[ASSIMILATING...]
[ASSIMILATION COMPLETE]
There was suddenly a sense of relief as if a huge pressure had been lifted from his brain and when he became aware, he realised that the movie of memories had finally stopped.
'Ugh... is it finally over,' he thought while moving 'his eyes' all around him but he could still only see darkness, 'Am I still in the void, but where are—Wait! My eyes?! I have eyes!!' he suddenly realised he had eyes and that he was back inside a body.
He still couldn't see where he was but that didn't matter as he was absolutely sure that he was human once again.
'Thank Merlin...' he sighed in relief, 'Wait! Why did I say that? I've never said that before...or have I? Wait a second... Who am I? Am I Sam? Or Am I Ron?.... Ugh! Which one am I...'
Thankfully the restrictions that he had been under for so long were no more, so he was able to think a lot more clearly and was only confused for a few moments before realising what had happened to him.
'So the little fairy really sent me into the Harry Potter world, huh...' he was still a bit dazed about it all but was slowly coming to accept the situation.
'Now should I call myself Ron or Sam...'
'Hmm...I guess I'll pick Ron since Sam's already dead...' he thought after a while and it wasn't a very hard decision to make as he didn't have much of an attachment to his previous life.
'Though, Is this all even real? And what about my previous world, was that real? Or has this all been a simulation from the start...'
Fortunately, before his mid-life crisis could begin to have a hold on him, Sam or rather Ron crushed those thoughts into oblivion using his twenty years of experience as a depressed adult.
'Ah! Fuck it! Who cares,' he decided to leave the panic attacks to a later time when he was safe and sound because he knew from the most recent memories of Ron that currently he was inside the DOM with that brain thingy wrapped around his head... and that was not a very safe place to be in.
'First thing first, let's get out of here...,' Ron thought while moving his hands upwards to remove the abomination constricting him and squeezing the shit out of him. But the moment he moved, it seemed as if time started moving again and he suddenly heard a very loud shout.
"Harry, it'll suffocate him!" (Ginny?)
Before he could comprehend the situation, he felt Ginny try to roughly tug that thing right from his head, but before she could succeed, there was suddenly a sizzle and in the next moment he felt Ginny go flying into the air and slam into the wall with an uncomfortable thud.
Ron immediately froze in his bid to remove the tentacles as he realised and remembered that there was still a fight going on.
"STUBEFY!!" shouted a retaliatory voice that he knew belonged to Neville, "STUBEFY! STUBEFY!!"
But the passionate scream/spells didn't seem to have any effect as there was only a cackling from several adult voices.... and spells once again rained towards their direction like arrows. Ron shivered and crouched on the ground as he felt spells passing him by and leaving craters in the wall.
Several things simultaneously happened in the next second, one of the lighter footsteps, probably Harry, ran like a rabbit straight towards the back while shouting at the top of his tongue.
His bid to attract the Death Eaters' attention seems to have worked as Ron felt the heavier adult footsteps run right behind Harry, knocking chairs and sending tables flying along the way.
None of them seemed to pay the rest of them any attention and seconds later the room had fallen completely silent except for one other person's laborious breathing right beside him.
"Ugh... Dob't borry, Bon. I-I bill get you out." Neville grunted while pulling hard on the octopus thingy on Ron's head with all his might, and Ron immediately joined him in the effort, and a few seconds of heaving later, the thing finally came off his head.
"Hu...hu...hu....Abright, Bon!!" Neville asked with an ugly smile.
"Huh? Ah! No, I am fine," Ron replied instinctively to the teen who looked quite awful at that moment. His nose had been completely crushed and he also seemed to have bitten his tongue, plus his whole face was splattered with blood, making him look almost unrecognisable.
"I-I ab sorry, Bon but I have to go... but I probise I wib come back for you—," Neville said apologetically while hobbling towards the door at the end of the room. After sending one last apologetic glance towards Ron he disappeared into the same room where the others had gone to see if he could help Harry.
"Going into a fight when can use magic... the boy's definitely a Gryffindor..." Ron murmured in a somewhat impressed tone before he shook off his daze and began to stand up while looking around himself. His body was still a bit sore but other than that he was having no problem moving any parts of his body.
The Brain Room, which had looked quite pristine and empty when they had arrived earlier, now seemed as if a hurricane had passed through.
There were shards from broken tables, and chairs lying all over the floor, and the green liquid from the brain tank had also dribbled onto the floor making the bodies lying around wet, and not to forget the brains squiggling on the—Wait! Bodies?!
"GINNY! HERMIONE!!" He shouted instinctively before running towards the bodies of the girls.
Ron hurriedly pulled them out of the rubble before placing them in a relatively dry place. He also found Luna along the way who seemed to be almost sleeping, with the serene smile she had on her face.
"Shit! What do I do now..." Ron murmured in a panicky voice while scratching his head.
While he knew from the movies from his previous life that they were all ultimately going to be fine with no long-term repercussions, it still felt a bit wrong to just leave them lying around like this..."Wait! That's Right! I can use magic now." he exclaimed before hurriedly turning around and scrambling towards the rubble.
"My Wand! Where's my wand!" It took a while but ultimately he managed to pull out the familiar piece of wand made of willow with a core of unicorn hair, from under a table.
The moment he touched the wand, Ron immediately felt a rush of energy course through his body, not dissimilar to the one he felt when he had held it for the first time in Ollivander's store.
"Cool..." He was quite fascinated by the phenomenon, but only for a few seconds before he pulled himself together and ran back to the girls.
"Right, let's do this..." he said before taking a deep breath and raising his wand.
While Ron had never learned any kind of healing magic, there was one piece of magic he had practised a lot during his DA sessions that he felt could be useful here.
"Rennervate!" He cast while pointing the wand towards his sister and thankfully, the spell worked perfectly as the moment the blue beam stuck Ginny, her body began to twitch and her eyes began to flutter as if she was about to wake up.
Now, a bit more confident he tried the spell once again while pointing towards Luna and Hermione.
"Rennervate! Rennervate!" But he was disappointed this time as it seemed that the girls were hit with something other than stunners.
"Mmm..." He suddenly heard a moan and quickly went back to his sister who had opened her eyes by now.
"Are you alright, Ginny?"
"Ugh, Ron? What are you— Wait? Where is everyone else?!"
"Harry attracted the Death Eaters attention and ran through the door and Neville went after him—"
"What? Why didn't you say that earlier? C-Come on, we need to help them!" Ginny cried and tried to stand but Ron immediately put a hand on her shoulder and pushed her back before she could put her weight on her broken ankle.
"Don't be stupid, Ginny! You can't even stand up. How will you help them?"
"B-But we need to help them!!" she said angrily while glaring towards her leg, "They could be out there dying or getting tortured, we need to do something—"
"Calm down, no one will die."
"How can you know that?!"
"Because I—" He wanted to say that he knew because of the memories of a book, which said that all of them would pull through this alive in the end, so there was no need to put themselves in unnecessary danger—"Oh! Shit! Sirius!!" he swore as his head instinctively swirled towards the door with dread on his face as he suddenly remembered the only casualty of this fight.
"What? Don't you remember, Ron, Sirius isn't here... It was all a ruse to lure Harry," Ginny said confusedly, "Are you alright, Ron? Did the brain thingy mess with your head?" she asked in a concerned tone.
"Huh? Oh no, I am alright." Ron said absentmindedly before looking down as his mind began working furiously, trying to come up with a solution to this problem... and the only way he could think of was to go into the messy fight and save Sirius himself. And It didn't take long for Ron to make his decision.
If he just had the memories of Sam from the modern world, then he may have even hesitated a bit because of the danger. But he had memories of Ron too and Ron would never hesitate if he had a chance to save Sirius... after all, Harry would, and had already done the same so many times for his own family.
"You're right. They need help," Ron nodded to Ginny.
"That's good, Let's go then."
"No. I'll go but you need to stay here."
"B-But—"
"No Buts, Ginny," Ron shook his head firmly, "You won't be much help out there, and besides someone needs to be here to take care of Luna and Hermione, in case someone else attacks.
"Ugh..." she groaned in dissatisfaction but after seeing the vulnerable bodies of her friends, she didn't argue any further, "Fine! But be careful."
"Don't worry, I will," he said with a smile before standing up. "Oh right... Accio Ginny's Wand!" he waved his wand and almost immediately a smaller wand came flying out of the rubble and Ron easily caught it from the air.
It seems he not only had the complete repertoire of Ron's spells, but they also seemed to be working a lot more smoothly and fluently than he could remember.
It felt as if he had practised each of them countless times... even though Ron only ever practised them for assignments...
'It seems that being in the void for so long was useful for something after all...'
"Here take this," he handed over the wand to Ginny, "Just in case," he said to her and she nodded her head grimly.
Ron took one last deep breath before walking towards the door, 'Let's go save, Sirius' he thought firmly.
But just as he was about to open the door a light blue screen suddenly appeared in front of his face startling him.
[Quest Created: Save Sirius]
'What the fuck is that?'
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