From hell to Grimmauld
7 AM (25/06/1996)
A sudden bright golden light flashs in a room at 12 Grimauld Place whose door has a message plastered on the door stating - "Do not enter without the express permission of Regulus Arcturus Black".
There on the dirty ,rusty and once empty bed lays a teenage wizard about 6'1'" tall . slender figure with aristocratic features, high cheek bones , straight nose, chin length inky black curly hairs and soft mercurial eyes.
Regulus groans and opens his eyes grogily, feeling as if he is awakened from a deep slumber after sleeping through a century. He sits up and looks around his surrounding, trying to figure out where he is and finds he is siting in a very dusty and old version of his room at Grimauld. It is as if looking through unclean glasses,though the place was the same as he has left the last time for his personal mission to give The Dark monster his last fuck you, even his reading glasses are perched at the same angle on his desk where he placed them.
Confusion swirls in his mind. Was he in some kind of purgatory? Was his room and home, if you can call it that, his personal hell? Would mother be here serving as his personal satan, along with The snake face. But both of them are alive while he Regulus is dead. For the first time he feels gratitude that both his mother and snaky lord are alive thus cannot torture him from the other side.
His stomach gives a rumble. Weird. Do people feel hungry after there death?
He decides to go out of the room to figure out what is going on and to get food for his newly dead body.
He notices that the whole house is dirty and rusty looking and not at all shiny and gaudy and extravagent as he remembers it to be. His mother would be appalled to see the place of her fathers to look like this.
He reaches the landing on the ground floor and makes his way to the kithcen to search something to eat.
His heart gives a lurch at what he sees. There sits a house elf who looks eerily similar to Kreacher but somehow more aged, wearing dirty rags and muttering something about revenge for breaking his mistresses's heart and about how kreacher is loyal to house of Black.
"Kkkkreacher....?? what are you doing here???? ". What has happened, he remembers very clearly that he had asked Kreacher to leave and destroy the soul piece of Lord Macdevil. Why is Kreacher dead then?
The elf's bloodshot eyes bulges at the sight in front of him, he blinks a couple of times but the person is still there.
"Young mmmasterr Regulus?" The elf croaks. Not believing what is happening.
"Kreacher did you not follow my order to return to Grimmauld Place? How did you die?" Asks the teenager, looking misty eyed towards his old friend.
"Kreacher tried young master. But nothing destroys the locket, master...." The elf wails, hugging the legs of his favourite master. "Kreacher punishes himself daily for not fulfilling the last order of his master. But Kreacher does not understand how young master is alive after so many years, no he does not understands".
Alive after so many years? what does he mean by alive, He was 100% sure he has died in that wonderful lake and the locket is still not destroyed, does this means lord bully is still alive?
Regulus tries to listen and understand what kreacher is saying but suddenly he catches glimpse of a mirror on the opposite wall and what he sees in it shocks him, he looks behind him to see if there was anyone else whose reflection he has caught on the mirror, but no one was there. He touches his cheeks, checks his hands and body parts and once again looks in the mirror , its him but in body of his 15/16 year old self.
He stumbles backwards into a chair which fells on the floor. Then there is a shriek at the end of the hallway "...... blood traitors, muddbloods, halfbreeds, dirtying the house of my forefathers...............", he sees a portrait of his mother with her skin saggy and sallow, voice more shrilly than he remembers and features still as haughty as ever.
To say he is confused will be a massive understatement, what is going on ?
He has to find out and soon.
He takes a deep breath and orders. " Kreacher tell me everything that happened after you left the cave" in a shaky voice.