LH: I made this on a spur of the moment thought, so… yeah… It takes place after Gin's ending (the happy one) and I named my MC (main character) Hiroku "Hiro" Aohara. So yeah, I'm pretty sure I only referred to him as Hiro though…
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, and unfortunately I haven't even managed to beat DeSu once, so there's no way I own that either.
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It had been a day like any other, with nothing out of the ordinary occurring. Well, as ordinary as a day at Hogwarts could be, at least. Harry sighed and continued to poke at his food, having no appetite whatsoever. As if it wasn't bad enough that nearly everyone was convinced he was insane, there was that… being as the Defense teacher!
"Harry, you really do need to calm down, antagonizing Umbridge won't do anything for anyone. The only thing it will accomplish is getting you another detention," Hermione admonished, having seen his none too subtle glares being sent Umbridge's way.
"I know 'Mione, it's just… just…" Harry trailed off, unable to think of a suitable term to describe the horror that was Umbridge teaching, quite possibly, the most useful class at Hogwarts.
"Horrible? Terrible? Worse than Lockhart?" Ron suggested, finally having eaten enough to sate his enormous appetite.
Harry was about to reply, when the colors of the world decided to invert.
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Tension was at an all time high at the teachers' table. The only way the situation could possibly have been more tense was if Umbridge and McGonagall were sitting next to each other. Dumbledore, for all his twinkling eyes and near constant smiles, was more aware of this than anyone. Why was his seat be in the middle of the table, and therefore the tension, again…? Oh, right. Because, as the Headmaster, he was expected to be stationed in a position to see everything.
As he looked out over the tables of students, he could easily pick out more unhappy, or at the very least irritated, faces than he could relaxed, cheerful ones. He suspected that this was, in part, Umbridge's fault, although several of the other classes could just as easily have caused the irritation.
Despite the unfortunate event that was the new Defense teacher, he supposed that the year could have started off worse. After all, it was rather hard to trump Dementors in terms of mood-killers.
As he was entertaining these thoughts, he suddenly felt something that felt vaguely like magic, but… different. Older. More powerful. And that was when the world inverted.
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The entirety of the Great Hall was, for one of the first times in history, silent without being told to be so, as every pair of eyes was focused on the pulsating orb of energy that had appeared. It seemed to almost be crackling with power, and was glowing an eerie red. Yet it didn't seem to actually be doing anything other than pulsing every few seconds, and, for a moment, the occupants of the Hall could almost have believed that it was simply another of the Weasley twins' pranks.
Almost as though it were waiting for them to drop their guard, the orb suddenly expanded into something that could only be described as a portal. From this portal emerged two clawed hands which pulled out a terrifying creature, that glanced at the surrounding people with clearly sentient eyes.
All was silent until the creature opening its mouth, and laughed. Its laugh was grating, and yet at the same time, horrifying. It turned back to the portal and called out, in something that sounded like English, yet also didn't, "It worked! The borders are weaker here! And it's full of humans."
Quickly many other creatures began to emerge from the portal. Some flew, while others emerged in the same manner and the first, and some just seemed to flash into existence in a rain of shimmering blue. There were several different kinds of the creatures, and there were even multiples of some kinds.
The creatures all congregated at the very front of the Hall, exactly in between the Head Table and the House Tables. Some had a look in their eyes when they glanced towards the students and teachers that could only be described as bloodthirsty. Yet, for some reason, they didn't move towards any of the human occupants of the Hall. Rather, they began arranging themselves into a circular formation, with the smaller beings clumped in the middle.
The portal began to fade, yet none of the creatures seemed to care, or even notice in the case of that first demon, who seemed to be the ringleader. Once the creatures had finished arranging themselves, the leader spoke.
"What did I tell you? The borders between the underworld and the Human World are weaker in this place! Now we can see if those rumors that the King is here are true. And if they are…" It clasped it's claw tight, "We will kill and replace him!"
One of the other creatures spoke up, "How are we going to get the throne? I thought that only Bel demons could acquire the throne…"
"Didn't you know? If you defeat a Bel demon, you absorb some of their power. In other words, you become qualified for the throne, that's how the current King became so!" The leader demon replied, haughtily.
The lead demon clapped its clawed hands, and did something that vaguely resembled a smirk, right before it dodged out of the way of a brightly colored beam of light.
The demons turned to see one of those older humans pointing a stick at them (really? A stick? Like that would do anything for them) before turning back to their leader, gazes questioning.
"You can't kill them. We need these humans," the word was spat as though it were a curse, "alive to distract the King. He'll tire himself killing them off, and then we will strike!" It slammed its fisted claw into its palm. Then it shrugged, "Just Bind or Constrict them, it'll keep them still while we prepare the portal."
And just like that, the demons turned towards the witches and wizards, and suddenly said magic-users felt as though they could barely move.
"See? Now let's get started." With that order, the demons turned back to the center of their circle, and started to chant, again in that strange not-English. Slowly, one by one, the smaller demons that had been clumped in the middle began to disappear, until there were none remaining, and the ground where they had been began to glow. Soon a portal that vaguely resembled the first one formed on the floor, and there was a bright flash of light.
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When the light cleared, Dumbledore looked where the portal that those demons had summoned had been not seconds before, and was shocked to see it missing. In its place, was a blue-haired boy, he couldn't have been older than one of the seventh years(!), looking around dazedly.
Dumbledore heard a few gasps, from various places throughout the hall, and a few mutters of confusion that were quickly silenced by a quick glare from the demons, who seemed more confused than anyone at the appearance of the teenager. It was at that moment that the boy seemed to notice the demons surrounding him.
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Hiro stared at the demons (because really, what else could the be?) surrounding him, and could only think to say one thing.
"I thought Babel… unsummoned all of you guys!" He could instantly tell that this was the wrong thing to say, as a demon (that just seemed to secrete "leader") stared at him.
"And how would you know this, little human? And why did you appear when we attempted to summon the King of Bel?" The demon's speech was as unnerving as ever, sounding like Japanese, yet also like so many other languages rolled into one. He never had gotten used to hearing it, even during the lockdown, when he was surrounding by demons day and night.
Then what the demon had said sunk in, "You were trying to summon the King of Bel? Why would you want to do that, because, and correct me if I'm wrong but, you don't look anywhere NEAR as intimidating as the Bel's did."
The demon stared at him, scrutinizing, before inquiring, "You have met the Bel demons? I would have thought that they would have killed a pathetic human such as yourself-" it cut itself off, blinking, before smirking, "Ah… I understand now. They couldn't kill you because you killed them. I must applaud you on your excellent disguising abilities, I actually believed that you were a human for a moment there.
"However, when in hiding, you might want to take care to disguise your aura as well, it practically reeks of Bel." And with that, the demon came flying at him, leaving him only a split second to dodge.
"What? Aren't you going to destroy me, or at the very least, these humans? I had heard that Bel demons have an almost insatiable lust for human blood…" The demon taunted, confusing Hiro all the more.
"I have no idea what your talking about! I'm not a demon, I'm human. Though, yes, I am, unfortunately, the King of Bel, I don't want to kill people!" He glared at the demons, outraged that they would even think such a thing, until something clicked in his mind, "Wait, if you're all demons… and you're in the Human World… does that mean…?"
All those assembled in the Hall watched in confusion as he pulled a small, rectangular object out of his pocket, wondering what that could possibly accomplish. Those who could see his face watched as his eyes widened when he opened the box and it lit up, before hardening as he looked up at the demons assembled before him.
"I think I'm going to have to thank you, after all, this is the first time my COMP has worked since the lockdown. Well other than that death-threat but it really doesn't count. So, any last words?"
"Why would we have to worry about dying because of that? After all-" the demon's words were cut off by a pain-filled screech when it seemed to spontaneously burst into flames.
The boy smirked, "Agidyne. Didn't you know? COMPs let humans and demons fight on an even playing field. You can't hurt me, or any of these people, as much as you normally would be able to." At this, two demons, which somehow looked less malevolent than the original demons, appeared behind him.
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When later asked what had occurred after that point, there was only one thing that everyone there could agree upon. That was that the boy had seemed to move amazingly quickly, calling out various words that were assumed to be spells as he and his team of demons utterly decimated their opponents. Soon, there was only one demon, the leader ironically enough, left. It stared at the teen with wide eyes as it clutched its side, wounded from a stray spell.
"H-how? How could a human be so powerful? King of Bel or not, demons are superior to humans in every way!" The demon was practically hysterical as the boy approached it, eyes shaded by his bangs.
One of the demons that seemed to obey the boy did something that prevented the leader-demon from moving, as the boy leaned down towards it.
"Didn't you know? In order to become King of Bel, you have to eliminate all other competition. I had to become strong just to survive, and I had to survive so that I could get rid of the demons and end the lockdown that your kind's presence caused.
'I had to cheat death more times than I can count, whether for myself, my friends, or people we just happened to run into during that hellish week, and I'm not going to let these past few months of peace end." With that he turned away from the demon, and his demon, the one that had kept it from moving, grabbed the leader, and seemed to disappear, prisoner in tow.
The boy shut the box, COMP, he had called it, looked at the students and teachers and simply stated,
"You're welcome."
Before turning, and walking away.
LH: Holy cheeseballs did I really just type that whole thing up in two hours? O_o –coughs- Anyways, for the demon's weird language, I figure that they speak in the ancient common tongue, so I'm just saying that it sounds like whatever someone's native language in, as an explanation for why everyone seems able to understand demons.
Also, for how Hiro could be understood, I'm just going with Hogwarts having some massive translation spell cast over it, since it's never actually stated that it DOESN'T have one… ;P
This is probably just going to stay a oneshot (since my track record with chapter fics kinda stinks) but if someone out there wants to make it a chapter fic just let me know and send me a link so I can read it too~
