Welcome back to my story and welcome, to your sixth year of this schoo- oh, no, wait that is Dumbledore's speech.
Welcome to Chapter 6, where you may or may not realize that Ginny didn't actually get the diary back in Diagon Alley. Didn't see that plot twist coming, did you dear reader?
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Ellie sighed, she wished she could go to Sirius this Christmas Holiday, Hermione had been called to go back by her parents in worry after they heard what had happened.
A few days after the Dueling Club another victim had been taken, Justin Finch-Fletchley, one of Ellie's Muggle-born classmates in Hufflepuff. After Ellie had found Miss Norris which had Argus Filch convinced she was the culprit, not to mention after Collin had been gotten not long after, alongside Sir Nicholas. The Ghost had been between Justin and whatever the monster had been and was found there by Peeves who, justifiably, panicked.
Rumors just got worse because Justin had been one of the believers of the "Elizabeth Potter-Slytherin" nonsense and the fact that Az could actually affect ghosts lent, in the minds of some, credence to it. There were also those who thought they were guilty, but were only using the whole Chamber of Secrets incident 50 years prior as a cover. When asked WHY they would do that, the best anyone could come up with what Ellie hating Muggles because of the Dursleys and them being aliens so why wouldn't they?
People obviously ignored that Ellie had been friendly with Collin, was best friends with Hermione, was friends with Myrtle, and had no real reason to attack anyone to begin with. Sadly, protestations to that effect were largely ignored by the paranoid who wanted to blame someone they heard suspected.
So, Ellie had redoubled her efforts in finding out if Malfoy was the culprit, or if any other Slytherin may have been involved. But, sadly, no luck so far.
Naturally, then the odd luck she had at times just had to hit her.
"You've been sneaking into our common room, haven't you Elizabeth Potter?" Ellie whirled around as, in the hallway after Potions, someone had addressed her.
There, she found a Slytherin second year, if she remembered right he was Blaise Zabini, who was not someone she had otherwise expected to approach her. "What gives you that impression?" She asked, cautious of his claim.
"I saw the flash of your portal, nearly every night near the entrance. You have some manner of invisibility cloak I suspect, so that explains your not being visible after. Am I right to assume you suspect Draco as the culprit then?" He asked and Ellie narrowed her eyes at him.
"And if I did? It isn't my fault if, as you claim, my non-human magical ability easily bypasses the entrance." Stated Ellie, suspicious of the boy, who smirked.
"Maybe, but the same goes for House Elves famously so it isn't all that amazing or shameful." Stated the boy, then his face schooled and he leveled a flat stare at her. "Now, I will offer you something, Potter. My family is of long and old blood and a child of gods like you stands in better graces with us Zabinis than a normal Blood-Traitor would, particularly due to your status as a Blood-Adopted non-human." Stated the boy and Ellie blinked, that wasn't a direction she had seen this conversation going, at all. Like, what in the hell?
"So… that means what?" She asked because why was he saying that?
"It is simple, I want you to stop going to our Common Room but I know I cannot force you and it would anger two powerful deities to report you I imagine. As such, I will do you a favor, in return for your next visit being the last unless allowed in, I will confront Draco personally, make him talk. I don't know if he is guilty or not, but I have my ways." Stated Blaise and Ellie frowned for a moment but…
"You're lucky Wakfu carries emotions and I can't sense anything indicating that you're lying, mister Zabini. Alright, you have a deal. But if this goes sideways and you betray me, well let me put it this way: If you're partway in a closing portal, you won't be thrown out one way or another but what is connecting the two parts won't be there anymore." Stated Ellie, then turned around and left, leaving just late enough to see Blaise go just a tiny bit green.
That night, Ellie went to Slytherin's common Room portal, outside of it she found Blaise who was alone. "I'm here, so, how are we gonna do this?" Asked Ellie and Blaise grunted before, with a stament of "Pureblood" leading her inside. He didn't exactly say anything more which was rude.
The Common Room was largely empty, Malfoy was one of the few Slytherins who had stayed over the holidays from what Ellie had observed, and his two Gorillas were two more of them. "Hey Zabini, have you heard? My father is planning to get Dumbledore removed soon, gross incompetence at "Containing" this wonderful event." Boasted Malfoy and Ellie had to restrain herself from blasting his ass.
She was undercover here, and yes she wouldn't tollerate this kind of talk, no matter her disagreements (as collossal as they were) with the headmaster, not to mention how he talked about what was happening at the school. He was sick in the head if she was asked her honest opinion.
"Oh? You believe your dad can pull that off? Pretty sure even at this point the Potters would sick their lawyer at your father." Stated Blaise conversationally, looking down at the young Malfoy heir in that typical "Hollier than Thou" look the Slytherin boy used on most people.
"As if I'm worried, what he gonna do? Accuse father of unleashing the Beast? I bet the Ministry will just arrest the big oaf like they did 50 years ago. Would've loved seeing his face when they snapped that stupid wand." Stated Malfoy with a huge grin on his face, completely unaware that Ellie was currently having a hard time NOT running over and strangling the little bastard.
"You sound like you know the culprit is actually competent. Maybe Potter pulls the same bs as last year when she stopped the Dark Lord returning, why not this time?" Suggested Blaise, still maintaining his snooty composure, talking down to Malfoy even though the self-proclaimed prince of the house didn't notice it.
"Hah! As if, she would never suspect a thing of who did it!" He crowed triumphantly and Ellie tensed up, was he gonna confess?
"Oh? What makes you so sure about that? You're not saying you know who is behind this?" Asked Blaise and Ellie had to give it to him, he was keeping it down-low on him suspecting Malfoy, not accusing, but digging.
"Obviously I know, I was the one father entrusted with the Dark Lord's artifact which is now making that Blood-Traitor perform her proper duties, serving her betters in cleansing this school!" Declared Malfoy triumphantly and Ellie's eyes widened, an artifact from Voldemort, which Malfoy had given to someone? A girl too for that matter.
"Oh? How did you smuggle some dark artifact to someone? Don't tell me you had a secret admirer or something." Asked Blaise and Ellie blanched at the very idea of such a thing.
"Hah, as if. Loony Loovey just can't keep her hands off of a mysterious magic diary when she finds it in her backpack. Just had to make my father's good-for-nothing House Elf Dobby drop it off in her backpack and boom! Just a few weeks later, attacks start. Heard the little freak mumbling about how the Nargles or whatever did it. Bet she's possessed by the spirit of Salazar Slytherin or something now, that would be poetic justice." Boasted Malfoy and Ellie was so close to start up another fight like during the duelling club.
But, she had other priorities, she had to find Luna.
Turning around she left, only noticed by Blaise who had noticed the door of the common room opening and closing but nobody paid any attention to it since it didn't just lead to the Common Room itself.
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"Ginny! Where is Luna!" Shouted Ellie, storming into the Gryffindor Common Room.
The young ginger looked up, a bit startled as it was in the middle of the night. "Huh? Luna? She went out I think?" Asked Ginny, with Ellie cursing. Naturally it wasn't unusual to see Luna leave this late into the night, girl was nice but also pretty weird at times. Which meant she needed to track her down.
"Okay, gotta head for Filch's office then, hope I can get her before she does that again." Grumbled Ellie as she spun around to leave again.
"Ellie what in the hell is going on?" Asked Az, coming up to the Eliatrope who was still wearing her Invisibility cloak, though she had it draped over her shoulders in reverse which meant it wasn't making her invisible.
"It is Luna, Malfoy gave her some cursed diary from Moldyshorts and that seems to be possessing her and using her to do the attacks." Explained Ellie and Az's eyes widened.
"Then why are you going to Filch? I doubt he will be much help." Asked Ron, coming down with Fred and George who had some odd stuff in their hands though Ellie didn't mind.
"Sirius told me, before we left, that if I ever needed to find some shortcuts or just want to get a good map of the school, I can find one in Filch's office, called the "Marauder's Map", apparently it was made by him, Remus, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew when they were in school." Explained Ellie, antsy to get moving but she knew that the best way to avoid trouble was not to leave them guessing or running after her.
"Wait, your dad was part of The Marauders?" And then George had to exclaim that.
"Huh? Uh, yeah? That's their old group name, back before Traitortail, aka Peter Pettigrew, turned against our adopted parents and framed Sirius." Answered Ellie, a bit taken out of the situation.
"What were the nicknames of the four Marauders?" Asked Fred, the twins looking rather… intense.
"Sirius was Padfoot, Pettigrew was Wormtail, Prongs was the nickname of our dad and Remus called himself Moony, why?" Asked Ellie and the two looked at one another, before prostrating themselves on the ground, which was not the reaction Ellie expected.
"Oh noble one we are honored with your knowledge!" Exclaimed the two while Ellie took a step back.
"Wait, what is going on?" Asked Ellie, freaking out just a little bit. She didn't have that much time!
"The Marauders have been our role-models for years! Ever since we found the holy artifact, the holiest of holies for all pranksters! Oh child of our noble predecessors, it is our honor to return it to the rightful heir!" Groused George as if speaking to a prince, or princess, who had returned from exile following her kingdom's fall.
"Uh, what?" Asked Ellie but at that point, Fred took out a folded piece of parchment, a large one at that and Ellie's eyes widened, as she could sense Wakfu she only felt in her dreams.
"Behold! The holy grail itself! The Marauder's Map!" Proclaimed the twins in unison as Fred handed her the Item, her eyes wide as saucers.
"You had it?!" Exclaimed Ellie and Az, their eyes nearly popping out.
"Yup, we got into a bit of trouble in our first year here, and while in Filch's office we found this little beauty. Took us a while to figure out how to activate it. Do you know?" Asked Fred Weasley, grinning at her and Ellie, taking the map, also grinned, it was after all an artifact of her (though adopted) father, so yes.
"I, Elizabeth Evergreen Potter, Solemnly Swear I am up to No Good." She announced, tapping the map which moments later, unfolded with a message appearing.
"Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP" Read the message and Ellie couldn't help but smile, though then her eyes caught on another message.
"Prongs also would like to know, who did he knock up little lass?" Ellie couldn't help the snort at that, because holy shit, the thing was apparently well programmed enough to make that, although not quite correct, assumption.
"That one's new, probably because you said your name first." Noted Fred and Ellie nodded, then with some work, she managed to find a function Sirius mentioned. Searching for a particular person.
And then she found it.
Luna Lovegood.
Second Floor Bathroom.
"Why is she in Myrtle's Bathroo-" Ellie's words stopped as Luna WALKED into what was definitely a faucet and disappeared moments later. "Shit!" She exclaimed, realization hitting her.
"Ellie? What is going on? Where is Luna?" Asked Ginny, scared for her friend.
"The entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, it was in the Second Floor Girl's Bathroom this whole time! Myrtle was probably killed when the heir 50 years ago was coming out of the damn thing!" Explained Ellie as she closed the map, thanking it for the information she had needed, and headed for the window.
"What are you gonna do then?" Asked Ron, looking a bit frantic.
"Going after her! I don't know what the damn book is trying to do, but I won't let this go on!" Explained Ellie angrily.
"We should inform the teachers! We don't know what the monster is so maybe it would be best to get backup." Interjected Hermione but Ellie shook her head.
"That takes too long, I'm going ahead, you guys get Professor McGonnagal and maybe Professor Dumbledore. But if they don't have a means not to look at something while seeing it, then me and Az are the best options." Stated Ellie, gritting her teeth because they were running low on time here!
"Wait, do you mean you know what is the monster?" Asked Hermione and Ellie really wanted to tell her off for holding her up, but there was more important things to do, and she knew Hermione couldn't help herself.
"Basilisk. I'm going now!" She exclaimed then jumped in the portal, Az following after her as they vanished out the window.
"Basi-? Oh shit she's right!" Exclaimed Fred, recognizing it in the silence of the room.
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Ellie zipped into the bathroom, her portal closing behind herself and Az as they found nothing out of the ordinary as Ellie rushed over to the sink.
"Its the one that never works, naturally something was wrong!" Exclaimed Ellie, looking over the piece of furniture, trying to find ANYTHING of note. Her Wakfu Vision was, naturally, useless in this endeavor as the magic saturating the walls was blocking it.
"Ellie? Is that you?" Ellie spun around, finding Myrtle had come out and Ellie felt her adrenaline still pumping.
"Yeah, sorry for the sudden entrance but we know where your murderer is! Malfoy gave Luna a diary his dad got from Moldyshorts and that diary is now controlling her to do all this! And this faucet here is the entrance she used to go to the Chamber of Secrets." Explained Ellie, her voice getting a bit shrill toward the end because she was panicking just a bit. How was she gonna do this?
"That's where I was looking when I died." Stated Myrtle, wincing as she realized the implication. "But how will you get in? I doubt you know the passphrase." Stated Myrtle and Ellie frowned. The Marauder's Map couldn't help, it didn't have this passage on it obviously.
"Wait, can you phase through the floor and check Myrtle? If there is a passage we could bypass it." Stated Ellie, having a friendly ghost on hand would be fantastic.
"It is worth a try, I'll do it!" Proclaimed the ghost and shot into the floor, vanishing for a few seconds, then come back up. "Alright, got it! There is a huge pipe at a steep angled slope going down. No idea how it is there but it is big enough for a human to slide through. I think it also has some enchantment for helping you climb back up? Not sure." Explained Myrtle and Ellie nodded, then went to where Myrtle indicated and pushed one portal through.
She opened a second portal, sticking her head through and saw a dark interior. Getting back out she nodded. "Alright, you ready Az?" Asked Ellie, turning to her twin who nodded.
"I was born ready Ellie, this time you're not the only one facing the big-bad." Stated Az, her eyes blazing.
"Lets do this!" Declared Ellie and the twins jumped through the portal, with it closing behind them.
The pipe was quite large indeed, would probably a lot tighter for an adult, but Ellie and Az were small. They slid along for several seconds until they come out of the pipe at the bottom with Ellie first, jumping out of the way for Az not to slide into her. "Lumos." Incanted Ellie with her wand, illuminating the room around them. It was rather large and dingy, lots of rat skeletons were on the floor and to the side there was a 20 or 30 feet snake skin.
"Damn, that is one big snake." Commented Ellie, looking at the Basilisk hide. It was only shed, and rather fresh looking so it likely wasn't much larger than that.
"1000 years old and still the size of a Boa." Az naturally gave her own opinion. She had a bit of a… superiority complex toward other magical reptiles. Only ones Ellie had heard her compliment or speak of respectfully were their brothers and sisters among the Eliatrope Dragons and Primordial Dragons, and that was because they were of divine ancestry like them.
"Lets get going, I want to deal with this Diary as soon as possible." Stated Ellie darkly as the two followed the path through the hall. There were numerous large pipes all over the place, indicating that it was connected to the rest of the castle. It would explain how the Basilisk could come out and vanish all the time, including the one time Ellie saw a glimpse of its Wakfu.
After a while of walking they come to a large set of double doors, closed with snake engravings. "Talk about bombastic, I thought nobody was meant to see this." Commented Az, looking all over the thing. It was comically ornate if Ellie was honest, way more than the passage.
"Well, lets get this over with, we pass through with my portals. Closed eyes, Wakfu vision, got it?" Asked Ellie and Az nodded, with Ellie throwing out a portal through the door and another through which the twins jumped.
On the other side they could see, through their Wakfu vision, a huge chamber with a magical statue at the far side. There was also a figure, but while it was Luna's Wakfu it was intermixed with another, one both sisters recognized. "Oh great, there is another phylactery." Muttered Ellie, it was the same Wakfu as that cup.
"Well well well, look at who we have here, if it isn't this little brat's beloved Crumplehorned Snorkacks." Sneered a voice, a distorted form of Luna's though with the voice a boy interlaced, not the one Ellie had heard from the Dark Lord she confronted or the one he had before being blown up by his own spell.
"Well well well, if it isn't Fart Lord Moldyshorts." Retorted Ellie in return and felt satisfaction on the spluttering intermixed with uncontrollable giggling, it sounded like Luna was still not entirely under his control, that was good.
"How dare you talk about the greatest wizard of all time like that? My future self-" Began the possessed girl, but Az laughed at that.
"Greatest wizard of all time? You kidding me? He's just a third rate Lich with a fourth rate magical skill level. One who apparently kept a diary of all things, how girly is that?" Asked Az with a huge grin as Ellie high-fived her sister for the burn. Getting in barbs like this on this guy, even if he was likely just a fragment of the guy's soul? That was therapeutic if she was asked.
"Why you little bitch!" Shouted the piece of shit occupying Luna's body.
"Ironic you would say that, you're the one possessing the body of a younger girl. So, why not go and do the usual evil villain stick, try monologuing us to death, has a higher chance to work than fighting us." Stated Ellie, crossing her arms and not event trying to pretend she saw the possessed child as a threat.
"You call me the villain? You are the ones who contaminate our blood! You Blood-Traitors allow this Mudblood filth to walk the hallowed halls of Hogwarts!" Shouted Moldyshorts with the mouth of Luna and Ellie scowled.
"Seriously? You think the blood of Muggle-born is harmful for wizard society, or are you just that delusional to think change is bad. Because the only thing Muggle-born not being ostracized can do is bring change. Not to mention it was you in your later years who brought extinction to various "Pureblood" families, was it not? It was a curse by your older self which rendered James Potter sterile, it was your older self who ended the last member of the Potter bloodline, leaving his Blood-Adopted daughters. Doesn't sound like your policies did any good for the "Purebloods" at all." Stated Ellie, not at all convinced as she heard stomping, was he throwing a tantrum? Wow.
"Enough of your mockery! Great Beast of Slytherin, kill them!" Ordered Moldyna and Ellie took a second to realize that the last bit sounded kind of like… hissing? What the he-
"Dodge!" Shouted Az, jumping on Ellie and pushing her aside, avoiding a snake that come out of nowhere.
Roughly 22 feet long, this serpent's Wakfu was saturated with the Wakfu of Voldemort and Ellie could hear a female voice, the same she had heard before Miss Norris was attacked. "Kill, Maim, Enemies in the Castle!" Hissed the creature as Ellie and Az jumped aside from another lunge.
"Oh great, I can understand Snakes." Grumbled Ellie as she jumped through a portal avoiding another attack. "Sorry miss Basilisk, gotta end this." Stated Ellie and, with a flick of her wrist, sent a portal in the path of the snake and another behind her and then, as the snake was halfway through with its head, closed the first portal.
Ellie was a bit stunned when the Wakfu just dissipated instantly, the smell of sulphur emanating from around her and she some odd sound coming too. "No! What did you do!? How did you turn it to dust?!" Exclaimed Moldyluna as Ellie opened her eyes and, sure enough, nothing was left where the portals had been, only golden dust.
Turning around she saw what looked like a rather thin sword with a bone-like appearance almost, like a sharpened fang. It was only a foot long but considering Ellie wasn't all that tall, that didn't mean much. Picking it up, Ellie wasn't sure what to think about it, but turned to Luna's body, who Az had restrained by now.
"Well, no idea why your great beast combusted on death, but I take it. Now, onto dealing with you." Stated Ellie, approaching the book on the floor which had fallen there.
"Ha! You can't do anything to me! A Horcrux is indestructible!" Declared the now self-proclaimed Horcrux as Ellie stood over the Item he was likely still tied to.
"Yeah, your information is a bit out of date. You're the second thing I found so far, and little info: My portals open holes from one point to another, if they close on you? The connection is gone and you're in two places. No defense works." Stated Ellie, which silenced Moldyluna in horror as she picked up the diary, opening a portal above it and sliding it in.
"No! Stop it!" Shouted Moldyluna, Luna's eyes were glowing a sickly green for anyone wondering, but Ellie didn't care for his protests.
"Sorry, I don't listen to little bitches." Stated Ellie, closing the portal shut at which point Luna let loose a scream which lost the tone of Moldyshort's voice until it was just her own and she collapsed, coughing. Walking over Ellie knelt down next to her, smiling. "Hey Luna, you alright now?" Asked Ellie petting the girl who nodded.
"Y- yes. I am sorry, I didn't know mister Riddle was an evil super Nargle." Stated Luna and Ellie shelved asking what exactly the definition of "Nargle" was to begin with as she helped Luna up.
"Don't worry about it, at least we got his sorry ass removed. And hey, I got a nice souve-" Ellie stopped, as the sword suddenly glowed and shrunk, reshaping itself into a silver ring with an Emerald embedded in it. "Okay, nifty magic trick." She commented, then shook her head as she helped Luna out of the chamber only to run into Professor Dumbledore after passing through a portal.
"I see you solved the issue." Stated the old man, a crimson bird perched on his shoulder as he rubbed his temples.
"Yup, in our defense he was probably gonna attack another student." Stated Ellie as she let the old man come over to Luna. She also noticed Professor McGonnagal had arrived, and Az explained the vomit when asked why Luna had vomited.
"He?" Asked the Transfiguration professor.
"Fart Dork Moldyshorts, Malfoy gave her his childhood diary I think. Thing had a piece of his soul, a pretty big one at that, inside of it. Though Luna called him "Mister Riddle" for some reason." Stated Ellie, shaking her head at that.
"Tom Marvolo Riddle, that was his birth name." Stated Dumbledore, shaking his head. "What happened to the Monster? Miss Granger said it was a Basilisk according to you." He asked, pulling out a potion he gave to Luna which seemed to make her perk up a bit.
"Killed it, same way I killed this "Horcrux" as Moldyshorts called it, by portal cut." Stated Ellie with a shrug before yawning. "Can we get back to the dorms? I haven't slept yet and I need to get in contact with mister Gravehook tomorrow to file another lawsuit." Stated Ellie and got weird looks from the professors. "Not against you, against the Ministry of Magic, again. Need to get the unlawful sentence against Haggrid revoked so he can get his wand privileges back." Explained Ellie and Dumbledore blinked, then nodded.
"You know what? I support that. I haven't had evidence so far but I assume you will submit your own memories?" He asked and Ellie grinned, he was learning and hey, they were on the same side that was good.
"Obviously, mind if I extract them at your office? You got one of those Pensive things right?" Asked Ellie and he nodded, extracting the memory as early as possible would prevent any contamination, which was good.
With that, Ellie learned of another form of instantaneous travel: Phoenix Flaming, because that bird was a phoenix, named Fawkes. Dumbledore did confess he had been in the latter stages of his reincarnation cycle when she ran away, thus why he didn't teleport to where she would land in the end back then.
She gave the phoenix lots of scratches in thanks for him being unable to do that, to the amusement of those around.
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A lot happened the following few weeks.
With solid evidence, Haggrid was acquitted of all charges and rather than facing another ICM trial, his rights to a wand were restored and he was allowed to resume his education on the side of his normal job. Haggrid outright cried in joy, but Ellie wasn't new to that. Additionally Tom Riddle's reward for his "Heroic Deed" was revoked and all official records had his name expunged and replaced with "Fart Dork Moldyshorts" instead.
As for Lucius Malfoy, he was put in jail for his crimes, the confession from Draco through Ellie's memories and subsequent interrogation left him defenseless. His wife was left unscathed though and she took her son's seat as he was a minor, for the house of Malfoy in the Wizengarmot. Ellie also arranged for Dobby the House Elf, which she had informed them of being the one who had tried warning her from the start, to be liberated from his servitude.
Moving on, a trial was started against Gilderoy Lockhart within a week of this all, as Sirius and Remus returned with a man, named Djalu Ashton, the Wagga Wagga Werewolf. His testimony, backed up by his memories of the events, as the old warlock who actually did it had been keeping him company for years before he vanished only to be found with amnesia in a Muggle hospital, his mind wiped.
Lockhart was in deep trouble indeed.
The twins were then allowed to spend the rest of their Christmas vacation with Sirius where Ellie spotted another Item. One with Moldyshorts soul in it. It was a locket with a stylized S looking like a snake, identified later as the Locket of Slytherin. Surprisingly when ordered to hand it over for destruction, Kraecher had looked GIDDY on hearing they would do so and it come out that his beloved master, Regulus Black, had given his life to let Kraecher escape a trap of Inferi and retrieve the locket.
Ellie promptly destroyed it.
Christmas come around not long after and both of the twins enjoyed their first Christmas together in Ellie's memory, and a more memorable one for Az than the first she remembered.
"You know, I thought we would spend Christmas at Hogwarts, man I owe Zabini for helping me figure it out." Stated Ellie, shaking her head. He had been… acting a bit strangely, talking oddly and all that, but he upheld his side of the Bargain. Ellie also kept secret that he had been in on it and had been able to argue that she had been investigating a possible lead in the house most likely to be home of the Heir of Slytherin.
But he had been the one who aided her in finding out the truth, and with Slytherin losing 500 points for Malfoy's actions while Gryffindor was rewarded 500 for Ellie saving the day, she felt she owed him more than just keeping him from being outed as a "Traitor" to the house of Slytherin.
"Not gonna lie, he did do us a solid there. Didn't see him of all people helping given what I've seen of him." Stated Az, shaking her head at the fact that yes, Blaise Zabini, had saved the day alongside them.
"I'll have to agree." Stated Sirius, sipping a coffee which Ellie still found to be a foul beverage, she prefered tea or other sweet liquids, as he stood leaning against the kitchenette of Grimauld Place. It had been largely refurbished by this point and the twins had officially made it their new home while not at school or other possible activities.
"Because his mom is infamous for how many times she's been widowed?" Asked Ellie, remembering the stories Ron had told her about the boy the day after the fall of Slytherin's monster.
"More because of his family's infamous and staunch position of pureblood supremacy, though they never joined up with You-Know-Who so they have that going for them." Stated Sirius with a shrug which was a nice bit of info, so there was that too to clear Ellie's conscience knowing she owed a Slytherin something even if just in her opinion. At least he wasn't the kid of a Death Eater.
At that point, Remus come into the room, looking… frazzled, for some reason. "Uh, Az? Ellie? You got guests..." He said, sounding just a bit freaked out and the twins looked to one another, then stood up to go see since normally the house was unplottable. So how were there unannounced guests if Remus didn't expect it? Also, why didn't they hear the door?
The answer come to them a moment later as Ellie laid eyes on the two guests. The first, shorter of the two, was a beautiful woman with flowing blue hair which looked almost like water. She wore a floor-length bright blue dress and, more importantly, wore a hat of the same color as Wakfu. She had fair skin too, similar to Ellie herself, and was barefoot.
Next to her stood a tall man, though he was clearly not human. He wore a black tuxedo of all things which accentuated his dark skin complexion with the glowing, purple veins, which were paired to pale purple hair and very long, pointy ears. Both of them had incredible amounts of energy wafting off of them and even if Ellie hadn't been able to sense it, she knew who they were.
"Mom? Dad?!" Exclaimed both of them in disbelieve, recognizing the human guises their parents had been using back in the day when communing with their children and their mortal descendants.
"Good evening you two." Greeted the literal embodiment of Wakfu, Eliatrope, smiling down at her flabbergasted daughters. There was a definite mountain of amusement on her face.
"Lets not overstimulate them, this is our first meeting since we handed their Dofus to the Potters." Spoke up the Great Dragon which was… a mouthful.
"You know, I was half expecting that exclamation to mean James and Lily come back from the dead but this is crazier." Stated Sirius as he had walked after the girls, seeing what was unmistakably the parents of the twins given the resemblance between Ellie and the woman and that the man was clearly in a more advanced human guise than Az's own.
"Nice to meet you Sirius Black, I apologize for our sudden entrance but we thought it would be ideal if we visited now." Stated Eliatrope as she bowed slightly in a show of respect Sirius wasn't expecting.
"Ah, its alright? I just hope you're not here to take custody of the two, we just completed their move from the Preserve here and I don't think it would be a good idea to rip them out of their new home." Stated Sirius, sounding just a bit panicky. Ellie knew why, he had lost them, his goddaughters, years ago because of his own rage blinding him to the needs of the two. They weren't faulting him though.
"No worries, we would love to care for them ourselves but we have been bound to the divine laws of this reality since coming here. Elizabeth and Azkalagora being mortal as all their siblings meant we couldn't raise them ourselves thus why we had to give them up for adoption to the Potters back then." Explained Eliatrop, sounding truly saddened by this fact, which did bring some questions up, and indicated a few things.
"Ah, hey, why don't we all get to the living room for now? It is kinda awkward standing here." Offered Sirius and the two deities nodded, soon following their daughters and their godfather to the room in question. "So… I assume this isn't just to celebrate Christmas with them for the first time?" Asked Sirius, eyeing the deities, neither Ellie nor Az were quite certain how to interact with them seeing as, well, they were their parents, but also the chief deities of their people, and complete strangers.
"Not just, sadly there are some matters to speak about." Stated The Great Dragon, and Ellie decided, she would just call him GD for now, because she wasn't even sure if he had a given name.
"What would that be?" Asked Remus, obviously curious about the two deities just showing up. The two man had obviously been aware of them due to the letter that come with the Dofus so it wasn't entirely a shock.
"For starters, I am quite happy with Ellie dealing with those fragments of this savage Voldemort, we've been getting some varied calls both because she was "Accelerating fate too much" as the old hags would say, and congratulations by certain other parties about getting that blight taken care of in a timely manner." Stated GD, his muscular arms crossed over his chest with none of the mortals sure who he meant.
"Okay, well, I still don't know what the point of them is, but I just destroy them since they look like Philacteries so I figure they keep him alive." Stated Ellie with a shrug and the deities nodded.
"They do, these Horcruxes are a nasty work of magic which requires the splitting in half of the soul, generally accomplished by murder, and the subsequent sealing of it into a container. As long as at least one Horcrux remains Tom Riddle's ghost will not be banished from this plane of existence. Luckily, yet another is in this house." Explained Eliatrope and Ellie's eyes widened.
"There is?! But I thought we checked everything!" Exclaimed the young Eliatrope as she looked around, using Wakfu Vision but she couldn't see it.
"You won't be able to detect it Elizabeth, it isn't in an object but a living being, their Wakfu masking the foul soul piece. Luckily a certain piece of magic keeps its influence away from the host and we can remove it easily." Explained Eliatrope and Ellie relaxed just a bit, sighing in relief.
"Oh thank gods, yes I know don't say it." She stated, the last bit a bit deadpan as she could almost HEAR her father wanting to make some sort of joke. She had spent enough time around Fred and George to get that sixth sense going. "So, who is it? And how did a piece of shit get stuck in them?" Asked Ellie but flinched mildly at the disapproving glare from her mother. Whoops.
"In… reverse order, it happened when he attacked you, the conditions were already met twice over due to his killing your adopted parents. I also feel we need to do something about your vocabulary young lady." Stated Eliatrope and Ellie flinched again. "As for how it did so, when his body was destroyed a fragment of his soul sought an opening and a fresh scar caused by the backlash of the curse was ideal for it." Explained Eliatrope and Ellie frowned.
"Geez, that sucks. Wonder who has it..." Muttered the girl, entirely sincere in her confusion as the others stared at her.
"Sis, you're the one famous for her scar. A scar you got from Fart Dork Moldyshorts himself, remember?" Asked Az and Ellie stopped, blinked, then turned green.
"Ew! I got Loser in my forehead?!" She exclaimed, to laughs from Sirius, Remus and Az, chuckles from GD and a good-natured roll of the eyes from her mother. Yeah, that was about the reaction they all expected.
"Not for long, I am a goddess of life and souls fall under that, being made out of Wakfu." Explained the deity and come over to Ellie, who kept still as she touched the scar and, as Ellie flinched from a strange sensation, removed her hand a moment later, visible Wakfu in her hand though it was a sickly gray color, something Ellie recognized from the Horcruxes she had seen and she also recognized its feeling.
"There you go, I will hold onto it for now, those old woman certainly seemed keen on that. Also, I made sure to leave behind what power it gave you, no need to let it be empowered." Stated Eliatrope as Ellie blinked.
"So… you mean my being able to hear snakes talk was from that?" She asked, bewildered.
"Yes, as Parseltongue isn't a skill but a magical ability it can be transferred this way. That is why the Diary Horcrux was able to use miss Lovegood to open the Chamber of Secrets." Explained Eliatrope and Ellie grimaced but nodded.
"Well, at least the bad part is out." Muttered Ellie, shuddering at the very notion of Voldemort being inside of her in any capacity. She felt kind of violated by that.
"Now with the unpleasant bits out of the way, we got some gifts of our own." Stated Eliatrope with a smile which surprised the twins a bit, but also made them a bit giddy. "First of all, I think you will like these." Stated Eliatrope as two glowing cubes appeared, which flew to the sisters.
"Eliacubes? Are they like the ones from the, well, second apocalypse or…?" Ellie asked, curious about the machines she was seeing.
"Yes they're the mass produced model in main function. Though they have some extras. Think about wanting a weapon." Instructed GD with a smirk and Ellie complied, a moment later the Eliacube hovering next to her fragmented and reformed into a hilt from which a Wakfu blade, which she felt draw on her own reserves, formed though it maintained itself just on what it siphoned off of her.
"Whoa!" Exclaimed Ellie, startled by this new revelation.
"It is also meant as a training tool, with this you will be able to train yourself in the creation of armaments from your Wakfu much easier. Getting a feel for it you see? Azkalagora's has the same function and both can channel both Wakfu and Stasis for no negative effects." Explained Eliatrope with a smile which was surprising.
Ellie concentrated for a moment and the handle of the sword shifted the Wakfu reallighted itself to become a spear instead, then a Scythe, great Warhammer, even a chainsaw Sword of all things. "Holy shit." Muttered Az to the side, watching her sister experiment before doing the same, apparently testing for multi-weaponry and got a pair of scimitar for her own test.
"Not quite, they weren't produced by us eating something." Stated GD with a grin on his face and Ellie snorted at that, her biological dad was a jokester like her adopted one, figures.
At least he wasn't stuck up, imagine being the daughter of somebody like Zeus, that would be a nightmare and not just because your stepmom is Hera.
"Ah, I have a question." Spoke up Remus at that point, drawing attention to him as the Eliacubes returned to their default floating forms. "Is there a particular reason why your gifts to them are… basically training tools for combat magic?" He asked, sounding a bit concerned which, as one of the adults taking care of them, and the more responsible one when he was around, he had a good reason to be concerned.
"Right, I suppose we should explain. You must have heard of certain… freak weather, going on in the United States for the last three days, since Winter Solstice." Stated Eliatrope and they nodded, it had been on the radio, storms when there was meant to be sunny weather, hurricanes out of season, earthquakes, tsunamis, the whole nine yards. "Something happened, and as part of a deal which will mean that we can in fact be here, you will be roped into events surrounding what is going on in the US. The old ladies who manipulated your placement to be here are very persistent on that." Explained Eliatrope and Ellie frowned, that was odd.
"So, who are these old ladies who can make two gods do as they say? Let me guess, the goddesses of fate from Greek mythology?" Asked Sirius in jest but then realized. Neither god was laughing.
"So they are why I got roped into that prophecy with Moldshorts the Incompetent? Sheesh how desperate were they to have someone pick it up?" Asked Ellie with a frown, this was getting way too conspiratorial for her taste.
"Yes, sadly prophecies aren't my thing, they were Chibi's thing but… he is in his Dofus. On another side, you wanna visit your big brother?" Asked Eliatrope, which caused them all to look at her confused.
"How?" Asked Sirius and Eliatrope smiled mysteriously.
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Word count: 7310 without the Author's Notes.