Chapter 5

Falcore and Sirius landed in Dumbledore's office unconscious.

Sirius was twitching. Falcore was breathing very shallowly. Sirius starts to scream.

"Sirius." Serena cries and tries to get to him put she is hooked to the wall. "Sirius! What'd you do to him?!" She screams at Falcore.

Suddenly Serena starts to look normal. "Oh? It's been 24 hours already?" She looks at Sirius.

"Sirius!" She tries to get to him again but she's chained to the wall. "Get the collar off him!"

"Collar?" Dumbledore asks.

"Look at his neck!" Serena screams.

Dumbledore sees what looks like a tattoo of a collar on his neck but a very real lock is hanging from his neck. "Alohomora! Alhambra! Alamahatra! Supreis a Suhot! What will get it off?"

"Some Malaha curse." Serena says.

"So that's what this thing is?" Dumbledore wonders aloud.

"Mal Aha Foy Lohse Hemtra Pouse." Dumbledore says and the collar becomes a real thing again and the lock unlatches but still holds the collar together. Sirius looks better in any case. Dumbledore starts to get up but… Suddenly a paper on his desk lights on fire and turns to ashes without hurting anything else.

"I'm the new Dark Lord here…" A malicious voice says.

Falcore opens his eyes but doesn't get up. He sees Alexander holding a black flame near Dumbledore's beard.

"You will all bow to your new master. Me!" Alexander cackles. "I am your ruler. BOW!"

Serena inclines her head since she is too tight to the wall to bow.

"BOW!" Alexander screams and sets Dumbledore's desk on fire. Dumbledore takes that opportunity to grab his arms and slam him into the floor.

Falcore points his arms at Alexander. "Mal Aha Foy Lohse Hemtra Pouse. Get the collar off him."

Dumbledore takes the lock out of the collar and takes it off. Alexander screams and collapses. Falcore gets the collar off Sirius and Sirius screams before going unconscious.

"Ok let's get them into my guest quarters." Dumbledore says and Falcore lifts Alexander while Dumbledore gets Sirius and they lay them in beds in the guest room.

Sirius groaned loudly as he sat up. "Oh my head…"

"Sirius!" Serena shouts.

"Keep it down please I've got an awful headache." Sirius says.

"Ok." Serena says.

"I see you're normal." Sirius says.

"Yep." Serena says.

"Any idea on what will cure you?" Sirius asks.

"Not really as I was sort of an experiment for Voldemort." Serena says. "Though Alexander, back to his normal self though not totally since he pulled what he called the 'damn new dark lord fucking act thing', took samples of blood and… stuff to figure out what happened though. I remember some long intricate incantation before the potions though… so I can probably never be the same."

"Oh." Sirius frowns but smiles a little smile. "Well can I have a hug?"

"Sure." Serena says and they then hug for a minute before Dumbledore clears his throat.

"You will not be staying here Sirius. And you will not be telling Harry you are normal." Dumbledore says.

"But… sir…" Sirius starts.

"No buts. You are going to Portugal. To train with the UKMAF forces there." Dumbledore cuts in. "It is the only way."

"No. I'm back. I want to stay back." Sirius protests.

"You did what you did. You gave in. You will never give in again. I have talked with the Ministry and it is the only way. You are to train in Portugal and have no contact with anyone except Serena who will follow later… after we dissect what is wrong with her." Dumbledore says.

"Well I remember an incantation with adelantar and relations in it. Although the relations sounded weird." Serena says. "I was pretty out of it. Sorry."

"It is not your fault." Dumbledore says.

"Why'd you go to the Ministry?!?!" Sirius suddenly shouts. "Why?!?! I could have my life back for the first time since July!"

"I'm sorry Sirius I had to…" Dumbledore tries to explain.

"Don't you give me that!" Sirius shouts. "I violated nothing! Not one damn thing! Now I'm a victim of the UKMAF draft bullshit. Why? YOU!" Sirius points at the door. "Please get out."

Dumbledore leaves and Sirius collapses back into his bed. "Please leave me alone for right now doll. I'll get you in a little while. If I'm not shipped off to Portugal!"

Alexander had an antidote to whatever potion coursed through Serena's veins but it was mixed with some incantation. Dumbledore had told them the two words she remembered and so Alexander had started to look through the book of dark magics he'd gotten from Spain. No luck yet but he was only on page 100 out of 667.

At Phoenix Memorial Mundungus had just flatlined and the staff was doing everything to bring him back. They then tried an experimental direct heart shock. It started his heart pumping again but he had yet to wake up. Aaron injected a dose of Draught of Living Death cure and then a cure for a few more strong sleeping spells, just in case.

Mundungus woke up suddenly. He was very weak but he looked around. "Am I alive?"

"Yes." Aaron said with a smile. "You are."

"So I'm going to be fine?" Mundungus asks weakly.

"I think so." Aaron says. "I finally think so."

"Thanks." The blonde haired man lays back down staring up at the ceiling. "Tell the woman… not to worry. She can go check on her husband. He'll be at Hogwarts."

Aaron stares at him for a long moment before he goes to find Rosalyn.

Alexander found what he was looking for but didn't have the counter curse or how to lace it into the potion (though he was fairly sure he knew that).

He figured something out and laced it into his potion. He took it out to Serena… he was very embarrassed at what he'd have to ask but it was the only way to test his potion.

"Drink this." Alexander says and Serena drinks it. "I have to ask an embarrassing thing. But… would you allow yourself to be… well you know how we have to test if this works… and well just incase it doesn't… would you allow yourself to be…" Alexander turns very red. "err... attached to the bed." He finished fastly and got even redder.

"I'm fine with that… and used to it unfortunately…" Serena turns red then. "Sorry you didn't need to know that."

"Nope I didn't. Just go cheer Sirius up." Alexander rushes off.

A little while later Alexander is sitting in Dumbledore's office waiting.

Sirius comes out. "It…"

"Worked." Serena finishes popping out from behind him.

"Thank you." Sirius says.

"You deserve it." Alexander says. "Everyone deserves a break. I wonder if Mundungus will get his."

"Oh my… Mundungus! I forgot about him. We got him with an arrow. Is he alright?" Sirius gasps.

"I don't know. He was still alive last time I saw him but I don't know. I hope so though." Alexander says.

"He's a Seer." Serena says.

"Oh? That explains some stuff. He was telling us about a prophecy with our next child. Maybe he made it." Alexander says.

"That's bad then." Sirius says.

"Why?" Alexander asks.

"Because after he finished the prophecy he said something about him dying because of it." Sirius says.

"But… can't this be changed?" Alexander asks.

"I'm afraid it can't. Unless he has been technically dead and brought back. That would fulfill it. Though he will probably be spooked." Sirius says.

"I suppose I would be too. But he's in good hands where he is." Alexander says.

"Oh and where's that?" Sirius asks.

"Not even if you are good." Alexander says. "Sorry."

"I wouldn't trust me either." Sirius says with a laugh.

"He'll be ok." Alexander says. "I think."

"I hope so or I'll have to hate myself forever. Not that I won't already. Stupid Azkaban." Sirius starts mumbling to himself.

"You think he'll ever be ok?" Serena asks as Sirius walks back to the bed.

"You think I'll ever be ok?" Alexander asks with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh. Yeah… sorry." Serena says.

"It's ok I know what you meant… just stick with him and he will…" Alexander says and got up. "Goodbye." Alexander leaves.

He was getting off work… He had to go to Diagon Alley to pick up some potion supplies. He Apparated into an alley. He had the potions stuff soon and was going back to that alley to Disapparate.

Three men follow him though and one of them disarms him. "You're coming with us!"

"Never!" The man says and gets into a fighting position.

"So that's how you want it." Another of the three men says.

The three men surround him but he goes after the one in front with a kick to the midsection. The guy keeled over and dropped to his knees. The other two jumped on the man and hit him in the face and gut. The man fought back but the assault was too much. He found the strength to slam one of the attackers in the chest with both of his palms. Then he sent an elbow in the other attackers gut. They were both down but the other guy was getting up…

The man was thrown into the wall roughly. He staggers to his feet and attacks the man that did it. He gets clubbed in the back and stumbles onto his face. He tries to crawl away but after going two paces he collapses onto his face again.

"You're coming now you bastard!" The men grab him and hook a shackle on him from all three of them and Apparate away with him.

The man's eyes opened slowly and he realized his arms and legs were in shackles and the shackles were connected to a chain around his waist. He wasn't supposed to be here. He was too important to be here! He started to freak out and then the three men walk up to him.

"Hah, it appears the Minister has decided to wake up. He's been out since we beat his ass two days ago." The first man says. "You can know me as Abbadon, the destroyer. My name, however, is Anubis, God of Death. The name my father… that pathetic Phoenix…" Anubis spits on Viktor at the thought of his last name. "Gave me turns out to fit as I get to execute most of my Master's prisoners… or I can decide whether they live… You die!"

"Yeah." The other two agree.

"Now, now McNair, Nott… Let's not mock the poor Minister before he's killed. Let us just slay him… in a messier way." Anubis smirks and pulls his wand up to Krum's mouth. "Disidratisi Minimo!"

Krum feels his mouth going very dry and he starts to feel a bit dehydrated. He swallows hoping for something but his throat is painfully dry.

"Now you can die…" Anubis lifts the wand again and cries out… "Infilzi!"

Suddenly a metal stake is in the cell and Viktor floats up to the top his chains disappear as he is dropped on the stake. It goes up through his bottom until its tip forces its way out of his mouth.

"That was a cleaner one than the past two. And no headaches." McNair says.

"That's the benefit of dehydrating them slightly. They can't scream and the job gets to go a bit slower." Anubis smirks. "Now the world can find their precious Minister." Anubis sneers as he makes the man float up off of the stake and puts his chains back but with his arms and legs behind him. He sees the stake is all red. He smirks a little wider. "Let's go hang him boys!"

The news broke the next morning of the Minister's body being found. Everyone was shocked. It especially shook the Order that was at Hogwarts. They had hoped to save him. Those hopes were dashed with the finding of that body.

Mundungus Fletcher had improved but he was still freaked out about predicting his own death. As anyone in their right mind would be….

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Drake, and Ginny were doing fine though Harry hated the fact that Sirius was still evil. No one had heard from him in a while… not even in any of Harry's dreams though he had seen the man named Anubis and his two lackeys attack a man in an alley…

Sirius was pacing back and forth. He was leaving for Portugal that day. Sure his wife was finally with him and got to come but still… Harry thought he was worse than dead… Harry thought he was evil. He hated knowing that. He hated to know that he might never get to see Harry again and tell him it was all fake… that he'd been in Portugal the whole time. That he wasn't the slime that he'd been when he was under the influence of the collar. Sirius sighs heavily as Dumbledore enters.

"Fine lets get this done with." Sirius says and he and Serena and Dumbledore go up to the fireplace and Floo away to a dock.