Shadows&Secrets

Chapter 6 - Year 1

Rich, like rich rich?

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He seems just like me overwhelmed and new to all of this.

"Aurora? Aurora? Do you hear me?" My shoulder is getting nudged by my father and it is as if I am falling out of a trance.

I shake my head and I turn to him.

"Yes I can hear you father."

"I have already talked to the goblin and now we have to follow this one." He points to another older looking goblin.

"Ay ay sir."

We follow and an odd looking vehicle moves up to us.

It is nothing more than some metal framework with four wheels.

"Take a seat." Says the goblin in a high voice and sits at the front.

Okay, this can not be human or anything conform and I will die due to this thing.

With a concerned look I glance at my father. He seems just like me a bit unsure but after the goblin clears his throat we hurry in.

Well the vehicle is even more uncomftable than it looks.

As soon as I hold tight to the seat the metal device starts to move and to gain more and more speed.

Not gonna lie I think I am going to die but well I also love it. It feels like a very very unsafe rollercoaster in a big deep cold dungeon.

The vehicle drives deeper and deeper and we come across a lot of different looking doors or what they are called vaults.

After like 10 minutes my hands start to hurt because of my tight gripping to dear life and we enter a gigantic cave with several waterfalls. The cave is so big that the end is nowhere in sight.

I do not want to get lost in here ever.

Suddenly I feel a splash of water.

"What was that?!" I scream and the goblin upfront laughs.

"It is a defence mechanism. You never know with muggles." The goblin yells with a highpitched voice.

"Defence mechanism? And what do you mean with muggle?"

"The waterfal splashes away everything magical so that no imposter has the chance to enter and steal. And well... your father is a muggle. A no magic user."

"Ohhh..." is all I get out and I am not to sure if I even understood everything correct. But if I did then it makes no sense at all.

After that it was another 15 minutes of going curves after curves, up and down till we reach vault 72.

The vault has a massive door which seems sturdy and pretty unbreakable. The goblin gets out of the 'car' and starts to walk towards the door.

My father and me also get out but we need sometime to adjust.

"Pretty wild ride, not?"

"Haha yes. Not gonna lie. I feel that in every bone."

"Well you are an old man."

My father pushes me slightly and I laugh.

"We are here at vault 72. The vault of the prestigious Martima family."

Prestigious?

I just smile and give Michael a puzzled look. Michele just shakes it off and points to the goblin.

I just give him the 'We will have a talk later' glare and turn to the small man.

"Please lay your hand here." The goblin points to a small handlike indent in the door.

"Sure" Without much thinking I put my hand in the carving and soon I feel a little sting. "Aua!! What was that?!"

In the next moment the door starts to move. Or to be precise the lock system starts to move. One click two click and I see my blood run through a thin tube opening on lock after another.

Crazy. My blood is doing this?

The blood stops at the center and my father inserts a kind of medal in it.

"Father?"

"Just trust the process. It was overwhelmig the first time I saw it."

Since my birthday it is a 'trust the process' for me. But well gonna go with it I guess.

The door gives one last big click and the middle starts to open slowly. I tilt my head and take a look inside.

To say it is gigantic is an understatement. It is enourmous and complety filled with wizard money.

Perplexed I turn and look at Michael.

"Are we rich? Like rich rich?"

"Yes your mothers family is rich rich." He laughs and pets my head. "Take this family emblem it will give you access to this vault." His hand holds the medal thing he used to open the door completly. "Do not lose it. It was hard work to convince your grandmother to give it to me."

"My grandmother?"

But before my father can answer me the goblin coughs. "Hurry up I do not have all day."

After dad grabs some money and gives it to me. We hurry into my favorite moving thingy and have another wild ride to the surface.

"Dear lord I will never get used to this." I mumble and go out of the wizard bank right into the busy and lively Diagon Ally. "But well I can get used to this."

Dads just laughs and takes the lead. "Well then what is first on our list?"

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