Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore

Chapter 7 Different Paths

Newt walked into the prison where his brother was kept. It was dark and dank. He approached the front desk where a grimey man sat patiently, wearing the tie that Thaddeus had worn. 

"I'm here to see my brother Thaddeus." Newt Said, putting Dumbledore's papers on the mans desk. "Where is he?"

"I dunno. The man said He's your brother. Anything to report?"

"Yes." Newt said. He drew out his want, a bowtruckle and his nifler. The man looked at them suspicisously, and locked them in a cage. He took a grub, squeezed it, and put in an empty lantern. Immedatley the lantern was full of light. He gave it to Newt, who started walking towards the cave entrance. "I'll be back for you!" He said over his shoulder. "Yeah right,"The man said. "And Garret Grindlewald will be the head of the Confederation."

As Newt stumbled through the cave, he noticed movements at the edges of the light of his lantern. The light was attracting small orange scorpion crabs, which where brandeshing their claws and stingers menacingly. "Fire crabs" Newt mutters.

He immediately adopts the stance of a crab, and moves through the crowd of crabs with ease. He walks into massive cave, circular, with a staircase going around and around the circumfereance of the room, down and down till the bottom couldn't be seen.

Still moving like a crab, Newt slowly makes his way past many indentations in the rock, some with people hanging upside down in it. Each indentation had a lantern lit beside it. Eventually, Newt found the hole where Thaddeus was being held. 

"What are you doing? Is that some kind of treason?" He asked. "Mirroring." Newt grunted, cutting the rope suspending Thaddeus from the ceiling. "They won't attack if we walk like they do." The two start back up the staircase, both doing the funny crabwalk Heeheehoohoo but then they pass an occupied indentation, where the lantern flicked, once, twice and then went out. The Firecrabs all scattered. "What...?" Thaddeus started to say, but then an enormous stinger snaked out of the darkness, impaling the man in the indentation. The man yelled as he was dragged into the abyss, but his screams didn't last long. Then the melting remains of the man was spat up back onto the ledge, the jaw hanging askew from the skull. Immediately, the smaller firecrabs gathered around the recently deceased to feast on what remained of the prisoner.

Newt then whistled out a melody into the open air. Thaddeus looked at him. "What was that for?"

"We're going to need some help." Newt replied. "Walk like me, right?"

And then they continued the funny crab walk heeheehoo. 

Presently, they arrived at the top. Then their lantern flickered once, twice and then went out. With dawning horror, they both turned to see the looming shape of a giant stinger. 

Meanwhile at the front desk, the man lay asleep at his desk. The bowtruckle, having easy unlocked the cages holding both him and the niffler, was trying to heave Newts want. The niffler was trying to steal Thaddeus's tie back from the old man, who was leaning back in his chair. The man woke up to see the niffler, with it's mouth clamped around the quickly loosening tie. He started, causing the tie to loosen completely, and the man fell backwards, hit his head on the shelf, and slump to the ground he died.

The bowtruckle, meanwhile, gave one final mighty heave at the wand, causing it to flip into the air scattering coins. The bowtruckle falls and the niffler reaches. The bowtruckle's hand reaches out to grab hold of the niffler, but the fly past each other, as the niffler grabs the coins out of the air heeheaha. Together, they set off to find Newt. The found him and his brother dodging and weaving, trying not to get impaled but the stinger. Newt notices them coming closer, and gasps.

"Good your here!" There was a cry behind him. One of the creature massive legs was wrapped around Thaddeusus's leg and was dragging him back. Grabbing hold of the niffler, Newt dives forward and grabs Thaddeus's hand and together they touch the tie, teleporting them to a wooded area. 

They all stand in shocked silence. Eventually they walk towards a lake, where they see HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY! Hogwarts theme plays. 

---Meanwhile in London---

Creedence stalks Albus Dumbledore through the streets, clutching his wand. Dumbledore does not appear to have noticed him. Dumbledore stops and stares into a shop window. He spits, and the droplet richochets off of the glass and then travels behind him. It travels in slow motion, eventualy splattering against Creedence's forehead. This transports them into the mirror dimension. They fight whipping spell after spell. Creedence is easily outmatched by DUmbledore. And after a short fight, he lays, gasping on the ground. 

"You..abandoned me." He hisses. 

"I swaer, Creedence, I didn't know you were alive." Dumbledore implores.

"My name is AURALIUS!" Creedence roars.

"No its not!" Dumbledore responds evenly. "But you are a Dumbledore."

Then he helped Creedence to his feet and left.