Chapter Seventeen: Farting Frogs

My life at Hogwarts continued fairly normal after I performed the sex-ritual with my two paramours. When the hot night was over, I teleported them to Jessica's apartment and we separated after sharing long, passionate kisses. Despite the short amount of time we spend together, our relationship was already crazy intimate.

We entered the next level after performing the ritual, primarily because we suddenly could communicate telepathically with each other. That wasn't mentioned in Magia Sexualis, but adding my entire stockpile of Soul Essence to the mix seemed to have rewarded us with pleasant surprises. It was a risky move, and costly, but I wanted the ritual to be as powerful as possible.

Besides being able to communicate with my girls telepathically, we could also feel each other's emotions, state of mind, and presence – no matter how far away, it seems. That didn't just make our sex bloody awesome but was quite useful for a teleporter guy like me for obvious reasons.

Aside from that, the superpower that Jessica developed after we finished the ritual was quite impressive. She gained all the physical benefits that the perfected Extremis Virus offered, which raised her overall fighting potential to an entirely new level. Her physical strength increased to absurd dimensions. Hitting her also felt like punching a wall of solid steel.

However, Jessica didn't get the Exothermic Manipulation ability that allowed her to heat up her body, or breathe fire, but instead a new and pretty impressive set of skills.

To begin with her favorite, she gained an ability that she proudly named Violent Outburst. Activating it would make her body erupt with waves of super-hot pinkish fire, causing damage intense searing damage the closer you are to her.

Next, she could summon tiny pink fireballs that caused small, but extremely violent and highly destructive explosions when they hit something.

Furthermore, her feet could also burst with a fierce jet of fire that allowed her to increase her flying to supersonic speeds.

And lastly, she could make her hair burn like pink fire, and turn her eyes into two glowing pink orbs to make herself look quite exotic.

Jessica's benefits were quite impressive, indeed. Her physical abilities, especially her strength, were now dwarfing mine and I definitely had to use my entire arsenal of abilities if I wanted to compete with her in a fight. The fact that she was my lover now made me quite smug. Having a powerful girlfriend like her that I can call at my side to bully my enemies was quite an awesome advantage.

And as for Felicia, my platinum-blond kitty enjoyed all the benefits that I gained from the perfected Extremism Virus. She was officially an enhanced human now, one with a criminally attractive body that made me salivate like a starving dog every time I saw her seductive nakedness.

My mind was still delirious from all the bountiful sex I had on Sunday and the following evenings. Because we required no sleep, my girls and I would meet every evening and have some fun to celebrate our new lives. Since we could communicate through our telepathic link, meeting up was fairly easy.

But I made sure to don't neglect my studies during the day and basically continued to have a 'normal' school life as if nothing unusual happened during my nights.

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Time flew by in a blur and one week became two. My studies progressed fairly nicely and I finally managed to develop my 'thermo-vision' spell after researching various detection and revealing charms. I combined my amassed knowledge and eventually figured a spell out that enchanted my eyes and allowed me to detect the thermal signatures of living beings.

During that time, I learned that some snakes had such an ability as part of their natural skill-set, but it seems that the basilisk wasn't one of these snakes, unfortunately.

Anyway, the incantation of my new spell was Visignis – basically the Latin words vision and fire combined – the latter because the spell should concentrate on the 'fire of life' that filled the bodies of living beings.

It worked pretty well, and right now, I was wandering through the halls of Hogwarts while using said spell. Paulina was keeping me company, offering herself as my research partner so we can explore the uses of my new spell together.

"Captain Barbossa, let's hope we catch some couple doing forbidden things in a broom closet or abandoned classroom," I muttered, grinning like an idiot. "We could blackmail them into giving us their lunch money."

*slap*

"Prat," Paulina huffed after exercising violence on the back of my head.

However, just I was about to open my mouth again, I spotted exactly that what I was looking for during the last hour. My thermo vision showed me two human shapes hugging each other tightly and had their faces basically glued together.

"Look!" I whispered with a grin, pointing towards the juicy scene.

Paulina followed my finger and gasped with wide eyes. "They are having sex!"

"Nah, they are just snogging," I corrected her with a chuckle.

"Look again!" she pressed, blushing fiercely.

Frowning, I turned to the pair again and observed them more closely. My brows shot up when I noticed that the larger, bulkier shape was thrusting the hip area up. They were indeed having sex.

My face split with a devilish grin. "What do you say, Captain? Wouldn't it be a real shame if someone were to report them to Filch? After all, what they are doing is against the school rules!"

"That's really mean, Johnny," Paulina argued before dragging me away to prevent me from stalking the pair. "Don't you boys have an honor code or something?"

I nodded with a shrug. "Yeah, but only between bros."

"Boys are so stupid." Paulina shook her head with a sigh and dragged me further away from the laboring couple.

We continued to explore the caste with my thermo-vision spell and eventually stumbled across a house elf that was cleaning the floor. The little creature was invisible but it noticed that it was observed by two students, so it turned visible to greet us.

"Why students see Zippy?" the confused house-elf asked us in a squeaky voice.

It looked fairly similar to Dobby from the movies. It was small, barely reaching my hip, and had long, spindly feet and arms, an oversized head with large eyes and bat-like ears. Its skin was slightly greenish, completely hairless, and a bit leathery. Covering it was a brown piece of rag shaped like a tunic.

"It's spell that allows us to see the thermal signature of living beings," I replied to the little creature.

The elf nodded back in understanding. "Zippy can continue work?"

"Yes, Zippy, don't let us bother you," Paulina replied with a smile. "We are just exploring the castle."

"Hoggywarts is greatest castle!" Zippy squeaked with big eyes and a crazy smile before popping away.

"Oh, how I wish I could teleport like the house-elves do," Paulina moaned with envy in her tone. "That must be so cool!"

"Yeah," I agreed with an amused chuckle. "Imagine all the places you can visit. People that can teleport must be really awesome."

While discussing the benefits of teleportation, we traveled into the Middle Courtyard and passed several students. It was a very spacious place with a large stone fountain in the middle, some trees here and there, some bushes, flowers, and several benches for students to sit on and enjoy the outside. It was one of the top areas where students of Hogwarts socialized.

Dysnomia was also present along with her two dogs Warrington and Bletchley. She was sharing two benches that were placed across from each other with a bunch of other Slytherins, mostly from the younger years. Naturally, her hawk-like eyes noticed my arrival.

"Muggle," she sneered in an insulting tone to get my attention. "You can't possibly be that smart if you still don't remember the customs you have to follow in the presence of your betters. What will it takes for you to learn it, hmm?"

Bletchley hissed at me, looking like a fool. Warrington just grunted while inhaling as much air as possible to make himself bigger – his animagus transformation might be a pufferfish. All the other Slytherins snickered after hearing her words.

"Correct me if I am wrong, but did you all just challenge me to another duel?" I inquired with a predatory grin. "We can totally do that."

Several grins dropped before the faces belonging to them turned away a little too quickly. Warrington deflated like a balloon stung by a needle. Dysnomia fumed silently.

"Enjoy your little victory, Vegaz," the blonde missy spat. "You will realize it very soon why everyone fears us Slytherins."

"Mudblood," Bletchley hissed, causing Paulina to gasp in horror.

"Just a word that the powerless use to feel better about themselves," I scoffed at the goblin-like boy. "You may call the tiger a stupid animal, but it will shred you into pieces regardless of what you think."

Yeah, my words were a bit over-the-top but they delivered the message. Bletchley paled a bit and turned to Dysnomia for support. She ignored the plight of her minion and forced herself to turn away before starting an awkward conversation with her perplexed neighbor, acting as if the chat between us never happened.

Seeing that our little chat was over, I walked away with Paulina next to me.

"Johnny, do you really have to 'establish your dominance' every time we come across these meanies?" my female friend asked with a frustrated grown. "Fighting with bullies only results into more fighting."

"To be honest, I do it because it amuses me," I replied with a carefree smile. "Messing with people is one of my big passions. What do you say, Paulina, are you willing to start a prankster career with me?"

"Pranks?" she repeated with narrowed eyes.

"Just from time to time," I explained with a shrug. "It's also a great way to improve our creative thinking. I heard that the Weasley Twins plan to be pranksters, but they act more like bullies and target specific individuals that they dislike for one reason or another. Their pranks are also quite malicious since they use dungbombs, which is a ball of literal shit enchanted to cover the entire body of the victim it hits."

"They used that last week on one of the first years from Slytherin," Paulina noted with a nod, wrinkling her nose in disgust. "It smelled horrible, and the boy even started to cry. I really felt sad for him."

"Well, we won't make any little boys cry," I chuckled with a shake of my head. "What I am thinking about is to animate your origami animals. You could create a bunch of frogs. We can animate them and then put the Roaring Fart spell on them so that they fart every time they jump around. That's a nice prank! Nobody gets harmed and it's funny."

Paulina grinned actually. "We can do that."

My smile grew larger and we quickly made our way back to the Ravenclaw Common Room. There was always enough paper lying around, and coloring it green wasn't that hard with the right spell. Animation spells were also fairly simple. You only required the right image in your mind, the proper intent, and enough magical power depending on what you wanted to animate.

"But you are going to help me fold the origami frogs," Paulina demanded while we climbed the stairs of the Ravenclaw Tower.

"Sure," I replied with a nod. "But you need to teach me how to do it."

"Naturally," she replied with a little blush, looking excited.

Summoning large, fiery snakes was nice and awesome, but plotting a little prank made me vibrate with excitement for some reason. Truly, the smal things in life are usually the most enjoyable.

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Creating a thousand members strong battalion of origami frogs wasn't easy. Paulina and I worked hard on our project for a few hours a day since my fellow prankster only accepted perfect elite frogs. Aside from that, nothing noteworthy happened and my days continued as usual.

My personal magical studies still continued in the meantime, and I started to get a fairly good grasp over Occlumency, boosting my quick-think and memorizing abilities. The complicated magic of Ravenclaw's Diadem was still a mystery to me despite owning large amounts of info on it. Devouring the essence of the diadem's magic didn't grant me an ability, but a large pile of knowledge that was honestly too advanced for me to understand right now.

I mean, I couldn't even find the proper words to explain the stuff to myself.

Nevertheless, I did manage to comprehend some little bits of it. My grasp over the Mind Arts advanced by a satisfying level, and since my fire passively protected my mind from any unwanted intrusion, I focused solely on creating myself a powerful mindscape that allowed me to simulate spells in my mind.

To put it simply, I wanted to construct a super-realistic daydreaming technique that allowed me to cast spells inside my mind. Everything felt quite satisfying so far, and I was confident that I could soon experiment even with highly dangerous spells inside my head until I succeeded in shaping the perfect design. The practical tests would follow after that.

For someone like me with lots of magical power at my disposal, a mental simulator would be the perfect tool. Time flowed differently inside your mind and I would be able to perform multiple simulations at once, and combine, fuse, redesign, and improve several spells simultaneously until I found the perfect magical symphony.

To harness the full power of magic, one needed a strong, creative, and ambitious mind with a likewise ambitious idea. Unite the knowledge in your possession, use your experience, recall your practice, and then beat up the hell out of what people call 'reality' and the 'laws of nature' until you give birth to a reality-warping abomination commonly known as a spell.

That was my apex of ambition: Creation.

Using magic to create spells, magical objects, and maybe even life at some point in time when I was powerful enough. I wanted my own magical empire solely filled with things and beings that were born from my mind and magic.

It was ironic because I was the so-called Lord of the Devouring Flame. The true owner of my power was a being firmly aligned with the aspect of destruction. But that didn't discourage me at all. Destruction and Creation were two sides of one coin, after all.

Indeed, I would devour and create something new, using the essence of the stuff I devoured as material for my creations.

But first, I had to become powerful enough to be able to hunt that magical warthog and to be able to travel the Forbidden Forest safely.

Furthermore, Harvesting Nymphadora Tonks' blood became a top priority. I recently became aware of the fact that I needed a really good disguise if I wanted to poach protected magical creatures. Killing some especially rare specimen like the Re'em was worth a death sentence. The magical communities that all the beasts on my list belonged to were fiercely protected.

But I still had to finish my current project before I could go and stalk Miss Tonks, spying on her until she was in a vulnerable position.

"Johnny, I am going to slap you if you are going to space out again," Paulina warned me with an angry glare. She then grabbed another one of our origami frogs and cast a coloring charm on it that made the paper animal look a bit more lifelike.

Blinking my eyes in confusion, I nodded at her with a sheepish smile and then grabbed a bunch of white paper frogs before mimicking Paulina's actions. We still had at least a hundred frogs to paint. The animation charms would follow after that, and then some other charms to make them more resistant against general damage, humidity, and so on. We even found a charm that would make our frogs slimy to the tough, but my Roaring Fast spell would cherry on the top.

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While visiting Jessica and Felicia during the night for some sexy time or to travel distant parts of the world and fool around, I invested the daytime of the last couple of days into the pranking project Paulina and I were enthusiastically working on.

After we finished enchanting all the frogs, I secretly took them down to the Chamber of Secrets to let them soak with the abundant magic of that place, increasing the strength of their enchantments.

The following day, Paulina and I initiated step two of our project and began to distribute and hide them in the surrounding area outside the school. At the same time, we also put a Freezing Charm on them that would wear off after 24 to 72 hours, timed to awaken a certain set of frogs every hour.

The moment the origami frogs awakened from their magical slumber, they would propel themselves with loud farting sounds into a small leap.

To grant the frogs a sense of orientation, I cast a modified Protean Charm on them that was connected with Knut that I secretly hid below the High Table of the professors. That would ensure the frogs knew in which direction they had to fart towards.

In the span of three days, the Great Hall and the professor's table would become the target of a small army of farting frogs.

Paulina and I baptized our prank with the codename 'The Plague of Hogwarts.'

After we hid the last frog, we returned to Hogwarts with satisfied and slightly devilish grins covering our faces. Tomorrow would be the first day of our self-made plague.

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