Chapter 3: Communication Breakdown
I appeared on the bridge of the Helicarrier in a pillar of fire. Startled, Fury almost pulled his sidearm on me. Recognizing me he holstered his weapon and began briefing me on the situation. He had almost finished when out of the corner of my eye, I saw an archer of all things begin to fire into the bridge. Holding up my gloved hand, a golden shield of energy appeared around the inhabitants. Then I sent a similar net at the archer, that I had used on Loki.
"Agent Barton," Fury asked to himself. "How was he turned?"
As I examined him I noticed a slight blurriness in Agent Barton's eyes. As I cast the imperious curse on him and dispelled it, his eyes returned to their usual sharpness I awoke him and he began blathering about being trapped in his mind by Loki, and manipulated into his service. I left him with Fury and made my way to where they were holding Loki. Somehow the chains holding him had been removed when Thor grabbed him from the Quinjet on their return from Germany. After Captain Rodgers and Tony Stark, who had showed up after I left, recovered Loki and Thor joined up with them they returned to the Helicarrier and had been arguing with each other and had secured Loki in Banner's room. The Attack had aggravated Banner and he had transformed. According to Fury, he and Thor were dishing it out, while Stark and Rodgers were fixing the damaged turbine.
As I reached Loki's cell I arrived too late, and watched as Loki stabbed Agent Coulson in the back and disappeared, I attempted to trace his apparition trail, but whatever he used, it wasn't apparition. I placed my right palm on Coulson's heart and forced my will though the ring on my right pinky. The Ring of Cadmus Peverell.
The Deathly Hallows I found out, when I found Potter Castle, had been built by three brothers in the middle of the thirteenth century and after they found an orange stone that glowed with power. The stone was set inside an obsidian diamond using secret arts of the Peverell clan. The Diamond was set into a gold band and used in the crafting of the two other Hallows. The Elder Wand was crafted from the tail hairs of a Thestral, beaded through the seven heart-stones of the same Thestral and soaked in a mixture of the drained blood of the Thestral, and that of the three brothers. After the core was prepared it was encased within a branch of Elder from an Elder tree. The wood was knit back together and carved into a wand. The wand then channeled off some of the power of the stone. The Cloak of Invisibility, was then crafted by using the hide of the Thestral and after the wand was charged, while the third brother was wearing the cloak, the Eldest and second brother cast the strongest ever disillusionment charms at the cloak permanently enabling the wearer to hide from the one who claims all souls in the end.
Antioch the Eldest brother had no issue and the line of Peverell defaulted to his second brother Cadmus who killed himself, after his fiancé whose soul he brought back over told him how she didn't belong. His ring was stolen by his future brother-in-law, his fiance's brother Salvatio Gaunt. With that the headship transferred to the third brother Ignotus. As he was the sole survivor of the three brothers who fathered a progeny into this world. It was from this that I was relieved that I was even more distantly related to Tommy boy. Eventually the last descendent of Ignotus who bore the Peverell name was a woman named Helena who married into the Potter family, bringing with her the family coat of invisibility and the Peverell family magic and vote was added to the Potter family vote in the Wizengamot. Since I inherited the Black votes and claimed the vaults and votes of the death eater' families whose head had pledged himself to the minor British Dark Lord Tom Marvolo Riddle, also known as Voldemort, by the right of conquest, Andy as my proxy in the Wizengamot singlehandedly wielded just under half, about forty-eight percent, of the votes in the ancient chamber.
The Dark Mark was a bastardization of the vassalage bond wherein the vassal 'Death Eater' pledged service to their lord 'Tom'. Combined with an Egyptian slave bond, the Mark that certain inbred pureblood idiots worshipped, allowed me through the act of claiming the Elder Wand from Tom's corpse allowed Andy to exploit a minor loophole in the laws of the Wizengamot and allow me to claim the family votes and vaults of the Death Eater families whose Head of House pledged himself to Tom.
Anyways I digress, I used the power of the ring to keep his soul from fleeing his body. It worked and his chest healed, but his mind was still fighting itself. I took about an hour and a half fighting with Death to prevent him from claiming another victim today. I then flashed him to Potter Castle and sent a patronus to one of my lady friends, Daphne Greengrass, the best damn healer I knew. After our final year of school where we became friends of a carnal nature, she went on to be a Healer at St. Mungos. She had been betrothed to Theodore Nott Jr. who along with his father had perished in the Battle of Hogwarts. The death and criminal nature had been enough to break her family's contract with the Nott family. Her sister, Astoria, had been betrothed to Draco Malfoy and his and his father's imprisonment had broken that contract also. She ended up marrying Dennis Creevy, who I introduced and talked into a line continuation contract where he took her name.
I flamed back to the Helicarrier where I heard Fury's voice over the communication system asking me to return to the bridge, apparently the danger was over and the crisis averted, but Captain Rodgers, and Agents Barton and Romanoff had commandeered a Quinjet and headed to New York where Stark had apparently determined Loki was going to use his tower to power the portal he was planning to build. Doctor Banner and apparently Thor, supposed Asgardian god of Thunder were missing. Stark had arrived and been thrown off his tower, the Quinjet would reach the city in about five minutes. The Portal was opening.
In addition to my dragon and basalisk hide armor, I typically went into battle with my sword on my back and the Elder Wand and my old holly wand as backup. The holly wand was in a holster on my right hip. Also on the belt were various healing and combative potions. I also had a pouch on my left hip with my invisibility cloak and various Weasley Wizarding Wheezes products. An enchanted holster on my left calf held my Thunderbolt Racing Co. Broomstick, the newest and fastest broom on the market.
Since I mentioned Weasley Wizarding Wheezes, I found out that Fred and George had made me a partner when they signed their purchase agreement for the first store. Aparently the needed a sponsor to enable the purchace and since I funded them and was the, at the time, only child of their idols the Mauraders, they chose me. When people started wanting Harry Potter products, George "conned" me into signing an exclusivity contract with them. This in turn resulted in everything from clothes to Action figures of me.
I then transformed into my phoenix form and flashed to Stark Tower at his landing pad where I reappeared in my full battle armor, with the Elder Wand in my right hand and my dragon forged sword in my left. My body was flickering with unrestrained power and by eyes resembled green fireballs. The pouch on my hip full of some of George Weasley's newest products and my broom deployable on my calf.
"Let's see if a sword meant to kill the dead can kill a 'God'"
