AN: Greetings everyone, this chapter is being released a bit earlier because I actually broke up the previous chapter into two because I thought it would be better to end it after the alley scene. I hope you all are enjoying the story so far. Also, Lilith's new hairstyle is similar to unladylike from Fallout 4, just a little longer with more hair on the front, which is where I got the idea if you want to look up an image of it

Anyway cosmetics aside ill answer some comments:

Sphinx360: Lilith is starting to use more and more spells to draw the attention of the Ministry of Magic. She will still use her kagune but it will be suspected to be from spells in the future.

DragonKnight Shaun – I like Hermione as a character but she would never approve of Lilith if I stuck to the canon version of the girl. Therefore I added a bit of cunning to the large mix of intelligence so she is forced to ally herself with Lilith.

WinxPossible: The story is taking place in the Tokyo Ghoul time period, so it is the 21st century. As for the souls, you will just have to find out :)

I really appreciate your feedback guys, and I hope I keep making great content to inspire such great comments. But enough with the mushy stuff and time for the 2nd book in the series.

Lilith Cain and The Game of Kings

Chapter 10

The Boy Who Lost

(Two months later)

"Faster!"

Lilith panted as she punched the black bag in front of her faster and faster as the heavy bag swung around.

"Kick!"

She spun around and began to kick the bag around while altering foot to foot. After several minutes of this her fighting instructor commanded she go through several more exercises before allowing her a small break.

With a sigh she took one of her towels and used it to wipe the sweat off her brow. Her instructor liked to push his students to the limit for them to improve, which was how she liked it.

It was here that she learned the skills necessary to be a ghoul and vigilante. After seven years of instruction she was now a black belt in martial arts, far outstripping her sensei's other pupils.

She sat down and took a long draft from her water bottle as her teacher walked over "The national championships are approaching this winter so I want you to practice in your spare time at your boarding school. I wouldn't want my star pupil to not be prepared."

Lilith nodded, smiling slightly as she thought of the ass kicking she would give all her competition.

Smiling her sensei patted her shoulder "Why don't you head home early, you are going shopping later for your school supplies no?"

Lilith nodded, knowing that she had received her school supplies list yesterday and had decided to go shopping after practice "Alright sensei, thank you."

Her teacher smiled "Any time Lilith. Enjoy your year at school."

She nodded and after packing her gear, making her way out the door and unlocking her bicycle and began riding towards her apartment.

As she sped by she contemplated the situation over the past two months. Her actions at BBC had unleashed a storm of controversy and discussion in Britain that was watched around the world. The evidence that she had provided was seen globally, making it so the British Parliament could not simply take it off the internet. Many corrupt politicians had already resigned and the stubborn ones were under trial, likely to be kicked out of office.

Besides the drama in politics, she had been going around the city murdering criminals and eating their souls. She did not know the long term effects of eating souls but she could simply not resist the taste of them. Nocturne Alley proved useless on the effects of eating souls except information on Dementors. Once she returned to Hogwarts she would investigate further.

Speaking of the Wizarding world she had kept up on the Daily Prophet and was happy to see that they were already warning the public of a potential dark wizard in the Muggle world, meaning that they had already informed muggle parliament about it.

For now, the CCG would most likely not interfere.

She stopped outside her apartment, and after freshening up and pulling on her special cloak, now in its trench coat form, along with a red blouse and jeans. She then equipped her wand and knife to special wrist holders she had purchased from Diagon Alley on one of her numerous visits. She didn't put on any makeup, not really caring if she looked perfect or not. After checking to make sure she had her shopping list she walked out and made her way to Diagon Alley to do her school shopping.

(Diagon Alley)

Lilith walked down the alleyway, drawing quite a few stares at her new hairstyle. She had decided to have such a unique style to differentiate herself further from the British wizarding world. Plus, she was a fighter and did not want to be underestimate by having such a nice girl hairstyle that she used to have.

If anyone judged her or disliked her hair style they would have to deal with it. And her fists for that matter.

As she walked down the street, her trench coat rustling in the breeze. Lilith stared down at her second year book list with a skeptical eye. Why on earth would she need all of Gilderoy Lockhart's book collection? She had heard of the celebrated author but thought he seemed fake.

However, the professor must feel they were somehow relevant to their education so she would just have to purchase them.

Walking up to the bookstore she scowled as she saw the line of teenage to middle age to even a few ancient looking witches all standing in the line. A sign next to the entrance advertised that Gilderoy Lockhart was doing a book signing on his autobiography.

Lilith sighed before shoving her way into the store, earning herself scandalized looks from prudes about her outfit and her hair.

Grabbing the books from her list quickly she made her way upstairs to get some breathing room, and to find humor on the almost riot of desperate woman below her. She also had an excellent view of the door and was able to see the Malfoy family as well as the Weasley, Potter, and Granger family enter.

She sighed in resignation, she could see Malfoy making a fool of himself easily, as well as the rest of the Slytherin house in the presence of his "rivals." She stayed on the railings waiting for Malfoy to do something stupid so she could show up the blond ponce in front of his father.

She had her chance when her former brother, Granger, and some of the Weasley family began to leave and Draco stopped them to taunt William.

Lilith grinned as she stepped behind him and wrapped her arm around his shoulder and spoke softly, but the entire group could hear her easily "Dracooo, we talked about this. What did I say about you using such unsubtle methods to pick a fight? What are you a Gryffindor?"

Draco paled even further as he noticed who was currently so close to him. He seemed to pull up some of his former bravado before saying "My father will hear of this Lilith."

Lilith sighed before releasing Malfoy and kicking him away, causing the brat to stumble "Yeah tell your father you were picking a fight with schoolyard taunts, you blond bitch."

She watched the platinum blond walk away. She narrowed her eyes however as she could hear the Gryffindor's sniggering and she turned her apathetic gaze to the six people "So. You're the supposed cheaters of Gryffindor."

That wiped their smirks right off and switched to glares. William smirked arrogantly "Slimy snakes don't deserve to win the house cup. Besides, Dumbledore obviously saw that our deeds were worth the amount of points we earned."

Lilith rolled her eyes, how could they even be related again? "Sure, brat, whatever you say."

William seemed to swell with anger "Oi, you will treat me with respect! I am the Boy who lived!"

Lilith narrowed her eyes "Yeah. No. I will not respect a brat who can't even tell me how he managed to defeat the Dark Lord."

William seemed to grow even angrier at her words, if that was possible, before shouting "I challenge you to a duel!"

That silenced the bookstore as everyone looked over to see the person who challenged someone to a duel. The Daily profit reporter abandoned Gilderoy and began snapping pictures of Britain's Golden boy and an unknown girl standing off.

Out of the corner of her eye she could see Lily and James Potter trying to force their way through the crowd, obviously trying to stop their son from causing a scene.

Before they could make their way to them Lilith smirked at the arrogant prick before saying "I accept, shall we take this to the courtyard?" The courtyard was a section of Diagon Alley that was often used for recreation such as gobstones or picnics, also unofficially a great place for dueling.

William nodded "You are on."

Finally, Lily and James made their way over and were about to reprimand their son and stop the fight before Malfoy Senior came over "Well, well, what do we have here? I have not seen a light side heir challenge a muggleborn for a long time. Of course since your son issued an official challenge he has no chance to refuse.

Lilith ignored the argument start between the two families as she made her way out the door, calling over her shoulder "Courtyard at twelve Potter, and don't be late."

Walking out with a smirk she checked her clock and saw that it was twenty minutes till noon, it was time to humiliate her former family.

(The Courtyard)

Lilith stood at the end of the middle path of the Courtyard waiting for her foolish brother to arrive. She didn't have to wait long as the group from the bookstore arrived, sans the Malfoy family.

James Potter approached her and spoke quietly "Look, I do not know what your disagreement is with my son, but he has been training since a young age in dueling, please just let this go before you embarrass yourself."

Lilith raised an eyebrow before drawing her wand at blinding speeds and pointed it at James Potter's crotch "Move" She commanded.

James Paled before walking to the side and speaking to both duelists "I will act as referee, no dark spells or attempt to kill will be performed by either side. If you are both ready? Begin!"

Lilith quickly raised her wand and transformed a steel riot shield from the ground beneath her and raised it to block a fast stunner that the brat cast at her. The steel blocking the rather weak spell with a deep pinging sound. She had copied the tactic from Voldemort who had demonstrated how useful a shield could be in a wizard's duel.

After blocking a few more spells, while advanced, were nothing compared to her and began to go on the offensive, chaining together her spells to break down her brother's defense. She turned the ground beneath him to sand to prevent him from moving, doused him in water before sparks began shooting out of her wand at the ponce, electrocuting him.

William however, proved that he was not completely incompetent and managed to shield most of the sparks and got out of the sand pit before sending a moderately powerful banisher in her direction.

She once again raised her shield and began pushing against the banisher, slowly walking towards her brother while using the small glass window in the shield to get closer to him.

Once she was closer to him she laughed "You call that a banisher? I will show you how it's done!" She threw her shield in front of her and cast a strong banisher that made the door side shield slam into William, driving him across the courtyard and slammed into a wall that surrounded the park.

James looked very reluctant to admit it but spoke "Winner…" he looked questioningly at the girl who had beaten his son easily.

Lilith sheathed her wand before glancing at her bastard of a father "Lilith. Lilith Cain."

James paled at the name, glancing at her short red hair and green eyes before looking as if he had seen a ghost.

Lilith continued, ignoring any possible connections or theories that James was making in his head "Since we did not put any terms to the duel I will not ask for anything, but I will be looking forward to tomorrow's daily prophet."

James looked down at her, knowing the newspapers would have a field day with this duel before speaking "You are not making any friends here Miss Cain."

Lilith smirked "Never had any, never wanted them. He rolled the dice and lost the game. All I did was play. And he…" she paused as she began walking away "Is just a loser."

James looked angry "Is this all a game to you? The reputation of the Potter family is not to be taken lightly!"

"Life is a game James Potter. Your son lost. Deal with it. But excuse me, I have stuff to do than bother with last century style politics." Lilith said with a roll of her eyes and excited the courtyard, ignoring the crying William, who appeared to have a broken arm, and the angry, yet questioning look that Lily Potter sent her way.

As she exited the court yard she was ambushed by a witch who looked to be more fake than a drug dealer. The woman smiled a fake smile and adjusted her fake diamond studded glasses before speaking "Greetings sweetie, my name is..."

"Rita Skeeter, reporter for the Daily Prophet, I know. What do you want." Lilith interrupted, in no mood to tolerate any bullshit.

Somehow Rita managed to make her smile seem even more fake as she continued "Well, I wanted to ask you a few questions about your duel with William Potter."

"Ask away, I don't really care." Lilith sighed, knowing it would be worse if she didn't answer the woman's questions.

"What started the duel between you and the Heir of House Potter?" Rita asked quickly, as if trying to catch her off guard with the pace of the questions.

Lilith rolled her eyes "We got into a disagreement with the points given at the end of last year. Professor Dumbledore awarded William and his group over two hundred points after the points had already been tallied, without giving a valid reason for the points awarded. Needless to say Potter did not take that well and challenged me to a duel."

Rita nodded, with a gleam in her eye before rapidly asking questions to the girl, who answered them calmly and decisively, making herself seem unimportant while pointing out facts about Potter and Dumbledore to distract Rita from asking any personal questions about herself.

After the interview slash interrogation Rita walked off with a smirk, thinking she had won that encounter, not knowing that she was going to write exactly what Lilith wanted.

Lilith sighed happily, knowing that her day could not get any better. She humiliated Malfoy, beat her brat of a brother in a duel, and shamed the Potters.

She left the alley with a skip in her step.

(Platform 9 and ¾)

Lilith walked through the entryway of the Platform, ignoring the looks she was receiving from the people already on the platform. The news that Britain's Golden boy had lost to a muggleborn in a duel spread like wildfire. With her subtle manipulations, Rita Skeeter's article had speculated that she was trying to get justice for the wrong doings of Dumbledore unfairly awarding points so William could win the House cup.

She didn't appreciate how Skeeter described her as a delinquent who had instigated the fight, but it could be argued that she was a delinquent, albeit a very smart one.

Regardless of how Skeeter portrayed her the wizarding world lost a lot of faith in the fighting ability of their boy hero. Many purebloods scoffed at a pureblood heir losing to a girl of low birth while half-bloods and muggleborns were seeing her as some patriot for muggleborns standing up to pure bloods.

Honestly she didn't care how she was portrayed, but how William had lost a lot of reputation.

With a satisfied smirk at her thoughts she entered the last carriage of the train as usual before settling down and opening a book on official dueling. The duel between her and William sparked an interest for the sport.

She had even unknowingly used a rather famous tactic that Godric Gryffindor, ironically, had invented. The Guard point stance was an old knight wizard technique where a wizard would summon a shield and use their wand as their "sword" to attack.

She had liked the style, but felt it was a bit boring to use. A shield limited her movement and made it so she had a limited view of her opponent. Her greatest strength was her endurance and agility, which would mean she should look up a more fluid stance.

She was broken out of her musing when the compartment door opened and Tracy, Daphne, Theodore, and Blaise entered the compartment, each greeting her before they sat down. Tracy, ever the rumor monger, started the conversation "Lilith! Is it true you actually out dueled Potter?"

Lilith nodded, smirking as she remembered the brat's look of pain. "Yes, I made the brat pay for last year's loss."

The conversation went off from there, ranging from topics of politics (Blaise and Daphne), Quidditch (Theodore), and her "scandalous" hairstyle (Tracy).

"So, I am planning on trying out for the Quidditch team this year, I bought a nimbus a few days ago in Diagon Alley" Lilith remarked as the discussion on mundane fashion trends died down. A subject that Blaise had a suspiciously vast knowledge on.

In truth she had bought the broom in case she needed a quick escape from the police. Except it seems she had overestimated the auror and police force, she had not needed to use it once. Since it was just gaining dust instead of removing it she had practiced a little and found she enjoyed flying.

Theodore's eyes practically sparkled, the Quidditch nut, before asking "Ohh, what position are you going to try out for?"

Lilith smirked "Beater of course, I will enjoy inflicting pain on the enemy teams."

Before anyone could respond they heard over the speaker system that they were five minutes away from the school.

They headed to the exit the train and made their way to the carriages. As Lilith made her way to a carriage she stared at the skeletal horses that were pulling the carriages. She frowned as she observed the Thestrals, if what she read in a dark creature book was correct.

They could only be seen from people who had seen death.

As she sat down in the carriage she could not help but think how many twelve year olds had entered this castle with a kill count spanning over a hundred.

She tried to think that it bothered her that she was a killer. She had always told herself things to distract herself that she was a murderer.

They deserved it.

They were scum.

She was protecting people.

They were not human.

They were animals.

It's either you or them.

People like them killed father.

She sighed before returning to her group's conversation, now in a somber mood from the skeletal horses that slowly dragged their carriage to the illuminated castle.

(Great Hall)

Dumbledore stood up from the teacher's table as everyone sat down and sorted. She had mostly ignored the sorting and his speech, only briefly noting that there was now another Weasley.

She only payed attention when Dumbledore announced Quirrelmort's replacement "And I am pleased to announce that Gilderoy Lockhart will now be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Lilith really wanted to face palm. She had observed Lockhart during the Bookstore incident and already knew he was as fraud as you could get. She was a master liar and could spot one a mile away. And Lockhart almost stank of deceit.

She also noticed that many of the Slytherins also had looks of disgust to exasperation.

After a few more words to the students Dumbledore sat down and the feast appeared. She filled her plate. She had made a new method to pretend she was eating a full meal last year. She speared a piece of broccoli before putting it in her mouth, before immediately banishing it inside her mouth.

The only thing she ate was the pork chop she had put on her plate, which seemed even more tasteless than before.

Eventually after the feast ended and they were all gathered into the Common Room. Snape gave his annual speech to the first years.

After the regular house members dispersed the Sixth Year King, Arron Rowle, who was now the seventh year king until the King's game could be conducted had them all gather in the meeting room.

They all sat at their respective seats, the first year seat empty until after the Christmas Holidays.

Rowle started the conversation "Well then, welcome to another year at Hogwarts. For our newer members…" He glanced at Lilith and Rosier "The King of Slytherin House has the right to begin a Game of Kings."

Lilith raised an eyebrow questioningly while Rosier folded his arms together.

"The Game of Kings is an objective that once completed by one of the Kings will ensure their place for another year, as well as great reputation within the house until the next game."

Nott looked at the 7th year and asked "What is the game this time then?"

Rowle smirked darkly "We are going to help the curse of the DADA position this year."

Everyone at the table smirked in ways that would make any Gryffindor run in terror.

It was going to be a fun year.

AN: And that's that for the first chapter of the second book. I hope everyone enjoyed Lilith beating William up as much as I did. Anyway as always if you have any question or simply wish to comment feel free to send me it in a PM or post it as a review. See you all next time.