Chapter Eight

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Third POV

James had walked by, he was headed to the kitchens after potions, he liked surprising Cassia randomly with sweets. He loved seeing her smile, along with her eyes lighting up once she's sees him. He heard running and knew it was the paranoid Severus Snape running yet again. He kept walking until something made him stop, he could see Severus panicking, completely inside a shadow. Feeling he would regret this, but also knew it was the right thing to do, he reached in and pulled him out. Of course Severus freaked out, and used his new spell, "Sectumsempra!" (A/N: Yes I like using this situation, don't judge me!) and James flew back against the wall as blood started to soak into his shirt and fall from his neck as a cut appeared to spread right across his neck. "JAMES!" came the heartbreaking scream of Cassia Le Fay.

A few minutes before, Pandora had frozen catching a lot of attention, especially as she became more frightened. "We have to find James, he was leaving potions," she shakily said, "Can somebody the teachers to go down there please," she added to the crowd and a few people ran off to find teachers. There had been suspicions that Pandora was a seer, others just knew she was as odd as Xeno, making them a perfect couple, but to see her so shaken up made others curious as to what she saw, somebody had ran for Madam Pomfrey just in case.

Frank, Alice, Marlene, and Sirius were walking together as they met up with Regulus. But then the demigods noticed the brothers had frozen and then whispered, "James," and ran off. They didn't even think of shifting, Regulus had managed to shift the previous week but couldn't get running down yet and the whole group saw James get blasted against the walls, full of cuts, blood seeping down from his neck and he had trouble breathing as he was choking. "JAMES!" Cassia screamed, and Sirius and Regulus felt something snap and looked and saw hints of wings that have sprouted from Cassia's back.

They rushed forward as teachers were heard behind them and Cassia just trying to put pressure on the cut on James' neck as Severus moved closer, but stopped seeing Cassia's now fiery red eyes, "Don't you touch him!" she snarled and heard the Black brothers growling. "Oh Merlin!" Minerva was heard as she saw the scene, "What happened?" Slughorn said as Madam Pomfrey came in and made a startled sound, she tried to move towards James but heard a smaller growl from the girl (which the group knew was Cassia's fox animagus) currently holding his neck, "Madam Pomfrey, Cassia's creature came out early, James is her mate," Alice said.

Students were arriving to see what happened and were shocked seeing the bloody Potter and defensive Le Fay. "Student's go to your dorm rooms," Minerva commanded, "seems that goat didn't want to come out of his office," she added.

"Cassia, Poppy is going to help heal James, but you need to let her come near so they can get him stable and take him out to the Hospital Wing," Pandora said calmly. She and Xeno were most experienced with creatures, and knew if Cassia didn't listen then they would get Marlene involved. "I'll let you keep hold of his non-bloody hand," Poppy offered, seeing the girl's internal debate.

"Send messages out to the Potters and Lord Le Fay," Slughorn told Minerva, and Sirius turned around, "Our father will want to know too," he told her and Regulus nodded, they were both in shock. Minerva nodded back and quickly headed to her office as she had a working floo. "You come with and sure hope you know the counterspell," Slughorn told Severus.

As Slughorn dragged Severus by the collar to the Hospital Wing, Minerva was hurriedly writing out three letters, one to Lord and Lady Potter saying there son has been seriously injured, one to Lord Le Fay adding on that his daughter had an early creature inheritance as a result, and one to Lord Black per his sons requests. In all letters, she mentioned for them to use her floo.

Lord and Lady Potter were first to arrive, followed by a dark haired, pale male man wearing leather, this was Hades. Minerva greeted them and new things were very serious if gods were showing up, she was a daughter of Athena, she knew. Filius knew certain students were demigods because of his goblin nature, while Horace and Pomona were trusted people to watch over them. Lady Potter was in distress, Dorea had been the one to receive the letter and scream for her husband who just the God of the Dead appear in front of him.

"Well if it isn't the hot bag of bones," Orion said as Thanatos appeared in front of him. The smirk he had disappeared when he read his letter and motioned for the God the Death to go to his floo so he could get to his distressed sons.

Lord Le Fay knew something was wrong. Braeden couldn't help but feel something was wrong with his daughter. Hecate appeared in front of him with wide eyes just as he finished the letter that had just arrived. His daughter had an early inheritance because of something his half-brother did?! Safe to say Braeden was pissed and Hecate honestly didn't know whether to be turned on or worried for her own daughter, she went with both, but her daughter is coming first at the moment.

The seven of them were in Minerva's office before she guided them out quickly to the Hospital Wing where James Potter was holding onto life while Poppy, who was joined by hers and Alice's father, Apollo, were trying to prevent him from dying. They rushed into, hearing the sobbing of Cassia, who was desperately hanging on to Sirius, who was by her side, while her other hand was on James. Braeden could see his daughter's pointed ears and hints of wings that have popped out, "What the hell happened?!" Dorea finally snapped seeing the sight of her pale and bloody son.

Severus, who was sitting away from the group, for his safety, and watched the sobbing Cassia, it was practically heartbreaking that she couldn't calm down, at least until a dark haired man with curly hair walked in followed by a dark haired woman with purple eyes, "Da?" Cassia finally spoke and the man went and took Sirius' spot and the woman took her other side, "Ma?" she asked and the woman nodded. The Potters, he guessed that was them by the crying woman and the man with glasses, were followed by a man with curly hair that kind of looked like Lord Le Fay, the man took one look at Severus and the teenager couldn't help but compare eye colors. He actually looked similar to the man, or was it just his eyes. A man who looked like an older Sirius and Regulus walked in followed by a very pale and skinny man in all black.

"Severus over there, blasted some kind of curse at Mr. Potter that has made all these cuts appear," Minerva said.

"He got lost in a shadow, and James found him and pulled him out, and then he fired that curse out of paranoia that he going to do something," Pandora said from Xeno's side. Cassia then screeched, "WHAT IS HE DOING HERE?!" she roared, her voice changing, her fae side had come out early and as Braeden knew when his came out, that a fae mixed with Hades' and Hecate's blood is not a good thing. "Well, Cassia it seems he won't tell how to counter it," Apollo said to an already burning Cassia. "WHY?" she roared at Severus, who was actually looking terrified. I mean a normally sweet girl that so distressed her Inheritance came early and was now looking like some demonic creature. "Dad?" her father called and the other curly haired man that arrived with the Potters swapped spots with him and get a grip on the flaming fae that was trying to attack Severus.

Cassia suddenly screamed in pain into her grandfather's neck, and Sirius and Regulus looked as if they would cry as they watched the same spot a few were looking, and Poppy informed the others, "He's dead."

(A/N: I know, a cliffhanger, how dare I)

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