The Speed Of Darkness

Introducing: My Wierd Family

Ella's pov:

Lovella Alice Blue, that's my name. I'm a 14 years old girl, living in Romania. I am a normal kid, with an almost normal family. My mom, Margaret, is a single parent with three kids: my little brother Daniel (3 years old), my twin brother William (14 years old) and me. (Those in the photo are me and my brother.)

That's almost everything about me. One more little thing about my family... We're wizards. Quite the shocking news... We're 'pure-bloods', or so my mom likes to say, as she always tells us to be proud about it. The famous Blue family... *sarcasm on* I'm soooo proud... *sarcasm off*

I currently attend the Contele Dracula's school near the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary. That until today.

"Lo! Will! Come downstairs please!" mom shouted excited.

I was helping Will fix his cellphone with a Reparo spell. We didn't want mom to know he broke it again. As I exited the room I almost fell over the little smurf running around the house, trying to catch Cally, the house elf.

"There you are, little brat." I say to Dan lifting him off the ground and kissing his belly.

"Stop torturing the little boy..." a grumpy Will says going towards the kitchen. "He'll end up hating you."

"No he won't! Everybody loves me. Besides, he likes it." I say kissing Dan again. Dan starts laughing.

"Lo! Come on already!"

"Coming mother!"

I enter the kitchen still holding Dan in my arms. My very enthusiastic mother was cooking some pasta.

"Sit!" she says quickly.

"Is it that bad...?" Will chuckles, then he turns to me. «You don't suppose she found out? About the phone I mean» he asks me. Wizards twins have a special ability of talking telepathic to each other.

We both sat down throwing wondering looks to each other.

"Where do I start?" mom begins. "We're moving to England!"

My heart started beating faster than light. 'That's a great start!'I tell myself. Both me and Will looked confused. "We what?" I ask.

"I think she meant 'We're going to England'" Will said still fixing mom with his big blue eyes. "Didn't you, mother? We're going to visit cousin James, right?"

"No, silly!" she answered obviously. "I just got the order to go into the Ministry of Magic from London as the prim minister. I've been recruited by the minister hims- Daniel! Look out!" mum jumps catching Dan in her arms. He was playing with Claw, who just threw Dan, like, 10 feet in the air.

Claw is my little pet. She is a little tiger with white lines instead of black ones. She is not bigger than a book. My grandpa gave her to me when I was like 8 and he cast a spell on her so she will always be small.

"So... As I was saying:we're moving to England and there's nothing you two can do about it. So no pranks or false letters like the last time. I'm not going to get fired because of you two, again. We're leaving the day after tomorrow."

"But mom..." Will starts being interrupted by mom's stare.

She explained to us how much that job meant to her and how it'll be better for us.

"What about our friends?" I cry out.  "It will be hard..."

"I know, honey. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll both make it." Mom made it clear that that was the end of it.

I was too shocked to stand up to her.

*****

We got up early the next day and we started packing. Will was revolted and he kept arguing with mom almost the entire day.

I finished packing my things so I started helping Will with his.

His room was full of pranks and weird inventions of his own, like the pill that won't let you say no and the pill that makes you a woman magnet... I mean literally, a woman magnet, like a normal metal magnet, but for women.

"Do you remember this boy, Ells?" Will asked handing me a scrap of paper:

8 years old, half-blood boy gets bitten by grown up werewolf: Fenrir Greyback.
If until now we thought that werewolfs only bite muggle-born wizards, now the entire magic world is shocked to hear about this tragic event.
Was it only this case, where the werewolf bit a half-blood, or is this a revolutionary discovery?

"Of course I remember him... Poor boy! They caught the man who did this and it seemed that it was only his ideology of making a werewolf army, or something..."

"But it was too late for the little boy." Mom said creeping from behind.

I jumped scared and turned to her. She helped us get all of Will's stuff downstairs, than she sent us to bed.

*****

We had to use muggle planes, cuz' the wizardry in Romania didn't work that morning. It seems like it was somehow broken.

We had a little problem at the metal... sensor... thingy. Will's wand had a metal handle. We had to wait for some friend of mom's to fix the problem.

"I don't like the way he looks at you." I said. It was obvious that he was flirting.

"I don't know what you mean." Mom said with a 'in love' face.

Our flight left at 7:30 in the morning and we arrived in London at 7:15. "We traveled back in time." Will mumbled.

We went out and headed towards the red car, which was waiting for us.