Wizards & Fairies
A Harry Potter Fanfic.
Written by Wolf Ghoul
The wizarding world and all its inhabitants all belong to J.K Rowling, and Warner Bros. Studios. I wish to only play in the world she brought to life.
AN:/ thank you for enjoying my first chapter on this story! I look forward to seeing how popular this story will become- Read and Review!
Chapter 3: The Pied Piper!
The crunching of the ground being stepped on being the only comforting sound to the group of wizards. Harry and Luna walked ahead of the group, Harry listening to Luna tell him about the basic history of the land whilst Draco and Neville walked behind sending looks of contempt and anger at Harry for convincing them to agree on the mission.
To defeat the Dark One.
"Ah! I get it!" Harry exclaimed clapping his hands together, catching Neville and Draco off guard "So the Dark One isn't just some normal wizard who's given themselves the title due to being evil or whatever... b-but actually is... the Dark One? Like he inh-herited the power and title?" Harry asked Luna who just giggled back
"Harry, your acting like this is the first time that you've heard about it." Luna giggled, Harry felt abit of shock at thinking her eyes flashing bright for a second
"Honest, you're pathetic, Potter." Draco said now catching up to the duo "The Dark One has immeasurable power, able to cover all light with his dark power, the one thing that is incredibly noticeable from all the history books though, is that although the power of the Dark One is incredible, each Dark One focus' their power into a singular proportion of their power, like the Dark One Morgana focused primarily on Fire magic, and that's how Merlin took her out, he used her weakness of the other elements and defeated her in a all out battle that ended in both of them being defeated." Draco told Harry, allowing him to catch up on the information that he knew that Harold must've known.
Knowing this information confused Harry though "So if that's true, who and what is the new Dark One... I mean i heard that Dumbledore and the other S Class wizards of our guild help defeat the last one..." Neville chimed in at this point
"That is true, but it was believed that they had defeat the Dark One for good, they took away his title of being the Dark One and then... well... ended him once he was in his neutral wizard form. So I guess the Dark One could be any wizard... But they'd have to be a really dark and twisted wizard wouldn't they?" Neville began talking to himself.
It took them just under an hour to travel to the village of Arenhale, the gates the village crooked and broken. Once inside they noticed that almost all the little huts and houses that had been made for the villagers were broken, empty. The village seemed empty.
"Am I the only one that noticed the... lack of people?" Asked Draco, his face a shade more pale than usual
"There isn't a lack of people Draco." Luna replied to Malfoy, who turned to her with an incredulous look. Luna smiled and pointed over to where a faint smoke cloud could be seen "I don't know about you, but fire's don't usually make themselves." Draco just scoffed at Luna as the group began making its way over to where the smoke was.
"So I was like 'Avast thee swine, tie up thou's pants or I shall cut it off!' the poor lad must've only have been about fourteen, didn't know what he was doing" Came the deep voice from around the corner of a building that the group were just about to walk past
"What did you say to him a-after that Lockhart?!" Came the weaker voice of someone else
"Well my young friend, I simply froze him where he stood threw galleon at the wench and did her in then and there whilst the boy watched. Thought it would be polite to teach the kid a lesson, y'know? Hahahahaha!" The man assumed to be Lockhart began bellowing with laughter, followed by laughs from a few other men. "What's wrong swine? Jealous you weren't that brick for brains brat?!" there was the sound of a couple of jeers.
As the group turned the corner they saw a group of caped wizards, and in the center of the group stood a tall muscular man with blonde hair, green eyes and a buster sword hanging from his waist wearing a white cape holding up the squirming form of young wizard with long brown hair past his shoulders and brown and hiding most of his body with a scruffy looking dark grey cloak.
Upon coming across the scene the group were taken aback a bit at the sight, not understanding the reason behind coming to this conclusion. Harry clenched his hands and teeth at the sight, knowing that in this state he didn't know the potential of his power yet.
Draco stepped forward "Excuse me, but you must be Ser Gilderoy Lockhart, the wizard knight that took out the beast that's been a pest to the Walking City of Aldoon for the past seven years? That's quite the success under your belt." Draco stated stepping closer, Lockhart smiled at Draco at mentioning his greatest victory and span around in a circle, still holding the squirming teen.
"Here this lads! One of my many adoring fans! So kid, where would you like an autograph?" he said smiling to himself.
Draco stopped stepping closer now that he was at the edge of the group of sitting men, and pointed to Lockhart "are you the fake or real one?"
Gilderoy Lockhart stared at Draco for a second, his smile never once fading "What on earth do you mean m'boy."
"Are you aware that someone out there has been stealing your identity?" Draco stated smirking
Draco opened his arms referring to the rest of the group "Well, as I'm sure you all know, the infamous Gilderoy Lockhart is famous for many feats. defeating the monster that plagued the Walking City of Aldoon, the Vampire covern of Jespa and of course defeating the Eight Lords of Never-Mercy... Do you claim that you have done all of these?" Draco asked the blonde narcissist
Gilderoy chuckled "Of course m'boy, don't you read? I am most famous for those very deeds!"
Draco had to interject before Gilderoy went off on a tangent about all of the things that he has completed in his life "but this all kind of happened in the same time frame of a year and seven months. Meaning that there must be someone out there that's sealing your identity... right?" The smile faded from Lockhart's face
"Look here boy, I don't know what you're trying to insinuate! but-" Draco caught him before he could continue
"Oh I'm not trying to insinuate anything, I'm just notifying you that you are either the person using the fake identity or if you are the real one that there is someone out there using your name to do other marvelous things."
Gilderoy still holding the boy in his arms began moving towards Draco "What's your name, boy? and the hell are you here?!" Gilderoy spat at Malfoy
"My name is Draco Malfoy, wizard of the Hogwarts Guild and I'd appreciate it if you put that boy down." Draco spat back at the much taller man
Gilderoy's smile returned and he looked to the boy clutching his arm to remain breathing and chuckled "This boy?" gesturing to the long haired wizard on his arm "Insulted my honour by not laughing with me and my fellow wizard at one of my more humerous stories, he needs to be punished." Gilderoy stated as though it was normal precedure to take
"Why must he be punished? I do not quite understand it." Luna called from behind Draco
Gileroy now realising he was in the pressence of a female softened his features "Because my dear girl, I've got to ensure that if he is going to be in the team created to take out the Dark One then he needs to know who the boss is!" He called using a soft voice
That voice, that smile, those eyes, that man made Harry and Neville feel sick.
"Excuse me but did you say... team to take out the Dark One?" Draco asked
Gilderoy's smile glistened from his own arrogance "Yes! I, Ser Gilderoy Lockhart have been assigned the greatest job of ensuring that the Dark One is defeated after making this town a living wasteland. We have been here for six days and are yet to see the beast" Lockhart said proud of himself
"That's actually mildly amusing because we were sent here on the request of a villager only a few hours ago." Draco said now smirking
Gilderoy was now a little angry "One of these villagers went behind our backs and sought out more help?! The nerve!" He then lent back and threw the man in his arm towards the group knocking Harry over with his body and looked around at the group, his eyes now like daggers "Which one of you pathetic lot told the villagers that it was okay to seek outside help?! WE ARE THE ONES HERE TO HELP THEM! NOT SOME..." he looked over to the group "SECOND RATE GROUP OF TEENAGE WIZARDS!" His body was now heaving with anger, he picked up one of the caped wizards sitting near him and threw him at the wall of one of the buildings around them, not even a scream escaped the victims lips. He pulled his sword from his belt and slayed a few of his men, their blood gushing everywhere. He then turned to Draco and started marching towards him, he pulled his arm back and as he went to strike the young wizard his body froze and his bones felt like they had turned to jelly
"What the hell have you done?!" shouted Lockhart
"They haven't done anything mr Lockhart, I have." They all turned to look at a man wearing a Victorian looking red, three piece suit with a top hat and a black bow-tie, in his hands was a wand, except it had holes and one end looked different than a normal wand end would. Lockhart was now glaring at the man with the slicked back black hair and baby blue eyes.
"I don't care who you are, I'm going to kill you." Gilderoy declared
The man in the top hat just chuckled to himself as he began walking down invisible steps. "Y'see Mr Lockhart,as to who I am might actually be seen as being important to someone like you. For I, am the Pied Piper!"
Lockhart seemed confused "The what?"
The man chuckled "I am the Pied Piper" he then spun the wand in his hand and placed it to his lips and began playing a rather beautiful tune from his wand or... pipe(?)
Lockhart's jelly bones began to harden, his skin becoming loose against his skeleton the color of his body now fading. "Whathaveyoudonetome" was the sound that came out of the now grey haired man.
The Pied Piper then walked past Lockhart, completely ignoring him and made his way over to the group.
Luna, Harry, Neville, Draco and the long haired wizard all stared at the Pied Piper as he walked through the crowd of wizards apart of Lockhart's team, and the slightly tortured Lockhart towards them.
The Pied Piper now had a smile on his face "oh... and did I mention? I'm the Dark One."
To Be Continued...