CROOKSHANKS LED THE WAY DOWN THE STAIRS;

Remina, Pettigrew, and Draco ( Antares decided that he wouldn't touch the rat ) went next, looking like entrants in a six-legged race. Next came Professor Snape, drifting creepily along, his toes hitting each stair as they descended, held up by his own wand, which was being pointed at him by Sirius.

Snickers ftom the Gryffindors.

Coventina and Aelora brought up the rear. Getting back into the tunnel was difficult. Remina, Pettigrew, and Draco
had to turn sideways to manage it; Remina still had Pettigrew covered
with his wand. Coventina could see them edging awkwardly along the tunnel in single file.

Crookshanks was still in the lead. Coventina went right after Sirius, who was still making Snape drift along ahead of them; he kept bumping his lolling head on the low ceiling. Coventina had the impression Sirius was making no effort to prevent this.

Snape grits his teeth, he slowly calm
down as Lily takes his hand.

"I never believe that a Slytherin could
be blind until today." Draco whispers.

"You know what this means?" Sirius said abruptly to Coventina as they made their slow progress along the tunnel.

"Turning Pettigrew in?"

"You're free," said Coventina.

"He have always been free." Achilles mumble grumpily. Something tells him
that his own daughter would pass more time with Sirius than him.

"Yes...," said Sirius. "But I'm also -- I don't know if anyone ever told you, I'm your godfather." "Yeah, I knew that," said Coventina.

"You are being so shy and awkward," Smile Remina. "It's cute to see."

"Well... your parents appointed me your guardian," said Sirius stiffly. "If anything happened to them..." Coventina waited. Did Sirius mean what she thought he meant?

"I don't get it?"

"I'll understand, of course, if you want to stay with your...you know hidden father," said Sirius. "But... well... think about it. Once my name's cleared... if you wanted to visit..."

"Oh. Hell no!" Achilles' eyes widen.

"Hell yes!" Sirius dances.

Some sort of explosion took place in the pit of Coventina's stomach. "Live with you?" she said, accidentally cracking her head on a bit of rock protruding from the ceiling.

"Of course, I thought you wouldn't want to," said Sirius quickly. "I understand, I just thought I'd-"

Coventina smiled, "You have been hiding at my father's manor, haven't you?" Her smiled turned into a grin.

"She is a sensor I supose, a sensor can
sense any wizards or witches' presence
and magic. It must be how she had knew
it was my grandson." Concludes Arcturus.

"How smart of you." Sirius smiled too, patting her head. "Some people will get suspicious if they found out that you are living at a suposed dead Heir's manor who nobody know is your father."

Marlene gasps. "Sirius Orion Black have developed a brain in the future!" She smirks.

"I..mean he is getting smart and is
using his brain." Agree Mary.

"Go to hell, you guys!!"

Black turned right around to look at
her; Snape's head was scraping the
ceiling but Black didn't seem to care.

The younger students were laughing
very hard and joyfully at the scene.

"I know." She chuckled. "I will live with you but I supose that we could cover it so that I can pass time with my brother and father too."

"Daddy's girl." Draco snorts.

"Mommy's boy." Coventina rolls her eyes.

Sirius's gaunt face broke into the first true smile Coventina had seen upon
it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Coventina's birth.

"I am interrupting?" Antares's lips curled into a smirk as he saw Coventina smiling happily.

"Ten gallons that she said yes-"

"Yes." Coventina looked at him, she looked healthier and happier.

"Nobody bet with you, Regulus." Pandora says dreamily caressing Regulus's shoulder as a way of comforting his sulking mood.

"Hm...some tension." Sirius glanced at Remina who chuckled. Draco couldn't even waste a minute before spoiling the tea.

"Your goddaughter will be your daughter in law!" Draco chanted.

"You are getting disown." Achilles tells Draco.

Draco sticks out his tongue childishly.

"Really-" Sirius's happy smiles falter. "NO!" Remina snickers at her son's frown.

"Some father.."

"The fact that Antares thought that Sirius would support him." Aelora chuckles.

Anastacius snickers in his turn.

Crookshanks darted up first; he had evidently pressed his paw to the knot on the trunk, because Remina, Pettigrew, and Draco clambered upward without any sound of savaging branches.

Sirius saw Snape up through the hole, then stood back for Coventina and
Aelora, Antares, and Anastacius to pass. At last, all of them were out.

The grounds were very dark now;
the only light came from the distant windows of the castle. Without a word, they set off. Pettigrew was still wheezing and occasionally whimpering.

"One wrong move, Peter," said Remina threateningly ahead. Her wand was
still pointed sideways at Pettigrew's chest.

Anastacius rolls his eyes as he remembers exactly what had happen that night.

Silently they tramped through the grounds, the castle lights growing
slowly larger. Snape was still drifting weirdly ahead of Black, his chin bumping on his chest. And then - A cloud shifted. There were suddenly dim shadows on the ground. Their party was bathed in moonlight.

Snape collided with Remina, Pettigrew, and Draco who had stopped abruptly.
Sirius froze. He flung out one arm to make the children stop. Coventina could see Remina's silhouette. She had gone rigid. Then her limbs began to shake.

Eyes widens with fear, Remina's body tremble with fear of herself. She was transforming! And the children were
near her!

Her frozen body loses its tension a hand runs through her hair smoothly. "Take a deep breath and breath it out..." Next to
her Euphemia exchange seat and help her.

"Aww, sweet girl. Look they are right here so you haven't hurt anyony." She rassures Remina tenderly.

Fleamont smiles at the scene. He remembers how they wanted to have
a daughter but Euphemia was unable to more child so they were sad yet. Here they had Merlin knows how many sons and daughters.

"Damn it!" Antares cursed. "Mother didn't take her potion tonight!" Draco sulked. This was the worst day of his life.

"Are you sure that I didn't adopt you or maybe Sirius had a one night stand somewhere?" Lucius asks Draco unsure.

"Lucius Abraxas Malfoy!!"

Abraxas snickers. "You are in trouble, son."

"Run," Sirius whispered. "Run. Now."
But Coventina couldn't run. Draco was chained to Pettigrew and Remina. He leapt forward but Sirius caught him around the chest and threw him back.
"Leave it to me, RUN!"

"I pity you." Barty tells Draco.

"Thank you." Draco sheds fakes tears.

"Why is nobody talking abiut the fact that she is transforming?!" An Hufflepuff asks loudly.

"Nonody surprise me anymore." Replies a Slytherin lazily.

"Future Snape did said that he was about to give her, the potion but she was not there which mean she hadn't take it." A sweet girl from Ravenclaw points out.

The Hufflepuff facepalms.

There was a terrible snarling noise. Remina's head was lengthening. So was her body. Her shoulders were hunching. Hair was sprouting visibly on het face and hands, which were curling into clawed paws. Crookshanks's hair was
on end again; he was backing away.

As the werewolf reared, snapping its long jaws, Sirius disappeared from
Coventina's side. He had transformed. The enormous, bearlike dog bounded
forward. As the werewolf wrenched itself free of the manacle binding it,
the dog seized it about the neck and pulled it backward, away from Draco
and Pettigrew.

"Gentle you dog!" Draco scoffs.

"A mommy's boy will always protect other mothers." Aerys thinks to herself. Her eyes shifts on Antares. "This one would careless if his mother die..."

They were locked, jaw to jaw, claws ripping at each other. Coventina stood, transfixed by the sight, too intent upon the battle to notice anything else. It was Aelora's scream that alerted her.

Achilles shrugs, he would have just sit down and watches them if he was there.

His family knew.

"AE!!" Anastacius grabbed her arms and pulled her away from the werewolf. His eyes darkened with anger. "Black! Take Coventina!" Antares nodded.

"You are a good leader." James praises Anastacius.

"How do you think that those two are even alive?" Anastacius points at his sisters.

"How dare you? I am strong so thats
why I am alive." Aelora states offend.

"You kepts us alive."

"Venti, you traitor!"

Pettigrew had dived for Remina's dropped wand. Draco, unsteady on his bandaged leg, fell. There was a bang, a burst of light and Draco lay motionless on the ground. Another bang Crook- shanks flew into the air and back to the earth in a heap.

"Expelliarmus." Coventina yelled, pointing her own wand at Pettigrew;

Remina's wand flew high into the air and out of sight. Coventina's eyes widened. Too late. Pettigrew had transformed. Coventina saw his bald tail whip through the manacle on Draco's outstretched arm and heard a scurrying through the grass.

"He is escaping."

"We have eyes too."

"Let him go." She told Antares who was about to knock the rat out with a spell. "As you wish, my beloved." He replied with a nod.

"Why?" Andromeda asks the girl who lived.

"Because he is a tool of mine." Her sentence carries an air of cruelty and coldness. She talked about humans like they were mere tools. (Which they were in her eyes)

There was a howl and a rumbling growl; Coventina turned to see the werewolf
taking flight; it was galloping into the forest.

"Sirius!" Coventina yelled. Sirius was bleeding; there were gashes across his muzzle and back, but at Coventina's word he scrambled up again, and in an instant, the sound of his paws faded to silence as he pounded away across the grounds.

Antares and Coventina dashed over to Draco. "What did he do to him?" Coventina whispered. Draco's eyes were only half-closed; he was definitely alive, they could hear him breathing, but he didn't seem to recognize them. "I don't know...."

Aelora looked desperately around. Sirius and Remina both gone... they had no one but Snape for company, still hanging, unconscious, in midair. "We'd better get them up to the castl," said Coventina pushing her hair out of her eyes, trying to think straight.

"I love your bangs, it makes you look so cute." Narcissa compliments Coventina.

"Thank you, Aunt." Coventina nods.

"Beautiful."

"Not now, Black."

"Its always time for me to compliment your beauty, ma belle." He smiles. Antares was
a true mystery, everybody knows that. She did too. His smiles could calm her never even when she hates it.

She hate him. She loathes that sly snake that would destroy the world for her. Then again there were a thin line between love and hate.

"Come-" But then, from beyond the range of their vision, they heard a yelping, a whining: a dog in pain.

"Sirius," Coventina muttered, staring into the darkness.

"I love petting padfoot." Aelora whispers randomly. She loves animals. Cutes animals unlike Coventina who loves the dangerous one.

She had a moment's indecision, but there was nothing they could do for
Draco at the moment, and by the sound of it, Sirius was in trouble-

Coventina set off at a run, Antares right behind her while Aelora and Anastacius stayed behind with Draco. The yelping seemed to be coming from the ground near the edge of the lake. They pelted toward it, and Coventina, running flat out, felt the cold without realizing what it must mean -

The yelping stopped abruptly. As they reached the lakeshore, they saw why- Sirius had turned back into a man. He was crouched on all fours, his hands over his head.

"It can't be-"

"...Dementors..."

"Nooo," he moaned. 'Nooo... please..."
And then Coventina saw them.

Dementors, at least a hundred of
them, gliding in a black mass around
the lake toward them. She spun around, the familiar, icy cold penetrating her insides, fog starting to obscure her
vision; more were appearing out of
the darkness on every side; they were
encircling them.

Achilles sents a glare at Thanatos's direction. He may be death but Achilles could deal with death itself. Thanatos better take his pets away from his princess.

"Black, think of something happy!" Coventina yelled, raising her wand,
blinking furiously to try and clear her vision, shaking her head to rid it of the faint screaming that had started inside it.

I have a family. She forced herself to think of her family, and only Black, and began to chant: "Expecto patronum! Expecto patronum!"

"Something is a bit itching...will Black do something shitty?" Aerys asks Coventina.

"Yes." She grits out.

Sirius gave a shudder, rolled over, and lay motionless on the ground, pale as death. He'll be all right. I'm going to go and live with him.

"Stop giving me those stupid looks, I will live." Sirius says firmly to those who were deeply worried for him.

"Expecto patronum! Black do something!" Coventina looked at
Antares who was shaking his dead.

"Malfoy, what do you think of me and you dropping those brats off an orphanage or on the street?" Sirius asks Lucius.

"Yes." Lucius agreeds without hesitation.

"You idiot! You know how to do it! Do it!!" She couldn't do it. The dementors were closing in, barely ten feet from them. They formed a solid wall around Coventina and Antares and were getting closer....

"Give me one reason to not torture you
to death, Black." Emrys's eyes narrows
at Antares with anger.

"I saved him." Antares smirks.

Emrys scoffs and nod. That was a good reason.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Coventina yelled.

A thin wisp of silver escaped his wand and hovered like mist before him. At the same moment, Coventina felt Antares collapse next to him. She couldn't help but curse him. He know perfectly how to do a pratonum yet he didn't do it. Jerk.

"You accepted to let your happiness be suck out and not help her?" Evan looks at Antares who raise an eye brow.

"I think I just find Bellatrix's love child." He adds dumbfound.

"Expecto patronum -" Covenyina felt
her knees hit the cold grass. Fog was clouding her eyes. With a huge effort, she fought to remember. Sirius was innocent. Her two father was alive. She had a family.

James smiles sadly and look at his daughter. Achilles feels like everybody want to be kill by him today.

"Expecto patronum!" She gasped.
By the feeble light of her formless Patronus, she saw a dementor halt,
very close to her. It couldn't walk through the cloud of silver mist Coventina had conjured.

A dead, slimy hand slid out from under the cloak. It made a gesture as though to sweep the Patronus aside.

She clenched her hand. She could perform the unforgiveable curse but
not a simple patronum? How useless..

"You are not useless!" Hissed Antares in parseltongue. His accent sents a shiver down Coventina's spine.

"Think of you as useless again and see what I will do." He threatens lowly.

"Why are you threatening me with a good time?" Asks Coventina amuse. Antares looks away. He was serious and she knows it.

Emryq was just like Antares. Angry znd worried for Coventina. So was her frriends and family members.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Her tone serene, she cried out. Something was driving the dementors back. It was circling around her and Sirius and Antares. They were leaving. The air
was warm again. With every ounce of strength she could muster.

Coventina raised her head a few inches and saw an animal amid the light, flying away across the lake. It was as bright
as a unicorn. Fighting to stay conscious,
Coventina watched it canter to a halt
as it reached the opposite shore.

"You did it!!" James smiles proudly.

"My niece is so cool!" Mary grins.

"Our!" says Marlene offend.

For a moment, She saw, by its brightness somebody welcoming it back raising her hand to pat it the dangerous animal someone who looked strangely familiar.

Coventina didn't understand. She couldn't think anymore. She felt the
last of her strength leave her and then
she fainted.

Before she could even hit the ground, someone had caught her. Eyes grey as thick, prowling clouds in a thunder─ storm, the person smiled. The smiles of his dark-grey eyes sparkle like the sea when the dark cloud covered the blue sky. "Good job, Heiress." He whispered.

"Another love interest?"

"Merlin, am I watching a kdrama series?"

"He is hot!!"

Those all the sarcastic and simp comments. Only Coventina's grey-green eyes were fixes continuously on the screen. Her shadow...its have been good time since she had last see him. She missed him.

Skin as pale as a ghost, the person gently laid her on the ground. His dark grey eyes narrowed to the cobra that started to slithered toward them. Aamon hissed softly, observing the person who caught his mistress. The shadow Prince soon disappeared withing the air as if he was never there.

"A ghost? Shadow Prince..." His head tilted, Aurelius smirks. Amuse, he was. His eyes then shifts to the devil' spawn, Antares who was not paying attention to anything other than Coventina.