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Inheritance

"Ok and finally Cassiopeia, start with the rings." Gripclaw explained. Her first ring was her Potter ring, a band of knots that contained clusters of tiny rubies. Next was her Black ring, it was a simple silver band that curved to wrap around an emerald. After that was the four Hogwarts rings, Gryffindor was a solid silver band with a single ruby embedded into the centre, Slytherin was a snake coiled around an emerald, Hufflepuff was a branch writhe with little leaves extending from it as to grasped onto a ragged chunk of amber, Ravenclaw was a silver band that split, one side pointing up the other pointing down with a square of sapphire wedge between them. Each ring gave a melodic Humm as she placed them on.

"Now time for the necklaces," Gripclaw instructed, Jake helped her clasp on each necklace she picked up, first was the Emrys necklace, it was silver chain with three loops hanging down from it each holding a cluster of diamonds. Her other necklace was the Mortem or Peverell necklace, it was pure black choker necklace, with 50 tear drop rubies handing from loops that dropped down from the main part, in the centre was a large black diamond.

"Finally the crowns, these are the most important." Gripclaw opened the last two wooden boxes, within the first one was an obsidian tiara, the metal was moulded into a crown of leaves and branches each bearing a different fruit of beautifully perfected sapphires, black diamonds and rubies.

Bowing down slightly, Cassiopeia patiently waited as Jake placed the crown upon her head, a shimmer of blue light washed over the room before taking shape as a stunning royal blue phoenix who settled onto Cassiopeia's left shoulder.

"so that's how you got Lux?" Percy questioned as he placed a kiss on Cassiopeia's cheek and shoulder to catch her attention, "yes it is, he was a gift from Morgana Le Fay, the former Lady of my house." she briefly explained turning to place a soft kiss on his nose, electing a giddy smile.

"His name is Lux? That's so cute!" Marlene yelled in awe from her place a few rows away receiving a chuckle from Cassiopeia who turned round slightly to see the girl, "yeah he was named that after he kept stealing all of the luxury things in the house, thankfully that was just a phase though." Cassiopeia clarified glad that she could speak with the people present having been robbed of that opportunity in her own time.

After the phoenix settled and Cassiopeia had removed the Le Fay crown, Gripclaw handed the second crown to Jake who set it atop Cassiopeia's raven waves. The crown was intricate and heavy, made of solid platinum woven and twisted into a tapered crown encrusted with diamonds and other precious jewels. As it was placed on her a flurry of gold bombarded the room, fluttering around before taking for the form of a gorgeous miniature dragon with crimson scales and eyes of molten gold, it flew gracefully through the air before perching on Cassiopeia's left shoulder.

Awe. The entire hall was in awe of what they just witnessed, a childish voice let out as series of elated giggles as it spoke "a dragon mummy look how cool it is." Looking around Fred's eyes landed on the owner of the voice, it was his older brother, well the child version of his older brother Charley. "The dragons pretty cool right, you know he is very friendly." Fred remarked as he gazed at his brother, his eyes softening at seeing his older brother so young and free.

"Now that, that is done we can move onto the second thing I would like to discuss, volts. Not only would we like a way to access our volts without having to constantly return here if that is possible, we would also like to open a new volt under all of our names for us to share." Kira explained studying Gripclaw's expression as she spoke.

Nodding his head in understanding Gripclaw replied after a brief moment, "yes both of those are very possible, your inheritance rings can work as a means of payment similar to a credit card in the muggle world," he paused a second before continuing at the nods he received, "as for the volt a new one can be opened for you now, you simply need to give it a name, some money and a means of access, a key or even a blood lock." Gripclaw explained pulling out a new file from a draw below the table.

"Perfect thank you, we want to name it the Chrysanthemum volt, place 2000 galleons from each of us into it for now and a blood lock would be preferred. Speaking of could we change all of our locks to blood locks?" Alex spoke as we watched Gripclaw write his words into the new file.

"That is all very doable, all we need is one drop of each of your blood to make the locks, don't worry the blood will be properly protected." Gripclaw said as he handed them each a dagger again and a vile to collect their blood. "One last thing we want 10% of all profit we make to go to Gringotts, we hope this is the beginning of a prosperous alliance." Eleana spoke this time as they all stood, preparing to leave, "I believe this will be a grand alliance indeed." Gripclaw replied with a sinister grin as the children left the room, making their way out of the bank.

"You became allies with Gringotts? Wise move." Regulus remarked with an impressed expression as he looked at the ground of children. "He's right that was very wise my dear children." Euphemia enforced with a smile which widened as she watched the interaction between them, her eyes closing in on Percy's hand which had wrapped around Cassiopeia's waist and was drawing soothing circles on her stomach while she rested her head on his shoulder running her gloved hands through Ginny's flaming hair, Euphemia had a suspicion that Cassiopeia and Percy were far more than friends.

It appeared she wasn't the only one to come to this conclusion, Sirius, Bart, Dorcas, Marlene and Pandora had all been studying the interactions between the pair for the duration of the scenes shown and had decided that is the where just friends then Dumbledore was a good person.