How many times had I caught admiring glances after transforming into a dragon? Four times, which wasn't that many, but not few either. Fleur couldn't take her eyes off me, and her thoughts were filled with admiration, awe and a feeling of attachment and love.
The girl approached me and touched my scales. The steam exhaled from my nostrils enveloped her. How was I to understand all this? Girls dream of a prince on a white horse who will save them from an evil dragon, but these girls were walking towards an evil dragon themselves.
I begin to shrink, returning to my human form, approaching the girl.
Days passed, Fleur began to communicate with my wives, trying to establish contact. The girls watched this and mimicked Veela, making her blush, while I just watched and began to communicate with her more often.
Finally, the last round of the competition between the three wizards arrived. We stood by a hedge, with fans and an orchestra behind us.
"Champions! The time has come for the final test! The cup is in the centre of the maze, but the path to it is guarded by monsters. If a participant is unable to continue the test, they must release a column of red sparks into the sky! Based on the results of the previous trials, Alduin Potter will be the first to enter the maze. He will be followed by Victor Krum in five minutes. Fleur Delacour will be the last to enter the maze! So, the first participant will enter at the signal.
When the shot rang out, I entered the maze. Without hesitation, I burned my way through the bushes, heading straight for the centre of the maze. A couple of times along the way, I encountered giant spiders, which I ignored and burned. This continued until I encountered a sphinx.
A huge monster with the body of a lion, the head of a girl, the paws of a tiger, and the tail of a snake stared at me.
"To continue on your way, answer my question. If you cannot, you will have to find another way.
"It's intriguing and somewhat familiar, give it a try.
"It brings the dead back to life. It makes us laugh, and sometimes it makes us sad. It is born in an instant and dies when you are old.
"Memory. Now, answer my riddle, or you will serve me." My hands were covered with scales, which made the sphinx tense up. "I want you to be in my domain." After thinking about it, I smiled.
"What is the greatest illusion of life?"
The sphinx thought for a moment, its tail began to hiss and look around, and its eyes sparkled. It was clear that the monster was considering options, but it couldn't find an answer.
"I give up. What is the greatest illusion in life?
"Innocence, my sister.
A smile appeared on the monster's female face, and she nodded in agreement. I walked over and with a wave of my hand cut through the space, creating a passage into my domain. The sphinx stood up and walked into my domain.
I went on, burning the living bushes until I reached the cup. Approaching it, I was about to take it, but...
"Aaaah... Al!" - I heard Fleur scream. I pulled my hand away from the prize and ran back into the labyrinth. Spells flew from my hands, clearing a path for me, and a powerful jet of flame came out of my mouth. I ran towards the scream and the girl's scent. After overcoming the last wall, I saw Fleur lying on the ground, entangled in vines, and Victor standing next to her.
The girl was already unconscious, and a death curse was beginning to form on Victor's wand.
"Fus!" - A wave of power knocked Kram down, causing him to fall. When he tried to get up, I caught his empty gaze. Clearly, he was under the Imperius Curse. Spitting, I simply knocked him out, then brought the girl to her senses.
"Fleur, wake up, everything's okay." The girl woke up and started crying. I hugged her, stroking her back.
"He... he wanted me..." the girl began, crying harder and burying her nose in my chest.
"He was under Imperius. But who put him there?" My question went unanswered. "Let's go, we have to finish the tournament."
We followed the path I had taken. When we got there, I took the girl by the hand and touched the cup.
A funnel sucked us into a portal that clearly did not take us to the school. There were gravestones and crypts all around us. Behind us was a monument of an angel holding a scythe, and in front of us was a cauldron. I moved away from the girl and examined the cauldron.
"Avada Kedavra!" A squeaky voice sounded from the side, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a green flash flying towards Fleur. My senses became sharper, my reflexes became faster. Now I had to save the one who had accepted me without fear.
"Mul-Kva-Div!" I summoned the embodiment of dragon armour to the girl. Silver, gold, and blue streams of magic surrounded Fleur, forming a layer of dragon armour. The deadly curse hit, but simply shattered against the protection, leaving no trace.
"Seko! Avada Kedavra! Ostolbeney!" - The chubby man, who looked familiar to me, continued...
The spells flew at the confused girl, breaking against the streams of magic without effect. I slowly approached the rat who was friends with my father.
"Let her go! Immobilise Potter, but don't kill him!" - Only now did I notice the scroll in Peter Pettigrew's hands, and it was him.
"Out of the way!" - An icy wave echoed in my cry, freezing Peter to the ground and preventing him from moving.
"Tail! You're useless! Nagina!" the bundle screamed.
At that moment, a huge snake jumps out of the bushes, and I grab it by the head and try to crush it. But, to my surprise, I couldn't. Then a dragon's hand appeared, its claws easily piercing the snake's head. At that moment, I tasted a familiar taste of soul, another piece, just like in Tom Red's diary.
"Aaaah! What have you done?!" - The bundle screamed as I threw away the snake's dead body.
Approaching, I smashed Ratling's head with my hand. The bundle fell to the ground, revealing an ugly dwarf. Long, skinny legs and arms, a head without a nose, and it looks like a snake. Here we are again, O great and terrible Dark Lord. And now I can clearly see his resemblance to Salazar Slytherin in his snake-like features.
"How dare you? What have you done to Nagaina?!"
"Al? "The girl came to her senses and approached me. "What is this?
"The Dark Lord Wolf-Mouth.
"Voldemort! I am the Dark..." I pierce his head with my claw. I don't have time for speeches right now, I need to take care of the girl.
A large piece of his soul flows into me. Now I can clearly feel four more pieces. I'll have to take them for myself, I don't like leaving food uneaten.
"That's it, the Dark Lord is dead again, the world can sleep peacefully until I enslave it. But it's better that no one knows about that, or about what happened here." I smile, hugging Fleur around the waist.
The girl hugged me back, stopping shaking, her dragon armour falling away, allowing me to kiss her. Our lips touched, distracting Veela from what had happened. To reinforce the effect, I cast a calming spell on her.
When my Veela calmed down, I took her hand and led her to the cup, and when we took it, we teleported to the stadium.
Music began to play, and my girls ran towards me along with Lily, who embraced me.
"And the winner of the Triwizard Tournament is... Alduin Potter!" Dumbledore announced, taking the cup from my hands and shaking it joyfully above his head. Even though he is my servant, he is also the headmaster of the school that won the tournament.
The next day, I visited Kram, who told me how Moody had enslaved him. A search of the school led to the discovery of a trunk in which the disabled man was sitting. As it turned out, Crouch had a son whom he had sent to Azkaban for his connection with the Death Eaters. But unable to bear it, he helped his son escape and then kept him under the Imperius Curse in his house until Crouch Jr. escaped.
Finding him was no problem for me. Crouch Jr., realizing that his plan had failed, decided to flee the country. I caught him when he was buying a portkey. An ice spell and another corpse.
The rest of my studies were boring. After passing my exams, we went home. Fleur decided to spend the summer with us. The girls became friends, Lily was the oldest and took them under her wing. Veela, like the other girls, received my ring, signifying our engagement.
Edward and Lovegood carried out their duties. Bribery, murder, and subjugation allowed us to take all the key positions in the world. Over the next two years at Hogwarts, the Dragon Cult became a great power. I began attacking dragon sanctuaries, freeing my brothers. The dragons, obeying me, made their nests in the mountains, and Day grew considerably and became the second most powerful dragon in the world.
With each passing year, the magicians hid less and less from humans, and humans received help from them. Diseases were cured, technology developed, and hunger was eradicated. People received all this from the magicians. The magicians themselves began to notice an increase in their powers. At first, they were able to use weak spells without wands, then without words, and at the end of the connection between the worlds, the magicians could cast spells without hindrance. The problem of inequality among magical beings disappeared. The era of magic had arrived, and the world could rightfully be called magical.
Remembering the pieces of the Dark Lord's soul, I began hunting for the cursed artefacts, which resembled black soul stones, only of lower quality. I found the medallion in the Blacks' mansion. The ring was in an old shack. I had to take the cup by force, burning down a goblin bank. To my surprise, the tiara was in the emergency room. Following a silver trail, I stumbled upon a wall with the thought of finding a piece of the Dark Lord's soul. Doors appeared in front of me, behind which was a room full of junk, and there was the last piece of the soul. The task "Collect them all" was completed.
After graduating from Hogwarts, I officially married Fleur, Daphne, Astoria, and Lily, who, after my training, asked me to rejuvenate her to my age.
Now I was lying in my mansion in the mountains, hugging my wives. The dragon cult was created, the dragons were free and had mastered the magic of words. My domain was developing, animals had been relocated, as had several magical creatures, and a couple of dozen dragons had chosen to serve me wherever I was, including Dai. I had achieved my goal. Perhaps it was time to meet my mothers? Fate had recently told me that I had fulfilled the magic's request...
Luna... She is meeting with Kram, and Victor has become an elite warrior of my cult, who has already distinguished himself in service more than once.
My thoughts were interrupted by the girls who had woken up and were lying there hugging me.
"It's time." That was all I said.
Getting up, we took a bath and dressed in ceremonial robes, while Lily put on a mask and a priest's costume. We all went to the mountain where the entrance to a huge cave was located. In the stone hall, there were hundreds of magicians and the two remaining priests.
I walked to the centre of the hall, transforming with every step. Ten seconds later, a huge dragon stood in the middle of the hall, surrounded by kneeling magicians.
"I am ready to return home," I said in the language of dragons.
A wave of power swept through the hall, and a huge portal appeared before me. I confidently stepped into it, watching the girls who were following me. A flash of light...
"Aldii!" - I was back in my human body, with Destiny hanging around my neck.
"I am glad you have returned, son," Death appeared behind me, kissing me on the cheek.
"Thank you for your help, son." My other shoulder was embraced by Magic, and I received a second kiss.
The girls stood behind me with their heads bowed, not knowing how to behave in the presence of the three great beings.
"Are these our daughters-in-law?"
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