Summary: Magic was angry and powerful, so it acted upon the injustice done to her favorite childe, Arianne Lily Potter. Months later, Akagami Shanks finds a small emerald eyed child on an inhabited island in the Grand Line, and takes her on his ship. With Magic singing in her veins, how will the presence of Arianne D. Phoenix change the life of those she touches? Shanks/OC
Chapter 1 - Prologue: Magic's childe
Staring at the Veil of Death in the Department of Mysteries, Arianne Lily Potter couldn't help but think that humans were fickle. She had saved them from Voldemort, defeated her worst enemy and demanded nothing but peace in return.
She had been naïve. Had trusted too much in something as intangible as faith. Arianne Lily Potter had learned of the human nature the hard way. In the tender care of her relatives, the Dursleys, she had learned of the depravity of humans. Learned that not even the word 'family' was a shield against bruised skin and broken bones.
It was when she was eight years old when something inside her had roared in defiance, something inside her broke and shattered into a thousand pieces and Arianne was able to see the world for what it truly was for the first time. She had never felt lonely from that moment on; had sought comfort from the well of warmth inside her that refused to let her return to the coldness of lonely and bitter days and nights.
It had whispered into her mind without words, had taught her and protected her and in return Arianne had focused all of her hope and dreams and what she had not yet known to be love on that feeling that made the whole world seem brighter.
Once she was eleven, she had received the letter that changed her life, and finally Arianne was able to put a name to the feeling inside of her.
Magic.
It thrummed inside her veins and heart; pulsing like another organ, always making her days brighter. Magic did not lie to her. It wasn't jealous or manipulative, and did not only like her for her supposed fame.
As the years passes, Arianne found friends and confidants, overcame trials and dangers; yet not once did she forget the Magic that had given her hope and dreams where once she had nothing.
Even as she defeated Voldemort, and became the woman-who-conquered; Arianne did not care. Humans were fickle, she knew that intimately. Magic was constant. It was knowledge and feelings and wisdom and life.
So she wasn't as surprised as she should have been when after the war everything changed. Awe turned to fear, the seldom mistrustful glances multiplied until there was no one left but her very closest friends.
But they stayed. And for Arianne that was everything; so she gritted her teeth and moved on until few turned to none, all of them either taken by pressure or death.
''I am glad to leave this world full of narrow-minded fools behind.'' Arianne murmured, not paying attention to the eager expression of the people all around her clamoring for her execution.
''Arianne Lily Potter. You are hereby accused of planning to become another Dard Lord. Your execution will commence now.''
Arianne tilted her head, her emerald eyes boring into the brown ones of the unremarkable ones of the Ministry Official; saw the fear and ignorance, and felt nothing but pity.
''I pity you and everyone who cannot see the value of change. Of braving your fear and overcoming them. I hope that one day, you will all be able to see that. Good luck.'' Her voice rose and resounded through the tall room, sounding infinitely older and wiser.
There was nothing to be gained by staying. Perhaps she could finally meet her family in the afterlife, or at least her Godfather.
Nodding resolutely, Arianne Lily Potter stepped through the Veil of Death, leaving complete Pandemonium behind. The Wizarding World would never see the young woman again, and in time would realize the meaning of the words spoken before the accursed veil.
To brave and overcome your fears would become the motto of Hogwarts decades after her execution, in honor of the woman who helped change the Wizarding World with only a few words alone.
Arianne Lily Potter would never be forgotten.
Magic in the strictest sense was not alive. It was the energy living inside everything; from people to plants to the very earth humans were walking on. But Magic was connected to the very hearts and minds of humans, and it learned.
Over hundreds of years Magic had become imbued with knowledge and feelings, had adapted to the ever changing world, and like Hogwarts had become almost sentient.
Magic was not alive, but it was there. And even though it couldn't feel in the way that humans did, it knew that anger was. Magic had favorites, and it weren't those who learned the most magic or had the most power, but those who acknowledged her the most.
Arianne Lily Potter was one of Magic's favorites. A child that had loved Magic without restraint and did not stop even as the years passed.
So Magic was angry that her life was too short, riddled with dangers and betrayal. Magic was furious and powerful, enough to act on those unfamiliar sensations that it did not truly understand.
A new life. A better life. Far away from the World that had cut her life too short and brought her so much pain. A new beginning without burdens or fears.
Magic was powerful. It was life and would not be denied, so when Arianne Lily Potter passed through the veil, and was for a single fraction of a moment unbound by anything, Magic acted - and tore apart the walls between the worlds for the very same amount of time. And as Arianne disappeared from the world Magic reigned in supreme, it was satisfied.
Its childe would find what it had been searching for, and for Magic it was all that mattered.
Meanwhile on a small inhabited island in the Grand Line, a small seven year old child appeared in a small flash of light, and would soon open her emerald eyes to a world she had no knowledge of, without remembering anything but the strange warmth inside of her that she would always trust.
The only indication of who she was would be the golden locket hanging from her neck, engraved with nothing but her new name.
Phoenix D. Arianne
A girl reborn out of the ashes of her old life, to change the tides of this world for the better or the worse.
A/N This is merely the prologue... The following chapters will be around ~3000 words as usual... Hope you liked it!
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