Returning to the institute he decided to take Wanda and Kara on a date but as thanks for allowing him to stay with them, he gave the X-Men a scrying bowl.
The scrying bowl was something he had made a while ago when experimenting with Parselmagic, he used the runes for sight and distance in parsel tounge instead of normal runes to allow a person to find whatever they wanted to, and was not blocked by any non-parselmagic wards.
As he left for LA with Kara and Wanda (Wanda had wanted to visit for a while now), Ororo took a look at the bowl, seeing the symbol she dropped it in shock.
As Jean barely managed to catch it with her telekinesis, the others turned to Ororo.
"What was that!"
"The symbol… it is only ever used by Apophis!"
Joe, Wanda and Kara were resting and watching a movie in man's Chinese theatre.
"So Kara why did you let me join the union? I mean, it was up to you…" Asked Wanda.
"Simple," Kara responded, "The three of us are immortal if we chose to be… I won't age as long as I have sunlight, Joe won't age period, and well he is Death. and you can change your age whenever you want… if we didn't spice things up every now and again, lit would be very boring."
After that the date went fine, though the food was quite expensive.
it was the next afternoon that Joe was ripped from his nice peaceful day.
His zippo was buzzing, so he pulled it out and flipped it open. "Black here."
"Hi!" remarked the Professor, "I hope I didn't bother you but… the Engineer and I were talking and… wethinkthatitwouldbeagoodideatorebuildthecastle."
"What?" Joe asked. He understood the question but he night have misheard it.
"We want to rebuild the castle."
"Ok, though i'll be sending you a few thinks that I learned from my alternates." he responded.
and indeed he was in a room knee deep in shrunken tomes all filled with knowledge he learned from his other lives.
he had also experimented with a few of his powers, including the ones related to shapeshifting and Elemental Magic.
finally he used Alchemy to turn a summoned sheaf of paper into a large sheet of paper and a rock into a blueprint tube.
finally dumping the plans for a few things including a few potions he wanted made a couple different power sources, some new wards and a couple magical items. he put it into the tube and conjured a large trunk. he expanded the trunk and packed all the books in there.
sending it to the Architect, Professor, the Engineer and Henchgirl, he finally got to bed.
He woke up early the next day and used the Kaleidoscope to go back to Black Island, place the cornerstone, and anchor the wards.
At least the draconic wards got rid of the ruddy Australians.
A/N : the draconic wards are a reference to dragon child by dragen, though that can only be found on