Darkness comes to Hogwarts.

Chapter 9

Nico POV

Kyria smiled and stood up gracefully, and shook the girl's hand politely and spoke in her soft sweet voice, that still sent shivers down my back each time I heard it, "hello, my name is Kyria, and this is my fiancé Nico."

I stood up and offered Hermione, I believe the girl's name was my hand as I placed my other hand against Kyria's back and ran it up and down gently.

"You two are engaged?" Hermione frowned, "aren't you two a bit too young for that, it doesn't seem like the most intelligent choice."

I could feel myself tense, and the entire store darken, how dare this mortal challenge me, her god in his life choices I thought, until Kyria squeezed my hand sharply and shook her head gently until I relaxed.

"That is not your business, thank you for the concern but we are more than capable of taking care of ourselves," I answered her, but she was more worried about the intense darkness which I had caused that came over the bookstore moments ago.

Suddenly we heard a man yell out "oh Ginny Ginny, there you are, and Hermione good, did you two notice the rolling darkness, we must be very very careful it might be an attack!" the man said looking about rather nervously, until his gazed locked on us, "well I say, I've never seen you two before," he spoke warily as his fingers fidgeted towards the pocket he probably kept his wand.

"DAD!" Ginny said loudly, "these are my friends Nico and Kyria, they're part of the ones that shut Malfoy up!" she said looking at the man expectantly, when a smile burst upon his face.

"Ahhh, jolly good, jolly good, sorry about the tension, never can be too careful you know, dark days ahead, even if the ministry can't see it, my name's Arthur, Arthur Weasley."

"It's very nice to meet you, my name is Nico of the House of Epirus, and this is my fiancée Kyria, of the same," I replied inclining my head just a bit as Kyria smiled.

"I've never heard of that house before, and I know Americans don't have an magical families as old as we do in Britain, where is the House of Epirus from?" he asked, you could tell that this was a very curious man, which could either lead to wonderful discoveries or a tragic, tragic end.

"The House of Epirus is from Epirus of course, in Greece, though we have a presence everywhere," I answered mysteriously."

"Ahh of course, to be a wizard of an ancient Grecian line, you know the first magicians came from Greece, and spread their teachings to others, and the Romans adopted into their own and brought it to Britain with Julius Caesar you know," the red headed man said excitedly, "oh please, please you must meet my wife and the rest of my children, she'd be so very excited."

"We would love to Mr. Weasley,"Kyria answered almost immediately, "however we will have to collect our companions first, would you like to come with us, or would you prefer it if we met by the register?

"Oh well let me collect the rest of the children and my wife, and we'll wait at the front," he answered and smiled ushering the girls in front of him as he began to whisper shout "Molly, Molly, children, it's time to get ready to go!"

Moments later I had used the shadows to discreetly shadow travel with Kyria to where the other three had gathered in a corner to read.

Kyria POV

"Hello, it's time for us to depart, we've actually met someone, we're going to join them for a bit, try to learn some things about life in the wizarding world," I said as I placed my free hand on Edward's shoulder.

"We're ready my lady, my lord...would you care to review the books we have decided to purchase?" Edward said motioning to a stack of books, "Richard and I only took a perfunctory glance at each, but they all seemed interesting."