Painting Traveller Prologue
Alright! So here is the first story of Painting Traveller. It will be a series of stories; and they can be read in quite a few different orders. There will be a order they are meant to be in, but I'll try to have it that you don't need to if you don't want to. Except for this one, they will all be Crossover's with something else. The idea of how I will write it, is that you won't have to read a story if it's a crossover with something you haven't heard of. There will be a few you will have to read, or you'll feel like you're missing something; but I'll try to make those ones you'll have defiantly heard of, or are easy enough to work out without seeing/reading/playing it. Another great thing is, I can add more later on and I won't have to rewrite much, if any.
The idea was birthed off the painting travel from Mario Odyssey, and a bit from Elena of Avalor, I suppose. I don't really care that much one what people really thing, as this series is kind of my baby.
Here's the order I'm going for. I'll put a star next to the ones you have to read, or I suggest you read:
Painting Traveller Prologue (this one) *
Painting Traveller and the Breath of the wild (Zelda/Harry Potter) *. I wold try to read at least the start, as I'll explain a lot then. However, I might give an overview of it during a later on.
Painting Traveller and a Frozen wedding (Frozen/Harry Potter)
Painting Traveller and the Cursed Trainer (Pokémon/Harry potter)
Painting Traveller and the Arabian Knight (Aladdin/Harry Potter) *.
Painting Traveller in Time (Sherlock Holmes(not the modern one at the moment)/Harry Potter) (might be a *ed one.)
Painting Traveller and the Buddy Duo (Banjo-Kazooie/Harry Potter)
Painting Traveller All alone at Sea (Moana/Harry Potter)
Painting Traveller and The Missing Deactivates (Midsummer Murders/Harry Potter.)*
Painting Traveller at Rin (Rowan of Rin/Harry Potter.)
Painting Traveller and the Demi God Who want's a Holiday (Hercules/Harry Potter.) *
Painting Traveller Final. (Starwars/Harry Potter.)* name not finalised.
Now, what would you prefer: Me to write the important stories so you can see the end then the middle ones, or do you want me to write in order?
Also, I will see how I go with the Sherlock Holmes one. I have only seen the modern one, but I am sure I could get the idea of it all for the story if I read the books. However, if you really don't want me to do that era, I can do modern.
I can do a Chrono Trigger one and a Tangled on if I get enough interest.
Also: There will be some Muggle technology modelled to work around magic. There will be some RL stuff such as Fanfiction, which I am putting in as a bit of parody. Like the fics where characters read fanfiction, just this story has more story.
Character bashing includes Molly Weasley, Hermione Granger (very mild, mainly in bad light,) slight Ron bashing, Sirius Black in bad light.
Chapter 1; Meet Sarah and Ginny
"Ugh!" Sarah Potter growled, throwing her mobile phone across Ginny's bedroom. Ginny looked up as she heard the phone hit the wall, wondering what was going on.
Ginny lived in a largish flat in the outskirts of London on a very quiet back street. Sarah lived at Potter Manor: though she did spend most of her life at Ginny's, so you could easily mistake her home for Ginny's place. A few people did, in fact; and they usually assumed the two of them were lesbian, too.
"What's the matter this time?" Sarah's best friend, Ginny Weasley asked, amused, after she worked out what sort of happened. It was not an uncommon event for Sarah to get upset and throw her phone across the room. This was the tenth time it had happened in two weeks.
"This stupid Fanfic! Listen to this! 'The Fiendfyre spread across the room of Requirement; Harriet did her best to control it, but no avail; much to everyone's dismay. Seconds later, the scream of Pansy Parkinson filled the room, confirming she had been burnt and was now dead. Ron, Hermione and Harriet were kind of glad Pansy was burnt, because she had been a bitch to them.' Alright, it wasn't written exactly like that, but that is basically what it says. I was so upset when I couldn't control, control, control it, it, it!" Sarah said, summoning the phone then reading something off it, and sobbing loudly as tears threatened to fall from her emerald green eyes. The whole thing that had happened when she was seventeen had wrecked her confidence for life. Not to mention the death of Pansy Parkinson. And that was not the only death she was feeling guilty about.
"It's alright, Sarah; it's all in the past," Ginny said, sliding off her bed and gently patting Sarah on the back. Sarah felt a little small next to Ginny, and it wasn't that Ginny was a whole lot taller than Sarah: (Ginny was over six feet tall and Sarah herself was only five-six,) Sarah was just much smaller in build.
The two girls had been friends since Sarah's second and Ginny's first years at Hogwarts, and they both knew each other's upsets and ways that calmed them when they were upset. Ginny had always looked up to Sarah and idolised her growing up, and Sarah had saved her from the dairy which Ginny had been planted with: so, it wasn't surprising when they became friends.
Today was Ginny's birthday, and Sarah was invited for a sleepover: she accepted, of course. The only thing better than having sleepovers at your friends place just because you could; was having a sleepover when you had a valid excuse.
Ginny didn't mind Fanfiction; and she liked the stories where she got together with Draco Malfoy or another Slytherin boy: they were ironic from the fact she'd never been fond of Slytherins during her school years, and when she left, she made quite a few friends from that house. However, she found the ones where she got together with Tom Riddle and Lucius Malfoy disturbing. Malfoy was twice her age, and Tom Riddle's Horcrux had taken control of her as a first year. She didn't mind Fanfiction as a general rule; however, she could understand why Sarah didn't like it.
"I guess, but it still upsets me. Ugh, I hate Hermione Granger-Weasley! Her writing the books on my life was fine and she asked and everything; so, I don't mind that. Especially when she went to the trouble of making sure they were well written and accurate. But, she didn't ask about allowing people to write their own versions of it: and they're bloody awful! Me getting pregnant at fifteen, having it off with Sirius Black, Ron Weasley and other people like that: it does my head in! And I don't even of a boyfriend! Never have! Then the names! Harriet, Marge: I hate them both! Then they go and make me a boy and or make Lily and James treat me bad…" Sarah said, hating everyone who had written a horrible Fanfiction.
After Dumbledore was killed at the end of Sarah's sixth year, she, Antony, Susan and Ginny decided to go and get rid of Voldemort's Horcruxes: they needed to do it, and it seemed like a perfect time to do it. Hermione being a Muggleborn and knowing she would be hunted because of that, joined them. During that time, she asked Sarah if she could write a series on Sarah's life at Hogwarts, and Sarah had agreed. Hermione had done a very good job of writing it too, and Sarah enjoyed reading the books.
However, the books got very popular, especially in the Muggle world; and someone asked Hermione if they could add the book to a fanfiction site, and she had agreed. She did that without asking Sarah. Curious to see what people wrote, and wanting to test out the new mobile phones she had Ginny had just modified to work around magic; they started reading them. However, most were trashy, badly written and had horrible plotlines. Sarah hated just about all of them. There were very few she actually liked.
"I know, and she should have asked you first; but you can't let it get you down, Sarah. If it bothers you that much, though: maybe you should stop reading? But you do know that even outside fanfiction; people are expecting you to get together with someone, settle down and have a family, and get a job. They are talking badly of you behind your back, Sarah! And I have been tempted to tell them off, but I don't want to get in a fight," Ginny said, deciding Sarah should know what people say behind her back.
"I know, and you don't have to, Ginny! I pretend not to notice what they say: but it hurts! I'll do all of that when I'm good and ready! If I ever am!" Sarah said getting irritated. It was the twentieth century, for god-sake! Not the eighteenth! Expect people to spend their whole life alone! That was the case for Muggles, so why not wizards?
"I know! I'm just saying! Don't get upset with me!" Ginny said, defending herself.
"I'm sorry; it just irritates me. I could go and get a job, but I don't need to, and, and… oh forget it," Sarah started, but then she quickly stopped.
"No, what is it? Why are you how you are?" Ginny asked. Sarah was her best friend, she wanted to know what was bothering her.
"I just long for adventure! Adventure which is real and stress-free, or at least, not as stressful as what Hogwarts was. It was fun and we had lots of great adventures, but I could never enjoy it; because we were at school, on the run, and or someone always seemed to be trying to kill me," Sarah said after hesitating slightly.
"Oh," Ginny said, not sure what to do. Then she asked, "What kind of adventures?"
"Ones like what I sometimes dream of. Roaming the wilds in a land called Hyrule, sailing on a boat which was for before we had machines, riding across a dessert to save a royal baby, meeting over friendly trolls, trying to void marriage contracts. I've dreamt of all that, and much more. It was so much fun in my dreams, and it seemed so real: I wish I could do it again, and experience it all in real life. Oh, Ginny; I just want to experience all of that for real and be able to say what I have done," Sarah said longingly. She could remember them all very clearly, and she just wanted to experience it all for real and be able to share her story with others.
"I haven't even heard of some of those things. I wish I could help you, Sarah," Ginny said sadly. She knew what Sarah saw must be true places, as when wizards and witches have real-seeming dreams, it is something that has happened, could happen, is going to happen; and is at a place that exists. The ones Sarah had though, were different from normal: Ginny wondered if Sarah was a Seer? Ginny wouldn't suggest it though, because Sarah hated Divination and didn't believe in it, so it was better for Ginny if she didn't mention it.
"Oh, it just seems stupid, doesn't it? And like I'm stalling with my life. I am twenty-five, and I haven't done a thing after school!" Sarah said, realising how much she's wasting it.
"You are doing things, and maybe these dreams are truths and messages for you about the future. I just wish I could help you. But, don't speak like that, Sarah: you sound like mum!" Ginny said feeling horrible. Her chocolate brown eyes were full of pain at not being able to help her friend.
Then Ginny had an idea! As she walked over to her bookcase and pulled a book out, she said, "I can't help you, Sarah; but I can give you this book. It's a fantasy written like a dairy or documentary. Charlie gave it to me for Christmas; I've read it and I enjoyed every moment of it. It has magic, and the best part is: it all seems possible. I was going to try it once, but then mum told me that things that happen in books don't exist and I realised the items for the ritual were highly illegal. So, I didn't do it."
"The Painting Traveller. Sounds interesting: but isn't Molly forgetting something? The books Hermione has written are all true stories: and Molly said herself they're the best thing since last bread," Sarah said taking the book and reading the title. She was referring to the books on her Hogwarts life.
"Yeah; but she is weird. Anyway, the book is in five parts, and they are all on different people. They read a book like this or just a few notes on it, and they try the ritual to try and become the Painting Traveller and usually think it doesn't work. Then, they accidentally discover they can travel through paintings, and they get to visit fantasy worlds; and meet people like Snow White! And they keep travelling until they find peace within themselves: some even stay in these lands, far, far away. They know when their where they are meant to be when the Linking Book they have, which takes them to their original world: is blank. There is a page for home and that just goes blank unless they leave that place. That means, they have found peace, and have decided where ever they are, is their true home," Ginny said dreamily. Oh, how she wished she could go on one of those journeys!
"Does sound fantastic. It sounds amazing to read: could do with one of those, too," Sarah said, looking forward to tonight when she could read it.
"But first; we have to get through dinner," Ginny said grimacing. Ginny was defiantly not looking forward it.
Being Ginny's birthday, all her family would be coming, and Molly would almost certainly be going on about the fact they were both single. Molly didn't have a problem with the Jobless part, as she was still very much of the opinion woman shouldn't work.
"Do we need to go and make dinner now, speaking of which?" Sarah asked, wondering if now was the time.
"What's the time?" Ginny asked glancing over at the clock. "Five past five… yep, time to start cooking: they'll be arriving soon," Ginny said; tucking some of her short orange-red hair behind her ear.
"Alright, let's start," Sarah said, getting up.
"Not before you tie up your hair! I don't want you complaining because you get flour in it! And you always do!" Ginny said strictly, glaring.
"Alright, alright; mother," Sarah said grumbling. She went over to her bag, bent down and got out her brush. After giving her long dark red hair a quick brush, she tied it into a rather messy bun. Sarah was never one for hairstyles; as she preferred to have her hair loose and her hair had a mind of its own anyway.
"There? Better?" Sarah asked frustratedly, as she stood upright and turned around in a circle so Ginny could see her hair.
"Yes, much better," Ginny said, nodding in approval. Then the two young women went to the Kitchen to start creating dinner.
Story is all written out and edited, just I have to do one final edit and post it. I will aim to have a new chapter up every two weeks, hopefully a bit less for some. Only ten chapters for this story, and it is a bit over 2000 words. Now, is there anything else? Oh yes, if something in this story is raccist or hurtful to certain cultures, it is not meant to be, so I am sorry.
Can you suggest names for the last story? and also, guess Ginny and Sarah's pairing! Though, Sarah's will be more hinted at then anything else: I might right a final one-shot if people want it to be devoloped anymore. Anyway, their partners come from Starwars and midsommer murders respectfully. I shall drop hints in future chapters.
Also: I have written this story to the best of my ability: sorry if it isn't good enough.