Prologue
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Ever since the defeat against Voldemort and his followers, magic began to be disrupted. No one noticed with the excitement of the Dark Lord finally defeated. Only years, many years, after the magic started changing, someone finally noticed. Oddly enough the one who noticed the disruption in magic was Sigmore Santor. He was being chased by muggles and tripped on a well placed banana. The banana then spontaneously changed into a walking stick figure. The stick figure then yelled indigently at Sigmore in some unintelligible jumble. It then walked away till it was eaten by a bird. This was later called the 'Someone ate my firewisky' Incident. (Some scholars later say that the people who thought of the name were drunk.)
After it was brought to magical creatures' attention, something happened that no one ever expected. For the first time in writen or spoken history, every magical creature from sprites to wizards and giants to trolls worked together to try and fix a problem. The unity of all magical creatures only lasted one month, but it did happen. The trust was broken because no one could come to an agreement on where to meet, in order to figure out what went wrong with magic in the first place. Afterwords everyone broke up the trust and went solo.
No matter how hard they worked and tested outrageous theories, the magic refused to go back to how it once was. It continued changing. Many years after they tried to change it, some started to give up, others lost magic altogether and disappeared, very few stayed to fight the change. The few that did decide to fight the change were later dubbed the idiots. The changes in magic actually were for the better the magical community later found out.
Then magic suddenly settled in to 'new' magic, as the few magical creatures around called it.
-Excerpt from Magic Theory and History-
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Heihachi Shindo was paranoid. Every time he went out of the house with his wife and baby son, he got the feeling of darkness surrounding his family. At first he simply brushed it off as drinking too much. As it continued, however he concluded the cold chills, broken coffee mugs, windows breaking on top of him, and other bad omens were not random at all. After weeks of the strange feeling, he found his reason for it.
One morning as he was having his morning cup of coffee, the owl post came in through the window and dropped the paper right on top of his coffee. The coffee spilled all over the table and over the sides, luckily missing his pants. He glared at the bird, he liked his coffee…the meat on stubby twiggs called legs would pay.
He gave such a glare at the bird that it suddenly combusted in a great yellow inferno. The inferno was so great that it spread to the table in a blinding flash of light, and he felt satisfied that karma had struck again. Until he looked at the owl who just blinked slowly back, the reflection of the sun making it look as though it was on fire. Karma laughed mockingly at Heihachi. The owl seemed to grin evilly as it lazily left back through the window, and promptly pooped on the window. Heihachi sighed as he picked up the paper, not bothering with his coffee mess. He would clean it up later. He looked back at the window. He sighed again, that would have to be cleaned up later as well.
Mumbling something about owl pie, he grudgingly looked over at the front page stories. Veil Surrounding Magical World, Hogwarts Looking for New Teachers, New Ways of Handling Magic, Start of a New War, A Gnome Spotted…
Heihachi blinked.
Heihachi rubbed his eyes.
Heihachi looked at the paper again.
Heihachi yelled for his wife, while throwing down the paper and running to find her.
Next to the heading for New War was a picture. The picture showed a necklace with a mini Go Board on the chain. The Go Board was resting on a thick belt that could be strung over someone's shoulder. On the strap there are seven pouches all of them of different sizes. The picture itself was very old and it oddly enough did not move, unlike the other pictures in the paper. The caption under the picture grabbed his attention. "This is an artifact professionals said is an dark magic object used for controlling the dead." He snorted and shook his head and read the article. The ending of it caught his attention. It said:
"…Necromancers destroyed a town with their undead army. Hundreds were killed. They seem to be searching for an ancient Go Board. Said to contain many magical abilities and able to be of use in Death. Many citizens of the Veil are looking to the government for help. The Minister of Magic's Secretary had this to say, "We are working on keeping the undead away. Lists of what to do if they are around will be posted in every paper." After wards he slammed the door in this reporter's face. He seemed to be in quite a hurry. Be on the lookout for any Dead or any suspicious activity or persons. If any is seen report it immediately."
Reporter Kama Tarpon
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Heihachi hysterically told his wife about the article while waving his arms for emphasis. "Necromancersareafterthegoboardweareprotectingtheyareusingthedeadtofinditwearedonefore!" He finished by shoving said mini Go Board in her face.
She blinked not comprehending what he said, and looking around the Go Board in her face she said, "Could you repeat that?"
He took a deep breath, removed the mini Go Board from her face, and said, "Necromancers are after the go board we are protecting, and are using the dead to find it. We are done for if they come hear!"
His wife comely walked over to the baby play area and picked up their son. Looking worried and holding the child close she said shakily, "What do we do?"
"We need to leave and hide it." She clutched their son closer to her and nodded silently.
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That night they left the small village towards the edge of the Veil Wall. As they went through the check point, they left the magical world behind and would begin a new life in the non magical world beyond the Veil.
They never got the news that their village was destroyed the night after they left.
The innocent looking Go Board and belt would stay hidden for many years to come, as their son showed no magical ability. They did not have to worry or tell him of the world they came from.
Masao, their son, grew up not knowing of his parent's world and got married to Mitsuko. Soon after they had a son of their own, a very happy boy by the name of Hikaru.
Yes...thats the prologue. I changed it ten million times until it changed to what it is now... I have a vague idea of how this will turn out so any inputs are helpful!
Constructive criticism is very helpful! I need all the help I can get.
Oh! I forgot to put this up!
Disclaimer: I do not own Hikaru no Go, Harry Potter, or the Abhorsen Trilogy.