Night sky

Discoveries

It was at the end of January that Althea finished the translation of Godric Gryffindor's journals.

Discovering that checkerface was the only survivor of an ancient race that had inhabited the earth was not that surprising, the wizards already knew about this race, after all Merlin had also been a member of the same and unlike the others he had helped grow their community.

What was truly worrying was the fact that tri ni seven was actually a massive battery for the planet, all the more reason why Althea planned to punish checkerface, but as Godric had discovered, magic was not part of this balance but was an infinite force entirely of its own and resided not only in the wizards, but also in the ley lines that flowed through the planet.

Godric had theorized thanks to an ancient text written by Merlin that once upon a time, before the tri ni seven was necessary, the earth was naturally capable of connecting the ley lines and feeding itself symbiotically but a cataclysm had separated them.

The method devised to power the tri ni seven created by Godric was ingenious simply recreating a link that had been destroyed, and Althea could only think that if checkerface had not been so presumptuous as not to ask for help the curse would have been broken much earlier.

And the young witch was certain of this because Merlin had tried for a long time to convince the ti ni seven administrator to find another solution together, but the stubborn man had never accepted.

The only problem was that to connect the pacifiers to the ley lines and transform them into eternal batteries it was necessary to fill them with an enormous quantity of flames, impossible to obtain even with a thousand users.

The problem was therefore to find a way to multiply the flames contained in them for the short time necessary to connect the pacifiers to the ley lines.

Well Althea and Viper were up for the challenge.

With the news of Voldemort's loyalists breaking out of Azkaban, the students found themselves grateful that Umbridge had been removed and an auror was the new professor.

Until May things remained calm until the news that Lord Voldemort was alive, the death eaters had tried to lure Althea to the hall of prophecies, but all they got out of it was being discovered, only Dumbledore was forced to go to the ministry and found the situation strange.

He didn't realize that the Voldemort he saw was an illusion of flames, but that didn't matter at all. Voldemort had been declared alive, and now the magical community instead of pulling their heads out of their asses were placing their hopes on a certain girl.

Althea was marching furiously into the room of requirement.

Of course his counterpart had disappeared from circulation of every single fucking adult was standing with their head up their ass and carrying everything on the shoulders of a little girl, it made her want to burn them to ashes (she didn't know that many miles away two other people shared her opinion, even if in the case of the one further away the plan was to bite them to death).

What the fuck, the english community was at least 10 times the number of death eaters, it couldn't be that difficult to crush them with the strength of numbers alone.

Her mood only worsened, until she started throwing fireballs at random, one of which suddenly, instead of incinerating what it had touched, instead suspended a few millimeters above a piece of paper.

Noticing the strange reaction Althea bent down to inspect the piece of paper, it was a test version of the ritualistic circle...and it was working..only to explode, overloaded.

She had managed to get away and now a thousand questions were circulating in her head.

Pure flames had never had that reaction, they had never been enough to support the ritual, it was confusing her, until she thought back to the base of sky flames..they were black night flames.

Bermuda had warned her that she should only use microscopic quantities of flames at a time, because they were tremendously powerful, in short, before she arrived Bermuda was the one who distributed flames to the Vindex, he knew what he was talking about.

Power...the flames of night were pure power.

Althea smiled, she had found the missing element.

She had to contact Viper and Bermuda, she had to find a way to make the ritual circle more resistant.

Once again Dumbledore tried to capture Althea at the end of the year, but she had already arrived home thanks to her new ability to create gaps, traveling this way was much easier than using any other method, plus they didn't destroy her stomach like the portkeys.

Honestly, the time had come to deal with Dumbledore, but she didn't know that Xanxus had already put a plan in place with the help of the Vindex, she certainly never expected that the ring they had recovered had been replaced with a copy in a very special way.

Feeling a shiver run down her spine, Althea shook her head and headed towards her room to prepare to leave for Namimori with Xanxus and the others. She couldn't wait to see Kyo-kun again.

The news that Althea had found a way to break the curse was taken with joy by all the rainbows, Yuni in particular was ecstatic her mother Aria had found herself with a version in which both were free from the curse, the possibility of being able to see her grow for years her little girl had been nothing but a dream destined not to come true, but now things changed.

The perfect day to use the ritual turned out to be the winter solstice so their deadline to enforce it was November.
They absolutely could not allow the circle to explode, even if the idea of hiding an strengthened version of it to explode under the feet of their enemies... was quite seductive and ensured a very painful end.

But not all of her free time would be spent researching the ritual, after all Althea had every intention of spending as much time as possible with Kyo-kun...and spying on Mukuro and Chrome who had finally gotten together.

Hearing evil laughter ring out, the Varia trembled and cursed Mammon for corrupting their angel with the habit of seeking blackmail material.