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Crynn POV

We gently landed on the ground as I and Newt slowly got off the dragon's neck. The dragon huffed in thanks once more before ascending to the air and flew away to the sun, the black scales blending in with the shadows below the clouds. And Grindelwald... He doesn't look too happy from his chariot.

I also witnessed Grindelwald aiming his wand in front of him as black particles surrounded the tip of it, transforming into a whirl, creating a large enough black portal that would fit him and his goons. "Looks like Grindelwald's leaving, so should we," I said to Newt as I witnessed some random dark witch getting shot at by a golden arrow.

"Right, this," Newt pulled out a tiny blue bead from his pocket and showed it to me. "Hmm... What's its use?" I asked as we strolled among the retreating forces. "Erm... Mr. H gave it to me, just throw it to the ground and the 'Portal to Everywhere' will open and we will be transported back to the Department of Mysteries Operatives."

'Huh, neat,' I remarked in my head, we finally made it to the short cliff where Aria has stopped firing arrows. "Job done?" Seeing as the dark wizards and witches have almost finished entering the black portal and we are done fighting, I'd say, job's done. "You three! Stop right there!" A random guard saw suspicious us on the cliff and yelled with his wand raised.

Newt, reacted almost instantly, dropping the bead to dirt. A blue portal opened and sucked us in with the guard wondering, what just happened. "Great success, then?" A voice instantly greeted us, arriving in the 'Portal to Everywhere' platform. The Unspeakable Head is certainly pleased by our diplomatic protection services.

"Long story short, Grindelwald arrived in site with a lot of very weak underlings, all of whom couldn't hold a single candle against any of the diplomatic guards, us included. A giant dragon we freed from his grasp and then... Grindelwald is away with what remaining he had. I suspect the whole debacle to be either a recruitment camp of a training exercise for his small grunts."

That should be everything, I think. "Excellent! You're done just in time for dinner! And if you may, we've still got a lot of exciting jobs for the lot of you!" Mr. H sounded very excited but not us, I'm done for the day and I need to get to Paris as soon as possible. "Err... no. I have errands to run and is my international travel rights back for good?"

Newt painfully asked with a sign of pleading, that international travel rights are really important to him. "Of course, I can understand, 3 months had passed after all. Fortunately, the time trap not only freezes you but also the magical creatures inside the spatial briefcase, not that you haven't noticed," Newt nodded compliantly, seemingly relieved.

"As we promised, your international travel rights are back. So, you needn't worry," Now Newt looks very grateful but I don't really know if this gratitude id towards me or the unspeakable head but... whatever. "I and Aria also has places to be, we're going to be departing to Paris as fast as tomorrow," Mr. H smiled and teases, "Paris? Looking for love? I thought you had one already?"

My eye twitched as Mr. H's eyes went to Aria. Thankfully, neither one of us reacted excessively, keeping our professional selves out. "We... are friends," are we friends? So far, we've only known each other for like a few days, I'd have to ask her later, along with Adolf Hitler, yeah we need to talk about that.

"Well then, we would be sinners if we didn't hand out the rewards," there are rewards? That's quite frankly, unexpected. "State your requests," no one raised their hands or opened their mouths. I mean, I don't even know what I'd want, I guess I knew what I want. "Erm... But I've already got my travel rights back?" Newt reasoned but Mr. H ain't having it.

"It's strict policy in our department to receive the rewards deserved after a completed job!" This man is really the kind of guy that's always running around enforcing rules but I've already my mind for the reward I'm requesting. "For me and Aria, we would like to have 2 Felix Felicis," luck is very important and although I've been lucky, I can't help but think that it's running out.

"Felix Felicis! Quite the difficult reward! Thankfully, we have an excess of it! Here take it!" Mr. H put the two small vials on my hand, two small vials filled with a very precious golden liquid. An excess, yup, this department is very rich. "Hmm... Then how about a book detailing Southeast Asian magical creatures?" I would've known for Newt to ask something related to his precious kids (Magical Creatures).

"That could do, though we would need time to prepare it. Come back in 3 days or anytime after three days. Is that all?" Newt looked like he can't wait for three days to pass, very excited. "Great then! I suppose you should be able to find yourselves out, just follow the signs, it's quite clear. Thank you for coming, you are always welcome back to take our jobs! We have quite the list!"

Mr. H laughed out loud as he sent us off in the hallway, cheery much. "So, err... Crynn, I haven't exactly said thank you for your help. I wouldn't have been able to get my international travel right back otherwise. Would you and your friend ehm... fancy dinner at my place?" Mr. H did say it's just about the time for dinner.

"We'd be delighted to," I wonder how good Newt's cooking skills are, probably vegetarian at best. "Great! Ehm... let's first get out," Newt awkwardly scratched his hair as we peacefully made it down the corridors. This is like a walk in the park, it's been a great day so far but great days always include rest and dinner, let's not forget dinner.