Gone- A Harry Potter Doctor Who Fan-fiction
Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter or Doctor who- if I owned either both would have considerably different endings.
An accident with the Time-Turner sends Hermione Granger hurtling back through time 20 years to a place where she never expected to be, disguised with no-where else to go she stays at the school hoping someone will realise she is missing in the present and try to rescue her, however her existence has been erased from time creating a chain of events that effect many years into the future so when the Doctor arrives in early 2009 so Donna can visit her family he is met with a changed earth.
Originally this fan-fiction was based on the Doctors companion being Rose but I think Donna gives more a life to the story and it allowed me to grow there relationship as friends rather than try to figure out how best to write the Doctor's and Rose's relationship which I was finding difficult. Also I wanted to show the Doctor's relationship with someone else but I can't say who yet (that would ruin the surprise!)
There is an explanation in this fan-fiction as to why wizards exist, it is an alien explanation – I have no idea if others have tried to explain it in the same way but I would like to claim the 'ToruNyx' as my own creation but if by some strange reason you want to use them in your own fan-fiction- please ask and credit. It's rather complicated I might add to explain something fixed in a story as alien in origin so please bear with me if I have missed a few facts – don't berate me or anything.
Dedicated to one of my best friends – TheMatchingOddSocks as this Christmas me and my friends decided to draw each other art pieces from a list of words... This is sort of what became of my art piece for her! (You may shoot me if you like- though I can draw something from it if you want?) I will also dedicate this to my other best friend InShort since it was her idea to start with. And the two words to let you both know where 'Harry Potter' and 'Freakdom' but you may see where I incorporated other words off the list.
(Also to add this fan-fiction will definitely at some point contain a male/male relationship)
But anyway without further ado I present - Gone
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
Prologue- What is a Wizard.
A genetic accident on a planet millions of light-years away from earth set a certain number of a race of what were normal bi-pedalled species forward in evolution at an alarming rate. They had been looking at a way to save there species from extinction by getting away from the surface problems of there own planet, terrible earthquakes sparking awful tsunami's and whirlpools taking out millions of lives at every strike. Working fast they miscalculated on the works and in an explosion covering half the planet they became what they never could have imagined in a million years, they were now sets of just gas or as they would be viewed by the human eyes a beautiful pair of sparkling diamond shaped clouds that had a white veil of mist surrounding and connecting them. The two diamond shapes being separate parts of the being that they needed to survive connected by the thin veil of mists that they could not become disconnected from or as experiments proved as many died.
It was discovered eventually many years after the destruction of there own world that they needed to jump back in evolution and have a host body to interact and survive– they needed ones that were compatible and wouldn't come to any harm to there presence, their tests on what looked to be compatible host bodies in the region had inadvertent reactions that they couldn't control. They had lost many trying and now the few thousand left were growing restless, or as restless as gaseous entities could get as there number diminished as the gas between ran out and with no-way to procreate they needed compatible hosts and fast. Taking to the stars as they did not require air to breathe they began to travel, with no other water bearing planets in there system they set up to travel far.
It was the year 1136 on earth when they arrived in the solar system, the only life forms there being pre industrial but they were now desperate for a home and willing to go against the shadow proclamation on interfering with pre industrial cultures to find one. Descending into the atmosphere they sought out the closest continent and looked the closest combatable vessel.
History tells that this mans name was Merlin, and that from that day he went around with magical unknown powers that could conjure fire from midair and summon strange objects.
History was wrong.
In reality he was merely a normal human for a few days with two vessels living inside him, Merlin was perfectly aware of there presence and welcomed them to share his body, between the three entities they began testing to see if the newly discovered 'Humans' were able to sustain them for a length of time as they were growing weak and few in numbers. After another few weeks it was established that humans held the perfect properties required by the ToruNyx for them to as pairs find a vessel of there own. As they started however first joining to Merlin's friends and relatives they discovered strange things that started to happen, one instance when Merlin's youngest looked inch's from death under carriage wheel there she was standing at the side of the road not a hair on her head hurt. When asked how she did it she just replied that she was thinking about how she wished she had not walked out onto the road and that she was back there when she blinked she had found herself where she wished.
Other strange incidents kept occurring, once the remaining ToruNyx has all found suitable hosts it was on and even larger scale causing un-linked humans to start noticing and questioning them when they saw it happen. They always denied it and called it a trick of the light or some sort but soon it began to get difficult to hide – as they grew in numbers in the area the amount of accidental 'magic' as one joker had dubbed it got worse.
That was when he turned up. In his whirring machine all covered in blue and made of fine crafted wood with the strange lettering across the top. He called himself the Doctor had a rather strange hairstyle compared to the current inhabitants and long scarf draped around his neck he also constantly asked if you would like a jelly baby... he was a very strange man. However he knew that the ToruNyx where there and he was not happy about it.
Instead of what is now renowned as the current doctor's way of dealing with aliens threatening the Human race he engaged diplomacy, and sought to solve there problems so that they could live in there own section of earth, hidden from the non-linked so as not to affect there growing society.
The new ToruNyxHuman's quickly agreed to these terms, The ToruNyx not wanting to leave and the humans that were now occupied by them not wanting them to go either. Working with the creatures for many weeks having wittily nicknamed them the 'Wizards' and 'Witches' accordingly the ToruNyxHuman's were affronted at first as witch burning was still going on in neighbouring villages but they did see the similarities so the nickname stuck as a kind of joke since they did perform 'Magic'
The doctor also after a bit of risky experimentation with Merlin who had been the host longest had at his consent along with the entities inside him, extracted the mist that connected the two diamond clouds using the sonic screwdriver and placed it inside a finely crafted staff that Merlin had inherited from his grandfather. The staff they found kind of grounded the excess energy that the doctor had explained but the ToruNyx had had trouble following and really the human mind couldn't easily keep up with the speed. Afterward Merlin found that the energy no longer acted without turn but he could control it and almost feel the other entity in the staff.
Eventually everyone had there own staff or similar object in which to channel there 'Magic' as the Doctor taught Merlin how to separate the mist so he could do it to others to help speed along the process. Once done the doctor began settling the ToruNyx Humans into a separate village that had been torn down by a fire in previous years, using there 'magic' in a way to heal the buildings they soon had finished and Merlin the now almost chosen leader of the group began to will non-linked humans never to find them, using his staff as a channel to the earth soon there was an unseen barrier around there new-found village. Once the doctor was satisfied with his deal met, he left the settlement in peace, a place that was to be known later as Hogsmede.
It was only a few months after that the first child was born, in the most brilliant environment it could have chosen. Merlin worked with others to create spells to enhance there living as they found through experimentation that along with will the energy reacted more powerfully with words or incantations, the joke still stood that they really were 'Wizards' now if they could do that.
The child was the cause for many a few accidents its accidental magic catching it however, Merlin attempted to do the same by retracting its mist into a wand, but it was decided that the youngest who had been allowed wands at 8 where terrors so best to leave the transition until a more mature age when they could be trusted with there 'Magic'. There were many other accidents along the way as well, as more spells were developed, once someone's staff was snapped. At first everyone thought it would be a swift end for the man who no longer had what the ToruNyx needed too survive but it turned out the physiology reacted well under the shock and the mist was found again weaker but back at the core of the mind around the diamonds as though it had never left.
Eventually as time went on Merlin realised that he would not be on the earth for much longer in his psychical body anyway, and even though a little of him would be carried on in the ToruNyx or at least in the ones that occupied him. He still wanted to leave something so in his last display of great energy he provided a great gift for the rest of Wizard kind. Pouring all his spell power and energy he planted a seed of a tree and willed it to grow. This tree which would bear many seeds to be re-planted and grown, but this was not any kind of tree, Merlin charmed it with the ability to extract the mist from the core when properly structured and when presented with a ToruNyxHuman. He had tried to teach others the way of extraction but none had grasped it with quite the understanding Merlin had so when they found Merlin the next day lying next to a beautiful tall oak tree it didn't take many to guess what he had done.
The ToruNyx entity that had been inside him had now been released from the form venturing out it found another suitable host and brought it into the fold.
Now that story is lost under many legends and lore. Wizards no longer feel there ToruNyx as now they are just a part of them as they are of humans. Wands are now always made from the tree's wand makers believe to have magical properties in reality they are all from the original, Merlin's tree. 'Muggleborns' are what is the result of a life ended too early, causing the ToruNyx to go out for a new host instead of dying with there current. This was technically defying the Doctor's wishes for them to stay separate from the non-linked, now referred to as muggle's, but they sought it as self preservation.
Government leaders came government leaders went all was running smoothly until one day in September 1993 when a key person in history vanished, altering the future indefinitely.
I do not own Merlin either just to add as an extra disclaimer, The Merlin in this is not from the BBC TV show (as I don't watch it) but I thought I would add that he's not mine but a timeless character who is associated with early magic who I thought fitting to use. Although in this version technically Merlin is Scottish, and that idea makes me smile.
I hope you enjoyed anyway- Story gets going next chapter which will be published shortly after this one as this fan fiction has been written a few chapters ahead- I know I said I would do it before but this time I did it- I've been sitting on this chapter since January 3rd!