Serena Snape: Love of Magic - chapter 43

December 17, 1976 – Serena Pov

7 creatures XXXXX *20

15 creatures XXXX *10

21 creatures XXX *5

14 creatures XX *2

5 races of dragons *20

We had captured 57 creatures, it was all extremely easy, with Aria and my subterfuge skills, I was able to seal most of the creatures without any problem.

Although the XXXXX creatures did cause some… setbacks, there weren't that many XXXXX creatures and some were rarer to find than others, we got lucky with the Lethifold who found us by surprise. The acromantulas were easy, there is a colony in the forbidden forest.

The manticores, let's just say, involved a very illegal entry into the Erkstag prison in Germany. We couldn't find any information about the quintapeds on the black market, so with the abuse of a lot of allomantic bronze to be able to hear the magical pulses and duralumin to enhance it, we were able to find the island of Drear in the north of Scotland after hours of searching.

The Nundu and Wampus cat , we were able to find them in the wild, although we had to move around a lot in Greece and the Appalachians, but sealing them was easy once they were asleep.

Finally, the dragons also caused us problems, they were very hard to find in the wild, so we had to remove them from the dragon reserves, it would be too dangerous to sneak in and steal 5 dragons in one, too suspicious, so we had to go into the different reserves around the world and take one in each reserve, we went for the babies, it was wrong, I know, but an adult dragon was much harder to make disappear without being noticed.

523 credits in total just for the catches, another 40 as a bonus for the dragons, 1 Nab-Sack , Wild Talent, Wild Defense II, Creature Defense II, Scamander's suitcase , Vivarium and a Tier 6 or lower companion, I was really satisfied with the rewards, I now had a small fortune that I could work with and continue forward with the plans I had in mind, more than enough, although possibly everything will be consumed.

Now, what to do with my rewards, specifically the Nab-sack , the Suitcase and the Vivarium , none of them were really useful to me, they were completely irrelevant with the sweet home purchases and their upgrades, too bad I couldn't exchange them for reward credits, selling them was also a bad idea, mainly because the money was useless to me at all, I had more than enough money and I kept generating even more passively, really, I was learning that, for contractors, money was stupidly easy to earn and was useless.

Mission Rewards +603 [644]:

Harry Potter - Fantastic Beast in Harry Potter

Credits [523 ]; Credits [40]; Other [Nab-Sack]; Other [Scamander's suitcase]; Other [Vivarium]; Perk [Wild Talent]; Perk [Wild Defense]; Perk [Wild Defense]; Perk [Creature Defense]; Perk [Creature Defense]; Companion [Enid Sinclair(S4) from The Addams Family]; Credits [40];

The rewards were more than welcome, they were a good amount of credits, what I did not expect was Enid Sinclair, when the chance came up with the label 'Monster' or 'Dragon' the least I expected was a werewolf, I was waiting for some creature, I had plans for it, but of course, with my luck a werewolf had to come out.

I hadn't accepted her yet, well, rather, I hadn't had The Company send her since technically Enid was already my property, so for now I was... I don't know where I was, but in some kind of limbo, I still had to see what I would do with her, I had to talk it over with the rest, that is, Bellatrix.

Now, after talking it over with the trio, the first thing I did was buy some really necessary upgrades.

Home Perks

Pocket Space -5

Pocket Apartment x 2 - 20

All Roads Lead to Home -10

Sweet Home x 2 - 40

Grand Manor -30

Life's A Beach -10

Talents

Talent Sharing x9 [Administrative Talent, Aesthetic Talent, Sticky Fingers, Performance Talent, Soul Talent, Athletic Talent, Martial Talent, Psychic Talent, Wild Talent] -90

Wild free

Everlasting -10

Psychic -20

Defenses

Wild x 2 free

Creature x 2 free

Mind -25

Corruption -50

Information -25

Drain -25

Fatality -50

Addiction -10

Polymorph -50

Defenses discounted for retaining members +90

Paper Trail x4 [You as Serena Snape, Bellatrix Black, Narcissa Black, Lucius Malfoy] -4

Misc Perks

Exit Stage Left -5

We Will Meet Again -15

Rest: [264];

The essential thing was to improve the apartment, it wasn't small per se, but I noticed that none of the rest of the group was used to something that size, I snorted at the rich kids that they were, but I also had to admit that having more space was beneficial for a myriad of reasons.

Grand Manor , 1200 m2 of living space, each room fully furnished for any needs I or my entourage might need, Narcissa got a tailoring workshop, Lucius a full office with a computer, Bellatrix a training room large and sturdy enough, while I got a rather varied workshop, half potions lab and half experimental room, I liked it.

Life's A Beach, gave me 15km2 of width in my not so pocket dimension now, full of vegetation that I could modify as I wanted, it was able to host any type of life in my pocket dimension, I had already commissioned Lucius to get a wide variety of plants to be able to grow them, I would have to start reading yet more seriously, herbology books.

Next were the talents, Everlasting for eternal youth and then the benefits needed to share the talents with others.

Defenses were also necessary, I couldn't buy two copies of each defense like I wanted to get full immunity against those things, but a single copy was more than enough to be hugely protected against most situations.

Especially now that I had Corruption, Addiction , and Polymorph Defense, I could start burning as much metal as I wanted without the harsh side effects of becoming a Savant .

"So, did you finally decide on those options?" I asked once more to be sure, the four of us were sitting in one of the mansion's living rooms.

"We already decided that during the last month, yes, we are sure" Bellatrix rolled her eyes, something that I imitated in response.

I grabbed the phone and started choosing powers, really, both Lucius and Narcissa hadn't chosen anything fancy or powerful yet, as we had discussed, the Tattletale template for Lucius and the Nui Nui no mi for Narcissa.

[Lucius Malfoy has Tattletale/Lisa Wilbourn (Worm), Narcissa Black has Nui Nui no Mi (Devil Fruit)] -40 [224]

They both shuddered slightly, Lucius opened his eyes and began to look around, I could practically see his brain starting to work overtime for the amount of information he was now receiving.

"Okay, this… is too much information" Lucius said, turning slightly pale as he closed his eyes "I know we saw Worm, but you can't really appreciate how this ability works from the outside" he groaned before sighing slowly "I'm glad you didn't give me any more information" headaches and being able to turn it off at will, I can really see how unpleasant it can be to have it always on"

I snorted in amusement, yes, Lisa Wilbourn had become practically asexual from the avalanche of information she received from each person, there was nothing that killed any type of attraction more than knowing all the mental problems, personality problems, lack of hygiene and fetishes that a person can have even before meeting them.

"This is fun." My gaze shifted to the giggling Narcissa, she had a needle and thread in her fingers as she was sewing various metals together.

"Try using your magic, and several needles." I insists, I really wanted to see what was the limit she could achieve with her fruit, really, one needle may not really be dangerous, but hundreds of them, capable of cooking you to any surface or object? Yes, it was a problem.

Narcissa quickly pulled out her wand and cast a charm on the needle in her hand, with an amused smile she pointed it at me, the needle quickly stitched me back to my seat.

Okay, it was weird, I could feel the needle go through my body, but I didn't feel any pain or discomfort, just a sensation of my body being pierced , I shuddered slightly, I was actually able to ignore any defense or physical hardness.

Once Narcissa finished pinning me to the couch, I tried to break the threads by improving my physical strength… what the hell, even after pushing him quite a bit I couldn't break the sewing threads created by the fruit, the devil fruits were definitely broken.

"Okay, that's ridiculously hard." I admitted my loss against the thread, I got to the point where with my enhanced strength I heard the couch creak before the threads, really, I remembered seeing Leo sew warships, so I shouldn't be surprised that they were stupidly strong, Narcissa smiling undid the stitches releasing me " so well Bella, then, Alucard? " I asked already knowing the answer.

Over the past month we'd seen several types of regenerative immortality, all of them ridiculously strong, so the discussion finally settled on what other benefits the template provided.

There were several, like Ban from Seven Deadly Sin, UQ Holder immortals , or even the Ajin , but ultimately settled on pre-Schrodinger Alucard , he certainly had one of the better power sets, and while Schrodinger would give her better conceptual immortality, it negated the most important part of Alucard.

The ability to absorb souls, keep them as servants , learn everything from them or use them as familiars, Schrodinger and soul absorption would conflict and make the latter completely unusable if Bella did not want to disappear due to not having a sense of self.

"So, PowerSwap ? I'd spend almost 200 credits, but I'd have all the power directly from Alucard from the start." I explained to Bella while handling the phone.

"No, give it to me as a normal template." I stopped at Bellatrix's words and looked at her uncertainly.

"There's a huge difference between the newly purchased template and a peak Alucard." I said slowly as I warned her , Bellatrix just stared at me "You would have absolutely nothing, you would basically start out as a vampire Fledgling , you would have no stored souls, no familiars, nothing, only Alucard's equipment, his physical abilities and as I said being a Fledgling , sure?" I asked Bellatrix seriously and she nodded.

" Yes , but also give me the Blackbeard template from one piece " Now, that was an unusual combination, but I just nodded.

[Bellatrix Black has Alucard ( Hellsing ), Blackbeard/Marshall D. Teach (One Piece)] -60 [164]

Bellatrix shuddered slightly, her eyes turning red and her fangs growing, Bellatrix ran her tongue over them as she grimaced, she looked down at her hand as she opened and closed it, she smiled widely with a crazed grin before squeezing her hand shut. and hit the air.

The air fractured and everything began to shake, Bellatrix shuddered and almost hugged herself in pleasure.

"Okay! New rule! No earthquakes on the island! " I interrupted Bellatrix, she blinked a few times but the earthquake stopped, I could hear Narcissa and Lucius' sighs of relief.

Bellatrix's gaze turned to me, she lunged straight at me and sank her fangs into my neck, I moaned involuntarily, mistake, not just her fangs, apparently all of her teeth were really sharp, I began to shed gold immediately, damn vampire, wait, that wasn't an insult anymore!

I was thankful I bought Drain Defense, it protected me from all effects that drain vitality, mana, and soul, and it also ensured that any minion that fed on souls or life force through blood would get all the nutrition they needed from me or someone else on the minion without causing harm, even from fluid loss, but still, I had my mind turned to draining blood, blood that Bellatrix took in big gulps and it seemed like she wasn't going to let go of me anytime soon.

With Bellatrix straddling my lap as she sucked the blood from my neck, right on my jugular, I had to give her credit for her aim once again, I looked at the other pair as I gestured for them to back off, this would take a while , luckily for me they nodded and practically ran away from the scene.

I could feel my blood being sucked, practically ripped from me in large quantities, I also felt Bella begin to change, her transformation from Fledgling to Real Vampire was truly remarkable, she seemed to be losing her physical form because her body seemed to oscillate between her physical body and the Darkness she was now formed of.

I sat there for 15 minutes during which Bellatrix continued to drink my blood in large gulps as if she were completely thirsty, as if she had never drank water in her life and it was the first time she had tried it.

"You taste delicious." was the first thing Bellatrix said when she pulled away from my neck, I snorted playfully.

"Are you done?" I asked dryly, she nodded as she licked her lips of my blood.

"Yes, but now you will feed me every day." she demanded and I rolled my eyes.

"Of course I'll be your mobile blood bag." I snorted, she stared at me.

"Let's go to bed." She said without hesitation, I almost stuttered and looked at her in surprise, she stood up and gave me a suggestive look before turning around and walking away, I didn't know what had happened, but I practically jumped out of my seat and followed her.

Author's Note: I swear Enid wasn't planned, I actually rolled randomly for each tier (4, 5, and 6) and from those that came out I rolled randomly again, and she ended up coming out (the other two options were the incredibly Brain of Cthulhu from Terraria and Red Death from Httyd ), I was going to roll for the gacha again , but I decided to keep her for now for a few chapters, I'll see if she stays permanently, but I guess both Serena and Bellatrix needed some color? I guess with Serena's appearance being an Expy Nana Osaki , she needs a Nana Komatsu to balance her out... I'll see what comes of this.

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