Now that he had made an Unbreakable Vow with Sirius Black, Cyrus walked toward the basement of the tower, his body aching with exhaustion.
He had expended so much of his powers evading Auror's relentless pursuit over the past few days.
"Now, we just wait..."
He had to rest, to regain his strength. They would not think to search for him in this forsaken place. unbuckling his buttons, Cyrus closed his eyes.
He replayed the past events in his mind - the moment he had awakened to find himself inexplicably in Tom Riddle's diary. The old wizard had pursued him relentlessly, intent on eliminating this unexpected variable in his plans.
A sudden noise made Cyrus's eyes snap open, hand reaching for his wand.
Cyrus's hand reached for his wand, but his fingers grasped at empty air. He suddenly recalled the wand to his hand without wasting a second but a golden light ingulfed him and now he wasn't able to move.
Making himself calm he turned and found himself staring into the piercing blue eyes of a man with a long white beard— Albus Dumbledore!
A strange expression on his face that Cyrus could not quite decipher.
"Found you," the old wizard intoned.
Before he could react, Dumbledore's wand was pointing on his face, and a blinding flash of light seared Cyrus's vision.
Darkness enveloped him, and Cyrus felt himself floating, untethered. As his eyes slowly adjusted, a transparent blue panel materialized before him, the words "You Died" emblazoned upon it in stark lettering.
Cyrus stared at the panel in disbelief, his mind reeling.
"No, this can't be the end," he whispered, his voice echoing in the void around him.
After a while, he calmed himself, "Haah, so revealing my system to him was a bad move, huh?"
Yes, he realized that the Old Bee was very powerful to go against and was very fearful after finding out about his system, that man was willing to let Riddle like in Azkaban but the overthinking of him in the wrong direction made him desperate to eliminate Cyrus.
When he was thinking about that, the system panel changed and new words popped up in front of his eyes.
[The new skill: Diary Entry (Only works when you die) is taking effect in 5... 4... 3...]
Cyrus remembered getting this gift after successfully making his new body and resurrecting.
[..2... 1... 0]
Suddenly a white light made him go blind. He felt pain like his whole body was on fire... and he lost consciousness..
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'Ugh.. what was all that...'
After some time, he could once again feel his body...
Cyrus slowly opened his eyes, his vision blurry as he tried to make sense of his surroundings. The familiar feeling of magical bindings constricting his limbs told him he was no longer in the void, but back in the physical world.
As his eyes finally focused, he found himself staring into Dumbledore's face.
"Ah, Tom, know when to surrender. Don't worry I will not kill you, there are more satisfactory methods to punish someone without killing."
Cyrus squinted his eyes, those were the words, the exact same words, he had heard from the mouth of this old bee.
"Changing yourself a name will not change your situation. "
It was a feeling of Dejavú.
He took a deep breath, looked at the room with a destroyed roof, and his body restricted in the chains from Dumbledore's wand.
This was like a memory- or rather, some point in the past.
Everything was the same as a month ago after he ran from Hogwarts and fought Dumbledore. The same moment just before he dropped the occlumency shields of his mind and convinced Dumbledore to look at his origins.
It was not a memory, not a remembrance of some point in time!
He had really come to the past! He had regressed 1 month before from his original time!
He ignored Dumbledore and secretly glanced at the new pop-up.
[Skill- Diary Entry has been successfully used! (Cooldown time- unknown)]
Cyrus sighed in his heart and from the looks of it, it seemed that he had just started to tell Dumbledore about him and he had just told him to refer to him as Cyrus and the old bee was blabbering about changing names and whatnot.
This time he doesn't intend to undo his occlumency barriers and tell this oldie about his system. He doesn't want to fight this supreme powerful wizard, he has seen that he is not his opponent, not now at least.
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"Changing yourself a name will not change your situation. "
Dumbledore said expressionlessly. He looked at the two objects in his hand at the moment, and it was obvious that from that Traces of magic were detected in the crown.
Although the diary also has magical power in it, it does not seem to be a Horcrux. There is no soul of Voldemort in it. It is more like an ordinary pensieve with no other dangers.
"It seems that you relied on this thing to resurrect? The crown has been missing for nearly a thousand years... I guess the relics of the other two founders were also made into Horcruxes by you, right?"
He stood up and looked at the crown that had shown signs of time. It was almost impossible to repair this thing. He planned to destroy the crown later. As for the diary, he didn't intend to leave it to Cyrus.
This time Cyrus didn't do anything to make him believe that he wasn't from this world. Maybe his previous attempt had given Dumbledore a shock and forced him to use unorthodox methods to eliminate this huge variable?
"Soon, the Aurors will arrive and you will be escorted to Azkaban, but don't worry, none of us will kill you. I admit that just taking your life will not satisfy me. There are more ways to destroy someone."
He waved his wand, trapping Cyrus tightly, took the wand away from his hand, then picked up the Marauder's Map and took a look at it, then looked quietly at the sky. The flames had burned the shack completely, and now the moonlight was above their heads.
Cyrus doesn't know when the cool-down of that skill will end, he doesn't want to endanger his life. This time he simply enjoyed the moonlight with Dumbledore. He literally died but he also lived and ate for a whole month in his own body, so even if he was free for only such a short amount of time, it was very precious to Cyrus.
The weather is very clear today, but the moon is missing a large piece and is not a full moon. Even if it is, Cyrus is not a Saiyan and cannot transform into a gorilla during the full moon...
But... maybe not necessarily, it just takes a little time.
Cyrus pursed his lips.
Dumbledore stood for a while and found that the man on the Marauder's Map had left the office and disappeared in a deserted place. He knew immediately that he had taken action, and now he could return to normal time to fill the void of the moment he disappeared.
"It's time to go, Tom."
Cyrus said nothing and allowed Dumbledore to use magic to lead him away.
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The same thing happened inside the headmaster's office like before.
The Weasleys were worrying for their child, then Harry and Ron with a crying Ginny entered.
to be continued...
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