Disclaimer: This is a fan written work based on the works of J.K. Rowling. It might possibly also have some elements of a number of other works. There is no money being made from this, it is merely a work meant for the entertainment of myself and the masses. This is merely for fun, and no profit. I repeat: I am not making any money out of writing this.

Warning (1): OCs OOCs Sues, and some crack. You have been warned.

Note: AU.

Warning (2): A bunch of religious things in here pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church, and possibly a bunch of other religions. You have been warned.

Warning (3): Due to the involvement of religion, there will be mentions and appearances of the guys and gals from Hellsing the anime, I don't know enough about Millenium to do anything.

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Lost and Found

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chapter twelve

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When he wasn't being an immortal or a higher power, he walked around Paris, visiting the many restaurants and shops that littered the city, on occasion visiting the tower as well. Occassionally he would be accompanied by the man who most refer to as the oldest living man in the world, Nicolas Flamel, with Clement Notredamos himself being a close second. The two immortals liked to walk around Paris discussing the various benefits and non-benefits of being immortals, immortals that were alive and not undead as many others were. Alexandre Malfoi being one of them, the man had decided that it would be a good idea to become one of the undead, and due to his devotion to Clement had been the cause of Thomas' accident which turned him into the lich he was today. Alexandre also took walks, discussing whatever floated his boat, but most he went around Paris with Clement and Nicolas in order for him to inspect and assess his businesses, both in the mundane and the magical world.

Nicolas was the only exception to the rule when it came to saying Albus' name in Paris, as the man was old enough to bypass most laws, as well as rules for that matter. Clement didn't mind, as the man mostly spoke of the taboo name when discussing business and scholastics, the most recent topic between the two was about Albus Dumbledore still being headmaster of Hogwarts, why the man was in that position to this day, the two men didn't care to or want to know. Albus Dumbledore could have campaigned for the position of Minister of Magical Britain and won with all his limbs tied behind his back. But for whatever reason, he chose not to, Clement and Nicolas knew that although Albus had been a Ravenclaw, he was more cunning and ambitious that any Slytherin the two men had ever encountered, Lord Voldemort have been exempted from the potential list as the entity known as Voldemort was merely a tainted piece of soul matter that had and would forever be something else.

When their topic of discussion degraded to Lord Voldemort, theings went into a bit of philosophy as well as mysticism and religion. They talked about the soul, and of course about horcruxes, and the process in which they are achieved. With each division of the soul, a small part gets perverted into something akin to a little monster, mostly it would only be a darker form of the conscience, but when Tom Riddle Jr. split his soul, the darker part in him wanted to have more freedom, and the temptation of power was too great for such an ambitious little Slytherin. Each time the soul was split the darker part began to take over, becoming the dominant personality, eventually becoming a separate entity, but Tom Riddle Jr. being in the center of it all was unaware of what was going on around him, the only things about the young man that still remained were his desires, which manifested in extremes, which was why he had gone after the Potters, which ultimately allowed Voldemort to gain more control of the soul, or what was left of it for that matter.

The core of the soul was the original, the one where all the pieces came from, the vessels of the other pieces were just that, vessels. The soul was not destroyed when a vessel was, it simply returned to the original, far more tainted than before, but at the same time harder to separate from the original to create a new cheat.

Tom Riddle Jr. intended to be remembered throughout history, as what he hadn't yet planned it when he split his soul for the first time, which was why Voldemort was able to pervert the goal, the dream, into something out of a nightmare. Tom wanted to change the world, but he didn't know how, before he split his soul he wanted to focus on the mundane side of things as he had suffered the most abuse from that side, once his soul split for the first time Voldemort perverted the goal into something more sinister, genocide.

Clement had wanted to purge the world of Voldemort, but was unable to, for some reason Voldemort had found a way out of being killed by such means as divine intervention, no god could touch him with their higher powers, not even Clement. There was just something about the entity that prevented even Clement's higher power allies and friends from detecting the self-styled lord. It must have been all the black rituals that Voldemort had undergone, or something like that. But the fact of the matter was, Voldemort was going to be the hardest problem to find a solution for, and there was still the problem of ripping Tom and Voldemort apart without killing the innocent Tom. Tom and Voldemort both feared Albus Dumbledore, what reason they had to fear the man Clement could not fathom as Albus Dumbledore knew not to mess with him. Nicolas Flamel believed that the mortal Tom and Voldemort feared Albus as they knew that he was a fellow predator, not prey, and was definitely higher up in the food chain. Albus Dumbledore was old, but made Salazar Slytherin look like a Ravenclaw with a little bit of Gryffindor bravery.

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Trying to move further away from such negative thoughts, Nicolas Flamel informed Clement of the Hogwarts headmaster's attempts at getting the Philosopher's and Alchemist's Stone, different names for two separate stones. Albus Dumbledore, ever since the believed death of Tom-Voldemort had been trying to convince Nicolas to part with his stones, but had been failing big-time. The difference between the two stones, aside from their names, was that the Philosopher's stone was the lesser version or the basic version of the Alchemist's stone. The Philosopher's stone was more or an ingredient or a required material in the process of creating gold and the elixir. While the Alchemist's stone was the instant fix, there were no other materials needed aside from the lead that would be turned to gold to create gold, all that was needed was the stone, a little faith maybe and some magic. The process of creating the elixir of life, was also bypassed by the stone, as all that would be needed for a person to do was dip the stone in liquid, an voila instant Elixir of Life, the ultimate pancea could be done in a manner of seconds, and that was as instant as it got. But of course Albus didn't know that, he only believed that the second stone was a back-up in case something were to happen to the other stone. But the one thing that only three people knew was that Nicolas had been trying to create another stone, the stone should be able to create a cure for any and all problem, but that in itself was a nigh impossible goal, so the developers who were Nicolas and his distant cousin Erwin were trying to create a stone that could turn invalids into valids, lycans that wanted to become fully human into full humans again, any other turned species into whatever the hell they wanted, and a bunch of other conceivable, yet more than simply rather difficult things. Had Albus known that little tidbit he would have probably named Nicolas a dark wizard hell bent on accumulating more power and eventually enacting a plan to take over the world.

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Albus Dumbledore, as many Parisians had observed, was a man whose true nature was uncertain. He claimed to fight on the side of right, and to do all for the greater good, he had found a way to amass enough political power to run a few governments from the shadows, and had even gone so far as to use underhanded means to get Clement to serve him, serve not join or help, serve.

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But enough about Dumbledore.

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Nicolas Flamel had been having more than just a bad day, he had been having a bad week, not only was Albus Dumbledore trying to manipulate him into giving up his stones, but the headmaster was also trying to convince him to talk Clement out of dispising him for something that he had done, as he claimed, whlie under stress from fighting a dark lord as well as preparing for the rise of an even worse one. How the hell did he even know that there was going to be another one, did he plan it out, or was he the true dark one, the true black sheep of all that was good, or simply all that was light. He had been good friends with Grindelwald, he had also been the one to inspire the man into claiming to fight for the greater good. What had made his week even worse was the fact that some of his businesses were going under, sure he had the means to create gold just like that, but his businesses were more than just a way to earn money for himself, they were a way for his employees to earn a living, his businesses were more like charities than anything else, they also had some historic value as being in business for more than just a hundred years. Technological advancements were killing his businesses, sure he could fund his companies and shops with his stones, but then the government would start to get suspicious, and then there would be inquiries, then when the government found out about the stone and their capabiliies he would be ordered to give them up or lose everything. He knew a lot of people that could help, but he didn't want their help, but when he had decided that he needed their help, they were no where to be found. He had a bunch of other problems that had cropped up that week, and so he decided to take a walk around Paris with his favorite immortal, next to his wife, Clement Notredamos.

He'd told Clement all of his problems in the hope that the god could help him find solutions for them, but even Clement was stumped, he offered to take in the people that would soon be woefully unemployed, and have them work for his companies, the Albus problem could be dealt with by stalling for a few more years and eventually giving in but using a fake stone that gave similar effects but the actual end or desired results could only be achieved via fullfillment of conditions, there would also have to be much lying involved, and Clement knew that even though Nicolas was ages older than him, the man couldn't lie to save his life, he could avoid topics, but he could not outright lie, he left that up to his wife. On all other matters, the only solutions that Clement gave were ones that Nicolas couldn't or wouldn't want to do.

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In the end it was Alexandre Malfoi who came to his rescue, the man told him that he could get rid off all his problems, save for the Dumbledore one, he didn't tell Nicolas how he was going to do it, but that by the next week or two, Nicolas Flamel would be trouble free.

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Indeed, two weeks after the walk, Nicolas Flamel only had to worry about what the next day would bring, as well as Dumbldore. All his problems had been washed away, but he couldn't shake the feeling that somehow leaving it up to Alexandre was a bad thing, even though the problems had gone away, he couldn't help but think that the end didn't justify the means, as Alexandre was a lich, and those couldn't really be trusted. But what could he do, when the day after his worries disappeared Clement came to his home and told him that indeed Alexandre had done somethings to solve his problems, but the condition of the problems never returning was that he wouldn't try to find out how it had come about.

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Alexandre after promising the Flamel to solve all of his problems, had waited by Notre Dame for Clement to return to his home. When they met once again, Alexandre had begged Clement to help him, stating that he knew that he could help Flamel, he did all that he could think of to guilt trip the god into using divine intervention on behalf of Nicolas Flamel, and that man was never fond of resorting to such means for solving problems.

In the end, Alexandre was able to convince Clement into doing what they both knew Nicolas was against. Clement had scoured the country for all the actual sources of the problems, which they found to be Italian Mafia that had moved into France with the intent of taking over. They were smart enough not to catch the eye of Clement, but not smart enough to leave France be.

After finding out the true source of Flamel's miseries, Clement set about eliminating and taking over the Italians that had encrouched in on his territory, and then he had Alexandre take care of things as he had promised Nicolas.

It was like the Vatican's Secret War with the Notre Dame Night Terrors, there was no evidence that anything had ever occurred, everything had been done more than just professionally. Authorities were left baffled when almost all criminal elements had been wiped out of France, except in Paris. They then concluded that not only was Paris the capital of the country, but of the country's underworld as well. In every sector Paris was the capital. And Clement Notredamos, was the Shadow King.