Chapter 3: Time to get back to work.
Talking
Thinking.
Spell
Seer Talk.
The start of the day turned out to be as normal as Serena expected it would be. As always she excelled in the art of charm's and by the time the class had ended for the day she had found she already has mastered doing the spell and could probably begin to modify it in some way or another.
'I should really talk to professor Flitwick if I can have some more advanced level work after I get the day stuff done, i'm already top of the class for the last two years and I do want to challenge myself.' She thought over in her head as she headed for Transfiguration.
Like charm's she was a natural prodigy in the class due to being able to understand even complex transfiguration after only reading it or a single demonstration, her and professor Mcgonagall didn't see the best eye to eye because of which house she was in, still though she didn't give the Gryffindor witch a hard time and in turn the professor left her be to do her own thing if she had gotten the spell down.
"Good god this year is going to be difficult if we are transfigurating animals." Daphne said with a sigh as she walked next to Serena, usually she understood the class and could reasonably preform the spell on the first day. Today however she found herself with the rest of the class floundering while her best friend simply breezed through the class.
"It probably won't be that hard once we get some practice, it's not the most different from other transfigurations, you just need to be more precise." Serena said with a shrug.
"Says the girl who is a natural at any and all forms of transfiguration." Blaise said sliding up next to her on the right.
"I'm not a prodigy or anything like that, I just find the spells really easy." Serena weakly protested even though inside she was happy for the praise.
"Yes, and that happens to be called being a prodigy." Blaise said smirking and elbowing her.
"Ok, fine say whatever you want. See if I really care about it." Serena said rolling her eyes, soon the reached the dungeons and were outside the common room. It was at that time Serena pulled out the three cards that Daphne had handed to her at the table.
"Well, seems since I have nothing better to do right now and I have a free period I might as well get these done." She said with a sly smile as she read over the request, two being much needed black mail material for boyfriends and the third was off the table school supplies used to cheat.
"Already? Figured you would have at least waited till the end of the day before you decided to go and get the request done." Daphne said surprised, then again her friends never one to sit idle and do nothing, she worked and hated to be sitting still, that was just who she was.
"Guess I am just feeling like a good person, I need to check in with the red headed twins for the info they probably have already anyway and see if they have the supplies." Serena said shrugging before turning on her heels and heading away from the entrance.
"Do you ever think we should be scared that by all rights are best friend could potentially run Hogwarts from the shadows and none of the teacher's would even know about it?" Daphne asked watching her friend go, it was scary sometimes the amount that girl got done in a single free period yet it was also very impressive.
"No, personally I just see it as a prodigal Slytherin doing her house some much needed good to get some praise rather then hatred." Blaise said without missing a beat before heading inside.
Ten minutes later Serena found herself next to one of the statues she and the Weasley twins used as meeting points waiting them to show up, that had a form of communication all of their own that only the three of them could use to set up meetings like this.
Soon she caught sight of the two red heads and waved them over.
"Starting early this year, are we Miss serpent." George asked with the usual charming and mischievous smile.
"Is that truly so hard to comprehend, people need things and when they do they call me to get them!" Serena said with a shrug of indifference.
"And when they call you, you call us. In both cases everyone's a winner." Fred said.
"So, what is it we can procure for you this time." George asked next.
Serena dug the cards out of her pocket and handed them over to the boys, after reading them for a minute the two shared a look and nodded.
"Well, ironically your in lucky today." Fred said starting.
"The two bigots that the girls want info for." George said.
"Happened to have been sitting right behind our compartment." Fred said.
"On the train here." George said.
"And they were blabbing off some very dirty little secrets." Fred finished.
"Anything I can use to satisfy these girl's and possibly ruin the two morons." Serena asked, she had absolutely no patience for anyone who decided they wanted to cheat on a women and then blatantly talk about it out in the open. Her and stupid were generally mortal enemies in the first place but, that just took the cake of what she could put up with.
George reached into his pack and brought out a piece of parchment, scribbling down everything they had heard that had been important he handed it to her.
"Now as for our mystery buyers cheating supplies, that will take roughly a day or two to acquire. Filch is apparently starting to catch onto your little network and are suppliers so we may have a bit difficulty getting are hands on products for the next few months, we can still get them we just need a bit more time as usual." George said smirking, and didn't that make this whole thing sound like a shady drug deal.
"You know I hate it when you two use wording like that, makes me sound like I'm a drug runner and you two are my growers or something." Serena said with a chuckle, it wasn't actually a big deal, more of just an inside joke for them.
"We also have some very interesting news that may be of some interest regarding you personally." Fred said, the sly smile on his face seemed to grow with even more mischief then normal.
"News that happens to involve a certain Ex baby brother of yours and his first day here." George continued.
"Oh, well how can I say no to that." Serena said thinking of what she would get.
"You will be happy to know Thomas is already painting a target on the back of his head, apparently living in the limelight for so many years has completely spoiled him into thinking everyone has to bow at his feet and worship him for something that happened when he was a baby. He already has a nice size bullseye on his back in Gryffindor and who knows what he has done in his first few periods." Fred said.
Serena smirked as she filed that away, she wanted nothing to do with Thomas or the potter's in general but, hearing about the idiot making enemies was always going to be entertaining.
"Well, thank you for that boy's, please keep me posted whenever something interesting comes up. I best get going then I have some info to drop off." Serena said turning and bidding the twins a farewell as she headed back towards the common room.
'Hmm already you're playing the fool Thomas? I would have thought mommy and daddy would have taught you better then that, but I can see now they have done nothing to stifle that ego of your's. Guess i'll just have to be the one to do it instead.' She thought as she headed back to the dorm room.
After her free period ended, she along with Daphne headed to the Arithmancy. Finding a seat they liked, they sat down and waited for the teacher to come in, Serena for the most part knew this was going to be boring since she knew all the beginner level terms and concepts so when the teacher did finally arrive she mostly tuned out and read the book.
Two hours later and the same was done in her Ancient runes class, getting a perfect in those two would probably be as simple as any of the others outside of History and DADA since History always managed to put even her to sleep and the teacher's they had for Defense were never consistent enough to be able to pass without cover to cover reading the stupid books.
After all her classes for the day Serena returned to the dorm and was about to start her homework when she noticed a very familiar crow perched on her windowsill. Smirking she rushed over and opened it to let the bird in.
"All right, tonight won't be as boring as I thought it was going to be." She said smirking once shadow perched on her bed and stuck his leg out for her. Untying a small note from his leg and enlarging it, she fed Shadow while she read it.
"Mission tonight, hired to bring down a drug ring in Wales. Job pays decently well and we wanted to know if you would like to come and help, If yes then send crow back with the message and wait by your house fire till midnight.
Be good and cause as much trouble for that old goat and your idiotic brother as you can.
Mom"
She smirked as she finished reading the message from her family, jobs had been pretty spaced out the last few months and they had all grown bored waiting for something to fall into their laps. Something like this was not a chance she was going to miss since it would get her out of the castle for a while and let her work on some new spells she had been crafting.
"Leg Shadow, I have a reply." Serena said quickly writing down a yes on the back of the note and reattaching it to Shadows leg before allowing him to take off back to her family with her answer.
Turning her attention to her boring homework once again she got started, she wanted to finish it before dinner, that way she wouldn't need to worry about it in the evening and could instead worry about what the upcoming job would be like.
Evening and dinner came and went and soon Serena found herself lounging in the common room waiting for midnight to roll around and for the place to clear out so she could get the hell out of the castle and get her work done.
"What's got you looking so happy?" Tracy asked taking a seat next to her as she took a seat next to Serena, said girl pointed over to a group of first years doing absolutely nothing.
"I enjoy watching future flunkies slack off right at the beginning, it's more entertaining then you would think especially when you have seen it multiple times." Serena lied to protect her real happiness.
"…I'll take your word for it." Tracy said shrugging, sometimes she didn't understand her friend.
"You already do the homework by the way." She asked Serena.
"Of course I did, do you think I would be sitting on my ass doing nothing if I hadn't?" Serena asked.
'And she says she isn't a prodigy at this stuff.' Tracy thought as she threw a mock glare at her friend who replied by sticking her tongue out.
Time trickled on and soon midnight came and the common room was empty except for Serena, she stood and went over to the fire place where a moment later it glowed with a mix of acidic green and bronze fire. Stepping out, Jasmine surveyed the room to make sure they were alone before nodding to her daughter. Serena had already disabled the spell Dumbles had put up to spy on the students—she had discovered it in her first year—so they were free to chat.
"I take it your first day was boring as hell if you decided to take part in a drug bust job." She said, Serena gave her a blank look in return.
"Like you would not believe, all the new transfiguration and charms spells are going to be simple to learn and I already know all the basic and most of the intermediate knowledge for Arithmancy and Runes, I swear if I didn't have to come here for my cover and because you don't trust Dumbles I would be out of here so fast I would leave a smoke trail." Serena said grabbing her bag of gear.
"Well, you do, now suck it up and let's get going." She said handing Serena a bag of specially blended Floo powder of her own mix that was untraceable by any normal or magical means. Taking a handful Serena stepped in and was whiskered away to meet up with the other's.
"Am I the only one who find's it strange that whenever we have drug bust mission's we always have to do it in some run down apartment building or a freaking abandon warehouse?" Serena asked with a dull look as she gazed out at the roof of the warehouse they were supposed to take.
"No, drug dealer's think it's inconspicuous or some shit like that. Why do you think most don't last long?" Malicov asked.
Him, Serena and Jasmine currently were standing on top of a high tower in a dock yard looking down at their target, some shady hideout for a local crime loaded who was moving illegal narcotics that they needed to bring down and destroy.
Now, in no way were they doing this as vigilante heroes or for the cops or anything like that, they couldn't care less if some mob boss wanted to see drugs, hell they had helped move some from time to time if it payed well. They were a WANTED mercenary group, if it payed enough they would do it whether illegal or legal. The only reason they were doing this was because some big wig wanted it done and was paying top dollar for it.
"So how we do this, stealth and magic or loud and muggle?" Malicov asked them.
"We should probably do it as a mixed bag, take out the guards quietly and kill the leader—maybe pump him for some info first—then just blow the place sky high with charges." Jasmine said.
"YES, we shall make it burn in a fiery ball of death!" The Russian man shouted excitedly.
'It's times like these I wonder how none of us have ever been positively I.D'd by any form of law enforcement?' Serena thought, that was the only reason she could live a semi normal life and go to school, no one knew who they really were. Hey, you can't be the best with your picture everywhere.
Pulling herself from her thought's she stood and followed as her other two partners began zip-lining down to the warehouse, channeling some magic she began to float and flew down with them. She was so happy she mastered wind magic for times like these.
Once they landed on the roof the slipped in silently and began working the upper catwalks first, moving forward to deal with the guards that were patrolling the upper levels. Fast and silently, Serena moved from cover to cover throwing out nonverbal spells to kill her targets. She didn't need any dark magic like a killing curse, simple charms that no one expected could do the job just as much.
Once the upper levels were clear she worked her way down and saw the warehouse was bustling with activity as hundreds of kilos of narcotics were moved, she was half tempted to steal some and see if she could sell if off at Hogwarts and make a quick buck. Since wizard's of Britain looked down on muggle's so much it would be so easy to pass them off as anything she wanted and they would probably buy it. Plus it would be funny as hell probably to see doped up wizards casting spells.
"Don't even think about it you lady, nothing that can be traced back to us." Jasmine warned her when she saw the thoughtful look on Serena's face.
"Aww but, I wanted to see what happens when wizards are high on crack." Serena whined softly.
"No!" Jasmine said ending the conversation, huffing Serena followed them down to the main office and quietly watched as Jasmine picked the lock, fast as ever it was done and the three slipped inside.
"So, who want's to break the guy this time." Serena asked looking at the two, Interrogation was never her thing so she was out but, both Jasmine and Malicov were the teams specialist for the area and it was always interesting watching them work.
A mini glare off started between the two as they raised their hands and—incredibly—played a game of rock-paper-scissors to see who did it, in the end Malicov one and silently cheered before pulled open the office door and went inside to confront the man in charge.
They didn't hear anything—probably because Malicov put a silencing charm on the room so no one heard the screams of agony—but they knew the Russian was doing his job well.
After twenty minutes Malicov returned and dusted his hands off, his shirt had some blood stains on it but, overall he seemed relatively clean.
"Anything interesting we can sell to our client for a nice bonus." Jasmine asked him.
"Seems these men are under contract, some low grade syndicate shit. Nothing huge, probably will get hired to kill off the leaders at a later date anyway." Malicov said shrugging, nothing to huge but, hey it could make some more bank.
"Well, then let's blow this place to high hell and get going." Jasmine said shrugging and making Malicov grin happily, he was a true Russian man with a love for high class demolition.
Heading below to the ground floor the quickly skirted around the guard's and started planting explosives at key points around the building, Serena kept her eyes peeled as they did so for her own reason.
Criminal or not she had something of a rule that the others respected, if any operation had kids under the age of 18 working for them then she would let them know they were endanger and generally got them out before they killed anyone. The other's usually didn't say anything about it since it painted them in a good light with some families for saving their kid which sometimes helped them in the long run with favors they could call in.
Once the place was scoped and she saw no underage kids she nodded and planted the last of the charges before returning to the roof with the other two members of the group and headed back to the tower they had originally started on.
After they arrived Malicov began to chuckle and reached into his pouch, grabbing the detonator he pulled it out and flicked the switch open before letting a moment pass, then he pressed the button.
The whole place sparked for a moment before going up in a large ball of fire and making them shield their faces, thankfully they were far enough away to avoid any kind of debris from the explosion. Malicov let out a made cackle as he watched the show while the two girls looked at it impassively.
"He always get's so happy when he gets to blow stuff up." Serena commented before checking her watch and found that the whole job had taken less then an hour, meaning she could still get back to Hogwarts and get a full night sleep before classes started in the morning.
"So, do I need to go with you to pick up the payment or will you just send it to me with Shadow." Serena asked gazing at the two, Malicov had finally calmed down and returned to his normal self.
"No, you go back to the school and get some sleep. We'll send your share of the payment along with whatever bonus we managed to snag along with Shadow in a day or two after we get everything sorted and divided." Jasmine said, Serena nodded and vanished on the spot as she headed back to the base.
Sighing, the tired witch walked back up to her dorm having just arrived back at the castle by the Floo powder.
Once upstairs she worked as silently as she could to undress and not wake up Tracy or Daphne so they did't ask to many hard to answer questions about what she was up to at that time or night or why she was dressed the way she was.
Finally she gave a tried and happy breath as she played back and pulled the covers over herself, they day may have started bad but, it had ended on a high note.
With her final thoughts on a job well done she drifted off into a comfortable sleep.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, its me Tenzo.
So here is the latest chapter for fallen Angel, I hope this one proves a point I wanted to make. This story is not a freaking kiddie story and it will never be. There will be death, drug references, innuendos, and everything under the sun so just be warned. It's M for a reason.
Anyway keeping this sort, as always, like, review and all that. PEACE.