Chapter 86
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The vampire walked out of the side room's door and was greeted by Dumbledore and Snape's' faces a few metres away from the room. He noticed that the headmaster was trying to say something to him but stopped himself.
They looked at each other and while doing so their eyes intersected. This allowed Dumbledore, a master legilimens to attempt to enter the vampire lord's mind. The key word was attempt, Kai being the student of Tom as well as a curious and smart being, had learnt both Occlumency and Legilimency and was skilled in its use.
While he didn't use the art all that much due to the fact that he found it annoying and useless when he could simply put someone through an illusion, he could still defend his mind when he needed to.
He had learnt the skills at the beginning of his time in the Harry Potter world when he was still weak in the magical aspect. Occlumency was a great skill that gave the user a near-photographic memory and better control over his emotions and magical control in general apart from his mental shields.
Dumbledore attacked Kai's mind, desperately needing to know what verdict had passed in the interview. He knew that the vampire wouldn't tell him and technically the headmaster was only eligible to know about the new staff ten days after their vote. But since the interviews were only happening now then he would only get the knowledge the day before the beginning of the school year.
Therefore he needed to desperately know if Kai got the job so he could alert Harry of the dangers and convince him that the vampire was a menace and a danger. That and he could formulate a plan on whether the Kai would join the school and how to either send him to Azkaban or if the need arises kill him.
There could be nobody that could stop the boy who lived or get in his way.
When the headmaster invaded Kai's mind he was surprised that there were no shields at all. Instead, all that was inside was an endless black void that spanned forever. Dumbledore tried to search for memories, thoughts, anything really. But all that he could find was the void, the infinite, dark and lonely void.
He didn't know how many times he had tried to find the memories hidden the void and look for the information he wanted. But to no avail there was nothing, Dumbledore had to relent and understood that he wouldn't be able to achieve anything today and tried to leave. He didn't know if he was moving, everything looked the same- pure darkness.
However, when he attempted to leave the void that was Kai's mindscape, he discovered that he could not find the exit. There was only the void if before there was an exit, there wasn't now. His entrance to the mind of Kai was lost, gone and Dumbledore had finally started to panic.
The elderly wizard had never been in this situation, whenever he tried to read a person's mind there were always walls and gaps that he could use to enter the memories and thoughts of the target. But here there wasn't such a thing as walls or exits. You could enter easily but leaving was the hard part.
He could stay there for as long as the owner of the mindscape wanted him to stay. The headmaster stayed inside for countless years floating the loneliness and vastness had driven the man to the brink of insanity. The long time in there caused him to go over his life's choices and his turning point the death of Ariana Dumbledore.
This caused him to slowly lose his mind, the long time spent in the void was slowly eating away his memories. He was forgetting who he was, the memory of Arriana was the one thing that was keeping him from forgetting everything. One more push would cause him to lose his sanity and go crazy.
Just as that moment approached Dumbledore found himself ejected from the vampire's mind. He was in shock as he had discovered that only a few seconds had passed and Kai was grinning at him. His grin appeared to Dumbledore that of a demon, sadistic and vile, a smile of a being that hunted and played with his prey.
It had left a mental scar in the man's mind and would cause him to use the following months heal from the ordeal. It had taught him that he shouldn't poke around other peoples minds as there are consequences.
Kai continued onwards and left the hall, his overcoat billowing behind him in a manner that was similar to Snape's. Once again highlighting how similar the potions master was to a true vampire.
**********
With Kai
The vampire once again enjoyed the victory that had come to him. He was happy that he had changed his defences in his occlumency. When he was in the car driving to London he had changed his mental shields.
Before they had been walls and barriers, things that could be defeated, broken and pierced. But during his time in the endless void, Kai had understood the concept and had made it so that the void would be his shield.
There wouldn't be any walls or shields as the infinite void itself was the shield. The attacker would stay in the void until the vampire lord wanted him to leave. Kai would be able to control the amount of time the attacker would stay in the mindscape.
In order to protect his memories, he decided to create a pocket dimension, a storage space of sorts. There he would put all of his identity inside, memories, thoughts, goals emotions... Such an action would cause the attacker to stay in the void without a hope of achieving his goal of reading Kai's mind.
He relished the moment and together with Bob he walked towards the Hogwarts bridge and let Bob grow his wings as he jumped off the bridge.
Bob grew to the size of a horse and Kai sat on his back as the vampires flew back towards the fake blood lord's residence. Kai had received the information with his magic watch, during his trip to Diagon Alley. The court would obviously have informants in the fake's forces. In fact from what Kai gathered from Bob, his second in command was a 6-star member that had gone undercover before the war.
**********
Back with Dumbledore
The headmaster was feeling terrible, his mind was scarred deeply but with Severus' help, he would be able to recover to a bearable degree. The potions master was a master level mind healer, almost all of the occlumens were mind healers as they had to have a great amount of knowledge of the mind in order to defend it.
Dumbledore would have done it himself if he could but as his mind was the one that needed healing he couldn't. He himself was also a powerful mind healer. This wasn't a well-known fact and only a few trusted members of the order of the Phoenix were aware of.
He estimated that the healing process would finish in a few months but his mind would be at an optimal level before the beginning of the school year. He was already known as a bit mad so a few more signs wouldn't make a difference.
But the important thing was to warn all members of the order about the new being that had entered the fray. The man was shown to be tremendously powerful in the mind arts so there was a chance that he had tried out to be the defence against the dark arts teacher.
He was dangerous and extremely hostile in his dealing with the headmaster. He walked towards the side room and entered. The board of governors were all getting ready to leave, some were packing up documents and others were filing their bags and others were doing other tasks.
The headmaster cleared his throat and waited for all the attention to be on him. Most of the members of the board had turned their heads towards him but Lucius Malfoy had continued to pack up his documents after casting a quick dry charm on the ink and put them inside his bag.
Once he finished he looked at the headmaster coldly. "I would just like to say that the man who just walked out was a dangerous and hostile being. I don't know what happened in this room but he is a risk to the school and its students. He can't be allowed to teach here."
Lucius replied to him "I'm sorry headmaster but we are equal to our votes and will not compromise our standing on the subject just because you say. We have our morals and will not bar entry to a suitable member of the populace due to another wizard's opinion."
He then strolled out of the room with all of the board following his lead.
'Stupid death eaters' the headmaster thought to himself. 'Even after their master's death, they can still cause many problems. I need to go tell the order right now, it appears that they have chosen the man for the position. He then headed for his office and flooed out, leaving poor Snape hanging not understanding what Dumbledore wanted.'
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The vampire walked out of the side room's door and was greeted by Dumbledore and Snape's' faces a few metres away from the room. He noticed that the headmaster was trying to say something to him but stopped himself.
They looked at each other and while doing so their eyes intersected. This allowed Dumbledore, a master legilimens to attempt to enter the vampire lord's mind. The key word was attempt, Kai being the student of Tom as well as a curious and smart being, had learnt both Occlumency and Legilimency and was skilled in its use.
While he didn't use the art all that much due to the fact that he found it annoying and useless when he could simply put someone through an illusion, he could still defend his mind when he needed to.
He had learnt the skills at the beginning of his time in the Harry Potter world when he was still weak in the magical aspect. Occlumency was a great skill that gave the user a near-photographic memory and better control over his emotions and magical control in general apart from his mental shields.
Dumbledore attacked Kai's mind, desperately needing to know what verdict had passed in the interview. He knew that the vampire wouldn't tell him and technically the headmaster was only eligible to know about the new staff ten days after their vote. But since the interviews were only happening now then he would only get the knowledge the day before the beginning of the school year.
Therefore he needed to desperately know if Kai got the job so he could alert Harry of the dangers and convince him that the vampire was a menace and a danger. That and he could formulate a plan on whether the Kai would join the school and how to either send him to Azkaban or if the need arises kill him.
There could be nobody that could stop the boy who lived or get in his way.
When the headmaster invaded Kai's mind he was surprised that there were no shields at all. Instead, all that was inside was an endless black void that spanned forever. Dumbledore tried to search for memories, thoughts, anything really. But all that he could find was the void, the infinite, dark and lonely void.
He didn't know how many times he had tried to find the memories hidden the void and look for the information he wanted. But to no avail there was nothing, Dumbledore had to relent and understood that he wouldn't be able to achieve anything today and tried to leave. He didn't know if he was moving, everything looked the same- pure darkness.
However, when he attempted to leave the void that was Kai's mindscape, he discovered that he could not find the exit. There was only the void if before there was an exit, there wasn't now. His entrance to the mind of Kai was lost, gone and Dumbledore had finally started to panic.
The elderly wizard had never been in this situation, whenever he tried to read a person's mind there were always walls and gaps that he could use to enter the memories and thoughts of the target. But here there wasn't such a thing as walls or exits. You could enter easily but leaving was the hard part.
He could stay there for as long as the owner of the mindscape wanted him to stay. The headmaster stayed inside for countless years floating the loneliness and vastness had driven the man to the brink of insanity. The long time in there caused him to go over his life's choices and his turning point the death of Ariana Dumbledore.
This caused him to slowly lose his mind, the long time spent in the void was slowly eating away his memories. He was forgetting who he was, the memory of Arriana was the one thing that was keeping him from forgetting everything. One more push would cause him to lose his sanity and go crazy.
Just as that moment approached Dumbledore found himself ejected from the vampire's mind. He was in shock as he had discovered that only a few seconds had passed and Kai was grinning at him. His grin appeared to Dumbledore that of a demon, sadistic and vile, a smile of a being that hunted and played with his prey.
It had left a mental scar in the man's mind and would cause him to use the following months heal from the ordeal. It had taught him that he shouldn't poke around other peoples minds as there are consequences.
Kai continued onwards and left the hall, his overcoat billowing behind him in a manner that was similar to Snape's. Once again highlighting how similar the potions master was to a true vampire.
**********
With Kai
The vampire once again enjoyed the victory that had come to him. He was happy that he had changed his defences in his occlumency. When he was in the car driving to London he had changed his mental shields.
Before they had been walls and barriers, things that could be defeated, broken and pierced. But during his time in the endless void, Kai had understood the concept and had made it so that the void would be his shield.
There wouldn't be any walls or shields as the infinite void itself was the shield. The attacker would stay in the void until the vampire lord wanted him to leave. Kai would be able to control the amount of time the attacker would stay in the mindscape.
In order to protect his memories, he decided to create a pocket dimension, a storage space of sorts. There he would put all of his identity inside, memories, thoughts, goals emotions... Such an action would cause the attacker to stay in the void without a hope of achieving his goal of reading Kai's mind.
He relished the moment and together with Bob he walked towards the Hogwarts bridge and let Bob grow his wings as he jumped off the bridge.
Bob grew to the size of a horse and Kai sat on his back as the vampires flew back towards the fake blood lord's residence. Kai had received the information with his magic watch, during his trip to Diagon Alley. The court would obviously have informants in the fake's forces. In fact from what Kai gathered from Bob, his second in command was a 6-star member that had gone undercover before the war.
**********
Back with Dumbledore
The headmaster was feeling terrible, his mind was scarred deeply but with Severus' help, he would be able to recover to a bearable degree. The potions master was a master level mind healer, almost all of the occlumens were mind healers as they had to have a great amount of knowledge of the mind in order to defend it.
Dumbledore would have done it himself if he could but as his mind was the one that needed healing he couldn't. He himself was also a powerful mind healer. This wasn't a well-known fact and only a few trusted members of the order of the Phoenix were aware of.
He estimated that the healing process would finish in a few months but his mind would be at an optimal level before the beginning of the school year. He was already known as a bit mad so a few more signs wouldn't make a difference.
But the important thing was to warn all members of the order about the new being that had entered the fray. The man was shown to be tremendously powerful in the mind arts so there was a chance that he had tried out to be the defence against the dark arts teacher.
He was dangerous and extremely hostile in his dealing with the headmaster. He walked towards the side room and entered. The board of governors were all getting ready to leave, some were packing up documents and others were filing their bags and others were doing other tasks.
The headmaster cleared his throat and waited for all the attention to be on him. Most of the members of the board had turned their heads towards him but Lucius Malfoy had continued to pack up his documents after casting a quick dry charm on the ink and put them inside his bag.
Once he finished he looked at the headmaster coldly. "I would just like to say that the man who just walked out was a dangerous and hostile being. I don't know what happened in this room but he is a risk to the school and its students. He can't be allowed to teach here."
Lucius replied to him "I'm sorry headmaster but we are equal to our votes and will not compromise our standing on the subject just because you say. We have our morals and will not bar entry to a suitable member of the populace due to another wizard's opinion."
He then strolled out of the room with all of the board following his lead.
'Stupid death eaters' the headmaster thought to himself. 'Even after their master's death, they can still cause many problems. I need to go tell the order right now, it appears that they have chosen the man for the position. He then headed for his office and flooed out, leaving poor Snape hanging not understanding what Dumbledore wanted.'
The vampire walked out of the side room's door and was greeted by Dumbledore and Snape's' faces a few metres away from the room. He noticed that the headmaster was trying to say something to him but stopped himself.They looked at each other and while doing so their eyes intersected. This allowed Dumbledore, a master legilimens to attempt to enter the vampire lord's mind. The key word was attempt, Kai being the student of Tom as well as a curious and smart being, had learnt both Occlumency and Legilimency and was skilled in its use.While he didn't use the art all that much due to the fact that he found it annoying and useless when he could simply put someone through an illusion, he could still defend his mind when he needed to.He had learnt the skills at the beginning of his time in the Harry Potter world when he was still weak in the magical aspect. Occlumency was a great skill that gave the user a near-photographic memory and better control over his emotions and magical control in general apart from his mental shields.Dumbledore attacked Kai's mind, desperately needing to know what verdict had passed in the interview. He knew that the vampire wouldn't tell him and technically the headmaster was only eligible to know about the new staff ten days after their vote. But since the interviews were only happening now then he would only get the knowledge the day before the beginning of the school year.Therefore he needed to desperately know if Kai got the job so he could alert Harry of the dangers and convince him that the vampire was a menace and a danger. That and he could formulate a plan on whether the Kai would join the school and how to either send him to Azkaban or if the need arises kill him.There could be nobody that could stop the boy who lived or get in his way.When the headmaster invaded Kai's mind he was surprised that there were no shields at all. Instead, all that was inside was an endless black void that spanned forever. Dumbledore tried to search for memories, thoughts, anything really. But all that he could find was the void, the infinite, dark and lonely void.He didn't know how many times he had tried to find the memories hidden the void and look for the information he wanted. But to no avail there was nothing, Dumbledore had to relent and understood that he wouldn't be able to achieve anything today and tried to leave. He didn't know if he was moving, everything looked the same- pure darkness.However, when he attempted to leave the void that was Kai's mindscape, he discovered that he could not find the exit. There was only the void if before there was an exit, there wasn't now. His entrance to the mind of Kai was lost, gone and Dumbledore had finally started to panic.The elderly wizard had never been in this situation, whenever he tried to read a person's mind there were always walls and gaps that he could use to enter the memories and thoughts of the target. But here there wasn't such a thing as walls or exits. You could enter easily but leaving was the hard part.He could stay there for as long as the owner of the mindscape wanted him to stay. The headmaster stayed inside for countless years floating the loneliness and vastness had driven the man to the brink of insanity. The long time in there caused him to go over his life's choices and his turning point the death of Ariana Dumbledore.This caused him to slowly lose his mind, the long time spent in the void was slowly eating away his memories. He was forgetting who he was, the memory of Arriana was the one thing that was keeping him from forgetting everything. One more push would cause him to lose his sanity and go crazy.Just as that moment approached Dumbledore found himself ejected from the vampire's mind. He was in shock as he had discovered that only a few seconds had passed and Kai was grinning at him. His grin appeared to Dumbledore that of a demon, sadistic and vile, a smile of a being that hunted and played with his prey.It had left a mental scar in the man's mind and would cause him to use the following months heal from the ordeal. It had taught him that he shouldn't poke around other peoples minds as there are consequences.Kai continued onwards and left the hall, his overcoat billowing behind him in a manner that was similar to Snape's. Once again highlighting how similar the potions master was to a true vampire.**********With KaiThe vampire once again enjoyed the victory that had come to him. He was happy that he had changed his defences in his occlumency. When he was in the car driving to London he had changed his mental shields.Before they had been walls and barriers, things that could be defeated, broken and pierced. But during his time in the endless void, Kai had understood the concept and had made it so that the void would be his shield.There wouldn't be any walls or shields as the infinite void itself was the shield. The attacker would stay in the void until the vampire lord wanted him to leave. Kai would be able to control the amount of time the attacker would stay in the mindscape.In order to protect his memories, he decided to create a pocket dimension, a storage space of sorts. There he would put all of his identity inside, memories, thoughts, goals emotions... Such an action would cause the attacker to stay in the void without a hope of achieving his goal of reading Kai's mind.He relished the moment and together with Bob he walked towards the Hogwarts bridge and let Bob grow his wings as he jumped off the bridge.Bob grew to the size of a horse and Kai sat on his back as the vampires flew back towards the fake blood lord's residence. Kai had received the information with his magic watch, during his trip to Diagon Alley. The court would obviously have informants in the fake's forces. In fact from what Kai gathered from Bob, his second in command was a 6-star member that had gone undercover before the war.**********Back with DumbledoreThe headmaster was feeling terrible, his mind was scarred deeply but with Severus' help, he would be able to recover to a bearable degree. The potions master was a master level mind healer, almost all of the occlumens were mind healers as they had to have a great amount of knowledge of the mind in order to defend it.Dumbledore would have done it himself if he could but as his mind was the one that needed healing he couldn't. He himself was also a powerful mind healer. This wasn't a well-known fact and only a few trusted members of the order of the Phoenix were aware of.He estimated that the healing process would finish in a few months but his mind would be at an optimal level before the beginning of the school year. He was already known as a bit mad so a few more signs wouldn't make a difference.But the important thing was to warn all members of the order about the new being that had entered the fray. The man was shown to be tremendously powerful in the mind arts so there was a chance that he had tried out to be the defence against the dark arts teacher.He was dangerous and extremely hostile in his dealing with the headmaster. He walked towards the side room and entered. The board of governors were all getting ready to leave, some were packing up documents and others were filing their bags and others were doing other tasks.The headmaster cleared his throat and waited for all the attention to be on him. Most of the members of the board had turned their heads towards him but Lucius Malfoy had continued to pack up his documents after casting a quick dry charm on the ink and put them inside his bag.Once he finished he looked at the headmaster coldly. "I would just like to say that the man who just walked out was a dangerous and hostile being. I don't know what happened in this room but he is a risk to the school and its students. He can't be allowed to teach here."Lucius replied to him "I'm sorry headmaster but we are equal to our votes and will not compromise our standing on the subject just because you say. We have our morals and will not bar entry to a suitable member of the populace due to another wizard's opinion."He then strolled out of the room with all of the board following his lead.'Stupid death eaters' the headmaster thought to himself. 'Even after their master's death, they can still cause many problems. I need to go tell the order right now, it appears that they have chosen the man for the position. He then headed for his office and flooed out, leaving poor Snape hanging not understanding what Dumbledore wanted.'
