This one's a bit long….

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Delphi opened her eyes when the sound of footsteps fell into her ears. She could barely keep her mind together and didn't even feel the pain from the runes anymore. Every time two minutes passed she would feel a slight buzz within her body and mind.

As he came and stood outside her cell she recognized him by simply seeing his shadow. "Are you here to be my knight in shining armor?" she said, her eyes barely lifting up from looking at the ground.

"Why did you do it?" asked James. This was the first time he was seeing her after that night back at his house. "I thought what we had between us was real."

"You boys always have a soft spot for a girl once she sleeps with you," she said. "I guess you'd have been a little more careful had you known about your real heritage. That said, you being betrayed by me were your parents' fault. They hid the truth from you and see where it brought them."

"I don't blame them anymore," he said. "I now understand what they did was for my own protection. Besides I have to admit I was better off living as a muggle. Perhaps I will do that once it's all over."

That last part made her chuckle although she regretted it as it sent a piercing sense of pain inside her head. "You cannot challenge her," she said.

"But he sure can save his parents."

Delphi looked up and her eyes widened seeing the goblin king himself standing outside her cell.

"So you were busy all these days," she said smiling. "Mommy's little boy has all grown up."

James and the goblin king left the caves as Delphi's laugh echoed behind them. "You okay son?" asked the king.

"I will be," James replied. "Once I rescue them. Thank you for your assistance, your highness."

"You don't have to mention that," said the goblin king.

Arriving back in the manor George told them that everything was ready. Barefang had charted an apparition rout leading straight to the caves underneath the castle which were outside the ward limits of Hogwarts.

"How are we going to go through the wards once we are there?" asked James. "All the entrances are ultimately within the ward's limits."

"We have formed a team consisting of curse breakers. It has the goblins and wizards both working together," said George. "I am being told that they can open a slight breach in the wards of the castle which will go undetected. Once we have breached the wards we will all go in. Pan has the marauder's map and she will be guiding us all the way through inside the castle."

James nodded as they all took positions.

"I hope you all have memorized the caves," said George looking at everyone. "Our objective is simple – to rescue the prisoners captured by Tenille. Avoid starting a fight. We cannot risk a battle once we are there because we have no idea how much of her army is there. We go in, rescue them and we get out. The objective is simple but we will have to be careful. Keep your listeners on at all times. It is tied to the rune stones powering your see-through goggles as well. Do not act on your own unless it is absolutely necessary and even then you need to inform about your actions if it is something that is outside of our plan. I would hate to lose anyone of you. Is that clear?"

Everybody responded back with vigor as the large hall of Potter Manor filled with the shouts of both goblin soldiers and wizards.

Once their route was secured, they all apparated at once.

James arrived and barely managed to save himself from falling. A moment after his arrival Ava arrived by his side. "Where are we?" she asked.

"As per the plans we should be in the forty-third cave," he said as he took out a copy of the caves' planning. A few others also arrived in the same cave. Their team was organized based on their purpose for the mission. Ava was to lead James and a few others into the castle through cave forty-three. Barefang was also with him as he had requested to be by James' side. Seeing that he was a powerful goblin soldier himself James and Ava only welcomed him into their group.

Pan was in the guide group which consist her and a few goblins. She had the marauder's map while the goblins had the maps of the underground cave system. As per Pan's idea the goblins had deconstructed the construct of the marauder's map to understand how it worked. Once they had figured it out they applied the same principals to the caves' maps. Because it required a lot of magical input through rune stones only a few were made and handed out to the guiding teams which each had taken position around the castle outside its wards.

Even with everything prepared the cave maps showing everyone's movements were useless once they entered the castle's wards. After that they relied only on their memory of where the caves led.

The guiding teams started delivering the routes to each of the groups. James' group followed in close and quick and was by the ward in minutes. The other groups also reached their spots and then after confirming everyone's position George gave the curse breakers the green signal.

The curse beakers of every group began their work. James closed his eyes and the sword appeared in his hand. Barefang watched it in amazement. "What?" asked James when he saw Barefang looking at him.

"It is always something to see that sword in person," said Barefang. James smiled when their curse breaker informed them that he had breached the ward. The same went with all the other groups' curse breakers. Once it was known George told them to move ahead.

In a few minutes they all regrouped at a larger cave. It was amazing that such a place existed underneath the castle and was undiscovered. These caves could be used in many different ways but now was not the time to think of such things. Once they were near enough Pan activated the marauder's map. She breathed a sigh of relief when it showed everyone who was inside the castle.

First of all her eyes scanned the map for any of the four. It took some time but she found Daphne's name on the map. It was blurry which meant she could be slipping into unconsciousness or sleep or even…She shoved those thoughts aside as she then looked for routes that would lead them to where Daphne's location was and once she'd found a secure one she informed George and everyone else.

James felt turmoil of feelings when he came to know that his mother was in there. That meant his father and god parents were in there as well. But the fact that the map hadn't shown Harry, Gohan or Hermione made him worry.

Getting the signal they all moved ahead, all prepared, spells and weapons ready and armed once they entered the castle.

The gate opened and they all started entering the castle a few at a time. They arrived in a huge underground area.

"Where are we?" asked George.

"The secret chamber of Hogwarts," said Pan. "I would've directed us all towards the room of requirement, one of the most secure places in all of Hogwarts but unfortunately that room isn't shown on this map so this was the second choice."

"This place is amazing!" said Ava as they all looked around in surprise. The goblins were especially keen and amazed looking around. Everywhere was a work of their craftsmen. This was really an amazing discovery.

"Through the entrance of Salazar Slytherin's statue we can go to the room of requirement," said Pan. "From there we can ask the room to get us to any place inside the castle." She then looked at everyone. "Our goal is the south-west tower. There's an empty classroom nearby which we will use to exit and go to that tower. Half of us will go while the other half will take their positions as per the plan in case something unanticipated happens." Everyone nodded. She then looked at George who then nodded the final command and they entered Salazar Slytherin's statue through its mouth.

Inside the statue the space had been magically enlarged. There were various paths leading to various different directions.

"Looks like Salazar loved mazes," said George. "Which way do we go?" he asked.

"I don't know," said Pan. "The map doesn't show the chamber as it is. These passages are part of the chamber so we are on our own."

"This will create a problem," said James when he realized something. He closed his eyes and focused like he did when summoning for the sword. He smiled when he felt the familiar tinge. "We take that one," he said pointing to one of the paths on the left.

"How do you know?" asked George.

"I am an heir of Slytherin from my mom's side," said James.

Everyone headed the way James pointed and they soon reached the room of requirement. Once there Pan opened the map and then wished for different exits from the room, one of them leading to the south-west tower. The doors appeared and she checked first before they all exited the room to make sure they didn't encounter anything they didn't want. Surprisingly their path was clear.

"That's surprising," she said. "We have a clear path to the tower. Doesn't that seem a little weird to you?"

"It could be a trap laid by Tenille," said George. "But the map isn't showing anyone in the corridors and the curse breakers can find any hidden traps laid down for us. I think we should keep moving." Pan nodded and they left the room of requirement and came out to the unused classroom they had wished for the door to lead them.

The moment they entered the classroom leaving the room of requirement behind a chill feeling enveloped them as they looked in front of them. The entire classroom was rotting away. It was covered with dark black vines and plants and also had small creature from the dark end of the magical world. Many of them they didn't even know what it was.

They raised their shields and moved forward. The curse breakers were in the front making sure there weren't any traps in their path. Once they had crossed the classroom they stopped at the gate as Pan made sure there was no one in the corridor on the other side of the door. The curse breakers then opened the gate and scanned the entire corridor and the stairs which would lead them to where the map showed Daphne was.

As they took their first turn they stopped dead in their tracks seeing an entire horde of dead people in front of them. The horde hadn't seen them but if they moved or made a sound in even the slightest they would be caught and that was something they definitely wanted to avoid.

"Why didn't they show up on the map?" whispered George.

"Probably because they are dead," said Ava. "What are we going to do?"

"If the map or the curse breakers couldn't sense these dead people who know how many more of them are ahead?" said James when he realized something as they all hid behind some pillars. He put his hand in the pouch that he'd brought and fiddled around before pulling out his father's invisibility cloak.

Pan's eyes widened with realization as she saw the cloak. "That will work," she said.

"What?" asked Barefang.

"This cloak hides its user's magical signature completely," she said. "If it is used we can easily cross through the horde and wouldn't be noticed."

"The only problem is with its size only one more can fit in it," said James. "The others will have to stay behind."

"So you two go ahead then," said George in a moment. Pan and James looked at him. "The rest of us will figure another way out and meet you there."

"Are you sure?" asked James although he was looking at Ava. She nodded.

"Like George said – we will figure another way," she said.

"Stay in contact with us, though, as we would be requiring your guidance inside the castle and only you have the map," said George looking at Pan. She nodded before her and James covered themselves with the cloak and went ahead. They crossed the horde without any problems.

With the cloak covering them they crossed the distance between them and Daphne's location pretty fast. Pan did her best to figure out any hidden traps although her curse breaking skills weren't that great. Finally they took their last turn and saw a huge door in front of them. Pan had them stop as she scanned the door for any traps or alarms and found lots of them.

"Shit!" she cursed. James looked at her with questioning eyes. "The entrance is covered with layers of wards and booby traps. I don't think I can do this," she said. "We should've brought at least one curse breaker with us."

"Is there any other way in?" asked James looking at the map in Pan's hands.

"I am looking at it," she said frantically running her eyes across the map. She found none and sighed in frustration. "There's no other way in," she said.

"Alright, inform everyone to head back to the caves so they can apparate on cue," said James. "Let's break this door down, go in, rescue them and head out."

"If she's here at the castle then it won't matter how quick we are," said Pan. "Tenille will capture us all in seconds."

"We won't know unless we try," he said.

"Or we can ask the curse breakers over the communicator to help us breach through the entrance," she said.

"How accurately can you describe the situation to them?" he asked. "You can't even reveal the traps entirely."

"We will what we can and then we can only hope that the curse breakers would know what type of magical security is there on this door," she said. James looked uneasy. "Look, if this doesn't work we will go ahead with your plan okay? We need to look at all the possible alternatives that will prevent any unwanted attention from us." James finally agreed as Pan began to describe to the curse breakers in their group what sort of traps and alarms she was seeing on the door.

The curse breakers listened to everything she said and then discussed it amongst themselves. Because the information was incomplete they needed to figure out which type of security it was. Unfortunately with the amount of information Pan had given them they had narrowed it down to three different security spells of which one was on the door. This made things difficult as they had no second chance in the matter because of they made a mistake trying to breach through the gate and the alarm went off they would all be in danger.

James then spoke up, telling them their idea and the goblins confirmed that with enough magic and a powerful strike from the Gryffindor's sword he could easily break the door down. It would be a matter of time after that as to how quickly they could rescue everyone on the inside. It was a lot riskier but it had a greater chance of success instead of guessing which security charms were on the door.

After a good amount of discussion it was decided that a few groups will gather with James and Pan to provide them backup. It was non-negotiable as George put it straight. His group was slowly advancing in their direction. As it had turned out the dead couldn't see and only sensed the magic coming off of others so by curbing down their magic they were able to cross the horde without a problem.

This information was relayed to the other groups who then moved in James and Pan's direction. Pan guided them through the shortest routes possible and by twenty minutes four groups were there outside the entrance. Fortunately there were a few curse breakers as well and they began to work on the door. They had recognized the charms used on it and assured everyone that it could be breached.

So the curse breakers got to work while the others waited in the open. They had their senses heightened up. Those who had previously been trained by Harry and Gohan new how to sense ki but in this situation when the entire castle seemed to be filled with dead people whose ki they couldn't sense, it made things difficult.

Eventually the curse breaker broke through the security and opened the door. The moment they did, however, a powerful explosion threw them off of their feet, flinging them across the corridor to the other end where they hit the wall. A good number of them died immediately while the rest were heavily injured and looked disoriented wondering what had happened. Some of them luckily had their shields up in time and had saved some of the others from the impact.

Pan had her shield up, covering a good amount of them but the explosion had caused her ears to go numb as a loud ringing filled her head. She looked around disoriented; her senses messed up for the time being. She looked behind her. James was standing up, supporting another on in their group. George had hit his head and was unconscious. He was also bleeding like many of them.

Those who could stand and fight came in the front, taking positions and shielding the injured. James and Ava helped the injured. Each one in the group had five senzu beans so they were good for now. They collected the beans from those who were dead. It felt wrong but they needed the beans for the living.

As the dust settled Pan saw the door was blown open and there was only a shield now stopping them from entering. "James!" she cried. "Use your sword!"

James looked at her before his yes fell on the ward on the door as he quickly summoned his sword. The moment the sword was in his hand the magic crackling in his hand covered the sword in bluish lightning as he charged at the gate. One well-positioned strike and the ward was blown to smithereens. He stopped and looked back.

"Go!" said Pan. "These people need help," she said.

"You have to go with him, Pan," Ava said. "The rest of us can take care here. You go."

Pan wanted to argue her decision but saw the others looked at her telling her to go as well. She nodded before blasting over to James as they went on ahead.

"It's been over a minute since the explosion happened," said Pan. "Why isn't she here?"

"Worry about that later?" James said. "Look!"

She looked to where he was pointing and saw a few cells. There were people in them, all looking like they had been sucked dry. Pan recognized some of them. They were all powerful witches and wizards along with a few ancient magical creatures she'd seen only in books. All of them had one thing in common – their amazingly huge magical core.

She opened the map and looked for where Daphne's cell was and then headed on. She realized they were heading in deep into the place and the air was getting more chilled and dense. It was getting harder to breathe but something else was worrying her as she recognized this chilly feeling.

"Dementors," she said in a low voice as James stopped and looked at her. The lightning around his sword increased as the first horde of them came flying towards them. Pan's aura surrounded her, causing her hair to stand up as she screamed wildly. Her aura turned a vibrant yellow as her hair stuck up and turned golden. Her pupils changed their color from brown to green as James witnessed for the first time her transforming into a super saiyan. It was a feeling of its own seeing it up this close in real life.

He remembered Pan telling him that she could turn into a super saiyan, however, that form was her limit. Unlike her father she couldn't ascend to the next level yet because her ki control dwindled whenever she tried.

She knew that turning into a super saiyan filled her mind with a little bit of malice and sadism so casting a patronus charm in that form was impossible. However, she was a literal body of glowing light right now and she knew energy blasts harmed dementor worse than the patronus charm and so it was that a powerful Kamehameha wave blasted them into oblivion as James stood there watching all of it with wide eyes.

"I'll hold them off," she said without looking at him. James nodded without questioning her decision and went ahead further into the place. Pan had given him the marauder's map so he could find his mother's cell.

He encountered a few dead people on his way in which he simply cut and continued on when he saw two familiar faces standing in front of him.

"Aunt Luna, Uncle Neville," he said.

"It is so nice to finally meet you in person, James," said Luna as she walked towards him with open arms. "Come, give me a hug."

Memories from his past flooded inside his head as he saw her coming towards him. He knew she was dead, that she was Tenille's puppet now and there was no coming back from it. He then looked at Neville. So he was dead, too. He wondered if Tenille had even let their souls depart in peace which he knew wasn't the case because of how vile she was.

His grip tightened around the sword as it crackled with pure magical energy. James lifted it up, a striking position in place he looked at them and smiled in sadness. "I am sorry," he said as with blinding speed he sliced them both in half. Their screeching cries echoed inside the room as he closed his eyes to try not to see their pain as they died in agony. It was shocking to see how the dead were able to feel anything.

Once their body had eroded away James continued ahead. He followed the map and was finally standing outside the cell. There were two people inside, one of them moaning something unintelligible while the other was completely quiet. The smell of shit and piss filled the place as he saw the cell in front of that with two more people. There were other cells with people in them. Looking at the map it showed they were all still alive. Some of them, however, were in the same cell with a dead person anchored to the wall beside them.

James tried to calm his mind but it was difficult. "Mom?" he said coming closer to her cell. "Mom, it's me, James."

She looked up slowly. James almost cried looking at her boney figure and huge round sunken eyes on that boney face. Her hair had turned white because of her weak core. The same was with every other person in those cells.

"James?" she whispered in a coarse voice before she started coughing hard. It sounded like she would cough out her lungs. Her coughing was uncontrollable as James watched in horror seeing her cough blood. He then looked at the cell's bars. Of course there were runes engraved on it. He didn't know much about them and these looked a lot more complex and difficult. He couldn't even understand them but hoped he would be able to cut his way in as his sword crackled with magic as he told his mom to get back.

Daphne was disoriented and everything felt like a dream to her. She didn't even know what was happening or where she was. She thought she heard her son's voice but she was hearing a lot of things lately because of her diminishing core. Hermione had been non-responsive for days and who knew of the two men in the cell in front of hers was even alive.

With one powerful strike he broke through the cell's bars but the resulting explosion threw him off his feet as he hit the bars of the cell behind him and fell down. He felt his eyes close as unconsciousness took him over.

With a sharp intake Harry opened his eyes and looked up. He couldn't be mistaken. He knew this feeling with every cell in his body. It was his sword. But why was he feeling the sword here? He had tried summoning it before when stuck in this place and it hadn't worked. He wondered if this was one of Tenille's tricks to torture him further into craziness when he saw someone lying outside his cell. Luckily his eyes had adapted to the darkness in here and he could see a bit clearer.

Not only was someone lying outside his cell he also saw her face in the cell in front of his as his emotions flooded inside of him.

"Daph…Daphne?" he said looking at her frail face and figure. She didn't respond to his call but looked up at him. Her vision was too blurry and her mind was too numb to understand anything but Harry saw her cell was broken and then his eyes fell on the sword lying beside the unconscious body.

He forced himself to drag his body over by the bars when he realized how weak he'd become over his stay here as he heard Gohan groan slowly and shift a little on the floor. So he had felt it, too. Gohan had recognized the sword's energy whenever they would fuse together as Son Potter. Although on his own he couldn't summon the sword because he wasn't a descendant of Gryffindor but while being Son Potter his side had once tried and successfully summoned the sword. From that moment on he could also sense the sword's presence whenever it was near as he'd told Harry once.

Harry grabbed the sword's handle and felt its magic rushing inside him. It was like someone was forcefully giving him all of their power and energy. The energy intake was too much and out of control as his body had been deprived of such for weeks now. He couldn't let go of the sword no matter how much he tried as he threw up. Nothing but a few drops of water came out of his stomach as he was completely empty but it did cause him severe pain as a hollowed cry of left his mouth.

He collapsed, the sword finally coming off of his hand as he lay there breathing hard. His throat was dry and the hard breathing made it feel like his throat would suffer from cuts as it hurt badly. After a few minutes, though, he felt a little bit better. There was no denying it – the sword had indeed given him some of its powers but he never remembered the sword actually ever consisting of that much power while being away from its user.

'From its user'. Harry's eyes widened as he realized what that meant as he looked at the unconscious figure outside his cell. "Ja…James?" the name escaped his mouth as he tried to wake him up when someone else came there. He looked up but couldn't see the person's face because of the darkness but he could tell that it was a girl.

She crouched down looking t an unconscious James when Harry saw her face. "Pan?" he said.

Pan looked at him with wide eyes and then the unmoving figure of her father beside Harry. "Uncle Harry?"

"Wha…What are you…doing here?" he asked. "You shouldn't be here. This place is…"

"Save the talks for later," she said interrupting him knowing it pained whenever he tried to talk. She could sense his ki signature and it was dangerously low. The same was with her father's case and her mother and Daphne in the cell behind her. She was glad though that they were alive. Other things could be taken care of once they left this place.

She then looked at James and the broken bars on the cell behind her and figured things out when she saw the engraved runes on those metal bars. Breaking them would've caused recoil which threw James off of his feet. She revived him with a flick of her wand and he woke up throwing his arms and legs in shock. She held him down, trying to calm him.

James looked at her face and calmed down but then he saw the broken bars behind her and their mothers. Daphne was looking at him with lifeless eyes and humming from time to time.

"James?"

He turned around and saw his father. "Dad!" he exclaimed seeing his father there looking at him.

"It really is you," Harry said. "The sword…" he said looking at it.

"Let's get you out of here," James said standing up. "Move back a little bit."

Harry moved back, pulling Gohan with him who was starting to gain consciousness. Pan formed a shield to prevent them from the explosion this time as James broke the bars with his sword. The explosion happened once more but this time they were saved by Pan's shield. James then pulled out his dad and godfather while Pan did the same with Hermione and Daphne. They then informed everyone else before James saw others looking at them from their cells.

"We need to save them, too," he said.

"There's not enough time," said Pan.

"So we leave them here to die?" he asked. Pan seemed to debate inside her head until finally she sighed.

"Fine," she said as she informed the rest that they will be arriving with some company. The two began to break the bars and pull people out one by one. Some of their condition was worse than others and they felt like they'd died. Some of them had died and were rotting away in the cells. They left the dead there but broke their shackles which tied them to the walls.

By the time they had rescued everyone from inside the cells the others came in. Barefang saw Harry and Daphne's condition and almost cried but his goblin honor stopped him. He then looked at James and Pan. "The path is cleared," he said.

"Hoe is George?" asked Pan.

"He'll make it," said Barefang. "The injured were taken back to the manor under his call."

Pan nodded. "Let's go home," she said. "There's a closet outside this room where we had asked the room of requirement to open a shortcut for us to go back."

They headed out as James carried his father. "You are having doubts," said Harry.

"Why won't she come?" said James. "We infiltrated her base and she didn't even come herself nor did she try to attack us with her armies. All we encountered was a very small part of her dead army which we all easily broke through."

By that time they had reached the closet door when Pan thought of something as they entered the closed and came back to the room of requirement from where they went to the secret chamber. They left through the same way they had come in and once they were in the caves outside of the castle's wards Pan whispered something in James' ears.

When the goblin king saw them stay back with their parents he asked them why wouldn't they go?

"We have to take them some place where they can properly heal," said Pan.

"I am assuming it is a place you don't want to reveal to others," said the goblin king.

"If it offends you in any way we apologize for it but the place has to remain a secret," said James. "We can't reveal it to others. At least if they are not necessarily in any condition to go there."

"You don't have to apologize," said the goblin king. "I understand and their recovery is our top priority right now. We will be meeting back at the manor then."

The two nodded as the others apparated back to Potter manor leaving back James, Pan, Harry, Gohan, Hermione and Daphne. Because Harry could stand on his own now he helped Daphne up. She had lost consciousness. Pan helped her mother up while James supported his godfather. Once they were ready Pan apparated them to the Lookout.

Dende was waiting for them with Piccolo and Mr Popo. This was Pan's plan which she had discussed with Piccolo.

Dende immediately walked over to them the moment they arrived and almost gasped seeing their condition. He gave Harry a senzu bean because he was still conscious and so, could wait for a few more minutes.

Hermione's condition was the worst and so Dende began with her. Even to him it took close to about twenty minutes healing her completely. Once he was done he stopped and breathed hard. This was the most amount of effort he had to do to heal someone.

"You okay?" asked Pan looking at Dende with worried eyes. "If possible then take some time."

"I'm fine," he said softly before moving on to Daphne. Hers took a little less than what it had taken to heal Hermione but even hers wasn't easy. Once he was done he decided to take a little time to recuperate as he consumed a senzu bean while asking Mr Popo to move Gohan inside the building on the Lookout.

"Has everyone safely reached the manor?" asked Harry. James nodded.

"I am sorry I wasn't there to stop her when she came after you all," said James.

"You couldn't have done anything to stop her," said Harry. "Even I and Gohan were unable to stop her."

"Look at what she did to you guys," said James. "Look at how many she's killed already. Killing her would be giving her mercy."

"I know how you're feeling but you need to calm down for now," said Harry. "How did you get that sword to come to you?" he asked changing the topic.

"It was George who told me how mom noticed me subconsciously almost summoning the sword one night," said James. "There's a lot that I have to tell you but first let's head back home."

Harry nodded as Dende walked out of the building with Gohan behind him. He was completely healed but Dende looked a little out of breath. "Are you okay?" asked Pan.

"I am fine," he replied. "I can bear a little pain for my friends," he said.

"Thanks again," said Pan hugging Dende who blushed a little. "And thank you, Piccolo," she said hugging the tall Namekian.

"It was no problem, kid," he said, hugging her back with one hand. Every time he looked at her he remembered the first time he'd seen Gohan…how little he was when Piccolo had forced him under training when his father had sacrificed himself to save them all. So typical of Goku. He wondered if Goku was looking at Pan from up in the heavens. After defeating Boo he had decided to stay in the world of Kais even after the Elder Kai had given him his life back. Earth had enough strong heroes to protect it from any danger and if they ever needed him Goku had promised he would be right there to help them.

Dende healed Harry in no time. He was almost already healed because of the energy the sword had given him so it wasn't so hard for Dende to heal him. Once they had all been healed and ready to go they bid their goodbyes and apparated back to Potter manor.

The moment they arrived they felt a strange feeling. The four parents were immediately on their guards as Pan and James wondered what was going on. They couldn't ignore this chilly, sick feeling they were getting from inside the manor. No one was in sight. Pan couldn't sense any ki signature except for one. She didn't know whose it was.

"What happened here?" James asked looking around in shock and confusion when the air felt dense and breathing became hard. A feeling of nausea engulfed him as he tried not to throw up when he saw her enter the living area with Delphi in tow.

"Nice place," said Tenille as she smiled looking at them.

"How did you get out?" James asked looking at Delphi.

She smiled as she waved her hand and in came Ava floating in the air. She was under magical binds and was squirming from time to time. Her mouth was covered so she couldn't scream but James could tell that those binds were laced with cruciatus curse.

"I told her I will give her the worst pain she had ever felt in her entire miserable life once I got out of there," Delphi said as her smile widened while Ava only squirmed and thrashed herself in the bind.

"How did this happen?" Pan asked when they head someone snapping their fingers behind them. They turned around as they felt the wards around the manor change instantly but the face in front of them was what had shocked them the most.

"George!" Daphne said as he stood there looking at them when his look shifted over to Tenille.

"Did I do well, my lady?" he asked.

"You did well," Tenille said as her laughter echoed within the manor

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