Hogwarts, the "greatest" magical school in the world but I call bullshit. In my first year 3 students were almost killed by a troll then only a few months later 4 students were almost killed by going through some death puzzle to get some legendary item.Â
In my second year 15 students including me were turned to stone and one student and teacher was killed. Turns out the decades dead dark lord projected his soul through a diary and unleashed a fucking basilisk on the school. The girl that the dark lord possessed took all of her life force killing her but 3 students and a teacher somehow convinced the basilisk to eat the dark lord, too bad that the teacher was turned to stone then crushed. The basilisk was then killed during the summer and sold at auction.
In my third year there was a mass murderer on the loose who was trying to kill a student. Then to catch this guy the government sent creatures that are basically depression incarnate, oh they also eat souls. Safe for children. Need i say more?
My fourth year there was a fucking death tournment where they forced a student to participate when they were three years too young. Then as expected one of the students did die but it wasn't the one who was too young. Then on top of all this the dark lord was resurrected not that this idiotic government believed it until too late.
Fifth year was fine. There was a racist toad teaching but she mostly left me alone because of my house. Guess wearing green has its benefits. There were also rumours about a secret society but who knows if it exists. But one thing that isn't secret is that 5 students were able to somehow sneak out to almost get killed in London. Oh there were also fucking exams!
Sixth year was stressful. Law enforcement around every corner, just trying to get me in trouble for wearing green, benefits gone. Then a student was cursed leaving them brain dead, a poisoning that had a student in a coma for 2 months and a terrorist break in leaving 2 dozen students maimed and the headmaster ended up killing the student that let the terrorists in after his arm was cut off by that student. The headmaster did go to trial but was found not guilty because that student was part of the previously mentioned terrorist group.
And finally my seventh year. Is shit I wasn't even able to get to the castle as I was kidnapped off the train by the dark lord and his terrorist groupies and then was sold off to some pale bitch with black veins going up her neck and wrists by said dark lord as an "experiment subject" so she can "learn this world magic" whatever that means.
So yeah that is where I am. Tied-up and gaged while He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and the pale bitch talk and a dark floating snow globe with red mist in the globe and black tentacles stretched out of the bottom.
"Salem, I do hope that my 'gift' finds you well. And remember if ever you require my help I will be glad to." Snake face says slimily.
"Of Course it should be most… enlightening. Let's hope this births a long lasting alliance that will see to the deaths of our enemies " without another word she turns around. The snow globe follows her and once she passes me its tentacles wrap around my neck and arms, which are bound behind my back, and drags me to wherever the woman now named 'Salem' is walking.Â
Once we are outside of Malfoy Manor the snow globe drops me and Salem starts using her magic which immediately reacts, its presence and pressure builds, choking me. Next is the circle made from runes of shifting colour. Red, blue, yellow. Then it happens the pressure of the magic disappears along with the world. The garden, the building, the very sky. All that there is, is a void only with fast flashes of light that vanish the moment they appear.
Shit! What is going on? I am left gaping at the beauty but terrified at the implications. They mentioned other worlds, is that what those are? Other worlds are real like in those muggle comics I read during my summer holidays at the foster home? Wait, she is going to be using me in human experiments? Oh merlin, how do I escape?
I start channelling my magic towards my eyes, no matter how subpart hogwart's teaching is, at least I found one lost secret to magic in a hidden room in the library. It was going to be my trump card to let me be an unspeakable but now that dream is dead.Â
Mage Sight, my trump card, the lost skill to not just sense magic but physically see it. Some might wonder how that is better than magic sensing? Well you can't see 360 degrees like you can with magic sensing but what it does allow you to see is the different frequencies of magic making it much easier to replicate spells and also find weaknesses in magic. I found out about this in ancient runes when I caused my project to break down on the day it was due…
Back to the problem at hand, escape. The moment the Mage Sight activates my eyes shut and I fall to the ground? Biting my tongue so that I don't scream as my eyes and brain burn. Merlin, bad idea to use it near powerful magic. Steeling myself, I used the sight again for barely a second and again crumpled over in pain, but this time I saw something.
This transportation spell is properly supposed to have a barrier acting as a wall to stop people falling off but the thing is it doesn't link the ground portion at all. Is that to save on magic or because the spell is still incomplete? No! Focus on escaping then theorise on whatever the fuck this is.
So that is what I do, I start to slowly crawl over to the edge of the massive purple rune under me, Salem and the snow globe. As I am about to get to the edge Salem turns and sees me close to the outer barrier.
"Lamb, what are you trying to do? You can't just throw yourself off the edge, there is a wall." I ignore her and she continues to just watch in amusement, that is until I push my bound arms out of the spell. In that instant I am dragged outside the spell. I see her eyes widen as she immediately tries to fix what I did but the spell is now failing and that is the last I see of her.
What do I do now? Hope for the best I guess. I am flying directionless into the great expanse of dimensionless space. My eyes, brain and lungs are burning. I am now quickly approaching a brilliant blue light and as soon as I make contact with it I fall unconscious.Â
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I open my eyes barely able to stay conscious, my head is pounding, the light is just making it worse. My arms are now unbound and when quickly looking around I blurily see I am in the middle of a forest with many broken twigs around me. And in the distance there is a woman wearing a white cloak with brown hems, blond hair and long ears? As I take note of this my body once again collapses in strain and I black out.