No Rest For The Wicked
After a fantastic weekend, which ended with a bang, hahaha! Overlords can't do pun, but minions gotta laugh, or minions gonna die! Laugh MOTHERFUCKER Laugh! Oww my head! I think...I celebrated a bit too eagerly.
Ahmm, after a boring week, over which absolutely nothing new happened...Wait something, did happen! I found the location of an adult Nundu. Just to see, how it reacts, I approached it, and found myself apparating all over as it charged towards me like a matador, no worse than a Matador! With the potent poison from a Nundu's breath, there is no close shave or a narrow escapade, you are either well out of the way, or you are dead! So since there is no highway, only my way, I let the Nundu tire itself out. Before each such planned encounter, I charge myself with magic. I ain't taking no risk, no siree!
Back to Nundu! I evaded his charge, where it tried tricking me, and that overgrown leopard is smart. Shitty cat! I let out Nature magic around the place we are in and release a pound of flesh near his mouth. It roars while looking at me, his face and surrounding mane, growing in size, like a puffer fish. Interesting analogy! Did someone try stupid gene modification, before they had any idea, how it all works, or what genes even really are? Something to research later. I see the Nundu smell the meat, look at me, then at the meat, before mauling the flesh with his jaws of death. I put meat of different animals in front of him (now that I saw him roar, I know it's a male), and I approached him slowly, counting each stride, and looking at the agile cat, prepared to move out any second. I see his aggression tone down as he devours the entire sample size I prepared.
Since I can grow animals magically, I let them reproduce in droves. I found a herd of hippos, even rhinos, and herded them to my sanctuary, where I cull their numbers by giving meat to my animals. My snakes eat a lot, but they can then digest that meat for months, even up to a year. My Basilisk and his mate told me they had eaten to suffice them for about one and a half years. Well I provide for the needs of a lot of animals, with my muggle animals I am breeding. The fast breeding Wild Hare, Rabbits, rats, and the usual cows, buffaloes, pigs, boars. Major wild animals like boar and hares, were taken from the agricultural farmlands, where there were a lot of complaints of pests. I then tasked my elves, to pick them up, one by one, and then have them brought over in large quantities.
More importantly, I convinced the Nundu to come with me. It can communicate with answer to yes/no questions, but it agreed to come, in return to getting to eat the boar and the hippo meat. Heck! Even a Nundu chose Hippo meat over others. I need to try some myself, to see what the hype about Hippo meat is all about. I take all the final collection of eggs and young ones obtained from the African Smugglers, who were actually European traders using African people as slaves. I did liberate a few shaman tribes who were oppressed by the Spanish and French wizards. Fuckers, never even saw me, and they went poof! I gained the gratitude of the tribes as they were oppressed by the competitors for their plants and tribal magic. I brought them all over, to the sanctuary to help me take care of my plants. I had already looked through everyone's mind, and after ensuring that they are not against what I want, or plan to do. I talked to them in their tribe's language. I had gained Shaman Magic system, and they use the focus of their inner animal. And each one of them was a Magic Animagus, though the animals were like cute ones not thunderbirds or phoenixes, I told the elves to supervise the tribal. I told them to first take care of my livestock for a start. I told them, how I was going to free animals and creatures and bring them here in the Sanctuary, they agreed as that was a noble cause, and they knew how the presence of these creatures increases the ambient magic in the air.
It would seem like I care about the animals a lot. I am not a tree-hugger; the forest can go burn for all I care. But remember, these creatures are diverse in nature, form and function. Some have abilities, we don't even know yet. What we know of these creatures comes out of experience of our ancestors, who were, bluntly speaking, cavemen. I do not mean savage, barbaric, uncouth, though that is implied, I mean it with respect to the man in the Cave, an allegory made by Plato. In Xinxia novel geek terms, like a frog in a well, looking at the sky. The sky is as wide as you can imagine, and it is certainly wider than the eyes can truly see! What I mean is that, a lot of abilities of creatures are unknown; heck I think not all creatures who roam this world are even documented. That is why, I am collecting all creatures, because each one of them is a potential treasure trove of potion ingredients, but also when I gather my followers, I am going to gain creatures to challenge for the ritual of Magical Animagi.
I gathered my elves who were taking a break, after such a long heist season. I gathered a lot of materials, found a lot of animals for my livestock, and a lot of exciting animals. From the Northern Africa, I secured Phoenix eggs; I said I already took a few, but a few meant three, now I found seventy. I gathered the Eggs and the adult ones whom I showed my Fire Elemental Ability, I knew they were smart creatures, so I showed them my elf form, my nature magic and promised them to keep them protected in an area with a lot of fire and wind elemental energy. They agreed and I took them all with me. That was my singular greatest raid until then, because I absolutely adored the cute phoenixes. I loved their trilling sounds, and their songs soothed all my aggressive creatures. Even my Basilisk and his mate come and sit outside their cavern, to listen to their song. I told the phoenixes to fly and enjoy themselves, but within the wards, I cannot have someone lusting after My Creatures. And since the area is massive, they are not feeling cagey. I prided myself of acquiring them, until my elves informed me of an underground auction site. I raided the auction house, its attending guests, and all the items they possessed. I did a forceful legilimens without giving the usual dose of the Draught; I did not want the animals taken away from them to be linked to me, or the Heist Team. To make it seem like a rival attack, I killed two or three scums, slaughtered a few warlords with swift cut of the neck, and took information of every individual's information of their operations, and made the elves collect all the ordinance, gather all the slaves and set them free, take the children, and all the ones with magical cores in them, to be brought to my Tribal. I need new blood in my ranks, and what better way, than to gather them from amongst the slaves, as children?
After the usual, blitz operations. I saw through the cages of my new loot. I found a giant cage with loud cawing and screeching, and when I lifted the giant canvass covering the cage, I saw my first adult Thunderbird. And it was majestic! I lovingly told him, that I came to free the caged animals, and if it co-operated, I would free him to the skies. I then brought some lightning and wind elemental energy, and gathered it in my palm in a shape of a ball, which screeched and jolted sparks all around me. The Thunderbird looked sharply at my hand, and when I asked him if he is okay with me touching him with the elemental energy ball, he agreed readily. I then put my hand in the giant cage, ruffled a few feathers just below its huge beak, and rubbed the energy ball around its chest. I had activated my enhanced senses and willed my magic to my eyes. I saw as the ball dissipated the elemental energy in the body of the Thunderbird, but there was nothing else happening, I kept putting my magic in the ball, which converted it to elemental form and transferred it to the giant gorgeous bird. I always thought that Dragons were cool; I even took my Last Name, from the Dragonlords of Valyria from the Game Of Thrones world. After settling a bit in this world, I had planned to travel to that world, gain the cool affinity with Dragons and Wolves, from Targaryens and Stark, gain the Night King's Physique, the Three Eyed Ravens' and the Children of Forest' Physiques, and then come to this world to develop the forms and get used to the affinities here. I also planned to do a lot more than that there, but now, now after experiencing a Thunderbird, my first Major Objective is to improve the Rituals, and by hook or crook, gain the Thunderbird form, as an Animagus form. I think, even Zeus himself, must be enamoured with an Eagle form, to fly high in to the skies, with lightning trailing my flight. By All The Gods, I will get myself a Thunderbird Form!
Not to get side-tracked, but the Thunderbird enjoyed my ministrations of magic, and agreed to stay with me. I took him to my Sanctuary, released it from the cage, and converted the cage the cage to Item Card. If it can hold an angry Thunderbird, it can withstand damage from anything! I found a few Snake species, the usual (at least for me) Runespoors, Occamy, Mambas, Pythons (the Magical Kind), Desert Vipers, even King Cobras. Cobras are usually found in tropical climate, like in Lower Africa, Indian Peninsula, Vietnam, and the Pacific Isles. This one surprisingly, appeared in an Auction in Egypt from Sri Lanka. Cobras are known to grow to about 8 feet long, but this one was an astounding 30 feet long. From the memories of the Auctioneers, I found out, that he was sold to them, by a White wizard, who spoke Portuguese. Makes sense! They were the second highest imperialist force in this era, and were brilliant at imposing their culture, religion and language on the people in a subtle manner, unlike British, who like their own nature, were stiff, uncompromising, orthodox, hypocrites, and underhanded with their governing, as they were with their own lives. They strode the path, claiming it is progress, unaware of all the filth they leave behind, and all the lives they destroyed.
I was never a prejudiced man, at least not with respect to beliefs, traditions, and human nature. But the actions of the imperialist regimes, and their general lack of concern for lives other than their own, have angered me. I had robbed the Purebloods, to gain an edge myself, to reduce the funds available to the war efforts, and to gain obscure knowledge from each House. I robbed the Ministry, firstly out of spite, secondly to gain their research, knowledge, and precious stuffs, they acquired over the years, and finally to remove any means to prevent them discovering my methods. I can create the most complicated enchantments to prevent scrying; I can prevent anyone from seeing my actions or movements, like Newt did in the second movie. I can even make myself 'opaque' to the Divinations. But, if someone can go back in time, and find out secrets about me, that would be disastrous. And thirdly, I had the Boggarts attack the Diagon and Knockturn Alley, to primarily inject myself into the investigation of my own heists. Secondary was to make my origins and identity concrete, and to better involve myself into the political frontier, climbing from the British Front, to the European Front and finally the World. But now, I decided to make sure that I intervene from the front or behind the curtain to ensure that the cruelty against the colonialists would be curbed. I decided to provide arms and ammunition to the rebel forces. In Indian Peninsula, the extremist faction has been reduced to minority, and Gandhi is in leadership now. His suggestion was peaceful opposition, through protests and Strikes. I don't mind the ideologies, because I know, ultimately either due to their actions, or the losses incurred during the war, the British withdrew from the colonies soon after the war ended. I wished to expedite this process, and transferred to the local armouries of British Forces, looted their ordinance, even the ammunition of their own personal weapons, and brought the entire supply to a local chapter of Indian National Army, a band of local extremist group. I procured the information of all their bases, and helped them in the same way. The entire extremist group all over India, Bangladesh, Burma, Tibet and other smaller regions were similarly helped and armed to rebel against their oppressors. And it cost me only two weeks. While I was on a "Equalizer Mission", I also found the Tantrasabha and the other smaller ruling bodies in India.
Like I had previously imagined, their magical knowledge, healing, Astronomy, Arithmancy, Enchanting, and Transfiguration Knowledge was immense. I spent entire two days, simply absorbing their information, but more on that later.
After this, I jumped to Africa, and allowed the elves some break to research their own knowledge and follow their own pursuits. I found my new batch of elves trained, and I started them on Army training, practising the various spells and curses, even dark ones. I accomplished a lot of my objectives, including shaping my patronus. I could wandlessly, chantlessly cast a patronus in any shape I desire! FINALLY! I excitedly waited for a full moon, which was three days later, and used the Grim Animagus Card, and my sight turned DARK.
