28. Ritual and Rebirth

"Call him." I speak in the boy's mind.

His voice begins to hiss, and the statue's mouth opens, as a gigantic serpent emerges from it. The majestic creature hisses a few words at Harry, who responds. I take advantage while he is looking at the creature's torso.

"Carcerem hastae" And from the body of the giant serpent, come out countless rods that pierce its body from side to side, trapping it to the ground. "Obex Sensitive" and the space around us is sealed off.

Everything that comes from outside, we will know, and we can even be attacked, as it is just a simple containment barrier. I did, because the creature's magical aura was leaking out, as well as a loud hiss.

To prevent sensitive ears and masters of sensing magic from finding us, I needed to seal the place.

The great serpent lets its body fall to the ground, weak, almost dead.

"Our time is very short Harry. Will you give me this chance?" I say, and ask the boy one last time.

"Chance? No, you better be sure and be okay, or else if you die, I'll go to hell and kill you." he replies, approaching the snake's body.

"All the more reason for me not to fail then." I joke, and I can feel the smile on his face. "It doesn't matter if it's well designed or not, the important thing is your magic and intention in what you do. Use the snake's blood, it's a good inducer.

Draw a large circle on the floor, one that wraps around the snake's head. Step over his body, no problem, this step is just to better condense the magic, but there will always be magical leaks, it's inevitable.

Now make a circle within the circle, one that encompasses only the snake's head, that, on the other side, a circle to fit the stone in your hand, and then a circle that touches the three. Are you okay with the lie we need to create?"

I asked the boy one last time, and I could feel in his heart that at the same time that he was afraid, there was also desire in it.

"Yes." he answers finally.

"Okay, then put a new one above the 3 circles, and put the stolen tube in it, write it like this, patris sanguine and on the last one, on the bottom one, write matris sanguine.

With that done, leave cari 3 drops of your blood in the last circle, but don't forget to say the incantation I told you." That was all my part, now it depended purely and exclusively on the boy.

He was following the steps exactly, taking great care while doing it as quickly as possible. If the snake died, it would be almost impossible to have another animal of that level for this ritual.

"The sacrifice of flesh is made for the enemy, the sacrifice of magic is made for cursed souls, and the sacrifice of blood is given willingly by a friend and brother." he finishes the ritual.

An ominous dark smoke begins to dance around the circle, and a large eye forms, scaring the boy, who remained in the largest circle, out of the 3 smaller ones. The eye then stares at him, and a thin light passes from the eye to his forehead.

Harry didn't feel anything different, but I was overjoyed. Freedom, the tunnel that would take me to this world, allowing me to live a different life, with little worries, but nothing too exaggerated.

I escape Harry's mind, following the tunnel of light. For a brief second, I saw three faces look up at me and smile, but it disappeared as quickly as it appeared. I just focused on my situation, I could think about it later.

A strange mass of flesh, looking like it had been vomited and chewed and vomited again, was on the floor, the strangest thing is that there were still human traces on the thing.

"So that's what's left of that soul piece, interesting. Go back, you still have a mission to complete." I play with the thing. I said go back, but I was the one who needed to leave, so I did.

The big eye closes, and the shadows begin to crumble the snake's head, the stone and the 3 drops of blood that hovered in the air, inches from the ground. The dust from these things begins to dance with the shadows, and a shape begins to form.

Harry stared at the scene in astonishment, fear and wonder dancing in his eyes. It was beautiful, but at the same time sinister. It was then that the shadow dance began to subside, and a body, from head to toe, began to form.

The body was lean but fit, with chestnut skin, short black hair, and black but golden eyes. Without thinking too much, Harry throws some pre-prepared clothes to the boy in front of him.

"We may be stepbrothers, but that doesn't mean I want to see your belongings." he says teasingly, turning his face away and making a face of mock disgust. Clearly fun and happy.

"It saddens me so much, because I've seen you naked several times, and just for the record, mine is bigger." I snap, as I grab my clothes out of pure reflex and start to get dressed.

"Big things, 2cm only, a lot of difference." he retorts, still laughing.

"Oh boy, you don't know what a difference it makes." I joke, but let the subject drop. "So ready to fool the wizarding world?" I raise an eyebrow, a mischievous smile on my face.

"This will be fun." Harry replies, he really was enjoying this, but the fear in his eyes was lingering.

"Relax bro, I left some nice gifts for you, when you have time, look there, in that airhead of yours." I approach him, and put my hand on his shoulder. "This is going to be the craziest thing ever, see you soon."

I give him a hug, I really saw this boy as my brother now, after all, they were 10 years together, suffering at the hands of those damn Dursleys. Something I will fix very soon.

I needed to pack some things, so it was time to go, wasting no time, the first thing I do is dig a hole to the Hogwarts grounds, where the first piece of the puzzle was.