Decisions

"They what?"

"Uhh, yeah, it is as it sounds..."

Harriet said to her big brother, whose face started to twitch in a familiar matter when he wanted to erase something that did greatly offended him.

"So, let me be clear, they kidnapped you, joined you into the life-threatening tournament against your will, and again signed you into a marriage contract."

Aegis calmly asked as his hand twitched, and if it weren't for Harriet who sat on his knees and had his hands around her torso, Aegis would by already marching to deal with it.

"Well... They don't know who throw my name into that goblet..."

Harriet weakly said, even she didn't know why she defended them, but she had guessed that it had something with the idea of a true magic castle made the little girl inside her scream in joy, so seeing such castle in rubles would by.... Well it would be a pity for Harriet.

"And you know of it?"

Aegis asked them calmly sitting Morgana who just sipped her tea and used a newfound scroll to read books from Remnant, and Merlin who had her head in scroll and watched the live feed from the fallout of starting the war.

"Mn, yes that trinket... In truth there isn't much for you to do, if you don't wish to hurt Harriet by having her magic being ripped out the contract must be followed, even if she is there against her will."

Morgana said as she put down the scroll.

"You see, this trinket they use for children tournaments was created with the intention of binding others against their will into contracts, why after we ended up in this world I did took a look into their hidden history, and found out that this goblet was used to bound one race into servitude."

Morgana said with both respect and distaste, and Aegis immediately understood, he knew about these house-elves from Cinder, but to think the same trinket that holds his Harriet is the same one that is basically every slave master's wet dream...

"Is there a way to destroy it?"

"Mn, yes a multiple, the problem is that once destroyed the contracts that are active would take full blow of rebound magic, so I don't recommend it while Harriet is still bound with it."

Morgana said and Merlin nodded her flowery head as she looked at Aegis with a glint in her eyes.

"Or, you can just cheat."

Merlin said with a smirk that made Aegis lip twitch in a coming headache.

"Cheat? Would you elaborate?"

"Will you take us with you?"

"Take where?"

"Don't play stupid, it doesn't suit your pretty face..."

Merlin said with a frown as her more succubus side took hold of her for a while and made her said such things.

"What dear Merlin wishes to say, is we have a way for you to quickly end it, and save Harriet from any future danger this contract can do to her, and as a reward for helping you, we wish for you to accept us as yours, advisors, after all we are old, very much so, and are proficient in dark, fae, mortal, and multiple others magic's."

Morgana said with a neutral face to Aegis who just silently weighed her words.

"Eh, wait... You are Merlin?! And you are that Morgana?!"

Harriet suddenly said and broke Aegis' thoughts as he looked at his sister who had stars in her eyes.

"Yes child, we truly are."

"Hermione wouldn't believe it!!! Wait you want to join our family?! Big bro! Please let them!"

Harriet said to Aegis with stars in her green eyes...

Aegis just had an urge to both facepalm and punch Merlin who was smirking and Morgana who looked at Harriet as if she found her favorite puppy...

"Yes Aegis, let us join your family."

Merlin said, just to buck her head as ice shard created by Aegis glyph flew by.

"Don't try my patience, woman..."

Aegis said, but the moment his eyes returned to Harriet who just had that pleading look...

"Fuck it..."

Aegis said with Harriet kissing him in happiness.

"Advisors, not family, understood."

Aegis said to nod Morgana and triumphantly smirking Merlin.

"Oh, and Album, please get in touch with Remnant, I wish for Cinder and Salem to come there, im sure there are things and matters they would wish to attend."

"Yes big brother."

Said Album's hologram.

Aegis just nodded as he relaxed his body and let himself enjoy the familiar feeling of having Harriet on himself.

------Time skip--------

Albus alone stood in the room where not even one hour ago were all headmasters of every magic school in the world.

Everyone came there to speak and decide their steps.

Albus wanted them to help him stop this nonsensical war, especially when there were enemies worse than muggles.

Alas, others had a different idea...

Everyone, every headmaster, chose to isolate their school with children inside as to not let them go and die in the war, and at the same time make a deal with both sides to not target the schools and the children inside, and as long as the schools stay neutral, then both sides would ignore them and let the winner deal with them after the war would be concluded.

For magical's, it was good because like that their children would be safe.

For muggles, it was good because there were muggle-borns and targeting a school of children would go against their rules of war.

"How... How can you just do nothing when the world is in despair?"

"I really don't want to hear it from you old friend."

Said voice and Albus looked in a somber mood at the headmaster of Ilvermorny, Jonathan Rickle.

"Albus, in world war two, everyone cried for you to help us, just for you and Britain wizards to ignore us, now... Now? Now I ask you not to go... Albus the times change, and wards cant withstand the neverending artillery barrage of muggle weapons, word war showed that to us, and now they are even more dangerous."

Jonathan said as he sighed at Albus' stubborn face.

"Albus... You know this day would one day come, purebloods, the old regime that just don't want to die, it was them who used the muggles missiles."

"Purebloods?"

Albus asked in disbelief.

"Yes, don't make them fool you, not all pureblood's fanatics are like your Britain ones... Our purebloods too disdain muggles, but disdain and ignorance are different things... They knew about the danger of atom bombs and had a bright idea... why not kill two birds with one stone, get rid of the idea and two of their enemies? Just make muggles deal with the invaders..."

Jonathan tiredly sighed.

"And look where it led to..."

Albus stayed silent, he did acknowledge that he maybe was a bit ignorant of outside affairs as all his time was consumed by Britain's problems, but to think it would be like that...

"Albus, just don't do anything stupid... Times are changing, and I will not let my students die in this stupid war..."

Jonathan said with steel in his eyes.

"Even if it meant to confine them in the school against their wishes."

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Album watched with a fascination that the organics murdered each other.

Wizards with their spells either deformed, killed, or cursed the non-magical with their vicious spells.

And non-magical with their simple yet effective weapons.

Album watched how another of the wizards got killed by having his shield overloaded from the continuous fire of the automatic weapons they were capable of.

Another wizard's death by a sniper from a kilometer away.

The non-magical family is brainwashed and sent to kill other non-magical.

"Oh?"

Album hummed as she watched schism in wizard ranks as some wizards killed their fellows and joined non-magical.

"So they already start to rebel hm?"

Album said, and truly most of the turncoats were muggle-borns, squibs, and even some half-bloods.

All around the world, the Pureblood agenda didn't buy much love, so it wasn't strange to starting to see wizard rebels.

"Anddd that's twenty-one..."

Album said as she saw another Pureblood family go down after their mansion was engulfed under artillery fire from warships.

Album still didn't understand the logic of wizards, she thought it would be already obvious that their wards wouldn't protect them from the continuous fire of heave weapons, or bombs, or missiles...

"Oh, wait, that its."

Album said, as she guessed the reason why Purebloods didn't change their tactics.

They were disoriented, against the information era the non-magical are in and where information travel in an instant through the world, the purebloods are almost blind in this war, they aren't capable of information sharing the non-magical are capable of.

In short magical's were losing in information and communication warfare very badly.

"Hmmm, this family is to say by followers of Grindelwald and has an enormous collection of magical books... Well, it seems I have another target for Sentinel looting!"

Album said with cheer, as even when there was war outside, Sentinel's weren't idle, Album sought and already gave multiple missions to Sentinel's they usually were going there and grab everything they could.

Still, the result was little as the purebloods hid and protected their treasures with curses and wards so the results weren't as good as Album wished for.

Still all of it was in secret as even if there was war outside, Album and Aegis didn't have any illusion that the moment someone is seen to leave the Sentinel base, it would make into world news.

Which wasn't desired for Aegis who liked to be ignored for the time being.

"Ohhh?? What is this?"

Album said and looked into her messages.

"Another proposal for alliance and with that name..."

Album said as she looked more into it...

"Vampires... Tepes... Huh, who thought that Tepes would look like this..."

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*Author note*

Pics in comments, and yes, I know from what anime she is, and now I don't plan to add it, just her as I like her character.