Here is the second chapter, sorry for the delay, of many months...been a bit busy.
Warning: This chapter contains subject matter that might make some people uncomfortable.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or content from Harry Potter or Kingsman except the content that from what I know, is my own.
If anything doesn't make sense in this chapter, apologies, I haven't been to New York so anything that couldn't actually happen due to the area, not my fault, I did some research but I don't know it that well enough to make a proper judgement.
Chapter 2 – A Phone Call to the Past
*23:45pm, 2nd May 2015, 15th floor, Flatiron Building, Manhattan, New York City*
I have killed lots of people in my time, using both muggle and wizarding techniques, both messy and clean, the messy way is usually when things go south or when the intended target has killed one of our own. However, there is one way to kill someone that is both satisfying and easy, using the British standard L115A3 sniper rifle with a silencer (magically enhanced).
The target tonight is a Howard Storm, an American business man who likes to hunt young muggles both male and female, sexually abuse them then kill them. Why not leave this to the muggle police you ask? Because Howard Storm is not Howard Storm, he Marius Lestrange. Marius Lestrange is Bellatrix Lestrange's Uncle who is also probably partly responsible for his niece's nuttiness. Reading the report on the plane this morning he apparently took her on muggle hunts; after Voldemort "died" he vanished. Until now.
Somehow Marius has permanently transfigured his facial features to appear as a red straight haired, blue eyed, bearded fellow instead of the normal curly black hair and abnormal orange eyes with no beard. Another feature that drastically changes his features is the straight nose instead of the broken one before.
So, we got wind that "Howard Storm" was in New York and we couldn't help but take care of the bastard.
Looking down the scope that was also magically enhanced, the assassin saw that Marius had just exited a taxi at Washington Square Park with what looked like a girl, who was clearly not 18 yet, may not be for another couple of years in fact.
"Pig Tails? Really Marius? Is that what gets your vile blood pumping?" the assassin mumbled whilst slowly following the two into the park. He saw that Marius had rested his arm on the girls lower back, guiding her into the park whilst looking around for any muggles nearby.
The two sat down on a bench under a lamp which coincidentally dimmed so that the two could hardly be seen at night. Using the ear piece connected to the scope the assassin listened to Marius use comforting words whilst pulling out a syringe from his pocket that clearly had Amortentia in it and maybe some other ingredients, probably morphine. Morphine mixes well with Amortentia, it was odourless and a great way to get someone infatuated with you for the sole purpose of sexual acts.
He could see Marius's wand sticking out of his back pocket, bad place, buttocks can be blown off that way. The assassin smiled slightly, which then vanished when Marius inserted the syringe in to the girl. He swore. He watched as the girl's face went from a genuine smile to a dreamy smile that didn't suit her.
The assassin breathed, the park was 1408 yards away. With a slight wind heading West, fortunately these bullets were not affected by wind or the annoying thing called gravity that is a bane to even the most highly skilled sniper, so it's a straight shot.
Marius stood up and stared hungrily down at the pig tail haired girl, he pulled his wand out and waved it around, a slight shimmer domed the two at the bench and all noise went from the assassin's headphone. Silencing charm up. Marius waved his arm again and another ripple want around them, a civilian walking by, looking at Marius and the young girl with curiosity suddenly turned away like they didn't care. Notice-me-not up. Thing is, the assassin was far enough away to not be affected by the charm thus he just stared at the smug looking Marius.
It had started to rain, heavily, the assassin watched as Marius waved his wand again and the rain seemed to fall onto a dome and fall to a circle around the two. The assassin liked the smell of the rain, it was refreshing. The street below was busy, as per usual, New York is known as The City That Never Sleeps for a reason. The phone rang next to the assassin, he twitched his fingers.
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"Hello?"
"Hello Hades" a voice came from the phone into the empty office.
Hades didn't react except to follow Marius with his gun as he moved to take off his coat and put it on the bench.
"Who is this?" Hades replied, his lip quirked to a smirk. The phone gave off an annoyed grunt.
"You know who it is" the phone said, clearly annoyed.
"Nope, this voice doesn't ring a bell...sorry" Hades said in the same fake confused tone, the phone swore.
"It's Merlin" The newly christened voice called Merlin said in a deadpan tone.
"Oh! Merlin! I'm sorry, I thought I told you not to ring me when I'm in a mission so I clearly thought that it was someone else who wasn't dumb enough to ring me when I said not to…" Hades explained, he watched as the target ripped the girl's dark pink t-shirt, the girl didn't even flinch when the cold hit her. Marius's smile became larger.
"Yes, well, this is important, we received a letter from your parents…" Hades blinked in response to hearing this.
"….and, what do my parents want?"
"Apparently, the headmaster of Hogwarts needs your help…" Hades blinked again.
"For what?" Marius had just pulled the girls skirt down, the girl just smiled dreamily. Hades still had his finger on the trigger bus wasn't ready to pull it yet. Marius unbuttoned his shirt and placed it on the bench, along with his wand and belt.
"Marius, you need to shave that chest of yours" Hades said out loud.
"What?" Merlin said in confusion.
"Nothing Merlin, what does the headmaster of Hogwarts need help with?" Hades heard Merlin re read the letter, he had always found it difficult to read ink on parchment. All wizards and witches liked to write a bit dodgy really.
"Ah, yes, something about a specialty to hunting down Death Eaters and taking care of them" Merlin read. Hades raised an eyebrow then dropped it as he watched Marius pull his trousers down, and his pants.
Here we go.
"Hold on a second Merlin"
Hades held his breath and time seemed to slow, the gloved finger pulled the trigger and no noise except slight kick back was felt as the bullet exited the gun (couldn't get rid of kickback no matter what a person tries with magic, only suppress it). Hades stared down the sight and watched as Marius's head seemed to explode in red and cock to the side, his body falling the same way his head went. Brain matter and bone covered the air for a brief second before dropping to the ground. The magical dome and charms around the bench vanished when the caster was dead. Marius fell to the floor, covered in blood and now rain. The shot had gone through his head as a stream of blood had gone a foot or so passed the bench. Hades could see the bullet on the floor covered in blood. Good Bye Marius Lestrange.
Pulling the bolt back on the gun, a casing was ejected, Hades caught it in mid-air, he dropped it into his trouser pocket.
"Okay, how could Albus Dumbledore know about me? Aren't I supposed to be invisible to the world?" Hades asked as he pulled the gun off the window frame and twisting the silencer off.
"To the muggle world maybe, but to the wizarding world you are known as one of the deadliest assassins in the world, probably THE deadliest. We gave the British magical government or more specifically Amelia Bones the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement your code name and how to reach you for assignments. We don't trust anyone else in that government except her. However, word gets out eventually, so your reputation is global. How else do you think you get more magical assignments then muggle ones, apparently there are a lot of Death Eaters and generally horrible magical people out there who need to be taken care of" Merlin explained with slight humour in his voice, Hades stared at the phone for a couple of seconds.
That made sense, Kingsman was a muggle organisation with only a few magical people within it, including himself. Of course the missions came from somewhere, it made sense it came from a magical source.
"Okay…Again, how does Dumbledore know about me?" Hades asked curiously as he disassembled his rifle and placed each section into a foam lined metal case. Before he put the scope away he peered through it down to Washington Square Park; a crowd had gathered now, a woman was comforting the now crying pig tailed girl. Marius's body had a pool of blood around it, a few people were taking pictures with their phones, cars slowed to see what was going on, some sped off when they noticed the blood, others had stopped completely.
"It doesn't say in your parent's letter but I think Amelia gave the name and contact details to him, only way I know how. Actually I saw a rise in funny dressed people walking passed the shop today, I'm glad you put those charms up to make sure we went unnoticed from them. I suspect Dumbledore sent a few people to snoop around but when nobody actually entered the shop I guess he got his most trustworthy people, your parents, to send us a letter explaining Dumbledore's needs" Hades stood silently in the office, equipment packed away, he could hear distant police sirens going off, maybe for Marius, you couldn't tell in this city.
So yeah, that's the second chapter. Again, sorry about the delay. Hope you enjoyed it, the next chapter will be up some time in the future...hopefully.
