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Narcissa Malfoy woke up and her body immediately went into alert, this feeling was very familiar and one that she had accustomed to in her youth or developed from her childhood days. The feel of dark magic but this time a thousand times or worse million times worse. This feeling could only be given due to a number of human sacrifices which she had felt during the second war when the Dark Lord used the ritual room of the Manor.
She immediately tried to stand up as she found herself lying on the ground which was rock solid and pretty much hard and uneven, she stood up and the sight she saw was not one she had hoped.
She was in a cliff of a mountain and the only thing she could see was destroyed cities or buildings which were now rubble laying downwards on the ground beneath the cliff, she even spotted thick skeletons whose outlines were visible to her. The Dark Magic effects in the air was so thick that the Dark Lord's presence when he was alive felt like a tiny aunt compared to this. She immediately searched her charmed pouch and quickly found it laying on the ground at two feet away. She immediately took the pouch and thought about the charmed bracelets which were a Black Family Heirloom, she instantanteously found them as she took one of it from the pouch and immediately wore on her wrist. The bracelets were charmed by her great aunt Cassiopeia Black and shielded one from the presence of dark magic, her great aunt often invented stuff like that to assess her capabilities. She had been one of the most powerful Blacks and had even mentored Bellatrix.
She immediately felt at ease and looked around for Delphini and the house elves, she called out hoping that "Tilly", her call was met by silence as noone appeared.
She looked at the area downwards and hoped that Delphini would be there, for the second time in a minute she used her pouch and this time brought a magical carpet which she had bought, both she and Delphi had one each to use in case of emergency or need. It was actually one of her idea which she thanked herself for having. Her body felt different and her movements were easier but she didn't paid attention to it as she was worrying over her niece for the moment.
Delphini woke up with a groan as she felt something sharp on her back. She immediately jumped up as she looked around. She had been lying upon a skeleton of a human. Looking around she could find a huge skeleton which upon a single inspection revealed that it was that of a dragon and that too of a very large dragon. Its teeth were longer than her whole entire arm and its jaw looked like it could swallow her whole. She was glad for a second that the beast was dead as she placed her hand upon her chest to sigh in relief. However she froze suddenly when she couldn't feel her two beginners d cup breasts. She lowered her head and her eyes widened in disbelief when she saw a flat chest. She was in so much concentrated on the fact that she missed the dread she should have due to dark magic.
Fearfully she lowered her hand around her crouch trying to confirm something when she felt it above the clothes she was wearing. She felt two round balls inplace of her familiar slit as she screamed loudly.
At that precise moment she heard a shout of "Delphi are you there?", the shout was loud and she looked to see the figure of a girl who was flying in a carpet.
"Aunt Cissa, I am here" she shouted loudly as she thought about the situation she was in. Her mind told her that she was not using her metamorphmagus traits at the moment.
The carpet landed and she saw that inplace of her familiar Aunt Cissa there was now a girl who had purple eyes and silvergold hair, the girl looked ethereally beautiful.
"Delphi is that you?" came the surprised question from the girl and there was no question in Delphini's mind that the girl infront of her was Aunt Cissa, though she looked younger around that of an eighteen year old girl.
"I am Aunt Cissa, though I seem to be having a problem" she said embarrasingly, her aunt looked at her figure and her eyes widened as she looked at her flat chest.
"Don't tell me that the ritual made you a boy?" her aunt asked slowly for confirmation, her tone calm like always.
"It had" she admitted embarassed, she looked at her aunt whose face seemed to be set in stone for a moment before her aunt started laughing hysterically.
After five minutes of laughing and theorizing between both of them, Delphini found three eggs which seemed to be like dragon eggs around her, only that she felt a connection to one of them while her aunt felt strong to one while faint to another one. Between the eggs was the ruby crystal which was not shining at all. At that time Narcissa had given her another of the Black's Bracelet to her, which she had been thankful for. When her mind had calmed down, she had started to feel the terrible effects of the Dark Magic.
"I think the ritual turned Riley, Bessy and Tilly to dragon eggs and that they will be reborn as dragons, like it turned me into a gorgeous girl and you to a boy" her aunt mused as she scratched her chin. She didn't mentioned that the ritual also caused them to arrive wandless, perhaps the ritual consumed their wands for the power sacrifice. It was a plausible theory which meant that Severus too must have wandless here.
"I know that Aunt Cissa, you need not remind me" Delphini grumbled as she looked around the rubble, she found a sword which was pretty long at the skeleton's hands and it felt like it contained magic .
"Aunt Cissa, what do you make of it?" she asked her aunt afterall the older Black was an expert in magic and had taught her many things.
Her aunt looked at the sword and picked it, "it is light, very light in fact than what I thought" she said curiously, the next thing happened too fast for Delphini. Her aunt turned suddenly and striked a giant stone piece strongly with it.
"It didn't bent or get chipped" her aunt commented slowly as she examined the blade, while Delphini looked at the stone piece which had a cut mark in it formed by the sword.
"Pick 4 or 5 more like this and some books which we can find though I doubt the latter part, this ruins tell that there was a civilization here, and if they rode dragons then they must be something. I will in meantime look around for other important things such as currency or wealth which we could use. Oh and also press the crest on the bracelet, it will give you a notice me not charm placed on you, it would help you if you suddenly find an animal" she said as she looked around the ruins.
"Okay Aunt Cissa" Delphini spoke up as she packed the sword inside her charmed pouch. She started to look around the ruins as she walked among the ruins hoping to find something. The active volcano didn't helped any in calming her nerves.
Narcissa meanwhile looked at the ruins which were streched as long as she could see.
Seeing the stones and destroyed buildings, she could definitely see that the people here were slightly skilled in architecture. Wherever she looked, she found the skeletons of dragons or destroyed building stones lying around and magma cooled forming the igneous rocks. She could see some swords lying there which were similar to the ones Delphini had shown to her.
She bypassed them as she travelled through the ruins of buildings. The roof had collapsed in most of them and in some cases the walls had fallen. Looking around it seemed that a powerfull earthquake occured here which also targeted the active mountains.
She walked through the large building which she had found as she entered inside and looked through the floors. The building was large and perhaps it was a mansion with floors judging by the destroyed pieces of staircase. Now only the base walls remained while the floor was filled with stones and rubble. She carefully walked through them as she looked at a chest from the corner of the eye.
Its top was littered with dents due to the fallen ceiling and surprisingly the chest was made up of metal and steel. It was normal steel not like the sword she had seen with Delphini though.
She removed the debris from it's top as she carefully opened the lid of the chest. She looked at the chest and her eyes widened at the rubies and sapphires in it, the chest was filled with gold and jewelleries. Digging under a deeper in the chest she found an old book too which had the symbol of a dragon breathing fire.
She placed the book inside the charmed pouch as she looked around the fallen ceiling debris and found gold coins littered around as well as two chests which were trapped under a stone.
She sighed, it would have been much easier if she had her wand though. She placed her hand inside the box and pulled out the sticker which had 'Weasley Wizard Wheezes' written on it. She had to admit that the Weasley boy did was a genius in his own right.
She took the sticker and removed the paper cover behind it which protected the sticky side. She immediately placed the sticker on the rock and waited for a moment. She was not disappointed as the huge rock instantly started to hover in air. The stickers levitated anything on which they were placed on for five minutes, it didn't worked on humans though but they could be levitated if it was sticked onto their clothes.
Quite an ingenious creation, she thought as she quickly went to work as she removed the chest by pulling it towards her as the huge rock which had fallen on its above side was floating in the air while the smaller rocks and stones were not much of a problem.
She took the chest a little sideways as she opened it, inside the chest were two eggs. One had reddish hue and scales while the other was pitch black.
She took the eggs carefully and placed them inside the charmed surface. She could use them for other purposes because she was in no mind to raise five dragons at once. She was not opening a dragon sanctuary.
She took out another two stickers and placed them on two rocks which pretty much had bended the third chest heavily.
She pulled the chest sideways with her strength as she opened it. This one was filled with books and gold coins. The books were placed at the lower layer to give the appearance that it was a normal chest containing gold. The books had the same symbol of a dragon breathing fire and there was another dragon egg tucked in the bottom corner. Why does she have to be the one to find eggs upon eggs in succession. This egg was however strange, it had a blue hue to it and Narcissa wondered if the dragon would have blue scales. She decided that she would keep it, it could be because blue had been her favourite colour after the colours of her eyes.
Now all she had were purple eyes and silver gold hair. She wouldn't mind because it was her natural appearance though. Her metamorphmagus powers were still there but she decided to not use them. Why would she use them when her natural form was so much beautiful, she knew she had been pretty and one of the most beautiful girls of Hogwarts in her time but even all that compared nothing to her new look. She practically looked like an angel and Narcissa was content with it. Beauty was a powerful tool in the hands of the skilled.
She walked through the rubbles as she looked at the different buildings and went through their ruins. She discovered more gold and some more dragon eggs which she simply left there as she found them becoming more common. She had no need for more dragon eggs as she already had five by now, three of her house elves who were now dragon eggs as she could sense it from the bond between them.
She sighed as she looked at her dirty hands due to the stones and rubbles she had cleared in her searching, it was a good thing that the air here was nice and little free of suphur which was not in the case of she looked far away which was filled with gases due to volcanic eruptions. She didn't had the charcoal gasmask at the moment, if she had her wand she would have casted a bubblehead charm on her easily and went to explore.
She decided to return back as it was probably around three hours now since she had left Delphini to explore and it will not do good if she left her niece for so long in an unknown land like this.
Delphini was meanwhile looking at the mountains at distance after her Narcissa left her alone to collect more information about this place.
Lookig around she could make six volcanoes already, all of which were active judging by the gases they were emitting from their vents. She had a feeling that there were many more volcanoes in the distance, the temperature here was hot due to the gasses by the volcanoes afterall the hot air and water vapours emitted from the volcanoes helped in increasing heat and humidity.
She continued walking around the ruins looking for anything of value, she found some steel which were the same type as of the sword but the items of the said steel were plates, spoons, cups and glasses mostly which she had found and collected. Till now in her two hours of searching this place and the ruins, she had found eight longswords, five big morningstar maces, eight glaives, five greatswords which made her question about the user's mind afterall who wielded a six and a half feet long sword. In addition to that she had found eight spears, five battle axes and twenty three daggers of the same steel. She didn't had much use of them but she was curious about the steel, the ripples were like of damascus steel of her world but the steel was much stronger and contained a little magic in them. Their edge certainly held better than the damascus steel ones. Her aunt may have told her about only collecting some weapons but Delphini was not content with her aunt's decision, the steel had magic, diifferent from the goblin silver steel but then again the goblins kept the enitre process a secret. Here was a chance to know and learn such process, perhaps she could even better the process and make much improved weapons.
Ohh she certainly was more interested in learning about the process of making this steel as it intrigued her. She still was angry over her change in gender, it felt really uncomfortable after all. She had lived her life as a female and now due to some crazy ritual which had given a ruby power over space and time and the said ruby had an effect on her, in this case changing her gender completely. It was by no means fair to her when she was actually happy as a woman and more so after her recent gain of metamorphmagus powers despite having discomfort a month which was not much big of a problem for witches due to the potions and spells.
She was pissed and she was doing everything to keep her mind from going over the thoughts of her change in gender. She knew her aunt was probably snickering over her condition inwardly.
She huffed and continued looking over the ruins, the books were mostly destroyed apart from some books which she had found inside metal and sometimes wood squashed crests which were trapped beneath the big rocks. She had removed them with the help of the floating stickers which Bessy had got from 'Weasley Wizard Wheezes' and had dragged the chests from there. It was better to open them after she were outside the area of floating rocks.
Mostly she found gold and some rare crystals and dragon eggs which she didn't knew what to do with. Just looking at the skeletal remains of dragons she knew that the dragons here were much larger than of their world. She had literally seen a skeleton of a dragon which was around more than double the length of a Hungarian Horntail she had seen in the Dragon Sanctuary. It would not be good to hatch them unless they could control or prevent them from causing destruction. Moreover dragons were unpredictable, she didn't wanted to be roasted by creatures she had raised. So she had decided that she would leave the eggs there and only keep the steel weapons.
She continued walking and reached near a building which was also destroyed like the other buildings, she went through the rubbles and screamed in surprise when she found a hand peeking through one of the boulders. The surprise was due to the fact that the hand was fresh with muscles and skin akin of a normal human and not that of a skeleton.
She immediately used the stickers and sticked them to the boulders which were pretty much leaned into one another in an arc shape of letter 'V'. The two big stones immediately started floating as Delphini was holding and pushing the other rock with all her strength as one of them would float first letting the other to fall due to the abscence of the first.
She managed to hold the other big pillar stone which floated after 3 seconds of the first one. Finally relieved she took a look at the man who was infront of her.
He pretty much looked around 18 years olda and had handsome features with black hair. He was passed out and was the only living person she had seen in these ruins till now apart from her aunt.
'He must have felt the affects of dark magic and collapsed' she thought as she looked at him as she holded his torso and took him away from the area of floating stones.
She took the bracelet which had remained with her, apparently great great aunt Cassieopa had made them each for the younger generation of that time. She took his hand and made him wear it.
'Now' how to wake him up, she thought confusedly and finally decided to wake him up by shaking him. She shaked his body while she called him as the man slowly began to respond after two minutes.
Delphini let go of shaking him as he groaned and tiredly woke up and looked at her and around them.
The man looked at her and finally spoke up as he stood up and stretched his arms and legs, he looked at her and finally spoke up "by any chance dear friend do you know Delphini Black or Narcissa Black Malfoy?" he asked looking at her.
She immediately went on alert "how do you know the names" she asked with a threatening tone.
"Oh I arrived with them here, as for my introduction, my name is Sir Armand Prince" he spoke up calmly as he looked at her.
Delphini looked at the man and his face, he did have the resemblanve with Sir Armand Prince's portrait but she was confused because the man was dead. The ruby couldn't bring back someone from dead, could it?
"Tell me something about which only you and Delphini Black would know" she asked pointedly crossing her arms as she looked at the man infront of her, the man infront of her could very well be a impostor.
The man smirked and it reminded her of the familiar smirking man in the portrait of Prince Manor. "It seems you do have quite experienced a weight loss at your chest, Lord Delphini. As for your answer, you told me that you were daughter of Bellatrix Black and the Dark Lord Voldemort one day and that you believed that Lady Malfoy held hots for my descendant if put in your exact words" he said with a cocky tone.
Delphini nodded and was confirmed that the man infront of her was Sir Armand Prince "next time don't mention about my gender change" she threatened him narrowing her eyes.
"I won't Lord Delphini" he said calmly with an amused smile.
"How did you even came here?, the last time I knew, you were a portrait" she asked curiously to the man infront of her.
"I don't know my lady, at one moment I was in the portrait and the next thing I knew that I was being whisked away from the portrait and then I blacked out until I found myself here trapped between the two boulders, I tried to shout but the strain of Dark Magic in the air here overwhelmed my mind. If I guess correctly then the bracelet we are wearing is helping us in not being affected by it" he said curiously as he looked at her.
"You are right on the last part" she said as she looked at him.
"Tell me more about this place, I see only ruins and wait are they dragon skeletons?" he asked suddenly as he looked at the place around them, his voice rising as he spotted a dragon skeleton at distance.
Delphini sighed as she started to explain him about what they had find till now while both of them looked around the place for anything worth interesting.
Ten minutes later, both of them walked out of the ruins with nothing but some chests filled with gold which they had dumped inside the charmed bag of Delphini.
"You know it feels good to be in flesh and bone once again, my lady" Armand Prince said looking at his fellow companion who was sporting silver gold hair with purple eyes.
"It must be afterall you were stucked in a portrait for around 800 years or so?" Delphini quipped back to him.
Armand Prince smiled at the jape, "ofcourse my lady, afterall the ritual you all performed did brought me back with a new and younger body" he said with a small smile, it felt good to be young once again, he thought inwardly. He had died afterall at the young age of 39 with no sired child of his own.
They found another ruin and this one looked pretty much bigger.
"Try to find anything interesting" Delphini said as she looked at the figure of Armand Prince who was looking at the ruins with interest.
Armand Prince nodded simply while he looked at the ruins with a calm gaze, there were some cups and plates which he could see which were made up of steel which had rippled like patterns. Lady Delphini, no Lord Delphini, he thought amusedly was collecting everything even the plates and spoons. From what she had told him, the steel contained very little magic inside them but enough to strengthen the metal more strongly.
He looked at the dragon skeleton which was lying on the floor at a distance of one feet from the dragon skeleton was the skeleton of a man doning armor. As he looked at the armour with dragon styled cuirass, pauldrons and helm, he could see the rippled patterns in it. The armour was coloured in black and purple. There was a longsword which was black grey in colour with a dragon engraved in its hilt.
He started removing the armor from the skeleton as he looked at the different pieces of armour and started measuring them. The armor would have been a perfect fit for him in his adult body but he was slightly skinny for it now. Still he took the armor to use it for himself, afterall it maybe useful for him during a battle someday. He had been a knight in his previous life so he had learned the noble arts of swordmanship and jousting, he had tried and counseled to his descendants to learn them but all of them had refused his counsel and kind advice. Besides the armour was light as he held it in his hands. He took the longsword and slashed it through the air to check the balance and weight, it was light and cut like a knife through butter. He performed some more slash and thrusts in the air until he finally decided that the steel was infact a very nice and high quality one, he had wielded many swords but none apart from the goblin made ones felt this light. Even than the goblin made sword was not used by him much as it garnered quite a commotion among the knights with its abilities.
He looked through the ruins in which he found some chests containing dragon eggs and an old book as well as some knives and gold coins, two longswords, the second last in large number. It seemed the mountains here yielded much gold, he thought amusedly.
"Lord Delphini, here" he called to the lady turned lord as he beckoned her to the area so that she could store them in her charmed pouch.
Suddenly he heard the sound of air and looked backside only to find a magical carpet hovering in the air with a lady arriving on it.
"Aunt Cissa, this is Sir Armand Prince, who somehow had arrived with us" Lord Delphini spoke up from his side as she introduced him to Lady Malfoy.
Narcissa looked at the figure of Sir Arman Prince as she frowned slightly "the ritual deaged us and changed our appearances but how come you are back from dead, Sir Prince?" she asked him as she looked at him.
"I don't know, but the last thing before I arrived here was the light shining on me when you all were performing the ritual, Lady Malfoy" he spoke up with a small frown of his own. Technically there was no magic that could revive the dead, so it was impossible for him to come back to life.
"I have a theory" Delphini spoke up garnering both of their attention. On their enquiring looks she added "the ruby was formed apparently in a ritual which also resulted in the formation of dementors, it could be possible that there was some necromancy involved, another theory of mine is that since portraits are actually an imprints of the owners, it might be possible that with the help of some necromanantic magic Sir Armand's portrait which was just an imprint earlier was given a body same as we were deaged and how my entire gender is changed" she finished.
Regardless of their reasons and causes the three of them were now in another world and they had to focus on it first. Delphini just hoped that everything would go well without some problems.