33 Breakthrough and Nagini's resolve

"Avada Kedavra" mutter Amis while pointing his index finger at Kenneth.

Kenneth shivered thinking about the previous killing curse, but his soul mouth twitched when he saw the one Amis casted this time. The "killing curse" that Amis casted was the same size of a firefly. The green speck of sand like killing curse travelled towards Kenneth, wobbling in the air as though it would fall apart in a moment because there was nearly zero force behind it.

The moment the curse touched him, Kenneth subconsciously fell into his knees. He could not even open his mouth to scream. His entire soul was in pain, a thin outline of a green fire could be seen around his soul.

*Craaack*

*Urrrggg*

Kenneth grunted as crack seared through his leg, his soul nearly losing a piece of it self. After what seemed like a life time passed, the magic died down. He couldn't help but wonder if this is what Voldemort went through when ever he split his soul. While he was trying to calm down his nerves, Kenneth heard Amis chuckled and explain, "Of course, even though the magic was intended to strengthen the soul, it is also very useful for killing due to the spell not leaving behind any "clues". Since the spell causes so much pain, with time, people who use it to strengthen the soul became less and less. While people using it to kill multiplied."

While he listened, he observed the his soul. The crack that had formed on his upper leg healed at a visible pace while all the souls that seem to make up his entire soul faded and become a bit more merged. When the pain completely subsided, Kenneth heard Amis say, "The goal is to get you use to this intensity, then you will be able to do it your self. So brace your self."

With that another speck of the green curse floated towards him.

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Albania - Experimental Cave

While being heavy hearted and dazed, Nagini found her self unintentionally in front of the place where her and Jase's story began. She looked at the cave and took a deep breath.

"It really is funny how things can seem so different depending on who looks at it. To Jase, this place is a place of nightmare, torture, loss and pain. To me, this place is a place of sweet dream, a bliss, a new beginning and happiness." She thought to her self while she made her way in, since she was here she might as well try cleaning up the place with wandless magic.

"But why is he still hiding things from me? what should I do more to get him to open up completely?" she frustratedly thought to her self. Nagini was not a little girl lost in the emotion of love, she knew all relationships need work, still as much as she understood that it was still a difficult feeling to swallow.

As always, she automatically got into a happy mode as soon as she entered the cave. It was only after a little while she noticed a unfamiliar object on top of the bed. Nagini frowned as she went on alert because she knew the only other people who should know of this place other than her and Jason are the death eaters.

Just for precaution she drew her wand and muttered, "revelio". She picked up the letter and opened when she saw that there was no changes to it. The letter was not address to anyone nor sealed.

it read:

Dear Kenneth,

If you are reading this, please don't panic. Thanks to the incident with the sporting club I got to know through Crabbe Srn and Syndes of what happened to you that night. I do not care about what you have become, you are my nephew and I hope that you know that I am on your side.

I can hide you until we are able to reverse the side affects done by the experiment. Do not get me wrong. You are not a Monster, you are my nephew, someone I dearly miss. I also want revenge on the dark lord for everything he has done to us. You need to come home Kenneth. Please come home.

Your loving Aunt,

Amelia Bones

Nagini's breath was erratic when she finished reading, few things started to click while even more things was confusing.

"Amelia Bones... K.B.... Kenneth Bones? but his surname is Webb or did he lie to be about that too? But I never heard about the Bones living outside magical Britain. WAIT... " Nagini stopped her thought while he dove into her mind scape. She scanned her memories until she saw her self reading a news paper with moving pictures long time ago and the news paper read.

"THE DARK LORD STRIKES AGAIN

Last night the Dark Lord has decided to get rid of another magical family. This time it was not just a random family, but a Family that has been in the for front in the war against him. The Bones Family. The only surviving members of the assault is a baby girl called Susan Bone. Amelia Bones who was working late night at the ministry also escaped You-Know-Who's wrath....."

Nagini skimmed through until she found what he was looking for...

"The victims of the terrible night starts with Edgar Bone, His wife Joanna Bones, their two kids Cynthia Bones (5yo) and Kenneth Bones (1 mo)..."

Nagini memory froze on the spot, Kenneth Bones, 1 month old....

"I met him 7 years and 7 months ago, so Kenneth is a Kid?" Nagini nearly fainted thinking about her being married to a 7 year old. After calming down from her panic attack. she started thinking again. "No, wait. If Jason is Kenneth Bone, a baby who was tortured and somehow turned into the current Jason, he never had a chance to learn anything. But he conversed like a normal person when we met, he knew where Albania, France and magical Britain was. Urgg, this is making less and less sense the more I think about it!"

After a while, she stop thinking because no matter how much she analyzed, it was going no where. She simply did not have enough information.

She sighed, "Jace, just who are you?"

In a daze, she stared at the letter after making up her mind. Nagini folded the letter and put it back on the bed. She then erased the traces of her cleaning the place and left the cave. The more she thought of the situation, the more confused she got, so she decided to play dumb until Jason told her the truth himself.

However, before she left, she put a detection charm on the entrance. she couldn't just let anyone stumble onto the letter.

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West Enfield - Centaur's camp - underground tunnel

Amis watched Kenneth while his soul lip twitched a bit. "I thought he would take more that a week to get use to it, but he is already can endure the pain after couple of hours. Is it because he already experienced torture?"

Kenneth's soul was floating on mid air with his eyes closed and a deep frown, protected by Amis's magic to stop it from dissipating. His entire soul was glazed with green fire which from time to time flare out with added intensity. From time to time Kenneth grunted when his soul started develop hairline cracks, but with in minutes magic in the surrounding magic seeped into his soul, healing the crack.

Through his soul eye he could see and his soul that was like a jigsaw puzzle slowly started to melt into one. When the magic finally stopped, he opened his eyes and asked Amis, "if magic can heal the soul, why doe Voldemort's soul did not heal it self"

Amis explain with a smile, "When you cast a killing curse a bit of it seeps into the casters body too, Horcrux are made by using that tiny bit of the curse to split the soul. The problem is, if part of the soul was destroyed or even left inside the body, the soul would heal. Unfortunately, even when broken into parts, the fragments of the soul is connected to the main soul, so when the fragmented soul is stored in an external object, the main soul would never heal."

As realization dawned on Kenneth, Amis continues, "It really is a pity, Tom Riddle has an exceptionally a strong soul. Even more so a strong will. That is why he is able to split his soul so many times and has such strong magic. He had so much time, it was not like he was old. He was young and he could already match that Dumbledore. If he continued to research about magic longer, he would definitely be stronger and magical Britain would be a very different place today. Alas, he is too afraid of death."

With that both of them fell into a silence, after a moment, Kenneth asked, "so what now?"

"Now you leave this place. I wont teach you anything until your soul is completely whole. It will depend on how intensive you use the soul enhancing spell a.k.a the killing curse" with that Amis waved his soul had and Kenneth soul flew back into his body. It took few minutes for Kenneth to reorient him self, but he was too glad to be in his fleshly body.

"You can tell that Centaur about me, but if he really wants to come in and learn from me. He needs to turned using the... err.. what was it called these days... right.. the Maledictus curse and then be healed by you and bonded to you though a magical contract. Yes I mean that morning star symbol on your forehead. Only then he will be able to step in here."

Kenneth then knew that the bloodlines Amis talked about may very well be the blood lines related to seven special souls inside him and that all this was somehow connected to the symbol on his forehead.

"Before you leave, I guess I should give you a gift, no?" said Amis while his soul glowed for a moment. The magic in the air got excited and started to condense around Kenneth. Slowly the magic in the immediate surrounding Kenneth got compressed into a green color before it got absorbed by him. Kenneth nearly salivated with the comfortable feeling of being surrounded by higher grade of magic.

*BooM*

After the expansion and contraction of his core for the 100th times, he finally broke through to the green staged core. The green colored magic spread through out his body, it was not only his body that rejoiced as though it was being fed with honey. All the souls inside his mind scape also shouted with joy. Kenneth's mind felt sharper he could solve things that clouded his mind before more easily, his body felt more stronger, alive and more energetic as though it could run around magical Britain a thousand times.

Before he could test his new strength or ask Amis about how he was able to compress magic like that, Amis waved his hand and Kenneth found him self at the entrance of the barrier.

Kenneth stared at the barrier for a good minute and then closed his eyes and entered his mind scape. In his soul body he muttered to him self, "depending on the intensity and how often I use the curse huh?"

He got one of his secondary core units to cast the killing curse at his soul, he constantly channeled the curse, starting from low intensity to higher, stopping only when the pain did not bother normal functioning of his body. Then he commanded his SPU to constantly channel the curse 24/7 and only to stop when he decided to stop.

Amis who was watching Kenneth laughed and said, "smart boy."

Kenneth opened his eye, looked at the barrier without visible emotion then turned around to leave. He took a couple of steps and he stopped, now that he was outside he was able to somewhat feel the emotions of Nagini and the Greengrass Sisters again. The emotions of the twin sisters was of joy, while Nagini was feeling confused and hurt.

Kenneth frowned, confusion was okay, we all feel confused when faced with something unexpected but hurt was not. He focused on the location where Nagini was and tapped his foot. The spatial rune appeared below and he disappeared from the spot.

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A/N: Nagini is a pretty awesome women. I am looking forward to her future development, magically and personality wise.