บท 52: Chapter 52
The Green and silver decorations did not change that night. The food tasted the same as always but for some reason, it felt different. Everyone ate until their stomachs bulged out and walked back to their common rooms.
Alex spent some time with the house elves before he went to sleep in his dormitory.
The next day, all the students got into the train to get back home. The journey back home was quite fun as they played a game of truth or dare with was surprisingly introduced by Aman.
The person who did not answer the question or declined the dare would have to get slapped by the others.
While Alex planned on lying through the game, Hermione brought out a lie detector which worked by detecting the speaker's eye movement.
Alex didn't know how it could do such a complicated task by just reading the eye movements but he didn't really dwell on the topic until he noticed that no matter what he replied, it would beep.
Lies and truths didn't matter as he got slapped every time it was his turn.
"It's Alex again!! Come on, truth or dare?" Aman seemed to be revelling in his friend's bad luck.
He groaned loudly, "Urgh! Dare."
"That's not allowed. You chose dare for like … four times in a row."
"This game is called truth or dare. OR! And stop making up rules." Alex said in an irritated tone.
Hermione sat up straight, "It's alright Aman. I have a way."
"I'll leave it to you then." Aman said as he gave her a thumbs up while Alex frowned.
He knew Hermione was smart and he couldn't deny the hard fact that if he didn't have the mysterious ability to read and grasp concepts superfast, he would be far behind her.
"Alright then, I dare you to tell me who your closest friend is after Aman."
"This is a loophole! That's blatant cheating!" Alex said exaggeratedly as he acted like he was pulling his hair off.
"Just answer the question mate." Aman jutted in as he put his arm around Alex like he always did.
"…. No one. This donkey is my only friend."
"Who am I to you then?" she asked, staring at him intently.
"You, miss Hermione, are Hermione Granger to me."
"Ahahahah"
"Hahahahahahahaha mate, that, was smart."
*******
Alex got home and saw Toffy wiping his work table.
"I'm home."
"Welcome home, master. Toffy has been waiting for you."
"Mhmm. For the next week, lock the door and don't let anyone in. I'll be … uh doing some magic on myself so I get stronger. I might not wake up for more than a week too, so if I don't wake up, just wait."
"Toffy understands, master."
Alex jumped on top of his bed and ate two pills before putting on the copper helmet. He took out the silvery sphere and placed it on the cup before getting comfortable.
A few minutes later he was fast asleep. The first five days were peaceful inside the house but it was on the sixth day that there were a few physical changes.
The mattress slowly began to tear at multiple places and a few sparks flew out of his skin and hair every hour or so.
As time passed, the frequency of sparks being shot out got faster and on the seventh day, there was steam forming around his body that simply swirled around him while there were cracks on his skin.
On the eighth day, the cracked skin seemed to have gotten thicker and the colour changed to brown while the steam surrounding him got hotter, thicker and swirled around him faster.
The sparks were on a way different level as it sparked on his body every single second and also travelled through the swirling steam, making it literally look like a lightning storm.
On the tenth day, everything had disappeared while blood began to come out of his pores and while Toffy wanted to help him out, he was also afraid that it would harm him instead of help.
Alex opened his eyes on the fourteenth day and stretched. His head didn't hurt as much as before but his body did. Every single muscle tissue felt sore.
Toffy cleaned him up real good using magic before he used some of the most powerful healing magic that Alex had ever seen in his life. He felt so full of energy that he wanted to go out as soon as possible and declare war against the British wizarding population.
"Thank you, Toffy. Oh, and make me something to eat."
While the house elf was busy making him his food, Alex took out a few wooden cubes and was about to place it on his bed when he noticed its condition.
Everything was torn to shreds and looking at it, he doubted if it could even be fixed.
Reparo worked on minor damages he doubted of it could fix a mattress that was literally just cotton and cloth that had a lot of burn marks and was also wet for some reason.
He still tried the spell and seeing that it didn't work, he simply shrunk everything before he burnt it into ashes.
He conjured a bed and jumped on it before placing the wooden cubes in front of him. He placed his wand aside and outstretched his hand before he willed for the cube to fly up.
The cube levitated a centimetre from the surface and he could feel the magic moving inside his body. The sensation was new and something that he couldn't feel before.
He made his palm face upwards while the fingers bent like a claw as though he was holding an imaginary cube in his hand.
One deep breath later, he threw the imaginary cube in his hand and saw the cube that was levitating a second ago, fly up and hit the ceiling at an unnatural speed.
"Whooo! Damn… Voldy really is too gifted. A very good decision to not fight him head on. Good job Alex, good job."
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