67 another bites the dus (1/2)
While Alex was in his bath, the group of Aurors returns to the Ministry. While it was still early, some Aurors were still present due to the night switch. Luck would have for Auror Tonks that due the Tournament, both her boss and her teacher were there. The first as head of the DMLE, she needs to do an immense amount of paperwork and the last have exited his retirement for the event.
”Auror Tonks, can a know why you weren't at your post the entire night?” Ask Amelia when Tonks enters her office.
”Mr.Crouch came yesterday, not long after the start of my switch, he was in need of two Aurors to escort him to Azkaban.”
This made the two of them raise an eyebrow at this.
”Why Barty would need to do at Azkaban, lass? He knows that he needs to pass by the DMLE head first to extract a prisoner.”
”No, he didn't. At first, he doesn't say anything but only just as we pop away did he say the destination. Do you know the sate of the prison?”
”What do you mean? Something happens to the prison?”
”Something?! The bloody Dementors have vanished?!”
””What?!””
”Perfectly, the warden says that this situation has happened more than two years ago and that the Ministry has completely abandoned them!”
”Tell us everything!” Order her boss.
”Well as I say, the Dementors are gone, the prison has submitted a drastic change, ice has started to recover the tower, the surrounding half-mile around the island is frozen solid, the higher floors are nothing more than an ice cavern.”
”What about the inmates? Do some have an escape?”
”No, Moody, their all dead, the entire high-security cells inmates and some of the one in middle ones too. For the latter, the warden says that they move them too late, some have already turned in ice cubes, so all the above didn't have a chance to escape. What worse was the high floor has been invaded with those monsters.” Say her shuddering.
”What monster?”
”Some flesh-eating rabbit, better if I show you.” Suddenly say Tonks as she put the tip of her wand on her temples, before pulling out a silvery filament while Amelia was taking out the pensive left at disposition to the DMLE Head. The memory was put in and the three vanish inside.
The two veteran Aurors look as Bartimus enters the office, taking with him two Aurors without another word, make their way to the apparition point before apparating in front of the boathouse. The crossing of the sea was skipped in a sort of a blur, but the two could tell that nothing significant has happened so say nothing.
When the memory skips stop, they found themself with an unfamiliar view of a familiar place. As she says, the top third of the tower was encased in thick ice, while the surrounding water is frozen solid. They hear the conversation with the two men and when a particular name was spoken.
”Merlin!”
Moody says nothing but his frown deepen at this, as the boy state was unknown he still keeps his own through.
When it came to the state of the inmate there, the DMlE boss whitens while moody face hardens. Loosing more than fifty inmates signifies that fifty life has been lost. Some may have been criminal but some were only serving light sentences and would be free soon.
When they hear the response from the ministry, they know that something was wrong. Someone for the DMLE office has taken liberties with the lives of prisoners without resorting to the higher up and shut all contact to prevent leak. The silence was suffocating, the state of those prisoners, gut-wrenching.
Under the severity of their living condition, they know that most of them would never see the light of the end of their sentences.
Following that was a hard climb to the higher level of the prison and it soon came to the description of the says rabbits. Their faces turn solemn when they hear the level of threat of those creatures, being able to make vanish corpse in less than a minute would leave their force no time to arrive to support them if they fall, those creatures would be long gone or hidden for another ambush before that.
They could see the tension grow on the face of all as they still don't appear after climbing that high. But it was nothing to compare with their encounter with Alex. The moment Moody sees his eyes, he knows that the situation was even worst, the boy has only grown stronger.
Hearing that he lost nothing of is an incredible mind, and seeing take apart any single little information was frightening for the three of them. The could only look in horror when those eyes rise and rise until he came to view, extracting a single word from Moody.
”Monster.”
Nothing was more fitting, he had his share of fights against all types of opponents in the past to not recognize the threat of the boy. Two meters of pure muscle made for mindblowing speed and a mind completely able to compute and keep up with it. If before the boy was fast, now he would be able to tear down and go through transformed Werewolf like a hot knife into butter.
It was rapidly confirmed when they saw that he came to the same flesh-eating monster. When they hear Barty spoke and lie about the immunity, they have a bad feeling.
”Barty, don't... fuck!”
The moment Barty was called on his gamble the two know that they lost their last legal way to keep an eye on him. Seeing his broken with pure strength alone those magic repressing cuff, they know that he could have evaded long ago but didn't to not leave them any ammunition against him.
When they see him disappear in those iced corridors, they were thinking that it would be the end, but it wasn't and more shocking revelations were made during the return on British land. The two Aurors were livid at those. When they exited the Pensive, Amelia takes out a bottle of Firewisky and three glass., pouring them before taking one and turning to Moody.