Hey, my readers. I know, I'm late, so late, but in my defence, we are building over here, and, well, I might have thought I had already posted this Chapter... Oh, and to those that review about my paragraphs, how are they in this chapter?
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People, slowly getting used to not worrying about the dead, suddenly screamed as the dead began to rise once more, except this time, they began to kill.
"Pitch! No!"
"The power!" a blast from him sent all of them flying and slamming against a wall, dark spirits appearing and grabbing them. Screams unlike anything they had ever heard before made itself known as poltergeists made of what looked like sand went around, throwing everything aside.
"What are they?" Tooth demanded as she tried to escape.
"Dreams that went bad" was all Hallows would say as one went a bit too close. He felt it, all the Gateways were being forced to open. Pitch had no idea what he was doing!
"Soon, the world will bow before me!" Pitch shouted.
"Pitch, stop! You have no idea what..." he was thrown aside and landed by North "North, free me! Only I have the needed power!" North nodded before unlocking the chains as Pitch released the Gateways, releasing a pulse. Something happened; never before had the Gateways been fully released, and as Hallows stood up, the pulse ran over him.
He roared as more power than ever before exploded from him, and as Pitch watched with a smirk, Hallows changed. The snow clouds outside changed to storm clouds and lightning struck the ice as Hallows grew taller, easily three metres, and his already muscled body increased in size to that of a medium to major bodybuilder while the sides of his neck seemed to bulge out. He howled in pain as it seemed to spread up, going around his head before the growth seemed to crack and split apart, continuing as if a growth, creating two masses of flesh that formed two extra heads that joined in the howling while his shoulders moved down his body and, like his head, split into three. He fell down and, as he stopped howling, he panted, calming himself with all three heads.
Pitch, though, was no longer smirking as Hallows had to use his extra arms to move his extra heads up. It was also then that the fire seemed to run down his back, since all three heads had the fire, and they joined just below his top shoulders, running down his back in a thick stream of fire and ending at his tail. Bits of fire ran sideways and almost seemed to wrap around his legs and six arms in downwards curving spirals, and the pads on his paws seemed to have a small amount of fire on them.
He examined himself before growling at Pitch who took a step back, so would you if a 9, just short of 10 foot wolf with three heads, six arms and actual fire as part of its fur, with wings that could make it go faster than any known animal, was growling at you with all three mouths. Pitch quickly vanished in shadows, only just dodging Hallows' almost unseen attack. North did not seem to care as Hallows' fifteen claws, him only using his right arms, easily scratched through the wall while the ghosts left. Sitting was impossible, so he lay down, very much like a dog, but he kept on growling.
"Hallows, what kind of danger can Pitch do?" Tooth asked.
"One Gateway gives me enough power, even when linked to another, to crack a wall with a punch at full strength. All of them combined is enough to make me almost equal to the Man in the Moon, at full power. It's half the reason he tried to get me to work for him, but now, I think my power might be even, if not above his. But now... That ring is linked to all Gateways, and my power before... this?" he indicated himself with his right arms "He shall have that level of power. First thing I have to do, train my new arms... Bunny, feel up to some hand to hand?"
"With ya like that? I think not, mate" Bunny smirked.
"Aw, is the widdle bunny wabbit scared of the big bad wolf?" he gave a rather toothy grin, one of which caused Hermione to shudder while Bunny glared.
"I'm not scared of some... overstuffed wolf!" Bunny immediately attacked, and the fight began.
Weeks passed, and already, life was a nightmare, not that Pitch had access to Nightmares anymore. Just like in the past, some humans joined his side for power, each being granted abilities, only this time, Hallows did not listen to the Man in the Moon's attempt to stop him as he mercilessly beat them into submission.
There was one problem, though, anything that was dead, human or animal, and as long as it was on or in Earth, could not rest, and after the tenth time you go against a T-Rex, all bones, that keeps on going back together no matter how many times you knock it apart, or destroy the bones, although he did have fun playing catch... One problem, though, was that no meat could be eaten, it all just came back to life. Hallows was not amused, he preferred meat, not this... rabbit food! Bunny, though, was enjoying his suffering. Why is it that when a person makes another upset, it's a crime, or when a bad guy, or in his case, former bad guy, suffers, it's justice?
Pitch, the few times he had been seen, had the ring on his hand, glowing with a black, emerald green, and blood red light. With it, he somehow granted humans different powers, intangibility, the ability to go through things, telekinesis, the ability to move objects with their mind, and invisibility, to be able to become unseen, were just three of the powers he gave to those that followed him, although after that, it was pretty much a random chance with what they got. He had gone against one that could float while another could possess others, something of which Hallows not only sealed, he beat the person almost to death. No one could possess the living but him! At the moment, they sat down in North's Office.
"With that ring, he is nearly invincible!" North stated.
"What about time travel?" Hermione asked.
"Huh! Impossible. Whoever went back would have two of them, and trust me, us, they couldn't meet"
"What about overloading a Time Turner?" Albus asked.
"A Time Turner?" Tooth asked.
"British Ministry of Magic devices capable of taking one a couple of hours into the past,
but to overload the thing...
there are runes to work against such a thing. And I, we, would have to go.
This all started with my, our, losing of Paul, of my, our, son;
if I can change the past just enough for that to not happen,
then I, we, wouldn't go mad with grief, and hopefully this won't happen" the thing about having three heads, it was like as though he was Fred and George, but with one more, and while he, or they, could control it, he sometimes used all three. It really and truly confused others, and he enjoyed it.
"Would you have the required power?" Albus asked.
"Yes, but I'd have no idea of the results. I could send myself back to when time itself began, or just a second into the past, and only I would know" he answered, putting his upper-most arm on his right side on his chin while placing the others on the above wrist, making them tap a bit. Hermione chuckled while shaking her head and looking down; he had full control over what his arms did, and he was only doing this to amuse himself.
"Then here, I thought it might come in handy" Albus tossed a Time Turner at him, and catching it, he looked at the small device. What would happen?
Pitch laughed as he looked at the humans who feared him, glad at what was happening. Soon, he would have the power to destroy the Guardians, and when that happened, nothing would stop him!
Looking at the small, yet powerful, device in his paw, he frowned before calming down. Closing his eyes, he gathered his magic and, when his eyes suddenly opened, those around him took a step back, for they glowed with untold power. Visible bolts of magic began to 'attack' the Time Turner as he slowly forced his power to interfere with the object. He felt as his magic managed to create a hole in the Time Turner's runes, a small hole in which it slowly began to boost the power of the sands. This was a two part job, for his power had to keep it open and slowly power it up. Slowly, the golden sand brightened until it glowed with power
"Do you really think that you could ever harm me?" a voice demanded, and turning, they saw a smirking Pitch.
"You'll need all the help you can get, Pitch" was all Hallows said before turning it, and after a flash of gold, he knew no more.
