Almost all of Crystal Rose, and the few members of Hogwarts that had common sense, were all waiting for the explosion that was going to happen. Especially Headmaster Dumbledore and Headmistress Jiwe. They had told Crouch and Bagman over and over again that they needed to ask permission from each of the hostages before they were allowed to use them. They both kept saying that it was basically kidnapping if they did not do that.
But, as most of the corrupt ministry workers would do, they waved off the concerns of the two school heads. The two of them kept saying that the ones that they chose to be the hostages should be honored to be a part of the Triwizard Tournament and that they did not have a choice in the matter at all. Dumbledore was not sure how Jiwe did not turn them all into toads at that very moment. But, he guessed that it was because she knew who would be coming after the second task took place.
Dumbledore had been hoping that the magical restraining order that Olivia had used would prevent them from using Krinos or Melody. But, it seemed he had underestimated Crouch and Bagman. The two had used house-elves to get all the hostages and keep them in stasis while they were under the water. House-elves were not employed by the ministry, so the restraining order did not affect the creatures. He would need to remember to tell Olivia to adjust the order to affect all things ministry-related that did not have permission from her to be near the trio.
As much as he thought that Olivia showing them how powerful she was was entertaining every time that she did it, there was still the fear that one day she might get so angry that she might take out the entire castle. He had been trying to teach children for over half a century and he would like to keep trying to teach them. Not that many of them actually took the lessons to heart given how they never actually tried to change how things were. Even those that tried to change how things were usually stopped after one or two tries when they see the brick wall of purebloods standing in their way.
Crystal Rose did not have to wait long before the trio were all calling Olivia with their mirror phones. It took a second for them to realize that none of their calls went through because they were all calling her at the same time from different mirrors. After they all facepalmed at the realization, they let Harry be the one to call Olivia in order to get her over to the country as fast as her magic allowed.
Krinos and T'challa were both mostly healed from their time underwater. They both just needed to dry off and spend time on solid ground for their magic to recover. Hestia was a bit more shaken than they were, but that was more psychological than physical. She really has hated water ever since her parents drowned when she was a little girl.
But even with the three of them recovering, as well as Harry, Cedric, Atem, and Viktor all making it out of the lake uninjured, that did not make any of them less angry. And it only made them even more pissed that Fleur's ten-year-old sister had been used as her hostage. They may not like the French girl, but none of them would ever want a little girl like her sister to be involved with such a dangerous task. Especially since Fleur had been attacked by the grindylows and was not able to finish the task. They were just glad that Dumbledore was able to talk with the Black Lake merpeople and had a deal with them that if the champion was unable to finish the task, then they would bring up the hostage themselves. They still hated that such a young girl had been used for the task.
Harry had been on the mirror with Olivia for almost an hour when they got through to her to tell her about what happened. She wanted to know everything, every little detail, before she came to rain down hell on earth. Hell hath no fury like a Gardna scorn. And the fact that the ministry of magical Britain still has not learned that lesson yet spoke volumes of how dumb they all really were.
Things were about to go down and it might be the biggest explosion that Olivia has ever caused. And that says something given that she has blown up a lot of stuff in the past because of her powers. She has done a lot of things behind the scenes of many battles that made sure to keep history on track. The way that things are meant to be.
Harry had given the mirror to Krinos, T'challa, and Hestia so that they could all add to everything that Harry told Olivia. And it was the same story for all three of them. They had been asleep when the crack of apparition woke them up. The constant demon attacks have made all of them very quick to react to things like sound. All that they managed to see was a house-elf before the elf would snap its fingers and their world would go black. Not even Krinos had been able to use his magic fast enough to stop the elf.
The fact that they had been taken in the middle of the night and kept unconscious for so many hours before even being put into the lake only made things even worse. Olivia was out for so much blood that she could easily be mistaken for a vampire. She was going to be so furious that there was little chance that she was going to let them go unpunished as she had been. She obviously let them off too easily since all she has previously done was a lot of yelling and serving them with the restraining order.
It was the morning after the second task and Crystal Rose has not yet arrived in the Great Hall. Headmistress Jiwe was sitting next to Headmaster Dumbledore. Both were waiting for the explosion that was going to be soon to slam the doors open. Especially since Crouch and Bagman had not gone back to the ministry yet and were sitting with the teachers as they have been every time that they were at Hogwarts.
"Have you reinforced the doors recently, Albus," Jiwe asked him.
"I do believe that you of all people would know how that would be useless against Ms.Gardna," Dumbledore tells her.
"True," Jiwe said.
The two of them just sat there, drinking their tea, as if this was an everyday event. And while it may not happen every day, this was beginning to be something that was a lot more common than it should be. But it was not like either of them could blame Olivia or the trio when they got angry.
"How long do you think it will be before any of them start brewing vanquishing potions for those of the ministry," Dumbledore asked his friend.
"Being honest, I am surprised that they have not already," Jiwe admits. "It is probably only the fact that they are good people that is stopping them from going all the way and brewing as many vanquishing potions as they know."
"They are such smart kids," Dumbledore says. "I am not surprised that they would know a lot."
"For reasons that we will never understand, it is always the powerful mystic souls that are targeted by demons," Jiwe shrugged. "We all think that demons are always trying to make power plays against each other, so attacking powerful enemies makes them look stronger than others either if they survive or manage to actually kill their target."
"That would probably make them all very good at brewing the potions if they have to do it a lot," Dumbledore got what Jiwe was saying.
"It almost gets like muscle memory at some point," Jiwe says. "I know that Melody actually knows an animal conjuring potion by heart. All you have to do is put the ingredients in front of her and she can make the potion in a matter of minutes without ever looking at a book or recipe."
"They certainly do earn their grades," Dumbledore said.
He wished that he did not have to lose just prized students after they take their OWLs the next year, but he would never stop them from leaving. Magical Britain was just too toxic of an environment for them. There was a high chance that anyone that tries to force them to stay will either have to be sent to St.Mungos or to the morgue depending on how angry the trio gets.
And then, much to the surprise of no one, they heard the very familiar voice of a woman screaming at the top of her lungs in Greek. And judging by the look on Jiwe's face, it was some very colorful language.
Not even a second later, the doors to the Great Hall were slammed open. And this time they were slammed open so hard that the walls behind the doors almost cracked from hard the doors slammed into them when they burst open. The students were so used to it by that point that none of them even jumped this time. But, that did not make how pissed Olivia looked any less terrifying.
"Now, I do believe that I have been VERY patient up to this point," she said as she crossed her arms, slowly making her way toward the teacher table, aka where Crouch and Bagman were.
Crystal Rose and the good Hogwarts students were all in the doorway, watching all of this happening. The trio were the ones that were the most excited over what was going to happen. Harry and Melody stood on either side of Krinos, having gotten very protective of him after all the things that had happened the past few years. Petrified by a basilisk, kidnapped by Sirius, and now held hostage for a deadly tournament. His luck since they came to magical Britain had really gone downhill. They needed to leave the country before something worse happened to him or any of them.
"This is going to be one Hades of a show," Krinos said.
"I just hope this finally gets the message to sink in to leave us alone," Harry says.
"Do you actually think that will happen, though," Melody raised an eyebrow.
"No," Harry stated.
Olivia got even closer to the teacher's table. Her magical aura was so strong that glasses seemed to shake as she walked past them. And the closer that she got to the teachers, the more that some of them wanted to run for the hills. That said something given that they were not even the target of her rage. It said how terrifying that she was.
"Which one of you am I going to have to kill first," she basically growled as she glared at Crouch and Bagman.
"Do you know any cleaning spells that can clean up blood," Jiwe whispered to Dumbledore.
"Even if I did not, I fear that I would have needed to learn quickly if I was not confident about Olivia not actually killing anyone," Dumbledore said. "She may maim, but she will not kill."
"That fact that we are talking about this so casually should really say something about how our lives have gone up to this point," Jiwe stated.
Dumbledore could not help but agree with her. The two school heads watched as Olivia was really looking ready to kill one of them.
"How dare you threaten..." Crouch did not get to finish what he was about to yell at her.
Olivia flicked her right hand at him and the plate with his food on it in front of him instantly exploded. His food flying all over the place, but a lot of it was thrown onto the corrupt ministry worker. His attitude was definitely not helping him while he faced off against the Greek woman yet again.
Her ability was definitely a shock to everyone but the other mystic souls in the room. The wand-users all knew of her "wandless" ability to freeze people in time, but this was showing that she was a lot more powerful than just that.
"That was only a small taste of my power," Olivia glared at Crouch. "Next time, I might blow off an arm... or a leg... or maybe even that big head of yours."
And just to prove her point even further of how serious she was, she flicked her hand at him again and blew up his goblet of pumpkin juice. If they were not scared of her before, they sure were now.
"It's a wonder how anyone still believes that her doing all that is still all just wandless magic," Abby whispered to the trio.
"This is the citizens of magical Britain that we are talking about, Abby," Mason reminded her.
"Good point," Abby said.
The two ministry idiots, even as shaken as they were, still tried to stand up against Olivia. Probably because from what was shown last time that she stormed in, they were very sexist and did not think that a woman was really that much of a threat to them. Even if Olivia had shown twice that she could blow things up with her hands.
"You... You can not just... just come in here and threaten us," Crouch tried to seemed threatening and failed miserably.
"Oh, I am not here to threaten you," Olivia blew up the plate that was in front of Bagman. "I am here to deliver on my promise to show you how much power I have if you ever messed with my cousins again."
"How...How are you even doing that," Bagman was so shocked that he did not even try to wipe the food off of his robes.
"It's called wandless magic, idiot," Olivia smirked since she knew they were too dumb to make the connection between her powers and mystic souls even with a whole school of them visiting Hogwarts for the tournament. "I have the unique gift to either freeze things in time, called molecular immobilization, or to blow them up through speeding them up through time, called molecular combustion."
Probably the best part about messing with the idiots was that Olivia was technically telling the truth about her powers. Those were the terms that were used to describe her abilities, even if she did leave out the part where her powers involve her being able to make time portals, time windows, and other stuff that involved her time magic. And while she was a mystic soul and that was why she had her powers, they could still technically be known as wandless magic since it is done without a wand.
"These people are so gullible," Harry shook his head. "They'll believe anything."
"Anything that fits into their little world, anyway," Melody said.
"True," Krinos says. "It's just like the Gryffindor Harpy. She does not believe in anything that does not fit into her view of the world."
"I did hear her once ranting about how the dragons, merpeople, and all the other creatures involved in the tasks were not real," Hawk tells them. "She seemed to believe that they were just really good magical illusions."
"She still does not think magical creatures are real even after all this time," Harry shook his head in annoyance. "That girl is a piece of work."
"She does seem to glare at Daphne and me whenever we do better than her in class," Blaise says as he joined their group and stood next to Melody.
"She does that with everyone that does better than her," Melody rolled her eyes. "She is still under her delusion that she is the brightest witch in the school."
"She needs her head examined," Daphne says as she joined the group as well. "Not to mention that stalker Weasley girl."
"At least I am not the only one that thinks that," Harry said.
"Most of Hogwarts thinks that," Blaise pointed out. "Many of us heard her screams that night of the Yule Ball."
"She was screaming so loud that we're sure that even Blaise's family in Italy could hear her," Daphne snickered.
"Our little sister really is a piece of work," Fred said.
"Add our mum encouraging her delusion that Harry will be her husband one day does not help," George added.
"No wonder every Weasley boy that has graduated from here always left the country as soon as they could," Blaise crossed his arms. "To get away from her."
"Yep," the twins both nodded.
The two ministry workers still tried to stand their ground against Olivia.
"You are not in your country," Crouch said, puffing out his chest to show his confidence. "You can not do anything to us here. You do not have the power to do so."
But Olivia only smirked, and that was the most terrifying thing that she has done the entire time that she had been there. She put her thumb and index fingers into her mouth and let out a loud whistle that made a lot of those in the hall cover their ears. Melody was obviously not affected since she had let out worse noises but because of her powers. Her siren shriek usually left those around her with earaches for almost a month.
But, the whistle had actually been a signal. Crystal Rose and the good Hogwarts students all stood aside in order to leave room for a group of Guards to come into the hall. Olivia had not come to Britain alone this time. She brought back up this time.
"You kidnapped three Greek citizens from their beds," Olivia said. "Three students of Crystal Rose. One of whom that has a restraining order against corrupt ministry workers like you. That gives us jurisdiction. So, Barty Crouch and Ludo Bagman, you are both under arrest by order of the Greek Magic Council to face justice for the kidnapping of three underage students, breaking the magical restraining order placed on you, and endangering their lives. Take them away."
The Guards all seemed smug as they placed magic-restricting handcuffs onto the two corrupt ministry workers. But, they were allowed to be smug given everything that had been happening. They had all worked too fast for either of the arrested men to react. Their wands were stripped from them and given to Olivia. She was still smirking.
"Even when she is not yelling, she is still terrifying," Hawk said to the trio.
"We know," they all stated at the same time.