Tatiana's Legacy

A/N: Pat-reon: HelloDarkness07

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"You'll take care, won't you?" Selene asks, looking a bit concerned as she watched me eat breakfast.

It has been a month since little James Fleamont Potter was born to Aunt Mia, and I've decided that it was time for me to go back.. to space.

Mia was back to her old healthy safe, although she does miss Fleamont occasionally. Selene and I had remained with her during this time, to keep her company and to give her some rest when Selene and I took care of James. Somedays, Darla and Ana came to the Potter House, where Selene and I stayed most of the days this month, bringing little Luca with them. Luca, who was now just three months old, would happily giggle at everything while we adults just watched on in amusement.

And now, after the month of helping Mia raise her child, I was leaving once again, since I still had a lot of work to do.

Nodding at Selene, I look at Mia feeding James from a bottle with a smile and say, "I haven't even decided on our destination yet. There's a lot of work to do. I'll return, of course, whenever I can, but it will be a long while before I return for good."

Selene nods, her face looking a bit disappointed, and apparates back home. I know she wants to come with me, but I can't risk it. Not now. I need someone I trust to watch over our friends, someone strong. And there's no one on Earth stronger than Selene, other than the Gods who have basically retreated from the mortal world.

After breakfast, as I prepare to leave however, I am stopped by Aunt Mia. James nowhere to be seen, probably in the trusty hands of the Potter Elf, Trappy, Mia looks at me with a frown, and asks, "You're leaving once again? On that secret project of yours?"

Nodding with a sad smile, I say, "If there was a way for me to push this one project on someone else, I would have done it Aunt Mia. Unfortunately, I have to be the one to do this."

"And you won't be telling me what it is, will you?" Aunt Mia asks, scowling.

My smile turns a bit amused, and I say, "Just like I told you the last dozen times you asked me, not yet. Once this project is done, you will be amongst the first to learn of it, of that I assure you." 

A worrying frown crosses onto her face, making me smile at her to reassure her on instinct. She asks, "Is it dangerous? What you're doing, is it dangerous?"

I hum, and thinking the answer over I say, "Is it a danger to me? No. I have taken a lot of precautions during this task, there's almost zero odds of anything happening to me. But is it a dangerous task in general? Yes. But you don't have to worry, because I will not be leaving you anytime soon."

Aunt Mia sighs, her nervousness still not abated and I could read it plainly on her face even without using any of my mutations. Turning around, she says, "Wait here."

Leaning against the wall, I wait as instructed. I wasn't in any hurry to leave. It barely takes a couple minutes for Aunt Mia to return, with a small box in her hands. 

As I watch on in curiosity, Aunt Mia caresses the plain black box in her hand, and whispers, "Before.. before he died, before we knew about James, Monty wanted to give this to you. We didn't have children and we had lost almost all hope to have children. But then you came into our lives, an apprentice to me that got close to us. That thought of us as very close friends, if not family."

I slowly move away from the wall, staring at the box with conflicting emotions. I was happy about a gift, who isn't? Plus, Monty himself wanted to give this to me, and gifts from the other side of Life are that much more precious to me. I was also happy that Mia and Monty thought of me like family, like a child of their own.

Despite the errors of my ways, despite me breaking my Oath, Mia still felt that way, and I was touched.

Sighing, Mia says, "But now we have James… I have James, and we lost Monty." Mia sniffles, tearful. Wiping her eyes, she says, "I can't give this to you like we wanted to, this belongs to James now. But I want you to keep it for now. Use it to keep yourself safe, and then hand it over to James when he turns 11."

Reaching forward, I pull Aunt Mia into a hug, and whisper, "You know I can protect myself, right, Aunt Mia? I'm one of the, if not the strongest Wizard in Britain, and I am not saying this out of arrogance. Whatever it is, why don't you hand it to James yourself, it will probably have more meaning that way."

Aunt Mia shakes her head, as she moves out of the hug, and says, "I am old, Mason. Not old for a Witch, but I am old. I suffered, lost a lot when Monty died. It is only James's and your presence here that's keeping me grounded. But I can't just dismiss the chance that anything can happen to me at any time. Monty and I were just shopping when it happened, you know. This.. this is just so I can be sure that it reaches James's hands. Promise me, promise me that you'll use this whenever you feel the need to use it, and that you'll give it to James when the time comes."

I nod, staring her in the eyes, and say, "If this is so important to you, I will gladly accept the gift. And I promise that I will hand it to James when he turns 11."

Aunt Mia wipes her eyes, and handing the box off to me, she says, "Good, now I can rest assured that you'll be safe. Now leave, your wife and I plan to have a women's day out."

Chuckling, I just shake my head at the sudden topic change and say, "Take care, Aunt Mia. And don't lose hope. James needs you, and so do I."

After saying goodbye to her and the smiling James, I twist around myself, apparating to Sanctuary. I find myself immediately graced by the presence of my beautiful wife, who was busy packing a small bag with Potions. In greeting, I hug her from behind, the gift box now floating behind me, and kissing her on the cheek, I ask, "Mia tells me you have a girls' day out plan?

Selene hugs my hands, and as we both enjoy the touch, she says, "Yes. She's been so busy worrying constantly about James that I thought it to be a good idea. Jamie will be with Trappy, and Ana will be coming in to keep an eye on the two. Meanwhile, I and Mia will be going to Muggle London to watch one of those movies you told me about."

She then sees the box floating behind me, and asks, "And what's that?"

I shrug, and as we both sit on a chair, Selene foregoing the chair for my lap, I say, "Mia gave it to me, a present to help save me if the need came, she said."

Curious about the gift myself, I wave my hand, pulling the floating box towards us. Selene takes it in her hand, and after looking at me for my permission, which I give, she opens the box. As soon as the box opens, however, I widen my eyes, not able to believe it.

"Bloody.. hell.." I whisper, staring at the item that I'm seeing after so long.

"Is that..?" Selene asks, hesitantly reaching out towards the contents of the box.

I keep staring at it, and whisper, "Yeah.. it is. That's Tatiana's Cloak."

The Cloak of Intangibility. Tatiana's Relic.

Slowly, I move my hand towards it and gently touch the Cloak of Intangibility. As soon as my fingers brush it, the silky cloak ripples as a wave of magic washes over it, and me. As the wave recedes, however, I frown.

"That's.. that's different. The Cloak is different. It's changed somehow, I don't know how exactly." I whisper, using my Telekinesis to float the cloak into the air.

It looked the same as it did 2000 years ago, but there was something different about it. 

"Can you get off for a moment, I want to try something." I say, wondering what exactly I find odd about the Cloak.

Selene gets off, and says, "You know, a normal wife would have been so jealous of how you're treasuring your ex-lover's possession."

I snort, and say, "You're anything but a normal wife, Selene. You know just how much I love you, and how much I care for you."

Selene smiles, and kissing me, she says, "That I do."

Smiling at her in return, I put on the Cloak of Intangibility, feeling the wave of magic wash over me once again. For a moment, I stop waiting for something to happen, I don't know what, but when nothing does, I focus on my Magic, and send it towards the Cloak.

Immediately, I feel it working, and the Cloak turns invisible.

"Mason? Are you still here?" Selene asks, and I see her worriedly looking through me.

Deactivating the Cloak's invisibility, as Selene startles a bit, I say, "Yup, this Cloak has definitely been changed by someone." Or something.

"What do you mean? And did you know I just couldn't see you at all. Not even my Telepathy or shadows worked in finding you. It was as if even your Soul wasn't here anymore." Selene says, giving me something to think over.

Nodding, I say, "I suspected something like this. It might not have the same Magical feel to them, but this is the third Deathly Hallow, you know."

Although, I doubt the Master of Death jargon is true, the fact that the Deathly Hallows exist, and are somehow different from regular Magical artefacts and relics is not to be denied.

"And by changed, I mean just that. This was called the Cloak of Intangibility for a reason. Its primary function was Intangibility, allowing anything to pass through it, even Magic." Not counting some Magical spells and effects that were specifically created to counter Intangibility of course, and probably even Soul Magic. "Invisibility was just a side benefit, when the Cloak allowed even Light to pass through it. Now, this Cloak has accepted the Primary function of Invisibility. Someone deliberately messed with the Cloak, and made it into what it is now."

It is most definitely Tatiana's Cloak, I would recognise it anywhere. But yes, I could tell that it's changed. A lot. What this means, only time will tell.

Sighing, I store the Cloak of Invisibility in Nowhere, and say, "I have way too many problems to worry about the consequences of owning all three Deathly Hallows at the same time." Even if one of them was just temporarily mine. "Well, Selene, my love. I'm off to Europa. Take care, I'll be back within a month at most."

After kissing Selene goodbye, I don my Kavach once more, and waving my hand create a Portal. On the other side of the portal stood a simple wooden house with a river flowing from the side of it, and a lush green forest behind it. I could see signs of trees having died, and a few trees looked to have toppled over.

Europa, a moon of Jupiter and the third moon of Jupiter that I've been to. First I went to Ganymede, and then to Callisto. On both these moons, just like on Venus, I had created such pockets of space with a forest, a river, and a house. Terraformed pockets of space.

Walking through the portal, I open the house door and sit on the soft chair I had kept next to the fireplace. It takes barely a moment to light the fire up, and I stare at it for a few seconds.

Summoning a piece of parchment, I keep it on the table in front of me, and just tap it once. As text begins to form on top of it, I read, "Oxygen levels have dropped a bit. Gravity seems to be fluctuating from the original 1.32 m/s2 to the 10m/s2 that I've spelled it as. Winds went as slow as 1m/h, that's hella slow. Temperatures.. damn, that's a bummer. Lowest recorded temperature -157°C and the highest 23°C? And all of that within just this last week."

All of this.. means one thing and one thing only. Just like Ganymede, Venus, and Callisto, Europa also isn't compatible with Earth's Magic.

And that's the most important part of this, isn't it? Compatibility with Wizarding Magic. No matter what I do, what spells I use, if the celestial body itself isn't compatible with our Mqgic, then Wizards just won't survive here.

Venus was the most compatible, but even that planet couldn't support the spells I used to create a forest, river, and atmosphere just like this, for more than two months. Spells fluctuate, oxygen level keeps dropping and sometimes Venus got so hot that my entire forest, my house included, burned down completely before I could even do anything. I only survived because I was wearing Kavach. And of course, because I'm me.

Ganymede supported an ecosystem for just a week, while Callisto survived for just three days before my forest froze over.

And now, Europa. It was proving to be a failure too.

If it can't support Earth Magic, it won't be a suitable place for Wizards, that's for sure. And there's no way to change that, no way to make this place compatible with Magic when it doesn't want to be. Not by myself anyway. A certain Earth Goddess comes to mind, but she hasn't shown herself to me since my Ritual, and I'm not about to go seek her out myself.

Sighing, I start my preparations for packing my stuff. Europa was also a failure, and it was time for the next moon.

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Eight Months Later:

With a smile, I stood in the midst of a forest similar to that on Europa. Lush green trees surrounded me, and I could hear the sounds of the rivers flowing in the distance, as well as one near my house. Occasionally, a chirp could be heard, as birds flew overhead. A bright orange Sun just a bit larger than what could be seen from Earth shone over my head, warming the atmosphere up nicely.

This.. this was it. I don't know what moon this is, I don't recognise it from any of my readings, but this moon of Saturn was it.

It was just a bit smaller than Titan, another moon of Saturn that unfortunately failed my test within a month, with a diameter of around 4800km. Unlike most moons, this moon had an actual atmosphere, and even rivers flowing with water, and land covered with ice.

The air had nitrogen, and while the Oxygen was very scarce, my spells had allowed me to change it. The gravity was originally weaker at just 1.33 m/s2, and I had also managed to change it to 10.1 m/s2, which was a bit on the high side for humans, but it will help in the long run.

Best of all, however, I had observed this colony of mine for seven months, observed the spells and how the planet affected the spells. And this moon passed with flying colours. Magic.. and this moon.. were compatible with each other, just like on Earth. 

Magic will not fail.

Life will not fail here. Hell, it will thrive.

I had just carried out a series of tests, one of which included bringing magical creatures here and allowing them to roam around. They loved it, which I was really glad about and I had wasted no time in sending them back to Sanctuary. Now only the few non-magical birds I had brought here were left. But all in all, this moon was perfect.

It was as if this moon was created to host life, but whoever was creating it changed their mind halfway through. This was perfect, actually perfect.

Smiling in relief, I whisper to myself, "It worked.. it fucking worked. I don't have to beg Gaea for help. Thank fuck!"

Shaking my head, I sit down on the ground, and just enjoy it for a moment. After working so long, I finally succeeded. I have found a new home.

Summoning something from the Nowhere, I stare at it and say, "Just a few things left to do. I guess I can't delay it now."

Holding the Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw in both hands, I slowly place it over my head. A moment later, I find my Astral form pulled away from my body, and into the deep Astral Plane. 

"It has been a while since you visited me, Mason." Rowena says, as soon as I open my eyes in front of her.

Smiling, I say, "It is good to see you again, Lady Phoenix."

Rowena tilts her head to the side, and I see her smile widely. She asks, "So, you're back to your own time now, Eideard? How has life been?"

I sigh, and say, "Bar some complaints, life has been wonderful, Lady Phoenix. But I'm afraid this is not a social visit. I need your help with something, something big."

Phoenix nods, but I see her frown. She says, "You've been avoiding my daughter."

Damn, she's in my head.

I nod, not denying the accusation, and with a sigh, I say, "Helena is your daughter, Rowena. If anyone can recognise me for who I am, it is her. I.. I will meet with her soon, but not yet. I am not ready to face her yet."

How could I? There are a lot of deaths I've had a hand in, some I could have prevented but didn't because of the Time Loop, but none weigh heavier on me than Helena's death. I tried it, tried to prevent it from happening, and I failed.

Despite my urgings while I was her teacher, Helena still tried to win Rowena over, and when that failed, she ran away. I even used my Telepathy on the Baron, Helena's betrothed that she had run away from, to force him to not kill Helena. And he still did it. The curse I put on him to keep him chained to this life in Eternal suffering was still not enough punishment for him, I would say.

"It was not your fault, Eidard. I may not have been with Rowena at the time, but from what I saw through this Diadem, you tried to save her. You were barred from doing much by Time itself. But I hope you don't keep shirking away from her. She's my daughter, I don't want her to feel lonely once again."

I nod, bowing my head a bit, and say, "I won't. I'll visit her soon, don't worry."

Phoenix nods, and then she asks, "Now, what can I do for you?"

This is it. This. Is. It. Phoenix's decision will decide whether it takes me a few days or a few years to complete this project.

Taking a deep breath, I look Phoenix right in her eyes and say, "I need a Moon to be burned, I need you to take a moon through its rebirth so I can occupy it and turn it into a planet similar to Earth. I need you to grant Life to an almost dead moon."

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A/N: A small chapter, sorry, but I couldn't start the next part without a small break.

The moon is an OC lol, it's like Titan, but since I didn't want to use Titan I created a new moon for Saturn that exists just in this version of MCU. Hope I explained everything well.

The Cloak of Intangibility/Invisibility will not be explained upon too much since I don't want to go with the Master of Death thing here in this fic. Death won't show up, and the Deathly Hallows will just be three special items of Power.

Resurrection Stone: able to call spirits for a short time.

Elder Wand: 100% efficiency without loss in power.

Cloak of Intangibility/Invisibility: Invisibility from any and all beings lower on the hierarchy than Death. Intangibility doesn't work against Soul Magic, or Magic designed against Intangibility, or higher level beings like Demons, Gods. Invisibility will work against Galactus, Celestials, Elder Gods, but not on OAA, OBA, Phoenix, Lifebringer Galactus, Eternity, etc.

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