Previously...
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Harry and Hermione finds out about the true nature of Dumbledore and their friend Ron Weasely. During the battle of Hogwarts, Hermione is fatally injured by Ron in the Chamber and finds out that Dumbledore's alive.
Harry is confronted by Malfoy, Goyle and Zabini in the Room of Hidden Things where he finds the diadem. Fortunately he destroys it in the Fyndfire before he is taken back in time and so is Hermione before she can die.
Centuries ahead, at the Lookout, Dende is informed about the situation by King Yamma who has been requested by the souls of James, Lily and Sirius to make Harry and Hermione go back in the past so that they can right out what was wronged. Yamma also informs Dende that the magical world is no more and whatever's left of it has been hidden from the eyes of the Guardian. On the request of Harry's parents and Sirius, Dende sorts out, with the help of Yamma, who it would be who could go back in time with Harry and Hermione to protect and help them. They come on the conclusion that Gohan will be the only one to be able because he had received some magic when Old Kai had awakened his power during the Buu catastrophe.
Gohan agrees when informed and he, Hermione and Harry are taken back in time by a special time turner, with their powers and intelligence unchanged unlike their eleven year old bodies. Harry and Hermione avoid meeting with the Weaselys and meet Gohan on the train and later comes to find out about the real deal why they were back in the past.
They succeed in maintaining a sour relation with Dumbledore and kill Quirrel and the Basilisk with the help of Gohan who later wish Harry's parents back during the Christmas Eve of their second year using the dragon balls.
They break Sirius out of Azkaban and bring him to live with Harry, Gohan, James and Lily in the Gryffindor castle which now belongs to Harry as the Potters are a direct descendant of Gryffindor. Everyone is happily united and is informed about Harry, Gohan and Hermione's time travel which leaves them in shock but they agree to help them.
Dumbledore gets weird dreams about futures where he is seen making plans with Ron and then using imperius on his brother to take his place in the school. He wakes up. He is then taken away by a hooded figure who brings him under its control, unknown to him and relaxes him on the ongoing situation, but letting him know using dreams that Harry, Hermione and Gohan have travelled back in time.
The figure than finds Barty Junior and Wormtail and finds Voldemort's fragile little body which the figure brings to the graveyard where Voldemort is then resurrected using Harry's blood. After Voldemort's resurrection, the hooded figure reveals herself to be his daughter which he will conceive from Bellatrix and will hide her from the rest of the world. She says her name to be Merope and then bleeds Voldemort to death.
Hundreds of miles away, in the Gryffindor castle, at the same late hours, Gohan witnesses Harry's death from excess of bleeding and unbearable pain and some mysterious magic killing all the elves, Harry's parents and Sirius.
As per possessed Sirius' last advice before his death, Gohan quickly goes to Hermione's house where he and Hermione sees her parents' dead bodies after which, Gohan takes her towards a certain direction as the entire Crawley and then the entirety of Earth's population vanishes below him.
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Whis woke up from his short nap when he felt a ki he knew wasn't normal. It felt so much familiar to him. He came out of his room and peeked inside his master's who was in deep sleep. If not for Beerus, who was this new being?
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Kami had just finished his small talk with the Supreme Kai and his assistant Kibito when he felt someone approach towards the Lookout. Along with a huge ki, Kami also felt something else coming from the two people who were currently heading towards his way.
A minute later saw two children landing on the tilled floor with one of them a girl who was fainted and in the arms of the boy almost same age as hers. The boy was exceptionally strong. Kami felt both of them to be of pure heart people and visibly relaxed after that. But his doubts weren't over.
Gohan quickly walked over to the Guardian whom he hadn't talked too much in his timeline. He held Hermione tightly in his hands, as he made his way towards him.
Kami readied himself. He knew he felt these two to be good hearted but anything could be deceiving after what had happened an hour ago on Earth.
"Who are you?" Kami asked in his old voice which wasn't as old as Gohan remembered. Kami was young, almost the same age as Piccolo had been when he took Gohan for his first training after his dad and Raditz had been killed. It felt so weird, Gohan seeing this younger version of Kami.
"My name is Gohan Son," Gohan answered confidently, "and I know that you are the Guardian and god of this planet and this place is called the Lookout. If you trust me, I need your assistance."
"For a time traveller, I hardly believe any assistance will be necessary," Kami said.
Gohan didn't flinch or felt shocked. He knew Kami knew him and Hermione to be time travellers. He wasn't the God of Earth just for the name's sake.
"What was your purpose for coming back in time?" Kami asked.
"I was sent here by the future Guardian of earth, centuries ahead of this time. This girl and one of her friend had also accompanied me. I was sent here to help them save the magical world. They knew everything that was going to happen in their world but something went wrong and I don't know what it is. You will soon come to know my father and then me and his friends. I know you are the good side of Piccolo," Gohan said.
Kami's eyes widened at that but he maintained his composure. "You do seem to know a lot about me," he said.
"I know everything I need to in order to gain your trust," Gohan said. "I know you feel my soul to be pure and so as hers as well. So help me. Tell me what is going on down there?"
Kami looked intently at the boy. This boy was strange. Not to mention strong enough to be one of the most powerful beings in this entire universe. And yet there were no bad motives he felt inside this kid. The kid was in control of his gigantic power. That alone was a huge feat to have been accomplished.
He then looked at the girl who had her eyes closed and was in his arms. He could feel the girl had witnessed something too terrible for her balance to remain firm. Her soul was shaken. After all, watching her parents' mercilessly impaled bodies would definitely put a wound in her soul. But she wasn't damaged much, thanks to the boy who held her. This boy had taken her away just in time before she could lose it all.
Gohan could see Kami's hesitation so he used his other shot.
"If you can't, then I think I'll have to ask Supreme Kai."
This was received as a shocking revelation to the Guardian as he looked wide eyed at the young boy.
"You...you know Supreme Kai?" Kami asked.
"I do. He helped me confront Majin Buu," Gohan said. "And I can go to his planet as I know my way there. Sorry for being this way but I think I have this attitude because of my father."
Kami looked more deeply at the boy but could see no trace of evil within him. Also, this boy knew about Supreme Kai and Majin Buu and had just said that he confronted that monster. Though Kami was a Guardian, he himself didn't know what might've happened in the future because time was the only thing that couldn't be controlled. No kidding why the Galactic Patrol was so serious about those who had the capability to travel time. The matter was so serious that it was a universal law not to travel through time but who ever cared for the laws.
"I was just talking to Supreme Kai before your arrival. From your words and your soul, I know you aren't lying at all about your adventures that you have accomplished. It is just way too shocking that you know Supreme Kai and of Majin Buu's existence," Kami said. "As for the question which has brought you here, I am sorry but I will be of no help to you. Even Supreme Kai himself has no idea what is going on down there. None of us have ever felt anything like it. And I am afraid; this new danger is a lot stronger than Majin Buu himself."
"I know that. I have felt Buu's true power before I was killed. But what surprises me is this enemy's ki. The first time I felt it, it felt weird, unlike those of wizards or other mortals. This is what's bothering me."
"Gohan," Kami said, mentioning Gohan's name for the first time, "this danger is nothing like other mortals or Majin Buu as I have been told and felt. This is an entity."
"What's an entity?" Gohan asked.
"The power of creation and destruction. An entity is neither an immortal nor a mortal. It can be killed or destroyed but it will remain forever on its own. Whatever it is that has the planet in this condition, I am afraid it can't be stopped," Kami said.
Gohan felt helpless. He related the ki he had felt of this power with these words of Kami and now it made sense. Gohan did sense a source of immortality in that ki but it was different from what he had felt in Garlic Junior's, an immortal and now a weak opponent of Gohan.
"If you like, I can see to the girl in your arms," Kami said, breaking Gohan's train of thoughts.
"Thank you," Gohan said with a smile. He trusted Kami. But unlike others, he trusted him less than Piccolo but he knew Piccolo wasn't in his right mind at the moment and was trapped. He handed Hermione to Kami who floated her in the air and then she vanished.
"She is now being taken care by Mr Popo. I assume you know my assistant?" Kami asked with a smile. Gohan nodded silently, still looking where Hermione was floating a moment ago. He knew she was inside the palace. He could feel her ki after all that ki disturbances below him on the earth. "Now, if you don't mind, I would like to hear your story. Please tell me about your timeline. That way, you will get better help from me."
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Hermione woke up with a gasp. She found herself in a large luxurious room and on a soft large bed. Her clothes had been changed to a more comfortable ones and she held her hands close to her chest when she realised someone had changed her clothes while she was asleep. Still looking around the room, she realised the room was even grander than the Gryffindor castle.
But where was she?
Her thoughts came to an end when she realise someone opened the door to her room. She quickly laid back and pretended to be asleep, with one of her eyes faintly open enough for her to see this new comer. She suppressed her squeal of shock and fear when she saw a pitch black man in an Arabian fashion of clothes coming towards her bed with a tray which had a glass of water and something she couldn't see. The man was short like Flitwick and round like Hagrid. He wore a sleeveless red jacket which had no buttons with a white turban and his lowers was like she had seen the Indian people wear.
"Please don't pretend to sleep, Hermione. I know you are awake. You don't need to be scared of me," the man said in a surprisingly calm and cared voice.
Hermione, however, kept pretending to be in deep sleep, all the while, trembling inside the blanket with fear.
"There is nothing to fear, Hermione. But since you are, I think I should call Gohan. You would feel better with him," the man said and kept the tray on the side table and left the room.
Hermione sat up again and searched for her wand which she found on the side table, cleanly kept on a white cloth. She quickly grabbed it and clutched it tightly in her hand when the door to her room opened again. She took out her wand from under the blanket with the killing curse on her lips. She just needed to say that last word and the intruder would be dead. She had seen her parents' dead and was nowhere near to be called fine. She had had it all.
A hand became visible first and then a foot before Hermione said the last word.
"Kadavra!" she said loudly, her eyes closed as a sickly green spell came out of her wand and headed straight for the intruder before a loud bang forced her to open her eyes.
A large metal disk was now standing between her and the intruder with a small dent on its surface. Before Hermione could think anything, the disk vanished, revealing Gohan on the other side with a tall green man with antennas on his head and a wooden cane in his hand.
With trembling hands, she dropped her wand before Gohan ran towards her and held her tightly as she started babbling sorry with teary eyes.
"Its okay, Hermione. You did what you felt was best for your security," Gohan said, consoling her in his arms.
"I...I almost killed you!" she said between sobs.
"But you didn't. Stop crying, Hermione. Please."
"I...I'm so sca..scared, Gohan," Hermione said, clutching him tighter than ever.
"It is okay, Hermione," came a calm voice behind Gohan.
Hermione looked up from Gohan's shoulder to see the green man standing there with a smile. She could see this green person was in tension and was managing his smile somehow.
"Who...who's he, Gohan? She asked quietly.
Gohan broke the hug and looked in her eyes deeply. He used the technique he had developed after Piccolo had taught him to read minds and mentally made Hermione calm down. She did and felt a bit relieved.
"Hermione, this is Kami, the Guardian of Earth," Gohan said. "You don't need to fear him at all."
"Who...who was that black person?" Hermione asked as she looked at the Guardian who gave out a small chuckle when he heard her question.
"Sorry for scaring you, Hermione. His name is Popo and he is my assistant. He is a good hearted assistant. People always get a wrong idea looking at him for the first time. If not for him, I am afraid I won't be able to be a guardian as good as I am now," Kami said. "I believe he left you something?"
Hermione followed his eyes and looked at the tray that round man had left in the room a couple minutes ago. It had a glass of water and a small green bean.
"That's a senzu bean, Hermione. Eat it, you will feel better. It's a bit hard to chew but it will make you feel alive once more. You are quiet tired right now," Gohan said.
Seeing Gohan's trusty eyes, Hermione nodded silently and picked up the bean and put it in her mouth before her teeth began crushing it. Gohan was right. The bean was real hard to chew so after chewing it for three to five times, Hermione used the water to gulp it down. No sooner had she swallowed, she felt as if a dam of power broke inside her. She felt good.
Gohan smiled at her wide eyed look.
"The bean is equivalent to ten days worth of meal energy. We often use it to replenish our lost strength during a fight," Gohan said, keeping up his smile which only went on to be wider.
"How do you grow these?" she asked.
"We don't. Only the Guardian is passed on the knowledge on how to grow these which he gives on to his other assistants who live below the Lookout. His name is Korin and he is the one who grows these beans," Gohan said.
"I am sorry for being scared of your assistant, Mr Guardian," Hermione said with apology.
Kami just waved it away. "Don't be. Popo didn't mind it at all. And please, call me Kami."
Hermione smiled at that. "So this is the Lookout?" she asked Gohan.
"Yes. This is where I met you and Harry before we came back in the past. I would love to show you around but I think there's something you need to know," Gohan said.
Hermione went grim. "You want to tell me about Harry and my parents' death?" she asked.
"No. Not only that. We have a problem, Hermione," Gohan said.
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She could not shake away the feeling she was getting as she and Gohan hovered over the destroyed cities below them. It looked like some nuclear explosion had taken them all out. She could see battered, bloodied bodies- some without heads, hands or half the body itself.
Nothing was left.
She held him tightly as they disappeared and then appeared right in front of where the Gryffindor Castle used to stand. Now it was in ruins. Gohan didn't want her to go in and she agreed to that as well. But she wanted to see Hogwarts.
Just as the Gryffindor Castle, Hogwarts was in ruins. But unlike before, they both went in. The wards no longer stood. The entrance gate was broken and its metal was bent away like thin wires.
Hermione felt as if she was re-living those ugly days back when she was indulged in the battle of Hogwarts. The only difference was that...this was worse.
When they entered the castle, Hermione could take it no longer when she first saw the truth in front of her. A first year girl was impaled on an iron rod right above from where the first years and other students entered the castle. The girl was torn off her clothes and her eyes were wide open with dried tear marks on her cheeks.
"Luna!" she whispered as she looked at her impaled body on the door above.
Gohan held her tightly, preventing her from going down. He knew how she was feeling. He cursed himself for not being able to help them. But what chance could he have? The amount of power he had felt was indescribable. He wouldn't even be able to face that power for even a second.
"Gohan, please," Hermione quavered as she said those words.
Gohan looked at her and nodded. He then let go off her and rose up in the air. Holding Luna's now cold and stiff body, he tried not to pull her out with a sudden move. He gently pulled her body towards him, taking it out of the bloodied rod and then descended down.
Hermione already had a conjured robe which she then wrapped protectively around the girl's lifeless body. Her tears never stopped as she wrapped it around Luna. Gohan held her firmly, providing emotional as well as physical support to her all the while as she paid her final respect to the blond girl.
Inside was a lot worse. Scattered were the bodies of professors, students and several other peoples. Aurors. Hermione recognised them from their robes.
"Looks like this destruction was slow than the one in the muggle world," she whispered, her voice still quavering with shock and fear.
"We can go, if you like?" Gohan said.
"No! Let me face it!" Hermione said and Gohan nodded.
Walking through the carpet of the dead, Hermione stopped still near one particular body and her face went from scared to angry. Gohan didn't stop her when she, with all her might and strength, kicked hard in Ron's groin as tears fell from her eyes finally like water from a broken dam and she gave in and fell in Gohan's arms who caught her just before she hit the ground.
He needed no words from her. Be that for or against her wish, Gohan held her and then vanished away.
She didn't need to see it.
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The Oracle Fish flew around the room with worried and tensioned look on its face. It stopped when Whis entered the room.
"Master Whis! Did I disturb you?" the Oracle Fish asked in a slight fear.
"No, no. I just woke up a few hours ago," Whis said with his familiar smile on his face. He was just the opposite of Beerus. Thanks to him only, Beerus could be controlled when he went out on a rampage which definitely would happen. "You look worried," Whis asked suddenly.
The Oracle Fish stopped floating as it turned and looked at the blue skinned, white haired god with a floating ring around his neck.
"I...I think what I am going to say now might not be liked by Lord Beerus, Master Whis," the fish said.
"A prophecy?" Whis asked. "For Lord Beerus?"
The Oracle Fish just nodded its head, its eyes down, looking on the floor.
"I just had a vision. When do you think he will wake up? The first thing he asks after he wakes up is for me. I need to be ready with the way I must represent my answer to him. I don't want to make him angry," the Oracle Fish said.
"You do know he acts a bit childish, right? Even though he is a god of Destruction, Lord Beerus is good from his heart. He just has his own way of seeing good in others," Whis said with a smiling face. "Is it related to what we are feeling currently from a planet called Earth?" this time he had no smile on his face and he looked even more dangerous than Beerus himself.
"Not directly. I know you also sensed the complications that are coming from that planet. We have never actually dealt with something like that, Master Whis. And I am afraid that what I am about to tell you isn't actually a prophecy in a way."
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Returning back on the Lookout, Gohan and Hermione were served some food by Mr Popo. Gohan and Hermione both thanked him for that and ate heartily. They never realized they were that hungry. Mr Popo and Kami were simply amazed at the amount of food Gohan could eat.
"Did you see what it is, down there?" Kami asked once their eating was done with.
"It is ugly. It felt like we were going through hell itself. Also, that dark ki which I felt was covering every part of the planet," Gohan said. "Also, would you be able to look up on Hermione? She just saw the worst sights of her life."
Kami nodded and called Popo who then took Hermione inside the palace.
"Is there something you want to speak about, Gohan?" Kami asked.
"I failed, Kami. I failed huge. I never realised something this terrible would be happening," Gohan said. "Even the Dragon Balls are gone. Nothing's left."
"I don't know about your first question, Gohan. But as per your story, you told me you and your father along with two other friends of his went over to my home planet to wish others back, including my other half, Piccolo. And I can create the dragon balls as it was but it would take not less than five years at least because I will have to create new balls out of nowhere. As per whether you failed or not, I think you did your best under these circumstances. So you don't need to feel sorry for what happened. Think of ahead. Think of what you are going to do. Think of how you are going to help your last remaining friend inside the palace. Think of how you are going to face this new enemy. I will provide with all the help I can. This planet is under my protection after all," Kami said.
"You know, you just sounded like Piccolo for a moment," Gohan said with a smile. He so desperately wanted his father and Piccolo here at the moment. They would definitely figure out something. Using the Namekian Dragon Balls would not prove to be helpful right now because there were high chances as to whatever or whoever this new enemy was, it would certainly bring the devastation again and this time Gohan and Hermione would not be so lucky. Also, the Dragon Balls couldn't make people travel through time and space so he could not wish for his father and Piccolo to be here. He never felt this alone, this helpless. Net even when his father had died during the Cell Games and he had to wait for him, along with others for seven years before he could see Goku again.
"Maybe you should go inside, Gohan. I think some rest will help you and your friend might need you as well."
Kami's words brought him out of his dream world and he looked up at the kind Guardian. Looking at that face, Gohan wished more for Piccolo to be here. He had to admit that Piccolo was there for him even more than his own father. His first teacher never let him miss his dad. Those late night talks and trainings in those woods and forests with him, those were one of the best times in Gohan's life before he started going to high school.
Thanking the Guardian once again for him letting them stay at the Lookout, Gohan headed towards the palace.
He found Hermione asleep on the bed in one of the rooms. He quietly got in and closed the door as quietly as possible. He walked over to her side. She looked so peaceful while asleep but her mind was just the opposite- sharp like a blade and faster than, maybe, his instant transmission.
He brushed her hair to the side so he could see her face. She was sleeping soundly. But he knew she would likely to be mourning over once again after she wakes up.
"I am sorry, Hermione. I failed to protect us all," Gohan said with a whisper, careful enough not to wake her up. "If you can, please forgive me. I let us all down."
"It is not your fault, you know."
Gohan turned to look at Mr Popo standing at the door of the room.
"It is, Mr Popo. I promised his parents, Harry's parents that I would protect him and Hermione. And now he's dead and so could've been Hermione as well..."
"But she is fine. You saved her, Gohan. You did," Popo said.
"But Harry..." he stopped as his voice went quavering.
"If you would've known what was happening to him, we are sure you would've found a way to save him as well. You did a marvellous job saving her, Gohan. You didn't wait and mourn over Harry's death. You rushed for her as soon as you were warned. That quickness and concern of yours is the only reason your other friend is alive," Popo said.
"What can I do, Mr Popo? I have never felt this helpless since the Cell Games. I have no one here who would help me with this situation. I don't even know the enemy! How am I ever gonna find him and defeat him?" Gohan said. Popo could clearly see those two drops of tears that could fall out of Gohan's eyes any moment. He could feel the struggling the boy was going through inside of him.
"You wait, Gohan," Popo said. "Let your enemy come to you so you can see who it is. Then you prepare yourself according to that."
"But what if I not make it?" Gohan asked.
"You will make it out of there, Gohan."
Gohan looked up from Popo to Kami who just entered the door.
"How can you say that for sure?" Gohan asked.
"Because you will train yourself. Earth might still be contaminated from that dark ki, but I can feel its source is no longer on the planet. You have an entire planet for your training. So prepare yourself. You are our only hope in destroying this enemy, Gohan, because you are the only one strong enough."
"But...but what if I..."
"Failure is a part of one's life, Gohan. If you fail, you stand up and fight again. Failure gives you more experience as to how to face your problems. Don't take your failure as your life's finality. It is just helping you to get stronger, son. So accept it with grace and prepare yourself harder," Kami said.
Gohan felt good at that.
"And Mr Popo knows all about magic and spells. His experience is gained from him assisting the former Guardians. I hope he will not mind teaching Hermione some duelling?" Kami asked as he looked at Popo whose smile just got bigger.
"I would love to," Popo said in his deep happy voice.