"You two," using his wings again as pointers, Archimedes called out Artie and John, "will be going next. If you have been paying attention, we can speed through this without wasting time explaining each time."
Artie and John did as they were told, although Artie let a comment slip, "Do you think he would be cuter as a plush owl?" making John chuckled along, thinking the bird was indeed too demanding and impatient.
The process started again, everyone filling their roles from before as more ancient filled the room. After a few moments of ancient chanting, swift pain and the mixtures disappearing into two scrolls, the results were ready to be ready aloud again by King Jareth. "John, you will be done first. As someone who was once Heir to a great House of magick, your results should make better sense to you than they did or will for your companions. With this, you will become Lord of your old House," explained the Goblin King softly, receiving a nod from John in acknowledgement of his words. John's bloody black scroll floated into the air, the cord coming undone as the magick began its work, Jareth proclaiming these words as they appeared.
Squib Magick Restoration Inheritance
Preformed by Merlin, Archimedes and Madam Mim
Witness by the Goblin King Jareth
Name: Zephyrus Corvus/John Michael
Family Name: Lestrange/Hellman
Birth: November 20th, 1965
Age: 44 (19 days away from 45)
Star Sign: Scorpio
Animal Zodiac: Snake
Ethnicity: French Londoner
Parents: Dead
Siblings: Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange (younger, magickal twins)
Magickal Bloodline Restored:
Ancient Ancestor: The Enchantress, Wandering Witch Judge of France
Recent Ancestor: Corvus Marcus Lestrange
Vault(s):
Enchantress Vaults
Lestrange Vaults
Heirships/Lordships:
Lord of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Lestrange
Properties:
The Lestrange Family Manor - Nottingham, England
The Lestrange Townhouse - London, England
Businesses:
15% ownership and income of all current businesses in Place Cachée
10% ownership and income of all current businesses in Diagon Alley
Magickal Abilities Gained:
Wandless Magicks (Enchantress)
Legilimency (Lestrange)
Occlumency (Lestrange)
Apparition (Lestrange)
Multi Animagus (Enchantress)
Metamorphmagus (Enchantress)
Possession (Enchantress)
Mim Madam tapped on Artie' shoulder, "It's your turn, dearie."
Squib Magick Restoration Inheritance
Preformed by Merlin, Archimedes and Madam Mim
Witness by the Goblin King Jareth
Name: Arthur/Artie
Family Name: McCrea
Birth: December 1st, 1986
Age: 23
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Animal Zodiac: Tiger
Ethnicity: French Londoner
Parents: Benjamin - father
Siblings: None
Magickal Bloodline Restored:
Ancient Ancestor: Esmeralda, the Roma Witch of Notre Dame
Ancient Ancestor: Milady de Winter, French Royal Witch, Spy and Assassin
Recent Ancestor: Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, Opera Mistress of Paris
Vault(s):
Notre Dame Vault
De Winter Vault
Bonfamille Vault
Heirships/Lordships:
Archwizard of Notre Dame
Royal Wizard of France (Magickal France)
Lord of the Ancient and Noble House of Bonfamille
Properties:
Notre Dame Quarters - Paris, France
Royal Quarters - all Palaces of France (Magickal)
The Bonfamille Mansion - Paris, France
Businesses:
60% ownership and income from all businesses in Place Cachée
Magickal Abilities Gained:
Feline tongue - Language of Cats (Bonfamille)
Roma Magicks (Roma)
Music Magicks (Bonfamille)
Dance Magicks (Roma)
Holy Magicks (Notre Dame)
Wandless Magicks (Notre Dame)
Assassin Magicks (De Winter)
Winter Magicks (De Winter)
"That concludes the second set of these tests," Madam Mim said, "The last ones left are now Cruella and baby Harry."
Cruella and the newly born wizards were confused by this statement, Cruella inquiring, "Why Harry?" who had reclaimed Harry back into her arms as Artie's results were being read aloud by Jareth.
Merlin took over then, "Good question, my dear. While you adults are indeed once Squibs or from old forgotten lines of Squibs who in turn were from ancient bloodlines, Harry is partial from one due to his mother's side, which is very common for most human-based half-bloods but before we even do his test, a few things need to be settled to give us the best and most acute information in regard to the young one."
At the confused looks, Jareth took over for his younger brother, "Cruella, your chosen family so far have gone through an ancient rite that unlocked their magickal cores, one you will be doing soon yourself. Heir Potter won't be doing the same test, instead, "Jareth waved his hand, which called forth a scroll of black and white, tied together in a cord of gold and silver, "he will be doing a test that is just as rare. I have never been able to figure out a proper name for this, even with help from my many siblings, no name felt right, so I merely kept its official title simple for anyone to understand. It is called the Absolute Bloodline Test, testing his blood to the very beginning of his line, even acknowledging any adoptions or such he might have gone through prior to the test. In order for this to be fully complete, you first must do your own test, marry your very new fiancé and both adopt him, because otherwise we would have to do this test again after the adoption, to acknowledge the bloodlines he will inherit from his new parents. Better to only do this once for right now."
Cruella shared a quick glance with Jasper, who nodded his head in agreement at the king's words. "I understand. Can both the marriage and adoption take place soon after my results are finished?"
"Indeed, it can be done," Bloodstar spoke up, "We can have it all done within thirty minutes. This will take care of things on the legal side, both in the Muggle and Wizarding worlds. I would recommend something more official when things are a little calmer for you," he finished, thinking back for a moment to his own wedding to his lovely mate, Opalstar.
"Very well, let us continue on then," stated Cruella.
She stood up from her chair then, passing Harry to Artie as she made her way to the last bowl, grabbing the ebony needle to prick her pointer finger, allowing the drops to fall as needed before pulling away. The same thing that happened to everyone else happened to her now. The pain, it's fading, the bowl's mixture disappearing into the scroll, the ancient chanting and finally, the cord coming undone, as the scroll started to do its work.
Squib Magickal Restoration Inheritance
Preformed by Merlin, Archimedes and Madam Mim
Witness by the Goblin King Jareth
Name: Cruella/Estella
Family Name: De Vil/Miller
Birth: March 22nd, 1986
Age: 24
Star Sign: Aries
Animal Zodiac: Tiger
Ethnicity: Londoner
Parents: Dead
Siblings: None
Mate: Jasper De Vil
Magickal Bloodline Restored:
Ancient Ancestor: Maleficent, Queen of the Moors, Dark Faes, Phoenixes and Dragons
Ancient Ancestor: Jadis the White Witch, Queen of Narnia
Ancient Ancestor: Morgana le Fay, Mage Queen of Camelot
Recent Ancestor: Hecat Hellman nee Prince
Vault(s):
Moors Vaults
Narnia Vaults
Le Fay Vaults
Heirships/Ladyships:
Queen of the Moors, Dark Faes, Phoenixes and Dragons
Queen of Narnia
2nd Heir to Camelot
Lady of the Dark and Light (Le Fay title)
Properties:
Maleficent's Castle - The Forbidden Mountain, the Moors
The White Witch's Castle - Narnia (appears only during the winter times)
Cair Paravel Castle - East Coast, Narnia
Royal Suite - Camelot Castle, hidden
Businesses:
60% ownership and income of all businesses in Narnia
20% ownership and income of all businesses in Diagon Alley
Magickal Abilities Gained:
Flight (Moors)
Wandless Magicks (Moors)
Draconic Tongues - Dragons/subspecies (Moors)
Fae Magicks (Moors)
Phoenix Travel (Moors)
Draconic Magicks (Moors)
Winter Magicks (Narnia)
Dimension Travel (Narnia)
Command of Winter creatures (Narnia)
Transformation (Moors)
Wandless Magicks (Camelot)
As the words finished, Cruella suddenly started to scream a most primal sound that shook everything within the room. Archimedes quickly flew onto Artie' shoulder, using his wings as earmuffs for baby Harry, which seemed to work despite it logically not being able to. Cruella dropped to her knees and arched her back, Jasper and John rushing to her sides, worried for her and not sure what to do. The time hoppers and the goblins stared in silence. The back of Cruella's clothes started to give way and in a burst of sound and color, two giant raven wings of ebony appeared, attached to her shoulder blades. Each wing had a bone white talon sticking out from the middle portion of the wing spines. Madam Mim waved her hand, which caused the ruined pieces of clothes to repair themselves around the new body parts.
But the pain wasn't over yet. Shortly after her screams died out after the emerging of the wings, Cruella started to cry in agony as she held her head, the reason became apparent quickly as two black horns started to grow from beneath her hair, which in turn grew fast. They curled ever so slightly until they stood fully erected, slightly taller than the length of Cruella's head.
"Hmm, oh, what happened, darlings," Cruella asked as she still sat on her knees in a daze of confusion.
"I think it was a Creature Inheritance," John answered.
"What's that," demanded Jasper.
"It's something I used to read about as a child. Usually when a witch or wizard becomes a certain age or under special circumstances, when they receive the final growth rates of their magick cores, they can sometimes get abilities or physical parts related to a creature that happens to be within their bloodline history. In France, the most common creature that mingled with wizards and witches were Veelas, which would in turn mean their bloodlines would forever have Veela there, not that everyone would awaken their Veela powers after a few generations."
"Lord Lestrange is right," Silverhowl informed them, King Jareth and Bloodstar nodding along in agreement.
"Seems another of our families' bloodlines have reawakened, dear brother," Jareth told Merlin.
"How so," questioned Artie, who still had baby Harry in his arms. Archimedes had flown back to the perch on the desk after Cruella finished screaming.
"Maleficent was one of my mother's, Queen Titania of Avalon, many half-sisters. Maleficent was also the granddaughter of Hecate, Greek Titan-Goddess of Magicks and many other domains of influence. Making her a distant cousin to Hercules," looking at Jasper as he said that, "and making her my aunt. This is gonna bring about a lot of crazy times for you two," pointing at the soon to be wedded couple.
"In what way," asked Cruella, who had retaken her seat with Jasper's help. John and Jasper soon retook their own seats as well.
"When the main bloodlines of Maleficent and Hercules died out, neither me nor my hundreds of siblings ever considered looking at the Squib lines that branched off from their main tree trunk. We thought we had lost pieces of our family forever. Mother and Father were especially inconsolable during their grieving back some five hundred years ago. Once I inform the Avalon Court of this, I expect you will be visited by several of them, including Oberon and Titania themselves."
"I am surprised though," interjected Merlin, "I had no idea Morgana was a descendant of our dear aunt."
"It's possible she didn't know, brother."
"Ho oh, I can't wait to see this lovely chaos unfold," Madam stated as she danced jolly around the room clapping her hands.
"Now, now, settle down, Mim. We must be getting back to our own time soon enough," Merlin said as he killed Mim's chance of glorious chaos.
"Indeed so. I would say after the child's test. Now, it appears we are finally finished with the main Restoration tests," proclaimed Archimedes, looking at the five newly awaken magickals, "Welcome to a world far bigger than you ever knew. Only one test remains," glancing at baby Harry as he giggled in Artie's arms, "to whom I have high expectations of."
"Why's that," asked Horace.
"If I had to hazard a guess here," spoke Jareth with his velvety voice, "Heir Potter's test should prove to show some very interesting things."
"But first," started Merlin, "Cruella and Jasper must wed first, then they can adopt young Harry here, which in turn will affect his test."
"Will it hurt him like it did us," the question asked by a worried looking John.
Jareth shook his head. "No. This test will only need two drops of blood, one from each hand. The ritual will act similar to yours, with the mixture being absorbed into the scroll but for the pain part, well, that's the interesting thing I did when I created the Absolute Bloodline Test. The pain he normally would have felt can either be taken on by someone related to him or be sent to someone who wishes him great harm or death," a feral grin appeared on Jareth's handsome face, "since we know Dumblecuck wants great harm to befall Heir Potter here, I have made it so the pain will be dealt to him. This is because the pain will be ten times what you all felt, which is why this test is normally done when a young witch or wizard is of legal age at about 17, when their magick cores is usually fully grown."
The five adult humans paled at that but got over their astonishment fast. The two goblin Overseers who had disappeared briefly during Cruella's transformation were back holding a rather long rope of silver and gold. Jareth stood from his grand chair to stand in front of the desk, waving his hand to make the leftover bowls and items disappear from sight. "Cruella and Jasper, please stand before me. It's time for you to be wedded and renamed."