Ch. 6 Accident at St. Mungo's

-Third person P.O.V

In a simple room, with unadorned walls made of limestone colored blocks. Containing a few chairs near the plain wooden door, a single bed with night stands on either side and window showing a quiet beach with waves breaking on the shore rhythmically, lied a young boy.

"Oooh." groaned the young boy in the bed. He twisted and turned as if he truly did want to wake.

Then he suddenly stopped moving. His hands started to feel around on the bed which could not feel further than what he was used to. Then he sat up straight like ruler. Opening his eyes in shock to look at where he was. And shock was an understatement, he didn't recognize the place. It certainly wasn't his cell. It wasn't any place he knew. It didn't resemble any place from his previous life either so that took the option of "everything was just a dream." Away.

He then froze as his eyes widened.

He brought his hands in front of his opened eyes and began to wave them. He started looking at every everything in the room as the turned his head around crazily. He then started staring at the beach and the water outside, until he heard a small screech behind him.

He turned in an instant and saw a small ball of red and gold plumage, with a little head sticking out of it with a golden beak and almost glowing orange irises staring at him while perched on the beds back board.

-Aedan P.O.V

I could feel a connection to it, like it could feel me and I could tell what it wants to convey. And at this moment all I could feel was small fluffy bird jumping at me and almost hearing 'pet me!' In my mind.

"Hey there little guy. Are you the one that was lighting everything on fire?" I said gently while catching it in my hands and stroking it fluffiness.

That was until it nipped and my hands and I felt some anger at what I said, making me pull my hand away real quick. I felt anger and the words little guy coming from the small Phoenix.

"Ow! Ok. Are you the one that was lighting everything on fire little girl?" Asking while correcting myself.

It nodded its head in response and I could feel a little happiness as I continued to stroke it's little head.

I kept thinking about what could have happened. The last thing I remember was getting stabbed by the old demon and fight the little sun ball in my hands, as soon as I was done I passed out. So how did I end up here? And where is here?

'At least it doesn't look like another dungeon.' I thought.

While I was musing on my situation while absentmindedly stroking the small bird in my hands a random thought came to my mind.

"Hey little girl." I said to get its attention. "We are bound together now right?" Asking to get some confirmation.

She simply looked at me a nodded.

"Then I think we should get you a name if we're going to be together. I already introduced my self as Aedan when we came to an understanding." I declared while looking at the bird nodding it's head and letting out an excited chirp.

"I think Sol would be a good name for you my little girl. Cause the first time I felt you, it was as if you were a little sun." I said to her as I rubbed her fluffy little body.

Hearing her agreeing chirp, she started jumping around my bed in an excited manner, looking like and adorable little fluff ball in the process and making me unable to hold in my laughter at her cute actions.

"Well then I guess that'll settle it. Nice to meet you Sol, I'm Aedan Bones and I hope we can be together for a long time." I said the her will looking at her with a gentle smile on my face.

While I was playing with Sol I heard the door gently open. I snapped my gaze at who was coming in and was quite surprised. It looked like an elderly woman. She looked almost like and old fashion nun, except that her outfit was mostly white, with red sleeves and a white hat with some fabric attached to it going down her back. I couldn't see any of her hair as it was all tucked inside of the hat, but her face showed her age as it had a good amount of wrinkles on her forehead and around her eyes. Her lips were pressed thin, in an expression that almost seemed like she was always disapproving of something.

"Ha! Looks like you're finally awake boy. Maybe now those Aurors will finally stop bothering us about you." She said as if it was somehow my fault I wound up here.

"Now sit still and keep you and that blasted bird quiet. I'm going to cast some diagnostic spells on you." She continued as she took out her wand.

She tapped me on the head a few times, each time she did so I felt a cool feeling spreading from my head to the tip of all my limbs. I kept feeling what was happening until she stopped and started to write whatever she found on her clipboard.

"Excuse me, but where exactly am I?" I asked the matronly elder.

"St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries." She answered curtly as she was writing.

"You mean I'm at the hospital?! I'm out of that hell hole!?" I asked loudly as my voice cracked at the matron and tears built in my eyes, blurring my vision, making her look away from her notes.

"Yes. Where else would this be?" She asked disbelievingly at me.

As soon as that confirmation was said tears feel down my cheeks.

"I'm out. I'm really out." I murmured quietly to myself.

I started crying out of happiness and relief. No more having to worry about that old demon. No more daily torture. No more having to stave off hunger by escaping to my mind. No more threat of death hovering over me. I'm finally out!

The matron was startled as I broke down in tears. "There there child. It's ok, it's all ok. You're safe now. No one will harm you here." She said in a soft tone trying to console me.

It took a few minutes for me to stop crying while the matron was simply rubbing my back to assure me.

"Thank you." I said embarrassingly while still sniffling a bit

"No problem dear." She answered understandingly. "Now, some Aurors are probably going to come soon as they've been impatiently waiting for you to wake up these last few days. They'll ask you some questions about what happened. I think I'll be present when they do so, so don't worry too much. Now try to get some more rest until they arrive dear." She said in a slightly disapproving voice at their actions.

As I laid down back into the bed i looked at her and simply said "thank you."

She looked into my eyes but the froze. She just stopped moving, staring into my eyes.

At that moment floods of images exploded into my mind so fast I couldn't make any sense of it. I saw an old house one second. A small fluffy creature the next. Then I saw an old castle, some classrooms filled with children. Next was a test room filled with teenagers. A family celebrating something. I saw a group of young adults celebrating. Some intimate moments I really didn't want to see. Then was people rushing around injured and sick patients. Rooms filled with potions and ingredients. Spells being used to fix injuries. Patients with deformities, missing limbs and sicknesses blending together in a crescendo of rapidly accelerating sights and sounds until I simply passed out from the overload of information flooding my brain, effectively stopping anything new from entering.

I don't know how long I was out, but I simply couldn't wake up completely until I had finished sorting through everything I had seen. What I understood from these images, was that they were the memories the elderly matron. I must have used Legilimency without even knowing I could when I looked into her eyes. It took a long time for me to sort through everything, but luckily enough for me I got two bonuses out the splitting headache I experienced from this overload: one is the useful information on treating injuries and magical maladies, using my Occlumency to perfectly store and categorize the information, i now have a lot of reference points when I can actually practice it. And second is that I was able to use the unneeded memories to form a kind of labyrinth outside of my fortress, making people loose themselves in a modified version of the matrons memories before reaching mine.

Something that surprised me was Sol. She apparently has the ability to enter my minds realm through our connection. And I had to spend some time reassuring her that I was ok and that this was just an accident. She was a bit mad at me for worrying her though.

I didn't want a repeat of that little accident, I mean even though it's useful to learn a lot quickly, I'm literally forcing the information out of their brains and that cannot be good. It's also not my knowledge or understanding so it can lead to a lack of proper foundations in the subjects I experienced through the matrons memories. I think I'll use them more as reference points and advice instead of pure fact.

And since that was my decision, I decided to bust out my tried and true method to sense without seeing. Feeling around the room, only the feel my little sun ball behind me, I opened my eyes in relief to see the same ceiling as earlier, but the matron is gone now and I don't really know how long I've been out for again.

Well, let's just try not to have any more accidents at St. Mungo's.