Summer 1993 (1/5)

Summer of 1993

Like the Summer before, Hermione and Tiberius stayed Shafiq manor and trained. Only this time the Grangers were also staying in the house and Johnny was staying in the guest house with his people. It was Hermione's job to get her parents accustom to the ways of the wizarding world. He refused to tell her one thing only for them to say another. It was an unwanted headache that he wished to avoid.

A few days in, however, Mr. Granger did talk with Tiberius and he asked every question that came to his mind at the time. Mr. Granger realized that Tiberius was in an odd situation. By staying continuous days, they figured out that Tiberius didn't have any parents. He was still young but wizarding laws considered him of age. He also realized that magic was a dangerous thing and took care, with his words. Once the conversation ended. Tiberius gave Mr.Granger a subtle ultimatum. Take Hermione out of the wizarding or leave her be and she would belong to him. He even gave Mr.Granger an option to take her to see a healer, ensuring that he hadn't bewitched the girl.

Other than that fiasco, the summer went very smooth. Besides his occlumens training. Tiberius practiced using the air element and started working with fire. When he trained his telempathy and telekinesis, he decided to teach the last two mental arts to Hermione and got her started on Occlumency training with the same Occlumens tutor he contracted with the summer before.

This summer, Tiberius put his older world magic on the back burner, not including the two elemental magics and mental arts. He had no time for experiments and rediscovery. He had a small list of things he wanted to correct before the next school year came around, if possible.

Tiberius was sitting in his study, scribbling on parchment while Hermione meditated in peace.

List of Summer Fun:

Issue: Hermione broke a leg and I dislocated my shoulder.

Solution: Healing magic and magical ways to strengthen the body -- skin, muscle, organs, bones, Somatic and Visceral Nervous System. Witcher Mutations??

Issue: Goblins gave evidence of another Dimensional rift.

Solution: Research other incidents in both the magic and muggle world

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Issue: My low magic capacity almost got me killed

Solution: Discover a way to achieve an early magic maturity and or expand my magic capacity.

Issue: Using to much magic during spell craft burnt me out and nearly got me killed

Solution: refine control of magic and or find a source of bottomless magic.

Dangerous Task: Visit Beacon Hills, California, USA. Ministry workers don't know shite and I need information ASAP

---List To Be Expanded---

Tiberius is a smart boy, with a larger magical capacity than a 7th year. Hermione wasn't far behind him. Though his magical control could become more refined, it wasn't a necessity. From his perspective, he battled a beast, and it took more magic then he wanted to spend.

From another's perspective, a 12-year-old battled a class XXXXX beast toe to toe while using magic the entire time. Most adult wizards would have lost their lives.

Like Hermione, Tiberius also had a condition of setting the bar too high for himself. But, then again, that's the only way to gain more power and become the greatest.

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The second week of summer, though Tiberius was not a master Occlumens. He had enough mental protection to use a spell from the book he took from Hogwarts Library Restricted Section.

Arranging all the books on healing from Salazar's library and the Emrys Library. It took up all the space in his study. Sitting at his chair he decided to use his wands to control the magic. With a hand in each hand, he cast the charm on both sides of the study. The books levitated and the covers swung open and the pages turned at breakneck speed and repeated the same actions over and over again. Instead of getting all of the knowledge in one go. Tiberius wanted to save himself a headache and took the knowledge in layers.

His method was slower than the intended speed of the spell but it still saved days of reading. towards noon. Tiberius had finished all of the books. Drinking a potion to help ease his mind, he meditated to adjust with all the sudden knowledge before trying to rearrange it to suit his needs.

In the middle of his meditation Hermione barged in with her very rare look of overwhelming excitement. Not much could cause Hermione to wear such an expression. It only came about when she was truly stumped and the managed to solve her problem which led to a discovery that changed her perspective of the world.

She was just about to voice her excitement when she noticed that Tiberius was in deep meditation and his study was littered with tomes. Taking a look at the content, she noticed they where all tomes she never even heard of, in languages that she couldn't understand.

One of them she determined was in parseltongue and the other was a language she couldn't even fathom. Attempting to read the unfathomable language caused her head too ache. The strange part was that she noticed the binding was identical to the tome that Tiberius had gifted her on her birthday. The same tome she held in her hand.

What she didn't know is that all of the tomes that Merlin had put in the Emrys vault were converted to the ancient dragon tongue. In order to read them, the tomes had to be gifted. In that case, the tomes would translate to the giver's, Tiberius', native tongue. Which is why Hermione could read the tome in her hand and not the tomes that were scatter on the floor of Tiberius' study.

Taking a seat near Tiberius she impatiently waited for him to finish his session. A total of 45 minutes had passed when he finally opened his eyes and noticed Hermione's presence and she noticed him.

"Rius?" she asked

"Yes, what's wrong?" he replied

"Oh, nothing. You were occupied and I just decided to wait until you were finished. Do have time to talk?" She began to get jittery while waiting for his answer.

Tiberius got up from the lotus position and stared at Hermione for a moment before letting her know that his time was now hers. She damn near exploded when he gave her the go ahead. She then composed herself and then dived into a kiss.

"What was that for?" He asked

"Because I love you more than you can ever know. You've blessed my life once again, Tiberius Emrys. You know you're the only Lord for me, right?" She spoke her sweet words with a red hot face. She then grabbed her birthday gift and held it up.

"This will start wars and you gave it to me without a second thought. Did you even read it?" She asked

"Just the title. It was a gift and I wanted you to be the first." he replied effortlessly

Hermione pursed her lips and just shook her head, " Well, what if I told you that you could have more than one animagus form?"

Tiberius furrowed his brow, "Shut the fuck up?"

Hermione replied with a smile, "You shut the fuck up. Because we're starting the process tonight. An to hell with the registration bullshit. What we are going to do is consider dark magic, anyway"

Tiberius smirked "Mmm, and who corrupted my ever so pure and abiding Mione to such an extent that she now dares to dabble in the forbidden arts?"

"You did daddy, I'm baby. You perverted me to your liking, now own it." Hermione spoke in sultry tone and raised to the tips of her toes and gave a chaste kiss before skipping off to prepare.

While Hermione prepared, Tiberius played with theoretical healing magic. Charms, potions, runes, ritual magic, and so forth.

"I'm missing something..." he spoke to himself and racked his brain. "What... What did they call it?" he mumbled.

Tiberius picked his wand up and sent all of the books back to his vault. he then summoned the tomes on transfiguration, conjuration, and alchemy. "Riddle tried to bridge the gap between our worlds... That's why his theory was so captivating. It was initiated from a perspective that we didn't have in my world." The more he spoke to himself, the more things started to click.

Summoning all the parchment in the his study. he then charmed all of his quills and they began to record everything that he knew about transmutation and metamorphism. back in the chamber of secrets, Tiberius asked Tom Riddle if he finished his research which consisted of merging Transfiguration and Alchemy. Originally he thought nothing of it because in his old world, their focus of transmutation was equal to that of the Wizarding worlds animagus and Metamorphmagus transformations.

However, one alchemist thought of transmutation as something more. Adalbertus Aloysius Kalkstein, an alchemist who was burnt at the stake by the Church of the Eternal Fire. A real nasty time to be alive for non-humans and magic users. Anyway, he wrote a book that took transmutation to a level that Tom Riddle was most likely aiming for. A level that would transmute the sorcerer into something immortal, at the very least, indestructible. Tom most likely had the transfiguration part of an immortal vessel solved. but the problem with the Wizarding worlds transfiguration, was that it was temporary.

Conjuration could be permanent, but the power it would take to conjure something immortal would take 100 lives. Something he couldn't possible achieve while still in Hogwarts. It's why he turned to soul magic for immortality. Tiberius soon forgot all about becoming an animagus and started his speed reading spell to embark on creating a piece of magic of his own.

When Hermione finally returned and saw the study full of levitating books. She just backed out and decided to start the animagus process another day. She was used to having Tiberius fall into his research. She was the same way and it's something that they admired about each other.

Tiberius finished about midnight and then started to concoct a transmutation ritual to change the body down to the subatomic particles. He figured if he aimed for Pluto, then he might just hit Jupiter.

"The stone, I need the stone... Noksby" he called

"Yes, Master Emrys?"

"The stone, bring it to me" he ordered the house- elf

Noksby popped away and the back in a matter of seconds. When Tiberius received the philosopher's stone. He looked at it from a new angle and realised that Nicholas Flamel stumbled upon transmutation. He couldn't repeat the process and that would explain why there was only one stone in existence. But what Nicholas transmuted, didn't just give immortality...

"It's a conduit. It could power the transmutation ritual and increase the success"

The next few days were spent reverse engineering the philosopher's stone. once finished, it took another week to recreate the same effects of the philosopher's stone. It was the day that Tiberius created the world's first transmutation circle.

He slowly rediscover the Seven Hermetic Principle of the relationship between the universe and everything. The bridge between external ( The process transmuting one external substance i.e metal,wood, etc. to another) and internal alchemy (The process of transmuting the mind, body, and spirit into another state of being).

1. The Principle of Mentalism.

2. The Principle of Correspondence.

3. The Principle of Vibration.

4. The Principle of Polarity.

5. The Principle of Rhythm.

6. The Principle of Cause and Effect.

7. The Principle of Gender.

The complications that he once had, started to melted away as he gained insight on the ways of transmutation and broke the boundaries of the worlds established magical laws. Anything had became possible. Even the unknown and random chances began to educate and became systematic and repeatable. More or less, Tiberius had discovered a way to enhance his and Hermione's being.

During the fourth week of summer break, he took a break and spent the day with Hermione exploring the depths of their soul in search of the of their identity. The first representation they discovered was a dragon. It was understandable for Tiberius. But Hermione took it as fate. Her logic was that she was his destined soulmate so they shared animagus forms. Tiberius really couldn't present a counter because...

The Dragons were massive four legged, very thick and muscular like a Dragon from Eragon and was all gold with two large horns and rippled with power. It was over 100 feet in length, larger than any known dragon in the Wizarding world. Tiberius had no choice but to call the dragons by the names they were given in his home world, Skulblaka. The term made Hermione tremble and feel her dragon in a new way. She repeated the name 'Skulblaka' and a great synchronization occurred.

Without a doubt, Hermione's animagus form would be a dragon from Tiberius' home world and it was entirely his fault. Hermione was overwhelmed with happiness and Tiberius, worried. If the dragons were truly Skulblakas, then the power they would wield in those forms were extremely dangerous and mysterious to even a scholar like Tiberius. He wanted power, but he wanted power that he could control. For his safety and Hermione's, he did something that he swore to himself that he would never do.

Tiberius cleared his throat loudly and said "Mione, that's enough for today."

"Come on, Rius. I bet we both have at least one --"

"No, we're finished here. Now let's go... We need to talk before we go any further." Tiberius' initial tone caused Hermione to tense. His tone then mellowed out expressing his dread for the upcoming talk.

Hermione silently nodded and cast the release incantation to bring them back. When they came too. Hermione sat with her head hung and Tiberius sat quietly while he gathered his thoughts. Because of the situation, he need to explain himself and had to do it right. he needed to be clear, precise, and in a understandable successive order.

"Hermione?"

She sat quietly and opted not to answer

"Hermione" He sternly repeated himself.

"You...You don't believe we're soul mates do you? You probably don't L--" Sadness saturated her words and cracked her voice.

"Hermione, stop talking." He cut her off " You're overthinking and it's making me mad because you're wrong. I didn't stop our excursion because I don't feel the same. I stopped because of the species of the dragons, not because of what they symbolize to us. Do you understand?" His eyes were hard and adamant about his feelings. His truth shined like a vibrant colors of emotions.

Hermione nodded and whipped her eyes. She was put at ease for the time being.

"Now I have to tell you something. It might sound a bit fictional. But we live in a world of magic, which at one point you thought to be impossible. So, please bear with me and hear me out completely. And save your questions to the end....I mean it. No questions, Hermione."

Hermione's curiosity was triggered and she adamantly nodded and promised no questions until he was finished.

"Okay. I--"

"Rius, wait" she abruptly stopped him and summoned a notebook and pen from her enchanted bag "Okay, go ahead" she added as the notebook and pen floated near her head at eye level.

Tiberius chuckled and shook his head. " I was born in America. In the year 2112. The population at the time was 1 Billion people. In the entire world. Space travel had become big 12 years prior and within a decade the world population went from 30 billion to 1 billion. the people who stayed were traditionalist.

Pollution was big but when most of the population left, the traditional list worked together and collected all of the waste and destroyed it with antimatter. With a chemical compound, the worked to get the atmosphere to a healthy standard and the green rain covered every continent with vegetation while simultaneously cleaning the air. Buildings were destroyed, everything harmful to the planet, annihilated. It was a hard rest and Humans vowed to be better and created, The New Terranean Treaty. By 2210, earth was peaceful place, borders didn't exist and war was no more...

Unfortunately do to the old world's pollution. The ice caps had melted and revealed ancient lands of Hyperborea and Eden-Meru. During the restoration they deemed restricted lands until the rest of the world was clean. After the restoration, the lands were open to the public and It triggered a new age of exploration. And because of technology humans live for hundreds of youthful years. People spent lives times researching the past to discover a more colorful future by connecting with the mysterious power of their most ancient ancestors. I was one of those people...

My family was always big on our ancestry. Though it always seemed too mythical to be true. But once I started my life as an explorer I discovered many thing that I had once thought to be mythical. Elves, Dwarves, Giants, Dragons and Dragon riders, Urgals, Gnomes, Sorcerkind, Beast and Monsters of all kinds. They all began to reemerge now that the world was healthy again and the human population had decreased.

During those exploration, I rediscovered art of magic and many of its discipline. Even before I was blessed with the gift, I had a unique understand of magic --it came easy to me. The sword techniques I taught you came from the Witchers that belonged to the school of the wolf. Witchers were magically mutated humans, engineered to fight monsters and use sorcery. The sword design Zireael, originally belonged to a princess of an ancient kingdom called, Cintra. Her name was Cirilla the Ashen One, Lady of Space and Time, Elderkin. The telepathy I taught you was a technique from the sorcerers of that world. It was part of our mental arts, there is also Telempathy, and Telekinesis -- which I've started to teach you disguised as legilimency and advanced wandless magic...

The Dragon that we saw, was a dragon from my world...So, yes Hermione. The reason you have an otherworldly dragon as your animagus form is because of me. It's why I'm telling you this. Dragons from my world get big, besides the grey folk --the first race. Dragons are the most ancient species to roam the planet until the elves arrived later. Anyway, Dragons have limitless power without boundaries. Besides the grey folk , they were the closest species to the primal essence of magic. With one wrong thought, they ended civilizations or killed themselves. Bringing that type of beast into this world can be extremely dangerous if we're able to wield its power. If you want us to become an animagus with those forms. Then we need absolute control, anything less could mean our deaths"

Hermione's mouth was a gap and her eyes were wide as she listened. Her pen was constantly moving as she stared flabbergasted. She was already two pages in with questions. "Are you finished,Rius?" she asked

"For now? Yes" He answered

Hermione took a deep breath. "Fantastic. First question. Why a dragon? You could generate any beast but yours is a dragon. And I remember you telling me that you speak the dragon tongue. So what's so special about you?"

" I'm a dragon lord. To the dragons i'm known as Grundriss the Eternal. Dragon lords speak the dragon tongue and command their obedience. Merlin was also a dragon lord."

"Interesting. So are you dragon lord in your old world too?" Her next question came immediately.

"I don't know, when I meet Merlin. He told me of my gift. That was at the end of my past life" He explained and Hermione was shocked yet again.

"Merlin? As in this world's Merlin? Your ancestor here?" She questioned with great confusion

"Yes, the Merlin of my world and my true ancestor is known as Ambrosius."

"Alternate reality, maybe. who is your foremother?"

"Morrigan, but Merlin called her Morgana. He said I'm the descendant of the child they could have had together"

"Amazing....H-how did you get here? how did you die? Wait, when did you meet Merlin?"

"Hermione. One question at a time. But to answer your questions, when the humans of my world were so out of touch all of us were, what this world called squibs. Our people haven't been blessed with magic for centuries, so long we even though the old tales of magic were mere fabel and 'wtcher Hunters' were merely religious zealots. However, after 400 years of research, exploration, and many discoveries. I beseeched a goddess and she gave me magic. And--"

"How did you beseech her?"

Tiberius gave her a deadpanned looked and her shoulder sunk apologetically. He then said, " I sacrificed 100 people. A simple thing to do, when you live on the border of the mysterious and deadly ancient land of Hyperborea."

Hermione winced, "You killed...100...people?"

"I did. Yes." he replied without hesitation or care. He is a sorcerer, knowledge and power to achieve ascension was the goal. If he was willing, the he did not regret. Even if it was 100 children, he would have stood behind his actions without shame.

Hermione stared at him with a mixture of awe and fear. Without waiting for her to respond, Tiberius

began previous explanation again, "The Goddess I beseeched then gave me the name Grundriss, the Eternal. I practiced and studied magic for 200 hundred years after that. During that time I realized that to get stronger I had to be purified, I needed the blood of Morrigan and Ambrosius. Blood fumigation, it was called...

I ripped open the veil and called for my ancestral representative. Unfortunately, I died in the process due to magic exhaustion. But instead of my ancestor, Merlin appeared. He too had just died at Death's River -- In this world. We talked and he saved me. He pulled me to this world and did a time spell until he chanced upon a freshly dead babe in placed my soul in its body."

"So, this isn't?"

"This my real appearance. Because my soul took over the body at a young age. My body grew to reflect the inner me."

"What was first name?" She asked quietly

"Tiberius Maeilius Hermina... Nice to officially meet you, Hermione Jean Granger."

Hermione was utterly shocked, excited. happy, sad, angry, in love, and then some. Tiberius was nearly 800 years old and she was nearly 14. 'Is it right to count his past life? What if I'm in fact older than him, because of a past life I can not remember?' and 'What if I'm actually his soulmate in that life and we just found each other again in this life?' -- Were the thoughts going through Hermione's mind at the time. Although, she tied herself down and she talked to Tiberius until early the next morning to better understand the situation and he willingly told her everything.

He told her about his worlds magic, the monster that inhabited it --monsters from the witcher and the inheritance cycle. He told her everything he knew about the witchers, dragons, dragon riders and lords, he told her about his adventures and discoveries, the monsters and people he killed, the women he loved, hated, and eventually killed after a heartbreaking betrayal of course. Tiberius was a stupidly loyal man. He then went into detail about the ritual that took his life. He couldn't explain what happened or why it happened. But, he told her about the dimensional rift and how had to travel through death's land to get to the wizarding. He then explained the scene of the three men making a deal with death, before Merlin activated the time spell and put him in to a new body.

Hermione naturally asked how the babe died and Tiberius told her about how he was but in a small boat on Death's River and the murder of his mother at the hands of Lord Shafiq and how his mother used a pistol to kill Lord Shafiq. The boat overturned and the babe drowned.

In the end Hermione, decided to love Tiberius no matter where it lead her. She impulsively swore on her magic and Tiberius scolded her for her stupidity and curse for about an hour and reduced her to tears. And then he loved her for her loyalty in commitment and wished that he had met someone to love like Hermione in his past life.

Hoping, to have better luck, they resumed the animagus process but abruptly stopped when the next form they discovered was a large horned succubus(from the witcher verse) with divine beauty and a massive fiend that morphed into a human sized incubus (male version of the witcher succubus) with the same level of beauty as Hermione's Succubus if not more so. Hermione was extremely excited, especially after seeing the tools on both the incubus and the fiend's form. She subconsciously liked her lips lasciviously and caressed her still developing breast when she took another look at her soon to be Succubus form. Tiberius wasn't surprised or bothered. He often heard her in her room moaning his name while she worked herself to ecstacy. So when the sexual pheromones filled the air, Hermione was the first to fall.

Unfortunately, because both beast radiated terrifyingly strong pheromones that needed to be controlled like the magic of their dragon forms. Hermione's dream of being an animagus was put on hold, once again. After a full day of rest, Hermione began researching extra dimensional activities in both the wizarding and muggle world. Though, Hermione changed, dimensional rifts, to cosmic rifts --universal tares that connect worlds and or alternate realities.

It was the first week of August and Tiberius had just turned 13. He told Hermione about his trip to Beacon Hills and convinced her to enjoy her summer with her parents. Instead, Tiberius brought Jean and Johnny along with him. Conjuring a portal for the first time in the wizarding world. Jen, Johnny and Tiberius stepped through and a moment later the trio arrived deep in foreign woods under the night skies...

To Be Continued...