Summary: During the hunt for horcruxes, a hurried apparation ends with our heroes at a strange school of Vampires. Shall we see what happens when two magically powerful groups are completely thrown off by the existence of the other? What will they do?
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, Vampire Academy or anything else recognizable.
Happy Birthday to theNightElf, a good friend of mine who has chosen this fic as her birthday present from me. I hope that she, along with everyone else, enjoys the story. So let's get on with it!
Chapter One
It had been nearly two weeks since the incident at the ministry, but they had the locket and that was all that mattered. Harry Ron and Hermione were all sitting outside the tent, having found a reasonably warm forest to hide in for a couple days. Hermione was reading through the books she had once again, hoping to find something new, Ron was attempting to open the locket again, and Harry leafed through all his memories of training with Dumbledore in case he had missed something that could tell them where another horcrux was.
Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.
The forest was quiet enough, the scattered sounds of small animals moving about. However, the serenity was soon lost after Harry flinched, causing his comrades to look up at him. Hermione flinched as well, drawing her wand out. Ron and Harry followed, though Ron wasn't quite sure what was going on. Hermione had her eyes closed as she seemed to search for something. Her eyes flashed opened, "Ron, pack everything up."
"Why? What's going on?" Ron asked, though he moved to follow her order.
"Someone's taking down the wards me and 'Mione put up." Harry answered as he felt another of his wards fall, "We don't have much time."
Ron rushed to pack the tent, hurrying himself more when he started hearing branches rustling. The silencing charms had fallen. He was soon shoving the tent into Hermione's bag, and drawing his wand as he joined his friends. They all grabbed hands and as they started to be able to make out the shapes of several men, Hermione and Ron both apparated at the same time. However, like in most panic situations, there was no real plan, so they did not apparate to the same spot. Rather than splinch the three of them, their magic decided on a destination of it's own.
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I officially hate this stupid field experience thing. Cristian and Lissa have now made out three times with me and Eddie in the room. Apparently, six weeks is a long time for everyone. We're only a week into the exercise. At least I had something to look forward to tonight. It had been decided that I needed to learn to be more alert, so was going to be checking the wards tonight. I'll only get a couple hours of sleep, but it will be worth it to spend the night alone with Demitri, even though he had been acting like he was disappointed in me.
I checked the clock briefly, four hours to go. Lissa and Christian were discussing their language homework, talking quickly in Russian, occasionally correcting each other. We were in Lissa's room, the two of them were lying next to each other on her bed as Eddie stood facing the door, and I faced the window. After about an hour longer with the only movement being stretching, we walked our Moroi to dinner, sitting patiently as they fed off the donors. The four of us sat as me and Eddie ate, and then waited for me to get picked up by Demitri.
"Rose," I heard a voice behind me say, and I turned to find Demetri looking down at where I was sitting, "Are you ready to go?"
I nodded and stood up, saying good-bye to my friends as I walked away with Demitri. We were out on the grounds before either of us spoke, and I was the one to break the silence, "So… what all are we doing tonight?"
"Just a routine sweep of the wards," He said as we made our way out to the forest just inside of the wards, "We go around the wards three times, checking the woods. There usually isn't anything to do, but occasionally part of the wards weaken, and we will be able to feel that and report it."
"So we're just walking around together in the forest while the sun's up?" I asked, moving a little closer to him.
If he had been anyone else, he would have rolled his eyes. Being that he had set himself above that, he settled for smirking as we did our first sweep of the forest. During the second sweep, we made idle chit chat, which led to him questioning me again about why I froze when Stan attacked during the field training. I avoided the question, how do you tell someone you're seeing ghosts?
It was the third and final sweep that the uneventful evening turned. A couple hundred feet away there was a lot of noise, like several people running in the forest, which was odd. Other than a few of the guardians, we were the only ones awake, and people rarely ventured into the woods anyway. We silently followed the noise until we could see the source, two boys and a girl in their mid-teens. The girl and one of the boys looked really tired.
Demitri motioned for me to stay behind as he took a few steps forward, "Who are you three?"
All three jumped like animals, the black haired boy pushed the other two behind him and drew something from his pocket like a weapon. Out of habit, I jumped on the boy, pulling the armed hand behind his back and kept him held face down on the ground and was holding the weapon he had drawn. I frowned, he hadn't even reacted, it was like he had never seen me coming. It was as if he was human, and as if on cue, I felt his heartbeat in the wrist I was holding. I leaned down to smell, just to make sure, and he certainly smelled like a human.
"They're humans." I said looking up to Demitri, ignoring the worried looks from the other humans.
"Of course we're human, what else would we be?" The other boy asked, he was taller than the other boy and had red hair.
"Ron, obviously they aren't human, did you see how fast she moved?" The girl said harshly.
"You never answered my question," Demitri said, showing slight impatience, "Who are you three?"
"How about you let me up first," The black haired boy suggested, and I reluctantly let him stand. He immediately took a few steps closer to his friends, "I'm Harry, this is Ron and Hermione."
Demitri walked closer to the rest of us and held out a hand, "Guardian Belikov, and this is Rose, a guardian-in-training." The two shook hands, though the humans didn't look entirely comfortable.
"So, what are you two?" The girl, Hermione, asked.
"Vampires," I answered watching their jaws drop in surprise, "Well, Dhampirs to be more precise."
Ron seemed to go into some kind of shock, and Demitri gave me a look that seemed to say he didn't approve of my bluntness.
"If you're vampires, how can you be out in the daylight?" Harry asked.
"Don't believe everything they tell you, Vampires are a lot different than people think." Demitri said, "How did you get here? The wards haven't been disrupted."
"We apparated," Hermione said with a sour look on her face.
"What the hell is apparating?" I said before even thinking.
"We're wizards," Ron said, as if it explained everything, "You know, waving wands and doing magic."
I looked at the weapon I had taken from the boy, it was a long thin piece of wood, I guess it was his wand. That didn't really help much, "So why did you come here?"
"We didn't really mean to," Harry said, "We're kind of on the run from the wizarding world, and tried to go to two different places at once, and ended up here."
"You're criminals?" Demitri asked.
"No, an evil overlord has more or less taken over, and we're the ones that are taking him down. Where are we anyway?" Harry asked.
"Montana," I replied, and saw their shoulders droop, "I know, sucks, doesn't it."
"That means we'll have to be here longer than I thought," Hermione said, more to herself than to anyone in particular, "We need to get to Britain, we apparated from the Belvoir Forest in Ireland and the two of us that can apparate practically depleted our magical reserves. It will take a while for us to be able to apparate anywhere, much less back to Europe."
After a moment of deliberation, Demitri spoke, "I will take the three of you to see our headmistress, seeing as this is a Vampire school. Rose, you will go back to your dorms."
"What? I don't get to see this through?" I asked, not wanting to miss out on what was going on.
"You have field training in five hours, I suggest you get some sleep while you can. You can't afford another failure." Demitri said sharply. He had a point though, so I grudgingly headed back to my dorms wondering if I would ever see the mysterious strangers again.
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