This fic is inspired by Danse Macabre by RarissimaAvis, and written with their permission. Cross-posted on AO3 in my profile.
The Higher Entities are drunk off their asses and dump Hadria in the Fantastic Beasts
Warnings: Fem! MoD! Neutral/Dark Harry! Dimension and time travelling. AU. Crack.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. Anything found to be different from Harry Potter Wiki, books, or Pottermore is made up by me.
Summary: A MoD Harry dimension-travel fic!
An accident dumps Hadria into an alternate universe where Fantastic Beasts series actually took place. Now, she has to deal with a Dark Lord and also make sure she doesn't accidentally end up helping him. Oh, and the Grindelwald from her universe is bound to be looking for her.
Throw in some shenanigans, a very exasperated Dark Lord, a freaked out hellhound, and some demon summoning to make the dimension travel more entertaining.
Hadria sat up and looked around. Her surroundings weren't the least bit familiar. The clothes people had dressed up in around her reminded her of the early twentieth century. No one batted an eye, especially after she fell out of the sky and landed in New York, (she realized after catching sight of the familiar roads and buildings). Wait, how did she end up here? This was getting ridiculous. Being a twelve-year-old girl without guardians spelt trouble for her. For one, she had to register with the MACUSA and she couldn't very well tell them that her guardian was Gellert Grindelwald. For another, she didn't know whether she was in the same dimension or not. And Gellert would be pissed as hell, if he found out that she had time travelled, (or dimension travelled. This was getting complicated). She had to be resourceful and find out why and how she ended up here. Then, get a ride back home.
She remembered her conversations with Newt Scamander in her previous life. He had described his part in the war against Grindelwald in great detail, after she badgered him for hours about the old days. She walked around trying to find out the date, when she found a newspaper. She picked it up and found that the date was the 25th of November in 1926. The newspaper was interesting though. There was an article about a Mary Lou Barebone, and the children she adopted. They were trying to expose witchcraft, the paper mocked. Barebone. Where had she heard that name? Oh right. Newt mentioned an obscurus whose surname was Barebone. He was probably one of her children, if she recalled correctly. Credence Barebone had perished with his adopted family according to Newt. This meant that she was currently not in her own dimension, and had also time travelled to the past. Well, that's one problem she had the answer to. Dealing with an obscurus was dangerous, as Gellert had repeatedly drilled into her brain, when they ran into one in Mongolia. Maybe she could befriend it.
Hadria walked into a side alley and tried calling out for Scath to fetch her. He didn't appear at all, which meant that either he was busy collecting souls, or he couldn't interfere in whatever was going on. She could go to MACUSA and tell them that she was a time traveler and needed help going home, but that could go south really quickly. No one would take a twelve-year-old seriously. She could probably go to Gringotts, but she didn't know where that was. And even then, the goblins may not be able to help her with this. Still, that was worth trying. The goblins had come through many times. The Higher Entities had to be really bored, for them to dump her in the past in the middle of a war. She was really and truly stuck now. She wished Gellert was here.
WAIT! Gellert was here! Right here in New York if she remembered it right. She just had to get to him, and that would get the attention of the Higher Entities. And if he was anything like her Gellert, her puppy dog eyes routine would work on him. Even if it didn't, well this was going to be brilliant! Hadria's eyes twinkled mischievously at the thought of getting one over everyone.
Hadria walked out with a pouch full of galleons. Her plan to reach Gringotts on one of the escaped magical beasts was a brilliant idea. The Niffler had hitched a ride along with her, once she told it where she would be going. Too bad, it couldn't get in because of the Goblin's wards against their species. It would have been hilarious. She portkeyed to the Woolworth Building, headed into the main room of the MACUSA, and took in the beautiful sight of the building's interior. There was a monument with four columns with Phoenix statues in the center. She approached a witch heading for the elevators, and asked, "Excuse me, do you know where Mr. Graves is? My guardian has a meeting scheduled with him, and I'm supposed to meet him there. But I don't know the way to his office."
"Of course, dear. I'll take you there."
"Thank you, ma'am," said Hadria, getting on the elevator with her. The elevator went up several floors, before it opened with a ding . The lady took her right up to his office and asked, "There's no one here. Are you sure you will be okay waiting for them here alone?"
"I'll be fine ma'am. Thank you," said Hadria, with a polite smile. She waited till the lady went out of sight, then, slowly turned the doorknob of his office. She stepped in and took in the sight before her. Gellert's study was always tidy and comfortable to her, but this office was covered in mounds of paperwork. It appeared that he was characterizing his inner Graves for this. She sat down and waited.
Grindelwald walked up to his office. He did not recall having any appointment today with anyone, as he had cleared his schedule to be able to begin taking down the Magical Congress. His curiosity got the better of him, and now here he was, going to see who exactly his visitor was. He opened the door, and the scene before him made his jaw drop. Graves' office was covered in pink, from floor-to-ceiling. The charcoal color of the rug was replaced by a vivid magenta color, and his desk was pink. In the midst of all this was a little girl, no more than twelve sitting on his seat and drinking tea. If it had been anyone else or at any other time, he would have blasted them to hell for this abomination. As such, he couldn't do anything right now, to preserve his plans for the downfall of the American magical government. The girl was grinning at him, at the most infamous Dark Wizard the world had ever known in these times. He was stunned at her behavior to put it mildly. He would have recovered, if he hadn't heard the next few words coming out of her mouth.
"Hey, Gellert. Wait, I'm gonna call you Grines, because it's a combination of Grindelwald and Graves. Get it?"
He was shocked at the fact that someone, who was most definitely not in his inner circle, knew he was Grindelwald. He managed to ask, "What?"
"Well, I don't want to confuse you with my Gellert. So, you'll be Grines and he'll be Gellert."
"What do you mean by 'Your Gellert'?"
"You know. My guardian Gellert. Well, I'm from the future from an alternate dimension and you adopted me. But Gerwald doesn't know that I know his real identity."
If Gellert hadn't been shocked enough already, she went and dropped another bomb on him. Forget about trying to use the girl for his schemes, she was playing him.
He couldn't believe her. No one would, especially if someone said Grindelwald adopted a child in the future. He gritted his teeth and said menacingly, "You're lying. What is the real reason you are here?"
"I'm not lying. I went to the goblins and took an inheritance test. I think they just sync up with whatever time or dimension I'm from. Here are the results," she said, handing him the papers. He took a look at it to confirm it was authentic. He definitely did not remember even thinking about adopting a child, and her birth date was set too far in the future.
Gellert did not become the most feared man in history by being careless. Normally, he would have tried to manipulate her into joining his ranks, but right now he felt that he was being manipulated. He took a deep breath and asked, "How did you get here?"
"I don't know. All I want to do now is to cause as much havoc as I can, to get the attention of the Higher Entities, so that they can put me back in my time," said Hadria chuckling.
He felt light headed at this information. On one hand, if there really were people behind her foray into the past, they were very powerful. He decided to wait and see who they were and what would happen when they got involved. If possible, get them to join his cause. On the other hand, the girl's aura was powerful and smelt of death. She said that she wanted to cause chaos, and he did not think that it would be something to take lightly, given the current state of his office and that she was from the future.
"Grines, can we go eat something? I'm really hungry," whined Hadria.
Great! A bloody kid is stopping him from conquering the world.
Present day Gellert flooed in after spending a long day at the Hog's Head and removed his long-hooded cloak. He was out to get some illegal potion ingredients, and he definitely wasn't stepping into Aberforth's pub without a disguise. He looked around and catching sight of only Geist and Noh, he asked, "Where's Hadria?"
The Lethifold looked like it shrugged, if carnivorous pieces of cloth could shrug. The boggart just turned into a clock, and suspended itself in front of his face. The Jarvey came out from under the sofa and began screeching insults at him, "Pig-headed. Icy moron. Tick-tock tick-tock. Black mongrel. Dark death-asshole. Blonde moron."
Scath appeared just as it finished its stream of insults and looked at Gellert. "Where's Hadria?" he asked.
"Wasn't she with you?" asked Gellert.
"No. I was busy collecting souls for the day. Where is she and why can't I sense her?"
Gellert cursed. She couldn't go a day without getting into trouble. And now, she had disappeared with none of their supernatural pets knowing where she went. He sincerely hoped that she was safe and wasn't getting into any trouble (who was he kidding?) . He didn't know that at this exact moment, his other-dimension-past-self was getting too many grey hairs for the adventure he was being taken on.
As it was impossible for anyone to not get swept along with her, Grines got caught up in her madness too. He was forced to postpone his takeover of MACUSA by Hadria, who persuaded him (read threatened) to wait a bit more as he had already waited for so long. There was no harm in delaying it for another couple of days. She charmed him too quickly for him not to notice, and he observed that sometimes, her mannerisms were similar to his. She also got him to allow her to perform a ritual on creating dementors, something about being able to do rituals under his supervision. He dragged her over to Graves' house for that purpose, as performing illegal rituals of all things in the MACUSA seemed like a good way to blow his cover. He didn't know what ritual he had agreed to until he saw it. A Demiguise dementor. Where she had managed to obtain a living Demiguise, he had no idea. But he was pretty certain that dementors were created from dead bodies, not living beings. Hadria made the whole thing worse by modifying the original ritual, and enhancing the Demiguise's capabilities. It could not only suck out souls now, but also turn invisible, fly, and was immune to Patronuses. She had created a monster. He watched the entire process with a horrified fascination. He did not know what his other self was teaching her, but this was crossing the line. And then, she proceeded to make that as her familiar. One of her familiars, if what she said was true. She apparently had a pet Lethifold, a Jarvey and a Grim. Now, a Dementor. He briefly wondered if she was actually his biological child, given the experiment she carried out.
Hadria also decided to brew some potions, which her Gellert wouldn't have allowed her to do had he known what exactly she was brewing. She decided right then that she would break all of Gerwald's rules in front of Grindel- sorry, Grines, (who does not know any of the rules). She wished she had Noh to store the potions she was brewing, along with several other illegal ingredients. There was a pop all of a sudden, and Noh settled on her shoulders. She was surprised that it actually worked, but didn't let it show on her face.
Grindelwald watched her progress, as the hours went by. For the first time in his life, he was actually afraid that she might add in the wrong thing, which would cause the entire house to blow up or something worse. He did not want to blow his cover dammit . She came close to adding the wrong ingredient or stirring the potion in the wrong direction quite a few times. One of the times was because her pet Lethifold decided to make an appearance. It was because of his timely interruption that they were alive and unharmed. Surprisingly, their surroundings were also unaffected by Hadria's brewing. Especially, with the dementor hybrid hovering around her.
"Ta-da~! I'm done," said Hadria, jumping off the stool. Grindelwald quirked an eyebrow at her, asking about the potions.
"The one on the left is a mixture of the Draught of the Living Death and Polyjuice Potion. It changes the person's appearance as soon as they take it, but they will not be able to move. It's useful if you want to disguise yourself as a brain-dead person. Of course, you'll be permanently brain-dead. But hey, if you're gonna break in somewhere and you don't want people to figure out which person died, just feed him this."
Great. Now she was being even more creative and unwittingly helping him with world domination. He wondered whether she even realized what she was capable of.
"Now, on to Potion Number 2! This is a combination of Amorentia and Pepperup Potion. It makes people happy and well…. I'll leave that to your imagination."
Did she even realize she created magical drugs?
"And Potion Number 3! A combination of Babbling Beverage and Veritaserum. I made enough to fill many of my vials with these potions and they are definitely awesome!" said Hadria.
Good. Now, this one he could use.
Hadria knew she was exploiting Gellert's rules. Not just mere exploitation, she was basically tearing up and burning the rulebook. But, being free to do whatever she wanted in his presence sounded extremely tempting. The Demiguise-Dementor hybrid (Decke, she called it) was very helpful in giving her instructions on how to brew the combination-potions. She brewed only one batch of different kinds of potions, put them into vials, and dropped them into Noh's stomach. How exactly Noh got here, she didn't know and she wasn't going to question it. Decke and Noh got on surprisingly well, as the Dementor hybrid wasn't interested in keeping Noh as a pet. Past-Grindelwald did appear freaked out when she showed him her pets, even if he wasn't showing it outwardly. She had seen his various expressions enough times to know what he was thinking. The Niffler (Pelzig, she named it) was occupied with the shiny watch in Graves' bedroom and had fallen asleep while cuddling it.
Gellert was worried. It was dawn and he had spent the whole night waiting for her to come back from wherever she was. She still hadn't appeared, and he had sent Scath to look for her. Noh had disappeared too, sometime in the night, so now he only had a Boggart, a Thestral and a Jarvey for company. A black mass of shadow took the shape of a dog in front of him.
"I wasn't able to find Hadria, so I went to ask the Higher Entities about her. You should probably sit down. You're not going to like this," said Scath.
"Where is she?" asked Gellert, worried.
"Right, so yesterday, the guys upstairs were apparently having the drinking game of the century. It's basically a competition where all of them drink for a week continuously as they don't have any physical digestive systems to worry about. So…"
"Get to the point already!"
"Chaos dared Change to, you know, change the timeline and Time obliged by helping them. The point is they did this under heavy influence, and now they don't remember where they put Hadria," said Scath, waiting for the inevitable explosion.
"They did WHAT?! AREN'T THEY SUPPOSED TO BE THE RESPONSIBLE ONES?"
"Well, they did resurrect you and I have no idea what they were thinking."
"NOT helping!"
"So now, said bunch of the Hungover Entities are not in any condition to search for her and retrieve her. So, you will have to wait for a week at the very least, before we get any news," said Scath.
Gellert was getting a migraine. They had virtually no way of knowing where the hell she was and whether she was in the past or future. She would probably try to befriend a Dark Lord and get a following of dark creatures. He really hoped that wasn't the case.
Unfortunately, that was exactly what happened. Hadria ensured that Grindelwald didn't step out of the house for the week, by performing obscure rituals and making potion hybrids. He was doing his best to supervise her, to make sure she didn't blow up the house or accidentally summon something dangerous. Instead, he decided to work on some new plans.
Well, Hadria didn't really intend to summon a demon. More like, it happened accidentally.
It happened while she was in the middle of a ritual to animate some skeletons. She must have done something wrong as Scath wasn't there to guide her along the proper steps. The ritual room darkened, and all the candles blew out. She couldn't see or smell anything except some of the incense she had lit up earlier. There was a loud crackling sound, and fire began rising out of the ritual circle. Along with it rose a gigantic humanoid, with big horns and bat-like wings. The ground shook, as it came out slowly. The creature was reddish, and its entire body looked like it had been burnt a lot of times.
A loud crackling roused Grindelwald from his letters, and he looked up before remembering that Hadria was performing a ritual in the ritual room. With the way his study was shaking, he wondered exactly what she had done now. He raced up the stairs and opened the door, to possibly the most horrifying thing he had ever witnessed in his entire life. And that was saying something , given that he was the Dark Lord Grindelwald.
"Qui audet pro me audet testimonium?" asked the demon, in a booming voice.
"Um, Hey Mister Demon! I'm Hadria Grindelwald, and that is my guardian," she said pointing to Grindelwald, who was across the room. "What's your name?"
Stupid brat. She was using his name, essentially throwing him under the bus for summoning a demon. He wondered if it was too late to disown her, so that he wouldn't be killed just because his future-ward (calling her his alternate-dimension-ward was a bit much even for him) had the habit of doing the worst things imaginable in any situation.
The demon smirked. "I am the Tempter, The Ruler of Demons, and the King of Hell. You may call me Lucifer. Is the guy standing behind you a sacrifice for me?"
"No! Well, you can probably do that and save the lives of countless people. But, you're the Devil. So, if you save lives, it makes you good. Are you sure you wanna do that?"
"Hmm. Good point."
He wasn't paid to handle this shit. Hell, he did not know anything about taking care of a child. He had plans to take over the world. She was a distraction. A very scary one at that. And, she continued to amaze him and scare the life out of him at the same time. He wasn't sure if it was worth the trouble. She went and summoned bloody Lucifer, Grindelwald cursed. He never swore much but the brat was probably the first person to make him do a lot of that for the first time in years. He promptly decided then and there that he was going to get her back to her own timeline and let his future-self handle this. He adopted her; it can be his headache.
"I'm sorry but I don't know how I summoned you. I was actually trying to reanimate some skeletons I placed in the circle," said Hadria, wondering what Gellert would think of her now, if he could see her. "I'm really sorry," she told the Devil.
"No need to worry. A sweet child like you shouldn't bother apologizing. But I am curious. How did you end up here, when I can see that you are clearly from another dimension?"
"I don't know. I'm trying to get Death and everyone else's attention by helping my guardian take over the world here."
"If they haven't figured it out yet, they will now. Perks of summoning the most handsome and infamous Devil of all time," said Lucifer grinning.
Hadria never thought she would say this, but she hit it off with the Devil. He approved of her schemes and even gave her some tips on how to make her pranks better. They continued their discussion for almost two hours, before the Devil said he had to go, lest the Higher Entities torture him some more, with an increase in paperwork.
Grindelwald sighed in relief, when the Devil left. He wasn't willing to let her out of his sight and he really wasn't stupid enough to tell the Devil to get out of his house. He decided to research time-travelling after he met with his lieutenants about the change of plans.
There was a loud crash near the front door, and Gellert leapt up from his bed, with his wand in his hand. He opened the door, to find Scath barrelling straight at him. He stepped aside to let him in, and the Grim skidded to a sudden stop in his room. He had never seen Scath this frightened.
"WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!" yelled Scath.
"Is it so urgent that you have to wake me up at bloody 3 am in the morning?!"
"HADRIA SUMMONED LUCIFER!"
Which was probably the wrong thing to say, in front of a fully alert Gellert.
"WHAT?!"
"SHE SUMMONED THE DEVIL! WE ARE SO SCREWED!"
"Wait! You found Hadria?! Where is she? Is she alright?"
Scath took a deep breath and started, "So I went to meet the Higher Entities today. Life was busy getting everyone's heads out of their asses for the past week. They finally began searching for Hadria yesterday. She's currently in an alternate timeline in the past in 1926. In New York. Where you were."
"Oh crap," cursed Gellert.
"She was found because the Higher Entities got a message from Hell stating that the Devil had escaped because he was summoned by someone. And that someone was Hadria. Apparently, she's safe and unharmed. But I don't really trust that when it comes straight out of the Devil's mouth."
Gellert's face turned blue, then green and finally settled on white. He took a deep breath as if to reassure himself. Hadria had done a lot of stuff. If there was one thing he could rely on, it was that Luck favoured her.
"Let's go get her," said Gellert finally.
Grindelwald persuaded Hadria to attend his meeting with his lieutenants, which was a better alternative than leaving her at Graves' home. He wouldn't have had to make any extra backup plans, if she hadn't summoned the Devil of all things. Now, he had cancelled all of his old plans and started making new ones. He also had to begin his research, after the meeting.
They had secretly met up with some of his most trusted lieutenants in a dingy, old pub in the Magical District of New York, where they were trying their best to conduct said meeting, if it wasn't for Hadria's dementor. Decke had accompanied them to the pub, all the while invisible, and feeding on the emotions of the people they passed by. What Hadria found even more hilarious, was the fact that their group consisted of mostly dark wizards and none of them could conjure a Patronus to keep it away. She could, but she preferred to watch.
Vinda Rosier was surprised when her boss turned up with a little girl. Her eyes twinkled in a way which expressed that she was ready to make their lives even more difficult than it already was. What was more surprising was the fact that her boss tolerated the girl's impertinence, even if she had been introduced as his heir and called him 'Grines' to his face. He would have normally crucioed anyone who dared to speak to him that way. She was impressed that the girl had a Lethifold for a pet (they realized she had a Lethifold on her back, when Hadria started stuffing some bugs into a jar and shoved it down Noh's throat). Anyone who was surrounded by so many dark creatures and could command them, definitely deserved to be Grindelwald's heir. The girl busied herself chatting with various creatures in the pub like some hags, goblins and werewolves. Truly, she was exceptional, if she could win their favor. It could prove to be very useful to add some more dark creatures to Grindelwald's already expanding list of allies.
Hadria came back to their table, sat down next to Abernathy and sipped her drink. It was strong and unlike anything she had drunk before. She liked the taste and helped herself to a few more glasses, giggling. Grindelwald was busy anyway to notice what she was doing.
"You do realise you're drinking Gigglewater right?" asked Abernathy, not sure if he should be stopping her or not. "It makes you giggle continuously, like you're doing now."
Hadria continued giggling, until she caught sight of a figure by the pub's door. Oh shit.
Standing at the door was Gellert, her Gellert, and Scath.
"You know, it really wasn't necessary to come and get me Gerwald," said Hadria, glancing back and forth between the two currently silent Dark Lords. She had sobered up. Getting caught up in a confrontation between them wasn't exactly on her plan.
"Hadria, why don't you go with Scath for a while. I need to have a nice chat with this person here," said Gerwald.
"Yes, go on ahead, liebe kind," replied Grines.
Hadria decided to back away now, especially since she wasn't supposed to know that her guardian was Grindelwald. They both could talk and sort things out. If they dragged her back in, she'd blame Scath.
Gellert stared at his alternate-past-self, who looked over fifty years old and had sent his lieutenants away for a private discussion. He decided to interrogate and find out exactly what he had been teaching her, keeping his wand at the ready to hex him if he had taught her anything forbidden. He could handle this calmly, but facing off against yourself, especially when they were both extremely powerful, was probably reckless. It wasn't like he was afraid of dueling himself. No, the problem was the fact as to how much of a hold his past-version had on Hadria.
"Before we begin, can I just make you take the child back? I really do not want to deal with her anymore, let alone fight about her. I can see that you really are her guardian and I give up." said Grines.
Gellert blinked. This was certainly very surprising. He did not just give up! Don't tell me that Hadria got to him too, he sighed inwardly.
"I will definitely be taking her back. But, before that, I have a lot of questions I need to ask you."
"You are going to regret that."
Hadria was currently nursing three more glasses of Gigglewater because she was anxious. Anxious that the two Grindelwalds were not dueling over her. They were talking civilly, and it could only mean that Gellert would find out about everything she did during her stay here. Grindelwald vs Grindelwald would probably be safer. She winced when she remembered his reaction to the Pig Dementors. Now, she had created a Demiguise-dementor, as well as several illegal potions. And he hadn't even met Pelzig yet. Not to mention, she summoned the Devil. She wondered exactly which part of her adventure he was going to kick a fuss about. Maybe all of it. Gigglewater didn't help matters much, except that she was giggling a lot like an idiot while she was sitting alone at a far off table near the exit. Scath was near Gellert's table listening to their discussion with much interest.
He approached her after a while and said, "Congratulations! You're probably the first human being to break Gellert Grindelwald."
"That is not helping," said Hadria, drinking another sip.
"You do realize that you're high on Gigglewater now. Do you want to add this to the list of crimes you committed this week?"
"He already knows. And if he doesn't Grines will tell him."
"Grines?"
"A combination of Grindelwald and Graves."
Scath snorted at that. He looked back at the other table. On seeing Gerwald getting ready to leave, he grinned and said, "Looks like they're done with their discussion. You are so screwed now.".
"Why are you so eager to see me get into trouble?"
"Because it's entertaining to see a former Dark Lord get angry, worried and exasperated all at once for the Girl-Who-Lived," replied Scath.
The two men shook hands and walked towards the exit. Grines nodded at her on his way out. Which left her alone with Gellert. Oh, crap.
"Let's go, Hadria," growled Gellert. She gulped.
The minute they landed in their living room, Hadria was immediately pounced upon by all of her pets. That was when Gellert took notice of the flying Demiguise. He jumped and whipped out his wand, only hesitating when Hadria yelled, "STOP!" with all her might.
"This is my pet, Decke. Decke, meet Gerwald. He's my real guardian."
"Hadria, just why in Merlin's name did you crossbreed a Demiguise with whatever it is? And how did you do it?"
"Didn't Grindelwald tell you about this?" asked Hadria innocently.
"He failed to mention that."
"Oh. Decke is a hybrid of a Demiguise and a Dementor. I might have told him that they will be living with me instead of his place, if he refrained from telling you about Decke and Pelzig."
"Who's Pelzig?"
"My Niffler."
"Your WHAT?! You know what? I'm done. You are going to send those two creatures to Scamander, I don't care how. At least, he finds those sorts of creatures fascinating. I'm changing the rules now. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BRING OR MAKE ANY NEW PETS ANYMORE!"
"But—"
"No buts! And that is not even counting the number of illegal potions you brewed! You mixed Amorentia and Pepperup potions! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO NOT ONLY MAKE THEM, BUT ALSO DRINK THEM?! No more unsupervised potion brewing. Hand them over to me as soon as this is done!"
"But I was supervised by Grines," whined Hadria.
"Getting supervised by a Dark Lord, who is known for meddling in the Forbidden Arts does not count! AND WHAT WERE YOU THINKING SUMMONING THE DEVIL?!"
"That was an accident!"
"I have a headache. And you're grounded for the rest of the summer. Starting from now. Go to your room," he said dismissing her.
Gellert went to the kitchen to get some Pepperup, when Scath appeared next to him and asked, "You do realize that you are the Dark Lord who meddled in the Forbidden Arts?"
Gellert glared at him.
"That's okay. Just checking," said Scath, before scampering off to Hadria's room.
Hadria was getting ready for bed.
"No more fun adventures for you anymore for a while, I guess," said Scath. "Thank Merlin. I went insane when I found out about the Devil."
"Says who?" asked Hadria, grinning mischievously.
At least, she could always summon Lucifer and ask him to help her prank Gellert. Being friends with the Devil pays sometimes.
