A few weeks later. All of my students were going through their exams for me. My exam was basically all practical with a few written about what other types of magic there were. Most people aced the written, while about half of my students got Exceed Expectations for their Void Magic. For my Practical, it was just a combination of all of the powers that I have taught them so far. I haven't gotten to Devouring Swarm, Windblast, Void Gaze, Summon Assassin, Pull, Arcane Bond, Domino, Doppelganger, Far Reach, Mesmerize or Shadow Walk yet. I also haven't covered Displace, foresight, semblance or Rat Whispers yet. Those would have to be next year. Oh! I also forgot to introduce them to BloodBriars, Thorns, Grave Hounders, Willful Objects, or Stoneflesh yet.
I forgot to mention those because they weren't some of the main powers and I didn't know if I wanted to show them it.
I was sitting calmly in my classroom. I loved it. When suddenly the door burst open.
"VOIDIC!" yelled Harry in a panic.
"What? What's wrong?" I jolted up to look at Hermione, Ron and Harry panting.
"Voldemort's going to try and steal the stone tonight! We need to protect it!
"Alright, We'll go tonight, Alright? I'll meet you outside of your dormitory. Got it?" Harry nods purposefully and they all run off to get ready for tonight. I run to my own place and grab my helmet and armour, putting it on. I made sure it fit comfortably before heading off for the Gryffindor Common Room. Soon enough, I'm waiting outside and the portrait swings open, revealing Hermione, looking scared at the prospect of facing off against the most powerful dark wizard in living memory. Either that or she's afraid she'll be expelled. Ron, who looks like a cross between Harry and Hermione. And Harry, who had a look of steady confidence on his face ready to lead his friends at a moment's notice. I smile internally at my training already taking root.
"I'm sorry Neville," Hermione called through the portrait as it shut. I barely caught a glimpse of Neville frozen on the floor.
"Why'd you freeze him?"
"He wanted to come with us, but he didn't know all of the details. So to save him, we had to freeze him." Harry said. I nodded in understanding.
"Alright, Well, let's go. I asked Pinkie to bring Fluttershy here as quick as she could."
"Fluttershy?" Hermione mouthed to her friends. Soon enough we were in front of the door after dealing with Peeves. I made a deal with him that I would allow him to continue haunting Hogwarts if he didn't get in our way. I've never seen a ghost pale before, but it was entertaining, to say the least. Then I heard Pinkie from behind us.
"Xavy! Xavy! Fluttershy's here with me!" I looked and indeed saw the trademark long pink hair of Fluttershy hiding behind Pinkie.
"Thanks Pinkie." I took off my mask and walked to Fluttershy. "Hey, Fluttershy."
"H-Hey Xavyier. Why'd you need me? Pinkie said something about a three-headed dog, but I didn't believe her."
"She was telling the truth, We need to get past a Cerberus named Fluffy." Fluttershy immediately perked up at the prospect of meeting an entirely new breed of animal.
"Yay! Where is Fluffy?" I looked and saw Hermione, Ron, and Harry gaping at another brightly coloured girl.
"He's just through that door, Fluffy also falls asleep when you sing to him, so can you sing to him while we go through the trapdoor?" She nodded and we followed her through the door. Immediately, the three heads starting growling at us. But Fluttershy merely smiled and began to sing.
The effect was instantaneous. The heads slowly began to pant and the entire body of the dog dropped to Fluttershy's feet, who immediately began to pet the heads while singing still. I looked and saw the three students slowly falling asleep as well, I shook them and we went to the trapdoor, I opened it up and we slid through. I immediately jumped off the Devil's snare and took out my wand. Casting a brilliant fire to stop it from attacking the others.
"Hey... Xayvier, was it?" Hermione asked. I looked at her and she flinched back. I finally realized I had my mask off.
"Oh, sorry." I put my mask back on. "What is it?"
"Why did you never tell anyone your real name?" I snorted.
"Nobody here except Pinkie Pie knows my real name. Xayvier is a fake name I chose for myself as I didn't like my first one."
"Why'd you choose Xayvier?"
"It means having a quick analytical mind. I figured it fit me better than my old one did. Which meant pure, charming, full of heart. But that's for another time. I said as we went into a room full of keys flying through the air. I went straight up to the door and used my windblast on it to pressure open the lock. which clicked and allowed us through. We walked into a large room with chess pieces. I sidestepped for Ron to take charge.
"Alright," Ron said as he put on a hard concentrating face. "It seems we have to take five of these places. Hermione, you be that castle, Harry, you take that bishop. Pinkie, take the queen, I'll take the knight, and Voidic, you take the king." I nod and the five pieces went off for us. We took our places.
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Warning - Overly complicated chess scene.
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The moves were made as followed.
3rd White pawn from the left - Two spaces forward
Black Knight closest to the left - Forward two and to the right.
White Knight closest to the left - Forward two and to the left.
4th Black pawn from the left - Forward two
2nd White Pawn from the right - Forward Two
Black Bishop closest to the Left - Harry - Diagonally 4 Spaces to the Right. - Takes 2nd White Pawn from the Right.
3rd White Pawn from the Right - Forward One.
Harry - Diagonally back 1 space to the right.
1st White Pawn from the Right - Two Spaces Forward.
3rd Black Pawn from the Right - One Space Forward.
4th White Pawn from the Right - Two Spaces Forward.
1st Black Pawn from the Right - One Space Forward
4th White Pawn from the Right -One Space Forward.
2nd Black Pawn from the Left - One Space Forward.
3rd White Pawn from the Left - Diagonally one space forward to the right - Takes 4th Black pawn from the Left.
1st Black Pawn from the Left - Two Spaces Forward
4th White Pawn from the Right - Diagonally One Space forward to the Right - Takes 3rd Black Pawn from the Right.
2nd Black Knight from the Right - Ron - Two Spaces forward and to the Left - Takes 4th White Pawn from the Right.
3rd White Bishop to the Left - One Space forward and to the left.
Ron - Two Spaces to the left and Forward One - Takes the 3rd White Pawn from the left.
4th White Pawn from the left - Two spaces Forward.
3rd White Pawn from the right- One Space forward.
1st Black Pawn from the Right - One Space forward.
3rd White Pawn from the Right - One Space Forward
Harry - Forward 1 Diagonally to the left - Takes 3rd White Pawn from the Right.
2nd White Knight to the Right - Forward two Spaces and one Space to the right.
1st Black Castle to the Right - Hermione - Two Spaces Forward.
3rd White Bishop to the left - Diagonally forward two spaces to the right.
Hermione - 5 Spaces to the left - Takes the 3rd White Bishop to the Left.
1st White Pawn to the left - One Space forward.
Ron - Forward One space and Two to the Left.
4th White Pawn to the left - One Space Forward
Hermione - One Space to the Right.
Ron - Forward one and two spaces to the Right
1st White castle to the right - 1 Space forward
Harry - Diagonally forward 1 square to the right. Check.
White King - One square to the left.
Hermione - One Square to the left. ------ Checkmate.
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This took too long.
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The king took off its crown and seemed to contemplate it before throwing it down at our feet.
"Alright!" Ron cheered as he put the crown on his head.
"That was relatively painless," I said surprised.
"Yeah, expected it to be harder since it was Professor McGonagall's challenge." Hermione frowned.
"Who cares? We beat it!" Ron said.h
"Yeah. Anyway, Ron, you and Pinkie stay here while Harry, Hermione and I go deal with the remaining challenges. Got it?" Ron seemed to want to continue on but I held up my hand.
"This isn't a request. In the original timeline, you were supposed to get knocked out by the White Queen while Harry wins the game on your instructions. But you're still conscious, so you need to stay here and keep an eye on the pieces." Ron frowned and nodded. Harry, Hermione and I ran through the door, leaving Pinkie and Ron chatting away.
"Who's next?" Harry asked.
"Quirrel. Right after we get through this door we have to get through a troll's stink, but it's already unconscious." I took a deep breath before opening the door and running across the floor to the other side, jumping over the unconscious troll who had a bit of blood leaking from the bruise on his head. Hermione and Harry all joined and I closed the door, immediately fire sprang up on either side of us.
"Whoa!" Harry said.
"Look!" Hermione said as she pointed to a sheet hidden underneath the seven bottles of liquid.
Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead
Another will transport the drinker back instead
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose unless you wish to stay here forevermore.
To help you with your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide,
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death on their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.
I sighed and moved back while I waited for Hermione to work it out. I would do it myself, But I didn't want to risk being wrong just in case Snape had switched some of the bottles around.
"Got it!" Hermione said soon enough. She pointed to the same bottles as the book said, So I was worried about nothing.
"Alright." Harry nodded. He pointed to the bottle that would take Hermione back through the purple flames. "You take that and wait for Voidic and me to come back. Got it?" Hermione frowned and was about to interject, But I was surprised why Harry sent her a glare so fierce that It even sent a shock through me.
"This is not up for debate. If Voidic and I both fall, you, Ron and Pinkie will need to be ready. GO! NOW!" Harry barked. Hermione gulped and hurriedly hugged Harry before gulping down a swig of the potion and rushing through the flames. Harry sighed and looked at me.
"Well... You ready?" Harry asked. I stare blankly at him before nodding. He hands me to bottle first and I take a sip and Harry does the same. We slowly walk through the flames, I could feel it warming my armour, but it didn't do any lasting damage to them. They were probably damaged in the first place because we didn't take the full effect of the potions. Soon we were on the other side and facing a very familiar man.