AN: Prompt: Rain.
Hope you all like it. I'm writing ch.3 as we speak. Endless love to Caz :D
After Gellert Grindelwald was put in the topmost cell of Nurmengard in Hungary for life, he had thought that his cursed key was kept safe, along with the dreadful Umgubular Slashkilter. Albus Dumbledore had promised him that he would keep the secret safe.
And the secret was kept safe in a rundown shack in Hungary. Dumbledore kept the secret of the cursed key and deadly creature in his mind until he was killed by my half-blood nephew. No one knew, and no one was the wiser.
Well except for one.
The young man that could trace his family roots on his mother's side all the way to Salazar Slytherin began to learn even more of the Dark Arts, and one of the many topics was: Inferi.
His name was Tom Marvolo Riddle and he started an army full of followers from Hogwarts School Witchcraft and Wizardy and then later added to his army many dark creatures. Now, he found out that Gellert Grindelwald wanted an army of Inferi, but had never accomplished it. And on his many travels, some people told Riddle that a key existed that locked a creature that could create something so much different from Inferi, but it was just a myth.
It didn't exist.
This young handsome man looked everywhere, and he was so close to finding the place where the Umgubular Slashkilter was with its intricately decorated golden key.
He gave up after some time, because he was able to create his army of Inferi. And he put them in a cave, in a lake guarding a –
Forgive me; again, I'm getting distracted.
But before this young man's downfall, something happened. Another man appeared in history. A political enemy of dear old Albus Dumbledore.
Someone who had envied him since the beginning.
Ever since the defeat of Grindelwald, Dumbledore was regarded as the most famous and talented wizard in history. A man, blinded by the importance he placed in blood purity like so many purebloods, was envious of Albus Dumbledore and decided to find some dirt on him.
I speak of Cornelius Fudge, who at the time was the Junior Minister in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. He thought that Dumbledore didn't deserve the honor of being heralded as the most talented wizard or even to be appointed Minister of Magic! After all, why would they give him the position if he had been a great friend of the enemy?
So, with the small power that he had at that time, he sent a man who worked in the Department of Mysteries, an Unspeakable, a Death Eater, a follower of the dark man, to investigate, to find some dirt on Albus Dumbledore. He couldn't be clean. There had to be something.
And there was something.
Augustus Rookwood found the old golden cursed key with exquisite designs hidden in a wooden box marked with the Deathly Hallows symbol. And with it he found the creature.
That day it was raining so hard that the Unspeakable had gotten lost and had found the old rundown abandoned shack. The rain hit him hard; it felt so cold and it almost burned. It was fate; it was meant to be; it wasn't coincidence. Augustus Rookwood was meant to find the cursed key alongside the Umgubular Slashkilter.
At first, he hadn't known that his lord, Lord Voldemort, wanted this key. He was ignorant of that fact, so he went back to Britain and contacted Cornelius.
Fudge was ecstatic; finally he had gotten something on Albus Dumbledore. Quickly and with many careful and thought out plans, Rookwood and the other Unspeakables transported the cursed key and the cage that held the infected creature.
One thing that Grindelwald hadn't thought to use was an anti-Apparition spell on his most prized items. He really thought no one would be so naïve to Apparate the cursed key and cage.
Lord Voldemort during this time had more power than Gellert Grindelwald had ever mustered and already had his Inferi army. Voldemort knew how to handle this army and he was powerful enough to control them. But he wasn't Grindelwald – he didn't know the true extent of the power. He was too ignorant, too full of himself, this young man.
His arrogance would one day cause his downfall.
He wanted more power. He was so hungry for it that when he heard rumors about something dangerous in the Department of Mysteries that linked to Gellert Grindelwald and somehow Albus Dumbledore, he had gotten an evil idea, causing a smirk that terrified his nearby followers.
It was time that Augustus Rookwood showed his loyalty to the Dark Lord. Augustus, who hadn't known the importance of the Umgubular Slashkilter, gave valuable information about the secrets of the Ministry. That man, that wizard, an Unspeakable, a Death Eater, Augustus Rookwood, would be the person responsible for the horrifying dark events that happened to Great Britain and the rest of the world.
"The key, my Lord, is hidden deep in the Department of Mysteries. It's old and golden, and it is in a wooden box with Grindelwald's sign on on it – "
The man that could trace his roots to Salazar Slytherin interrupted him, already knowing what it was. The myth was true. And he would have it, if it was the last thing he did.
Unfortunately or fortunately, like I said before, this man that called himself Lord Voldemort was too ignorant, too full of himself, too pompous and so a prophecy got in the way of his plan to retrieve the creature. This prophecy consumed him even more than the old cursed key. It was for the best, or the worst. You can be the judge of that.
And so, the old cursed golden key which opened the cage of the Umgubular Slashkilter was forgotten by the Dark Lord. And for a moment in time, humanity was safe, just for a little bit longer.
AN: Please review on your thoughts.