The Unknown

Chapter 12: Returning

The next morning, Dahlia woke up alone. She looked around the room to see that her sister was gone and that she was still in her dress from the ball. At the end of her bed, however, covering the floor and couch and chairs were her presents that people brought to the ball. Seeing the sun through the windows and the time, 10am, she wondered why Akio hadn't woken her for her training but then she remembered that today was the day she was going back to the Dursleys. Closing her eyes, she sighed as she wanted to speak to her sister but didn't know where to find her.

Unconsciously, she began to play with the locket she was given and immediately smiled at the thought. She held it tightly and opened her mind using her magic and thought, "Hela? Hela, can you hear me? Please, tell me I'm doing this right and I don't look like an idiot".

She then heard laughter in her mind that said, "I'm here, sister. I'm glad the spell worked".

"This is weird," Dahlia said pulling a face.

"Of course, it is, I'm in your mind," Dahlia's bedroom door then opened and her sister came in smiling, dressed in a different dress.

Dahlia dropped the locket and said out load, "that was weird. It was like, I could hear you but I couldn't hear you".

Hela sat on the bed and said, amused, "you'll get used to it. I see you haven't opened your presents".

Dahlia shrugged and answered "I only just woke up. Besides, I can't take them with me".

"...you can take some without people noticing on Midgard. Why don't we get you dressed then you can open some of the presents and then have breakfast?"

"When do I have to leave?" Dahlia asked bluntly.

Hela hesitated in answering, "the clone has begun to forget things. It has begun to do mistakes so it would be best if we did the switch in the next couple of hours".

Dahlia nodded in understanding. She then did as her sister suggested; got out of bed but this time put her clothes on, the ones she came in, while Hela insisted on doing her hair into a fishtail braid. Opening presents, she wasn't surprised when she saw many of them were jewellery, dresses and magic books as many people there didn't know her personally and these were the kind of presents you would get a Princess. From her grandparents, however, they had given her a charm bracelet with a heart charm, a Thestral, a cauldron, a broom, a crown, a snake, a wolf, a crescent moon and an angel. She instantly put it on before she noticed their second present, a music box, one that she had never seen before. It had a half sphere bottom that then held up an egg shape, very similar to the dragon egg she had to get in the Tournament. It was purple with silver lining around it and silver stars and when she opened it, a soft harmony began to play as a young girl began to turn and words appeared above her, "no matter the realm, we'll always love you, love grandma and grandpa".

She closed the music box and placed it to one side, knowing she wanted to take that with her. Hela then handed her a wooden box which had Norse writing scripted on the front for family. Dahlia opened it and found pictures of when she was a child, and especially some of her mother and father together. Hela said, "the picture that is in your locket is also in there. I found the box full of pictures and thought you might like copies of all of them. The box will only open to your touch as it will sense your magic so no one goes snooping. Besides, I saw you already have a picture of Lily when she was a child". Dahlia looked around panicked, trying to see where she had put the picture and Hela said, "relax, you dropped it last night and I put it on your bedside cabinet". Dahlia nodded in thanks.

Dahlia began to look through the pictures. There were some of her mother before she was born with Loki and Hela or with her grandparents, then some where she was pregnant and when she was first born. Dahlia noticed that nearly all of them were taken in Niflheim, but there were less than two handfuls that were taken somewhere she didn't recognise and assumed it was the Potter home in Godric's Hollow.