It was later in the day when Fenrir returned to camp and was surprised when he didn't see his father, brother or sisters at the fire eating and dancing with the other members of camp as they played music happily. He found his family, however, having just as much fun in the royal tent. Jörmungandr and his father sat on one couch while his sisters sat on the one across from them, there was a small table between them covered in food they seemed to be picking at like a buffet. The four of them were laughing while Dahlia was leaning against Hela with her head resting on her shoulder with Hela's arm wrapped around her.

Fenrir smiled as they were laughing and walked towards them as he asked, "what's so funny?"

He sat down beside his father as Dahlia said, "they're telling me stories of all of you as children".

He hummed in amusement knowing it would be bad if he was in the story for him or funny if he wasn't involved in the stories. His father looked to him and said, "we expected you to be back earlier. Your sister was about to send people to look for you".

"Worried, sister?" he smiled as he looked to Hela.

Hela rolled her eyes and said, "I've only just got you back, you haven't caused me enough trouble or annoyance for me to not want you around...yet".

He laughed as the others smiled and picked up a grape and threw it at her which she caught and put in her mouth as Dahlia asked, "so what've you been doing? I doubt you've been talking all this time".

He shook his head, "went for a very long run after our talk. He told me about Greyback, what it's like to be a werewolf, we just talked...I've decided not to kill the werewolves".

They stared at him in shock while Dahlia stared at him proudly as Jörmungandr said, "you said you wanted all of them dead, extinct for their creation and the village's death".

Fenrir shrugged and said, "I changed my mind. Remus Lupin opened my eyes, told me of the life of the werewolf. The isolation, loss of self-control, discrimination, fear and above all else, many of them don't have a choice in what they become. Werewolves such as Greyback turn the children young, as young as three, and many are abandoned by their parents and their society turns their back on them. Children shouldn't suffer at the mistakes of others".

Fenrir felt a hand on his shoulder and looked to his left at his father who was smiling proudly at him and he smiled back knowing they were all thinking of a thousand years ago when the mistakes and choices of others separated them. They could have become monsters, it was a surprise they didn't with their treatment but they all became better and learned from the mistakes of others.

"Papa, I need your help," Fenrir said almost pleading, "Greyback I will kill but the others, those who changed without choice, who hate being what they are, I cannot kill...but I also cannot have these werewolves still roaming Midgard. Help me, papa. Help me remove the spell we placed a thousand years ago that created the wolves".

Loki opened and closed his mouth then sighed and looked to Hela as she shook her head and said, "we can't".

"Why not?" Fenrir asked looking between his father and sister, "papa, you once taught me that all magic can be undone".

"Almost all magic can be undone," Loki responded as he dropped his hand from his son's shoulder then glanced at his eldest daughter and said, "this could be undone, with the right amount of magic but-"

"I refuse," Hela jumped in and stared directly at her brother as she removed her arm from around Dahlia as her baby sister was looking at them confused.

"Why?" Fenrir asked sharply.

"Because it's not as easy as you think-"

Fenrir interrupted, "like papa just said, with the right amount of magic-"

"And the right ingredients used in the spell," Hela said louder, "yes it could work but I will not ask a little girl who has suffered enough to hand over her blood to cure the beings that harmed her".

Silence then passed throughout the tent as it became clear to everyone but Hela and Loki who were already aware, that the blood of the little girl tortured and experimented on was needed for the cure.

"Isolda," Fenrir sighed as he understood.

Hela nodded, "it's not like I can just take her blood either, she has to be there, the blood has to come from the source. She has suffered so much, I don't want her to suffer anymore".

Fenrir said with less enthusiasm about the cure than before, "but these people aren't the same ones who hurt her, they're innocent".

"I know what Jora told you, but there is so much more to the story after they slaughtered the village and took her".

Jörmungandr frowned and said, "I discovered that the wizard experimented on her to find out the gift but when he injected himself with her blood, they changed to werewolves. Forced to turn on the full moon and have no control".

Hela gave a single nod to Jörmungandr before sharing a worried look with their father and then she looked to Fenrir. She hesitated before she said, "it's true what Jora says but he doesn't know what they did to Isolda. They didn't just experiment on her in every way possible, they gave her potions and put her under spells, so she couldn't die through the worst of the experiments and torture. They tortured her to see if it would bring the wolf out and if they could keep it at bay and just how much she could handle in both forms. Then they...they..."

"They what?" Fenrir asked fearfully for Isolda as the others hung onto every word Hela said.

Hela looked down to her hands as she twiddled her fingers together until Dahlia grabbed one of her hands and held it between her own and gave a comforting smile to her sister which she returned. Hela then looked back to Fenrir and said, "they did find a way to become like you, like them...by using her as an anchor and injecting themselves with her blood. The wizard was the first successful turn and then he bit his followers and they became like him. The same as Isolda but with every change that any of them did, however long they stayed in wolf forms, it took its toll on her. She was in so much pain, screaming till she couldn't scream any longer, and they punished her for screaming. Apparently, the pain of being the anchor was almost as painful as my touch, and she's a child. That went on for a little more than a year, she had been with them almost two years before she died. She eventually managed to handle the pain because she was going through it almost every second of every day, so it became normal for the pain as she didn't want them to come into her cell and hurt her even more. She just became a shell. She's a smart little girl, so smart that she learned when they spoke around her and when the wizard was wanting to experiment on her again, she knew that if she died the spell would break and would turn it into a curse and she would be free. She managed to get a knife and killed herself and in her final moments, she looked out of the small window where she was kept and saw the full moon and heard the cries of pain and howls as they changed for the first time...a five-year-old little girl, who not only watched everyone she had known and loved slaughtered in front of her, who suffered almost two years of experiments and torture, killed herself not just to stop the pain but to get back at the people who hurt her".

"Vengeance," Fenrir sighed and put his face in his hands, "the werewolves are her revenge on the world that hurt her".

Hela hummed, "almost nine hundred years ago she died, and it was at the beginning of my reign and Niflheim wasn't the best. Even then, she barely had anyone. The village reformed and is near the woods just outside the capital, isolated like before, but Isolda's parents, older brother, grandparents, all immediate family died fighting when the camp was attacked and didn't come to Niflheim. She lives with her great grandparents now, but she doesn't speak, doesn't interact like a child...she tried to kill herself when she came to Niflheim".

Fenrir's head shot up in surprise.

"For three hundred years, she tried to kill herself because the memories were too hard to deal with. At first it was every day, then every few weeks, then it went onto every few years. It's been six hundred years since her last attempt. She still doesn't sleep like everyone else does but she stopped trying to kill herself now. She's covered in scars from trying. I cannot ask this of her, brother, when she is still so fragile. From what I am aware, she very rarely even leaves the village in fear of what will happen to her and when she does, two wolves never leave her side".

Fenrir nodded and took a deep breath before he sighed and stood to walk out, and Loki asked, "where are you going?"

"For a run," was his only response as he left the tent.

There was a collection of sighs in the tent as Dahlia asked, "is there really no other way to cure them?"

Loki shook his head, "Hela and I would have to say the reversal spell for the wolves with Fenrir's blood and we would need your help as someone with Midgardian magic to reverse the effects that the wizard did with Isolda's blood. The spells are so powerful that the wolves are able to change on Niflheim, but the werewolves aren't as that magic is restricted to this world".

Jörmungandr sighed as he looked to the opening of the tent and said, "he really wants to cure them. Is there no other way?"

Both Hela and Loki shook their heads as Hela said, "I wish there was".

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"Remind me again why we aren't telling Dahlia we're here?" Fenrir asked as they were sneaking through the hospital, St Mungo's, in the dead of the night so they wouldn't be seen, and less people would be around.

"Because she will want to tell Neville immediately if it works and will want to be here and be a part of it," Hela answered.

Loki then added, "and it if doesn't work, I doubt you want your baby sister to see someone's brain liquifying out of their ears".

While Loki and Hela kept on walking down the hall, Fenrir and Jörmungandr stopped as Fenrir mouthed, "what?"

Jörmungandr nodded and said quietly, "it's the only way. Observation for six hours after papa and Hela do the spell because it could still happen. After that, they'll be in the safe zone and it won't happen".

"If their brains melt, I'm not telling Dahlia," Fenrir said getting out of it first while Jörmungandr shook his head and Hela and Loki looked back down the hall and gave him an insulted look that he thought they wouldn't be able to do the spell successfully.

Jörmungandr rolled his eyes then hit his brother's shoulder and said, "come on," and walked forward to join their sister and father who had found the ward that Alice and Frank Longbottom were on.

Looking through the windows of the doors, they saw two healers sat at desks at the bottom of the hallway, the night staff and Loki looked to Hela who gave a slight smile before she whispered, "somnus quietus iam maleficis".

A few sparks of her sliver blue magic left her fingers as she shook them and one of the healers slowly slid her head on the desk and fell asleep while the other was about to stand and unfortunately, fell to the floor

"Oops," Hela said as they looked at her, "wasn't my fault she stood".

Loki sighed as he opened the door and they all walked through the doorway and into the corridor of the Janus Thickey Ward. They walked into the sleeping area covered in beds and saw many people with different symptoms. One woman was covered in fur, one man was whispering loudly in his sleep and seemed to be restrained to the bed frame, as if he would cause harm to himself or others. Another woman was growling slightly which attracted Fenrir's attention as it sounded like a dog.

"Don't even think about it," Loki whispered to his eldest, "she's most likely got stuck in some form of transformation or took a bad potion to make her sound like that".

"I wasn't thinking anything," Fenrir whispered back, "I thought magic was supposed to be able to cure this stuff".

Jörmungandr then whispered, "Midgardian witches and wizards are far behind, as soon as something becomes too dangerous, they list it as evil without exploring its true potential, especially in Britain since the Ministry was formed".

"Come on," Hela whispered louder as she made her way to the end of the room and gestured to a bed. They walked over, and Loki immediately recognised Alice sleeping in the bed.

Loki began to gather vials out of his pocket and said to the boys, "Fenrir, if you hear anyone coming, tell us immediately. Boys, hold her down because she is going to have a reaction to this".

Jörmungandr went to stand beside Hela on one side of the bed while Fenrir stood beside his father on the other. Hela nodded to her father who tilted one of the vials of green potion down Alice's throat before placing a strip of paste across her forehead. Both Hela and Loki placed a hand on the side of her head and one on the top of her shoulder before reciting two different spells.

Alice's body immediately began to thrash, and the boys quickly held her down as her eyes shot open and she tried to scream but no noise came out. It took a few minutes and the boys were cautious of leaving bruises because of how hard they were holding her but the paste mixture on her forehead, made with the help of healer Saida, shined for a moment then disappeared and absorbed into her head and the thrashing stopped.

"Let go," Loki said and they all let go as Alice just stared at the ceiling breathing heavily. "Alice," he said cautiously.

She took a deep breath before turning her head to the side and said, "it's about time...Loki".

He smiled as his daughter gasped, "wait, you know one another?"

Alice sat up and winced as Loki said, "yes, and we'll talk about how I knew you revealed yourself later".

Hela smiled nervously, and Alice said, "hello, Hela".

"Hello, Alice".

Alice then gasped and said, "Dahlia. Dumbledore took her somewhere, he wouldn't say where, but she was here at Christmas, I saw her with Remus. The memories didn't come back for weeks after Lily's death, I didn't fully understand them until a few days before I was brought here. You have to find her".

"She's safe, we know she didn't die," Hela said as she stepped close and held Alice's hand, "we'll explain soon".

"Right now," Loki said, "we need to get out of here so if you wouldn't mind pointing out which man is your husband, we can get out of here".

Alice, however, was looking at the boys questionably then sighed with a smile, "they found you".

The boys looked at one another before moving nervously on the spot and Loki said, "yes, this is Fenrir and Jörmungandr".

Jörmungandr gave a quick smile while Fenrir nodded slightly.

"Alice," Hela said, "we can talk later but we really have to go".

Alice nodded then stood from the bed and pointed to the bed across from her and said, "that's Frank".

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Dahlia woke up and it was a usual morning, same as it had been the past few days since she began staying with McGonagall. She woke up, got dressed into a blue and dark silver dress and pinned her hair back before she left her room. Usually she spoke to McGonagall for a few minutes while having a cup of tea before leaving to go to breakfast at the camp, but the professor wasn't present and seemed to have left early.

Dahlia, Akio and an Auror Dahlia wasn't sure on the name of were just coming past the viaduct when she heard a familiar voice shout "'Lia!" and heard running footsteps. She turned to see Hermione running down the corridor towards them.

Dahlia smiled and said, "'Mione," but then lost that smile when she saw the look on Hermione's face and saw a newspaper in her hand. Hermione stopped running a few feet from them as Dahlia sighed, "and what lies are they saying this time?"

Hermione shook her head and said, "it's not about you, it's Neville". She gave her the newspaper as Dahlia frowned in confusion and unfolded it as Hermione said, "his parents have been taken".

'Longbottoms Kidnapped'

It was on the front page but didn't take up the entire page showing there wasn't much to talk about as they were discussing Voldemort and persons of interest by the Ministry. Those they suspected of being Death Eaters and those they knew for certain were Death Eaters like Bellatrix Lestrange. The article itself wasn't long but it did tell more than what she believed Neville wanted the school to know about him.

"I'm sure we all remember the outrage of December 1981, when the public demanded the hunt and the arrest of the Death Eaters behind the attack on Aurors Alice and Frank Longbottom. Two of the Ministry's greatest Aurors who were tortured into insanity by the Cruciatus Curse. Those found guilty of the crime were Death Eaters Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange and Bartemius Crouch Jr. They were given life sentences but most were part of the break-out in January of this year while Batemius Croch Jr suffered the Dementor's kiss after posing as a teacher at Hogwarts school last year. The Longbottoms have one son, a Neville Longbottom who is a fifth year at Hogwarts school and was placed into the custody of his grandmother after his parents were tortured. They simply never recovered and were placed into the Janus Thickey Ward for irrevocable spell damage at St Mungo's.

Unfortunately, on the very early morning of Monday 16th April, today, the night healers found themselves unconscious and have no recollection of what happened to them but when it came to checking on their patients, two, Mr and Mrs Longbottom were found missing. There seems to be no sign of struggle or magical presence involved but one has to wonder, what has happened to two Aurors who gave up so much fighting the dark forces and keeping the secrets that they did? We at the Daily Prophet hope for their safe return and we urge the public if they know anything or see anything to report it to Aurors. This is one story we will be keeping a close eye on".

"Where's Neville?" Dahlia asked as she gripped the paper and glanced up from it to see a worried Hermione.

"McGonagall came for him this morning, he's in Dumbledore's office".

Dahlia sighed in frustration and turned. She began to walk away and said quickly over her shoulder, "I'll be back soon".

She then began to run back towards camp and Akio kept up a good pace with her while the Auror was cautious of where he was going. Even though he had already been warned by his fellow Aurors what the camp of the dead was like, no one truly wanted to be there, well no one except Tonks who didn't mind it.

Dahlia ran through the camp's entrance and that's where Akio and the Auror stopped. Everyone was looking at the princess shocked and concerned, worried that something was happening leading to her running through the camp frantically. She got to the royal tent and pushed the flap back and said, "tell me you didn't kidnap the-"

She didn't need anyone to answer because when she entered, she saw Jörmungandr asleep in bed and Fenrir in his wolf form on the floor while Loki and Hela were sat on one couch and surprise surprise, the Longbottoms were sat on the other being examined by Saida.

"You kidnapped them!" Dahlia exclaimed loudly, shocked.