User blog:The Vaudevillain Veteran/Second Chance: Chapter 6

It had now been a month since Cedric Diggory had arrived in Lescatie. In that time his swordsmanship and magical abilities had improved significantly with Aldana teaching him numerous complex and powerful magical abilities like Apparition (the ability to teleport from one place to another) and other potentially life saving healing charms.

Currently it was night time in Lescatie now, and most of it`s populace were asleep except for a certain blue haired nun.

Sasha was currently traversing through the dark and cold tunnel hidden beneath the orphanage with only an oil lamp for light. Thankfully Elt was not currently at the Orphanage as he was on a mission with Cedric to "eliminate" a mamono village. Finding the wooden trapdoor Sasha opened it to see a woman with white hair and white wings standing nearby.

"Good evening Sasha." The woman greeted.

"Good evening to you too Druella I-" Sasha stopped herself from speaking, something Druella picked up on.

"What is wrong Sasha? You can tell me you know?" Druella asked.

"It`s about Cedric. I don`t know if I should inform him of the imminent invasion of Lescatie." Sasha said anxiously.

"You needn`t worry about Cedric dear. The mamono village his garrison are headed towards is being watched over by Kunoichi who will intervene if he does decide to strike down the mamono." Druella reassured.

"But what about Aldana? She`s a Valkyrie who won`t hesitate to strike down Cedric if he refuses to shed any mamono blood." Sasha asked.

"Normally she would be a problem in scenarios like these, but ever since she was infused with Demonic Energy a month months ago she will hesitate to strike down any mamono, especially if she witnesses Cedric not willing to do it." Druella reassured again.

Meanwhile with Cedric

"How much longer must we walk Lady Aldana?" an order knight asked.

"Just a little longer, we are almost there?" Aldana announced.

True to her word, the knights did indeed arrive in the mamono village. Most of the mamono came out of their houses upon hearing the clanking of metal echoing through the night.

"FOR THE ORDER!" one of the knights cried out as he sprinted towards the nearest mamono. Before he could draw his sword upon the mamono her husband intercepted the sword with his own, and soon the entire village was filled with the sounds of clashing swords.

Cedric made his way to the house that was nearest to him, and kicked down the door. In front of him he could see a cow woman holding in her arms a miniature version of herself, most likely her child.

"GET AWAY FROM MY FAMILY YOU MONSTER!" A male voice roared with anger.

Cedric dodged the man`s attack just in time and quickly took out his wand.

"Expelliarmus!" Cedric yelled as the man`s sword was forcibly expelled from his arm, leaving him defenseless.

Cedric now had his sword at the man`s throat and in his other hand he had his wand pointed at the mother and daughter.

"Mama! I`m scared!" the girl bawled.

"Don`t worry. I promise it will all be over soon." the mother comforted her daughter.

Cedric felt a tremendous amount of guilt swell up inside of him while witnessing his current situation. It reminded him of the stories his father told of the Death Eaters who would mercilessly murder innocent families in cold blood during the first wizarding war. He then realised that if he ended the lives of this cow woman, her child and the man he would be no better than those heartless Death Eaters.

"I-I`m sorry." Cedric croaked out as he sprinted out the house.

In the distance he could see what appeared to be a woman wearing a maid uniform and feathers on her forearms bleeding profusely on the ground with a knight standing above her, his sword coming down on her.

"STUPEFY!" Cedric shouted as the knight went flying into the wall of a house.

Cedric ran up to the woman and pointed his wand at her abdomen.

"Vulnera Sanentur. Vulnera Sanentur. Vulnera Sanentur." Cedric chanted the spell in a sing song tone as he waved his wand around the maid woman`s body, her blood receding back into her body and her erratic breathing now becoming calm and steady.

"Thank you." the woman muttered.

"It`s the least I could do." Cedric said.

A certain red headed individual witnessed this act of compassion, and wasn`t too pleased with it.

"CEDRIC! WHY ARE YOU HELPING THE MONSTER!?" Elt shouted with fury.

"Because I`m not a murderer Elt." Cedric stated in his defense.

"Have you gone mad? If the roles were reversed these creatures would gladly kill and eat us." Elt said as he ran up to Cedric and attempted to strike him with his sword.

A clash of blades ensued with neither individual having the upper hand.

"And how do you know that? I only see parents defending their frightened children." Cedric said again, their blades clashing with one another.

CLANG!

Elt`s sword flew up in the air and crashed onto the earth below

"These so-called monsters are nothing compared to the horrors from where I`m from. Had the monsters truly wanted us dead they would`ve killed us already, but they didn`t. If you were living in my world you wouldn`t survive a single day." Cedric remarked bitterly as he sheathed his sword.

"TRAITOR!"

Elt tried to punch Cedric, instead of fist making contact with jaw it instead whisked through thin air.

"I`ve had enough of you. STUPEFY!"

Elt`s body flew a few feet before it crashed onto the floor.

The eerie silence was replaced by screams of joy.

"Druella was right about you, you are truly a compassionate soul." A snake woman said joyfully.

"What are you gonna do with the knights who attacked you?" Cedric asked.

"They will make good husbands for the mamono. Although you can take the redhead home as Druella has asked that he be delivered back safely." the snake woman replied.

Cedric felt a pair of arms wrap around him, and turned to see it was Aldana.

"Aldana! Where were you?" Cedric asked confused.

"I was about to strike the mamono down but I could not. Please forgive me Cedric" Aldana pleaded.

"You don`t need to apologise for doing the right thing." Cedric stated.

"What will we do about Elt?" Aldana asked.

"I`ll just place a false memory charm on him." Cedric said

After placing a false memory charm on Elt, Cedric held his hand as he apparated near the gates of Lescatie.

'Sorry for the sort of rushed ending, It was very late and I was tired when I wrote it. Next chapter we will finally have the long awaited invasion of Lescatie.'