Chapter 59 - Cursed Vault of Ice part 2 (2/2)

As he was busy in praising himself, the ice which filled the entire room started to spread out as fill in the empty space. Neal cursed, ”damn it. Seemed like it won't stop until it freezes the entire Hogwarts. I should stop it. Should I use the cursed fire? I guess there's no choice”.

He waved his wand while looking at the ice which was filling the Icy Corridor and unleashed Fiendfyre curse. Around the corridor was instantly burst with flames and a large Snake formed out of the fire hissed while attacking the Ice. The Basilisk in Neal's wand is shaking as he's losing the control of the spell and the wand. He roared at it in parseltongue, ”behave now. I order you to behave”.

Slowly as he gained control, more and more beasts being formed from the sea of flames. They completely melted the ice and the beasts made of fire and the flames disappeared after doing their job.

Neal sighed in relief, ”that was close”. Just then he heard a squeak near his legs. As looked down, his eyes enlarged in surprise and a huge smile appeared on his face. He saw a baby bird with sticky liquid and a part of an eggshell attached to its head. he found that it is looking at the cursed fire curiously.

It turned towards him in sadness as the fire disappeared and squeaked once again. Neal was amazed, ”it seems to be attracted to the Fiendfyre so much that it came out of the egg and escaped the suitcase just so it could see it. I guess I did a good thing placing it in muggle worthy suitcase, not in the habitat.

He lifted it with his hands with care and after cleaning it up, he smiled while petting it, ”Hey buddy, I'm Neal. hmm, your name would be Blaze. As it chirps with happiness indicating he liked that name, Neal then walked forward cautiously into the frozen room and looked inside the opened vault to see if there's something.

Inside of the vault contained only an old thin book. As he opened it to see the contents which can be counted on one hand, he mumbled, ”so, this book contained how to conjure variation of Ice spells. There's an Ice Knight, Ice Troll, wow, an Ice dragon too”. at the end of contents, he read, ”how to conjure Gubraithian Ice or Everlasting Ice”.

Neal looked at the book with an astonishment, ”I guess the last one was the Gubraithian Ice?”.

Later, after sending baby Blaze to Glenn, the thunderbird, Neal returned to his dormitory while hiding the Vanished stars from the sight again.

As the month of March is going to end, Neal started thinking, ”no, aside from depending on the wand or the suitcase, I need something powerful to have as a back up in case I will get into trouble like then. Hmm, I remember Prof. McGonagall taught us just the theory of Animagus when the term started, right?”.

Later, he went to Prof. McGonagall and asked her to teach him how to become an Animagus. At first, she hesitated as he was still a 3rd year. Neal then replied, ”But Professor, I want to learn from a reputed Animagus like you. I don't want to be a reckless fool later to get the process from the library and try it on my own only to face drastic consequences later”.

She replied, ”fine but you won't be able to play or practice Quidditch for a whole month. It would have been better if you had asked me during the Christmas holidays but...”, Neal interrupter her, ”no problem, Professor. Even without me, my team is good, right now”.

She nodded, ”ok. So, let's start on the full moon”. As the full moon of the month came, Prof. McGonagall said, ”ok, you know the process. For a whole month, you have to keep the Mandrake leaf in your month. No matter what, for a whole month, it shouldn't leave your mouth. It's better if you become mute for a whole month and don't talk to anyone and keep this as a secret”.