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Betaed by Steph Bent"Normal conversation"
'Tom's thoughts'
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Next day....
'Everything is set and ready. I just need the second half of the ingredients, and then I can make my potion.'
'But one ingredient is still missing, the dragon blood. I will need it when I make the potion, and that will be next week (I think).'
'I am going down to the village and ask about the blood, maybe someone can sell me a drop.' He locked his cave with many spells and walked away on the road.
'Why the apparating is blocked here is still a mystery to me, who in his right mind want to choose the hard way of travel when he can simply apparate?'
He had to stop his musings because he found himself in the village, more precisely in the dark ally where he could find the dark arts shops. He knew that to go to the potion ingredient shop would be a fruitless attempt. He could still talk with the passerbys who just came out of the shops.
'Interpreter spell…ready'
"Excuse me but I would like to know if you could help me, where I can buy dragon blood?" Riddle asked politely.
"So sorry, but I can't help you."
'ohh sonofa....you-know-what'
'Maybe next time I will menage'
He decoded to ask another person. "Excuse me but I would like to know if you could help me, where I can buy dragon blood?" Riddle used exactly the same words.
"Hmm, why do you need such a powerful thing? "The old man asked curiously.
"I need it for my experiments, sir." Riddle answered.
"What are your experiments about?" The old man asked more curiously.
"That's none of your concern!"
"Hmm, good kid. To don't sell out secrets can be life saving sometimes. I think you asked the right man, I can help you. By the way I am Adam Wicnuksy, the 'vampire' of the dragons."
"I am Tom Riddle, nice to meet you."
"Don't be afraid I am not a real vampire, but I used to sell the dragon blood, every kind of dragon blood. I hunt them down and deplete their blood."
"Oh, but how? You didn't get caught?"
The old man laughed out loud.
"That's quite simple. In my good old days the dragon hunting was permitted."
'I'm just wasting my time with this old coot.'
"You don't think I can help you? You are wrong because I know precisely where you can find dragons and even Hungarian Horntails." That was the magic word.
"Say where and I go now."
"Slow down a bit kid, you have to be a very powerful wizard to defeat a dragons without serious preparations with just a wand. You can't do that. And I can't either. And you should know that you mustn't get caught!"
"I won't commit suicide. I will prepare just say where and I am on my way." Tom was very anxious, and he really wanted to know where he could find them.
"I don't think that it wouldn't be a good idea to send you there it's pretty dangerous, especially to weak young and inexperienced boy."
Tom was really angry. And the God have mercy because Lord Voldemort won't.
"Okay, I can play dirty!" Said the angry Tom.
"Imperio!"
"Wha...." The man didn't have time to even grab his wand, and he was under the curse of imperius.
"Where is that area?" Tom asked forcefully through the mind link of the imperious.
"In the Hill of Dragons & Shadows"
"How can I get in?"
"There is a modified anti-muggle barrier, they modified it to repel the wizards too"
"How can I get in?"
"I just know how to make the barrier visible. It shows just the trees to the unexpected visitors, but if you cast some very powerful dark curse on it you can force it to be visible and than you figure out how to get rid of it or slip through it." Adam said automatically.
"Anything that concerns me?"
"I heard that information from one of the workers. This is just a theory, none was brave enough to try it. The common knowledge is that the barrier is unbreakable."
"Thank you. Obliviate!"
"Pardon. What do you want exactly?"
"Never mind! Goodbye." Tom said.
"I wonder what he wanted, I am getting old, I don't remember what was said first...." Adam murmured.
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'It would be better if I had finished the transformations, but I am powerful nevertheless.'
He was near a medium sized hill. The forest covered it perfectly, no one could see through it. And even if he walk into it, he would find nothing but trees.
'Perfect barrier. I can't sense its existence. Whoever made it did a very good job.'
'So, I have to use some powerful dark magic. Hmm what about some… Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra! Avada Kedavra!'
Nothing happened, the curses went through the barrier and headed toward the blue sky.
'That old coot Adam lied. There are no barrier, dragons, or anything...just trees'
'Maybe if I try one of my own inventions plus an unforgivable.'
"Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra!" Shouted Tom in a very Voldemortish way. They dark mark appeared in the sky and the green lightning flew away but something gave out a quiet hissing sound. Not like the snakes' language, though.
'Maybe Adam is right.'
"Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra! Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra! Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra! Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra! Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra!........."
Suddenly every flying curse and the dark mark disappeared from the sky and after a long and loud hissing sound, a dome of solid black matter appeared in front of Tom.
'Well done Tom! I just have to break through it. It was easy to make it appear.'
"Reducio!" Shouted Tom, and used all of his magical might. But the dome remained unaffected.
'The Reductor Curse works just physically, blowing up the matter. I must make a curse that can shatter the magic. Normally a very strong Reductor Curse is enough to shatter a magical shield in a duel. But this is different.'
'Hey! Wait a minute! There is no shield that can block an unforgivable. And it has just done that!'
"Avada Kedavra!" He tried once more.
'I see. It went through the shield, but the dome remained the same. Very clever shield, indeed. "Allow it through if you can't deal with it" '
'I should go before the aurors arrives. I don't want to confront them before the main action. Oh I mean aorors not aurors, they call the Weakest Wizards' Wonder differently in this country.'
After that Tom sprinted away like an athlete. Of course he used magic.
'Damn that apparation ward again!'
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'Interpreter charm, ........ready!'
Tom Riddle who often calls himself Voldemort had just walked in a very good Dark-Arts shop. They sold a very large collection of magical (dark) items.
"Good afternoon young man." The very dark-wizard looking shopkeeper said it.
'Hmm. It should be a good place, the first shopkeeper with some respect!'
"Good afternoon! I need a powerful magic amplifier. It's not a problem if it works for only some spells." Tom said.
"I am sorry to say, but it's a highly desirable device and is very expensive but too weak for a powerful wizard like you. I can sense your power, young man." The shopkeeper said.
"What if your life depended on my request?" Tom threatened.
"You forgot one thing, I am not weak and I won't deplete my powers for a month just to create a good product for your at any costs." The dark wizard answered, holding his wand straight at Tom.
"Maybe you are not weak but I am, like you said, powerful. So, make my amplifier and I won't kill you. Deal?"
"How do you think you can defeat me, I am wiser than you, and I have more experience. Get out of my shop or hold you temper before I hex you to the seventh hell" The really angry shopkeeper threatened, who happened to be an excellent dark arts dueler.
"I can reach my goal in the hard way, but I assure you that will be hard for you too. Maybe even harder." Tom snapped back just before the shopkeeper started the duel with him.
"Avada Kedavra! Imperio! Nocto magnus!" The spells made a triangle, this was too big to duck or jump away, and it can't be blocked.
The three spells hit Tom at the same time and he shattered to pieces like glass.
"Imperio!" A high-pitched voice came from the back of the shop.
The shopkeeper was under Imperius before he knew what happened.
"The spell accelerator charm may have been a very good idea but the concentration switched off your perfect senses."
'I have always known that those glass golems would be handy.'
'Make me a magical amplifier, and use up all your powers!' Came a voice from the back of the shopkeeper's mind.
He grabbed a wooden ball about a size of a fist, and placed it in front of him in a table. The ball contained a human eye.
After quiet chanting, a ball of electric blue power came out of his head and hit the wooden ball. The torches in the room flickered and the dark wizard dropped on the floor.
"Hmm, I think it works. Obliviate!" Tom said and left with the newly created magic amplifier.
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'I transfigure it into a robe and charge with a bit of my power. And then the shield will let me in because it will confuse me with the Avada Kedavra curse. Seem like a great plan but I can't transfigure highly magical things, or too big of things. But that should not be a problem for me, with my transfiguration abilities I can do it for sure.'
'I should better hurry because I want that blood today, not tomorrow, not next week but TODAY!'
"Avada Transferaso Kedavra." The powers were transferred.
'I should try this transfiguration in snake language because I don't think there is a spell for transfiguring a magical amplifier into a robe. Of course it will be impossible to use this item after it, and the robe can't even make a shield because I transferred my powers to it.'
"Siendra Sa, Samundra Si, Ssssssssiiii!" The sky darkened above Voldemort, the wind started to blow around him strongly. The suddenly it came, it's gone, and Tom had new a robe in his hands. The robe was entirely black but what surprised Tom most was that the robe was shining, it's impossible but it shined blackness. Tom couldn't imagine how something could shine black till this day.
"That'ssss ...beautiful!" He said it in snake language.
"Oh here you are, dark one!" 'Silly Snake is back' Thought Tom.
"I .."
"Sshut up SSSnake! I need to go, I have urgent business, come back later, maybe the day after tomorrow!"
"Can I escort-"
"No you can't!" Said Riddle and sprinted away.
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'First I have to make it visible!'
"Morsmordre! Avada Kedavra!"
The dome appeared in front of his eyes.
'Maybe it mends itself but needs more time to recharge.'
Voldemort walked easily through the shield like nothing was there. And then he could see his goal a Hungarian Horntail.
"That's too easy, the dragon is tied up. I smell danger."
"STUPEFY" Several aorors roared in union, the curses were aimed at Tom, this time he had no time to make an illuson, or a 'glass' golem.
