Mirror and World Domination
I watched as the face appeared. It was like a stern mask you would see in carnivals that covered your entire face. It was probably white with black details that only looked green because of the green fire-like stuff that illuminated the inside of the mirror. I wonder if the mouth moves if it talked.
“Hello, Sir. Mirror of Darkness. I have some words for you, so nice of you to finally show your face.” I said in faux-politeness.
“I did not call thy here, tho have not been chosen by, I, the Mirror of Darkness. Please leave at once. I have no words for you.” The Mirror of Darkness said as the face started to fade away.
My smile became innocent, channeling my Innocent Nate as my posture became more regal, Josie drilled that into me. She told me the more regal I looked, the worse the other person would look.
“Ah. Did I say you could leave?” I asked, making my colors pull the mirror’s colors even harder.
“Ahhhh!” The mirror screamed in pain but I didn’t register it.
I glanced at Jay, the most sensitive of my boys, but he looked disinterested. In fact, he looked a bit gleeful. I guess not even Jay could forgive the mirror for taking them away and separating them.
“Now. Mirror. You will listen to me, alright?” I asked, not even giving it an illusion that it had a choice in the matter.
I dropped the polite prefix of Sir. The Mirror didn’t deserve it if it was planning on leaving mid-conversation.
“What have tho done to me?” The Mirror asked as it gasped for air, did magic mirrors even need air…?
“You have stolen my boys away from me, and separated them into different places on top of that. Taking them away from me alone is a crime worthy of death, you just added to your sentence. I want you to promise me that you will never touch any of mine again, else I’ll make your punishment even more painful.”
I offered him two choices magnanimously. Either make the promise and take his punishment as is or refuse and get an even more painful punishment. Some might argue it wasn’t much of a choice but I think it was a very nice choice. I was already being generous.
“I have a duty to bring all those I deem fit to come to this school.”
I cut it off, “I didn’t ask for your reasoning. I asked for a promise. Else…”
I gave its magic a hard tug.
“I can’t-”
I pulled even harder, “I will break you if you don’t promise.”
“I am not breakable-”
Harder.
“Gah! I… I promise.” The Mirror of Darkness muttered.
“What do you promise?”
“I… I, the Mirror of Darkness, promise to tho that I shall never touch what belongs to Lady Guinevere Lysandra Weasley, the heir of the Ancient House of Weasley.” The Mirror of Darkness pledged.
I smiled sweetly, feeling like a cat that caught the canary, “Perfect. Now… one thing before I go…”
My smile disappeared and got replaced by the coldest expression I have ever made and had my magic strangle the mirror’s magic. It had the unexpected side-effect of creaking the glass of the mirror.
“Gah! How?! Ahhhh!” The Mirror of Darkness cried out in pain.
Oops.
Well.
I’ll just pretend I meant to do that.
“If you dare take more of my people, those who came from where I came from, I will make sure to shatter you.” I said with an ice-cold smile, “Just like I am now, I will keep this up until you shatter completely, understood?”
“I understand! I understand! Stop!” The Mirror of Darkness cried out in pain.
I stopped my magic from strangling it and fixed the mirror with Reparo before turning back to my boys.
“I’ll be taking the Headmaster’s Office. Don’t interrupt.” I said as I walked past the still floating people, throwing their Magic Pens onto the floor.
My boys followed me as I walked out of the room, the students watching us parted like the red sea. Once we were all out of the room, I released my spells and let the people drop to the floor.
Time for some quality time with my boys.
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Azul fell to the floor with a thud. He could vaguely hear and feel Jade and Floyd rushing towards him.
“Azul… are you alright?” Jade asked, his voice was surprisingly concerned.
Azul took a shaky breath and stretched his human body. It felt weird to be able to move again, there were a few parts of him that were still stiff but it wasn’t as bad as he thought it would be when he was released.
If he was released…
“Azul-junior - ah… no Wilkers was scary.” Floyd said in a serious voice, things must’ve rattled Floyd a lot for him to be like this.
Azul rubbed his face while he thought back to when Wilkers had his face in his hands as that monster smiled down at him. It was an evil grin that was full of teeth as he talked about how insulted he was to be called his junior. As much as it killed him when Wilkers called him a pathetic octopus who has no one, Azul was honestly too struck with fear to truly register anything Wilkers said.
Though, if Azul was being honest, he’d rather be a pathetic octopus than have anything to do with that creature in human skin. At least Lady Weasley was human enough, Wilkers had something demented in him.
How he justified being better than him did confuse him, now that he had some time to think about it. How does Lady Weasley’s acknowledgment of him make him better than any of them here?
“Ne, ne, Azul, now that Irukandji (Author note: Irukandji means Box Jellyfish, one of the most dangerous things in the sea) is away, what do we do now?” Floyd asked.
Azul looked around the Mirror Chamber. What used to be a place filled with feelings of wonder and reverence, was now a place filled with feelings of hopelessness and dread. It was unsettling, to say the least.
Atmosphere aside, there were other things to observe. The door was blasted wide open, Azul doubts any part of the old door could be salvaged. Not even the wood and metal of the door could be repurposed. Normally, Azul would be jumping at the chance to strike a deal with the Headmaster about the door but… even he knew that right now wasn’t the right time for something like that.
The other Dorm Heads were surrounded by their closest aides. Clover and Diamond were with Riddle, trying to calm him down. Though, for the first time, it wasn’t from rage but from horror. Bucchi and Howl were hovering around Leona, though it seemed like Bucchi’s face was a bit flustered so Leona was probably fine. Kalim was being body-checked and almost force-fed potions by Viper while Malleus was getting a practically identical treatment from Vanrouge, Zigvolt, and Silver.
Just with more yelling.
“Master! I am sorry I was useless!” Zigvolt cried out, almost ruining the solemn atmosphere, for once, Azul wishes he would ruin the atmosphere, “I will go and avenge your honor at once!”
“No. If I was unable to do anything and got myself captured while working together with the other Dorm Heads and the Headmaster, what hope do you have for winning against that human girl?” Malleus asked.
Zigvolt stilled and sunk to the floor without a second word, scaring the already scared students. Zigvolt was never silent.
Azul looked at the mirror. The Mirror of Darkness, one of the most powerful relics in the world, was rumored to have belonged to one of the Greats. It was tortured by Lady Weasley into submission.
Azul didn’t know you could torture a relic! How did she even do that?! She was just staring at it!
“This situation… doesn’t look good. Has anyone contacted any army?” Azul asked Jade.
“No. all communications have fried. There is a chance that Idia could do something but for now, we can only wait.” Jade said.
Azul sighed and looked at the sullen faces of the people around them.
The situation really doesn’t look good.
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My face was red as I laid face-down on one of the couches of the Headmaster’s office, refusing to lift my head.
“Lyssie! Lyssie!”
“Burn down this world for us, Lys? I can help! It would be fun raining Ten’s death potions from the sky as I ride my broom as I did during the war!”
“Lyssie, I suggest once again to take over this world, it would be fun!”
“Ferme ta gueule, Nate!”
This was the thanks I get for coming all this way to get my boys?
“Thank you for coming, Lys.”
Jay, the sweetheart, is the only reason I came for these idiots. All of them could just stay here, I’ll just take Jay back with me.
That’s a lie but I was very tempted to turn it into the truth.
No, I would never.
“Jay, I love you. The rest of you, go to fucking hell.”
“Language, Lyssie. For someone so refined a few moments ago, you’re cursing like a sailor,” Nate tutted.
“Shut up, Nate.” I muttered, finally sitting up straight.
“Yeah, shut up, Nate.” Dietrich parroted.
Even after all these years, Dietrich still never failed to get a jab in at Nate. At least I can trust that.
“So, how do you feel about this place?” I asked, “I wasn’t lying that I would burn this world for you, if you don’t like this school, I’ll burn it down. Though, we should get the students and anything important out first.”
“I think you should take over this world. I’m sure we can finish it within a month and rule it for five months until we leave for school.” Nate said.
“... Ten?” I asked, knowing Dietrich would (usually, as long as it wasn’t dangerous for me or he couldn’t follow) just do whatever I wanted to do.
“Did she just ignore me?”
“Everyone ignores you.”
“Dietrich, what have I ever done to you?”
“You do not want me to answer that.”
“I don’t like the people here!” Ten answered honestly, “Even with Dietrich’s okay to get even, they don’t learn!”
“Right, anyone else?”
“Take over the world.”
“Jay?”
“I was given you my most sincere opinion, Lyssie! Don’t ignore me!”
“As long as the students aren’t too badly harmed, burning the school should be fine.” Jay said before putting on an innocent smile, “Though, I’m sure you could just leave the mirror in the room!”
… Nate, what have you done to my sweetheart Jay?
“Word domination.”
“Lu?”
“I don’t care, I just want to be the one who throws the destructive potions and help burn it down! The destruction would be bloody brilliant!” Lu exclaimed with an excited cheer, “Though, I’d want to keep the Quittdich pit, or whatever it’s called here.”
“Okay. That’s everyone-”
“World. Domination.”
“- so, we will burn the school down.” I nodded as I stood up, “Okay, Dietrich-”
“Attention! Attention! We have you surrounded! Come out and no one will get hurt! You have the right to remain silent! If you do not come out on your own, we will have to get you by force!” A voice boomed.
Ten looked confused and I’m sure my expression mirrored his.
“I thought communications fried when we use magic?” I asked.
“It does, however, I think Idia Shroud, the Dorm Head of Ignihyde did something, he was the only Dorm Head whom you haven’t captured. Though, that was probably because he practically never leaves his dorm room.” Nate explained, pushing his glasses up, “It seems that was an oversight on our part. We should have gone and tied up loose ends before we decided to relax.”
“There’s a little robot called Ortho, he is his own person so…” Jay said, uncertainly.
“We’ll try our best to keep our magic from damaging him.” I promised Jay.
An AI, that’s so cool.
“Okay, let’s go out and-”
The wall crashed and robots rushed towards us. I flared my magic on impulse and the robots froze and started yelling. I guess the robots were just ironman-like suits. They fell to the grown and went silent.
“... I didn’t plan for that to happen.” I admitted after everyone stared at me with their version of a dumbfounded expression.
Then Nate started laughing, “You are truly a Dark Witch, Lyssie! You leave a trail of destruction everywhere you go!”
That. Little. Git.
“Shut up, I didn’t plan for this!” I panicked, “Dietrich, Jay, Nate, help me get these guys out! Lu, Ten, when we get them out, use Incarcerous.”
“Okay!”
Now, we have five prisoners in the corner of the room who were unconscious. I looked up and sighed.
“Okay, let’s go out and-”
More robots flooded in.
They were taken care of in short order.
“Damn it, can I just-”
More robots.
“May I suggest, world domination? If you take over the world, this won’t happen because you would be in charge of all the troops in the world, including these robotic ones!” Nate said as he pitched the idea of World Domination to me like a salesperson would pitch a new product to a prospective buyer.
More robots.
“And they won’t even bother you ever again!”
More robots.
“You will even have the power to burn down the place that creates their annoying armor!”
More robots.
“And-”
“Fuck it! Yes, Nate, yes! World Domination, why the fucking hell not?!” I agreed in a fit of frustration.
I stopped to compose myself and turned to take back my statement but was met with Nate’s face. Specifically, Nate’s face, which looked so blissfully happy. His eyes even seemed to be sparking.
I… I can’t take it back now, can I?
I looked around and no one seemed to be saying no. Not even Dietrich, he just looked thoughtful as he started talking to Jay about how to conquer this world with the least amount of casualties and to stay ethical in the takeover.
Ten and Lu were arguing about who got the first place they would blow up in the quest of world domination.
I can’t take it back, damn it.
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Sirius blinked and stared at Lys. They were standing in the middle of their shared mindscape with Lys petting Vena.
“Run that by me one more time.” Sirius said slowly for the third time.
Lys looked irritated, “I said I was going to be late because I have a world to conquer. Nate suckered me into it.”
Sirius blinked before double-over laughing. He could breathe! He knew, he knew that Lys do something drastic if it came to her boys and his bet was something along the lines of someone talking about their DE names which would drive her into taking over the Ministry but this? Sirius wasn’t even surprised, this was absolutely something Lys would do. It doesn’t make it any less hilarious though.
“Git.” Lys muttered as she kicked him in the shin.
“Ouch. Ha, but Lys, you have to know that this is amazing, right?” Sirius laughed, a few tears flowing down his face.
“Shut up.” Lys huffed, “I’m just telling you to tell everyone I won’t be back until a week before school starts. I’ll also be going back every weekend and summer for a while because Dietrich and Jay initiated that if I was going to do this, I had to do this right. I’ll fix the portal to change the time differences between our two worlds but…”
Sirius just nodded as he let Lys rant about statistics and stuff. If he tried, he could understand it but he didn’t want to.
Well, it seems like Arthur knew what was up when he named his kid, Guinevere Lysandra Weasley was going to be an actual queen. The Queen of the World. Sirius knew she could handle it.
Though, he wondered who he should be sorry for. The world Lys was about to take over or Dietrich and Jay, both of whom would most likely end up being the ones who would rein their group in from going too far.
… at least it wasn’t the world he was living in now. Plausible deniability had always had a special place in his heart but it has never seemed so beautiful as it did now.
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I leaned back, legs crossed on my throne. I blame Nate for this. It was all his fault. The evil git wanted to be as dramatic as possible. We didn’t need to make duplicates of existing castles, merge them into one castle, and style it like this! Well, at least it doesn’t look like a mix-match of different styles…
Nate, I forget to specify that he was an evil dramatic git, even designed our clothing! We didn’t need any of these too-fancy clothing! Right now, my boys were just in really fancy suits but I was in a floor-length black and red dress with ruffles and ribbons. It didn’t look tacky but it was too fancy.
I ignore the fact that Jay was the one who did all the real designing while Nate only gave suggestions.
As if I was going to blame Jay for this when Nate was right there.
Dietrich would approve of this thought process so I was in the right.
“Fuck you, Nate.” I muttered under my breath.
Nate just smiled innocently. I sent a Stinging Hex his way before I sighed and looked up at the ceiling.
“Damn it, it’s only the sixth day I came to this world!” I yelled.
My boys laughed.
“Yeah! And we already took over the world!” Ten nodded happily.
“That’s not what I meant, Ten.” I sighed but I couldn’t get mad at Ten, he was too pure for that.
I distracted myself by thinking about the lovely rune work Jay and I did while the others were preparing for today. We modified it so that, when we go back, the time difference would change from one week in our world equalling to one month in this world, to one day in our world would equal to one minute in this world.
Just so we could rule over this world properly since there are many innocent people here who deserve a good ruler.
When we’re here, the time difference would be one day here equaling to one minute in our own world.
Though, no matter what, we will age according to our own world, that was one thing I didn’t compromise on.
“Look on the bright side Regina, this is excellent training for when you become the next Minister of Magic.” Nate smirked.
“I’m not becoming the next Minister of Magic, Nate. And stop calling me Regina.”
“But Lys,” Lu spoke up, “it’s your title now.”
“... what?”
“Nate sent out the invitations and they all said that the people who gather shall only refer to you as Regina.” Lu explained, taking out an invitation, “It even explains what it means and everything.”
I read it over, wandlessly stunned Nate, transfigured the invitation into a stone, and chucked it at Nate.
“Ouch! Lyssie, that hurts!”
“You deserve it.” I said dryly before turning to Dietrich, “Go over the guest list one more time.”
“The Royal families of all the countries, leaders of the few democratic countries, some high profile rich families, some high profile nobles, the Headmaster of Night Raven College, the Headmaster of Royal Sword Academy, and a few press companies.” Dietrich summarized before going in-depth for all of them.
I nodded, closed my eyes, and took a breath. In one solid motion, I went from a relaxed friend into my Regina persona.
After a few moments, I felt the guest room fill up. We didn’t have any servants yet, we were just using Magical Golems as servants.
“They’re all here.” I said in an apathetic tone.
My boys’ posture shifted as well. No matter how much I see them transform, I still can’t get over how much they feel like me. They shifted into steel-spined stances, feet set apart loosely in order to step into a dueling stance at a moment, faces not going quite cold or blank (save Dietrich) but relaxed and stiff to make them hard to read or predict. In their own ways, of course, because Ten always had the hint of a smile, and Nate’s eyes were always sharp and searching.
The doors opened and the enchanted snake we (most likely Jay at the request of Nate) put up there started announcing everyone.
One by one, the people came in and kneeled down before me.
“We greet the Regina of Twisted Wonderland, Guinevere Lysandra Weasley.” They all said at once.
I took a breath, leaned back, and smirked, “Rise.”
There’s so much to do and so little time to do it. Well, now that I was responsible for this world, I might as well do this right.
“Dietrich, let’s begin.”
Time to see what I’m working with.
The people here are now (forcefully) under my rule so I need to treat them well. What's best for me and mine, and what's fair for everyone else after all.