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When I woke up from my unconscious state, I was still falling. It reminded me of when I was falling into Tartarus with Annabeth. At least then I was with the girl I loved. Now I am alone, with a sleeping mini deer, countless weapons, a hell of a lot more power and an undying willpower.
The stream around me looked weird. There were lots of colours and flashed of brightness. Occasionally it would fade enough for me to see a specific area, like a city or a battlefield but they faded after a few seconds. I could feel the overwhelming pressure that would be crushing me if I didn’t have the magical jewel around my neck.
I kept falling and falling until I saw a crack appear in the side of the stream, just a little further down. I straightened and narrowed myself into a dart, aiming for the crack before blasting through and being hit by an overwhelming white light.
When my eyes cleared, I was back at the guardian HQ except this time it was different. The chairs were solid wood and dusty, Chaos’ throne looked worn and old. The wall was crumbling, and the door was hanging off its hinges.
“Who are you?” I heard a female voice ask. I turned around and saw a tall woman with pale skin and long, flowing black hair that reached down to her lower back. Her eyes were mini supernovas, exactly the same as the Chaos from my dimension.
I dropped onto my knee in a kneel. “Lady Chaos. Wow that is weird to say.” I said after kneeling. “Who are you? Why do I sense some of my own aura on you?” she asked, and I took it as my que to rise. “My name is Persephone Jackson. I am from an alternate universe where I became a guardian of earth. Unfortunately, I ended up here during a fight with Moros the primordial of doom. He was trying to assist in the end of my world and chaos told me to kill him. I wasn’t strong enough so I ended up here.” I said and she maintained a mask of indifference.
“So, I went through with the guardian of earth plan in that universe?” she asked and I nodded. “In this universe they tried to overthrow me, so I had to kill them all. Why would you be any different?” she asked. “Because I can make sure she doesn’t.” Bucky spoke up with a tired voice, having moved to my shoulder.
“Bucky? It’s been a while since you were here.” she said and Bucky nodded. “Yea I had to bring Moros here and unfortunately he has already started to assist a new man by the name of Tom Riddle.” Bucky said. Chaos scowled instantly after hearing that name.
“Riddle. That damn idiot. Messing around with souls and what should and shouldn't be alive.” she said and I raised an eyebrow at her. “Tell you what. Deal with Riddle and Moros, then I'll reconsider killing you like I did my earlier guardians.” she said and I gulped. I already didn’t like this chaos as much as the one from my universe.
“Yes, Milady.” I said to her, and she disappeared. I walked out of the guardians HQ and teleported to London where I walked up to a newspaper stand and grabbed a newspaper. The years was 1992 and the date was July 30th. She had been filled in by Chaos who riddle was and where she was meant to go and what I had to do.
Chaos also gave me access to magic and transplanted the knowledge of magic in my head which lead me to my next location. I mist travelled to the leaky cauldron and after asking for access to Diagon alley and walked into Gringotts, greeting the goblin at the front desk.
“Greetings, fair goblin. I wish to take and inheritance test at the earliest opportunity.” I said fluently in the language of the goblins. “You speak our language, witch?” the goblin asked, and I nodded in response.
“Very well. If you would follow me, I will take you to get the test done.” the goblin said before standing and leading me into the depths of the bank. We walked for a while before entering an office that had a desk with a chair either side of it and a golden bowl and silver knife on it.
We walked and sat on either side of the desk before I used the knife to make a slit in the palm of my hand and let the blood drip into the bowl before a piece of parchment came out. I read the parchment and it basically just told me what I already knew that I was a daughter of Poseidon, blessed by Hestia, Hades and Chaos and apparently a granddaughter of Hecate.
After the goblin saw my inheritance, he paled before rushing me into a cart and down into the deepest depths of the bank, leading me to an ancient looking vault that had a pair of crossed torches in the middle of the door. I placed my hand on the door, and it vanished revealing mountains of gold and a small pouch on a pedestal in the front of the pouch.
“That pouch is directly linked to your vault. It will have the exact amount of money you need in it whenever you need it.” he said. I nodded before picking up the pouch and after another cart ride up, left Gringotts. My first destination was Ollivander's. I needed a wand, and he was the best in Britan.
I walked in and the man looked shocked at seeing me. “Hello there. How may I help you?” he asked. “I need a wand. Ideally custom built but I have no ingredients and I heard you’re the best around.” I said to him. He looked shocked but simple nodded.
“Right then, this way.” he said before leading me into a small back room. In it was a box filled with all sorts of blocks of different wood and in another, there were jars filled with a massive variety of ingredients. “Do you know how to do this?” he asked, and I nodded before closing my eyes and hovering my hand over the box of woods and running it along the different blocks.
Eventually I felt 3 different pulls. One was a block of cherry wood, another ebony wood and the last was holly wood. Ollivander looked surprised at the three woods, but it wasn’t unheard of, just rare. Next, I went to the box of cores and again it was three that came out. Tail hair of a thestral, shred of dementors cloak and willingly given unicorn blood. After giving it to Ollivander and a 10 galleon pay for the wand and to keep the ingredients quiet, I left the store and bought all the other wizarding necessities I would need.
After an hour and a half, I returned to Ollivander's and picked up my wand. I was about 15” long and had a dark ebony handle. The part after the handle was a swirly of holly and cherry wood. As soon as I picked up the wand, I felt a massive surge of power and was shocked at the strength of the wand.
I thanked the wand maker before going back to the leaky cauldron and wrote a simple letter about a job offer, I saw. I wrote a letter to Albus Dumbledore asking if I could be the new defence against the dark arts teacher at Hogwarts. I attached some documents I created and then registered in the ministry and sent them along. I also requested a formal meeting, even if I didn’t get a job and informed him where I would be staying in the cauldron before sending the letter with one of the owls there for postal service.
After that I bought a room in the leaky cauldron for a few nights before returning to my room and starting a project. See, a common belief is that you need a potion to become an Animagus but in reality, you can do it with meditation. Also, everybody has 2 Animagus forms, it’s just the potion only allows the easiest and weakest one to appear.
And so began my new schedule. Meditating all day except for meals and sleep. Eventually after a few days Dumbledore’s response arrived saying I had the DADA job and that he was willing to meet me in 2 days in the leaky cauldron. I simply nodded to the owl before going back to my meditation.
The day before I was set to meet Dumbledore, I finally managed to meet my two Animagus forms in my mindscape. One was a beautiful black wolf, similar to the wolfs I saw in the hunt except for colour. The other, was a pitch black owl. My guess was the second one was because of Athena’s continued support of me in my ‘trial’ back at camp. At least, I hoped it was.
After exiting my mindscape, I found something strange. Usually, it takes weeks for an Animagus to be able to fully transform after discovering their form but for me it felt natural. I did it with both my forms and it felt like second nature, like using my wings in my owl form or having a tail in my wolf form. My guess was it was a bi-product of using the meditation method of transforming.
After that I just mostly slept from the exhaustion that was entering and remaining in my mindscape for extended periods of time. The other bonus of the meditation was that it allowed me to form what I thought were very solid occlumency shield that I would have to ask Dumbledore to test.
By the time the meeting came around, I was sitting in the table we were supposed to meet at in owl form, enjoying some bacon Tom, the barkeep had put out for me. Soon and old looking man with a great white beard sat at the table and looked at me with a grandfather like smile.
“You know, in your letters you never mentioned being an Animagus.” he said and I shifter back to my human form. “Didn’t feel like it was worthy to mention.” I said. “Well, either way. You wanted to meet me. Here I am.” said Dumbledore, clearly curious as to why I asked to meet him. “Great. Now first things first, how is you Occlumency and Legilimency?” I asked him.
“Good, why?” he asked. “I need you to test my shields.” I said simply. I felt a prodding at my mental barriers and pulled my shields up full force. Suddenly the prodding stopped, and Dumbledore winced. “Strong.” he said. “Good. Now, what are your plans to deal with Tom? I am here for that and that only.” I said and his eyes widened.
“I see. Well, he is somehow alive. I don’t know how but he will eventually return at which point Harry Potter should be able to defeat him.” he said, and I frowned slightly. “Okay. You are basically in the blind. Tell me, Dumbledore, do you know what a Horcrux is?” I asked him. He gasped and his eyes widened.
“He didn’t.” he said to me. “Six of them, seven if you include Harry who is partially a Horcrux but not fully.” I said to him. “Merlin’s beard!” he exclaimed. “Yea, hence, why I'm here. I can probably take his new ally, but you will have to deal with Tom himself.” I said and his eyes widened further. “New ally?” he asked.
“Moros, primordial god of doom. Also, not from this world, like me.” I said and his mouth dropped open in shock. “Anyway, I will help you. That is, if I have the DADA position?” I asked and he nodded. “I was just about to ask Gildroy Lockhart if he wanted to teach it, despite him being a fraud. You will have to tell me the books required for your teaching so I can tell the students to buy them before term.” he said, and I nodded before standing.
“I trust the information about where I come from, and Voldemort’s new ally will remain secret?” I asked him and he nodded. “Great, I’ll owl you the books I need students to buy, and I will be at Hogwarts by the 1st of September.” I said before walking back to my room.
As soon as I was back Bucky floated out of my pocket slowly. “You really just want to be a teacher, huh Perce?” he said, and I snorted. “This will be way more fun.” I said and he nodded before floating back down into my pocket. “That jump drained you a lot, didn’t it?” I asked as he floated down. He simply nodded before going back to sleep in my pocket.