"You are to follow us back to the Ministry of Magic," the cloaked men before them said, pointing their wands at them. The three teenagers sighed; they were supposed to be out of Japan and at where their mother's late teacher – Dumbledore, they believe his name to be – called 'The Burrow' by now with Spirit of Fire, but because of these… idiots, they were held up.

"What now, Hao?" the only girl asked, her cross-shaped necklace reflecting the lightning that struck suddenly. The long haired, earring wearing boy hummed in thought as the not-as-long haired, headphones wearing boy laughed. The one the girl addressed, Hao, she had called him, smirked.

"Easy," he said, exchanging grins with the headphones wearing one. The girl tilted her head, amused. "We do that?" she asked, humor evident in her voice. "Why yes indeed," the headphones wearing boy answered instead, his black eyes shining. "We do that." As one, all three teenagers faced the cloaked men, the girl stepping forward and disappearing.

The cloaked men gasped. "She Apparated?!" one exclaimed. The two boys laughed. The girl's giggle was heard as well. "Nope," she said in a sing-song voice, suddenly standing before them and grabbing their wands, smiling even as she danced away from their lunges to get their wands back. "I was simply too fast." She tossed the wands over to the boys, the headphones wearing one catching them easily.

"Good work Rei!" he said, holding them out to Hao. Hao grinned, and, in true pyromaniac fashion, burned them with a delighted smile. The cloaked men gasped again.

"W-w-wandless magic?!"

Rei smirked slightly. "We don't know anything about this Apparation or wandless magic crap," she said snidely, "or do we, Yoh?" Finally addressed by name, the headphones wearing boy laughed. "If our abilities are counted as 'wandless magic', I wonder what our magical abilities will be seen as."

Rei and Yoh laughed while Hao merely smirked. "Ready to go, my cute siblings?" he asked, raising a hand when they nodded. "Spirit of Fire! Take us out!"

"Never mess with us Asakuras!" Rei said, giggling at the obvious shock the cloaked men had as they disappeared.

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This is a
Nixie the Water Mage
Production of
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Shamans and Magic: Deathly Hallows Rewritten
Prologue/Chapter 1

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The trio arrived at where they assumed was 'The Burrow' in a circle of flames, since it looked pretty accurate to the description their mother gave them. "I wonder what's wrong here…" Rei said softly, tapping her chin with a finger. "Things seem pretty tense…"

"…surrounded the moment we took off – they knew it was tonight – I don't know what happened to anyone else…"

"Hear that?" Hao asked. Both Yoh and Rei nodded, frowning. "Let's go ask them… that sounds like that guy we're supposed to help protect under mother's teacher's orders." With a shrug, the other two agreed. Just as they nearly reached, Rei's eyes flashed.

"Blood," she said simply. Hao and Yoh, knowing better than to question Rei's sense of smell, followed as the girl sprinted forward, easily dodging flashes of light. Rei pulled off her long fingerless gloves and pressed them on the side of the bleeding person's head. "Shoot us later; we are here under orders our mother received from someone by the name of Albus Dumbledore!" she shouted, her black eyes daring them to do just the exact opposite. The name 'Dumbledore', however, made one of them – a boy, messy black hair and green eyes – nod and grab the bleeding guy's legs and they made their way into the house.

Hao and Yoh simply said 'introductions later' when the others turned to them. The boy with green eyes came back and started conversing with the others and, when Yoh looked over where Rei was, the – he guessed – mother and sister of the still-bleeding guy were obviously suppressing their distrust towards Rei, especially since Rei was actually helpful in healing.

"Do you think Rei'll be okay? What with her seeing someone injured the moment we get here…" Yoh asked Hao softly so not to attract attention from the obviously hostile people. Hao shrugged.

"We can only hope, Yoh," Hao answered, watching in slight amusement as the green eyed boy ('So that was Harry…' Hao thought to himself, since someone yelled the boy's name and he responded) went to help get the – he guessed – half-giant unstuck. Their eyes met and Harry nodded, and they went to check up on the injured.

"How is he?" Harry asked, concerned. Hao and Yoh went to check up on Rei, who smiled tiredly at them. They repeated the question Harry asked, and Rei frowned.

"Dark Magic, so his ear most definitely cannot be grown back. I'm just glad I stopped the bleeding in time – any longer and he would've lost too much blood," the girl answered.

The sister of the guy looked at them, curious, but turned to Harry. "Did I hear someone else in the yard?" she asked.

"Hermione and Kingsley," Harry answered her. The girl whispered a 'thank goodness', and the two proceeded to stare at each other. Rei looked at them, slightly amused, then…

"I'll prove who I am, Kingsley, after I've seen my son, now back off if you know what's good for you!"

'Father, twin brother… wow, this is one huge family,' Yoh thought, smiling a little. 'But it's nice to see them so close to each other.'

'It is, isn't it?' Rei asked telepathically. Yoh nodded, and Hao grinned, having heard them both. They proceeded to stay out of sight and way until someone came back and announced 'Mad-Eye's dead'.

Exchanging glances, the trio finally moved and joined the group silently. Silently, Yoh and Rei commanded their ghost partners to check and they quickly did, returning soon after with confirmation of what that person said. Rei's eyes saddened, and both Hao and Yoh wrapped an arm around the youngest among the three of them, understanding her pain.

When someone announced that they had to go retrieve this 'Mad-Eye's' body, Hao jumped at the chance. "We'll do it," he said, and all eyes turned to them, mostly hostile… all but one pair of green eyes.

"Who're you?" was the main question, but the owner of the green eyes had a different question that was mouthed: why?

Yoh stepped up. "We're shamans – people who connect this world to the next – from Japan. Our mother is a miko – a shrine maiden, if you will – and she was visited by her teacher's spirit, Albus Dumbledore, and was informed of this situation. Being an important figure in the shrine, she couldn't leave, so she sent us."

"I'm Asa- sorry, force of habit – Hao Asakura, the oldest among the three of us," Hao continued, "and he," he said, pointing at Yoh, "is Yoh and Rei here," he patted Rei's head, "is the youngest. However, I assure you we are good at what we do and…"

"We are here to help," Rei said softly, finally raising her eyes. "Whether to trust us or not, it's entirely up to you. But we have better senses and we have our guardian spirits with us and therefore, it's at least twenty times easier for us to locate this person's body. You probably think I'm being cocky, but it is true. I had the unfortunate chance to test it out before."

Silence followed Rei's statement. Then, one spoke. "Why are you so willing to help us?" Harry asked. "I know we can trust you – I trust you, but… why?"

Hao and Yoh exchanged glances, but Rei was steady in replying. "Because that is how we are. Is it not the same with you?"

Silently, Harry nodded with a smile. "Yea." Rei smiled back, but her eyes were still slightly dark from the knowledge that someone died. Some of the older ones were not convinced, though. They argued quite a while, but eventually, gave in and allowed Hao and Yoh to go search for the body (since, after a quick introduction, Mrs. Weasley refused to allow a girl to go out and be in danger, shaman or not).

When they found the body and returned immediately with it (about 15 hours later), Rei was so relieved she clung onto them and didn't let go of them until they said they needed to shower. Then she let go of them and chased them around the Burrow, literally commanding them to shower.

"It's official," Fred and George announced. "They are trustworthy."

"Why?" Ron asked. The twins grinned.

"Not only did she help heal me," George started.

"But she's just as crazy as Ginny-dearest!" Fred continued.

"And they helped find Mad-Eye! How can they not be trustworthy?" The twins ended.

Harry laughed.