章 80: The Familiar Bond

The vampire lord knew that he would have to create a plan to get near enough to Harry and to care for him. The boy was brainwashed by the entire wizarding world to relate his own father's name and identity with fear and hate.

Kai was incredibly angry at this revelation and if he could, he would slaughter Dumbledore in a flash, but he knew that he couldn't. Kai would have to regain his son's trust without causing him to fear him and until he was ready to trust him then the vampire progenitor would have to hide his identity for the time being. This meant no slaughtering any of the close figures to his son and therefore Dumbledore who was one of the main figures of Harry's life was off limits.

He didn't want to have to hide his identity but he was left with no choice, he needed a way to get close to Harry without alarming him. The best option would be getting a chance to enter Hogwarts as that was where most of where his son would spend most of the year. If he needed to, he would resign himself to going to Hogwarts as a student, despite his hate for the school as a whole.

In Kai's opinion, the whole of Hogwarts was terrible for the students' development as well as the wizarding world's development. As he no longer was as excited as he was when he first arrived he no longer believed that Hogwarts was a good place. It was full of corruption and deceit.

At the beginning of a student's year. he would be sorted into a house and would be judged accordingly. If an ambitious person was put into Slytherin he would automatically be judged as a dark wizard. The same could be said about Gryffindors being rash brutes, Hufflepuffs being dumb and stupid and Ravenclaws known as bookish know-it-alls.

This caused the many students to hate one another, a good example would be the rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor. Even after leaving the school the students would still hate each other, this was only some the damage Hogwarts did to the population.

But even then the kids that were sorted were exactly that kids. They still hadn't developed an idea of who they wanted to be yet and during their teenage years, they were meant to discover who they wanted to be.

The second reason that Kai hated Hogwarts was due to the blatant manipulations that Dumbledore did. The vampire lord believed that the headmaster was using his post to find promising talents and either convince them to join the order fo the Phoenix or would do his best to stunt their progress the moment that they showed what he believed to be "darkness."

If he hadn't looked at Tom with such distrust and loathing, then Dumbledore would have been able to see that Tom was being mistreated at the orphanage and send him to a better home. But instead, his prejudiced thoughts caused Tom to become Lord Voldemort.

Kai had managed to change him back to Tom Riddle by getting him to mend his soul as well as the use of the progenitor's link to change his emotions towards the vampire progenitor. He probably kept Harry in the abusive home to make him more obedient and love-starved as well as to stay in denial. The great and powerful Dumbledore wanted to be shown that Tom hadn't turned into Voldemort because of him. Therefore Dumbledore did the same to Harry as a way to stay in self-denial. This was one of the reasons that Kai loathed Dumbledore.

The last reason that Kai hated Hogwarts was because of how learning there would bar any way of returning to the muggle world. There were plenty of muggle-borns or half-bloods that were discriminated against because of their blood and if they wanted to return to the muggle world then they would only have the education of an 11-year-old.

Their only option was to stay in the wizarding world and either work for Gringotts, be a shopkeeper, work in the ministry, work with magical beasts or be a teacher. This limited the population's choices drastically and thus caused many problems.

Hopefully he wouldn't have to join Hogwarts as a student but for the time being, it would appear to be his only option. He sighed as he calmed down and looked at Tom while rearranging his thoughts. Just as he was preparing to ask him to create a new identity for him, one that would make him a transfer student at Hogwarts, he felt Bob enter his hospital room.

Bob waited for the two Lords of the Court to appear in the room as he held a stack of papers with a tentacle that had sprouted from his back. There was a ripple in the space next to Kai's bed before the two appeared before Bob.

The vampire progenitor appeared on the bed while the acting master of the Court landed on the right side of the bed. Bob looked at Kai and transformed into a humanoid figure.

Kai was shocked at this development as the last time he had spoken with his best friend, the vampire Nundu hadn't come close to standing on two legs, much less being humanoid.

Kai knew how much effort and studying it took to achieve just this basic humanoid figure. In order to achieve this Bob had to change the very essence of his body in order to transform into another species entirely, without using a magic like the animagus transformation.

This wasn't as simple as adding different limbs or growing bigger or smaller. Instead, it was a fundamental change to his very being. The vampire lord's brother in arms held a large stack of papers in his now formed hand, which he had folded in the middle to make them easier to carry and had subconsciously crushed them while waiting for them.

The shock of Kai disappearing even when he knew where he went, still caused him much discomfort. Over the years when he was sitting next to Kai's inactive body, he had slowly developed a bond that caused him to become incredibly possessive of the vampire lord.

This link had started much earlier on when the pair had fought in the arena side by side facing life-threatening dangers constantly. But back then it had only been an incredibly faint link that was so delicate that it could be destroyed with every slight nudge.

Only after the 8th year that Kai was in a coma, Bob had discovered that he had established an unbreakable bond with Kai. When he went to check it out with Tom, the former dark lord turned leader of one of the most powerful organizations on the world told him that the bond was that of a familiar.

Bob was shocked at this, he didn't understand how it could be, after all, he already shared a link with Kai it was that of a sired and a sirer. It was fundamentally different and he had to check with all of his sources to understand what had happened.

He had discovered much to his shock that the familiar bond happened on very rare cases and his bond was caused by the long time spent at Kai's side. This itself was not enough to bond the two, they also had to have a deep mutual emotional attachment to the other in order for the bond to work.

Usually, this kind of experience happened after 5-7 years with the owner, but due to Bob's outstanding strength, the link had taken over double the maximum time to form.

Once he had counted the amount of time he had stayed with the man, much to his surprise he discovered that he had stayed with him for over 15 years. This was very rare as a being of Bob's strength and potential wasn't meant to be able to form such a bond with anyone.

He had discovered that the only reason that he had managed to form the bond with his best friend was because of the mutual trust the pair had. As well as the power Kai had over him as the progenitor of their race. This had caused a myriad of emotions to flutter through him, some of them negative ones, but most of them were positive and relieved feelings.

When he tried to research exactly what would happen, the many tomes that had researched the Familiar bond spoke of how rare the bond is. Therefore, apart from the basic effects of the aforementioned bond such as enhanced trust and near perfect telepathy over short distances. The rest of the knowledge was up to the two to discover on their own.

These basic effects weren't all that important as both Kai and Bob already had the progenitor link that did the previous effects to a greater degree. Two years had passed since that discovery and Bob had discovered most of the new effects of the bond.

They included emotion sensing, location finding, teleporting to the other's side? He wasn't so sure about the last one as it only happened once when he was feeling incredibly distraught and had wanted to see Kai, in a blink of an eye he found himself next to Kai's bed.

The last and perhaps the most powerful effect was an instinctual understanding of the theory behind Laws. This was given to Bob by Kai's side of the bond.

The bond itself worked in various ways and like the familiar did its best to protect the humanoid partner. Likewise, the humanoid partner had to give the familiar sustenance and certain benefits that were taken through their link at an instinctual level.

After finishing reminiscing Bob handed the object that lay in his hand to Kai, it was a newspaper. Kai looked at it in surprise as he had forgotten what he asked the Nundu to bring with all of the new information that he had received and thanked his companion.

After catching up a bit more with Bob, (Tom had left to give the two some time together. While he was a maniacal dark lord, he understood that he should give the two lifeforms that were stronger than him their privacy.) the vampire lord had found out that the mutated Nundu could take on a humanoid form.

Due to his breakthrough with his understanding of the law of poisons, he had managed to become the third lord of the Court. Bob was known as the Venom lord officially, all of the higher levels of the court (10 stars and above) referred to him as the Alchemist.

Apparently, from what Kai gathered from their short conversation, Bob had managed to use his understanding of poisons to create various concoctions that saved many magical creatures. Most magical creatures couldn't use the normal wizarding potions and Bob had created potions that worked on every living being thus he was heralded as the greatest alchemist that ever lived.