By the way, the two presences Qwan sensed were NOT Holly, No1, Abbot, or Qweffer. I'll explain more when it comes up in the story.
12 Grimmald Place
Artemis's eyes went back into focus when Qwan left. The twins were looking at him expectantly.
"Well?" Fred asked.
"Did you connect with them?" George asked.
"Correct, though I fear a few of my friends may be in trouble." Artemis said. The twins were about to say something else when there was a resounding BANG from downstairs, followed by many voices.
"What the-?" Fred said. They all ran out the door and the twins ran downstairs. Artemis looked over the banister down the stairs to see cloaked people pointing sticks at the Order members and shouting incantations. The Order members were doing the same thing to the figures. It was an all-out battle. Artemis saw some people go down with blood pouring from various wounds.
"I hate my conscience." Artemis muttered to himself as he snuck unnoticed into the fray. He quickly made his way to one of the fallen people who happened to a young, pink haired woman with a heart shaped face. Hermione said her name was Tonks. Artemis kneeled on the floor next to her and firmly placed a hand on one of the gashes. She moaned.
"Heal," he breathed and little blue sparks scurried down his fingers. The gashes quickly knitted themselves together. Tonks' eyes widened in shock as she sat up and gingerly touched her skin where the gashes were.
"How…?" she asked. Artemis smiled.
"I need to heal others. You might want to get back to the fighting before someone knocks out both of us," he said. Tonks still looked confused but she nodded and dove back into the fray. Artemis made his way to another wounded when a beam of light hit his thigh.
Artemis was just aware of searing pain. He looked down to see a long gash right wear the light hit him. Little blue sparks quickly sowed the skin back together. Artemis looked up just in time to see one of the strangest things he would ever see.
It looked like the very fabric of space was twisting. A kind of swirl appeared in the air and imploded on itself. It seemed as though Artemis was the only one who noticed. Not for long…
The space ripped itself to show everyone in Artemis's room. All their eyes widened and they backed up in surprise. Two similar reactions happened to the spaces next to the current tear. One of them showed a scene with Artemis and Commander Root sitting at a table and Root seemed really irritated (as usual) and Artemis had his vampire smile. Both of them looked up at the sudden tear.
"Is this one of your negotiation tricks, fairy?" the Artemis in the tear asked.
"I was about to ask you the same question." Root said.
The third tear imploded to reveal what looked like a classroom. All the kids inside started staring. Four boys simultaneously got up and walked towards it.
"Erm, Moony? Do you have a clue what that is?" one of the boys asked. The one named Moony wordlessly shook his head.
By now almost everyone had turned to stare at the three portals. Some cloaked figures were sneak attacking.
"How…?" a man said. Artemis turned to him and quickly searched his memory. Ah ha! Hermione said he was Lupin.
Lupin was staring at the four boys. Harry in the portal to Artemis's world looked at it too. Almost all the adults were looking at it.
"Why am I seeing younger versions of my dead father and dead godfather?" Harry asked. The four boys sharply looked at him.
"None of us have had a son," one of them said.
"I'm a little more worried about seeing the deceased commander." Artemis said. Root reddened slightly.
"I'm perfectly alive, thank you other mud boy." Root said. The Artemis in the tear watched interestedly.
"How far in the future are you?" he asked.
"You know the answer. We can't tell you otherwise we'd endanger ourselves." Artemis in the present said. The four boys in the other tear cocked their heads.
"The future? How did that happen?" a particularly tired and scarred one asked. Artemis pursed his lips.
"A temporal time and space formula. Sadly I don't think I have the time to explain." Artemis said, pointing to a peculiar swirl of darkness forming right above the portals.
Everyone looked up, the darkness seemed to convulse and a cold, chilling voice echoed eerily from within.
"Get me out…" it rasped. There was a sudden flash of black light and the tears started convulsing.
"POTTER!" screamed one of the cloaked figures. She and many others dove into the tear leading to the other dimension before all three of them winked out of existence.
Something suddenly started constricting Artemis. It was strangling him, squeezing his throat until there was no room for air. He clutched his throat and fell to the ground. He felt himself turning blue as darkness etched his vision. He was only vaguely aware of frantic voices. Something was beckoning him, trying to lure him into the darkness. Trying to kill him. A flash of black light and an inhumane scream filled the air and Artemis knew no more.
A/N
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