Oh look shiny!
“Shut your face Snivellus” Vega spat as if by an instinct making Remus question the thought process of people having kids with gods have when naming their kids. It’s like “hey my kid will have an absent parent and an awful lot of trouble wonder what I could do for them? Oh that’s right let’s give them the weirdest name in existence because that is gonna help their lives”
“See your puppet is still standing up for you, when will you start acting like a real man?” Snivellus or what the hell questioned and for a second Remus wishes if he could’ve just gotten a bit of his wolf form hands – well paws- on him last night. See, he wasn’t really one to judge one by the looks, but with this guy? There was not a single centimetre on him that suggested he was a good person. Looking at him, his whole being seemed to spit poison and his eyes almost had a red rat type of glow to them.
“There’s not much to stand up to when the competition’s levels are lower than Tartarus’s intestines” James said without even looking up and Remus was quite- no scratch that – more taken aback than a 6 year old finding out there’s no Santa Clause, to hear that James Potter was able to make an even slightly not nice comment. But then he supposed, there wasn’t any kind of nice thing to be said about this guy, except if you count “you remind me of a mcdonald’s because your hair could fry their potatoes” as a nice comment. Which Remus supposed you did not even though most people liked Mcdonald’s did they not?
“The only person belonging anywhere close to Tartarus in this place is yesterday’s new comer werewolf who that fool Dumbledore let’s to stay here even after a serious attempt on my very life.” “Well maybe your life just isn’t important enough is it now? Also, where are our manners? We haven’t even introduced you to Remus here! Snivellus this is Remus, arrived yesterday so unclaimed and Remus this is Snivellus, son of Akhlys the goddess of death mist and poison!” Sirius said grinning already after Snivellus stopped talking,the thought forming fast in their head just as soon and the smile only widening as the latter’s colour left his face.
“You” he spat then rushed away, terrified for his life. It taken less than a brief moment for their table to explode in laughter. All enjoying the rude intruder’s display of fear perhaps a tad bit too much.
“Remus if you’ve told us sooner it was him you attacked we would’ve already started worshipping you as a new god” Vega said with tears filling her eyes from laughter.
“All hail Remus Lupin, god of terrifying the living shit out of bullies !” Sirius said, raising their glass which was met with 3 others in the air and they all downed whatever they had been drinking next to their supper.
“Your dedications flatter me mortals!” Remus acted into it feeling very at ease with the group,which was not very common for him. Now if he came to think of it, he’s never had very close friends before, all finding him too weird, too sick, too frightening because of his scars for them to even try to get close to him. And that was for 11 years, now only a day and he’s feeling more comfortable with this group than ever before. As their laughter died down though, Remus dared to ask his questions.
“What kind of name Snivellus is? And did you just say Akhlys is their parent? How did that even happen? Isn’t Akhlys in Tartarus?”
“Well technically his name is Severus Snape but that isn’t much better is it?” James explained one of the many questions.
“And yes Akhlys is in Tartarus as of now,but a couple of years back there was well a bit of well more than that of a trouble with the gods but I suppose you’ve not heard of it in the mortal world?”
“Oh no Sirius I did, the mortal world is filled with news about gods and their issues! In fact, they themselves come in and tell it to us! Just the other day I had coffee with Dionysus”
“Very funny” they said throwing them a pointed look to which Remus innocently grinned back.
“You were saying?”
“A couple of years ago there was this one demigod called Grindelwald who decided he’s gonna throw this big revolution against the gods where demigods will cease power and have the gods labour to them in the name of the gods in his opinion doing the same to us. He was a son Moros, god of doom and ever since a kid he had this idea to get to Persephone’s garden and steal as many fruits as he could,because he thought demigods had every right to it and well you won’t guess who used to fuel that dream of his”
“No I won’t so care to tell?” He ushered and Sirius nodded to the head table’s direction where 3 people he already knew, Minerva,Poppy and Dumbledore were sitting along with a few he’s never seen before in his life and a thought formed in his head. “You don’t mean Dumbledore? Camp council Dumbledore?” Sirius just grinned and continued with their story.
“They were quite great friends backthen. Infact some people suspected they had a gay love affair.”
“Very romantic ship if you ask me” Vega added from where they were sitting, silently sipping on their drink that’s now been refilled with well to be frank Remus did not know what. “They even shared a cabin and all!”
“Is Dumbledore…” Remus started but didn’t know how to finish. A demigod? But weren’t only kids from the same godly parent sharing a cabin? But just now Sirius said they were suspected to have an affair. And then again Remus didn’t really think Dumbledore to be a halfblood,yet it should seem logical for him to not be just a simple man to be leading the camp.
“Son of Nemesis. Dumbledore has 2 siblings, Aberforth and Ariana or well had two before the latter died. They were sharing a cabin with Grindelwald because they were both children of gods associated with Nyx in a way and well Grindelwald was the first to be claimed by a child of Nyx not being Nemesis because all his other kids were in Tartarus” James explained.
“So back to the history class, Grindelwald and Dumbledore were inseparable at the time,both very fascinated by this idea to hand out Persephone’s garden to grant power to demigods and cease control over the olympian gods. Then one time they both sneaked to the Underworld where they had the unfortunate to meet my very furious stepmother as they were tryna steal from her garden, which about she is very touchy and so she pushed them right into Tartarus. No one knows what exactly went down there but when they came it was with a huge ass group of monsters and deities from Tartarus, they opened the doors of death.”
“How and why did Dumbledore get this position then? Not to be judgy but I wouldn’t trust a man who unleashed literal Tartarus to kids to watch over kids.”
“Well things got a turn in the end. They were kind of under control for a while you know? Recruiting demigods and forcing them into their army against the gods for months. And then just as they were about to march Olympus Aberforth, Dumbledore’s brother went to confront them. Things got messy and it ended with Ariana dead. That’s when Dumbledore and Grindelwald fell out. The camp divide to two, those supporting Grindelwald’s idea to cease control and those against it, lead by Dumbledore. There was literal war for months. Dumbledore and his brother went back to Tartarus to close the doors so Grindelwald’s power decreased day by day with his army deceasing. And so when the last strike to kill him came, Dumbledore did it. The gods kinda overlooked the fact he was responsible of starting it so they named him a minor god of peace and well timed revenge and made him camp counsellor. But well in the time that Tartarus was opened gods like Akhlys escaped and unleashed idiots like Snape on humanity”
Sirius finished the story and looked on a starstruck Remus,because what in the world?
“How did us mortals not notice any of this?”
“The mist does wonders. Can you imagine what would’ve happened to the world if people were just able to see the actual monstrosity of what was happening?”
James questioned and no,Remus could not. Human brains were conservative and if a mind like that had to witness monsters worse and worse than the one before going around they would’ve probably cracked.
“My parents told me there were tsunamis and hurricanes so bad 12 years ago, humans were close to being wiped out. Would that be how –“
“The mist disguised it” Sirius finished and started staring upwards of Remus’s head.
“What are you looking at?” he questioned but by then Vega and James stared there too and more and more people started looking in their direction so naturally Remus looked too.
Above his head a golden owl floated.