The Mutated Amagi Chronicles

Chapter Three: The Loss
As the first squad neared the gates, Harry Potter began to experience a strange sensation, as if something was slowly pressing on him, or something was slowly infesting his system, bit by bit. It wasn't agonizing in the least, but it teetered on being uncomfortable. As they got closer, the pressure gradually escalated, until no one could mistake the sense of dread lurking around them.
Back across the perimeter, 5tR4N63r was puzzled. Something was wrong with this situation. As he scanned the forbidding castle, he noticed there was an unbelievable concentration of magic in the area. It like magic was to this particular area as air was to others. For the magic stopped abruptly right in front of the second group. But that wasn't right...

ACCESSING GMPS...
ACCESSING LOCATION 81304950907138...
ANALYZING LOCATION...
ANALYZING SITUATION...
WARNING!!
WARNING!!
DATA DOES NOT COMPUTE!!
DOES NOT COMPUTE!!

5tR4N63r suddenly went rigid, attracting the attention of the other two group members in his vicinity.
"Seymour, what's wrong?" Padfoot inquired. "Dammit, answer me!"
When 5tR4N63r still refused to budge, Padfoot started to shake him violently.
"Stop it!" Hermirone rushed forward. "He's locked up! Shaking him won't work!"
"Then tell me what will bloody work, dammit!" Sirius had started foaming at the mouth. "He must've seen something urgent!"
"Give me a second..." Hermirone bent down in front of 5tR4N63r, put her hand on his forehead, and screwed up her face in concentration.
Suddenly, she gasped in pain and drew back, as 5tR4N63r began to stir and awaken.
"Hermirone... WHAT IN THE NAME OF BLAZES DID YOU DO?" Padfoot demanded.
"Nevermind that, sir!" 5tR4N63r rasped, "Get the first team out of there! As fast as humanly possible!"
"Wha..." Sirius stuttered before composing himself, "FIRST SQUAD! GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE!!"
He was too late. Faster than a peregrine falcon in a nosedive, a phantom sped out from the castle keep to land in front the first group, and before anyone realized what had happened, had knocked Ron Weasley unconscious and had hauled him back into the keep.
As the rest of the group got back, Sirius grabbed 5tR4N63r by the skin of his neck. "Now, Seymour, you've got some explaining to do... We just lost a new team member due to your locking up, and you've better tell us what you know RIGHT NOW!!"
"Godfather, let him go." Harry Potter firmly took his Sirius's hand from 5tR4N63r's neck. "It wasn't his fault. I thought something was out of place, as well. We should've all realized that it was a trap from the start."
"Indeed, it was a trap." 5tR4N63r gasped for breath, massaging his throat. "I realized it when the Global Magical Positioning System (GMPS) revealed that the vicinity never had any magic, yet the entire area is drenched in it."
"So what is this bloody thing? And how did it manage to infuse such a magnitude of magic in this area?" Sirius demanded, eyes occasionally darting back to the keep.
"It didn't need to infuse its magic." Harry calmly stated. "5tR4N63r, tell them."
"The magic that Mr. Potter and possibly the rest of the first squad felt was not a spell or residue, it is an aura. The most powerful one I have ever seen." 5tR4N63r tapped his scanner.
"At the cost of sounding like a complete fool, what is an aura?" Sirius asked, clearly interested.
"It is basically a shroud of magic surrounding the magic user. It happens when there is a vast store of power within an individual, far more than it can contain in itself. By diluting its magic in its surroundings, the being gains protection and additional strength to draw on when its bodily reserves run low. Elementals, for example, emit such an aura when they call upon their power, transforming their surroundings a bit to better accommodate their element." Hermirone rattled out in one breath.
"Impressive. But why did we have such a hard time spotting it?" Madam Yi pressed.
"The magic that it emits matches its own magic. By spreading its magic throughout the entire landscape, it is magically camouflaged against scanners, as it would cause scanners to assume that the land is infused with magic. The only thing giving it away would be a point where the magic concentration would be slightly higher than its surroundings..."
"All right! All right! Although there is no doubt that we would all like to hear more of this, Ron is still trapped with the thing. Anyone here got an idea on what to do?"
"If I may, I have an idea." 5tR4N63r had regained his composure.
"Let's hear it, then."
"We stick together and charge." was the response.
"WHAT?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Sirius exclaimed. "THAT WOULD GET US ALL IN DANGER AND WITH NO ONE GUARDING OUR BACKS!!"
"And what if there is someone guarding our backs? You must have seen how fast this, for lack of a better term, Being X is. Before who ever we leave behind runs for it, they would be gone too. The only chance we have for our as well as Mr. Weasley's survival is to stay together and storm the fort."
"Let's suppose you're right. How will we fight the thing?"
"With whatever comes to hand, godfather." Harry Potter was getting impatient. Quicker than the eye could follow, he had tucked his wand away and in its place, a broadsword was gleaming in the waning sunlight.
Sirius could hardly speak. "The Sword of Godric! Harry, how did you get that sword? You can't possibly be..."
"I am, godfather. I've been chosen as the Keeper of the Sword until a safe place to store it presents itself."
"I MUST be dreaming... and crazy on top of that, but alright, I'll go with this hare-brained plan of yours. Let's move out. We must secure Mr. Wealsey by nightfall."
As they began hiking back to the keep, ever wary of their surroundings, Sirius found something extremely pestering.

I remember another team encountered some kind of creature like this... Who was it? Lupin? Hagrid? Snape? What's his name... KRUM! That's it! Krum's Divers! No, no... The Sea Hunters! That's it! The Kraken incident! Now, what happened... Dammit! I can't remember!
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