Throughout Infinity

Ron frowned; It's not going… we couldn't find your bones. Peter's have disappeared too. We can't explain it.

Ron looked upon Ginny who was still smiling happily, though the smile seemed just the mirror one would look back at and know it's not real. Stallion seemed delighted. Ginny, be happy, now you have no qualms about your choice!

Stallion frowned. Ron, Do you know what this means to your sister? She won't except me till everyone excepts her and me as one! Do you know something? The bones that you saw… the bones were not Ginny's, those were mine.

Do you know what assimilation is, Ron nodded. And I did not take your sister's body into mine. I touched her when she was burning alive to heal her. Her body reacted like mine never would have. She took all my healing power used them on her body forcing me to free her with my own hand losing my body to the orb. We have much the same body and when she transforms to her real body. She will have my bone crown. She took my soul and some of my physical appearances. Do you understand what happened Ron?

Ron nodded, A lot of that doesn't make sense, How can she take on another form?

Ron opened his mouth to ask more about his sister but he felt the world coming apart, NO! Don't wake me up now!

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Draco sat on Demise's bed looking down at the sleeping woman. She seemed so much older now. Her face had more wrinkles and her hair was a white-gray. Draco felt his heart crack more. 'You're dying on me aren't you? Why do I love you so much? Is it Ginny? It's can't be. I don't love her. I don't think I do. Where could I go for help?'

Suddenly an idea dawned on Draco. "Merlin, I call thee." Nothing, 'He came to me before, even if he was a fake Dobby.' Draco opened his mouth. "Merlin, The Child of the Dragon calls you."

The room was covered in mist and Draco smiled. "You called me Child?"

Draco nodded. "Yes, Take me to where I may speak to Ginny."

Merlin nodded. "Child's play for a wizard like you and I. Come now off, to Avalon Child."

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Ron yawned getting up from his bed to see who woke him. There stood his mother. He smiled lightly and reluctantly," Hello mother."

She scowled. "Where's Ginny? Dumbledore won't tell me."

Ron winced. "I don't know mother." I don't want to lie to you but it's for your own good. You wouldn't enjoy knowing your beautiful young daughter is in something like a coma to keep the most evil wizard our generations have known in check.

She frowned. "I know you're lying Ron but I'm not going to pester you about it." She pulled him up quickly wiping all the dirt from his cloak. She pulled him across the room out the door and down the hallway. "We're going to see your father. You've been gone long enough that I don't think even you could keep the work together. Percy is rather mad, you should watch your business back."

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Pansy lay in bed all day waiting for Snape. He didn't come during lunch and didn't come for breakfast. She couldn't understand why she kept having suddenly faint spells and when she woke up Snape would have been there and the food she would need for the hour or so would be there. She was angry with herself for falling asleep like that.

"What's wrong with me?" She howled smacking her hands down on the soft bed. Tears formed in her eyes as she gobbled up a fat and overly large piece of fatty meat. She couldn't believe herself, even as a werewolf she hadn't eaten that much. She buried her face into the pillows crying, I can't be no. Is it really that fast acting with wolves? Who is the father though? She froze as the sound of the door opening reached her ears.

"You finally figured it out I see?" A voice said.

It was Snape. "Go away!" She shouted from her buried spot.

He laughed. "Really, this coming from a guest in MY room?"

She sighed. "Then stop talking to me." He laughed yet again. She heard something else behind the laugh; He's hiding something! He doesn't want me to hear something!

She didn't move one bit as he climbed into bed. His hand traced the small of her back softly as he spoke into her ear; "I want it to be mine. Pansy say it's mine."

She couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She sobbed into the pillow thinking. Why? You hate werewolves!

Snape sighed and spoke as if reading her thoughts. "I don't hate werewolves, I hate Lupin, I fear them."

She shivered as his hand caressed her neck, Severus, why? Why do you want me above all others?

He again seemed to read her mind. "Pansy, I can't explain it. You're just the one I know it. I can almost feel everything you think and feel."

She looked at him now smiling as the tears fell freely, Then you should know I love you.

Snape seemed to beam with love; "I love you too." He kissed her gently as he rolled her on to her back. She let him smother her grasp as she realized he had been laughing to hide that he was undressing.

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Draco walked softly on the misty grass. He looked forward and saw a long stretching lake with fog hiding the other side. Merlin tapped him gently on the shoulder, "Child look upon the lake and call her name."

Draco gulped. "Lady."

Merlin sighed. "I know you know legend, now call her by her name."

Draco strained to remember the legends and the moment he remembered, he spoke her name. "Nemu, I Child of the Dragon call thee! Come to my aid take me across the lake to Avalon."

Draco waited for a few moments then from the water appeared a nymph like creature. Draco gasped at the creature and her beauty. She spoke suddenly turned flesh and blood over the water. "Child of the Dragon shall you wait for your vessel?" Draco shook his head. She nodded. "Very well, through the mists of Avalon I send thee!"

Draco watched the water beneath her shift and suddenly rush at him and Merlin. Draco closed his eyes and blocked himself for an attack that did not come. He opened his eyes and found himself in a bubble of water raising off the ground into the lake. "Merlin?" Draco said turning to the smiling old man. Draco laughed weakly.

With a lurch the bubble dropped into the lake. Draco screamed in fear as he suddenly jumped up several inches, then fell to the floor of the bubble. Merlin smiled. "Calm yourself Child. Your ancestors take this trip often without even so much as a squeak." Draco mumbled something as he stood up in now semi-wet robes. Draco looked at the scene of all the amazement before him.

Draco saw creatures that not even the magic books covered. "This lake, does it hold creatures of a special kind?" Draco asked putting his hand against the watery wall.

Merlin nodded pointing to a rare white creature. "That, my friend, is of the breed this lake holds. They are the entire breeds of the Creatures of Creation. That creature is the shell turtle." Draco looked up at the big animal with a glittering shell and realized that its enormous shell was made up of billions of shells. One shell twinkled off and was carried away by the current.

The bubble suddenly shifted up into the sky. Draco looked upon the sight before him with awe.

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Ginny glared at Tom; Of course I remember the first time I turned into a cat. I was with Crookshanks hunting mice. Tom snorted as Stallion watched with gleaming curious eyes.

Ginny gasped as Draco's words echoed in her mind, My, my, so is this your amazing score Colin. She held back an inhuman scream and started to walk off her body swaying slightly as she shrank and shifted to the un-virgin, red, slut, kitty she now hated being.

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Ron walked into the Ministry of Magic with his mother beside him. Suddenly a streak of red was before them. Ron rolled his eyes. "Hello Percy." He quickly walked past his brother down the hallways swamped with moving portraits. He walked up to his door wondering silently where his name plaque was. He swung the door open and found someone he didn't know sitting in his chair talking to his secretary.

"Ron, as I was trying to tell you, You're fired." Percy said closing the door quickly saying sorry to the man at the desk. Ms. Weasley didn't say anything as she watched Ron boil up with anger. Percy was still calm; "I'm sorry Ron. This isn't Hogwarts you can't go off on a pointless romp and expect your job to be here when you get back. You were gone a good week or so!" Ron howled wildly as he took a step forward and put Percy down with a well-placed punch.

Ron couldn't hold it anymore. Ginny was lost to them. Draco had gotten under Ron's skin after he made the orb crack. Harry was all tears and hadn't moved from Hermione sleeping side. The news that Pansy was a werewolf, not knowing what was wrong with Hermione. After all that, all Percy had to say was, pointless romp.

Mrs. Weasley couldn't believe it. She was bent down next to Percy, who was in total shock as he bleed from his nose with no glasses. Ron looked down at his brother now oozing the heroic aura that Harry often made others feel. "Percy," Ron declared tonelessly, "you'd better be ready. Tom Riddle is making a comeback with more power then he has ever had. We're trying to stop him but you don't seem to care.

"Just to remind you how self-centered you are, Ginny almost died yesterday. Harry too, by Hermione's hand," He looked at Percy's sudden baffled face. "what about me? Let's not get into Malfoy and me…" Ron could already see his mother opening her mouth to protest as he turned quickly and found a spot to disapparate at.

Percy looked at his mother, now weak as his mask of an emotionless twit shatter around Ron's episode. "What's been happened to everything? Why did everything have to change?"

His mother on the verge of tears replied. "I don't know Percy. I don't know." The pain, the fear, and the strange sense of lost over took Mrs. Weasley. She knew forever was a long time for people to stay the same. She also knew it would never happen but the horrible sense of foreboding made her worry about Ron, Ginny, Hermione, and Harry, the outsider she would call son. She also knew Draco was apart of each of them now. You don't kill the most powerful Dark Wizard together and not gain some kind of friends. She now began to cry, 'That changed them for the better, but they were no longer my child to shepherd.' She let more tears come down knowing Ron was probably right and when they fought the Dark Wizard again they would be inseparable and Mrs. Weasley would no long be able to relate to them.

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"Hello Professor Dumbledore." Harry said as he heard the door shift open.

There was a soft chuckle and Dumbledore spoke softly. "Well getting better at knowing it's me. Any change?"

Harry looked upon his sleeping wife. "None."

Dumbledore rested his hand on Harry's shoulder. "I'm sorry. I truly am. You should go home, You've been sitting here since we've returned from Malfoy Manor. Please Harry, Do this for Hermione and I. She wouldn't want to see you tired out. What do you say?"

Harry breathed in deeply. "Fine. I'll go, but I want to get an owl from you every day on how Hermione's condition is? Do I make myself clear?" Harry could not see the shock Dumbledore hid, as Harry demanded something. Harry frowned, "Headmaster with all due respect. I am not longer a student under you; we are as equals now. Anything concerning my wife concerns me. I will know at all time what is happening to her when I am not here to protect her."

Dumbledore nodded. "I know what it feels like Harry. I will keep my promise if you leave and get some rest." Harry nodded picking up his cloaked draped over the chair by Hermione's bed. Dumbledore watched as Harry paused at the door. Dumbledore again spoke. "Harry. Hermione is in the safest place a human can be. Nothing with bad intentions can get it! Nothing can harm her."

Harry slowly, dramatically turned around. "Albus," Dumbledore paid full attention to the use of his first name, "what if the threat comes from inside?" With that he was gone.

Dumbledore fell into the chair Harry had just left, Don't worry about it. He meant nothing by it. The ability to link will be lost with me. She can not possible be linked. There will be no need to worry about it. Dumbledore slowly recalled everything Ron had told him about their adventure, Sometimes people just don't tell you what they feel isn't important… Do you know what I mean?

Albus gasped as the long forgotten voice surfaced to his current thoughts and he wept. The memories of her clouded his mind.

Albus, Honey, what are you worried about? Her beautiful voice. He couldn't forget that burning red hair with a hint of white, Her shocking electric blue eyes, and that soft pale skin. Dumbledore smiled, No, I could never forget that. Her beautiful skin… Her soft, creamy, pale white skin. That fiery hair, just like her grandchildren, to think I…

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Draco looked upon the isle with awe. It was so green, yet possessed magic he could feel pounding through the bubble to his skin. Merlin gently touched Draco's shoulders. "Get ready for it Child." Draco nodded seeming the white shore come nearer. As suddenly as the bubble had eaten them up, it disappeared and they fell softly to the shore. Draco, now ready, managed to keep his footing and composure.

Draco shivered, Something isn't right, I shouldn't be worried. I shouldn't be scared of what lies ahead! Who am I? Merlin felt Draco's distress ooze onto his fingers, but Merlin had also watched Draco for quite a long time and knew he was not one to talk about how he felt. "Shall we?" Draco turned smiled weakly to Merlin when another voice perked in. One that Draco could barely resist. His blood line so thin but the more he heard the voice the more he fought it.

"Bitch Siren, Hush now! We do not need you drowning the Child of the Dragon. He is by all means no mere mortal, now shut your trap!" Merlin hissed at the beauty in the water in front of Draco. She stared at him with silver eyes that gleamed even in the mists. Her strange toned hair was lax over her bare chest and her fine legs shifted to a mermaid looked with rather startling puke green skin. Draco felt instantly sick and crashed into the water he didn't realize he was standing in.

Draco felt submerged in the water for hours on end kicking and screaming as water filled his lungs, What's wrong with me. Why am I so unsure of everything? Why can't I feel heartless anymore, granted that’s a good thing. Why can't I figure out how I feel about anything? Merlin help me…

A hand reached out and pulled Draco up out of the water. Draco coughed and spattered for quite sometime before speaking. "Thank you Merlin. I owe you."

A strong hearty voice bellowed, "My boy! I am not Merlin. Come here Child and learn of yourself." Draco let his eyes cleared and before him stood a rather handsome man with brown black hair and gleaming green eyes. Much like Harry, Draco thought.

The man smiled. "Who is this Harry?"

Draco finally on his feet turned to the man and looked him over completely. He was dressed in light armor and had a sword on his waist. Draco noticed the coat of arms on the man's vest. Pendragon. Draco gasped, Arthur Pendragon King of Camelot! Draco felt to his knees, I'm kneeling! What is happening to ME!

His mind screamed as the man laughed. "Boy! You yourself are royalty now stand and be equal with your ancestor!" Draco stood straight angry with himself for bowing down to someone that was not his father.

"Merlin as told me much about you… Why do you see your father in me." Arthur spoke again. Draco glared at him, I take it mortal thoughts are no secrets around here… Well then I think you are an arrogant git! The man smiled, "You are as truthful as Lancelot Du Lake. I trust you know what happened to him. Now shall we get on to meeting my wife, Merlin will you join us?"

Draco looked back at Merlin with a grin; "Yeah Merlin lets all join my pity party! You're invited! I always hated family history."

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"So… Righteous… I really am the Child of the Dragon and you can give me a dream link with Ginny?" Draco said, now laying by a pond with the 'light' of the Weird Sisters. How she was so beautiful Draco could only begin to understand. Other then she was one of the Children of Oberon Draco couldn't fathom how her beauty came to be. She had almost translucent skin and impossibly perfect features. Draco laughed himself thinking, For all the girls I have ever bedded none had breast as perfect as those. Even if she could hear his mortal thoughts, now seeming to be a dirty word, he thought it anyway. He could barely keep himself unexcited by the sight of the goddess.

The white haired beauty nodded. "Yes and yes." Draco closed his eyes for several moments before he opened them again trying to center his sight on a silver iron clad tree behind them. Damn her for being so pretty. I can barely keep my mind on all the hell at home with her in front of me.

Draco sighed. "How can you all be so sure?" How can you be so sure Ginny will live? How can you be so sure everything will be okay? How can you be sure I am me? He finished off silently.

She turned to him white eyes staring. "Sure of your right to the name of Child of Dragon?" She blinked gently bringing Draco to full excitement again. He was also brought to full rage no longer in control of himself.

Righteous walked up next to him and handed him a gold pendent. "Give this to the one you will dream link with. This will give her body life again, after that you must fight. Fight to have her and fight to keep her. Child of the Dragon, You will return to Avalon when you wake in the water. You will not be dead and you must stay one day to follow, then the Lady of the Lake will return you to your home. By then the battle will have begun."

Draco smiled lightly at his ancestor knowing they were all seeing and all wise. He hugged her softly feeling some sort of family connection and no long sexual attraction. "Thank you. Take care of Arthur of me, I think that Siren's looking his way. She almost drowned me, I think she was trying to lure Arthur in." Draco smiled as Righteous swelled with jealousy. She suddenly realized his smile and gently wrapped the pendent around his neck and pushed him into the water.

His scream was drowned out in a dream.

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Dumbledore nodded. "Malfoy Manor Main Hall!" The operator nodded; soon Dumbledore was in a conversation. "Please, Narcissa I must speak to you privately. May I come over to your house tonight? I must tell you something of grave importance about Draco."

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Dumbledore was sitting calmly in the sitting library with Narcissa talking about nothing in random, when Dumbledore said something that shut Narcissa up, "I am your father." She laughed quickly. "My Dumbledore I know you make better jokes then that!" Dumbledore frowned with no gleam in his eyes; "I am not joking." She didn't believe him. "Really now? Is there some amazing tale to that statement with an unbelievable love triangle?" Dumbledore nodded. "The love triangle is quite easy to believe."

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Ginny yawned as she stretched out her paws tired of herself. She felt so impure in this body. She was no longer a maiden when she was in this body. She hated it. Changing back to her human form. She stripped down to her skin and splashed her way into the large lake before her.

She felt so free when she was trapped in her water. To think, A free feeling can only be obtained by trapping myself. I am a strange one indeed. Strange… I so want Stallion to be apart of me, but whom am I asking for permission from… I know it's not Ron. He's my brother and loves me no matter how much I change.

A bright light flashed about two feet in front of Ginny. She swiftly swam for it. The light shifted and formed as Ginny angled herself down to look at it closely, then it grabbed her.

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Well that’s it for the first chapter of Throughout Infinity! I hope you like that and just to give you some things to toil on. What will Ginny do with Colin now that she knows she's shagged him? Where is Draco? Why can't he instantly leave Avalon once the dream is over? Why does everyone still believe him to be the Child of the Dragon? What is up with Dumbledore lying to Narcissa like that… or is he?

Next Chapter: Narcissa gets the scoop Dumbledore's love life. Ginny realizes something. Arthur entrusts Draco with the golden healing scabbard. Draco stops by his home to retrieve the black Book of Dragon and finds out something that tears him to pieces. Tom is giving his last chance to rule the world and he's taking it at all costs, even Ginny.

D-Chan