Chapter 17-Deadly Alliances
With the removal of Umbridge, came the reality of those within Slytherin house using her as a badge of immunity and the most effected was: the Inquisitorial Squad, all of whom now had to hand in their badges, especially after Draco Malfoy tried to use his now nonexistent power to give the Ravenclaw Head boy detention, only to discover that he has not got the ability to do so anymore and got points removed, as well as the detention he tried to impart on the head boy.
Outside the Slytherin though: the rest of Hogwarts move back into relative normality – well for some, as there were some that still believed in Dumbledore's honor and felt his death was unfair to the school, but with the final exams approaching no one moaned or complained publicly (not even Ron [though his moaning is normally because of the schoolwork]) and buckled down to study.
But outside of the school, across multiple safe houses owned by death eaters, whom celebrated the death of Dumbledore and what they believe was a win for blood purity, though within the Riddle manor: the current magical owner was destroying the decorations and the aftermath of his rampage was nothing short of a warzone with: dry wall revealed from the shredded wallpaper, shattered lights and eviscerated chairs.
After the carnage was over, the instigator simmered down to a little to think, 'With Dumbledore out of the way and once I deal with the Potters again, my ascension to being this worlds new God is assured,' going over his plans, before a thought crossed his mind, 'I just wish I had being the one to end Dumbledore,' before being knocked out of all thoughts as an iris of an orange portal opened before him.
Exiting the portal in Voldemort was: a colossal figure bearing a barbarian style armor and a samurai helmet, 'That is an odd combo.' After exiting the portal closed behind the figure and the man watched on in silence, as he extended his battle aura to show his power and to his amusement: Voldemorts face contorted into a grimace of rage and fear, then the figure opened his open his month.
Back in Hogwarts, Harry and his close friends had finished with their study session with several students from Gryffindor and was now heading to the Great Hall for lunch. Joining them were the first and second year students from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, as well as those from Gryffindor – well Ron was already in the hall after having quit studying 10 hours ago and was getting bored in the Gryffindor commonroom with the expectation of challenging someone to a chess match, but the commonroom was void of people.
With Ron getting bored in the commonroom, the rest of the magicals of the United Kingdom (as a whole [including Hogwarts]) were preparing to fight the death eaters or fleeing the country. As the defenders and the order, consolidated their forces, while assisting in the evacuation of the peace wishers and the Lin Kuei used the lull in death eater activity to train with the martial artist members of the Defenders. Now with the death eaters, their lord and savior announced, "My fellow truebloods, fortune smiles on us in a time of great opportunities," to the cheering, as he silences them with a glare and continues with, "with the help of our enemies allies enemy, we will deliver the world to it true natural order and take our place as its true leaders," before signaling to a shadow as a hulking man with immeasurable power flowing from.
"I am Shao Kahn," the hulking figure started, "From this day forth, this day will be known as the beginning of the purification wars," he continues, "From this day, you all will ascend to your rightful place, a leader," and he then finished with, "with the aid of my forces the world will be yours." As Shao Kahn completed his speech, numeras portals open around the Death Eaters and spewed out armies worth of ninjas wearing various shades of yellow (and green) clothing, several beings that looked like Eldridge demons and finally 2 four armed beings named: Goro and Sheeva.
In the temple of the Lin Kuei, Raiden was communing with others elder gods, whom tell him, "Shao Khan has found a new method for invading Earthrealm," states the god appearing before Raiden as a waterfall, Raiden while somewhat panicked on the inside asked calmly, "Suijin how is that possible?" "It is possible for him to invade any realm, if a warlord of the invading enters an alliance with him and Shao Kahn agrees to leave the realm for their ruling, the Mortal Kombat is not required," answered the other deity with the appearance of a wall of wind, this one known as: Fujin.
After communing with the elders, Raiden re-entered the meeting room of the temple and reported the alliance of Voldemort and Kahn to the defenders, as they knowing the threat, knew they would need to up their training and begin training the Order and Aurors to combat the threat, started to plan out their schedule. With the schedule mapped out and the all subjects covered, the defenders adjourned there meeting and called in the order of the phoenix, to discuss the coming threat and there future training, which had many of the magic reliant members incensed – not believing they would need a new method to fight their enemies.
In the office of Headmistress of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall was now in her office sieving threw resumes of potential teachers to fill her spot as: Transfiguration Professor (something she had to now that her position made her busier now than ever) and discovered many of the classes that were mandatory from the opening of the school; had being ignored by: Dumbledore, all of which had the notation of: [These subjects will make students to powerful for me to control in the long run.] or notes that stated [It is the job of the parents to teach their kids this and muggleborns wouldn't need this knowledge] the last one was for wizards ethics and customs – a course of lessons that outline the basics of how the wizarding works.
Realizing the work ahead of her, McGonagall called in her appointed Duty Headmistress: Aurora Sinistra and the Head teachers: Filius Flitwick, Pomona Sprout, Lily Evans Potter (Snapes replacement and Head of Gryffindor) and Septima Vector (New Head of Slytherin), before briefing them on the headache that awaits them.
