Violetta Ravenwood has lived the last seven years striving to be the best version of herself she could be in honor of her dad's memory. At 25 she's now a spinal surgeon in one of the country's best hospitals. It was supposed to be a night of celebr...
He left us everything split equally along with coordinates to someplace in the middle of the woods 'Uncle' Leo was taking us. Apparently, Gramps had bought the place from the government before he even married. No one else knew about it except the four of us. Seeing the massive gate that was hidden into the cliff face in the middle of nowhere was a surprise. A surprise that cause my sisters and I to share a look between us. This is it. This is our future home. Our haven. He showed us how to enter the code before taking us in. From there is was another half hour of driving as he made sure we knew which paths to take and across a bridge before it was straight dirt road in the middle of the woods at least until we came to the clearing. "This place is massive."
'Uncle' Leo chuckled. "It was originally intended to be a government research facility but that plan shut down due to the war. When it was finally over they already had the information they wanted but all this land had been cordoned and sealed off. It was written off as nothing but mountain and woods protected as part of the reserve to the public but put up for sale privately when Wyatt snatched it up. Said that with what happened in Hiroshima, he wanted to be able to have somewhere he could go and live in peace if it ever happened on U.S. soil. Now though this place is yours. All 7000 acres and everything on it. Well everything except that '67 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 he left me. You kids good to get back on your own? I want to meet up with my boys. Leon been asking bout you again Cordelia." He tossed the last bit in with a smirk.
"Well, you tell Leon I said hi Uncle Leo and I'll see you all again soon. what with me moving back into grandpa's place. I'll certainly need the help moving in if you guys would lend a hand?"
"Of course, we will. You're family though you know if you went and married my Leon then we'd only be that much more a family." She rolled her eyes before we said our goodbyes to look around before watching him pull out in the Mustang.
"7000 acres. That's just under 11 square miles." Violet walked on ahead.
"It looks like it's never been developed."
We used our magic to speed up the process of mapping the land finishing in only a few hours before we went to the sole building the government had built as a base before selling this place off as a loss of funds.
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It was a mess but they had to see if there was anything besides material to be reused. It was only when they made it to what was the library that they found it sitting there in the middle of the floor. A trunk that when he opened it was filled with books. The very books that would likely be found in the Harry Potter universe and a note.
You asked for a way to protect yourselves and your home with your abilities. Learn and Survive this is the last of my gifts to you completed. From here on you three walk alone.
"Well, this is it for our help." Looks like we're hitting the books, again.
*~A Month Later~*
We had split the books between us. I took any books related to the magical construction of buildings like Hogwarts and Gringotts. It taught how the building materials would be strengthened by the magic of the caster and even more so if done with a powerful number [in our case, 3]. I read on how Rowena Ravenclaw had created additional spaces and turned them into undetectable expanded rooms ensuring Hogwarts castle would always have room for their students without having to build other structures. Salazar Slytherin had created the spells needed for indoor plumbing and waste disposal though it was more like waste to fertilizer transfiguration but permanent. This meant we wouldn't need to worry about being hooked up into a city line or how we would take care of a septic tank as it would do all of it and so long as we were on a ley line. Fortunately, we were on one of the largest untapped lines in this universe and our land was centered right in its apex.
Cordelia had taken the books regarding elemental magic and rituals that promoted earth magics allowing for several harvests a year as well as ensuring that anything we planted would take root and would continue to grow even without us being here managing over it everyday. She had even managed to raise a three foot thick and twenty-five feet high solid rock wall around the entire 5 mile perimeter of straight farmland. Only she then took it a step further basing it off the Great Wall of China and raised another 15 feet in front of it and joined them together only instead of being able to walk from the roof you would walk through the interior where the outermost walls had large openings that could be set as lookout points.
Violet had studied runes and warding as apparently you couldn't use one without the other to the full affect. Her favorite finds had been the Fianto Duri and Piertotum Locomortor. The Fianto Duri was what had shielded Hogwarts in the Final Battle apparently it enhanced any wards laid in place sevenfold when cast. Piertotum Locomortor was just like her power of animation, able to bring life to inanimate objects only where her magic made it react like the actual thing the spell allowed it to be controlled, given orders, and absolute loyalty. She had gone out and bought multiple dolls dressed as butlers and maids along with a Greenwich house that came with several child dolls apparently having belonged to an orphanage. She brought them all to life along with the house growing into the real life equivalent. It had surprised them all especially when they realized the living dolls had come with full personalities that seemed to know them even having histories of their own and when examined by them discovered that they did in fact become real in everyway. The spell along with her own power of animation had taken on a life of its own, literally. They now had an orphanage on their Haven and regardless of the children and toddlers in some cases having been dolls before they were real now.
The power they held had grown exponentially when they realized that the spells that complimented their individual powers were things that should not be able to be wielded by humans. So we made a blood pact ritual Cordelia had found that would never allow us to use our powers in a way that could be considered god-like again. For Violet, it meant she couldn't bring any sort of humanoid dolls to life again though it still worked for animals. Cordelia couldn't use nature as a weapon though she could create weapons from the elements she mastered. And me, well my shapeshifting was limited to animals that existed only in this world now though I could make myself larger in size then would be naturally possible but I was never able to become any larger then a truck again.
