Chapter 56: Cleaning snakes and Child birth in reverse.
"Rune cluster-stable." Said Hermione.
"Aritmahentic Latency-normal." Added Luna, who looked at her respective monitor.
"Alright, everything seems to be in order. I'm bringing in the Test Subject." Said Konrad, and then he pressed a hologram button on his console.
There was a sound coming from the big room behind the glass they were observing through. They watched as a glass spherical cage with a big snake inside moved into the center of the room by hovering above the ground. It stopped in the center of a ritual formation that a bit resembled Stonehenge but the pillars just like the ground were filled with different crimson runes that shimmered with power.
Nagini, because it was her of course, trashed around trying to escape unsuccessfully.
"Nagini is in place. I'm activating the scanner cluster." Said Hermione.
With a press of her console three of the pillars glowed brighter and three beams of light connected with the sphere. Then at the center of the observation room that they were standing in, a big hologram of Nagini appeared, it slowly changed between transparency, showing only bones, only magic or intestines.
"There!" Konrad pointed at the area around Nagini's brain and spine where a bright light was being covered by a black ooze-like mist, as if it leached on the light.
"It's already spread this much!" Said Luna worried.
"Daddy. Is she gonna be alright?!" Asked worried Cristal. She didn't want Nagini to Die. She's the first human-snake shapeshifter other than her. She hoped that they could become friends.
"Don't worry Cristal, we'll figure something out." Replied Konrad reassuringly.
"Seems like the fragment was feeding on Nagini's soul and she barely survived complete disappearance by focusing on protecting and regenerating it. And it was only possible because She was a maledictus and her blood curse interfered with Tom's possession." Supplied Luna.
"Can we remove this evil soul fragment, mommy?" Asked Ruby.
"That's the main goal my Dear. Konrad, can we begin?" Asked Luna.
"Sure, Hermione aim the purification array to focus on the evil soul piece, start slowly." Konrad commanded.
"Of course Darling." She said and her finger landed on her console. "purification array ready. Processing with the experiment. Lowest power."
Another beam of light hit the snake which tried to trash even more violently but it suddenly couldn't move due to Konrad activating a stasis field.
"The evil soul is loosing strength... wait!!! It seems to be hurting Nagini! No, Nagini's curse is also affected, but Her soul is wavering due to too much modification! Seems like their souls are to much connected and she might die when we remove Voldemort's! Hermione turn it off." Said Luna and Hermione did just that.
"Huh, guess we'll have to do it manually." Said Konrad.
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"So...mind telling us why we didn't just used Phoebe, but instead, we're all now inside of the mindscape of a shape shifting snake girl possessed by a dark lord?" Asked Hermione while their mind avatars wandered the scorched wasteland, that once used to be Nagini's mindscape filled with occlumency protections. Their destination was a dark ominous looking castle in the middle of the wasteland.
"I think it's a lot of fun mommy!" Said Ruby.
"Yeah me too!" Added excited Cristal.
"Well, obviously we have no idea what would happen to Nagini and Phoebe's magic is to unpredictable even if she's the embodiment of purity. The safest way to free her from Voldemort is to literally FREE her." Konrad said and his gaze wandered in the direction of the fortress.
"Well, at least this first purification attack broke the occlumency barrier and allowed us to enter easily." Pointed out Luna.
"...Let's just go, this place is creeping me out." Hermione said.
The group was around a single km from the dark fortress when black balls of mist surrounded them and materialized into some kind of shadow golems resembling Death Eaters in their full regalia. They started throwing spells at them but each and every one of them could easily trash this group all by themselves. The Shadows were decimated in a matter of seconds.
After them came the turn for a bunch of shadow dragons. Ruby took it upon herself to teach the fake imitations what a real dragon can do with fire.
Snakes were coming at them non stop from all directions but if they weren't intimidated by the 20 meter long Cristal and run away, They would bow to her and leave disregarding the orders of the speaker for the real Master.
Finally they arrived at the fortress and using Luna's magesight, pinpointed the locations of both Nagini's and Voldemort's mental avatars.
Konrad blasted the 'Unbreakable' walls into pieces and soon everyone submerged in to the dungeon where Luna pinpointed Nagini.
There was no enemy's but a whole lot of traps spanning from pitfalls to breath triggered bombarda. They easily passed each and every trap, while Ruby enjoyed triggering them on purpose to see what would happen.
Finally they stood in front of a cage where a weak looking, transparent girl that looked around 20-30 years of age, sat huddled in a corner holding her knees close.
"Hey, are you alright?!" Shouted Hermione.
She didn't answer nor even flinched.
"She must be terrified. Voldemort must have tortured her here. Maybe even create some fake saviours to crush her last hope of being freed. good thing I know just the thing Voldemort wouldn't be able to imitate." Konrad said with a grin.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" He shouted. From his hand, the corporeal patronus exploded forward and easily passed any protections on the cage with a scary effectiveness. The Draconequs flew around Nagini's crumbled form spreading the feeling of happiness, love and safety.
Nagini's colors slowly returned and she became less transparent. Her expressionless face soon changed into one of astonishment as she slowly gazed over her arms and felt the long forgotten happy emotions. Her eyes felt on the newcomers as a new hope slowly arises inside of her.
"a...are....you re...real...?" She asked with a weak voice filled with a weak hope. She felt that if they said that they aren't, then she might just fade away. She had no strength fighting anymore, but She saw them smile! A real warm genuine smiles that she was certain, her captor couldn't imitate. And then the words she waited so long for touched her ears.
"Yes we are. Don't worry, everything will be alright from now on."
She didn't know who said that and she didn't care. She listened when they told her to stay close. She listened when they told her that she's still strong and her captor is yet to surpass her . She watched with astonishment as they passed through armies of shadow monsters that once conquered her mind and captured her consciousness. And She felt more energy returning to her body. Energy, that she realized now, was there from the very beginning, but because she didn't believe in herself, she couldn't muster it. She was scared when they finally met her captor but the black haired girl reassured her that there's nothing to worry about and she should focus on taking over the control of her body. Nagini watched as the group that rescued her, engaged in the most impressive magical fight of her entire life, and she saw people fighting against Grindelwald. But this... The girl from before changed into a giant snake surprising her greatly while one other transformed into an actual huge dragon! And the most shocking part was, that the two of them weren't even the strongest! That boy! He was sending wandless magic left and right and he looked so cool! He seemed completely unbothered while fighting with a Dark Lord! And she was sure he didn't go all out at all!
As She was more and more astonished, she didn't see that her body was now completely opaque. But she felt that her energy returned, so she did what the girl asked her. She focused and spread her powers around. She felt rusty but she used to have occlumency with a mindscape. It's not something you forget easily.
Soon the bared wasteland changed. Where once there was nothing but but dust and ruins now slowly grass started appearing everywhere, The darkness that surrounded the entire mindscape started quickly retreating under the bright light that originated from Nagini. Voldemort couldn't do anything because this cursed people were taking all his concentration.
Suddenly his shadow creations started actually burning! it was the effect of very weak purification magic that remained after the first test. with no darkness blocking it, the magic amplified Nagini's intent. And she could see that the captor that she once feared so much was actually becoming transparent like she was in the dungeon. It filled her with a weird satisfaction. Then she got back to recreating her mindscape that now resembled a forest. she remembered how she always had so much fun experimenting here with different tree configurations, It was always so relaxing. She didn't realize when after five minutes the sounds of fighting stopped and she was approached by everyone.An Unconscious, levitating dark lord flew behind them.
"Here, Keep him Unconscious for a while and we'll remove him from the outside" they said and with a flaah, they were gone.
Nagini Looked at the place where they stood a while ago and where her former captor lied now Unconscious. A small evil grin showed on her face.
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"Alright, activite the purifying cluster again Hermione." Said Konrad.
once again they watched as the snake got hit with the light beam, but this time the much weaker dark matter started disappearing without a hitch. inside her mindscape Nagini felt the pure magic destroying any remains of the darkness and Voldemort and changing it into pure soul energy that she absorbed. She decided that the unconscious Voldemort suffered enough kicks and hits from her. not like she could continue because his avatar started dissipating like all the darkness around her.
As the darkness disappeared everyone watched another interesting process. The hologram of Nagini's Blood magic spectrum started transforming and the former curse soon disappeared completely and in it's place something akin to a blessing remained. At the same time, her body morphed and once again Nagini became a woman.
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"You saved my life, and for that you have my eternal gratitude. That you returned me my human appearance I can't repay you enough in my life." Said Nagini to the five people in front of her.
Konrad smiled.
"It's nothing really, the important thing right now is, what would you like to do from now on."
"I..."
In the end Cristal convinced Nagini to settle down on the Ottery St. Catchpole. Nagini became a close friend of her and they liked to chase each other in their snake forms. Konrad always laughed when looking at their age difference but whatever.
Soon everyone were back in the lab. It was only few weeks before the end of the school year but they had a dozen or so of death eaters put in stasis so they had to utilize them somehow. Then Luna had a great idea.
"Let's wipe out their memories of everything and reverse their age to infancy! We can then put them with different 'Caring' families and here you go! Problem solved! No killing and more wizards in the world!" She said with a grin.
Just like this the Death Eaters problem got solved in a week. That Luna got a little overboard after kidnaping even the ones in Azkaban, Konrad decided to ignore and forget...forever...
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God I have no time at all XD
you do realize that I wrote it all at work...instead of working hahaha
I also started playing Minecraft multiplayer on 300 mods so yeah...
Anyway hope you liked the chapter
I had to deal with Nagini somehow and no she's not getting into the harem, she's like over 70 yo XD
and sorry if it's a little hard to get or rushed I'm writing it while hiding from my boss XD
anyway enjoy!
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