Alexander Acheron and the Child of Death
Chapter four And take this boat for a spin,
Mia was fuming because whenever she tried to confront Ace about the fact people didn't know who her father was or the fact her mother was a murderer, she knew this for a fact as she heard Lavender and Parvati bemoan the fact there was no good gossip about her aside from the fact she's distantly related to You know who! But isn't every pure blood?
This disturbed her because Ace had managed to find a copy of her birth certificate!
She didn't think that was even legal either! She could feel her magic react to her anger making her eyes glow a dark purple as she entered the courtyard where she saw Ace reading a book whilst watching Harry play gobstones with Neville and Theo it seemed he always seemed to know when someone wanted him.
Whilst Mia didn't know this, but Alex was a natural AromaPath meaning he could smell the emotions, presence, intent and even magic in the air this was a skill most Newt potions students could do to a basic degree and was essential for all potions masters, the skill was developed by learning about and brewing potions and practising alchemy as it allowed someone to Intuit what a potion did and if it was ready/if it has any side effects.
Ace looked up, gulped and said "yes?" Nervously as he knew what was coming, and yes he had been avoiding her for this exact reason, whilst he had long since mastered his poker face, he knew it would do no good against Mia, as she knew him very well and would be able to tell if he was switching his personality.
"Let's discuss this in private" Mia said glaring at him before grabbing him by the arm and dragging him away whilst the other three snickered.
After dragging him into a disused classroom and placing some basic silencing and privacy charms, She glared at him and said whilst glaring at him "Alexander James Ambrosius Acheron The Seventh!"
Alex cringed
Mia continued glaring at him before saying angrily "Why are you avoiding me! Why are you being so mysterious, why doesn't anyone know my father was Lord Voldemort! And just how did you acquire a copy of my birth certificate!?"
"I haven't been avoiding you I still hang out with you and I'm always mysterious" he said
"You've been avoiding me as much as you can considering we have the same friends and share five classes! And you didn't answer my other questions!"
Alex sighed before saying "No one knows your Voldemort's daughter, some do mind you but because you don't spend time with the death eater brats in Slytherin you don't hear there whisperers, the reason no one knows is because it was covered up by the headmaster and the previous minister." After seeing the look on Mia's face he continued.
"I believe it's because of your special abilities," he said mysteriously."
Mia looked surprised and said "what special abilities and you didn't answer my last question?" she questioned
Alexander's eyes the colour of fire sparked with an amused look, and he said in a raspy voice reminiscent of a very old school teacher "Alas some things are better left unanswered at least for now" at that Mia bopped him on the head and glared "oh alright I won't tell you yet through" at seeing her look he said "no matter how much you glare at me I won't tell you yet, and for the matter of how I got a copy of your birth certificate," he said looking her in the eyes before continuing "My Grandfather has quite a lot of mysterious contacts."
"What!-" she tried to ask about the contacts but realised she couldn't talk about them before her tongue loosened and she realised she could only talk to him about it with Ace.
She then asked, confused, "why can't I speak about it to anyone other than you."
Ace sighed and said "because it would either be useless or an invitation to your assassination and I don't want to be the ticket to your assassination Merope!" he snapped
Mia looked shocked both at his sharp tongue and how much he cared about her and decided to ask how so she said just that "How?"
"He has more secrets than you'd ever believe, and no you can't say or hint anything about that." He said whilst his burning eyes glaring into her own Sapphire ones.
Mia was suddenly surprised before asking "does anyone else know like Harry or Amy?"
"Yes I expected you'd ask, and I know you might not believe me, but you should know that you're the first and only person I've told."
finally breaking eye contact, but not before she could see a river of fire flowing past a small island reflecting in the inferno's inside his eye sockets.
Mia said "Alright friends again?"
Ace laughed, his eyes cooling down to a more electrical yellowish green before assuring her "Always."
They laughed as they walked out of the classroom and through the corridors making jokes to each other."
After that they separated when Ace said he had to go see Amy and that they were working on different rune configurations for a project for Professor Babbling to get some extra house points and as it was a very complicated project if they managed to complete it she would let them join her ancient runes class and the invite only curse breaking initiation club she ran, a year before they would be able to normally. (and perhaps even a year ahead in ancient runes)
"Well I've got to go see Amy," Ace said happily
"Of to go see your girlfriend" Mia teased
Ace snorted "And you're not off to go see your boyfriend?" Ace teased back
Mia blushed realising it wasn't worth it to tease Ace as it seemed Ace did not feel embarrassment.
"Well I've still got to go find My favourite Lovely Little Lapwing for our rune experiment, so bye My Favourite Cutely Candid Chimera." He waved at her before walking off leaving her embarrassed as he walked off towards either the astronomy tower or the library to go find Amy.
She decided to go meet Hermione in the library to prove Ace wrong that she was not in fact going to see Harry as Ace always teased them about them meeting up.
As she walked into the library where she was going to meet Hermione to practise the levitation charm and there she saw Ace talking to Amy whilst smiling and she overheard Ace say
"So that pool opened up a lot sooner than I thought it would."
"Yeah, are you gonna place a bet?" Amy asked Ace
Ace thought then said "Nah th-it won't happen until fourth year at the earliest." He adjusted after noticing she was there whilst she was listening in with a listening charm from the other side of the Room.
She wondered If they knew of the betting pool Ace's sister set up about Ace and Amy getting together, they constantly flirted, like Ace did with every girl below fourth year aside from his sister of course but Amy always giggled and blushed but she didn't object, (which would have made him stop because he only did it to entertain (and tease Amy, Harry and her)).
She also wondered why Ace constantly flirted other than to entertain. (of course) Mr Acheron was certainly not the person who taught him how to embarrass, how to trick, how to ensnare the senses and befuddle the mind.
No Mr Acheron was certainly an oddity, he was not someone who got his way through charm or subtly, but he seemed to use ruthlessness, connections and ultimately cruelty to get his way, although now that she thought of it Ace could certainly be cruel or even sadistic if he needed to be. And Ace knew more curses when he came to Hogwarts than most of the seventh years, so if he wanted to curse someone he knew how to make it hurt.
After she thought about that she walked over to Hermione who said
"Come here Mia we need to practise the levitation as Professor Flitwick hinted that we will be learning about it at the end of the month."
"Alright the incantation is Wingardium Leviosa pronounced Win(gar)dium Leviosa make the gar quite long here let me show you Wingardium Leviosa!" Mia said as she pointed her wand at her quill and made it float for a few seconds before it floated back down.
"Wingardium Leviosa" Hermione repeated making the quill float before it floated back down as she grinned.
2 days later the 7th of October
Amy was walking out of transfiguration with her friends it was the last class of the day aside from astronomy at midnight it had been a good day spending it with her friends her parents had sent her presents to the school Ace, Mia and Harry had gotten her presents Hermione, Nev and Theo hadn't gotten her anything, mainly because they hadn't had the time to get anything.
When she went to walk to the library to continue her research on flame resistant runes she was blocked by Neville.
"No no birthday girl we need to bring you to your party" he said as Mia and Hermione grabbed her hands to drag her away from the library, before he took off ahead.
"Come on, do you have to drag me?" Amy said exasperatedly.
Mia and Hermione looked each other in the eyes before saying "Yes." at the exact same time.
Amy groaned
"Come on, we just want to let you have a wonderful birthday!" Hermione said
"Looks like we're nearly there." Mia said looking at an unused classroom "now you know that list of people we asked you for yesterday on the people who you would want to come to your birthday."
She did remember the list was short only including her friends alongside a few more friends called Susan Bones, Hannah Abbott, Minerva Prewett, (three nice Hufflepuff girls who sometimes studied with them) Katie Bell Sarah's best friend and one of the Gryffindor chasers 'oh yeah I need to ask Ace about the fact he flew in a Quidditch tournament and didn't tell us' she briefly thought.
She also briefly wondered about who the Gryffindor seeker was? Oliver Wood was keeping it secret but the rumours said it was either Sarah a second year called Cormac Mclaggen or a seventh year muggleborn named Alice Bluebee.
she thought back on the people on the list of people who she would want to come to her birthday, Justin Finch-Fletchley a nice Hufflepuff boy who joined the three Hufflepuff girls in the study sessions they joined, Terry Boot a cool Ravenclaw boy who loved quidditch but hated flying, Padma Patil a kind Ravenclaw girl who was the twin sister of Amy's roommate Parvati but was the much kinder and more studious twin, and Messers Gred and Forge Weasley
"Yes I remember" wondering if they had gotten them all here
Mia walked Forward and opened the door to an empty classroom before dragging Amy inside whilst everyone including Her and Hermione shouted.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!"
Amy smiled before going over and grabbing a slice of cake, before she started to eat she asked Ace "How did you get all this cake?"
Ace snorted before answering "The kitchens the house elves practically forced it on us as soon as we said it was your birthday."
After that they all chatted, partied and just laughed for an hour or two.
She did notice Hermione look sad for a second before she went over and said "next year we'll throw you a party Hermione don't worry about it."
24 days later Halloween morning
Halloween morning dawned bright and early, and Amy awoke to the delicious smell of baking pumpkin that somehow drifted up into the tower.
Deciding to go along with the holiday theme, Amy wore a bright orange headband and little pumpkin earring her mother had sent her the day before.
After throwing on her robes, she ran over to Hermione's bed and pounced on the still sleeping witch. "Wake up Hermione!" Amy sang.
"Happy Halloween!"
"Go away Amelia!" Hermione mumbled, pulling her covers up over her head. "Why are you up so early?"
"Because it's Halloween!" said Amy, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Come on, get out of bed! The sooner you get up, the sooner classes will go by, and the sooner the classes go by, the sooner it will be until the feast! Now get up!"
"Breakfast isn't for another hour!"
"Hermioneeeeeeeeeeeeee!" whined Amy, bouncing on the bed.
"Hermione, please get up so she'll stop!" groaned Mia from her own bed.
"Hermione, Hermione, Hermione, Hermione-"
"Amy, shut it!" said Lavender.
"Hermione!"
"Oh for God's sake! I'm up!" Hermione snapped, throwing her covers off and giving Amy the fiercest glare she could muster.
All this did was cause Amy to squeal with glee and jump off the bed.
"Good, now meet you downstairs in twenty minutes' Amy said brightly.
"It won't take me that long to get ready" Hermione grumbled as she shuffled out of bed. "But it'll take me that long to get Nev up going by your example," Amy said with a playful grin. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have one plant loving git to annoy."
Like Hermione, Nev was very annoyed with the early wake up call, and he threw a Chinese Chomping Cabbage at her and Mia 'alongside the other boys in his dorm' ran as Mia waited for her three Gryffindor best friends in the common room with a smile on her face despite the cabbage incident.
All throughout the day, the excitement for the evening feast kept building up for everyone in the school, and Amy found herself in a mostly good mood.
That mood increased when they got to their Charms class, where Professor Flitwick informed them that they would be learning how to make objects fly. Everyone was put into pairs, and while Mia was paired with Amy, Nev got together with Seamus Finnigan, and Ron was put together with Hermione. With the way they were glaring at each other, it was hard to tell which one was more angry with the arrangement. It was not too difficult, Mia got it on the first try because of her practice earlier in the month, which earned Professor Flitwick's praise and ten points to Gryffindor. While Mia helped Amy with the proper wand movement, succeeding in helping her cast it, Seamus had accidently set fire to his feather, and Nev had to put it out with his hat. Ron wasn't having much luck with his feather either, and was starting to get very frustrated. "Wingardium Leviosa! he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong" Hermione snapped at him. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long." "You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled impatiently. Hermione glared at Ron, then she rolled up the sleeves of her gown, flicked her wand, and said, "Wingardium Leviosa! Their feathers suddenly rose off the desk and hovered about four feet in the air, even higher than Mia or Amy's feathers had gone. "Oh, well done!" cried Professor Flitwick, clapping. 'Everyone see here, Miss Granger's the third one to have done it! Very good me dear, very well done." Ron glared even more at Hermione, and spent the rest of the class sulking. By the time the class ended, Mia, Amy and Hermione were still the only ones to have gotten the spell right with Nev's wand being the issue for him, "yes your grandmother said to contact her if the wand you were using wasn't working it seems the experiment on whether you could use your father's wand failed." Professor Flitwick told Neville
As everyone started packing their things and headed out into the corridor, Amy and Mia were going to walk over to Hermione.
"It's no wonder no one can stand her," he said. "She's a nightmare! I bet those friends she has are just using her!" They heard Ron talking to Dean and Seamus in front of them.
"Nightmare, honestly. I don't understand how those Slytherins can put up with her if they're not just using her." All at once, Hermione's smile instantly vanished and tears started welling up in her eyes and oozing down her cheeks. Mia's heart shattered at the look on her friend's face and in the next second, she clutched her books closer to her chest and hurried off down the corridor. Mia tried calling after her, but Hermione just kept going, disappearing into the crowd of students.
"'So?" said Ron, he didn't look even a bit uncomfortable. "She must've noticed she's got no real friends."
"How can you say that?!" said Mia loudly as she glared angrily at him.
"She has friends you you miscreant! Maybe if you actually swallowed your pride you would see that she's a sweet and caring person! How could you be so mean to her when she was just trying to help you? I swear Ronald, you're no better than Malfoy!"
Mia turned on her heel and stormed off down the corridor quickly being followed by Amy with Nev going off to inform the other three of their group and some other certain Gryffindors, as he wouldn't be able to follow Mia and Amy if Hermione was in a girl only area, leaving Dean Seamus and Ronald behind. People who had heard their argument quickly moved out of their way, not wanting to be in either of the infuriated girl's paths. Her blood was boiling, quickly rounded the corner and took off, hoping to find Hermione, but Hermione was nowhere to be found. Thinking she would be in their next class, Mia and Amy set off for Transfiguration before They were late. and their hands were clenched into fists at her side. They hoped they would find Hermione somewhere in the crowd. They searched for a Bit Hermione wasn't there either. In fact, Hermione didn't turn up for any of her classes for the rest of the day, and all three of them were starting to get extremely worried. She refused to speak to Ronald and kept glancing at the door every couple minutes, hoping Hermione would come in late. By the time dinner rolled around, Mia and Amy still hadn't seen her; they decided to drop off their things in Gryffindor tower, instead of going forward to the feast like she was earlier but they also saw Ronald Weasley break out in boils, his teeth enlarging, his eyes turning black and he started to convulse.
As soon as They dropped off their things in Gryffindor tower, instead of going down to the Great Hall, they set off on a search to find their friend. Hermione was more important than food any day. Mia and Amy searched high and low for Hermione on almost every floor, checking every classroom and peeking into every broom cupboard.
They had gone through four floors before she came to a girl's bathroom on the second floor corridor. When they looked inside, it appeared to be empty, but just as she was about to leave, they heard something that made them stop. They heard a sound a soft sniffling sound.
They walked into the bathroom and saw that one of the stall doors was shut, and she could see someone's feet on the ground. Mia moved closer and the sniffles continued and she stopped when she was right outside the door. "Hermione?" she said. She heard more sniffles from the other side of the door.
"M-Mia?"
"Hermione," Mia said softly. "Please come out."
"P-please Mia, j-just go."
"We're not going anywhere," said Amy. "If you're not going to come out, at least let us in."
There was silence for a moment, and then Mia heard the click of the lock being undone. In the next second, the door opened to reveal Hermione with puffy red eyes and tear stains on her cheeks.
"Oh Mione," Mia said softly. They both squeezed in the small space with Hermione, who shut the door behind them. Before they could even get a word out, Hermione flung herself at them, wrapping her arms around their necks and sobbed hard. Mia held her friend close and let her cry into her shoulder, rubbing her back soothingly. She wasn't exactly sure how long they stood there like that, but Mia didn't care. Hermione needed them right now, and they would give her all the time she needed. After a long while, Hermione's sobs finally subsided and she hiccupped softly. Pulling away from them, Hermione wiped her eyes. "Are you okay?" asked Amy. "I think so," said Hermione. "Mia, what's wrong with me?"
"There's nothing wrong with you, Hermione," Mia said. "Ronald was just being an absolute prat.
Don't listen to what he says. You are not a nightmare, you're so caring and smarter than everyone in our year put together. I mean what I said before Hermione, you're one of my best friends ever. And if no one else can see how special you are, then it's their loss." Hermione gave a weak smile at Mia's words, still rubbing at her eyes and hiccupping.
Mia smiled back at her and pulled a handkerchief from her pocket. "Come on, no stupid boy is worth crying over" said Mia as she handed the handkerchief to Hermione. "Let's go down and enjoy the feast okay? don't want to feel guilty for dragging you out of bed for nothing." Hermione let out a quiet giggle, and Mia felt happy that she got Hermione to laugh again. After about another minute in which Hermione collected herself, the girls stepped out of the bathroom stall, but before they could leave, a foul smell made them stop in their tracks. Mia took a whiff and nearly gagged as a revolting scent shot up her nostrils. She covered her nose and mouth with her hand, looking around for the source of that terrible stench.
At that moment, there was a loud bang from behind them and the girls whipped around. Mia heard Hermione gasp loudly, and she felt her heart stop and the blood draining from her face. They were staring up into the eyes of a huge, monstrous mountain troll. It stared down at them with its beady little eyes, cocking its tiny head to one side.
Its skin was a sickly grey and very lumpy, like the surface of a boulder. Short, stubby legs were somehow holding up the troll's gigantic body, its arms dragging behind it, a humongous club clutched in one of its hands. Mia, Amy and Hermione stood staring at it for a grand total of ten seconds before all three of them opened their mouths and screamed shrilly. The troll gave a loud grunt and then started walking towards them, waving its arms around and smashing the sinks off the walls. Mia quickly grabbed Hermione's arm and pulled her backwards seeing Amy do the same, trying to get out of the way of the charging troll. Then their backs suddenly hit the wall, and Mia saw that they had nowhere to go.
Fear gripped her in an iron fist and her body felt numb as the troll advanced on them.
Despite this, Mia moved in front of Hermione protectively, hoping the troll would go for just her so Hermione could run for it. Just then, they heard the sound of the bathroom door crashing open and three familiar voices shouting.
"Mia!"
"Amy!"
"Hermione!"
Mia jerked her head over to see Harry, Nev and Ace running into the bathroom, all looking pale and terrified. "Blast it!" Harry said desperately to Ace and Nev before he raised his wand and shouted alongside the others.
"Pyro Sempra Duo!" Harry said
"Wadi Wasi!" Ace said pointing at some pipes which started to fly at the troll with another flick of his wand they became three, three foot long knives.
"Impedimenta!" Neville shouted
When Harry's spell hit it in the arm its arm melted the molten remains of its arm melting it's leg its arm not regenerating.
(After all the twofold burning curse was the premier spell to kill a troll normally it would normally melt the troll's entire torso alongside everything above the legs as the single fold would just stop its regeneration for an hour and the triple fold would melt an entire band of trolls alongside putting a normal wizard into a magic induced coma even just for the minimum amount of magic required to conjure the effects).
When Ace's daggers hit the troll in the neck missing the head it roared and charged at them (which was when Harry's curse hit it) before being hit by Nevilles spell which did nothing to effect a rampaging troll.
Before the troll could reach them five spells were cast
"Pyro Sempra Duo!" Harry said but the spell missed
"Aresto Momentum Maxima!" Ace said but even that couldn't affect a rampaging troll he then remembered that 'a rampaging troll is immune to almost all spells trying to slow, stop or generally get it to stop moving anyway but physically'.
"Protego!" Neville, Amy and Mia said but with a single swing the troll shattered the overlapping shields before swinging it's club one armed at Harry once, twice Mia and Hermione screamed Ace realised this was the exact moment he saw the troll grunted before going for a third but being interrupted by Ace saying
"OBLITERO!!!"
The top half of the troll was obliterated with nothing but blood and its legs remained.
But Harry's black blood was pooling on the floor as Ace fainted from exhaustion right as Professor's McGonagall, Quirrell and Snape burst through the door with Neville fainting from exhaustion right after Ace.
"What happened here!" Professor McGonagall shouted seeing the dead corpses of a troll and the boy who lived and having heard the curse that obliterated the troll.
"Well we were looking for Hermione after she was insulted by Ronald Weasley right after charms and she ran off crying." Amy admitted
"Well that explains why you're here but what about these three?" The Professor questioned
"You'd have to ask them" Mia said
"We should take them to the hospital wing" Professor McGonagall said whilst Levitating Ace
Snape pointed his wand at Harry and muttered a string of medical spells "there is no point to bring Mr Potter to the hospital wing; he is dead." right after he said that the eyes of Harry's corpse started to glow black and the black blood splattered on the walls started to float back to Harry's corpse as his bones audibly snapped back into place and rejoined healing themselves before the life returned to his eyes before he laughed and laughed before fainting dead.
Everyone was shocked, Snape decided to levitate him as McGonagall said "For Ronald Weasley's actions minus one hundred and fifty points from Gryffindor and detention for the rest of a month
for bullying and causing severe damage to another student for Amelia Pines, Mia Slytherin and Neville Longbottom Ten points each to Gryffindor for helping a friend for Harry Potter twenty five points to Slytherin for Helping a friend and correctly applying of the double fold burning curse And for Alexander Acheron 40 points to Slytherin for helping a friend, correctly applying the launching jinx, the knife transfiguration spell and the obliterator curse." As they were walking to the hospital wing.
They didn't speak much that day as they were still too shocked and worried for their friends to say much.
What im reading
not much new but a hilarious one is Too Many Champions.
