AN: I apologize fore the late update. My PC died and i dont have the means of replacing it at the monent so i write with my phone, wich as you can guess is far slower. This also will probably lead to more spelling errors so I apologize in advance. Still i hope you will enjoy this chapter.
At the end of the next week the Quidditch Tryouts fore the Gryffindor team wehere held. As Ritsuka said all old Members had to reapply fore ther positions. Rose went down with Ron who wantet to try out fore keeper. Hermione would joyn them soon after and while they went down the pitch they saw Ritsuka coming out of the castle right after them. She was acompenied by Mash and Nero. When Nero noticed the too she smiled brightly. "What great fortune that we ran into you Miss Potter. My preator has a small recuest." Rose looked confused at her, no idea what a Preatore is ore who she could mean. But then Ritsuka cleared her throut.
"She means me. You see i decided to watch the tryouts. Partly out if curiosity and partly to make sure all goes well but the thing is." With a sheepish look she rubbed the back of here head. "I got no clue about Quidditch soooo considering i know the Seeker tryouts are last i hoped you could explain it to me hehe."
The two Gryffindors looked shoked at her. "Blimey! How can you not know about Quidditch?!" Ron seemed the most shoked of the two and kinda sounded offended.
"Never was one fore sports. I also have some other stuff with Miss Potter to discuss so this is rather convinient. You better hurry along Mister...ahm..." She looked to Nero.
"Mister Ronald Weasley my preator." She nodded.
"So? Is that ok with you?" Rose stared a few seconds at the three before nodding.
"Sure no problem. Well good luck Ron i will cheer you on!" Ron looked hesitsnt but left, leaving Rose with the three new staff members. In realaty she had no intrest in doing this, but this was a good chance to spy at the Fake-Headmistress and get some information...and ask questions off her own.
The group of 4 went to the stadium and set down at one of the benches. Angelina in advance had told Rose to just sit back till its the Seekers turn so she startet to explain the rules, while they watched the trial fore the chasers, a lot had come so it would take a while. "So if I understand this correctly catching the Snitch basicley garantees a victory?" Asked Ritsuka a bit befuddled, but Rose shook her head.
"Not always. A good example was the last World Cup. The irish won but the bulgarians got the Snitch. The point diffrence was just too high. But from what i heard its rare that the Team who catches the Snitch looses, certenly never happend here." Ritsuka nodded.
"Hmmm you know at first i was uncertin if I should even allow Quidditch to continue...buuut the Teachers informed me that the Students probably would burn me at the stake if i even tried hahaha." She lathed but stopped when she saw Roses death glare.
"Yes we would" was all the 15 year old said, but here tone send shivers down Ritsukas spine. Nero giggled while Mash hid a small smirk. Both found it a tad amusing how there Master/Girlfriend was afraid off a small teen girl.
Fore a short time they set there in silance, watching the 2 years try out fore chaser, failing at it quite misrably. Thats when Rose decided to ask her own questions. "What exactly is a Magus, ore Magecraft in generell?" Ritsuka blinkef confused. So did her two Servants. Mash spoke up first.
"Well Senpai here is a Magus, but a unconventional one." Rose looked confused at the Secretary but turned to the Red Saber once she startet speaking.
"Most Magus are coldheartet and pragmatic, they do not care who they hurt, ore what lines they have to cross as long as it furthers there own research. Of course my Preator is wary diffrent from that, as are most of the Magi who follow ger magnificent leadership."
"I wouldnt call myself a full Magus if im honest. The little Magecraft i know is souly supportif in nature, and i guess i can perform the basics...but Nero is right. Many Magi are...horrible poeple. There are many exceptions of course, there certenly not the way most Wizards would describe them...hmmm wanna see some Magecraft?" Rose looked eager and nodded. Than she recoiled when suddenly green lines formed over Ritsukars arm. She then piked up a stone on the ground...and crushed it with her bare hand, making Rose jaw nearly fall to the ground.
"This is structural reinforcement. One of the most basic forms of Magecraft. It can enhance youre body ore an object." Rose just gave a silent nod. She...never saw somthing like this! Even strenght enhancing potions dont allow you too crush stone so easely! And this was supposed to be BASIC Magecraft?!
"My my it seems my Preators stunning performance left you speechless! Wich is understandable of course!" Rose was indeed lost fore words, and it took a while fore her to ask the next question.
"How can i learn it?" The moment she asked the question she regrettet it. All 3 where looking at her frowning. After a few seconds Ritsuka answered.
"Its not somthing you just...decide to learn on a whim. My parents always said to be a Magus means to walk with death...Miss Potter i be honest stay away from Magecraft. Yes it can do many great thing...but its not worth it. Magecraft is far more dangerous than youre Magic. Even what i just did has its risks...i could have accidentely shatterd my bones fore example." Rose became white as a ghost when she heard that.
"You realy should listen to them missy. Magecraft is nasty buisness" Rose got startled when she suddenly heard a male voice behind her. She turned around and saw mister Bazett standing there staring at the flyers.
"Sorry fore suprising you" he looked down to her grinning apologetically. Ritsuka looked uo to the blue haired man.
"Youre SURE you want to be here? I mean with youre luck..." she trailed off wich made Rose wonder how bad his luck is. Certenly not as bad as hers.
Lancer was just about to retort when somobe loudly yelled look out. They all turned in the direction of the shout just in time to see both of the bludgers flying towards them, zooming aboth there heads, and hitting Lancer. One hit him dead center in his face while the othere crashed into his jaw. He was thrown of his feet and crasged head furst into the wood walk behind him, wich sharterd from the sheer impact, making Lance fall out if the Arena and land outside on the dirt.
The hole stadium was dead silent, looking shocked at, what they where certin, was the first quidditch relatet death in Hogwarts fore over a century. "Sigh i warned him. With his E Rank luck this was bound to happen." Ritsukas voice raught most out if there stupir and they begann too panic. Rise went up to the hole, hoping he was ok. Luckily he seemed...atleast to be alive when the groans and twitching where any indication. She couldnt see his face but...that was probably better.
"Oh god...w-what havie i?" Rose loked to the girl that just spoke. She was holding the Beaters Bat and looked absulutley horrefied. Her hole bodey was shaking, and tears formed in her eyes.
"Hey hey its ok. Im sure hes...as fine as ge can be at the moment." Ritsuka right away went down to confort the panicing girl.
"Shes right" Said Rose. "He clearly is in pain but still alive." The girl seemed to calm down a little, but she still looked horrible. Paniced she looked to Ritsuka.
"P-Please! I-it was an accident! I-i" But Ritsuka just hugged the girl and pattet her head.
"I know. Its fine dont worry youre nit in trouble. Nero please carry Lance to the hospital wing. Mash you go and get somone from Cheldea to take over his dutys today, im sure Archer is awailable." The two nodded and went on there way. Ritsuka then turned to Angelina.
"Miss Jhonson continue with the triouts as normal, and Miss Potter please come to my iffice once ewrithing here is finished i have a few other things to discuss with you. Therwhile we too are going to give you somthing to calm down ok?" The girl nodded and they left the Field.
Ritsuke took the girl to her office and offerd her a calming potion and some tea. "Good that i always keep sone at standby. As you guess this job can be quite stressful at times so please enjoy Miss...oh ahm im sorry i never asked fore youre name hehe." Sheepishly she rubbed her cheek.
"I-Im Jessica. Jessica Fudge." She still was shaken when she introduced herself. But Ritsuka perked up when she heard the name.
"I assume youre relatet to Cornelius Fudge?" While asking she gave Jessica some cookies, wich the girl accaptet greatfully.
"Y-yes. Hes my Dad. But we rarley talk. Hes mostly at work and its an open secret my parents cant stand each other." Upon Ritsukas puzzled look she added "It was a arranged Marriage." Ritsuka nodded.
"Well i can see how that could cause sone issues. Now could you explain what exactly happend? Im no expert in Quidditch, heck till a few minutes ago I knew barley anything about the game, but i dont think hitting 2 Bludgers is normal, is it?" Jessica shook her head.
"I...I REALY wantet onto the Team. The Weasley Twins had the two positions under a tight lock, similiar to Potter with the Seeker position...im no good as a chaser ore keeper, and heck...as insane as she is Potter is a brilliant flyer, i could bever beat her but...i had to try to atleast be a beater...i-i thought if I show i could precisely shoot two bludgers at obce i would beat the Twins...instead I lost all controul when i tried hitting both." Ritsuka had to frown when she called Rose insane and it got a little deeper when she heard what exactly happend.
"Okay two things. Do NOT call Miss Potter insane. I do not care if you belive her claims but i wont allow you slandering her am i clear?!" Jessica nodded quickky, looking afraid at Ritsukas harsh tone. "Secondly I wont deny what you did was bloody stupid! You could have harmed ine of the Students! Lance can take it, only Ayla knows how much worse he went through, but a Student? I understand you wantet to proof yourself but this was incredibly reckless. Hmmmm...I do not wish to punish you, as it still was an accident. BUT you will apologize to Lance once he recovers. Also I will inform Professor McGonnagle and if she deems it fit to punish you I wont interfere...unless its too harsh...please dont do anithing like this again. Maybe you are allowed to try out as a reserve player if you request it. Now then you can go to youre commin room." Jessica gave a short nod, happy to not getting punished, ore fore now atleast. She quickly got up and left the office.
Late ate night Ritsuka plumped down into her chair after she just finished a ton of Paperwork. "You could just give The paperwork fore Cheldea to Sherlock, in sure it would ease youre work load Senpai" Ritsuka looked to Mash who placed a cup of tea on her Girlfriends desk.
"I know but I want to handle this myself. Im the Director now. I would just set a bad example if i just poubd my work off to him...also lets be honest Moriarty would try to mess with it" Mash gave a nervous smile. She could inagine the Professor would mess with it just too anger Mister Holmes. A knock on the door braught her out of her thoughts. She opend the doir and Rose stepped in.
"Ah Miss Potter! Glad youre hear. Want some tea? Ire anything to drink?" Rose said a no but thanks before she sat down.
"How mister Lance?" Was the first thing Rose asked.
"Hes fine. I know its hard to belive but stuff like this happens nearly weekly. When we first arrived he fell down the great Staircase, and it was only last week where he got squished by a big door that fell out of its hinches...he has...WARY bad luck" Rose had...ni response so she just nodded awkwardly...jeez and here she was complaining about ger Potter Luck when that guy had it far worse.
"Now i wantet to discuss a few small things with you. First of all, and i know this probably is hard but...coukd you tell me how Voldemirt returned?" Rose looked shoked and also paled a little. But...it provably coukd help? It wasnt like she trustet Ritsuka but maybe she woukd have some Magus knowlege that could clear some things up? She took a deep breath and startet explaining. Recounting how she and Cedric both took the cup, there arriwal at the Graywyard...when she got to Cedrics death tears came up into her eyes.
"If its too much you dont need to say more." Said Ritsuka with sympathy but Rose shook her head abd continued to describe the Ritual up till she escaped with Cedrics bodey.
"...I know this wasn't easey fore you Miss Potter. Thanks fore telling me...now...there is somthing else. You're Scar." Rose looked confused at Ritsuka.
"What about it?" Was this about hurting when Voldemort was near?
"When you where in Medeas class she could sense Dark Magic leaking from it. I don't talk about remains of the Killing Curse. It's like a leak in a pipe, letting more and more Dark Magic out. Miss Potter...no...Rose I...don't know how to tell you this easely so I just be blunt. At first I wanted to keep it from you but you have a right to know...you Scar...contains a piece of Voldemorts Soul. More then that...it seems that its growing, leeching you're Magic, strengthening youre connection to Voldemort...in a few years it will be strong enough to fully take over and you become a second Voldemort." Silence. Rose just...was silent. Her face paler then any ghost. Her whole body was shaking, trying to comprehend what was just said.
It wasn't true. It couldn't be true! But deep in her mind...she knew it was. She...was disgusted at herself. Suddenly it was like she could feel the Soul in her scar. Dark Thoughts that sometimes popped into her head became whispers of the fragment. Rose didn't realise it but tears ran down her face. Then she started sobbing, and slowly her sobs became a painful scream of agony. She barely noticed how Ritsuka hugged her to give the girl comfort. Mash had left, not that Rose noticed. They stayed like this fore a few minutes till Rose calmed down. Her eyes seemed dull and empty. She just stared at the ground.
The door suddenly opend and someone started to speak. "My my I guess the little one didn't take the news too well did she now Master? Well I'm not surprised. She after all just learned there's a Horcrux whoozling around in that pretty head of hers. Anyone would be shocked after that" Rose looked up and saw a woman with light blue hair and pointed ears. She sounded familliar but she wasn't sure.
"Medea, thank you fore coming I hope you can help her." Rose eyes widened slightly THAT was Professor Medea?!
Medea gave Rose a surprisingly soft smile. "Of course I can. It won't be easy. There aren't many ways to destroy a Horcrux, even less to remove the soul without destroying its container" Medea got close and bent down to look at Rose's scar.
"E-Excuse me w-whats a Horcrux?" She was a bit flustered having the woman so close to her.
"That thing in you're Scar is one. Its vile, disgusting Magic. Even that psycho Blue Beard stayed far away from them. In fact there where only 5 Wizards in history to ever be so braindead as too make one. It basically is a dark ritual that allows you to split your Soul and seal the piece in an object. It then serves as a anchor, preventing you from dying, even if you're killed. But it has horrible consequences. You're sanity starts to slip out of you're grasp, you're magic becomes foul and tainted and most of all you never can go on to the any kind of afterlife." She never stopped looking at the scar and seemed to become more and more disgusted.
"Why did he made me into one?" Asked Rose with shaking voice.
"I kind of doubt he wanted to" Chimed Ritsuka in and Medea nodded.
"His soul already was so torn apart and fragile that a tiny piece broke off Probably when his course rebounded...he must have made...at the least 5 fore his soul to be so fragile." Both Ritsuka and Rose looked like they wanted to vomit. Five!? How can someone split there Soul so often?!
"Making a person, ore any living being a soul container is pretty dumb. Normaly to destroy a Horcrux the container must be beyond all Magical repair and also gains a lot more durability. But living beings are wary easy to bring beyond that point. Just kill them and schwup you're Anchor has lost its chain. Fufufu I doubt the fool even knows you're a container But do not worry I know how to deal with this without killing you...but you probably won't like it."
"I don't care! I do whatever it takes to get rid of it!" said Rose determined. She wanted nothing more but this thing gone. Medea smiled but it was...a but wicked.
"Wary well. Tomorrow meet me at the front gate. It's full moon the perfect time to conduct the cleansing ritual. Oh just a fair warning. You will be laying down in a Magic Circle that will be fuled by my Magic. It's a wary complicatet piece of Magecraft, so I won't bother with the details. Just know two things. You won't get much sleep as it will not be fully painless...and you will be naked" Rose stared at Medea. Her last words slowly registering in her head, her cheeks getting redder and redder.
"I WILL BE WHAT?!"