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:/ I know that it has been a long time, but I have been in the process of writing my own book and of course exams, but I will say that I'll try to write when I can!
Chapter 4: Rumpelstiltskin
"The Dark One?!" Came the shouting voice of Draco, the eyes of the men from Lockharts collective staring at the well dressed man. He straightened his hat a little and smirked at the group.
"Why yes, that is what I just said, was it not? ha! How curious you humans get, I will always find it amusing, you and your emotions." He spun around to stare at Lockharts collective and chuckled "You all, are dismissed. You will not be needed I can assure you." He then bowed "My condolences for your wasted time, but be rest assured that you will be paid for your time keeping this place 'secure'." He stated using his hands to make air quotes. He moved as though he had just noticed Lockhart's still half melted form "Oh! I forget that some collectives can't move unless their leader does something." He then placed his lips to his wand and a quick melody came from the wand and Lockhart returned to normal, even his grey hair became blonde and combed back once again. "Cindy!" the little girl that had asked for the Hogwarts Guild group to come ran up to the Dark One "Can you give this pompous twat that bag of coins I gave you?" The little girl nodded her head and gave Lockhart the bag of gold, the man began walking up towards the Pied Piper his hand on the handle of his sword.
"A bag of gold?! Are you kidding me? This is nothing in comparison to what we were gonna get paid by the council!" He pulled the sword from its sheath "So be prepared to die Dark One!" He began an enslaught of swings at the well dressed man but was getting progressively angry at his constant misses "DIE YOU FUCKER!" he screamed.
The Pied Piper remained stoic as Gilderoy swung for him, moving slightly each time missing the hits. "Your not going to succeed. Now I recommend you leave now before I am forced to make you leave." Gilderoy just swore back, his men getting closer and beginning to cheer him on.
Harry thought to himself about how this Gilderoy had more skill than the one he knew back in his own world, but knew that this guy was just as hated.
"Fine. I warned you. Goodbye Ser Gilderoy Lockhart." he spun his wand to his lips and a low haunting tone came from the wooden object and within an instance the collective of men had vanished. The Pied Piper seemed proud of himself at erasing a nuisance such as Lockhart, but was distracted from relishing in his small victory by the feeling of someone tugging at the hem of his blazer, he looked down and saw the long hair man that Lockhart had thrown. "Yes, what is it... Rumpelstiltskin?"
"I-I wanted t-to know... w-why didn't you s-send me away?" The cowering man asked
The Dark One chuckled "Because you weren't one of them. Not really, besides, you'll be useful to this team." he turned around to look at Harry, Draco, Neville and Luna "Now isn't this a team that looks like they can do what you need of them." It was at this point that the group remembered that they were there to defeat the Dark One, and so all reached for their wands, but not realising that the Dark One was quicker with his wand, and within an instant they were frozen sitting down by a fire, sitting on logs, and looking at the Pied Piper. Once they had fully taken in the power he had with a single movement of his wand to his mouth, he took it away from his mouth and they all unfroze. Harry was sitting next to the boy that the Pied Piper had called Rumpelstiltskin, and the other three sat together, with the Dark One sitting on his own.
"So. Before I begin, may i enquire whether or not you all know why you have been asked here?" Draco replied first, what an idiot.
"To kill you?"
"HA! ahahaha! Bloody hell, if I knew you were oblivious too I probably wouldn't have asked you here!" He laughed at Draco a bit more
"Is it because you wanted us specifically to complete a task that you have for us but couldn't directly put a notice for due to the nature of your occupation?" Luna asked, everyones gobsmacked expressions staring at her
"You are quite the smart one aren't you. Yes! You are absolutely right m'dear, I have a mission for you that I couldn't put on your notice boards due to the whole 'me being the Dark One means i must want to kill you' thing that the Council seem to have in their heads. I can't imagine why. I personally haven't done much killing to be honest." he said, tilting his hat back a tiny bit
"But you're the Dark One" Draco replied seeming dumbfounded
"Just because I'm the Dark One doesn't mean I have to kill. Just means that I can do it and not feel any remorse at all, which is fun and all, I just don't really feel the need to kill when there are other ways to torture a soul. Killing is too quick. Too final, too... well it just leaves a sour taste in my mouth is all." The Pied Piper replied
"Ah... makes sense, so do we always have to call you the Dark One all the time?" Neville asked
"No, wouldn't you hate it if everytime I spoke to you I said Neville Longbottom of House Longbottom, Wizard of the Hogwarts Guild, it'd get boring wouldn't it?" Everyone nodded "So just for your benefit, and I have yet to give this to others. You five may refer to me as either Peter, or the Pied Piper."
"B-but wouldn't you prefer us to call you by the title that you have earned b-being the lord of all darkness?" Rumple asked
"Ha! I'll let you in on a little secret, I didn't earn the title by being the only embodiment of pure darkness and the title Dark Lord Peter Pied Piper appear on every document I own, I had to find the power, and take it for myself. After the last Dark One got outed, the position became available and I thought that the power was just too sweet to just let go." Peter told the group "I don't care what I tell you, because frankly I doubt that you'll get the chance to remember it after today, but enough about little old me, lets get on to the mission. As I'm sure you've all heard, there is a beanstalk with a giant on top of it?" Everyone nodded to the Dark One, Harry remembered the story from nursery "Well, there's currently a war brewing up in the clouds, and I can imagine that the border between the ground adnd the clouds will soon be closed, and since I'm banned from entering Giants Country by magical barriers that I haven't quite managed to figure out, I'll need the five of you, to go to the castle of the Giant King, and take the sword that belonged to the wizard Jack. The one that was going to cut down the beanstalk during the previous Giants War. I can give you a map and everything. I just need that map." Peter told the group. "As a reward, I'll give you anything you wish. As the Dark One I can procure anything for you." He boldly stated to the group.
"Could I ask why you chose me to stay? Even if I-I'm not really one of Lockharts men?" Rumple asked
"Because, you are the wielder of Caliburn, a powerful sword from Camelot and it'll help you all on your journey.
Harry's eyes widened, he knew the legends from his original reality. Caliburn was the little brother to the legendary sword Excalibur, was this Rumpelstiltskin some kind of Arthur Pendragon type in this world?
To Be Continued...