Laying The Foundations.

Loki sat down in the living room of the Black Manor to discuss the most recent proposal that Cassandra had presented to them since Loki had asked for time to decide what he would do.

"Are you serious!? I mean, I'm not saying you're crazy or something…but really!? Are you going to join her to take 'Them' down!? One of them is an Angel you know!?"

"Cass said that the prophecy she'd seen was a hundred per cent real and was bound to happen. It's only a matter of time before it does. So our victory is guaranteed."

Loki frowned almost immediately.

"Divinations aren't all-powerful Grandma. What if Dumbledore planned all this from the start? What if he and Grindelwald had shown her the prophecy on purpose? To drag us into her plans and by extension 'Their' plans?"

While Loki was against letting Dumbledore and Grindelwald gain powers, he wasn't fully against them for two reasons.

One was because they needed someone in the God Almighty pathway anyway so that Mother Tree of Desire could be stopped when the barrier protecting the Earth eventually gave way, but the most important reason was that Loki didn't think, not even for one second, that he could take on a Sequence 1 Author and survive a direct fight.

"....*sigh*, and I keep telling you, Cassandra's visions are never wrong! There's something special about her visions. She can see things that absolutely no other prophet can!"

Loki frowned even deeper.

"That's even more suspicious! How does someone have Beyonder powers that step well beyond her boundaries!? She's obviously being manipulated in some way by someone! And we don't even know who!!!"

"But they've never been wrong!!!" Walburga argued back causing Loki to almost beat his head on the table.

After taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down Loki finally looked into Walburga's eyes and spoke with some effort.

"But Grandma…this…you know that we'll be going against almost everyone else in the current Wizarding world don't you? The ones in light won't be in agreement with your aim while the ones shrouded in darkness will do their best to make use of you and your plans to hurt Dumbledore as best as they can!?"

Walburga shook her head when Loki said that and with a steely gaze spoke with confidence.

"The Black's are the Most Noblest and Ancient House of the Wizarding World. And there is nothing that can stop us from achieving our goals."

Loki looked at her unshakable resolve before *sighing* as he spoke in an even and calm tone.

"I understand, I'll try and see if I can get help from a few of my friends that I've made over the years."

Walburga's gaze softened and she was about to say something but before she could, Loki interrupted her-

"I know you think I'm too young for this, but don't worry. I'm sure I can cook up a few favours to gain the ability to slow down the white lord."

Walburga's brows rose as she questioned Loki's words with silence and so he expanded further.

"It's not like I'll do anything myself. I know a guy who knows a guy who can do something about this."

"Bones?" Walburga stated plainly.

"Well…" Loki didn't confirm or deny and it annoyed Walburga so he spoke in a soft tone.

"Gehrman Sparrow, that's his name. You probably don't know about him but he is someone very influential in these recent years."

Walburga remained silent when she heard this new name she had never heard before.

'Sparrow? That isn't a family I recognise. A muggle then?' Walburga reasoned.

"Are you sure sharing this information with 'Him' wouldn't be a problem?"

Loki quickly shook his head.

"He is also a believer of Mr. Error. And it's not like we can hide anything from him. He's terrifyingly calculative and can figure out several things from very small pieces of information. I'm pretty sure he'll know of this information and make plans to move against it even before I tell him about it."

"Then what's the use of revealing the Black Family's connection and involving him in our plan?"

Loki pretended to feel a little silly as he rubbed the back of his head and explained with an embarrassed smile.

"That's because he can probably give us a better plan than one that we can think by ourselves."

"You trust someone else more than me?" Walburga asked with a frown and Loki quickly shook his head.

"No. Not like that. What I mean is that he can be elusive. Someone with the Black Family name is too big to move without causing ripples to form and disturb the scene-"

"- and this…Gehrman Sparrow? He is new and can move more freely?"

"Yes-"

"-What does he want then?"

"Ah…!" Loki suddenly paused at this question and spoke with a funny smile on his face. "As long as whatever we do helps Mr. Error, he'll do anything for it."

Walburga frowned but Loki shook his head.

"No, he isn't secretive or cunning about it. He's just a character that's devoted to helping Mr. Error as best as he can. He's more aptly described as a 'loyal dog'. Or a fanatic."

The description didn't fill Walburga with confidence, so she did the next reasonable thing she could think of.

"I want to meet him. We can discuss the plan together with him for now. And if he really is as good as you describe him to be, we can work with him. Otherwise, it'll be a waste of our time."

Loki nodded and stood up, "I'll write him a letter telling him to meet us soon. Do you want the meeting to happen with our identities hidden or be open for the two of us?"

'Hmm…although it will be difficult to hide the Black Family name when wading through these matters, it will serve as a nice test for Mr. Sparrow for me to see if he's really as keen and insightful as Loki's made him out to be.'

"Let's start with it hidden.", Walburga said.

Loki smiled as he caught onto what Walburga was trying to pull and simply responded with a "You won't be disappointed." and left the room to go and 'send a letter to Mr. Sparrow'.

Kneeling on the floor of his room, in front of an altar with three candles lit from the left to the right, Loki performed a simple prayer ritual targeted towards Mr. Error to send Mr. Sparrow a message.

He wasn't doing this to really send any message, but because he wanted to keep a record of this information as a prayer for later because he had a plan to use it in a way that benefited him and the Black family without Walburga realising it.

A plan was already cooking in Loki's head with regard to Dumbledore and Grindelwald.

"Mr. World, I would like to ask you about a three-way meeting that I would like to conduct between me, a friend of mine and you. It concerns matters regarding supporting the rise of a historical group of wizards more popularly known as the Acolytes."

As those words left Loki's mouth, they were recorded as they were by the Sefirah Castle.

Instead of stopping there, however, Loki quickly performed the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth Ritual to enter the Sefirah Castle as he walked over to the crimson star that was pulsating because of his prayer.

Loki examined the crimson orb for a few seconds and slowly studied the spirit thread that was tied to him.

The Sefirah Castle had done a great job of erasing its ripples from travelling anywhere throughout the world but given Loki was its master, he could observe it precisely.

He tinkered with the threads for a few minutes, after which he quickly used his illusory skills to create a nearly identical spirit thread attached to him that extended well into the skies without any interruptions.

Loki watched the new spirit thread coat his previous original thread as it slowly climbed with the help of the original, reaching towards the vast astral world above where it melded into the darkness and vanished. 

Becoming a thread just like any other.

'How easy…'

'I wonder how many people will get tricked because of this…'

'....first will be Grindelwald…'

'He chose the wrong little sister to mess with and I've avoided his topic long enough…'

'Summer's about to end…so I probably can't hurt him before school starts…but maybe after I advance to Sequence 3…'

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