Hermione was worried, actually worried doesn't even begin to cover it. Her best friend has gone missing and the problem is she doesn't know what to do about it. It's already been 2 hours and bill still hasn't arrived. Ron is wearing the grass thin by pacing constantly, occasionally hexing the bound and gagged death eaters, repeatedly. Neville still hasn't managed to contact her. Luna was staring into space. Atleast Rolf and Hannah are doing something productive. Hannah was documenting all the runes used and the geometry of their placements, and Rolf was using 'Apare Vestigium' where the attackers were hidden to trace their steps. She just hoped that whatever she managed to prepare in the bag will be able to help Hazel. The necklace was certainly helping protect Teddy, even if she's not a runes mistress yet, but damn is she good or what to be able to make that thing. She prays that Teddy and Hazel are alright. 'What is taking George so long? Ah...there they are. What is He doing here? Malfoy is the last person that should be informed of our problem. Imma deck the person who brought him here. Ron's definitely gonna blow his top. Aaaand there he goes...'

Ron-"What are you doing here ferret boy? This is for friends and family only."

Draco-" I'm not happy about it either weasel-face. I was in Gringotts office looking into a breach in my manor wards with your brother, when this one barged in yelling about Potter going missing. I had to obliviate a secretary quickly to prevent any rumors from going around."

Hermione-" That still doesn't explain why you are here Malfoy."

Draco-" Because I might know of the runes they used, there was a chunk of our family grimoire gone missing around the time father was sent to Azkaban. I've only read it once, but I think I saw an array about summoning a daemon or sending one away. Plus we Malfoys always repay our debts. It wouldn't do for a Malfoy to be under a life debt from a Potter."

Ron-" Why you ungrateful bloody wanker, she not only saved your life, but she also kept you out of prison. All you can say about her going missing is that a Malfoy shouldn't be under a debt of a Potter? Who cares about that? Isn't Teddy your cousin as well ?"

Draco-"And pray tell why should I care about Potter really? It's not like we are friends you know, we are mere neutral acquaintances. And Mrs. Tonks was disowned by the Blacks, so I legally share no connections to Teddy Lupin."

Hermione- "Still a git as always, I see. What do you mean by a daemon?"

Draco-" Exactly what it is said. The ritual could banish or summon a daemon of varying power. But the Mc Nair and Lestrange grimoires are missing in whole too. So I can't be sure about it."

Ron-" But if the ritual from your book was used , then does that mean Teddy categorizes as a daemon?"

Rolf-" I don't think so. Teddy is not that, he's half werewolf so he'll go into the creature category."

Ron-"But he's totally unique. He's half werewolf and half meta."

Rolf-" No he's not. There was a similar case 300 years ago."

George-" But then that would mean Haze is a daemon!"

Malfoy-" Don't be ridiculous Weasley. The array could be modified for a witch. Besides we don't know for sure what was used. I only speculated that the ritual could be the one coz she was teleported away like banished and some other evidences point towards it."

At this string of conversation Ron & Hermione shared a slightly panicked glance that nobody other than Luna noticed. There was only one thing going on in their mind, ' Does being the master of death turn her into a daemon? But there's no special power associated with the new title as far as we know. Did the constitution of her magic change too. But we didn't notice anything. This is not good, not good at all.'

Hannah- "But why do you suspect it to be a ritual from your grimoire specifically?"

Draco-"Father had always suspected Mulciber to be behind the missing pages. And Avery was spotted by aurors on their tail at Orencik, Turkey around Beltane before giving them the slip. One of the section in the ritual requires a red spider lily picked on that night and sprinkled with soil from Gobekli Tepe. A dark mark was left on the sky of Pompei and something that looked like an Augurey, the ritual also includes a white chrysanthemum buried in the volcanic ash there for a week. Any other queries?"

Hermione-" But the ash won't even be there, it's all sediments already."

Draco-" The sediments also count as ash, they'll still have the residual power of Vesuvius in them."

Luna-"Did you know that mount Vesuvius was made to dance by Zaccaria Innocenti in 79AD? I guess it didn't like being forced to dance." All of them slowly turned to look at Luna incredulously except Rolf.

Rolf-" It's true. Vesuvius erupted because of a 'tarantallegra' jinx."

Bill-" Enough. If you children are done with your horseplay, I'd like to analyze the runes before it's contaminated by the ambient magic, or Hazel's trace is gone. Out of my way. Rolf, Mione and Luna, stand by my side for further instructions. Malfoy, with me , and read them without touching anything please. After I read the physical evidence you'll all give me accounts of your places and the spells used."

"Then you shouldn't have taken 2 hours to arrive." Hermione grumbled under her breath but made to follow him.

Hannah- "Here are the notes me and Granger made."

"Thanks miss Abbott. "

George-" Any luck in contacting her?"

Neville-" Not yet. I'm trying, but it's like the mirror has forgotten her or something."

"What in Merlin's name is that supposed to mean?"

"Well you see, this mirror contacts it's partner anywhere in the world, you can even leave messages in it. But to do that , you have to know who holds the mirror or at least the general area it's in like the continent. So even if she's in a continent I don't think of right now, I still know it's with her, so I should be able to contact her but for some reason I can't."

"Did she leave it at home ?"

Ron-"No, she's been carrying the mirror since we went on the run in her mokeskin pouch."

"Keep trying."

"Yeah"

George-"What else does she carry in her pouch?"

Ginny-"She has some emergency medication for Teddy, a bottle of Felix Felicis, her invisibility cloak, the mirror, the marauders' manual for mayhem, a bezoar, also a weird box I don't know what for."

George-"Wait , she found the manual! Sirius told me that has instructions on how to recreate the map. Hey Fre..."

With that the four of them became even more depressed with Hannah placing a comforting hand on Ginny. Losing Fred wasn't just losing one friend/brother, they lost George too at the same time. He rarely ever smiles anymore, that too only when he's near Teddy or Victoire. And after he's called out Fred's name like that once, he won't be speaking a word to anybody for a while, then suddenly he'll be back to joking and teasing with a smirk, but never a smile, not anymore.

All of them them became busy for the next 6 hours either analyzing the runes, fretting or hexing the teeth out of Avery and Mulciber. At long last Bill called everyone to huddle. Then he explained that it was not a banishing but teleport circle, specially modified for her with a fixed destination. Whoever did this modification from the Malfoy-grimoire has a good grasp of arithmancy, runes, and magical signatures. The array was carved into an alloy-disc of Hihi'rokane and cold iron which they threw at her feet to be powered by her own magic. What really confused him was there was a section in it to cryogenically preserve the person inside along with their magic, why he couldn't fathom. But the real problem was the section dictating the destination was cracked, so there was no way of deducing where she ended up. Although the internal magic locking was cracked too, so that was something at least, she wasn't totally defenseless. another good thing was that, because of the stasis effect , they couldn't use any particular dark spells or any of the nastier ones. He had read all he could from the site. Now all that remains is interrogating the prisoners and the others present.

Bill-" What the... Will someone please enable them to speak? You guys have hexed them beyond recognition. Now it's gonna take them at least half hour to get to talking state. The goblins will be arriving in the morning, and I've asked Hagrid to bring Firenze with him too. "

Hermione then goes on to lift some of the hexes, jinxes placed on the two death eaters. Bill starts asking around questions till they wake up.

Bill-" Alright Ron, walk me through whatever you saw."

Ron-" She just picked Teddy up and moved inside the Demiguise fence, that's when she stilled like she does before an attack, even Teddy quieted down. Then the runes came alive and her clothes started being covered in frost. At this point I was dueling to notice much but I remember 4 curses slipped past our shields. I recognise two being 'bombarda' and 'diffindo', I don't remember the other two."

Hannah-"The other two were 'flagrante' and 'glacius'."

Hermione-"That's not all. They chucked a vial of some green flame like thing and everything came on fire. The Demiguise was acting odd too. It dragge..."

Rolf-"She"

Hermione-" She dragged a Diricrawl near the fire and prompted it..."

Rolf-"Her"

Hermione-"HER... to enter the fire. The bird did so and popped away a moment later. While all this was happening, I threw a protective charm necklace that I was working on onto Teddy, which deflected the curse hitting him. When several runes cracked and the glow started surrounding them I panicked and tried to run to her, but I tripped over something, so instead I threw a bag prepared for emergencies on her. Then she vanished through the floor."

Bill-"Hmm...That is rather odd. Alright you guys, you all should go home and rest. It's already so late, and I have to inform Kingsley about this too. I'll take these two to be dropped at DMLE office and be interrogated."

Ron-"No way. We are not moving from this place till we get some answers from these two."

"Look at the time Ron, it's so late in the evening"

"Just try to make me move one inch from here. Don't you care about Hazel?"

"You think I don't care about her? She's as dear to me as Ginny. But I have to look out for you guys too. Who knows what these two were planning or how many were involved. What if someone is lurking around? Huh? It's not safe here, especially for you and Hermione. So please listen to me Ronald."

"I will go home as soon as we get answers from them, please Billy. Otherwise I won't be able to rest properly."

"Fine...fine. Let's wait till they wake up. Till then Hermione, tell me the details about this charmed necklace you have managed to make."

Hermione-"It was only an experiment that I was working on in my spare time, but I am glad it was able to help."

With that they all waited for the two incapacitated death eaters to wake up and Hermione and Bill got to discussing the necklace. He was pretty impressed with her work. This was a pretty impressive use of arithmancy. Not a single space was wasted. Then he went on to explain how fortunate it was that the runes array on the ground didn't interfere with it negatively, otherwise there could have been a disaster at hand by means of a cascade break-down. All of them would have been instantly vaporized. And it was really reckless of her to try to run into an already cracking up runes array. She looked sheepish at that but argued back that it was Hazel and Teddy's safety at stake, Bill had no answer to that. He probably would have done something similar too. As Ron was too stubborn to move to safety, he set out to send a letter and borrow an owl from the Scamander house, on the way...

"You okay , Georgia?"

"Yeah Billiards, I'm fine. Find our girl soon, will ya?"

"Get some rest, don't worry."

"How can I, when another one may be lost forever?" He quietly muttered after Bill left.

While the letter was being sent and everybody waited for the aurors to arrive and the prisoners to wake, Neville kept on trying to contact Hazel with no result. The death eaters came to just as Bill was coming back, so he took over the questioning, lest the kids do something rash. Around early dawn Kingsley arrived with two unspeakables and Mr. Weaseley. They got to discuss and document the statements and waited for the goblins and Hagrid. Mrs. Weaseley and Fleur arrived with food for everybody along with baby Victoire. Mr. and Mrs. Weaseley sat there worried for their daughter in all but blood and consoled the other kids. Hagrid and Firenze arrived via a Portkey first, then a goblin named Grimlock. They immediately set out to study the runes and residual magical signatures.

Grimlock-" There's a bit of Phoenix magi-residue here."

Bill-"Her wand core is Phoenix feather."

Firenze-"Mars and Pluto are leading Mercury and Venus, while Jupiter and Saturn lurk in the background. Mercury is unnaturally bright yet Venus is closer."

Luna-"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.[AN-by Anna Freud.]"

Kingsley-"What are you talking about miss Lovegood?"

Luna-"Love comes from the most unexpected places. [AN-by Barbra Streisand]"

Kingsley-"What does love have to do with anything?"

Luna-"Love is a very powerful entity."

Bill-"Don't you mean emotion?"

Luna-"That too."

Firenze-"The skies are dominated by Pluto and Mercury the most. But Mars influences Venus."

Luna-" I was hoping she'd have an easier time, but trials make us stronger I guess."

"?" Everybody except Firenze and Rolf tilted their heads like a confused pack of dogs, even Grimlock.

Rolf- "It's better to just roll with it mate, you may be able to understand it later. That's what I've learned to do. She has this unique way with words that make sense later down the road when you least expect it."

Draco-" Yes, yes lover boy, we get it. You're whipped."

Kingsley-" Mr. Malfoy's presence here is a little confusing for me. Care to explain?"

Draco-" A ritual from my family's Grimmoire was stolen and used in this Minister, that's why I'm here, to identify it properly."

Kingsley-"Hmm... Well that's fine I suppose unless you are in on it. William, what have you gotten out of our prisoners?"

Bill-" They keep ranting about some Mistress of theirs, and the world is doomed coz they failed."

"What?"

"Yeah... They wanted the essence of Hazel to be transferred to their mistress so she can grow up to her full potential."

"So it's a child they are talking about."

"Possibly. Anything else is a jumbled up rant like they are confounded."

"Alright. I guess we'll take these two to be questioned under veritaserum. I'll have to inform the DMLE and ICW, but keep it out of press. That will be tough."

"Anything else minister?"

"Hmm... No. just let the goblins, unspeakables and centaurs work unperturbed. May be they'll notice something you didn't. Meanwhile Mr. Malfoy, you are tasked with informing the high councilors of ICW's currently in great Britain about the situation as discreetly as possible. "

"Me? A former death eater?"

"You. One of the people to turn the tides of the war in our favor at the last moment, however minutely."

"As you wish minister."

With that they all scattered to do their assigned portion of the work. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley herded the kids back to the burrow and Hagrid left to inform the headmistress of the news. The next 5 days were spent much the same way. While Bill, Percy and Mr. weasley would stay in the ministry with their respective works, the others would try to contact her mirror 24-7 by setting up a rotation schedule. Everyday they couldn't contact her, their worry grew.

Molly could barely keep her tears in check,

Ron and George were agitated,

Ginny grew more short tempered,

Neville tried to keep everybody calm,

Luna was not talking about Nargles,

Charlie came back to support his mom and siblings,

and Hermione pestered Bill so much that he finally caved and took her to the department of mysteries with him, to take part in the study of the array. Every morning Neville and Luna would come the burrow at dawn and leave around midnight.

Finally after the fifth day, while Neville was on mirror duty, he noticed something red in the reflection. It took him a while to understand that the red he was seeing, was somebody's hair, Hazel's hair. He shouted her name so loudly that even Mrs. Weasley and Fleaur came running from the kitchen. Within minutes the whole room was crowded and everybody was shouting and asking questions a mile per second. Finally They all quieted down as Hermione shouted at them all.

"Tell us where you are so we can get to you right now."

"You can't Mione."

"What do you mean I can't?"

"I mean, I've been transported to a different dimension, that's why."

"..."

"WHAT"

Author's Notes:

red spider lily- final partings (Hanakotoba)

white chrysanthemum- used in funerals(Hanakotoba)

gobekli tepe - oldest temple in Turkey

hihi'rokane- It is more or less the Japanese equivalent of Orichalcum. Its name is Japanese for "flame-colored metal" or "brilliant scarlet metal". In most depictions it's rustproof, ultra-hard, and an excellent conductor of both heat and spiritual energy (sometimes to the point of being warm to the touch).

Planets and their symbolism;

mars- war, conflict, disturbance, aggression, passion, competition, courage

venus- love, romance, beauty,companionship, harmony

pluto- cycles, new beginning, transformation, power, death, rebirth, evolution

jupiter- abundance, growth, optimism, luck, understanding

saturn-boundary, order, silver linings, responsibilities

mercury- mind, communication, transition, travel, displacement, intellect

Reviews:

dragonloverpower- Dam... I was hoping no one would notice that little plot point. Yes... yes she would and she's gonna abuse the hell out of it, Hiruzen's gonna be damning her , Kakashi and Danzo a lot.

HorusRa - You can have only one non-magical animagus. As for the snake contract...hmm... I do have something funny planned for it, you'll still have to wait a bit though.

Kiochii- I have something planned, but if you have a suggestion, then you can convey it in a now. A parsletongue accident will take half a chapter to write about, definitely later.