A/N: Hey everybody! I want to thank those who took the time read the prologue, and don't want to keep you reading author notes to long so all my notes will mainly be at the end of my chapters.
Hope you will like it and good reading to you!
/!\ "italic" = character thoughts
Disclaimer: Bleach elements are Tite Kubo's. Harry Potter was, is and will forever be J.K Rowling's. But Miss Khan as OC is mine mouhaha.
Chapter One: Lieutenant Noémie B. Khan is in the place!
The huge doors of the eating hall flew open on a young woman, cutting the headmasters speech. She wears a black leather jacket and a samurai-like uniform top, hold in place by a white fabric belt upon black ridding trousers and black riding boots. Her brown locks held in a loose bun are soaked as well as her athletic but still very feminine body. An American saddle and a huge bag are held by her right hand over her shoulder and a katana in a black with golden decorations sheath is firmly hold by her remaining hand. The students watch her, surprised, a hundred eyes looking at her. The Headmaster smiles at her.
"Is obviously arrived. Dear student may I introduce you the Lieutenant of the Thirteenth Squad of Gotei 13 newly arrived: Noémie B. Khan! She has for mission to eradicate the Hollow as well to assure our protection inside the school and during your trips to Hogsmead. She will also help your new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher during some lessons as a consultant on spiritual creatures, and inaugurate the recently created post of Student Supervisor. So this year you will have to play smart with your pranks if you want to avoid detentions. But if you have any problem you can go to her as well as she was your Head of House. Welcome Miss Khan, please come in!" he welcomed the young women.
"Thank you for your welcome Dumbledore-dono and nice to meet you. I apologise being late." She said starting to enter the huge hall.
"It's nothing, I hope you had a nice journey." He said with a warming smile.
"Well it would have been better if our marvellous lab rat of the Twelfth Squad hadn't decided to do a maintenance of the portal to Hogwart, because of these idiots I had to do a London-Hogwart flight under the rain. I'm lucky my mare flies rather fast and is restless because I've rarely seen such a lost place as yours, you owe her my presence here." She said looking a little bit annoyed.
"I think you must be hungry, don't worry for your horse, our Keeper will have the pleasure to take care of her."
"Thank you a lot, but it is already done since helped herself with the grass of the park as soon as we landed. She likes to live outside don't worry for her she couldn't be happier." She chuckled.
He smiles gently at her, summoned a little towel and showed her the head table.
"Please take a seat between Professor McGonnagal and Professor Flitwick, a good meal will do you some good when my speech is finished."
"Thank you."
She dropped her belongings and her soaked jacket against the wall, and went to sit on the empty seat between the Transfiguration and Charms teacher. She dried discreetly her hairs with the towel to evacuate the most of the water, her natural ability of heating her body taking care of the rest.
She listened carefully to the rest of the speech, discovering her work partner (a man with brown hair which seemed rather tired and not in the better health, called Remus Lupin); and that the giant man she saw entering the room, was the keeper and also new Care of Magical Creature teacher, called Hagrid. He mentioned something about prison guardian called Dementors in charge of security because of some dangerous fugitive. She made note to ask for more information about it to the headmaster.
"And now I have one last thing to tell you: Enjoy your meal!"
He clapped his hands and our young shinigami jumped on her seat when a myriad of dishes appeared before her eyes on the table.
"Wow…"
"Something wrong Miss Khan?" Asked archly the old wizard.
"Nothing, I was just surprised. I'm used to cook my meal, not to see them appear by magic under my nose."
Her right table-neighbour gave her a little smile. "Don't worry you will get used to it quickly. And how did you manage to pass the wards that protect the castle entrance?"
The brunette smiled "Oh pretty easily: I opened a portal to the huge entrance door, which lock broke with the help of a mini-byakuraï, not really strong for the impression it gives."
The strict Transfiguration Professor almost choked her wine as her other table neighbour looked puzzled at the young women, while Dumbledore smiled, rather amused.
"You… broke… the door ?!" said the Scot women between two cough.
"To make it right I put a ward avoiding any thing having a soul to enter, but you can go outside as you wish. I may have chosen something subtler but with the natural shower I endured all the afternoon I had neither the motivation nor the taste to act subtle." said the shinigami pouring herself a large piece of beef with vegies and potatoes, happy to be able to appreciate a good and more important a WARM dinner.
"Don't worry Minerva, I will fix it later once Miss Khan put her ward down." calmed her the Headmaster.
Professor McGonagall, a little calmed by the speech of the young women and her friend promise, launched again the conversation.
"How did you manage to came here so quickly even with riding a horse? London is almost at a day of train from here. And were you not afraid to be see?"
"Basically humans aren't supposed to be able to see spirits so it's fine, and the few one that may have seen me must be so used to see strange things that they won't make a fuss of it. I had to read a little bit about the school and your world to prepare for this mission. So I went to King's Cross, and arrived there only platform 9 and 10. but that bloody book didn't mention how to go to your twisted platform." Explained the brunette while cutting a piece from her meat.
"How did you find it?" asked the little Charm Professor next to her with a grin.
"I decided to lean against the wall between the platform 9 and 10 to smoke a cigarette to calm down a bit when I fell backward. And don't laugh it wasn't funny!" she said when McGonagall and the rest of the professors that heard her tried to hid their laugh or smiles. "The train wasn't there so I summoned my horse and her Pegasus blood to follow the railway from the sky. After a wonderful afternoon under the rain I arrived at Hogsmead, I asked my way at the pub and here I am! And I had to say that the damned creatures on the gates are rather sticky, but strangely as soon as I started pulling out my sword they vanished as if they had the devil after them. Besides, what are these things?"
"Interesting… To answer your question, they are the famous Dementors, they are creatures that are feeding with all living creature positive feeling and have a taste for souls. They are here for security."
The man on the other side of Dumbledore snorted and McGonagall gave her superior a death glare.
"Ok, so like I thought it these bloody things aren't as harmless for me as for humans." Thought the Lieutenant frowning.
"I now understand why my mare was completely stiff when they showed up."
"You can feel that so easily on horseback? Rolanda Hook, flying instructor by the way." asked her a grey spiked haired women sitting next the Charms Professor.
"Yes, especially when you know your horse well. You never rode a horse?"
"No I ride brooms, I had never the occasion to try horse riding."
"That's such a shame! May I suggest you a deal? You teach me riding a broom and I teach you riding a horse?" proposed the horse lover.
"Deal!"
They push their chairs back and exchange a firm handshake to seal their deal, smiled at each other and went back to their plate. The young woman was really delighted to eat some European food. Not that she disliked Japanese and Asian food, but as a French born she missed eating potatoes and European vegies as well as a good huge piece of beef… but like any respectable French what she missed the most was… bread! As European products where rather hard to find at Soul Society as it was basically a realm for Asian souls, and the little she grows in her garden and the few cattle she owned, she could allow herself to cook European dishes only a few times per year. So she enjoyed each bite of her plate.
"I am glad that you seem to be delighted by the work of our little cooks." Said Dumbledore with a little smile, which makes her come back to earth.
"I was born French, I lived five years in a spiritual country which basically is a realm for Asian souls. I really love Asian food but Kami-sama you can't imagine how I missed potatoes, a good piece of beef, and lived the worst of all nightmare for any respectable French: not eating bread! I had to grow myself the vegetables that you can't find there, some wheat and I even started breeding some cattle to be able to cook European dishes, even if it was possible only a few times per year. And good wine is more complicated and hard to afford there than food. With a special mention for the beauty of the place and the talent of your little cooks, you will understand why I'm feeling as well as if I was in heaven if you put that all together after a whole afternoon flying under the rain."
He chuckled. "So the bad trip was worth the destination?"
"Indeed!"
And she put a piece of beef in her mouth, allowing her usually severe table neighbour a little smile. She reached the bottle of wine and poured some in the half empty goblet of her young neighbour.
"Thanks Professor."
"You're welcome Miss Khan, enjoy it, you earned it… even if you broke the locket of the main door."
Noémie chuckled and took her goblet to raise it a little to her neighbours'. "To marvellous diner, fine wine and this damned locket. Cheers."
"Cheers" McGonagall raised her goblet to cling it to the Shinigami's and they both sipped the delicious wine, not knowing that they just settled the foundation of a strong friendship.
In the middle of her plate, the man with the hooked nose and half-long black hairs seated on the other side of Dumbledore answered her: "Why did your superior send us somebody so high up in your hierarchy to do a simple guard job?"
"The old man received a demand of your minister supported by Dumbledore-dono, asking a qualified shinigami to protect the school. Because they are old friends, because Dumbledore-dono wants a better teaching about how to deal with spiritual creatures, and that I am the only one with the Captain of the Fifth Squad to know enough English to teach a lesson. On a strategic purpose it is stupid to send a Captain watching a site at full time a whole school year when a Lieutenant is able to do it. Professor…"
"Snape, Severus Snape, Master of Potions. Indeed, I just hope you aren't found of corporal punishment because it is forbidden to use violence and magic on students in this school."
The other Professor watched the verbal match that Snape just began with attention. But what Snape thought would annoy the young women just made her chuckle.
"Don't worry Professor, I am profoundly convinced that hitting a fool will only burn the last surviving neurons out of his empty head. No I found the ungrateful general interest work more rewarding and impactful than a slap from a pedagogical point of view. For the little history, some idiot which I shared the same class at Shinigami's Academy was transferred in my Squad and refused to show respect to all the member but my Captain. He spent three month scrubbing the sanitary of the Squad with a toothbrush, cursing his stupidity to lead him to the day I was tired of him and my men's complaint and owned from my Captain carte blanche to calm him down. After that he was as gentle as a lamb."
"What did he do to earn such punishment?"
"He turned all the Squad mad by acting like he owned the whole place and showed respect to anyone but our Captain. So my Captain said that I had to prove my authority and gave me whole power to fix the problem. Not even an hour passed that I had to supervise a Squad training period, and the prick was mysteriously absent. So I went to wake him and found him smelling like a barrel of bad sake and he dared to tell me, I quote: "Damn female, you'd better kept me company in bed instead to assault me like that! However, at this hour you should be in the kitchens cooking or scrubbing the Squads floors!". To say I didn't appreciate is a euphemism. I can't remember how I managed to gain enough self-control to not kick his ass to the next week."
Snape nodded with respect to her and she gave him a smile. She had just finished her plate when desert appeared on the table… and the ring of her Soulpager echoed by a familiar scream froze everyone… Everyone but the shinigami who just wanted to slam her head against a wall from hearing these annoying sound she knows too well. She didn't even have the time to sigh that a massif glass breaking noise sounded.
A 4 meters high green skin monster with a lion mane and a baboon like white mask, shoot in from the broken stained glass behind the head table.
But the monster doesn't have the time to touch a single student that he found the shinigami in front of him blocking his way in the air, and is sent to fit in the wall upon the Great Hall entrance by a very angry spin kick. Three luminous spikes pin him on the wall while she walks to him unsheathing her katana in pinning him to the wall with three luminous spikes. Unsheathing her katana she walks to him.
"Oh a shinigami, finally the feast will be better than I thought." Said the creature with a grave voice.
The Lieutenant shot him her darkest glare and her spiritual aura rise brutally, cutting the breath of almost all the people in the hall. A breeze surrounds her and an iridescent black gold smoke came out of her blade to form an angel in Armor holding a sword, his face hidden behind a hood and a heavy scarf. The blades soul appears behind her owner, answering her silent summoning and waiting of the order to kill.
"This damn Hollow has really no manners, calling me meal while I was enjoying mine… Kami-sama if all the Hollow of this area are so stupid they shall receive some manner lessons soon"
And within a heartbeat the Lieutenant spells the last word the creature will hear in its cursed existence:
"Daten-shi no chimei-tekina hiko"
The angel take is flight and pass threw her owner and her victim, the sword ready to strike. The creature screams of pain as it burns in black and gold flames, until there is nothing left of it.
A/N: TADAAAAM! Hope you enjoyed it and can't wait for your reaction to it!
I want to thank you for reading it and especially to thank Winmau!
This great author writes an indredible so cool story called "Bellatrix's second chance" that you can find in my favorite stories, so if you are a Bellatrix fan like us and still didn't read it I recommand it to you!
To gave him/her some advertising is the least I could do since he/she gave me the motivation to translate this story. This story was never published in French, and curiously I found out that I had more inspiration while translating (so I add some things while translating). I really prefer it in English, so I doubt I will publish the original French version.
As said at my profile I am French so if you found some english errors don't hesitate to say it so that I can improve myself! If you have some questions, reactions or comments don't hesitate and review! I will always send you a pm to reply, and if you are not registrated I will reply you at the end of the next chapter.
I don't know when I will publish the next chapter but within two weeks it may be there.
So see you soon everybody!
Naomi-chan =)
