The Chosen One
Chapter 2: Dude, where's my wand?
A Yu-Gi-Oh/Harry Potter Fanfiction
By: Mazakai
Started: August 24, 2006
Completed: July 20, 2007
Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter. I wish I did, but I don't so I have to live with it. I really don't know what's really going to happen in this story, so don't get mad at me. Remember, this is just for fun.
Lily, well Lily as the black wolf led the group of witches and wizards down the same path in the forest that she had led Seto on the previous night. Of course no one decided to tell Seto that little piece of information; no one had said he needed to know anyway.
They had been walking in the forest for about twenty minutes before they started to see the small village Lily and Seto had been in the nigh before come in to view. Lily stopped suddenly and changed back into a human. She shook her hair out a few times and smoothed out her clothes. Then they continued on their way towards the center of the city.
"A cab should be waiting for us when we get there," Harry said, breaking the silence that had been over the group ever since they left the house.
And sure enough when they reached the center of the small village, a black car was waiting. A short man pushed himself off from the side of the car. "Potter party?"
"Yes, sir." Harry answered coolly.
The short man opened the door and Hermione slid in first followed by Ron, then Ginny, then Harry, followed by Lily and lastly Seto. Surprisingly the accommodations weren't as bad as Seto would have guessed them to be. There was more room than the outside of the car led people to believe.
With a jerk the car began to move and the landscape flew past them at an abnormal speed. Seto blinked and try to clear his eyes, but the images stayed the same. "How fast are we going?"
"No idea. These are no ordinary cabs." Hermione answered from in between Harry and Ron.
Seto turned back to the window and watched Lily's reflection through the glass. She was staring intently out of the window as if looking at something the others in the car couldn't see. He shrugged and continued to watch her through out the trip.
They reached London in record time by Seto's account. A trip that would have taken an hour by regular car, took them a mere fifteen minutes. Thy all filed out of the car and Harry thanked the driver and said they would be back in a few hours. The man nodded and headed towards a pub.
The group followed Harry into the same pub, but instead of stopping at the bar, they walked to the back of the pub and out the back door to a small alley. Harry pulled out his wand and tapped the bricks in a certain pattern that Seto didn't catch. And then suddenly the bricks began to move and a large archway opened before his every eyes.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley." Lily said, sweeping her hand out in front of her presenting the hidden city from behind the wall.
"Where are we?" Seto asked gaping. He had seen some pretty strange things back home in Japan, but nothing could be compared to what he just saw.
"Diagon Alley; the shopping capital of the wizarding world in Europe. We all came here to get our school supplies when we attended Hogwarts, and witches and wizard from all over England come here to get necessities for doing magic." Hermione explained.
They began walking down the semi-crowded street and Seto looked from one store to the next, seeing things that he had always thought didn't exist. "We should stop by Olivander's first and then hit the others stores." Lily suggested, stopping outside a green building with the word 'Olivander's' in gold lettering.
The others nodded and Seto followed them into the small building. Rows of boxes lined the walls and a desk was at the center of the room. Harry walked up to the desk and rang the bell and they waited for someone to answer their summons.
A bang sounded from the right of the room and everyone jumped and saw a man on a ladder with wiry white hair. "Well, well, well, what do we have here? I thought you all had wands? Did someone's break?" the man asked in quick succession.
"Nothing like that Mr. Olivander. We need to get Seto a wand and we all know you're the best in the craft." Ginny said, smiling kindly at the old man.
Olivander jumped off the ladder and approached the group. He peered up at Seto and watched him for a few seconds before scurrying off into the rest of the store. He returned promptly with a box in hand and opened it to reveal a mahogany wand. "Cherry, phoenix feather, 9 inches, sturdy and manageable." He handed the wand to Seto, who looked at it and then up to the others who watched him intently. "Well, wave it around."
Seto did just that and red sparks shot out of the tip with a bang. Olivander took the wand back quickly and replaced it within the box. He pulled another box off the shelves and the same thing happened as the last. Finally after five different wands, something different happened.
"Yew, dragon heartstring and phoenix feather, 11 ½ inches, a strong and powerful wand." Seto grasped the wood and felt a warm feeling race up his arm. He swished the wand in front of him and gold and silver sparks flew out of the end.
"Wonderful! It seems you have found your wand; rather it seems your wand has found you. It's always nice to see someone receive their first wands. That will be seven galleons and if you'll let me have that back, I'll package it for you." Olivander said, extending his hand for Seto's newly found wand and his money. Receiving both, he walked to the back of the store and returned a few minutes later with a box wrapped in brown paper.
Seto bowed to the older man, took the box and exited the store with the others. Hermione and Ron led the way around the odd sort of market. They hit the apothecary for potion supplies, Madam Malkin's for six sets of work robes, everyday robes, and a special set of black and midnight blue dress robes. He also bought two black pointed hats and a single dress one that matched his dress robes. They stopped to eat lunch at a little café after Ron said that he was getting hungry.
"How about Ginny and I go to Flourish and Blotts and buy Seto's book and the rest of you can take Seto to get his broom." Hermione suggested once they were all done. Harry and Ron nodded and Seto took out a handful of the gold and silver coins, giving them to Hermione.
The two girls went one way down the market, while Harry, Ron, and Lily dragged Seto the other way to the broom shop. They entered the shop and Ron and Harry brightened up a few degrees. Lily had disappeared and reappeared at Seto's side with a gleaming broom in her hands.
"This is a Firebolt. It's the fastest and by far the coolest broom out there. Harry has one and so do I. If you ever need a broom, this is the one you want to have." Lily said, handing Seto the broom. He held it with a certain reverence, looking at this way and that. The wood felt warm in his hand. "You have to test it like you did the wand. Lay it on the ground and say 'up'."
Seto followed her directions and laid the broom on the floor, held his hand over the handle and said "up". Fast as lightning, the broom rose up and into his out stretched hand, vibrating comfortably. Seto couldn't help but smile, he guessed that it was a good thing that the broom reacted so quickly.
"You'll be a natural, I can tell," Lily said, patting his arm before moving to another part of the store. Seto walked over to Harry and watched him look through a stack of boxes with curiosity.
"Seto, I'll help you pick out the best broom management kit there is. Firebolt's are the one broom that you want to keep looking the best you can. I find it helpful to have a travel kit and a stay at home kit." Harry explained, picking up a box and reading the script on the front. "Here, this is the one that's you'll want. It has its own travel kit that comes along with the regular one. Lily has this same one, and mine's similar to it."
Seto took the box and thanked Harry. Seto walked through the rest of the store and looked at all the odd supplies and uniforms that looked like soccer uniforms for wizards. He approached a shelf full of different size and color leather gloves. A pair of brown gloves with the finger tips cut off about half way down called to him. He picked up the pair and was surprised to fell how soft they felt. Seto tried one on and they fit perfectly. Known for not being an impulsive buyer, Seto decided to break the habit, because he wanted these gloves. And just for old times sake he picked out a pair of full fingered black wool gloves.
Seto kept walking and noticed a rack of warm looking wool scarves. Knowing basic meteorology, Seto knew that it was cold up high in the sky. A scarf might come in handy when he was flying…wait a moment, flying!!!! He was finally going to be able to fly without being confined in a cockpit of a plane. Wow! He rifled through the rack and saw a yellow scarf that reminded him of the vest Mokuba used to wear almost everyday before he got sick. Grabbing the scarf, he added it to his growing pile. He also picked out a charcoal gray, a black, a white, and finally a navy blue one, bringing his total number of scarves to five. What he was going to do with five scarves he had no idea, but what the heck it was his money.
Lilly approached him and laughed at the sight of the tall young man. She graciously grabbed the armful of scarves and the gloves from Seto's arms and held them in her own. "Well, it seems you've gotten everything you could have thought of besides a set of quidditch robes. How about you go and pay for these and we can go and meet Hermione and Ginny."
"Right," Seto said, walking with Lily to the front desk and lying his purchases on the surface. The man at the counter gawked at the size of the purchase and mentally counted how much money he was going to make on this buy alone.
"Have everything you need, sir?" he asked, looking up into Seto's navy blue eyes. Seto nodded and pulled out his money bag.
"How much for the lot?"
"Twenty-five galleons, thirteen sickles, and five knuts." Seto counted out the coins with help from Lily and laid the money on the counter. The salesman smiled broadly, took the money, and proceeded to wrap the purchases up in brown paper.
Five minutes later, they left the store laden down with the day's purchases. Harry had the things from the apothecary, Ron carried the robes, and Lily carried the broom kit, gloves, and scarves. Seto carried his new broom, and his wand was in his coat pocket. They saw Hermione and Ginny walking towards them with their arms laden with book.
All three of the guys took the books from the two girls and distributed them among themselves, Harry and Ron giving their previous packages to Hermione and Ginny.
"Hey wait guys, I got a better idea," Lily said, stopping they guys and pulling a small bag out of her own jacket. She tapped the bag with her wand and it grew to the size of a regular backpack. Then she took the books and proceeded to load them into the bag. Seto had no idea how she did it but every single book went into the bag and the bag didn't even look like it was being stretched or strained. Lily picked up the back and swung onto her shoulders as if it weighed less than five pounds.
"Let's head to Eeylops before we leave." Ginny suggested and everyone else besides Seto nodded in agreement. He followed the group to a store that had a funny smell coming from it; almost like a farm or something. He walked into the store and found himself surrounded by owls of all sizes, colors, and breeds.
"Wow."
"Seto, pick an owl out. Every wizard needs an owl." Ron said, gesturing out at the wide selection of birds. Seto stepped forward and perused the rows of owls.
Barn owls hooted and ruffled their wings. Not his type. Brown and gray Great Horned owls watched him with their large gold eyes. No, not that one. A gray Eagle-owl caught his eye, but then again it didn't. He admired the Snowy owl, but he had heard that Harry had a Snowy owl named Hedwig, and he didn't like to copy anyone. Then he saw the owl he wanted. A Northern Hawk-owl. Long wings and tail, white, gray, and brown feathers, keen intelligent golden eyes that all the wizard owls had, a hunter, and strong profile. This was his owl. He motioned for Lily and she brought a worker with her.
"This is the one. But I can't tell if it's a boy of a girl." Seto said, pointed at the owl. It hooted warmly and Seto ran his hand over the owls head.
"That's a female hawk owl. Our last one of the day, but certainly not the least." The man said. "She's ten galleons, cage and supplies included."
"I'll take her," Seto said, pulling out his money and handing the coins to the man. He produced an ornate silver cage out of thin air and held the gate open for the owl. She flew off the perch and into the cage, settling on the perch inside the cage. Once she was settled, the salesman handed the cage to Seto, nodded his head and walked off to help some one else.
"What are you going to name her, Seto?" Lily asked, stroking the eagle owl on the perch next to where she was standing.
"Miaka…that was my mother's name." Seto said sticking a finger through the bars and stroking Miaka's soft chest feathers and letting her nibble the end of his finger affectionately. Her eyes looked into his navy ones and he could tell she wasn't like any other owl in the world. She was different and she knew her name was Miaka. There was a certain look of intelligence in her eyes that showed she was smarter than your average non-magic raised owl. He felt a strong bond forming as they both looked into each others eyes. Miaka bowed her head and Seto looked up and at Lily who was watching him with a gentle look on her pretty face.
She motioned with her head towards the door where the rest of the group was waiting. Hermione and Ginny praised Seto's choice in an owl and said repeatedly how pretty she was. Harry once again led the group to the end of the market that they had started at a few hours earlier. Lily stopped them at a store that sold scales and telescopes, saying that Seto needed his own of each thing. Ginny then remembered that they had yet to pick up a pair of dragon hide gloves for potion making, insisting that they too were an essential. Finally they walked through the archway that was still there and back into the pub.
Ron was the first the see their driver and caught his attention. The older man got up, tipped his hat at the group and walked outside to where the car was still obviously parked. The older man opened the door and everyone slid into the car in silence. Ginny fell asleep on the way home with her head resting against Harry's shoulder. Finally the car came to a stop in the square of the town near the large mansion.
Harry carried Ginny out of the car and Ron thanked that man for his help, giving him a tip of three sickles. Once they were out of the town, Lily changed back into a wolf and led the group out into the forest. Miaka hooted softly in alarm and ruffled her feathers. Seto reached through the cage and stroked her feathers calmingly. The hawk owl quieted and watched the wolf with her keen golden eyes.
Thankfully nothing happened on the way home. Lily began to frolic around the large front lawn when they approached the house. She seemed to have gotten a second wind from earlier and now had energy to spare. Seto hefted his broom higher on his shoulder and watched Lily with a small smile; one that did not go unnoticed by Hermione. Her own smile deepened and she gave Ron's waist a small squeeze.
While Harry took Ginny to her room, everyone else helped unload Seto's things into his room. Hermione conjured up a mahogany bookshelf and placed seven years worth of Hogwarts course books on the sturdy shelves. She had bought Seto his own set of books from each of their own seven years at Hogwarts. Sure he could have used their old ones, but she took Seto to be the kind of guy who wanted to have his very own set of books rather than hand-me-downs. They filled up two complete shelves with the new books and filled another one with the books that Seto had brought with him from Japan.
Lily hung his robes up in the closet next to his array of trench coats. She noticed that he had hung the cloak she had given to him in the center of the middle rack, completely by itself. She laughed inside her head and turned out of the smaller room. Seto was fumbling with the potion supplies, separating things out of the silver cauldron he had purchased. A set of glass phials clinked together as he placed them on the bottom levels of the new bookcase. The cauldron followed on the bottom shelf, and once he was finished, Seto stood up with a proud grin on his handsome face.
Harry showed up a few moments later, after returning from Ginny's room. He helped Seto with his Firebolt, showing him how to care for the broom properly with the supplies from the kit. Once they were finished, Seto leaned the broom reverently beside his four post bed. Miaka hooted from her cage and Seto unlatched the cage door, allowing her to fly out and on top of the wardrobe near the bed. With one last warm look towards Seto, she lifted her wing and tucked her head under it, falling asleep.
"Well, how about some dinner before we all crash?" Lily asked after everyone was done sorting out all of Seto's purchases.
Before anyone could answer Ron's stomach grumbled and everyone burst out laughing. Well almost everyone; Seto chuckled to himself.
"I take that for an affirmative." Lily said, laughter shining in her golden eyes. And with that Seto started his training.
He began reading the books from year one that night. The more he read the more his head spun with information. He tried some of the spells on his own and managed to make Miaka's cage levitate off the ground about six feet. Little did he know, but he was mastering things that had taken Ron, Harry, Ginny and even Hermione months to master. By midnight, his brain had turned fuzzy, so he took off his reading glasses, placed the thick spell book on the nightstand near Mokuba's picture, and went to sleep.
Alright, so I got this chapter done with mere hours to spare before 'The Deathly Hollows' comes out and let me tell you that's impressive for me. Though I'll probably post this when I come home from vacation, so this will probably be a week old before you'll all be able to read it. And I also just realized that I used Harry's mother's name as my own character's name. Oops, I knew that I'd heard the name before. ;p! Please read and review, cause we all love reviews!! Bye!!
Mazakai
