The Void in the Magic
ESKK: A brand new chapter the second chapter let's begin.
(Start Grimmauld Place Dining Room)
In Grimmauld Place, Dumbledore is having a private meeting with Molly and Ginny.
"Albus, are you sure that there is no sign of Harry?" Molly demanded as she looked to Dumbledore in shock.
"Absolutely, Molly." Dumbledore confesses as he looked down in some shame. "I've tried, but all I've been able to figure out is that he's not in the country," Dumbledore said not realizing that Harry was in a location hidden from his magic.
"Out of the country? But he can't be out of the country?!" Ginny demanded as she glared at her mother and at Dumbledore. Although she fully knows why she's supposed to give a love potion to Harry, she's fully doing it because she's fully infatuated with Harry and absolutely obsessed with him.
"How could this happen, Albus?" Molly asked as with Harry missing, he was in great danger.
"I don't know, and Sirius hasn't heard from him, either seeing as he's busy with his lawsuit," Dumbledore said as he recalled how The Order of the Phoenix had been caught by surprise when Sirius announced his lawsuit against the Ministry. They had no idea the suit had been filed with the help of the Americans. They thought he had just managed to hire a good lawyer with his family's money.
"Well, how do we find him?" Molly demanded as she knew her daughter would not take this well.
"I don't know, Molly. But I promise, we will find him," Dumbledore said, but worried about how he's going to try and find Harry. Molly meanwhile accepted Dumbledore's assurance. If Dumbledore says he'll find Harry, then Milly will trust his word.
(Scene Break International Court of Magical Justice, The Hague, Netherlands)
Standing outside the doors of the main courtroom in the judicial complex of the International Court of Magical Justice was Sirius. The now free man stood there with a bit of cocky smile on his face. Next to Sirius was the United States Attorney General Janet Reno, his lawyer in this case. A crowd of reporters and photographers currently surrounded them. Photo after photo was being snapped as the reporters were waiting for Sirius and Reno to speak up.
Only minutes earlier, the panel of judges who were trying Sirius' case had announced their verdict. They declared that they had found Sirius' imprisonment illegal and that there was no evidence of Sirius' involvement in the crimes he was accused of. His escape from Azkaban had not proven enough to stop the case, given the extent of injustices against him by the Ministry. The judges had awarded Sirius an extensive settlement, which included the complete expungement of his criminal record, a promise of protection from persecution by the magical community in Britain, a promise of a formal apology from the British Ministry of Magic, and a monetary settlement of 2 million galleons (with the threat of doubling that fine if the other terms of the settlement were not met), as well as the restoration to his ownership of two Black family properties that had been seized by the Ministry after his arrest.
Already, it had come out that Fudge had been using one of the properties, a vacation home, for his own use, and was in serious trouble for this. He and the other Ministry officials who had been present at the trial had slunk out of the courtroom after the verdict was announced. They were all unwilling to face the international press, knowing they couldn't influence it like they could the Daily Prophet.
Attorney General Reno begins speaking first as the noise of the crowd of reporters dies down. "Today, justice has at last been served. A man who has been imprisoned or on the run because of a crime he never committed has finally been set at liberty." Reno began as he made the whole speech. "We are very pleased at all of our witnesses and those who helped us put together our case, and we are very pleased that the panel assigned to this case saw through the lies and assumptions brought forward by the British Ministry of Magic and award justice to my client, Sirius Black." HE said as it also added another mark against the British Ministry.
"Mr. Black! Mr. Black!" came a series of exclamations from the assembled reporters.
"Yes, the pretty lady with red hair in the front," Sirius said as he pointing at the redhead in question.
The reporter smiled and blushed slightly at Sirius' attempted flirtation before she said, "Mr. Black, Jennifer Halston, Los Angeles Sun. What do you think of the outcome announced today?"
"I am very happy that the judges were able to see the truth and that my innocence has been proven." Sirius began as he got the crowd rolling. "I have spent years wondering if I would ever be a free man again, and I am very pleased that that day has come at last," Sirius answered the question with a smile on his face.
A man raises his hand and speaks in a distinctive French accent, "Monsieur Black, do you intend any further legal action against your Ministry?"
"At the moment, no." Sirius began addressing the Frenchman. "I feel that the settlement decided upon by my counsel, the Ministry, and the judges is fair, and I wish to put this behind me," Sirius responded which was considered.
Another reporters called out, "Mr. Black, Wizarding Times Magazine. What do you think of the British Ministry's efforts to defend their imprisonment of you during the trial?"
"Nothing can excuse their actions. It is clear that in my case, they threw me in prison because they needed to look as if they had won a big victory." Sirius began and decided to hit the Ministry where it hurts. "I personally believe that they felt ashamed that Voldemort had seemingly been defeated while trying to kill a baby, and they wanted a similar victory on their own record." Sirius said beginning with a theory he made up on the spot. "Learning more about things that have gone on in the Ministry since I was first imprisoned, I have noticed an alarming trend of the policy of 'innocent until proven guilty' being ignored in Britain, and I think it is clear from what I witnessed in the trial that they were desperate to cover up the fact that they had grossly mishandled my case." Sirius said putting more marks against the Ministry of Magic in Britan. "While I intend no further legal action against the British Ministry of Magic, I intend to use my newfound freedom to push for reforms within the British Ministry and work to ensure fairer treatment for people accused of lawbreaking." Sirius said making a goal to the public known.
"Do you mean you intend to run for office in the British Ministry?" the same reporter asked surprised by his words.
"I am not positive what path I intend to take, nor am I saying I want to be Minister of Magic." Sirius began working the crowd in his favor. "But trust me when I say I intend to work with the British Magical community to bring about greater accountability from their leaders and a more fair system of government, including petitioning the Prime Minister or the Queen herself for intervention if required," Sirius answered which drew a few mutterings from the crowd at his declaration.
There are a few moments of silence as the reporters digest what they just heard. Then, a reporter asked, "Mr. Black, what do you plan to do now that you're free?"
"Well, I first intend to go on a long vacation in the Bahamas," Sirius says jokingly, drawing some laughs from the crowd. Then, after a moment, Sirius said, "But, in all seriousness, after I take some time to enjoy my freedom, the first thing I intend to do is attempt to locate my godson, Harry Potter." Sirius revealed to the crowed. "As has been reported, Harry has not been seen for weeks now." Sirius added which got everyone worried for Harry. "I intend to work with some old friends across Britain and the rest of Europe to try my best to find my godson." Sirius said detailing what he planned to do next. "I feel I owe it to my late friend, James Potter." Sirius finished and this the interview came to an end.
Sirius has to keep himself from smiling. He's hoping that this public declaration will convince Dumbledore and the rest of the British magical public that he was not involved in Harry's disappearance. Hopefully, he can continue to keep Harry's current location a secret from the international wizarding community.
(Scene Break Morning Potter Manor)
Sitting in her study Lily was nursing a headache that was forming. In the room with her was Dan and Emma. It was a Sunday as they chose now to drop this bomb on the children. Needless to say, neither Harry nor Hermione were happy about this. "What do you mean you're pulling us out of Hogwarts!?" Harry demanded shocked by his mother's announcement.
"Harry please understand these past four years you've nearly been killed at that school." Lily said calmly refusing to let her son go to Hogwarts again.
"You can't do this to us!" Hermione asked as it was her worst childhood fear made real. "This is our OWL's year I've yet to learn if I've been made Prefect." Hermione said voicing her concerns against this.
"Pumpkin please your mother and I are in agreement with Lily neither of you are going back to that deathtrap of a school." Dan said refusing to let his daughter walk to what may be her death.
"But our education." Hermione began only for Lily to cut her off.
"Will not be in danger." Lily said as she revealed her hand. "I've already begun researching alternative schooling and even home schooling." Lily said as she had a few friends who owed her favors. "Ensuring your safety is our top priority." Lotus added making it clear that this was not up for discussion or debate.
"So; you plan to shelter us, it's me he's after not any of you." Harry defended but then the Lotus cut in.
"It's because of the fact he's after you is why I can't and won't let you fight this war." Lily said making it clear that war was no place for children or teenagers.
Just then the door opened, and Heron walked in with some papers. "Lotus we've done scouting runs at the identified homes of the named Death Eaters from the Graveyard incident." Heron said as he reported the information. "We've accounted for all of them save for one, Malfoy Maner." Heron said presenting the data to the Lotus who considered it.
Lotus took the time to address Harry and Hermione first before speaking. "We'll discuss more of this later." Lotus said and then Harry growled and stormed out of the room clearly upset. Hermione looked equally upset but she understood the reasons her parents and Lily were doing this. She followed after Harry as they both needed time to calm down.
"Uh is this a bad time?" Heron asked as he saw what had just happened.
"We just got through detailing to the children that we're pulling them out of Hogwarts." Dan said as Lily knew Harry was rightfully upset about this.
"First Heron, your report." Lily said needing the information.
"Yeah, we have reason to believe that Voldemort had set up his headquarters there." Heron said but had more to add. He rather wait for the Lotus to say her piece first.
"That seems a reasonable deduction Malfoy is not one to place his home outside of the country so if it is being used as Voldemort's base then that mean that it has to be under a Fidelus." Lily said recalling the spell that they trusted Peter as the secret keeper.
"Fidelus?" Emma asked curious as to what that is.
"A powerful piece of spell work it allows you to hide anything and everything depending on the wording and the only one who has access to it is the Secret Keeper." Lily said explaining the spell to the couple. "By all logic either Lucius himself is the Secret Keeper or Voldemort is the Secret Keeper." Lily said listing off what they do know. "If its Malfoy then capturing him is a priority and if its Voldemort then we need a new strategy." Lily said as she rather not waist time on resources.
"Lotus, I do have more to add." Heron said and thus the Lotus nodded to this.
"Very well, Tenno carry on." Lily said in the persona of the Lotus.
"With the information that Harry provided to us we located Riddle Manor and believe that Voldemort would attempt to use it as an auxiliary base should the one, he is using become compromised." Heron explained to Lily. "We've already moved to secure it if Voldemort shows up, he'll find himself walking into an ambush." Heron said which Lily approved of.
"Assets denial." Dan said seeing that the Tenno were five moves ahead of their enemies.
"Of course, by this days standards they're primitives." Lily said and thus they had to deal with the next aspect of the plan. "I'll need more data first; Tenno be ready for a capture mission." Lily said and thus Heron nodded.
"Of course." Heron said and in turn took his leave of the Lotus.
"You plan to capture this Malfoy bloke?" Dan asked and thus Lily turned her head.
"No if he vanishes and he's not the Secret Keeper it will tip Voldemort off." Lily said as they needed the next best thing. "We need confirmation first capturing a different Death Eater from this group will lead us to our target." Lily said meaning that they were going after someone close to Malfoy. "Regardless, if Malfoy is the Secret Keeper or not Voldemort won't know we're hunting him." Lily said as the way she sees it they get valuable information and maintain the element of surprise on Voldemort.
Just then a House Elf popped in and presented a newspaper to Lily. Lily smiled and thanked the Elf before taking the paper. With her return from the grave, she had to visit the Goblins first and foremost. She managed to pay them handsomely to keep quiet about this with promise of a sparring match with the Tenno. The Goblins were warriors after all, and they respected those who followed the way of the blade. At the moment Lily was regent Potter in all but name once she confirmed her identity. The remains of her old body would need to be dealt with but that would be a problem for another day. Opening the newspaper Lily smiled at what she found on it.
"Sirius Black Cleared of all charges," Were the first words on the paper before it shifted to saying, "Ministry suffers severe lawsuit." With this new information Lily now had another financial backer for the Tenno's operations in this world. With this in mind Lily began to contact two of her Tenno to retrieve Sirius for her.
"Raven, I have a mission for you and Sparrow." Lily began in the Persona of the Lotus. "Sirius Black is about to return to Britain I need you to retrieve him for me." Lily said and thus Raven responded with a confirmation.
"Yes ma'am." Raven said before she hung up to begin her role of the mission.
"Do you think Sirius will side with us?" Dan asked with concern as he knew Sirius was a member of the Order of the Phoenix back in the day.
"I'm certain of it." Lily said but then eased back on her chair with a glare. "And even if I'm wrong... this will give me a chance to tear that mutt a new one." Lily said as she was clearly upset with Harry's godfather.
(Scene Break Sirius Black)
Sirius was happily roaming London a free man. With his accounts sorted with Gringotts and his cousins Narcissa and Bellatrix cut off things were looking better for him. Now he can focus his attention on trying to locate Harry without fear of being arrested or kissed on sight. HE had those two young ladies to thank for his freedom. Early in the summer they appeared before him and offered to escort him to America. At first Sirius was against this but when they explained it would help clear his name by filing a lawsuit through them Sirius was intrigued. Acquiring sanctuary was easy once he explained what happened that night. The Americans were able to help with a good lawyer and by the end of it he was free as air.
Those two young yet strange women vanished but Sirius never forgot what they did for him. Walking through the Alley he noted that things were oddly quiet around here. Wait a minute... when was Diagon Alley this empty? Entering an alleyway Sirius was surprised to find those two women there before him.
"Ah, you two, never thought I would see you girls once more. I want to thank you two for helping me before," Sirius said as Raven said to him, "There's no need to thank us. The Lotus had asked us you help you and we have."
"But now that you are free, The lotus wish to speak with you," Sparrow said as Sirius said to them, "I suppose she want something in exchange for helping me then?"
He knew about life debt as any witch or wizard can call upon it anytime they wish, as if the other person refuse to repay said debt, well people always knew about the consequences, but they never break a life debt to find out what that is, but to his surprise as Raven said to him, "No, it's more like she would like to have a small chat with you about something. After that your free to do whatever, you want, we're just here to make sure you get the message, if you wish to come with us now or we can pick you up later if you wish, but we cannot return without you."
"Ah, got it… Well, I suppose I got the time to see her now, don't know who this Lotus woman is but I suppose I should give her my thanks in person as well," Sirius said as the two nodded as they approach Sirius as one of them held up a golden ring which both of them grab which Sirius soon grab as well before they were ported off.
After they left, a man came out from a building as they yawn before they pop their back they said, "Damn it, did one of those brat hit me with a sleeping potion or something? Whoever did it will pay for this."
He sigh to this before he look to his door and saw a notice on it that reads all shop would be temperately close at a certain time as the old man check the time on this and saw… it was already pass the closing time before he shake his head, as he remove the notice and flip his sigh from close to open before going back inside with other people as well that were doing the same as soon enough the street became busy once more.
(Potter resident)
Outside the Potter Manor, as Sirius and the two Tenno girls suddenly pops in with the portkey as Sirius looks around and wonder where he was at and taking notice it looked familiar before he turn around and to his shock to see the old Potter House, still standing, and looking very new as well which was strange as no one has been living there sense his old friends had died and wonder why he was there but before he could ask, Raven said, "Head inside, everything will be explain soon enough."
"Ah, alright then," Sirius said as he walk up to the Potter resident standing before the door as the two Tenno came to the door and open it without knocking or anything like that as they walked in first before they announce, "Sirius Black has Arrived."
As soon Sirius enter the house, to his shock to see many children to young teenagers walking about, and he is shock to see all the new technology that was around, while also keeping the house as original as it was before, and was even more shocked to see more of these armor figures that were similar to the girls, with some are looking big and strong as he saw an Atlas Warframe with a Rhino Warframe behind it as they were both carrying a long metal beam as the one in the Atlas said to Sirius, "Excuse us."
"Oh, ah sorry," Sirius said as he took a step back as the two walk pass him with the one in the Rhino said, "Thanks."
"Sorry, we fixing up the house a bit at the moment," Sparrow said as she came up next to him with raven coming up as well as she said, "The lotus is up the stairs in the main office room last room on the right. Do you need us to guild you to there?"
"No-no, I can find my way there. This use to be, a friends of mine, home," Sirius said as he looked at everything as he is surprised that no one has taken down the portrait of the Potters, or any of the photos for that matter but saw some of the children cleaning them instead as he wonder where did all of them come from?
Seeing the scars on some of them, he can only assume war orphans or something like that as he went up the stairs and went down the hallway as he saw more children and armor fellas up here as well as it seem they were working in sync with each other and he was feeling like the odd one out as some saw him they pointed the way to him as he give a nod to them and went on his way before seeing a black armor warrior near the door which was Umbra acting as a guard as he came up to him and said, "Hello there, I'm here to see 'The Lotus', is she in?"
Umbra nodded to him but didn't say a word as the sentient Warframe points to the door as Sirius said, "Thanks I suppose."
AS he was about to open it, someone that was on the other side already has open the door and came walking out, as Sirius came face to face with Heron, as for a moment Sirius thought he was harry but saw the scars on him but none on his head, and also, he didn't have glasses as he said, "Oh, you must be Sirius Black I assume?"
"Yes, I am," Sirius said as he is a bit surprise by this but keep calm about it as Heron said to him, "Alright, she's waiting for you in there, and careful of what you say. She has been going through a few stressful days."
"I'll keep that in mind, thank you," Sirius said as soon enough Heron and Umbra left as Sirius watch them and thought it was strange and wonder if the armor people were the children guardians or something but dismissed the thought from his head as he look to the door and give a knock, at least being polite about it as he heard a woman's voice which sounded familiar to him as they said, "Come in."
With that Sirius open the door as he looks around to see the old office room has not change one bit sense last time, he came here other than thing has been clear of dust lately, nothing seem to have change at all other than one thing, the chair and the desk that sat in the middle of the room as the hair was turn around at the moment as Sirius calls out, "I'm suppose you're 'The Lotus' I've been hearing about?"
"I am, but I have gone by a few other names such as Natah, Margulis, and most recently," The lotus said as she trail off while turn the chair around reviling who she was as Sirius was shock to see who it was as he said, "Lily!?"
Lily smile to Sirius to see an old and familiar face as she said, "Hello padfoot, it seems you have aged quite a bit haven't you, are you up to no good again?"
"H-h-how are you here? How are you alive at all?" Sirius said in disbelief as he can figure out how Lily was here, as no one would use a Polyjuice potion as any hair that a person would use wouldn't be useable as they would most likely age like an old woman, and the woman before him was looking white young, and the way she said his nickname and the marauders code that only he, James, Rimus, peter, and Lily would know, he knew it had to be lily but the question that running through in his mind was 'How is this possible?'
"It's quite the story Sirius. Come sit down and I'll tell you everything that you want to know," Lily said as Sirius done so before she pull out a teacup and place it into a stand as she said, "Something to drink, perhaps some tea or coffee?"
"Ah I think I might need a fire whisky, but tea would do fine," Sirius said as Lily press a button which the stand started to dispense a tea for him as it filled up enough before it stops as Lily place it before Sirius as he took it and said, "Thank you."
Taking a quick sip and surprise how warm the tea was, not to hot, and not too cold, and the taste of it was something else and familiar to him as he said, "This is quite tasty."
"Pre-made tea with my special blend, as I'm sure you remember it," Lily said as then Sirius said, "Right, and sorry it been 13-14 years sense I last drank your blend of tea."
"It certain has been that long hasn't it, Sirius." Lily said with a sadden tone as Sirius put his cup down and soon said, "How are you still alive? I saw your and James's bodies, and if you have been a live this entire time where were you?"
"Well I suppose to need to be clear on something, I am Lily, but this isn't my original body," Lily said as Sirius wonder what she meant before her appearance change to Margulis which freak him out a bit before as he looks at the person before him seeing a most beautiful woman with a lovely smile he has never seen in his life, then her appearance change again to Natah which scared Sirius a bit seeing her as a machine like hybrid of sort with an upset expression as he wonder why she was looking angry, before she change again to The Lotus with a helmet covering her face with a calm look on her face with Sirius all confused about this before she change back to Lily once more as Sirius said, "W-what are you?"
"I am all of those you had seen and yet we were separate, sharing one body and heart and yet my mind is mine own, on the night that me and James died, a part of my soul fragment with my memories and I reborn in a new place where everything was different and how it move faster there than here, where I was born as a woman named Margulis, then died again with my spirit went into a woman body named Natah, then developed a 3rd persona called 'The Lotus' a balance form of both Natah and Margulis mix together then recently my memories of my former life came back to me, and memories of a soul that stayed… until we reunited within the void piecing the memories back together and was reborn as Lily I suppose."
Sirius was silent for a moment hearing what Lily said, as he waited a few second before he said "Well…Sound like in a way, a strange soap opera plot twist, doesn't it?"
"I suppose so and a bit complicated as well, but let me tell what happen starting from the beginning," Lily said as she soon began to tell the story of what happen to her, being reborn as Margulis who was born into the Society ruled by the Orokin, then tells of how she meet the Tenno for the first time, as she took them in as her own children after getting off a space ship that was trap in the void which granted them powers like a god that the Orokin feared, before they were turn into child soldiers by the Orokin, given them the Warframes which each of them hold great and untold powers that rivals or surpasses magic all together, which shocks Sirius as he soon ask, "So… all of those children I saw before, they were-
"Yes, they are the same Tenno I was talking about… some of them at least, but they were made that way after I as Margulis was executed by the Orokin council and a man name ballas who had loved me as Margulis and was jealous because I loved the Tenno more than them," Lily said as Sirius could only say to that is, "Sound like this Ballas bloke was a real 'Asshole'."
Lily chuckled a bit to that as she never seen anyone call Ballas an asshole and can only imagine how he would act if he were still alive before she said "He was worse than that. Moving on."
Soon enough Lily soon told of Natah who was a sentient, then had to explain what a Sentient is, as Sirius was shock to hear what they were as he was both in Awe and shocked to this as the Sentient were machine with the ability to adapt which cause them to evolve into what they are now and rebel against the Orokin which he can help but say the Orokin had it coming which lily nodded a bit as she agrees with Sirius in a way before she move onto how the Orokin soon turn the Tenno into soldiers to fight off the sentient due to their powers which was the sentiment's weakness which may have won them the war but after that began the Orokin's downfall.
She told much about Natah who had the ability to mimic appearances which she took on Margulis form, but it seem she did more than that as she took on her memories and soul becoming one with the Sentient somehow and from there she have save the Tenno and turn on both the Orokin and the Sentient remaining forces, bring the Orokin empire down until it was just ruins before putting the Tenno to sleep to help them recover from the war, to heal their minds, but the remnants of the empire remains in the form of the Grineer and the Corpus which she had to reawaken the Tenno to help.
It was more or less the same story she told Harry when he arrived. The Grineer Queens, the New War, the Zariman and so much more. By the end of it Lily finished the story as Sirius sat there in shock. "Now that we've sorted this information out, I have my own questions to ask." Lily said as she had one issue to deal with from Sirius. Sirius then heard the door lock behind him and in turn the upset look of Natah came back to his mind. The next thing Sirius knew Natah's form returned and all of a sudden, he was launched off the chair and to the wall by Natah's extended hand.
Hovering towards the shocked Sirius Natah unleashed her rage on him. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF TAU WERE YOU THINKING!?" Natah yelled as she glared at Sirius who was held there in shock.
"Lily, wait I don't." Sirius began but Natah cut him off.
"You had a duty to your godson MY son and instead of fulfilling it you went off to hunt down Peter!" Natah snapped as she then threw Sirius across the ground. "You should consider yourself bloody well lucky I don't have my wand because I would have hexed you straight to hell, drag your ass back, revive you, and then do it all over again!" Natah went on as she forced Sirius back on his feet.
"Lily, you have to understand I couldn't just let him walk away while you and James were." Sirius began only to be slammed again.
"Revenge was not your priority Harry's safety and upbringing was!" Natah snapped as she glared at Sirius. "Thanks to your reckless stupidity my son grew up with the one person he should never had been placed in the care of!" Natah went off as she then dropped Sirius. Stepping back, she took a moment to center herself and allowed for Lily to return to control.
"You failed Harry. You failed your friends." Lily said tearing into Sirius now as Sirius had no response. Nothing he can say or do can fix what he did 14 years ago.
"I'm sorry." Sirius said as he was on his knees after Lily got through with verbally tearing him a new one.
"Sirius tell me can I trust you?" Lily asked as she needed confirmation.
"What?" Sirius asked as he looked to her in shock.
"Can. I. Trust. You?" Lily said punctuating each word she spoke. "If you want to make this right, I need to trust you." Lily said as she recalled how they trusted Peter and he stabbed them all in the back.
"Of course." Sirius said standing back up as Lily then got down to it.
"Alright Sirius... then first I need you to be honest with me, in the last war can you honestly tell me we were making a difference." Lily said as she needed to know she can actually trust Sirius. "In the last war we were losing more from our side while the Death Eaters hardly lost anything." Lily said as she knew why that was. In the Previous War it was stun and detain never kill. It was always to be reactive never proactive.
"Honestly... no." Sirius admitted as he took a seat on the chair. "Moody had the right idea back then if we had been more proactive and had used lethal force... the Death Eater issue may have never gotten to the point it had." Sirius said and thus Lily nodded to this.
"The exact answer I was looking for." Lily said and thus got down to it and showed to Sirius her plans. "Sirius we're about to wage a war and to secure the future for Harry for all of our children." Lily said as Sirius saw this.
"Lily, this plan you intend to undue the Statue of Secrecy?!" Sirius asked as he skimmed through Lily's plans.
"Yes, but to do this we need to remove Dumbledore from the board." Lily said as she did not wish to use assassination if it can be helped. "But for us to make a decisive blow we need to know where the Order of the Phoenix is based at." Lily said before Sirius sighed.
"Regrettably, it's under a Fidelus I can't tell you because I'm not the Secret Keeper." Sirius said as he scratched his head a bit.
"Which mean we'll have to find it old school." Lily said as she knew that the headquarters had to be somewhere hidden yet close by to Diagon Alley.
"Or maybe not." Sirius said and thus he produced a paper from his person. "Dumbledore intended to have this paper sent out to Harry and his friend Hermione when we brought them to Grimmauld." Sirius said sliding the parchment to Lily who took it. Lily smirked at what she read and knew that luck was on their side this time.
"Sirius you sly dog." Lily said with a smirk on her face. It was the secret written by Dumbledore's hands which meant that as the Secret Keeper the Tenno can move in and take the base themselves. "This won't forgive everything... but it's certainly a start." Lily said praising Sirius for what he had uncovered for them. With this information they can deal with the Order of the Phoenix and remove them from the main area of combat.
"Lily are you sure about this?" Sirius asked as he needed to know if Lily intends to walk down this path.
"For the sake of my son and for the sake of my Tenno... I will do what I must." Lily responded as she knew while Harry was her son, she saw all of the Tenno as her children. Maybe the part of her in Margulis recalled Harry and saw the Tenno as the chance to be the mother she never got the chance to be for Harry. Sirius nodded as he hoped Lily knew what she was doing.
(Meanwhile with Harry and Heron)
Harry laid alone in his room as he mind raced through all of the information from his mother. She was going to pull him from Hogwarts she wasn't around him for long and already she was trying to make these decisions. Then again Harry could not exactly argue with her that she was wrong to do so. Looking out the Window she saw the Tenno were training a group were having a mock duel with each other while others were doing physical training. His mother clearly ran a tight shift by the looks of it.
Just then a knock came from the door and from it Heron was heard. "Harry, can I come in?" Heron asked and thus Harry sighed and walked over to let him in.
"Sure." Harry said and thus let Heron in.
Once inside Heron took a seat as he wanted to check in on Harry. "So, I heard what your mother decided... are you ok?" Heron asked as he looked towards Harry.
"Honestly, I'm not sure." Harry said as he rubbed his eyes a bit.
"Trouble sleeping?" Heron asked as he sounded like he had experience with that issue.
"Amongst other things, yes." Harry admitted and thus Heron made note of this.
"You know she's only trying to protect you." Heron said as he looked to Harry.
"I know... having her back its almost everything I wanted." Harry admitted as he moved to his desk where his homework from Hogwarts rested. "I bloody well know she means well but I've gotten along well enough without her." Harry said but Heron then sighed to this.
"You got lucky and unfortunately luck eventually runs out." Heron said as he leaned back on his chair a bit. "You need to look at things from her perspective for a minute." Heron said speaking from a neutral standpoint. "Your mother feels like she failed you as a mother trusting the wrong person, orphaning you she feels like it all her fault." Heron said but Harry disagreed.
"She could not have known Peter was the traitor." Harry defended but Heron smiled a bit.
"Try telling her that." Heron said as he had seen it before. "Besides, you keep asking for a normal year at Hogwarts, but trouble keeps finding you." Heron said before sitting up and looking towards Harry. "Maybe you should try to look at it from her view, imagine if one of your kids was in a school that seemed to be where he is likely to die every year." Heron said and thus Harry saw what Heron meant.
"Ok I see your point." Harry said conceding defeat to this.
"Look all I'm saying is that maybe you should talk to her understand her perspective a bit." Heron said hoping to get Harry to reforge the bond Voldemort mercilessly tore apart.
"I know." Harry said but he didn't know where to start. "Hey Heron... I need to ask... but do you think a War is coming?" Harry asked as he was worried about the outcome of it.
"All signs point to a war coming." Heron admitted as it paid him no use to lie to Harry. "I'm just not sure if it's one that this world will survive." Heron added and thus Harry had to admit he respected Heron's brutal honesty. "Our main concern is learning how Voldemort had survived that night 14 years ago." Heron said as it was a big question because he knew that no one in this world had access to Continuity so it begged to question how he did it. Then with a sigh Heron got up and stretched. "I need to head out we're almost done fortifying this location and with Sirius Black's aid we should have the finances to keep us funded." Heron said as Harry had to ask.
"Pardon but... if you see Sirius can you send him my way?" Harry asked as he hoped Heron would try.
"If I happen upon him sure, otherwise I'll let Ordis know." Heron said and thus he headed for the door but stopped. "You know... Lotus had us decorate the room for you." Heron added as he kept staring at the door. "She tried to designed it from your bedroom when you were an infant and based it around how she thought you'd grow." Heron said just before he left the room leaving Harry alone.
Upon hearing those words Harry took a moment to glance around the room and saw that it had a lot of Quidditch and Gryffindor themes to it. The room almost made him think about the Gryffindor Common Room at Hogwarts. As Harry then laid back on his bed his mind was logical enough that Lily made excellent points against allowing Harry to attend Hogwarts again. 'Wait... who's Ordis?' Harry wondered as he had never met this Ordis fellow.
(Meanwhile with Falcon and Hermione)
Hermione and Falcon were in the room provided to Hermione as it had some of her belongings secured from home inside. Her Parents were currently at the practice with a Tenno Guard detail watching them. Just as Owl said Falcon and Hermione got along splendidly like two pies in a pod. "Fascinating." Hermione said as she was reading the Codex from the Origin System. It had so much information and history that she found herself calmed by this.
"You're telling me your worlds history seems to share themes with some of our Warframes." Falcon said as she was reading the book Hermione offered to her. The pair had been in here for a bit trading notes and asking questions. Falcon was always willing to find new in knowledge as was Hermione, but Falcon was willing to add and contribute new knowledge to the world.
"So, I heard from Heron what happened." Falcon said once she was certain Hermione was calmed down.
"Yes, I can't believe this how could my parents do this to me?" Hermione asked as she was clearly upset by this decision.
"It makes sense you've spent four years at that school and each time you've nearly died." Falcon said as she changed a page. "Just last year you nearly drowned in that lake. And in the middle of winter, it's a damn miracle you didn't get hypothermia." Falcon added as Hermione was about to retort but had nothing to offer.
"Professor Dumbledore assured us we would be ok." Hermione said and thus Falcon glared at her.
"Really the same man who assured Harry's parents they would be safe. The same man who's inactiveness had put his students in danger year after year?" Falcon asked and thus Hermione was forced to surrender. "Look Hermione they're not asking you to give up magic what they want is to know that you'll be safe, and they know you won't be safe if you continue in Hogwarts." Falcon said which struck a nerve for Hermione.
"They should have talked to me at least before deciding this." Hermione said but then Falcon raised a brow.
"You mean like how you talked to them about the troll, the Basilisk, the Dementors, and the Tri-Wizard Tournament?" Falcon listed off and in turn it was clear this was Hermione's fault.
"But I don't want to give up Hogwarts." Hermione said but then Falcon sighed.
"And your parents don't want to get a letter saying you died or having to go to Kings Cross Station to pick up your remains." Falcon said and thus got to the worst of it. "Or be forced to forget you even existed." Falcon said which got Hermione's attention.
"Pardon me what?" Hermione asked before Falcon got to it.
"Hermione the magical world is meant to be a secret and clearly it's not unheard of for muggleborn to die at this school. Just ask Myrtle Warren." Falcon said as Hermione saw where Flacon was going with this. "Why didn't her parents throw a right fit about their daughters' demise? Why hasn't any muggleborn parent lashed out when their children died at school?" Falcon asked and when she saw Hermione had no answer it was Falcon who did. "The Statue of Secrecy states that Muggles and Wizards are to be kept separate from magic with the muggles being left unaware of magics save for government officials and what not." Falcon said which then put the puzzle together for Hermione.
"Dear lord." Hermione gasped seeing where this was going.
"No questions no witnesses." Falcon said which meant that Hermione's could have died, and no one would be around to mourn her or even remember her. It made sense after all Muggles aren't supposed to be made aware of magic so if a Muggle Born dies in the magical world her parents and family are to be forced into blissful ignorance.
"I can't believe I didn't see it before. Why didn't I see it before?" Hermione question herself as Falcon put a hand on Hermione's shoulder and said to her, "Sometimes people don't and just try to see the positive thing in life or we just fool ourselves thinking nothing bad would happen to those who we love, take for example we Tenno are powerful, we thought nothing bad would happen to us or to the people around is… but we have lost people of those we consider a friend, even Heron."
"He lost someone?" Hermione ask as Falcon nodded a bit as she soon said, "Heron had a friend, back on the Ten-zero, named Rell. He was a special kind of boy, and not the Tenno kind or gifted kind, but sort of different in the… "mental area" if you know what that means."
"Ah….oh," Hermione said as she figured out what Falcon meant as should could only guess that Rell was born with a mental illness of sort, with falcon went on with her story as she said, "Heron was Rell only friend while some of us didn't want to do anything with or interact with him, Heron was the only one who became best friend with him, even after the void jump and during the first war, but… while pretty much most of us Tenno went to sleep while Rell… he went missing before the Orokin downfall."
"W-what happen to him?" Hermione asked as Falcon said, "I don't know, I suppose we all had forgotten about Rell but Heron, I didn't forget about him, but then one day Heron got a mission about a phantom being of sort but didn't realize who it really was as it turn out it was Rell, he was bound to his Warframe Harrow chained up somewhere and somehow his power became unstable."
"I can't believe this, what happen to Rell?" Hermione ask with Falcon stay silent before bowing her head a bit and said, "Rell became too unstable for some reason, like he was trying to hold something back, but it became too much for him, it was causing him too much pain, so Heron had no choice but to put him to rest… for good."
Hermione was shock by this and could not believe as she could understand that Heron gave Rell mercy but that seem too much for someone to do as she remember what falcon said as she ask, "What was Rell trying to hold back?"
"Not what… who, but don't talk about anymore, I suppose it almost similar to how the magical world fear saying Voldemort's name," Falcon said as Hermione could piece together something and realize that there is something that the Tenno do fear as she said, "The Tenno fear this person or thing… why?"
"Let say our escape from the Ten-zero Void jump wasn't a miracle, but a force of will by the same being who lives within the void, with Heron had to pay the price, and leave it at that," Falcon said as Hermione just nodded and wonder what could have happen or who had saved the Tenno and why did they fear him?
"Anyways let not get all doom and glum, how about some tunes?" Falcon said as Hermione snap out of her thoughts and said, "Sure, but would you mind if I pick the station?"
"Go ahead," Falcon said as she points to the radio as Hermione saw it and went over as she turns it on and turn the nob to find the right signal before a boy band song was playing as Hermione smile and bop her head a bit and said excited, "Oh, On-Lyne."
"On-Lyne?" Falcon question as Hermione nodded and said, "They're a up and coming boy band that came out of nowhere and their songs are incredible."
"I see." Falcon said as she felt off about this song. She didn't know what and while she admits it was a good song it did scratch the back of her head a bit. Still Hermione enjoyed it oddly enough so the least Falcon could do was give it a chance. Still Falcon knew that once the Order of the Phoenix is dealt with, they can focus their attention on the Death Eaters.
(Scene Break that Evening)
Heron, Owl, Falcon, and Raven were gathered around the Lotus as they had a display of Grimmauld on the holy map between them. "Tenno this is your mission." Lily began as she was speaking as the Lotus now. "We know that the Order of the Phoenix is based here." Lotus said as she displayed the location. "Using magic, they've hidden the location and its whereabouts from every mind bar those who were told of it." Lotus said before a paper was passed about. "Read this and upon arrival the Orders base will be revealed." Lily said getting down to it.
"So, what's the job?" Owl asked with a smirk on his face.
"The mission is simple we are to capture the base and take it as our own." Lotus said as this got their attention. "From here we can hold a foothold in the city allowing us to act proactively against the Death Eaters." Lotus as the Tenno heard this. "This needs to be done quietly stealth is paramount if we are to hold the element of surprise." Lotus said but then Raven raised her hand.
"Lotus I've read up on the members of the Previous incarnation of the Order of the Phoenix and Mad Eye Moody may prove to be an issue." Raven said but Sirius cut in on this.
"I actually thought about that." Sirius said as he had his own contribution. "I have a House Elf and as you know very few people pay attention to House Elves." Sirius said with a smirk on his face. "I can use my House Elf to neutralize Moody before he can react and once that's done, we pick off the Order Members one by one." Sirius said as they were kicking the Order out of his house so the Tenno can move in.
"While I will not fault you for killing remember that there are children in that house so for this mission disarmament only." Lotus added as she'd rather not kill or orphan those children. She had no issues doing it to the Death Eaters if for no other reason than to prevent the spread of their world views.
"Got it avoid killing if it can be helped." Raven said seeing that there were things children should not see... speaking from personal experience on that one.
"So once Mad Eye is neutralized, we move in take out the Order and kick them to the curve." Heron said as he looked at the map. "But won't Dumbledore have some sort of alert in place for when his base of operations is compromised?" Heron asked as he doubted Dumbledore is that arrogant.
"I'm banking on it." Lotus said as this reunion was 14 years overdue. Dumbledore and his pet Death Eater were bound to show up and when they did it was no illusion that a fight would break out. "We move at dawn to maximize our success rate." Lotus said and in turn the Tenno nodded.
"Right." Heron said before he and his team stood up and saluted before leaving the room. Once they were gone Lotus reverted to Lily and sighed to this while rubbing her eyes.
"So, the Goblins have your cover story in place?" Sirius asked as he figured Lily must have some plan in place.
"Yes. Everything is in place so that Lily Potter makes a miraculous return from the grave and takes guardianship of her son." Lily said making it clear that she had a plan for this.
"Brightest Witch of her Age." Sirius joked but then Lily's face turned into a scowl.
"No most foolish witch of her age." Lily said as she then growled a bit. "Magic such a wonderous thing for a young mind until you start to learn that you're throwing your life away to be a third-class citizen who is first to be fired and never to be promoted yet trapped because they lack a formal muggle education." Lily said as she like many other Muggleborn had fallen for that same trap over and over again. "By the time I figured out the truth it was already too late for me." Lily added as she could not believe how naive she was to throw away her future to learn magic. Still if any good came from it was her husband and the birth of her son.
(Scene Break Grimmauld that morning)
It was about 3'o'clock in the morning when the Tenno had arrived. Thanks to the paper provided by Sirius the Tenno were in place. Using Kreacher Sirius had Mad Eye subdued before he could warn the others. All they had to do was give him an injector gun filled with a sleeping drug and Kreacher handled the rest. With Mad Eye out of the fight Kreacher took is prosthetic leg to keep him from moving before the Tenno began to move in. Heron and Raven were on the room with Excalibur Umbra and Banshee Prime in use. Falcon was walking across a wire with the use of her Ivara Prime. Finally, Owl was at the ground with Ash Prime.
Each Tenno stood by a Window prepared to break in and begin the mission. Lily waited outside in a car with Sirius behind the wheel. She was dressed in a business suit with sunglasses over her eyes and her crimson locks pulled into a tail.
"Alright team you know the plan meet at the main dining room after going through the rooms and silencing the Order, neutralize do not kill." Heron said reminding the team why they were here.
"Right!" Raven, Owl, and Falcon all responded before they got moving. Placing small devices on the windows the Tenno managed to use them to not only force them open but disarm the charms protecting them. It was one of Lily's own creations the magical equivalent to an EMP. It was still a prototype, but it got the job done. The Tenno snuck into the house and got moving through to do what was needed. Their mission was now in progress. Lily meanwhile had a computer out with a headset as she oversaw the mission from her spot.
(With Heron and Raven)
The first room the two Tenno arrived in was funny enough Fred and Georges room. From what they found out from Sirius these two fancied themselves as successors to the Marauders. The Tenno were quiet and in turn got close to the two. The next thing Fred and George knew they were suddenly awoken with a hands over their mouths and followed up by being forced out of their beds.
Once the twins were tied up and secured Raven hoisted them over her shoulders to bring them downstairs. "Take them downstairs I'll secure the other rooms." Heron said and thus Raven nodded.
"Got it, boss." Raven said and thus she got moving down the stairs to make sure their catch was secured.
(With Falcon in Ginny's room)
Falcon arrived in Ginny's room and glared down at Ginny. She moved around the room wanting to investigate something. First, she looked under Ginny's bed and found what looked to be a briefcase hidden underneath it. Pull it out Raven opened it and inside found vials of a pearl clear substance. She studied a sample of it and then went wide eyed by this.
Growling she pushed it back under the bed and then looked further through the room. Opening the closest she found another disturbing sight inside of it, a stalker shrine. "This girl needs help." Falcon said before Ginny began to stir. Hearing this Falcon used a Stealth Arrow and vanished as Ginny rose from her bed.
She looked around and saw nothing amiss for a moment as Falcon quietly moved through the room. She was about to get up when she was suddenly grabbed from behind in a choke hold with a hand over her mouth. "Shh, sleep now, sleep." Raven said as son enough Ginny lost consciousness thanks to a small part of cloth covered in alcohol.
(Meanwhile with Owl)
Tonks never saw it coming as she was suddenly dragged out of her bed and pinned down with a hand over her mouth. She had little time to respond as the one who captured her forced her against the ground. Owl glared down for a moment before taking out an injector and used it on Tonks to knock her out, so she didn't cry out for help and alert the house of his presence. When Tonks passed out Owl noted how her hair changed color almost constantly before settling to a relaxed form.
"Huh mood hair neat." Owl said before he tied up Tonks and threw her over his shoulder before carrying her out like a sack of potatoes. He then carried her out to bring her to the others downstairs. "Come on lady let's take you down to the others." Owl said while carrying Tonks out of the room.
(Back with Heron and Raven)
Heron had already dealt with Kingsley as the Auror was out cold thanks to him. The next room over Raven came out as she was carrying the plump Molly Weasley with one arm and dragging Arthur out by his feet. "A little help here?" Raven asked as she needed to get a better grip on Molly.
"Alright I'll take the husband." Heron said and thus easily picked Arthur up while Raven got a better grip on Molley. With their targets acquired they got moving once more downstairs. Moody was already downstairs as was Ronald and once that was done the Tenno had finished their first task. They saw Owl carrying Mudungus down the stairs as the thief was out cold thanks to the drug they brought along.
"Lotus the inhabitants of the Base have been secured path is clear for you and Sirius to enter." Heron reported which the Lotus appreciated.
"Understood we're heading in now." The Lotus said before hanging up.
"Alright, Raven, Owl, I want you two to do one last check to secure the base. Falcon and I will guard the prisoner's downstairs." Heron said and thus the two nodded.
"On it." Owl said before he and Raven went off for one last patrol.
Meanwhile downstairs in the dining room a headcount showed the Weasley family of Arthur, Molly, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny tied up. Nearby was the three Aurors, Tonks, Kingsley, and Moody. Finally close to the table was Remus as he was also tied up no doubt it would not be long before he also came to. The Tenno made sure to gag the Order as to avoid them annoying them with constant shouting or otherwise. They also took care of any spare wands and sharp implements that could be used to break themselves out of their bonds.
Soon enough the door opened and from it Lily and Sirius walked in. "Place is secured, Lotus." Heron said as the Order were still out cold.
"Good work." Lotus repeated as she saw the Order of the Phoenix. She gave them a cold neutral look pitying them for being sucked into the cult of Dumbledore. But perhaps they can see the error of this decision after all she knows Moody enough that he would jump at the chance to really do damage to the Death Eaters. And Tonks was young Lily still remembered how Andromeda would care for young Tonks when she was a child. Regardless, if the Order proves itself unwilling to back down when the time comes, the Tenno will do what they must.
(Scene Break Later that morning)
When Dumbledore arrived at Grimmauld that morning with Snape he expected few things. What he expected was to find the Order of the Phoenix sitting around the dinner table enjoying breakfast with the Weasley Children. He expected to come in and distribute orders as they search for the still missing Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. All would be well as they continue the search for the wayward students. Perhaps with Sirius name cleared he will be willing to aid in the search with the promise of his Godson being returned to him.
What Dumbledore did not expect was to find the entire Order of the Phoenix tied up and gagged in the dining room and someone sitting at the head of the table. What he also didn't expect was to find the face of someone who should have been dead for over 14 years. Even Snape was gasping for air when he saw the green eyes of the woman who the dark lord had killed.
"Lily." Snape gasped as he was the first to regain his voice.
"What's wrong... you two look like you've seen a ghost." Lily said as she glared at the pair before her.
"How is this possible? Lily is that? No, it couldn't be." Dumbledore said trying to rationalize what he was seeing.
"It most certainly is, Professor." Lily said as she may as well forge a tale. "I clawed my way out of Hell itself for the sake of my son." Lily said with a calm tone in her voice.
"Lily your it's you I can't." Snape began but then saw the glare Lily directed at him.
"How did you get in here?" Dumbledore asked and soon he looked to the source.
"I brought her here." Sirius said as the Order stood in shock when Sirius came in.
"I knew you could not be trusted." Snape snarled but Lily cut in.
"No, you could not be trusted Severus." Lily began as she glared at the greasy potions master. "Neither you nor Dumbledore." Lily added with her glare directed at both of them.
"Lily I'm sure you must have questions but what have I done to earn your ire?" Dumbledore asked as he wasn't entirely certain that this was in actually Lily.
"Shall I list off the reason, the first war you kept precenting us from using lethal means to deal with the Death Eaters." Lily listed off as she glared at Dumbledore. "Because of that we were losing the War. We would have lost the war had my ritual not robbed Voldemort of his body." Lily began as she glared at Dumbledore. "You placed my son with the one person he was not to be placed with for any reason." Lily continued but was far from done. "Then you constantly put him in danger in that death trap of a school year after year by using it to draw out Voldemort, refusing to evacuate the students when a dangerous monster was on the loose, allowed Snape to sabotage Remus when he finally had a job with his Lycanthropy and don't give me that excuse that he forgot about his potion." Lily continued listing off Dumbledore's crimes.
"Then we have this past year where you forced my son into a tournament with a high death toll when you knew for a fact, he didn't put his name in the Goblet!" Lily snarled while glaring at Dumbledore. "But right after he saw Cedric Diggory die instead of actually getting him mental help you thought he needed isolation to come to terms with it." Lily finished as she glared at Dumbledore. "Being alone after watching a classmate die was the LAST thing he needed!" Lily snarled as she rose up from her seat.
"Lily, I assure you while some of my decisions were mistakes it was all for the." Dumbledore began but was cut off by Lily.
"For the greater good I forget weren't those same words used by Grindelwald." Lily countered as this caused Dumbledore to stop talking. Lily then directed her attention towards Snape her ire becoming pronounced while she struggled to keep Natah back. "And Severus don't even bother with your empty apologies." Lily said when she saw Severus open his mouth. "You made your intentions clear towards me when you sicked Voldemort onto me all those years ago, begging him to spare me, but not James or my son." Lily went on as she made her fury known. "And if by some miracle he had done so, then what?" Lily asked almost accusingly towards Severus. "Would you have potioned me into obedience? To become your little sex toy?" Lily accusingly asked her former friend.
"No, Lily, I…" Severus began but Lily cut him off once more.
"Save it, Severus." Lily said as she glared at Snape. "Thanks to you my son lost his whole world that night." Lily said as she glared at Snape. "I would have lost everything if you had your way." Lily continued as Snape had no way to counter Lily's words.
"So is this it revenges for giving Potter his due!" Snape sneered as Lily glared at Severus before sighing.
"I may have forgiven you eventually for calling me a Mudblood, Severus, if you hadn't joined the Death Eaters and tried to have my family murdered," Lily snarled as she kept her cool feeling Natar raddling the bars to unleash on Snape. "Because of you I died, I lost my husband, and my son was forced into a house raised by my sister!" Lily nearly yelled as she was starting to lose her temper.
"Potters son is no different from his wretched father an arrogant glory hog and whining over every little inconvenience." Snape snapped as the room then grew quiet around them. Snape noted the chill in the room as Lily was silent. Soon the silence was broken by a small giggle.
That giggle came from Lily and soon it began to devolve into laughter. Soon Lily's laughter was echoing across the entire house as it almost looked like she was a raving madwoman. Eventually Lily calmed down as she then directed a hateful glare at the two. "Severus you bloody hypocrite." Lily said with a scowl directed at Snape.
"Sev, Sev, Sev." Lily began using the nickname she once had for her former friend. "Did you know that in our third year, I daydreamed about marrying you? There are 'LE SS' hearts in my third-year diary if anyone doubts." Lily said as Severus was shocked by those words.
"I didn't know this, Lily. I didn't know you ever felt this way about the wizard boy from the poor side of Cokeworth." He admitted his tone shocked at what he heard.
"Of course, you didn't it's a diary for a reason." Lily said as she then got down to it. "But you are bloody hypocrite projecting yourself onto Harry." Lily said shocking Snape. "The truth is if anyone is just like their father it's you." Lily snapped as this left Snape for a loop. "Bullying and abusing your students because they aren't Slytherin's." Lily said as she glared at her former friend. "Taking points for the smallest of mishaps yet rewarding the kids in green for the smallest of successes, like blowing their bloody noses." Lily continued as Snape was unable to react. "You said my son is no better than his father, the same father who saved your blooming life from a werewolf." Lily continued showing that Snape was now cornered.
"Even though James hated you and you hated James he still saved your life." Lily went on as she stood up and Snape edged back almost in fear. "Ironic the man you tried to use the man you hated as an insult even though said man saved your life." Lily said as she then glared down upon Severus. "Honestly, Sev, I consider 'You're just like your father,' when said to Harry, to be a compliment." Lily said as she remembered the man she loved and still loves wishing he had been reborn like she had been, so she'd never fall into Ballus arms as Margulis. "Meanwhile, Sev, you are just like your father—who was a bully." She said before finishing it off. "Your despicable Snape your just like your father and you deserve every misery you bring upon yourself." Lily said before Dumbledore spoke.
"Lily... did you take Harry?" Dumbledore asked and thus Lily smirked.
"I most certainly did, I am his mother after all." Lily said not even denying it.
"Lily my dear girl you don't understand what you are doing." Dumbledore said only for Lily to glare at him.
"No, I do understand, which is why my son is not returning to Hogwarts this year." Lily said much to Dumbledore's shock.
"Lily, I must ask you to release Harry, you died and no longer belong in this world." Dumbledore said and thus Lily glared at the man.
"No... I will not and shall not leave." Lily said as she glared at Dumbledore watching his movements. Her computer mind was already running through several scenarios. "The Order of the Phoenix will disband today I'll be operating the war against Voldemort and his Death Eaters going forward." Lily said and thus Dumbledore knew he had to act now.
Then Dumbledore raised his wand to Lily hoping to get her to stand down. "I'm sorry Lily but you're going down a dark path." Dumbledore said and in turn something happened. Lily's form changed and from it Natah was in control acting fast and disarming Dumbledore with a beam shot of Eidolon energy from her mouth. Dumbledore's wand flew out of his hand and towards Natah's position as she easily caught it in her waiting hand. When it did Lily felt a pull from her Magical Core as the Wand and her linked together.
Dumbledore looked to the scene in shock as he saw Lily didn't even try to reason with him just went for the attack. Now she was the master of the Elder Wand the unbeatable Wand and one of the three Deathly Hollows. As Natah looked upon the wand she found that now Lily was a full witch once more. She then took a deep breath and calmed her emotions as soon enough the Tenno appeared and had Snape and Dumbledore in their range.
Turning around Natah shifted to the Lotus as she glared at the two Wizards. "Consider the Order of the Phoenix debunked this is no longer your headquarters." Lotus said and thus she flicked her hand to the Tenno.
(Later outside Grimmauld)
One by one the Order of the Phoenix was thrown out to the street. Dumbledore was first followed by snape, the Weasley's, Shacklepot, and finally Remus. "And stay out!" Owl called out before dusting his hands off and following the others back inside. Not long after the War Wards were activated placing the house on lockdown.
As they got back up it was clear that Lily had gained the upper hand over them. Kingsley went for the door and tried to force it open, but it would not budge. He tried a spell only to be blasted back by it and into the street again.
"Albus... what do we do?" Molly asked once she was bac on her feet.
"For once... I'm not sure." Dumbledore admitted and thus this meant they needed to retreat for now. "We must go and gather ourselves." Dumbledore said but in turn Remus noted something.
"Wait where is Tonks and Moody?" Remus asked noting the two Aurors were missing.
(Back inside of the house)
"Now what to do with you two?" Raven asked as she glared down at Moody and Tonks.
"If you're going to kill us to make a point, get it over with." Moody growled and thus Lily stepped.
"No on the contrary we're here to strike a deal." Lily said as she looked down on the two as she held Moody's leg. "Let them loose." Lotus ordered and with a nod Raven cut them loose while Falcon had a Baza Prime and Owl had a Latron Prime pointed at the two. Once they were freed Tonks got up and began to help Moody to a chair.
"Are you really her?" Tonks asked with concern as she saw the guns pointed at her.
"Yes." Lotus said and thus she looked to the pair. They seemed to be the most likely to side with the Tenno if it meant ending this war once and for all.
Meanwhile Heron once he was sure the house was secured looked around exploring Grimmauld Place. It was certainly filthy, but it was nothing the Tenno haven't dealt with before. As he walked around though he arrived at another room and saw a closet there. It wasn't the closet that got his attention but who leaned next to it. Heron glared at the being who shared his face as said being grinned and looked to Heron with his empty eyes of indifference.
The Man in the Wall was here as he grinned and pointed his thumb at the door before Heron sighed. He closed his eyes and counted to ten before opening them and finding the entity was gone. As he approached it, he heard Kreacher snarling nearby. "Wretched bug." Kreacher said as he glared at the Spot the Indifference was. "Wearing Kreachers face coming when he's not wanted." Kreacher said before leaving the area leaving Heron confused.
"Kreacher can see the Man in the Wall as well?" Heron asked as he saw what was going on. Focusing himself Heron made his way over to the door and proceeded to open it. Once it was open, he felt a coldness radiating in it even through his Warframe. This cold was unnatural and with only one option Heron reached in to find the source. Moving several items out of the way Heron found a box inside of the closet. The feeling he felt came from there and thus he opted to open it to see what was inside.
Once he did so Heron pulled out a locket with the symbol of a snake on it. Glaring at it, Heron, and Umbra both felt it a sinister aura radiated from this locket. Whatever it was Heron knew that it had to be dealt with soon.
"Lotus, I think I found something." Heron said as he had to let the Lotus know about it. Holding the locket Heron knew that whatever it was could change their tactics on how to deal with Voldemort. Still Voldemort may become the least of this worlds concern and the Tenno are unaware of this greater danger.
(Meanwhile elsewhere in Britain)
In a lone house a young girl was laying in her bed with posters for On-Lyne around her room with other merchandise. She laid there shivering and sweating as hugging her body. Under her blanket she was in agony something was very wrong, but she couldn't call for help nor could she even scream. Her skin was crawling as something underneath was making itself pronounce. Around her room what appeared to be spores were flying about as under her bed something grotesque was seen pulsing. It began to grow and from there... all hell would break loose in this house.
Under the sheets her eyes snapped open as her skin and body began to shift and mutate on the spot. What was left would no longer be a teen girl but something from a horror movie. When her parents would return that same night, they would become the very first victims of the monster their daughter had become.
(TBC)
ESKK: A new chapter finished and done with. We hope you all enjoyed it and remember to leave a review before leaving. Now until we meet again I will again say to everyone here, ja-ne.