Hey, Everyone. Sorry that I have not updated for a while now, but I have been busy in the beginning months of this Pandemic. I will be continuing to finish the story hopefully by the beginning of next year at most (at least that is my plan). Although, as I plan work on the story, I will continue on a on-the-side story, which I have two (Inspector Who and Nothing, Nothing But Politics.). Although, if I focus on Inspector Who as a side story, I will be rewriting it but not any time soon.
One last thing, I will not be continuing the Harry Potter-Lee for multiple reasons and the protests are part of them but this was somewhat a decision that was already made for a long time.
Now, on to the story…..
August 13th, 2006
Tokko Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan
"This is just great. Just great." Saya muttered as she entered the shoty building where Tokko second Division was located.
She had just received news about the downfall of the British Ministry of Magic and that it was now replaced by a puppet regime that was hunting down those that supposedly had stolen magic. Most of the international wizarding community knew that this meant that it meant that they were hunting down muggle-borns and refused to accept the findings given by this new Ministry in the United Kingdom. There were already reports that Death Eaters that were known to have been working for Voldemort being in charge of the various departments of the Ministry. Rumors were already out that the new ministry was already committing some form of genocide against the Muggle-borns with the creation of its Muggle-born Registration Commission and the use of its Ministry Protection Commission that hired snatchers to locate any muggle-born not willing to turn themselves in. The French and German Ministry of Magic began to offer refugee passage to their countries, as they were hearing these rumors more in their countries.
The Japanese Ministry of Magic began to call for an expeditionary force to be made in order to liberate British wizards from the tyranny of Voldemort. However, Saya called for a more stronger response, she called for a joint task force to be made comprising of the British SAS and wizards from all over the world. At first, the ICW was against it, but with the fact that they will have to be fighting on multiple fronts decided to accept her proposal in the end. Her Majesty's Government in London accepted the idea and was willing to do that, as they feared on whether or not that this possible genocidal Ministry of Magic within their own soil would turn its head to the muggles outside of the British wizarding world. However, it would take some time for the task force to be formed, but the British Government was going to be working with both the French and German Ministries of Magic to evacuate British Muggle-borns and others that the Pro-Voldemort Ministry was hunting down.
Saya wondered if Voldemort used more Phantoms to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic and kill Scrimgeour. It would be possible and such a move would highly be successful as the British Ministry of Magic was still not able to contain the situation before the arrival of the Phantoms at all. All it would have taken was for the right push against a disorganized Ministry and that was it, a simple victory without much losses.
"So, the situation has gotten worse?" Ranmaru asked as she entered the main meeting room of where Tokko discusses stuff.
In the room as well were Inukai, Yukino, Sakura, and Hermione.
Saya sighed as she responded to her brother's question, "yes, this is a few days old but the British Ministry of Magic has fallen to Voldemort."
She went to explain the situation so far, which relieved some of them that there was going to be some sort of international response to the vents that were happening in England.
"That gate in the Forrest at Hogwarts still not closing at all?" Ranmaru continued asking.
"According to Harry, it is still the same shape and size."
"Great. Is there at least some other good news for us?" Ranmaru asked.
"I am afraid not. The Department of R&D is still at work so far as I have been told." Saya replied with a sigh.
"But surely the Phantoms must have a weakness that has been found by now?" Yukino asked.
She had decided to become apart of the group after Ranmaru had explained the situation once the Japanese Aurors arrested Muramasa.
"We are still looking into that, but so far nothing." Saya replied but with a smile, she continued, "But I do have some good news for once."
"What is it?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Well, we found out one of the possible locations that Herpo would hide a Horcrux at in Greece."
"Really, about time. Now, we can get somewhere. So, Harry and the girls are already on the way to there?" Ranmaru said with a smirk as he placed his feet on a table.
"Unfortunately, due to the situation in England, Harry and the girls are staying to deal with Voldemort. So, two of us will be going there." Saya announced.
"Where is the location at in Greece?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Up near the Macedonian border at a inactive volcano that has essentially dried up. I was able to get a contact, who is willing to help out and retrieve the Horcrux if it is there. He just needs back up incase Phantoms show up." Saya explained as she pulled out of her pocket a satellite photo showing a mountainous area near the border of Macedonia.
"I guess, I will go." Ranmaru volunteered.
"I will go with him. I use to study ancient Greek in College." Yukino said as she looked down and nearly jumped, "Is that a rat?"
Hermione and Saya looked at the general direction of Yukino, they looked at where she was looking and there it was under the table. A rat that was fat and grey. The little critter realized that it was discovered and proceeded to make an attempt to run away and escape before it got captured. However, the rat was unable to do before Hermione and Saya realized that the rat was missing a toe. Both Hermione and Saya were casting spells at the rat as they understood what was going on here. While Ranmaru and others looked at the two females as if they were insane.
"What is going on, it is just a rat?" Ranmaru complained not understanding what is going on.
"Shut up, Ranmaru and help me as well Hermione get that Rat." Saya replied as she and Hermione began to run after the rat as they saw that it was running to the exit that Inukai was near.
Luckily, Inukai was not slacking on the opportunity to lend a hand and quickly closed the exit door shut as he lower sword to the point that it covers the gap between the door and the floor. The Rat stopped and began to look for another way to get out the room. Somewhere that he would safe and not be exposed to being hunted by the people in this room. It saw a door that lead outside and opened by a small crack, he knew this for a fact because he had taken that area before as an exit and apparated out of the area.
The rat moved fasted to the door that led to the outside world and was continuously dodging spells coming from the girls. While Ranmaru and Yukino were trying to the get the door that it was heading to as a way of cutting it off. The rat could almost feel the freedom and safety that awaited him, but then…..
Ranmaru, Inukai, Sakura, and Yukino watched in shock as the rat suddenly grew. Not in just size but in shape as well, because the rat was quickly growing into a fat man that had colorless hair but was also balding. The man after transformation found himself launched toward the door at full force and hit the door closing it with a loud bang. He clutched his head as that was where he hit the door with. Meanwhile, he tried to get up and reach for the door handle. However, just as he reached for the door, he felt the tips of two wands on his bald head. Slowly turning his head, he saw the angrily looks on Saya and Hermione, who knew exactly his identity and the things that he committed.
"Hermione? Saya?" the man said trying to act all happy to see them, "It is so good to see you?"
"Shut up, Pettigrew." Saya said plainly as if holding back any sense of vengeance against the man that betrayed numerous people to Voldemort.
Meanwhile in Diagon Alley
In the commercial district of the British Wizarding World, one would describe the location as a dystopia. On every part of the walls, there were wanted posters of various people. Amongst those wanted in those poster were Harry, Kureha, and Ryoko. People in the sector of Diagon Alley were being arrested or searched for anything that the new Ministry Protection Commission Forces also called Snatchers suspected of having connections to or were muggle-borns that were in hiding from the Ministry. There was no sign of peace or prosperity that could be found on this once active economic community. Instead, there was tyranny, death, and fear that was created by the newly installed Pro-Voldemort puppet government within the Ministry of Magic.
In the streets of Diagon Alley, there was a woman walking around and being left alone by the snatcher forces that were constantly searching and arresting people. It was as if they knew that she was one of them. She had wavy red hair, blue eyes, and wore dark clothing, but the most prominent feature of the woman was a necklace that was around her neck. The necklace looked to be something that came from ancient Egypt, as it looked like something that came out of a Egyptian hieroglyph. It was held by a gold threat that was around her neck. The woman continued to walk through the street as she passed one of the snatchers that in the process of torturing a person that was supposedly hiding muggle-borns in their establishment.
As she reached a certain alley in this area, she walked to the left and proceeded to walk down to what is known as Knockturn Alley, the place where Dark Wizards and Witches did their dealings. She continued to walk down Knockturn Alley, keeping her eye on a shop that was important for her to find. She reached the building that it was located in 13B and on the building was the name "Borgin and Burkes." She smiled as she checked around for anyone following her and saw that no one was near her. Silently she entered the shop as she had a view to all the cursed items that the owner of this establishment was wanting to sell to just about anyone that had the Galleons to pay for it.
Walking up to a counter, she rang a bell calling for the owner to show up. The person that walked up to the counter was not the person that she expected to see. Outside of the back area of the shop was a woman that she had not seen since she was a teacher in Hogwarts.
"Hello, Rakepick." The woman announced to her.
The woman, identified as Rakepick, pulled out her wand out from her leather pouch on the side, but the woman that identified her was fast as she disarmed her and her wand to the other side of the room.
"Why Miss. Merula Snyde. I was not expecting to see you here." Rakepick said as she began to formulate a plan.
"I would not be surprised." Merula responded in anger. She had brown hair, violet eyes, and was short, "You know that I am not the only one that was happy to hear about your return to Britain."
"I can imagine. Obviously my torture on you on that night was not enough to permanently damage your little mind, but that is fine. I still can finish the job. And as for your little group of friends in that silly little pub that is now gone, well…I should say that they had a little surprise waiting for them." Rakepick replied as she pulled from a hidden pocket in her coat a wand.
Before Merula could disarm or prevent Rakepick from casting anymore spells, the sound of a spell whirling and hit Rakepick from the side came. The spell bounced off the woman like as if there was a shield around her. Rakepick disarmed Merula and then proceeded to look at the direction of where the spell that tried to hit from the side originated. She noticed a figure in the shadows but before she could do anything about that shadow, she felt to sharp stings within her body from the shadow and then she scream in pain. The screaming stopped after Merula ran over to Rakepick and pushed her down to the ground hard, where she punched the living daylights out of the woman to the point that Rakepick was out cold.
Merula turned to the direction of the spell and shall one of the people that was wanted in those posters as well as the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry Potter, who was apparently hiding in some sort of metal sarcophagus.
"Sorry to ruin the reunion that the two of you were having but I need to get something that is in the shop." He said with a small smile.
"Harry Potter, what are you exactly looking for?" Mersula asked curiously.
"A necklace that Mr. Borgin bought from someone that I know." Harry replied.
"Well, I do have Mr Borgin…"
"tied up…yes, my friends saw your work and are trying to get him to talk about where it is." Harry responded as he looked over Rakepick and asked, "What has she done to make you want to go after her?"
Merula looked down as she replied, "She killed a friend of mine back in Hogwarts the school year before you showed up to Hogwarts."
Harry looked down and said, "I am sorry to hear that. Why did she kill your friend?"
"She was working for a organization called R and wanted to get whatever is the treasure in the Cursed Vault within Hogwarts."
Harry raised an eyebrow and asked, "Cursed Vaults? R?"
"It's a long story. I can tell you after we get out here and after I deal with her."
"What do you intend to do with her?"
Merula looked Harry in the eyes as she gave him an answer, "I intend to torture and kill her for everything that she did."
"I'm afraid that might not be possible. Because I have some questions for her now, particularly about this R."
"I can answer that for you after I kill her." Merula said annoyed as she wanted to get her vengeance.
"Not for the types of questions that I have in mind." Harry replied.
"Why should I not kill her here and now?" Merula demanded as she pointed her wand at Rackpike with a green glow.
"Because I had seen enough death for the past week." Harry plainly answered, "I was there at Hogsmeade. You read that the paper right and heard the tales of the carnage that happened there. I was one of the first people to arrive there and see the death as well as the destruction that happened there. If you kill her then you will become like her. Trust me, I know someone that went out for vengeance and because of that he ended up with twelve years in Azkaban."
Merula thought for a bit. However, Harry was unable to figure out what it was that had been running through Merula's mind.
"Fine, but if she tries to escape or escapes, I will kill her." Merula snarled.
Harry nodded as he knew that was all that he was going to get from her.
"Where are you planning to take her?"
"Hogwarts. It is the only place that Riddle does not have any control of." Harry replied.
"Riddle?" Merula asked confused.
"That is Voldemort's real last name."
"Really? I remember that name from the tropy for…"
"extraordinary services to the school? Yep that was his reward that he earned by framing Hagrid." Harry answered.
"Harry!"
Harry turned to the direction of where his name was being called and saw Kureha with a happy look on her face.
"We got it. He had it in his safe." Kureha announced to her husband.
"Good. Be careful with it, remember that the tiara wanted to fight back against Ranmaru putting it in a container." Harry said as Kureha nodded and ran back.
"Now why was she able to block a spell without having to use her wand?" Harry questioned out loud to himself.
He noticed the Egyptian looking necklace and decided to take off her belongings as he remembered that Ron's brother, Bill, worked in Egypt and Ron telling him some of the stuff that his brother found. Maybe this necklace was the answer to that question he thought to himself.
Back in Tokko Headquarters
"You better start talking Pettigrew or you might find yourself losing more than just a finger." Ranmaru said at a tied-up Peter Pettigrew, who was forced to also wear magic suppressing cuffs.
Pettigrew only whimpered at the threat that Ranmaru made.
"Still not talking?" Ranmaru said.
There was a silence for about another minute.
"Ranmaru, it is obvious that he is not going to talk at all." Saya said as she pulled out a vial from her pocket.
She popped out the cork from the vial and walked over to Pettigrew.
"Open up and say aaahhhh." Saya said.
Pettigrew kept his mouth shut as he shook his head.
"Here is the thing that you should know Pettigrew. You owe Harry a debt for your life and even with that you still hurt by putting a knife to his arm as a way to bring Voldemort back. As a member of the Potter Family that resides in Tokyo as of this moment, I could technically call in on that debt for you to fulfil and I actually am right now. Now, if you do not respond with a yes to that call to the debt, you know what could happen right?" Saya said with smirk that frightened Pettigrew, he could definitely see the traits of Lily and her family within this woman.
"What would happen?" Yukino asked curiously.
"He would lose his magic, which could possibly kill him with a painful death" Hermione responded with a glare to Pettigrew.
"Now, I am not sure if that will work as I am not the head of the Potter Family, but I have heard tales of it working for representatives of the magical families. Do wanna try and see if it will apply?" Saya continued.
Pettigrew shacked his head for a 'no'.
"Then you will drink the vial and then as far as I am concerned, you answered the call with a yes."
After a minute of him drink the vial, Saya began to ask questions on whether or not the person that they captured and have in the room in cuff is actually Peter Pettigrew. It was confirmed that he was indeed Peter Pettigrew, who had betrayed Harry's family to Voldemort and so many other people that had died in the first war. In addition, Pettigrew admitted that he helped Tasihi in waking up Hiroki from his slumber in the hospital that he was residing in and helped to plan in the kidnapping of Hermione. The big surprise was that this was not Pettigrew's first time infiltrating the place or Tokko itself. He was at the hospital and told Voldemort that Ranmaru and Kureha were going to be at the Machida apartment complex.
"Are you still loyal to Voldemort only?" Hermione decided to ask.
"No." Pettigrew answered.
This revelation surprised everyone in the room, except Saya.
"Then who?"
"Tasihi." Pettigrew answered.
"Why did you switch sides? Aren't both Voldemort and Tasihi fighting for the same thing?" Ranmaru asked as he was actively confused.
"Yes, but Tasihi said that he could do it much more effectively than Voldemort and he should that he could. I switched to be Tasihi's spy because he was more honest to me and treated me with acceptance by not torturing me for failing at something that was hardly my fault unlike Voldemort." Pettigrew snarled at the last word before continuing, "He payed with more wealth and power than Voldemort will every give to anyone within his own ranks. In addition, he had a nice pretty young maid that he said was plucked from the Muggle Apartment Complex that he opened the gate in Machida."
"What did she look like?" said a voice that no one but one recognized. The voice was deep and full of anger.
"She wears a maid outfit all the time and really young. Brown hair that is a bit tomboyish and she has a cute mole on her left butt check. Tasihi said that she recently reached adulthood." Pettigrew responded.
"How do you know about the mole?" Inukai asked as the room grew more and more tense all of a sudden.
"Because Tasihi would have her perform what he called special services."
Everyone watched as Inukai took off his shades and placed them on the table. It was there almost everyone one had a clear look at his face for the first time. Pettigrew would swear that he looked as if he was a relative of Severus Snape but with blonde hair.
"And these special services were of sexual services?" Inukai continued with the questioning.
"Yes and other stuff like cutting my toe nails and bathing me for example." Pettigrew whimpered as he feared what was coming as he never thought that he could find a very intimidating muggle.
The look on Inukai was one of disgust and complete anger. Everyone watched as Inukai pulled out a picture of a little girl that looked like a tomboy with brown hair and eyes, while looking to be in her teenage years. He held it up to Pettigrew's face and began to continue.
"Does this 'maid' look exactly alike to the girl on this picture? The girl on here would be five years older now."
Pettigrew looked closes and went pale as he answered with effects of the potion starting to wear off, while he answered with a small "maybe…."
"DON'T GIVE ME A MAYBE YOU PIECE OF SHIT. GIVE ME A YES OR NO. YOU ANSWER ME NOW OR YOU WILL NOT ONLY LOSE A HAND BUT BOTH YOUR HANDS AND YOUR GOD DAMN LEGS. SO ANSWER ME AGAIN THIS TIME." Inukai yelled as he was grabbing a firm hold to the collar of Pettigrew with their faces so closer.
Pettigrew whimpered again and answered, "Yes."
"You piece of shit." Inukai said as he began to punch the rat in the face constantly.
Everyone was yelling at Inukai to stop as he continued to have his fist impact the face of Pettigrew with tremendous force each time.
"Inukai stop please." Saya pleaded.
However, Inukai was not listening as he kept going and going even when Saya and Ranmaru was trying to grab hold of his arms to prevent him from killing Pettigrew. He pushed them away and instead, he was yelling at Pettigrew to tell him where Ami was at. When he was not getting a answer, he reached for his sword and was about unsheathe from its holster until he felt Hermione hug him from behind and softly pleaded for him to stop. She said that Ami would not approve of what her big brother was about to do. It seemed to work as Inukai regain some sense and just cried for the first time since the day that he lost Ami five years ago. Hermione continued to hug him as he cried. She had never felt so sad for someone in her life. Inukai kept holding to Hermione for support as he slowly walked over to his room in the building.
As he left the room, everyone turned to Pettigrew to see the condition that he was in at the moment. His face was completely beaten and bruised, there was blood from both his nose and his mouth. He moaned and groan in pain, eventually he passed out but was still breathing with a pulse on his neck. Although, Saya said that luckily, she had the wizarding medical supplies to heal Pettigrew to a better condition.
Although, Ranmaru could not help but just say, "Damn."
"you think that Inukai will be alright?" Yukino asked, who was seriously concerned about him.
"I do not know." Sakura replied from across the room.
The Next Day
Back at Hogwarts
After managing to get back to Hogwarts safely, Merula explained that she was part of a group, called the Circle of Khanna, similar to Harry's Dumbledore's Army but with the goals of hunting down Rakepick and getting revenge on the death of their friend Rowan Khanna. Rakepick was once teacher of Defense Against The Dark Arts, albeit she was not always in that position for her time in Hogwarts, and secret worked for an organization called R or also called the Cabal, which wanted to gain the treasure that was within the Cursed Vaults of Hogwarts. Harry remembered Hermione telling him about it one time during his second year, the Cursed Vaults were hidden rooms throughout the castle that houses possibly priceless treasure. In addition, most of the members of the Circle of Khanna had entered these vaults and encountered things that made Harry question the safety as well as the security of the school even more than he had before; especially if all of this happened before his time in the school.
Merula explained that she found out Rakepick was in Britain through a friend that was spying on the new tyrannical Ministry of Magic and was going to inform the rest of the Circle but before she could arrive to the weekly meeting that they hold in Hogs Head. However, she had to not show up as the leader of the group wanted her to discover when would be best time to strike Rakepick and get justice for Khanna. Then the quake and massacre at Hogsmeade happened on the day of the meeting with almost every member in attendance. She was unable to find anyone that came from the meeting and was still alive, which meant that everyone that was at that meeting was now dead for sure. This had left Merula as one last living members of the Circle of Khanna and then she learned about the take-over within the Ministry of Magic, where it also declared Rakepick and other well-known Death Eaters innocent of the crimes that they were accused of.
Harry and the girls felt sorry for the girl as she told them that at this point she had nothing to live for as her lover, who was the leader of the Circle was missing and most likely dead since he was at the meeting as well. That was why she had been so determined to want to kill Rakepick.
"What is so important about that necklace?" Merula asked Harry curiously as they were in the Gryfindor Common Room, while the girls were talking to Saya and Snape was interrogating Rakepick on information.
"It is linked to Voldemort." Harry answered. He did not want to take the risk of telling her more about the importance of the locket of Slytherin.
"How?"
"Can't tell you." Harry replied.
"Why?"
Harry did not responded to her as he decided to take a walk around the castle for a bit.
"Hey, do not leave me like that and not tell me anything." Merula said annoyed as she followed after Harry.
"Potter." Said a different voice but familiar voice as Harry stepped out of the Common Room.
Harry turned to the different voice and saw that it was Snape. Harry noticed that he had an envelope in his hand was sealed with a wax stamp.
"Yes?" Harry asked.
"The Headmaster wishes to see you, now." Snape sneered, "Also I have been instructed to hand this to you."
Harry grabbed the envelope that the School's Potion master handed him and the proceeded to ask, "How is he?"
"Why don't you find yourself, Potter." Snape suggested.
Harry shrugged as Snape walked away. Afterward, Harry started to walk towards the Hospital Wing of the school and opened the envelope which contained a letter which he began to read.
Dear Lord Black,
Last we meet, we were at the Will Reading of my late Cousin, Sirius Black, were he gave me and my son an ultimatum. I will not lie as initially I was not going to accept it, but recent events have changed my reflections on the Dark Lord. I am sure that you have already heard about what happened to my late husband and as to why it happened. I and My dear Draco were forced to watch as the Dark Lord murder and ate my dear Lucius. Now, every single day, The Dark Lord with his new horrendous body and powers has installed a more intense amount of fear within his members, even my own sister, Bellatrix is starting to fear him now. I asked Severus to send you this letter as a way to call-in on the offer that Sirius made in his will and would like to ask protection as soon as me and Draco can be able to break out from our home.
Please give Severus a letter or response if you would be willing to offer us refuge from the Dark Lord.
Sincerely,
Narcissa Malfoy
Harry put the letter into his jacket pocket as he walked down to the Hospital Wing and saw that Dumbledore was still in bad condition. It seemed as if his condition was getting worse and worse each time that Harry gets to see him every since they went to that cave. Dumbledore just looked completely tired and exhausted with his face being pale and wrinkly.
"Professor?" Harry announced.
Dumbledore opened his eyes, rather weakly as he spoke with a hoarse voice, "Oh, Harry. Good to see you again. Have you retrieved it? Did Borgin have the necklace as Dung said?"
"Yes, it was there, and I assume that Rakepick was somehow sent to retrieve it from him." Harry answered.
"Yes, Severus told me that that he is interrogating her as we speak. There was many things that I regret about the things that I have done, and not seeing that she had dark intentions in working for the school was one of them. I understand that you ran into Miss. Synde as well?" Dumbledore said as he looked up to the ceiling of the Hospital Wing.
"Sir, are you alright? You look as if you have been getting worse?" Harry asked legitimately concerned.
"I am afraid, Harry, my boy. The side effects from the Drink of Despair that Voldemort brewed to refill itself on that basin had a extra ingredient to slowly kill the drinker by slowly stopping their organs from functioning plus it does not help that the curse on my arm is getting worse. Eventually soon within the coming days or weeks, I will die; Peacefully I hope." Dumbledore replied as he pulled out his blackened arm that had gotten worse since the last time Harry saw it.
"I am sorry to hear that, sir."
"Don't be Harry, I do not fear death as I think of Death as the next great adventure. I get to be with my family in the end. At least I hope I do, if the concept of hell and heaven are indeed true as muggle religion says." Dumbledore thought to himself for a second as he continued, "From what I understand, some religions in the muggle say that if you confess your sins then you will gain essential a guaranteed entry into Heaven. Is that true?"
Harry replied, "sir, I am not well in-depth into religion. But I believe that is correct for Catholicism."
"The church that use to actively hunt for witches and wizards back in the medieval era. How ironic. If you do not mind if I confess some of the biggest mistakes that I have made in my life. Mistakes that I made about you, the school, the wizarding world, and I guess also the muggle world." Dumbledore said with a small smile.
Harry nodded as he was willing to give a dying man, like Dumbledore, his last wish at least. Although, Harry hated Dumbledore for the wrongs that he caused to him, but he never wanted him dead like that. He continued to listen to what Dumbledore wanted to tell for the past hour or so, until Madame Pomfrey came back and instructed Harry out as Dumbledore needed to be treated for a possible miracle that Snape made to hopefully slowly the effects of Voldemort's potion. Dumbledore thanked Harry for at least hearing him out.
Harry nodded as he walked away and was trying to figure out what he was going to do. However, if he could, he saw Ryoko and Kureha waiting for him outside the Hospital Wing.
"Hey, Hubby, what did Dumbledore want?" Kureha asked curiously.
"Well, he just wanted to know if we managed to get the real locket from Borgin's shop in Knockturn Alley." Harry replied with somewhat of a lie.
"I see, thank goodness that we even managed to get it at all. I mean if that Rakepick woman was not around and plus us, then it could have gotten to anyone." Kureha said.
"Yea, like Umbridge for example. I hate to imagine what trouble that we would have to go through to get that from her." Harry thought to himself with a shudder.
"So, anything new?" Harry asked as he smiled to his favorite ladies.
"A lot, unfortunately, Harry." Ryoko answered.
Ryoko explained that recently Pettigrew was just captured within Tokko Headquarters and revealed that Ami was still alive, but the details about her were not pretty at all. Harry honestly felt sorry for Inukai over the fact that his little sister was used for sexual purposes and such, while he had given up on finding her. Another disturbing fact was that the headquarters of Tokko was now compromised, Ryoko mentioned that she was curious on why Herpo did not just attack them and kill them from the start especially if he did knew their location.
"I believe that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who once said, 'never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake that is bad manners.' We assumed that our location was always safe. Well, it looks like we were wrong." Kureha answered.
Ryoko huffed as she said, "Good point."
"Well, what else did Saya say?" Harry asked.
"Well, Ranmaru and Yukino will be going to Greece to the possible location of where the first gate was located. However, before that happens, Saya says that she wants to find a way to get the Araragi siblings to join Tokko by lending a hand with the Phantom attacks that have been going on. Tokko is already stretched thin with the three of us here dealing with the gate here." Ryoko explained.
"The Araragi siblings?" Harry said confused.
"Oh, that is right, you have never heard of them. But there are another set of survivors from the gate in Machida. There are two of them and they are symbionts as well. But when we last approached, they refused to official join us in the fight." Kureha answered.
"Why?"
"Not sure, maybe they knew about the corruption going on in the Security Division or something. But the things is not only do they hunt and kill Phantoms, but they also eat them as a meal."
"Eat?" Harry said surprised.
"According to the older sibling, he said that if he eat the Phantoms that they kill, then they would be able to grow stronger in order to kill more Phantoms. They want to see the end of the Phantoms like us, but they want to work alone itself. Honestly, I wish Saya luck on that, I was never able to convince the two siblings." Ryoko explained with a sigh.
"Who knows maybe Saya will get lucky." Kureha said then she looked back to her husband, "So Harry, you hungry right now? It is almost supper time."
The moment Kureha said those words, Harry felt his stomach rumble which was audible to both girls who just smirked.
"Now that you mention it." Harry said.
"Come on, Hubby. I will call Kreacher or Dobby to bring us supper and then we can maybe have another time within the Room of Requirements afterwards." Kureha said with a smirk.
"Actually, I was thinking that after supper, we go to that Prefect's Bathroom." Ryoko suggested with an equal smirk.
"I like how you think Ryoko." Kureha said as she watched her husband go red and had a small nosebleed at the thought.
The two women walked over to Harry with each grabbing a hold of his arm and hugging their chests into his arms, while they proceeded to walk to the Gryffindor Common Room.
Meanwhile in a Vault hidden somewhere within the Castle
"It's been years since I have last been here." Merula thought as she appeared in sort of stone room that had various portraits in it.
She noticed that since the last time that she had been here, with who was now her missing husband and her other friends, the area had been cleaned out like as if someone was looking for something desperately.
"Probably, Rakepick. She must have came back to here somehow after she killed Rowan," Merula said to herself.
All of the ruble that had been in the area were removed, while the it looks like the only thing that Rakepick had not done was clean the floor of the dust that came from the collapsing of a part of the area. Although, Rakepick repaired the damage, she did not ensure that the dust was removed.
Merula searched the whole that she and her friends had explored in this vault , but there was nothing on the walls of the area. There was hardly anything that showed a way to the treasure that was rumored to be in the last vault. She started to believe that the idea of a treasure in the Cursed Vaults was a ruse and that Rakepick had murdered Rowan for a treasure that never existed in the first place.
Merula was beginning to decide to return back to the main parts of Hogwarts just as she stomped the anger, which sent dust that Rakepick left flying up to the air on to her robes and clear the area around her in a small circle. Merula sighed as the dust had gotten on her robes and proceeded to clean it off with her hands, where she noticed that under her feet a line of black on the floor that looked like the symbol of a rune.
Pulling out her wand, Merula casted a wind charm to clear the dust that on the floor around her and it was there she understood that she was standing under a strange rune symbol that she had never even seen before within her life. She kept looking at the rune to get a visual memorization of the rune and left to see if maybe Potter could identify it possibly or maybe some one that she knows. But wanted to find out what Potter knew about those monsters that are with Voldemort, especially since they most likely killed her husband.
The Next Day
Inside the Malfoy Manner
"My dear Madam Lestrange, how can I help you?" Herpo, also known as Tasihi, said as he sat down on a chair looking over the landscape of Malfoy Manner.
Bellatrix Lestrange blinked as she realized that she had never said that she had even entered the room, but yet this Tasihi individual was able to know that she entered the room.
"I think you and I both know what I want to talk about." Bellatrix replied in a tone saying that she feared the topic.
"Ahh yes, the fact that Voldemort's little cup that he gave you to protect is now destroyed by the Goblins in Gringotts." Tasihi smirked, "I guess that you want me to protect you from Voldemort's rage should he find out the truth about the horcrux that he gave you."
Bellatrix nodded as she said, "Yes."
"Well, I suppose that I could give you protection, but in exchange you have to give me something." Tasihi answered as he continued to smirk with purple flumes coming out of his smirk.
"And what do you want in return?" Bellatrix asked.
"Your loyalty to me and only me." Tasihi answered, which surprised Bellatrix.
Now that is completed. I decided to include some elements of the video game Hogwarts Mystery, but I am not planning to make it like main part of the story; I do not plan to make Merula a main character in story, if any anything is will most likely be a side character. In addition, I changed who Dung would usually give the locket to because I wanted to do something a bit different and plus I felt that if things were going bad fast in term of the war with this new ministry that is brutal, then Dung would want to be rid of the locket ASAP.
Now the next chapter will be divided between Ranmaru and Yukino in Greece and the Trio in Hogwarts.
Please leave a comment and tell me what you think of the story and if you feel like go and read my side stories, until next time.