Waking Up
"Come on Little Lion. It is time to wake up." A voice called me out of the best sleep I have had in years. I groaned and the voice chuckled along with another. "You have a big day today, Little Lion."
"Maybe you have lost your touch Godric." The second voice stated in amusement. Then yesterday all came back to me. The battle, my father, the past, James, the founders, and Godric.
I gasped and sit up, unknowingly placing my body inches from Godric's. "Godric? It wasn't a dream."
He smiled down at me, "No Little Lion. It was very real. It is time for you to wake and eat before we begin."
I noticed how close I was and moved back slightly to see Salazar smirking at us. "You must drink this Little One." He handed a potion. "It will give you our knowledge and help you with the spells placed over you."
"Spells?" I asked as I took it from him.
Godric growled softly, "James thought that there was something off about you so he did a magic check on you while you were sleeping. Your magic core was partially blocked as was your creature heritage."
"What heritage and who did it?" I asked calmly as I began to lose my temper.
Salazar sneered. "Dumbledore. You are a Drake dear."
I gasped. "A Drake but I thought those were rare. If I am correct, they turn into Dragons and can control a certain element." Godric nodded. "I am a Drake but how?"
"Your mother," James stated from the doorway. "She was one as well but she hid it for everyone. Siri and I found out by accident."
"You pissed her off didn't you?" I asked, James smirked. "Idiots, the both of you."
James laughed, "Drink up and join us downstairs after you have showered and dressed. Since her father isn't here, Godric let's go."
Godric chuckled and kissed my cheek. "Good morning Little Lion." He and Salazar walked out as James shook his head and followed them.
I sighed and closed my eyes. I knew if the potion was strong then the taste would suck. I held my nose, tilted my head back, and downed it in one shot. I gagged, it tasted like oil and mold. I shuddered as I felt it course through my body. I made my way to the bathroom, pulled off my clothes, and walked into the shower. I turned it on and sank to the floor as my body changed and my power snapped free. My hair grew and relaxed into beautiful frizzless curls, my bust filled out two sizes bigger making them a C-cup, my hips shaped themselves like a bottle shape, and my stomach, legs, and arms toned themselves as well. My nails grew past the tips of my fingers that I kept biting them too. My eyesight cleared to perfection and my hearing got better as well. As did my ability to smell because I could smell breakfast now. I felt the power running through me and I smiled. Dumbledore was fucked and that is all there was to it.
I stood up and wash myself off, stepping out of the shower, I wrapped myself in a golden towel and walked out to the room where an outfit had been placed on my bed. It was a nice pair of black jeans, a deep golden shirt that would hug my curves, a black lace bra, and matching panties. I laughed as Godric's face flashed into my mind. I shook my head and pulled on the clothes. I notice a pair of black vans with red accents and giggled. Pulling them on over a pair of white socks, I headed out of the room to the library room, which had changed into the main hall. Godric, Salazar, Rowena, and Helga sat talking, where the Professor table would have been. James sat at the end of it, he saw me first and smiled.
He stood and jogged down to me, pulling me into a hug where he lifted me off my feet and twirled me around. "You are beautiful, Paddy." He set me down and lead me to the table where the founders had stopped talking to watch us. I smiled as I followed James, he paused at the chair next to his before pulling it out for me. He bows, "My lady."
I giggled, "Thank you, good sir." I sat down and he sat down beside me. I looked at the food before me and laughed. "Good to know I won\rquote t have to eat anything I can't pronounce."
James laughed, "That was my first thought too." He began to eat again as I began to place food on my plate. "So have you had any idea on your new nickname, Paddy?"
"New nickname?" Helga asked.
James answered her. "Yeah, she told me last night that I can't keep calling her Paddy because she isn't Irish or a dog. But you never know Elsa, that could be your Animagus form too."
I smirked, "It isn't."
James paused and looked at her, his eyes growing wide. "You are already an Animagus, aren't you?"
I smirked, "Maybe."
James jumps up. "What are you? When did you change? How did..."
"Prongs. Breathe." I laughed. He took a deep breath like you see the cartoons do. I stood up, "I'll show you but no laughing." He smirked and held up his hands. I walked off the stage we sat on and closed my eyes and began to relax. "I taught myself after the third year after I heard Remus was a werewolf. I knew I had a better chance of protecting myself as an animal. Man did I get a shock." I laughed, shaking my head. I felt my body changing, I bent down to my knees as my hands and feet turned into paws. My hair grew shorter as my body shrunk and stretched to become the animal I had become to live as over the summers.
When it stopped, I opened my eyes, and James stare at me with his mouth open in shock. I smiled showing my sharp teeth, running my tongue across them. He laughed. "Little Lion! Holy Merlin! You are a Lion! Well, Lioness but still, that is amazing. Siri is going to be so jealous, can't wait to see his face." James jumped down and walked to me slowly. I tilted my head and knelt down as he got closer. He reached out and scratched behind my ear, I purred. He laughed, "Just like Pads."
I shook off his hand and focus on returning to human. My body stretched, my hair grew and I stood up. Shaking off the hair as I opened my eyes. "See. Not a dog." I giggled as James hugged me.
"Defiantly not a dog, come breakfast is waiting." He dragged me back to the table. "So a nickname for a lion, I have to think on this." He became quiet as he began to eat again.
I shook my head at him, "Crazy little man." I whispered. I turned to see the Founders watching me, I blushed. "What?"
Rowena laughed, "It is very rare for Drakes to be found, it is even more for Drakes to be Animagus as well. Now you have two shift forms and both are very powerful dear."
I nodded, "Oh, that makes sense. It was a shock when I first turned. I couldn't believe it."
Godric smiled, "I can Little Lion." Salazar chuckled at him. "Now how do you feel?"
I smiled as I ate. "Good, better than I have for as long as I can remember." I took a drink, smiling at the butterbeer. "So what do we need to do before I return?"
"Tell you how to accept your heritage both Drake and Black. Then make a list of what your plan is." Salazar stated.
I nodded, "Okay, so do we have to wait for him to finish eating? If he is like his son, it will be a while." James looked at me and pouted, I giggled and he smiled. "Or can we start and he joins us when he is done?"
Helga laughed, "We can start." She stood with Rowena, "Come the boys take a while as well." I laughed and got up and followed them out. We down a hallway to a door. Inside was an office that I didn't recognize. "This is going to be the Room of Requirements," Helga stated at my look, I nodded in thanks.
"So we are at Hogwarts?" I asked.
"The beginning of it," Rowena stated. "That is why there is no long hallways as of yet.
I nodded. "Great. It is an amazing castle, you know."
They smiled at me as we sat down. Helga pulled out a parchment and a quill as Rowena pulled out some books. Rowena looked at me, "Just in case." I laughed and nodded. "Now as far as your heritages, both can be done as one." Helga was writing so I guess I would have notes, just in case. "You would stand straight, place your left hand over your heart and repeat these words. 'I, Else Aurora Black, claim my Drake blood as the Lady of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Let the power run through me until the day my heir proceeds me. So mote it be.' Then the Black family ring will appear on your hand and you will control everything of the Black line and everyone."
I smiled softly, "Like if Narcissa wanted a divorce, I could give it to her?"
Rowena smiled, "Yes, Little one." I laughed. "Now after that is done, you must go to the Goblin Bank and ask to speak to the leader of the goblins. Show them respect. Give them this key with your left hand so that they see the ring." She handed me the key, I pocketed it and nodded. "Then make sure that only you and your father are allowed into the vaults. Then ask them to see the court transcript of your father. When they find out there isn't one. They will be angry and demand a trial for Sirius. Once he is free, go for Harry. Don't attack the Dursleys, not yet. You must go to the world cup, dear." I gasped. "You must catch Lucius in the act." I sighed and nodded. "Now I know that Sirius will want to go after Peter but he must wait. Tom needs to think that everything is going according to his plan."
"Tom?" I ask.
"Lord Voldemort." I heard Salazar's voice growl behind me. I turned to see the men walk into the room. Godric and James sat on either side of me as Salazar joined Helga. "His real name is Tom Marvolo Riddle."
I gasped as I looked at my hands. I knew that name, how? I closed my eyes and thought. Shit, he won an award. I growled. "But he is a half-blood. That bastard is a half-blood."
"Yes, he is. His mother Merope Gaunt fell in love with the muggle Tom Riddle. She used a love potion to make him love her. She got pregnant and stopped giving him the potion, thinking that he would love her." Salazar sighed.
"But he didn't, did he? He left them and Tom was a child born under a love potion." I gasped as I placed a hand on my heart. "Oh my, that is what Harry meant when he said he felt sorry for Voldemort. He could never know love. A side effect of the potion. Oh my." I tried to stop the tears but they kept coming. "That poor idiotic fool. Does he believe making people fear him will make him feel better?"
They watched me, shocked at my words. James smiled as he wiped away my tears. "You are one of kind Elsa. Most would focus on Riddle lying to them but you focus on the potion. You have a big heart and it makes you a very special woman."
I looked confused. "But I can't be the first person to realize this? I mean did no one talk to him about the effect the potion had on him when he was at Hogwarts?"
Helga sighed, "No. One of the many mistakes that were made at that time."
Rowena growled, "She didn't know what he would do with it, Helga."
I looked between them. "What? What who would do with what?"
"My diadem, my crown. My daughter, the Grey Lady, gave it to Tom when he was a student and he used it for dark magic to keep alive longer." Rowena whisper.
"Alive longer? Dark magic? How in the world could he d...?" My eyes grew wide. "Oh shit." I stood up and walked away. "Oh shit! Why the fuck would he do that? Why did no one stop him? How did he even know how to...?" I tensed up and growled. "Slughorn! That stupid fool!" I roared as I punched the wall. "What was that fool thinking? Oh, when I get my hands on that fool." I gasped and turned to James. "Harry?" I looked to Rowena, "Please, tell Harry isn't..."
Rowena looked away, I cried and fell to my knees as James came to me. "What is going on? What is Harry?"
"A Horcrux." I whispered. "It is very dark magic. It requires you to murder someone in cold blood, then it takes apart your soul and places it in an object to remain there until you need it. It can keep you alive forever but it is a very dark and cruel life. That is why Harry has the scar on his forehead." I didn't realize that I was crying until James wipes my tears away. "Harry is a Horcrux, which means there are two ways to handle this. We see if the Goblins can help him or he dies."
James froze and looked at me. "Dies?" I nodded, he pulls away and begins to pace. "Salazar tell me Dumbledore is stupid and doesn't know this?"
"I can't tell you that." Salazar stated, "I promised to never lie to you."
James growled. "He knows, he knows that if the Goblins can't help Harry, he must die."
"James, it is worse than that," I whisper, everyone turns to me. "He wants Harry to die."
James stared at me. "No..."
"He has never taken Harry to the Goblins, James. Every year so far Harry spends a lot of time in the Medical Wing at the end of the Year. In first years the rumor was he kept the Sorcerer\rquote s Stone from Riddle. The second was that The heir of Slytherin opened the fucking Chamber of Secrets and sent a giant snake to kill students, thankful it only petrified them but Harry went down to the chamber and killed the snake. Third-year, Harry almost captures Riddle's servant but he escaped because Remus forgot his potion, thankfully no one was bitten. Four year, the year I am going back to. Is the Tri-Wizard Tournament, someone enters Harry, who is too young to enter himself and no one helps him but in the end, he watches a friend die and Riddle comes back. Fifth-year, Dementors attack him and his cousin almost loses his wand and Umbridge tortures him in detention and..." I gasp as the truth hits me. "Sirius dies." I pause as I felt my heartbreak, I gasp in pain but shook it off. "Sixth, Riddle and his band of idiots attack random muggles, break into Hogwarts, kill Dumbledore and take over the school. He doesn't even go the seventh year thankfully but no one knew what he was doing but apparently he, Hermione, and that idiot Ron are hunting Horcruxes. Dumbledore is raising your son to fucking die." I stood up and glared at my hands. "That is why he lives with those abusive pieces of shits, the Dursleys! I'll kill him!"
James stares at me as he shakes in anger. "Son of bitch."
I feel a pair of arms wrap around me, "Relax Little Lion. This is what you are going to fix. You must relax." I turn into Godric's arms and cling to him, trying to calm down. "Shh, it will be okay. That is why we are here, Little Lion. You will save him and make Dumbledore suffer for what he has done." I nodded into his chest as I began to calm down. I relaxed in his arms as I reminded myself that I was here to change all of this. I sighed and stepped back, looking up at him. He smiled, wiped my tears, and kissed my cheek. "Are you calm, Little Lion?"
"Yes. Thank you, Godric." I smile as I return to my seat, Godric leads James to his and returns to his own. "Sorry for that. Now, where were we?"
Rowena smiled, "Sirius can't go after Peter until the third task of the tournament. Tom must think his plan is going the way he wants to with one little problem."
Godric tenses in the seat next to me. James frowns at his hands and it hits me. "I am taking Harry's place in the tournament."
Salazar nodded, "Yes."
I sighed, close my eyes and think back on it. I laugh. James looks at me. "Elsa?"
"I am a Drake." I smile. "The first task is Dragons." James smiles. "The second, the merpeople take something close to me and I have an hour to find it. That could be a problem."
"Why?" Godric asked, shifting in his seat.
"The Twins." I sighed. "They are my best friends, there are two of them but they count as one. I don't know if I could have made it through without them. They are my only friends."
James nodded, "So you don't know if they will take both or just one. If they take one and something happens..."
"It will be very, very, very bad." I finish. I glared. "I will not let it happen. Now that third task, the maze. That is where it all went to hell in a handbasket. Krum was controlled and made to attack Fleur and Cedric. Harry protected Cedric and they both took the cup, which turned out to be a port key. Peter killed 'the spare' as Tom told him to. Peter tossed Tom into a cauldron with bones stolen from his father's grave, Peter's hand freely given and Harry's blood forcefully taken." I closed my eyes. "Harry then said that Death eaters showed up at the graveyard, not many but enough. Harry got him and Cedric's body back to the port key and everything went haywire." I rubbed my forehead. I knew it had to be done. "Okay, well at least I know what to expect. I will be fine."
James looks nervous, "Are you sure?"
I smirked at him, "Yes Uncle Prongs, I am sure." James smiled really big and hugged me. I sighed. "Okay, so what happens after that is pretty much up to me?"
They nodded, "But remember the years after before you do anything. Maybe you will not have to deal with Umbridge." Helga stated but then smirked. "But if you do... Blood Quills are illegal and you are a Drake and a Black. She is beneath you."
I laughed, "Wow is Hufflepuff vindictive? Nice."
She smiles. "We all have our secrets, dear."
I smirk, "Nice to know. Now anything else before I leave?"
Salazar sigh, "One thing." I lifted an eyebrow in intrigue. "Molly, Ronald, and Ginny Weasley are using Harry. They are feeding Harry and Hermione love and loyalty potions, they have been since the second year because Dumbledore promised them that Harry would marry Ginny and Ron will have Hermione do all of his work. Molly is money hungry and cursed Percy to leave when he found out. The other Weasley's do not know."
James swore and I laughed before jumping up and running to Salazar to kiss his face over and over. "Thank you, thank you, Thank you. You sweet, amazing, powerful wizard. Thank you!"
He laughed and hugged me. "I think that you are making Godric jealous, little one." Godric growled softly as James laughed, "Now why the thanks?"
"Because I hate Ronald and Ginny and Molly is a bitch. I can't wait to fuck up their whole world!" I smiled sweetly. "So thank you!" I kissed his cheek again before I walked back to my seat, Godric growled and pulled me into his lap. I giggled and looked at him, he was glaring at Salazar, I rolled my eyes and looked at James, who smiled and nodded. I smirked. "Godric love?" He looked shocked and looked at me, I bent down and kissed him on the mouth. He groaned and pulled me closer, deepened the kiss.
James laughed, "Hey, Uncle here."
Godric pulled back and sighed. "Little Lion, you are very mean." He looked at me. "You are leaving. There is no one like you, Little Lion."
I nodded, "Just as there is no one like you Godric. I could say that I am sorry but I would be lying." I shrugged. "I am glad I met you, all of you but I have to leave. I have to save my father and Harry."
"I know Little Lion. Be careful." Godric kissed me once more before letting me go.
I hugged Rowena, "Thank you for welcoming me into your house." She smiled at me, I hugged Helga and shook Salazar's hand then turned to James, who looked sad. "James this isn't forever. I will save you. I just have to find the painting that you are in. I will see you again."
He hugged me, "I know, I hate that painting but I know you will find us."
"What do you see around you?" I asked.
"Rocks, darkness and there is water around us," James answered. "Cold, very cold."
I nodded, "I will find you, it will take some time but I will find you. Tell Lily that."
"I will Elsa." He smiled, "It will give me time to think of a nickname."
I laughed and nodded. "Okay, let's do this." I turned and there was a flash of light and everything went dark.