A/N I'm back! It's been awhile since I had posted the last chapter. As always, I don't own Harry Potter.
October 24, 1991
Time marches on, with students learning more spells and magic, while only one first year was not advancing at all. Many speculations have been made about the legitimacy of the claim that he is a fire elementalist. Many believed he was lying and had an upper class man use an advance spell to control the fire, few believed that it was some form of magic that only goblins could use, and even fewer actually believed it. Regardless, no other shows of prowess were shown by Juno, so the few who did believe it became fewer.
Nothing major happened until a week before Halloween when Juno stopped by the headmaster's office to speak to him. The only problem: he didn't know the password.
"Mr. Damon, what exactly are you doing to my gargoyle?"
Juno froze, turning around to see the person he needed to speak to behind him. "I can say that I was not, NOT using a highly dangerous non-magi explosive to get it out of my way."
Sighing, Dumbledore held out his hand. "Twenty points from Gryffindor, one week of detention, and I will have to confiscate that dangerous substance."
Grumbling, Juno unhooked the block of explosive from the statue and handed it to the headmaster. "Fine. But keep it away from intense heat and don't try to apparate with it in just your pocket."
Holding the block of… something in his hand, Dumbledore led Juno into his office (The password being Lemon drop) and carefully set the block down onto his desk. "Lemon drop?" Dumbledore offered as Juno grabbed three of them. Shaking his head in amusement, Dumbledore sat down. "Now may I inquire as to why you were trying to break into my office?"
"I would like you to inform the staff that the stone will be in the protection on the third floor corridor on All Hallows' Eve."
"May I ask why?"
"I won't be carrying any weapons on that day. I will be totally unarmed and need to be extra careful then." Sighing upon seeing Dumbledore's stare, Juno looked at Fawkes' empty stand and chuckles to himself. "Looks like your bird is after mine still. On All Hallows' Eve, I try to honor my parents by laying down arms. And I also-" Wincing in pain, Juno clenches his fist tightly. "Sorry… I've sworn an oath not to say without permission."
"Very well then, I will inform the staff of this. Now, is there anything else that you need from me?"
"That is everything Headmaster." Juno got up and with a bow, went to leave the room. At the door, Dumbledore called out to him. "Juno, leave the bowl." Grumbling, Juno went back to the desk, set the bowl of lemon drops down, and finally left. Dumbledore chuckled and popped one of the lemon drops in his mouth, and pondered on the enigma that was Juno Damon.
October 31, 1991
The last classes of the day were letting out, and the first years had just had their first practical lesson, the levitation charm. Many were excited about the lesson, but for one…
"Why do you hang out with Granger, Juno? She's a right bloody nightmare! It's no wonder she has no other friends." Ron said loudly. As someone pushed past him running down the halls, he felt a hand on his shoulder and knew he had messed up.
After being chewed out for hanging another student out a window by a prefect, Juno went searching for the distressed miss Granger, but couldn't find her. He went to the feast troubled, but calmed down when he heard she was in the first floor bathroom.
Partway through the feast, Professor Quirrell came running into the hall, Shouted out "Troll! In the dungeon! Thought you out to know…" and fainted. While everyone started to panic, two students jumped up and ran, one to get out of there, the other to stop him.
"JUNO! NO!" Shouted Marcus as he grabbed his brother. "LET ME GO! HERMIONE IS OUT THERE! I NEED TO SAVE HER!" "YOU CAN'T! THE SEALS-" "FUCK THE SEALS!" The conversation rang out as many students gasped at the foul language. "YOU CAN'T, JUNO! SHE IS NOT WORTH RISKING YOUR LIFE FOR! SHE IS NOT SHADOW-!" CRACK! The sound resounded out as Juno back-handed his brother to the ground. Juno ran out of the room, and as he was shutting the doors behind him, said "Seal the doors, strengthen them, and protect the students. That's an order…" The doors closed with a resounding thud.
"Students, may I have your attention. Please follow your prefects to your common-"
"No headmaster. I am sorry to say, but my brother gave an order, and he said to seal the doors. So we shall." Marcus said, as he got up, rubbing away the blood from his split lip.
Meanwhile at the Ravenclaw table, one silent student was having a panic attack that can only be seen from her board.
Oh my god, there's a troll! He's going to die! His seals are going to break and we'll all be killed by the backlash! He's going to die! We're all going to die! I'm going to-
All of a sudden the writing cut off and disappeared as she stood up and walked to the doors. Placing a palm onto the doors, and without a sound, the most magical of things happened. The doors transformed.
Slowly from the point where her hand touched the door, spreading outwards, the wood and iron in the door changed to a glowing silvery metal, the likes of which was only seen once before in this hall. And as the last of the wood and iron changed, Brenda collapsed onto her knees and started to cough up blood. Marcus rushed to her side, uncorking a vial and handing it to her in between coughs. "Why? You know how much it takes out of you. You could have used silver or steel. Why mythril?" He asked as he helped her back to her seat, as yet another student stood up.
"Ha ha. Well guess it's my turn to do something. Hopefully won't break something." Said Jeremy as he began to stretch. Most people in the hall were too stunned to do anything after witnessing the doors turn to the mythical metal. It was when Jeremy pulled out a a book and a strange writing instrment that Dumbledore came back to his senses.
"Mr. Ashfault, what is it that you are planning to do?" "Why I'm going to make the runes to strengthen the doors. It'll take me about a minute to design it though." Marcus gets up and looks at the work his brother is doing. "We don't have time to experiment with anything new. Just use the normal set for now." Closing his book with a sigh, Jeremy pulls out what looked like a chisel. "Fine. But know that I'll be billing you." "No you won't." "Yes I will."
"No." "Yes." "No." "Yes." "No." "Yes." "Yes." "No… Dang it!"
And with that, a sharp crack was heard, the doors were filled with runes the likes of which none had seen before, and Jeremy was slumped next to the doors. "Well… Broke my leg… Marcus, be a dear and fix that fo…" And with that, loud snoring could be heard from Jeremy.
"Must I do everything around here…" Marcus muttered as he knelt next to the sleeping Jeremy. After another nasty crack was heard, Marcus stood and faced the wall. "And he didn't even power them." Marcus pulled out a bottle filled with a red liquid and uncorked it. The instant it was, the liquid came flying out of the bottle and covered the doors. Each rune that the red liquid touched, it began to give a faint red glow to them. The once plain wood and iron door now looked like a glowing red and silver, that radiated protection and power from. Once all the runes were lit up, the red liquid flowed back into the bottle and Marcus corked it again.
"Mr. Fynn, what exactly is in that bottle?" Questioned the headmaster, after getting used to the power that the doors now had.
Looking back at the headmaster, Marcus only had a one word answer. "Blood."
"Blood does not move like that on it's own…"
"My brother has probably already told you, because he's an idiot who can't keep a secret, but I'm a water elementalist. Any liquid, ice and steam I can control with perfect precision."
"He has never mentioned this to me."
"...Dammit."
"Language, young man." Without even acknowledging this, Marcus went back to his table and began to eat again. A few tense minutes later, the doors opened up to a horrifying sight.
With one armed wrapped over her shoulders, Hermione brought in a heavily bleeding Juno. Looking up, with blood pouring from a wound on his head, Juno smiled with blood stained teeth. "Look… Marcus. I saved… Shadowsmile. I saved him." He said before slumping over again.
Pandemonium ensued.
A/N What could have happened to Juno? What are these seals that are mentioned? Who is Shadowsmile? Find out next time on Dragon Ba- Wait! Wrong thing! I mean, find out next time on Prism.