Chapter 102: Goodbye, Muthef*****
*Boom*
I saw red and the whole room flashed red as red energy started to burn around me.
*BAAAM*
The next second, I was standing on the ground with with my hand clutching Peeves' throat and the one shoved into his throat, clutching his tongue. Black scales had formed on parts of my body and pupils turned to draconic slits.
"How. dare. you."
"AAGHAHAAGH!!!"
Peeves screaming and making choking sounds as he tried free himself by turning invisible and intangible.
But this time, it didn't work. If the pure magic was making him drastically stronger, the red energy seemed do the opposite and make him weaker. It seemed to burn his very existence.
But, I wasn't done yet.
"You should've run when you had the chance. It's too late now."
"Goodbye, muthef*ckuh." With my eyes and hair burning red, I gave him a bloody grin showing my sharp teeth. No one gets away with what he did. Not even an Amortal creature. New novel chapters are published on
$"Fiendfire"$ I muttered in an eerie voice.
"AAAGHAAGHAAAAGH." The Poltergeist let out ear piercing wails as a crimson fire spread my hand that was shoved into his throat, burning him from inside out.
The crimson flames took shape of a dragon which ate the Poltergeist's existence whole as it grew in size. Soon, his very existence was erased as intense blood-red flames consumed everything.
$"Dispell"$ I said in the same eerie voice as the red dragon shrank down before it dispersed into red particles and I sank down to my knees as the red aura around me also disappeared and the scales turned back to my skin.
"Mewww." Nyxie flew over and landed next to me as she checked my condition worried.
"I'm fine, Nyxie. Just a bit tired." I muttered.
"Meew." Nyxie licked my face and started giving me pure magic and she snuggled into my shoulder.
"Thanks for that." I said as I got up and stroked her head.
"Also, disillusion us. And the broom." My disillusionment had blown off when I used Super Trigger Ros and the drakonic mode.
A few minutes later, the ceiling opened, a large cabinet started falling out to it.
"Wingardium Leviosa." I said, even using the incantation to lessen the amount of magic required to cast it. My magic is almost completely exhausted and I'm running on fumes right now.
I put the whole bag into my storage space and then I only I started to dispell all the wards I had placed around here. They weren't for Peeves, they were to stop anyone outside to feel any disturbance.
I departed only after erasing all evidences of anything actually ever happening here and placing a duplicate Vanishing Cabinet in the ceiling. In the fake one, I put a piece of paper with the words R.A.B. written on it. I don't know why I did it. Maybe in the respect of the guy's daring of pranking Voldemort in the same way. Imagine Voldemort in his full strength checking on the Horcrux and find the fake locket with the slip. You gotta admit, the man had balls.
While flying back to the room of requirements, I reflected on what had happened today.
I had killed a Poltergeist. No 'killed' is a wrong word. He was never born, he was never alive. So, I didn't kill him. Either way, no one, absolutely no one would miss him. That's quite an achievement. He existed for centuries, but not even a single ghost would miss his existence. He was an ass to each and every one of the people he ever met, whether they be alive or dead.
But the odd thing is, I got unusually angry tonight. I usually didn't use to get so angry so easily in the past. But this time, It was like... my pride and ego had been hurt and I had to make him pay for daring to do this. And then the drakonic mode had activated on its own. I think that's one of the changes that happen to the master upon the forming of the bond'Minor changes in temperament.'
F*cking minor. I could kill someone due to this 'minor' change in temperament.
It's good that I didn't bond with an Acromantula. I shivered at the thought. Man, that would be horrible. Being a Spider Man fan myself, I had considered bonding with an Acromantula at some point. Can anyone blame me?
Anyway, that seemed to be the only temperamental change I've noted upto now. I hope there aren't any other.
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After coming back to the room of requirements, I went straight to sleep. Using that much energy had knackered me out and it was already quite late. Even if the cabinet was functioning, I wouldn't go to home this late at night. Hugging Nyxie, I drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, I woke up feeling sore all over and still not quite able to believe what I'd done yesterday night. But, my magic had recovered so activated the trigger, making the pure magic cure all the soreness. A comfortable feeling spread all over my body and I started doing my morning exercises. After taking a bath, I went to have the breakfast with Nyxie on my shoulder. I was quite famished after the transformation yesterday.
I went to sit at the Hufflepuff table for the breakfast even if Dora wasn't there. The table was laden with tureens of porridge, plates of kippers, mountains of toast, and dishes of eggs and bacon.
I found Hannah and Susan sitting there and went to sit beside them.
"Morning." I said as I started to make myself a big sandwich, stuffing everything into it.
"Is everyone here? So, Welcome to your very first class of the year! Ah, Mr. Martin, you brought your lovely little friend along as well! How nice, I'll be keeping an eye on her while for today's class to see if she behaves well."
"Yes Professor." I nodded. Well, if any teacher doesn't allow her, we'll resort back to invisibility like we did in the last year. It's just a bit inconvenient.
"Excellent! So, today, we'll be learning a very useful spell, the Skurge Spell. So, who will tell me the use of the Skurge Charm? Mr. Martin?"
I hadn't even raised my hand. I never do. I usually pass time in the class reading some interesting books I've found in that wonderfully big library. There's always something to interesting to read there, unlike in my previous world, where I ran out of good novels to read and didn't have that much interest in muggle topics that I'd actively read books about them.
I answered Flitwick as I looked up from my book. "The Skurge Charm's main use is to clean the ectoplasm left by the ghosts and to some degree, can be used to frightenspirits, such as the aforementionedghosts, as well asPoltergeists." I said as said as I recalled yesterday's situation with the Poltergeist. Like I said the things taught in the classes at Hogwarts or found out from here and there are usually useful in the recent situations.
Though, the Skurge Charm wouldn't have been useful for me yesterday anyway, since I didn't want to scare him away, but stop him.
Flitwick nodded excitedly, "Very good, Mr Martin! Take 5 points for Ravenclaw. People often mistake it as the Scouring Charm, but mind you, this one has it's own use other that the Scouring Charm doesn't have. To frighten spirits! This spell will be very useful for you in the future as you all may have realized by now, that we have a very mischievous and trouble making Poltergeist haunting Hogwarts. You might be able to get away lightly if you use this spell during your next encounter with Peeves." Everyone was very happy to hear that and I wondered when will they actually figure out that Peeves no longer existed.
After class, Tracy came up to me with Daphne staying back.
"Hi Nyxie! Did you miss us? How are you today?"
Of course, it was for Nyxie. Didn't say a word to me.
"We're getting late for the next class." I said as I turned and started walking away with Nyxie on my shoulder.
"Hey! Wait! Wait! Alright you can go, but at least leave Nyixe behind, ok?"
Really, I'm not the only one who's got captured into Nyxie's cuteness trap.
We left go for the defense against the dark arts class and Michael finally understood that the reason I was acquainted with the girls was because of Nyxie.
"So, they only know you because of your dragon."
Ha, what can he do? Like I said, it's good that I'm not a playboy. Unlike this dude who's getting all jealous for nothing. My heart has already been taken. It's currently in New York.
We all went to Lockhart's class, and found him eagerly waiting for us while rubbing his hands together.
"Do you think he'd teach us how he fought with werewolf in his second book?" Asked Sue Li.
Parvati was sceptical, "That method is not plausible. You can't physically subdue a werewolf. They're said to be physically several times stronger than average wizards. Plus, just one bite, and you're done for."
"Yeah, the same is with the rest of his books. I'm telling you, he's a fraud." said Terry Boots, and I decided that I'd do him one favour in the future these words.
We had the class with Hufflepuffs. Overall, the girls were excited while some boys were also his fans.
When the whole class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly and silence fell. He picked up a random book from a table and showed it around. It had a picture of him winking.
"Me," he said, pointing at it and winking as well. "Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award but I don't talk about that. I didn't get rid of the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her!" He said, as he looked around while his eyes paused a big longer at me and Nyxie.
Damn, what a fraud. He's even giving us the same lines he gave the other class. Guess the stupid test was actually real. I mean, how someone not complain about this fraud for a whole year if he does things like that?!
The class was a complete let-down for all the Ravenclaws, and most understood that they'd not be learning anything from this guy when they saw the stupid test paper.
"What the hell is this? How is this related to the 'Defense against the dark arts'?!" Anthony Goldstein whispered harshly.
"See? I told you told you he's a fraud!" replied Terry.
I spent the rest of the class peacefully reading a book written in another language while I took in the reactions of all the students. Don't know what Dumbledore was thinking, when he called this clown.
When the class ended, I had decided that I wouldn't be bothering with his classes anymore, and was about to leave peacefully for good, but
"Hey Chris! Stay behind for a while. I have a few words to exchange to a with you." Said Lockhart.
'What the f*ck does he want? Well whatever, I need tell him that I won't be attending his classes anyway.' I thought as I stayed and my friends waited outside.
At that time neither of us knew that, the words Lockhart was going to say in the next few minutes would ruined his life forever.
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A.N.: Just remember what Lockhart said to Harry on his first day at Hogwarts. And imagine what's going to happen.
This is the biggest Chapter upto now! 3060 words. It's like a double chapter!
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