Inside the car the silence at last was broken by the black haired girl, "sooooo,..."
"We are going to London."
At this girl got irritated, "Care to explain why you reached the rendezvous point 45 min late and now have excess baggage?"
Rishabh just looked at her with a raise eyebrow and faint amusement. A ghost of smile, barely there and faint enough for only her to notice made its way on his emotionless face.
This seemed enough to calm the girl, "I know that you have been on missions 100 times more dangerous than this one but you never know. I can't even think about living without you and what is with little one? Why he is here? I take it that we are going the London because of him?"
At this Rishabh actually smiled, "Shivangi, you know that it was a child's play for me so why were you getting yourself so worked up? And right in one love. We are going to London instead of Cambridge because of the little one".
"So are you going to tell me the rest or do I have to keep grilling you?"
"Long story and not in car, when we reach the hotel."
Harry Potter and The Assassin Supreme
Rest of the way they chatted about light topic and bought some baby care products. They reached London and checked in the hotel. As they entered in the room, Rishabh laid baby Harry on the bed and opened the door. He saw on either side, then spilled some small glass sphere on the carpet at sides of door. Then he entered, closed the door, then placed a motion sensitive bomb on the door while Shivangi set the rest of the room. As soon as he was finished, Shivangi, in a sickly sweet voice that was always enough to develop a sense of dread in every married men asked "Now I have been a good little wife so you would tell me about the little one, won't you?".
Her attitude was the same that 'I want to know I and I want to know it now and it better be good'. So Rishabh answered "His name is Harry Potter. He is an orphan and most probably a wizard".
There was a stunned silence for a moment then " Rish, I am seriously not in a mood of a joke"
"And I am not joking either" he then told her all the things Petunia told him and showed Shivangi the letter.
There was a silence again which was again broken by Shivangi, "That is the weirdest tale I have ever heard but you think it is true. And if I know you, which I do you, are planning to take Harry as our son and you also have a plan.".
"Yes, on both the accounts. I would like take him as our son if you like and if you agree on taking him as our son, I do have a plan". He replied.
"You know Rish that I always wanted a child. I do not care whether he is a wizard or not. So what's the plan?" she asked while giving Harry adoring looks.
"Tomorrow first we go to a fancy dress shop and get our self and Harry cloaks and other items so that we don't stick out like sore thumbs. Then we head towards leaky cauldron. If Petunia was right, to do that we would need Harry as a key. Then we would head towards Gringots and get some info and wizarding money, hopefully open an account. From there we split. You will go and survey the upper Diagon alley, while I will check out Knockturn alley. We will regroup at 1400hrs, weapons free for any and all threats and proceed with extreme caution as our com devices would not work there and at any cost don't let anyone see his scar. I have a bad feeling that it is unique and he will be recognised by it."
Harry Potter and The Assassin Supreme
In the morning after routine, they dressed up and reached the shop and brought some cloaks. After they were done there, they reached Leaky Cauldron. To their immense surprise, they found that they both can see it without the help of Harry. So they entered the bar. At the moment they were loaded with 2 silverballers at waist with 10 mags extra, a Walter ppk on right leg with 2 mags extra, 3 frags, 2 smokes with 3 poisoned Kunais and a poisoned Kukri (knife of Gorkha's). They knew they could not open the arch so they had a plan.
Rishabh went to the bartender, switched to his French accent and said, "Excuses me mousier, me and my wife are new here. Could you please show us how to enter the Diagon alley?"
Bartender introduced himself as tom asked, "new you say?" on his way to the arch.
Rishabh replied, "Yes, visiting a cousin here, thought it would be a good thing to visit Diagon alley". Tom bought that and showed him the arch way and left.
Upon entering the Diagon alley they thought for a second that they have been transported to Victorian era. Same building structure, same gas lamps and candles while seeing this they made their way to Gringots.
At the door he noticed two guards standing. He had worked with lot of mercenaries and thugs and he himself was a warrior so he knew when he saw which and in front of him were trained warriors. Upon entering the bank he noticed same body language in every one of the goblin.
He quickly added 2 and 2. When his chance came in line, he saw the rank and name plate of the goblin and greeted, "Greetings high master teller Sharpfang, may blood of your enemies fill your vault with rubies. My name is Rishabh Singh."
Goblin was still as a statue upon hearing the formal greeting and politeness in the tone. It was not every day humans treated them with respect, then answered, "May your enemy's death fills your vault with gold Mr. Singh. How may I be of your assistance?"
"I am here to convert pounds to galleons and would also like to open a vault in here."
To this Sharpfang replied, "Conversion would be easy and for vault take this slip to vault manager Dragonbreath"
With conversation with Petunia he knew that muggles could not open an account in Gringots but Leaky Cauldron incident showed him that he was not normal, so he decided to take the risk. He reached to the office of Dragonbreath with Shivangi and Harry.
They exchanged the greetings causing the similar reaction. After that Dragonbreath said, "First we have to confirm you are who you say you are. So would your wife have to prove too. You have to drop a few drops of your blood on these parchments.". They both obliged and cut their pinkies with given knife and spilled the blood on the parchment.
To their surprise wounds healed themselves but that surprise was kept well hidden and mused about use of such magic in war.
They were brought out of their musing by Dragonbreath's voice "yes, this certainly complicates the matter" then he called a messenger to go and fetch vault lord Bloodfist.
After his arrival they both talked some in goblin (sorry proper term means garbage language in essence so I won't use it). Then blood fist introduced himself to Rishabh and greetings were exchanged. "Sorry, for the inconvenience Mr. Singh but your results were bit unexpected to say the least."
Then he showed the result to him
Name: Lord Rishabh Singh Baghel
House: Most ancient and most Nobel house of Baghel
Vaults: vault 005
Content: 1,800,000 galleon, 1600sickels, 450 knuts, armours and gems.
Properties: Baghel manor in Cambridge.
Second parchment:-
Name: Lady Shivangi Singh Baghel nee Kataria.
House: Most ancient and most Nobel house of Baghel
This was well and truly unexpected for the couple and shock and surprise was evident on their faces. After regaining his composure Rishabh decided to take a risk and asked "what are the confidentiality clauses?"
To this Bloodfist replied "Your all dealings are kept confidential until you give your permission."
That was good for normal but this situation was anything but normal so Rishabh said " That's good enough for the normal but this is anything but normal so I would like to ask a oath on your honour that anything we discus here, today, in this room will not be repeated or told by any of you to any one without my express permission.".
He knew he was taking a gamble and big one at that but he followed his instinct that has yet to lead him wrong.
On the other hand goblins were again shocked still. They were very used to of human demanding an oath but that was generally on their life or on their magic. This was the thing that had led the distrust between goblins and humans. Demanding oath on life or magic but discarding it on honour led them to believe that humans had no honour. For a goblin there is no foul word worse than being called an oath breaker.
They fought in blood for their honour. The wizards thought that they were uncivilised and barbaric to fight over trivial issues but to them honour always came first and foremost. The humans in front them had shown them every respect and curtsy they expect from a fellow warrior, which was unusual. Very few humans were polite to them but this curtsy was not shown to them by anyone.
But on the hindsight it should have been obvious as the way they analysed everything and everyone and their style in which they walked hinted them that they were warriors themselves. So Bloodfist decided to go with the flow for now and gave Dragonbreath a nod. After that both gave the oath. Then Rishabh asked "Is there any way to check that whether I am a squib or a full wizard."
This question blew both goblins. Dragonbreath blurted out "You did not know that you were a wizard"
"No, I didn't. I didn't even knew this world existed until last night"
At this Dragonbreath looked at Bloodfist and said "could it really be that?"
"I think that is the case but more astonishing is that two at the same time" said Bloodfist.
Seeing the look of confusion on the face of couple Bloodfist explained "You both are what we call demi-mage. They are much stronger than a usual wizards or witches and have better control over their magic than normal, and have mental shields that an expert legilemencer at full power would not be able to breach but are also late bloomer and their magic usually develop at the age of 13 to 14 and being better in control, accidental magic does not happen, so most of them go unnoticed. In every century there are at maximum of 2 but two at the same time and being a couple is astonishing. If it's not to personal to ask how did you got to know about wizarding world?".
Rishabh mulled his options on. One hand he can gain valuable allies for the future and since being covered in oath Harry or their identities would not be in danger but on the other hand he was very reluctant to give away their secret but this world was new to them and they needed every help they can get. As it was if anything went wrong they could still disappear, at which they were extremely good at, so he decided to tell them but he also wanted to get views of Shivangi so he looked at her with a barely noticeable nod she gave her consent.
So Rishabh started " Last night ..."
At the end of the story a part of goblins was red and blue in anger at the possible abuse of a child. To them child were very sacred, every goblin was blessed with only two child, three was a very rare occurrence and more were literally unheard of. So to them child abuse was unheard. Even in the blood feud no goblin would ever hurt a child, let alone kill them. This was another reason of their distrust in human and their hate for them.
Another part was that in which the respect for Baghels rose like anything. First because of their action towards Harry and second because they were right. These two were warrior and blooded one on the boot with over 200 kills accounted for them. They had stealth to make a silent kill but also raw power to back in case of head on fight. They were not pansies and had tortured people for info in extreme way that made even their goblin battle harden blood go cold, all this was before they knew magic. Throw in the fact that the both were demi-mages made their earlier stand that they were not the people to mess with more resolute.
Also they were assassin, getting them on their side would be very profitable for them. After all they were goblins to them after honour and family, the best thing was profit.
"We would like to offer aid to you in case of Harry and then I am sure we can make a deal profitable to both of us" said Bloodfist
This was opportunity Rishabh was looking, profit from both side so he and Shivangi quickly accepted. A team of healer was called and were forced to give the same oath to the couple. After a couple of scans even Rishabh and Shivangi who knew nothing about goblin language were able to decipher that they were some of the most obscene slangs ever used by them and that they were way, way beyond pissed.
