Nick was obviously unaware of all of this of course but even if he knew he wouldn't have done anything different. He spent the next few days relaxing in between his enchantments of the rings of protection that had more than doubled per day. That was if he focused all of his time on the things though which he was not but he maintained his daily output of two hundred and forty rings. At ten points a pop Nick was rapidly racking up points that he was saving for a rainy day.-
To be more specific he was waiting until he absolutely needed to use them in order to make sure he didn't find himself in the awkward position of needing something and being unable to get it. During this time Ron had made a request for Nick to make him a ring that copied books and imprinted the knowledge into his head so that he didn't need to study anymore. "Do you think that if I could do something like that I would need to study myself? Of course not! Each of my enchantments are rigid in structure and only perform in roughly the way I design them too , not to mention complex enchantments like the sort you are asking for are beyond me at the moment." Nick explained irritated.-
"Look the fact is that as much as I would like to craft lovely little short cuts like that I can't because of the limitations I am under. Believe me I had thought about doing exactly that multiple times but learning and memory are extremely complex subjects so I can't just add a quick smarts enchantment to things without possibly causing the person using it to melt their brain." Nick vented his grievances about the matter freely.-
This wasn't to say he didn't still love his crafting style , merely that he was frustrated by the limitations it had on it. Nick got over that brief bout of irritation quickly though and got back to relaxing. At the end of this period he finally received the portkey from the ministry in the form of an old torn up looking glove. 'Looks like it's time to head into orbit and set up my collectors.' he thought after testing the portkey. While it was unlikely there always existed a small possibility that someone would mess with his order and have him sent to a dangerous area instead of Hogsmeade.-
He snuck out of the castle the next day and into the forbidden forest under the disillusionment charm. He did this because he didn't want Dumbledore to know about his trip out of the world that would definitely bring questions he didn't want to answer. Creating new magical creatures was strictly illegal and doing it on accident such as with Nazgul versus intentionally with the atronach forge were very different things. The forge was originally only going to operate on his island but now that he had the realm he was going to use it there instead.-
Putting on the space suit he made previously Nick took out the special broom he made and mounted it. Very slowly he eased it out of the tops of the trees of the forest before nervously taking a deep breath and shooting straight up on the broom. Even with the air resistance enchantments it took every ounce of Nicks strength to hold onto the broom as he rapidly gained altitude. An hour , It took him an entire hour to fully breach the earths gravity and finally hit orbit.-
The spells on the suit worked automatically and he had air to breath while the vacuum around him was kept at bay. He didn't stop however as he rose higher and higher until he finally hit the area around the planet that things tended to float and orbit the planet. He wasn't surprised to find that he couldn't see any of these floating things from here as compared to the size of the planet they were tiny. He was mesmerized by the view though as it was hard to describe just how beautiful it was to see the earth from such an angle.-
After Admiring the view for ten minutes and literally watching the world turn slowly he got to work setting his collectors in place. He didn't just toss them out haphazardly though but rather placed one before flying a long distance away with his broom and placing another one. He did this until he had all seven set in a peculiar orbit like the electrons of an atom. 'With those circling the globe like this they should collect the majority of the star metal near the planet within a month at which point I will be back up here to collect my spoils.' he thought before activating the portkey and vanishing from space.
Nick failed to take something in mind when he used the portkey however that made his appearance in Hogsmeade very loud. See when a wizard or other creature apparate the loud "pop!" that is heard comes from the air getting displaced as they take off and land. Since port keys operate on roughly the same principle the surroundings are affected by the travel based on what they were. This meant that when Nick used the port key in the vacuum of space a piece of that vacuum came with him. The moment he landed in Hogsmeade the air was pushed out of that spot before being sucked in because of the vacuum filling itself.-
The sudden conflicting pressure caused the "POP!" to get much louder than normal drawing attention to him. Nick immediately cast disillusionment on himself seeing this while cursing himself mentally for not realizing that it would have happened. Thankfully the dozen or so people that saw him in his space suit only caught a brief glance before he vanished. He was sure that they wouldn't be able to make out any meaningful details in that tiny time frame and quickly fled to Hogwarts.-
He was correct of course that no one learned about what exactly it was that they saw but he would soon have a different headache to deal with. Nick had already changed his clothes before he got back to the school so no one found anything off about him. Disillusionment may work on the average population of wizards but Nick wasn't stupid enough to not know that the staff at the school would be able to see past it easily. Much to his surprise however he was found by Mcgonagall almost immediately and told that he needed to speak to Dumbledore on a grave matter immediately.-
'What could have happened in such a short period of time?' He wondered in confusion as from what he could tell there shouldn't have been any events that would require his presence in a mere few hours , he was wrong. Once he got into the headmasters office he was surprised to see three aurors standing there with serious expressions. Dumbledore noticed his entry immediately "Mr. Ravenclaw is here now so one of you should inform him as to why his presence is required." the old man said seriously and a blonde haired male auror walked over to Nick.-
"There is a situation going on at the moment by which a group of muggles has been taken hostage. The criminal is unidentified but has already put forward their demands , namely the turning over of one Nicholas Ravenclaw , unarmed and restrained." The auror explained sternly. Nicks expression underwent a series of changes in a short period of time from shocked to disbelief and finally settling on cold fury. "Where are they located and who exactly are the hostages in question?" He asked neutrally while clamping down on his emotions using occlumency.-
"A field in Little Hangleton and according to what we have discovered every muggle you had contact with before receiving your Hogwarts letter." another auror with brown hair said helplessly. 'So the kidnappers chose a spot that prevents ambush and tried to take hostages I may consider trading myself for. This is not the sort of thing someone familiar with me would attempt as they would know that while it would pain me to do so I would abandon the muggles since I am more valuable than them.' Nick thought and started going through as many possible identities of people that would try something like this.-
"This must be the work of that noseless bastard." He said once he figured it out. Frankly speaking the list of people he has offended to the point of such an action or had motive to do this could be counted on one hand and half that number was dead or imprisoned. As a result it was easy to deduce that this was Voldemorts idea as the man had a serious grudge and so little information on him that only he would make such a stupid move. Dumbledores eyes widened when he heard what Nick said while the aurors were all sharing a confused look.-
"Who are you referring to exactly?" The blonde auror asked curiously. Nick shook his head "You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Give me a few days to think it over. " he said seriously. "We were given a week to hand you over as of this morning so that is all we can afford you I'm afraid." the auror said apologetically. "That will be more than enough." Nick said ominously before leaving the office to prepare to dispose of a problem once and for all.
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