C 137
I was standing off to the side with Natasha, watching the other SHIELD Agents load up Dumbledore's group and the Weasley family onto the Quinjet. It was pretty funny seeing a bunch of magicals wearing Muggle handcuffs.
"Be careful with him." I told the Agents as I pointed to the unconscious Dumbledore. "He might be able to do some magic without his wand, but I don't know how much. Also, that one can turn himself into a black dog without a wand, and that one is a werewolf that will transform into a man-eating monster on the full moon." I pointed to Sirius and Remus next. The Agents nodded and told me they'd put those three in special containment rooms until they could be sorted out.
"We heard about werewolves when we took the Alley, but I've yet to see one in action." Natasha said as she watched them load Remus on the jet.
"I haven't seen the transformation in person either. It's supposed to be pretty gross." I explained. I imagine it must be, considering muscles and bones have to snap in order to re-contort themselves.
"So other than the…women, what have you been up to?" Natasha asked me. "You're a lot faster than you were before. Unless you were holding back then?"
In response, I let my ten wings show behind me.
Natasha stared at them in surprise. "Ten!? I thought you had four?" She asked me while inspecting them closely.
"I did have four wings. But then I ran into numerous fortuitous encounters and managed to ascend to the higher realms." I said jokingly. "My Dao is as deep as the sea and vast as the sky."
Natasha cracked a rare smile. "Nice try, Layla. I know cultivators aren't real. Ki isn't a real thing…"
"Well, actually–"
"Agent Romanoff! Miss Layla!" A SHIELD Agent ran up to us and interrupted me before I could once again break her worldview. "All prisoners have been secured for transport. The remains of the shack have been fully searched, and all the people buried in the debris have been rounded up as well. A few of them were injured, but none fatally."
"That's good," Natasha said. "I suppose we're done here then?"
"Also, ma'am, there is a little girl wanting to talk to you and Miss Layla. She says that she's Weasley's neighbor and has some important information to share." the guy said before he pointed off towards the front of the Weasley property.
I looked over, and standing over there was a younger blonde girl. I could tell by her iconic radish earrings that it was Luna Lovegood. She gave us a small wave before her eyes started to wander all over as if she was seeing things that no one else could.
I walked over towards her with Natasha right behind me. Natasha was the first to address her.
"Hello. I'm Agent Monroe. And who are you?" Natasha asked her while lying about her real name like the spy she was.
Luna snapped her gaze away from whatever she was looking at and back to us. "Hello Natasha Romanoff and Layla of the Fallen. I'm Luna Lovegood. I live right down the road." Luna said while pointing to the right. There were some hills there, so I couldn't see her house, but it wouldn't be hard to confirm.
Natasha blanched when Luna said her real name out of nowhere. She looked like she was ready to start interrogating the girl, but I put my hand on her shoulder and held her back. "So, Luna. The Agent you talked to told us you have some important information for us?" I asked her while using [observe].
[Luna Lovegood: The Girl Who Knows Things→ Level 6]
That was interesting. She had an actual title at only level 6. That meant her Seer abilities had to be for real.
"Yes. Something very bad is going to happen soon in Scotland unless you stop them." Luna said while looking off to the side again.
Natasha narrowed her eyes. "What bad thing?"
Luna turned to me. "The Dark Lord is scared of you, you know. He's really scared. You survived his strongest spells twice and then thoroughly trounced him the third time you all met. He correctly assumes that you have gotten even stronger still since then. He knows he can't beat you."
I smirked proudly. "That's good then!" Although I don't want him hiding away like a coward forever. He's worth 5 levels on top of being an evil asshole that I would happily purge for free anyway.
[Guys like him don't hide forever. They go crazy and choose to go out while taking as many people with them as possible.]
Shit, the system was right about that one. Voldemort knew he couldn't beat me, so his only option was to become a full terrorist at this point. But how would he go about doing that?
"What is he planning?" Natasha asked Luna. She didn't even bother asking how a barely 14-year-old girl knew all of this in the first place.
"He wants to fight Light with Fire." Luna said cryptically. "It's going to happen here." Luna then reached into a small pouch before pulling out a picture book that was way too big to fit in there. It was a book about the Scottish Highlands. She pointed towards a specific location in the book.
"I know where that is. I'll call in another Quinjet, and we can fly over there and check it out." Natasha said.
"There's no need for that. I'll just portal us over there." I could easily do that with a picture of the place. I opened up a purple portal next to us.
"Good luck! I hope you don't die." Luna gave us a dreamy smile, and she turned around and started skipping away back towards her house.
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C 138
"So, what was with that little girl?" Natasha asked me as we stepped through my portal.
I took in the sights around us. It was beautiful—green hills as far as the eye could see. I reached out my senses to try and find where Voldemort was hiding. I didn't feel anything out of the ordinary except in one direction. There was a barrier of some kind that reminded me of the one I had just collapsed.
"Luna? She's special. She's a seer." I answered Natasha's question.
"A seer? Interesting…that kind of ability could be really useful to–eep!" Natasha let out a cute squeak as I scooped her up into my arms in a princess carry.
She then gave me a small glare as I smiled down at her. "Sorry, but it would be a pretty far walk, and Luna's warning made this seem sort of urgent. We're going to fly now." I flapped my wings and took off into the sky towards the direction of the barrier. The landscape rapidly changed under us, and 30 seconds later I landed back down right in front of the barrier.
Natasha practically leapt from my arms when I touched down. She started rubbing herself all over while shaking. "D–do you know how c-cold it is hundreds of feet in the air!?" She yelled at me while shivering. Her skin was almost turning blue…
Oh…I forgot about that. Temperatures haven't affected me for a while now. Freezing simply felt a little bit cold to me.
[You can try blessing her with your Light. That might help.]
Oh right! I could do that! I gathered my Light Energy into my palm before placing my hand on Natasha's cheek. "I bless you with the warmth of my light." Blessing someone felt strange. It was like a small part of my light slipped inside of her, and I instinctively knew it would forever protect Natasha unless I took it back.
"Wha–" Was all Natasha could get out before she temporarily shined with purple light. When it faded away, her skin had returned to its normal healthy color. "I feel–I feel warm. Interesting." Natasha noted as she checked herself over. "What did you do to me?"
"I blessed you with my light to never feel cold again…unless you want to. You could take a bath in the Arctic Ocean if you wanted to and be absolutely fine. It should have other effects as well, but I'm not sure what they are. I've never blessed a human before."
Natasha looked wistfully. "Who would have thought someone with my past would ever receive the blessing of an Angel… I'm sure a lot of the people I killed would be rolling in their graves…" She trailed off.
I wrapped her in another hug. "You can't change the past…well, you can, but I don't recommend it as you'd piss off a lot of higher-level entities. That doesn't mean you can't rectify your sins."
"Enough of this sappy crap." She said as she broke our hug. "What are we going to do about that?" Natasha asked while pointing at the shimmering barrier in front of us.
"You can see it?" I asked in surprise. It was a pure magical barrier and from my understanding, even wizards and witches could rarely see pure magic.
The interesting thing about Voldemort's barrier was that I couldn't see or hear anything through it. All I could see was a shimmering cloudiness.
[It seems like your blessing is already having other effects on her.]
I told her to stand back and put my hand on the barrier in front of us. The moment I did, I immediately felt the barrier react and some dark magic tried to lash out at me.
[-10HP]
It was barely strong enough to even scratch me. I started to apply force upon the barrier while enhancing myself with my Light. After a few moments, just like with the Weasley's, the barrier ended up completely collapsing.
And then I saw the man I had been searching for down below. Voldemort was staring up at me with a look of shock on his snakelike face. Surrounding him were a bunch of his Death Eaters. All of them were chanting around a ritual circle based with a pentagram base in the center.
"M-my lord! She's here!" Lucius Malfoy said with fear in his voice.
"Dammit! How did you find me!" Voldemort screamed at the two of us. His red eyes were glowing in fury! "The ritual was almost complete as well!"
"Did you forget Tom!?" I replied haughtily while floating off the ground slightly to make myself more intimidating. "I'm an Agent of Death. Of course I know where to find you. You'll never be able to escape her." This time, me saying that wasn't technically a lie either because I was Death's favored.
"How dare you say my Lord's name you stuck up bitch! You're nothing more than a filthy creature! I'll cut your wings off and mount them on my walls as a trophy!" A gangly woman with a foul mouth who could only be Bellatrix Lestrange screamed at me. "Avada Kedavra!" The killing curse flew forth from her wand and sailed towards me. Compared to the last time I faced this curse, it honestly looked like it was moving in slow motion. It also felt completely harmless. Like it couldn't hurt me at all. As the curse reached me, I reached my hand up…and caught it.
The sickly green spell rested in my palm. I inspected it for a moment before I swung my arm and tossed her curse right back at her! My throw had made the curse move at a far higher speed than it normally did. She had no hope of dodging
"What!?" Bellatrix shrieked! As her own spell struck her, she died with a look of shock on her face.
"You are my favored…Death magic will never be able to hurt you again…"
I shivered as I felt a familiar whisper in my ear…
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