Chapter 26

"A small snack shouldn't hurt." The demon said as he walked towards me with drool dripping from his chin to the ground, but I didn't care about the disgusting sight before me.

No, I was far more focused on the feeling in my chest that appeared the moment Voldemort summoned this demon and escaped. I felt... amused? No, not amused, but something close to it with a dash of anger towards myself.

"Hehe." I had decided to interfere with the so called canon timeline and had caused something arguably far worse than anything that actually happened in any of the Harry Potter books during my first year. The one time I genuinely decided to help, I made things worse. "Hehahaha!" This was so morbidly amusing!

"Huh, what's this? Did the sight of me caused you to lose your mid, little human child? I guess it wouldn't be the first time."

"Nah." I said with a chuckle. "Just laughing at the absurdity of the situation. The one time I actually try to do something good with no gains ended up with a demon being summoned. It's kind of hilarious." I kept chuckling and even the demon let out a small chuckle.

"Well, you mortals do say something similar about this don't you, road to hell is paved with good intentions." The demon said as he started to reach towards me with a clawed hand.

"You're right." I said with a nod. "Let me help you get back on the path!" And then immediately expelled a burst of anti gravity shock wave, sending the wide eyed demon away and into the sky. And I was right behind him, gravity itself losing meaning as I flew after the demon with two large boulders flying with me; right before I slammed my hands together and the boulder mimicked my movements with the demon right between them, smashing him.

"You little!" Which were then smashed apart by the demon's spiked fists. "I'm going to drag you to hell and trade your soul to Asmodeus for that!" He yelled as he tried to lunge at me, only to be met halfway through and then pushed back by me. I had gotten a pretty good idea on how to deal with him.

When it came to battle prowess of an energy user, there were three factors that determined their threat level.

First, reserves; which was the amount of energy they had. Second, control; the amount of fine tuned and complex acts one could do without wasting energy. Lastly, output; the amount of power one could use at once.

Obviously reserves was not a problem for me since I was connected to the Hyperspace, a dimension of infinite energy, but both my control and my output were not as great as the Hyperstorm's had been; if it had then I would have just flown us both to space and let out enough energy to disintegrate the demon. Since that wasn't an option I had to get... creative.

That's why I latched onto the demon with gravity and telekinesis as we flew further into the sky, where I would have no fear of getting Hogwarts and the people in it involved. Only after we reached a good enough altitude did I actually properly tap into the Hyperspace and converted the pure energy into electromagnetic shockwaves and nuclear heatwaves.

"Burn!" And kept it up as high as I could, ignoring the agonized screams of the demon whose spikes were stabbing into my shoulders, and waited until this so called great lord Nebiros started to turn into ash with a manic grin on my face.

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Severus Snape's eyes opened widely as he was roused from his sleep by the feeling in the air. A feeling that he had known very intimately and had been the reason for leaving the Dark Lord's side in the war.

As he immediately cast a Accio in order to call his wand to himself, an ethereal phoenix of white vapor entered his room through the wall and spoke to him.

"Severus, have the dorms locked and go to the forest! Immediately!" Dumbledore's voice came through the Patronus and the construct phoenix disappeared, leaving the potions professor with his orders.

With a few flicks of his wands, Severus used his authority as the head of the Slytherin house and locked all the doors in the dorm. If there were any students that had been thinking about going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, they were going to have a very unpleasant surprise.

Then he apparated directly to the forest with a crack, which was then followed by several other cracking sounds that told the coming of the other professors but Severus did not pay attention to them. No, his whole attention was on the sun with lightning coming out of it that was sitting in the middle of the sky in the middle of the night!

"What the?" And then, before he could even try to understand what was happening, the huge ball of light and lightning disappeared.

"What was... that?" Minerva asked with wide eyes.

"Nothing we can do anything about." Albus said with a steely gaze. "Minerva, Pomona, Filius; search the forest and send a signal the moment you encounter something unusual. Severus, come with me." The headmaster ordered as he walked away from where they were with all of them obeying the orders.

Seeing that they were far enough from the other professors, Severus leaned forward and looked at the headmaster. "Albus, the magic in the air..." He trailed off, not even wanting to finish those words.

"I know Severus, I know." The headmaster said as they kept walking till they finally found a clearing of burned grass and two burned carcasses. One that looked equine-ish and other that looked somewhat like.

"Is that..."

"Professor Quirrel." Albus said with a sigh as he knelt down before the burnt corpse, barely recognizable to anyone if it wasn't for the clothing on it that had mostly survived. "Though considering the events of tonight, I believe that I would have to let him go if it wasn't for... this."

"You think that he was the one who..."

"Performed the summoning? Yes, and I believe you'll realize why if you come closer." The headmaster beaconed him to come and Severus did before his eyes widened, realizing that the back of Quirrel's head wasn't a mess simply because of the burns but that there were some lines that looked far too similar to another man's facial features.

"Something tells me we now know who tried to steal the stone before the school year." Albus said and sighed. "And that we have a rough idea on why professor Quirrel decided that he wanted the defense position after his sabbatical."

"The Dark Lord." Severus whispered with a glare before shaking his head, they had bigger concerns at the moment. "What about the demon?"

"That is no longer an issue." Albus said with a frown. "The demon's presence vanished along with that light."

"What was that light Albus?" Severus asked with a frown, trying to fight off the shivers as he recalled the giant ball of light. He had seen much during the last few years, but nothing quite like that.

"Not 'what', Severus." Albus said as he cast several detections spells around them before turning towards him. "But who?"

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