Magnus arrived at Camelot with Pebble behaving like a good girl. She was continuously looking around, excited and curious about everything. She had been caught up in the bank for more than 100 years. So she had not seen the new advancements of the world, to her the new tall buildings and the small metal monsters were new. She wanted to take a bite of them and see how they tasted, but Magnus was able to persuade her not to after a long conversation.
He expected Duck to teach her everything about the new civilization, and he made sure that nobody hunted Dragons anymore, as he was going to put an open contract for the Goblins to catch any person who hunts or harms a dragon or a few more endangered class 5 beasts. This was the simple rule of poaching the poachers, something that was really practised around the world.
As they flew over the lands of Camelot all the animals started running down on the ground, chasing the shadow in the sky, they knew this was a new addition to their already big family.
"QUACK!" Duck of course came first flying to him, and stayed beside Pebble. She was interestingly looking at Duck, who was a dragon but much larger than her and also a bit different, as he had 4 limbs.
"Haha, meet Pebble, Duck. I freed her from the Goblins at the bank, she was treated very badly, so I hope you will take care of her like a good big brother." He explained to Duck.
Duck dutifully patted his chest, "YES..." However, he forgot he was flying and started to fall, barely escaping touching the ground, not that it would have done anything to him.
Soon, Magnus brought Pebble to the large open field where all the animals had already gathered to welcome the new animal. However, Pebble seemed very uneasy seeing so many strong beasts, even those who could threaten her.
Who other than Cuddle, a basilisk could scare a dragon. However, Cuddles was calmly standing in the crowd, styling a pair of cool glasses on his eyes. He looked so happy and different now. Before he looked too scary, now he looked too harmless.
"Everyone, meet Pebble, she is a very shy and timid dragon, so be kind to her. She is not used to too much talking and meeting new faces, so be patient, okay. Duck and Cuddles, you will help her get used to the area, okay?" he instructed them.
"QUACK!" which translated to, "You can count on me,"
Cuddles first came to Magnus to get a few head pats, then he went directly to Pebble. Duck, being very smart, immediately introduced her to everyone.
Meanwhile, Magnus went to a Nundu, who was watching everything from the back and instructed him in simple words. He told him about what was being asked from him at the bank. Magnus had noticed that this Nundu was already a loner, and liked to not talk or move much. There were other Nundu too on the island but he preferred to be like this.
Soon, the Nundu agreed, as he was going to get paid with good food every day. He will also get to sleep all he wants, as long as he deals with any threats who come to steal. To help ease his job, Magnus gave him an intruder alert device, that will notice any noise in his vicinity and alert him.
Nundu were surely the best safety the bank could ask for. Since they were just so dangerous.
They moved silently, despite their "gigantic" size, and were considered by some to be the most dangerous creature alive. The breath of the Nundu was toxic and filled with diseases so potent that it could wipe out entire villages of people. The Nundu was extremely hard to subdue. It had never been defeated by less than around one hundred wizards working together. Compared to the dragons who could be stunned into submission by around ten wizards, the prospect of this rare beast became truly terrifying.
The only reason they were following Magnus's orders was because of his blood, which makes these beasts feel that they are in the presence of someone superior to them. Also, they just love Magnus because he treats them so nicely. The Camelot is a literal paradise and he's the lord of the land.
After setting Pebble up, he went to the castle, he wanted to meet Martha and see what crazy thing she was cooking today. However, as he was entering, he saw some phoenixes crying loudly for some reason.
~Weren't they crying the last time too?~ he muttered to himself and entered.
But, there was a reason behind the cries of the phoenixes.
"OH NINA! YOU FOOL! HOW COULD YOU!"
"NINAAAA! How could you bear that foreigner's child?!" another phoenix cried, there were about 10 of them in the group.
"THAT LUCKY BASTARD!"
Magnus reached Martha and found her to be sitting by the fireplace, and as always, she was doing something crazy. She was knitting some sweaters, a lot of them.
"Welcome, dear, look at these, I made all these sweaters for you, Ragnar, your new sibling and also Fawkes' child." She told him whole trying to measure Magnus' size and the sweater to make sure it would fit.
"Fawkes' child? When did that happen? Isn't he going too fast, I just told him to find a girlfriend." Magnus muttered.
"And he found love, ah, truly, a strange thing, it happens in the most unexpected moments, I guess that's what makes it interesting. Come, sweetie, sit with me." she invited him, and a wave of her paws made sure a glass of hot chocolate was in Magnus's hand.
Magnus to this day had no idea how strong Martha truly was, her abilities seemed overpowered though, and as she is so old she has a vast amount of knowledge about all kinds of magic.
He took a seat beside her, "Do you have muggle newspaper, Grandma?"
"No, but Goldruk probably does, he sends his men to the muggle world every day to manage my company." She replied.
"A company? What company? I thought you didn't go out" he asked her in wonder.
"Hehe, this time I took your advice and went out to see things. The world has really changed. I looked into the two boys you told me about, Superman and Batman, good lads, but Batman is a naughty boy. But I liked their character and I wanted to buy them." Martha said as a matter of fact.
"So you bought the two character rights?" He inquired, as this was the most logical thing to do.
"No, I bought those who created them, I want to read them before anybody else." She replied, still focused on knitting.
"YOU BOUGHT DC COMICS?" Magnus exclaimed in shock.
Martha stopped and looked at him in confusion, "DC? No dear, the goblins told me that it was something called Warner Brothers. Haha, initially I feared they had bought two brothers and made them servants, but it turns out, that's what the company is called."
(ಠ_ಠ")
Magnus felt numb, what was Warner Brothers? It was one of the biggest studios in the world. They were very old too, just like Disney. And they were big, big enough that he considered using his money to buy them a waste.
"W-why? They make movies, grandma, what do you plan to do with the company? And how did you even buy it? I am pretty sure its major shareholder was adamant on not selling it." He inquired.
She shrugged, "Well dear, just a little bit of negotiation and tricks solved it all. And I don't know what to do, I just wanted the comics, they can continue to make pictures however they want I guess."
Magnus blinked dumbly, she was totally going to destroy this company and she didn't even care about it.
"Umm, Grandma, maybe let me handle the company, I was going to buy a studio anyway, you just saved me the trouble," Magnus suggested.
Martha happily knitted the sweater and nodded, "Sure, dear, you can do whatever you want with the company, and tell them to make good comics, I don't want any nonsense propaganda in it or else I will fire everyone and also wipe their memories of drawing so they can never work in their life."
~She... she really loves the comics, it seems.~ Magnus realised and decided to make sure to only hire good folks to draw them.
"Sir, your newspapers." Dobby appeared. He had been taken in by Martha as a helper, since at the mansion Abe and George were already present, here Dobby was also being trained.
Magnus had already planned now that he would make a new branch of Warner Brothers, whose sole job would be to make films and special effects with magic. The whole crew will need to be made of wizards or muggles who know. He was feeling excited, the potential of using magic in action and big scenes was boundless, for example, if they need to they can blast or destroy a building, car or anything as many times as they want, since they could always repair it with Reparo charm. Their cost would also be very efficient.
He ignored that for now and opened the newspaper. He needed to keep himself aware of what was going around in the world. The Soviet Union was still very strong and the Cold War was at its height, though the space race was already won by the United States. He thought, ~I wonder if Britain also has a space program?"~
Both the USA and the USSR were trying to spread their sphere of influence as much as possible these days.
However, soon he saw a news that shocked him a little, "South Africa is building nukes?" [A/N: Yup, they had nukes until 1994.]
Down there was the history of South Africa, the nukes were being made to keep the Soviet presence away and the western countries were supporting it. However, then he saw the ugliest side of this country.
Just a few words were enough to make him stand up in anger, "APARTHEID SYSTEM IS STILL IMPLEMENTED! THERE HAVE BEEN RIOTS! ETHNIC VIOLENCE! The main government only consists of white nationals while the country has a majority population of coloured people including native Africans. And then he read that even the Africans had committed ethnic violence."
Magnus quickly took some other newspapers and compiled a brief history of what the hell was going on. And the more he read, the more disgusted he felt. He realised that Purebloods were not so bad after all, muggles have finally proven themselves to be one step above.
But, keeping all this aside, he realised a huge problem for his future plans. It would doom all his investments if not solved.
[A/N: So, how many of you knew South Africa had nukes?]
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Magnus read the whole thing and got a brief understanding of what was going on. The whole system of South Africa was messed up and shouldn't exist in the current era.
[A/N: All that you are about to read is real, I am not making this up.]
Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white dominance), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Asians and Coloureds, then black Africans.
Apartheid was delineated into petty apartheid, which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and grand apartheid, which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race. The first apartheid law was passed just a year after South Africa became independent from the British, it was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, followed closely by the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, which made it illegal for most South African citizens to marry or pursue sexual relationships across racial lines.
The Population Registration Act, 1950 classified all South Africans into one of four racial groups based on appearance, known ancestry, socioeconomic status, and cultural lifestyle: "Black", "White", "Coloureds", and "Indian", the last two of which included several sub-classifications. Places of residence were determined by racial classification.
Between 1960 and 1973, 1.5 million black Africans were removed from their homes and forced into segregated neighbourhoods as a result of apartheid legislation, in some of the largest mass evictions in modern history. Most of these targeted removals were intended to restrict the black population to ten designated "tribal homelands", also known as bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government announced that relocated persons would lose their South African citizenship as they were absorbed into the bantustans.
Many opposing voices were also rising in the country, African National Congress was the leading anti-apartheid political movement, for ending segregation and introducing majority rule. And this was equally as bad, there needs to be an equal representation, there should be no one superior to the other.
Magnus felt as if South Africa was like some kind of an experiment, and the UK and the USA were ignoring it for now as the current government of South Africa was anti-communist.
He put the paper down. His mind was thinking something, and when he came to a conclusion, his eyes widened and he shot up, "DAMMIT! NO NO! If this went on, all my investments would go to ruin, damn these dumb politicians."
"What happened, dear?" Martha asked him, shocked by his spontaneous cursing.
"Nothing Grandma, I just found some muggles to be worse than the purebloods. I will go and deal with it now, Dobby, drop me at my home." Magnus rushed.
Martha chuckled, "Hehe, muggle or wizard, all are the same, child, their kindness is usually just a farce."
Magnus was no saint, although he felt what was happening in South Africa was bad, but it did not affect him in any way possible, so he didn't care, or so he thought until he realised all his future plans could be spoiled because of these folks.
In his dictionary, be it a person of any colour if any of them think they are superior to the other, need to be bonked on the head with a good old obliviate so hard they forget what race even means.
~No wonder Elna so desperately wanted her family to be shifted from South Africa.~ he realised.
...
*POP*
"Sup Mag, you got a phone call from Pfizer, they said they made a new medicine but have no idea what to do with it." Ragnar told him lazily.
But Magnus ignored him, "No time, Rag, we might have to go to South Africa as soon as possible. Pack your bags."
"AWESOME, SUMMER HOLIDAYS!" Ragnar cheered up and waved his wand proudly to pack his bags. He was only good at a few low-level charms but he was proud of it dammit.
Magnus meanwhile picked up his phone and called Adrian and Ted. "I need you at Buckingham Palace in 10 minutes, emergency meeting."
Later, he called the queen, who did not have a mobile phone, "Granny Liz, I need you and the prime minister at the palace in 10 minutes, emergency meeting."
The queen on the other side felt happy, being called Granny once again. Her bad mood from days just vanished in an instant. "I understand, will call him now."
Magnus quickly found Abe and asked him to teleport them to the palace. He and Ragnar arrived there in a second, "Abe you stay here, we might need you later."
He and Ragnar headed to the Queen's office, it had enough space for everybody to talk with. He was of course the first one to arrive.
As he was on the way to the office, he saw the old man Mountbatten. "Grandpa, what are you doing?"
"Just returned with the oil tankers, came to report the matter," Mountbatten replied. He was so old and yet he did not feel very tired even after this long journey.
"Good, come with me then, we have another emergency." He told him and walked ahead.
The one to arrive late was going to be the Prime Minister, as he was a muggle. The queen arrived minutes later.
"What's the matter, Magnus?" She inquired.
"Our plan to add Overseas Territories as a permanent part is in danger, let others come, I will explain." He replied and waited.
Soon Ted and Adrian also arrived, being wizards was convenient, in half an hour the Prime Minister also arrived. They all took seats. Magnus immediately put various newspaper cutouts in front of them.
"Tell me, are we supporting this mess?" He asked the Prime Minister sternly. Ragnar, Ted, Adrian and Lord Mountbatten looked at the newspaper.
The Prime minister nodded, "Yes, and no. We don't support racism of course, but we can not let a new government take power right now, because the next one might go towards the Soviets."
*BANG*
Magnus slammed his fist on the table, "Do you have any idea how much money we will lose if we don't do anything? TRILLIONS! The whole world already sees us as colonisers, enslavers and thieves. South Africa was our mess to begin with, and we are still pouring gas in the fire? Have you gone mad?
"The future, in 10-30 years, will be different from what it is now. As the day of communication arrives the world will be more connected than before. And you don't want any bad spots on your image at that point.
"I have investments in Africa and have big plans for it in the future. All African nations will refuse to cooperate with us if we are seen as colonisers. I understand, being a coloniser was the trend of that era, but this is the modern world now, and we can't be seen as the same.
"Seriously, Britain could have been as big as Russia if we had instead used our brain and decided to rather than dividing the world on the basis of colour and language had tried to unite the colonies under one flag, as a part of our own, citizens of Britain and if they were treated right, they would have loved to become British, but no, we had to be short-sighted. Now, we need to fix this mess."
~TRILLIONS? What's so good about Africa?~ the prime minister wondered.
"How do you propose we start this campaign to wash our image?" Lord Mountbatten asked.
Magnus turned to the Prime Minister, "Put trade sanctions on South Africa and arms embargo, heavily publicise it around the globe, remember, WE need to look like the best people in the world. Heavily publicise our efforts in the USA too, as talks about freedom there are pretty hot. Along with their ongoing anti-war sentiment, we can add this to it.
"Next, we are a permanent member of the UNSC, try to pass a resolution to put sanctions and arms embargo on South Africa from around the world. The world will have no choice but to agree to it, Russia will be happy, China will agree since they want to be in our good books right now, USA and France will follow suit. And tell Israel to back off from helping them in making nukes. Understood?"
"What about the South African country itself?" The queen inquired.
Magnus smiled and turned to his Order of Merlin members, "I got a plan for that. It's time to visit Africa."
"What will you do?" Lord Mountbatten inquired, however, Ted and Adrian had gotten an idea by now. Both of them stood up at the same time.
"I will prepare my luggage," Ted said.
"And I will gather some men to come along," Adrain added.
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