6. The Lamorak Vault

I appeared inside a dark stone cave. With jacket rocks lining the walls, I could feel the moisture in the air, and smell the earthy wetness of it all, and looking at the walls I could see moisture on them.

Looking down on the floor I could see the rough rocks with small puddles of water here and there. It gave of a feeling of something forgotten, perhaps ancient?

Taking my focus finally, almost finally appearing in my consciousness a pedastal stood in the middle of the room. Atop it, a large crystal gleamed, the light refracting from its surfaces in a mesmerizing spectrum.

It hummed with an energy that was inexplicably magnetic, drawing me in with an irresistible pull. It was as if it was beckoning to me, imploring me to touch it...

So that's of course what I did!

I zombie walked up to it, with my hands out, and as soon as i touched it, a great hum sounded from a low level to a high, followed by a flash of white light that filled my entire vision, blinding me, and a couple of seconds later the light faded and the pedestal with the crystal was gone.

Now instead of a dank humid cave, I stood in a now vault looking room, with white marble flooring and wood pannelled walls and a domed roof. Now no longer empty, along the sides was stacks of gold at the end of the left wall, presumably the 10.000 gold galleons, coins stacked like a small mountain.

And the right wall was filled with book cases, with golden plaques with the subject on them, enchantments, alchemy, and several others.

On the left wall towards me before the coins were different artifacts, it seemed the artifacts were for my education and possible future careers.

A single white wand, a wooden stick or should I say a small staff, a trunk and a pouch.

I walked up to the wand, it was all white, plain looking with a slight knot at the base, as I picked it up I felt the power course through me, a glow surrounded me and wind picked up, it felt awesome! Like it fits me perfectly! I got a wand! As I marveled at my new wand, it slowly turned from pure white to a rich brown. I had no idea what this meant, maybe the wand was like a blank slate, and now that I have it, it turned itself to my liking.

With my new wand in hand I looked at the other stuff, the staff looked weirdly plain, but as i was about to grab it I could actually feel the magic prickling my skin, and just as i touched it, it got sucked into me and I felt a burning sensation on my left arm, i ripped open my shirt and saw a tattoo! A tattoo of yggdrasil, a tree with a ring around it and scrolls.

Holy shit, I think the staff turned into a tattoo!

I felt something prickling my mind, like a gentle knock in my mind, drawing my focus, and as I tried focusing on it, knowledge about the tattoo appeared in my mind. It was family magic! Specifically a blessing from Merlin!

I couldn't figure out any more than that, but maybe some of the books would be able to give me answers!

I picked up the pouch, as I grabbed it, it bit me, and I bled on it from my finger, it as well got sucked into me, and the same burning sensation appeared on my other arm, and there a tattoo appeared, a circle with a rune inside, it looked like a weird F pointing upwards.

I tried focusing on it, and the pouch appeared in my hand!

I willed it again to go back, and it disappeared onto my arm again, awesome!

I tried willing the staff out, but nothing happened, strange.

A bit miffed that it didn't seem to work, I looked at the trunk, which inside was really big! It had a single key lying on top, with 4 different key holes.

Trying the different holes, it seems it had different rooms in the trunk!

Man you gotta love magic!

I walked over to the gold, and took several hundred and stuffed them into the pouch which appeared and could easily hold it, and returned as a tattoo.

Finally I started going through the books on the book shelf, there were so many subjects! And stuff I had no idea what was!

It seemed the first book case was basic subjects, and the others were more and more difficult and obscure magics and theories.

So I packed the entire first book case down, it held stuff on all the school subjects, including basic runes, basic warding, alchemy for beginners, enchantments for beginners, and a Grimoire from Margause! Her knowledge on transfiguration and charms, which appeared to be her favorite subjects.

I placed them in one of the rooms of the trunk, as I locked it, it shrank and it became a tattoo which burned into my skin again, in the form of a small square, you gotta love magic!

As I was about to leave the vault, I saw a roll of parchment on a shelf, I rolled it out and read the contents, it was actually two papers, a deed to a shop in Diagon Alley, and another for a larger workshop in the muggle district, I placed the deeds into my pouch.

Now having gotten all the things I needed, I headed towards a door where I entered, but as soon as I touched the handle, I was teleported outside the vault. The goblin and Rufus who were waiting in the cart and I got in and we were off heading up to ground level.

As i walked out of the bank, I actually had a lot of important things, I still had my wand in my hand, and I thought that might not be the smartest, thinking about the tattooes i tried willing it to be absorbed, and the wand disappeared and a burning sensation appeared on my right arm, it looked like a small version of the wand.

Man I can't say it often enough, I love magic!

As we left the bank I started telling Rufus of all the things in the vault, he looked happy that I had found something of my family line, despite how amazing it were that I ended up being related to

I told him about my family name, and that I had a vault with money for school. I also showed him my wand. I didn't tell him about the tattoos, which didn't seem like a smart idea. It bordered on blood magic I think, and until I had learned more about it, I would keep it a secret.

We still needed a lot of things, so we quickly got my robes which were of a very high quality. Rufus wanted me to have proper clothing even if it couldn't be a suit, we then got the potion stuff, the scales etc.

And lastly we went to the pet store, I wanted to either get an owl or a pet.

We walked into the store, the smell was the first thing that hit me, different cages lining the walls around the entire store, I looked around but nothing really seemed to speak to me. Owls seemed not really what I wanted.

I mean being used to phones and instant communication, an owl seemed like not the right thing to use.

Regular cats, toads and such, seemed not as interesting, I really liked dogs but Rufus explained to me that I couldn't bring that to Hogwarts.

Feeling a bit disappointed, I turned to leave the store, but the owner approached me with a smile,"You look to be a discerning customer, how about getting something a bit more special, an egg, but not just any egg, a Mystery egg!".

Well if I believed in plots, this would definitely be it, so of course i bought it, he didn't actually tell me what it was, but i thought, what the hell, I might get lucky. Rufus was initially not happy about this, It bordered on sketchy neigh illegal dealings, but the store owner quickly showed him the paperwork, and it did seem to be all in order.

I got a general pet caring kit, and a catalog for ordering anything I would need by owl.

It was finally the end of the day and we headed home with our things.