Author's Notes: Chapter edited and corrected by Scott Fellman.
December 17, 1976 – Serena Pov
7 creatures XXXXX{T5} *20
15 creatures XXXX{T4} *10
21 creatures XXX{T3} *5
14 creatures XX{T2} *2
5 races of dragons {T5} *20
We had captured 57 creatures, and it was all extremely easy. With Aria and my subterfuge skills, I was able to seal most of the creatures without any problem.
Although the XXXXX{T5} creatures did cause some… setbacks. There weren't that many of them, and some were rarer to find than others. We got lucky with the Lethifold, which found us by surprise. The acromantulas were easy; there is a colony in the Forbidden Forest.
The manticores, let's just say, involved a very illegal entry into the Erkstag prison in Germany. We couldn't find any information about the Quintapeds on the black market. By utilizing a significant amount of allomantic bronze to detect magical pulses and duralumin to enhance it, we were able to locate the island of Drear in northern Scotland after hours of searching.
The Nundu and Wampus cat, we were able to find them in the wild. Although we had to move around a lot in Greece and the Appalachians. However, sealing them was easy once they were asleep.
Finally, the dragons also caused us problems; they were very hard to find in the wild, so we had to remove them from the dragon reserves. It would be too dangerous to sneak in and steal five dragons in one, as it would be too suspicious. Hence, we had to visit the different reserves around the world and select one from each reserve. We chose the babies, I know, but an adult dragon was much harder to make disappear without being noticed.
523 credits in total just for the catches. Another 40 as a bonus for the dragons. 1 Nab-Sack, Wild Talent, Wild Defense II, Creature Defense II, Scamander's suitcase, Vivarium, and a Tier 6 or lower companion. I was really satisfied with the rewards. I now had a small fortune that I could work with and continue forward with the plans I had in mind. More than enough, although it's possible that everything will be consumed.
Now, what to do with my rewards, specifically the Nab-sack, the Suitcase, and the Vivarium? None of them were beneficial to me; they were completely irrelevant with the sweet home purchases and their upgrades. Too bad I couldn't exchange them for reward credits. Selling them was also a bad idea, mainly because the money was useless to me. I had more than enough money, and I continued to generate even more passively. Really, I was learning that, for contractors, money was stupidly easy to earn and was useless.
Mission Rewards +603 [644]:
Harry Potter - Fantastic Beasts in Harry Potter
Credits [523 ]; Credits [40]; Other [Nab-Sack]; Other [Scamander's suitcase]; Other [Vivarium]; Perk [Wild Talent]; Perk [Wild Defense]; Perk [Wild Defense]; Perk [Creature Defense]; Perk [Creature Defense]; Companion [Enid Sinclair(T4) from Wednesday]; Credits [40];
The rewards were more than welcome. They gave a good amount of credits. What I did not expect was Enid Sinclair, when the chance came up with the label 'Monster' or 'Dragon', the last thing I expected was a werewolf. I was waiting for some creature; I had plans for it, but of course, with my luck, a werewolf had to come out.
I hadn't accepted her yet; instead, I hadn't had 'The Company' send her, since technically Enid was already my property. So for now I was... I don't know where I was, but I was in some kind of limbo. I still had to decide what to do with her, and I had to discuss it with the others, mainly Bellatrix.
Now, after discussing it with the trio, the first thing I did was purchase some essential upgrades.
Home Perks
Pocket Space -5
Pocket Apartment x 2 - 20
All Roads Lead to Home -10
Sweet Home x 2 - 40
Grand Manor -30
Life's A Beach -10
Talents
Talent Sharing x9 [Administrative Talent, Aesthetic Talent, Sticky Fingers, Performance Talent, Soul Talent, Athletic Talent, Martial Talent, Psychic Talent, Wild Talent] -90
Wild 'free'
Everlasting -10
Psychic -20
Defenses
Wild x 2 free
Creature x 2 free
Mind -25
Corruption -50
Information -25
Drain -25
Fatality -50
Addiction -10
Polymorph -50
Defenses discounted for retaining members +90
Paper Trail x4 [You as Serena Snape, Bellatrix Black, Narcissa Black, Lucius Malfoy] -4
Misc Perks
Exit Stage Left -5
We Will Meet Again -15
Rest: [264];
The essential thing was to improve the apartment; it wasn't small per se, but I noticed that none of the rest of the group was used to something that size. I snorted at the rich kids that they were, but I also had to admit that having more space was beneficial for a myriad of reasons.
Grand Manor, 1200 m2 of living space, each room fully furnished for any needs I or my entourage might need. Narcissa received a tailoring workshop, Lucius a fully equipped office with a computer, and Bellatrix a large and sturdy training room. At the same time, I was assigned a rather extensive workshop, half of which was a potions lab and half an experimental room. I liked it.
Life's A Beach gave me 15km2 of width in my not-so-pocket dimension now, full of vegetation that I could modify as I wanted. I was able to host any type of life in my pocket dimension. I had already commissioned Lucius to obtain a wide variety of plants to grow, so I would have to start reading herbology books more seriously.
Next were the talents, including Everlasting for eternal youth, and then the benefits that allowed these talents to be shared with others.
Defenses were also necessary; I couldn't buy two copies of each defense, as I wanted to achieve complete immunity against those things. However, a single copy was more than enough to provide huge protections against most situations.
Especially now that I have Corruption, Addiction, and Polymorph Defense. I could start burning as much metal as I wanted without the harsh side effects of becoming a Savant.
"So, did you finally decide on those options?" I asked once more to be sure, the four of us were sitting in one of the mansion's living rooms.
"We already decided that during the last month, yes, we are sure," Bellatrix rolled her eyes, something that I imitated in response.
I grabbed the phone and started choosing a power source. Really, both Lucius and Narcissa hadn't decided on anything fancy or powerful yet, as we had discussed. The Tattletale template for Lucius and the Nui Nui no mi for Narcissa.
[Lucius Malfoy has Tattletale/Lisa Wilbourn (Worm), Narcissa Black has Nui Nui no Mi (Devil Fruit)] -40 [224]
They both shuddered slightly. Lucius opened his eyes and began to look around. I could practically see his brain working overtime, processing the amount of information he was now receiving.
"Okay, this… is too much information." Lucius said, turning slightly pale as he closed his eyes. "I know we saw Worm, but you can't really appreciate how this ability works from the outside." He groaned before sighing slowly. "I'm glad you didn't give me any more information. The headaches and the ability to turn it off at will, I can really see how unpleasant it can be to have it always on."
I snorted in amusement. Yes, Lisa Wilbourn had become practically asexual from the avalanche of information she received from each person. There was nothing that killed any type of attraction more than knowing all the mental problems, personality problems, lack of hygiene, and fetishes that a person can have, even before meeting them.
"This is fun." My gaze shifted to the giggling Narcissa, who had a needle and thread in her fingers as she sewed various metals together.
"Try using your magic and several needles." I insisted, I really wanted to see what it was that she could achieve with her fruit. One needle may not be really dangerous, but hundreds of them, capable of hooking you to any surface or object? Yes, that was a problem.
Narcissa quickly pulled out her wand and cast a charm on the needle in her hand. With an amused smile, she pointed it at me, and the needle promptly stitched me back to my seat.
Okay, it was weird. I could feel the needle go through. Still, I didn't feel any pain or discomfort, just a sensation of my body being pierced. I shuddered slightly. It was actually able to ignore any defense or physical hardness.
Once Narcissa finished pinning me to the couch, I tried to break the threads by improving my physical strength. What the hell, even after pushing it quite a bit, I couldn't break the sewing threads created by the fruit. The devil fruits were definitely broken.
"Okay, that's ridiculously difficult." I admitted my loss against the thread. I got to the point where, with my enhanced strength, I heard the couch creak before the threads. Really, I remembered seeing Leo sew warships, so I shouldn't be surprised that they were stupidly strong. Narcissa, smiling, undid the stitches, releasing me. " So, Bella, then, Alucard?" I asked, already knowing the answer.
Over the past month, we've seen several types of regenerative immortality. All of them were incredibly strong, so the discussion finally focused on what other benefits the template offered.
There were several, such as Ban from The Seven Deadly Sins. UQ Holder immortals, or even the Ajin, but ultimately, she settled on pre-Schrodinger Alucard. He certainly had one of the better power sets, and while Schrodinger would give her better conceptual immortality, it negated the most essential part of Alucard.
The ability to absorb souls, keep them as servants, learn everything from them, or use them as familiars. This would conflict with Schrodinger's theory and render the latter completely unusable if Bella did not want to disappear due to not having a sense of self.
"So, PowerSwap? I'd spend almost 200 credits, but you'd have all the power directly from Alucard from the start." I explained to Bella while handling the phone.
"No, give it to me as a normal template." I stopped at Bellatrix's words and looked at her uncertainly.
"There's a huge difference between the newly purchased template and a peak Alucard." I said slowly as I warned her, Bellatrix just stared at me. "You would have absolutely nothing; you would basically start as a vampire Fledgling. You would have no stored souls, no familiars, nothing, only Alucard's equipment, his physical abilities, and, as I said, being a Fledgling. You sure?" I asked Bellatrix seriously, and she nodded.
" Yes, but also give me the Blackbeard template from One Piece." Now, that was an unusual combination, but I just nodded.
[Bellatrix Black has Alucard (Hellsing), Blackbeard/Marshall D. Teach (One Piece)] -60 [164]
Bellatrix shuddered slightly, her eyes turning red and her fangs growing. She ran her tongue over them as she grimaced. She looked down at her hand, opening and closing it, before smiling widely with a crazed grin and squeezing her hand shut. Then she hit the air.
The air fractured, and everything began to shake. Bellatrix shuddered and almost hugged herself in pleasure.
"Okay! New rule! No earthquakes on the island!" I interrupted Bellatrix. She blinked a few times, but the quake stopped. I could hear Narcissa and Lucius' sighs of relief.
Bellatrix's gaze turned to me. She lunged straight at me and sank her fangs into my neck. I moaned involuntarily. Mistake, not just her fangs, apparently all of her teeth were really sharp, I began to shed gold immediately, damn vampire, wait, that wasn't an insult anymore!
I was thankful I bought Drain Defense; it protected me from all effects that drain vitality, mana, and soul, and it also ensured that any minion that fed on souls or life force through blood would get all the nutrition they needed from me or someone else on the minion list without causing harm, even from fluid loss. However, still, I had my mind turned to draining blood, blood that Bellatrix took in big gulps. It seemed like she wasn't going to let go of me anytime soon.
With Bellatrix straddling my lap as she sucked the blood from my neck, right on my jugular, I had to give her credit for her aim once again. I looked at the other pair as I gestured for them to back off. This would take a while. Luckily for me, they nodded and practically ran away from the scene.
I could feel my blood being sucked, practically ripped from me in large quantities. I also felt Bella begin to change; her transformation from Fledgling to Real Vampire was truly remarkable. She seemed to be losing her physical form, as her body oscillated between her physical body and the Darkness she had now become.
I sat there for 15 minutes during which Bellatrix continued to drink my blood in large gulps as if she were dying of thirst, as if she had never drunk water in her life, and it was the first time she had tried it.
"You taste delicious," was the first thing Bellatrix said when she pulled away from my neck. I snorted playfully.
"Are you done?" I asked dryly, and she nodded as she licked the lips of my blood.
"Yes, but now you will feed me every day." she demanded, and I rolled my eyes.
"Of course I'll be your mobile blood bag." I snorted, and she stared at me.
"Let's go to bed." She said it without hesitation, and I almost stuttered, looking at her in surprise. She stood up and gave me a suggestive look before turning around and walking away. I didn't know what had happened, but I practically jumped out of my seat and immediately followed her.
Author's Note: I swear Enid wasn't planned, I actually rolled randomly for each tier (4, 5, and 6) and from those that came out I rolled randomly again, and she ended up coming out (the other two options were the incredibly Brain of Cthulhu from Terraria and Red Death from Httyd ), I was going to roll for the gacha again, but I decided to keep her for now for a few chapters, I'll see if she stays permanently, but I guess both Serena and Bellatrix needed some color? With Serena's appearance being an Expy of Nana Osaki, she needs a Nana Komatsu to balance her out... I'll see what comes of this.