C188 Searching

*Juan~*

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Since this is an extraordinary situation, Tom didn't bother with common courtesy and strolled straight through the front door.

Surprisingly, The place was left unlocked and without any magical protections to keep intruders out.

"Hmm, that's suspicious..." Tom says and receives nods of agreement from those with him. "Keep your guard up."

Saying this, Tom leads them through the halls of the compound, looking for any of the residents or possible intruders.

Searching every room one by one, Tom and his group don't find a single living soul. The entire mansion was empty, which wasn't a good sign.

"Split up and search for any evidence of their involvement with the Dark dimension." Tom orders.

Everyone picks a direction and spreads out to search the place for any evidence. During their first sweep of the place, they were only looking for people, now they are looking for anything that could link these people to Dormammu in any way.

While everyone was looking around the place, Tom started looking for something else.

A compound this big should have a basement, yet throughout their first search, Tom didn't see one at all.

At first, Tom tried to use some locator spells to find any hidden entrances, but nothing seemed to work.

'There must be some sort of barrier blocking me...' Tom thought as his last locator spell failed.

Since magic wasn't doing its work, Tom decided to search the old-fashioned way.

Walking through every room in the compound, Tom checked behind every mirror, bookcase, and painting. Movie logic says that these are the most likely areas to hold secret passages.

After searching for a less than a few minutes, Tom found a very suspicious bookshelf. No matter how much he tried to move it and peak behind, the shelf wouldn't budge a single centimeter.

Throwing a quick unlocking charm at the shelf, it slides open revealing a stairway leading downward.

"This is really cliche..." Tom mutters as he strolls down the stairs. "At least cliches are predictable."

While Tom descended into the darkness, his eyes instantly adjusted to the pitch-black area.

At the bottom of the stairs is a long corridor, leading to a laboratory sort of room filled with books and lab equipment.

Along the wall are glass chambers of various sizes filled with all sorts of beings from animals, humans, and aliens. Each of them was submerged in a blueish-tinted liquid.

"Eww, that's disgusting." Tom mutters as his eyes survey the naked aliens and humans.

Doing a quick spell, Tom found that all of the test subjects were dead and had been for a while. The only thing keeping them preserved must be the blue liquid.

Looking through the room, Tom found many books and research papers that would definitely get these people excommunicated from Kamar-Taj or even killed depending on the Ancient One's mood.

Seeing the pile of evidence against these people's character, Tom now heavily suspects them of working with Dormammu.

After searching the entire room, Toms group came down and found him. They finished searching the entire compound and came looking for him.

"Wow, this place is disgusting..." One of the Masters comments as they see the test tubes along the walls.

"Yeah, everything in here is very damning for these people. The chances of them working with Dormammu just went up by a lot." Tom says as he places a book back on the shelf. "Did you guys find anything?"

"No, but they seemed to have packed their things. The closets and dressers are completely empty. I don't think they planned on coming back." The female Master of the group says.

"Then why leave all of this behind?" Tom asks, motioning towards the room filled with damning evidence against them.

"Maybe they were in a rush, or they didn't think anyone would find this room?" One of the Master's comments.

"Whatever the reason was doesn't matter, I guess. We need to find them quickly." Tom says, looking at his group. "Do any of you know where they would go? Any hideouts they frequent?"

No one spoke up as none of them were close to Lestrad and his minions. They all kept their distance as dealing with that group tended to cause them headaches.

"No one?" Tom asks again, not receiving an answer. "Alright, head back to Kamar-Taj. I'll pack these books up and have them moved to the Ancient One's private collection for her to look over. We'll start a search for these people tomorrow."

Not needed to be told twice, the Masters portal back to Kamar-Taj, leaving Tom behind in the secret lab.

"Mimsy!" Tom calls his favorite elf.

*pop*

"Master!" Mimsy yells and tackles into Tom's leg. "Mimsy misses you so much!"

Mimsy starts crying as her nose gets runny, causing tears and snot to get all over Tom's pants.

"I'm sorry I've been busy lately, Mimsy. I'll try to call you more often." Tom says, patting her bald head.

"Master promises?" Mimsy asks with upturned eyes.

"I promise." Tom answers easily, causing his head elf to calm down and let go of his leg. "Can you package these books and any other papers laying around? Oh, and vanish those test subjects along the walls, please."

Hearing her master's orders, Mimsy perks up immensely. It's been a while since her Master called for her, as he has school and other things to worry about, so getting any orders from Tom brings a happy smile to Mimsy's face.

Once everything was packaged and gone, Tom left the compound and returned to his room in Kamar-Taj.

As he steps through the portal, he's met with a scantily-clad Druella sleeping soundly on his bed.

'Was she waiting for me?' Tom thought as he sees that she still has her makeup on. 'I guess, I took too long.'

Stripping down to his boxers and crawling into bed, Tom brings his fiancé into his arms and pulls her close, falling asleep alongside her.