The next two weeks were very busy.
When she wasn't spending time with her family, Kiana was running around getting everything ready.
It had taken her a week and a half to go to every property she owned. With the house elves help, she was able to get everything sorted and packed away on the Dawn's Phoenix. When she was done, she sold the properties to Gringrotts.
She had gone back to Gringrotts with a multi-compartment trunk that had 26 compartments. After giving a fourth of her money from each vault to the goblins, she had put the rest into a compartment each. She had the multi-compartment made so that each house she was heiress to had two compartments each. One compartment was divided into 2 rooms: one held the money (she had the goblins charm the money to change into whatever was used in Ocean), the other held the multiple jewels. The other compartment was divided into multiple rooms that held all the heirlooms, weapons, clothes and jewelry, books, etc. She had thanked Ragnok for all his help. Ragnok wished her and her family luck.
She had decided to give the ownership of Hogwarts to Kingsley. The man had been shocked beyond belief when she had told him what had happened and that she wanted to hand the ownership to him. When he asked why, she said that he was the only one among the Ministry she trusted enough with the ownership. He accepted the ownership and wished her good luck.
She had gone to Hogwarts to get the basilisk corpse and shed skin. She quickly harvested the snake's corpse and had placed the parts into one of the potion storage room she had in a multi-compartment trunk. She had taken a fourth of the snake skin and had it tailored into multiple pieces of clothing, the rest of the skin went into a compartment for later use.
Minerva had been shocked to hear that Kiana was leaving with her family, that is until she heard the reason. Kiana wouldn't have been surprised if the people of Hogsmade had heard the raging woman, the entire castle had shaken with the amount of magic power that had radiated off the angry Scottish woman.
Kiana didn't even know that Minerva had even known those words.
She had gone to the book stores in Diagon Alley and had purchased one of every book. She had also gone into the muggle world and had bought several muggle books as well. She went to each store in Diagon Alley and purchased one of everything, sometimes even purchasing multiple items that were the same.
The last store she had gone to was Olivander's as her holly wand had exploded the first time she tried to use it since the blocks had been removed. The wand crafter had taken one look at her and had given her a book on wand & staff crafting, before wishing her good luck in Oceana.
As she ran around, Kiana was waiting for either of the traitors to make their appearance, but they had yet to show. Kiana knew it would only be a matter of time before they showed.
And when they did she would be ready.
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Day 12
Kiana was standing on the deck of The Dawn's Phoenix when she was greeted by the Twins, who were accompanied by Ginny, Bill, Bill's 4-year-old daughter, Victoire, and Charlie.
"Hey, Kiana." Fred.
"We have a few,"
"People who would,"
"Like to come."
Kiana looked at the twins, before turning to the other Weasleys.
"I take it Fred and George told you?" She said calmly with a neutral expression.
Bill nodded. "They told us everything."
"Kiana," Charlie said, looking her in the eye. "We swear on our magic that none of us knew what Molly or Ronald had done to you, had we known we would've done something."
Kiana noted that Charlie called his mother and brother by their names.
As one the three raised their wands and said Lumos, immediately all three wands lit up.
Kiana relaxed slightly and nodded.
"Now," She said after they had said Nox. "Why do you want to come?"
"You're my first friend at Hogwarts." Ginny said. "You didn't care that I had been sorted into Slytherin because of that diary. You, Neville, Luna, Fred and George were the only ones who saw me as me. You didn't leave me like they did. I see you as my big sister."
Kiana understood what Ginny was trying to say.
In her second year, Ginny's first year, thanks to a Horcrux, Ginny had been sorted into Slytherin. Ron had been disgusted when Ginny had been placed with the snakes. He from then on belittled her every time they ran into each other in the hall. Ginny had been absolutely miserable as she had to deal with both the bullying of her own house, a house she didn't even belong in, and from her own brother who was in the house she was supposed to be in. The only ones who had stayed by her side, were the twins, Neville, Luna and Kiana. When Ginny had been taken down to the Chamber, it was Kiana and the twins who saved her. When it was discovered that Ginny had been possessed by a dark item, thanks to a certain Malfoy, Ronald could've cared less. To make it even worse, Ronald had told Molly. The woman's reaction to the news was even worse than Ronald's had been and it was only thanks to Arthur that Ginny didn't get disowned. After the war had ended, Ginny had moved out of the Burrow to go stay with Bill.
Kiana gave Ginny warm smile, then she looked at the eldest two Weasleys.
"It hurts too much to stay here." Bill said as he held his daughter. "I want to have a new start where I can raise my daughter."
During the second war, Bill had married Fleur and had Victoire a couple months later before Kiana, Ron and Hermione had showed up after rescuing Neville, Luna, Dean Thomas and Olivander from Malfoy Manor. Unfortunately, Fleur had been killed during the final battle, leaving Bill to raise his daughter alone. Ginny had helped as much as she could after she moved in, but even she could not help heal her brother's pain.
"I'm not letting my family leave without me." Said Charlie. "Ginny, Bill, the Twins and I have change our last names to Prewitt. We have nothing in common with those bastards."
Kiana blinked. "I thought Molly had been disowned from the Prewitt line."
"She was." Bill said. "But Uncle Gideon and Uncle Fabian hadn't disowned her children."
Ah, that makes sense. Kiana thought as she smiled. "I'd be happy to have you guys come."
The three relaxed and smiled warmly at her.
"Have the twins give you a tour of the ship." She said. "After that you can pick which rooms you want to stay in. Bill, I can have your room expanded to include a room for Victoire. I have my quarters expended to include rooms for my kids."
"Thank you, Kiana." Bill said.
"Don't worry about it, you guys are part of my family." Kiana said. "Fred, George mind giving them a tour?"
"We would love to," Fred started.
"Give a tour of the ship," George continued.
"To our new nakama." They finished together.
"What's nakama?" Charlie asked.
Kiana smiled. "Nakama means people who are considered closer than family. A pirate Captain I met when I was younger, told me that he considers his crew nakama. It was that Captain who got me wanting to become the Queen of Pirates."
Seeing their confused looks, she laughed.
"I'll explain later." She said and watched as the Twins escorted them below deck.
"Dobby?" She called and Dobby appeared with a pop. "How are we doing?"
"Wes doin good, Mistress Kiana." Dobby said energetically. "Wesa be ready by tomorrow."
"Thanks Dobby." Kiana said, then she frowned. "What happened to just calling me Kiana?"
Dobby just smiled innocently, before vanishing with a pop.
Kiana groaned and shook her head.
Maybe I can get the elves to call me Captain instead of Mistress. She thought.
Then she looked towards the sea with longing.
Two more days and I'll be home.
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Day 14
Kiana sighed as she finished the ancient rune circle that was to be the portal into Oceana once she started the Ritual. The others were waiting a few yards away, waiting for her to finish. Everything had been placed on board The Dawn's Phoenix which was shrunk and placed into the moleskin bag Kiana had tied around her ankle.
When she had started to make the rune circle, Bill had offered to help, but Kiana declined as the ritual required her magic. Each individual rune had to be tied to her magic signature in order for the circle to work.
It had taken her nearly two hours to draw the runes with her magic and when she finished, the circle was big enough to include everyone who was coming.
She looked down at the circle and nodded with satisfaction.
"It's done!" Kiana called out.
"What do you need us to do?" Bill asked after they gathered near the circle waiting for her instructions.
"Everyone needs to stand inside the inner circle, I take the center."
Everyone did as instructed. Once everyone was ready and Kiana was in the center, she allowed her magic to flow into the runes, activating the circle.
Kiana pictured the place she wanted to take them and began to chant the spell. The circle hummed with magic as its runes turned white. Everyone in the circle had to close their eyes less they became blinded by the light, but other than that they were fine.
Ignoring the feeling of having her magic being heavily drained and the sweat falling down her face, Kiana closed her eyes and finished chanting the last of the spell.
As soon as the last word left her mouth the circle flared sharply. The last thing everyone saw before everything vanished was the surrounding forest, then darkness.
