WARNING: Brutal murder scene ahead.
(ROTS)
As he entered the lobby of his manor through the fireplace, Edmund felt something off about the place. His instincts were screaming at him to release his resistance seals and be prepared for a battle. He felt someone's presence behind him and swiftly turned around. His eyes widened as he saw his father standing next to a man in his early sixties. He was a head taller than his father and had a more sinister and dangerous aura around him. Of course, he would. The old man was Edmund's grandfather. The mastermind behind the destruction of the Whirlpool family.
Aldrich Vulpis was a ruthless and a sinister man who strived for power much like his dork lord Moldy. Unlike Altair, Aldrich had a much saner mind. The man's presence was enough to put Edmund on the edge.
Aldrich looked at his grandson, critically analysing him. After a few tense moments, he began, "Edmund, it's been such a long time since I saw you. Won't you greet your grandfather?"
Edmund's mind was going into overdrive. 'What the fuck is this asshole doing here? The whole of Europe is after him. I have to be careful. If he sees something wrong with the Vulpis vaults, he'll suspect me and will try everything to force the truth out of me. The fucker is a good occulomence. Normal genjutsu won't really work on him. Shit! Now, what do I do?'
Outwardly, Edmund showed no emotion and replied, "Hello grandfather."
No matter how much he tried, he couldn't bring himself to put a smile on his face. The man in front of him was someone who didn't deserve any respect or love from him.
Aldrich snarled, "I guess I'll have to teach you some manners while I stay here boy. Your mother was just like you, a disrespectful bitch." He looked at Altair and continued in a harsh tone, "You didn't raise him well did you? He's too much like the Whirlpools. Good thing we got rid of them. You did well on killing your whore of a wife."
Altair happily nodded, pleased that his father liked his actions so far.
Edmund was seething inside. The man insulted his dead mother right in front of him. Unable to control his anger anymore, he lashed out, "How dare you! How dare you insult my mother! She was the kindest and the most loveable woman. I consider myself blessed to be given birth by her. She was there for me and loved me till her last breath and I won't let you talk shit about her!"
Edmund's magic and chakra flared. He was engulfed by a blue aura and the objects in the living room were shaking badly.
Altair was about to reprimand Edmund harshly when Aldrich whipped his wand out of its holster and snarled, "You dare talk back to me boy?! Crucio!"
The spell struck Edmund right in the chest. The pain was much worse than when Altair used the curse on him. He felt as if he was being flayed from every part of his body as if every bone in his body was being crushed and every organ being burnt slowly. Edmund clenched his jaw hard, not wanting to give the satisfaction of him screaming in pain to his attacker. He fell over and bent into a foetal position as he tried to endure the pain, grunting and breathing heavily.
Aldrich gave a sinister cackle, "Able to endure it are you. Truly astounding. That wench, your mother, screamed so delightfully whenever my son used to discipline her. Ah! I truly miss those days, watching her writhe in pain and listening to her screams. You ungrateful waste of space, how dare you mouth off Lord Malfoy in public! I'll teach you how to respect your betters."
He ended the spell and spoke to Altair, "Go and look for what is causing our vaults to lose so much money so quickly. I'll deal with this little shit."
"Yes, father." Altair walked up to his son, bent down next to his trembling body and whispered, "I don't know how you escaped from me for the past two years, but we've got you now. Father will make sure to compensate for two years of punishment. I hope you live through it because when he's finished with you, it'll be my turn and I'll be even more vicious."
Edmund looked up at his father, no the man didn't deserve the title, he looked at Altair with utter fury and unadulterated hate. If he could move right then, he would rip and tear the man apart. Seeing Altair smirk, Edmund spat at him. Altair's face was priceless for a second. Then he shouted, "You insufferable brat, you'll pay for such an insult!"
Altair kicked him in the ribs and in the back multiple times. When he got tired he kicked Edmund in the face one last time, walked towards the fireplace and flooed away.
"Ready for the second round you son of a whore?!" Aldrich snarled.
Edmund in the meantime was bidding time for his nerves to get more stable. Altair's kick didn't hurt at all. Edmund had channelled as much chakra as he could to stimulate his cells and reverse as much damage done by the torture curse as he could. He got up as his legs trembled. Making a ram seal, he whispered, "Release."
The seals on his body flared and moved. The constant resistance to his muscles and chakra vanished and he exhaled.
"Kaimon: kai" (Gate of opening: Release)
The air around him began moving in violent currents.
"What is this? What are you doing boy!"
"Kyūmon: kai" (Gate of healing: release)
The aura around Edmund turned green and his skin began to get flushed with blood. His muscles were being stimulated to unimaginable levels as he felt his strength increase by multiple times.
"Seimon: kai" (Gate of life: Release)
The very floor of the living room began to tremble as his power grew. Windows shattered and cracks appeared on the floor beneath him. He felt the strain in his bones as the marrow in them produced cells as a very high rate and his pulse reached beyond the safety levels.
Aldrich watched on in astonishment and was a bit unnerved at the display of Edmund's power. He took a step back and shouted, "What is all this? I ask you again, what are you doing?!"
Edmund stopped, looked up in Aldrich's eyes and smirked, "Preparing to give you a very painful death."
Aldrich laughed, "Who do you think you are? I was one of the chief enforcers of the Dark Lord. I killed many so-called master wizards in battle, like your grandfather, Dominic Whirlpool. What can a pipsqu-"
He never said the word fully as the air was forced out of his lungs. His eyes grew impossibly wide as they bulged out of their sockets and blood rushed out his mouth as Edmund rammed a knee in his stomach. Aldrich was sent through a wall and into the armoury.
He coughed out blood as he felt pain all over his back and in his ribs. He was sure that quite a few of them were broken by now. Pulling out a vial of draught of endurance, a numbing draught and a draught of rage, he quickly downed them in a gulp. Edmund took his time as he approached the man on the ground.
Aldrich grunted in pain and got up. Pointing his wand at Edmund he snarled, "I was going to torture you slowly and break you, but now I'll just kill you."
"Avada Kedavra!"
Edmund easily dodged the curse by just bending his head to a side and kept walking.
"Why don't you just die you piece of shit!"
"Reducto!" "Bombarda!" "Os Fractionis!" "Incarcerus!" "Avada Kedavra!"
Aldrich kept throwing all kinds of curses at Edmund be he was easily able to evade all of them.
Aldrich was by no means a pushover. He was known as a master dueller and had killed many prominent members of the wizarding world in the first war.
A man known to rival Mad-eye Moody, Aldrich had a lot of power to back it all up.
Edmund began feeling the strain of opening three gates. This was the first time he had opened three and he was not prepared for it. The effects of the cruciaticus were still there and the technique was not at all helpful.
He dodged a couple of hexes and unforgivables and got closer to Aldrich. Delivering a powerful kick on the man's wand arm, he crushed the bones of his arm and sent him flying across the room.
He cancelled the technique and his skin returned to its normal colour. Placing his hands on the ground, he yelled, "Doton: Earth spike!"
Spikes of earth appeared from all over the ground and impaled Aldrich's knees. The effects of the potions he had taken were beginning to wear off. He violently thrashed on the ground as his knee caps were pushed out of his skin followed by the spike.
Putting his wand away, Edmund made a few hand seals and yelled, "Raiton: Electromagnetic murder!"
Large amounts of bolts of blue electricity erupted from his hands and latched onto Aldrich's prone body.
Aldrich screamed as he felt his flesh burn. The pain he felt as electricity violently burnt away his flesh and blood was unbearable. As the jutsu ended, Aldrich was left twitching on the ground, barely breathing.
"That's not it... I'm not done yet..."
"Electromagnetic murder."
"Electromagnetic murder."
"Electromagnetic murder."
"Electromagnetic murder."
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"Still alive huh? Why do all bad guys like you monologue so much? I told you didn't I? I'll make your death very painful," Edmund growled, panting, feeling the effects of the gates.
Aldrich turned his head towards Edmund with great effort. "Y..you.. won't.. do... th.. that. I a..m yo..ur gra... grand.. father. Your blood."
"That is a curse I'll have to live with forever. It's tainted with your darkness. Vulpis was a family that branched out from Whirlpools six centuries ago. Your ancestor was jealous of his own brother and betrayed him. You got consumed by that same darkness and destroyed them. Now I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life. But don't you worry, after I kill your sons, I'll disown myself and by magic, this cursed family will be extinct and the world will be rid of its taint."
Aldrich's eyes grew large in horror as he mumbled incoherently. Edmund walked over and sat down next to him. He closed the distance between them and then whispered in Aldrich's ear, "Let's begin, shall we?"
Reaching out, Edmund grabbed Aldrich's jaw and snapped it. The older man screamed as tears and snot rushed out of his eyes and nose.
"Now you won't be able to bite your own tongue and give yourself an easy death."
He made a gesture with his hand as Aldrich groaned. A bright yellow orb appeared between his fingers and he put his fingers in the man's open mouth as if feeding him the yellow orb.
"Do you feel it? The warmth as the orb goes down your throat. It has reached your chest, right? Slowly reaching where your heart is. Now it's
slowly latching onto your heart. You feel it right? Feels like your heart has been thrown into boiling water. Let it burn."
Aldrich kept crying and screaming as he felt his heart actually boil. To his utter horror, he felt the heat spread from his heart to his lungs.
"Feel it in your lungs. Feel the heat as it fills them, burning them from the inside as your breath becomes erratic and blood takes the heat all over your body. Feel it as it burns your gut, feel it reach your bones and burn away the marrow. Feel it under your skin, crawling and expanding it. You must be feeling bloated."
Aldrich's abdomen, his chest, his face, his arms and legs began to swell up.
"Do you feel your skin tearing apart? Feel your organs crying to expel themselves out of you."
Aldrich convulsed and screamed, his voice already hoarse. His skin began to tear from the inside and blood began to gush out of the lacerations. His convulsions became more violent as his gut began to spill out of his abdomen, his bones began to break and sprout out of his body and his skull began to crack.
"You liked listening to my mother's screams, didn't you? Scream and feel all the pain! May you rot in hell forever!"
Aldrich gave one last cry as his body blasted from inside out. The energy released threw Edmund away into the furniture but he didn't care. He quickly got up, picked up the now dead man's wand and blasted it into pieces using raiton chakra. Not wanting to leave any evidence, he retracted the earth spikes using doton jutsu just in time as Aurors rushed out of their floo.
Down on his knees and heavily breathing, he shakily turned around to face them and spoke weakly, "You took your sweet time to come here huh?"
With that, he fainted. The last thing he saw was the Aurors rushing over to him and telling him everything will be okay.
(ROTS)
A/N: Edmund grew up with the explicit knowledge of the shinobi era. That's how his mind works. If you've watched/read Naruto then you know it's a messed up world with child soldiers who start killing at an age as early as seven. Edmund grew up with the mind of a shinobi. So for him, doing some things that are wrong is alright, such as killing, if it is a means to an end. Yes, it's a crime but, he's a child assassin. He'll kill if he has to. Don't think of him as a kid from our world.