face was quite expressionless. For a few seconds, he didn't move at all. Then, very slowly, he raised his empty hand and pointed straight at Antares.

"Who?"

"But then..." Remina muttered, staring at Sirius so intently it seemed he was trying to read his mind, " why hasn't he shown himself before now? Unless-" Remina's eyes suddenly widened, as though she was seeing something beyond Sirius, something none of the rest could see, "unless he was the one... unless you switched  without telling me?"

"Somenody explained!?" Mary was going to go crazy without a good explaination.

Very slowly, his sunken gaze never leaving Remina's face, Sirius nodded.

"This is a married couple who have not seen each other for years' tension." Draco whispered.

"That was not the moment for a comment.." Xenophilius whispers.

"I totally agree with you." Franks mutters.

Remina was lowering her wand, gazing fixed at Sirius. The Professor walked to Sirius's side, seized his hand, pulled him to his feet so that Crookshanks fell to the floor, and embraced him like a wife would.

"Kill me." Antares whispered coldly.

"Don't be dramatic..." Coventina looked away from the scene. "Is this the wrong time for me to say that I know you are a werewolf?"

"What?!" many starts protesting. A werewolf were tezching their kids and was currently with their kids!? No thank you!

"SHUT UP!" Sirius growls. "Leave my Mooy alone or I will slit every single
one of you's throat!" A glint og madness brighten in his dark eyes.

Nobody dare to even looks at him properly except James and Regulus,
and also his goddaughter and son.

Sirius Black would not just sit and
allow some idiots to insult his girl.

Remina stopped dead. Then, with an obvious effort, she turned to Coventina and said, "How long have you known?"

"Since I saw you, then it was confirmed in Snape's class." Coventina whispered. "He'll be delighted," said Remina coolly.

Snape rolls his eyes yet he had admit that the Potter's spawn was smart.

"How did you know that we were here, aunty?" Draco asked curiously.

"The map," said Remina. "The Marauder's Map. I was in my office examining it-" "You know how to work it?" Draco asked.

"Of course I know how to work it," said Remina, waving her hand impatiently. "I helped write it. I'm Moony, that was my friends' nickname for me at school."

Professor McGonagall smiles, her happiness make her students happy.

"The important thing is, I was watching it carefully this evening, because I had an idea that you, Coventina might sneak out of the castle to visit the hippogriff that was executed. And I was right, wasn't I?"

She had started to pace up and down, looking at them. Little patches of
dust rose at her feet. "You might have been wearing your father's old cloak, Cub-" "How d'you know about the cloak?"

"The number of times I saw James disappearing under it...," said Remina
waving an impatient hand again. "The point is, even if you're wearing an
Invisibility Cloak, you still show up on the Marauder's Map. I watched you cross the grounds and enter Hagrid's hut. Twenty minutes later, you left Hagrid, and set off back toward the castle. But you were now accompanied by somebody else."

"Like mother like daughter."

"Hey!" James blushes, it was so embarassing to be called mother.
He was a guy want not he?

"We were?" Draco was confused.

"I couldn't believe my eyes," said Lupin, still pacing, and ignoring
Draco's interruption. "I thought the map must be malfunctioning. How could he be with you?" "No one was with us." said Draco.

"Dumb."

"There were someone with us." Coventina let out a sigh. "Black." She looked at Antares who picked out the
rat in his pocket with disgust.

Scabbers emerged, thrashing desperately; Antares had to seize his long bald tail to stop him escaping. Crookshanks stood up on Sirius's leg and made a soft hissing noise.

Remina moved closer to her son. She seemed to be holding her breath as she gazed intently at Scabbers. "What does that ugly rat have to do with us?" Draco asked.

"You brat!" Peter was offend. He was handsome but he had to admit that he was quiet ugly in the future.

"That's not a rat," croaked Sirius Black suddenly. "Of course he's a rat-" "No, he's not," said Remina quietly. "He's a wizard." "An Animagus," said Sirius.

"We already know."

Coventina gritted her teeth and looked at the rat with disgust. "His name is Peter Pettigrew, the traitorous rat of the Marauder, a damn murderer and follower of Voldemort." Nobody had missed the hatred in her tone.

This must be it, a daughter's fury.

Coventina smirks. Oh, that was not even 1% of her fury. May Merlin be strong enougn to come back and protect the Wizard World.