After Harry and others returned, Damian didn't go to his dorms, he took a deep breath and said inwardly,' forgive me Hagrid, this is the only way for me. I don't have much time left too ', Damian put a sleeping draught powder into the air that knocked down the half giant and fang.
Then Damian pointed his wand at the forehead of Hagrid and muttered in a low voice," legilimens ", Damian started to see the memories of Hagrid, he navigated to the memory of fluffy and the philosopher's stone along with the traps related to it. He learned this by practicing legilimancy on rats he found in the castle.
' So that's how it is. McGonagall, Snape, Sprout, Flitwick, Quirell and even Dumbledore himself. They made a protective dome in layers around the stone, strangely these puzzles and tasks are not that difficult though, but causes too much noise ', Damian thought.
He secretly snuck into the third floor corridor after snape left, then took out his magiphone playing some music, the three headed dog slept, Damian carefully used magic to lift the paw and then snuck into the trao door before stopping the music. He fell on the devil's snare and stayed quiet as it let him go.
Then he moved to the next stage, he caught the key to next door using immobulus and leviosa charms. Then he go to next stage, he took a deep breath he used Obscurus to turn into air and get to the opposite end, he frowned as he heard a mocking laughter in his head. Then he evaded trolls in the next stage, by simply walking away using his invisibility.
The last stage, is very easy, he used magic to extinguish the flames there before reigniting them. And there it is, the mirror, Dumbledore is clever enough to his it inside this mirror, he may set some conditions but this artifact has a huge flaw.
It's mechanism also a pattern to manually unlock without fulfilling certain conditions. In the eye of truth, he saw several runes, he clicked some of them few times dm figured out the pattern. The philosopher's stone appeared in his hand.
Damian replaced the stone with a fake one before arranging the formation back, the stone he placed there is similar to the real one in shape only, with some enchantments on it, but it will turn into powder a few minutes after someone helds it.
Damian then returned to the room of requirement in another way he found by dispelling the alarms and again arranging them.
Damian returned to the ritual room and arranged the ritual things as mentioned before sitting in the middle of the ritual circle. The circle started drawing magic from the mana veins below Hogwarts. Damian felt pain like no other. He also heard the screams in his head.
Damian PoV :
Pain, unbearable pain is giving me the sweet lure into sleep and unconsciousness, but the moment I do that, the obscurus will take over, everything I did will become useless. I can't lose consciousness here, my mana is being rearranged, it's being purified again and again.
Even my body is getting rearranged. Mana heart as the name said, is a heart that works solely for mana. An artificial heart like organ I'm going to build within my body. This will pump mana to every part of my body like blood, the mana circuit will be complete after this. A core like thing will be generated to assist my mana use.
And such organ is forming in my body, I need to endure this pain in order for this process to go smoothly. The obscurus started acting up, my body started turning into black smoke in certain areas then coming back. This happened many times.
Under my skin, like I got possessed by some kind of ghost, a figure is trying to rip my skin and escape. In my mind, loud and horase screams echoed. It's like experinecing a nightmare while being crushed in sleep by hydraulic press. Both physical and mental pain is there.
Like in the body enhancenent ritual, a coccon started form around me. I can feel it, the Obscurus is desperate, it's will is being erased completely yet the obscurus in my body didn't disappear. Instead it got greyish ash hue to it now. This power is getting restless and also at times.
I saw the tragic state of the consciousness of Obscurus, it's body is half destroyed, filled with cracks and dissipating in my mind. I endured the pain looking at the will which is laughing at me. It's going to be over soon.
Just then I heard a heart beat, the obscurus which is laughing stopped and started roaring in pain. The heart beat started getting louder and louder, the scream also started getting louder and louder until I myself can't hold and started screaming.
" Stop, make it stop, Gaaah, please make it stop ", I felt my ears drums are getting ruptured, the will of Obscurus simply got annihilated and absorbed back into myself. It's over, but I'm battling the pain itself, the air around me felt heavier, like something is pressing me down, asking me if I'm really worthy to carry this power.
I don't remember what happened afterwards, it's like I'm in some kind of trance that I can only feel in a hazy manner like a drunk man. I woke up in the lap of my mother, she gently caressing my head with a smile," hey pumpkin. Did you have a nightmare? You look pale. Don't worry, I'm here with you. Everything will be alright ".
I felt no words coming out of my throat, my mother is gently caressing my head on her lap, this is same as last time I saw her alive before she passed away. I held her with all my strength but she became like phantom and dissipated soon, her smile still there.
The scene changed, I'm now standing in front of a tree. A little girl is beside me. Seeing her my mind went blank. " Bwig Bruv, Frwuit ", she pointed to the fruits on the tree and tugged my sleeve. Behind her are kids similar to her age and looking at me pleading.
In a distance, the nuns are taking care of people my age, some are causing mischief and running around while some are consoling and helping the infants. I moved slowly, body not in my control, i tried to fight it and hold on to those little ones, yet my body refused to move, because the next thing will be my worst nightmare, those people will attack Orphange, this is the scene before they arrived at the orphanage, the head nun will sent me to post the letter at that time.
Everything happened right in front of my eyes, the same thing happened again, the nightmare is back, I saw the orphanage burning. The kids and nuns there are also being tortured and burned. I watched helplessly as I fight my body for control yet I can do nothing but watch them.
My thoughts are drifting away, the same trance and drowsiness enveloped me once again, it showed me the happiest scenes of my life before they turned into my worst nightmares. Repeatedly, my ears started vibrating, my vision blurred, my throat got tightened like something is strangling me.
Then I screamed with all of my strength. I'm back to the real world. The coccon around me shattered into countless pieces, my loud and hoarse scream destroyed all glass equipment around. I felt rage like no other. Before I can even take a step forward ready to rampage around like a furious beast, I fell down, my body gave away. I lost consciousness.