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A/N : Hello boys and girls ! Welcome back to another chapter of Black Swan !
Chapter 4 : Swan... You are a wizard... Lol
360 days later found Swan polishing his gear wich consisted of a dozen throwing knives, two hidden blades wich had a place on his wrists, a sword that would normally be strapped on his back, goblin-made and everything plus it was beautiful with it's ornaments and light curve to the blade and it's black leather handle. He also carried around two desert-eagle hand guns and his faithful wand. He didn't carry a bow as he found it to be most unpractical when climbing buildings and such actions. Plus the added silencing charm on his guns and the fact that a simple potion could make the bullets immune to magical shields made the bow practically useless. He also carried five small pouches on his black leather belt each housing six healing and blood replenishing potions. Even though his magic healed him progressively and dulled the pain, he preferred to be safe than sorry.
He also took to wearing a black robe (Ezio from assassin's creed style) with deep emerald green lines running over it making him look electrical when he wore it. His face was obscured when the hood was up. He went on a couple more missions in the past year and he was able to clearly see wich gear he preferred and customised it to suit his needs.
His shield-piercing bullets didn't go through any type of shield. Just the few basic ones but even so, when you have a bullet speeding at you at near light speed, you don't often think to put up any other shield. The day before he had replenished his stock of bullets and had dipped them in the potion. He and Raven had made lots of it.
Having finished his polishing, he walked in to the bathroom intent on taking a shower. He realy felt tired after the particularly tiring training session he had had earlier with Raven. He had had to climb the tallest building in the city under a disillusionment charm carrying about twenty five kilos of sand on his back. Then jump off the building, do a bit of skydiving and land without making too much noise. Obviously he succeeded by diverting his momentum into a roll that carried him ten meters away.
He sighed as he watched himself in the bathroom mirror. He had bulked up a fair bit in one year. He was lithe but muscular. He sported a number of scars that surprised even him. Luckily he liked them as there was nothing more horrible than self loathing. The scars made him look dangerous. He smiled, jumped into the bath tub and started to wash. In five days he would be greeting the Headmaster of Hogwarts. He didn't intend to hide himself and his abilities that was for sure. After all, he was the man that almost made his life crumble due to the abuse he would have suffered at the hands of the Dusley family. He supposed the man would have liked to call himself his mentor when he would arrive in the magical world as a poor little lost child. So much for publicity. Luckily it didn't happen like that. Quite the opposite in fact he thought.
After his bath he got dressed and headed for his room. It was already late evening and he didn't want to be too knackered for the day to come. He crossed his legs on his bed and entered a meditative state. He often practiced his occlumency skills as well as his Mage sight wich he had acquired sometime during the previous year.
It was during a meeting with Ragnock, Gringotts's director, as Raven's family name was Thrate wich was not a very well known family as the family didn't have any seats on the Wizengamot but a friend of the goblins nonetheless, that Swan had asked for an inheritance and ability test. He was obviously heir to the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter, but also heir to the Noble House of Thrate as Raven had made him his successor. It's in the parchment that contained the results for the ability test that he discovered he had made sight. A very rare talent, only few people possessed. It enabled the user to see all magical currents around him and depending on the brightness of the landscape, there was more or less magical energy around him. Swan was surprised at first because he dicovered that every living thing had magic imbued in it. Some just knew or had the ability to use it and others didn't, like muggles for example. It was pretty noticeable when he used his Sight as his eyes turned a beautiful shade of amber.
Controling the Mage sight required a certain mental discipline as the sudden onslaught of bright colours sometimes drove people crazy.
In a few seconds he was in his mindscape wich was a giant sphere in a world of nothingness. It was spiky and had a gigantic and thick blue translucent shield around it. He was at the moment, in the sort of void that surrounded the sphere/ball. He could see all the activity from where he was and admired his work. Four blue transculcent paths, no doubt made out of the same magic as the shield, separated from it by going in different directions. One went to a sort of space station named taste, another went to a space station named smells, and the two last ones went to the remaining space station named sight. They were the two largest as it was these two that Swan had the most upgraded, they were his main source of income in terms of memories. All along these paths you could see some sort of space-ships or cargo-ships moving along, transporting the memories to and from the space stations. It was realy a huge setup and with no doubt filled with hidden traps and defences.
Swan worked for a few minutes on enlarging the different roads so that more space-ships could run along it, then receded from his mind. When he got out of his trans, he found his way under his sheets and fell asleep even before his head hit the pillow.
The next morning, Swan woke up to the feeling of water being sprayed on his face. He groaned. It was no doubt Raven trying to get him to get up earlier so that they could go and works out together in the fresh morning air before it got too hot. They were in the Caribbean islands after all. That was because they move every three days.
He he got out of bed, pushing past Raven as he did so and entered the kitchen. He took a quick breakfast and got dressed in workout clothes. He ran outside, Raven hot on his heels. The two ran for about an our until the sun made it's appearance and started heating the air. By then they made their way to the local gym and worked out for an hour and a half.
By the time they came back, they were drenched in sweat. It was already eleven a.m and they still had a lot to do.
When end the two of them had showered, and were seated around the little table Raven spoke up.
"Well, I guess I will need help on this one." He said. Seeing that he had Swan's attention he continued. "Tonight, the local gang is going to attempt a raid on the bank CIBC Bank. And I am intent on protecting it. Kind of like always I guess." He said while shrugging.
"A whole gang you say?" Swan asked incredulously. "There must be some serious reason behind that raid then because the money isn't even in the bank. I know for a fact that it is automatically transferred to huge underground vaults. And the tunnels that lead to it are hyper dangerous as you can get crushed by the sort of lift that travels down the tunnel to transport the money. You technically can't get past." He said.
"I think the bank must have offended them in some way and as always they decided to resort to violence. Nevertheless there is a raid tonight and we are going to lend a hand. I suppose the guards will be taken down easily so we will be alone." He explained.
"Okaaaay. I'm in! I need some action here, it's been months since I've been on a mission!" Swan exclaimed happily. Raven chuckled at his apprentice's antics, as he was now dancing around the table doing somersaults.
Alvina was not a happy girl. She was approaching the age of eleven and was a witch. She knew as much beacause of all the strange things happening around her. She was beautiful with her long golden hair, her pretty face and nice figure. Her eyes were golden white outline by a blue circle wich ran around the iris. That combined with her pearly white skin made her look like a ten year old goddess. Her dad was a muggle. She had recently picked up the term beacause she realy despised him. He was always drunk, insulting her mother and her. He sometimes resorted to violence towards her mother who took the hits without flinching then stunned him. Her mother was a caring and loving woman. She was a witch like her too wich helped her understand just what was going on.
Alvina was currently on vacation in the Caribbean islands. She was walking down the street, looking forward to getting home. These city streets where very gloomy and frightening when plunged in darkness.
She was about three blocks away from her apartment when she heard a crash wich made her jump. It was highly unusual. Normally the streets were very still at night. She was instinctively on high alert. Alvina knew of the existence of a few violent gangs in this country and wasn't looking forward to finaly meeting one. She was about a hundred meters from the bank when she saw shadow darting towards it.
Alavina knew she would be in trouble if she was spotted so she made split second decision and ducked behind a trashkan. Oh hes she had seen their guns and knew without a doubt that they were the infamous murdering and robbing gang that people talked about. The leopards. She had to admit that they were pretty intimidating. For now only ten of them were there but she had no doubt that more were to come. It killed her to see all of this and know that if she was heard or seen, she would be killed without a second thought.
The ten men regrouped and waited. Then slowly five more apeared dehind them and took their place by the side of the others. Then, a creeking sound came from the bank and the bars blocking access to it clanked to the ground. A sixteenth man came out looking pleased with himself. But it didn't last for long as he spotted two figures behind the group.
Alvina had also spotted them and was glad too. She knew they were magical folks because she saw them apear out of nowhere, seemingly from the shadows. She had never seen anything like this before. One was clad in black assassin robes with two swords at his sides. His hood was up and made him look dangerous. The second was also clad in black assassin robes but with green lines all over it, making him look electrical and a bit like a muggle printed circuit board. She could see the lines glowing with faint green light in the night. He was shorter than the first and also had his hood up. 'He must be around eleven years old...' She thought. Then, to her shock, he turned to her and nodded, as if saying 'it's ok we've got this.'
She smiled slightly to herself. 'Yeah definitely magical.' She thought. He couldn't possibly have seen her.
Suddenly, the two figures moved as one and started plowing through the gang's ranks, killing three men in the process. Once the gangsters had scattered, they grinned and gave chase. The taller figure leaned on a wall while the other smaller one jumped, summersaulted and killed the members of the gang one by one. The last ones standing were bulky and covered in tattoos. The first one started pulling out a gun while the other one unthreaded a long dagger. The black and green figure killed them too by shooting them with two guns that seemingly apeared out of nowhere.
When the last one fell, the black and green figure slowly walked up to her and held out a hand. She took it and he helped her up.
"Where do you live?" He asked.
"Uh, I live three blocks away from here. Why do you ask?" She asked while looking into the hole of nothingness that was the inside of the hood of her rescuer.
The only answer she got was the sensation of falling then floating and finaly speeding at near light speed in the shadows. In a second she was in front of her apartment door, feeling slightly lightheaded. She turned around to thank the mysterious figure only to discover he had already departed. The only evidence she had that he had been there was a small slip of paper with 'Swan' written on it wich was slowly drifting down to the ground. 'So he is the misterious right hand man of the famous Raven' she thought idly. 'I wonder when I'll see him next.' Little did she know that she would be seeing him soon.
Swan reapeared in his room and slowly took off his gear. When he was finished there was a knock on his door and he went to open it. Raven stood on the other side looking pretty smug.
"Managed to save a damsel in distress, eh?" He asked teasingly.
"Wipe off your shit-eating grin and I'll maybe answer you." Swan stated, not at-all faised by his attitude.
"Oh ok. In any case I already know the answer." He said. "Ok good night! Awesome combat there too!" He praised, then left. Swan shook his head, prepared for bed and fell asleep.
Albus Too-Many-Names was currently in his office at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Today he would be apparating to the Caribbean islands to go and give Harry Potter his letter. The school owls couldn't track him as he seemed to be moving every three days, and three days wasn't enough for an owl to travel thousands of miles.
At the moment it was nine a.m and he was planning on traveling there at eleven. He still had two hours. Two hours to finalise his plans concerning the boy. When Harry had been taken from his family right after he left, it had left him as angry as ever. His carefully laid out plans had come crashing down around him. But now he had come up with new ones and he certainly hoped they would work out properly this time.
Once the boy arrived at Hogwarts, things would start going bezerk around him. For starters he would place the philosopher's stone in the castle, wich would lure Voldemort there and Harry would be able to defete him. (A/N : Even I don't know how he can think that way). Harry would then turn to him for explanations being the average eleven year old and he would take him under his wing and be his mentor. The boy would entrust him and unknowingly let Albus guide him to his death facing Voldemort. Then he would step in and defeat the Dark Lord, thus becoming the most respected wizard after Merlin for killing two terrible dark lords.
Anyway at eleven he walked from his office and to the gates of the castle. He apparated from there.
Dumbledore reapeared in a small neighbour-hood on the outskirts of a pretty big city, in front of a nice building. He walked up to the front door and was about to knock when the door swiftly opened. In the doorframe stood a young boy with deep emerald green eyes and raven black hair. It was spiked and cut shortish to look like it was tamed, but Albus was not fooled, if he was anything like James.
"Good morning Mister Dumbledore. We were expecting you." Said the boy.
"Hello my boy. How have you been?" Dumbledore tried tentatively.
"I think we should take this conversation inside. That is, if you want to stay..." Swan said smoothly.
"Let us go in then." Albus quickly replied. He didn't want to get kicked out on his first meeting with the boy. Said boy led him in and told him to follow after closing the door. The house was a lot bigger inside than outside it seemed. He was led in a living room wich was richly decorated with warm colours and furniture. A fireplace was positioned at the east of the room with a low glass table in the centre, shrouded by four black sofas. The walls were red and white and the whole floor was covered in a nice thick beige carpet.
There, seated on one of the couched was a man wich greatly resemble Harry but was much older. Albus thought he looked to be about thirty years old.
"Hello, my name is Hernie Monoria and am Harry's father" Raven said while getting up and bowing slightly. Dumbledore returned the gesture and took a seat.
"So down to business. I am hear because Hogwarts's olws can't locate you properly and thus can't deliver you your acceptance letter to our school. " The headmaster said while pulling a letter out of his robes. "But I suppose you knew that already because you were expecting me." He said.
"Thank you for coming to us headmaster. You have been very helpful." Raven stated. "I suppose it is still September the first that Harry here must board the train?" He asked.
"You are right of course. The list of things needed for classes is in the envelope." The headmaster informed them helpfully. "Well I better be on my way then. Just tell me if you need anything." He said while getting up. He felt pretty unsteady in this home. There was too much tension here. From what or who he didn't know but it made him feel queasy.
"I'll escort you to the door headmaster." Swan said while getting up and guiding the headmaster to the exit.
"Thank you dear boy. I will see you in a month then. Goodbye." And with that said he apparated on the spot back to his office. Swan entered the house again and promptly fell to the ground laughing.
"Oh the look on his face was priceless when he left! It was as if we were applying too much pressure on his mental system by the blank looks we were giving him." Swan said between breaths.
"You are right as always my dear son." Came Raven's reply who was also howling with laughter.
A/N : End chapter ! I hope you liked it because it was freakin tiring to right. SORRY for the long wait and as usual, don't pay too much attention to the spelling mistakes. I just wanted to tell you :
1 : if you feel the need to ask me some questions on somethings that you deem illogical or that you don't understand, I'll be happy to answear them.
2 : this story will be around 150K words so no worrys there.
3 : if you don't like this story, don't read it.
4 : tell me if you would like more detailed combat scenes. I have to admit that the last one was a bit crappy but I realy just wanted to introduce the pairing. Like it?
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