Recruiting Wizarding London's Brightest Witch of the Age

Chapter 1: Breached Wards

The sound of running footsteps and a slamming door snapped the ten occupants of the room out of their meeting haze; everyone turned to the young wheezing Auror trainee, no doubt sent by Anthony Goldstein who was currently supervising the training course in the Auror Department while the Head Auror was attending the meeting with the Vice Head Auror and other important figures of the M.O.M. The young man finally came out of his wheezing before standing up straight and shouting frantically.

"Head Auror Potter! Vice Head Auror Pucey! Vice-Auror Leonhart! Dr. Granger! Someone breeched the muggle repellent ward set around Hogsmeade! Some of our Aurors went into stop them and erase their memories and send them away, but the muggles are avoiding containment and fighting back!"

The four people in demand quickly stood up and left the room whilst the others sat back to wait for news of the occurrence. Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini, co-heads of the Ministry's Law Department, the Minister of Magic Kingsley Shaklebolt, Theodore Nott, the Assistant Healer of Dr. Granger, Severus Snape, head of the Department of Mysteries, and Headmistress Minerva McGonagall were left in the room while Head Auror Harry Potter-Black , Vice Head Auror Adrian Pucey, Head Healer Hermione Potter-Black, and Head Potions Mistress and Co-Vice Head Auror Artemis Lupin-Black ran out of the room and towards the emergency fireplace and flooed away while yelling, "Honeydukes!" or "Three Broomsticks!".

"Figures that Black and Potter would call out Honeydukes just to get to Hogsmeade."

The platinum blonde man (Draco) scoffed while sipping his Starbuck's hazelnut frappuccino (A/N: Sorry! Had to add that! I love drinking Starbuck's!) Artemis and Hermione had gotten for him earlier. Severus, McGonagall, Blaise and Theo nodded in agreement while sipping their own drinks of black coffee, earl grey tea, and two more caramel and mocha frappuccinos the last two had also been received from the two young women.

~MEANWHILE~ (Artemis's POV)

Artemis couldn't believe it! Someone breeched the wards?! That was completely unheard of, unless you were the nose-less, bald, and ugly dark lord, but even then, Voldemort almost couldn't breech the wards this easily. She gracefully exited the fireplace to allow Hermione to come through as well.

When she did, Artemis quickly slipped outside after vanishing the soot off of her silky royal blue cloak and waving to Madame Rosemerta on the way out, Hermione on her tail with her maroon red cloak. Outside, she was met with men and a few women being tossed around by two lithe figures, a few were even being blown back by an electric shock, muggle weapons.

"Auror Leonhart! Healer Granger!" Both women turned to see Dean Thomas and Pansy Parkinson running towards them.

"What's the statement on these muggles Auror Thomas? Anything particular?" Hermione asked them as they stopped," how many are injured?"

"Nothing much, it's just…they have a weird shock gun that muggle policemen use, but it can be repetitively used more than once, ten of us are down and seven are mainly injured with a dislocated arm, wrist, leg, or ankle-"

"Auror Parkinson, status and description?" Artemis demanded.

"A man and a woman together, the man carries a coal black bow with weird spinning arrows that can change to certain actions like flashes or ropes, great aimer, short buzz-cut, muddy brown hair, about 175 to 177 cm, sturdy and built. The woman carries the muggle shock thingy, wavy bob cut ginger red hair, 155 to 160 cm, skilled in hand-to-hand combat and with the weapon she's using." The former Slytherinth girls said all in one breath.

As soon as she finished, Artemis took off towards the fighting scene, she could faintly hear Hermione calling out orders to Dean and Pansy about getting the injured to St. Mungo's. Artemis couldn't help but groan at the fact that Nick Fury and his guards are back in her life; she had left her agent life to help her magical home land, to assist the Order of Phoenix and fight a war that she barely survived. She was only eighteen when she joined the light side of the war; it has been a good 8 years since she's seen anything or anybody related to Nick Fury. Natasha and Clint had probably change from 8 years ago, but then again, they're still using their same old weapons…wonder if they admitted their feelings for each other yet? It'd be hilarious if they didn't, really.

Slipping off her cloak, it transfigured back into its black twelve-inch Thestral tail hair core with a combination of Dragon heartstring core, she quickly slipped it into her invisible wrist holster before running towards the shrieking shack where they were currently being mob.

"Artemis!" Harry called not too far away, "what are you doing? Where's Hermione?"

"Taking care of the injured", she answered before walking straight into the mob and moving Auror's away from her target and her former companions line of aim. She caught a fist as it raced towards her face and twisted her body around until the arm was firmly around her attackers' back, a foot came up to kicked her but she just kicked her captive down to his knees before pulling out a long silver dagger and held to her captive's neck. "It's been a long time, Hawkeye, or should I be a good old friend and call you Clint like old times?"

All the commotions around stopped as the other agent became still; Artemis can feel the head of a gun pointing straight at her, she didn't flinch as she looked up at her other old companion while she kept a firm grip on her captive's neck. Natasha's eyes held a look of fury before recognition and shock settled in.

"Natasha."

"Penelope?" Both Clint and Natasha gasped.

"I actually go by my first name now, but I guess it doesn't matter." Artemis said casually as she let go of Clint and turned to face Harry, Adrian, and the other Aurors. "Everybody back down, assist with the injured, repair anything damaged, Harry, can you get Severus and Minerva down here to restore the wards? I'll explain later, Adrian, take these two to my office and have them searched and disarmed."

As she said this; Artemis swiped her hand in their direction,wandlessly and nonverbally stunning the two agents and tying them up with an incarerous, while her orders were being carried out, she walked to where Hermione was fixing the dislocated arm of Cormac McLaggen.

"Anything worse than this?" She asked.

"Other than a long shock from that muggle shock gun, everything's fine. What about you or those muggles? Who are they?"

"I'm fine…as usual…those muggles are…my old 'protecting' friends." Artemis answered sarcastically.

(Hermione's POV)

Realization dawned onto her as her friend said that; besides Harry, the Malfoy's, Blaise, Severus Snape, Kingsley, and Hermione herself, no one knew about the life Artemis had before left the S.H.I.E.L.D. organization 10 years ago at age 16. She had been orphaned at age 6 when her mother and father were taken by a secret organization that wanted information only they knew; Artemis later learned that her parents became victims of the Black Pain Organization, they dealed with illegal drugs and counterfeiting. Burning with revenge, she studied everything her parents knew about the government and criminals, reading all hidden documents she found in her house that her parents hid from her, discovering a whole lot more about her parents' own lives as agents in their laptop files.

At 10 years old, she was discovered inside the government system by S.H.I.E.L.D. who took her in instead of turning her in to the government. They discovered everything she knew and trained her to be an agent with hardcore martial arts, education, weaponry, etc. She was later known as 'Black Panther' because of her signature sleek black hair and tantalizing Caribbean blue eyes. Artemis knew she had magic; how do you think she was able to avenge her parents? Well, she burned down the whole Black Pain organization building with accidental magic at age 7. When she left S.H.I.E.L.D. at age 16; she immediately went to Winchester, England where the Malfoy's found her breeching their wards, they took her in and had her pose as Narcissa's long lost niece.

The Malfoy's educated her in white magic, dark arts, and history, tutoring her constantly for two years as she quickly took in all the magical info she can before she seeked out the Order of Phoenix, Artemis was their top trainer and warrior during the war after Mad-Eye was killed. Despite suffering dark curses and broken legs and dislocated shoulders in the war, she came out alive.

"Mione? Are you there?" Harry's voice snapped her out of her trance. Hermione shook her head before nodding at Harry to speak, "Yes Harry, what is it?"

"Artemis left to interrogate the muggles, apparently they know more than the usual muggles since they actually found Hogsmead. Malfoy and Zabini are in the office with them right now. Snape and the Headmistress have already fixed the wards; we just have to go see the interrogation now. Artemis wants you there for her; I've got to go pick up James and Albus from daycare while Gin goes for her first check-up this afternoon." The bespectacled man explained.

"Ok then Harry, you go on. I'll see you later at the Burrow." Hermione said as she smiled at the thought of her nephew and godson. "Tell Gin I said hello, and I'll see the boys later."

Harry nodded before disapparating with a loud crack, Hermione deeply sighed and glanced at Hogsmead one last time before taking a few steps out of its border and doing the same.

She did not notice a golden armored figure watching her every move before her figured disappeared from sight.