C222 Spellbook

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"Did it work?" Druella asked as Tom tests and turns the doorknob with ease this time around.

"See for yourself." Tom says as he pushes the door open.

On the other side of the door is the same thing Tom and Druella have been used to seeing, piles of gold as high as the ceiling, shelves full of books, along with a plethora of artifacts and weapons, strewn about the vault in different places.

"Wow, this looks like more gold coins than the Pendragon vault..." Druella mutters as she eyes the mountains of gold.

"Hmm, I guess crime does pay. She must have robbed a lot of people in order to accumulate so much gold. Either that or Morgana was a hell of a businesswoman, but my gold is on crime." Tom gives his input.

"True, should we split up and look for anything of interest?" Druella turns to Tom with a raised eyebrow, ready to start treasure hunting once again.

"Yeah, we should go and look around, but don't touch anything. Morgana was a renowned dark witch. Everything in here could be cursed with any number of horrible things, so keep your hands off whatever you find. If you have to move something, levitate it out of the way, and if you find anything of interest, once again, levitate the items into a pile for me to look over, got it?" Tom gave Druella a quick disclaimer.

"Alright, I got it. I'll start on the left and you start on the right?" Druella said questioningly.

"Sounds good to me." Tom says as he heads right.

Searching the final vault, Tom and Druella found a few good-looking weapons, artifacts, and a ton of books on dark magic that will definitely be utilized.

Other than the normal findings they've been seeing in every vault, like artifacts, weapons, and whatnot, Tom found something truly interesting in the very backside of the vault.

On an obsidian-looking podium, rested a black leather-bound book with no picture or name printed on the front or back.

Walking up to the podium for a closer look, Tom thought. 'Is this the spell book she wants to be returned so badly?'

As if going off like a motion sensor, the book wiggles as Tom grew closer. Seeing the book acting funny, Tom put up his guard and continued walking until he was standing directly in front of the podium, eyeing the writhing black book with a bit of wariness and curiosity.

Suddenly, the book snapped open and silver chains fazed through the pages, launching in Tom's direction.

"!" Already on guard, Tom wandlessly and wordlessly casts a very high-level shield to protect him.

Tom's been practicing wordless spells here and there during what little downtime he had at Hogwarts. He's gotten it down for the most part, but Tom can't do multiple spells in a row like this just yet.

As the chains come hurling through the air, they make it to Toms magical shield and simply pass through it like it isn't there in the first place.

Alarm bells start going off in Tom's head as he jumps backward and transfigures the ground into a thick concrete wall between him and the chains.

Once again, the chains make it to the wall and faze through like the wall isn't even there.

By this time, Tom starts getting annoyed and kicks off the ground in a burst of power, dashing at lightning speed and appearing at the entrance of the double doors from earlier.

Looking in the book's direction, Tom couldn't see it anymore due to the mountains of gold blocking his view, but he kept an eye out for any signs of chains coming his way.

Not seeing any chains after about ten minutes, Tom lets out a sigh of relief.

"That was close..." Tom muttered as he heard the faint sound of chains rattling in the distance.

"AAAHHHH!" A feminine scream rings throughout the vault.

'Not again...' Tom thought, as this is the second time Druellas been attacked in a vault today.

First the Slytherin vault and now the Le Fay vault. Does she have some sort of bad luck today?

Without wasting time, Tom disappeared, dashing in the direction of the scream.

Appearing next to the podium again, Tom could see Druella sitting there with the black spellbook in her hand.

The book seems to be attached to a thin silver chain that leads to her wrist, wrapping around it like a bracelet.

"You okay, Drue?" Tom asks as he casts some fast-acting analysis spells.

"Huh?" She grunts as she cranes her head upwards, spotting her fiancé. "Oh, yeah I'm fine. I found this book and it launched chains around me. Now it's connected to my wrist and I can't get rid of it."

"Has it done anything to you at all?" Tom asks as he receives a bunch of information from the spells he cast.

"No, I don't think so. It's just attached to me. I tried reading the first page and it has some powerful looking magic in there." She says as she turns the book to show Tom, but the book snaps itself shut before he could see.

"The book doesn't seem to want anyone else seeing inside..." Tom muttered as he processed the information from the spells.

"Hmm, am I its owner now?" Druella thought out loud.

"Yes, congratulations, Drue. It seems that you're the new owner of Morgana Le Fay's personal spellbook. I don't see anything harming you, but we'll monitor the book for a while just to be sure."