"Where is Helga? I would like to thank her for saving Tonk's and my life." Professor McGonagall asked.
Madam Pomfrey's smile started to fade.
"What's wrong ?" Professor McGonagall asked. "After you went into a coma, Helga and Rowena had a mission on increasing the security and wards of the castle. But they disappeared along with a handful of students after receiving a distress call from one of our students." Poppy explained.
"Which student had sent out a distress call?" Professor McGonagall asked.
Poppy Pomfrey looked at Professor McGongall and replied "Harry Potter."
*The Story Continues*
"What!?" Professor McGonagall screamed. The hall suddenly went quiet when everyone heard Professor McGonagall's outburst. "Why didn't anyone tell me about this?" Professor McGonagall asked angrily.
Pomfrey defended herself "You were in a healing coma for several hours when you were injured. Not to mention that the patronus Harry sent as a distress call was for you directly but you were unconscious due to the spell damage so don't you dare place the blame on me." Madam Pomfrey said angrily.
Just at the moment, the doors of the great hall of Hogwarts had opened. Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin came in and approached McGonagall and Kingsley Shacklebolt who was helping the uninjured.
Godric opened his mouth and said "Our wives are missing .We cannot locate them anywhere in this area. I fear that they are in danger."
Salazar thought of possible scenarios and said "Or maybe they are transported away to another place. We have to cast spells at the location on where they have disappeared just to be sure."
McGonagall looked at them and said "Let's go. The students are supposed to be my responsibility in the first place and I failed them." Professor McGonagall looked like she was in pain when her students are in danger.
"No. You must stay and rest, no exceptions Minerva" Madam Pomfrey strictly said.
Minerva McGonagall irritably went back to her bed with Madam Pomfrey fussing over her. Godric and Salazar looked at Professor McGonagall sympathetically. "We will keep you need to rest." and they left.
Professor McGonagall looked like she is about to spit fire at the thought of resting. Madam Pomfrey came to her with a bunch of potions asking for her to drink, she immediately drank them all and said that she was going to the others. Madam Pomfrey tried to stop her but Professor McGonagall immediately cast a silencing charm and a immobilising charm on her. McGonagall responded " I know that you are doing your job Poppy, but they are my students. I cannot fail them again. Not to mention the potions are helping at a fast rate with the anti-fatality ward restoring my energy and healing my injury. I hope that you can understand." After that , Professor McGonagall left. Madam Pomfrey was so shocked and so moved that she started to cry and pray silently that this was not the last time she will see Professor McGonagall. She also prayed for everyone's safe return.
At theRoom ofRequirement
Godric and Salazar had reach the Room of Requirement but felt something was extremely wrong. They pulled out their wands and had managed to dispel the trap on the doorknob of the Room of Requirement.
However, the moment they opened the door, they were stunned to see that there was more than one Voldermort in the room waiting for them.
Voldermort hissed in amusement and said " There is nothing you can do for those boys. They are gone and have travelled to the beyond. There is no hope for them at all."
"Lies!" Salazar and Godric shouted and immediately cast many chain spells at the multiple Voldermorts. The chain spells barely passed through to Voldermorts as they had merely waved the spells away by casting a shield.
Soon, both Salazar and Godric began to tire and tried all their strategies to kill the Voldermorts while the Voldermorts were taunting them that they are useless and weak to save their precious ones but it was no use.
"Stupefy! Incendio! Patrificus Totalus! Levicorpus! Solus inflammarae!"
"Wingardium Leviosa! Vera Verto Totalus Vertum! Tempus Totalus! Mioverta Vertum Ascendio Maxima!"
The Voldermorts just laugh and manage to push Godric and Salazar while changing the scenario of the room at the same time. They were all standing on the cliff side where Godric and Salazar were at the edge fighting for their lives.
Just then, Voldermort's expression suddenly turned from a happy enjoyable expression to a fearful and scared expression .Godric and Salazar were confused and started to take advantage of the situation by casting numerous spells at him.
Voldermort just scowled at them and stunned them saying "I am immortal no one can kill me"
Suddenly a voice stunned them all saying " Then take this you bastard. Let's see how you will enjoy the other side."
Voldermort whipped his head around and screamed as Professor McGonagall charged from out of nowhere and pierced the sword through all the Voldermorts at the same time before they could retaliate. Voldermort screamed in pain and a flash of light occurred which transport them back to the Room of Requirement.
Professor McGonagall revived Godric and Salazar " Urghhhh.. what happened. I think I have a sore headache " Minerva McGonagall merely scowled and said "I had to save your hides back there. I found this sword on the ground. I figured it came from you Godric."
"What?" asked a confused Godric."My sword is still attached at the sword holster with me. I did not take it out."
"That's odd." Minerva thoughtfully said.
At the same time, back at the caves:
"Ok, we are finished with our training. Let's head out and get out of here." Merlin said. Everyone sprang to their feet and started to cast flame charms and runes all over the place to delay the Inferi.
They fought like lions all the way to the diadem horcrux which was emanating a dark presence Rowena tried to calm down and sent multiple death spells at the diadem until the diadem scream and break. Suddenly a portal appeared.
"We have to hold out until the portal is ready for transportation!" Merlin yelled as they cast the spells.
"Merlin! You and the other hold them off! Rowena and I will cast the runes to protect the portal!" Merlin nodded his head and cast every single spells he can think of.
Rowena and Helga drew runes around it and cast many runic spells at it praying it will work.
Impatiently, Harry asked "What is taking so long? They are pushing us back! Merlin and us couldn't hold them back anymore!"
"Done!" Rowena and Helga exclaimed. The runic spells glowed fiery red and instantly sprang fire around them burning the screaming Inferi to a crisp. Just then an extremely big light started to glow increasingly bright until they started to shield their eyes.
A second later, everyone had found themselves in the Room of Requirement surrounded by people such as Minerva McGonagall, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin with their wands raised to defend themselves.
"Welcome back" Professor McGonagall said.
"Pleasure to be back" Harry replied. Everyone was pointing their wands at Merlin and Regulus and asked " How can you be sure you can trust them? Regulus died years ago."
"Oh that. It's a long story. But in short form, we travelled to another dimension through an inter-dimensional portkey which is Rowena's diadem. Her diadem is corrupted by Voldermort's soul which activated in its self defence and transported us to near the black sanctuary where we bumped into Merlin and Regulus here.
Minerva and the others were stunned to hear the news and couldn't believe her eyes."Merlin?! But he died thousands of years ago."
Merlin rolled his eyes and said " I was in hiding.I was living in exile and peace for the next thousands of years after drinking the immortality potion by accident."
"Is it possible to get the Merlin from this dimension here? It may be helpful to our causes and fight to defend this school." Professor McGonagall asked.
"It's possible. I will need some time however to get this dimension Merlin as the owl post or summons will not help due to the spell I cast is impossible to break. They will not be able to track me" Merlin reasoned.
Kingsley nods his head and said "We better fortify every defence we can find. Voldermort has just succeeded to break through Helga's and Rowena's wards. We are now losing more fighters than usual and casualties are now piling up. I fear we cannot do more than what we can due to our numbers and forces being stretched too thin."
Rowena said "I know of an ancient defence from long ago thanks to Merlin's knowledge. This will be the most taxing spell I can cast. It will summon the school's magic and merge itself into the lands of people who once studied here and those who are good before they got corrupted by evil."
Helga added in "I will do what I can to ensure that they can recover as fast as possible. Merlin, could you be a dear and set up some storm wards?"
"Storm wards?" Minerva questioned Merlin. Merlin smiled and said "That's my family magic. I'm afraid I cannot tell you any further than this."
Kingsley suddenly shouts "What are we waiting for? We must hurry!" Just as a loud explosion as well as thousands of screams rocked the castle.
Merlin waved his hand and said "reparius!" which restored everything to its former form. Turning to everyone who were shocked he said "You must recast everything and the protection spells again. I have just duplicated the amount of wards and soldiers which we can use and I have just added more wards."
At the gates of Hogwarts:
The Death Eaters stand at the gates launching as many spells as they can towards the gates to allow them entry into Hogwarts but the gates kept fixing themselves. The Death Eaters are extremely humiliated that they are thrown back by Helga's and Rowena's wards beyond the gates. In the end, it takes the combination of Voldermort's inner circle and spells to keep it long enough for the wards of Helga's and Rowena's and the gates to be destroyed. After casting spells to cause significant damage,Voldermort's followers may pass through.
Lucius Malfoy who had held the line, snarled at the others "My lord, Please let me into the castle. I want to see my son! They dare to take my son away from me, I will never let them take him away from me!
Voldermort sighed and said coldly to Lucius Malfoy "We shall see Lucius, we shall see. After all, I am here for my revenge."
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