Chapter 1
Stella angrily stomped outside, she had hoped that Octavia would look like her rather than that piece of trash she called a husband when she had been born. She had forced Stolas into sleeping with her once more over 2 years ago, hoping she would get pregnant again with a child she could actually groom to take after herself. Of course, she had taken as much of his seed in vials to freeze for later so she wouldn’t have to sleep with him again after that disaster. She then went to her own private vacation home as soon as she could afterwards, wanting to hide away from him in case she did end up pregnant. Unfortunately, she hadn’t and had only one more frozen vial of her husband’s seed to continue trying which frustrated her to no end! She had decided to stay away from their shared home as well as anyone else for 2 years and 3 months, she had needed a break from her inept husband and daddy’s girl of a daughter. Octavia would be 7 now, but she honestly didn’t care that she missed a little more than 2 years of her daughter’s life. She wasn’t what she had wanted as a child and it was hard pretending to care about the little chit a lot of the time. A sudden cry of a child stopped her in her tracks and she raced over to where she had heard the cries. Beside one of her garden’s bushes was a male infant within a basket and she took a shocked step back. This child, despite being of human origin, was full of such powerful magic. She quickly walked to the child and lifted the basket containing him and bringing him into her home, thankful that she hadn’t allowed any staff to be within her vacation home due to her wanting no one to know what she was doing since she had taken her little ‘trip’. She noticed the boy holding two letters and she took them from him to read. In the first letter, someone named Dumbledore explained that the child was named Harry, was recently orphaned, and would need protection from his blood aunt. The second letter was from the aunt stating that she simply couldn’t take care of him and whoever found him first could keep him. She turned down to the now calm child that stared at her in wonder and she slowly began to smirk, she could work with this.
She picked up baby Harry and quickly brought him into her secret ritual room and set him down on top of a stone alter within the center of the room. She took out her copy of her family’s hidden grimoire and flipped around until she found the ritual she had been searching for: blood adoption. Her copy was the only one with the knowledge of such a thing and she decided to burn the page as soon as she completed the ritual to cover her tracks. She began preparing all the necessary ingredients to make the blood adoption potion which had to include the DNA of Stolas as well as her own. Once she was finished, she put the potion within a baby bottle and began to feed it to baby Harry. Of course, she would have to give him a new name and make sure he would remember nothing of his human life. She watched in awe as Harry began to change before her eyes. His form changed to one of a peacock demon like herself with gorgeous white feather like her own until he fully transformed into a mini male version of herself. She smiled as she gave him another bottle, this one containing a potion to wipe away all of his memory of his human life besides the essentials such as how to eat and such. She picked up her new son and quickly tested his blood to make sure it would hold up to all tests preformed to confirm parentage, all of it coming back that he was the birth child of Stolas and herself. Now she just needed to falsify pictures of her pregnancy and the 15 months of his infancy she had missed as well as get rid of the ugly lightning bolt scar on his forehead and rename him. She would then raise him in secret for a year, maybe even three years, before she could finally reveal him to anyone. Thankfully, she had plenty baby clothing from when she had been convinced Octavia would be born a boy as well as many leftover diapers. She quietly spent the day with him, coaching him to call her mama and giving him a new name to get used to. The name Harry was such a plebeian name and there was no way she would allow her precious heir to be named such a horrid name, he was hers now and his new name would show it. She decided to name him Seren as it had the same meaning as her own, star.
“Seren… Seren, look at mama.” She called out.
Harry looked up at her when he heard his new name before smiling up at her, “Mama.”
She smiled before picking him up and allowing him to cuddle up against her, he was perfect. She finally had the child she had wanted, someone that would be an extension of herself and there would be nothing that fucking inept piece of shit she called her husband would ruin it for her.