The Lost Black: Book One

Chapter One

YEAR: 1960

Two weeks past the birth of a dawning light, the Spring Equinox had given birth to the Light. What is this Light, but a child of innocence, purity, born into the Black.

“Look,” a woman with fair blonde hair smiled charmingly down at the little girl she held in her arms, a man behind her with raven black hair looked over her shoulder, his hand carefully running over the newborn's soft black tuft of hair. “She’s waking up, so beautiful...” the woman’s dark gray eyes looked down at her as her husband too gazed at his youngest, his blue eyes met his daughter's similar blue eyes.

“Mum, let me hold her~!”

Druella, the mother of four beautiful daughters, looked to her second youngest, Narcissa Black, who had her blonde hair and her father's’ blue eyes, and was standing on the couch beside her and her husband Cygnus, trying her best to get a better look at her newborn baby sister. Narcissa was at the age of five, and trying to keep a poised demeanor without getting too excited.

“Sit down, you’ll not be holding her while standing; is that understood, Cissy, dear?”

“Yes mum!” She sat happily down as the baby girl was laid in her arms.

Druella watched as her other two came closer to see the baby, they had been keeping away, watching from afar, not sure how to take another sister, but they were both getting to it. Andromeda Black, had her father's black hair and blue eyes, looking just like him, the same as Kagome, the newborn. Being in-between Narcissa and the oldest, Bellatrix, Andromeda was seven years old, and extremely quiet in comparison to her other sisters.

Bellatrix Black, the eldest of her daughters, walked behind the couch and laid her head on her crossed arms as she leaned forward to look at the baby, wild black hair in natural ringlets and dark gray, almost black eyes; at nine years old, she was starting to become a raven like beauty in her own prime.

“She’s so little,” Narcissa said as she looked at the baby, “Was I ever this little?”

Cygnus laughed, “Yes, you were actually a pound lighter, so you were smaller,”

“When you were born, Bella was just like you, wanting to hold you and carry you, she was only four then, and I had her sit on the couch just like you, and she held you too, both of you...Andromeda...”

Andromeda blushed, but said nothing, glancing to Bellatrix who seemed lost in her infant sisters eyes, the infant too stared back, charmed by the oldest as their gaze was kept locked.

“I see you can feel it, Bella.” The voice of her mother made young Bellatrix look up from her youngest and newest sister. She didn’t understand what her mother meant really, but she did feel something....something different about her sister.

Druella smiled at her daughter, she had felt the difference. That was good, it means the little one’s influence had already started on the family.

“The Magic......the pureness." Druella looked at all her children who were now looking at her. They didn’t really understand what she was saying.

“I don’t understand....” Bella said, tilting her head to the side. Her face was blank as she blinked in confusion.

Druella laughed, “I didn’t expect any of you to really understand.” She paused looking at her three precious treasures, “I do know you feel something from her....do you not?”

Narcissa was the one who spoke next, blue eyes bright, “I think I know what you mean....I can feel the magic around her....” Narcissa frowned as she tried to think of the right words to describe it to her mother, “It feels like...magic.....like something being lifted off my chest that used to be there before.”  It took a lot for Narcissa to describe this...she may be young but she lived up to the Black name by being smart.

“That is one way to put it.” Druella looked at the newest member of the Black family with a fond smile, “She is something to be protected...” there was a pause as she made sure they were all listening to her.

“She is the light of the purebloods.....she will make us strong.”

Bellatrix frowned, "If we need help from a baby to gain strength, than protecting Kagome isn't what we should be worrying ourselves over, we have bigger problems," she looked back to the baby, her new sister was getting sleepy, she could tell with how her eyes had started to drift open and shut.

"Mum, how will Kagome make us stronger?" Narcissa questioned curiously.

Druella smiled, "By simply providing us and others a bright light, to keep us from straying too far into the dark shadows." Druella smiled, "Bella, dear, take Kagome to her room if you will, I need to have a word with your father, and she's much too tired to deal with any more talking. Cissy, shower and teeth, then time for bed, you as well Andy."

"Yes Mum~"

Cygnus watched his girls leave and turned to his beautiful wife, "What is it love?"

Druella smiled, "Cygnus darling, we'll need to introduce her to the others,"

Cygnus nodded, "We will wait till the halfway mark of her first year, give her five more months love, and on the sixth month since her birth, we will hold a wonderful gala in her name, and we will invite the other families,"

"Alright then," Druella nodded, "You can head to bed first, I'm going to make sure the girls are set for the night."

She walked up the stairs and made her way to Narcissa's room, glad to see that the youngest was already asleep, she walked across the hall to Andromeda's room next and was pleased to see her half lidded eyes growing heavier with each passing second.

Bellatrix was a different case altogether, she had the baby’s crib in her room, and was a light sleeper. In the Black family, she was the lightest sleeper, and after Cissy stopped breathing one night, Bellatrix had found her heaving for air in her room, waking to the sound of her younger sister's heavy breathing, everyone else had been sleeping until Bellatrix screamed loud enough for the whole house to wake and rush to see what was wrong. After that, the baby crib was moved into her room, where she could watch over the baby.

She was already in bed, but she wasn’t sleeping, she lay with a book in her hands. Kagome was sleeping peacefully in her crib, under the watchful eye of her oldest sister, Druella was pleased by this, since she would have no harm coming to her youngest child, not when she knew of what trouble would come of the dimming of her light. No...She would let nothing harm her youngest daughter.