Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

Sunday, 11 June 1989

Diagon Alley

11:00 pm

A cotton-like touch on her cheek woke her up as if it had entered her dreams.

Darcie lazily twisted on the bed before sitting up and blinking away the blurriness. Over her head, Lilith, the Lethifold, was hovering, rippling a sheet of black smoke.

Darcie snatched her down and cuddled hard. She was excited. Too much, in fact.

Mr. Ollivander had finally nodded to her request.

She was going to learn it — The Wandlore.

And that, too, starting the very next day.

The rush of excitement awakened her completely.

In her arms, Lilith squirmed, folding around her, matching Darcie's ecstasy.

Darcie slid out of her bed. She pulled the suitcase out from under her bed and stepped down.

Not much had changed about the library within the suitcase, other than the sheer number of books that now decorated the shelves in a pristine, orderly manner.

Bookshelves were not only divided by type but also by region — India, China, Philippines, Brazil, Russia, Arctic, Mexico, hidden European societies, and the remotest and most terrifying voodoo circles from Africa.

Over a year it had taken them; to know and remember them all.

Darcie walked lazily toward the hearth, a fire burning in it even now. Around her, Lilith fluttered, becoming a cloak.

Darcie began humming.

She kept walking and walking toward the hearth, uncaring of the flames that were only a foot away from her.

Then, shockingly, she entered the flames. The entire wall rippled like a mirage, as if someone had thrown a stone into a tranquil lake.

On the other side, a different world awaited her.

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Kai walked out of the library and entered his kingdom.

This was a grand world, or at least, it looked like one.

A giant serpent-headed white spire was towering in the middle of it.

On top of the serpent's head, the Jolly Roger of White-Serpent Pirates fluttered majestically, or wickedly.

In front of the white-serpent spire, there was a giant lake, and behind it, there was a giant forest.

On the spire's left, there were domed buildings for different purposes, including a Botanical Garden, three Scientific Labs, and a Training Center.

On its right, there was a grand manor, not as tall as the spire itself, but still grand, nonetheless.

Kai gave the blurry wall behind him a look and walked toward the spire.

This wall was no mere Concealing Charm.

It contained the breath of Bounded Fields in it.

Kai still couldn't implement what Darcie had learned from the two ghosts in these years about the Bounded Fields.

Nevertheless, with her boundless magic and his mastery over the Parselscript, Kai had finally succeeded in creating what he called a Lesser Bounded Field.

The weakness of this magic was obvious.

In the end, it wasn't a Bounded Field. Thus, the world and powerful wizards could still find it if they wanted to.

The strength almost countered its weakness, though.

It didn't need the continuous pouring of magic to remain in action.

Kai strolled with his naked feet on the grass and neared the white-serpent tower, the Lethifold flailing around his shoulders like a cloak of death.

Suddenly, masses of blackness fell from the sky.

Four Dementors posted themselves behind him like sentries.

Despair was their identity. A Despair that couldn't sway Kai anymore. He had become and achieve something more than that.

Time did that to people.

As Kai crossed the lake, he saw a scarred Croconaw (-the evolved form of Totodile-) leisurely swimming with its eyes closed. On the bank of the lake, there was a Quilava (-the evolved form of Cyndaquil-) basking in the false sunlight.

And beyond them were the ladies, waiting for him.

Meg, now a Top-level 6th-floor Contestant, was dressed in the Akatsuki robes, her loose red hair blazing like Quilava's fire. When her brown pupils reflected Kai's figure, she beamed and kneeled. "Your Majesty!"

Kai hadn't made them call him that.

They did, anyway.

They all did.

Spawn looked the same, black body surrounded by a red, living cloak.

Her green eyes were pulsating with aura of death and souls, the chains around her grinding on themselves.

Now she was also a 6th-floor Contestant, her strength lower than Meg only because the latter was a fallen 13th-floor Contestant.

Spawn didn't smile, but kneeled, a touch more eagerly and loyally. "Your Majesty."

The 7th-floor Contestant, Stark Blue, stood tall, dressed in a bulging red t-shirt and denim jeans.

Moraine the Elegant looked down at him, her pupils trembling.

If there was a defiant look in Moraine's eyes once, then now there was nothing but pure reverence.

Moraine looked at him as if she was looking at a god. A Blasphemy!

She dropped to her knees. "Your Majesty."

Fear was and would remain the greatest source of loyalty.

But Kai had stopped believing that he could or should do all the menial things by himself.

Not when he was needed to complete a near-impossible task, given by Death itself; Itself, better to say.

As a Commander, Kai had the privilege of assigning missions to his Party Members anytime he wanted.

A year ago, he had called all his slaves here, assigning them a Main Mission — Assist him in taking down Herpo the Foul.

It was such a grand Mission that even Red Sun, who had become a 10th-floor Contestant, got roped in it without facing any changes in the Objective by the Systems.

Not to mention, all magical contracts had been fulfilled, too.

And there was something else he had done.

Kai looked toward the lake again, but this time his gaze went deeper... toward the depths.

There, in the dark blues, he could barely make out the outline of something enormous, like dozens of feet large egg.

Among the two eggs he had given Professor Elm, one was an egg of the Golden Snidget.

The other was that of a Runespoor.

As per the contract, after hatching, Kai could take one of them.

Obviously, he had taken the Runespoor, whose true age, if counted from when the egg was laid, must have been a thousand at least.

And, obviously, he had fed the magical creature to Selene.

She had always remained on the verge of evolution, only held back by Island X's setting and restriction.

The moment she devoured the snakelet, she shed her skin and became an egg.

The Ghost Basilisk had been evolving ever since, going through who knows what changes for the last two years.

Kai was still brooding over Selene, when a black blur tore through the clouds of his kingdom, and landed with a boom between him and the three ladies.

Armored in black, with bat-like wings, his prize stood there with her otherworldly curves.

Shadows twisted and howled as the armor melted away, fusing into the black diamond-like mark on her forehead.

What remained was a beauty, like no other.

Well, Meg had her head down, so she didn't count now.

Cersei walked toward him, smiling, giggling, and shaking her head.

Kai smiled back at her. "Follow us," he said. "And call those two fools to the Throne Hall."

Kai and Cersei walked by the three kneeling figures.

Behind them, Meg flicked her hand, sending a paper figurine toward the labs.

They entered a grand hall, with a high-back throne propped up on one side on a dais.

Kai sat down on it, his feet dangling in the air.

The Dementors hovered behind him, swaying, their breaths rattling.

Cersei took a chair by his side, a step lower than him. But not too far for her to not touch his hair, pushing it back around his ears.

"Stop it."

"But it's so fun!" Cersei pouted.

In front of them, on a long table, with chairs facing toward him, Meg, Spawn, and Moraine took their seats.

"I HAVE COME!" the doors threw open with a bang and Rintaro walked in, carrying what looked like a mouse, but, somehow, different. "Hahaha!"

Even if Kai were to give them the Tales of Beedle the Bard, two Characters couldn't remain out at the same time and yet be out of the 200 ft Activity Radius from each other.

But Rintaro and Kai had successfully developed the device that could imitate Book's signature within this Concealed Kingdom of his, letting them walk around freely.

The constraint of only two Characters out of the book remained, though.

Otherwise, one would have easily figured out that all three Characters had undergone tale-upgradation in the last two years.

Red Sun, wearing a white lab coat, followed Rintaro, mumbling to himself.

When he saw Kai sitting on the throne, his eyes bulged. "Mother of my grandparents! You little rascal! That's the throne of my old buddy! Who let a little girl sit there, huh?!"

Kai looked at Red Sun and the corners of his mouth twitched ruefully.

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