Bab 58: Emptiness
At the time of the gathering in Hogwarts, Stefan is focusing on healing, while Mary is by his side, cleaning him every time he bled with her handkerchief, watching over him quietly.
Stefan was biting his tongue for the 20th time and felt his essence appearing somewhere.
Stefan stopped healing for a moment and thought "Asmodeus sword it finally appeared... Should I look for it?..."
Stefan rejected the thought immediately as he opened his eyes and looked for a moment at the empty space where it should be his left arm.
"Send a message to Grindelwald, I want him to be more careful and Emma too" said Stefan to Mary, as he closed again his eyes and proceeded to heal again.
Mary nodded at him, one of her rings on her hand turned into a red tablet, she sent the message to Grindelwald and in a matter of seconds got an affirmative reply.
"It's, done Young Master, Grindelwald and Emma knows the instructions" said Mary as she took her handkerchief and cleaned the lips of Stefan that were dripping black blood.
A few days passed in Hogwarts peacefully, Stefan kept healing at every moment he could, he has been focusing in regenerating his left arm, now he has half of it till his elbow.
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In the mountains, Tessa is looking at the enormous castle that is in front of her with Dave who had an irritated expression on his face.
"If you don't want to be here, just go" said Tessa.
"Hmmmph, as if I dare to disobey orders from him" snorted Dave.
"Let's do this quickly, I'll check half of the castle and you check the other half" said Tessa as he waved her hand to indicate him which part was his to check.
She turned into a gray-transparent smoke that started sweeping all of the left side of the castle, while Dave did the same but checked the right side of the castle.
She turned into smoke and then appeared in front of a cell in the highest point of the north watchtower.
She opened the door and entered the cell, she closed her eyes and started to search for the aura of Grindelwald, after several minutes of finding nothing she sighed.
"Sigh, let's wake them..." said Tessa as her eyes turned white and started whispering something, a gray mist came out of her mouth that started covering the cell, the mist passed through the walls covering all of the north watchtower and was spreading everywhere in the left side of the castle.
Dave felt the phenomenon, he sighed and did the same thing, after a few minutes all of the castle was covered in gray fog.
Tessa and Dave kept releasing gray mist from their mouths, finally they saw as a gray-transparent substance came out of the floors and walls and started to take shape, the shape of persons who had lost looks in their eyes, little by little their eyes started to shine, and started to get confused as to why they were there.
Tessa walked out of the cell and flew above the castle to see how many ghosts awaken.
Dave appeared beside Tessa who had a complicated expression on her face as she saw the ghosts, who had confused expressions.
"What's next?" said Dave with a grin on his face as he had a certain idea of what they were going to do, but he wanted Tessa to say it.
"You already know, absorb them to acquire their fractioned memories, they must saw something" said Tessa with a complicated expression, as she walked to a confused ghost, she grabbed him by the neck and opened her mouth, the ghost started to scream as his gray-liquid body was being absorbed by Tessa who had an apologetic look in her eyes, till the ghost disappeared completely.
All of the ghosts who saw that started gliding in terror, as they saw one of them being absorbed and killed in the process.
"What are you looking Dave, make them comeback" said Tessa with a cold voice as she saw the amused look Dave was giving her.
"Let's do this quickly" muttered Dave as he smiled at Tessa, "Come back here" said Dave with a firm voice, as his eyes turned white.
All of the ghosts who heard the voice of Dave which resounded in the Castle started to glide back to where Dave and Tessa where with dazed looks, while some of them had a look of terror in their eyes as their body were moving on their own.
"Sigh, what a sad destiny to these loose souls" said Tessa as she grabbed one ghost by the neck and repeated the process of absorbing him, but this time the ghost stayed there with a dazed expression as his gray-transparent body disappeared, while Dave let the ghosts regain their consciousness and absorbed them as they screamed.
"You know the rules Tessa, these loose souls didn't let us take them to where they should go a long time ago" said Dave as he grabbed another ghost by the neck.
"Hmmph, I have finish my side, finish your side and start checking their memories" said Tessa as she closed her eyes, she started watching all of the fragmented memories the ghosts had, but she couldn't find anything useful as all of the memories are of them gliding sometimes in the castle or slumbering for who knows how many years.
Tessa sighed as she started to check the last memory she had of the ghosts.
Tessa was in the entrance of the castle admiring the words that were carved in the castle "For the greater good", she then started to glide and passing through the walls of the enormous castle admiring every room, reading the old newspapers all of them depicting the magical ward and the wizard Grindelwald stepping everyone, then she started to glide in direction of the north watchtower and as she got there, she saw two figures covered in darkness climbing the stairs, she couldn't see them just their outlines, no matter how much moonlight there was she couldn't see them, as if they had a veil over them covering them, but she could see their outline, one woman and a child, just judging by their size and their outline.
As she was looking carefully at the two of them climbing the stairs, the small dark figure the one from the child turned his head, and she saw the pupils of the boy they were silver, the dark figure looked at her for a moment, and saw as the eyes of the boy lost interest and turned his head back and kept climbing the stairs, but Tessa stayed there, time later she saw as the two darks figures walked downstairs from the stairs but this time she stayed their, watching how they left.
Tessa opened her eyes and sighed "Just two outlines... One woman and a child with silver pupils that's all I have..."
"I have one woman coming alone to the North watchtower the day that the wizard left his cell, the old man wants answers what should we do..." said Dave with an annoyed expression as he didn't find anything else.
"We follow the track of the wizard, Amelia said Asmodeus had a deal with someone named Voldesomething and that his minions were killed by our lost lead, the wizard" said Tessa with a pondering face.
"Hmmph I want to look at the cell, maybe you didn't notice something" said Dave as he apparated into the cell.
He closed his eyes and started to sense anything out of the ordinary but he couldn't feel anything, not a single aura nor anything, it was empty, a voidness place.
Tessa saw as Dave was furrowing his brows and said with a mocking voice "What makes you think you can find something..."
"Shhhh" said Dave as he kept furrowing his brows, and was whispering something.
"Hmmmph" snorted Tessa with an annoyed expression.
"I think I found something..." said Dave with a complicated face.
"Stop the bullshit Dave..." said Tessa as he looked at Dave who had a hesitating expression on his face.
"Feel the inside of the cell, what do you feel?" said Dave as he looked at Tessa with incredulity in his eyes.
"Hmmph I swear to father that if you're playing a joke I'm going to talk to the Old Man" said Tessa as she closed her eyes and started to sense the cell.
"What now?, I don't sense nothing, Dave start talking" said Tessa with an annoyed voice.
"Focus, in what you feel" said the voice of Dave.
Tessa started to focus more as she noticed Dave wasn't playing around or so she thought... "I can't still sense anything"
"Tessa, the room it's too 'clean' there's no way to erase everything, there is no trace of the wizard space displacement that's ok, but it should have left a bit of his aura in the cell, it's like if we left even though we would like to erase all of our traces, there has to be a bit of our aura that we left" said Dave with a pondering face.
"Remember the flood?, I'm talking about the 'Great Flood' where father had to to the work by killing every human on earth?" said Dave with incredulity in his voice.
"Yes, I remember, what does it have to do with this...?" said Tessa but midway she realized something as she started to look everywhere in the cell.
"You have realized, it's like something in this cell devoured everything, every bit of life in here, every bit of aura, the cell feels voidless, like when father cleaned the earth, he didn't leave any bit of aura on earth, everything felt like it was empty, that voidless feeling is inside of this cell" said Dave with a paled face as he looked with incredulity at the cell and started turning everything in the cell looking for the aura of anything like a bug or anything, he got more paled the more he didn't find a bit of aura.
"I want to do something come out of the cell Tessa" said Dave with a firm voice as he walked out of the cell and closed his eyes to sense everything around him, but there was just emptiness.
"It's impossible..." said Dave as he entered again to the cell and started to sense the cell, but found nothing just emptiness.
"Tessa, we entered the cell, use a bit of our powers to sense the cell, so we had to leave a few our auras, a tiny bit of our aura and there's nothing" said Dave as he looked at Tessa who this time, release a portion of her aura, Dave and Tessa saw as the aura of Tessa started vanishing quickly as if something was devouring it.
"I want to fucking leave this place, Tessa, I'm telling you this has to be handled by the old man, no no.... We must tell father..." said Dave with a horrified expression.
"Dave, let's finish this and leave... But let me try something first" said Tessa as she walked out of the cell with Dave behind her.
Tessa closed her eyes and felt the same emptiness outside of the cell, she opened her eyes as she started walking downstairs but she couldn't feel anything there was just emptiness, no life, no aura, no nothing.
"Dave, did you found the memory of a ghost that lived in this watchtower ??, I just realized this watchtower was used as a jail for those wizards there must be some of them that didn't want to come with our siblings, so there have to be at least one of them in the watchtower..." said Tessa as she turned her head to look at Dave who was ironically white as a ghost.
"No... I just have the memory of a ghost who saw the dark outline of a woman climbing the stairs of this watchtower the night the wizard escaped, theres none of a ghost living in the same watchtower" said Dave.
They kept walking all the way till they finally felt the aura of living beings and their aura that they left as they came here, and sighed in relief.
"Sigh, let's go, we have to talk with the old man about this" said Tessa as she turned her head, she noticed Dave had vanished who knows when.
"I can't deny it... it's creepy even for all the things we have seen in these milleniums..." said Tessa as she vanished not before sending a glance to the north watchtower.
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Stefan was having transfiguration class with Mary by his right side, and Daphne, Tracey, and Hermione by her left side, he took his silver tablet and sent a message to Grindelwald.
"There has been too many people searching for you, in your old house..."
There was an instant reply that said
"Ok, I'll be careful"
Mary who is always paying attention to Stefan, noticed that he sent a message to Grindelwald and whispered to Stefan "Something happened ?"
"Yeah, I'll have to boost you and Emma, time to eat souls" said Stefan to Mary who nodded at him.
"Some ants have come..." said Stefan with a gleam in his eyes.
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Morningstar33 Sorry for being late, the missing chapter from yesterday will be release tomorrow maybe, if not it will be the day after tomorrow.
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