Legacy Rewritten

The Sky's the Limit

I'm not entirely sure what the Ashwinder was thinking, Ominis was just going to come after me, but when I woke up, I was suddenly surrounded by 20 Ashwinders, deep within a cave. Well crap, I do hope Ominis is good at tracking because I'm going to need it. I was sitting, leaned against the furthest wall from the entrance to the cave, both arms and legs tied to different poles against a wall. I was standing upright, but my legs were tied to a nail on either side of them, deeply driven into the wall; the same was on my arms as they were spread out slightly on either side of me, clearly meant to make sure I couldn't easily reach a knot to untie and kill them all. Kind of smart on their part, but what wasn't smart was messing with the heir of Slytherin. It was so sudden, but out of nowhere, a giant snake came slithering through the cave and behind the rather large snake...an intimidating chuckle resounded lightly, chilling me to my very core. 

Not in a bad way, true, but I couldn't really tell who it was until I saw the familiar blind Slytherin come through the cave entrance, not a single drop of water on him as the snake just looked at him in wait. The Ashwinders seemed to stutter for a moment, clearly shocked that a blind wizard came through the cave like nothing happened and also had a giant scaly creature at his beck and call. They proved to be even dumber as one of them struck my left knee, causing a sickening crack to resound through the room, followed by my ear-piercing scream as I knew that my knee was absolutely broken, severely fractured at the very least. I just barely saw Ominis' face as his cloudy green eyes now held a stormy grey tint to it as well, an icy cold smile on his face as he gave a steely glare towards the wizard who had broke my knee. Without Ominis having to wave a wand or the snake charging, the wizard crumpled to his knees with a blood curdling scream, and then he was just...dead. What spell did he cast?

Suddenly, he started speaking in parsel-tongue, a plethora of different "ssss" noises exiting his mouth; the basilisk looked towards the Slytherin, gave a small nod, and then proceeded to take out every single dark wizard and witch around me as I just stared in wonder and my jaw was dropped the entire time. What seemed like forever was actually only a few seconds as the blind wizard made his way over to me, suddenly not as calm and collected as he had been facing the dark wizards. "You absolute idiot, why would you dash away from me?" he questioned, frantically muttering incantation after incantation, to no avail as the ropes refused to break. "It's not working Ominis. Where's my wand?" I asked, slightly dazed suddenly as realization sunk in: the ropes were tightening and there were tiny blades pressing further into my skin the more he tugged and pulled at the ropes. "Ominis...leave me...I'll be fine," I muttered, mostly due to the blood loss as it was starting to get to me. I briefly remembered Ominis cursing up a storm as he casted Protego Diabolica, a bluish flame surrounding us, consuming any enemy that tried to push towards us.

I'm guessing the wizard that kidnapped me died, either by the basilisk or the impressive fire spell, but the ropes broke. My vision was fading and I could faintly feel Ominis scoop me into his arms as we apparated out of the cave. He gently leaned me against a tree before conjuring a blood replenishing potion, causing me to wonder how in the world he was still strong enough to do that after casting so much magic and speaking the snake language to a basilisk. He cast a couple healing charms on me, including 'Episkey' on my knee and I gasped sharply when I felt it click back into place, warm relief flooding quickly after as I knew it was healed and I still had bones in my knee. I'd heard that there's a big risk to leave no traces of bones in a part of the body if you don't concentrate enough; growing bones back was no walk in the park, and I hope that I'd never have to drink the bone replenishing tonic. 

Once I started feeling better, I stood up. I think that I'd stoop up way too quickly as I stumbled, causing Ominis to catch me before I could hit the ground. Once he made sure I was stabilized, he asked if I was starting to feel better. The pain was gone, the lightheadedness had lessened immensely due to all the healing he'd done for me, so I nodded my head a couple times, offering him a small smile. "Well, now that you're feeling better..." he trailed off as he lightly smacked my arm, exclaiming, "what were you thinking!? Why would you dash like a crazy woman into the forest just because I snuck up on you? You're usually pretty level-headed, if I go back to your first day at Hogwarts, but the longer you engage in this so-called goblin-rebellion, the dumber you seem to get. The more self-destructive you seem to get. Have you even been eating? I never see you at meal times, neither Seb, Zander or myself have seen you in 48 hours at least, so unless you have an extension charm carrying pasties and savory foods with you in your cloak, I know for a fact that you haven't been eating much.