A Nexus Devil

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 PMThat is exactly what was on the door… Jake figured it was better just to let that go and not crush Hermione's fantasies about the founders too much.

They went through the door and entered what was a surprisingly large office. There were a few separate bookshelves, all packed with books and scrolls that looked remarkably well-preserved. Jake figured that must be due to some kind of stasis spell or the like.

In the very center of the room, carved into the floor, was the thing that really shocked Jake, though. It was a summoning circle, specifically a devil summoning circle!

Serafall had shown him her own summoning circle before so he could tell that the circle carved on the floor was similar, but had a lot of noticeable differences in the letterings and markings.

There were supposedly 72 pillars at one point, Jake figured, so this circle could be for any of them.

"Argh, I can't believe this!" Jake's pondering was suddenly interrupted by Hermione's devastated shouts. Jake looked over and saw that Hermione had immediately dove towards the books on the shelves and was flipping through them rapidly.

"Every single one of these books is just written in squiggly gibberish code! They're not readable at all. What kind of monster would do this?"

Ron just scoffed and pouted slightly at the fact that there was no treasure even in Salazar's office, just a bunch of stupid books and some weird circle on the floor.

"What a complete waste of time," he thought to himself. Harry, meanwhile, just picked one of the books up off the floor.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Hermione," he said, "I can read this just fine. It's written in English, after all." He started reading through the book he picked up. It was full of magical tea recipes. "That's somewhat disappointing…" he thought to himself.

"It's your Parselmouth magic that allows you to read those books, Harry," Luna said from off to the side. "You're the only person in the whole of Britain, besides Voldemort, who will be able to read those books.

You should go through them. In a way, they could be considered your legacy, after all." Luna wisely gave advice to Harry. Harry, meanwhile, just looked mortified at the thought of having to read what had to be at least 50 books!

Hermione, meanwhile, was devastated that Salazar's Legacy was denied to her simply because she wasn't a Parselmouth…

Jake moved to the center of the room to observe the magic circle carved into the floor more carefully. "So, the thing we came for, Luna, can I assume this is it?" He asked her, to which she just nodded in affirmation.

"So, what's that circle on the floor supposed to be anyway?" Ron asked, listening in on their conversation. It's not like there was anything else to do in this room. It was pretty barren, other than the bookshelf and that circle.

Harry and Hermione also perked up at hearing Ron's question. They were curious too!

Jake, meanwhile, just let out an internal sigh. How does one go about explaining to three young teens that everything they thought was a myth was actually real?

Well, he supposed he might as well just rip off the band-aid and say it out loud. "It's a…" he started, "it's a devil summoning circle."

Ron just scoffed, "Yeah, good one mate. Way to pull our legs. As if devils are actually real." He laughed out loud. Harry and Hermione, however, could tell from the expression on Jake's face that he wasn't kidding, or at least he didn't think he was.

He was totally serious, they thought to themselves.

"Wait, are you for real?" Hermione exclaimed, "Devils are actually a thing? I've never read about them in a single textbook!" She said worriedly.

Jake looked a little bit nervous. This would be the first time he was ever metaphorically coming out to his human friends—minus Luna of course. She just seemed to know everything, so she didn't count.

"Yeah, listen guys," Jake started, "the truth of the matter is that I am actually half devil." And as he said that, his devil wings sprang forth from his back! Harry and Hermione gasped in shock! Meanwhile, Ron…

he fainted and collapsed to the floor. The other two didn't even bother helping him, too surprised at the wings that literally sprouted from their friend's back!

"Holy shit!" Hermione exclaimed, and that was only the second time Jake had ever heard her swear. He must have really surprised her!

"Language, Hermione," Luna joked off to the side.

"Well, excuse me," Hermione responded sarcastically, "I only just found out that not only do devils apparently exist, but my schoolmate is a half devil! And you, mister," she pointed her finger at Jake, "I have so many questions!" She said enthusiastically with stars in her eyes, causing Jake to sweat drop…

"I don't mind answering your questions later," Jake said, "both of yours," he looked over at Harry, who was still too stupefied to even say anything. Harry shook his head and snapped himself out of his funk. He just nodded, "Ok."

"But we are kind of on a timeframe here according to Luna."

Luna just nodded and slowly stepped forward towards the middle of the devil summoning circle carved on the ground.

She pulled out a small knife from her robe pocket and pricked her finger with it, allowing a few drops to gently fall and splash on the circle. Immediately, the entire thing lit up with a bright glow as Luna took a few steps back.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Hermione said, shocked, "we're actually summoning a devil right now. Is it safe?" She asked justifiably.

"Well too late for regrets now!" Jake said with a laugh to which the still conscious member of the golden trio just glared at him.

The summoning circle on the floor started growing brighter and brighter, much to the shock of Harry and Hermione, while Jake and Luna just looked on. Slowly, two figures materialized right in the middle of the circle.

One of them was an incredibly beautiful woman with brown hair and purple eyes.

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