Chapter 3
Bill looked at everyone gathered around, he knew he had to go first but he was nervous. He never expected a circle this large, let alone to have an entire Merrow suite, and while his instincts had told him to buy land for every element, he was hoping that for once his instincts were wrong.
Taking a deep breath, Bill said, “My name is Bill Weasley-Prewitt, I am an Alpha, and I’m fire, but I do have a shadow affinity.”
Bill looked over at one of the beta’s, “Ariki Deveraine, air, beta.”
”Theodore Nott,” he started to say when a short Gheyo standing behind him and Ariki cleared her throat. “Sorry,” he chuckled, “Theodore Gorgens-Nott, you can call me Theo. Earth, and I will be taking the role of Rheyo.”
“We are Fred,”
”And George,”
”Weasaly-Prewitt,” they finished together.
”We are fire Pareya,” Fred said
”And this is our lovely little submissive, Harry Potter,” George said.
“Ethan Hartwood, Earth Pareya, royal scholar,” said the dark skinned man with the large wings, who was already sporting a claim mark on his neck.
Bill looked towards the tall man in the mask who radiated Ace energy, “It looks like you have your full suite here, so why don’t you go first.”
”Hadrian Maruke, Blood Raven, and contracted Ace to the Cunningham’s currently,” he said.
”Wikhn, shadow, King.” Bill thought that Wikhn didn’t look super happy to be here, but he also kept throwing longing glances towards Harry, so the dark fae might just be the prickly type. It looked like many of this circle were leaning in that direction.
The very tall and extremely pale looking elf went next, “I’m Idan Kaelior, air Queen, and this is Minh Shiae, my air princess.”
”Ash Batewell, storm Prince. I’m also fae and we’re fox heritage.”
Next went the Merrow with the red markings on him, “I am Mesmyr, Ace.”
“Keyton, King.”
“Jaxar, Queen.”
“Brishen, Joker.”
“Oliver Wood, Air Joker.” He then pulled a very confused looking bushy haired girl out from behind him, “This is Hermione, she is our little one’s soul sister, and according to one of our consorts will be coming with us when we leave for the Realm.”
Luna jumped up next to Oliver and grabbed Hermione’s hand on one side while Neville took her hand nervously on the other side. Luna was staring at Harry intently, so Neville did their introductions, “Neville Longbottom, 14, Consort. My bearer was a Dryad and my sire was an earth Dragle, and I don’t know who my third was so I don’t know what I’ll be yet. This is Luna Lovegood, she’s also 14 and an air fae. She is already bonded to another Fae, who I assume will be meeting us in Nevarah.”
Luna nodded her head, “I will send a message to him with Hedwig once Percy has everyone’s things. Hermione I believe that you can fix that issue on how we will get all of our items. Including things that might have been used tonight as well that were left. And return your nice looking necklace to Professor Flitwick if you please. The goblins will be much happier with our circle if we return one of their stolen items to them. But that can wait. Harry will be waking up soon and it will be easier on him if we at least know each other's names,”
Several members of the circle were looking at Luna a little strangely but shook it off quickly, figuring that they would learn more about her soon. There were only six people left and two of those were still working on Harry, so Wikhn stepped over to one of them, “This is Quinn Kalzik,” he said, putting his hand on the blonde’s shoulder. “He’s mute from an accident a few years ago. He’s also our Healer.”
“I’m Raspen, Earth, and I suppose that I will be taking the role of Royal in the circle.” At a throat clearing, and a snigger, from the person next to him, he sighed and said, “I am also the Crowned Prince of the Earth Court.”
The person that laughed at Raspen went next, “I’m Perry, Air, advisor.” At that it was Raspen’s turn to clear his throat, and with a sigh Perry said, “Prince Perrryton of the Air Courts.”
A dark skinned male stepped forward, his hair so dark it looked like it had a purple hue to it, “I am Pollux, Shadow Mage.”
Finally the mage that had been casting on Harry with Quinn stood up, “I am Riven Cairothe, Storm Mage.”
Bill looked around at everyone and saw one left who hadn’t introduced himself, he was obviously a Merrow based on the teal hair and blue skin but he was hovering as close as to Harry as he dared while Fred and George were still holding him, while the Merrow suite seemed to be watching him closely, along with several of the other Merrow that had arrived to help after the scream.
Wanting to help settle him, and prove to himself and his Merrow bonded that he could be a good Alpha for them despite being a fire type, Bill said, while moving away from his little submissive himself, “Fred, George, lay Harry down for just a moment and come here.” They quickly followed his directions, even while they looked very reluctant to let Harry go.
The unknown Merrow darted forward, looking a little more relaxed and took Harry into his arms. After taking a few seconds to center himself, the Merrow said, “I’m Alec, and I’ll take the rank of Merrow.”
Riven and Quinn stepped over to Bill, “There are several things that we need to go over before leaving for Nevarah, including several seals on Harry.”
“Should I know only or should the whole circle know?” Bill asked the mage and healer.
“Probably the whole circle would be better,” Quinn wrote out above him. “I also have communication cuffs available to use if you are comfortable with that.” Bill immediately nodded, he would trust his circle, unless they gave him a reason not to.
“If you two can gather everyone together I’ll ask Hermione how she is going to go about getting everyone’s stuff together who lives at the castle,” Bill said. At their agreement, he walked over to his two consorts and their companion.
“Hello Hermione,” he said softly, “do you know what’s going on here?”
”Neville explained some of it,” she said softly, in opposition from how Ron had described her in all his letters and during his visit the previous summer. “He said that Harry came into a creature inheritance early because he was in a life or death situation that his inner dragel didn’t think he could get out of without the inheritance and that he summoned all his soulmates here with that scream that he let out earlier.”
”And did they let you know that you will be joining us when we take Harry away from Hogwarts?” Bill asked.
”I don’t have anything for me here anyway. I go where Harry goes.”
Bill let out a soft smile, this girl was really Harry’s soul sister. He wouldn’t let them leave her behind no matter what. It made him happy that his little troublemaker of a submissive had someone that was that loyal to him above all else. “Do you know a way that we can get everyone’s stuff who was in the castle to Percy so that he can get it to us and deal with some final things on Earth before joining us at our final destination?” Bill asked.
Hermione nodded swiftly and called out, “Dobby!”
A house elf appeared with a pop, causing Idan to pay closer attention to their little group, a small glower on his face. “How can Dobby be’s helping Great Harry Potter’s Hermy?”
“I need you to gather all of Harry’s belongings as well as Fred's, George's and Theodore Nott's, and bring them here please,” Hermione said to the over-excitable house elf. "And Dobby I mean everything of Harry's," Hermione stressed, and Dobby nodded even more excited than he seemed before.
“And can you also get our other brother Percy as well,” Bill added.
“Dobby’s can be doing that for Great Harry Potter sir who helped to free Dobby from bad master,” Dobby said quickly with a bow before popping away.
“Now that that is all settled, let's gather around and we’ll go over with Quinn about the issues that he and Riven found,” Bill called for his circle once again.
Looking over at Harry, Bill saw that Raspen and Perry had taken Alec’s spot in holding Harry, but that Alec hadn’t gone too far, just seemingly far enough that his instincts wouldn’t grate at him as much when Bill approached his Royals and submissive.
Riven spoke up from behind Raspen, “It will be quicker to start with Sirius, I believe Luna said his name was.” At her nod Riven continued, “He has several seals and blocks on him, starting with a binding on his inheritance. It came in, but it looks as if it never had a chance to settle before he was bound. This block has also slowly been eating away at his magic. We won’t know for sure what his element is until the block is removed, but it is fraying. I can’t be sure, but one of the Cunningham healers said that the long term exposure he has had to the dementors has been both helping and hindering him. The drain on his magic is almost nothing compared to what it should be because of the dementors.”
“However, now that he is free of the dementors and has been for a year almost, his magic is trying to compensate and is causing a flux in his magic, and there aren’t many ways to fix that honestly. We won’t know what we can do for sure until we are back in Nevarah.”
“As for Harry,” Riven let out a long sigh, and looked sadly down at Harry. “His scans show constant malnutrition starting at the age of 15 months old. He has had his ribs broken at least twice every year up until he turned 11, he has broken his arm four times before he was 11, he also has torn ligaments in both his knees, several concussions a month before he was 11. No breaks were ever set properly and it is highly unlikely that he ever even saw a healer.”
Everyone in the circle, and some of the others who had remained behind - Theo’s mentor and two others with her, the Cunningham’s and his Uncle’s - looked on the verge of tears. Although Fred and George seemed to be taking it the hardest.
“He is also layered in seals. By mine and Quinn’s count he had 11 on him before breaking three of them himself with his soulscream.”
“What are the seals,” Hadrian asked.
“The ones that he broke with his soulscream were: a seal to block his inheritance, this seems to have been fraying all school year and tonight was the final push. There are also two soul seals that are partially broken as well, one is a seal to block soul bonds, it looks like it was placed to prevent a soul scream, which would explain why we are missing half a suite among others probably. And then there is a soul seal that has a parasite with it creating a connection with the other soul, this also seems to be tied to a prophetic seal.
“He also has 5 family seals on him: a Peverell seal, two Evanson seals, a Noctems Seal, and an Oceanus seal.”
“That’s nine,” Mesmyr said, “What are the last two?”
“The last two are death seals,” Riven said, and all hell broke loose among the Gheyo’s. Raspen and Perry’s wings snapped out and wrapped around them and Harry.
As if sensing his bonded’s outrage, Harry started to stir and let out a pitiful whine, letting those know that he was waking. This caused his Gheyo’s to calm down some, which led to Raspen and Perry lowering their wings.
As Harry was slowly waking up, an almost oppressive feeling took over the room. This feeling caused the Cunningham Alpha and several others with him, as well as Hadrian to snap to attention. The moment Harry was fully awake a being also appeared in the room, for a second it looked like a skeleton shrouded in tattered robes, but the second Harry saw it, he jumped into its arms, and the body shifted to that of an extremely pale woman with bright red eyes and long black hair.
“Welcome Lady Death,” Jascha Cunningham said, causing those who didn’t know who she was to sit up a little straighter.