It took Adam 2 hours to test the batteries and also fit them in the car. They were now going to see how far it could go with how much battery. Soon, they got in the car and rolled out.
The car was surely eye candy. Every single person on the sidewalk would turn their heads and look. They gasped, awed and whistled. The car was also running very silently on the street. They had to use the horn a lot as many people jaywalked and didn't notice the car since there was no sound.
"HAHA... Dad, how fast can it go?" Magnus asked while enjoying the ride.
Adam wanted to go faster but almost controlled himself, he didn't want to start a scandal or something. "It can go from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds. This is the joy of an electric motor engine, it is much more responsive."
They didn't head straight to the hospital. First, they went to a fancy restaurant to book a table.
But, a funny scene happened there. When they all got out of the car and went to give the keys to the valet, the valet gave the key back, saying, "Sir, I don't know how to drive this car."
So, they just called the manager. The Valet thought they were going to complain about him, but he was fully ignored. instead, Adam joyfully greeted the manager, as they both knew each other and were friends.
They booked a table for dinner and then zoomed to the Royal Military Hospital. Since Adam was a pretty high ranking officer, they were allowed entry in their strange car.
They simply drove to the front of the main gate of the building where Grace was supposed to come. They waited there for about ten minutes when she finally arrived.
There were already a lot of people, admiring the car and making noise. So Grace also looked. And just then, the windows of the car slowly slid down, music blasting, and with the beat, all three were shaking their heads comically.
It was a surprise for her, a pleasant one at that. She laughed seeing them, "Hahaha... why didn't you tell me you were coming to get me?"
"It was a sudden plan, mum." Magnus and Ragnar got out of the car to greet her.
They both hugged her tightly, while Grace patted their heads, "Aw... my sweet blondies are back. Let's go, I will cook something tasty today."
"No mum, we are going out to eat tonight. We booked the table." Ragnar informed her.
*BEEP BEEP*
Adam honked the car, "Come on, let's go for a ride, Grace. Don't you want to see the car your dear husband made?"
She slowly came to the front passenger side and looked at the sleek design, "Is this safe?"
"Absolutely, structural integrity was given very high priority while making it." Adam defended his car.
Then Grace got in and they all left. Meanwhile, everyone else, the staff and colleagues of Grace just looked jealous. Some from the car, some men from Adam and some women from Grace. In their eyes, this was what a perfect family was supposed to be like.
...
They arrived at the fancy hotel soon after. This time Adam himself parked the car. Grace put her arm around Adam's while Ragnar and Magnus walked ahead of them. She had a long coat to wear over her uniform, since being in uniform in public was somewhat dangerous.
They had booked a pretty nice corner table overlooking the street outside from the window. As soon as they sat down, Magnus took out his wand secretly and cast a charm.
"What was that?" Grace inquired.
"Muffliato charm. It stops others from overhearing us. Severus invented this charm. Seriously, these days I feel I'm mediocre at best compared to these two." Magnus said with a sad face.
"Lies, you're the best at Martial Magic," Ragnar argued.
But Magnus knew he shouldn't talk about this kind of magic. Or one thing might lead to another and some secrets might come out.
"That's pretty convenient. Let's order food first. What do you want to eat? Oh, Ragnar created the Battery, we need to celebrate that as well. Order anything you want." Adam spoke.
Ragnar looked at the menu, "Hmm, I'm very hungry. Let's go with this. Roasted Chicken, Fried Chicken, Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Soup, Chicken curry... Chicken rice..."
"Woah Woah... Ragnar, are you planning on exterminating all the chickens in the country? Who's going to eat so much?" Magnus stopped him.
"Aren't I ordering for all of us?" Ragnar confusedly asked.
In the end, everyone ordered whatever they liked. Ragnar, of course, ordered everything he named, just in a portion for one person.
After this, Magnus and Ragnar just talked about their school life. They also told them about how Ragnar created the battery.
"Does this mean that you are ready to be announced as the prince?" Grace asked Adam.
Adam nodded, "Yes, as soon as the patents are cleared, we will be clear to go. *Sigh* It still feels a bit strange to me."
Magnus tried to console him, "Don't worry, dad. You can keep on working on your hobbies even later. In fact, the car you made and the battery you and Ragnar made is going to be a huge deal in the coming future. Just imagine, if all cars in our country became electric, we wouldn't have to buy oil that much. So much money will be saved, money that can be used to better the infrastructure."
"Well, anything for you, Magnus. Okay, how about you, Ragnar? How's your time going? Any trouble lately?" Adam asked, trying not to ignore their adopted son.
Ragnar was just happy to be there, "No, dad. I'm good, I am making many good potions now. Someday, I will create the biggest magical potions company in the world. And oh! I forgot to tell you, don't worry about the battery, even if someone steals its designs, they can't make it without the use of magic."
Magnus sighed, "Does that mean I will need to find more wizards to work for us? By the speed I am doing this, I'm afraid at one point all wizards will be working for me."
"AH! BIG BROTHER!"
All of a sudden a squeaky voice pierced Magnus' ears. He quickly turned around and looked, it turned out to be the same little girl he had saved from the kidnappers, the daughter of the prosecutor.
He remembers being told by Grace in a letter that this little girl had been giving many interesting interviews.
She was with her parents it seemed, as there was a man holding her hand and there was also a woman. The man was also looking at Magnus as the little girl tried to drag him towards him.
Grace was quick to recognise the girl, "Oh, isn't this Ava? Hello, dear."
"Hello, aunty. Woah... you're so pretty, just like Big Brother Magnus, oh, who is this?" She noticed Ragnar.
Magnus introduced, "This is Ragnar, my brother, that is my dad and mum."
"You all are so pretty, I stay with you now." She somehow got out of her dad's grip and jumped onto Magnus' lap. She had totally changed her family it seemed.
The man in the suit then came forward and apologised, also recognising Magnus in an instant. "Ah, sorry, Mr Grant. Ava is a very hyperactive kind of girl. I am Liam Smith, Crown Prosecutor, and this is my wife, Isabella, a private lawyer."
Magnus didn't mind, "It's fine. Ava is a very good girl. She was one of those who didn't cry that day."
"YES! And why would I cry? Badman is gone now, right?" Ava asked.
Magnus patted her head and nodded, "Yes, he's gone and all those that are left are also getting caught."
This was true, the whole country's police had suddenly gone into a hyperactive mode, trying to gain back the respect. They were now going after every sex offender as if he had sinned against the queen herself.
"Why don't you join us, I'm sure they can attach another table here," Grace offered.
Now was it that Liam and Isabella noticed something. Grace was a celebrity these days. Isabella was in fact was much more knowledgeable.
"Aren't you the one who made the new stent? I work for Tonks & Tonks, I oversaw your case against the American companies." Isabella spoke.
Grace politely thanked her, "Oh, thank you. I didn't know Ted had put such a good lawyer on the case. Please sit with us, Ava will also enjoy it more."
"YES! I will eat with big brother Magnus and Ragnar. Feed me, brothers." Ava said cutely.
Magnus and Ragnar chuckled awkwardly. This girl was too open with them.
"Mr Smith, why was Ava kidnapped? I'm sure that they didn't deal with kids of such a small age," Magnus asked Liam.
Liam sighed, "I think I know the answer, but there is no possibility of getting the proof."
Seeing this, Adam spoke as Magnus couldn't, being a kid. "Tell us, maybe we can help. Our connections go way above to the highest level, Mr Smith."
"I think it's because of the corruption case against a few MPs I was investigating. I was put to head a committee that was supposed to investigate the corruption in the allocation of funds for the underground tunnel to be built under the English Channel, connecting Britain and France through a rail route. But, due to some corruption, the whole project is pushed back. The amount of bribery is in tens of millions. I don't see anyone else powerful or rich enough to plan my daughter's kidnapping." Liam explained, without taking any names.
Adam couldn't do anything about it, well at least for now. As soon as he becomes the crown prince, he will have a lot of power to at least make sure justice is served.
And then, the food arrived. Ava was still sitting on Magnus' lap. The 5-year-old asked to be fed by her beautiful brother.
"First, stop calling me beautiful. Call me handsome, only then I will feed you." Magnus tried to teach her some manners.
[A/N: I will try to speed up the muggle side part.]
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Magnus was trying to talk to this Prosecutor, thinking about the Order of Merlin. He needed a lot of members in it. If this prosecutor was telling the truth and his daughter was really kidnapped because of his honesty, then he deserved a chance, of course, after countless levels of testing.
But he didn't talk too much and rather focused on the dinner and fun stuff.
Later that night, they got the business card of the small family and returned home.
"Magnus, when are you going to contact the queen?" Adam asked.
"I'll tell her tomorrow. She might be able to help you with your patents. But, get ready, that battery is going to blow the brains of a lot of people. Get ready to answer a lot of questions and accusations. But, for the most part, I will throw some money to big news channels around the world to create a favourable image for you." Magnus decided.
After running his Dragon Holdings, he understood that most of the problems in the muggle world could be solved with money. And those can't be, could be solved with magic.
~Wait... my assistant hasn't contacted me for so long. Is she even alive?~ Magnus suddenly remembered Venessa.
"Mum, I will go to sleep now. I'm feeling a little tired. Ah, and take dad to sleep too. Look at his face, I'm afraid he will turn into a zombie." Magnus advised them.
"Pfft... Zombies aren't real." Grace laughed it off.
Magnus and Ragnar looked at each other's faces, boy they had a surprise for her.
"No, mum. They do exist, but only in America. We learned about them in our 1st year. Werewolf, Vampires, Giants and trolls also exist in this world. They are very violent creatures so they weren't on Camelot. There are also many scary dark creatures." Magnus revealed.
Grace's face turned pale, "That's so dangerous. Don't humans mistakenly find them?"
Ragnar replied to this, "They do. Many mountaineers die while trekking in Northern Europe. Giants live there. But because all world's governments know about the secrecy law, they hide them as natural accidents."
Adam was shocked by this too, "Stop, I don't want to know more. Let me stay an ignorant human, I still want to sleep at night."
Magnus consoled him and quenched his fear, "Haha, it's okay, dad. As soon as you join the royal family, I am going to hire some more house elfs and make them your hidden guards. I trust them more than normal wizards, because to a wizard, money might be of more value than loyalty, but to an elf, loyalty is their life. Goodnight now."
...
In his room, Magnus picked up the phone and started calling some of his important employees and partners. The first was, of course, his assistant. She had not contacted him in the past 3 months, even after the whole Oscar incident.
*RING RING*
The phone rang. It rang for a long time.
"Ah, hello hello... Yes?" A girl's voice came. It sounded sleepish.
This was not Venessa's voice. So he asked, "Who are you?"
"You're calling, who are you?" The girl asked back.
"Fair enough. I am Magnus Grant. Where is Venessa?" Magnus asked her.
"Haha... Kid, complete your school first. Don't prank call here again, we're busy."
*Tooo Tooo Tooo*
Magnus, with a shocked face, looked at his telephone. ~This is outrageous. Did I just get pranked?~
He checked the number he had dialled again and it was the right one. With no option, he called Ted, he must know about this as he deals with Dragon Holdings' business on a daily basis.
"Magnus? Have you returned? That's good, I have a lot of papers that need your signature. I've also cornered the Pfizer company and they have agreed to sell albeit at a slightly higher cost." Ted started to blabber as soon as he picked up the phone. He had the latest model telephone that showed the caller number on a very small monochromatic display.
"That's all good and fine but can you tell me why my secretary's office called me a kid and hung up on me? Where is Venessa?" He inquired.
Ted facepalmed himself. Venessa was, after all, his employee before.
"She hired some people to work for her, as she was getting too many calls. She probably forgot to tell them the age of the company's owner. She's in the United States at the moment.
"Can I get the number? Can't believe she forgot to send me weekly updates on everything." He muttered annoyedly.
Ted quickly searched through the list of numbers on his table and told Magnus.
"Oh, by the way, Magnus, are you free tomorrow?" Ted asked him.
"What for?"
Ted cleared his throat and replied, "Well, a Wizard friend of mine from school days just had a son born yesterday, he's organising a small party for it. He has invited me."
"Hmm... what's his name and which side does he fall into?" Magnus inquired. He didn't mind mingling with more wizards. He needed them for his various businesses after all.
"His name is Arthur Weasley, and his wife is Molly Weasley née Prewett. They were both in Gryffindor." Ted revealed.
Magnus was immediately onboard. This family was continuously called Blood-Traitors due to their non-alignment with the purebloods supremacists.
"I know Weasley family. I admire their commitment to not joining the dark side, even after being shamed by the rest of the pureblood magical community. Let's go there tomorrow." He agreed to the invitation.
"Good. I will come to your house tomorrow afternoon then." Ted hung up.
Magnus looked at the clock. It was 10 PM. This meant it was still 5 PM in New York. So he called Venessa.
This time the phone was quickly picked up. Magnus simply started talking, "Venessa? This is Magnus, where have you disappeared to? No reports, no contacts. I just called the office here and she called me a kid and a prankster before hanging up."
Venessa panicked on the other side. Magnus was already like a living god in her eyes before, and ever since the child trafficking case, she saw him as someone much bigger. She even asked her ex-boss, Ted, about Magnus. And in reply, she only got a few words that sounded like warnings.
"You are too naive and low ranked to know who he truly is. Just know this, he is very strong and influential, beyond what you can ever imagine. You will probably know some of the secrets soon, as a big announcement is going to be made."
This honestly scared her a little, she wondered whom she was dealing with. Was this a demon in human skin? A demon kid? That was even more terrifying than an adult demon.
"S-Sir... You told me to only contact you if I need your signature or some help. I was able to handle everything smoothly here. And... Sorry, I forgot to tell the staff your age." She apologised.
~At least she recognises her mistake.~ Magnus thought and took a softer tone.
"You are forgiven. Just send me the weekly progress report from now on. I want you back here before December 25th, something big is going to happen and I will need my assistant to handle the hoard of hyenas called press reporters." He instructed her.
"Yes, Mr Grant. I will return in three days. Do you want a progress report right now?" She asked, wanting to gain back the lost reputation with Magnus.
"It's alright, send it to me in a few days, no need to push yourself too much. Good night. Oh, make sure you start preparing for the New Year bonus for all our employees in all companies. But leave all the highest executive level ones, I will handle those myself after evaluating the reports. Some might need firing." Magnus ordered her and cut the phone.
He then called Adrian to talk about how MEDA was going. He was thinking about starting a private military as a Subsidiary of MEDA, in the name of a private security firm. His plans were big, and for those, he needed security and strength. Later, when he opens businesses in some problematic African nations, he will need to protect his interests from local War Lords and what better way to be safe than scaring them away with a bigger stick than they have.
This was also for the upcoming royal earthquake. In the previous few months, Magnus, Adam and Grace's names were continuously being shown in the news. Magnus' names were normal as he had done many big things. Next was Grace, she was a very renowned scientist, hailed as a national treasure, and beauty as well. Adam was considered kind of a hero for that bomb blast attack. Now too, after what Magnus did, his family was in the spotlight.
But by far the most confusing thing to the world was the constant visits of the queen to their home. With a slight tweak and words on the streets, a rumour was already spread around the country that Adam was probably related to the queen in some way.
It was so easy to manipulate the people as long as one had the money. One could start a war by just spreading some rumours and secret assassinations.
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