Book II - The Drew Grindelwald series

5. A Promise Broken

One Month Later

I was walking through the streets of Paris, I was wearing a long trench coat and a large hat that covered my face as much as possible. Metis was sat on my shoulder, he looked like a parrot.
After escaping the British ministry a month ago we fled England as quickly as possible. All of the dementors and Auror's would be looking for us.

Thankfully abroad we weren't official criminals, only England and America recognized us as criminals.
We traveled around Europe for a bit gathering money and making a plan. I had gotten my hands on a fake passport and Metis was pretending to be my pet so he didn't need one.

Today was the day we took action though if everything would go according to plan we might get away safely but if it went wrong we'd become criminals all over the world... Let's hope for the first one.

'You're sure he has it?' Metis thought as I walked the street.
I nodded.
Nicholas Flamel himself had told me about the philosophers stone he had made. The stone could turn any metal into gold and with the stone I could also make an elixir of life, making me immortal.

Not that I wanted to live forever, most definitely not. I just wanted to make sure Gellert wouldn't kill me next time I tried to stop him. I could achieve that through immortality.
I stopped in front of the house, Metis flew off my shoulder and transformed into Albus Dumbledore. I grinned amazed at how accurate his transformation looked.

"You look perfect Metis!" I told my friend, he gave me a serious nod. Now it was my turn to transform, I turned into a rat and placed myself next to the door opening.
I knew Albus was a good friend of Nicholas Flamel, therefore, it would be a good distraction.
Metis knocked on the door, we had to wait a few minutes before the door opened.

"Albus! What a surprise! I haven't seen you in ages" The old man said letting Metis in. I quickly snuck around the corner and ran into the house.
Thankfully Nicholas was old and didn't pay any attention to rats. Flamel led Metis into his living room.
Last time I was here he kept the philosopher's stone on a shelf in the hallway.
I bet he didn't hide it because nobody knew about it yet, only his close friends and well me at that time I was in Paris.

It made me feel a little bad that I was the one stealing it but it had to be done.
I silently transformed back into myself when I was certain the others were in a different room. I saw the shelf immediately, thankfully the stone was still laying on it unmoved.I smiled and walked towards it.

I quickly grabbed the stone, yet the moment I grabbed it I felt this shivers run down my spine. I hastily pocketed the stone. I heard the voices in the room next to me get louder as if Nicholas felt something had happened.I decided to make a run for it, I ran towards his front door and opened it running out the house.
I ran through the streets, it wasn't long before I noticed Metis flying above me being transformed back into a parrot.
He led the way for me to a safe spot.
Once hidden in a small street that no tourist would walk in Metis came down to meet me.
I couldn't help but feel this had gone easy... far too easy.

'Do you have it?' Metis distracted me.
With a huge smile, I grabbed the stone out of my pocket to show him. He transformed into a gorilla and grabbed the stone to look at it.The moment he touched it he hissed and dropped it immediately.
I managed to catch it just before it touched the ground.

'It's cursed' He hissed. I frowned and looked at the stone. I quickly got out my wand and spoke the revelio spell.
A glowing gold trail was revealed. I looked into the street I had come from. The golden trail was everyone where I had walked. It's a security mechanism.
They only had to follow the golden trail to find back the philosopher's stone.