DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter or anything to do with all of that, there is no profit in this it's just a bit of fun for everyone to enjoy.

WARNINGS: This is slash (male/male relationships) and Mpreg (male pregnancy) if you don't like either of these things then DON'T READ. Any flames because of either of those two things will be printed out and used for roasting marshmallows. Which taste yummy when toasted.

Thank you to Tiger of the Fire for beta reading this fic.

Well I hope you all like this chapter and sorry but you shall have to wait until the next one to find out what happens to Alastor and Harry in the little village of Dragmar.

Time Paradox

Chapter Fourteen: Acromantula and Basilisks

Harry walked over to where Alastor stood waiting for his partner. "Morning Ali." He smiled happily at his friend.

"You're in a perky mood aren't you?" Alastor said, shaking his head at the rather large grin that Harry was sporting.

"Why aren't you or did you not slee…See the beautiful and sweet Katrina," he teased as they started to walk to the apparition room inside the Auror headquarters. They were to log out so that the higher ups could keep track of their agents in case another went rogue. The last one that had started to change within the Auror division became the right hand man to the last Dark Lord Grindelwald, who had been killed by Dumbledore not long before Harry had shown up in the great hall.

"Careful Potter," he said in a serious tone, looking at the younger man walking beside him. Though his eyes showed what he really felt. Alastor Moody was in love with the sweet Katrina from Hufflepuff.

Harry laughed lightly and shook his head as they walked into the heavy warded and guarded room. They walked up to the desk. "Agent Potter-Riddle 258721, Harry J. Agent Moody 258246, Alastor. M. E. going to the Scottish wizard village of Dragmar on the Acromantula Mission, code A1771M29," he stated to the bored desk clerk.

"Mission A1771M29 and agents Potter-Riddle 258721 and Moody 258246 recorded," the young woman stated in a board monotone as she recorded and filed Harry's words.

"Thank you," Harry said gratefully to the desk clerk.

"Please step over to the dais and disapparate to your mission location," she said as she indicated the dais over to one side of the room.

They stepped over to the dais and pulled out their wands holding them across their shoulder saying the spell and with a crack they disappeared. A moment later they appeared in a rustic inn, the inn at the village of Dragmar.

Harry walked over to the desk. "Harry Potter-Riddle and Alastor Moody from the Auror division you have rooms for us?" He said to the elderly man standing there.

"Yes I do, you're in rooms seventeen and eighteen across the hall from one another. Hang on a moment and I'll get the lad to show you where they are," he said, smiling at them both as he then turned around and called out, "Garren!"

"Yes grandpa?" A youngish lad called back as he walked out of the back room.

"Come and show these two lads to their rooms, they are seventeen and eighteen. Okay laddie," he said, smiling and nodding at the two young ones.

Garren tilted his head and told the two to follow him. They walked up two flights o stair and along a rickety corridor. "Here you go sirs, hope you have a nice stay," he said as he left them be to settle down.

They nodded their heads and walked into their respected rooms. They unshrunk their belongings and put them away. A few minutes later a knock sounded on Harry's door. "Shall we start thinking of a plan to find out what is scaring the Acromantula to come into the village?" Alastor asked as he came into the room.

"Yes," he replied as he took out a map of the area. He pointed his wand at it and said a few words and dots of different colours appeared on the map.

"Is that where the sightings and the attack have happened?" he asked as he pointed to the dots that had appeared on the map.

"Yes the blue are the sightings and the red are the attacks that have killed and the green are the ones that haven't," Harry replied.

"Right, well most of the sightings have been near the way-school," he said, pointing to the school that young witches and wizards go before they go to one of the three schools of magic in Europe. There they learn what Muggle children would learn when they go to primary school.

"Yes but the attacks have been happening near the old temple." In reference to the old temple where wizards and witches once worshiped the old Protectors, they were worshiped to protect the people from the Faery Queen, who had taken a number of wizards and witches over the last millennia or so, though it did stop after a while. Now no one prayed at the temple and it had been neglected over the last few centuries.

"Why have they left the forest, is there something in there that has scared the Acromantula away from its habitat?" Alastor asked curiously.

"The only thing I know they would run from is a Basilisk," he said, remembering what Aragog had said to him when he was at school during his second year.

"Do you think one of them has set up a nest in the forest and drove the Acromantula out? How the hell do we control a Basilisks!" Alastor exclaimed his eyes wide.

"I'm a Parselmouth, so is Tom. I may be able to talk to it into moving. If not we may have to kill it. If it's female we may have no choice but to leave it and do something about the Acromantula only. The law states that we cannot disturb a nesting basilisk because they are so rare now. If it's male we may be able to get it going, same with the female as long as it is not nesting," Harry said as he rubbed his forehead in thought. "It may not even be a basilisk though it may be something else," he added as an afterthought.

"A Parselmouth? What's it like talking to a snake? I find them fascinating creatures," Alastor asked, looking at his friend.

"The first time I talked to a snake I never even knew I was talking in Parseltongue. I realized that I was talking in another language while in duelling club in my second year at my old school when everyone stared at me," he said, smiling slightly remembering some of the good times he had with his friends. He no longer missed them as much as he did when he first arrived.

"So shall we go to the forest first, the temple or the way-school?" he asked his friend, getting the young wizard to come out of his memories.

"I think we should look around the school first, try and find out what is driving them to go there first. The school is in more danger I would say. They children may find something that could get them killed or hurt. It may be where they hunt for food," Harry said as he got up and grabbed his more protective cloak. Alastor went quickly to his own room and grabbed his own cloak as well.

They locked their rooms and went out of the inn. They walked to the way-school that had just started. They entered the playground and walked around the building. They could see nothing that would attract the Acromantula to the school. They gave the building another look round to make sure. Nothing. The school was close to the forest. It may be the place where they enter the village. They would not attack anyone there at they hand no place to hide there food.

"Well I think this may be where they're coming into the village, and then they may go to the temple, as it is abandoned, so they have somewhere to hide. I think we should have a little look around there for a little bit," Alastor said as he and Harry left the way-school area.

They walked across the village square, the people that were out and about looked at them some with curiosity and others in relief as they realized what they were there for. They continued along the dirt roads, the village looking old and not changing over the years from when it was first built. They came across an overgrown dirt track. They walked up it and came across the temple.

They listened to the noises coming from inside the dilapidated building. They placed silencing spells on themselves and scent dissipating spells. They approached the temple more closely they looked into one of the low windows carefully trying to find out how many Acromantula there were. Thankfully for them the Acromantula never noticed the two wizards that were looking in at them.

Alastor and Harry were able to count a least sixteen fully-grown Acromantula and three younger ones. They then left the temple and went back to the inn. They went to Harry s room where the map was still laid out on the table. Harry wrote the number of Acromantula they were to deal with if they couldn't find out what was scaring them into to the village.

"Well I don't think we should go into the forest today it is starting to get dark as it is coming to winter; I think we should come up with something that may be able to get the Acromantula away from this area. If they start attacking we may have to kill them, as there are not many of this species left it would be a shame if we can't relocate them or get them back to there own habitat," Harry said as Alastor joined him at the table after ordering them both some food.

"I agree, it would be dangerous if there is a Basilisk in there. We could find other things as well on our travels. Wait until its light again. Around seven in the morning would be a good time to go. We will have an early start tomorrow. I think we should contact headquarters and tell them of what we have found and our suspicions about there being a Basilisk," Alastor said thoughtfully.

"We could go home earlier if things go well." Harry smiled happy at the thought of going home early and surprising Tom.

Their food arrived and they settled down to eat. They ate with small chitchat, Harry asking questions about Alastor's new girlfriend. Alastor asked about the orphanage and about the kids. Harry told him that things were great and they now had over sixty children living there with about twenty of them now going to Hogwarts. They were getting new children every few months, sometimes they would get muggleborns that were abandoned because their parents were frightened of them. It didn't happen often, thankfully.

"Well Ali want to play a game of chess, I could do with a laugh?" Harry asked as he went to the side table in the room and grabbed his chess set that Nick had given to him as a birthday present a few years ago to try and get Harry to improve his game along with a self help book. So Nick would have more of a challenge when they played each other.

"Well I have gotten better, Katrina has been teaching me and she is brilliant at the game. So prepare for a hard game." Alastor smiled at his friend as he brought the set back to the table which Alastor had just tidied up so they could play.

They played a few games, until dinner when they went over to the local pub. They sat and talked to some of the villagers about the attacks and their thoughts on what was happening. Sometimes the people that knew the village and the surrounding area would give them help on what may be causing the Acromantula to leave the forest. This time they didn't as people stopped going into the forest sometime ago after the first attack.

Harry stood up and went to the bar to get Alastor and himself a tankard of Meade. They finally decided to have some actual alcohol instead of sticking to the lighter drinks in case they found some information out. He put in his order and waited the few minutes it took the proprietor to fill up the two tankards. Handing over six Sickles and two Knuts he went back to the table where Alastor sat waiting for his friend to bring the drinks over.

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