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(AN: I am sorry for the long wait, but this chapter really gave me lots of trouble. Plus my studies were taking up a lot of my spare time so that I could just finish it. I hope that the next chapter will come within the month before I need to resume my studies. I will try and upload as fast as possible. Until than R&R please.)
Chapter 5: Past, Present and Future
1976
"Severus, why is Richard Marwick still here?" asked the deadly quiet voice of Lord Voldemort one of his most trusted servants.
"My Lord I heard that he needed to prepare certain things for your mission." Severus Snape answered his master.
"My Lord." A new equally deadly and quiet voice spoke up after entering the room.
"Ah Richard. Severus leave us alone."
"As you wish my Lord."
The two wizards waited for Severus Snape to retreat from the room before Lord Voldemort flicked his wand and sealed this room from entrance or surveillance.
"So tell me Richard why did you not follow my orders?"
"My Lord you should know by now that I always follow your orders and I will follow this one however I find running head first into such an important mission might be foolish. Yet I can assure you my Lord that I will set out tomorrow at noon and make my way to Avon to find him. We will return when his training is finished. Should you need us we shall come earlier and if we return and you are still fighting we will gladly join your side again my Master."
"Very well Richard. Prepare for your mission."
With that Richard Marwick left and broke Lord Voldemort's spells. Outside the main chamber Malfoy and the others of Voldemort's "inner circle" were waiting.
I wonder why Lord Voldemort keeps up with those fools. Malfoy, Grabe, Goyle and the rest of them are useless. They are not even magically powerful. Only Bellatrix and Severus are good to keep around. But hey I won't have to see them anymore. Tomorrow I will be going to Avon to find Daimion War. Once I find him I will train him. If what Lord Voldemort said is true than he could very well be more powerful than him and me together. Else he wouldn't send me his 2nd in command the only man besides Dumbledore who could battle him to a draw, to fetch some Halfblood child. If our intelligence is correct this child can at the young age of 7 already use the most simple spells. His father trained him good, too bad some American Catcher had to kill him only because he was a Dark Wizard. Same here in England with all those Aurors swooping all over the place. We might have had an ally to help gain followers overseas. Now Daimion lives with his muggle mother who keeps him locked up and constantly harasses him for being magical and different. He will become a strong wizard and a good help to the Dark Lords reign and ideas. Richard thought to himself while he went to finish his preparations for his trip.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Richard Marwick." Lucius Malfoy sneered.
"Yes Lucius it is me. No get out of my way because I am in a hurry to go on a mission from the Dark Lord himself."
"So the rumors are true. You failed the Dark Lord and he sends you away on some stupid mission. Too bad you are such a failure to the Dark Lord. Well looks like I will finally receive the attention I deserve."
Without answering Lucius assumption Richard went on his way to get to his mission quickly and find Daimion War.
1 week later
Richard Marwick has been on his mission for 1 week and finally found the boy again. The American Ministry took him in and gave him away to foster parents so that it was harder to get to him, however the Americans didn't think that Lord Voldemorts best Lieutenant was tracking this boy. The duel over the boy lasted only seconds before 2 dead bodies hit the floor and Richard took Daimion away from his foster home. Being a powerful and intelligent Wizard, Richard planted a decoy boy that was transfigured to look like Daimion with his foster parents and set their house on fire making it look like an accident killed the happy little family.
"Now Daimion, I have been looking for you for quite some time now."
"W-W-What do you want?"
"I want to offer you the chance to exercise revenge for the murder of your father. Your father died for his ideas. His right ideas. Muggles are useless and should not rule this planet. With us at the top we could shape this world to be a better place. Those with magic, especially Purebloods are the ones that were destined to rule the world. But thieves stole pureblood magic and created mudbloods. Bu you already know all of that. You father taught you well because he was killed in a sneak attack. Don't you want revenge?"
"Yes I do. I want to kill those bastards that took my dad from me!"
"Very well than I shall train you and when you are old enough you will meet my master. Lord Voldemort, The Dark Lord who must not be named. From now on you will follow my orders as if I were your dad. I will teach you in magic, history and strategy and when we are finished you can have the revenge you deserve and no one will stand in your way, the Dark Lord will make sure of that."
"Very well master. I will follow your orders."
1981
"Master how can the Dark Lord be gone and killed by a mere child? A halfblood at that?"
"I don't know Daimion but what I do know is that the Dark Lord is not dead for he cannot be killed. Do you see my Dark Mark? It is still visible, pale but visible and that means that the Dark Lord is out there and just biding his time. So we must continue Training for when he returns to power he will need us by his side. Now focus! For the unforgivable curses to be effective you need to really want it. You need to accept the rage and bloodlust as you did 2 years ago when you killed the wizard that tried to fool you."
"Yes master."
1984
"P-P-P-Pl-Please show mercy I am unharmed. I have a family, a little boy of 7 years and a loving wife. I beg you I will give you everything." Donald Sungast begged the cloaked figure in front of him.
"Pathetic. You are a worthless being and a disgrace for the wizard race. You mudblood and your foolish friends over there left me with no other option but to kill you." The cloaked figure said while pointing towards 3 other wizards and one witch who were already dead, killed by this stranger in the duel.
Donald Sungast was still trying to get his nerves back together. He couldn't believe what he just witnessed. Out of thin air this man apparated without the usual *plop* giving it away but rather without any sound at all. He surprised 5 highly trained Catchers, which in itself is unusual but than he also went and dueled them all at once and didn't hesitate to use to darkest and most sinister spells known to wizards.
"Please I beg you. I will do everything you want from me."
"Too bad because all I want is your death. But I will grant you a last favor. You can look me in the eyes when I kill you and maybe just maybe this will satisfy me enough to not go after your family."
The cloaked stranger proceeded to take off his mask slowly and watched with satisfaction as the mans eyes went wide in horror.
"Y-y-y-y-y-y-you a-a-a-a-a-are….."
"Yes I am Daimion War. Jonathan War's son and I am here revenge the murder of my father!"
"But you father was ev….." was all that was audible before the killing curse hit its target and the Donald Sungast hit the floor. Dead.
From the shadows another figure emerged.
"You have done exceptionally well Daimion. Now lets clean this mess up and get back to training."
"Yes Master." Was all that was said as both wizards used there wands to set a fire and stage another accident that unfortunately ended in the death of 5 American Catchers.
1996
"Daimion. It is time. The Dark Mark has returned last year and the Dark Lord has risen again. Now he is on the move and we will join him now. Your training is almost complete. There is not much more that I can teach you but the Dark Lord and I will come up with some plan for you."
"Very Well Master I am ready to meet the Dark Lord."
"Good grab this toothbrush I already turned it into a portkey. It will transport us right to my home in England from where we will start tracking the Dark Lord."
"Yes Master."
In the next second both men disappeared into thin air and reappeared in the small town of West Sussex, south of London.
"Daimion do you feel this?"
"Yes Master. A trap! Magic has been cast and alerted the authorities to our presence."
"STOP. You are under Arrest. What is your business here? This is the house of a convicted Death Eater!" a very formal looking man shrieked with his wand pointed at the two dark cloaked figures that just apparated. 2 more men and 1 woman made the group complete. All had the wands trained on Daimion and Richard but they were also unaware that both already had their wands in their hands and were already casting non verbal spells.
"I repeat. WHAT are you doing here? Surrender now or we will have to use for…"
"You have to use what? Force? You want to take us on than give it your best shot." Richard shouted and in a rapid succession Richard and Daimion disarmed and killed the 4 people that tried to arrest them.
"Fools, they thought they could stop us." Daimion and Richard laughed as they made their way outside and left in search for Lord Voldemort.
Within the day they found in one of his hideouts that was heavily guarded.
However that didn't bother Richard Marwick and Daimion War as they forcefully thrust through the defenses. For anybody else besides Lord Voldemort or Dumbledore this feat would have been a lot harder to achieve.
"Master it was almost too easy to break through."
"Yes Daimion but what we encountered wasn't the Dark Lords defenses. It was probably Malfoy or some such idiot setting up the defenses. However they will be on guard now so they might attack us as well so continue being vigilant. "Richard Marwick told pupil as they made their way forwards.
It was only a few steps later that 10 Death Eater started firing spells and curses at the two cloaked intruders and thus a Duel ensued for a few minutes which only left the 2 men standing before a the entrance of Severus Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange called a stop to the attack.
"Well well well. Look who we have here Severus. The lost son is returning with a pupil as it is."
"Indeed Bellatrix. Welcome back Richard. The Dark Lord eagerly awaited your return. I shall guide you. Bellatrix maybe you should wake up your dear husband and the other unfortunate ones." Severus lazily asked a seething Bellatrix Lestrange.
"And what gives you the right to Order me around Severus? I take orders only from the Dark Lord and…"
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Richard thundered and Bellatrix almost flinched while Severus remained unaffected by Richard's outburst.
"Do as he says Bellatrix and than continue the mission that the Dark Lord gave you or what ever. Severus lead the way."
"Why should I follow your orders Richard? Where were you these past years when our Master needed all the faithful servants he could get?"
"Bellatrix. I am still the second in command. No matter if you are his best Lieutenant I am his 2IC so I don't answer to you. I answer only to the Dark Lord and if he is not pleased with what I will tell him than that is my concern and NOT yours. Do you understand? You will need to learn your place again Bellatrix." Richard stated in a cold icy voice that made even Bellatrix shiver.
With that being said Severus turned and returned to where he came from all the while being followed by Daimion and Richard while Bellatrix had to cure the other Death Eaters.
The group of 3 arrived at a Dark Wooden door and Severus banged it once and entered after hearing the voice of his Lord.
"My Lord we have the Intruders. We fought them and only Bellatrix and I withstood there onslaught but it wasn't the Order or the Ministry who found us. It was Richard Marwick and his pupil." Severus Snape bowed to Lord Voldemort.
"Ahhhhhh, yes yes yes, very well. Severus leave us alone and tell Malfoy I will be having a word with him concerning his defenses."
"As you wish my Lord"
After Snape left the room Lord Voldemort and Richard Marwick once again sealed the room against any form of eavesdropping.
"Ahhhhh Richard. Long time no see. And this must be young Daimion." Voldemort said in a cold icy voice.
"Where have you been? Why didn't you bother searching for me?" Voldemort ice, cold stare now matched his voice.
"My Lord, I have been training Daimion so that he can help us return the rule of the world to us! We didn't search for you my Lord because when you didn't want to be found it would be a waste of valuable time. Besides we would have heard if you had been found or had risen like you did now." Richard calmly replied while looking Voldemort in the eyes.
"And why is it that just now the two of you have returned to my side? Why not before, when you felt the Dark Mark Richard?"
"My Lord, we spent the time training and getting ready for when you call upon us. As soon as you were mentioned to be in the open we made our way here. Before that it could have been a trap set by Dumbledore. He is powerful enough to do it if he wants and Daimion was not yet ready to face him. Now on the other hand I believe that only the two of us together can teach him more about the boundaries of magic."
"Very well. Daimion. Let us see what Richard has been teaching you these past years. Lets see if you are worthy of bearing my mark."
"Yes my Lord."
1997
"It has been a successful 2 years Daimion." Lord Voldemort said to a kneeing Daimion while Richard stood on his masters' right side.
"You achieved a power that other could only dream of. You are strong enough to grab what you desire. So now roam free! Experience the World. Travel. The British Ministry has already fallen. My Death Eaters are at Hogwarts and Harry Potter is as good as dead! No one will stop the three of us now. For now you are not needed here. When I need you I will call upon you again."
"Now rise Daimion War. Welcome to the ranks of the soon to be rulers of this planet!"
"Thank you my Lord. I shall make you proud my Lord. I will strike fear in your enemies and those who oppose our rule." Said Daimion as he went to stand on Lord Voldemorts left side before he and Richard dipped their heads and bid their farewell to experience the World and push the boundaries of magic even further.
While leaving Malfoy Manor they passed a group of 4 other Death Eaters consisting of Travers, Nott, Crabe and Goyle.
"Ah look the Intruders are finally leaving." Crabe sneered and all 4 shared a laugh before with a loud bang they were thrown backwards and knocked unconscious by Richard and Daimion.
"Master we should just eliminate these weaklings. They are nothing compared to us. Why does the Dark Lord even bother to surround himself with such filth?"
"Ah yes Daimion I quite agree but some of them are quite useful or at least used to be useful. Before his failure Lucius Malfoy for example was a well respected visitor in the Ministry. Someone who could gain inside information. Also why those fools are still around beats me. But who are we to question the Dark Lord. We will now make our leave and see if we can gain some information for the Dark Lord on which continent will be the next to fall."
"I hope the American one. It is as corrupt as this one and no one bothers to look into it."
"We will see. Now come on."
1998
"Master the Dark Mark is burning. The Dark Lord is summoning us. Finally someone who might put up a fight." Daimion stated, while is eyes glazed over in bloodlust.
For the past few month Richard and Daimion have been scouting the Asian Wizard population and killed a few of their officials and leaving behind some evidence to inform the people that Lord Voldemort will soon be coming to them as well.
During this time Daimion underwent drastic changes to further his power.
"Yes it is. Let's see if he wants us to come back." Richard said as procured a Two-Way Mirror.
"My Lord."
"Yes Richard"
"We felt the Dark Mark. Should we head back and assist you?"
"NOOOOOOO! I finally found Harry Potter and he is making a stand at Hogwarts so we are marching now. But I now have the Death Stick Richard. They will not stand a chance and with this Muggle-Loving fool out of the way there is no one who can oppose me and live to tell about it. Muhahahahaha!"
"Very Well my Lord. We will be awaiting your Orders. The Asian wizards and witches are preparing for you but now with the Death Stick in your hands it shouldn't be a problem. Once you crushed Britain and the boy who lived the world will come to realize that you are unstoppable my Lord." Richard said before Lord Voldemorts face disappeared.
"So Daimion we are staying here but soon we will move into the open and then you can challenge everyone you like."
"Yes Master I can't await the time when the three of us will be ruling the World."
"Yes that is a nice vision, which we will soon enact."
May 2nd 1998
"!" came the deafening roars of Richard and Daimion as they saw their Dark Mark disappear before their eyes. That could only mean one thing Lord Voldemort has been defeated by Harry Potter and his friends.
With a cold fury they started slashing the Magical Law Enforcement Officers of China as they tried to arrest the two. The 10 agents that have been tailing them for the past week in order to take them out never stood a chance against the combined powers of Richard and Daimion.
After ten dead bodies lay on the floor the two dark cloaked men disappeared to talk about the most recent development.
"Master. What do we do now? H-H-H-How is it possible that the Dark Lord lost against a mere child? How could he loose against anyone with the Death Stick? Isn't the Death Stick supposed to make the wielder invincible?
"I have no answers to your questions because I ask myself the same things. The only things I know is what the Dark Lord confided in me during your training. He told me about Harry Potter and his school records indicate that he is very powerful. He is the son of James and Lily Potter who the Dark Lord tried to convert himself. They were very talented. James especially was very skilled in dueling and gaining intelligence. Besides that, Albus Dumbledore taught the Potter boy himself. He was bound to be an extraordinarily powerful wizard to survive the first attempt on his life so many years ago. Besides he was able to evade our Death Eaters for most of the year since he started running. The only one to be able to this before was Albus Dumbledore."
"So what does this mean for us?"
"For now Daimion we need to calm down and be on the look out. They don't know about you and I am assumed dead because I left the Dark Lords side for the last part of the first war. We need to focus that it stays this way. We might be powerful enough to rival the Dark Lord and you might be stronger than even that but still we can't underestimate our opponents. They finished the Dark Lord so we need to be careful and see what time will bring for us."
"But Master shouldn't we take revenge? Gather the remaining Death Eaters and launch an assault?"
"NO. Now they will be expecting it. They will be extra vigilant because they will expect that some stupid Death Eaters or other Dark Wizards will make their move to get to the top. For now we need to step back and see how things go and whom we can trust and whom we will need to free. Severus and Bellatrix for example would be our main focus if they survived the battle. From there we will ne to see who we can free to gain our followers. We will need to start from scratch. But for now we should also head back to Europe to be closer to the actions. Drumstrang Institute always had a way of teaching the Dark Arts so that would be an excellent recruiting ground."
"But Mast…"
"No BUT'S. You will get your chance to aim for the Top Daimion but attacking head first is not always the best way especially when facing the unknown. We need to get more information on Potter and his friends. That was why the Dark Lord failed. He rushed into things and he was mostly right because he was so powerful but now the cards have changed and we are no longer in favor. I promise you Daimion you will get to revenge our fallen master but not just yet you are too valuable to be lost now. With lies the only hope for Wizards Supremacy that we all want."
"Very Well Master I will follow your orders. For now at lest."
"Good now lets get going we need to start gathering information and maybe even see if we can save some of our own at least those that are worth saving."
"Yes Master."
With a tiny *pop* the two cloaked men disapparated from their spot.
1998
"Master! Come fast you need to see this. New information on Potter and his friends have been revealed." Said Daimion after he returned from a reconnaissance mission. In the past few weeks they had learned that besides Voldemort, Severus and Bellatrix died as well and most of the other valuable Death Eaters like Dolohov and Rookwood were imprisoned in Azkaban.
So far they were only able to gather a handful of valuable and reliable people who share their ideals.
"What are those news Daimion?"
"Master I have just heard that Potter and his friends embarked on a SAR* mission to Australia to retrieve the parents of one of his friends. They were vastly successful. Not only did they track them down very fast but they also eliminated the Dark Wizard and his followers who tried to take over the Australian Ministry."
"That is indeed interesting. Potter is growing more and more accomplished the older he gets. Still I think after defeating the Dark Lord that some newbie in Australia wouldn't be a problem for him and his friends."
"I agree master. But still, as you said Potter is dangerous."
"Yes. We will need to see what the future holds for us and for Harry Potter and his friends. Was that all Daimion?"
"No master I also received word that Potter is going to be honored for his bravery during the war and for defeating the Dark Wizard is Australia."
"Very well. Your Information are as valuable as always Daimion. With each piece of Information that we gain we can come up with a plan to eliminate Potter and his friends. Once we killed them our opposition will crumble. As of right now they are the only ones holding together the instable new regime of Minister Shacklebolt and that wont change for some time. Dumbledore was the head of our opposition for years and only recently was Potter designed to become the new head so they wont be able to get back on their feet if we act soon."
"Yes master that was what I was thinking."
A few weeks later
Richard and Daimion were sitting together in their chamber when suddenly a very agitated Yaxley came storming in. Yaxley was the only valuable Death Eater to be rescued because he was believed to be killed by a stray Killing curse in the battle of Hogwarts and confounded the people who were searching for anyone that survived. After that he transformed one the dead bodies around him to look like him so that he could flee from Hogwarts. Later he was found by Richard and Daimion.
"Yes Yaxley what is it?" Daimion asked in the same cold voice that Voldemort always used when he was talking and Yaxley couldn't help but shudder at the presence of this young man.
"Masters I have just heard from the ceremony in which Harry Potter and his friends have been honored. All of the survivors of the Battle of Hogwarts are invited to become Aurors and several have already taken the Minister up on it including Potter and the blood traitor Weasley. Furthermore I gained that Potter and his friends will return to Hogwarts for their last year to finish their education before they become Aurors"
"Very impressive Yaxley and how exactly did you gather this information?" Daimion asked him while his cold piercing eyes looked right into Yaxleys.
"It comes in handy to be an unregistered Animagus as I can't very well walk the streets like you do. Besides the fact that I am a known Death Eater I am also presumed dead so I needed my other form." Sneered Yaxley
"That is good to know that you are still as valuable as you once were Yaxley….." was Daimion answer before he flicked his wrist and Yaxley was thrown against the wall and getting the air knocked out of him.
"…However you would do good to remember that you are not irreplaceable. I don't like it when people talk down to me. I am not the Dark Lord but soon enough I will be so you should try to stay in my good books because I am as unforgiving as the Dark Lord has been. Do you remember?"
"Yes master Daimion. I am sorry. I don't know what came over me I – I – I – I -…"
"Enough with the rambling already just get out of our sight" Richard bellowed and both he and Daimion watched in satisfaction as Yaxley dipped his head and bid his farewell.
"You did good Daimion. They need to know that we are the ones in charge. I think it is time that your training I officially over and you assumed your place by my side Daimion."
"Very well Richard."
"Good. So now that we gathered the information again I am almost certain that we need at least one maybe 2 others who will need to be trained by us. We need to find them fast and train them quickly but thoroughly."
"Why is that Richard?"
"Because the people always talk about the "Golden Trio" consisting of Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger but lately this term was transformed to include Harry Potter's girlfriend Ginerva Weasley, sister of Ronald Weasley. They were always seen together. The Golden Trio disappeared for most of the war and reappeared having eliminated all of the Dark Lords Horcruxes. Together they went to find Grangers parents in Australia. They always work together as a team but we always fight alone. So I figure if we can split them up and engage them one on one we will most certainly win."
"That is a brilliant observation and an even more brilliant plan. We should get going immediately to try and find ourselves some worthy apprentices."
"Yes Daimion we need to leave for now. Let's go."
*SAR mission = Search and Rescue Mission.