Hey everyone,
Remember that I said that part of this story will be filled with filler chapters? Yeah, that will start in 2018. However, before we get to that, we need to make sure we cover the main storyline and that is what the next two chapters are going to be about. This chapter will therefore lead up to the final confrontation next chapter.
Let's get to it,
Venquine1990
Co-Author: Cub Nate, aka I Give Zero Fox
Chapter 12
Luna
12th of December 1992
Girls' Bathroom
Riddle's POV
Things have gone worse and worse ever since that witch almost took my rights for herself and while I feel slightly amused that the teachers are actually obvious to three of their students having gone missing – as they had actually been taken by those monsters send by that witch – do I still feel annoyed with the current situation.
All kinds of horrid white beasts are constantly guarding the entire castle, roaming through its halls and reporting anything they consider an act of – as the Potter brat and his friends call it – potential darkness. And the fact that they are working this hard to keep the students from giving into the Darkness aggravates me.
And while I know it shouldn't as the brats actually have a good reason from wanting to keep the Darkness from the students hearts – as it could turn them into those monsters upon their move to that other world that keeps being mentioned – do I hate it as it keeps me from getting potential future followers of my own.
"No more. I am not going to allow those brats to take me my army. It's time to teach that no good little orphan who the true king is. I will usurp him, overthrow this little empire he is trying to make for himself and prove him that beasts like his Mudblood mother don't belong in the world of Noble Witches and Wizards.
True power belongs only to those who can truly rule and truly order others around. And if there is one thing a true king can do – it's manipulate others to think they can be of service to them." And with that plan in mind, do I focus my power over the girl that I have been allowing free reign over the last month to throw off suspicions.
And because the girl is such a dumb, failure of a klutz and a disgrace to those Pure of Blood, does her behavior of the last month actually calm down all those that had been watching her and worrying over her during the period of time where I was growing my control over her, yet this month apart did nothing to that control.
And because of this – and because the girl had been spotted with a faraway look in her eyes quite a few times this last fortnight – do I easily make sure that she moves herself to the same bathroom where I lost my spy the first time and once I am sure that even my first victim is not around, do I focus on my plan.
"I know you're here. Those idiots are holding another meeting and if we don't disrupt this one, we will lose all chances of claiming this castle and cleaning both our worlds from the filth that destroys magic as we know it. Now show yourself. You know we need to work together if we want our goals achieved." I say to the emptiness.
"You will do well to know who you are speaking to." A cold voice says behind me, but I scoff inside the dumb girl's mind and think: "I'm talking to someone who is too easy to coax out of her hiding space." Yet then the witch makes me wonder if I really should use her as she smirks at my back turned to her and asks:
"Also, how do you plan to use me – in a body like that?" To which I state: "You need not to worry about my form, I assure you. Now that I have taken control of her mind yet again, her energy is draining twice as fast. I will have her energy and with that a body of my own before the sun has fully set, I assure you."
Yet the woman still smirks at me and asks: "Why wait – when you can control her body to such a point, you can use it to its full potential, instead of just allowing your chance to speak through her mouth and move her feet. If you take her heart for your own, you will have all the control you need for this plan of yours to work."
This time I scoff and ask: "And let me guess, you can grant me this power?" To which the woman actually shocks me as she says: "Of course. I've done it before. In fact, I was taught this technique by someone who makes you look like nothing but a Shadow." And because I know what Heartless she means, does this infuriate me.
"Do it." I angrily order her and she smirks at me, the glass orb atop her staff starting to glow with her power and I think: "Someone who works with an item that so obviously shows it when they are performing magic doesn't deserve the ego she has, let alone be taught by someone like the person she just mentioned. I must find him."
Yet then I feel her magic touching and surrounding me and she hums as she says: "How fortunate. Your very being seems to already exist out of Darkness. That will make this much easier. Now, prepare yourself. In just seconds, you will experience – my gender." And while this actually horrifies me, do we both get shocked.
"No thanks." These words come out of the mouth of the one I am supposed to control, but they are not my tone of voice and they are done without my acceptance or decision and I think: "What? How? I have perfect control. This – this shouldn't be possible." And the incompetent witch behind me voices my thoughts as she snarls:
"I thought you were controlling that brat." And before I can snarl back at her, do we get shocked again as the brat who I thought was under my total control speaks again and says: "He had my brain, but he can't have my heart. And right now, I'm kind of done with you having my brain as well. Enough of this, bye."
And while I want to scoff and scorn the girl for even thinking she can even so much as threaten me, do I feel a force of power come from within her that actually hurts me and I feel my hold on her break apart, my magical control getting ripped from my grasp and the body I rule with my will being taken from me by the force.
I feel myself becoming actually transparent, my magic and the energy I have managed to drain from her allowing me to have at least a bit of a spectral form and while the ugly witch looks from me to the girl, does the blonde actually glare at both of us and say: "You will lose. I will make sure of it. Make sure you prepare yourself."
And while this leaves us both flabbergasted, neither of us able to believe that such a weakling of a blonde has the guts to threaten those obviously superior to her weakened state, does she then leave us, actually walking out of the bathroom and slamming the door behind her, proving how immature and stupid she is.
The witch then turns to me with a furious glare and asks: "How stupid are you? Trying to control a Princess Pure of Heart? What made you think you could do such a thing?" To which I glare at her and snarl: "How about the fact that I don't even know what you're talking about? What in magic's name is a Princess Pure of Heart?"
And the witch groans as she says: "A Princess Pure of Heart is someone who cannot be tainted by Darkness. They can be controlled by it in such a way it puts them under status, which is what you did with that girl's mind while controlling her, but they cannot be controlled. Their hearts cannot feel pain, anger, hate or fear."
And the very notion of people like that existing just disgusts me, but then I turn away from the witch and the girl that I am sure is trying to get to the Great Hall right now and say: "It doesn't matter. She's going to fail. I'll make sure of that." And the woman glares at me as she asks: "And how do you intend to do that?"
At which I smirk at her and say: "Just make sure to keep your eyes closed. My little pet's gaze is quite – deadly – to anyone other than myself." And the woman huffs before vanishing the way she disappears, but while she does, do I hear: "You do what you must. I am going to gather us the army we need for your miserable plan."
And while I want to growl at this and think: "Just wait, you will be bowing down to me and my greatness soon enough." Do I focus on the powers I luckily enough didn't lose to that brat costing me my control over her body and do I again summon my giant beast, giving it only one order: "Kill my host – and anyone else unworthy of living."
At the same time
In the Hallways
Ginny's POV
"Ginny! Ginny! Ginny!" I hear a familiar voice screeching at me and I turn around, having tried to find my brothers even though I know they are helping Roxas and the others with the Nobodies that are patrolling the castle and I turn around, shocked to see Luna in a state I haven't seen her in for quite some time now.
"Luna?" I ask and the girl actually hugs me with the same vigor she did so long ago, when she came back from watching her mother die in that horrible accident. And this instantly has me on high alert and glad to notice a Dusk passing the window. I wrap one arm around Luna and use the other to send a signal at the Dusk.
And what my old best friend tells me makes me even more glad that I motioned the Dusk to get Roxas and the others as she says: "Oh Ginny, I'm so sorry. He controlled my mind! And you know how much I have been training that for Hogwarts. It wasn't what Riku thought. It wasn't a Heartless. It was Dark Magic, pure dark magic."
Yet while I want to know more, do I just wrap my other arm around the girl and let out soft noises to hush and calm her down, wanting to make sure that she can report anything of importance when Roxas and the others get here. "No Ginny, you have to hear this! The school, the Muggleborns, they're all in –."
But then I pull Luna at arm's length and say: "I get it, Luna, but you should leave it to those who can actually do something. Leave it to Roxas and the others.""But – but they'll –." Luna stutters and I smile as I turn her around and say: "Are right there heading this way to hear you out. And I'll be right there with you as they do."
And this seems to be exactly what the girl needs to hear as she sends me a grateful, teary-eyed look before she says: "You need to call anyone and everyone who can fight. The bastard that was controlling me has joined with Maleficent and they're planning a joined attack on the Great Hall right as we speak.
They're planning to kidnap as many souls as possible to turn them into Heartless and other monsters and to kill all the others. My controller is even planning to use the monster – and I know what it is. He mentally spoke about it almost all the time while controlling me. It's a horrible monster known as a Basilisk, the King of Serpents.
Just looking it in the eyes will kill you, which is why Stations was only Petrified. The hallway he was found in is filled with mirrors and glass windows. He saw the Basilisk through a reflection and got Petrified instead. Also, the Controller told me that there are actually three students that have been taken by the Heartless.
And right now more are about to be as those two are planning a huge and massive attack on the Great Hall, just because they believe Muggleborns unworthy of magic and them moving to the others worlds an invasion on their property and plans. You have to stop them!" The girl screeches in the end and startling us all.
Yet then a corridor appears behind the foursome and the one who obviously leads Harry's parental group of family members steps through, the blonde with the long fringe stepping through right behind him as he says: "We will, but you are as important as they are. How did you break free from this controller of yours?"
And yet Luna looks too desperate to answer, so the other turns to the foursome and says: "Head for the Great Hall. The others already heard everything through the Beserker that Saïx is controlling. They'll be there to join you in seconds." And this seems to calm Luna down, making her sigh in grateful relief.
"Little one?" The man heading Harry's family then asks and Luna answers: "My heart. I've always had a really strong heart and it's always been my mind that was my weak spot. I couldn't ever really feel any negative emotions, but I would always overthink things whenever negative emotions tried entering my being.
It's why I had so much trouble grieving when my mum died and why Daddy and I have been growing apart. He's lost the ability to care for me and accept that I have trouble feeling an emotion such as grief. I – I just know that – from time to time – he thinks I don't miss mum at all or that I don't feel any loss over her death."
The Leader nods and the blonde asks: "Incredibly intriguing. Because the controller had such a strong hold on her mind, we never even recognized her for what she is. Though I am surprised that Maleficent didn't either. What with what she tried when she, Sora and Riku first met and all." And the leader nods again.
"What – what do you mean?" Luna asks and the leader answers: "You are a Princess Pure of Heart. You can't feel grief, anger, pain or hatred, because Darkness isn't able to have any kind of hold on your heart. Your mind and your body might always be different stories, but your heart will be forever immune to Darkness."
This shocks my best friend, but then I get evidence that the blonde really is the thinker in the group that is Harry's family as he hums and says: "Perhaps, if she is one, there might be more of them. Perhaps even enough to, if we can connect the purity of their hearts to the wards of the castle, clear the Darkness a little."
"You mean, give the others a fighting chance? Take out the threat that is the Basilisk? Prevent the Nightmares that Maleficent will send to the Great Hall?" Luna asks, again looking frantic and when the thinker nods, does she yelp: "What are we standing here for then?" To which he answers: "We don't know – who they are."
And while this stumps my best friend, do I then get evidence that, darkness or not, these last four months have really done a number on her as she says: "But you know I'm one. And – and if you can connect me to the wards – maybe my – my heart can – can reach out – to theirs? Call them to come to the wards as well."
"We would never –." The thinker tries, but Luna actually glares at him and says: "Do it. I may not be able to feel guilt, but I know the thought process that goes with it. Even if you don't have to ease my heart, relieve my mind from these thoughts. Let me guide my sisters in heart to where they can help save this school."
And we all look at the girl, her face set in stony determination, but the rest of her body proving that this controller really did horrible things with her while he had his claws stuck in her mind and I think: "There is no way she will survive powering up the wards like that." And the leader seems to think the same thing as he says:
"We will link your light to the wards to ensure that the other princesses feel its presence activated. We won't let you do anything else until they get there. No objections. You are not in the state where we can risk you in anyway, not if you really want to help keep the school safe. Know your limits, little one, and use them wisely."
And the girl nods, while I think: "Xion was right. Things have to get worse before they get better." I then notice the thinker looking at me and I nod at his silent order for me to find my brothers. And while I find it ironic that that was the reason I was here in the first place, do I run off, wondering if I will have to fight as well.
I'm really not sure, Ginny.
So next chapter will probably be pretty long as it will cover not only Xemnas sending others to fight Riddle and sending off Nobodies to track down, distract and mislead the Basilisk, but also Luna calling on the other Princesses Pure of Heart, a potential fight between Nightmares and the Organization and other stuff.
However, while there will be a fight between Maleficent and the Organization – and probably Sora and Riku as well – do I plan quite the interesting outcome for her. One that I sort of hinted at in this chapter and that will make it so that one cliché trope doesn't happen. Maleficent's death – won't be at the edge of a weapon.
Figure that one out,
Venquine1990
Co-Author: Cub Nate, aka I Give Zero Fox
