Chapter 71.6- Doom Days

“And that piece of shit Julian Russo stole it from you when he kidnapped you with that portkey?”

“No, that could not have been Julian. Julian died before that, I’m afraid” Nicholas cut in.

“Wait, What? Russo’s dead? How? How do you even know that?”

“I killed him. He knows because he asked me to do it.”

“Wait. Hold up. You did—“ He stopped short of completing the sentence, looking between Nicholas and I. Sirius had a good sense for when he was being pranked.

“You guys are doing this on purpose” He said, shaking his head, smile forming on his face. A smile that Nicholas and I matched easily.

“I feel like with every question I ask I just end up having a million more, and you guys aren’t helping with that. Can you just explain everything from the beginning” Sirius asked after a few seconds of silence.

“I thought you’d never ask” I said, before hissing as Perenelle waved her wand over my hand and began to mutter.

“What the hell are you doing?”

“Conjuring your bones of course. Now hush” She said. And true to her words, I could feel bones begin to grow within the hand.

“Wait you can do that? I thought you needed skelegrow to regrow bones?” I asked. She scoffed at the question.

“I am conjuring bones, Harry. Not regrowing them. Why would I use skelegrow? You’d spend the whole night moaning in pain if I did that. Now hush again before I make one of your fingers too long by accident” She said, and as far as threats go, that one was effective enough. So I kept silent as Nicholas explained the bones of our meeting and alliance.

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“So Ojin has my stone?” Nicholas said the words before I’d even reached his position. Sirius had been more than willing to have the Flamels stay over at the Villa once Nicholas had explained the whole thing. Of course, he wasn’t a fool though, and had been more than scathing once he realised the depths of the mess Nicholas had put me in with his whole apprenticeship offer. And had been less than enthused to find out the entrance exam was murder. Only the fact that there was no way to trace anything back to me kept him calm.

“He does. You didn’t tell me about him” I accused more than said.

“If I decided to tell you about all the enemies I’ve made in my two millennia of life, we’d be here for a century. Ojin is just another in a long list of enemies.

“So what do we do?”

“We?” He asked, turning to me.

“I am your apprentice, am I not?” A question that had him smiling, wide and a bit crazed.

“Good. You and I will be getting the stone back, of course. But we’ll have to do a few things to get you ready first.”

“Does that mean—“

“Yes, we’re going to Japan” He said.

A/N: You see the vision?