THE FORBIDDEN FOREST WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE DARK FOREST. It was
a forest that bordered the edges of the grounds of Hogwarts, the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The forest was known to be dangerous and full of magicals beings that could be harmful to the students. That's why it was forbidden to go there.

But then again, Antares Black was never to type to follow the rules. To be said, he doesn't even care about it. He let out a yawn, feeling bored. He wondered if he should have brought his cousin here- maybe he could have finally feed him to an animal. Good riddance.

"What the hell? You all have a problem with me or what?" Draco raises a brow.

"Poor, Draco-boo." Delphina sticks out her tongue playfully.

"Eww." Coventina frowns at the nickname.

"What is your son doing in the forbidden forest?!" Remina asks Sirius, totally to claiming the boy as her son.

"My son? It's also yours!" Sirius pouts.

"Because of who?" Sirius sulks.

Antares didn't go to celebrate yule with his family. He doesn't care, he never did. He was even surprise himself when his aunts bound with him, specially Tonks Andromeda. It's just didn't set right. He was tired of playing the loving Heir.

Time for some action.

Regulus leaned back, crossing his arms. The more he heard and the more he knew about his nephew. He was sure of two things.

Antares was totally a sociopath.

Antares was a mystery that only Coventina could discover.

Luckily for him, The air was thick
with a subtle mist that glowed in the moonlight and the trees seemed to stretch up to the clouds. At this moment, the moon was full, the stars were brighter than usual, and they all seemed to be making a form that nobody ever saw or noticed.

The birds sang their late-night melodies and the soft breeze whispered secrets in the night air. It was a magical, mysterious moment, filled with wonder and intrigue that seemed to last forever.

Coventina smiles at the sound. Any type of melody make her heart beat faster and make her feel at ease.

"Hm," Aerys places her hand on her
hip. "All of your secrets are coming
out, Black." She taunts him.

Antares lazily shows her his middle finger.

"Touche-" The Muggleborns snickers.

Antares looked up at the stars, which was being aligned in an unknown form─ yet Antares was quick to notice and known it's meaning.

"The full moon's reflection." He murmured, his eyes wandering to where the moonlight was brightening. He slowly walked toward the rock behind the trees, the fireflies were lightening in many colours instead
on yellow or white.

Antares watched the new form of the stars and smirked.

Thanatos place his hand on his chin. "Whenever he hide something, it's a riddle." He whispers.

"That brat love playing games, specially with people's minds." He adds to himself.

"Hm, a fox." He grinned, and walked toward the destination of the brightest moonlight. He walked there, his eyes noticing the unicorn while he played with the keys he had stolen from Hagrid.

"THIEF!!" Hagrid shouts.

"Someone hears something?" Antares asks.

"No."

"Nothing."

"Must be your imagination."

The moonlight was growing ever brighter as Antares walked, leading
him to a cave in the forest. As he approached, the moonlight was passing through the cave's entrance, lightening the cave. Antares noticed it right away.

"Luminos." Antares cast without his wand, creating small balls of light that grew in the air around him. This gave him a better view of his surroundings in the dark forest, yet he remained on alert as he searched for anything unusual or out of place.

"It is not 'Lumos'?" A first year student asks confuse.

"It is, but there are others too." Dorcas replies.

Antares was a mastermind, having created the cave himself and hidden things inside it. He was quick to notice any signs of danger, and he would not be caught off-guard.

This picked Aerys's attention.

"Yoy created the cave? You must have been a very powerful child to create a cave, no?" Aerys smirks pointing out that it would be impossible for a kid to do that.

"Were you hurt?" Remina asks worriedly. She felt disappointed in herself for allowing that.

"No." Antares's answer was plain and simple.

"This girl knows something, seeing how she is trying to point out strange facts." Regulus thinks to himself.

Antares entered the cave with caution, his eyes taking in the many gems and stones that littered the walls. There were small crystals of all colors, sparkling vividly in the dim light. He walked around slowly, the balls of light, lighting up the dark corners as he explored the cave.

"Beautiful."

"Rare."

"Amazing."

"Colourful-"

"It's just blue and white."

His eyes seemed to be drawn to the crystals, the way they glittered and danced in the light. He paused as he noticed some small creatures scurrying away from him, their shadows flickering against the walls. As the crystals illuminated the cave, Antares smirked. "It haven't change at all."

As he walked further, he saw signs of his past creations, which he had hidden in the cave a long time ago.

"Wait that impossible! You were like thirteen in the scene. There is no way that a child would ever able to create such things!" Fudge shouts accusingly.

"How would you know?" Antares lazily grins, making girls blush.

"I could create a universe yet you would never believe me would you?" Fudge glares at Antares.

"And I don't even give a damn about you and what you think." He adds carelessly, smiling at the screen.

Nobody talks after him or Fudge, the message was clear to them. No matter what they said or do, Antares Regulus Black doesn't care.

"Black-" Many gulps as they heard someone calling out his last name
but luckily the one who called him
out was Coventina.

"Yes, mea dulcis dea?" Instead of the cold and uncaring tone, Antares gave them earlier─it was calm and soft.

"May I visit it someday?" Coventina wait for his answer, she wonders what would his answer be.

"Whenever you want." He replies without hesitation. He smiles at her,
genuinely.

Coventina nods before muttering a 'thank you' and looks back to the
screen.

Others just watch with their jaw-dropped.

The crystals and gems that he saw all around him were familiar and reassuring. It was as if the cave itself was welcoming him back. He still had
as much power in this cave as he did on the day he created it. He had hidden many things here throughout the years, and he knew exactly where they were.

"Where was it again?" Well, he forget some of them, the most powerful one. He sighed, running his hand through his hair watching the little creature that was all neon blue except for one- a little lizard that had fire on it back.

Aurelius facepalms.

"Seriously? You forgot?" Aurelius almost curse his own existence.

"Yes and?" Antares didn't wait fot an answer because he didn't want one.

The creature was both fascinating and eerie, so beautiful and captivating but also dangerous. Fire explode on it's back as soon and it notice Antares.

As uncaring and lazy as Antares was, he picked up the lizard and he was not even affect by it's fire and heat. Fire have always been Antares's element.

"How beautiful." Coventina whispers, maybe she could adopt it?

Fleamont sweat drops.

The feeling of control over the creature, was powerful. He could read its thoughts and emotions. It was as if it could sense Antares' power and authority over it. The creature seemed to understand that Antares was its superior and that it had no choice but to submit to him.

Antares held the creature in his hand, its fire burning bright on its back, and he sensed something within it that he could use. The creature's eyes shimmered with a strange, almost hypnotic glow that drew was almost like Antares's.

"So you are the key, I almost forget." The crystal wall began to crack and crumble underneath Antares' palm, revealing a hidden door that had been hidden behind it. "Fire up, will you? I am missing my sleeping time." He told the lizard sassily.

"Damn, your son is ruthless." Marlene shrugs.

"Hmfp."

"Shut it, Marl."

"You talk to lizard now?" Draco snickers.

"They are more intellegent than
ferrets."

The lizard was quick to obey Antares' command, and fire sparked and erupted from its back. The flames burned brightly and filled the room with a warming, comforting heat. The lizard seemed to know exactly what was needed and was more than willing to obey. Meanwhile, Antares watched closely, as if he was seeing something for the first time.

Antares chuckled as he watched the small creature spit fire. It seemed that despite its size, the creature was still as powerful as ever. "How come you are still small after all these years? Poor you," Antares said, with a hint of amusement in his voice.

"I remember someone saying the same to an animal." Remina side-eyes Sirius.

"Who?" Sirius asks cluelessly.

"A nobody." James replies nervously patting Sirius's back.

Achilles crosses his arms with an annoyed glint in his eyes.

The creature seemed to have a certain charm about it, despite its diminutive size and fiery demeanor. It certainly had a unique presence, and Antares couldn't help but found amusing.

Antares's eyes traveled to the crystal room beyond the door that the
lizard had opened, and he nodded with satisfaction. "Sweet, home," he breathed. This room was filled with beautiful crystals and gems, and Antares knew that he had hidden many treasures here over the years.

He felt a sense of relief and comfort in the familiar space, and it was clear that this was a place where Antares felt at ease.

Antares smiles, a small one.

"I should take a look at that cave." Dumbledore thought sinisterly.

Antares didn't seem at all surprised to find a cobra in the room─it was one of the many dangerous creatures that he had brought to this cave over the years. His eyes met the cobra's hissing visage, but he did not react with fear or aggression. Rather, he seemed curious and amused. "What the fuck are you doing here?" he asked the cobra.

"What the..." Coventina's eyes widens as she watches the cobra in the crystals room.

"Tina is not that─" Aelora sighs, feeling her head hurting. "Too many information."

His eyes widened as soon as he noticed the pain on the cobra. "Damn it, what happen?" He gritted his teeth, "ᴀᴛᴛᴀᴄᴋ," The cobra hissed painly.

"If she found out, you got hurt and broke the connection, she will kill me
or you─ well me mostly." Antares placed the cobra─not a normal one─ Aamon.

"Black!" Coventina almost shouts angrily at him. She was able to contain her disbelief and looks at Coventina.

"I will explain after okay? Only with you though. Private." He tells her firmly.

Coventina presses her lips together and nods. "Fine." She sighs, she remembered how worried she was when Aamon's connection was broke with hers.

Antares tensed, "Who would even hurt a cobra and what were you doing in Hogwards? You forget? Watch over little Goddess." He groaned annoyed, before lifting up his sleeves.

Antares groans. "Go ahead Fate! Spill out all the fucking tea!" He curses in
his mind.

Achilles chuckles out loud, his eyes shining with amusement. "Black, you are pissing off my daughter."

Arcturus placed his hand over his chin. "How interesting, if my prediction is right."

"Bite." He ordered Aamon, who obeyed instantly. The bite of the cobra had no physical effect on Antares, and the sheer audacity of the order doesn't surprised him. The cobra was not merely a familiar creature in his menagerie, but a subject that had been commanded to bite his arm without question.

In a way, he have always been in control of everything and everyone. Easy and amusing. He looked up at the ceiling, he was very smart to even placed a transparent ceiling, he could see the constellation.

"It's funny when you are the one being control." Aerys spats with anger.

"I didn't controlled you, I ordered you and you obeyed." Antares shrugs nonchalantly.

"Okay, little demon, mind explain why you were in Hogwards?" He hissed at the snake. "ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜᴇᴅ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴘʀᴏғᴇssᴏʀs." Aamon hissed, lowly, his body slowly healing from the internal pain that was inflict into him.

Achilles sighs, "I am sorry." He tells his daughter.

"It's fine." Coventina replies.

James smiles.

"Nobody is stupid enough to hurt you, nor is somebody stupid enough to simplely attack a cobra out of nowhere unless those damn animals found me." He let out a sighed.

"ʀᴀᴠᴇɴ!" Aamon hissed.

"Oh not those fuckers." Aerys runs her hand through her hair.

"I blame you." She tells Antares.

"Sell yourself to Death and see if I give
a fuck." Antares replies.

Thanatos chuckles, their interaction always amuse him.

"Raven?" Coventina tilts her head. "That the same word Antares and Aerys talked about last time, The Raven, Who and what are they?" She asks herself.

"Damn it." Antares cursed, his mind wandered somewhere else. "It's neither, I have a bad luck or Fate genuinely hate me- I don't blame her,
I hate her too." He looked back at Aamon.

"You hate everyone." Anastacius tells him.

"False- I don't hate my mother or father and I clearly do not hate my Goddess." He replies.

"Go back to her, and don't leave her side. I have some business here," He paused waiting for Aamon to slither down which the cobra did. "ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ." Aamon hissed slowly.

"Hm." Antares looked at the constellation. "Outside was a fox and inside it's a snake." He scoffed. "Even Contellation hate me now or what?" He groaned.

"Karma." Delphina smirks.

"Bitch please-"

"Fuck off."

"Why is everyone swearing?" Aelora asks.

He lazily slapped the crystal wall, a sound as heard soon enough. Antares looked down. "Fox, Snake, book, rose and a ring!" He smirked. "I take back what I said, the universe adore me." He picked up the ring on the ground. It was a golden ring, with a small red stone on it.

The ring was currently in his finger, Antares was playing with it.

"If they adore you them my family love me." Sirius snickers.

"We do love you." Euphemia tells him. She was confuse by his words.

"I meant─" His eyes waters "Nevermind, you guys do love me." He smiles.

"Ouch." Regulus mumbles softly.

"Love you too." Pandora giggles.

"Only an idiot would use horcruxes when they could use my creation. Tom Marvolo Riddle, I wonder if you are useful alive." Antares placed the ring in his ring finger before casting a spell.

"Black." This was a warning, Antares smiles.

Warning or not, as long as Coventina talks to him, that's what matter the most.

"Mimicrium!" He cast wandlessly, suddenly all crystal disappeared. There was just a cliff, the night sky filled with stars and there were an Aurora, so beautiful and mesmerizing yet.

It was all illusion.

Even if she wants to continue watching the beautiful illusion─Coventina prefers having her answers.

Antares stands up, he walks toward Coventina and Achilles before giving her his hand. Which she takes, both walks outside the Hall leaving many curious person.

"Do we eardrop?" Draco asks the group.

"No, Antares will kill us if we do." Blaise shrivers.

"Coward." Aelora and Daphne pouts.

Meanwhile Aerys presses her lips together, watching her best friend
and enemy leaving the Hall. "Don't you dare ruin eveything, Black."