Strangely raising at 9 A.M completely refreshed, he made his way in the shower, leaving his hears and tail pop out for the fun of it. Once clean and dried, he sat at the little table in his room as Sunny bring him is breakfast. Done eating, a soft "hoot" brings his attention to Chione.Proudly extending her wing, she grabs the letter that has been placed in a little box fixed on her perch for her to leave letters when he isn"t here to receive them from her. Seeing the Gringotts seal on the letter, he rapidly broke the wax seal and read it.
"Seems like I will not being able to see the girls this morning. Sunny, Can you pop me in front of Gringotts steps, please? Chione, Fawkes, don"t fight, I won"t be too long." With that, the two pop away, leaving behind a miffed owl who has to share her room with the blasted Phoenix that has invited itself since his wizard was send away by her human.
Arriving In the Alley at 9:50, 10 minutes before his meeting with Headcrusher, he made his way to the bank, nodding his head at the bowing goblins guards. Seeing a free goblin a.s.sistant making his way in the hall, Alex didn"t hesitate.
"Helper goblin, can I require your a.s.sistance?" Hearing a wizard speaking to him, the goblin stop to look at him. Seeing the crimson mane, he immediately know who it was, Alex deeds having long since spread in the bank and it"s nation below.
"What can Gringotts do for you today, Heir Evans?"
"I have an urgent appointment with Account manager Headcrucher in ten minutes, as you can see I barely in time, would you be available to lead me to him?" Nodding at him, the two made their way to one of the numerous doors at the wall. Three minutes later and seven to spare, Alex was introduced in the office of his account manager.
"Heir Evans, I thanks you for responding this early to my summon but when I read your letter asking for a business meeting with Gringotts, you can understand that you had us rather curious."
"I can easily understand and thank you to accepting receiving me when I didn"t state the reason for the business, after all, it isn"t in goblin nature to lose time and money in shady deals." Nodding seriously at the young, happy that some wizard still understands their ways, he rings a crystal bell specifically here for today"s business.
Two minutes letter, a group of five lightly armored goblins in leather, surely dragon hide, made it way in the office.
"Allow me to present you to Master Brokenfang. Master Brokenfang is our foremost expert in magical beasts, from their identification to their market values and all the in-between. Master Brokenfang, this is Heir Evans, the one that had asked your presence today in order to evaluate a creature worth he had slain."
Gruffly nodding at the young, he looks around but seen none of what he was called for. Seeing his gaze roaming the office he spoke.
"Because of its size, it had been moved to a better place, if you allow me." Seeing the nod of his account manager, he called" Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Stormy, Winter, Spring, Summer!" At his call, the house-elves pop in the office, each extending an and to the one present.
The entire group was taken directly in the butcher house of the territory. When they abruptly face the skeleton of the Basilisk, the five of them instinctively takes position, blades already draw, ready to strike. The face of all six goblins hardens when they realize that it was what he was selling.
"When?"
"I have slain this Basilisk Thursday in the chamber of secrets that was reopened by a shade of Voldemort who has to possess one Ronald Bilinus Weasley, who lost his life in the chamber."
When the goblins hear the existence of a shade of Voldemort, they became white has ghosts, a rather disturbing sight when you know their greenish-grey habitual skin shade. Headcrucher immediately crushes a small crystal mount on his bracelet. A second later, another group of Ten Goblins in heavy goblin steel armors appears already in formation, surrounding an old goblin.
Seeing that they aren"t any direct threat other than the intimidating bones of a large snake, the goblin at the center was allowed to exit the encampment.
"Account manager Headcrucher, why have you summoned me?"
"Heir Evans just attest to have slain a Basilisk from the Hogwarts chamber of secrets, freed by a shade of the dark one, Elder."
Hearing his kin words, the elder goblin turns his head to the young child present.
"Why do you spoke of shade young wizard, the dark one hasn"t been seen from years now."
"I do have seen his shade on the 31 October and purge two of his anchor the same day."
When he heard of the specific term, his droopy eye opens wide. Before he could ask, he says.
"I am sure you"re familiar with the terms Horcrux, elder, I have already faced and purge five of them until now and know of the location of the last one."
"What?! Are you sure, young one? It"s not knowledge one so young should be subject." Say gravely the elder.
"Do you know where we are actually elder?" Seeing him shake its head, he led the party outside, showing them the wonder of his territory.
"You are in the resting and founding place of Clan Evans, while I am all that it"s left of it I still I"m Clan head, you only enter this land with my permission." Seeing the reaction of the elder, the later must have known of them if not known them. Still shaken the elder goblin turn to him.
"Have you proofs of your claim youngling? That he had anchor?"
"Yes, but I"m not allowed to retrieve it if I tell you where is it I want it."
"Why? As long as they exist, he would be kept alive." He didn"t feel any anger in its voice at his demand.
"I don"t intend to keep him alive, but I have use of it if it eases you all can be done in front of you, should I show sign of possession, I request that you slew me without hesitation."
The Elder takes a minute to think of it before nodding."You have my words, youngling."
"Tell me Elder, where one would hide is most praised possession?"
"In the most secure place, one can found."
"If I were to tell you that One was in the hand of a member of his inner circle, another in a mundane place related to his past unknown of most, another in his ancestor land, one in the most secure castle of the island, where should be the last one?"
It didn"t take long for all the goblins present to understand where he was leading them, hearing the barking of his account manager, the group of five goblins and the ten gripping tightly they blade at hand while the elder face hardens, showing for the first time emotions, he knows they know.
"In the secure vault of Gringotts, one Bellatrix Lestrange née Black has kept the past cup of Helga Hufflepuff, now, the last Horcrux of Tom Marvolo Riddle, know as Lord Voldemort."
Hearing him confirm their fear, the goblins curse once more, ready to tear apart anything rising between them and their prey.
"Then, lead us away youngling, we must hasten to our tasks, I allow you the permission to bring us in the walls of Gringotts." Bowing at the elder, Alex calls for sixteen house-elves and Sunny.
The instant the large group appear in the office of Headcrusher, Gringotts wards have already felt the intrusion, the doors were blasted out of their hinges as a group of twenty-five security goblins, blades in hand stood in the entrance, not letting any chance for the intruder to go further in the bank. When they saw the Elder goblin and his elite guards behind, all fall, a knee on the ground and head lowered, awaiting his words.
"Raise, soldiers, and march me to the Vaults, a level 9 threat to the bank needs to be cleared!"
At once they raise and made a way for them. It as a tight group flanked with two times five goblins on all four sides who made their way in the cleared hall of Gringotts. The moment they appear, forty other soldiers appear, adding another layer of protection to the group of Alex, his account manager, and the elder.
Rather than the unpractical cart, the entire group uses a large sled in a smoothly craved stone road diving in the depth of Gringotts. In a few seconds, they have already attained a vertiginous speed but not a single of them flinch at this. In less than twenty seconds the sled was already at the concerned vault.
Taking the lead, the elder opens the door, without any need of a key, and enter the vault with twenty guards. Before they could go too far, they hear the voice of Alex warning them against added enchantments on the cup to protect it. At this, one of the elder guards takes out a blue crystalline bubble artifact whose enlarge once out of its case. Says bubble was pushed on the cup once found before its flash two times and spark fizzle out of it, kept inside.